EX10.2  Amended and Restated Credit Agreement February 28, 2014


Exhibit 10.2


	
	
	 






Published CUSIP Number: 37943VAR4


AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
 Dated as of February 28, 2014


among
GLOBAL PAYMENTS INC., 
The Other Borrowers Party Hereto,


BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender and L/C Issuer


 and


The Other Lenders Party Hereto




MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED, FIFTH THIRD SECURITIES, INC.,
PNC CAPITAL MARKETS LLC,
THE BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI UFJ, LTD.
 and
TD SECURITIES (USA) LLC,
as Joint Lead Arrangers


MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED, 
as Sole Book Manager




FIFTH THIRD BANK, AN OHIO BANKING CORPORATION, 
PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
THE BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI UFJ, LTD. 
and
TD BANK, N.A.,
as Syndication Agents




BARCLAYS BANK, PLC, 
COMPASS BANK, 
REGIONS BANK
and
SUNTRUST BANK
as Documentation Agents


	
	
	 







TABLE OF CONTENTS


	
				
	 
	 
	 
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	ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS...........................................................
	1

	 
	1.01
	Defined Terms..............................................................................................................
	1

	 
	1.02
	Other Interpretive Provisions.......................................................................................
	26

	 
	1.03
	Accounting Terms .......................................................................................................
	27

	 
	1.04
	Rounding......................................................................................................................
	28

	 
	1.05
	Exchange Rates; Currency Equivalents; Rates............................................................
	28

	 
	1.06
	Additional Alternative Currencies................................................................................
	28

	 
	1.07
	Change of Currency......................................................................................................
	29

	 
	1.08
	Times of Day................................................................................................................
	30

	 
	1.09
	Letter of Credit Amounts..............................................................................................
	30

	 
	 
	 
	 

	ARTICLE II THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS.............................................
	30

	 
	2.01
	Revolving Loans...........................................................................................................
	30

	 
	2.02
	Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations...............................................................
	30

	 
	2.03
	Letters of Credit............................................................................................................
	32

	 
	2.04
	Swing Line Loans.........................................................................................................
	41

	 
	2.05
	Prepayments................................................................................................................
	44

	 
	2.06
	Repayment of Loans.....................................................................................................
	45

	 
	2.07
	Termination or Reduction of Aggregate Revolving Commitments.............................
	45

	 
	2.08
	Interest..........................................................................................................................
	46

	 
	2.09
	Fees..............................................................................................................................
	46

	 
	2.10
	Computation of Interest and Fees; Retroactive Adjustments of Applicable Rate.......
	47

	 
	2.11
	Evidence of Debt.........................................................................................................
	47

	 
	2.12
	Payments Generally; Administrative Agent’s Clawback.............................................
	48

	 
	2.13
	Sharing of Payments by Lenders.................................................................................
	50

	 
	2.14
	Cash Collateral............................................................................................................
	51

	 
	2.15
	Defaulting Lenders......................................................................................................
	52

	 
	2.16
	Designated Borrowers..................................................................................................
	54

	 
	 
	 
	 

	ARTICLE III TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY..............................................
	55

	 
	3.01
	Taxes............................................................................................................................
	55

	 
	3.02
	Illegality.......................................................................................................................
	60

	 
	3.03
	Inability to Determine Rates.......................................................................................
	61

	 
	3.04
	Increased Costs.............................................................................................................
	61

	 
	3.05
	Compensation for Losses..............................................................................................
	63

	 
	3.06
	Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders........................................................
	64

	 
	3.07
	Survival........................................................................................................................
	64

	 
	 
	 
	 

	ARTICLE IV  CONDITIONS PRECEDENT...................................................................................
	64

	 
	4.01
	Conditions to Effectiveness and Initial Credit Extension.............................................
	64

	 
	4.02
	Conditions to all Credit Extensions..............................................................................
	66

	 
	 
	 
	 

	ARTICLE V REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.............................................................
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	5.01
	Organization; Powers...................................................................................................
	67

	 
	5.02
	Authorization; Enforceability.......................................................................................
	67

	 
	5.03
	Governmental Approvals; No Conflicts.......................................................................
	67

	 
	5.04
	Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change.....................................................
	68

	 
	5.05
	Properties.....................................................................................................................
	68

	 
	5.06
	Litigation and Environmental Matters.........................................................................
	68

	 
	5.07
	Compliance with Laws and Agreements......................................................................
	68

	 
	5.08
	Investment Company Status........................................................................................
	69

	 
	5.09
	Taxes.............................................................................................................................
	69

	 
	5.10
	ERISA...........................................................................................................................
	69

	 
	5.11
	Subsidiaries...................................................................................................................
	69

	 
	5.12
	Margin Securities..........................................................................................................
	69

	 
	5.13
	Disclosure.....................................................................................................................
	69

	 
	5.14
	Taxpayer Identification Number; Other Identifying Information................................
	69

	 
	5.14
	OFAC............................................................................................................................
	69

	 
	 
	 
	 

	ARTICLE VI AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS.................................................................................
	70

	 
	6.01
	Financial Statements and Other Information................................................................
	70

	 
	6.02
	Notices of Material Events...........................................................................................
	72

	 
	6.03
	Maintenance of Existence............................................................................................
	72

	 
	6.04
	Payment of Obligations................................................................................................
	72

	 
	6.05
	Maintenance of Properties; Insurance..........................................................................
	73

	 
	6.06
	Books and Records; Inspection Rights.........................................................................
	73

	 
	6.07
	Compliance with Laws.................................................................................................
	73

	 
	6.08
	Use of Proceeds............................................................................................................
	73

	 
	6.09
	Additional Guarantors..................................................................................................
	73

	 
	6.10
	PayPros Acquisition......................................................................................................
	74

	 
	 
	 
	 

	ARTICLE VII NEGATIVE COVENANTS......................................................................................
	74

	 
	7.01
	Subsidiary Indebtedness...............................................................................................
	74

	 
	7.02
	Liens.............................................................................................................................
	75

	 
	7.03
	Consolidations, Mergers and Sales of Assets...............................................................
	76

	 
	7.04
	Lines of Business.........................................................................................................
	77

	 
	7.05
	Transactions with Affiliates..........................................................................................
	77

	 
	7.06
	[Reserved].....................................................................................................................
	77

	 
	7.07
	Accounting Changes....................................................................................................
	77

	 
	7.08
	Leverage Ratio.............................................................................................................
	78

	 
	7.09
	Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio......................................................................................
	78

	 
	7.10
	Sanctions......................................................................................................................
	78

	 
	 
	 
	 

	ARTICLE VIII EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES...........................................................
	78

	 
	8.01
	Events of Default..........................................................................................................
	78

	 
	8.02
	Application of Funds....................................................................................................
	80

	 
	 
	 
	 

	ARTICLE IX  ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT....................................................................................
	81

	 
	9.01
	Appointment and Authority..........................................................................................
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	9.02
	Rights as a Lender.........................................................................................................
	82

	 
	9.03
	Exculpatory Provisions.................................................................................................
	82

	 
	9.04
	Reliance by Administrative Agent................................................................................
	83

	 
	9.05
	Delegation of Duties.....................................................................................................
	83

	 
	9.06
	Resignation of Administrative Agent...........................................................................
	83

	 
	9.07
	Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent and Other Lenders.........................................
	85

	 
	9.08
	No Other Duties, Etc....................................................................................................
	85

	 
	9.09
	Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim........................................................
	85

	 
	9.10
	Guaranty Matters..........................................................................................................
	86

	 
	9.11
	Related Swap Agreements...........................................................................................
	86

	 
	 
	 
	 

	ARTICLE X MISCELLANEOUS....................................................................................................
	86

	 
	10.01
	Amendments, Etc.........................................................................................................
	86

	 
	10.02
	Notices; Effectiveness; Electronic Communication....................................................
	88

	 
	10.03
	No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies; Enforcement.......................................................
	90

	 
	10.04
	Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver........................................................................
	91

	 
	10.05
	Payments Set Aside......................................................................................................
	93

	 
	10.06
	Successors and Assigns................................................................................................
	93

	 
	10.07
	Treatment of Certain Information; Confidentiality......................................................
	97

	 
	10.08
	Right of Setoff..............................................................................................................
	98

	 
	10.09
	Interest Rate Limitation................................................................................................
	98

	 
	10.10
	Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness; Amendment and Restatement.....................
	99

	 
	10.11
	Survival of Representations and Warranties................................................................
	99

	 
	10.12
	Severability..................................................................................................................
	99

	 
	10.13
	Replacement of Lenders...............................................................................................
	100

	 
	10.14
	Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Etc................................................................................
	100

	 
	10.15
	Waiver of Jury Trial.....................................................................................................
	102

	 
	10.16
	No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility....................................................................
	102

	 
	10.17
	Electronic Execution of Assignments and Certain Other Documents..........................
	102

	 
	10.18
	USA PATRIOT Act.......................................................................................................
	102

	 
	10.19
	Judgment Currency.......................................................................................................
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	SIGNATURES....................................................................................................................................
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	SCHEDULES
	 

	 
	1.01
	Existing Letters of Credit
	 

	 
	2.01
	Revolving Commitments and Applicable Percentages
	 

	 
	5.11
	Subsidiaries
	 

	 
	7.01
	Existing Indebtedness
	 

	 
	7.02
	Existing Liens
	 

	 
	10.02
	Administrative Agent’s Office; Certain Addresses for Notices
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	EXHIBITS
	 

	 
	Form of
	 

	 
	A-1
	Loan Notice
	 

	 
	A-2
	Swing Line Loan Notice
	 

	 
	B-1
	Revolving Note (Domestic)
	 

	 
	B-2
	Revolving Note (Foreign)
	 

	 
	B-3
	Swing Line Note
	 

	 
	C
	Compliance Certificate
	 

	 
	D
	Assignment and Assumption
	 

	 
	E
	Amended and Restated Subsidiary Guaranty
	 

	 
	F
	Borrower Request and Assumption Agreement
	 

	 
	G
	Borrower Notice
	 

	 
	H
	Amended and Restated Company Guaranty
	 

	 
	I
	Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificates
	 

	 
	J
	Form of Guaranteed Party Designation Notice
	 







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AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT


This AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT (“Agreement”) is entered into as of February 28, 2014, among GLOBAL PAYMENTS INC., a Georgia corporation (the “Company”), the other Borrowers from time to time party hereto, each Lender (defined below) from time to time party hereto, and BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender and L/C Issuer.


The Borrowers are party to a certain Credit Agreement dated as of December 7, 2010 with certain Lenders and Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent for such Lenders (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time until (but not including) the date of this Agreement, the "2010
Credit Agreement").


The parties to this Agreement desire to amend the 2010 Credit Agreement as set forth herein and to restate the 2010 Credit Agreement in its entirety to read as follows.  This Agreement is not a novation of the 2010 Credit Agreement.


In consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, the parties hereto covenant and agree as follows:


ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS


1.01      Defined Terms.  As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:


“Acquired Entity” means the assets, in the case of an acquisition of assets, or Equity Interests (or, if the context requires, the Person that is the issuer of such Equity Interests), in the case of an acquisition of Equity Interests, acquired by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to an Acquisition.


“Acquisition” means any transaction, or any series of related transactions, consummated on or after  the  date  of  this  Agreement,  by  which  any  Person  (i)  acquires  any  going  business  or  all  or substantially all of the assets of any firm, corporation, partnership, limited liability company or division or other business unit or segment thereof, whether through purchase of assets, merger or otherwise, or (ii) directly or indirectly acquires (in one transaction or as the most recent transaction in a series of transactions) at least a majority (in number of votes) of the securities of a corporation which have ordinary voting power for the election of directors (other than securities having such power only by reason  of  the  happening  of  a  contingency)  or  a  majority  (by  percentage  or  voting  power)  of  the outstanding ownership interests of a partnership or limited liability company.


“Administrative Agent” means Bank of America in its capacity as administrative agent under any
of the Loan Documents, or any successor administrative agent.


“Administrative Agent’s Office” means, with respect to any currency, the Administrative Agent’s address and, as appropriate, account as set forth on Schedule 10.02 with respect to such currency, or such other address or account with respect to such currency as the Administrative Agent may from time to time notify the Company and the Lenders.


“Administrative Questionnaire” means an Administrative Questionnaire in a form supplied by the
Administrative Agent.
“Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, another Person that directly, or indirectly through 

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one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with the Person specified.


“Aggregate Revolving Commitments” means the aggregate Revolving Commitments of all the Lenders.   The aggregate principal amount of the Aggregate Revolving Commitments in effect on the Closing Date is ONE BILLION DOLLARS ($1,000,000,000).


“Agreement” means this Amended and Restated Credit Agreement.


“Alternative Currency” means, with respect to Revolving Loans and Letters of Credit, each of Euro, Sterling, Canadian Dollars and each other currency (other than Dollars) that is approved in accordance with Section 1.06.


“Alternative Currency Equivalent” means, at any time, with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, the equivalent amount thereof in the applicable Alternative Currency as determined by the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, at such time on the basis of the Spot Rate (determined in respect of the most recent Revaluation Date) for the purchase of such Alternative Currency with Dollars.


“Applicable Percentage” means, with respect to any Lender at any time, with respect to such Lender’s Revolving Commitment, the percentage of the Aggregate Revolving Commitments represented by such Lender’s Revolving Commitment at such time, subject to adjustment as provided in Section 2.15; provided that if the commitment of each Lender to make Revolving Loans and the obligation of the L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions have been terminated pursuant to Section 8.02 or if the Aggregate Revolving  Commitments  have  expired,  then  the  Applicable  Percentage  of  each  Lender  shall  be determined based on the Applicable Percentage of such Lender most recently in effect, giving effect to any subsequent assignments.  The initial Applicable Percentage of each Lender is set forth opposite the name of such Lender on Schedule 2.01 or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable.


“Applicable Rate” means the following percentages per annum, based upon the Leverage Ratio as set forth in the most recent Compliance Certificate received by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.01(c):
	
					
	Pricing
	 
	Eurocurrency
	Base
	Commitment Fee

	Level
	Leverage Ratio
	Rate Loans and Letter of Credit Fees
	Rate Loans

	1
	< 0.75 to 1.0
	1.000%
	0.000%
	0.125%

	 
	 
	 
	 
	 

	2
	≥ 0.75 to 1.0 but < 1.25 to 1.0
	1.125%
	0.125%
	0.150%

	 
	 
	 
	 
	 

	3
	≥ 1.25 to 1.0 but < 1.75 to 1.0
	1.250%
	0.250%
	0.175%

	 
	 
	 
	 
	 

	4
	≥ 1.75 to 1.0 but < 2.25 to 1.0
	1.500%
	0.500%
	0.200%

	 
	 
	 
	 
	 

	5
	≥ 2.25 to 1.0 but < 2.75 to 1.0
	1.750%
	0.750%
	0.250%

	 
	 
	 
	 
	 

	6
	≥ 2.75 to 1.0
	2.000%
	1.000%
	0.300%






Any increase or decrease in the Applicable Rate resulting from a change in the Leverage Ratio shall become 

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effective as of the first Business Day immediately following the date a Compliance Certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(c); provided that if a Compliance Certificate is not delivered when due in accordance with such Section, then, upon the request of the Required Lenders, Pricing Level 6 shall apply as of the first Business Day after the date on which such Compliance Certificate was required to have been delivered and shall remain in effect until the date on which such Compliance Certificate is delivered.  Subject to the proviso in the immediately preceding sentence, (a) the Applicable Rate in effect from the Closing Date through the first Business Day immediately following the earlier of (i) the date a Compliance Certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(c) for the Fiscal Quarter of the Company ending February 28, 2014 and (ii) the date a Compliance Certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 6.09 in connection with the closing of the PayPros Acquisition, shall be determined based upon Pricing Level 4 and (b) in the event a Compliance Certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(c) for the Fiscal Quarter of the Company ending February 28, 2014 prior to the closing of the PayPros Acquisition, the Applicable Rate in effect from the closing date of the PayPros Acquisition through the first Business Day immediately following the date a Compliance Certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(c) for the Fiscal Quarter of the Company in which such Acquisition was consummated, shall be determined based upon the Pricing Level corresponding to the Leverage Ratio (calculated on a pro forma basis after giving effect to the PayPros Acquisition) set forth in such Compliance Certificate.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this definition, the determination of the Applicable Rate for any period (other than the period addressed in clause (a) of the immediately preceding sentence) shall be subject to the provisions of Section 2.10(b).


“Applicable Time” means, with respect to any borrowings and payments in any Alternative Currency, the local time in the place of settlement for such Alternative Currency as may be determined by the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, to be necessary for timely settlement on the relevant date in accordance with normal banking procedures in the place of payment.


“Approved Fund” means any Fund that is administered or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an
Affiliate of a Lender or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages a Lender.


“Arrangers” means Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Fifth Third Securities, Inc., PNC Capital Markets LLC, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. and TD Securities (USA) LLC in their capacity as joint lead arrangers and MLPFS in its capacity as sole book manager.


“Asset Sale” means the sale (including any transaction that has the economic effect of a sale), transfer or other disposition (by way of merger or otherwise, including sales in connection with a sale and leaseback transaction, or as a result of any condemnation or casualty in respect of property) by the Company or any Subsidiary to any Person other than a Credit Party, of (a) any Equity Interests of any Subsidiary, or (b) any other assets of the Company or any Subsidiary (other than inventory licenses and sublicenses  granted  in  the  ordinary  course  of  business,  obsolete  or  worn  out  assets,  scrap,  cash equivalents, and marketable securities, in each case disposed of in the ordinary course of business), except sales, transfers or other dispositions of any assets in one transaction or a series of related transactions having a value not in excess of $10,000,000.



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“Assignment and Assumption” means an assignment and assumption entered into by a Lender and an Eligible Assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is required by Section 10.06(b)), and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in substantially the form of Exhibit D or any other form (including electronic documentation generated by MarkitClear or other electronic platform) approved by the Administrative Agent.


“Audited Financial Statements” means the audited consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2013, and the related consolidated statements of income or operations, shareholders’ equity and cash flows for such fiscal year of the Company and its Subsidiaries, including the notes thereto.


“Availability Period” means, with respect to the Revolving Commitments, the period from and including the Closing Date to the earliest of (a) the Maturity Date, (b) the date of termination of the Aggregate Revolving Commitments in their entirety pursuant to Section 2.07, and (c) the date of termination of the commitment of each Lender to make Revolving Loans and of the obligation of the L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions pursuant to Section 8.02.


“Bank of America” means Bank of America, N.A. and its successors.


“Bank Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is a bank, limited purpose bank, or similarly
regulated Person.


“Base Rate” means for any day a fluctuating rate per annum equal to the highest of (a) the Federal Funds Effective Rate plus 0.50%, (b) the rate of interest in effect for such day as publicly announced from time to time by Bank of America as its “prime rate” and (c) the Eurocurrency Base Rate plus 1%.  The “prime rate” is a rate set by Bank of America based upon various factors including Bank of America’s costs and desired return, general economic conditions and other factors, and is used as a reference point for pricing some loans, which may be priced at, above, or below such announced rate.  Any change in such “prime rate” announced by Bank of America shall take effect at the opening of business on the day specified in the public announcement of such change.


“Base Rate Loan” means a Loan that bears interest based on the Base Rate.  All Base Rate Loans shall be denominated in Dollars.


“BIN/ISO Agreements” means (a) any sponsorship, depository, processing or similar agreement with a bank or financial institution providing for the use of such bank or financial institution’s BIN or ICA (or similar mechanism) to clear credit card transactions through one or more card associations, or (b) any agreement with any independent sales organization or similar entity related to, or providing for, payments processing to merchant customers.


“Board” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States.


“Borrower” means each of the Company and any Designated Borrower that is identified on
Schedule 5.11 as a Borrower or becomes a Borrower under the terms of Section 2.16.


“Borrower Materials” has the meaning specified in  Section 6.01.


“Borrowing” means each of the following: (a) a borrowing of Swing Line Loans pursuant to Section 2.04 and (b) a borrowing consisting of simultaneous Loans of the same Type, in the same currency and, in the case of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, having the same Interest Period made by each of the Lenders pursuant to Section 2.01.

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“Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks  are  authorized  to  close  under  the  Laws  of,  or  are  in  fact  closed  in,  the  state  where  the Administrative Agent’s Office with respect to Obligations denominated in Dollars is located and:


(a)        if such day relates to any interest rate settings as to a Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in Dollars, any fundings, disbursements, settlements and payments in Dollars in respect of any such Eurocurrency Rate Loan, or any other dealings in Dollars to be carried out pursuant to this Agreement in respect of any such Eurocurrency Rate Loan, means any such day on which dealings in deposits in Dollars are conducted by and between banks in the London interbank eurodollar market;


(b)        if such day relates to any interest rate settings as to a Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in Euro, any fundings, disbursements, settlements and payments in Euro in respect of any such Eurocurrency Rate Loan, or any other dealings in Euro to be carried out pursuant to this Agreement in respect of any such Eurocurrency Rate Loan, means a TARGET Day;


(c)        if such day relates to any interest rate settings as to a Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in a currency other than Dollars or Euro, means any such day on which dealings in deposits in the relevant currency are conducted by and between banks in the London or other applicable offshore interbank market for such currency; and


(d)        if such day relates to any fundings, disbursements, settlements and payments in a currency other than Dollars or Euro in respect of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in a currency other than Dollars or Euro, or any other dealings in any currency other than Dollars or Euro to be carried out pursuant to this Agreement in respect of any such Eurocurrency Rate Loan (other than any interest rate settings), means any such day on which banks are open for foreign exchange business in the principal financial center of the country of such currency.


“Canadian Dollars” means the lawful currency of Canada.


“Canadian Receivables” means the accounts receivable of Global Payments Direct generated in the  ordinary  course  of  business  of  its  merchant  processing  business  in  Canada,  including  VISA receivables, debit card receivables, merchant charge-back receivables and merchant business receivables (relating to fees owed to Global Payments Direct by its Canadian VISA merchants) generated in connection with such business.


“Canadian Receivables Collateral” means, collectively, the Canadian Receivables, the accounts maintained by Global Payments Direct with Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and into which are deposited only proceeds of the Canadian Receivables and other sums anticipated for use in connection with the settlement of the Canadian Receivables, and any foreign exchange hedging contracts entered into by Global Payments Direct in order to mitigate foreign currency exchange risk arising in respect of obligations under the Canadian Receivables Credit Facility, together with all products and proceeds of the foregoing.


“Canadian Receivables Credit Facility” means the documents evidencing the credit facility made available to Global Payments Direct by Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce providing for short-term advances to Global Payments Direct made in respect of the Canadian Receivables, with the obligations of Global Payments Direct under such credit facility to be Guaranteed by the Company and certain Subsidiaries, together with any refinancings or replacements of such credit facility and any amendments or modifications of such credit facility or refinancing or replacement, in each case to the extent any such 

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refinancing, replacement, amendment or modification is not on terms or otherwise less favorable in any material respect to the Lenders or the Administrative Agent.


“Capital Lease Obligations” of any Person means 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 the amount of such obligations shall be the capitalized amount thereof determined in accordance with GAAP.


“Cash Collateralize” means to pledge and deposit with or deliver to the Administrative Agent, for the  benefit  of  one  or  more  of  the  L/C  Issuer  or  the  Lenders,  as  collateral for  L/C  Obligations  or obligations of the Lenders to fund participations in respect of L/C Obligations, cash or deposit account balances or, if the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer shall agree in their sole discretion, other credit support, in each case pursuant to documentation in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer. “Cash Collateral” shall have a meaning correlative to the foregoing and shall include the proceeds of such cash collateral and other credit support.


“Change in Control” means the occurrence of one or more of the following events: (a) the acquisition of ownership, directly or indirectly, beneficially or of record, by any entity, organization or “group” (within the meaning of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission thereunder as in effect on the date hereof) of 50% or more of the outstanding shares of the voting stock of the Company; (b) during any period of up to 12 months, individuals who at the beginning of such 12 month period were directors of the Company (together with any new directors whose election or nomination for election by the Company’s board of directors was approved by a vote of at least two-thirds of the directors then still in office who were either directors at the beginning of such period or whose election or nomination for election was previously so approved) cease for any reason (other than death, disability or voluntary retirement not for reasons related to an actual or proposed change of control) to constitute at least a majority of the directors of the Company then in office); (c) the Company ceases to own (directly or indirectly) 100% of the outstanding shares of the voting stock of each Designated Borrower; or (d) the occurrence of any sale, lease, exchange or other transfer (in a single transaction or series of related transactions) of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company to any Person or “group” (as defined above).


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


“Closing Date” means February 28, 2014.


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


“Commitment Fee” has the meaning specified in  Section 2.09(a).

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“Commodity Exchange Act” means the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.).


“Company” has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph hereto.


“Company Guaranty” means the Amended and Restated Company Guaranty substantially in the form of Exhibit H (including any and all supplements thereto) executed and delivered by the Company, in favor of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Swap Providers.


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


“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).


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


“Credit  Extension”  means  each  of  the  following:  (a)  a  Borrowing  and  (b)  an  L/C  Credit
Extension.


“Credit Parties” means, collectively, each Borrower and each Guarantor.


“Debtor Relief Laws” means the Bankruptcy Code of the United States, and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief Laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect and affecting the rights of creditors generally.


“Default” means any event or condition that constitutes an Event of Default or that, with the giving of any notice, the passage of time, or both, would be an Event of Default.


“Default Rate” means (a) when used with respect to Obligations other than Letter of Credit Fees, an interest rate equal to (i) the Base Rate plus (ii) the Applicable Rate, if any, applicable to Base Rate Loans plus (iii) 2% per annum; provided, however, that with respect to a Eurocurrency Rate Loan, the Default Rate shall be an interest rate equal to the interest rate (including any Applicable Rate) otherwise applicable to such Loan plus 2% per annum, in each case to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws and (b) when used with respect to Letter of Credit Fees, a rate equal to the Applicable Rate plus 2% per annum.


“Defaulting Lender” means, subject to Section 2.15(d), any Lender that (a) has failed to (i) fund all or any portion of its Loans within two Business Days of the date such Loans were required to be funded hereunder unless such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Company in writing that such failure is the result of such Lender’s determination that one or more conditions precedent to funding (each of which conditions precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing) has not been satisfied, or (ii) pay to the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer, the Swing Line Lender or any other Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder (including in respect of its participation in Letters of Credit or Swing Line Loans) within two Business Days of the date when due, (b) has notified the Company, the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender in writing that it does not intend to comply with its funding obligations hereunder, or has made a public statement to that effect (unless such writing or public statement relates to such Lender’s obligation to fund a Loan hereunder and states that such position is based on such Lender’s determination that a condition precedent 

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to funding (which condition precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing or public statement) cannot be satisfied), (c) has failed, within three Business Days after written request by the Administrative Agent or the Company, to confirm in writing to the Administrative Agent and the Company that it will comply with its prospective funding obligations hereunder (provided that such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender pursuant to this clause (c) upon receipt of such written confirmation by the Administrative Agent and the Company), or (d) has, or has a direct or indirect parent company that has, (i) become the subject of a proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law or (ii) had appointed for it a receiver, custodian, conservator, trustee, administrator, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with reorganization or liquidation of its business or assets, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other state or federal regulatory authority acting in such a capacity; provided that a Lender shall not be a Defaulting Lender solely by virtue of the ownership or acquisition of any Equity Interest in that Lender or any direct or indirect parent company thereof by a Governmental Authority 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.  Any determination by the Administrative Agent that a Lender is a Defaulting Lender under any one or more of clauses (a) through (d) above, and of the effective date of such status, shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error, and such Lender shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender (subject to Section 2.15(d)) as of the date established therefor by the Administrative Agent in a written notice of such determination, which shall be delivered by the Administrative Agent to the Company, the L/C Issuer, the Swing Line Lender and each other Lender promptly following such determination.


“Designated Borrower” means any Subsidiary that has been designated as a Borrower pursuant to the terms hereof and that has not ceased to be a Borrower pursuant to the terms hereof.


“Designated Jurisdiction” means any country or territory to the extent that such country or territory itself is the subject of any Sanction.


“Designated Subsidiaries” means the non-wholly owned Subsidiaries of the Company that are subject to an encumbrance or restriction pursuant to an agreement between the Company or the applicable Subsidiary  with  the  Person  (other  than  any  Affiliate  of  the  Company)  owning the  minority of  the outstanding Equity Interests in such non-wholly owned Subsidiary of the Company requiring the consent of such Person prior to (a) paying dividends or making any other distributions on any of its Equity Interests, (b) paying any amounts owing to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (iii) granting any Liens on any of its assets to secure any of the Obligations.


“Dollar” and “$” mean lawful money of the United States.


“Dollar Equivalent” means, at any time, (a) with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, such amount, and (b) with respect to any amount denominated in any Alternative Currency, the equivalent amount thereof in Dollars as determined by the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, at such time on the basis of the Spot Rate (determined in respect of the most recent Revaluation Date) for the purchase of Dollars with such Alternative Currency.


“Domestic Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is organized under the laws of any political
subdivision of the United States.


“EBITDA” means, for any period, the sum of the following (without duplication) in each case determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP: (a) with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries (excluding any Persons or assets that became Acquired Entities at any time during such period), 

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the sum of Net Income for such period plus (1) each of the following for such period (to the extent included in determining Net Income): (i)  federal, state, local and foreign income, value added and similar taxes, (ii) depreciation, (iii) amortization, (iv) Interest Expense; (v) extraordinary losses incurred other than in the ordinary course of business, (vi) Non-Cash Items to the extent such Non-Cash Items do not represent an accrual or reserve for a future cash expenditure, charge or loss; and (vii) Non-Recurring Items in an amount not to exceed, for any period of determination, the Non-Recurring Cash Items Charge Limit; minus (2) each of the following for such period (to the extent deducted in determining Net Income): (i) extraordinary gains realized other than in the ordinary course of business; and (ii) non-cash income or gains plus (3) with respect to each Acquisition, cost synergies (net of continued associated expenses) that, as of the date of calculation with respect to such period, are anticipated by the Company in good faith to be realized within 12 months following such Acquisition; provided that (A) such cost synergies  are  factually  supportable,  (B)  such  cost  synergies  are  reasonably  acceptable  to  the Administrative Agent and (C) the aggregate amount of such adjustments under this clause (a)(3) taken into account in determining EBITDA for any period of determination shall not exceed an aggregate amount equal to 10% of the EBITDA attributable to the property acquired (or the property of the Person acquired) in such Acquisition and (b) “EBITDA” of any Persons or assets that became Acquired Entities at any time during such period, calculated on a pro forma basis for such Acquired Entities for the entire period in a manner otherwise consistent with this definition and the definitions referred to herein.


“EBITR” means, for the Company and its Subsidiaries for any period, an amount equal to the sum of  each  of  the  following  for  such  period  (without  duplication)  in  each  case  determined  on  a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP: (a) EBITDA (excluding “EBITDA” of Acquired Entities as described in clause (b) of the definition of EBITDA) plus (b) Lease Expense, minus (c) depreciation and amortization.


“Eligible Assignee” means any Person that meets the requirements to be an assignee under
Section  10.06(b)(ii)  and  (iv)  (subject  to  such  consents,  if  any,  as  may  be  required  under  Section 10.06(b)(ii)).


“Environmental Laws” means all laws, rules, regulations, codes, ordinances, orders, decrees, judgments, injunctions, notices or binding agreements issued, promulgated or entered into by any Governmental Authority, relating in any way to the environment, preservation or reclamation of natural resources, the management, release or threatened release of any Hazardous Material or to health and safety matters.


“Environmental Liability” means any liability, contingent or otherwise (including any liability for damages, costs of environmental remediation, fines, penalties or indemnities), of the Company or any Subsidiary directly or indirectly resulting from or based upon (a) violation of any Environmental Law, (b) the generation, use, handling, transportation, storage, treatment or disposal of any Hazardous Materials, (c) exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the release or threatened release of any Hazardous Materials into the environment or (e) any contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement pursuant to which liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the foregoing.


“Equity Interests” means shares of capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests in a limited liability company, beneficial interests in a trust or other equity ownership interests in a Person, and any warrants, options or other rights entitling the holder thereof to purchase or acquire any such equity interest.


“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.


“ERISA Affiliate” means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that, together with

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the Company, is treated as a single employer under Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code or, solely for purposes of Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code, is treated as a single employer under
Section 414 of the Code.


“ERISA Event” means (a) any Reportable Event; (b) the existence with respect to any Plan of an “accumulated funding deficiency” (as defined in Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA), whether or not waived; (c) the filing pursuant to Section 412(d) of the Code or Section 303(d) of ERISA of an application for a waiver of the minimum funding standard with respect to any Plan; (d) the incurrence by the Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates of any liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to the termination of any Plan; (e) the receipt by the Company or any ERISA Affiliate from the PBGC or a plan administrator of any notice relating to an intention to terminate any Plan or Plans or to appoint a trustee to administer any Plan; (f) the incurrence by the Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates of any liability with respect to the withdrawal or partial withdrawal from any Plan or Multiemployer Plan; or (g) the receipt by the Company or any ERISA Affiliate of any notice, or the receipt by any Multiemployer Plan from the Company or any ERISA Affiliate of any notice, concerning the imposition of Withdrawal Liability or a determination that a Multiemployer Plan is, or is expected to be, insolvent or in reorganization, within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA.


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


“Eurocurrency Base Rate” means:


(a)        for any Interest Period with respect to a Eurocurrency Rate Loan:


(i)         in the case of Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in a LIBOR Quoted Currency, the rate per annum equal to the London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”) or, if not available, a comparable or successor rate, which rate is approved by the Administrative Agent, as published on the applicable Bloomberg screen page (or such other commercially available source providing such quotations as may be designated by the Administrative Agent from time to time) (in such case, the “LIBOR Rate”) at or about
11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period, for deposits in the relevant currency (for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to such Interest Period;


(ii)        in the case of Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in Canadian Dollars, the rate per annum equal to the Canadian Dealer Offered Rate (“CDOR”), or, if not available, a comparable or successor rate which rate is approved by the Administrative Agent,   as   published   on  the  applicable   Bloomberg  screen   page   (or  such   other commercially available source providing such quotations as may be designated by the Administrative Agent from time to time) (in such case, the “CDOR Rate”) at or about
10:00a.m. (Toronto, Ontario time) on the Rate Determination Date with a term equivalent to such Interest Period;


(iii)       in the case of any Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in any other Non-LIBOR Quoted Currency (other than those specified above), the rate designated and disclosed to the Company in writing with respect to such Alternative Currency at the time such Alternative Currency is approved by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders pursuant to Section 1.06; and


(b)        for any interest calculation with respect to a Base Rate Loan on any date, the rate per annum equal to the LIBOR Rate, at about 11:00 a.m., London time determined two Business 

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Days prior to such date for Dollar deposits for a term of one month commencing that day;


provided that to the extent a comparable or successor rate is approved by the Administrative Agent in connection herewith, the approved rate shall be applied in a manner consistent with market practice and disclosed to the Company prior to such application; provided, further that to the extent such market practice is not administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent, such approved rate shall be applied as otherwise reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent and disclosed to the Company prior to such application.


“Eurocurrency Rate” means, for any Interest Period with respect to a Eurocurrency Rate Loan, a
rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent pursuant to the following formula:


Eurocurrency Rate =                      Eurocurrency Base Rate     
1.00 - Eurocurrency Reserve Percentage


“Eurocurrency Reserve Percentage” means, for any day during any Interest Period, the reserve percentage (expressed as a decimal, carried out to five decimal places) in effect on such day, whether or not applicable to any Lender, under regulations issued from time to time by the Board for determining the maximum reserve requirement (including any emergency, supplemental or other marginal reserve requirement) with respect to Eurocurrency funding (currently referred to as “Eurocurrency liabilities”). The Eurocurrency Rate for each outstanding Eurocurrency Rate Loan shall be adjusted automatically as of the effective date of any change in the Eurocurrency Reserve Percentage.


“Eurocurrency Rate Loan” means a Loan that bears interest at a rate based on the “Eurocurrency Rate”.   Eurocurrency Rate Loans may be denominated in Dollars or in an Alternative Currency.   All Loans denominated in Alternative Currencies must be Eurocurrency Rate Loans.


“Event of Default” has the meaning specified in  Section 8.01.


“Excluded Domestic Subsidiary” means any Domestic Subsidiary that is a disregarded entity separate from its owner for U.S. federal income tax purposes that is owned directly by a “controlled foreign corporation” within the meaning of Section 957 of the Code.


“Excluded Swap Obligation” means, with respect to any Credit Party, any Swap Obligation if, and to the extent that, all or a portion of the Guaranty of such Credit Party of such Swap Obligation (or any Guarantee thereof) is or becomes illegal under the Commodity Exchange Act (or the application or official interpretation thereof) by virtue of such Credit Party’s failure for any reason to constitute an “eligible contract participant” as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act (determined after giving effect to Section 22 of the Company Guaranty and Section 24 of the Subsidiary Guaranty and any and all guarantees of such Credit Party’s Swap Obligations by other Credit Parties) at the time the Guaranty of such Credit Party becomes effective with respect to such Swap Obligation.  If a Swap Obligation arises under a Master Agreement governing more than one Swap Agreement, such exclusion shall apply to only the portion of such Swap Obligation that is attributable to Swap Agreements for which such Guaranty is or becomes illegal.


“Excluded Taxes” means any of the following Taxes imposed on or with respect to any Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to a Recipient, (a) Taxes imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated), franchise Taxes, and branch profits Taxes, in each case, (i) imposed as a result of such Recipient being organized under the laws of, or having its principal office or, in the case of any Lender, its Lending Office located in, the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (or any political subdivision thereof) or (ii) that are Other Connection Taxes, (b) in the case of a Lender, U.S. federal withholding Taxes 

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imposed on amounts payable to or for the account of such Lender with respectto an applicable interest in a Loan or Revolving Commitment pursuant to a law in effect on the date on which (i) such Lender acquires such interest in the Loan or Revolving Commitment (other than pursuant to an assignment request by the Borrower under Section 10.13) or (ii) such Lender changes its Lending Office, except in each case to the extent that, pursuant to Section 3.01(a)(ii), 3.01(a)(iii) or 3.01(c), amounts with respect to such Taxes were payable either to such Lender’s assignor immediately before such Lender became a party hereto or to such Lender immediately before it changed its Lending Office, (c) Taxes attributable to such Recipient’s failure to comply with  Section 3.01(e) and (d) any U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed pursuant to FATCA.


“Existing Credit Agreements” means (a) the 2010 Credit Agreement and (b) the 2012 Credit Agreement.


“Existing Letters of Credit” means the standby letters of credit described on Schedule 1.01.


“FATCA” means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the Closing Date (or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with) and any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof and any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code.


“Federal Funds Effective Rate” means, for any day, the rate per annum equal to the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers on such day, as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the Business Day next succeeding such day; provided that (a) if such day is not a Business Day, the Federal Funds Effective Rate for such day shall be such rate on such transactions on the next preceding Business Day as so published on the next succeeding Business Day, and (b) if no such rate is so published on such next succeeding Business Day, the Federal Funds Effective Rate for such day shall be the average rate (rounded upward, if necessary, to a whole multiple of 1/100 of 1%) charged to Bank of America on such day on such transactions as reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent.


“Fee Letter” means the letter agreement, dated February 4, 2014, among the Company, the
Administrative Agent and MLPFS.


“Financial Officer” means the chief financial officer, principal accounting officer, treasurer or
controller of the Company or any other Credit Party, as applicable.


“Fiscal Quarter” means any fiscal quarter of the Company.


“Fiscal Year” means any fiscal year of the Company.


“Fixed Charges” means, without duplication, for the Company and its Subsidiaries for any period, the sum of each of the following for such period: (a) Interest Expense, and (b) Lease Expense.


“Foreign Lender” means a Lender that is not a U.S. Person.  For purposes of this definition, the United States, each State thereof and the District of Columbia shall be deemed to constitute a single jurisdiction.


“Foreign Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Company other than a Domestic Subsidiary.


“Foreign Subsidiary Borrower” means each Borrower that is a Foreign Subsidiary.



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“Fronting Exposure” means, at any time there is a Defaulting Lender, (a) with respect to the L/C Issuer, such Defaulting Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the outstanding L/C Obligations other than L/C Obligations as to which such Defaulting Lender’s participation obligation has been reallocated to other Lenders or Cash Collateralized in accordance with the terms hereof and (b) with respect to the Swing Line Lender, such Defaulting Lender’s Applicable Percentage of Swing Line Loans other than Swing Line Loans as to which such Defaulting Lender’s participation obligation has been reallocated to other Lenders in accordance with the terms hereof.


“Fund” means any Person (other than a natural person) that is (or will be) engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its activities.


“Funding Indemnity Letter” means a letter by and among the Company and the Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Lenders, entered into on or prior to the date that is three Business Days prior to the Closing Date pursuant to which the Company agrees to compensate the Lenders for certain losses, costs or expenses incurred by such Lender as a result of any failure for any reason to make the Loan Borrowings on the date set forth therein, in the form agreed to by the parties thereto.


“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or such other principles as may be approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession in the United States, that are applicable to the circumstances as of the date of determination, consistently applied.


“Global Payments Acquisition Corporation 2” is a Luxembourg société à responsabilité limitée, with a share capital of EUR 1,660,669.-, having its registered office at 6C, rue Gabriel Lippmann, L-5365
Munsbach, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg, and registered with the Registre de Commerce et des Sociétés,
Luxembourg under number B 139.629.


“Global Payments Acquisition PS 1 - Global Payments Direct” is a Luxembourg société en nom collectif, with a share capital of EUR 862,094.-, having its registered office at 6C, rue Gabriel Lippmann, L-5365 Munsbach, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg, and registered with the Registre de Commerce et des Sociétés, Luxembourg under number B 139.804.


“Global Payments Direct” means Global Payments Direct, Inc., a New York corporation.


“Governmental Authority” means the government of the United States, any other nation or any political subdivision thereof, whether state or local, and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government (including, without limitation, the Financial Conduct Authority, the Prudential Regulation Authority and any supra-national bodies such as the European Union or the European Central Bank).


“Guarantee” of or by any Person (the “guarantor”) means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of the guarantor guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other obligation of any other Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of the guarantor, direct or indirect, (a) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other obligation or to purchase (or to advance or supply funds for the purchase of) any security for the payment thereof, (b) to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the owner of such Indebtedness or other
obligation of the payment thereof, (c) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any other financial 

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statement condition or liquidity of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other obligation or (d) as an account party in respect of any letter of credit or letter of guaranty issued to support such Indebtedness or obligation; provided, that the term Guarantee shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business.


“Guaranteed Party Designation Notice” shall mean a notice from any Swap Provider substantially in the form of Exhibit J.


“Guarantors” means the collective reference to (a) each Subsidiary (other than a Bank Subsidiary) that qualifies as a Significant Subsidiary as provided herein and each additional Subsidiary that executes and delivers to the Administrative Agent a Subsidiary Guaranty Supplement pursuant to Section 6.09 and (b) with respect to (i) Obligations of the Designated Borrowers, (ii) Obligations under any Related Swap Agreement and (iii) any Swap Obligation of a Specified Credit Party (determined before giving effect to Sections 3 and 22 of the Company Guaranty and Sections 3 and 24 of the Subsidiary Guaranty) under the Guaranty, the Company.


“Guaranty” means the Company Guaranty and the Subsidiary Guaranty.


“Hazardous Materials” means all explosive or radioactive substances or wastes and all hazardous or toxic substances, wastes or other pollutants, including petroleum or petroleum distillates, asbestos or asbestos containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas, infectious or medical wastes and all other substances or wastes of any nature regulated pursuant to any Environmental Law.


“Honor Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.03(c).


“IFRS”  means  international  accounting  standards  within  the  meaning  of  IAS  Regulation
1606/2002 to the extent applicable to the relevant financial statements delivered under or referred to herein.


“Indebtedness” of any Person means, without duplication, (a) obligations of such Person for borrowed money, (b) obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments, (c) obligations of such Person in respect of the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than trade payables incurred in the ordinary course of business on terms customary in the trade), (d) obligations of such Person under any conditional sale or other title retention agreement(s) relating to property acquired by such Person, (e) Capital Lease Obligations of such Person, (f) obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such Person in respect of letters of credit, acceptances or similar extensions of credit, (g) Guarantees by such Person of the type of indebtedness described in clauses (a) through (f) above, (h) all indebtedness of a third party secured by any lien on property owned by such Person, whether or not such indebtedness has been assumed by such Person, (i) all obligations of such Person, contingent or otherwise, to purchase, redeem, retire or otherwise acquire for value any Equity Interests of such Person, and (j) off-balance sheet liability retained in connection with asset securitization programs, synthetic leases, sale and leaseback transactions or other similar obligations arising with respect to any other transaction which is the functional equivalent of or takes the place of borrowing but which does not constitute  a  liability  on  the  consolidated  balance  sheet  of  such  Person  and  its     Subsidiaries. “Indebtedness” shall not include (i) Settlement Obligations or any contingent obligations under surety bonds or similar obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business or (ii) any liabilities of a Bank Subsidiary for, or in respect of, deposits received by such Bank Subsidiary.


“Indemnified Taxes” means (a) Taxes, other than Excluded Taxes, imposed on or with respect to any payment made by or on account of any obligation of any Credit Party under any Loan Document and 

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(b) to the extent not otherwise described in clause (a), Other Taxes.


“Indemnitees” has the meaning specified in  Section 10.04(b).


“Information” has the meaning specified in  Section 10.07.


“Intellectual  Property”  means  the  collective  reference  to  all  rights,  priorities  and  privileges relating to intellectual property, whether arising under United States, multi-national or foreign laws or otherwise, including copyrights, copyright licenses, patents, patent licenses, trademarks, trademark licenses, technology, know-how processes and all rights to sue at law or in equity for any infringement or other impairment thereof, including the right to receive all proceeds in damages therefrom.


“Interest Expense” means, for the Company and its Subsidiaries for any period determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP (without duplication), total interest expense, including without  limitation  the  interest  component  of  any payments  in  respect  of  Capital  Lease  Obligations (whether capitalized or expensed) during such period (whether or not actually paid during such period).


“Interest Payment Date” means, (a) as to any Loan other than a Base Rate Loan, the last day of each Interest Period applicable to such Loan and the Maturity Date; provided, however, that if any Interest Period for a Eurocurrency Rate Loan exceeds three months, the respective dates that fall every three months after the beginning of such Interest Period shall also be Interest Payment Dates; and (b) as to any Base Rate Loan (including a Swing Line Loan), the last Business Day of each February, May, August and November, and the Maturity Date.


“Interest Period” means, as to each Eurocurrency Rate Loan, the period commencing on the date such Eurocurrency Rate Loan is disbursed or converted to or continued as a Eurocurrency Rate Loan and ending on the date  one week or  one, two, three or six months thereafter  (in each case, subject to availability), as selected by the applicable Borrower in its Loan Notice or such other period that is twelve months or less requested by the applicable Borrower and consented to by all the Lenders required to fund or maintain a portion of such Loan; provided that:


(a)        any Interest Period that would otherwise end on a day that is not a Business Day shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless such Business Day falls in another calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day;


(b)        any Interest Period that begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period; and


(c)        no Interest Period shall extend beyond the Maturity Date.


“IRS” means the United States Internal Revenue Service.


“ISP” means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the “International Standby Practices 1998” published by the Institute of International Banking Law & Practice, Inc. (or such later version thereof as may be in effect at the time of issuance).

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“Issuer Documents” means with respect to any Letter of Credit, the Letter of Credit Application, and any other document, agreement and instrument entered into by the L/C Issuer and the Company (or any Subsidiary) or in favor of the L/C Issuer and relating to any such Letter of Credit.


“Lease Expense” for any period, the aggregate amount of fixed and contingent rentals payable by the Company and its Subsidiaries with respect to leases of real and personal property (excluding Capital Lease Obligations) determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP for such period.


“Laws” means, collectively, all international, foreign, Federal, state and local statutes, treaties, rules, guidelines, regulations, ordinances, codes and administrative or judicial precedents or authorities, including the interpretation or administration thereof by any Governmental Authority charged with the enforcement, interpretation or administration thereof, and all applicable administrative orders, directed duties, requests, licenses, authorizations and permits of, and agreements with, any Governmental Authority, in each case whether or not having the force of law.


“L/C Advance” means, with respect to each Lender, such Lender’s funding of its participation in any  L/C  Borrowing  in  accordance  with  its  Applicable  Percentage.     All  L/C  Advances  shall  be denominated in Dollars.


“L/C Borrowing” means an extension of credit resulting from a drawing under any Letter of Credit which has not been reimbursed on the date when made or refinanced as a Borrowing of Revolving Loans.  All L/C Borrowings shall be denominated in Dollars.


“L/C Credit Extension” means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the issuance thereof or
extension of the expiry date thereof, or the increase of the amount thereof.


“L/C Issuer” means Bank of America in its capacity as issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder, or any successor issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder.


“L/C Obligations” means, as at any date of determination, the sum of (a) the aggregate amount available to be drawn under all outstanding Letters of Credit plus (b) the aggregate of all Unreimbursed Amounts, including all L/C Borrowings.  For purposes of computing the amount available to be drawn under any Letter of Credit, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be determined in accordance with Section 1.06.  For all purposes of this Agreement, if on any date of determination a Letter of Credit has expired by its terms but any amount may still be drawn thereunder by reason of the operation of Rule 3.14 of the ISP, such Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be “outstanding” in the amount so remaining available to be drawn.


“Lender” means each of the Persons identified as a “Lender” on the signature pages hereto, each other Person that becomes a “Lender” in accordance with this Agreement and their successors and assigns and, as the context requires, includes the Swing Line Lender.


“Lending Office” means, as to any Lender, the office or offices of such Lender described as such in such Lender’s Administrative Questionnaire, or such other office or offices as a Lender may from time to time notify the Company and the Administrative Agent.


“Letter of Credit” means any standby letter of credit issued hereunder and shall include the
Existing Letters of Credit. Letters of Credit may be issued in Dollars or in an Alternative Currency.


“Letter  of  Credit  Application”  means  an  application  and  agreement  for  the  issuance  or
amendment of a letter of credit in the form from time to time in use by the L/C Issuer.

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“Letter of Credit Expiration Date” means the day that is five days prior to the Maturity Date then in effect (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next preceding Business Day).


“Letter of Credit Fee” has the meaning specified in  Section 2.03(h).


“Letter of Credit Sublimit” means an amount equal to the lesser of (a) the Aggregate Revolving Commitments and (b) $100,000,000.  The Letter of Credit Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Aggregate Revolving Commitments.


“Leverage Ratio” means, as of the end of any Fiscal Quarter, the ratio of Total Debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of such date to EBITDA of the Company and its Subsidiaries for such Fiscal Quarter and the immediately preceding three Fiscal Quarters.


“LIBOR” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Eurocurrency Rate”.


“LIBOR Quoted Currency” means Dollars, Euros, Sterling and any other Alternative Currency for which there is a published LIBOR rate, in each case as long as there is a published LIBOR rate with respect thereto.


“Lien” means, with respect to any asset, (a) any mortgage, deed of trust, lien, pledge, hypothecation, encumbrance, charge or security interest in, on or of such asset, and (b) the interest of a vendor or a lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or title retention agreement (or any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing) relating to such asset.


“Loan” means an extension of credit by a Lender to a Borrower under  Article II in the form of a
Revolving Loan or Swing Line Loan.


“Loan Documents” means this Agreement, the Notes, the Fee Letter, the Subsidiary Guaranty, any Subsidiary Guaranty Supplements, the Company Guaranty, each Issuer Document, the Funding Indemnity Letter, each Borrower Request and Assumption Agreement, and all other documents and agreements contemplated hereby and executed by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company in favor of the Administrative Agent or any Lender.


“Loan Notice” means a notice of (a) a Borrowing of Loans, (b) a conversion of Loans from one
Type to the other, or (c) a continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, in each case pursuant to Section
2.02(a), which, if in writing, shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A-1.


“Master Agreement” means 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, together with any related schedules.


“Material Adverse Effect” means, with respect to any event, act, condition or occurrence of whatever nature (including any adverse determination in any litigation, arbitration, or governmental investigation or proceeding), whether singly or in conjunction with any other event or events, act or acts, condition or conditions, occurrence or occurrences, whether or not related, a material adverse change in, or a material adverse effect upon, any of (a) the financial condition, results of operations, business, or properties of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, (b) the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent or the Lenders under the Loan Documents, or the ability of any of the Credit Parties to perform its obligations under the Loan Documents to which it is a party (such obligations to include,

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without limitation, payment of the Obligations and observance and performance of the covenants set forth in Articles VI and VII hereof), as applicable, or (c) the legality, validity or enforceability of any Loan Document.


“Material Indebtedness” means (a) Indebtedness (other than the Loans), or obligations in respect of one or more Swap Agreements, of any one or more of the Company and its Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount exceeding $50,000,000 or (b) the Term Loan Agreement.  For purposes of determining Material Indebtedness, the “principal amount” of the obligations of the Company or any Subsidiary in respect of any Swap Agreement at any time shall be the maximum aggregate amount (giving effect to any netting agreements) that the Company or such Subsidiary would be required to pay if such Swap Agreement were terminated at such time.


“Material Subsidiary” means each Subsidiary that, as of the most recent Fiscal Quarter, for the period of four consecutive Fiscal Quarters then ended, for which financial statements have been delivered, or are required to have been delivered, pursuant to Section 6.01, contributed more than ten percent (10%) of the Company’s consolidated revenues for such period.  Such determinations shall be made with respect to Subsidiaries at each time that the financial statements for the Company and its Subsidiaries are delivered, or are required to be delivered, pursuant to Section 6.01, provided that if a Person becomes a Subsidiary pursuant to or in connection with an Acquisition, then such determination shall be made as of the date such Acquisition is consummated, based on the financial statements of such Person for its most recent quarter end (for the four fiscal quarters then ended) for which financial statements are available (which  may  be  unaudited).    Notwithstanding  anything  to  the  contrary  contained  herein,  no  Bank Subsidiary shall be a “Material Subsidiary”.


“Maturity Date” means February 28, 2019; provided that if such date is not a Business Day, the
Maturity Date shall be the next preceding Business Day.


“Minimum Collateral Amount” means, at any time, (a) with respect to Cash Collateral consisting of  cash  or  deposit  account  balances  provided  to reduce  or  eliminate  Fronting Exposure  during the existence of a Defaulting Lender, an amount equal to 103% of the Fronting Exposure of the L/C Issuer with respect to Letters of Credit issued and outstanding at such time, (b) with respect to Cash Collateral consisting of cash or deposit account balances provided in accordance with the provisions of Section
2.14(a)(i), (a)(ii) or (a)(iii), an amount equal to 103% of the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations, and (c) otherwise, an amount determined by the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer in their sole
discretion.


“MLPFS” means Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated.


“Multiemployer Plan” means a multiemployer plan as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA.


“Net  Income”  means,  for  any  period,  net  income  of  the  Company  and  its  consolidated Subsidiaries for such period determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, but excluding therefrom (to the extent included therein): any net income of Designated Subsidiaries and any equity interests in the net income of joint ventures or other Persons that are not Subsidiaries, in each case to the extent such net income not actually paid in cash, and the Company or its Subsidiaries do not have the ability to cause such net income to be paid in cash, to the Company or its Subsidiaries (other than Designated Subsidiaries) with respect to such period.


“Net Worth” means, as of any date, total shareholders’ equity reflected on the consolidated
balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of such date prepared in accordance with GAAP.

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“Non-Cash Items” means, for any period, an accounting item that does not impact cash, including without  limitation, the  non-cash  portions  of  gains, losses,  stock based  compensation expense,  asset impairments, restructuring charges, extraordinary items, unusual items, and the cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles.


“Non-Consenting Lender” means  any Lender that does  not approve  any consent,  waiver  or amendment that (a) requires the approval of all Lenders or all affected Lenders in accordance with the terms of Section 10.01 and (b) has been approved by the Required Lenders.




“Non-Defaulting Lender” means, at any time, each Lender that is not a Defaulting Lender at such time.


“Non-LIBOR Quoted Currency” means any currency other than a LIBOR Quoted Currency.


“Non-Recurring Cash Items Charge Limit” means during any Fiscal Year, an amount equal to three percent (3%) of the Net Worth of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of the end of the immediately preceding Fiscal Year.


“Non-Recurring Items” means, for any period, an accounting item that impacts cash in the current period or any future period and is generally non-recurring in nature, including without limitation, losses, asset impairments, restructuring charges, extraordinary items, unusual items, and the cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles.


“Notes” means the Revolving Notes and/or the Swing Line Loan Notes, individually or collectively, as appropriate.


“Obligations” means, collectively, all unpaid principal of and accrued and unpaid interest on all Loans or Letters of Credit, accrued and unpaid fees, and expenses, reimbursements, indemnities and other obligations of any Credit Party to the Lenders or to any Lender, the L/C Issuer, the Administrative Agent or any Indemnitee hereunder arising under this Agreement or any other Loan Document, and all amounts payable by any Borrower under any Related Swap Agreement, and including interest and fees that accrue after the commencement by or against any Credit Party or any Affiliate thereof of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws naming such Person as the debtor in such proceeding, regardless of whether such interest and fees are allowed claims in such proceeding; provided, however, that the “Obligations” of a Credit Party shall exclude any Excluded Swap Obligations with respect to such Credit Party.


“OFAC” means the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of the
Treasury.


“Organization Documents” means, (a) with respect to any corporation, the certificate or articles of incorporation and the bylaws (or equivalent or comparable constitutive documents with respect to any non-U.S. jurisdiction); (b) with respect to any limited liability company, the certificate or articles of formation or organization and operating agreement; and (c) with respect to any partnership, joint venture, trust or other form of business entity, the partnership, joint venture or other applicable agreement of formation or organization and any agreement, instrument, filing or notice with respect thereto filed in connection with its formation or organization with the applicable Governmental Authority in the jurisdiction of its formation or organization and, if applicable, any certificate or articles of formation or organization of such entity.



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“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” means all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing  or  similar  Taxes  that  arise  from  any  payment  made  under,  from  the  execution,  delivery, performance, enforcement or registration of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to, any Loan Document, except any such Taxes that are Other Connection Taxes imposed with respect to an assignment (other than an assignment made pursuant to Section 3.06).


“Outstanding Amount” means (a) with respect to any Loans on any date, the Dollar Equivalent amount of the aggregate outstanding principal amount thereof after giving effect to any borrowings and prepayments or repayments of any Loans occurring on such date; and (b) with respect to any L/C Obligations on any date, the Dollar Equivalent amount of the outstanding amount of such L/C Obligations after giving effect to any L/C Credit Extension occurring on such date and any other changes in the aggregate amount of the L/C Obligations as of such date, including as a result of any reimbursements by the Company of Unreimbursed Amounts.


“Overnight Rate” means, for any day, (a) with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, the greater of (i) the Federal Funds Effective Rate and (ii) an overnight rate determined by the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer, or the Swing Line Lender, as the case may be, in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation, and (b) with respect to any amount denominated in an Alternative Currency,  the  rate  of  interest  per  annum at  which  overnight  deposits  in  the  applicable  Alternative Currency, in an amount approximately equal to the amount with respect to which such rate is being determined, would be offered for such day by a branch or Affiliate of Bank of America in the applicable offshore interbank market for such currency to major banks in such interbank market.


“Participant” has the meaning specified in  Section 10.06(d).


“Participant Register” has the meaning specified in  Section 10.06(d).


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


“PayPros Acquisition” means the Acquisition by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries of
Payment Processing, Inc.


“PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation referred to and defined in ERISA and
any successor entity performing similar functions.


“Permitted Encumbrances” means:


(a)        Liens imposed by law for taxes that are not yet due or are being contested in compliance with Section 6.04;


(b)        carriers’,  warehousemen’s,  mechanics’,  materialmen’s,  repairmen’s  and  other 

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like Liens imposed by law, arising in the ordinary course of business and securing obligations that are not Indebtedness, which do not in the aggregate materially impair the use thereof in the operation of the business;


(c)        pledges and deposits made in the ordinary course of business in compliance with
workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security laws or regulations;


(d)    deposits to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts, leases, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature, in each case in the ordinary course of business;


(e)        judgment liens in respect of judgments that do not constitute an Event of Default under clause (j) of Article VIII; and


(f)        easements, zoning restrictions, rights-of-way and similar encumbrances on real property imposed by law or arising in the ordinary course of business that do not secure any monetary obligations and do not materially detract from the value of the affected property or interfere with the ordinary conduct of business of the Company or any Subsidiary;


provided  that  the  term  “Permitted  Encumbrances”  shall  not  include  any  Lien  securing
Indebtedness.


“Permitted Pari Passu Indebtedness” means senior secured indebtedness of the Company or any Guarantor providing for Liens securing such indebtedness and the Obligations as described in this Agreement on a pari passu basis with respect to all assets serving as collateral for such indebtedness and the Obligations, and providing for guaranties of such indebtedness by no Subsidiaries of the Company or any Guarantor other than Guarantors under this Agreement, and if such indebtedness is secured by Liens, subject in all respects to an intercreditor agreement negotiated in good faith by the Administrative Agent acting on behalf of the Lenders and the holders of such indebtedness or such holders’ trustee, agent, or other representative, and making provisions for, among other things, the sharing of proceeds of collateral and amounts received or collected from guarantors in connection with such indebtedness and the Obligations.


“Person” means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership, Governmental Authority or other entity.


“Plan” means any employee pension benefit plan (other than a Multiemployer Plan) subject to the provisions of Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA, and in respect of which  the  Company  or  any  ERISA  Affiliate  is  (or,  if  such  plan  were  terminated,  would  under Section 4069 of ERISA be deemed to be) an “employer” as defined in Section 3(5) of ERISA.


“Platform” has the meaning specified in  Section 6.01.


“PMP” means a professional market party (professionele marktpartij) as defined in the Dutch
Financial Supervision Act (Wet op het financieel toezicht) as amended from time to time.


“Public Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 6.01.


“Rate Determination Date” means two (2) Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period (or such other day as is generally treated as the rate fixing day by market practice in such interbank market, as determined by the Administrative Agent; provided that to the extent such market 

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practice is not administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent, such other day as otherwise reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent).


“Recipient” means the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer, any Lender or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of any Credit Party hereunder.


“Register” has the meaning specified in  Section 10.06(c).


“Related Parties” means, with respect to any Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the partners, directors, officers, employees, agents, trustees, administrators, managers, advisors and representatives of such Person and of such Person’s Affiliates.


“Related Swap Agreement” means any Swap Agreement that is entered into by and between a Borrower and a Swap Provider.  For the avoidance of doubt, a holder of Obligations in respect of Related Swap Agreements shall be subject to the last paragraph of Section 8.02 and Section 9.11.


“Reportable Event” means a reportable event as defined in Section 4043 of ERISA and the regulations issued under such section, with respect to a Plan, excluding, however, such events as to which the PBGC by regulation waived the requirement of Section 4043(a) of ERISA that it be notified within 30 days of the occurrence of such event, provided, however, that a failure to meet the minimum funding standard of Section 412 of the Code and of Section 302 of ERISA shall be a Reportable Event regardless of the issuance of any such waiver of the notice requirement in accordance with either Section 4043(a) of ERISA or Section 412(d) of the Code.


“Request  for  Credit  Extension”  means  (a)  with  respect  to  a  Borrowing,  conversion  or continuation of Loans, a Loan Notice, (b) with respect to an L/C Credit Extension, a Letter of Credit Application and (c) with respect to a Swing Line Loan, a Swing Line Loan Notice.


“Required Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, Lenders holding in the aggregate more than 50% of (a) the unfunded Revolving Commitments, the outstanding Loans, L/C Obligations and participations therein or (b) if the Revolving Commitments have been terminated, the outstanding Loans, L/C  Obligations  and  participations  therein.    The  unfunded  Revolving  Commitments  of,  and  the outstanding Loans held or deemed held by, any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a determination of Required Lenders; provided that the amount of any participation in any Swing Line Loan and Unreimbursed Amounts that such Defaulting Lender has failed to fund that have not been reallocated to and funded by another Lender shall be deemed to be held by the Lender that is the Swing Line Lender or L/C Issuer, as the case may be, in making such determination.


“Revaluation Date” means (a) with respect to any Loan, each of the following:  (i) each date of a Borrowing of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in an Alternative Currency, (ii) each date of a continuation  of  a  Eurocurrency  Rate  Loan  denominated  in  an  Alternative  Currency  pursuant  to Section 2.02, and (iii) such additional dates as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably determine or the Required Lenders shall reasonably require; and (b) with respect to any Letter of Credit, each of the following:   (i) each date of issuance of a Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency, (ii) each date of an amendment of any such Letter of Credit having the effect of increasing the amount thereof (solely with respect to the increased amount), (iii) each date of any payment by the L/C Issuer under any Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency, and (iv) such additional dates as the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer shall reasonably determine or the Required Lenders shall reasonably require.


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to the Borrowers pursuant to Section 2.01, (b) purchase participations in L/C Obligations and (c) purchase participations in Swing Line Loans, in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on  Schedule 2.01 or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable, as such amount may be increased or decreased from time to time in accordance with this Agreement.


“Revolving Exposure” means the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Revolving Loans of any Lender, plus such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations  plus such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of all Swing Line Loans.


“Revolving Loan” has the meaning specified in  Section 2.01(a).


“Revolving Note” has the meaning specified in  Section 2.11(a).


“Same  Day  Funds”  means  (a) with  respect  to  disbursements  and  payments  in  Dollars, immediately available funds,  and (b) with  respect to  disbursements  and  payments  in  an  Alternative Currency, same day or other funds as may be reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, to be customary in the place of disbursement or payment for the settlement of international banking transactions in the relevant Alternative Currency.


“Sanction(s)” means any international economic sanction administered or enforced by the United States  Government  (including without  limitation,  OFAC),  the  United  Nations  Security Council,  the European Union, Her Majesty’s Treasury or other relevant sanctions authority.


“SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any of its principal functions.


“Settlement” means the transfer of cash or other property with respect to any credit or debit card charge, check or other instrument, electronic funds transfer, or other type of paper-based or electronic payment, transfer, or charge transaction for which a Person acts as a processor, remitter, funds recipient or funds transmitter in the ordinary course of its business.


“Settlement Asset” means any cash, receivable or other property, including a Settlement Receivable, due or conveyed to a Person in consideration for a Settlement made or arranged, or to be made or arranged, by such Person or an Affiliate of such Person.


“Settlement  Obligations”  means  any  payment  or  reimbursement  obligation  in  respect  of  a
Settlement Payment.


“Settlement Lien” means a Lien securing obligations arising under or related to any Settlement or Settlement Obligation that attaches to (i) Settlement Assets (including any assignment of Settlement Assets in consideration of Settlement Payments), (ii) any intraday and overnight overdraft and automated clearing house exposure or asset specifically related to Settlement Assets, (iii) loss reserve accounts specifically related to Settlement Assets, (iv) merchant suspense funds specifically related to Settlement Assets, (v) rights under any BIN/ISO Agreement or fees paid or payable under any BIN/ISO Agreement or (vi) the Canadian Receivables Collateral.


“Settlement Payment” means the transfer, or contractual undertaking (including by automated clearing house transaction) to effect a transfer, of cash or other property to effect a Settlement.


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representing  or  reflecting  an  obligation  to  make  payments  to  or  for  the  benefit  of  a  Person  in consideration for a Settlement made or arranged, or to be made or arranged, by such Person.


“Significant Subsidiary” means each wholly owned Domestic Subsidiary that, as of the most recent Fiscal Quarter, for the period of four consecutive Fiscal Quarters then ended, for which financial statements  have  been  delivered,  or  are  required  to  have  been  delivered,  pursuant  to  Section 6.01, contributed  more  than  one  percent (1%)  (on  a  consolidated  basis)  of  the  Company’s  consolidated revenues for such period.  Such determinations shall be made with respect to Subsidiaries at each time that the financial statements for the Company and its Subsidiaries are delivered, or are required to be delivered, pursuant to Section 6.01, provided that if a Person becomes a Subsidiary pursuant to or in connection with an Acquisition, then such determination shall be made as of the date such Acquisition is consummated, based on the financial statements of such Person for its most recent quarter end (for the four fiscal quarters then ended) for which financial statements are available (which may be unaudited).


“Special Notice Currency” means at any time an Alternative Currency, other than the currency of a country (a) that is a member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development at such time and (b) is located in North America or Europe.


“Specified Credit Party” means any Credit Party that is not an “eligible contract participant”
under the Commodity Exchange Act.


“Spot Rate” for an Alternative Currency means the rate determined by the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, as applicable, to be the rate quoted by the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, as applicable, as the spot rate for the purchase by such Person of such Alternative Currency with Dollars through its principal foreign exchange trading office at approximately 11:00 a.m. London time on the date two Business Days prior to the date as of which the foreign exchange computation is made; provided that the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer may obtain such spot rate from another financial institution designated by the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer if the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, as applicable, does not have as of the date of determination a spot buying rate for any such Alternative Currency; and provided further that the L/C Issuer may use such spot rate quoted on the date as of which the  foreign  exchange  computation  is  made  in  the  case  of  any  Letter  of  Credit  denominated  in  an Alternative Currency.


“Sterling” and “£” mean the lawful currency of the United Kingdom.


“Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person (the “parent”) at any date, any corporation, limited  liability  company,  partnership,  association  or  other  entity  (a)  of  which  securities  or  other ownership interests representing more than 50% of the equity or more than 50% of the ordinary voting power or, in the case of a partnership, more than 50% of the general partnership interests are, as of such date, owned, controlled or held, or (b) that is, as of such date, otherwise Controlled, by the parent or one or more subsidiaries of the parent, or by the parent and one or more subsidiaries of the parent, and the accounts of which would be consolidated with those of the parent in the parent’s consolidated financial statements if such financial statements were prepared in accordance with GAAP as of such date.  Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to a “Subsidiary” or to “Subsidiaries” shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Company.


“Subsidiary Guarantors” means each Subsidiary that is at any time a party to the Subsidiary Guaranty, whether on the Closing Date, pursuant to the execution and delivery to the Administrative Agent of a Subsidiary Guaranty Supplement pursuant to Section 6.09, or otherwise.



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“Subsidiary Guaranty” means the Amended and Restated Subsidiary Guaranty substantially in the form of Exhibit E (including any and all supplements thereto) executed and delivered by the Subsidiary Guarantors, in favor of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Swap Providers.


“Subsidiary Guaranty Supplement” means each Supplement substantially in the form of  Annex I
to the Subsidiary Guaranty executed and delivered by a Subsidiary pursuant to Section 6.09.


“Surety Indemnification Obligations” means all obligations of the Company or any Subsidiary to indemnify any issuers for amounts required to be paid under any surety bonds issued by such issuers and posted in accordance with applicable legal requirements with any Governmental Authority at the request and for the use of the Company or any Subsidiary in the ordinary course of its business.


“Swap Agreement” means any agreement with respect to any swap, forward, future or derivative transaction or option or similar agreement involving, or settled by reference to, one or more rates, currencies,  commodities,  equity or  debt  instruments  or  securities,  or  economic,  financial  or  pricing indices or measures of economic, financial or pricing risk or value or any similar transaction or any combination of these transactions; provided that no phantom stock or similar plan providing for payments only on account of services provided by current or former directors, officers, employees or consultants of the Company or the Subsidiaries shall be a Swap Agreement.


“Swap Obligation” means with respect to any Credit Party any obligation to pay or perform under any agreement, contract or transaction that constitutes a “swap” within the meaning of Section 1a(47) of the Commodity Exchange Act.


“Swap Provider” means any Person that, at the time it enters into a Swap Agreement is a Lender
or an Affiliate of a Lender, in its capacity as a party to such Swap Agreement.


“Swing Line Lender” means Bank of America in its capacity as provider of Swing Line Loans, or any successor swing line lender hereunder.


“Swing Line Loan” has the meaning specified in  Section 2.04(a).


“Swing Line Loan Notice” means a notice of a Borrowing of Swing Line Loans pursuant to
Section 2.04(b), which, if in writing, shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit B-1.


“Swing Line Note” has the meaning specified in  Section 2.12(a).


“Swing Line Sublimit” means an amount equal to the lesser of (a) $100,000,000 and (b) the Aggregate Revolving Commitments.   The Swing Line Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Aggregate Revolving Commitments.


“TARGET2”  means  the  Trans-European  Automated  Real-time  Gross  Settlement  Express
Transfer payment system which utilizes a single shared platform and which was launched on November
19, 2007.


“TARGET Day” means any day on which TARGET2 (or, if such payment system ceases to be operative, such other payment system, if any, determined by the Administrative Agent to be a suitable replacement) is open for the settlement of payments in Euro.


“Taxes” means all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings 

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(including backup withholding), assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.


“Term Loan Agreement” means that certain Term Loan Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, among the Company and Global Payments Direct, as borrowers, the lenders party thereto and Bank of America, as administrative agent.


“Total Debt” means at any date, all Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries measured on  a  consolidated  basis  as  of  such  date  (excluding  therefrom,  however,  without  duplication,  (a) Guarantees of Indebtedness of such Person or any of its Subsidiaries, respectively, by such Person or any such Subsidiary and (b) any obligations in respect of Swap Agreements).


“Total  Revolving Outstandings”  means  the  aggregate  Outstanding Amount  of  all  Revolving Loans, all Swing Line Loans and all L/C Obligations.


“Transactions”  means  the  execution,  delivery  and  performance  by  the  Borrowers  of  this Agreement and the borrowing of Loans, the use of the proceeds thereof.


“Type” means, with respect to a Loan, its character as a Base Rate Loan or a Eurocurrency Rate Loan.


“United Kingdom” and “UK” mean the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.


“United States” and “U.S.” mean the United States of America.


“Unreimbursed Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(c)(i).


“U.S. Person” means any Person that is a “United States Person” as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.


“U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate” has the meaning specified in  Section 3.01(e)(ii)(B)(III).


“Withdrawal Liability” means liability to a Multiemployer Plan as a result of a complete or partial withdrawal from such Multiemployer Plan, as such terms are defined in Part I of Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA.


“2010 Credit Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.


“2012 Credit Agreement” means that certain Term Loan Agreement, dated as of September 28,
2012 among the Company, the lenders party thereto and Bank of America, as administrative agent.


1.02      Other Interpretive Provisions.  With reference to this Agreement and each other Loan
Document, unless otherwise specified herein or in such other Loan Document:


(a)        The definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the singular and plural forms of the terms defined.  Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms.   The words “include,” “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation.”  The word “will” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall.”  Unless the context requires  otherwise, (i) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument  or other 

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document (including any Organization Document) shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise   modified   (subject   to   any   restrictions   on   such   amendments,   supplements   or modifications set forth herein or in any other Loan Document), (ii) any reference herein to any Person  shall  be  construed  to  include  such  Person’s  successors  and  assigns,  (iii)  the  words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder,” and words of similar import when used in any Loan Document, shall be construed to refer to such Loan Document in its entirety and not to any particular provision thereof, (iv) all references in a Loan Document to Articles, Sections, Exhibits and  Schedules shall  be  construed  to  refer  to  Articles and  Sections of,  and  Exhibits  and Schedules to, the Loan Document in which such references appear, (v) any reference to any law shall include all statutory and regulatory provisions consolidating, amending, replacing or interpreting such law and any reference to any law or regulation shall, unless otherwise specified, refer to such law or regulation as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, and (vi) 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, securities, accounts and contract rights.


(b)        In the computation of periods of time from a specified date to a later specified date, the word “from” means “from and including;” the words “to” and “until” each mean “to but excluding;” and the word “through” means “to and including.”


(c)        Section headings  herein  and  in  the  other  Loan  Documents  are  included  for convenience of reference only and shall not affect the interpretation of this Agreement or any other Loan Document.


1.03      Accounting Terms.


(a)        Generally.   All accounting terms not specifically or completely defined herein shall be construed in conformity with, and all financial data (including financial ratios and other financial calculations) required to be submitted pursuant to this Agreement shall be prepared in conformity with, GAAP applied on a consistent basis, as in effect from time to time, applied in a manner consistent with that used in preparing the Audited Financial Statements, except as otherwise specifically prescribed herein.


(b)        Changes in GAAP.  If at any time any change in GAAP (including the adoption of IFRS) 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 the approval of the Required Lenders); provided that, until so amended, (i) such ratio or requirement shall continue to be computed in accordance with GAAP prior to such change therein and (ii) the Company shall provide to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders 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.


(c)        Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities.  All references herein to consolidated financial statements of the Company and its Subsidiaries or to the determination of any amount for the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis or any similar reference shall, in each case, be deemed to include each variable interest entity that the Company is required to consolidate pursuant to FASB Interpretation No. 46 - Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities: an  interpretation  of  ARB  No.  51  (January 2003)  as  if  such  variable  interest  entity  were  a Subsidiary as defined herein.



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1.04      Rounding.


Any financial ratios required to be maintained by the Company pursuant to this Agreement shall be calculated in accordance with this Agreement and, if necessary, by carrying the result to one place more than the number of places by which such ratio is expressed herein and rounding the result up or down to the nearest number (with a rounding-up if there is no nearest number).


1.05      Exchange Rates; Currency Equivalents; Rates.


(a)        The Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, as applicable, shall determine the Spot Rates as of each Revaluation Date to be used for calculating Dollar Equivalent amounts of Credit Extensions and Outstanding Amounts denominated in Alternative Currencies.  Such Spot Rates shall become effective as of such Revaluation Date and shall be the Spot Rates employed in converting any amounts between the applicable currencies until the next Revaluation Date to occur.   Except for purposes of financial statements delivered by Credit Parties hereunder or calculating financial covenants hereunder or except as otherwise provided herein, the applicable amount of any currency (other than Dollars) for purposes of the Loan Documents shall be such Dollar Equivalent amount as so determined by the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, as applicable.


(b)       Wherever in this Agreement in connection with a Borrowing, conversion, continuation  or  prepayment  of  a  Eurocurrency  Rate  Loan  or  the  issuance,  amendment  or extension of a Letter of Credit, an amount, such as a required minimum or multiple amount, is expressed in Dollars, but such Borrowing, Eurocurrency Rate Loan or Letter of Credit is denominated in an Alternative Currency, such amount shall be the relevant Alternative Currency Equivalent of such Dollar amount (rounded to the nearest unit of such Alternative Currency, rounded upward to the nearest 1000 units), as reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be.


(c)        The Administrative Agent does not warrant, nor accept responsibility, nor shall the Administrative Agent have any liability with respect to the administration, submission or any other matter related to the rates in the definition of “Eurocurrency Rate” or with respect to any comparable or successor rate thereto.


1.06      Additional Alternative Currencies.


(a)        The Company may from time to time request that Eurocurrency Rate Loans be made and/or Letters of Credit be issued in a currency other than those specifically listed in the definition of “LIBOR Quoted Currency” or “Non-LIBOR Quoted Currency”;  provided that such requested currency is a lawful currency (other than Dollars) that is readily available and freely transferable and convertible into Dollars.   In the case of any such request with respect to the making of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, such request shall be subject to the approval of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders; and in the case of any such request with respect to the issuance of Letters of Credit, such request shall be subject to the approval of the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer.


(b)        Any such  request  shall  be  made  to  the  Administrative  Agent  not  later than
11:00 a.m., 15 Business Days prior to the date of the desired Credit Extension (or such other time or date as may be agreed by the Administrative Agent and, in the case of any such request pertaining to Letters of Credit, the L/C Issuer, in its or their sole discretion).  In the case of any such request pertaining to Eurocurrency Rate Loans, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender thereof; and in the case of any such request pertaining to Letters of 

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Credit, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the L/C Issuer thereof.  Each Lender (in the case of any such request pertaining to Eurocurrency Rate Loans) or the L/C Issuer (in the case of a request pertaining to Letters of Credit) shall notify the Administrative Agent, not later than 11:00 a.m., seven Business Days after receipt of such request whether it consents, in its sole discretion, to the making of Eurocurrency Rate Loans or the issuance of Letters of Credit, as the case may be, in such requested currency.


(c)        Any failure by a Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, to respond to such request within the time period specified in the preceding sentence shall be deemed to be a refusal by such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, to permit Eurocurrency Rate Loans to be made or Letters of Credit to be issued in such requested currency.  If the Administrative Agent and all the Lenders consent to making Eurocurrency Rate Loans in such requested currency and the Administrative Agent and such Lenders reasonably determine that a Eurocurrency Base Rate is available to be used for such requested currency, the Administrative Agent shall so notify the Company and (i) the Administrative Agent, such Lenders and the Company may amend the definition of Eurocurrency Base Rate for any Non-LIBOR Quoted Currency to the extent necessary to add the applicable Eurocurrency Base Rate for such currency and (ii) to the extent the definition of Eurocurrency Base Rate reflects the appropriate interest rate for such currency or has been amended to reflect the appropriate rate for such currency, such currency shall thereupon be deemed for all purposes to be a LIBOR Quoted Currency or a Non-LIBOR Quoted Currency, as applicable, for purposes of any Borrowings of Eurocurrency Rate Loans.  If the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer consent to the issuance of Letters of Credit in such requested currency, the Administrative Agent shall so notify the Company and (A) the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer and the Company may amend the definition of Eurocurrency Base Rate for any Non- LIBOR Quoted Currency to the extent necessary to add the applicable Eurocurrency Base Rate for such currency and (B) to the extent the definition of Eurocurrency Base Rate reflects the appropriate interest rate for such currency or has been amended to reflect the appropriate rate for such currency, such currency shall thereupon be deemed for all purposes to be a LIBOR Quoted Currency or a Non-LIBOR Quoted Currency, as applicable, for purposes of any Letter of Credit issuances.  If the Administrative Agent shall fail to obtain consent to any request for an additional currency  under  this  Section 1.06,  the  Administrative  Agent  shall  promptly  so  notify  the Company.


1.07      Change of Currency.


(a)        Each obligation of the Borrowers to make a payment denominated in the national currency unit of any member state of the European Union that adopts the Euro as its lawful currency after the date hereof shall be redenominated into Euro at the time of such adoption.  If, in relation to the currency of any such member state, the basis of accrual of interest expressed in this Agreement in respect of that currency shall be inconsistent with any convention or practice in the London interbank market for the basis of accrual of interest in respect of the Euro, such expressed basis shall be replaced by such convention or practice with effect from the date on which such member state adopts the Euro as its lawful currency; provided that if any Borrowing in the currency of such member state is outstanding immediately prior to such date, such replacement shall take effect, with respect to such Borrowing, at the end of the then current Interest Period.


(b)        Each provision of this Agreement shall be subject to such reasonable changes of construction as agreed to by the Administrative Agent and the Company from time to time to be appropriate to reflect the adoption of the Euro by any member state of the European Union and any relevant market conventions or practices relating to the Euro.



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(c)        Each  provision  of  this  Agreement  also  shall  be  subject  to  such  reasonable changes of construction as agreed to by the Administrative Agent and the Company from time to time to be appropriate to reflect a change in currency of any other country and any relevant market conventions or practices relating to the change in currency.


1.08      Times of Day.  Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to times of day shall be references to Eastern time (daylight or standard, as applicable).


1.09      Letter of Credit Amounts.


Unless otherwise specified herein, the amount of a Letter of Credit at any time shall be deemed to be the Dollar Equivalent of the stated amount of such Letter of Credit in effect at such time; provided, however, that with respect to any Letter of Credit that, by its terms or the terms of any Issuer Document related thereto, provides for one or more automatic increases in the stated amount thereof, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be the Dollar Equivalent of the maximum stated amount of such Letter of Credit after giving effect to all such increases, whether or not such maximum stated amount is in effect at such time.


ARTICLE II
THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS


2.01      Revolving Loans.


Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Lender severally agrees to make loans (each such loan, a “Revolving Loan”) to the Borrowers in Dollars and one or more Alternative Currencies from time to time on any Business Day during the Availability Period in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any time outstanding the amount of such Lender’s Revolving Commitment; provided, however, that after giving effect to any Borrowing of Revolving Loans, (i) the Total Revolving Outstandings shall not exceed the Aggregate Revolving Commitments and (ii) the aggregate Revolving Exposure of any Lender shall not exceed such Lender’s Revolving Commitment.   Within the limits of each Lender’s Revolving Commitment, and subject to the other terms and conditions hereof, the Borrowers may borrow under this Section 2.01, prepay under Section 2.05, and reborrow under this Section 2.01.   Revolving Loans  may be  Base  Rate Loans  or  Eurocurrency Rate  Loans,  or  a combination  thereof, as further provided herein.


2.02      Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations.


(a)        Each Borrowing, each conversion of Loans from one Type to the other, and each continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be made upon the applicable Borrower’s irrevocable notice to the Administrative Agent, which may be given by telephone.   Each such notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than (i) 11:00 a.m. on the requested date of any Borrowings of Base Rate Loans, (ii) 1:00 p.m. three Business Days prior to the requested date of any Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Dollars or of any conversion of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Dollars to Base Rate Loans, and (iii) 11:00 a.m. four Business Days prior to the requested date of any Borrowing or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in any Alternative Currency (or five Business Days in the case of a Special Notice Currency); provided, however, that if such Borrower wishes to request Eurocurrency Rate Loans having an Interest Period other than one week, one, two, three or six months in duration as provided in the definition of “Interest Period,” the applicable notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than (i) 1:00 p.m. four Business Days prior to the requested date of such Borrowing, conversion or continuation of Eurocurrency 

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Rate Loans denominated in Dollars, or (ii) 11:00 a.m. five Business Days prior to the requested date of such Borrowing, conversion or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in any Alternative Currency, whereupon the Administrative Agent shall give prompt notice to the applicable Lenders of such request and determine whether the requested Interest Period is acceptable to all of them.   In the case of a request pursuant to the proviso in the preceding sentence, not later than (i) 1:00 p.m. three Business Days before the requested date of such Borrowing, conversion or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Dollars, or (ii) 11:00 a.m. four Business Days prior to the requested date of such Borrowing, conversion or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in any Alternative Currency, the Administrative Agent shall notify such Borrower (which notice may be by telephone) whether or not the requested Interest Period has been consented to by all the applicable Lenders.   Each telephonic notice by the applicable Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.02(a) must be confirmed promptly by delivery to the Administrative Agent of a written Loan Notice, appropriately completed and signed by a Financial Officer.  Each Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $5,000,000 or a whole multiple of  $1,000,000 in excess thereof.  Each Borrowing of or conversion to Base Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $500,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof.   Each Loan Notice (whether telephonic or written) shall specify (i) whether such Borrower is requesting a Borrowing, a conversion of Loans from one Type to the other, or a continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, (ii) the requested date of the Borrowing, conversion or continuation, as the case may be (which shall be a Business Day), (iii) the principal amount of Loans to be borrowed, converted or continued, (iv) the Type of Loans to be borrowed or to which existing Loans are to be converted, (v) if applicable, the duration of the Interest Period with respect thereto, and (vi) the currency of the Loans to be Borrowed.  If the applicable Borrower fails to specify a Type of Loan in a Loan Notice or if such Borrower fails to give a timely notice requesting a conversion or continuation, then the applicable Loans shall be made as, or converted to, Base Rate Loans; provided, however, that in the case of a failure to timely request a continuation of Loans denominated in an Alternative Currency, such Loans shall be continued as Eurocurrency Rate Loans in such Alternative Currency with an Interest Period of one month.   Any automatic conversion to Base Rate Loans shall be effective as of the last day of the Interest Period then in effect with  respect to the applicable  Eurocurrency Rate  Loans.   If  the applicable  Borrower requests a Borrowing of, conversion to, or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans in any such Loan Notice, but fails to specify an Interest Period, it will be deemed to have specified an Interest Period of one month.  No Loan may be converted into or continued as a Loan denominated in a different currency.  The initial Borrowing from any Lender and any initial L/C Credit Extension by the L/C Issuer, to any Borrower governed by the laws of The Netherlands shall exceed EUR 100,000 (or its equivalent in another currency) or such other amount as a result of which such Lender or the L/C Issuer qualifies as a PMP.


(b)        Following receipt of a Loan Notice, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each applicable Lender of the amount (and currency) of its Applicable Percentage of the applicable Loans, and if no timely notice of a conversion or continuation is provided by the applicable Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall notify each applicable Lender of the details of any automatic conversion to Base Rate Loans or continuation of Loans denominated in an Alternative Currency, in each case as described in the preceding subsection.   In the case of a Borrowing,  each  applicable  Lender  shall  make  the  amount  of  its  Loan  available  to  the Administrative Agent in Same Day Funds at the Administrative Agent’s Office for the applicable currency not later than (i) 1:00 p.m., in the case of any Loan denominated in Dollars or (ii) the Applicable Time specified by the Administrative Agent in the case of any Loan denominated in an Alternative Currency, in each case on the Business Day specified in the applicable Loan Notice.   Upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in Sections 4.02 (and, if such Borrowing is the initial Credit Extension, Section 4.01), the Administrative Agent shall make all funds so received available to 

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the applicable Borrower in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent either by (i) crediting the account of such Borrower on the books of Bank of America with the amount of such funds or (ii) wire transfer of such funds, in each case in accordance with instructions provided to (and reasonably acceptable to) the Administrative Agent by such Borrower; provided, however, that if, on the date of a Borrowing of Revolving Loans, there are L/C Borrowings outstanding, then the proceeds of such Borrowing, first, shall be applied to the payment in full of any such L/C Borrowings and second, shall be made available to such Borrower as provided above.  Each Lender, at its option, may make any Eurocurrency Rate Loans by causing any domestic or, if such Loan is denominated in an Alternative Currency, foreign branch or Affiliate of such Lender to make such Eurocurrency Rate Loan (and in the case of an Affiliate, the provisions of Sections 3.01, 3.02, 3.03, 3.04 and 3.05 shall apply to such Affiliate to the same extent as they apply to such Lender).


(c)        Except  as  otherwise  provided  herein,  a  Eurocurrency  Rate  Loan  may  be continued or converted only on the last day of an Interest Period for such Eurocurrency Rate Loan.  During the existence of an Event of Default, at the request of the Required Lenders or the Administrative  Agent,  no  Loans  may  be  requested  as,  converted  to  or,  if  such  Loan  is denominated in Dollars, continued as Eurocurrency Rate Loans.  During the existence of an Event of Default, Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in an Alternative Currency may be maintained and at the end of the Interest Period with respect thereto shall automatically be continued as Eurocurrency Rate Loans in such Alternative Currency with an Interest Period of one month.


(d)        The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the applicable Borrower and the applicable Lenders of the interest rate applicable to any Interest Period for Eurocurrency Rate Loans  upon  determination  of  such  interest  rate.    At  any  time  that  Base  Rate  Loans  are outstanding, the Administrative Agent shall notify the Company and the Lenders of any change in Bank of America’s prime rate used in determining the Base Rate promptly following the public announcement of such change.


(e)        After giving effect to all Borrowings, all conversions of Loans from one Type to the other, and all continuations of Loans as the same Type, there shall not be more than twelve Interest Periods in effect with respect to the Loans.


2.03      Letters of Credit.


(a)        The Letter of Credit Commitment.


(i)         Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, (A) the L/C Issuer agrees, in reliance upon the agreements of the Lenders set forth in this Section 2.03, (1) from time to time on any Business Day during the period from the Closing Date until the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, to issue Letters of Credit denominated in Dollars or one or more Alternative Currencies for the account of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and to amend or extend Letters of Credit previously issued by it, in accordance with subsection (b) below, and (2) to honor drawings under the Letters of Credit; and (B) the Lenders severally agree to participate in Letters of Credit issued for the account of the Company or its Subsidiaries and any drawings thereunder; provided that after giving effect to any L/C Credit Extension with respect to any Letter of Credit, (x) the Total Revolving Outstandings shall not exceed the Aggregate Revolving Commitments, (y) the aggregate Revolving Exposure of any Lender shall not exceed such Lender’s Revolving Commitment and (z) the Outstanding Amount of the L/C Obligations shall not exceed the Letter  of  Credit  Sublimit.   Each  request  by  the  Company  or  any  Borrower  for  the issuance or amendment of a Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be a representation by the Company 

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or such Borrower that the L/C Credit Extension so requested complies with the conditions set forth in the proviso to the preceding sentence.  Within the foregoing limits, and subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Company’s and the applicable Borrower’s ability to obtain Letters of Credit shall be fully revolving, and accordingly the Company or such Borrower may, during the foregoing period, obtain Letters of Credit to replace Letters of Credit that have expired or that have been drawn upon and reimbursed. All Existing Letters of Credit shall be deemed to have been issued pursuant hereto, and from and after the Closing Date shall be subject to and governed by the terms and conditions hereof.


(ii)        The L/C Issuer shall not issue any Letter of Credit if:


(A)        subject to Section 2.03(b)(iii), the expiry date of such requested Letter of Credit would occur more than twelve months after the date of issuance or last extension, unless the Required Lenders under which such Letter of Credit is to be issued have approved such expiry date; or


(B)       the expiry date of such requested Letter of Credit would occur after the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, unless all the Lenders have approved such expiry date.


(iii)       The L/C Issuer shall not be under any obligation to issue any Letter of
Credit if:


(A)       any order, judgment or decree of any Governmental Authority or arbitrator shall by its terms purport to enjoin or restrain the L/C Issuer from issuing such Letter of Credit, or any Law applicable to the L/C Issuer or any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) from any Governmental Authority with jurisdiction over the L/C Issuer shall prohibit, or request that the L/C Issuer refrain from, the issuance of letters of credit generally or such Letter of Credit in particular or shall impose upon the L/C Issuer with respect to such Letter of Credit any restriction, reserve or capital requirement (for which the L/C Issuer is not otherwise compensated hereunder) not in effect on the Closing Date, or shall impose upon the L/C Issuer any unreimbursed loss, cost or expense which was not applicable on the Closing Date and which the L/C Issuer in good faith deems material to it;


(B)       the issuance of such Letter of Credit would violate one or more material policies of the L/C Issuer applicable to letters of credit generally applied on a consistent basis to similarly situated letter of credit applicants;


(C)       except as otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent and the
L/C Issuer, such Letter of Credit is in an initial stated amount less than $10,000;


(D)       such Letter of Credit is to be denominated in a currency other than Dollars or an Alternative Currency;


(E)       except in the case of a Letter of Credit to be denominated in Dollars, Euros, Sterling and Canadian Dollars, the L/C Issuer does not as of the issuance date of the requested Letter of Credit issue Letters of Credit in the requested currency; or


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to the L/C Issuer (in its reasonable discretion) with the applicable Borrowers or such Defaulting Lender to eliminate the L/C Issuer’s actual or potential Fronting Exposure (after giving effect to Section 2.15(b)) with respect to the Defaulting Lender arising from either the Letter of Credit then proposed to be issued or that Letter of Credit and all other L/C Obligations as to which the L/C Issuer has actual or potential Fronting Exposure, as it may elect in its sole discretion.


(iv)       The L/C Issuer shall not amend any Letter of Credit if the L/C Issuer would not be permitted at such time to issue the Letter of Credit in its amended form under the terms hereof.


(v)        The L/C Issuer shall be under no obligation to amend any Letter of Credit if (A) the L/C Issuer would have no obligation at such time to issue such Letter of Credit in its amended form under the terms hereof, or (B) the beneficiary of such Letter of Credit does not accept the proposed amendment to such Letter of Credit.


(vi)       The L/C Issuer shall act on behalf of the Lenders with respect to any Letters of Credit issued by it and the documents associated therewith, and the L/C Issuer shall have all of the benefits and immunities (A) provided to the Administrative Agent in Article IX with respect to any acts taken or omissions suffered by the L/C Issuer in connection with Letters of Credit issued by it or proposed to be issued by it and Issuer Documents pertaining to such Letters of Credit as fully as if the term “Administrative Agent”  as  used  in   Article  IX  included  the  L/C  Issuer  with  respect  to  such  acts  or omissions, and (B) as additionally provided herein with respect to the L/C Issuer.


(b)       Procedures for Issuance and Amendment of Letters of Credit; Auto-Extension
Letters of Credit.


(i)         Each Letter of Credit shall be issued or amended, as the case may be, upon the request of the applicable Borrower delivered to the L/C Issuer (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) in the form of a Letter of Credit Application, appropriately completed and signed by a Financial Officer of such Borrower.  Such Letter of Credit Application may be sent by facsimile, by United States mail, by overnight courier, by electronic transmission using the system provided by the L/C Issuer, by personal delivery or by any other means acceptable to the L/C Issuer.  Such Letter of Credit Application must be received by the L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. at least two (2) Business Days (or such later date and time as the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer may agree in a particular instance in their sole discretion) prior to the proposed issuance date or date of amendment, as the case may be.  In the case of a request for an initial issuance of a Letter of Credit, such Letter of Credit Application shall specify in form and detail satisfactory to the L/C Issuer: (A) the proposed issuance date of the requested Letter of Credit (which shall be a Business Day); (B) the amount and currency thereof (and in the absence of specification of currency shall be deemed to be a request for a Letter of Credit denominated in Dollars); (C) the expiry date thereof; (D) the name and address of the beneficiary thereof; (E) the documents to be presented by such beneficiary in case of any drawing thereunder; (F) the full text of any certificate to be presented by such beneficiary in case of any drawing thereunder; (G) the purpose and nature of the requested Letter of Credit; and (H) such other matters as the L/C Issuer may reasonably require.  In the case of a request for an amendment of any outstanding Letter of Credit, such Letter of Credit Application shall specify in form and detail satisfactory to the  L/C  Issuer  (A)  the  Letter  of  Credit  to  be  amended;  (B)  the  proposed  date  of amendment thereof (which shall be a Business Day); (C) the nature of the proposed amendment; 

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and (D) such other matters as the L/C Issuer may require.  Additionally, the applicable Borrower shall furnish to the L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent such other documents and information pertaining to such requested Letter of Credit issuance or amendment, including any Issuer Documents, as the L/C Issuer or the Administrative Agent may require.


(ii)        Promptly after receipt of any Letter of Credit Application, the L/C Issuer will confirm with the Administrative Agent (by telephone or in writing) that the Administrative Agent has received a copy of such Letter of Credit Application from the applicable Borrower and, if not, the L/C Issuer will provide the Administrative Agent with a copy thereof.  Unless the L/C Issuer has received written notice from any Lender, the Administrative Agent or any Credit Party, at least two Business Days prior to the requested date of issuance or amendment of the applicable Letter of Credit, that one or more applicable conditions contained in Article IV shall not be satisfied, then, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the L/C Issuer shall, on the requested date, issue a Letter of Credit for the account of the Company or the applicable Subsidiary or enter into the applicable amendment, as the case may be, in each case in accordance with the L/C Issuer’s usual and customary business practices.  Immediately upon the issuance of each Letter of Credit, each Lender shall be deemed to, and hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to, purchase from the L/C Issuer a risk participation in such Letter of Credit in an amount equal to the product of such Lender’s Applicable Percentage  times the amount of such Letter of Credit.


(iii)       If a Borrower so requests in any applicable Letter of Credit Application, the L/C Issuer agrees to issue a Letter of Credit that has automatic extension provisions (each, an “Auto-Extension Letter of Credit”);  provided that any such Auto-Extension Letter of Credit must permit the L/C Issuer to prevent any such extension at least once in each twelve-month period (commencing with the date of issuance of such Letter of Credit) by giving prior notice to the beneficiary thereof not later than a day (the “Non- Extension Notice Date”) in each such twelve-month period to be agreed upon at the time such  Letter  of  Credit  is  issued.    Unless  otherwise  directed  by  the  L/C  Issuer,  the applicable Borrower shall not be required to make a specific request to the L/C Issuer for any such extension.   Once an Auto-Extension Letter of Credit has been issued, the Lenders shall be deemed to have authorized (but may not require) the L/C Issuer to permit the extension of such Letter of Credit at any time to an expiry date not later than the Letter of Credit Expiration Date; provided, however, that the L/C Issuer shall not permit any such extension if (A) the L/C Issuer has determined that it would not be permitted, or would have no obligation, at such time to issue such Letter of Credit in its revised form (as extended) under the terms hereof (by reason of the provisions of clause
(ii) or (iii) of Section 2.03(a) or otherwise), or (B) it has received notice (which may be by telephone or in writing) on or before the day that is seven Business Days before the Non-Extension Notice Date from the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any Borrower that  one  or  more  of  the applicable conditions specified  in  Section  4.02 is  not  then satisfied, and in each case directing the L/C Issuer not to permit such extension.



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(iv)       Promptly after its delivery of any Letter of Credit or any amendment to a Letter of Credit to an advising bank with respect thereto or to the beneficiary thereof, the L/C Issuer will also deliver to the applicable Borrower and the Administrative Agent a true and complete copy of such Letter of Credit or amendment.


(c)        Drawings and Reimbursements; Funding of Participations.


(i)         Upon receipt from the beneficiary of any Letter of Credit of any notice of a drawing under such Letter of Credit, the L/C Issuer shall notify the applicable Borrower and the Administrative Agent thereof.  In the case of a Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency, the applicable Borrower shall reimburse the L/C Issuer in such Alternative Currency, unless (A) the L/C Issuer (at its option) shall have specified in such notice that it will require reimbursement in Dollars, or (B) in the absence of any such requirement for reimbursement in Dollars, the applicable Borrower shall have notified the L/C Issuer promptly following receipt of the notice of drawing that such Borrower will reimburse the L/C Issuer in Dollars.  In the case of any such reimbursement in Dollars of a drawing under a Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency, the L/C Issuer shall notify the applicable Borrower of the Dollar Equivalent of the amount of the drawing promptly following the determination thereof.  Not later than 1:00 p.m. on the date of any payment by the L/C Issuer under a Letter of Credit to be reimbursed in Dollars, or the Applicable Time on the date of any payment by the L/C Issuer under a Letter of Credit to be reimbursed in an Alternative Currency (each such date, an “Honor Date”),   the   applicable   Borrower   shall   reimburse   the   L/C   Issuer   through   the Administrative Agent in an amount equal to the amount of such drawing and in the applicable currency; provided that such Borrower has received notice of such payment by
11:00 a.m., or two hours prior to the Applicable Time with respect to a Letter of Credit to be reimbursed in an Alternative Currency, on such Honor Date, and if such Borrower receives notice of such payment after such time, such Borrower shall make such payment not later than 11:00 a.m., or the Applicable Time with respect to a Letter of Credit to be reimbursed in an Alternative Currency, on the Business Day following receipt of such notice (together with interest thereon).  In the event that (A) a drawing denominated in an Alternative Currency is to be reimbursed in Dollars pursuant to the second sentence in this  Section  2.03(c)(i)  and (B)  the  Dollar  amount  paid  by the  applicable  Borrower, whether on the Honor Date (as a result of an error in calculating the Dollar amount to be paid by the applicable Borrower, but in any event, not as a result of any intraday fluctuation in a currency exchange rate) or after the Honor Date, shall not be adequate on the date of that payment to purchase in accordance with normal banking procedures a sum denominated  in  the  Alternative  Currency  equal  to  the  drawing,  such  Borrower agrees, as a separate and independent obligation, to indemnify the L/C Issuer for the loss resulting from its inability on that date to purchase the Alternative Currency in the full amount of the drawing.  If the applicable Borrower fails to so reimburse the L/C Issuer by such time, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of the Honor Date, the amount of the unreimbursed drawing (expressed in Dollars in the amount of the Dollar Equivalent thereof in the case of a Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency) (the “Unreimbursed Amount”), and the amount of such Lender’s Applicable

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Percentage thereof.   In such event, the Company shall be deemed to have requested a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans to be disbursed on the Honor Date in an amount equal to the Unreimbursed Amount, without regard to the minimum and multiples specified in Section 2.02 or the prior notice required therefor for the principal amount of Base Rate Loans, but subject to the amount of the unutilized portion of the Aggregate Revolving Commitments and the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (other than the delivery of a Loan Notice).  Any notice given by the L/C Issuer or the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 2.03(c)(i) may be given by telephone if immediately confirmed in writing; provided that the lack of such an immediate confirmation shall not affect the conclusiveness or binding effect of such notice.


(ii)        Each Lender shall upon any notice pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(i) make funds available (and the Administrative Agent may apply Cash Collateral provided for this purpose) to the Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C Issuer, in Dollars, at the Administrative Agent’s Office for dollar-denominated payments in an amount equal to its Applicable Percentage of the Unreimbursed Amount not later than 1:00 p.m. on the Business Day specified in such notice by the Administrative Agent, whereupon, subject to the provisions of Section 2.03(c)(iii), each Lender that so makes funds available shall be deemed to have made a Base Rate Loan to the Company in such amount.   The Administrative Agent shall remit the funds so received to the L/C Issuer in Dollars.


(iii)       With respect to any Unreimbursed Amount that is not fully refinanced by a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans because the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 cannot be satisfied, the Company shall be deemed to have incurred from the L/C Issuer an L/C Borrowing in the amount of the Unreimbursed Amount that is not so refinanced, which L/C Borrowing shall be due and payable on demand (together with interest) and shall bear interest at the Default Rate.   In such event, each Lender’s payment to the Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(ii) shall be deemed payment in respect of its participation in such L/C Borrowing and shall constitute an L/C Advance from such Lender in satisfaction of its participation obligation under this Section 2.03.


(iv)       Until each Lender funds its Revolving Loan or L/C Advance pursuant to this Section 2.03(c) to reimburse the L/C Issuer for any amount drawn under any Letter of Credit, interest in respect of such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of such amount shall be solely for the account of the L/C Issuer.


(v)        Each Lender’s obligation to make Revolving Loans or L/C Advances to reimburse the L/C Issuer for amounts drawn under Letters of Credit, as contemplated by this Section 2.03(c), shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including (A) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right which such Lender may have against the L/C Issuer, any Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever; (B) the occurrence or continuance of a Default, or (C) any other occurrence, event or condition, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing; provided, however, that each Lender’s obligation to make Revolving Loans pursuant to this Section 2.03(c) is subject to the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (other than delivery by a Borrower of a Loan Notice).   No such making of an L/C Advance shall relieve or otherwise impair the obligation of the Borrowers to reimburse the L/C Issuer for the amount of any payment made by the L/C Issuer under any Letter of Credit, together with interest as provided herein.



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(vi)       If any Lender fails to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C Issuer any amount required to be paid by such Lender pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.03(c) by the time specified in Section 2.03(c)(ii), then, without limiting the other provisions of this Agreement, the L/C Issuer shall be entitled to recover  from such  Lender (acting through  the Administrative  Agent), on demand, such amount with interest thereon for the period from the date such payment is required to the date on which such payment is immediately available to the L/C Issuer at a rate per annum equal to the Overnight Rate.  A certificate of the L/C Issuer submitted to any Lender (through the Administrative Agent) with respect to any amounts owing under this clause (vi) shall be conclusive absent manifest error.


(d)        Repayment of Participations.


(i)         At any time after the L/C Issuer has made a payment under any Letter of Credit and has received from any Lender such Lender’s L/C Advance in respect of such payment in accordance with Section 2.03(c), if the Administrative Agent receives for the account of the L/C Issuer any payment in respect of the related Unreimbursed Amount or interest thereon (whether directly from a Borrower or otherwise, including proceeds of Cash Collateral applied thereto by the Administrative Agent), the Administrative Agent will distribute to such Lender its Applicable Percentage thereof (appropriately adjusted, in the case of interest payments, to reflect the period of time during which such Lender’s L/C Advance was outstanding) in the same funds as those received by the Administrative Agent.


(ii)        If any payment received by the Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(i) is required to be returned under any of the circumstances described in Section 10.05 (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the L/C Issuer in its discretion), each Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C Issuer its Applicable Percentage thereof on demand of the Administrative Agent, plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such amount is returned by such Lender, at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Effective Rate from time to time in effect.   The obligations of the Lenders under this clause shall survive the payment in full of the Obligations and the termination of this Agreement.


(e)        Obligations Absolute.   The obligation of each Borrower to reimburse the L/C Issuer for each drawing under each Letter of Credit and to repay each L/C Borrowing shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be paid strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement under all circumstances, including the following:


(i)         any  lack  of  validity  or  enforceability  of  such  Letter  of  Credit,  this
Agreement or any other Loan Document;


(ii)        the existence of any claim, counterclaim, setoff, defense or other right that any Borrower or any Subsidiary may have at any time against any beneficiary or any transferee of such Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such beneficiary or any such transferee may be acting), the L/C Issuer or any other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, the transactions contemplated hereby or by such Letter of Credit or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, or any unrelated transaction;



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(iii)       any draft, demand, certificate or other document presented under such Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect; or any loss or delay in the transmission or otherwise of any document required in order to make a drawing under such Letter of Credit;


(iv)        waiver by the L/C Issuer of any requirement that exists for the L/C Issuer’s protection and not the protection of any Borrower or any waiver by the L/C Issuer which does not in fact materially prejudice any Borrower;


(v)          honor of a demand for payment presented electronically even if such
Letter of Credit requires that demand be in the form of a draft;


(vi)        any  payment  made  by  the  L/C  Issuer  in  respect  of  an  otherwise complying item presented after the date specified as the expiration date of, or the date by which documents must be received under such Letter of Credit if presentation after such date is authorized by the ISP;


(vii)     any payment by the L/C Issuer under such Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft or certificate that does not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit; or any payment made by the L/C Issuer under such Letter of Credit to any Person purporting to be a trustee in bankruptcy, debtor-in-possession, assignee for the benefit of creditors, liquidator, receiver or other representative of or successor to any beneficiary or any transferee of such Letter of Credit, including any arising in connection with any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law;


(viii)     any adverse change in the relevant exchange rates or in the availability of the relevant Alternative Currency to any Borrower or any Subsidiary or in the relevant currency markets generally; or


(ix)       any other circumstance or happening whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing, including any other circumstance that might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, any Borrower or any Subsidiary.


The applicable Borrower shall promptly examine a copy of each Letter of Credit and each amendment thereto that is delivered to it and, in the event of any claim of noncompliance with such Borrower’s instructions or other irregularity, such Borrower will immediately notify the L/C Issuer.  The applicable Borrower shall be conclusively deemed to have waived any such claim against the L/C Issuer and its correspondents unless such notice is given as aforesaid.


(f)         Role of L/C Issuer.  Each Lender and each Borrower agree that, in paying any drawing under a Letter of Credit, the L/C Issuer shall not have any responsibility to obtain any document (other than any sight draft, certificates and documents expressly required by such Letter of Credit) or to ascertain or inquire as to the validity or accuracy of any such document or the authority of the Person executing or delivering any such document.  None of the L/C Issuer, the  Administrative  Agent,  any  of  their  respective  Related  Parties  nor  any  correspondent, participant or assignee of the L/C Issuer shall be liable to any Lender for (i) any action taken or omitted in connection herewith at the request or with the approval of the Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable; (ii) any action taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct; or (iii) the due execution, effectiveness, validity or enforceability of any document or instrument related to any Letter of Credit or Issuer Document.   Each Borrower hereby assumes all risks of the acts or omissions of any beneficiary or transferee with respect to its use of any Letter of Credit; provided, however, that this assumption is 

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not intended to, and shall not, preclude such Borrower’s pursuing such rights and remedies as it may have against the beneficiary or transferee at law or under any other agreement.   None of the L/C Issuer, the Administrative Agent, any of their respective Related Parties nor any correspondent, participant or assignee of the L/C Issuer shall be liable or responsible for any of the matters described in clauses (i) through (ix) of Section 2.03(e); provided, however, that anything in such clauses to the contrary notwithstanding, a Borrower may have a claim against the L/C Issuer, and the L/C Issuer may be liable to such Borrower, to the extent, but only to the extent, of any direct, as opposed to consequential or exemplary, damages suffered by such Borrower which such Borrower proves were caused by the L/C Issuer’s willful misconduct or gross negligence or the L/C Issuer’s willful failure to pay under any Letter of Credit after the presentation to it by the beneficiary of a sight draft and certificate(s) strictly complying with the terms and conditions of a Letter of Credit unless the L/C Issuer is prevented or prohibited from so paying as a result of any order or directive of any court or other Governmental Authority.  In furtherance and not in limitation of the foregoing, the L/C Issuer may accept documents that appear on their face to be in order, without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any notice or information to the contrary, and the L/C Issuer shall not be responsible for the validity or sufficiency of any instrument transferring or assigning or purporting to transfer or assign a Letter of Credit or the rights or benefits thereunder or proceeds thereof, in whole or in part, which may prove to be invalid or ineffective for any reason.  The L/C Issuer may send a Letter of Credit or conduct any communication to or from the beneficiary via the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (“SWIFT”) message or overnight courier, or any other commercially reasonable means of communicating with a beneficiary and reasonably acceptable to the beneficiary.


(g)        Applicability of ISP; Limitation of Liability.  Unless otherwise expressly agreed by the L/C Issuer and the applicable Borrower when a Letter of Credit is issued (including any such agreement applicable to an Existing Letter of Credit), the rules of the ISP shall apply to each Letter of Credit.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the L/C Issuer shall not be responsible to any Borrower for, and the L/C Issuer’s rights and remedies any the Borrower shall not be impaired by, any action or inaction of the L/C Issuer required or permitted under any Law, order, or practice that is required or permitted to be applied to any Letter of Credit or this Agreement, including the Law or any order of a jurisdiction where the L/C Issuer or the beneficiary is located, the practice stated in the ISP or in the decisions, opinions, practice statements, or official commentary of the ICC Banking Commission, the Bankers Association for Finance and Trade - International Financial Services Association (BAFT-IFSA), or the Institute of International Banking Law & Practice, whether or not any Letter of Credit chooses such Law or practice.


(h)        Letter of Credit Fees.  The Company shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender in accordance, subject to Section 2.15, with its Applicable Percentage a Letter of Credit fee (the “Letter of Credit Fee”) for each Letter of Credit equal to the Applicable Rate times the Dollar Equivalent of the daily maximum amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit.  For purposes of computing the daily amount available to be drawn under any Letter of Credit, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be determined in accordance with Section 1.09.  Letter of Credit Fees shall be (i) computed on a quarterly basis in arrears and (ii) due and payable on the first Business Day after the end of each March, June, September and December, commencing with the first such date to occur after the issuance of such Letter of Credit, on the Letter of Credit Expiration Date and thereafter on demand.  If there is any change in the Applicable Rate during any quarter, the daily amount available to be drawn under each Letter of Credit shall be computed and multiplied by the Applicable Rate separately for each period during such quarter that such Applicable Rate was in effect.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, upon the request of the Required Lenders while any Event of Default exists, all Letter of Credit Fees shall accrue at the Default Rate.


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The Company shall pay directly to the L/C Issuer for its own account a fronting fee with respect to each Letter of Credit, at the rate per annum specified in the Fee Letter, computed on the Dollar Equivalent of the actual daily maximum amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit (whether or not such maximum amount is then in effect under such Letter of Credit) and on a quarterly basis in arrears.  Such fronting fee shall be due and payable on the first Business Day after the end of each March, June, September and December in respect of the most recently-ended quarterly period (or portion thereof, in the case of the first payment), commencing with the first such date to occur after the issuance of such Letter of Credit, on the Letter of Credit Expiration Date and thereafter on demand.   For purposes of computing the daily amount available to be drawn under any Letter of Credit, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be determined in accordance with Section 1.09.  In addition, the Company shall pay directly to the L/C Issuer for its own account the customary issuance, presentation, amendment and other processing fees, and other standard costs and charges, of the L/C Issuer relating to letters of credit as from time to time in effect.  Such customary fees and standard costs and charges are due and payable on demand and are nonrefundable.


(j)         Conflict with Issuer Documents.  In the event of any conflict between the terms hereof and the terms of any Issuer Document, the terms hereof shall control.


(k)        Letters of Credit Issued for Subsidiaries.  Notwithstanding that a Letter of Credit issued or outstanding hereunder is in support of any obligations of, or is for the account of, a Subsidiary, the applicable Borrower shall be obligated to reimburse the L/C Issuer hereunder for any and all drawings under such Letter of Credit.  Each Borrower hereby acknowledges that the issuance of Letters of Credit for the account of Subsidiaries inures to the benefit of the such Borrower, and that such Borrower’s business derives substantial benefits from the businesses of such Subsidiaries.


2.04      Swing Line Loans.


(a)        Swing Line Facility.   Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the 
Swing Line Lender, in reliance upon the agreements of the other Lenders set forth in this Section 2.04, may in its sole discretion make loans (each such loan, a “Swing Line Loan”) to the Company in Dollars from time to time on any Business Day during the Availability Period in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any time outstanding the amount of the Swing Line Sublimit; provided, however, that (i) after giving effect to any Swing Line Loan, (A) the Total Revolving Outstandings shall not exceed the Aggregate Revolving Commitments and (B) the aggregate Revolving Exposure of any Lender shall not exceed such Lender’s Revolving Commitment, (ii) the Company shall not use the proceeds of any Swing Line Loan to refinance any outstanding Swing Line Loan and (iii) the Swing Line Lender shall not be under any obligation to make any Swing Line Loan if it shall reasonably determine (which determination shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error) that it has, or by such Credit Extension may have, Fronting Exposure.  Within the foregoing limits, and subject to the other terms and conditions hereof, the Company may borrow under this Section 2.04, prepay under Section 2.05, and reborrow under this Section 2.04.   Each Swing Line Loan shall be a Base Rate Loan.   Immediately upon the making of a Swing Line Loan, each Lender shall be deemed to, and hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to, purchase from the Swing Line Lender a risk participation in such Swing Line Loan in an amount equal to the product of such Lender’s Applicable Percentage times the amount of such Swing Line Loan.


(b)        Borrowing Procedures.   Each Borrowing of Swing Line Loans shall be made upon the Company’s irrevocable notice to the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent, which may be given by telephone.  Each such notice must be received by the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent not later than 1:00 p.m. on the requested borrowing date, and shall specify (i) the amount to be 

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borrowed, which shall be a minimum principal amount of $500,000 and integral multiples of $100,000 in excess thereof, and (ii) the requested borrowing date, which shall be a Business Day.  Each such telephonic notice must be confirmed promptly by delivery to the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent of a written Swing Line Loan Notice, appropriately completed and signed by a Financial Officer of the Company.   Promptly after receipt by the Swing Line Lender of any telephonic Swing Line Loan Notice, the Swing Line Lender will confirm with the Administrative Agent (by telephone or in writing) that the Administrative Agent has also received such Swing Line Loan Notice and, if not, the Swing Line Lender will notify the Administrative Agent (by telephone or in writing) of the contents thereof. Unless the Swing Line Lender has received notice (by telephone or in writing) from the Administrative Agent (including at the request of any Lender) prior to 2:00 p.m. on the date of the proposed Borrowing of Swing Line Loans (A) directing the Swing Line Lender not to make such Swing Line Loan as a result of the limitations set forth in the first proviso to the first sentence of Section 2.04(a), or (B) that one or more of the applicable conditions specified in Article IV is not then satisfied, then, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Swing Line Lender will, not later than 3:00 p.m. on the borrowing date specified in such Swing Line Loan Notice, make the amount of its Swing Line Loan available to the Company.


(c)        Refinancing of Swing Line Loans.


(i)         The Swing Line Lender at any time in its sole discretion may request, on behalf of the Company (which hereby irrevocably requests and authorizes the Swing Line Lender to so request on its behalf), that each Lender make a Base Rate Loan in an amount equal to such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the amount of Swing Line Loans then outstanding.   Such request shall be made in writing (which written request shall be deemed  to  be  a  Loan  Notice  for  purposes  hereof)  and  in  accordance  with  the requirements of Section 2.02, without regard to the minimum and multiples specified therein for the principal amount of Base Rate Loans, but subject to the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (other than the delivery of a Loan Notice) and provided that, after giving effect to such Borrowing, the Total Revolving Outstandings shall not exceed the Aggregate Revolving Commitments.  The Swing Line Lender shall furnish the Company with a copy of the applicable Loan Notice promptly after delivering such notice to the Administrative Agent.   Each Lender shall make an amount equal to its Applicable Percentage of the amount specified in such Loan Notice available to the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds (and the Administrative Agent may apply Cash Collateral available with respect to the applicable Swing Line Loan) for the account of the Swing Line Lender at the Administrative Agent’s Office not later than 1:00 p.m. on the day specified in such Loan Notice, whereupon, subject to Section 2.04(c)(ii), each Lender that so makes funds available shall be deemed to have made a Base Rate Loan to the  Company  in  such  amount.    The  Administrative  Agent  shall  remit  the  funds  so received to the Swing Line Lender.


(ii)        If for any reason any Swing Line Loan cannot be refinanced by such a Borrowing of Revolving Loans in accordance with Section 2.04(c)(i), the request for Base Rate Loans submitted by the Swing Line Lender as set forth herein shall be deemed to be a request by the Swing Line Lender that each of the Lenders fund its risk participation in the relevant Swing Line Loan and each Lender’s payment to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Swing Line Lender pursuant to Section 2.04(c)(i) shall be deemed payment in respect of such participation.


(iii)       If any Lender fails to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Swing Line Lender any amount required to be paid by such  Lender pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.04(c) by the time specified in Section 2.04(c)(i), 

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the Swing Line Lender shall be entitled to recover from such Lender (acting through the Administrative Agent), on demand, such amount with interest thereon for the period from the date such payment is required to the date on which such payment is immediately available to the Swing Line Lender at a rate per annum equal to the Overnight  Rate.    A  certificate  of  the  Swing  Line  Lender  submitted  to  any  Lender (through the Administrative Agent) with respect to any amounts owing under this clause (iii) shall be conclusive absent manifest error.


(iv)       Each Lender’s obligation to make Revolving Loans or to purchase and fund risk participations in Swing Line Loans pursuant to this Section 2.04(c) shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including (A) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right that such Lender may have against the Swing Line Lender, the Company or any other Person for any reason whatsoever, (B) the occurrence or continuance of a Default, or (C) any other occurrence, event or condition, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing; provided, however, that each Lender’s obligation to make Revolving Loans pursuant to this Section 2.04(c) is subject to the conditions set forth in Section 4.02.  No such purchase or funding of risk participations shall relieve or otherwise impair the obligation of the Company to repay Swing Line Loans, together with interest as provided herein.


(d)        Repayment of Participations.


(i)         At  any  time  after  any  Lender  has  purchased  and  funded  a  risk participation in a Swing Line Loan, if the Swing Line Lender receives any payment on account of such Swing Line Loan, the Swing Line Lender will distribute to such Lender its Applicable Percentage of such payment (appropriately adjusted, in the case of interest payments, to reflect the period of time during which such Lender’s risk participation was funded) in the same funds as those received by the Swing Line Lender.


(ii)        If any payment received by the Swing Line Lender in respect of principal or interest on any Swing Line Loan is required to be returned by the Swing Line Lender under any of the circumstances described in Section 10.05 (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the Swing Line Lender in its discretion), each Lender shall pay to the Swing Line Lender its Applicable Percentage thereof on demand of the Administrative Agent, plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such amount is returned, at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Effective Rate.  The Administrative  Agent  will  make  such  demand  upon  the  request  of  the  Swing  Line Lender. The obligations of the Lenders under this clause shall survive the payment in full of the Obligations and the termination of this Agreement.


(e)        Interest for Account of Swing Line Lender.   The Swing Line Lender shall be responsible for invoicing the Company for interest on the Swing Line Loans.  Until each Lender funds its Revolving Loans that are Base Rate Loans or risk participation pursuant to this Section 2.04 to refinance such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of any Swing Line Loan, interest in respect of such Applicable Percentage shall be solely for the account of the Swing Line Lender.



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(f)         Payments  Directly  to  Swing  Line  Lender.    The  Company  shall  make  all payments of principal and interest in respect of the Swing Line Loans directly to the Swing Line Lender.


2.05      Prepayments.


(a)        Optional Prepayments.


(i)         Any   Borrower   may,   upon   notice   from   such   Borrower   to   the Administrative Agent, at any time or from time to time voluntarily prepay Revolving Loans in whole or in part without premium or penalty; provided, in each case, that (x) such notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than (A) 1:00 p.m. three Business Days prior to any date of prepayment of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Dollars, (B) 11:00 a.m. four Business Days prior to any date of prepayment of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Alternative Currencies, and (C) 11:00  a.m.  on  the  date  of  prepayment  of  Base  Rate  Loans;  (y)  any prepayment  of Eurocurrency  Rate  Loans  shall  be  in  a  principal  amount  of  $5,000,000  or a  whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof; and (z) any prepayment of Base Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $500,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof or, in each case, if less, the entire principal amount thereof then outstanding. Each such notice shall specify the date and amount of such prepayment, the Loans to be prepaid, and the Type(s) of Loans to be prepaid and, if Eurocurrency Rate Loans are to be prepaid, the Interest Period(s) of such Loans.  The Administrative Agent will promptly notify each applicable Lender of its receipt of each such notice, and of the amount of such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of such prepayment.  If such notice is given by a Borrower, such Borrower shall make such prepayment and the payment amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein.  Any prepayment of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan shall be accompanied by all accrued interest on the amount prepaid, together with any additional amounts required pursuant to Section 3.05.  Subject to Section 2.15, each such prepayment shall be applied to the Loans of the applicable Lenders in accordance with their respective Applicable Percentages.


(ii)        Swing Line Loans.  The Company may, upon notice to the Swing Line Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), at any time or from time to time, voluntarily prepay Swing Line Loans in whole or in part without premium or penalty; provided that (i) such notice must be received by the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent not later than 1:00 p.m. on the date of the prepayment, and (ii) any such  prepayment  shall  be  in  a  minimum principal  amount  of  $500,000  or  a  whole multiple of $100,000 in  excess thereof (or,  if less, the entire  principal thereof  then outstanding).  Each such notice shall specify the date and amount of such prepayment.  If such notice is given by the Company, the Company shall make such prepayment and the payment amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein.


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(i)         Revolving Commitments.   If for any reason, including exchange rate fluctuations, the Total Revolving Outstandings at any time exceed the Aggregate Revolving Commitments then in effect, the Borrowers shall promptly following notice from the Administrative Agent prepay Revolving Loans and/or the Swing Line Loans and/or Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations in an aggregate amount equal to such excess; provided, however, that the Borrowers shall not be required to Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations pursuant to this Section 2.05(b)(i) unless after the prepayment in full of the Revolving Loans and the Swing Line Loans the Total Revolving Outstandings exceed the Aggregate Revolving Commitments then in effect.


(ii)        Application of Mandatory Prepayments.  All amounts required to be paid pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(i) shall be applied to Revolving Loans and Swing Line Loans and (after all Revolving Loans and Swing Line Loans have been repaid) to Cash Collateralize L/C Obligations;


Within the parameters of the applications set forth above, prepayments shall be applied as directed by the Company.  All prepayments under this Section 2.05(b) shall be subject to Section 3.05, but otherwise without premium or penalty, and shall be accompanied by interest on the principal amount prepaid through the date of prepayment.


2.06      Repayment of Loans.


(a)        Revolving Loans.   The Borrowers shall repay to the Lenders on the Maturity Date the aggregate principal amount of all Revolving Loans outstanding on such date.


(b)        Swing Line Loans.   The Company shall repay each Swing Line Loan on the earlier to occur of (i) the date within two (2) Business Days of demand therefor by the Swing Line Lender and (ii) the Maturity Date.


2.07      Termination or Reduction of Aggregate Revolving Commitments.


(a)        The Company may, upon notice to the Administrative Agent, (i) terminate the Aggregate Revolving Commitments, (ii) from time to time permanently reduce the Letter of Credit Sublimit and/or the Swing Line Sublimit or (iii) from time to time permanently reduce the Aggregate Revolving Commitments to an amount not less than the Outstanding Amount of Revolving Loans, Swing Line Loans and L/C Obligations; provided that (A) any such notice shall be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 noon three (3) Business Days prior to the date of termination or reduction, (B) any such partial reduction shall be in an aggregate amount  of  $2,000,000  or  any  whole  multiple  of  $1,000,000  in  excess  thereof  and  (C)  the Company shall not terminate or reduce (x) (1) the Aggregate Revolving Commitments if, after giving effect thereto and to any concurrent prepayments hereunder, the Total Revolving Outstandings would exceed the Aggregate Revolving Commitments, (2) the Letter of Credit Sublimit if, after giving effect thereto, the Outstanding Amount of L/C Obligations not fully Cash Collateralized hereunder would exceed the Letter of Credit Sublimit, or (3) the Swing Line Sublimit if, after giving effect thereto and to any concurrent prepayments hereunder, the Outstanding Amount of Swing Line Loans would exceed the Swing Line Sublimit.


(b)        Notice.   The  Administrative  Agent  will promptly notify the  Lenders of any termination  or  reduction  of  the  Letter  of  Credit  Sublimit,  the  Swing  Line  Sublimit  or  the Aggregate  Revolving  Commitments  under  this  Section  2.07.    Upon  any  reduction  of  the Aggregate Revolving Commitments, the Revolving Commitment of each Lender shall be reduced 

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by such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of such reduction amount.   All fees in respect of the Aggregate Revolving Commitments accrued until the effective date of any termination of the Aggregate Revolving Commitments shall be paid on the effective date of such termination.


2.08      Interest.


(a)        Subject to the provisions of subsection (b) below, (i) each Eurocurrency Rate Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof for each Interest Period at a rate per annum equal to the Eurocurrency Rate for such Interest Period plus the Applicable Rate; (ii) each Base Rate Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof from the applicable borrowing date at a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate plus the Applicable Rate; and (iii) each Swing Line Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof from the applicable borrowing date at a rate per annum equal to the sum of (A) the Base Rate plus the Applicable Rate minus (B) the Commitment Fee.


(b)        (i)         If any amount of principal of any Loan is not paid when due (without regard to any applicable grace periods), whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, such amount shall thereafter bear interest at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.


(ii)        If  any  amount  (other  than  principal  of  any  Loan)  payable  by  any Borrower under any Loan Document is not paid when due (without regard to any applicable grace periods), whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, then upon the request of the Required Lenders, such amount shall thereafter bear interest at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.


(iii)       Upon the request of the Required Lenders, while any Event of Default exists, the Borrowers shall pay interest on the principal amount of all outstanding Obligations hereunder at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.


(iv)       Accrued and unpaid interest on past due amounts (including interest on past due interest) shall be due and payable upon demand.


(c)        Interest  on  each  Loan  shall  be  due  and  payable  in  arrears  on  each  Interest Payment Date applicable thereto and at such other times as may be specified herein.   Interest hereunder  shall  be  due  and  payable  in  accordance  with  the  terms  hereof  before  and  after judgment, and before and after the commencement of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law.


2.09      Fees.


In addition to certain fees described in subsections (h) and (i) of Section 2.03:


(a)        Commitment Fee.  The Company shall pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of each Lender in accordance with its Applicable Percentage, a commitment fee (the “Commitment Fee”) at a rate per annum equal to the product of (i) the Applicable Rate times (ii) the actual daily amount by which the Aggregate Revolving Commitments exceed the sum of (y) the  Outstanding  Amount  of  Revolving  Loans  and  (z)  the  Outstanding  Amount  of  L/C Obligations, subject to adjustment as provided in Section 2.15.     The Commitment Fee shall accrue at all times during the Availability Period, including at any time during which one or more of the conditions in Article IV is not met, and shall be due and payable quarterly in arrears on the first Business Day of after the end of 

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each March, June, September and December, commencing with the first such date to occur after the Closing Date, and on the Maturity Date.   The Commitment Fee shall be calculated quarterly in arrears, and if there is any change in the Applicable Rate during any quarter, the actual daily amount shall be computed and multiplied by the Applicable Rate separately for each period during such quarter that such Applicable Rate was in effect.  For purposes of clarification, Swing Line Loans shall not be considered outstanding for purposes of determining the unused portion of the Aggregate Revolving Commitments.


(b)        The Company shall pay (i) to the Arrangers and the Administrative Agent for their own respective accounts, in Dollars, fees in the amounts and at the times specified in the Fee Letter, and (ii) to the Lenders, in Dollars, such fees, if any, as shall have been separately agreed upon in writing in the amounts and at the times so specified.  All such fees shall be fully earned when paid and shall not be refundable for any reason whatsoever.


2.10      Computation of Interest and Fees; Retroactive Adjustments of Applicable Rate.


(a)        All computations of interest for Base Rate Loans (including Base Rate Loans determined by reference to the Eurocurrency Rate) shall be made on the basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may be, and actual days elapsed. All other computations of fees and interest shall be made on the basis of a 360-day year and actual days elapsed (which results in more fees or interest, as applicable, being paid than if computed on the basis of a 365-day year), or, in the case of interest in respect of Loans denominated in Alternative Currencies if market practice differs from the foregoing, in accordance with such market practice.  Interest shall accrue on each Loan for the day on which the Loan is made, and shall not accrue on a Loan, or any portion thereof, for the day on which the Loan or such portion is paid, provided that any Loan that is repaid on the same day on which it is made shall, subject to Section 2.12(a), bear interest for one day.  Each determination by the Administrative Agent of an interest rate or fee hereunder shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.


(b)        If, as a result of any restatement of or other adjustment to the financial statements of the Company or for any other reason, the Company or the Lenders determine that (i) the Leverage Ratio as calculated by the Company as of any applicable date was inaccurate and (ii) a proper calculation of the Leverage Ratio would have resulted in higher pricing for such period, the Company shall immediately and retroactively be obligated to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the applicable Lenders, promptly on demand by the Administrative Agent (or, after the occurrence of an actual or deemed entry of an order for relief with respect to the Company under the Bankruptcy Code of the United States or other applicable Debtor Relief Law, automatically and without further action by the Administrative Agent or any Lender), an amount equal to the excess of the amount of interest and fees that should have been paid for such period over the amount of interest and fees actually paid for such period.  This paragraph shall not limit the rights of the Administrative Agent or any Lender, as the case may be, under Article VIII.  The Company’s obligations under this paragraph shall survive the termination of all commitments and the repayment of all Obligations hereunder.


2.11      Evidence of Debt.


(a)        The Loans made by each Lender shall be evidenced by one or more accounts or records maintained by such Lender and by the Administrative Agent in the ordinary course of business.  The accounts or records maintained by the Administrative Agent and each Lender shall be conclusive absent manifest error of the amount of the Loans made by the Lenders to the Borrowers and the interest and payments thereon.  Any failure to so record or any error in doing so shall not, however, limit or otherwise affect the obligations of the Borrowers hereunder to pay any amount owing with respect to their 

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respective Obligations.   In the event of any conflict between the accounts and records maintained by any Lender and the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent in respect of such matters, the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent shall control in the absence of manifest error.   Upon the request of any Lender to a Borrower made through the Administrative Agent, such Borrower shall execute and deliver to such Lender (through the Administrative Agent) a promissory note, which shall evidence such Lender’s Loans to such Borrower in addition to such accounts or records.  Each such promissory note shall (i) in the case of Revolving Loans, be in the form of (x) Exhibit B-1 with respect to the Company or any other Borrower that is a Domestic Subsidiary and (y) Exhibit B-2 with respect to any Borrower that is a Foreign Subsidiary Borrower (each a “Revolving Note”) and (ii) in the case of Swing Line Loans, be in the form of Exhibit B-3 (a “Swing Line Note”).  Each Lender may attach schedules to a Note and endorse thereon the date, Type (if applicable), amount, currency and maturity of its Loans and payments with respect thereto.


(b)        In addition to the accounts and records referred to in subsection (a), each Lender and the Administrative Agent shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice accounts or records evidencing the purchases and sales by such Lender of participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans, as applicable.   In the event of any conflict between the accounts and records maintained by the Administrative Agent and the accounts and records of any Lender in respect of such matters, the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent shall control in the absence of manifest error.


2.12      Payments Generally; Administrative Agent’s  Clawback .


(a)        General.  All payments to be made by the Borrowers shall be made free and clear of and without condition or deduction for any counterclaim, defense, recoupment or setoff. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein and except with respect to principal of and interest on Loans denominated in Alternative Currencies, all payments by the Borrowers hereunder shall be made to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the respective Lenders to which such payment is owed, at the applicable Administrative Agent’s Office in Dollars and in Same Day Funds not later than 2:00 p.m. on the date specified herein.   Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all payments by the Borrowers hereunder with respect to principal and interest on Loans denominated in Alternative Currencies shall be made to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the respective Lenders to which such payment is owed, at the applicable Administrative Agent’s Office in the applicable Alternative Currency and in Same Day Funds not later than the Applicable Time on the dates specified herein.   The Administrative Agent will promptly  distribute  to  each  Lender  its  Applicable  Percentage  (or  other  applicable  share  as provided herein) of such payment in like funds as received by wire transfer to such Lender’s Lending Office.   All payments received by the Administrative Agent (i) after 2:00 p.m., in the case of payments in Dollars, or (ii) after the Applicable Time specified by the Administrative Agent in the case of payments in an Alternative Currency, shall in each case be deemed received on the next succeeding Business Day and any applicable interest or fee shall continue to accrue. Except as may otherwise be provided in the definition of “Interest Period”, if any payment to be made by any Borrower shall come due on a day other than a Business Day, payment shall be made on the next following Business Day, and such extension of time shall be reflected in computing interest or fees, as the case may be.

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(b)        (i)         Funding by Lenders; Presumption by Administrative Agent.  Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the proposed date of any Borrowing of Eurocurrency Rate Loans (or, in the case of any Borrowing of Base Rate Loans, prior to 12:00 noon on the date of such Borrowing) that such Lender will not make available to the Administrative Agent such Lender’s share of such Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such share available on such date in accordance with Section 2.02 (or, in the case of a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans, that such Lender has made such share available in accordance with and at the time required by Section 2.02) and may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the applicable Borrower a corresponding amount.  In such event, if a Lender has not in fact made its share of the applicable Borrowing available to the Administrative Agent, then the applicable Lender and the applicable Borrower severally agree to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount in Same Day Funds with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is made available to such Borrower to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at (A) in the case of a payment to be made by such Lender, the Overnight Rate, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by the Administrative Agent in connection with the foregoing, and (B) in the case of a payment to be made by such Borrower, the interest rate applicable to Base Rate Loans, in the case of Loans denominated in Dollars or, in the case of Loans denominated in Alternative Currencies, in accordance with such market practice, in each case, as applicable.     If  such  Borrower  and  such  Lender  shall  pay  such  interest  to  the Administrative Agent for the same or an overlapping period, the Administrative Agent shall promptly remit to such Borrower the amount of such interest paid by such Borrower for such period.   If  such Lender  pays its  share of the applicable  Borrowing to the Administrative  Agent,  then the  amount  so  paid shall constitute  such  Lender’s  Loan included in such Borrowing.  Any payment by such Borrower shall be without prejudice to any claim such Borrower may have against a Lender that shall have failed to make such payment to the Administrative Agent.


(ii)        Payments by Borrowers; Presumptions by Administrative Agent.  Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Borrower prior to the date on which any payment is due to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders or the L/C Issuer hereunder that such Borrower will not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Borrower has made such payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such assumption, distribute to the applicable Lenders or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, the amount due.  In such event, if such Borrower has not in fact made such payment, then each of the Lenders or the L/C Issuer,  as  the  case  may  be,  severally  agrees  to  repay  to  the  Administrative  Agent forthwith on demand the amount so distributed to such Lender or the L/C Issuer, in Same Day Funds with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is distributed to it to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at the Overnight Rate.


A notice of the Administrative Agent to any Lender or any Borrower with respect to any amount owing under this subsection (b) shall be conclusive, absent manifest error.


(c)        Failure to Satisfy Conditions Precedent.   If any Lender makes available to the Administrative  Agent  funds  for  any Loan to  be  made  by such  Lender to  any Borrower as provided in the foregoing provisions of this Article II, and such funds are not made available to such Borrower by the Administrative Agent because the conditions to the applicable Borrowing set forth in Article IV  are not satisfied or waived in accordance with the terms hereof, the Administrative Agent shall return such funds (in like funds as received from such Lender) to such Lender, without interest.



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(d)        Obligations of Lenders Several.   The obligations of the Lenders hereunder to make Loans, to fund participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans and to make payments pursuant to Section 10.04(c) are several and not joint.  The failure of any Lender to make any Loan, to fund any such participation or to make any payment under Section 10.04(c) on any date required hereunder shall not relieve any other Lender of its corresponding obligation to do so on such date, and no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to so make its Loan, to purchase its participation or to make its payment under Section 10.04(c).


(e)        Funding Source.   Nothing herein shall be deemed to obligate any Lender to obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner or to constitute a representation by any Lender that it has obtained or will obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner.


2.13      Sharing of Payments by Lenders.  If any Lender shall, by exercising any right of setoff or counterclaim or otherwise, obtain payment in respect of any principal of or interest on any of the Loans made by it, or the participations in L/C Obligations or in Swing Line Loans held by it resulting in such Lender’s receiving payment of a proportion of the aggregate amount of such Loans or participations and accrued interest thereon greater than its  pro rata share thereof as provided herein, then the Lender receiving such greater proportion shall (a) notify the Administrative Agent of such fact, and (b) purchase (for cash at face value) participations in the Loans and subparticipations in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans of the other Lenders, or make such other adjustments as shall be equitable, so that the benefit of all such payments shall be shared by the Lenders ratably in accordance with the aggregate amount of principal of and accrued interest on their respective Loans and other amounts owing them, provided that:


(i)         if any such participations or subparticipations are purchased and all or any portion of the payment giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations or subparticipations shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, without interest; and


(ii)        the provisions of this Section shall not be construed to apply to (x) any payment made by or on behalf of a Borrower pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement (including the application of funds arising from the existence of a Defaulting Lender), (y) the application of Cash Collateral provided for in Section 2.14 or (z) any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans or subparticipations in L/C Obligations or Swing  Line  Loans  to  any  assignee  or  participant,  other  than  an  assignment  to  the Company or any Subsidiary thereof (as to which the provisions of this Section shall apply).


Each Borrower consents to the foregoing and agrees, to the extent it may effectively do so under applicable law, that any Lender acquiring a participation pursuant to the foregoing arrangements may exercise against such Borrower rights of setoff and counterclaim with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were a direct creditor of such Borrower in the amount of such participation.



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2.14      Cash Collateral.


(a)        Certain Credit Support Events.   If (i) the L/C Issuer has honored any full or partial drawing request under any Letter of Credit and such drawing has resulted in an L/C Borrowing, (ii) as of the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, any L/C Obligation for any reason remains outstanding, (iii) the Company shall be required to provide Cash Collateral pursuant to Section 8.01 or (iv) there shall exist a Defaulting Lender, the Company shall immediately (in the case of clause (iii) above) or within one Business Day (in all other cases) following any request by the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer provide Cash Collateral in an amount not less than the applicable Minimum Collateral Amount (determined in the case of Cash Collateral provided pursuant to clause (iv) above, after giving effect to Section 2.15(b) and any Cash Collateral provided  by the  Defaulting Lender).   Additionally,  if the  Administrative  Agent  notifies the Company at any time that the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations at such time exceeds 105%  of the Letter of Credit Sublimit then in effect, then, within two Business Days after receipt of such notice, the Company shall provide Cash Collateral for the Outstanding Amount of the L/C Obligations in an amount not less than the amount by which the Outstanding Amount of all L/ Obligations exceeds the Letter of Credit Sublimit.


(b)        Grant of Security Interest.   All Cash Collateral (other than credit support not constituting funds subject to deposit) shall be maintained in blocked, interest bearing deposit accounts  at  the  Administrative  Agent.    The  Company,  and  to  the  extent  provided  by  any Defaulting Lender, such Defaulting Lender, hereby grants to (and subjects to the control of) the Administrative  Agent,  for  the  benefit  of  the  Administrative  Agent,  the  L/C  Issuer  and  the Lenders, and agrees to maintain, a first priority security interest in all such cash, deposit accounts and all balances therein, and all other property so provided as collateral pursuant hereto, and in all proceeds of the foregoing, all as security for the obligations to which such Cash Collateral may be applied pursuant to Section 2.14(c).  If at any time the Administrative Agent determines that Cash Collateral is subject to any right or claim of any Person other than the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer as herein provided, or that the total amount of such Cash Collateral is less than the Minimum Collateral Amount, the Company, or the relevant Defaulting Lender, will, promptly upon demand by the Administrative Agent, pay or provide to the Administrative Agent additional Cash Collateral in an amount sufficient to eliminate such deficiency.  The Company shall pay on demand  therefor  from  time  to  time  all  customary  account  opening,  activity  and  other administrative fees and charges in connection with the maintenance and disbursement of Cash Collateral.


(c)        Application.     Notwithstanding  anything  to  the  contrary  contained  in  this Agreement, Cash Collateral provided under any of this Section 2.14 or Sections 2.03, 2.05, 2.15 or 8.02 in respect of Letters of Credit shall be held and applied to the satisfaction of the specific L/C Obligations, obligations to fund participations therein (including, as to Cash Collateral provided by a Defaulting Lender, any interest accrued on such obligation) and other obligations for which the Cash Collateral was so provided, prior to any other application of such property as may otherwise be provided for herein.


(d)        Release.  Cash Collateral (or the appropriate portion thereof) provided to reduce Fronting Exposure or to secure other obligations shall be released promptly following (i) the elimination of the applicable Fronting Exposure or other obligations giving rise thereto (including by the termination of Defaulting Lender status of the applicable Lender (or, as appropriate, its assignee following compliance with Section 10.06(b)(vi))) or (ii) the good faith determination by the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer that there exists excess Cash Collateral; provided, however, (x) any such release shall be without prejudice to, and any disbursement or other transfer of Cash Collateral shall be and remain subject to, any other Lien conferred under the Loan Documents and the other applicable provisions of the Loan Documents, and (y) the Person providing Cash Collateral and the L/C Issuer 

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may agree that Cash Collateral shall not be released but instead held to support future anticipated Fronting Exposure or other obligations.


2.15      Defaulting Lenders.


(a)        Adjustments.     Notwithstanding  anything  to  the  contrary  contained  in  this Agreement, if any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then, until such time as that Lender is no longer a Defaulting Lender, to the extent permitted by applicable Law:


(i)         Waivers and Amendment.  The Defaulting Lender’s right to approve or disapprove any amendment, waiver or consent with respect to this Agreement shall be restricted as set forth in the definition of “Required Lenders” and  Section 10.01.


(ii)        Reallocation of Payments.   Any payment of principal, interest, fees or other amount received by the Administrative Agent for the account of that Defaulting Lender (whether voluntary or mandatory, at maturity, pursuant to Article VIII or otherwise) or received by the Administrative Agent from a Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 10.08 shall be applied at such time or times as may be determined by the Administrative Agent as follows: first, to the payment of any amounts owing by that Defaulting Lender to the Administrative Agent hereunder; second, to the payment on a pro rata basis of any amounts owing by that Defaulting Lender to the L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender hereunder; third, to Cash Collateralize the L/C Issuer’s Fronting Exposure with respect to that Defaulting Lender in accordance with Section 2.14; fourth, as the Company may request (so long as no Default exists), to the funding of any Loan in respect of which that Defaulting Lender has failed to fund its portion thereof as required by this Agreement, as determined by the Administrative Agent; fifth, if so determined by the Administrative Agent and the Company, to be held in a deposit account and released pro  rata  in  order  to  (x)  satisfy  that  Defaulting  Lender’s  potential  future  funding obligations with respect to Loans under this Agreement and (y) Cash Collateralize the L/C Issuer’s future Fronting Exposure with respect to that Defaulting Lender with respect to future Letters of Credit issued under this Agreement, in accordance with Section 2.14; sixth, to the payment of any amounts owing to the Lenders, the L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender as a result of any judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by any Lender, the L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender against that Defaulting Lender as a result  of  that  Defaulting  Lender’s  breach  of  its  obligations  under  this  Agreement; seventh, so long as no Default exists, to the payment of any amounts owing to the Company as a result of any judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by the Company against that Defaulting Lender as a result of that Defaulting Lender’s breach of its  obligations  under  this  Agreement;  and  eighth,  to  that  Defaulting  Lender  or  as otherwise directed by a court of competent jurisdiction; provided that if (x) such payment is a payment of the principal amount of any Loans or L/C Borrowings in respect of which that Defaulting Lender has not fully funded its appropriate share, and (y) such Loans were made or the related Letters of Credit were issued at a time when the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 were satisfied or waived, such payment shall be applied solely to pay the Loans of, and L/C Obligations owed to, all Non-Defaulting Lenders on a pro rata basis prior to being applied to the payment of any Loans of, or L/C Obligations owed to, that  Defaulting  Lender  until  such  time  as  all  Loans  and  funded  and  unfunded participations in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans are held by the Lenders pro rata in  accordance  with  the  Revolving  Commitments  hereunder  without  giving  effect  to Section 2.15(b). Any payments, prepayments or other amounts paid or payable to a Defaulting Lender that are applied (or held) to pay amounts owed by a Defaulting Lender or to post Cash Collateral pursuant to this Section 2.15(a)(ii) shall be deemed paid to and redirected by that Defaulting Lender, and each Lender irrevocably consents hereto.

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(iii)       Certain Fees.


(A)       No   Defaulting   Lender   shall   be   entitled   to   receive   any Commitment Fee payable under Section 2.09(a) for any period during which such Lender is a Defaulting Lender (and the Company shall not be required to pay any such fee that otherwise would have been required to have been paid to such Defaulting Lender).


(B)       Each Defaulting Lender shall be entitled to receive Letter of Credit Fees for any period during which that Lender is a Defaulting Lender only to the extent  allocable to its  Applicable Percentage  of the stated  amount of Letters of Credit for which it has provided Cash Collateral pursuant to Section 2.14.


(C)       With respect to any Letter of Credit Fee not required to be paid to any Defaulting Lender pursuant to clause (B) above, the Company shall (x) pay  to  each  Non-Defaulting  Lender  that  portion  of  any  such  fee  otherwise payable to such Defaulting Lender with respect to such Defaulting Lender’s participation in L/C Obligations that has been reallocated to such Non-Defaulting Lender pursuant to clause (b) below, (y) pay to the L/C Issuer the amount of any such fee otherwise payable to such Defaulting Lender to the extent allocable to such L/C Issuer’s Fronting Exposure to such Defaulting Lender, and (z) not be required to pay the remaining amount of any such fee.


(b)        Reallocation of Applicable Percentages to Reduce Fronting Exposure.  All or any part of such Defaulting Lender’s participation in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans shall be reallocated among the Non-Defaulting Lenders in accordance with their respective Applicable Percentages (calculated without regard to such Defaulting Lender’s Revolving Commitment) but only to the extent that (x) the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 are satisfied at the time of such reallocation (and, unless the Company shall have otherwise notified the Administrative Agent at such time,  the  Administrative  Agent  and the  Lenders  may assume  that  such conditions are satisfied at such time), and (y) such reallocation does not cause the aggregate principal amount at such time of any Non-Defaulting Lender’s outstanding Revolving Loans and such Lender’s participation in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans at such time to exceed such Non- Defaulting Lender’s Commitment.  No reallocation hereunder shall constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder against a Defaulting Lender arising from that Lender having become a Defaulting Lender, including any claim of a Non-Defaulting Lender as a result of such Non-Defaulting Lender’s increased exposure following such reallocation.


(c)        Cash Collateral, Repayment of Swing Line Loans.  If the reallocation described in  clause  (b)  above  cannot,  or  can  only  partially,  be  effected,  the  Company  shall,  without prejudice to any right or remedy available to it hereunder or under applicable Law, (x) first, prepay Swing Line Loans in an amount equal to the Swing Line Lenders’ Fronting Exposure and (y) second, Cash Collateralize the L/C Issuers’ Fronting Exposure in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 2.14.
(d)        Defaulting Lender Cure.  If the Company, the Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender and the L/C Issuer agree in writing in their sole discretion that a Defaulting Lender should no longer be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender, the Administrative Agent will so notify the parties hereto, whereupon as of the effective date specified in such notice and subject to any conditions  set  forth  therein  (which  may  include  arrangements  with  respect  to  any  Cash Collateral), that Lender will, to the extent applicable, purchase at par that portion of outstanding Loans of the other Lenders or take 

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such other actions as the Administrative Agent may determine to be necessary to cause the Revolving Loans and funded and unfunded participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans to be held on a pro rata basis by the Lenders in accordance with their Applicable Percentages (without giving effect to Section 2.15(b)), whereupon that Lender will cease to be a Defaulting Lender; provided, that, no adjustments will be made retroactively with respect to fees accrued or payments made by or on behalf of the Company while that Lender was a Defaulting Lender; provided, further, that, except to the extent otherwise expressly agreed by the affected parties, no change hereunder from Defaulting Lender to Lender will constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder arising from that Lender having been a Defaulting Lender.


2.16      Designated Borrowers.


(a)        The Company may at any time, upon not less than ten (10) Business Days’ notice from the Company to the Administrative Agent (or such shorter period as may be agreed by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion), designate any additional wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Company (an “Applicant Borrower”) as a Borrower to receive Loans hereunder by delivering to the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly deliver counterparts thereof to each Lender) a duly executed notice and agreement in substantially the form of Exhibit F (a “Borrower Request and Assumption Agreement”).   The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that prior to any Applicant Borrower becoming entitled to utilize the credit facilities provided for herein, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall have received such supporting resolutions, incumbency  certificates,  opinions  of  counsel  and  other  documents  or  information,  in  form, content and scope reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, as may be required by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion, and Notes signed by such new Borrowers to the extent any Lenders so request.   If the Administrative Agent and the Lenders  agree that an Applicant Borrower shall be entitled to receive Loans, then promptly following receipt of (x) all documentation and other information required by bank regulatory authorities under the applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the Patriot Act and (y) all such requested resolutions, incumbency certificates, opinions of counsel and other documents or information, the Administrative Agent shall send a notice in substantially the form of Exhibit G (a “Borrower Notice”) to the Company and the Lenders specifying the effective date upon which the Applicant Borrower shall constitute a Borrower for purposes hereof, whereupon each of the Lenders agrees to permit such Borrower to receive Loans hereunder, on the terms and conditions set forth herein, and each of the parties agrees that such Borrower otherwise shall be a Borrower for all purposes of this Agreement; provided that no Loan Notice or Letter of Credit Application may be submitted by or on behalf of such Borrower until the date five (5) Business Days after such effective date.


(b)        The  Obligations  of  the  Company  and  each  Borrower  that  is  a  Domestic Subsidiary shall be joint and several in nature regardless of which such Person actually receives Credit Extensions hereunder or the amount of such Credit Extensions received or the manner in which the Administrative Agent or any Lender accounts for such Credit Extensions on its books and records.   Each of the obligations of the Company and each Borrower that is a Domestic Subsidiary with respect to Credit Extensions made to it, and each such Borrower’s obligations arising as a result of the joint and several liability of such Borrower hereunder, with respect to Credit Extensions made to and other Obligations owing by the Company and the other Borrowers that are Domestic Subsidiaries hereunder, shall be separate and distinct obligations, but all such obligations shall be primary obligations of each such Borrower.



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(c)        The Obligations of the Borrowers that are Foreign Subsidiaries shall be several in nature.


(d)        Each Subsidiary of the Company that is or becomes a “Borrower” pursuant to this Section 2.16 hereby 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,   (ii) the   execution   and   delivery   of   all   documents,   instruments   and   certificates contemplated herein and all modifications hereto, and (iii) the receipt of the proceeds of any Loans made by the Lenders, to any such Borrower hereunder.  Any acknowledgment, 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 Designated Borrower.


(e)        The Company may from time to time, upon not less than ten (10) Business Days’ notice from the Company to the Administrative Agent (or such shorter period as may be agreed by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion), terminate a Designated Borrower’s status as such, provided that there are no outstanding Loans payable by such Designated Borrower, or other amounts payable by such Designated Borrower on account of any Loans made to it, as of the  effective  date  of  such  termination.   The  Administrative  Agent  will  promptly notify the Lenders of any such termination of a Designated Borrower’s status.


ARTICLE III
TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY


3.01      Taxes.


(a)        Payments  Free  of  Taxes;  Obligation  to  Withhold;  Payments  on  Account  of Taxes.


(i)         Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of any Credit Party under any Loan Document shall be made without deduction or withholding for any Taxes, except as required by applicable Laws.  If any applicable Laws (as determined in the  good  faith  discretion  of  the  Administrative  Agent)  require  the  deduction  or withholding of any Tax from any such payment by the Administrative Agent or a Credit Party, then the Administrative Agent or such Credit Party shall be entitled to make such deduction or withholding, upon the basis of the information and documentation to be delivered pursuant to subsection (e) below.


(ii)        If any Credit Party or the Administrative Agent shall be required by the Code to withhold or deduct any Taxes, including both United States Federal backup withholding  and  withholding  taxes,  from any  payment,  then  (A)  the  Administrative Agent shall withhold or make such deductions as are determined by the Administrative Agent to be required based upon the information and documentation it has received pursuant to subsection (e) below, (B) the Administrative Agent shall timely pay the full amount withheld or deducted to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with the Code, and (C) to the extent that the withholding or deduction is made on account of Indemnified Taxes, the sum payable by the applicable Credit Party shall be increased as necessary so that after any required withholding or the making of all required deductions (including deductions applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 3.01) the applicable Recipient receives an amount equal to the sum it would have 

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received had no such withholding or deduction been made.


(iii)       If any Credit Party or the Administrative Agent shall be required by any applicable Laws other than the Code to withhold or deduct any Taxes from any payment, then (A) such Credit Party or the Administrative Agent, as required by such Laws, shall withhold or make such deductions as are determined by it to be required based upon the information and documentation it has received pursuant to subsection (e) below, (B) such Credit Party or the Administrative Agent, to the extent required by such Laws, shall timely pay the full amount withheld or deducted to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with such Laws, and (C) to the extent that the withholding or deduction is made on account of Indemnified Taxes, the sum payable by the applicable Credit Party shall be increased as necessary so that after any required withholding or the making of all required deductions (including deductions applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 3.01) the applicable Recipient receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such withholding or deduction been made.


(b)        Payment of Other Taxes by the Borrowers.  Without limiting the provisions of subsection (a) above, the Credit Parties shall timely pay to the relevant Governmental Authority in  accordance  with  applicable  Laws,  or  at  the  option  of  the  Administrative  Agent  timely reimburse it for the payment of, any Other Taxes.


(c)        Tax Indemnifications.


(i)         Each of the Credit Parties shall, and does hereby, jointly and severally indemnify each Recipient, and shall make payment in respect thereof within ten days after demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section 3.01) payable or paid by such Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to such Recipient, and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority.  A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Company by a Lender or the L/C Issuer (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender or the L/C Issuer, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.  Each of the Credit Parties shall, and does hereby, jointly and severally indemnify the Administrative Agent, and shall make payment in respect thereof within ten days after demand therefor, for any amount which a Lender of the L/C Issuer for any reason fails to pay indefeasibly to the Administrative Agent as required pursuant to Section 3.01(c)(ii) below.


(ii)        Each  Lender  and  the  L/C  Issuer  shall,  and  does  hereby,  severally indemnify, and shall make payment in respect thereof within 10 days after demand therefor, (x) the Administrative Agent against any Indemnified Taxes attributable to such Lender or the L/C Issuer (but only to the extent that any Credit Party has not already indemnified the Administrative Agent for such Indemnified Taxes and without limiting the obligation of the Credit Parties to do so), (y) the Administrative Agent and the Credit Parties, as applicable, against any Taxes attributable to such Lender’s failure to comply with the provisions of  Section 10.06(d)  relating to the maintenance of a Participant Register and (z) the Administrative Agent and the Credit Parties, as applicable, against any Excluded Taxes attributable to such Lender or the L/C Issuer, in each case, that are payable or paid by the Administrative Agent or a Credit Party in connection with any Loan Document, and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority.   A certificate as to the amount of such payment or 

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liability delivered to any Lender by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error.  Each Lender and the L/C Issuer hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, under this Agreement or any other Loan Document against any amount due to the Administrative Agent under this clause (ii).


(d)        Evidence of Payments.  Upon request by any Credit Party or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be, after any payment of Taxes by such Credit Party or by the Administrative Agent to a Governmental Authority as provided in this Section 3.01, such Credit Party shall deliver to the Administrative Agent or the Administrative Agent shall deliver to such Credit Party, as the case may be, the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of any return required by Laws to report such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to such Credit Party or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be.


(e)        Status of Lenders; Tax Documentation.


(i)         Any  Lender  that  is  entitled  to  an  exemption  from  or  reduction  of withholding Tax with respect to payments made under any Loan Document shall deliver to the Company and the Administrative Agent, at the time or times reasonably requested by the Company or the Administrative Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation reasonably requested by the Company or the Administrative Agent as will permit  such  payments  to  be  made  without  withholding  or  at  a  reduced  rate  of withholding.   In addition, any Lender, if reasonably requested by the Company or the Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by applicable law or reasonably requested by the Company or the Administrative Agent as will enable the Company or the Administrative Agent to determine whether or not such Lender is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding two sentences, the completion, execution and submission of such documentation (other than such documentation set forth in Section 3.01(e)(ii)(A), 3.01(e)(ii)(B) and 3.01(e)(ii)(D) below) shall not be required if in the Lender’s reasonable judgment such completion, execution or submission would subject such Lender to any material unreimbursed cost or expense or would materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Lender.


(ii)        Without  limiting the  generality of the  foregoing,  in the event that  a
Borrower is a U.S. Person,


(A)       any Lender that is a U.S. Person shall deliver to the Company and the Administrative Agent on or prior to the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Company or the Administrative Agent), executed originals of IRS Form W-9 certifying that such Lender is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding tax;



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(B)       any Foreign Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Company and the Administrative Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time   thereafter   upon   the   reasonable   request   of   the   Company   or   the Administrative Agent), whichever of the following is applicable:


(I)         in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party (x) with respect to payments of interest under any Loan Document, executed originals of IRS Form W-8BEN establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “interest” article of such tax treaty and (y) with respect to any other applicable payments under any Loan Document, IRS Form W-8BEN establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “business profits” or “other income” article of such tax treaty,


(II)       executed originals of IRS Form W-8ECI,


(III)      in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under Section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit F-1 to the effect that such Foreign Lender is not a “bank” within the meaning  of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, a “10 percent shareholder” of  a Borrower within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code, or a “controlled foreign corporation” described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code (a “U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate”) and (y) executed originals of IRS Form W-8BEN; or


(IV)      to  the  extent  a  Foreign  Lender  is  not  the  beneficial owner, executed originals of IRS Form W-8IMY, accompanied by IRS Form W-8ECI, IRS Form W-8BEN, a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit F-2 or Exhibit F-3, IRS Form W-9, and/or other certification documents from each beneficial owner, as applicable; provided that if the Foreign Lender is a partnership and one or more direct or indirect partners of such Foreign Lender are claiming the portfolio interest exemption, such Foreign Lender may provide a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit F-4 on behalf of each such direct and indirect partner,


(C)       any Foreign Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Company and the Administrative Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time   thereafter   upon   the   reasonable   request   of   the   Company   or   the Administrative  Agent),  executed  originals  of  any  other  form  prescribed  by applicable law as a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in U.S. federal withholding Tax, duly completed, together with such supplementary documentation as may be prescribed by applicable law to permit the Company or the Administrative Agent to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made; and



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(D)       if a payment made to a Lender under any Loan Document would be subject to U.S. federal withholding Tax imposed by FATCA if such Lender were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Lender shall deliver to the Company and the Administrative Agent at the time or times prescribed by law and at such time or times reasonably requested  by the  Company or  the  Administrative Agent  such  documentation prescribed by applicable law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Company or the Administrative Agent as may be necessary for the Company and the Administrative Agent to comply with their obligations under FATCA and to determine that such Lender has complied with such Lender’s obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment. Solely for purposes of this clause (D), “FATCA” shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the Closing Date.


(iii)       Each  Lender  agrees  that  if  any  form  or  certification  it  previously delivered pursuant to this Section 3.01 expires or becomes obsolete or inaccurate in any respect, it shall update such form or certification or promptly notify the Company and the Administrative Agent in writing of its legal inability to do so.


(f)         Treatment of Certain Refunds.  Unless required by applicable Laws, at no time shall the Administrative Agent have any obligation to file for or otherwise pursue on behalf of a Lender or the L/C Issuer, or have any obligation to pay to any Lender or the L/C Issuer, any refund of Taxes withheld or deducted from funds paid for the account of such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be.  If any Recipient determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, that it has received a refund of any Taxes as to which it has been indemnified by any Credit Party or with respect to which any Credit Party has paid additional amounts pursuant to this Section 3.01, it shall pay to the Credit Party an amount equal to such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by a Credit Party under this Section 3.01 with respect to the Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses (including Taxes) incurred by such Recipient, and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund), provided that the Credit Party, upon the request of the Recipient, agrees to repay the amount paid over to the Credit Party (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) to the Recipient in the event the Recipient is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this subsection, in no event will the applicable Recipient be required to pay any amount to the Credit Party pursuant to this subsection the payment of which would place the Recipient in a less favorable net after-Tax position than such Recipient would have been in if the Tax subject to indemnification and giving rise to such refund had not been deducted, withheld or otherwise imposed and the indemnification payments or additional amounts with respect to such Tax had never been paid.  This subsection shall not be construed to require any Recipient to make available its tax returns (or any other information relating to its taxes that it deems confidential) to any Credit Party or any other Person.



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(g)        Survival.   Each party’s obligations under this  Section 3.01 shall survive the resignation or replacement of the Administrative Agent or any assignment of rights by, or the replacement of, a Lender or the L/C Issuer, the termination of the Revolving Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all other Obligations.


3.02      Illegality.   If any Lender determines that any Law has made it unlawful, or that any Governmental Authority has asserted that it is unlawful, for any Lender or its applicable Lending Office to make, maintain or fund Loans whose interest is determined by reference to the Eurocurrency Base Rate (whether denominated in Dollars or Alternative Currencies), or to determine or charge interest rates based upon the Eurocurrency Base Rate, or any Governmental Authority has imposed material restrictions on the authority of such Lender to purchase or sell, or to take deposits of, Dollars or any Alternative Currency in the applicable interbank market, then, on notice thereof by such Lender to the Company through the Administrative Agent, (i) any obligation of such Lender to make or continue Eurocurrency Rate Loans in the affected currency or currencies or, in the case of Eurocurrency Rate Loans in Dollars, to convert Base Rate Loans to Eurocurrency Rate Loans or, if such notice relates to the unlawfulness or asserted unlawfulness of charging interest based on the Eurocurrency Base Rate, to make Base Rate Loans as to which the interest rate is determined with reference to the Eurocurrency Base Rate, shall be suspended, until such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Company that the circumstances giving rise to such determination no longer exist.  Upon receipt of such notice, the Borrowers shall, upon demand from such Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), either prepay or, if applicable and such Loans are denominated in Dollars, convert all such Eurocurrency Rate Loans of such Lender and Base Rate Loans as to which the interest rate is determined with reference to the Eurocurrency Base Rate to Base Rate Loans as to which the rate of interest is not determined with reference to the Eurocurrency Base Rate, either on the last day of the Interest Period therefor, if such Lender may lawfully continue to maintain such Eurocurrency Rate Loans to such day, or immediately, if such Lender may not lawfully continue to maintain such Eurocurrency Rate Loans or a Base Rate Loan as to which the interest rate is determined with reference to the Eurocurrency Base Rate.  Notwithstanding the foregoing and despite the illegality for such a Lender to make, maintain or fund Eurocurrency Rate Loans or Base Rate Loans as to which the interest rate is determined with reference to the Eurocurrency Base Rate, that Lender shall remain  committed  to  make  and  maintain  Base  Rate  Loans  as  to  which  the  rate  of  interest  is  not determined with reference to the Eurocurrency Base Rate and shall be entitled to recover interest at such Base Rate.  Upon any such prepayment or conversion, the Borrowers shall also pay accrued interest on the amount so prepaid or converted.


Each Lender at its option may make any Credit Extension to any Designated Borrower which is a Foreign Subsidiary by causing any domestic or foreign branch or Affiliate of such Lender (each a “Designated Lender”) to make such Credit Extension (and in the case of an Affiliate, the provisions of Sections 3.01 through 3.05 and 10.04 shall apply to such Affiliate to the same extent as to such Lender); provided that any exercise of such option shall not affect the obligation of the relevant Borrower to repay such Credit Extension in accordance with the terms of this Agreement; provided, however, if any Lender or any Designated Lender determines that any Law has made it unlawful, or that any Governmental Authority has asserted that it is unlawful, for any Lender or its applicable Designated Lender to perform its obligations hereunder or to issue, make, maintain, fund or charge interest with respect to any Credit Extension to any Designated Borrower who is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States, a State thereof or the District of Columbia then, on notice thereof by such Lender to the Company  through  the  Administrative  Agent,  and  until  such  notice  by such  Lender is  revoked, any obligation of such Lender to issue, make, maintain, fund or charge interest with respect to any such Credit Extension shall be suspended.  Upon receipt of such notice, the Credit Parties shall, take all reasonable actions requested by such Lender to mitigate or avoid such illegality.



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3.03      Inability to Determine Rates.


(a)        If in connection with any request for a Eurocurrency Rate Loan or a conversion to or continuation thereof, (i) the Administrative Agent determines that (A) deposits (whether in Dollars or an Alternative Currency) are not being offered to banks in the applicable offshore interbank market for such currency for the applicable amount and Interest Period of such Eurocurrency Rate Loan, or (B) adequate and reasonable means do not exist for determining the Eurocurrency  Base  Rate  for  any  requested  Interest  Period  with  respect  to  a  proposed Eurocurrency Rate Loan (whether denominated in Dollars or an Alternative Currency) or in connection with an existing or proposed Base Rate Loan (in each case with respect to clause (i), “Impacted Loans”), or (ii) the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders determine that for any reason the Eurocurrency Rate for any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed Eurocurrency Rate Loan does not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of funding such Loan, the Administrative Agent will promptly so notify the Company and each Lender.   Thereafter, (x) the obligation of the Lenders to make or maintain Eurocurrency Rate Loans in the affected currency or currencies shall be suspended (to the extent of the affected Eurocurrency Rate Loans or Interest Periods) and (y) in the event of a determination described in the preceding sentence with respect to the Eurocurrency Base Rate component of the Base Rate, the utilization of the Eurocurrency Base Rate component in determining the Base Rate shall be suspended, in each case until the Administrative Agent (upon the instruction of the Required Lenders)  revokes  such  notice  and  during  such  period  Base  Rate  Loans  shall  be  made  and continued based on the interest rate determined by the greater of clauses (a) and (b) in the definition of Base Rate.   Upon receipt of such notice, the Company may revoke any pending request for a Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans in the affected currency or currencies or, failing that, will be deemed to have converted such request into a request for a Borrowing of (or conversion to) Base Rate Loans in Dollars in the amount specified therein.


(b)      Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Administrative Agent has made the determination described in clause (a)(i) of this Section, the Administrative Agent in consultation with the Company and the affected Lenders, may establish an alternative interest rate for the Impacted Loans, in which case, such alternative rate of interest shall apply with respect to the Impacted Loans until (1) the Administrative Agent revokes the notice delivered with respect to the Impacted Loans under clause (a)(i) of this Section, (2) the Administrative Agent or the affected Lenders notify the Company that such alternative interest rate does not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to the Lenders of funding the Impacted Loans, or (3) any Lender determines that any Law has made it unlawful, or that any Governmental Authority has asserted that it is unlawful, for such Lender or its applicable Lending Office to make, maintain or fund Loans whose interest is determined by reference to such alternative rate of interest or to determine or charge interest rates based upon such rate or any Governmental Authority has imposed material restrictions on the authority of such Lender to do any of the foregoing and provides the Administrative Agent and the Company written notice thereof.


3.04      Increased Costs.


(a)        Increased Costs Generally.  If any Change in Law shall:


(i)         impose,  modify  or  deem  applicable  any  reserve,  special  deposit, compulsory loan, insurance charge or similar requirement against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit extended or participated in by, any Lender (except any reserve requirement reflected in Section 3.04(e) or the Eurodollar Rate) or the L/C Issuer;



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(ii)        subject any Recipient to any Taxes (other than (A) Indemnified Taxes, (B) Taxes described in clauses (b) through (d) of the definition of Excluded Taxes and (C) Connection Income Taxes) on its loans, loan principal, letters of credit, commitments, or  other  obligations,  or  its  deposits,  reserves,  other  liabilities  or  capital  attributable thereto; or


(iii)       impose on any Lender or the L/C Issuer or the London interbank market any other condition, cost or expense affecting this Agreement or Eurocurrency Rate Loans made by such Lender;


and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such Lender of making or maintaining any Loan the interest on which is determined by reference to the Eurocurrency Base Rate (or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan), or to increase the cost to such Lender or the L/C Issuer of participating in, issuing or maintaining any Letter of Credit (or of maintaining its obligation to participate in or to issue any Letter of Credit), or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender or the L/C Issuer hereunder (whether of principal, interest or any other amount) then, upon request of such Lender or the L/C Issuer, the Company will pay (or cause the applicable Borrower to pay) to such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, for such additional costs incurred or reduction suffered.


(b)        Capital Requirements.   If any Lender or the L/C Issuer determines that any Change in Law affecting such Lender or the L/C Issuer or any Lending Office of such Lender or such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s holding company, if any, regarding capital or liquidity requirements has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s capital or on the capital of such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s holding company, if any, as a consequence of this Agreement, the Revolving Commitments of such Lender or the Loans made by, or participations in Letters of Credit or Swing Line held by, such Lender, or the Letters of Credit issued by the L/C Issuer, to a level below that which such Lender or the L/C Issuer or such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s holding company could have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s policies and the policies of such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s holding company with respect to capital adequacy), then from time to time the Company will pay (or cause the applicable Borrower to pay) to such Lender  or  the  L/C  Issuer, as  the  case  may be,  such  additional amount  or  amounts  as  will compensate such Lender or the L/C Issuer or such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s holding company for any such reduction suffered.


(c)        Certificates for Reimbursement.   A certificate of a Lender or the L/C Issuer setting forth the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender or the L/C Issuer or its holding company, as the case may be, as specified in subsection (a) or (b) of this Section and delivered to the Borrower shall be conclusive absent manifest error.  The Company shall pay (or cause the applicable Borrower to pay) such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 10 days after receipt thereof.


(d)        Delay in Requests.  Failure or delay on the part of any Lender or the L/C Issuer to demand compensation pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s right to demand such compensation,  provided that no Borrower shall be required to compensate a Lender or the L/C Issuer pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section for any increased costs incurred or reductions suffered more than nine months prior to the date that such Lender notifies the Company of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of such Lender’s intention to claim compensation therefor (except that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then the nine-month period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof).

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(e)        Additional Reserve Requirements.   To the extent not already reflected in the calculation of any interest rate, the Company shall pay (or cause the applicable Borrower to pay) to each Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, as long as such Lender or the L/C Issuer shall be required to comply with any reserve ratio requirement or analogous requirement of any central banking or financial regulatory authority imposed in respect of the maintenance of the Revolving Commitments or the funding of the Eurocurrency Rate Loans, such additional costs (expressed as a percentage per annum and rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest five decimal places) equal to the actual costs allocated to such Revolving Commitment or Loan by such Lender or the L/C Issuer (as determined by such Lender or the L/C Issuer in good faith, which determination shall be conclusive), which shall be due and payable on each date on which interest is payable on such Loan, provided the Company shall have received at least 10 days’ prior notice (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) of such additional costs from such Lender or the L/C Issuer.  If a Lender fails to give notice 10 days prior to the relevant Interest Payment Date, such additional costs shall be due and payable 10 days from receipt of such notice.


3.05      Compensation  for  Losses.     Upon  demand  of  any  Lender  (with  a  copy  to  the Administrative Agent) from time to time, the Company shall promptly compensate such Lender for and hold such Lender harmless from any loss, cost or expense incurred by it as a result of:


(a)        any continuation, conversion, payment or prepayment of any Loan other than a Base Rate Loan on a day other than the last day of the Interest Period for such Loan (whether voluntary, mandatory, automatic, by reason of acceleration, or otherwise);


(b)        any failure by any Borrower (for a reason other than the failure of such Lender to make a Loan) to prepay, borrow, continue or convert any Loan other than a Base Rate Loan on the date or in the amount notified by the applicable Borrower;


(c)        any failure by any Borrower to make payment of any Loan (or interest due thereon) denominated in an Alternative Currency on its scheduled due date or any payment thereof in a different currency; or


(d)        any assignment of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan on a day other than the last day of the Interest Period therefor as a result of a request by the Company pursuant to Section 10.13;


including any loss of anticipated profits, any foreign exchange losses and any loss or expense arising from the liquidation or reemployment of funds obtained by it to maintain such Loan, from fees payable to terminate the deposits from which such funds were obtained or from the performance of any foreign exchange contract.   The Company shall also pay (or cause the applicable Borrower to pay) any customary administrative fees charged by such Lender in connection with the foregoing.


For  purposes  of  calculating  amounts  payable  by  the  Company  (or  the  applicable Borrower) to the Lenders under this Section 3.05, each Lender shall be deemed to have funded each Eurocurrency Rate Loan made by it at the Eurocurrency Rate used in determining the Eurocurrency Rate for such Loan by a matching deposit or other borrowing in the offshore interbank market for such currency for a comparable amount and for a comparable period, whether or not such Eurocurrency Rate Loan was in fact so funded.



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3.06      Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders.


(a)        Designation of a Different Lending Office.  If any Lender requests compensation under Section 3.04, or any Borrower is required to pay any Indemnified Taxes or additional amounts to any Lender, the L/C Issuer or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender or the L/C Issuer pursuant to Section 3.01, or if any Lender or the L/C Issuer gives a notice pursuant to Section 3.02, then such Lender or the L/C Issuer shall, as applicable, use reasonable efforts to designate a different Lending Office for funding or booking its Loans hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches or affiliates (in any event provided that any Loans extended to a Borrower governed by the laws of The Netherlands can only be assigned to another legal entity if the assignee will acquire a Loan of at least EUR 100,000 (or its equivalent in another currency) or otherwise qualifies as a PMP), if, in the judgment of such Lender or the L/C Issuer, such designation or assignment (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to Section 3.01 or 3.04, as the case may be, in the future, or eliminate the need for the notice pursuant to Section 3.02, as applicable, and (ii) in each case, would not subject such Lender or the L/C Issuer to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender or the L/C Issuer.  The Company hereby agrees to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender or the L/C Issuer in connection with any such designation or assignment.


(b)        Replacement   of   Lenders.      If   any   Lender   requests   compensation   under Section 3.04, or if any Borrower is required to pay any Indemnified Taxes or additional amounts to  any  Lender  or  any  Governmental  Authority  for  the  account  of  any  Lender  pursuant  to Section 3.01, and, in each case, such Lender has declined or is unable to designate a different lending office in accordance with Section 3.06(a), the Company may replace such Lender in accordance with Section 10.13.


3.07      Survival.    All  of  the  Borrowers’ obligations  under this   Article III shall  survive  the termination of the commitments and the repayment of all other Obligations hereunder, and resignation of the Administrative Agent.


ARTICLE IV 
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT


4.01      Conditions to  Effectiveness  and Initial Credit Extension.   The occurrence  of the Closing Date and the obligation of the L/C Issuer each Lender to make its initial Credit Extension hereunder on the Closing Date is subject to satisfaction of the following conditions precedent:


(a)        The Administrative Agent (or its counsel) shall have received from each party hereto either (i) a counterpart of this Agreement signed on behalf of such party or (ii) written evidence satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (which may include telecopy transmission of a signed signature page of this Agreement) that such party has signed a counterpart of this Agreement.


(b)        The Administrative Agent (or its counsel) shall have received (i) from each
Borrower, a Note for each Lender as has been requested by such Lender, (ii) from the Guarantors, the Subsidiary Guaranty signed by all such parties and (iii) from the Company, the Company Guaranty signed by the Company.


(c)        The Administrative Agent shall have received  the favorable written opinions (addressed to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and dated the Closing Date), in a form reasonably 

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satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, and covering such other matters relating to the Credit Parties, this Agreement, the Loan Documents or the Transactions as the Required Lenders shall reasonably request.   The Borrowers hereby request such counsel to deliver such opinions.


(d)        The Administrative Agent shall have received such documents and certificates as the Administrative Agent or its counsel may reasonably request relating to the organization, existence and good standing of each Credit Party, the authorization of the Transactions to which such Credit Party is a party, and any other legal matters relating to the Credit Parties, this Agreement, the Loan Documents or the Transactions, all in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and its counsel.


(e)        The Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate, dated the Closing Date and signed by the President of the Company or a Financial Officer  of  the Company, confirming that:


(i)         on the Closing Date, both before and after giving effect to the Credit Extensions and the other Transactions occurring on such date, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing; and


(ii)        the  representations  and  warranties  contained  in  Article V  of  this Agreement (including, without limitation, the representation and warranty set forth in Section 5.04(b)) shall be true in all material respects on and as of the date of such Borrowing except for changes expressly permitted herein and except to the extent that such representations and warranties relate solely to an earlier date (in which event such representations and warranties shall have been true in all material respects on and as of such earlier date).


(f)         The Administrative Agent shall have received all fees and other amounts due and payable on or prior to the Closing Date, including (i) any fees payable under this Agreement or the Fee Letter, and (ii) to the extent invoiced, reimbursement or payment of all out-of-pocket expenses required to be reimbursed or paid by the Company hereunder.


(g)        The Administrative Agent shall have received certified copies of all consents, approvals, authorizations, registrations, filings and orders required to be made or obtained by all Borrowers and all Guarantors in connection with the financings evidenced by this Agreement and the other Transactions, and all such consents, approvals, authorizations, registrations, filings and orders shall be in full force and effect and all applicable waiting periods shall have expired, and no investigation or inquiry by any Governmental Authority in respect of such financings or other Transactions shall be ongoing.


(h)        Since May 31, 2013, there shall have occurred no events, acts, conditions or occurrences of whatever nature, singly or in the aggregate, that have had, or are reasonably expected to have, a Material Adverse Effect.


(i)         No actions, suits or other legal proceedings shall be pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened, against or affecting the Borrowers or the Guarantors and seeking to enjoin, restrain, or otherwise challenge or contest the validity of the financings evidenced by this Agreement or the other Transactions.   The Company shall have delivered or otherwise made available to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders the consolidated financial statements for the Company and its Subsidiaries for the Fiscal Year ended May 31, 2013, including balance sheet and income and cash flow statements, audited by independent public accountants of recognized national standing and prepared in conformity with GAAP, and the consolidated financial statements of the Company and its Subsidiaries for the Fiscal Quarter and year-to-date period ended November 30, 2013, and such other financial information as the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders may have reasonably 

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(j)         The Company shall have duly completed and submitted to the Administrative Agent a Loan Notice for funding of its Loans, and the Administrative Agent shall have received, not less than three Business Days prior to the Closing Date, a fully-executed Funding Indemnity Letter.


(k)        The Administrative Agent shall have received evidence that (i) the 2010 Credit Agreement shall have been amended and restated concurrently with the Closing Date and all indebtedness thereunder shall have been repaid concurrently with the Closing Date and (ii) the
2012 Credit Agreement shall have been amended and restated concurrently with the Closing Date and all indebtedness thereunder shall have been repaid concurrently with the Closing Date.


(l)         Each Lender shall have obtained all applicable licenses, consents, permits and approvals as deemed necessary by such Lender in order to execute and perform the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents (and each Lender that has signed this Agreement shall be deemed to have represented that the requirements of this clause (l) have been met with respect to such Lender).


(m)       The Administrative Agent shall have received all other documents, certificates, and other information as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request.


Without  limiting  the  generality  of  the  provisions  of  the  last  paragraph  of  Section 9.03,  for purposes of determining compliance with the conditions specified in this  Section 4.01, each Lender that has signed this Agreement shall be deemed to have consented to, approved or accepted  or  to  be  satisfied  with,  each  document  or  other  matter  required  thereunder  to  be consented to or approved by or acceptable or satisfactory to a Lender unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from such Lender prior to the proposed Closing Date specifying its objection thereto.


4.02      Conditions to all Credit Extensions.


The obligation of each Lender to honor any Request for Credit Extension is subject to the following conditions precedent:


(a)        The representations and warranties of the Company and each other Credit Party contained in Article V or any other Loan Document, or which are contained in any document furnished at any time under or in connection herewith or therewith, shall be true and correct on and as of the date of such Credit Extension, except to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, in which case they shall be true and correct as of such earlier date.



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(b)        No Default shall exist, or would result from such proposed Credit Extension or from the application of the proceeds thereof.


(c)        The Administrative Agent and, if applicable, the L/C Issuer and/or the Swing Line Lender shall have received a Request for Credit Extension in accordance with the requirements hereof.


(d)        In the case of a Credit Extension to be denominated in an Alternative Currency, there shall not have occurred any change in national or international financial, political or economic conditions or currency exchange rates or exchange controls which in the reasonable opinion of the Required Lenders (in the case of any Loans to be denominated in an Alternative Currency)  or  the  L/C  Issuer  (in  the  case  of  any Letter  of  Credit to  be  denominated  in  an Alternative Currency) would make it impracticable for such Credit Extension to be denominated in the relevant Alternative Currency.


Each  Request  for  Credit  Extension  submitted  by  a  Borrower  shall  be  deemed  to  be  a representation and warranty that the conditions specified in Sections 4.02(a) and (b) have been satisfied on and as of the date of the applicable Credit Extension.


ARTICLE V
 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES


Each Borrower represents and warrants to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders that:


5.01      Organization; Powers.   The Company and each of its Subsidiaries is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, has  all requisite power and authority to carry on its business as now conducted and, except where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect,  is  qualified  to  do  business  in,  and  is  in  good  standing  in,  every  jurisdiction  where  such qualification is required.


5.02    Authorization; Enforceability.   The Transactions are within each Credit Party’s organizational powers and have been duly authorized by all necessary organizational action and, if required, the action by the holders of such Credit Party’s Equity Interests. This Agreement and each other Loan Document has been duly executed and delivered by each Credit Party thereto and constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of each Credit Party, enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable  Debtor  Relief  Law  and  subject  to  general  principles  of  equity,  regardless  of  whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.


5.03      Governmental Approvals; No Conflicts.   The Transactions (a) do not require any consent or approval of, registration or filing with, or any other action by, any Governmental Authority, except such as have been obtained or made and are in full force and effect, (b) will not violate any applicable law or regulation or Organization Documents of any of the Credit Parties or any order of any Governmental Authority, (c) will not violate or result in a default under any material indenture, agreement or other instrument binding upon any of the Credit Parties or its assets (including either of the Existing Credit Agreements), and (d) will not result in the creation or imposition of any Lien on any asset of any of the Credit Parties, other than as expressly permitted by the Loan Documents.



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5.04      Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change.


(a)        The Company has heretofore furnished to the Lenders its consolidated balance sheet and statements of income, stockholders equity and cash flows (i) as of and for the Fiscal Year ended May 31, 2013, reported on by Deloitte & Touche LLP, independent public accountants, and (ii) as of and for the Fiscal Quarter and the portion of the Fiscal Year ended November 30, 2013, certified by its chief financial officer.   Such financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position and results of operations and cash flows of the  Company  and  its  consolidated  Subsidiaries  as  of  such  dates  and  for  such  periods  in accordance with GAAP, subject to year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes in the case of the statements referred to in clause (ii) above.


(b)        Since May 31, 2013, there have been no events, acts, conditions or occurrences, singly or in the aggregate, that have had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.


5.05      Properties.


(a)        Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries has good title to, or valid leasehold interests in, all its real and Personal property sufficient for the conduct of its business, except for minor defects in title that do not interfere with its ability to conduct its business as currently conducted or to utilize such properties for their intended purposes, in each case free and clear of all Liens except as expressly permitted by the Loan Documents.


(b)        Each  of  the  Company  and  its  Subsidiaries  owns,  or  is  licensed  to  use,  all Intellectual Property necessary for the conduct of its business, free and clear of all Liens except as expressly permitted by the Loan Documents, and the use thereof by the Company and its Subsidiaries does not infringe upon the rights of any other Person, except for any such infringements that, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.


5.06      Litigation and Environmental Matters.


(a)       There are no actions, suits or proceedings by or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority pending against or, to the knowledge of the  Borrowers, threatened against or affecting the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (i) as to which there is a reasonable possibility of an adverse determination and that, if adversely determined, could reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) that involve this Agreement or the Transactions.


(b)        Except with respect to any other matters that, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries (i) 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, or (ii) has become subject to any Environmental Liability.


5.07      Compliance with Laws and Agreements.   Except where such compliance is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings, each of the Company and its Subsidiaries is in compliance with all laws, regulations and orders of any Governmental Authority applicable to it or its property and all indentures, agreements and other instruments binding upon it or its property, except where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material 

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Adverse Effect. No Default has occurred and is continuing.


5.08      Investment Company Status.   Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is an
“investment company” as defined in, or subject to regulation under, the Investment Company Act of
1940.


5.09      Taxes.  Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries has timely filed or caused to be filed all Tax returns and reports required to have been filed and has paid or caused to be paid all Taxes required to have been paid by it, except (a) Taxes that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which the Company or such Subsidiary, as applicable, has set aside on its books adequate reserves or (b) to the extent that the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.


5.10      ERISA.  No ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur that, when taken together with all other such ERISA Events for which liability is reasonably expected to occur, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.   The present value of all accumulated benefit  obligations  under  each  Plan  (based  on  the  assumptions  used  for  purposes  of  Statement  of Financial Accounting Standards No. 87) did not, as of the date of the most recent financial statements reflecting such amounts, exceed by more than $5,000,000 the fair market value of the assets of such Plan, and the present value of all accumulated benefit obligations of all underfunded Plans (based on the assumptions used for purposes of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 87) did not, as of the date of the most recent financial statements reflecting such amounts, exceed by more than $5,000,000 the fair market value of the assets of all such underfunded Plans.


5.11      Subsidiaries.  Schedule 5.11 to this Agreement lists each Subsidiary of the Company as of the Closing Date and accurately sets forth for such Subsidiary the type of entity, its jurisdiction of organization, the holders of its Equity Interests, and whether as of the Closing Date such Subsidiary is a Significant Subsidiary and/or a Material Subsidiary.


5.12      Margin Securities.  Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries (i) is engaged in the business of purchasing or carrying “margin stock” as defined in Regulation U of the Board, or (ii) has used any proceeds of any Loans or Letters of Credit to purchase or carry any such “margin stock” contrary to the provisions of Regulation U or Regulation X of the Board.


5.13      Disclosure.  None of the reports, financial statements, certificates and other information furnished by or on behalf of any Borrower to the Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection with the negotiation of this Agreement or delivered hereunder (as modified or supplemented by other information so furnished) contains any material misstatement of fact or omits to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not  misleading  at  the  time  made  or  delivered;  provided  that,  with  respect  to  projected  financial information, the Borrowers represent only that such information was prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable at the time.


5.14      Taxpayer  Identification  Number;  Other  Identifying  Information.    The  true  and correct (a) U.S. taxpayer identification number of the Company and (b) unique identification number of each Designated Borrower that has been issued by its jurisdiction of organization, are each set forth on Schedule 10.02.


5.15      OFAC.  None of Credit Parties, nor any of their Subsidiaries, nor, to the knowledge of the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries, any director, officer, employee, agent, affiliate or representative thereof, is an individual or entity currently the subject of any Sanctions, nor is any Credit Party or any 

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Subsidiary located, organized or resident in a Designated Jurisdiction.


ARTICLE VI 
AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS


So long as any Lender shall have any Revolving Commitment hereunder or any Loan or other Obligation hereunder shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied, or any Letter of Credit shall remain outstanding, each Borrower covenants and agrees with the Lenders and the Administrative Agent that:


6.01      Financial  Statements  and  Other  Information.    The  Company  will  furnish  to  the
Administrative Agent and each Lender:


(a)        within 100 days after the end of each Fiscal Year of the Company (or such shorter period for the delivery of such statements as is required by the Term Loan Agreement), its audited consolidated balance sheet and related statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows as of the end of and for such year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous Fiscal Year, all reported on by Deloitte & Touche LLP or other independent public accountants of recognized national standing (without a “going concern” or like qualification or exception and without any qualification or exception as to the scope of such audit) to the effect that such  consolidated financial statements  present fairly in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP consistently applied;


(b)        within 50 days after the end of each of the first three Fiscal Quarters of each Fiscal Year of the Company (or such shorter period for the delivery of such statements as is required by the Term Loan Agreement) (commencing with the Fiscal Quarter ending February 28, 2014), its consolidated balance sheet and related statements of operations and cash flows as of the end of and for such Fiscal Quarter and the then elapsed portion of the Fiscal Year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the corresponding period or periods of (or, in the case of the balance sheet, as of the end of) the previous Fiscal Year, all certified by one of its Financial Officers as presenting fairly in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP consistently applied, subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes;


(c)        concurrently with any delivery of financial statements under clause (a) or (b) above, a Compliance Certificate (which Compliance Certificate may be delivered jointly under this Agreement and the Term Loan Agreement so long as the applicable covenants and provisions are the same under both agreements) signed by a Financial Officer of the Company (i) certifying as to whether a Default has occurred and, if a Default has occurred, specifying the details thereof and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto, (ii) setting forth reasonably detailed calculations demonstrating compliance with Sections 7.08 and 7.09, and (iii) describing in reasonable detail any change in GAAP or in the application thereof that has occurred since the date of the audited financial statements for the immediately preceding Fiscal Year that is material with respect to the financial statements accompanying such certificate  (which delivery may, unless the Administrative Agent, or a Lender requests executed originals, be by electronic communication including fax or email and shall be deemed to be an original authentic counterpart thereof for all purposes);



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(d)        promptly after the same become publicly available, copies of all annual and quarterly reports filed by the Company or any Subsidiary with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any or all of the functions of said Commission, or with any national securities exchange, as the case may be;


(e)        promptly  upon  the  receipt  thereof,  a  copy  of  any  management  letter  or management report prepared by the Company’s independent certified public accountants in conjunction with the financial statements described in Section 6.01(a); and


(f)         promptly following any request therefor, such other information regarding the operations, business affairs and financial condition of the Company or any Subsidiary, or compliance with the terms of this Agreement, as the Administrative Agent or any Lender may reasonably request.


Notwithstanding the foregoing requirements for delivery of annual and quarterly financial statements  and  reports  and  other  filings  in  Section 6.01(a),  (b)  and  (d)  above  (to  the  extent  such documents are included in material otherwise filed with the SEC), and notices required to be given pursuant to Section 6.02, such delivery and notice requirements 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 at the website address listed on Schedule 10.02; 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 commercial, third-party website or whether sponsored by the Administrative Agent) including, to the extent the Lenders and the Administrative Agent have access thereto and such documents are available thereon, the EDGAR Database and sec.gov; provided that the Company shall notify the Administrative Agent and each Lender (by facsimile or electronic mail) of the  posting of any such documents and provide to the Administrative Agent by electronic mail electronic versions (i.e., soft copies) of such documents.  The Administrative Agent shall have no obligation to request the delivery or to maintain paper copies of the documents referred to above, and in any event shall have no responsibility to monitor compliance by the Company with any such request for delivery, and each Lender shall be solely responsible for requesting delivery to it or maintaining its copies of such documents.


The Company hereby acknowledges that (a) the Administrative Agent and/or MLPFS will make available to the Lenders and the L/C Issuer materials and/or information provided by or on behalf of the Company hereunder (collectively, “Borrower Materials”) by posting the Borrower Materials on Debt Domain, IntraLinks, Syndtrak or another similar electronic system (the “Platform”) and (b) certain of the Lenders (each, a “Public Lender”) may have personnel who do not wish to receive material non-public information with respect to either of the Company or its Affiliates, or the respective securities of any of the foregoing, and who may be engaged in investment and other market-related activities with respect to such Person’s securities.  The Company hereby agrees that so long as the Company is the issuer of any outstanding debt or equity securities that are registered or issued pursuant to a private offering or is actively  contemplating  issuing  any  such  securities  (w)  all  Borrower  Materials  that  are  to  be  made available to Public Lenders shall be clearly and conspicuously marked “PUBLIC” which, at a minimum, shall mean that the word “PUBLIC” shall appear prominently on the first page thereof; (x) by marking Borrower Materials “PUBLIC,” the Company shall be deemed to have authorized the Administrative Agent,  MLPFS  and  the  Lenders  to  treat  such  Borrower  Materials  as  not  containing  any  material non-public information with respect to the Company or its securities for purposes of United States Federal and state securities laws (provided that to the extent such Borrower Materials constitute Information, they shall be treated as set forth in Section 10.07); (y) all Borrower Materials marked “PUBLIC” are permitted to be made available through a portion of the Platform designated “Public Side Information;” and (z) the

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Administrative Agent and the Arranger shall be entitled to treat any Borrower Materials that are not marked “PUBLIC” as being suitable only for posting on a portion of the Platform not designated as “Public Side Information.”  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall be under no obligation to mark any Borrower Materials “PUBLIC.”


6.02      Notices of Material Events.  The Company will furnish to the Administrative Agent and each Lender prompt (and in any event within five Business Days) written notice of the following:


(a)        the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default;


(b)        the filing or commencement of any actions, suits or proceedings by or before any arbitrators or Governmental Authorities against or affecting the Company or any Subsidiaries or other Affiliates thereof that, if adversely determined, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;


(c)        if and when the Company or any member of the ERISA Affiliate (i) gives or is required to give notice to the PBGC of any Reportable Event with respect to any Plan which might reasonably be expected to constitute grounds for a termination of such Plan under Title IV of ERISA, or knows that the plan administrator of any Plan has given or is required to give notice of any such Reportable Event, a copy of the notice of such Reportable Event given or required to be given to the PBGC, (ii) receives notice of complete or partial withdrawal liability under Title IV of ERISA, a copy of such notice, or (iii) receives notice from the PBGC under Title IV of ERISA of an intent to terminate or appoint a trustee to administer any Plan, a copy of such notice,  in  each  case  where  such  Reportable  Event,  withdrawal  liability,  termination  or appointment could reasonably be expected to have or cause a Material Adverse Effect; and


(d)        the  cancellation  or  termination  of  any  material  agreement  or  the  receipt  or sending of written notice of default or intended termination or cancellation of any material agreement, in any case that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.


Each notice delivered under this Section shall be accompanied by a statement of a Financial Officer  or  other  executive officer  of  the  Company  setting forth  the  details  of  the  event  or development requiring such notice and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto.


6.03      Maintenance of Existence.  Each Borrower shall at all times maintain its legal existence in the jurisdiction of its organization.   The Company shall cause each of the Material Subsidiaries to maintain its legal existence, provided, that (i) the Company may dissolve Subsidiaries from time to time if (x) the Company has determined that such dissolution is desirable, and (y) such dissolution could not reasonably be expected to have or cause a Material Adverse Effect, or (ii) the Company or any Subsidiary may eliminate or discontinue a business line pursuant to Section 7.03(c).


6.04      Payment of Obligations.  The Company will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, pay its obligations, including Tax liabilities, that, if not paid, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect before the same shall become delinquent or in default, except where (a) the validity or amount thereof is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings, and the Company or such Subsidiary has set aside on its books adequate reserves with respect thereto in accordance with GAAP and (b) the failure to make payment pending such contest could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.



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6.05      Maintenance of Properties; Insurance.  The Company will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, (a) keep and maintain all property material to the conduct of its business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted, except where the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (b) maintain and keep in full force and effect  all  rights  in  respect  of  Intellectual  Property  used  in  the  business  of  the  Company  and  its Subsidiaries, except where the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, and (c) maintain, with financially sound and reputable insurance companies or through adequate self-insurance programs, insurance in such amounts and against such risks as are customarily maintained by companies engaged in the same or similar businesses operating in the same or similar locations or consistent with past practices of the Company and such Subsidiaries.


6.06      Books and Records; Inspection Rights.  The Company will (i) keep, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to keep, proper books of record and account in which full, true and correct entries in conformity with GAAP shall be made of all dealings and transactions in relation to its business and activities; and (ii) permit, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to permit, representatives of any Lender, after written notice to an officer of the Company or Subsidiary, at such Lender’s expense during any period in which a Default or Event of Default is not in existence and at the Company’s expense during any period in which a Default or Event of Default is in existence, to visit (which date of visit shall be two (2) Business Days after the date such request is made or any earlier date as may be mutually agreed by the Company and such Lender) and inspect any of their respective properties, to examine and make abstracts from any of their respective books and records and to discuss their respective affairs, finances and accounts with their respective officers, employees and independent public accountants.  The Company agrees to cooperate and assist in such visits and inspections, in each case at such reasonable times and as often as may reasonably be desired.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, during any period in which no Event of Default is in existence, neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender may engage in (i) more than two inspections per Fiscal Year or (ii) discussions with the Company’s independent public accountants, unless the Company shall have otherwise consented to same.


6.07      Compliance with Laws.  The Company will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries and each of its ERISA Affiliates to, comply with applicable laws (including but not limited to ERISA), regulations, executive orders, and similar requirements of governmental authorities (including but not limited to PBGC), except where the necessity of such compliance is being contested in good faith through appropriate proceedings or except where the noncompliance with which could not be reasonably expected to cause or result in a Material Adverse Effect.


6.08      Use of Proceeds.  The proceeds of the Loans shall be used solely (a) to refinance existing Indebtedness and pay fees, costs and expenses related thereto (b) to finance Acquisitions and the fees and expenses related thereto, (c) to pay fees and expenses incurred in connection with this Agreement and/or (d) for other lawful corporate purposes (including, without limitation, share repurchases).


6.09      Additional  Guarantors.    (a)  Not  later  than  30  days  (or  such  longer  period as  the Administrative Agent may agree) after the date required for delivery of any quarterly or annual financial statements pursuant to Section 6.01, if any Domestic Subsidiary (other than a Bank Subsidiary or an Excluded Domestic Subsidiary) that is not a Guarantor as of the period end date of such financial statements would qualify as of such period end date as a Significant Subsidiary or (b) promptly (or such period as the Administrative Agent may agree) after the date that any Subsidiary becomes a guarantor with respect to the Term Loan Agreement, the Company shall cause such Subsidiary to execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent a Subsidiary Guaranty Supplement pursuant to which such Subsidiary agrees to be bound by the terms and provisions of the Subsidiary Guaranty, accompanied by (i) all other Loan Documents related thereto, (ii) certified copies of the certificates or articles of incorporation, organization or formation, by-laws, limited liability company agreements, partnership agreements, and other applicable Organization 

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Documents, appropriate authorizing resolutions of the board of directors, board of managers, or comparable body, and opinions of counsel for such Subsidiary comparable to those delivered pursuant to Section 4.01, and (iii) such other documents as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request.   The Company may request that any Guarantor cease to be a Guarantor and be released and discharged from its obligations under the Subsidiary Guaranty if (i) the Equity Interests of such Guarantor are being sold or otherwise disposed of, or such Guarantor is being dissolved, in a transaction not prohibited by the terms of this Agreement, or (ii) such Guarantor both (A) (x) has ceased to qualify as a Significant Subsidiary as indicated by the most recent quarterly or annual financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 6.01 or (y) after giving pro forma effect to any Asset Sale or sale or other disposition made by such Guarantor or Subsidiaries of such Guarantor as if such Asset Sale or disposition occurred during the most recent period for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 6.01, would cease to qualify as a Significant Subsidiary and (B) has or is being released as a guarantor of the obligations of the Company and/or the Borrowers, as applicable, under the Term Loan Agreement (if and to the extent then existing, as applicable).


6.10      PayPros Acquisition.  Deliver to the Administrative Agent, at least one Business Day prior to the closing of the PayPros Acquisition, a Compliance Certificate calculating the Leverage Ratio on a pro forma basis after giving effect to the PayPros Acquisition.


ARTICLE VII 
NEGATIVE COVENANTS


So long as any Lender shall have any Revolving Commitment hereunder or any Loan or other Obligation hereunder shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied, or any Letter of Credit shall remain outstanding, each Borrower covenants and agrees with the Lenders and the Administrative Agent that:


7.01      Subsidiary Indebtedness.  The Company will not permit any Subsidiary (other than a
Subsidiary Guarantor) to create, incur or suffer to exist any Indebtedness, other than:


(a)        Indebtedness existing on the date of this Agreement and described on Schedule7.01;


(b)        Indebtedness  secured  by  Liens  permitted  pursuant  to  the  terms  of  Section
7.02(a)(iii);


(c)        Indebtedness of such Subsidiary owing to the Company or any other Subsidiary;


(d)        [Reserved];


(e)        Indebtedness  arising  from  the  renewal  or  extension  of  any  Indebtedness described in clauses (a), (b), (f) or (k), provided that the amount of such Indebtedness is not increased and any Liens securing such Indebtedness attached only to the assets previously serving as collateral for such Indebtedness prior to such renewal or extension;


(f)         Indebtedness owing by such Subsidiary that was in existence at the time such Person first became a Subsidiary, or at the time such Person was merged into or consolidated with a Subsidiary, which Indebtedness was not created or incurred in contemplation of such event, provided that such Indebtedness is at the time permitted pursuant to the terms of Section 7.02 (in the case of any Indebtedness secured by any Liens on assets of such Subsidiary);

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(g)        Indebtedness   resulting   from   Surety   Indemnification   Obligations   of   such
Subsidiary;


(h)        Indebtedness,  if  any,  which  may  be  deemed  to  exist  with  respect  to  Swap
Agreements;


(i)         Indebtedness, if any, that may exist in respect of deposits or payments made by customers or clients of such Subsidiaries;


(j)         Indebtedness owed in respect of any netting services,  overdrafts and related liabilities arising from treasury, depository and cash management services or in connection with any automated clearing−house transfers of funds or in respect of letters of credit or bankers’ acceptances supporting trade payables;


(k)        other  Indebtedness  of  such  Subsidiaries  (including  any  Indebtedness  of  a Designated Borrower that is a Foreign Subsidiary Borrower and not a Subsidiary Guarantor) not described in clauses (a) through (j) or (l) incurred or created following the Closing Date so long as on the date of such incurrence or creation the sum of (A) the aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness and (B) the aggregate principal amount of all Indebtedness incurred under clauses (a), (e) (in the case of renewals or extension of Indebtedness described in clauses (a) or (k)), and (k) and outstanding on such date (including any Indebtedness of a Designated Borrower that is a Foreign Subsidiary Borrower and not a Subsidiary Guarantor), does not exceed an amount equal to twenty-five percent (25%) of Net Worth as at the end of the Company’s most recently ended Fiscal Quarter for which financial statements have been made available, or are required to have been made available, to the Administrative Agent prior to such date; and


(l)         all  premiums  (if  any),  interest,  fees,  expenses,  charges    and  additional  or contingent interest on obligations described in clauses (a) through (k).


7.02      Liens.  No Borrower will, nor will any Borrower permit any Subsidiary to, create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Lien on any property or asset now owned or hereafter acquired by it, or assign or sell any income or revenues (including accounts receivable) or rights in respect of any thereof, except:


(a)        (i)         Liens existing on the date of this Agreement and described on Schedule 7.02 securing Indebtedness outstanding on the date of this Agreement;


(ii)        Liens  existing  on  any  asset  of  any  Person  at  the  time  such  Person becomes a Subsidiary, or at the time such Person was merged into or consolidated with the Company or a Subsidiary, which Lien was not created in contemplation of such event and, if such Lien secures Indebtedness of a Subsidiary, such Indebtedness is permitted pursuant to the terms of Section 7.01;


(iii)       Liens on any asset securing Indebtedness (including, without limitation, a Capital Lease Obligation) incurred or assumed for the purpose of financing all or any part of the cost of acquiring or constructing such asset, provided that such Lien (x) attaches to such asset (and no other asset) concurrently with or within 18 months after the acquisition   or   completion   of   construction   thereof,   and   (y)   secures   solely   such Indebtedness incurred or assumed for the purpose of financing all or any part of the cost of  acquiring  or  constructing  such  asset;  provided  that  the  aggregate  amount  of Indebtedness secured by Liens permitted pursuant to this clause (a)(iii) of this Section 7.02 shall count 

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toward usage of the basket for Liens contained in clause (k) below;


(b)       Liens securing Permitted Pari Passu Indebtedness, provided that all requirements and conditions set forth in the definition of the term “Permitted Pari Passu Indebtedness” shall be satisfied at all times any such Liens are in effect;


(c)        Liens securing Indebtedness owing by the Company or any Subsidiary to any
Credit Party;


(d)       Liens arising out of the refinancing, extension, renewal or refunding of any Indebtedness secured by any Lien permitted by any of the foregoing clauses (a) through (c) of this Section, provided that (i) such Indebtedness is not secured by any additional assets, and (ii) the amount of such Indebtedness secured by any such Lien is not increased;


(e)        Permitted Encumbrances;


(f)        Liens  in  respect  of  any  taxes  which  are  either  (x)  not,  as  at  any  date  of determination, due and payable or (y) being contested in good faith as permitted by Section 6.04;


(g)       [Reserved];


(h)       Liens on cash and cash equivalents deposited or pledged in the ordinary course of business to secure Surety Indemnification Obligations;


(i)        Liens  arising  due  to  any  cash  pooling,  netting  or  composite  accounting arrangements;


(j)        customary rights of set-off, revocation, refund or chargeback or similar rights under deposit, disbursement or concentration account agreements or under the Uniform Commercial Code (or comparable foreign law) or arising by operation of law in favor of banks or other financial institutions where the Company or any of the Subsidiaries maintains deposit, disbursement or concentration accounts in the ordinary course of business;


(k)       other Liens securing Indebtedness in an aggregate amount not to exceed 15% of Net Worth as at the end of the Company’s most recently ended Fiscal Quarter for which financial statements have been made available, or are required to have been made available, to the Administrative Agent; and


(l)         Settlement Liens.


7.03      Consolidations, Mergers and Sales of Assets.  No Borrower will, nor will any Borrower permit any of its Material Subsidiaries to, consolidate or merge with or into, or effect any Asset Sale to, any other Person, or discontinue or eliminate any Material Subsidiary or business segment, provided that:


(a)        the  Company  may  merge  with  another  Person  if  (i)  the  Company  is  the corporation surviving such merger and (ii) immediately after giving effect to such merger, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;

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(b)        any Borrower (other than the Company) may merge with another Person if (i) such Borrower is the Person surviving such merger, and (ii) immediately after giving effect to such merger, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;


(c)        Subsidiaries other than the Borrowers (i) may merge with, and sell assets to, another Subsidiary, provided that if one of the Persons involved in such merger or sale is a Credit Party, the surviving Person or transferee in any such transaction is or becomes by virtue thereof a Credit Party, (ii) may merge with, and sell assets to, the Company, so long as the surviving Person or transferee in any such transaction is the Company, and (iii) may merge with another Person (other than the Company or another Subsidiary) if (x) such Subsidiary is the Person surviving such merger or such Person becomes a Subsidiary by virtue thereof, and (y) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;


(d)       the Company and its Subsidiaries may eliminate or discontinue business lines and segments from time to time if such elimination or discontinuance could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;


(e)        so long as no Event of Default shall then have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, the Company and its Subsidiaries may effect any Asset Sale so long as the assets to be sold pursuant to all such Asset Sales during any Fiscal Year have not contributed, in the aggregate, more than twenty-five percent (25%) of the EBITDA of the Company for the then-most recently completed period of four consecutive Fiscal Quarters for which financial statements are available (with the determination of such contribution to EBITDA to be made by the Company in a manner reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent); and


(f)        Subsidiaries which are formed for the sole purpose of (1) merging into Persons that will become Subsidiaries or (2) acquiring the assets or Equity Interests of Persons and thereafter becoming Subsidiaries, may merge with such Persons or consolidate those Persons’ assets with the assets of those Subsidiaries so long as such acquisitions and related transactions are otherwise permitted by this Agreement.


7.04     Lines of Business.  No Borrower, nor any Significant Subsidiary (other than any Bank Subsidiary) shall conduct or enter into any business, either directly or through any other Subsidiary, except for any business that is the same or substantially similar as that of the Company or its existing Subsidiaries or such other businesses arising therefrom or reasonably related to the payment services, financial  services,  transaction  processing  or  money  transfer  businesses.    No  Bank  Subsidiary  shall conduct or enter into any business except for banking or similarly regulated businesses.


7.05     Transactions with Affiliates.   No Borrower will, nor will any Borrower permit any Subsidiary to, 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, in any case where such transactions, singly or in the aggregate, are material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, except (a) at prices and on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Company or such Subsidiary in any material respect than could be obtained on an arm’s-length basis  from  unrelated  third  parties,  and  (b)  transactions  between  or  among  the  Company  and  any Guarantors not involving any other Affiliate.


7.06     [Reserved].


7.07     Accounting Changes.  No Borrower will, nor will any Borrower permit any Subsidiary to, make any significant change in accounting practices, except as required or permitted by GAAP.

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7.08     Leverage Ratio.   The Leverage Ratio at the end of each Fiscal Quarter shall not be greater than 3.50 to 1.00 for the Fiscal Quarter just ended and the immediately preceding three Fiscal Quarters; provided that one time during the term of this Agreement, in connection with an Acquisition, the maximum Leverage Ratio, with prior notice to the Administrative Agent, may be increased to 3.75 to 1.00 for the one year period beginning on the closing date of such Acquisition, so long as the Company is in compliance on a pro forma basis with the maximum Leverage Ratio of 3.75 to 1.00 on the closing date of such Acquisition after giving effect to such Acquisition; provided, further, that at the end of such one year period, the maximum Leverage Ratio permitted shall revert to 3.50 to 1.00.


7.09     Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio.  The ratio of (i) EBITR to (ii) Fixed Charges as at the end of each Fiscal Quarter, shall not be less than 2.50 to 1.00 for the Fiscal Quarter just ended and the immediately preceding three Fiscal Quarters.


7.10     Sanctions.   Directly or indirectly, use the proceeds of any Credit Extension, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such Credit Extension or the proceeds of any Credit Extension to any Person, to fund any activities of or business with any Person, or in any Designated Jurisdiction, that, at the time of such funding, to the knowledge of any Credit Party, is the subject of Sanctions, or, to the knowledge of any Credit Party, in any other manner that will result in a violation by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any Lender, Arranger, Administrative Agent, L/C Issuer, Swing Line Lender or Swap Provider of Sanctions.


ARTICLE VIII
EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES


8.01      Events of Default.  Any of the following shall constitute an Event of Default:


(a)        The Company or the applicable Borrower shall fail to pay when and as required to be paid herein, and in the currency required herein, any principal of any Loan or any L/C Obligation;


(b)        the Company or the applicable Borrower shall fail to pay any interest on any Loan or on any L/C Obligation or any fee or any other amount (other than an amount referred to in clause (a) of this Article) payable under this Agreement, when and as the same shall become due and payable, and such failure shall continue unremedied thereafter for a period of five Business Days;


(c)        any representation or warranty made or deemed made in writing by or on behalf of any Borrower or any Subsidiary in or in connection with this Agreement, in any other Loan Document, or any amendment or modification hereof or waiver hereunder, or in any report, certificate, financial statement or other document furnished pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement or any amendment or modification hereof or waiver hereunder, shall prove to have been untrue or incorrect in any material respect when made or deemed made;


(d)        the Company or any applicable Borrower shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement contained in Section 6.02(a), Section 6.03 (with respect to the Company’s existence) or  Section 6.08, or in Article VII;



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(e)        any Credit Party shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement contained in any Loan Document (other than those specified in clause (a), (b), (c) or (d) of this Article), and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of 30 days after (i) any officer of any Borrower becomes aware thereof, or (ii) notice thereof from the Administrative Agent to the Borrower (which notice will be given at the request of any Lender);


(f)         the Company or any Subsidiary shall fail to make any payment (whether of principal or interest and regardless of amount) in respect of any Material Indebtedness, when and as  the  same  shall become  due  and payable  or  within  any applicable  grace  period  for  such payment;


(g)        any event or condition occurs that results in any Material Indebtedness becoming due prior to scheduled maturity or that enables or permits (with or without the giving of notice, the lapse of time or both) the holders of any Material Indebtedness or any trustees or agents on its or their behalf to cause any Material Indebtedness to become due, or to require the prepayment, repurchase, redemption or defeasance thereof, prior to its scheduled maturity; provided that this clause (g) shall not apply to secured Indebtedness or Indebtedness of a Subsidiary that becomes due  as  a  result  of  the  voluntary  sale  or  transfer  of  the  property  or  assets  securing  such Indebtedness or of all the Equity Interests of such Subsidiary, as the case may be, in a transaction otherwise expressly permitted under this Agreement, and such Indebtedness is paid at or prior to the time it becomes due as a result of such transaction;


(h)        an involuntary proceeding shall be commenced or an involuntary petition shall be filed seeking (i) liquidation, reorganization or other relief in respect of any Borrower or any Material Subsidiary or its debts, or of a substantial part of its assets, under any Debtor Relief Law or (ii) the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar official for any Borrower or any Material Subsidiary or for a substantial part of its assets, and, in any such case, such proceeding or petition shall continue undismissed for 60 days or an order or decree approving or ordering any of the foregoing shall be entered;


(i)         any Borrower or any Material Subsidiary shall (i) voluntarily commence any proceeding or file any petition seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief under any Debtor Relief Law, (ii) consent to the institution of, or fail to contest in a timely and appropriate manner, any proceeding or petition described in clause (h) of this Article, (iii) apply for or consent to the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar official for any Borrower or any Material Subsidiary or for a substantial part of its assets, (iv) file an answer admitting the material allegations of a petition filed against it in any such proceeding, (v) make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors or cease to pay its debts generally as such debts become due, (vi) take any action for the purpose of effecting any of the foregoing;


(j)         one or more final judgments for the payment of money in an aggregate amount in excess of $50,000,000 (exclusive of amounts covered by insurance) shall be rendered against the Company, any Subsidiary or any combination thereof and the same shall remain undischarged for a  period  of  60  consecutive  days  during  which  execution  shall  not  be  effectively  stayed  or deferred, or the judgment or judgments shall not have been paid in full or otherwise released or discharged;


(k)        the Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates shall fail to pay when due any material amount which it shall have become liable to pay to the PBGC or to a Plan under Title IV of ERISA; or notice of intent to terminate a Plan or Plans shall be filed under Title IV of ERISA by the Company, any of its ERISA Affiliates, any plan administrator or any combination of the foregoing; or the PBGC shall institute proceedings under Title IV of ERISA to terminate or to cause a trustee to be appointed to administer any such Plan or Plans or a proceeding shall be instituted by a fiduciary of any such Plan 

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or Plans to enforce Section 515 or 4219(c) (5) of ERISA and such proceeding shall not have been dismissed within 30 days thereafter; or federal tax liens and/or liens of the PBGC under Section 4068 of ERISA shall be rendered or filed against the Company  or  any  of  its  ERISA  Affiliates  which  shall  continue  unsatisfied,  unreleased  and unstayed for a period of 60 days; or a condition shall exist by reason of which the PBGC would be entitled to obtain a decree adjudicating that any such Plan or Plans must be terminated; or the Company  or  any  its  ERISA  Affiliates  shall  be  obligated  to  contribute  to,  terminate  its participation in, or incur any withdrawal liability with respect to, a Multiemployer Plan; provided, that no Default or Event of Default shall arise under this paragraph (k) unless, in the reasonable opinion of the Required Lenders, when taken together with all other events described in this clause (k) that have occurred, the foregoing matters could reasonably be expected to result in liability of the Company and its Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount exceeding $50,000,000;


(l)         a Change in Control shall occur; or


(m)       (i) the  Subsidiary Guaranty  shall  cease  to  be enforceable, (ii)  the  Company Guaranty shall cease to be enforceable, (iii) any Borrower or any Subsidiary shall assert that any Loan Document is not enforceable, or (iv) any default or event of default under any other Loan Document shall occur or exist and continue in effect beyond any applicable period to cure such default or event of default;


then, and in every such event (other than an event with respect to any Borrower described in clause (h) or (i) of this Section), and at any time thereafter during the continuance of such event, the Administrative Agent shall, at the request of, or may, with the consent of, the Required Lenders, by notice to the Company, take either or both of the following actions, at the same or different times: (i) terminate the Revolving Commitments, and thereupon the Revolving Commitments shall terminate immediately, (ii) declare all Loans then outstanding to be due and payable in whole (or in part, in which case any principal not so declared to be due and payable may thereafter be declared to be due and payable), and thereupon the principal of the Loans so declared to be due and payable, together with accrued interest thereon and all fees and other obligations of the Borrowers accrued hereunder, shall become due and payable immediately, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by each of the Borrowers, (iii) require that the Company Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations (in an amount equal to the Minimum Collateral Amount) and (iv) exercise on behalf of itself, the Lenders all rights and remedies available to it, the Lenders under the Loan Documents; and in case of any event with respect to any Borrower described in clause (h) or (i) of this Section, the Revolving Commitments shall automatically terminate and the principal of all Loans then outstanding, together with accrued interest thereon and all fees and other Obligations accrued hereunder, shall automatically become due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by each of the Borrowers, and the obligation of the Company to Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations as aforesaid shall become effective, in each case without further act of the Administrative Agent or any Lender.


8.02      Application of Funds.  After the exercise of remedies provided for in Section 8.01 (or after the Loans have automatically become immediately due and payable and the L/C Obligations have automatically be required to be Cash Collateralized as set forth in the last paragraph of Section 8.01), any amounts received on account of the Obligations shall, subject to the provisions of Section 2.14 and 2.15, be applied by the Administrative Agent in the following order:

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First, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting fees, indemnities, expenses and other amounts (including fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the Administrative Agent to the extent payable under Section 10.04 and amounts payable under Article III) payable to the Administrative Agent in its capacity as such;


Second, to payment of that portion of the Obligations arising under the Loan Documents constituting fees, indemnities and other amounts (other than principal, interest and Letter of Credit Fees) payable to the Lenders and the L/C Issuer (including fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the respective Lenders and the L/C Issuer to the extent payable under Section 10.04 and amounts payable under Article III), ratably among them in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Second payable to them;


Third, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting accrued and unpaid Letter of Credit  Fees  and  interest  on  the  Loans,  L/C  Borrowings  and  Obligations  arising  under  the  Loan Documents, ratably among the Lenders and the L/C Issuer in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Third payable to them;


Fourth, to (a) payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting unpaid principal of the Loans, L/C Borrowings and Obligations then owing under Related Swap Agreements and (b) Cash Collateralize that portion of L/C Obligations comprised of the aggregate undrawn amount of Letters of Credit, ratably among the Lenders, the Swap Providers and the L/C Issuer in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Fourth held by them;


Last, the balance, if any, after all of the Obligations have been indefeasibly paid in full, to the
Company or as otherwise required by Law.


Subject to Sections 2.03(c) and 2.14, amounts used to Cash Collateralize the aggregate undrawn amount of Letters of Credit pursuant to clause Fourth above shall be applied to satisfy drawings under such Letters of Credit as they occur.  If any amount remains on deposit as Cash Collateral after all Letters of Credit have either been fully drawn or expired, such remaining amount shall be applied to the other Obligations, if any, in the order set forth above.  Excluded Swap Obligations with respect to any Credit Party shall not be paid with amounts received from such Credit Party or such Credit Party’s assets, but appropriate adjustments shall be made with respect to payments from other Credit Parties to preserve the allocation to Obligations otherwise set forth above in this Section.


Notwithstanding the foregoing, Obligations arising under Related Swap Agreements shall be excluded from the application described above if the Administrative Agent has not received a Guaranteed Party Designation Notice, together with such supporting documentation as the Administrative Agent may reasonably  request,  from  the  applicable  Swap  Provider.    Each  Swap  Provider  not  a  party  to  this Agreement that has given the notice contemplated by the preceding sentence shall, by such notice, be deemed to have acknowledged and accepted the appointment of the Administrative Agent pursuant to the terms of Article IX for itself and its Affiliates as if a “Lender” party hereto.
ARTICLE IX
 ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT


9.01      Appointment  and  Authority.     Each  of  the  Lenders  and  the  L/C  Issuer  hereby irrevocably appoints Bank of America to act on its behalf as the Administrative Agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such actions on its behalf and to exercise such powers as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof or thereof, together 

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with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto.  The provisions of this Article are solely for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the L/C Issuer, and the Company shall not have rights as a third party beneficiary of any of such provisions.  It is understood and agreed that the use of the term “agent” herein or in any other Loan Documents (or any other similar term) with reference to the Administrative Agent is not intended to connote any fiduciary or other implied (or express) obligations arising under agency doctrine of any applicable Law. Instead such term is used as a matter of market custom, and is intended to create or reflect only an administrative relationship between contracting parties.


9.02      Rights as a Lender.  The Person serving as the Administrative Agent hereunder shall have the same rights and powers in its capacity as a Lender as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not the Administrative Agent and the term “Lender” or “Lenders” shall, unless otherwise expressly indicated or unless the context otherwise requires, include the Person serving as the Administrative Agent hereunder in its individual capacity.   Such Person and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to, own securities of, act as the financial advisor or in any other advisory capacity for and generally engage in any kind of business with the Company or any Subsidiary or other Affiliate thereof as if such Person were not the Administrative Agent hereunder and without any duty to account therefor to the Lenders.


9.03      Exculpatory  Provisions.    The  Administrative  Agent  shall  not  have  any  duties  or obligations except those expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents, and its duties hereunder shall be administrative in nature.   Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Administrative Agent:


(a)        shall not be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of whether a Default has occurred and is continuing;


(b)        shall  not  have  any  duty  to  take  any  discretionary  action  or  exercise  any discretionary powers, except discretionary rights and powers expressly contemplated hereby or by the other Loan Documents that the Administrative Agent is required to exercise as directed in writing by the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be expressly provided for herein or in the other Loan Documents), provided that the Administrative Agent shall not be required to take any action that, in its opinion or the opinion of its counsel, may expose the Administrative Agent to liability or that is contrary to any Loan Document or applicable law; including for the avoidance of doubt any action that may be in violation of the automatic stay under any Debtor Relief Law or that may effect a forfeiture, modification or termination of property of a Defaulting Lender in violation of any Debtor Relief Law; and


(c)        shall not, except as expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents, have any duty to disclose, and shall not be liable for the failure to disclose, any information relating to the Company or any of its Affiliates that is communicated to or obtained by the Person serving as the Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity.


The Administrative Agent shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it (i) with the consent or at the request of the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary, or as the Administrative Agent shall believe in good faith shall be necessary, under the circumstances as provided in Sections 10.01 and 8.01) or (ii) in the absence of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment.  The Administrative Agent shall be deemed not to have knowledge of any Default unless and
until notice describing such Default is given in writing to the Administrative Agent by the Company, a
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The Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into (i) any statement, warranty or representation made in or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (ii) the contents of any certificate, report or other document delivered hereunder or thereunder or in connection herewith or therewith, (iii) the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth herein or therein or the occurrence of any Default, (iv) the validity, enforceability, effectiveness or genuineness of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other agreement, instrument or document or (v) the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Article IV or elsewhere herein, other than to confirm receipt of items expressly required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent.


9.04      Reliance by Administrative Agent.


The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely upon, and shall not incur any liability for relying upon, any notice, request, certificate, consent, statement, instrument, document or other writing (including any electronic message, Internet or intranet website posting or other distribution) believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed, sent or otherwise authenticated by the proper Person.   The Administrative Agent also may rely upon any statement made to it orally or by telephone and believed by it to have been made by the proper Person, and shall not incur any liability for relying thereon.   In determining compliance with any condition hereunder to the making of a Loan, or the issuance, extension, renewal or increase of a Letter of Credit, that by its terms must be fulfilled to the satisfaction of a Lender or the L/C Issuer, the Administrative Agent may presume that such condition is satisfactory to such Lender or the L/C Issuer unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice to the contrary from such Lender or the L/C Issuer prior to the making of such Loan or the issuance, extension, renewal or increase of such Letter of Credit.  The Administrative Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be counsel for the Credit Parties), independent accountants and other experts selected by it, and shall not be liable for  any action taken  or not taken  by it in accordance  with the advice of any such counsel, accountants or experts.


9.05      Delegation of Duties.  The Administrative Agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers hereunder or under any other Loan Document by or through any one or more sub agents appointed by the Administrative Agent.  The Administrative Agent and any such sub agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through their respective Related Parties.  The exculpatory provisions of this Article shall apply to any such sub agent and to the Related Parties of the Administrative Agent and any such sub agent, and shall apply to their respective activities in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein as well as  activities  as  Administrative  Agent.    The  Administrative  Agent  shall  not  be  responsible  for  the negligence or misconduct of any sub-agents except to the extent that a court of competent jurisdiction determines in a final and nonappealable judgment that the Administrative Agent acted with gross negligence or willful misconduct in the selection of such sub-agents.


9.06      Resignation of Administrative Agent.


(a)        The Administrative Agent may at any time give notice of its resignation to the Lenders, the L/C Issuer and the Company.  Upon receipt of any such notice of resignation, the Required Lenders shall have the right, in consultation with the Company, to appoint a successor, which shall be a bank with an office in the United States, or an Affiliate of any such bank with an office in the United States.  If no such successor shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders   and   shall   have   accepted   such   appointment   within   30   days   after   the   retiring

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Administrative Agent gives notice of its resignation (or such earlier day as shall be agreed by the Required Lenders) (the “Resignation Effective Date”), then the retiring Administrative Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) on behalf of the Lenders and the L/C Issuer, appoint a successor Administrative Agent meeting the qualifications set forth above.   Whether or not a successor has been appointed, such resignation shall become effective in accordance with such notice on the Resignation Effective Date.


(b)        If the Person serving as Administrative Agent is a Defaulting Lender pursuant to clause (d) of the definition thereof, the Required Lenders may, to the extent permitted by applicable Law, by notice in writing to the Company and such Person remove such Person as Administrative Agent and, in consultation with the Company, appoint a successor. If no such successor shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days (or such earlier day as shall be agreed by the Required Lenders) (the “Removal Effective Date”), then such removal shall nonetheless become effective in accordance with such notice on the Removal Effective Date.


(c)        With effect from the Resignation Effective Date or the Removal Effective Date (as applicable) (i) the retiring or removed Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents (except that in the case of any collateral security held by the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders or the L/C Issuer under any of the Loan Documents, the retiring or removed Administrative Agent shall continue to hold such collateral security until such time as a successor Administrative Agent is appointed) and (ii) except for any indemnity payments or other amounts then owed to the retiring or removed Administrative Agent, all payments, communications and determinations provided to be made by, to or through the Administrative Agent shall instead be made by or to each Lender and the L/C Issuer directly, until such time, if any, as the Required Lenders appoint a successor Administrative Agent as provided for above.  Upon the acceptance of a successor’s appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder, such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring (or removed) Administrative Agent (other than as provided in Section 3.01(g) and other than any rights to indemnity payments or other amounts owed to the retiring or removed Administrative Agent as of the Resignation Effective Date or the Removal Effective Date, as applicable), and the retiring or removed Administrative Agent shall be discharged from all of its duties and obligations hereunder or under the other Loan Documents (if not already discharged therefrom as provided above in this Section).   The fees payable by the Company to a successor Administrative Agent shall be the same as those payable to its predecessor unless otherwise agreed between the Company and such successor.  After the retiring or removed Administrative Agent’s resignation or removal hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, the provisions of this Article and Section 10.04 shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring or removed Administrative Agent, its sub agents and their respective Related Parties in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while the retiring or removed Administrative Agent was acting as Administrative Agent.


(d)        Any resignation by Bank of America as Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section shall also constitute its resignation as L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender.   If Bank of America resigns as an L/C Issuer, it shall retain all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the L/C Issuer hereunder with respect to all Letters of Credit outstanding as of the effective date of its resignation as L/C Issuer and all L/C Obligations with respect thereto, including the right to require  the  Lenders  to  make  Base  Rate  Loans  or  fund  risk  participations  in  Unreimbursed Amounts pursuant to Section 2.03(c).  If Bank of America resigns as Swing Line Lender, it shall retain all the rights of the Swing Line Lender provided for hereunder with respect to Swing Line Loans made by it and outstanding as of the effective date of such resignation, including the right to require the Lenders to make Base Rate Loans or fund risk participations in outstanding Swing Line Loans pursuant to Section 2.04(c).  Upon the appointment by the Company of a successor L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender hereunder (which successor shall in 

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all cases be a Lender other than a Defaulting Lender), (i) such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all of the rights,  powers,  privileges  and  duties  of  the  retiring  L/C  Issuer  or  Swing  Line  Lender,  as applicable, (ii) the retiring L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender shall be discharged from all of their respective duties and obligations hereunder or under the other Loan Documents and (iii) the successor L/C Issuer shall issue letters of credit in substitution for the Letters of Credit, if any, outstanding at the time of such succession or make other arrangements satisfactory to Bank of America to effectively assume the obligations of Bank of America  with respect to such Letters of Credit.


9.07      Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent and Other Lenders.  Each Lender and the L/C Issuer acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender or any of their Related Parties and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement.  Each Lender and the L/C Issuer also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender or any of their Related Parties and based on such documents and information as it shall from time to time deem appropriate, continue to make its own decisions in taking or not taking action under or based upon this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any related agreement or any document furnished hereunder or thereunder.


9.08      No Other Duties, Etc.   Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, none of the Bookrunners or Arrangers listed on the cover page hereof shall have any powers, duties or responsibilities under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, except in its capacity, as applicable, as the Administrative Agent, a Lender or the L/C Issuer hereunder.


9.09      Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim.   In case of the pendency of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law or any other judicial proceeding relative to any Credit Party, the Administrative Agent (irrespective of whether the principal of any Loan or L/C Obligation shall then be due and payable as herein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Administrative Agent shall have made any demand on any Borrower) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise


(a)        to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of the principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Loans, L/C Obligations and all other Obligations that are owing and unpaid and to file such other documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Lenders, the L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Lenders, the L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent and their respective agents and counsel and all other amounts due the Lenders, the L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent under Sections 2.03(h) and (i), 2.09 and
10.04) allowed in such judicial proceeding; and


(b)        to collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same;


and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Lender and the L/C Issuer  to make such payments to the Administrative Agent and, in the event that the Administrative Agent shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Lenders and the L/C Issuer, to pay to the Administrative Agent any amount due for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Administrative Agent and
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Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to authorize the Administrative Agent to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Lender or the L/C Issuer any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Obligations or the rights of any Lender to authorize the Administrative Agent to vote in respect of the claim of any Lender in any such proceeding.


9.10    Guaranty Matters.   The Lenders and the L/C Issuer irrevocably authorize the Administrative Agent, at its option and in its discretion, to release any Subsidiary Guarantor from its obligations under the Subsidiary Guaranty if such Person either ceases to be a Subsidiary as a result of a transaction permitted hereunder or is eligible to be released from its Subsidiary Guaranty in accordance with a request by any Borrower pursuant to the last sentence of Section 6.09.   Upon request by the Administrative Agent at any time, the Required Lenders will confirm in writing the Administrative Agent’s authority to release any Subsidiary Guarantor from its obligations under the Subsidiary Guaranty pursuant to this Section 9.10.


9.11      Related Swap Agreements.  No Swap Provider that obtains the benefit of Section 8.02 or the Guaranty by virtue of the provisions hereof shall have any right to notice of any action or to consent to, direct or object to any action hereunder or under any other Loan Document (or to notice of or to consent to any amendment, waiver or modification of the provisions hereof or of any Guaranty) other than in its capacity as a Lender and, in such case, only to the extent expressly provided in the Loan Documents.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article IX to the contrary, the Administrative Agent shall not be required to verify the payment of, or that other satisfactory arrangements have been made with respect to, Obligations arising under Related Swap Agreements except to the extent expressly provided herein and unless the Administrative Agent has received a Guaranteed Party Designation Notice of such Obligations, together with such supporting documentation as the Administrative Agent may request, from the applicable Swap Provider.  The Administrative Agent shall not be required to verify the payment of, or that other satisfactory arrangements have been made with respect to, Obligations arising under Related Swap Agreements in the case of the Maturity Date.
ARTICLE X 
MISCELLANEOUS


10.01    Amendments, Etc.  No amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, and no consent to any departure by the Company or any other Credit Party therefrom, shall be effective unless in writing signed by the Required Lenders and the Company or the applicable Credit Party, as the case may be, and acknowledged by the Administrative Agent, and each such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given; provided, however, that no such amendment, waiver or consent shall:


(a)        extend or increase the Revolving Commitment of any Lender (or reinstate any Revolving Commitment terminated pursuant to Section 8.01) without the written consent of such Lender;


(b)        postpone any date fixed by this Agreement or any other Loan Document for any payment (excluding any mandatory prepayment) of principal, interest, fees or other amounts due to the Lenders (or any of them) hereunder or under any other Loan Document without the written consent of each Lender directly affected thereby;



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(c)        reduce the principal of, or the rate of interest specified herein on, any Loan or L/C Borrowing, or (subject to clause (ii) of the second proviso to this Section 10.01) any fees or other amounts payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document without the written consent of  each  Lender  directly  affected  thereby;  provided,  however,  that  only  the  consent  of  the Required Lenders shall be necessary (A) to amend the definition of “Default Rate” or to waive any obligation of the Borrowers to pay interest at the Default Rate or (B) to amend any financial covenant hereunder (or any defined term used therein) if the effect of such amendment is to reduce the rate of interest on any Loan or L/C Borrowing or to reduce any fee payable hereunder;


(d)        change Section 2.13 or Section 8.02 in a manner that would alter the pro rata sharing of payments required thereby without the written consent of each Lender;


(e)        change any provision of this Section or the definition of “Required Lenders” or any other provision hereof specifying the number or percentage of Lenders required to amend, waive or otherwise modify any rights hereunder or make any determination or grant any consent hereunder without the written consent of each Lender;


(f)         release the Company from its obligations under the Loan Documents or all or substantially all of the value of the Subsidiary Guaranty or the Company Guaranty, without the written consent of each Lender, except, with respect to the Subsidiary Guaranty, to the extent the release of any Subsidiary Guarantor is permitted pursuant to Section 9.10 (in which case such release may be made by the Administrative Agent acting alone); or


(g)        amend Section 1.06 or the definition of “Alternative Currency”, “LIBOR Quoted Currency” or “Non-LIBOR Quoted Currency” without the written consent of each Lender and L/C Issuer obligated to make Credit Extensions in Alternative Currencies;


and, provided further, that (i) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the Administrative Agent in addition to the Lenders required above, affect the rights or duties of the Administrative Agent under this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (ii) unless also signed by the L/C Issuer, no amendment, waiver or consent shall affect the rights or duties of the L/C Issuer under this Agreement or any Issuer Document relating to any Letter of Credit issued or to be issued by it; (iii) unless also signed by the Swing Line Lender, no amendment, waiver or consent shall affect the rights or duties of the Swing Line Lender under this Agreement; (iv) the Fee Letter may be amended, or rights or privileges thereunder waived, in a writing executed only by the parties thereto; (v) no Defaulting Lender shall have any right to approve or disapprove any amendment, waiver or consent hereunder (and any amendment, waiver or consent which by its terms requires the consent of all Lenders or each affected Lender may be effected with the consent of the applicable Lenders other than Defaulting Lenders), except that (x) the Revolving Commitment of any Defaulting Lender may not be increased or extended without the consent of such Lender and (y) any waiver, amendment or modification requiring the consent of all Lenders or each affected Lender that by its terms affects any Defaulting Lender  disproportionately adversely relative to other affected Lenders shall require the consent of such Defaulting Lender; and (vi) only the consent of the Company and the Lenders and L/C Issuer that have agreed to issue such Credit Extensions in the applicable Alternative Currency shall be necessary to amend the definition of “Eurocurrency Base Rate” to provide for the addition of a replacement interest rate with respect to such Alternative Currency.


If any Lender does not consent to a proposed amendment, waiver, consent or release with respect to any Loan Document that requires the consent of such Lender and that has been approved by the Required Lenders, the Company may replace such non-consenting Lender in accordance with Section 10.13; provided that such amendment, waiver, consent or release can be effected as a result of the assignment contemplated by such Section (together with all other such assignments required by the Company to be made pursuant 

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to this paragraph).


Notwithstanding any provision herein to the contrary, this Agreement may be amended with the written consent of the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer, the Company and the Lenders obligated to make Credit Extensions in Alternative Currencies to amend the definition of “Alternative Currency”, “LIBOR Quoted Currency”, “Non-LIBOR Quoted Currency” or “Eurocurrency Base Rate” solely to add additional currency options and the applicable interest rate with respect thereto, in each case solely to the extent permitted pursuant to Section 1.06.


Notwithstanding any provision herein to the contrary the Administrative Agent and the Company may amend, modify or supplement this Agreement or any other Loan Document to cure or correct administrative errors or omissions, any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency or to effect administrative changes, and such amendment shall become effective without any further consent of any other party to such Loan Document so long as (i) such amendment, modification or supplement does not adversely affect the rights of any Lender or other holder of Obligations in any material respect and (ii) the Lenders  shall  have  received  at  least  five  Business  Days’  prior  written  notice  thereof  and  the Administrative Agent shall not have received, within five Business Days of the date of such notice to the Lenders, a written notice from the Required Lenders stating that the Required Lenders object to such amendment.


10.02    Notices; Effectiveness; Electronic Communication.


(a)        Notices Generally.   Except in the case of notices and other communications expressly permitted to be given by telephone (and except as provided in subsection (b) below), all notices and other communications provided for herein shall be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or overnight courier service, mailed by certified or registered mail or sent by facsimile as follows, and all notices and other communications expressly permitted hereunder to be given by telephone shall be made to the applicable telephone number, as follows:


(i)         if  to  the  Company  or  any  Foreign  Subsidiary  Borrower or the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender, to the address, facsimile number, electronic mail address or telephone number specified for such Person on Schedule 10.02; and


(ii)        if to any other Lender, to the address, facsimile number, electronic mail address or telephone number specified in its Administrative Questionnaire (including, as appropriate, notices delivered solely to the Person designated by a Lender on its Administrative Questionnaire then in effect for the delivery of notices that may contain material non-public information relating to the Company).


Notices and other communications sent by hand or overnight courier service, or mailed by certified or registered mail, shall be deemed to have been given when received; notices and other communications sent by facsimile shall be deemed to have been given when sent (except that, if not given during normal business hours for the recipient, shall be deemed to have been given at the opening of business on the next Business Day for the recipient).   Notices and other communications delivered through electronic communications to the extent provided in subsection (b) below, shall be effective as provided in such subsection (b).

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(b)        Electronic Communications.  Notices and other communications to the Lenders and the L/C Issuer hereunder may be delivered or furnished by electronic communication (including e mail and Internet or intranet websites) pursuant to procedures approved by the Administrative Agent, provided that the foregoing shall not apply to notices to any Lender or the L/C Issuer pursuant to Article II if such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as applicable, has notified the Administrative Agent that it is incapable of receiving notices under such Article by electronic communication.   The Administrative Agent, the Swing Line Lender, the L/C Issuer or the Company may each, 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.


Unless the Administrative Agent otherwise prescribes, (i) notices and other communications sent to an e-mail address shall be deemed received upon the sender’s receipt of an acknowledgement from the intended recipient (such as by the “return receipt requested” function, as available, return e-mail or other written acknowledgement) and (ii) notices or communications posted to an Internet or intranet website shall be deemed received upon the deemed receipt by the intended recipient at its e-mail address as described in the foregoing clause (i) of notification that such notice or communication is available and identifying the website address therefor; provided that, for both clauses (i) and (ii), if such notice, email or other communication is not sent during the normal business hours of the recipient, such notice, email or communication shall be deemed to have been sent at the opening of business on the next business day for the recipient.


(c)      The Platform.   THE PLATFORM IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.”  THE AGENT PARTIES (AS DEFINED BELOW) DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE BORROWER MATERIALS OR THE ADEQUACY OF THE PLATFORM, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM LIABILITY FOR ERRORS IN OR OMISSIONS FROM THE BORROWER MATERIALS.   NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF       MERCHANTABILITY,       FITNESS       FOR       A       PARTICULAR       PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS OR FREEDOM FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER CODE DEFECTS, IS MADE BY ANY AGENT PARTY IN CONNECTION WITH THE BORROWER MATERIALS OR THE PLATFORM.  In no event shall the Administrative Agent or any of its Related Parties (collectively, the “Agent Parties”) have any liability to any Borrower, any Lender, the L/C Issuer or any other Person for losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses of any kind (whether in tort, contract or otherwise) arising out of such Borrower’s or the Administrative Agent’s transmission of Borrower Materials through the Internet, except to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by a final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Agent Party; provided, however, that in no event shall any Agent Party have any liability to any Borrower, any Lender, the L/C Issuer or any other Person for indirect, special, incidental, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages).


(d)        Change of Address, Etc.  Each of the Company, the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer and the Swing Line Lender may change its address, facsimile or telephone number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the other parties hereto.   Each other Lender may change its address, facsimile or telephone number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the Company, the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer and the Swing Line Lender.  In addition, each Lender agrees to notify the Administrative Agent from time to time to ensure that the Administrative Agent has on record (i) an effective address, contact name, telephone number, facsimile number and electronic mail address to which notices

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and other communications may be sent and (ii) accurate wire instructions for such Lender. Furthermore, each Public Lender agrees to cause at least one individual at or on behalf of such Public Lender to at all times have selected the “Private Side Information” or similar designation on the content declaration screen of the Platform in order to enable such Public Lender or its delegate, in accordance with such Public Lender’s compliance procedures and applicable Law, including  United  States  Federal  and  state  securities  Laws,  to  make  reference  to  Borrower Materials that are not made available through the “Public Side Information” portion of the Platform and that may contain material non-public information with respect to the Company or its securities for purposes of United States Federal or state securities laws.


(e)        Reliance by Administrative Agent, L/C Issuer and Lenders.  The Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer and the Lenders shall be entitled to rely and act upon any notices (including telephonic  or  electronic  Loan  Notices,  Letter  of  Credit  Applications  and  Swing  Line  Loan Notices) purportedly given by or on behalf of a Borrower even if (i) such notices were not made in a manner specified herein, were incomplete or were not preceded or followed by any other form of notice specified herein, or (ii) the terms thereof, as understood by the recipient, varied from any confirmation thereof.  The Company shall indemnify the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer, each Lender and the Related Parties of each of them from all losses, costs, expenses and liabilities resulting from the reliance by such Person on each notice purportedly given by or on behalf of a Credit Party.  All telephonic notices to and other telephonic communications with the Administrative Agent may be recorded by the Administrative Agent, and each of the parties hereto hereby consents to such recording.


10.03    No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies; Enforcement.  No failure by any Lender, the L/C Issuer or the Administrative Agent to exercise, and no delay by any such Person in exercising, any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder  or under any other Loan Document (including the imposition of the Default Rate) preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, remedy, power or privilege.   The rights, remedies, powers and privileges herein provided, and provided under each other Loan Document are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights, remedies, powers and privileges provided by law.


Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in any other Loan Document, the authority to enforce rights and remedies hereunder and under the other Loan Documents against the Credit Parties or any of them shall be vested exclusively in, and all actions and proceedings at law in connection with such enforcement shall be instituted and maintained exclusively by, the Administrative Agent in accordance with Section 8.01 for the benefit of all the Lenders and the L/C Issuer; provided, however, that the foregoing shall not prohibit (a) the Administrative Agent from exercising on its own behalf the rights and remedies that inure to its benefit (solely in its capacity as Administrative Agent) hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, (b) the L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender from exercising the rights and remedies that inure to its benefit (solely in its capacity as L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender, as the case may be) hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, (c) any Lender from exercising setoff rights in accordance with Section 10.08 (subject to the terms of Section 2.13), or (d) any Lender from filing proofs of claim or appearing and filing pleadings on its own behalf during the pendency of a proceeding relative to any Credit Party under any Debtor Relief Law; and provided, further, that if at any time there is no Person acting as Administrative Agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, then (i) the Required Lenders shall have the rights otherwise ascribed to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 8.01 and (ii) in addition to the matters set forth in clauses (b), (c) and (d) of the preceding proviso and subject to Section 2.13, any Lender may, with the consent of the Required Lenders, enforce any rights and remedies available to it and as authorized by the Required Lenders.



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10.04    Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver.


(a)        Costs and Expenses.   The Company shall pay (i) all reasonable out of pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent and its Affiliates (including the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of any one outside counsel (in addition to any reasonably necessary special counsel and up to one local counsel in each applicable jurisdiction) for the Administrative Agent), in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein, the preparation, negotiation, execution, delivery and administration of this Agreement and the other Loan  Documents  or  any amendments,  modifications  or  waivers  of the  provisions  hereof  or thereof (whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby shall be consummated) (ii) all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the L/C Issuer in connection with the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or any demand for payment thereunder and (iii) all out of pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or any Lender (or any Affiliate of such Lender for expenses incurred in connection with duties performed under Section 2.02) related (including the fees, charges and disbursements of any one outside counsel (in addition to any reasonably necessary special counsel and up to one local counsel in each applicable jurisdiction) for the Administrative Agent or any Lender, and any additional counsel reasonably necessary in the case of any actual or potential conflict of interest identified by the Administrative Agent or by one or more Lenders), in connection with the enforcement or protection of its rights (A) in connection with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, including its rights under this Section, or (B) in connection with the Loans made or Letters of Credit issued hereunder, including all such out-of-pocket expenses incurred during any workout, restructuring or negotiations in respect of such Loans or Letters of Credit.


(b)        Indemnification.  The Company shall indemnify the Administrative Agent (and any sub-agent thereof), each Lender and the L/C Issuer, and each Related Party of any of the foregoing Persons (each such Person being called an “Indemnitee”) against, and hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and related expenses (including the fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for any Indemnitee), incurred by any Indemnitee or asserted against any Indemnitee by any Person (including any Credit Party) other than such Indemnitee and its Related Parties arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of (i) the execution or delivery of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby, the performance by the parties hereto of their respective obligations hereunder or thereunder or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, or, in the case of the Administrative Agent (and any sub-agent thereof) and its Related Parties only, the administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents (including in respect of any matters addressed in Section 3.01), (ii) any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use or proposed use of the proceeds therefrom (including any refusal by the L/C Issuer to honor a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit if the documents presented in connection with such demand do not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit), (iii) any actual or alleged presence or release of Hazardous Materials on or from any property owned or operated by any Borrower or any Subsidiary, or any Environmental Liability related in any way to any Borrower or any Subsidiary, or (iv) 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 any Borrower or any other Credit Party, and regardless of whether any Indemnitee is a party thereto; provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or related expenses (x) are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee or (y) result from a claim brought by any Borrower or any other Credit Party against an Indemnitee for a material breach of such Indemnitee’s obligations hereunder or under any other Loan Document, if a Borrower or such other Credit Party has obtained a final and nonappealable judgment  in  its  favor  on  such  claim as  determined  by a  court  of competent jurisdiction.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 10.04(b), with respect 

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to any individual claim (or series of related claims), in no event shall the Borrowers be required to reimburse the legal fees and expenses of more than one outside counsel (in addition to any reasonably necessary special counsel and up to one local counsel in each applicable jurisdiction, but excluding any in-house counsel) for all Indemnitees collectively, as well as any additional counsel reasonably necessary in the case of any actual or potential conflict of interest identified by the Administrative Agent or by one or more Indemnitees.  Without limiting the provisions of Section 3.01(c), this Section 10.04(b) shall not apply with respect to Taxes other than any Taxes that represent losses, claims, damages, etc. arising from any non-Tax claim.


(c)        Reimbursement by Lenders.  To the extent that the Company for any reason fails to indefeasibly pay any amount required under subsection (a) or (b) of this Section to be paid by them to the Administrative Agent (or any sub-agent thereof), the L/C Issuer, the Swing Line Lender or any Related Party of any of the foregoing, each Lender severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent), the L/C Issuer, the Swing Line Lender or such Related Party, as the case may be, such Lender’s pro rata share (determined as of the time that the applicable unreimbursed expense or indemnity payment is sought based on each Lender’s share of the outstanding Loans, unfunded Commitments and participation interests in Swing Line Loans and L/C Obligations of all Lenders at such time) of such unpaid amount (including any such unpaid amount in respect of a claim asserted by such Lender), such payment to be made severally among them based on such Lenders’ Applicable Percentage (determined as of the time that the applicable unreimbursed expense or indemnity payment is sought), provided, further that, the unreimbursed expense or indemnified loss, claim, damage, liability or related expense, as the case may be, was incurred by or asserted against the Administrative Agent (or any such sub- agent), the L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender in its capacity as such, or against any Related Party of any of the foregoing acting for the Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent), the L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender in connection with such capacity.  The obligations of the Lenders under this subsection (c) are subject to the provisions of Section 2.12(d).


(d)        Waiver  of  Consequential  Damages,  Etc.    To  the  fullest  extent  permitted  by applicable law, no Borrower shall assert, and each of them hereby waives on behalf of itself and the other Credit Parties, and acknowledges that no Person shall have, any claim against any Indemnitee, on any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of, this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby, the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use of the proceeds thereof.   No Indemnitee referred to in subsection (b) above shall be liable for any damages arising from the use by unintended recipients of any information or other materials distributed to such unintended recipients by such Indemnitee through telecommunications, electronic or other information transmission systems in connection with this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, other than for direct or actual damages resulting from either (i)  the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee as determined by a final and nonappealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, or (ii) the material breach of such Indemnitee’s confidentiality obligations under this Agreement or any other Loan Document as determined by a final and nonappealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction.

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(e)        Payments.  All amounts due under this Section shall be payable not later than ten Business Days after demand therefor.


(f)         Survival.  The agreements in this Section and the indemnity provisions of Section10.02(e), shall survive the resignation of the Administrative Agent, the Swing Line Lender and the L/C Issuer, the replacement of any Lender, the termination of the Revolving Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all the other Obligations.


10.05    Payments Set Aside.  To the extent that any payment by or on behalf of any Borrower is made to the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or any Lender, or the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or any Lender exercises its right of setoff, and such payment or the proceeds of such setoff or any part thereof is subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or such Lender in its discretion) to be repaid to a trustee, receiver or any other party, in connection with any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law or otherwise, then (a) to the extent of such recovery, the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or such setoff had not occurred, and (b) each Lender and the L/C Issuer severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent upon demand its applicable share (without duplication) of any amount so recovered from or repaid by the Administrative Agent, plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such payment is made at a rate per annum equal to the applicable Overnight Rate from time to time in effect, in the applicable currency of such recovery or payment.  The obligations of the Lenders and the L/C Issuer under clause (b) of the preceding sentence shall survive the payment in full of the Obligations and the termination of this Agreement.


10.06    Successors and Assigns.


(a)        Successors and Assigns Generally.   The provisions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and thereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, except that no Borrower may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder or thereunder without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent and each Lender and no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder except (i) to an assignee in accordance with the provisions of subsection (b) of this Section, (ii) by way of participation in accordance with the provisions of subsection (d) of this Section or (iii) by way of pledge or assignment of a security interest subject to the restrictions of subsection (f) of this Section (and any other attempted assignment or transfer by any party hereto shall be null and void).  Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto, their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, Participants to the extent provided in subsection (d) of this Section and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Related Parties of each of the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer and the Lenders) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.


(b)        Assignments by Lenders.  Any Lender may at any time after the Closing Date assign to one or more assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents (including all or a portion of its Revolving Commitment and the Loans (including for purposes of this subsection (b), participations in L/C Obligations and in Swing Line Loans) at the time owing to it); provided that any such assignment shall be subject to the following conditions:


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(A)       in the case of an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Lender’s Revolving Commitment and the related Loans at the time owing to it or contemporaneous assignments to related Approved Funds that equal at least the amount specified in subsection (b)(i)(B) of this Section in the aggregate or in the case of an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund, no minimum amount need be assigned, provided that, any Loans extended to a Borrower governed by the laws of The Netherlands can only be assigned if the assignee will acquire a Loan of at least EUR 100,000 (or its equivalent in another currency) or such Affiliate or Lender otherwise qualifies as a PMP; and


(B)       in any case not described in subsection (b)(i)(A) of this Section, the aggregate amount of Revolving Commitment and the principal outstanding balance of the 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 or, if “Trade Date” is specified in the Assignment and Assumption, as of the Trade Date, shall not be less than $5,000,000, unless each of the Administrative Agent and, so long as no Event  of  Default  has  occurred  and  is  continuing,  the  Company  otherwise consents (each such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed).


(ii)        Required Consents.   No consent shall be required for any assignment except to the extent required by subsection (b)(i)(B) of this Section and, in addition:


(A)         the   consent   of   the   Company   (such   consent   not   to   be unreasonably withheld or delayed) shall be required unless (1) an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing at the time of such assignment or (2) such assignment is to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund;


(B)         the consent of the Administrative Agent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) shall be required if such assignment is to a Person that is not a  Lender with a Revolving Commitment in respect of the Revolving Commitment subject to such assignment, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund; and


(C)         the consent of the L/C Issuer and the Swing Line Lender (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) shall be required for any assignment in respect of the Revolving Commitment if such assignment is to a Person that is not a Lender with a Revolving Commitment, an Affiliate of such Lender or an Approved Fund with respect to such Lender.


(iii)       Assignment  and  Assumption.    The  parties  to  each  assignment  shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption, together with a processing and recordation fee in the amount of $3,500; provided, however, that the Administrative Agent may, in its sole discretion, elect to waive such processing and recordation fee in the case of any assignment.  The assignee, if it is not a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an Administrative Questionnaire.


(iv)       No Assignment to Certain Persons.  No such assignment shall be made (A) to the Company or any of the Company’s Affiliates or Subsidiaries, or (B) to any Defaulting Lender or any of its Subsidiaries, or any Person who, upon becoming a Lender ereunder, would constitute any of the foregoing Persons described in this clause (B) or (C) to a natural person.

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(v)        Certain Additional Payments.   In connection with any assignment of rights and obligations of any Defaulting Lender hereunder, no such assignment shall be effective unless and until, in addition to the other conditions thereto set forth herein, the parties to the assignment shall make such additional payments to the Administrative Agent in an aggregate amount sufficient, upon distribution thereof as appropriate (which may   be   outright   payment,   purchases   by   the   assignee   of   participations   or subparticipations, or other compensating actions, including funding, with the consent of the  Company and the  Administrative  Agent,  the  applicable  pro rata  share  of Loans previously requested but not funded by the Defaulting Lender, to each of which the applicable assignee and assignor hereby irrevocably consent), to (x) pay and satisfy in full all payment liabilities then owed by such Defaulting Lender to the Administrative Agent or any Lender hereunder (and interest accrued thereon) and (y) acquire (and fund as appropriate) its full pro rata share of all Loans and participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans in accordance with its Applicable Percentage.  Notwithstanding the  foregoing,  in  the  event  that  any  assignment  of  rights  and  obligations  of  any Defaulting Lender hereunder shall become effective under applicable Law without compliance with the provisions of this paragraph, then the assignee of such interest shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender for all purposes of this Agreement until such compliance occurs.


Subject to acceptance and recording thereof by the Administrative Agent pursuant to subsection (c) of this Section, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption, the assignee thereunder  shall  be  a  party  to  this  Agreement  and,  to  the  extent  of  the  interest  assigned  by  such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all of the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto) but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Sections 3.01,
3.04, 3.05 and 10.04 with respect to facts and circumstances occurring prior to the effective date of such assignment; provided, that except to the extent otherwise expressly agreed by the affected parties, no assignment by a Defaulting Lender will constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder arising from that Lender having been a Defaulting Lender.  Upon request, each Borrower (at its expense) shall execute and deliver a Note to the assignee Lender.  Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with this subsection 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 subsection (d) of this Section.


(c)        Register.  The Administrative Agent, acting solely for this purpose as an agent of the  Company  (and  such  agency  being  solely  for  tax  purposes),  shall  maintain  at  the Administrative Agent’s Office a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to it (or the equivalent  thereof  in  electronic  form)  and  a  register  for  the  recordation  of  the  names  and addresses of the Lenders, and the Revolving Commitments of, and principal amounts (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  absent manifest error, and the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders may 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.    The  Register shall  be available for inspection by any Borrower and any Lender, at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.


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a Defaulting Lender or the Company or any of the Company’s Affiliates or Subsidiaries) (each, a “Participant”) in all or a portion of such Lender’s rights and/or obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Revolving Commitment and/or the Loans (including participations in L/C Obligations and/or Swing Line Loans) owing to it); provided that (i) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations and (iii) the Company, the Administrative Agent, the other Lenders and the L/C Issuer shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement.   For the avoidance of doubt, each Lender shall be responsible for the indemnity under Section 10.04(c) without regard to the existence of any participation.


Any agreement or instrument pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce this Agreement and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement;  provided that such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, waiver or other modification described in Section 10.01(a) that affects such Participant.  The Company agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 3.01, 3.04 and 3.05 (subject to the requirements and limitations therein, including the requirements under Section 3.01(e)) (it being understood that the documentation required under Section 3.01(e) shall be delivered to the Lender who sells the participation) to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to paragraph (b) of this Section; provided that such Participant (A) agrees to be subject to the provisions of Sections 3.06 and 10.13 as if it were an assignee under paragraph (b) of this Section and (B) shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Sections 3.01 or 3.04, with respect to any participation, than the Lender from whom it acquired the applicable participation would have been entitled to receive, except to the extent such entitlement to receive a greater payment results from a Change in Law that occurs after the Participant acquired the applicable participation.    Each  Lender  that  sells  a  participation  agrees,  at  the  Company’s  request  and expense, to use reasonable efforts to cooperate with the Company to effectuate the provisions of Section 3.06 with respect to any Participant. To the extent permitted by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 10.08 as though it were a Lender; provided that such Participant agrees to be subject to Section 2.13as though it were a Lender.  Each Lender that sells a participation shall, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Company, 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 or other obligations under the Loan Documents (the “Participant Register”); provided that no Lender shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register (including the identity of any Participant or any information relating to a Participant’s interest in any commitments, loans, letters of credit or its other obligations under any Loan Document) to any Person except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish that such commitment, loan, letter of credit or other obligation is in registered form under Section 5f.103-1(c) of the United States Treasury Regulations.  The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and such Lender shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of such participation for all purposes of this Agreement notwithstanding any notice to the contrary.  For the avoidance of doubt, the Administrative Agent (in its capacity as Administrative Agent) shall have no responsibility for maintaining a Participant Register.



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(e)        Certain Pledges.  Any Lender may at any time pledge or assign a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including under its Note(s), if any) to secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank or other central bank having jurisdiction over such Lender; provided that no such pledge or assignment shall release such Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.


(f)         Resignation   as   L/C   Issuer   or   Swing   Line   Lender   after   Assignment. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, if at any time Bank of America assigns all of its Revolving Commitment and Revolving Loans pursuant to subsection (b) above, Bank of America may, (i) upon thirty days’ notice to the Company and the Lenders, resign as L/C Issuer and/or (ii) upon thirty days’ notice to the Company, resign as Swing Line Lender.  In the event of any such resignation as L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender, the Company shall be entitled to appoint from among the Lenders a successor L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender hereunder; provided, however, that no failure by the Company to appoint any such successor shall affect the resignation of Bank of America as L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender, as the case may be.  If Bank of America resigns as L/C Issuer, it shall retain all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the L/C Issuer hereunder with respect to all Letters of Credit outstanding as of the effective date of its resignation as L/C Issuer and all L/C Obligations with respect thereto (including the right to require  the  Lenders  to  make  Base  Rate  Loans  or  fund  risk  participations  in  Unreimbursed Amounts pursuant to Section 2.03(c)).  If Bank of America resigns as Swing Line Lender, it shall retain all the rights of the Swing Line Lender provided for hereunder with respect to Swing Line Loans made by it and outstanding as of the effective date of such resignation, including the right to require the Lenders to make Base Rate Loans or fund risk participations in outstanding Swing Line Loans pursuant to Section 2.04(c).  Upon the appointment of a successor L/C Issuer and/or Swing Line Lender, (1) such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender, as the case may be, and (2) the successor L/C Issuer shall issue letters of credit in substitution for the Letters of Credit, if any, outstanding at the time of such succession or make other arrangements satisfactory to Bank of America to effectively assume the obligations of Bank of America with respect to such Letters of Credit.


10.07    Treatment of Certain Information; Confidentiality.  Each of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and the L/C Issuer agrees to maintain the confidentiality of the Information (as defined below), except that Information may be disclosed (a) to its Related Parties and to any Swap Provider (or such Swap Provider’s professional advisor) (it being understood that the Persons to whom such disclosure is made will be informed of the confidential nature of such Information and instructed to keep such Information confidential), (b) to the extent required or requested by any regulatory authority purporting to have jurisdiction over such Person or its Related Parties (including any self-regulatory authority, such as the National Association of Insurance Commissioners), (c) to the extent required by applicable laws or regulations or by any subpoena or similar legal process, (d) to any other party hereto, (e) in connection with the exercise  of  any remedies  hereunder  or  under  any other Loan  Document  or  any action or proceeding  relating  to  this  Agreement  or  any  other  Loan  Document  or  the  enforcement  of  rights hereunder or thereunder, (f) subject to an agreement containing provisions substantially the same as those of this Section, to (i) any assignee of or Participant in, or any prospective assignee of or Participant in, any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement or (ii) any actual or prospective Swap Provider (or its advisors), (g) on a confidential basis to the CUSIP Service Bureau or any similar agency in connection with the issuance and monitoring of CUSIP numbers or other market identifiers with respect to the credit facilities provided hereunder, (h) with the consent of the Company or (i) to the extent such Information (x) becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this Section or (y) becomes available

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to the Administrative  Agent, any Lender, the L/C Issuer  or  any of their respective  Affiliates on a nonconfidential basis from a source other than the Company.


For purposes of this Section, “Information” means all information received from the Company or any Subsidiary in connection with the Transactions relating to the Company or any Subsidiary or any of their respective businesses, other than any such information that is available to the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the L/C Issuer on a nonconfidential basis prior to disclosure by the Company or any Subsidiary.   Any Person required to maintain the confidentiality of Information as provided in this Section shall be considered to have complied with its obligation to do so if such Person has exercised the same degree of care to maintain the confidentiality of such Information as such Person would accord to its own confidential information.


Each of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the L/C Issuer acknowledges that (a) the Information may include material non-public information concerning the Company or a Subsidiary, as the case may be, (b) it has developed compliance procedures regarding the use of material non-public information and (c) it will handle such material non-public information in accordance with applicable Law, including United States Federal and state securities Laws.


10.08    Right of Setoff.   If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, each Lender, the L/C Issuer and each of their respective Affiliates is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final, in whatever currency) at any time held and other obligations (in whatever currency) at any time owing by such Lender, the L/C Issuer or any such Affiliate to or for the credit or the account of any Borrower (other than, for the avoidance of doubt, any Settlement Assets except to effect Settlement Payments such Lender is obligated to make to a third party in respect of such Settlement Assets or as otherwise agreed in writing between the Company and such Lender) against any and all of the obligations of such Borrower now or hereafter existing under this Agreement or any other Loan Document to such Lender or the L/C Issuer, irrespective of whether or not such Lender or the L/C Issuer shall have made any demand under this Agreement or any other Loan Document and although such obligations of such Borrower may be contingent or unmatured or are owed to a branch or office or Affiliate of such Lender or the L/C Issuer different from the branch or office or Affiliate holding such deposit or obligated on such indebtedness; provided, that, in the event that any Defaulting Lender shall exercise any such right of setoff, (x) all amounts so set off shall be paid over immediately to the Administrative Agent for further application in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.15 and, pending such payment, shall be segregated by such Defaulting Lender from its other funds and deemed held in trust for the benefit of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and (y) the Defaulting Lender shall  provide  promptly to the  Administrative  Agent  a  statement  describing in  reasonable  detail  the Obligations owing to such Defaulting Lender as to which it exercised such right of setoff.  The rights of each Lender, the L/C Issuer and their respective Affiliates under this Section are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) that such  Lender, the L/C Issuer or their respective Affiliates  may  have.    Each  Lender  and  the  L/C  Issuer  agrees  to  notify  the  Company  and  the Administrative Agent promptly after any such setoff and application, provided that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such setoff and application.


10.09    Interest Rate Limitation.   As used in this Agreement the term “interest” does not include any fees (including, but not limited to, any loan fee, periodic fee, unused commitment fee or waiver fee) or other charges imposed on the Borrowers in connection with the indebtedness evidenced by this Agreement, other than the interest described herein.   Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any Loan Document, the interest paid or agreed to be paid under the Loan Documents shall not exceed the maximum rate of non-usurious interest permitted by applicable Law (the “Maximum Rate”).  If the Administrative Agent or any Lender shall receive interest in an amount that exceeds the Maximum Rate, 

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the excess interest shall be applied to the principal of the Loans or, if it exceeds such unpaid principal, refunded to the Company.  In determining whether the interest contracted for, charged, or received by the Administrative Agent or a Lender exceeds the Maximum Rate, such Person may, to the extent permitted by applicable Law, (a) characterize any payment that is not principal as an expense, fee, or premium rather than interest, (b) exclude voluntary prepayments and the effects thereof, and (c) amortize, prorate, allocate, and spread in equal or unequal parts the total amount of interest throughout the contemplated term of the Obligations hereunder.  It is the express intent hereof no Borrower shall pay, and no Lender receive, directly or indirectly, interest in excess of that which may be lawfully paid under applicable Law, including the usury laws in force in the State of Georgia.


10.10    Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness; Amendment and Restatement.


(a)        This Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto in different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract.  This Agreement and the other Loan Documents and any separate letter agreements with respect to fees payable to the Administrative Agent constitute the entire contract among the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersede any and all previous agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof. Except as provided in Section 4.01, this Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been  executed  by  the  Administrative  Agent  and  when  the  Administrative  Agent  shall  have received counterparts hereof that, when taken together, bear the signatures of each of the other parties hereto.   Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Agreement by facsimile or other electronic imaging means (e.g., “pdf” or “tif”) shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement.


(b)        The parties to the 2010 Credit Agreement each hereby agree that, at such time as this Agreement shall have become effective pursuant to the terms of Section 4.01, (i) the 2010 Credit Agreement automatically shall be deemed amended and restated in its entirety by this Agreement, (ii) the Revolving Commitments under the 2010 Credit Agreement and as defined therein automatically shall be replaced with the Revolving Commitments hereunder and (iii) all
promissory notes issued to the Lenders under the 2010 Credit Agreement and outstanding on the
Closing Date shall be null and void and shall be deemed to have been replaced by the Notes issued to the Lenders under this Agreement on the Closing Date.   This Agreement is not a novation of the 2010 Credit Agreement.


10.11    Survival of Representations and Warranties.  All representations and warranties made hereunder and in any other Loan Document or other document delivered pursuant hereto or thereto or in connection herewith or therewith shall survive the execution and delivery hereof and thereof.   Such representations and warranties have been or will be relied upon by the Administrative Agent and each Lender, regardless of any investigation made by the Administrative Agent or any Lender or on their behalf and notwithstanding that the Administrative Agent or any Lender may have had notice or knowledge of any Default at the time of any Borrowing, and shall continue in full force and effect as long as any Loan or any other Obligation hereunder shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied.


10.12    Severability.  If any provision of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents is held to be  illegal,  invalid  or  unenforceable,  (a)  the  legality,  validity  and  enforceability  of  the  remaining provisions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall not be affected or impaired thereby and (b) the parties shall endeavor in good faith negotiations to replace the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions with valid provisions the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that of the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions.  The invalidity of a provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.   Without limiting the

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foregoing provisions of this Section 10.12, if and to the extent that the enforceability of any provisions in this Agreement relating to Defaulting Lenders shall be limited by Debtor Relief Laws, as determined in good faith by the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender, as applicable, then such provisions shall be deemed to be in effect only to the extent not so limited.


10.13    Replacement of Lenders.  If the Company is entitled to replace a Lender pursuant to the provisions of Section 3.06, or if any Lender is a Defaulting Lender or a Non-Consenting Lender, then the Company may, at its sole expense and effort, upon notice to such Lender and the Administrative Agent, require such Lender to assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in, and consents required by, Section 10.06), all of its interests, rights (other than its existing rights to payments pursuant to Sections 3.01 and 3.04) and obligations under this Agreement and the related Loan Documents to an Eligible Assignee that shall assume such obligations (which assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment), provided that:


(a)        the Company shall have paid to the Administrative Agent the assignment fee specified in Section 10.06(b);


(b)        such Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to the outstanding principal of its Loans and L/C Advances, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts payable to it hereunder and under the other Loan Documents (including any amounts under Section 3.05) from the assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal and accrued interest and fees) or the Company (in the case of all other amounts);


(c)        in the case of any such assignment resulting from a claim for compensation under Section 3.04 or payments required to be made pursuant to Section 3.01, such assignment will result in a reduction in such compensation or payments thereafter;


(d)        such assignment does not violate applicable Laws;


(e)        any Loans extended to a Borrower governed by the laws of The Netherlands can only be assigned if the assignee will acquire a Loan of at least EUR 100,000 (or its equivalent in another currency) or such assignee otherwise qualifies as a PMP; and


(f)         in the case of an assignment resulting from a Lender becoming a Non-Consenting Lender, the applicable assignee shall have consented to the applicable amendment, waiver or consent.


A Lender shall not be required to make any such assignment or delegation if, prior thereto, as a result of a waiver by such Lender or otherwise, the circumstances entitling the Company to require such assignment and delegation cease to apply.


10.14    Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Etc.


(a)        GOVERNING  LAW.    THIS  AGREEMENT  SHALL  BE  GOVERNED  BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA.


(b)        SUBMISSION  TO  JURISDICTION.    THE  BORROWER  IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY SUBMITS, FOR ITSELF AND ITS PROPERTY, TO THE NONEXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA SITTING IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF FULTON COUNTY AND OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT OF THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA, AND ANY

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APPELLATE COURT FROM ANY THEREOF, IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT, OR FOR RECOGNITION OR ENFORCEMENT OF ANY JUDGMENT, AND EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY AGREES THAT ALL CLAIMS IN RESPECT OF ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING MAY BE HEARD AND DETERMINED IN SUCH GEORGIA STATE COURT OR, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN SUCH FEDERAL COURT.  EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO AGREES THAT A FINAL JUDGMENT IN ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING SHALL BE CONCLUSIVE AND MAY BE ENFORCED IN OTHER JURISDICTIONS  BY  SUIT  ON  THE  JUDGMENT  OR  IN  ANY  OTHER  MANNER PROVIDED BY LAW.   NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT OR IN ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT SHALL AFFECT ANY RIGHT THAT THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT OR ANY LENDER MAY OTHERWISE HAVE TO BRING ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT AGAINST THE BORROWER OR ANY OTHER CREDIT PARTY OR ITS PROPERTIES IN THE COURTS OF ANY JURISDICTION.


(c)      WAIVER OF VENUE.    EACH BORROWER IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY OBJECTION THAT IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE LAYING OF VENUE OF ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING  TO  THIS  AGREEMENT  OR  ANY  OTHER  LOAN  DOCUMENT  IN  ANY COURT  REFERRED  TO  IN  PARAGRAPH (B)  OF  THIS  SECTION.    EACH  OF  THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE DEFENSE OF AN INCONVENIENT FORUM TO THE MAINTENANCE OF SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT.


(d)      SERVICE OF PROCESS.    EACH PARTY HERETO IRREVOCABLY CONSENTS TO SERVICE OF PROCESS IN THE MANNER PROVIDED FOR NOTICES IN SECTION 10.02.  NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT WILL AFFECT THE RIGHT OF ANY PARTY HERETO TO SERVE PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.   Each Foreign Subsidiary Borrower irrevocably designates and appoints the Company, as its authorized agent, to accept and acknowledge on its behalf, service of any and all process which may be served in any suit, action or proceeding of the nature referred to in Section 10.14(b).  The Company hereby represents, warrants and confirms that the Company has agreed to accept such appointment.   Said designation and appointment shall be irrevocable by each Foreign Subsidiary Borrower until all Obligations payable by such  Foreign Subsidiary Borrower shall have been paid in full in accordance with the provisions hereof and such Foreign Subsidiary Borrower shall have been terminated as a Borrower hereunder.   Each Foreign Subsidiary Borrower hereby consents to process being served in any suit, action or proceeding of the nature referred to in Section 10.14(b) by service of process upon the Company as provided in this Section 10.14(d); provided that, to the extent lawful and possible, notice of said service upon such agent shall be mailed by certified or registered mail or sent by facsimile to the Company and (if applicable to) such Foreign Subsidiary Borrower at its address set forth on Section 10.02. Each Foreign Subsidiary Borrower irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, all claim of error by reason of any such service in such manner and agrees that such service shall be deemed in every respect effective service of process upon such Foreign Subsidiary Borrower in any suit, action or proceeding and shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, be taken and held to be valid and personal service upon personal delivery to such Foreign Subsidiary Borrower.

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10.15    Waiver  of  Jury  Trial.     EACH  PARTY  HERETO  HEREBY  IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY).  EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO  REPRESENTATIVE,  AGENT  OR  ATTORNEY  OF  ANY  OTHER  PERSON  HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PERSON WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION.


10.16    No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility.   In connection with all aspects of each transaction contemplated hereby (including in connection with any amendment, waiver or other modification hereof or of any other Loan Document), each Borrower acknowledges and agrees, and acknowledges its Affiliates’ understanding, that: (i) (A) the arranging and other services regarding this Agreement provided by the Administrative Agent, the Arranger and the Lenders, are arm’s-length commercial  transactions  between  such  Borrower  and  its  Affiliates,  on  the  one  hand,  and  the Administrative Agent, the Arranger and the Lenders, on the other hand, (B) such Borrower has consulted its own legal, accounting, regulatory and tax advisors to the extent it has deemed appropriate, and (C) such Borrower is capable of evaluating, and understands and accepts, the terms, risks and conditions of the transactions contemplated hereby and by the other Loan Documents; (ii) (A) the Administrative Agent, the Arranger and the Lenders each are and have been acting solely as a principal and, except as expressly agreed in writing by the relevant parties, have not been, are not, and will not be acting as an advisor, agent or fiduciary for such Borrower or any of its Affiliates, or any other Person and (B) neither the Administrative Agent nor the Arranger nor the Lenders have any obligation to such Borrower or any of its Affiliates with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby except those obligations expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents; and (iii) the Administrative Agent, the Arranger and the Lenders and their respective Affiliates may be engaged in a broad range of transactions that involve interests that differ from those of such Borrower and its Affiliates, and neither the Administrative Agent nor the Arranger nor the Lenders have any obligation to disclose any of such interests to such Borrower or its Affiliates.   To the fullest extent permitted by law, each Borrower hereby waives and releases any claims that it may have against the Administrative Agent, the Arranger 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.


10.17    Electronic Execution of Assignments and Certain Other Documents.   The words “execute”  “execution,”  “signed,”  “signature,”  and  words  of  like  import  in  any  Assignment  and Assumption or in any amendment or other modification hereof (including waivers and consents) shall be deemed to include electronic signatures, the electronic matching of assignment terms and contract formations on electronic platforms approved by the Administrative Agent or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, to the extent and as provided for in any applicable Law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act, or any other similar state Laws based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act.


10.18    USA PATRIOT Act.  Each Lender that is subject to the Act (as hereinafter defined) and the Administrative Agent (for itself and not on behalf of any Lender) hereby notifies the Borrowers that pursuant to the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law

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October 26, 2001)) (the “Act”), it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies the Credit  Parties,  which  information  includes  the  name  and  address  of  each  Credit  Party  and  other information that will allow such Lender or the Administrative Agent, as applicable, to identify such Credit Party in accordance with the Act.   Each Borrower shall (and the Company shall cause each Subsidiary Guarantor to), promptly following a request by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, provide all documentation and other information that the Administrative Agent or such Lender reasonably requests in order to comply with its ongoing obligations under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the Act.


10.19    Judgment Currency.   If, for the purposes of obtaining judgment in any court, it is necessary to convert a sum due hereunder or any other Loan Document in one currency into another currency, the rate of exchange used shall be that at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the Administrative Agent could purchase the first currency with such other currency on the Business Day preceding that on which final judgment is given.  The obligation of each Borrower in respect of any such sum due from it to the Administrative Agent or any Lender hereunder or under the other Loan Documents shall, notwithstanding any judgment in a currency (the “Judgment Currency”) other than that in which such sum is denominated in accordance with the applicable provisions of this Agreement (the “Agreement Currency”), be discharged only to the extent that on the Business Day following receipt by the Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, of any sum adjudged to be so due in the Judgment Currency, the Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, may in accordance with normal banking procedures purchase the Agreement Currency with the Judgment Currency.  If the amount of the Agreement Currency so purchased is less than the sum originally due to the Administrative Agent or any Lender from any Borrower in the Agreement Currency, such Borrower agrees, as a separate obligation  and  notwithstanding any such  judgment,  to indemnify the  Administrative  Agent  or  such Lender, as the case may be, against such loss.  If the amount of the Agreement Currency so purchased is greater than the sum originally due to the Administrative Agent or any Lender in such currency, the Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, agrees to return the amount of any excess to such Borrower (or to any other Person who may be entitled thereto under applicable law).





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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Borrower has executed this Agreement as of the date stated at the top of the first page hereof, intending to create an instrument executed under seal.


	
				
	 
	GLOBAL PAYMENTS INC., as a Borrower
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	By:
	/s/ David E. Mangum 
	 

	 
	Name:
	David E. Mangum 
	 

	 
	Title:
	Sr. EVP and Chief Financial Officer 
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	GLOBAL PAYMENTS DIRECT, INC., as a Borrower
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	By:
	/s/ David E. Mangum 
	 

	 
	Name:
	David E. Mangum 
	 

	 
	Title:
	Treasurer 
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	GLOBAL PAYMENTS UK LTD., as a Borrower
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	By:
	/s/ David E. Mangum 
	 

	 
	Name:
	David E. Mangum 
	 

	 
	Title:
	Authorized Signatory 
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	GLOBAL PAYMENTS ACQUISITION CORPORATION 2 S.À.R.L., as a Borrower
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	By:
	/s/ David E. Mangum 
	 

	 
	Name:
	David E. Mangum 
	 

	 
	Title:
	Authorized Signatory 
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	GLOBAL PAYMENTS ACQUISITION PS 2 C.V., as a Borrower
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	For the purposes hereof represented by Global Payments Acquisition PS 1 – Global Payments Direct S.e.n.c., its general partner
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	In its turn represented by Global Payments Acquisition PS 1 C.V., its general partner
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	In its turn represented by Global Payments Direct, Inc., its general partner
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	By:
	/s/ David E. Mangum
	 

	 
	Name:
	David E. Mangum
	 

	 
	Title:
	Treasurer
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 











	
				
	 
	GLOBAL PAYMENTS ACQUISITION PS 1 – GLOBAL PAYMENTS DIRECT S.E.N.C., as a Borrower
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	For the purposes hereof represented by Global Payments Acquisition PS 1 C.V., its general partner
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	In its turn represented by Global Payments Direct, Inc., its general partner
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	By:
	/s/ David E. Mangum 
	 

	 
	Name:
	David E. Mangum 
	 

	 
	Title:
	Treasurer  
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as
	 

	 
	Administrative Agent
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	By:
	/s/ Angelo M. Martorana
	 

	 
	Name:
	Angelo M. Martorana
	 

	 
	Title:
	Assistant Vice President
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as Lender, Swing Line Lender and L/C Issuer
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	By:
	 /s/ Thomas M. Paulk
	 

	 
	Name:
	Thomas M. Paulk
	 

	 
	Title:
	Senior Vice President
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	FIFTH THIRD BANK, as a Lender
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	By:
	/s/ Kenneth W. Deere
	 

	 
	Name:
	Kenneth W. Deere
	 

	 
	Title:
	Senior Vice President
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as a Lender
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	By:
	/s/ Brandon K. Fiddler
	 

	 
	Name:
	Brandon K. Fiddler
	 

	 
	Title:
	Vice President
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 











	
				
	 
	TD BANK, N.A., as a Lender
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	By:
	/s/ Shreya Shah
	 

	 
	Name:
	Shreya Shah
	 

	 
	Title:
	Senior Vice President
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	THE BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI UFJ, LTD., as a Lender
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	By:
	/s/ Lillian Kim
	 

	 
	Name:
	Lillian Kim
	 

	 
	Title:
	Director
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	BARCLAYS BANK PLC, as a Lender
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	By:
	/s/ Noam Azachi
	 

	 
	Name:
	Noam Azachi
	 

	 
	Title:
	Vice President
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	COMPASS BANK, as a Lender
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	By:
	/s/ Susana Campuzano
	 

	 
	Name:
	Susana Compuzano
	 

	 
	Title:
	Senior Vice President
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	REGIONS BANK, as a Lender
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	By:
	/s/ Stephen T. Hatch
	 

	 
	Name:
	Stephen T. Hatch
	 

	 
	Title:
	Vice President
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	SUNTRUST BANK, as a Lender
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	By:
	/s/ Todd Haynes
	 

	 
	Name:
	Todd Haynes
	 

	 
	Title:
	First Vice President
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 











	
				
	 
	BANK OF MONTREAL, as a Lender
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	By:
	/s/ J.J. Van Helten
	 

	 
	Name:
	J.J. Van Helten
	 

	 
	Title:
	CRO, Europe
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	By:
	/s/ Scott Matthews
	 

	 
	Name:
	Scott Matthews
	 

	 
	Title:
	CFO, Europe
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	BANK OF MONTREAL, as a Lender
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	By:
	/s/ Joan Spiotto
	 

	 
	Name:
	Joan Spiotto
	 

	 
	Title:
	Vice President
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	BANK OF MONTREAL, as a Lender
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	By:
	 /s/ Sean P. Gallaway
	 

	 
	Name:
	 Sean P. Gallaway
	 

	 
	Title:
	Vice President
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	CIBC INC., as a Lender
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	By:
	/s/ Andrew R. Campbell
	 

	 
	Name:
	Andrew R. Campbell
	 

	 
	Title:
	Authorized Signatory
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	By:
	/s/ Rhema Asaam
	 

	 
	Name:
	Rhema Asaam
	 

	 
	Title:
	Authorized Signatory
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	BRANCH BANKING AND TRUST COMPANY, as a Lender
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	By:
	 /s/ Brantley Echols
	 

	 
	Name:
	Brantley Echols
	 

	 
	Title:
	Senior Vice President
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 











	
				
	 
	CAPITAL ONE, N.A., as a Lender
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	By:
	/s/ Jacob Villere
	 

	 
	Name:
	Jacob Villere
	 

	 
	Title:
	Vice President – U.S. Corporate Banking
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW YORK BRANCH, as a Lender
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	By:
	/s/ Virginia Cosenza
	 

	 
	Name:
	Virginia Cosenza
	 

	 
	Title:
	Vice President
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	By:
	/s/ Ming K. Chu
	 

	 
	Name:
	Ming K. Chu
	 

	 
	Title:
	Vice President
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	HSBC BANK USA, N.A., as a Lender
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	By:
	/s/ Patricia Gomes
	 

	 
	Name:
	Patricia Gomes
	 

	 
	Title:
	Managing Director
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as a Lender
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	By:
	/s/ Joe K. Dancy
	 

	 
	Name:
	Joe K. Dancy
	 

	 
	Title:
	Vice President
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	CITIZENS BANK OF PENNSYLVANIA, as a Lender
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	By:
	/s/ Arthur D. Burns
	 

	 
	Name:
	Arthur D. Burns
	 

	 
	Title:
	Senior Vice President
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA, as a Lender
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	By:
	/s/ Mark Walton
	 

	 
	Name:
	Mark Walton
	 

	 
	Title:
	Authorized Signature
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 











	
				
	 
	COMERICA BANK, as a Lender
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	By:
	/s/ Vontoba Terry
	 

	 
	Name:
	Vontoba Terry
	 

	 
	Title:
	Vice President