Exhibit



Exhibit 10.3
AMENDMENT AND RESTATEMENT AGREEMENT dated as of November 18, 2016 (this “Amendment Agreement”), to the Credit Agreement dated as of November 13, 2015, as amended as of April 1, 2016 (the “Credit Agreement”), among AMERISOURCEBERGEN CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”); the LENDERS party thereto; and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent.
WHEREAS, the Company has requested that the Credit Agreement be amended as set forth herein and in the Restated Credit Agreement (as defined below); and
WHEREAS, the Administrative Agent and the undersigned Lenders are willing to amend the Credit Agreement on the terms set forth herein and in the Restated Credit Agreement;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
SECTION 1.  Defined Terms.  Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein (including in the preliminary statements hereto) have the meanings assigned to them in the Restated Credit Agreement for all purposes of this Amendment Agreement.
SECTION 2.      Amendment and Restatement.  (a)  Effective as of the Restatement Effective Date, the  Credit Agreement is hereby amended and restated to be in the form of Exhibit A hereto (the Credit Agreement as so amended and restated being referred to as the “Restated Credit Agreement”).  All Schedules and Exhibits to the Credit Agreement shall remain unchanged as Schedules and Exhibits to the Restated Credit Agreement.
SECTION 3.      Representations and Warranties.  The Company represents and warrants to the other parties hereto that:
(a)      the execution, delivery and performance of this Amendment Agreement are within the Company’s corporate powers and have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership and, if required, stockholder or other equityholder action;
(b)      this Amendment Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Company; 
(c)      this Amendment Agreement, and the Credit Agreement as amended hereby, constitute the legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company, 





enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and subject to general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law;
(d)      no Default has occurred and is continuing; and
(e)      the representations and warranties contained in the Restated Credit Agreement are true and correct in all material respects on and as of the date hereof, except to the extent such representations and warranties specifically relate to an earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties are true and correct in all material respects on and as of such earlier date.
SECTION 4.      Effectiveness of this Amendment.  This Amendment Agreement and the Restated Credit Agreement shall become effective as of the date (the “Restatement Effective Date”) on which the Administrative Agent shall have received from the Company and Lenders constituting the Required Lenders (i) counterparts of this Amendment Agreement signed on behalf of such parties or (ii) written evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (which may include transmission by facsimile or other electronic imaging of signed signature pages of this Amendment Agreement) that such parties have signed counterparts of this Amendment Agreement.  The Administrative Agent shall notify the Company and the Lenders of the Restatement Effective Date, and such notice shall be conclusive and binding. 
SECTION 5.      Effect of Amendment.  Except as expressly set forth herein, this Amendment Agreement shall not by implication or otherwise limit, impair, constitute a waiver of or otherwise affect the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent or any Lender under the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document, and shall not alter, modify, amend or in any way affect any of the terms, conditions, obligations, covenants or agreements contained in the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document, all of which, as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified hereby, are ratified and affirmed in all respects and shall continue in full force and effect.  Nothing herein shall be deemed to entitle any Loan Party to a consent to, or a waiver, amendment, modification or other change of, any of the terms, conditions, obligations, covenants or agreements contained in the Restated Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document in similar or different circumstances.  This Amendment Agreement shall constitute a Loan Document for all purposes of the Restated Credit Agreement.  On and after the Restatement Effective Date, any reference to the Credit Agreement in any Loan Document shall be deemed to be a reference to the Restated Credit Agreement.
SECTION 6.      Notices. All notices hereunder shall be given in accordance with the provisions of Section 9.01 of the Restated Credit Agreement.
SECTION 7.      Counterparts; Effectiveness.  This Amendment Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto on different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken 





together shall constitute a single contract.  This Amendment Agreement shall become effective as provided in Section 4 hereof, and thereafter shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns.  Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Amendment Agreement by facsimile or other electronic imaging means shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Amendment Agreement. 
SECTION 8.      Governing Law.  This Amendment Agreement shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the law of the State of New York.
SECTION 9.      Incorporation by Reference.  Sections 9.07, 9.09, 9.10 and 9.11 of the Restated Credit Agreement are hereby incorporated by reference herein, mutatis mutandis. 
[signature pages follow]








IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment Agreement to be duly executed by their authorized officers as of the date first above written.
	
		
	AMERISOURCEBERGEN CORPORATION,

	By: /s/ J.F. Quinn

	Name:   J. F. Quinn

	Title:   Vice President & Corporate Treasurer 















	
		
	JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., individually and as Administrative Agent,

	By: /s/ Dawn Lee Lum

	Name: Dawn Lee Lum  

	Title:   Executive Director











LENDER SIGNATURE PAGE TO
AMERISOURCEBERGEN CORPORATION
AMENDMENT AND RESTATEMENT AGREEMENT




Name of Lender:
Bank of America, N.A.
	
		
	By: /s/ Joseph L. Corah

	Name:  Joseph L. Corah 

	Title:   Director













LENDER SIGNATURE PAGE TO
AMERISOURCEBERGEN CORPORATION
AMENDMENT AND RESTATEMENT AGREEMENT




Name of Lender:
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association
	
		
	By: /s/ Andrea S. Chen

	Name:  Andrea S. Chen 

	Title:   Director













LENDER SIGNATURE PAGE TO
AMERISOURCEBERGEN CORPORATION
AMENDMENT AND RESTATEMENT AGREEMENT




Name of Lender:
THE BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI UFJ, LTD.
	
		
	By: /s/ Brian McNany

	Name:  Brian McNany 

	Title:   Director











LENDER SIGNATURE PAGE TO
AMERISOURCEBERGEN CORPORATION
AMENDMENT AND RESTATEMENT AGREEMENT




Name of Lender:
The Bank of Nova Scotia
	
		
	By: /s/ Mauricio Saishio

	Name:  Mauricio Saishio

	Title:   Director















LENDER SIGNATURE PAGE TO
AMERISOURCEBERGEN CORPORATION
AMENDMENT AND RESTATEMENT AGREEMENT




Name of Lender:
U.S. Bank National Association
	
		
	By: /s/ Jennifer Hwang

	Name:  Jennifer Hwang

	Title:   Senior Vice President













LENDER SIGNATURE PAGE TO
AMERISOURCEBERGEN CORPORATION
AMENDMENT AND RESTATEMENT AGREEMENT




Name of Lender:
CITIBANK, N.A.
	
		
	By: /s/ Laura Fogarty

	Name:  Laura Fogarty

	Title:   Vice President















LENDER SIGNATURE PAGE TO
AMERISOURCEBERGEN CORPORATION
AMENDMENT AND RESTATEMENT AGREEMENT




Name of Lender:
Mizuho Bank (USA)
	
		
	By: /s/ Bertram H. Tang

	Name:  Bertram H. Tang 

	Title:   Director & Team Leader













LENDER SIGNATURE PAGE TO
AMERISOURCEBERGEN CORPORATION
AMENDMENT AND RESTATEMENT AGREEMENT




Name of Lender:
PNC Bank, National Association
	
		
	By: /s/ Denise DiSimone

	Name:  Denise DiSimone

	Title:   Senior Vice President













LENDER SIGNATURE PAGE TO
AMERISOURCEBERGEN CORPORATION
AMENDMENT AND RESTATEMENT AGREEMENT




Name of Lender:
TD Bank, N.A.
	
		
	By: /s/ Shivani Agarwal

	Name:  Shivani Agarwal 

	Title:   Senior Vice President













LENDER SIGNATURE PAGE TO
AMERISOURCEBERGEN CORPORATION
AMENDMENT AND RESTATEMENT AGREEMENT




Name of Lender:
KeyBank National Association
	
		
	By: /s/ David A. Wild

	Name:  David A. Wild 

	Title:   Senior Vice President













LENDER SIGNATURE PAGE TO
AMERISOURCEBERGEN CORPORATION
AMENDMENT AND RESTATEMENT AGREEMENT




Name of Lender:
Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania
	
		
	By: /s/ Leslie D. Broderick

	Name:  Leslie D. Broderick 

	Title:   Senior Vice President













LENDER SIGNATURE PAGE TO
AMERISOURCEBERGEN CORPORATION
AMENDMENT AND RESTATEMENT AGREEMENT




Name of Lender:
MERCANTIL COMMERCEBANK, N.A.
	
		
	By: /s/ Miguel Palacios

	Name:  Miguel Palacios

	Title:   EVP








	
		
	By: /s/ Yuraima Rodriguez V.

	Name:   Yuraima Rodriguez V.

	Title:   VP









LENDER SIGNATURE PAGE TO
AMERISOURCEBERGEN CORPORATION
AMENDMENT AND RESTATEMENT AGREEMENT




Name of Lender:
The Huntington National Bank
	
		
	By: /s/ David Tholt

	Name:  David Tholt 

	Title:   Vice President



















	
	
	TERM LOAN CREDIT AGREEMENT 
 
dated as of November 13, 2015,
as amended and restated as of November 18, 2016, 

among
AMERISOURCEBERGEN CORPORATION, 
 
as the Borrower 
 
The LENDERS Party Hereto 
 
and 
 
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., 
as Administrative Agent 
___________________________
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., 
MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED 
and 
WELLS FARGO SECURITIES, LLC, 
as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners 

BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. 
and
WELLS FARGO BANK N.A., 
as Syndication Agents
and
MORGAN STANLEY SENIOR FUNDING, INC.,
THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA, 
THE BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI UFJ, LTD.
T.D. BANK, N.A. 
and 
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, 
as Documentation Agents




[CS&M Ref. No. 6701‐448]














TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
ARTICLE I 
 
Definitions
	
				
	SECTION 1.01.
	Defined Terms
	1
	


	SECTION 1.02.
	Classification of Loans and Borrowings
	21
	


	SECTION 1.03.
	Terms Generally
	21
	


	SECTION 1.04.
	Accounting Terms; GAAP; Pro Forma Computations
	21
	





ARTICLE II 
 
The Commitments and Loans
	
				
	SECTION 2.01.
	Commitments
	22
	


	SECTION 2.02.
	Loans and Borrowings
	22
	


	SECTION 2.03.
	Requests for Borrowings
	23
	


	SECTION 2.04.
	Funding of Borrowings
	23
	


	SECTION 2.05.
	Interest Elections
	24
	


	SECTION 2.06.
	Termination, Reduction of Commitments
	25
	


	SECTION 2.07.
	Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt
	25
	


	SECTION 2.08.
	Prepayment of Loans
	26
	


	SECTION 2.09.
	Fees
	27
	


	SECTION 2.10.
	Interest
	27
	


	SECTION 2.11.
	Alternate Rate of Interest
	28
	


	SECTION 2.12.
	Increased Costs    
	28
	


	SECTION 2.13. 
	Break Funding Payments
	29
	


	SECTION 2.14. 
	Taxes
	30
	


	SECTION 2.15.
	Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Set-offs
	34
	


	SECTION 2.16.
	Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders
	35
	















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ARTICLE III 
 
Representations and Warranties
	
				
	SECTION 3.01.
	Organization; Powers
	36
	


	SECTION 3.02.
	Authorization; Enforceability
	36
	


	SECTION 3.03.
	Governmental Approvals; No Conflicts; Margin Stock
	36
	


	SECTION 3.04.
	Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change
	37
	


	SECTION 3.05.
	Properties
	37
	


	SECTION 3.06.
	Litigation and Environmental Matters
	37
	


	SECTION 3.07.
	Compliance with Laws and Agreements
	38
	


	SECTION 3.08.
	Investment Company Status
	38
	


	SECTION 3.09.
	Taxes
	38
	


	SECTION 3.10.
	ERISA
	38
	


	SECTION 3.11.
	Disclosure
	38
	


	SECTION 3.12.
	Subsidiaries
	38
	


	SECTION 3.13.
	Insurance
	39
	


	SECTION 3.14.
	Labor Matters
	39
	


	SECTION 3.15.
	Anti-Corruption Laws and Sanctions
	39
	





ARTICLE IV 
 
Conditions
	
				
	SECTION 4.01.
	Conditions to Effectiveness of Commitments
	39
	





ARTICLE V 
 
Affirmative Covenants
	
				
	SECTION 5.01.
	Financial Statements and Other Information
	40
	


	SECTION 5.02.
	Notices of Material Events
	42
	


	SECTION 5.03.
	Existence; Conduct of Business
	42
	


	SECTION 5.04.
	Payment of Taxes
	42
	


	SECTION 5.05.
	Maintenance of Properties; Insurance
	42
	


	SECTION 5.06.
	Books and Records; Inspection and Audit Rights
	43
	


	SECTION 5.07.
	Compliance with Laws
	43
	


	SECTION 5.08.
	Use of Proceeds 
	43
	


	SECTION 5.09.
	Senior Debt Status
	43
	











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ARTICLE VI 
 
Negative Covenants
	
				
	SECTION 6.01.
	Subsidiary Indebtedness
	44
	


	SECTION 6.02.
	Liens
	45
	


	SECTION 6.03.
	Fundamental Changes
	45
	


	SECTION 6.04.
	Asset Sales
	46
	


	SECTION 6.05.
	Hedging Agreements
	46
	


	SECTION 6.06.
	Restricted Payments; Certain Payments of Indebtedness
	46
	


	SECTION 6.07.
	Transactions with Affiliates
	47
	


	SECTION 6.08.
	Restrictive Agreements
	47
	


	SECTION 6.09.
	Leverage Ratio
	48
	


	SECTION 6.10.
	Fiscal Quarters
	48
	







ARTICLE VII 
 
Events of Default
ARTICLE VIII 
 
The Administrative Agent
ARTICLE IX 
 
Miscellaneous


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	SECTION 9.01.
	Notices
	53
	


	SECTION 9.02.
	Waivers; Amendments
	55
	


	SECTION 9.03.
	Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver
	56
	


	SECTION 9.04.
	Successors and Assigns
	57
	


	SECTION 9.05.
	Survival
	60
	


	SECTION 9.06.
	Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness; Electronic Execution
	60
	


	SECTION 9.07.
	Severability
	61
	


	SECTION 9.08.
	Right of Setoff
	61
	


	SECTION 9.09.
	Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process
	61
	


	SECTION 9.10.
	WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL
	61
	


	SECTION 9.11.
	Headings
	62
	


	SECTION 9.12.
	Confidentiality
	62
	


	SECTION 9.13.
	Interest Rate Limitation
	63
	


	SECTION 9.14.
	USA PATRIOT Act
	63
	


	SECTION 9.15.
	Non-Public Information
	63
	


	SECTION 9.16.
	Acknowledgment and Consent to Bail-In of EEA Financial Institutions
	63
	


	SECTION 9.17.
	No Fiduciary Duty
	64
	









Schedules
		
	Schedule 2.01
	Commitments


		
	Schedule 3.13
	Insurance


		
	Schedule 6.02
	Existing Liens


		
	Schedule 6.08
	Existing Restrictions






Exhibits
		
	Exhibit A
	Form of Assignment and Assumption


		
	Exhibit B
	Form of Borrowing Request


		
	Exhibit C-1
	Form of US Tax Compliance Certificate (For Non-U.S. Lenders That Are Not Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)


		
	Exhibit C-2
	Form of US Tax Compliance Certificate (For Non-U.S. Participants That Are Not Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)


		
	Exhibit C-3
	Form of US Tax Compliance Certificate (For Non-U.S. Participants That Are Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)


		
	Exhibit C-4
	Form of US Tax Compliance Certificate (For Non-U.S. Lenders That Are Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)










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TERM LOAN CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of November 13, 2015, as amended and restated as of November 18, 2016 (as further amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, this “Agreement”), among AMERISOURCEBERGEN CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”); the LENDERS from time to time party hereto and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent.
The Borrower (such term and each other capitalized term used and not otherwise defined herein having the meaning assigned to it in Article I) has requested the Lenders to extend, and the Lenders are willing, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein, to extend, credit in the form of a term loan facility.
The proceeds of Loans made hereunder will be used by the Company to provide a portion of the cash consideration payable in connection with the PharMEDium Acquisition (or, if such acquisition shall have been completed prior to the Closing Date, to repay funding sources used to finance such cash consideration) and to pay fees and expenses incurred in connection with the Transactions.
Accordingly, the parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I 
 
Definitions
SECTION 1.01.      Defined Terms.  As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings specified below:
“ABR”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Alternate Base Rate.
“Adjusted LIBO Rate” means, with respect to any LIBOR Borrowing for any Interest Period, an interest rate per annum equal to the product of (a) the LIBO Rate for US Dollars for such Interest Period multiplied by (b) the Statutory Reserve Rate.
“Administrative Agent” means JPMorgan, in its capacity as administrative agent for the Lenders hereunder, or any successor appointed in accordance with Article VIII.  Unless the context requires otherwise, the term “Administrative Agent” shall include any Affiliate of JPMorgan through which JPMorgan shall perform any of its obligations in such capacity hereunder.
“Administrative Questionnaire” means an Administrative Questionnaire in a form supplied by the Administrative Agent.
“Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto.
“Affiliate” means, with respect to a specified Person, another Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with the Person specified.








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“Alternate Base Rate” means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the greatest of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day, (b) the NYFRB Rate in effect on such day plus 1⁄2 of 1% and (c) the Adjusted LIBO Rate on such day (or if such day is not a Business Day, the immediately preceding Business Day) for a deposit in US Dollars with a maturity of one month plus 1%.  For purposes of clause (c) above, the Adjusted LIBO Rate on any day shall be based on the Screen Rate at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, on such day for deposits in US Dollars with a maturity of one month; provided that if such rate shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero.  Any change in the Alternate Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate, the NYFRB Rate or the Adjusted LIBO Rate shall be effective from and including the effective date of such change in the Prime Rate, the NYFRB Rate or the Adjusted LIBO Rate, as the case may be.
“Anti-Corruption Laws” means the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 and all other laws, rules and regulations of any jurisdiction applicable to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries concerning or relating to bribery, money laundering or corruption.
“Applicable Funding Account” means, as to the Borrower, the applicable account that shall be specified in a written notice signed by a Financial Officer and delivered to and approved by the Administrative Agent.
“Applicable Rate” means, for any day, the applicable rate per annum set forth below under the caption “LIBOR” or “ABR”, as the case may be, based upon the ratings established by S&P, Moody’s and Fitch for the Index Debt as of the most recent determination date:


	
				
	Category
	Ratings
(S&P/Moody’s/Fitch)
	LIBOR
(basis points per annum)
	ABR (basis points per annum)

	Category 1
	A+/A1/A+ or higher
	75.0
	0.0

	Category 2
	A/A2/A
	87.5
	0.0

	Category 3
	A-/A3/A-
	100.0
	0.0

	Category 4
	BBB+/Baa1/BBB+
	112.5
	12.5

	Category 5
	BBB/Baa2/BBB or lower or unrated
	125.0
	25.0






For purposes of the foregoing, (a) if any of Moody’s, S&P or Fitch shall not have in effect a rating for the Index Debt (other than by reason of the circumstances referred to in the last sentence of this definition), then such rating agency shall be deemed to have established a rating in Category 5; (b) if the ratings established or deemed to have been established by Moody’s, S&P and Fitch for the Index Debt shall fall within different Categories, the Applicable Rate shall be based on the Category in which two of such ratings shall fall or, if there shall be no such Category, on the Category in which the second highest of the three ratings shall fall; and (c) if the rating established or deemed to have been established by Moody’s, S&P or Fitch for the Index Debt shall be changed (other than as a result of a change in the rating system of Moody’s, S&P or Fitch), such change shall be effective as of the date on which it is first announced by the applicable rating agency.  Each change in the Applicable Rate shall apply during the period commencing on the effective date of such change and ending on the date immediately preceding the effective date of the next such change.  If the rating system of Moody’s, S&P or Fitch shall change, or if any such rating agency shall cease to be in the business of rating corporate debt obligations, the Company and the Lenders shall negotiate in good faith to amend this definition to reflect such changed rating system or the unavailability of ratings 








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from such rating agency and, pending the effectiveness of any such amendment, the Applicable Rate shall be determined by reference to the ratings of the other rating agencies (or, if the circumstances referred to in this sentence shall affect all such rating agencies, the ratings most recently in effect prior to such changes or cessations).
“Approved Fund” means any Person (other than a natural person) that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or investing in bank loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business and that is administered or managed by a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages a Lender.
“Arrangers” means JPMorgan, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated (or any other registered broker-dealer wholly-owned by Bank of America Corporation to which all or substantially all of Bank of America Corporation’s or any of its subsidiaries’ investment banking, commercial lending services or related businesses may be transferred following the date of this Agreement) and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC.
“Assignment and Assumption” means an assignment and assumption entered into by a Lender and an Eligible Assignee (with the consent of any Person whose consent is required by Section 9.04), and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in the form of Exhibit A or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent.
“Bail-In Action” means, with respect to any EEA Financial Institution, the exercise of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable EEA Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of such EEA Financial Institution.
“Bail-In Legislation” means, with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the implementing law for such EEA Member Country from time to time that is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule.
“Bankruptcy Event” means, with respect to any Person, that such Person has become the subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding, or has had a receiver, conservator, trustee, administrator, custodian, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with the reorganization or liquidation of its business appointed for it, or, in the good faith determination of the Administrative Agent, has taken any action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of, or acquiescence in, any such proceeding or appointment, provided that a Bankruptcy Event shall not result solely by virtue of any ownership interest, or the acquisition of any ownership interest, in such Person by a Governmental Authority, provided further that such ownership interest does not result in or provide such Person with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States of America or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permit such Person (or such Governmental Authority) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made by such Person.
“Board” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States of America.
“Borrower” means the Company.
“Borrowing” means Loans of the same Type made, converted or continued on the same date and, in the case of LIBOR Loans, as to which a single Interest Period is in effect.








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“Borrowing Minimum” means US$5,000,000.
“Borrowing Multiple” means US$500,000.
“Borrowing Request” means a request for a Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.03.
“Business Day” means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized or required by law to remain closed; provided that, when used in connection with a LIBOR Loan, the term “Business Day” shall also exclude any day on which banks are not open for dealings in deposits in such currency in the London interbank market.
“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.  For purposes of Section 6.02, a Capital Lease Obligation shall be deemed to be secured by a Lien on the property being leased and such property shall be deemed to be owned by the lessee.
“Change in Control” means (a) the acquisition of ownership, directly or indirectly, beneficially or of record, by any Person 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 Restatement Effective Date), of Equity Interests representing more than 35% of either the aggregate ordinary voting power or the aggregate equity value represented by the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of the Company; (b) occupation of a majority of the seats (other than vacant seats) on the board of directors of the Company by Persons who were not (i) directors of the Company on the Restatement Effective Date, (ii) nominated by the board of directors of the Company, (iii) appointed by directors referred to in the preceding clauses (i) and (ii), or (iv) approved by the board of directors of the Company as director candidates prior to their election to such board of directors; or (c) the occurrence of a “Change of Control” (or other similar event or condition however denominated) under any instrument or agreement evidencing or governing Indebtedness, or obligations in respect of any Hedging Agreement, in an aggregate principal amount exceeding US$100,000,000.
“Change in Law” means the occurrence, after the Restatement Effective Date, of any of the following:  (a) the adoption or taking effect of any law, rule or regulation, (b) any change in any law, rule or regulation or in the administration, interpretation, implementation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority or (c) the making or issuance of any request, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) of any Governmental Authority; provided that, for purposes of this Agreement, (i) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or made 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, promulgated or issued.
“Claims” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.15(c).








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“Closing Date” means November 13, 2015.
“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
“Commitment” means, as to each Lender, its obligation to make Loans pursuant to Section 2.01 in an aggregate principal amount equal to 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 adjusted from time to time in accordance with this Agreement.  The aggregate amount of the Commitments on the Closing Date is US$1,000,000,000.
“Commitment Fee” has the meaning specified in Section 2.09(a).
“Commodity Exchange Act” means the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S. C. § et seq.), as amended from time to time, and any successor statute.
“Communications” means, collectively, any notice, demand, communication, information, document or other material provided by or on behalf of any Loan Party pursuant to any Loan Document or the transactions contemplated therein that is distributed to the Administrative Agent or any Lender through Electronic Systems.
“Company” has the meaning set forth in the preamble to this Agreement.
“Consolidated EBITDA” means, for any period, Consolidated Net Income for such period plus (a) without duplication and to the extent deducted in determining such Consolidated Net Income, the sum, without duplication, of (i) consolidated interest expense for such period, (ii) consolidated income tax expense for such period, (iii) all amounts attributable to depreciation and amortization for such period, (iv) any special one-time or extraordinary charges or extraordinary losses for such period, in each case to the extent not involving cash payments by the Company or any Subsidiary in such period or any future period, (v) any LIFO adjustment (if negative) or charge for such period, and (vi) non-cash expenses and charges associated with derivatives transactions, including such non-cash expenses and charges attributed to warrants issued and any associated hedging transactions and minus (b) without duplication and to the extent included in determining such Consolidated Net Income, (i) any special one-time or extraordinary non-cash gains for such period and any LIFO adjustment (if positive) or credit, and (ii) any non-cash gains associated with derivatives transactions, including non-cash gains attributed to warrants issued and any associated hedging transactions, all determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.   In the event that the Company or any Subsidiary shall have completed a Material Acquisition or a Material Disposition since the beginning of the relevant period, Consolidated EBITDA shall be determined for such period on a pro forma basis as if such Material Acquisition or Material Disposition, and any related incurrence or repayment of Indebtedness, had occurred at the beginning of such period.
“Consolidated Net Income” means, for any period, the net income or loss of the Company and the Subsidiaries for such period determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP; provided that there shall be excluded (a) the income or loss of any Person (other than the Company) that is not a Subsidiary, except to the extent of the amount of dividends or other distributions actually paid to the Company or any of the Subsidiaries during such period, (b) the income or loss of any Person accrued prior to the date it becomes a Subsidiary or is merged into, amalgamated with or consolidated with the Company or any Subsidiary or the date that such Person’s assets are acquired by the Company or any Subsidiary and (c) the income or loss of, and any amounts 








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referred to in clause (a) above paid to, any Subsidiary that is not wholly owned by the Company to the extent such income or loss or such amounts are attributable to the non-controlling interest in such Subsidiary.
“Consolidated Tangible Assets” means the book value of the total consolidated assets of the Company and the Subsidiaries less the book value of all intangible assets, including goodwill, trademarks, non-compete agreements, customer relationships, patents, unamortized deferred financing fees, and other rights or nonphysical resources that are presumed to represent an advantage to the Company in the marketplace, in each case determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
“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 Party” means the Administrative Agent or any Lender.
“Default” means any event or condition which constitutes an Event of Default or which upon notice, lapse of time or both would, unless cured or waived, become an Event of Default.
“Designated Subsidiary” means each Subsidiary that is not an Excluded Subsidiary.
“Documentation Agents” means Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., The Bank of Nova Scotia; The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. and U.S. Bank National Association.
“Domestic Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary other than a Foreign Subsidiary. 
“EEA Financial Institution” means (a) any credit institution or investment firm established in any EEA Member Country that is subject to the supervision of an EEA Resolution Authority, (b) any entity established in an EEA Member Country that is a parent of an institution described in clause (a) above or (c) any financial institution established in an EEA Member Country that is a subsidiary of an institution described in clause (a) or (b) above and is subject to consolidated supervision with its parent.
“EEA Member Country” means any member state of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
“EEA Resolution Authority” means any public administrative authority or any Person entrusted with public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country (including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of any EEA Financial Institution.
“Electronic Signature” means an electronic signature, sound, symbol or process attached to, or associated with, a contract or other record and adopted by a Person with the intent to sign, authenticate or accept such contract or record.
“Electronic System” means any electronic system, including e-mail, e-fax, Intralinks®, ClearPar®, Debt Domain, Syndtrak and any other Internet or extranet-based site, whether such electronic system is owned, operated or hosted by the Administrative Agent or any of 








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its Related Parties or any other Person, providing for access to data protected by passcodes or other security system.
“Eligible Assignee” means (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender, (c) an Approved Fund and (d) any other Person, other than, in each case, a natural person (or a holding company, investment vehicle or trust for, or owned and operated for the primary benefit of, a natural person) or the Company or any Subsidiary.
“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 (other than, prior to the date of conversion, Indebtedness that is convertible into any such Equity Interests).
“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time.
“ERISA Affiliate” means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that, together with 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”, as defined in Section 4043 of ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder with respect to a Plan (other than an event for which the 30 day notice period is waived); (b) a failure by any Plan to satisfy the minimum funding standards (as defined in Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA) applicable to such Plan, in each instance, whether or not waived; (c) the filing pursuant to Section 412(c) of the Code or Section 302(c) of ERISA of an application for a waiver of the minimum funding standard with respect to any Plan; (d) a determination that any Plan is, or is expected to be, in “at-risk” status (as defined in Section 430(i)(4) of the Code or Section 303(i)(4) of ERISA); (e) 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; (f) 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; (g) 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 








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Plan; or (h) 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 pursuant to Section 4063, 4203 or 4205 of ERISA or in “endangered” or “critical” status, within the meaning of Section 432 of the Code or Section 305 of ERISA.
“EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule” means the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor person), as in effect from time to time.
“Event of Default” has the meaning assigned to such term in Article VII.
“Excluded Subsidiary” means (a) Foreign Subsidiaries, (b) Securitization Entities, (c) Subsidiaries that are less than 100% owned by the Company to the extent such Subsidiaries are prohibited by shareholders agreements, joint venture agreements or other similar organizational documents from guaranteeing the Obligations, (d) Subsidiaries that have assets (including Equity Interests in other Subsidiaries) of less than US$10,000,000 for any such Subsidiary (provided that all such Subsidiaries’ assets shall not be in excess of US$100,000,000 in the aggregate) and (e) J.M. Blanco, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
“Excluded Taxes” means, with respect to any Lender, (a) income or franchise Taxes imposed on (or measured by) its net income by (i) the United States of America or (ii) the jurisdiction under the laws of which such Lender is organized, in which its principal office is located or in which its applicable Lending Office is located, (b) any branch profits Taxes imposed by the United States of America or any similar Taxes imposed by any other jurisdiction described in clause (a)(ii) above, (c) any withholding Taxes that are attributable to the failure of such Lender to comply with Section 2.14(f) or 2.14(g), (d) (other than a Lender that becomes a Lender through an assignment under Section 2.16(b)) any withholding Taxes that are imposed on amounts payable by the Borrower to or for the account of such Lender with respect to an applicable interest in a Loan or Commitment, to the extent such Taxes are (i) imposed by any United States taxation authority on amounts payable from locations within the United States to such Lender’s applicable Lending Office and (ii) in effect and applicable (assuming the taking by the Borrower and such Lender of all actions required in order for available exemptions from such Taxes to be effective) at the time such Lender becomes a party to this Agreement (or designates a new Lending Office), except to the extent that such Lender (or its assignor, if any) was entitled, at the time of designation of a new Lending Office (or assignment), to receive additional amounts with respect to such withholding Taxes pursuant to Section 2.14 and (e) any U.S. Federal withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA.
“Existing Securitization” means the Securitization provided for in the Amended and Restated Receivables Purchase Agreement dated as of April 29, 2010, as amended, among Amerisource Receivables Financial Corporation, as seller, AmerisourceBergen Drug Corporation, as initial servicer, various purchaser groups from time to time party thereto and Bank of America, National Association, as administrator.
“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, any intergovernmental agreements entered into thereunder and any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code. 








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“February Term Loan Agreement” means the Term Loan Credit Agreement dated as of February 9, 2015, as amended, among the Company, the lenders party thereto and Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent.
“Federal Funds Effective Rate” means, for any day, the rate calculated by the NYFRB based on such day’s federal funds transactions by depository institutions (as determined in such manner as the NYFRB shall set forth on its public website from time to time) and published on the next succeeding Business Day by the NYFRB as the federal funds effective rate; provided that if such rate shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for all purposes of this Agreement. 
“Financial Officer” means the chief financial officer, principal accounting officer, treasurer, controller, assistant treasurer or director of treasury of the Company.
“Fitch” means Fitch, Inc., and any successor to its rating agency business.
“Foreign Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia.
“Funding Date” means the date on which the conditions specified in Section 4.01 have been satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 9.02) and Loans are made pursuant to Section 2.01.
“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America as in effect, subject to Section 1.04, from time to time.
“Governmental Authority” means the government of the United States of America, 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 any supra-national body exercising such powers or functions, 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 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 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 of the payment thereof, (c) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or (d) as an account party in respect of any letter of credit or letter of guaranty issued to support such Indebtedness; provided that the term “Guarantee” shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business. The amount, as of any date of determination, of any Guarantee shall be the principal amount outstanding on such date of the Indebtedness guaranteed thereby (or, in the case of any Guarantee the terms of which limit the monetary exposure of the guarantor, the maximum monetary exposure as of such date of the guarantor under such Guarantee (as determined pursuant to such terms)).








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“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.
“Hedging Agreement” means any interest rate protection agreement, foreign currency exchange agreement, commodity price protection agreement or other interest or currency exchange rate or commodity price hedging arrangement or any credit default swap agreement.
“Indebtedness” of any Person means, without duplication, (a) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money, (b) all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes (including the Senior Notes) or similar instruments, (c) all obligations of such Person under conditional sale or other title retention agreements relating to property acquired by such Person, (d) all obligations of such Person in respect of the deferred purchase price of property or services (excluding (i) deferred compensation payable to directors, officers or employees of such Person, (ii) current accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of business and (iii) any purchase price adjustment or amount incurred in connection with an acquisition), (e) all Indebtedness of others secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on property owned or acquired by such Person, whether or not the Indebtedness secured thereby has been assumed, (f) all Guarantees by such Person of Indebtedness of others, (g) all Capital Lease Obligations and Synthetic Lease Obligations of such Person, (h) the maximum aggregate amount of all letters of credit and letters of guaranty in respect of which such Person is an account party, (i) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such Person in respect of bankers’ acceptances and (j) all obligations of such Person incurred under or in connection with a Securitization.  The Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any other entity (including any partnership in which such Person is a general partner) to the extent such Person is liable therefor as a result of such Person’s ownership interest in or other relationship with such entity, except to the extent the terms of such Indebtedness provide that such Person is not liable therefor.
“Indemnified Taxes” means Taxes, other than Excluded Taxes. 


“Indemnitee” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.03(b).


“Index Debt” means the Company’s senior, unsecured, non-credit-enhanced long-term Indebtedness for borrowed money.
“Information Memorandum” means the Confidential Information Memorandum dated October 2015, relating to the Company and the Transactions.
“Interest Election Request” means a request by the Borrower to convert or continue a Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.05.
“Interest Payment Date” means (a) with respect to any ABR Loan, the first day of each January, April, July and October and (b) with respect to any LIBOR Loan, the last day of the Interest Period applicable to the Borrowing of which such Loan is a part and, in the case of a LIBOR Borrowing with an Interest Period of more than three months’ duration, each day prior to the last day of such Interest Period that occurs at intervals of three months’ duration after the first day of such Interest Period.








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“Interest Period” means, with respect to any LIBOR Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Borrowing and ending on the numerically corresponding day in the calendar month that is one, two, three or six months (or, with consent of each Lender, 12 months) thereafter, as the Borrower may elect; provided that (a) if any Interest Period would end on a day other than a Business Day, such Interest Period shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless such next succeeding Business Day would fall in the next calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day and (b) any Interest Period that commences on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the last calendar month of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the last calendar month of such Interest Period.  For purposes hereof, the date of a Borrowing initially shall be the date on which such Borrowing is made and thereafter shall be the effective date of the most recent conversion or continuation of such Borrowing.
“Interpolated Screen Rate” means, with respect to any LIBOR Borrowing, a rate per annum which results from interpolating on a linear basis between (a) the applicable Screen Rate for the longest maturity for which a Screen Rate is available that is shorter than such Interest Period and (b) the applicable Screen Rate for the shortest maturity for which a Screen Rate is available that is longer than such Interest Period, in each case as of the Specified Time on the Quotation Day; provided that if such rate would be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero.
“JPMorgan” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
“Lenders” means the Persons listed on Schedule 2.01 and any other Person that shall have become a Lender pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption, other than any such Person that ceases to be a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption.
“Lending Office” means, with respect to any Lender, the office or offices of such Lender described as such in such Lender’s Administrative Questionnaire or, as to any Person that becomes a Lender after the Closing Date, in the Assignment and Assumption executed by such Person, or such other office(s) of such Lender (or an Affiliate of such Lender) as such Lender may hereafter designate from time to time as its “Lending Office(s)” by notice to the Company and the Administrative Agent.
“Leverage Ratio” means, on any date, the ratio of (a) Total Indebtedness as of such date to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Company ended on such date (or, if such date is not the last day of a fiscal quarter, ended on the last day of the fiscal quarter of the Company most recently ended prior to such date); provided that for purposes of determining the Leverage Ratio at any time, the outstanding amount of the Indebtedness under the Revolving Credit Agreement and all other revolving Indebtedness and the amounts of all Securitizations included in Total Indebtedness shall be deemed to equal the average of (i) the outstanding amounts of such Indebtedness and (ii) the amounts of all Securitizations, in each case on the last day of each of the four most recently ended fiscal quarters, net of Permitted Investments not to exceed US$100,000,000 on the last day of each such quarter.
“LIBO Rate” means, with respect to any LIBOR Borrowing for any Interest Period, the applicable Screen Rate as of the Specified Time on the Quotation Day.
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“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, (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 and (c) in the case of securities, any purchase option, call or similar right of a third party with respect to such securities.
“Loan Documents” means this Agreement, each promissory note issued hereunder and any guarantee agreement entered into pursuant to Section 6.01.
“Loan Parties” means, at any time, the Company and each Subsidiary that at such time is, or is required to be, a party to any guarantee agreement entered into pursuant to Section 6.01.
“Loans” means the loans made by the Lenders to the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement.
“Local Time” means New York City time.
“Material Acquisition” means any acquisition, or a series of related acquisitions, of (a) Equity Interests in any Person if, after giving effect thereto, such Person will become a Subsidiary or (b) assets comprising all or substantially all the assets of (or all or substantially all the assets constituting a business unit, division, product line or line of business of) any Person; provided that the aggregate consideration therefor exceeds US$500,000,000.
“Material Adverse Effect” means a material adverse effect on (a) the business, results of operations or financial condition of the Company and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole, (b) the ability of the Loan Parties, taken as a whole, to perform any of their obligations under any Loan Document or (c) the rights of or benefits available to the Lenders under any Loan Document.
“Material Disposition” means any sale, transfer or other disposition, or a series of related sales, transfers or other dispositions, of (a) all or substantially all the issued and outstanding Equity Interests in any Person that are owned by the Company and its Subsidiaries or (b) assets comprising all or substantially all the assets of (or all or substantially all the assets constituting a business unit, division, product line or line of business of) any Person; provided that the aggregate consideration therefor exceeds US$500,000,000.
“Material Indebtedness” means Indebtedness (other than the Loans), or obligations in respect of one or more Hedging Agreements, of any one or more of the Company and the Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount exceeding US$100,000,000.  For purposes of determining Material Indebtedness, the “principal amount” of the obligations of the Company or any Subsidiary (a) in respect of any Hedging 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 Hedging Agreement were terminated at such time and (b) in respect of any Securitization shall be determined as set forth in the definition of such term.
“Maturity Date” means the fifth anniversary of the Closing Date.
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“MNPI” means material information concerning the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any of its or their respective securities that has not been disseminated in a manner making it available to investors generally, within the meaning of Regulation FD under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.  For purposes of this definition, “material information” means information concerning the Company, its Subsidiaries or any of its or their respective securities that could reasonably be expected to be material for purposes of the United States federal and state securities laws.
“Multiemployer Plan” means a multiemployer plan as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA.
“NYFRB” means the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
“NYFRB Rate” means, for any day, the greater of (a) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on the preceding Business Day and (b) the Overnight Bank Funding Rate in effect on the preceding Business Day; provided that if none of such rates are published for any such preceding Business Day, the term “NYFRB Rate” shall mean the rate for a federal funds transaction at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on such day received by the Administrative Agent from a federal funds broker of recognized standing selected by it; provided further that if the NYFRB Rate, determined as set forth above, shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero.
“Obligations” means (a) the principal of and premium, if any, and interest (including interest accruing during the pendency of any bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other similar proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding) on the Loans, (b) all other monetary obligations, including fees, costs, expenses and indemnities, whether primary, secondary, direct, contingent, fixed or otherwise (including monetary obligations incurred during the pendency of any bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other similar proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding), of the Loan Parties under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and (c) the due and punctual payment and performance of all obligations of the Company and the Subsidiaries under all Hedging Agreements and cash management arrangements or agreements (i) existing on the Closing Date with a Person that is a Lender on such date (or an Affiliate of such a Lender) or (ii) with a Person that shall have been the Administrative Agent or a Lender at the time the applicable Hedging Agreement or cash management arrangement or agreement was entered into (or an Affiliate of the Administrative Agent or such a Lender).
“Other Connection Taxes” means, with respect to any Credit Party, Taxes imposed as a result of a present or former connection between such Credit Party and the jurisdiction imposing such Taxes (other than a connection arising from such Credit Party having executed, delivered, enforced, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, or engaged in any other transaction pursuant to, or enforced, any Loan Document, or sold or assigned an interest in any Loan Document).
“Other Taxes” means any and all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing or similar Taxes, or any other excise or property Taxes, charges or similar levies, arising from any payment made under any Loan Document or from the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or registration of, or from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to, any Loan Document.
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depository institutions (as such composite rate shall be determined by the NYFRB as set forth on its public website from time to time) and published on the next succeeding Business Day by the NYFRB as an overnight bank funding rate (from and after such date as the NYFRB shall commence to publish such composite rate); provided that if such rate shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero.
“Participant” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.04(f).
“Participant Register” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.04(f).
“Payment Date” means the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December, commencing with the last Business Day of the first full calendar quarter ending after the Funding Date.
“PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation referred to and defined in ERISA.
“Permitted Encumbrances” means:
(a) Liens imposed by law for Taxes that are not yet due or are being contested in compliance with Section 5.04;
(b) carriers’, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, materialmen’s, repairmen’s and other like Liens imposed by law, arising in the ordinary course of business and securing obligations that are not overdue by more than 60 days or are being contested in compliance with Section 5.04;
(c) pledges and deposits made (i) in the ordinary course of business in compliance with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security laws (other than any Lien imposed pursuant to Section 430(k) of the Code or Section 303(k) of ERISA or a violation of Section 436 of the Code) and (ii) in respect of letters of credit, bank guarantees or similar instruments issued for the account of the Company or any Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business supporting obligations of the type set forth in clause (i) above;
(d)  pledges and deposits made (i) to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts, leases, statutory obligations (other than any Lien imposed pursuant to Section 430(k) of the Code or Section 303(k) of ERISA), surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature, in each case in the ordinary course of business, and (ii) in respect of letters of credit, bank guarantees or similar instruments issued for the account of the Company or any Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business supporting obligations of the type set forth in clause (i) above;
(e) judgment liens in respect of judgments that do not constitute an Event of Default under clause (k) of Article VII;
(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;
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or funds are not established or deposited for the purpose of providing collateral for any Indebtedness and are not subject to restrictions on access by the Company or any Subsidiary in excess of those required by applicable banking regulations; 
(h) Liens arising by virtue of Uniform Commercial Code financing statement filings (or similar filings under applicable law) regarding operating leases entered into by the Company and the Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business;
(i) Liens representing any interest or title of a licensor, lessor or sublicensor or sublessor, or a licensee, lessee or sublicensee or sublessee, in the property subject to any lease, license or sublicense or concession agreement permitted by this Agreement; 
(j) Liens that are contractual rights of set-off;
(k) deposits of cash, cash equivalents and Permitted Investments with a trustee or a similar representative made to defease or to satisfy and discharge any debt securities;
(l) Liens on earnest money deposits made by the Company or any Subsidiary in connection with any letter of intent or purchase agreement with respect to an acquisition or other investment permitted hereunder; and
(m) customary Liens arising under sale agreements related to any disposition permitted hereunder, provided that such Liens extend only to the property to be disposed of;
provided that, except as set forth in clauses (c)(ii), (d)(ii) and (k), the term “Permitted Encumbrances” shall not include any Lien securing Indebtedness.
“Permitted Investments” means:
(a) direct obligations of, or obligations the principal of and interest on which are unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States of America (or by any agency thereof to the extent such obligations are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States of America);
(b) Indebtedness constituting direct obligations of any of the following agencies or any other like governmental or government-sponsored agency:  Federal Farm Credit Bank, Federal Intermediate Credit Bank, Federal Financings Bank, Federal Home Loan Bank System, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, Federal National Mortgage Association, Tennessee Valley Authority, Student Loan Marketing Association, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Farmers Home Administration, Small Business Administration, Inter-American Development Bank, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Federal Land Banks, and Government National Mortgage Association;
(c) direct and general obligations of any state of the United States of America or any municipality or political subdivision of such state, including auction rate securities (“Auctions”), variable demand notes (“VRDNs”) and non rated pre-funded debt, or obligations of any corporation, if such obligations, except pre-refunded debt, have long-term debt ratings of A3 by Moody’s or A- by S&P or A- by Fitch or have short-term ratings of VMIG-1 or MIG-1 by Moody’s or A-1 by S&P or F1 by Fitch;








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(d) obligations (including asset-backed obligations and Equity Interests that by their terms are immediately redeemable at the option of the holder thereof for cash equal to the face amount of such Equity Interests) of any corporation, partnership, trust or other entity which are rated (or which, in the case of any such Equity Interests, are issued by an entity that is rated) at least P1 by Moody’s or A1 by S&P or F1 by Fitch (short-term rating) or A3 by Moody’s or A- by S&P or A- by Fitch (long-term rating);
(e) investments in commercial paper maturing within 13 months from the date of acquisition thereof and rated, at such date of acquisition, at least P1 by Moody’s or A1 by S&P or A1 by Fitch, and investments in master notes that are rated (or that have been issued by an issuer that is rated with respect to a class of short-term debt obligations, or any security within that class, that is comparable in priority and security with said master note) at least P1 by Moody’s or A1 by S&P or A1 by Fitch;
(f) investments in certificates of deposit, banker’s acceptances and time deposits issued or guaranteed by or placed with, and money market deposit accounts issued or offered by, any domestic office of any commercial bank organized under the laws of the United States of America or any State thereof which has a combined capital and surplus and undivided profits of not less than $500,000,000;
(g) fully collateralized repurchase agreements with a term of not more than 30 days for securities described in clause (a) above and entered into with a financial institution satisfying the criteria described in clause (f) above (or subsidiaries or Affiliates of such financial institutions); and
(h) money market funds.
“Person” means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership, Governmental Authority or other entity.
“PharMEDium Acquisition” means the Company’s pending acquisition of PharMEDium Healthcare Holdings, Inc. 
“PharMEDium Acquisition Agreement” means the agreement and plan of merger dated as of October 5, 2015, by and among the Company, PharMEDium Healthcare Holdings, Inc., Paris Acquisition Corp. and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, LLC, solely in its capacity as the representative for the common stockholders and optionholders.
“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.
“Prime Rate” means the rate of interest per annum publicly announced from time to time by JPMorgan as its prime rate in effect at its principal office in New York City.  Each change in the Prime Rate shall be effective from and including the date such change is publicly announced as being effective.








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“Proceeds” has the meaning specified in Section 9-102 of the Uniform Commercial Code of the State of New York.
“Quotation Day” means, for any Interest Period, the day two Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period.
“Register” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.04(d).
“Regulation U” means Regulation U of the Board as from time to time in effect and all official rulings and interpretations thereunder or thereof.
“Related Parties” means, with respect to any specified Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the respective directors, officers, employees, members, trustees, agents, partners, managers, representatives and advisors of such Person and such Person’s Affiliates.
“Required Lenders” means, at any time, Lenders having more than 50% of (a) prior to the Funding Date, the Commitments, or (b) from and after the Funding Date, the outstanding Loans.  
“Restatement Agreement” means the Amendment and Restatement Agreement dated as of November 18, 2016, among the Company, the Lenders party thereto and the Administrative Agent.
“Restatement Effective Date” has the meaning set forth in the Restatement Agreement.
“Restricted Payment” means any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) with respect to any Equity Interests in the Company or any Subsidiary, or any payment (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any Equity Interests in the Company or any Subsidiary or any option, warrant or other right to acquire any such Equity Interests in the Company or any Subsidiary; provided that no such dividend, distribution or payment shall constitute a “Restricted Payment” to the extent made solely with common stock or other Equity Interests of the Company.
“Revolving Credit Agreement” means the Credit Agreement dated as of November 13, 2015, as further amended and restated as of November 18, 2016, among the Company, the borrowing subsidiaries from time to time party thereto, the lenders from time to time party thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent.
“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., and any successor to its rating agency business.
“Sanctioned Country” means, at any time, a country or territory that is itself the subject or target of any comprehensive Sanctions.
“Sanctioned Person” means (a) any Person listed in any Sanctions-related list of specially designated foreign nationals or other persons maintained (i) by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of Treasury, the United States State Department or the United States Department of Commerce or (ii) by the United Nations Security Council, the European 








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Union or Her Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom, (b) any Person located, organized or ordinarily resident in a Sanctioned Country or (c) any Person 50% or more owned by one or more Persons referenced in clause (a).
“Sanctions” means economic or financial sanctions or trade embargoes imposed, administered or enforced from time to time (a) by the United States government, including those administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of Treasury, the United States State Department or the United States Department of Commerce or (b) by the United Nations Security Council, the European Union or Her Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom.
“Screen Rate” means, in respect of the LIBO Rate for any Interest Period, or in respect of any determination of the Alternate Base Rate pursuant to clause (c) of the definition thereof, a rate per annum equal to the London interbank offered rate as administered by the ICE Benchmark Administration (or any other Person that takes over the administration of such rate) for US Dollar deposits (for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to the relevant period as displayed on the Reuters screen page that displays such rate (currently LIBOR01 or LIBOR02) (or, in the event such rate does not appear on a page of the Reuters screen, on the appropriate page of such other information service that publishes such rate as shall be selected by the Administrative Agent from time to time in its reasonable discretion); provided that if the Screen Rate, determined as provided above, would be less than zero, the Screen Rate shall for all purposes of this Agreement be zero. If no Screen Rate shall be available for a particular Interest Period but Screen Rates shall be available for maturities both longer and shorter than such Interest Period, than the Screen Rate for such Interest Period shall be the Interpolated Screen Rate.
“Securitization” means any transfer by the Company or any Subsidiary of accounts receivable and Proceeds thereof or interests therein (a) to a trust, partnership, corporation, limited liability company or other entity, which transfer is funded in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, by the incurrence or issuance by the transferee or successor transferee of Indebtedness or other securities that are to receive payments from, or that represent interests in, the cash flow derived from such accounts receivable or interests therein, or (b) directly to one or more investors or other purchasers.  The “amount” or “principal amount” of any Securitization shall be deemed at any time to be the aggregate principal or stated amount of the Indebtedness or other securities referred to in the first sentence of this definition or, if there shall be no such principal or stated amount, the uncollected amount of the accounts receivable or interests therein transferred pursuant to such Securitization, net of any such accounts receivables or interests therein that have been written off as uncollectible.
“Securitization Entity” means Amerisource Receivables Financial Corporation, a Delaware corporation, and any other wholly owned limited purpose Subsidiary that purchases accounts receivable of the Company or any Subsidiary pursuant to a Securitization.
“Senior Notes” means the Company’s (a) 4.875% Senior Notes due 2019 in an original aggregate principal amount of US$400,000,000, (b) 3.500% Senior Notes due 2021 in an original aggregate principal amount of US$500,000,000, (c) 1.150% Senior Notes due 2017 in an original aggregate principal amount of US$600,000,000 (d) 3.400% Senior Notes due 2024 in an original aggregate principal amount of US$500,000,000, (e) 3.250% Senior Notes due 2025 in an original aggregate principal amount of US$500,000,000 and (f) 4.250% Senior Notes due 2045 in an original aggregate principal amount of US$500,000,000.








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“Significant Subsidiary” means each Subsidiary other than any Subsidiary or Subsidiaries that individually or in the aggregate, on a consolidated basis with their Subsidiaries, did not account for more than 1% of the assets or revenues of the Company and the Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis at the end of or for the most recent four fiscal quarter period for which financial statements have been delivered under Section 5.01(a) or 5.01(b) (or, prior to the first such delivery, are referred to in Section 3.04(a)).
“Specified Time” means 11:00 a.m., London time.
“Statutory Reserve Rate” means a fraction (expressed as a decimal), the numerator of which is the number one and the denominator of which is the number one minus the aggregate of the maximum reserve percentages (including any marginal, special, emergency or supplemental reserves) expressed as a decimal established by the Board to which the Administrative Agent is subject for eurocurrency funding (currently referred to as “Eurocurrency Liabilities” in Regulation D of the Board).  Such reserve percentages shall include those imposed pursuant to such Regulation D.  LIBOR Loans shall be deemed to constitute eurocurrency funding and to be subject to such reserve requirements without benefit of or credit for proration, exemptions or offsets that may be available from time to time to any Lender under such Regulation D or any comparable regulation.  The Statutory Reserve Rate shall be adjusted automatically on and as of the effective date of any change in any reserve percentage.
“subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person (the “parent”) at any date, any corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association or other entity 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, as well as any other 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.
“Subsidiary” means any subsidiary of the Company.
“Syndication Agents” means Bank of America, N.A. and Wells Fargo Bank N.A.
“Synthetic Lease” means a lease of property or assets designed to permit the lessees (a) to claim depreciation on such property or assets under US tax law and (b) to treat such lease as an operating lease or not to reflect the leased property or assets on the lessee’s balance sheet under GAAP.
“Synthetic Lease Obligations” shall mean, with respect to any Synthetic Lease, at any time, an amount equal to the higher of (a) the aggregate termination value or purchase price or similar payments in the nature of principal payable thereunder and (b) the then aggregate outstanding principal amount of the notes or other instruments issued by, and the amount of the equity investment, if any, in the lessor under such Synthetic Lease.
“Taxes” means any and all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings, assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.








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“Termination Date” means April 30, 2016.
“Ticking Fee” has the meaning specified in Section 2.09(b).
“Ticking Fee Payment Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.09(b).
“Total Indebtedness” means, as of any date, the sum, without duplication of (a) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness of the Company and the Subsidiaries outstanding as of such date in the amount that would be reflected on a balance sheet prepared as of such date on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP (but subject to Section 1.04(a)), (b) the aggregate of the amounts of all Securitizations of the Company and the Subsidiaries and (c) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness of the Company and the Subsidiaries outstanding as of such date that is not required to be reflected on a balance sheet in accordance with GAAP, determined on a consolidated basis.
“Transactions” means the execution, delivery and performance by each Loan Party of the Loan Documents to which it is to be a party, the making of Loans, the use of the proceeds thereof, the PharMEDium Acquisition, the payment of fees and expenses incurred in connection with the foregoing and the other transactions contemplated hereby.
“Type”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether the rate of interest on such Loan, or on the Loans comprising such Borrowing, is determined by reference to the Adjusted LIBO Rate or the Alternate Base Rate.
“US Dollars” or “US$” means the lawful currency of the United States of America.
“US Person” means a “United States person” within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.
“US Tax Compliance Certificate” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.14(f)(ii)(B)(3).
“USA PATRIOT Act” means the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001.
“wholly owned” means, as to any Subsidiary, that all the Equity Interests in such Subsidiary (other than directors’ qualifying shares and other nominal amounts of Equity Interests that are required to be held by other Persons under applicable law) are owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company.
“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.
“Write-Down and Conversion Powers” means, with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule.








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SECTION 1.02.      Classification of Loans and Borrowings.  For purposes of this Agreement, Loans may be referred to by Type (e.g., a “LIBOR Loan”).  Borrowings also may be referred to by Type (e.g., a “LIBOR Borrowing”).
SECTION 1.03.      Terms Generally.  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 “law” shall be construed as referring to all statutes, rules, regulations, codes and other laws (including official rulings and interpretations thereunder having the force of law or with which affected Persons customarily comply), and all judgments, orders, writs and decrees, of all Governmental Authorities.  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.  The word “will” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall”.  Except as otherwise provided herein and unless the context requires otherwise (a) any definition of or reference to any agreement (including any Loan Document), instrument or other document herein 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), (b) any definition of or reference to any statute, regulation or other law herein shall be construed (i) as referring to such statute, regulation or other law as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified (including by succession of comparable successor statutes, regulations or other laws) and (ii) to include all official rulings and interpretations thereunder having the force of law or with which affected Persons customarily comply, (c) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns (subject to any restrictions on assignment set forth herein) and, in the case of any Governmental Authority, any other Governmental Authority that shall have succeeded to any or all functions thereof, (d) the words “herein”, “hereof” and “hereunder”, and words of similar import, shall be construed to refer to this Agreement in its entirety and not to any particular provision hereof, (e) all references herein to Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and Exhibits and Schedules to, this Agreement and (f) any reference herein to “the date hereof”, “the date of this Agreement” or terms of similar import shall be construed as a reference to the Closing Date.
SECTION 1.04.      Accounting Terms; GAAP; Pro Forma Computations.  (a) Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all terms of an accounting or financial nature shall be construed in accordance with GAAP, as in effect from time to time; provided that (i) if the Company notifies the Administrative Agent that the Company requests an amendment to any provision hereof to eliminate the effect of any change occurring after the Closing Date in GAAP or in the application thereof on the operation of such provision (or if the Administrative Agent notifies the Company that the Required Lenders request an amendment to any provision hereof for such purpose), regardless of whether any such notice is given before or after such change in GAAP or in the application thereof, then such provision shall be interpreted on the basis of GAAP as in effect and applied immediately before such change shall have become effective until such notice shall have been withdrawn or such provision amended in accordance herewith; (ii) notwithstanding any other provision contained herein, all terms of an accounting or financial nature used herein shall be construed, and all computations of amounts and ratios referred to herein shall be made, without giving effect to (A) any election under Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification 825 (or any other Accounting Standards Codification having a similar result or effect) (and related interpretations) to value any Indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary at “fair value”, as 








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defined therein, (B) any treatment of Indebtedness in respect of convertible debt instruments under Accounting Standards Codification 470-20 (or any other Accounting Standards Codification or Financial Accounting Standard having a similar result or effect) (and related interpretations) to value any such Indebtedness in a reduced or bifurcated manner as described therein, and such Indebtedness shall at all times be valued at the full stated principal amount thereof, (C) any valuation of Indebtedness below its full stated principal amount as a result of application of Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Update No. 2015-03, it being agreed that Indebtedness shall at all times be valued at the full stated principal amount thereof, and (D) any treatment of any lease (or similar arrangement conveying the right to use) as a capital lease where such lease (or similar arrangement) would not have been required to be so treated under GAAP as in effect on the Closing Date, as a result of the effectiveness of the Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification 842 (or any other Accounting Standards Codification having a similar result or effect) (and related interpretations); and (iii) notwithstanding any requirement of GAAP, “build-to-suit” leases of the Company and its subsidiaries will, for all purposes of this Agreement, be accounted for as long-term financing obligations and not as Indebtedness.
(b)      All pro forma computations required to be made hereunder giving effect to any acquisition, investment, sale, disposition, merger, amalgamation or similar event shall reflect on a pro forma basis such event as if it occurred on the first day of the relevant period and, to the extent applicable, the historical earnings and cash flows associated with the assets acquired or disposed of for such relevant period and any related incurrence or reduction of Indebtedness for such relevant period, but shall not take into account any projected synergies or similar benefits expected to be realized as a result of such event other than cost savings permitted to be included in reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission under Regulation S-X.
ARTICLE II 
 
The Commitments and Loans
SECTION 2.01.      Commitments.  Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Lender agrees to make one or more Loans to the Borrower in US Dollars, in an amount specified by the Borrower in accordance with Section 2.03 and not to exceed its Commitment, in a single drawing on the Closing Date or, if the PharMEDium Acquisition has not occurred by the Closing Date, then on or within 3 Business Days after the date the PharMEDium Acquisition closes; provided, that the borrowing hereunder must occur, if at all, prior to April 30, 2016. Amounts borrowed under this Section 2.01 and repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed.
SECTION 2.02.      Loans and Borrowings.  (a) The Loans shall be made by the Lenders ratably in accordance with their respective Commitments.  The failure of any Lender to make any Loan required to be made by it shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligations hereunder; provided that the Commitments of the Lenders are several and no Lender shall be responsible for any other Lender’s failure to make Loans as required.
(b)      Subject to Section 2.11, each Borrowing shall be comprised entirely of (i) LIBOR Loans or (ii) ABR Loans.  Each Lender at its option may make any Loan by causing any domestic or foreign branch or Affiliate of such Lender to make such Loan; provided that any exercise of such option shall not affect the obligation of the Borrower to repay such Loan in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.








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(c)      At the commencement of each Interest Period for any LIBOR Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of the Borrowing Multiple and not less than the Borrowing Minimum.  Borrowings of more than one Type may be outstanding at the same time; provided that there shall not at any time be more than a total of 5 LIBOR Borrowings.
(d)      Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Borrower shall not be entitled to request, or to elect to convert or continue, any Borrowing if the Interest Period requested with respect thereto would end after the Maturity Date.
SECTION 2.03.      Requests for Borrowings.  To request a Borrowing, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent by telephone confirmed promptly by email (in .pdf format) or fax to the Administrative Agent of a written Borrowing Request in the form of Exhibit B or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent and signed by a Financial Officer (a) in the case of a LIBOR Borrowing, not later than 1:00 p.m., Local Time, three Business Days before the date of the proposed Borrowing and (b) in the case of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 1:00 p.m., Local Time, on the date of the proposed Borrowing.  Each such telephonic and written Borrowing Request shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 2.02:
(i)      the principal amount of such Borrowing;
(ii)      the date of such Borrowing, which shall be a Business Day;
(iii)      the Type of such Borrowing;
(iv)      in the case of a LIBOR Borrowing, the initial Interest Period to be applicable thereto, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term “Interest Period”; and
(v)      the Applicable Funding Account.
Any Borrowing Request that shall fail to specify any of the information required by the preceding provisions of this paragraph may be rejected by the Administrative Agent if such failure is not corrected promptly after the Administrative Agent shall give written or telephonic notice thereof to the Borrower and, if so rejected, will be of no force or effect.  Promptly following receipt of a Borrowing Request in accordance with this Section, the Administrative Agent shall advise each Lender that will make a Loan as part of the requested Borrowing of the details thereof and of the amount of such Lender’s Loan to be made as part of the requested Borrowing.
SECTION 2.04.      Funding of Borrowings.  (a) Each Lender shall make each Loan to be made by it hereunder on the proposed date thereof by wire transfer of immediately available funds by 2:00 p.m., Local Time (or, in the case of an ABR Borrowing for which notice is provided on the proposed date of borrowing, not later than the later of 2:00 p.m., Local Time, and two hours after receipt of such notice), to the account of the Administrative Agent most recently designated by the Administrative Agent for such purpose by notice to the Lenders.  The Administrative Agent will make such Loan proceeds available to the Borrower by promptly crediting the amounts so received, in like funds, to the Applicable Funding Account of the Borrower.
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that such Lender has made such share available on such date in accordance with paragraph (a) of this Section and may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the 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 Borrower severally agree to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is made available to the Borrower to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at (i) in the case of such Lender, the rate reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent to be the cost to it of funding such amount or (ii) in the case of the Borrower, the interest rate applicable to the subject Loan, as the case may be.
SECTION 2.05.      Interest Elections.  (a) Each Borrowing initially shall be of the permitted Type specified in the applicable Borrowing Request and, in the case of a LIBOR Borrowing, shall have an initial Interest Period as specified in such Borrowing Request.  Thereafter, the Borrower may elect to convert such Borrowing to a Borrowing of a different Type or to continue such Borrowing and, in the case of a LIBOR Borrowing, may elect Interest Periods therefor, all as provided in this Section and on terms consistent with the other provisions of this Agreement.  The Borrower may elect different options with respect to different portions of an affected Borrowing, in which case each such portion shall be allocated ratably among the Lenders holding the Loans comprising such Borrowing and the Loans resulting from an election made with respect to any such portion shall be considered a separate Borrowing.
(b)      To make an election pursuant to this Section, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such election by telephone by the time and date that a Borrowing Request would be required under Section 2.03 if the Borrower were requesting a Borrowing of the Type resulting from such election to be made on the effective date of such election.  Each such Interest Election Request shall be irrevocable and shall be confirmed promptly by delivery to the Administrative Agent of a written Interest Election Request in a form approved by the Administrative Agent and signed by a Financial Officer on behalf of the Borrower.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, the Borrower shall not be permitted to elect an Interest Period for LIBOR Loans that does not comply with Section 2.02(d).
(c)      Each telephonic and written Interest Election Request shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 2.02:
(i)      the Borrowing to which such Interest Election Request applies and, if different options are being elected with respect to different portions thereof, the portions thereof to be allocated to each resulting Borrowing (in which case the information to be specified pursuant to clauses (iii) and (iv) below shall be specified for each resulting Borrowing);
(ii)      the effective date of the election made pursuant to such Interest Election Request, which shall be a Business Day;
(iii)      the Type of the resulting Borrowing; and
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If any such Interest Election Request requests a LIBOR Borrowing but does not specify an Interest Period, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration.
(d)      Promptly following receipt of an Interest Election Request, the Administrative Agent shall advise each affected Lender of the details thereof and of such Lender’s portion of each resulting Borrowing.
(e)      If the Borrower fails to deliver a timely Interest Election Request with respect to a LIBOR Borrowing prior to the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto, then, unless such Borrowing is repaid as provided herein, at the end of such Interest Period, such Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing.
(f)      Notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Administrative Agent, at the request of the Required Lenders, so notifies the Borrower, then, so long as an Event of Default is continuing (i) no outstanding Borrowing may be converted to or continued as a LIBOR Borrowing and (ii) unless repaid, each LIBOR Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing at the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto.
SECTION 2.06.      Termination and Reduction of Commitments.  (a) Unless previously terminated, each Lender’s Commitment shall terminate immediately and without further action upon the earliest of (x) the Funding Date after giving effect to the funding of such Lender’s Loans on such date, (y) the Termination Date and (z) the termination of the PharMEDium Acquisition Agreement in accordance with its terms without the closing of the PharMEDium Acquisition.
(b)      The Company may at any time terminate, or from time to time reduce, the Commitments.
(c)      The Company shall notify the Administrative Agent of any election to terminate or reduce the Commitments under paragraph (b) of this Section at least two Business Days prior to the effective date of such termination or reduction, specifying such election and the effective date thereof.  Promptly following receipt of any such notice, the Administrative Agent shall advise the applicable Lenders of the contents thereof.  Each notice delivered by the Company pursuant to this Section shall be irrevocable; provided that a notice of termination of the Commitments may state that such notice is conditioned upon the occurrence of one or more events specified therein, in which case such notice may be revoked or extended by the Company (by notice to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the specified effective date) if such condition is not satisfied.  Any termination or reduction of the Commitments shall be permanent.  Each reduction of the Commitments shall be made ratably among the applicable Lenders in accordance with their Commitments.
SECTION 2.07.      Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt.  (a) The Borrower shall repay the principal of the Loans on each Payment Date in an aggregate amount for each such day equal to 2.5% of the aggregate principal amount of the Loans made on the Funding Date (as such amount may be adjusted pursuant to this paragraph (a) and Section 2.08).  The remaining unpaid principal amount of the Loans will be payable on the Maturity Date.  The Borrower will pay the principal amount of each Loan made to the Borrower and the accrued interest on such Loan in US Dollars.  Prepayments of Loans pursuant to Section 2.08(a) will be applied to reduce the principal payments due on subsequent Payment Dates in accordance with the amounts of such payments and in the order specified in the applicable notice of prepayment; provided that if the Borrower fails to 








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make any such specification, any optional prepayments made pursuant to Section 2.08 shall be applied pro rata to all then remaining payments under this Section 2.07(a).
(b)      Each Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice an account or accounts evidencing the Indebtedness of the Borrower to such Lender resulting from each Loan made by such Lender, including the amounts of principal and interest payable and paid to such Lender from time to time hereunder.
(c)      The Administrative Agent shall maintain accounts in which it shall record (i) the amount of each Loan made hereunder, the Type of each such Loan and, in the case of any LIBOR Loan, the Interest Period applicable thereto, (ii) the amount of any principal or interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the Borrower to each Lender hereunder and (iii) the amount of any sum received by the Administrative Agent hereunder for the account of the Lenders or any of them and each Lender’s share thereof.
(d)      The entries made in the accounts maintained pursuant to paragraph (b) or (c) of this Section shall be prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts of the Obligations recorded therein; provided that the failure of any Lender or the Administrative Agent to maintain such accounts or any error therein shall not in any manner affect the obligation of the Borrower to repay the Loans in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
(e)      Any Lender may request that Loans made by it to the Borrower be evidenced by a promissory note.  In such event, the Borrower shall prepare, execute and deliver to such Lender a promissory note payable to such Lender (or, if requested by such Lender, to such Lender and its registered assigns) and in a form reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent.  Thereafter, the Loans evidenced by such promissory note and interest thereon shall at all times (including after assignment pursuant to Section 9.04) be represented by one or more promissory notes in such form payable to the payee named therein (or to such payee and its registered assigns).
SECTION 2.08.      Prepayment of Loans.  (a) The Borrower shall have the right at any time and from time to time to prepay any Borrowing, in whole or in part, subject to prior notice in accordance with paragraph (c) of this Section.
(b)      Prior to any optional prepayment of Borrowings hereunder, the Borrower shall select the Borrowing or Borrowings to be prepaid and shall specify such selection in the notice of such prepayment pursuant to paragraph (c) of this Section.
(c)      The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of any prepayment of a Borrowing hereunder by email (in .pdf format) or fax of a notice signed by a Financial Officer on behalf of the Borrower (i) in the case of a LIBOR Borrowing, not later than 1:00 p.m., Local Time, three Business Days before the date of such prepayment (or, in the case of a prepayment under paragraph (b) above, as soon thereafter as practicable) and (ii) in the case of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 1:00 p.m., Local Time, on the date of such prepayment.  Each such notice shall be irrevocable and shall specify the prepayment date and the principal amount of each Borrowing or portion thereof to be prepaid; provided that, a notice of optional prepayment may state that such notice is conditioned upon the occurrence of one or more events specified therein, in which case such notice may be revoked or extended by the Company (by notice to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the specified effective date) if such condition is not satisfied. Promptly following receipt of any such notice, the Administrative Agent shall advise the applicable Lenders of the contents thereof.  Each partial prepayment of any Borrowing shall be in an amount that would be permitted 








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in the case of an advance of a Borrowing of the same Type as provided in Section 2.02.  Each prepayment of a Borrowing shall be applied ratably to the Loans included in the prepaid Borrowing and shall be applied to the scheduled payments of principal pursuant to Section 2.07(a) as contemplated thereby.
SECTION 2.09.      Fees.  (a) The Company agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, in US Dollars, for the account of each Lender, on the Closing Date, a fee (the “Commitment Fee”) in an amount equal to 0.125% of the amount of the Commitment of such Lender on the Closing Date.
(b)      The Company agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, in US Dollars, for the account of each Lender, a fee (the “Ticking Fee”) in an amount equal to 0.125% per annum of the daily amount of the Commitment of such Lender then outstanding (whether or not effective under Section 4.01), accruing from and including the Closing Date to but excluding the earlier of the date of any Borrowing pursuant to Section 2.01 and the date on which such Commitments terminate (such earlier date being called the “Ticking Fee Payment Date”).  The Ticking Fee shall be due and payable on the Fee Payment Date, shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days and shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day).
(c)      The Company agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for its own account, fees payable in the amounts and at the times separately agreed upon between the Company and the Administrative Agent.
(d)      All fees payable hereunder shall be paid on the dates due, in immediately available funds, to the Administrative Agent for distribution, in the case of the Ticking Fee and the Commitment Fee, to the Lenders.  Fees paid shall not be refundable under any circumstances.
SECTION 2.10.      Interest.  (a) The Loans comprising each ABR Borrowing shall bear interest at the Alternate Base Rate plus the Applicable Rate.
(b)      The Loans comprising each LIBOR Borrowing shall bear interest at the Adjusted LIBO Rate for the Interest Period in effect for such Borrowing plus the Applicable Rate.
(c)      Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any principal of or interest on any Loan, any fee or other amount payable by the Borrower hereunder is not paid when due, whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise, such overdue amount shall bear interest, after as well as before judgment, at a rate per annum equal to (i) in the case of overdue principal of any Loan, 2% plus the interest rate otherwise applicable to such Loan as provided in the preceding paragraphs of this Section or (ii) in the case of any other amount, 2% plus the rate applicable to ABR Loans made to the Company as provided in paragraph (a) of this Section.
(d)      Accrued interest on each Loan shall be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date for such Loan; provided that (i) in the event of any repayment or prepayment of any Loan (other than a prepayment of an ABR Loan prior to the Maturity Date), accrued interest on the principal amount repaid or prepaid shall be payable on the date of such repayment or prepayment and (ii) in the event of any conversion of any LIBOR Loan prior to the end of the current Interest Period therefor, accrued interest on such Loan shall be payable on the effective date of such conversion.  All interest shall be payable in US Dollars.








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(e)      All interest hereunder shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days, except that interest computed by reference to the Alternate Base Rate at times when the Alternate Base Rate is based on the Prime Rate shall be computed on the basis of a year of 365 days (or 366 days in a leap year), and in each case shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day).  The applicable Adjusted LIBO Rate or Alternate Base Rate shall be determined by the Administrative Agent, and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
SECTION 2.11.      Alternate Rate of Interest.  If prior to the commencement of any Interest Period for a LIBOR Borrowing:
(a)      the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) that adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the Adjusted LIBO Rate; or
(b)      the Administrative Agent is advised by the Required Lenders that the Adjusted LIBO Rate not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of making or maintaining the Loans included in such Borrowing for such Interest Period;
then the Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof (which may be by telephone) to the Borrower and the applicable Lenders as promptly as practicable thereafter and, until the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower and the applicable Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer exist, (i) any Interest Election Request that requests the conversion of any Borrowing to, or the continuation of any Borrowing as, a LIBOR Borrowing shall be ineffective, (ii) any LIBOR Borrowing that is requested to be continued shall be continued as an ABR Borrowing and (iii) any Borrowing Request for a LIBOR Borrowing shall be deemed a request for an ABR Borrowing.
SECTION 2.12.      Increased Costs.  (a) 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 such reserve requirement reflected in the Adjusted LIBO Rate);
(ii)      impose on any Lender or the London interbank market any other condition, cost or expense affecting this Agreement or LIBOR Loans made by such Lender or the funding of such Loans; or
(iii)      subject any Credit Party to any Taxes on its loans, loan principal, commitments or other obligations, or its deposits, reserves, other liabilities or capital attributable thereto (other than Other Connection Taxes imposed on gross or net income, profits or revenue (including value-added or similar Taxes));
and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such Lender or such other Credit Party of making, continuing, converting to or maintaining any Loan (or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan) or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender or such other Credit Party hereunder (whether of principal, interest or otherwise), then the Borrower will pay to such Lender or such other Credit Party, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or other Credit Party, as the case may be, for such additional costs incurred or reduction suffered.








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(b)      If any Lender determines in good faith that any Change in Law affecting such Lender or any lending office of such Lender or such Lender’s holding company, if any, regarding capital or liquidity requirements has had or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s capital or on the capital of such Lender’s holding company, if any, as a consequence of this Agreement or the Loans made by such Lender to a level below that which such Lender or such Lender’s holding company could have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lender’s policies and the policies of such Lender’s holding company with respect to capital adequacy and liquidity), then from time to time the Borrower will pay to such Lender such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or such Lender’s holding company for any such reduction suffered.
(c)      A certificate of a Lender setting forth the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender or its holding company, as the case may be, and the manner in which such amount or amounts have been calculated, as specified in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, shall be delivered to the Company and shall be conclusive and binding upon all parties hereto absent manifest error.  The Company shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 10 days after receipt thereof.
(d)      Failure or delay on the part of any Lender to demand compensation pursuant to this Section shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s right to demand such compensation; provided that the Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender pursuant to this Section for any increased costs or reductions incurred more than 180 days 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; provided further that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then the 180-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof.
(e)      The foregoing provisions of this Section shall not apply to Taxes imposed on or with respect to payments made by the Borrower hereunder or Other Taxes, which Taxes shall be governed in each case solely by Section 2.14.
SECTION 2.13.      Break Funding Payments.  In the event of (a) the payment of any principal of any LIBOR Loan other than on the last day of an Interest Period applicable thereto (including as a result of an Event of Default), (b) the conversion of any LIBOR Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, (c) the failure to borrow, convert, continue or prepay any LIBOR Loan on the date specified in any notice delivered pursuant hereto or (d) the assignment of any LIBOR Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto as a result of a request by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.16 then, in any such event, the Borrower shall compensate each Lender for the loss, cost and expense (but not for any lost profit) attributable to such event.  Such loss, cost or expense to any Lender shall be deemed to include an amount determined by such Lender to be the excess, if any, of (i) the amount of interest which would have accrued on the principal amount of such Loan had such event not occurred, at the Adjusted LIBO Rate that would have been applicable to such Loan, for the period from the date of such event to the last day of the then-current Interest Period therefor (or, in the case of a failure to borrow, convert or continue, for the period that would have been the Interest Period for such Loan) over (ii) the amount of interest that would accrue on such principal amount for such period at the interest rate which such Lender would bid were it to bid, at the commencement of such period, for deposits in US Dollars of a comparable amount and period from other banks in the London interbank market.  A certificate of any Lender setting forth in reasonable detail any amount or amounts that such Lender is entitled 








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to receive pursuant to this Section shall be delivered to the Company and shall be conclusive absent manifest error.  The Borrower shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 10 days after receipt thereof.
SECTION 2.14.      Taxes.  (a) Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of a Loan Party hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall be made without deduction or withholding for any Taxes, except as required by applicable law.  If any withholding agent shall be required by applicable law (as determined in the good faith discretion of the applicable withholding agent) to deduct or withhold any Tax from any such payment, then (i) if such Tax is an Indemnified Tax or Other Tax, the sum payable by the applicable Loan Party shall be increased as necessary so that after all required deductions and withholdings have been made (including deductions and withholdings applicable to additional sums payable under this Section) the applicable Credit Party receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deductions or withholdings been made, (ii) such withholding agent shall make such deductions or withholdings and (iii) such withholding agent shall timely pay the full amount deducted or withheld to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law.
(b)      In addition, the Loan Parties shall timely pay to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law, or at the option of the Administrative Agent timely reimburse it for, any Other Taxes.
(c)      As soon as practicable after any payment of Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes by a Loan Party to a Governmental Authority pursuant to this Section, such Loan Party shall deliver to the Administrative Agent the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(d)      Each Loan Party shall jointly and severally indemnify each Credit Party, within 10 days after written demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes imposed on or with respect to any payment by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party hereunder or under any other Loan Document or Other Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section) payable or paid by such Credit Party or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to such Credit Party and any penalties, interest and reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto.  A certificate setting forth the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Company by the Administrative Agent (for its own account, or on behalf of a Lender) or a Lender shall be conclusive absent manifest error.  A copy of such certificate shall also be delivered to the Administrative Agent.
(e)      Each Lender shall severally indemnify the Administrative Agent for (i) any Taxes (but, in the case of any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes, only to the extent that any Loan Party has not already indemnified the Administrative Agent for such Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes and without limiting the obligation of the Loan Parties to do so) attributable to such Lender and (ii) any Taxes attributable to such Lender’s failure to comply with the provisions of Section 9.04(f) relating to the maintenance of a Participant Register, in each case that are paid or payable by the Administrative Agent 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.  The indemnity under this paragraph shall be paid within 10 days after the Administrative Agent delivers to the applicable Lender a certificate stating the amount of Taxes so paid or payable by the Administrative Agent.  Such certificate shall be 








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conclusive of the amount so paid or payable absent manifest error.  Each Lender hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender under any Loan Document or otherwise payable by the Administrative Agent to the Lender from any other source against any amount due to the Administrative Agent under this paragraph.
(f)      (i) Any Lender that, under the law of the jurisdiction in which the Borrower is resident or located (or any treaty to which such jurisdiction is a party), 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 (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), at the time or times prescribed by applicable law, such properly completed and executed documentation prescribed by applicable law or reasonably requested by the Company as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate of withholding; provided that such Lender shall have first received written notice from the Company advising it of the availability of such exemption or reduction and containing all applicable documentation.  In addition, any Lender, if requested by the Company or the Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by 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 any withholding (including backup withholding) or information reporting requirements.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.14(f), the completion, execution and submission of such documentation (other than such documentation set forth in Sections 2.14(f)(ii)(A), 2.14(f)(ii)(B) and 2.14(g) below) shall not be required if in the Lender’s 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.  Upon the reasonable request of the Company or the Administrative Agent, any Lender shall update any form or certification previously delivered pursuant to this Section 2.14(f).  Any Lender shall promptly notify the Company at any time it determines that it is no longer in a position to provide any such previously delivered documentation to the Company.  If any form or certification previously delivered pursuant to this Section 2.14(f) expires or becomes obsolete or inaccurate in any respect with respect to a Lender, such Lender shall promptly (and in any event within 10 days after such expiration, obsolescence or inaccuracy) notify the Company and the Administrative Agent in writing of such expiration, obsolescence or inaccuracy and update the form or certification if it is legally eligible to do so.
(ii)      Without limiting the generality of the foregoing:
(A)      if a Lender is a US Person, such Lender 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;
(B)      if such Lender is not a US Person, such 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 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:








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(1)      in the case of a 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 or IRS Form W-8BEN-E, as applicable, 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 or IRS Form W-8BEN-E, as applicable, 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;
(2)      executed originals of IRS Form W-8ECI;
(3)      in the case of a 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 C-1 to the effect that such Lender is not a “bank” within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, a “10 percent shareholder” of the 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 “US Tax Compliance Certificate”) and (y) executed originals of IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E, as applicable; or
(4)      to the extent a Lender is not the beneficial owner, executed originals of IRS Form W-8IMY, accompanied by IRS Form W-8ECI, IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E, as applicable, a US Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C-2 or Exhibit C-3, IRS Form W-9, and/or other certification documents from each beneficial owner, as applicable; provided that if such Lender is a partnership and one or more direct or indirect partners of such Lender are claiming the portfolio interest exemption, such Lender may provide a US Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C-4 on behalf of each such direct and indirect partner; and
(C)      if such Lender is not a US Person, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, it shall 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 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.
(g)      If a payment made to any 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 or the 








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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 or the Administrative Agent to comply with its obligations under FATCA, to determine that such Lender has or has not complied with such Lender’s obligations under FATCA and, as necessary, to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment.  Solely for purposes of this Section 2.14(g), “FATCA” shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the Closing Date.
(h)      If the Administrative Agent or a Lender determines, in its sole discretion, that it has received a refund of any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes as to which it has been indemnified by the Borrower or with respect to which the Borrower has paid additional amounts pursuant to this Section, it shall pay over such refund to the Borrower (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by the Borrower under this Section with respect to the Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses (including Taxes) of the Administrative Agent or such Lender and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund); provided that the Borrower, upon the request of the Administrative Agent or such Lender, agrees to repay the amount paid over to it (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) to the Administrative Agent or such Lender in the event the Administrative Agent or such Lender is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.14(i), in no event will the Administrative Agent or any Lender be required to pay any amount to the Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.14(h) to the extent such payment would place the Administrative Agent or such Lender in a less favorable position (on a net after-Tax basis) than the Administrative Agent or such Lender 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 giving rise to such refund had never been paid.  This Section shall not be construed to require the Administrative Agent or any Lender to make available its Tax returns (or any other information relating to its Taxes which it deems confidential) to the Borrower or any other Person.
(i)      Each party’s obligations under this Section shall survive the resignation or replacement of the Administrative Agent or any assignment of rights by, or the replacement of, a Lender, the termination of the Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all obligations under any Loan Document.
(j)      If any Governmental Authority shall determine that the Administrative Agent did not properly withhold Taxes from amounts paid to or for the account of any Lender (whether because such recipient failed to deliver or to complete properly any form or to notify the Administrative Agent of a change in circumstances that affected its exemption from withholding or for any other reason), such Lender shall indemnify the Administrative Agent for all amounts paid, directly or indirectly, by the Administrative Agent as a result of such determination, including any penalties or interest assessed by such Governmental Authority, and including Taxes imposed on amounts payable to the Administrative Agent under this subsection, together with all reasonable costs and expenses related thereto.
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Administrative Agent shall treat (and the Lenders hereby authorize the Administrative Agent to treat) this Agreement as not qualifying as a “grandfathered obligation” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-2(b)(2)(i).
SECTION 2.15.      Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Set-offs. (a) The Borrower shall make each payment required to be made by it hereunder or under any other Loan Document (whether of principal, interest or fees or otherwise) prior to the time expressly required hereunder or under such other Loan Document for such payment or, if no such time is expressly required, prior to 1:00 p.m., Local Time, on the date when due, in immediately available funds, without defense, set-off, recoupment or counterclaim.  Any amounts received after such time on any date may, in the discretion of the Administrative Agent, be deemed to have been received on the next succeeding Business Day for purposes of calculating interest thereon.  All such payments shall be made to the Administrative Agent for the account of the applicable Lenders to such account as the Administrative Agent shall from time to time specify in one or more notices delivered to the Company, except that payments pursuant to Sections 2.12, 2.13, 2.14, and 9.03 shall be made directly to the Persons entitled thereto.  The Administrative Agent shall distribute any such payments received by it for the account of any other Person to the appropriate recipient promptly following receipt thereof.  If any payment under any Loan Document shall be due on a day that is not a Business Day, the date for payment shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day and, in the case of any payment accruing interest, interest thereon shall be payable for the period of such extension.  All payments hereunder and under each other Loan Document shall be made in US Dollars.  Any payment required to be made by the Administrative Agent hereunder shall be deemed to have been made by the time required if the Administrative Agent shall, at or before such time, have taken the necessary steps to make such payment in accordance with the regulations or operating procedures of the clearing or settlement system used by the Administrative Agent to make such payment.
(b)      If at any time insufficient funds are received by the Administrative Agent from the Borrower and available to pay fully all amounts of principal, interest and fees then due from the Borrower hereunder, such funds shall be applied (i) first, towards payment of interest and fees then due from the Borrower hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of interest and fees then due to such parties and (ii) second, towards payment of principal of the Loans then due from the Borrower hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of such principal then due to such parties.
(c)      If any Lender shall, by exercising any right of set-off or counterclaim or otherwise, obtain payment in respect of its Loans or accrued interest on its Loans (collectively “Claims”) resulting in such Lender receiving payment of a greater proportion of the aggregate amount of its Claims than the proportion received by any other Lender, then the Lender receiving such greater proportion shall purchase (for cash at face value) participations in the Claims of the other Lenders to the extent necessary so that the benefit of all such payments shall be shared by the Lenders ratably in accordance with the aggregate amounts of their respective Claims; provided that (i) if any such participations are purchased and all or any portion of the payment giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, without interest, and (ii) the provisions of this paragraph shall not be construed to apply to any payment made by the Borrower pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement or any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Claims to any Eligible Assignee or participant, other than to the Company or any Subsidiary or Affiliate thereof (as to which the provisions of this paragraph shall apply).  The Borrower consents to the foregoing and agrees, to the extent it may effectively do so under applicable 








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law, that any Lender acquiring a participation pursuant to the foregoing arrangements may exercise against the Company rights of set-off and counterclaim with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were a direct creditor of the Company in the amount of such participation.
(d)      Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Borrower prior to the date on which any payment is due to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Lenders hereunder that the Borrower will not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower has made such payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such assumption, distribute to the applicable Lenders the amount due.  In such event, if the Borrower has not in fact made such payment, then each applicable Lender severally agrees to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the amount so distributed to such Lender 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 greater of (i) the rate reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent to be the cost to it of funding such amount and (ii) a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation.
(e)      If any Lender shall fail to make any payment required to be made by it pursuant to Section 2.04(b), 2.15(d) or 9.03(c) then the Administrative Agent may, in its discretion (notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof), apply any amounts thereafter received by it for the account of such Lender to satisfy such Lender’s obligations under such Sections until all such unsatisfied obligations are fully paid.
SECTION 2.16.      Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders.  (a) If any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.12, or if the Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.14, then such Lender shall use reasonable efforts to designate a different lending office for funding or booking its affected Loans or other extensions of credit hereunder or to assign its affected rights and obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches or affiliates, if, in the judgment of such Lender, such designation or assignment (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to Section 2.12 or 2.14, as the case may be, in the future and (ii) would not subject such Lender to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender.  The Borrower hereby agrees to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with any such designation or assignment.
(b)      If (i) any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.12, (ii) any Loan Party is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.14 or (iii) any Lender has failed to consent to a proposed amendment, waiver, discharge or termination that under Section 9.02 requires the consent of all the Lenders and with respect to which the Required Lenders shall have granted their consent, 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 Section 9.04), all its interests, rights (other than its existing rights to payments pursuant to Sections 2.12 or 2.14) and obligations under the Loan Documents (or, in the case of any such assignment and delegation resulting from a failure to provide a consent, all its interests, rights (other than such existing rights) and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as a Lender) 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 Borrower shall have received the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, which 








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consent, in each case, shall not unreasonably be withheld or delayed, (B) such Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to the outstanding principal of its Loans, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts payable to it hereunder, from the assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal and accrued interest and fees) or the Borrower (in the case of all other amounts), (C) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a claim for compensation under Section 2.12 or payments required to be made pursuant to Section 2.14, such assignment will result in a material reduction in such compensation or payments, (D) such assignment does not conflict with applicable law and (E) in the case of any such assignment and delegation resulting from the failure to provide a consent, the assignee shall have given such consent and, as a result of such assignment and delegation and any contemporaneous assignments and delegations and consents, the applicable amendment, waiver, discharge or termination can be effected.  A Lender shall not be required to make any such assignment and 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.  Each party hereto agrees that an assignment and delegation required pursuant to this paragraph may be effected pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption executed by the Company, the Administrative Agent and the assignee and that the Lender required to make such assignment and delegation need not be a party thereto.
ARTICLE III
 
Representations and Warranties
The Company represents and warrants as to itself and its subsidiaries, to the Lenders that:
SECTION 3.01.      Organization; Powers.  Each Loan Party 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 and is in good standing in every jurisdiction where such qualification is required.
SECTION 3.02.      Authorization; Enforceability.  The execution and delivery of the Loan Documents by each Loan Party party thereto and the performance thereof by each such Loan Party are within such Loan Party’s corporate, partnership or other applicable powers and have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership and, if required, stockholder or other equityholder action.  This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Borrower and constitutes, and each other Loan Document to which any Loan Party is to be a party, when executed and delivered by such Loan Party, will constitute, a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Borrower or Loan Party (as the case may be), enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and subject to general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.
SECTION 3.03.      Governmental Approvals; No Conflicts; Margin Stock.  (a) The execution and delivery of the Loan Documents by each Loan Party party thereto and the performance thereof by each such Loan Party (i) do not require any consent or approval of, registration or filing with, or any other action by, any Governmental Authority, (ii) will not violate (x) any applicable law or regulation, (y) the charter, by-laws or other organizational documents of any Loan Party or (z) 








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any order of any Governmental Authority, (iii) will not violate or result in a default under any indenture, material agreement or other material instrument binding upon any Loan Party or its assets, or give rise to a right thereunder to require any payment to be made by any Loan Party and (iv) will not result in the creation or imposition of any Lien on any asset of any Loan Party (other than Liens created hereunder).
(b)      Neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries is engaged principally, or as one of its important activities, in the business of extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stock (as defined in Regulation U of the Board).  No part of the proceeds of any Loan will be used, whether directly or indirectly, for any purpose that would entail a violation of such Regulation U.  Following the application of the proceeds of each Borrowing, not more than 25% of the value of the assets (either of the Company only or of the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis) subject to the restrictions of Section 6.02 and 6.03 will be margin stock (within the meaning of Regulation U).
SECTION 3.04.      Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change.  (a) The Company has heretofore furnished to the Lenders its consolidated balance sheets and statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows (i) as of and for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2014, audited and reported on by Ernst & Young LLP, independent public accountants and (ii) as of and for the fiscal quarters and the portions of the fiscal year ended March 31 and June 30, 2015, 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 September 30, 2014, there has been no material adverse change in the business, assets, operations, prospects or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Company and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
SECTION 3.05.      Properties.  (a) The Company and each of the Subsidiaries has good title to, or valid leasehold interests in, all its real and personal property material to 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.
(b)      Each of the Company and the Subsidiaries owns, or is licensed to use, all trademarks, tradenames, copyrights, patents and other intellectual property material to its business, and the use thereof by the Company and the 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.
SECTION 3.06.      Litigation and Environmental Matters.  (a) There are no actions, suits or proceedings by or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority (including the United States Food and Drug Administration and the corresponding Governmental Authorities in Canada and the Republic of Ireland) pending against or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against or affecting the Company or any of the Subsidiaries (i) as to which there is a reasonable likelihood 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 any of the Loan Documents or the making of the Loans thereunder.








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(b)      Except with respect to any 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 the 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, (ii) has become subject to any Environmental Liability, (iii) has received notice of any claim with respect to any Environmental Liability or (iv) knows of any basis for any Environmental Liability.
SECTION 3.07.      Compliance with Laws and Agreements.  Each of the Company and the 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 comply, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.  No Default has occurred and is continuing.
SECTION 3.08.      Investment Company Status.  Neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries is an “investment company” as defined in, or subject to regulation under, the Investment Company Act of 1940.
SECTION 3.09.      Taxes.  Each of the Company and the 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) any 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.
SECTION 3.10.      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.  Any excess of the accumulated benefits under one or more Plans (based on the assumptions used for purposes of Accounting Standards Codification Topic 715) over the fair market value of the assets of such Plan or Plans is in an amount that could not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
SECTION 3.11.      Disclosure.  The Company has disclosed to the Lenders all agreements, instruments and corporate or other restrictions to which the Company or any of the Subsidiaries is subject, and all other matters known to any of them, that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.  Neither the Information Memorandum nor any of the other reports, financial statements, certificates or other information furnished by or on behalf of any Loan Party to the Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection with the negotiation of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or delivered hereunder or thereunder (as modified or supplemented by other information so furnished), taken as a whole, 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; provided that, with respect to projected financial information, the Company represents only that such information was prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable at the time.
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is otherwise required to be listed in connection with the Company’s Form 10-K as of such date, and identifies each such Subsidiary that is a Designated Subsidiary.  As of the Closing Date, there are no Designated Subsidiaries that are not listed on Schedule 3.12.
SECTION 3.13.      Insurance.  Schedule 3.13 sets forth a description of all insurance maintained by or on behalf of the Company and the Subsidiaries as of the Closing Date.  As of the Closing Date, all premiums in respect of such insurance have been paid to the extent due.  The Company believes that the insurance maintained by or on behalf of the Company and the Subsidiaries is adequate.
SECTION 3.14.      Labor Matters.  As of the Closing Date, there are no strikes, lockouts or slowdowns against the Company or any Subsidiary pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened.  The hours worked by and payments made to employees of the Company and the Subsidiaries have not been in violation in any material respect of the Fair Labor Standards Act or any other applicable Federal, state, local or foreign law dealing with such matters.  All payments due from the Company or any Subsidiary, or for which any claim may be made against the Company or any Subsidiary, on account of wages and employee health and welfare insurance and other benefits, have been paid or accrued as a liability on the books of the Company or such Subsidiary.  The consummation of the Transactions will not give rise to any right of termination or right of renegotiation on the part of any union under any collective bargaining agreement to which the Company or any Subsidiary is bound.
SECTION 3.15.      Anti-Corruption Laws and Sanctions.  The Company has implemented and will maintain in effect and enforce policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance by the Company, its Subsidiaries and their directors, officers, employees and agents with applicable Anti-Corruption Laws and Sanctions.  None of the Company or any Subsidiary or, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, employee or agent of the Company or any Subsidiary, is a Sanctioned Person.  No Borrowing will be made (a) for the purpose of funding payments to any officer or employee of a Governmental Authority, or any Person controlled by a Governmental Authority, or any political party, official of a political party, candidate for political office, or anyone else acting in an official capacity, in violation of applicable Anti-Corruption Laws or (b) for the purpose of financing the activities or transactions of or with any Sanctioned Person or in any Sanctioned Country, in each case, to the extent it would result in a violation of any applicable law by any party hereto.
ARTICLE IV 
 
Conditions
SECTION 4.01.      Conditions to Effectiveness of Commitments.
The Commitments of the Lenders under this Agreement shall become effective upon satisfaction of the following conditions precedent:
(a)      the Administrative Agent shall have received from the Company and each other Loan Party and each Lender (i) a counterpart of this Agreement signed on behalf of such party or (ii) written evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (which may include transmission by facsimile or other electronic imaging of a signed signature page of this Amendment Agreement) that such party has signed a counterpart of this Agreement;








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(b)      the Administrative Agent shall have received a favorable written opinion (addressed to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and dated the Funding Date) of each of (i) Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, counsel for the Borrower and (ii) Kathy H. Gaddes, Group General Counsel of the Company in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;
(c)      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 Borrower, the authorization of the transactions contemplated hereby and any other legal matters relating to the Borrower, the Loan Documents or such transactions, all in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;
(d)      the Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate, dated the Funding Date and signed by the President and Chief Executive Officer, a Vice President or a Financial Officer of the Company, confirming (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties set forth in Article III in all material respects (other than any such representation and warranty that is already qualified by materiality or “Material Adverse Effect” in the text thereof, in which case such representation and warranty shall be true in all respects) and (ii) the absence of any Default, in each case giving effect to the transactions to occur on the Funding Date;
(e)      the Administrative Agent and each Lender shall have received all documentation and other information requested by it in writing at least five Business Days prior to the Closing Date for purposes of ensuring compliance with applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the USA PATRIOT Act, not fewer than three Business Days prior to the Closing Date;
(f)      the Administrative Agent and each Lender shall have received all fees and other amounts due and payable on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with this Agreement, including, to the extent invoiced, reimbursement or payment of all out-of-pocket expenses (including fees, charges and disbursements of counsel) required to be reimbursed or paid by any Loan Party hereunder or under any other Loan Document; and
(g)      the PharMEDium Acquisition shall have been or shall simultaneously be consummated.
ARTICLE V 
 
Affirmative Covenants
Until the Commitments have expired or been terminated and the principal of and interest on each Loan and all fees payable hereunder have been paid in full, the Company covenants and agrees, as to itself and its subsidiaries, with the Lenders that:
SECTION 5.01.      Financial Statements and Other Information.  The Company will furnish to the Administrative Agent, which will make available to each Lender:
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consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows as of the end of and for such year, in each case setting forth in comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year, all reported on by an independent registered public accounting firm 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 and cash flows of the Company and the consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP consistently applied;
(b)      as soon as available, and in any event within 50 days after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year of the Company, its unaudited consolidated balance sheet and related unaudited consolidated statements of operations and cash flows as of the end of and for such fiscal quarter (other than in the case of the statements of cash flows) and the then elapsed portion of the fiscal year, in each case setting forth 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 a Financial Officer of the Company as presenting fairly in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations and cash flows 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 certificate of 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 Section 6.09 and (iii) stating whether any change in GAAP or in the application thereof has occurred since the date of the Company’s audited financial statements referred to in Section 3.04 and, if any such change has occurred, specifying the effect of such change on the financial statements accompanying such certificate;
(d)      promptly after the same become publicly available, the Company will provide to each Lender copies of all periodic and other reports, proxy statements and other materials filed by the Company or any Subsidiary with the Securities and Exchange Commission or with any national securities exchange, or distributed by the Company to its shareholders generally, as the case may be;
(e)      promptly following a request therefor, any documentation or other information that a 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 USA PATRIOT Act; and
(f)      promptly following any request therefor, such other information regarding the operations, business affairs, assets and financial condition of the Company or any Subsidiary, or compliance with the terms of any Loan Document, as the Administrative Agent, or any Lender through the Administrative Agent, may reasonably request, it being understood that the Company may require any Lender receiving such information to confirm in writing its confidentiality obligations under Section 9.12.








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Information required to be delivered pursuant to paragraphs (a), (b) and (d) of this Section shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date on which the Company posts such information, or the annual or quarterly reports containing such information, on the Company’s website at http://www.amerisourcebergen.com or such information, or such reports, shall be available on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at http://www.sec.gov or on an Electronic System.
SECTION 5.02.      Notices of Material Events.  The Company will furnish to the Administrative Agent and each Lender prompt written notice of the following:
(a)      the occurrence of any Default;
(b)      the filing or commencement of any action, suit or proceeding by or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority against or affecting the Company or any Affiliate thereof that is reasonably likely to be adversely determined and, if adversely determined, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;
(c)      the occurrence of any ERISA Event that, alone or together with any other ERISA Events that have occurred, could reasonably be expected to result in liability of the Company and the Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount exceeding US$100,000,000; and
(d)      any other development that results in, or could reasonably be expected to result in, 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.
SECTION 5.03.      Existence; Conduct of Business.  The Company will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect its legal existence and the rights, licenses, permits, privileges, franchises, patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade names material to the conduct of its business; provided that the foregoing shall not prohibit any merger, amalgamation, consolidation, liquidation or dissolution permitted under Section 6.03 or any disposition permitted under Section 6.05.
SECTION 5.04.      Payment of Taxes.  The Company will, and will cause each of the Subsidiaries to, pay its Tax liabilities 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, (b) the Company or the applicable Subsidiary has set aside on its books adequate reserves with respect thereto in accordance with GAAP, (c) such contest effectively suspends collection of the contested obligation and the enforcement of any Lien securing such obligation and (d) the failure to make payment pending such contest could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
SECTION 5.05.      Maintenance of Properties; Insurance.  The Company will, and will cause each of the 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, and (b) maintain, with financially sound and reputable insurance companies, 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.








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SECTION 5.06.      Books and Records; Inspection and Audit Rights.  The Company will, and will cause each of the Subsidiaries to, keep proper books of record and account in which, true and correct in all material respects entries are made of all dealings and transactions in relation to its business and activities.  The Company will, and will cause each of the Subsidiaries to, permit any representatives designated by the Administrative Agent or any Lender to visit and inspect its properties, to examine and make extracts from its books and records and to discuss its affairs, finances and condition with its officers and independent registered public accounting firm, all at such reasonable times and as often as reasonably requested, subject to such reasonable notice requirements and other procedures as shall from time to time be agreed upon by the Company and the Administrative Agent.
SECTION 5.07.      Compliance with Laws.  The Company will, and will cause each of the Subsidiaries to, comply with all laws, rules, regulations and orders of any Governmental Authority applicable to 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 Adverse Effect.
SECTION 5.08.      Use of Proceeds.  (a) The proceeds of the Loans will be used only for the purposes set forth in the introductory statements to this Agreement.  No part of the proceeds of any Loan will be used, whether directly or indirectly, for any purpose that entails a violation of any of the Regulations of the Board, including Regulations U and X.
(b)      The Borrower will not use or permit the use of the proceeds of any Borrowing (i) for the purpose of financing a payment to any Person in violation of applicable Anti-Corruption Laws, (ii) for the purpose of financing any activity or transaction of or with any Sanctioned Person or in any Sanctioned Country, or (iii) in any manner that would result in the violation of any applicable Sanctions by any party hereto.
SECTION 5.09.      Senior Debt Status.  In the event that the Company or any Designated Subsidiary shall at any time issue or have outstanding any Indebtedness that by its terms is subordinated to any other Indebtedness of the Company or such Subsidiary, the Company shall take, or cause such Subsidiary to take, all such actions as shall be necessary to cause the Obligations to constitute senior indebtedness (however denominated) in respect of such subordinated Indebtedness and to enable the Lenders to have and exercise any payment blockage or other remedies available or potentially available to holders of senior indebtedness under the terms of such subordinated Indebtedness.  Without limiting the foregoing, the Obligations are hereby designated as “senior indebtedness” and, if relevant, as “designated senior indebtedness” in respect of all such subordinated Indebtedness and are further given all such other designations as shall be required under the terms of any such subordinated Indebtedness in order that the Lenders may have and exercise any payment blockage or other remedies available or potentially available to holders of senior indebtedness under the terms of such subordinated Indebtedness.
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Until the Commitments have expired or terminated and the principal of and interest on each Loan and all fees payable hereunder have been paid in full, the Company covenants and agrees, as to itself and its subsidiaries, with the Lenders that:
SECTION 6.01.      Subsidiary Indebtedness.  The Company will not permit (x) any Subsidiary to enter into any inventory securitization transaction or to create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Indebtedness, other than:
(a)      Indebtedness of a Securitization Entity under the Existing Securitization or any other Securitization;
(b)      Indebtedness of Subsidiaries under this Agreement or the Revolving Credit Agreement or any similar revolving credit facility of the Company that refinances or otherwise replaces the Revolving Credit Agreement in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding US$250,000,000;
(c)      Indebtedness of any Domestic Subsidiary owed to the Company or any other Domestic Subsidiary; provided that such Indebtedness shall not have been transferred or subjected to a Lien in favor of any Person other than the Company or any Subsidiary;
(d)      Indebtedness of any Foreign Subsidiary to the Company or to any other Subsidiary;
(e)      Indebtedness of any Domestic Subsidiary that shall have executed and delivered an irrevocable Guarantee of the Obligations satisfactory in form and substance to the Administrative Agent (which, in the case of any Subsidiary that is not an “eligible contract participant” as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act, will be qualified as required to ensure compliance with the Commodity Exchange Act and any regulations thereunder); 
(f)      Indebtedness of any Subsidiary incurred to finance the acquisition, construction or improvement of any fixed or capital assets acquired, constructed or improved by the such Subsidiary; provided that such Indebtedness is incurred prior to or within 180 days after such acquisition or the completion of such construction or improvement and the principal amount of such Indebtedness does not exceed the cost of acquiring, constructing or improving such fixed or capital assets; and any refinancings, refundings, renewals, amendments or extensions thereof, provided that the amount of such Indebtedness is not increased at the time of such refinancing, refunding, renewal, amendment or extension except by an amount equal to any premium or other amount paid, and fees and expenses incurred, in connection with such refinancing; and
(g)      Other Indebtedness not expressly permitted by clauses (a) through (f) above; provided that at the time of and after giving effect to the incurrence of any such Indebtedness, (i) the aggregate amount of all outstanding Indebtedness incurred in reliance on this clause (g) does not exceed 5% of Consolidated Tangible Assets as of the end of the most recent fiscal quarter for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or (b) and (ii) the aggregate amount of all outstanding Indebtedness of Domestic Subsidiaries incurred in reliance on this clause (g) does not exceed 1% of Consolidated Tangible Assets as of the end of such most recent fiscal quarter.








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SECTION 6.02.      Liens.  The Company will not, and will not 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)      Permitted Encumbrances;
(b)      any Lien on any asset of the Company or any Subsidiary existing on the Closing Date and set forth in Schedule 6.02; provided that (i) such Lien shall not apply to any other asset of the Company or any Subsidiary and (ii) such Lien shall secure only those obligations which it secures on the Closing Date and extensions, renewals and replacements thereof that do not increase the outstanding principal amount thereof;
(c)      any Lien existing on any asset prior to the acquisition thereof by the Company or any Subsidiary or existing on any asset of any Person that becomes a Subsidiary after the Closing Date prior to the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary; provided that (i) such Lien is not created in contemplation of or in connection with such acquisition or such Person becoming a Subsidiary, as the case may be, (ii) such Lien shall not apply to any other assets of the Company or any Subsidiary and (iii) such Lien shall secure only those obligations which it secures on the date of such acquisition or the date such Person becomes a Subsidiary, as the case may be, and extensions, renewals and replacements thereof that do not increase the outstanding principal amount thereof;
(d)      Liens on fixed or capital assets acquired, constructed or improved by the Company or any Subsidiary; provided that (i) such Liens secure only Indebtedness incurred to finance the acquisition, construction or improvement of such fixed or capital assets, including any Capital Lease Obligations or other Indebtedness assumed in connection with the acquisition of any such assets or secured by a Lien on any such assets prior to the acquisition thereof, and extensions, renewals and replacements of any such Indebtedness that do not increase the outstanding principal amount thereof or result in an earlier maturity date or a decreased weighted average life thereof, (ii) such security interests and the Indebtedness secured thereby are incurred prior to or within 90 days after such acquisition or the completion of such construction or improvement, (iii) the Indebtedness secured thereby does not exceed 100% of the cost of acquiring, constructing or improving such fixed or capital assets and (iv) such security interests shall not apply to any other assets of the Company or any Subsidiary;
(e)      Liens on accounts receivable and the Proceeds thereof existing or deemed to exist in connection with any Securitization permitted pursuant to Section 6.01; and
(f)      other Liens securing obligations not greater than US$100,000,000 in the aggregate outstanding at any time.
SECTION 6.03.      Fundamental Changes.  (a) The Company will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, merge into, amalgamate with or consolidate with any other Person, or permit any other Person to merge into, amalgamate with or consolidate with it, or liquidate or dissolve, except that, if at the time thereof and immediately after giving effect thereto, no Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (i) any Subsidiary may merge into the Company in a transaction in which the Company is the surviving corporation, (ii) any Subsidiary may merge into any Subsidiary in a transaction in which the surviving entity is a Subsidiary (and if any party to such merger is a 








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Designated Subsidiary, the surviving entity is a Designated Subsidiary), (iii) any acquisition may be accomplished by a merger of one or more Subsidiaries in a transaction in which the surviving entity is a Subsidiary (and if any party to such merger is a Designated Subsidiary, the surviving entity is a Designated Subsidiary) and (iv) any Subsidiary may liquidate or dissolve if the Company determines in good faith that such liquidation or dissolution is in the best interests of the Company and is not materially disadvantageous to the Lenders.
(b)      The Company will not, and will not permit any of the Subsidiaries to, engage to any material extent in any business other than businesses of the type conducted by the Company and the Subsidiaries on the Closing Date and businesses reasonably related thereto or to the healthcare industry.
SECTION 6.04.      Asset Sales.  The Company will not, and will not permit any of the Subsidiaries to, sell, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of any asset, including any Equity Interest owned by it (including any such disposition in the form of any of its Subsidiaries issuing any additional Equity Interest in such Subsidiary), except:
(a)      sales, transfers and other dispositions of inventory, obsolete or surplus equipment in the ordinary course of business and dispositions of cash and Permitted Investments;
(b)      sales, transfers and other dispositions to the Company or a Subsidiary; provided that any such sales, transfers or dispositions involving a Subsidiary that is not a Designated Subsidiary shall be made in compliance with Section 6.07;
(c)      sales of accounts receivable and the Proceeds thereof under any Securitization; and
(d)      sales, transfers and other dispositions of assets that are not permitted by any other clause of this Section (including pursuant to sale and leaseback transactions); provided that the aggregate fair market value of all assets sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of in reliance upon this clause (d) shall not exceed, at any time, 20% of the Consolidated Tangible Assets of the Company and the Subsidiaries, as reflected on a consolidated balance sheet of the Company as of the last day of the most recent fiscal quarter for which financial statements shall have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or 5.01(b) most recently prior to such sale or other disposition (or, prior to the first such delivery, for which financial statements are referred to in Section 3.04(a)).
SECTION 6.05.      Hedging Agreements.  The Company will not, and will not permit any of the Subsidiaries to, enter into any Hedging Agreement, other than Hedging Agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business to hedge or mitigate risks to which the Company or any Subsidiary is exposed in the conduct of its business or the management of its liabilities and not for any speculative purpose.
SECTION 6.06.      Restricted Payments; Certain Payments of Indebtedness.  (a) The Company will not, and will not permit any of the Subsidiaries to, declare or make, or agree to pay or make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment if a Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would occur as a result of making such Restricted Payment and any related incurrence of Indebtedness; provided that (i) Subsidiaries may declare and pay dividends ratably with respect to their Equity Interests and (ii) the Company may pay any cash dividend declared by it not more 








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than 60 days prior to such payment if the payment of such dividend on the date on which it was declared would have been permitted under this paragraph.
(b)      The Company will not, and will not permit any of the Subsidiaries to, make or agree to pay or make, directly or indirectly, any payment or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) of or in respect of principal of or interest on any Indebtedness, or any payment or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any Indebtedness, if a Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would occur as a result of making such payment and any related incurrence of Indebtedness; provided that the Company or any Subsidiary may (i) pay Indebtedness created under the Loan Documents, (ii) make voluntary principal prepayments in respect of Indebtedness under the Revolving Credit Agreement or the February Term Loan Agreement and (iii) make regularly scheduled interest payments and scheduled or mandatory principal payments as and when due in respect of any Indebtedness.
SECTION 6.07.      Transactions with Affiliates.  The Company will not, and will not permit any of the Subsidiaries to, sell, lease or otherwise transfer any material amount of assets to, or purchase, lease or otherwise acquire any material amount of assets from, or otherwise engage in any other material transactions with, any Affiliate of the Company or such Subsidiary, except (a) transactions that are at prices and on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Company or such Subsidiary than could be obtained on an arm’s-length basis from unrelated third parties, (b) transactions between or among the Company and the Designated Subsidiaries not involving any other Affiliate, (c) transactions between or among Excluded Subsidiaries not involving any other Affiliate, (d) transactions between the Company or any Subsidiary and any Securitization Entity pursuant to any Securitization and (e) any Restricted Payment permitted by Section 6.06.
SECTION 6.08.      Restrictive Agreements.  The Company will not, and will not permit any of the Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, enter into, incur or permit to exist any agreement or other arrangement that prohibits, restricts or imposes any condition upon the ability of any Domestic Subsidiary to pay dividends or other distributions with respect to any shares of its capital stock or to make or repay loans or advances to the Company or any other Subsidiary or to Guarantee Indebtedness of the Company or any other Subsidiary; provided that (a) the foregoing shall not apply to restrictions and conditions imposed by law or by any Loan Document or by any agreement, document or instrument relating to any Securitization or any indenture, agreement or instrument evidencing or governing Indebtedness, in each case, as in effect on the Closing Date or as modified in accordance herewith, or relating to the Existing Securitization as modified in accordance herewith, (b) the foregoing shall not apply to restrictions and conditions existing on the Closing Date identified on Schedule 6.08 (but shall apply to any amendment or modification expanding the scope of any such restriction or condition), (c) the foregoing shall not apply to customary restrictions and conditions contained in agreements relating to the sale of a Subsidiary or assets pending such sale, provided such restrictions and conditions apply only to the Subsidiary or assets that are to be sold and such sale is permitted hereunder, and (d) the Company and any Subsidiary may enter into agreements limiting Guarantees by Subsidiaries, provided that any such agreements do not prohibit or limit the amount of or impair the Guarantees issued or required to be issued in connection with this Agreement.
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consummation of any Material Acquisition that involves payment of cash consideration of at least US$500,000,000 and the written election of the Company to the Administrative Agent (which shall deliver a copy to the Lenders), the maximum permitted Leverage Ratio set forth above shall increase to 3.50 to 1.00, with respect to the last day of the fiscal quarter of the Company during which such Material Acquisition is consummated and the last day of the first, second and third full fiscal quarters of the Company ending after the date of the consummation of such Material Acquisition; provided, however, that the Company shall not be permitted to make such an election if the Company has theretofore made such an election unless (a) at least two consecutive full fiscal quarters of the Company shall have ended since the date of such prior election without an increase being in effect or (b) the Leverage Ratio as of the last day of at least two consecutive full fiscal quarters of the Company ended since the date of such prior election did not exceed 3.25 to 1.00.
SECTION 6.10.      Fiscal Quarters.  The Company will not change, and will not permit any Subsidiary to change, (a) the fiscal year end of the Company or any Subsidiary to any date other than September 30 (or December 31 with respect to PharMEDium Healthcare Holdings, Inc. and its Subsidiaries) or (b) the fiscal quarter ends of the Company or any Subsidiary to any date other than March 31, June 30, September 30 or December 31.
ARTICLE VII 
 
Events of Default
If any of the following events (“Events of Default”) shall occur:
(a)      the Borrower shall fail to pay any principal of any Loan when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at the due date thereof or at a date fixed for prepayment thereof or otherwise;
(b)      the Borrower shall fail to pay any interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount (other than an amount referred to in clause (a) of this Article) payable under this Agreement or any other Loan Document, when and as the same shall become due and payable, and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of three Business Days;
(c)      any representation or warranty made or deemed made by or on behalf of the Company or any Subsidiary in or in connection with any Loan Document or any amendment or modification thereof or waiver thereunder, or any report, certificate, financial statement or other document furnished pursuant to or in connection with any Loan Document or any amendment or modification thereof or waiver thereunder, shall prove to have been incorrect in any material respect when made or deemed made;
(d)      the Borrower shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement contained in Section 5.02(a), 5.03 (with respect to the existence of the Borrower) or 5.08 or in Article VI;
(e)      any Loan 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) or (d) of this Article), and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of 30 days after notice thereof from the Administrative Agent to the Company (which notice will be given at the request of any Lender);








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(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 prior to the expiration of any grace period applicable to such payment;
(g)      any event or condition occurs that results in any Material Indebtedness becoming due prior to its scheduled maturity or that enables or permits the holder or holders of any Material Indebtedness or any trustee or agent 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, or there shall occur any default, event of default, event of termination or other event that results in, or entitles any person other than the Company or a Subsidiary to cause, the acceleration of any Indebtedness, or the termination of the purchase of accounts receivable, under any Securitization; provided that this clause (g) shall not apply to secured Indebtedness that becomes due as a result of the voluntary sale or transfer of the property or assets securing such Indebtedness;
(h)      an involuntary proceeding shall be commenced or an involuntary petition shall be filed seeking (i) liquidation, reorganization or other relief in respect of the Borrower or any Significant Subsidiary or its debts, or of a substantial part of its assets, under any Federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law now or hereafter in effect or (ii) the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar official for the Borrower or any Significant 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)      the Borrower or any Significant Subsidiary shall (i) voluntarily commence any proceeding or file any petition seeking liquidation (other than any liquidation permitted under Section 6.03(a)(iv)), reorganization or other relief under any Federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law now or hereafter in effect, (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 the Borrower or any Significant 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 (vi) take any action for the purpose of effecting any of the foregoing;
(j)      the Borrower or any Significant Subsidiary shall become unable, admit in writing its inability or fail generally to pay its debts as they become due;
(k)      one or more judgments for the payment of money in an aggregate amount in excess of US$100,000,000 which is not paid or fully covered by insurance shall be rendered against the Borrower, any Significant Subsidiary, any Designated Subsidiary or any combination thereof and the same shall remain undischarged for a period of 30 consecutive days during which execution shall not be effectively stayed, or any action shall be legally taken by a judgment creditor to attach or levy upon any assets of the Borrower, any Significant Subsidiary or any Designated Subsidiary to enforce any such judgment;








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(l)      an ERISA Event shall have occurred that, in the opinion of the Required Lenders, when taken together with all other ERISA Events that have occurred, could reasonably be expected to result in liability of the Borrower, the Significant Subsidiaries and the Designated Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount exceeding US$100,000,000;
(m)      any Guarantee under any Loan Document shall cease to be, or shall be asserted by any Loan Party not to be, a valid, binding and enforceable obligation of the Company or the applicable Loan Party; or
(n)      a Change in Control shall occur;
then, and in every such event (other than an event with respect to the Borrower described in clause (h) or (i) of this Article), and at any time thereafter during the continuance of such event, the Administrative Agent may, and at the request of the Required Lenders shall, by notice to the Company, take either or both of the following actions, at the same or different times, (i) terminate the Commitments, and thereupon the Commitments shall terminate immediately and (ii) declare the Loans and all payment obligations of the Borrower 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 Borrower 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 the Borrower; and in case of any event with respect to the Borrower described in clause (h) or (i) of this Article, the Commitments shall immediately and automatically terminate and the principal of the Loans, together with accrued interest thereon and all fees and other obligations of the Borrower accrued hereunder, shall immediately and automatically become due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by the Borrower.
ARTICLE VIII
 
The Administrative Agent
Each of the Lenders hereby irrevocably appoints the entity named as Administrative Agent in the heading of this Agreement and its successors to serve as administrative agent under the Loan Documents, and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such actions and to exercise such powers as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms of the Loan Documents, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. 
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 such Person and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to, 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.
The Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or obligations except those expressly set forth in the Loan Documents, and its duties hereunder and under the other Loan Documents shall be administrative in nature.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (a) the Administrative Agent shall not be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of 








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whether a Default has occurred and is continuing (and 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, and that such term is used as a matter of market custom and is intended to create or reflect only an administrative relationship between contracting parties), (b) the Administrative Agent shall not have any duty to take any discretionary action or to exercise any discretionary power, except discretionary rights and powers expressly contemplated by the 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 necessary, or as the Administrative Agent shall believe in good faith to be necessary, under the circumstances as provided in the Loan Documents), provided that the Administrative Agent shall not be required to take any action that, in its opinion, could expose the Administrative Agent to liability or be contrary to any Loan Document or applicable law, and (c) except as expressly set forth in the Loan Documents, the Administrative Agent shall not have any duty to disclose, and shall not be liable for the failure to disclose, any information relating to Company, any Subsidiary or any other Affiliate of any of the foregoing that is communicated to or obtained by the Person serving as 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 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 to be necessary, under the circumstances as provided in the Loan Documents) or in the absence of its own gross negligence or wilful misconduct (such absence to be presumed unless otherwise determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by a final and non-appealable judgment).  The Administrative Agent shall be deemed not to have knowledge of any Default unless and until written notice thereof (stating that it is a “Notice of Default”) is given to the Administrative Agent by the Company or a Lender, and 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 any Loan Document, (ii) the contents of any certificate, report or other document delivered thereunder or in connection therewith, (iii) the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth in any Loan Document or the occurrence of any Default, (iv) the sufficiency, validity, enforceability, effectiveness or genuineness of any Loan Document or any other agreement, instrument or document or (v) the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Article IV or elsewhere in any Loan Document, other than to confirm receipt of items expressly required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent or satisfaction of any condition that expressly refers to the matters described therein being acceptable or satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.  
The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely, 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 (whether or not such Person in fact meets the requirements set forth in the Loan Documents for being the signatory, sender or authenticator thereof).  The Administrative Agent also shall be entitled to rely, and shall not incur any liability for relying, upon any statement made to it orally or by telephone and believed by it to be made by the proper Person (whether or not such Person in fact meets the requirements set forth in the Loan Documents for being the signatory, sender or authenticator thereof), and may act upon any such statement prior to receipt of written confirmation thereof.  The Administrative Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be counsel for the Borrower), independent accountants and other experts selected by it, and shall not be liable for any 








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action taken or not taken by it in accordance with the advice of any such counsel, accountants or experts.
The Administrative Agent may perform any of and all 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 of and all their duties and exercise their rights and powers 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 wilful misconduct in the selection of such sub-agents.
Subject to the appointment and acceptance of a successor Administrative Agent as provided in this paragraph, the Administrative Agent may resign at any time by notifying the Lenders and the Company.  Upon any such resignation, the Required Lenders (in the case of a resignation by the Administrative Agent) shall have the right to appoint a successor, subject (except during the existence of an Event of Default) to the approval of the Company.  If no successor Administrative Agent shall have been so appointed and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the retiring Administrative Agent gives notice of its resignation, then the retiring Administrative Agent may on behalf of the Lenders, appoint a successor Administrative Agent which shall be a bank with an office in New York, New York, or an Affiliate of any such bank, that is reasonably acceptable to the Company.  Upon the acceptance of its appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder by a successor, such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Administrative Agent, and the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder; provided that if the Administrative Agent shall notify the Company and the Lenders that no qualifying Person has accepted such appointment, then such resignation shall nonetheless become effective in accordance with such notice and (a) the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents and (b) the Required Lenders shall succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the removed Administrative Agent.  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 an Administrative Agent’s resignation hereunder, the provisions of this Article and Section 9.03 shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring 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 it was acting as Administrative Agent.
In case of the pendency of any proceeding with respect to any Loan Party under any Federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law now or hereafter in effect, the Administrative Agent (irrespective of whether the principal of any Loan 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 the Borrower) shall be entitled and empowered (but not obligated) by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise:
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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 and the Administrative Agent (including any claim under Sections 2.09, 2.10, 2.12, 2.13, 2.14 and 9.03) 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 proceeding is hereby authorized by each Lender 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, to pay to the Administrative Agent any amount due to it, in its capacity as the Administrative Agent, under the Loan Documents (including under Section 9.03).  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 any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the obligations or the rights of any Lender, or to vote in respect of the claim of any Lender in any such proceeding.
Each Lender acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, the Arrangers or any other Lender, or any of the Related Parties of any of the foregoing, 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 also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, the Arrangers or any other Lender, or any of the Related Parties of any of the foregoing, 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.
Each Lender, by becoming a party to this Agreement, shall be deemed to have acknowledged receipt of, and consented to and approved, each Loan Document and each other document required to be delivered to, or be approved by or satisfactory to, the Administrative Agent or the Lenders on or prior to the Funding Date.
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, neither any Arranger nor any Person named on the cover page of this Agreement as a Syndication Agent or a Documentation Agent shall have any duties or obligations under this Agreement or any other Loan Document (except in its capacity, as applicable, as a Lender), but all such Persons shall have the benefit of the indemnities provided for hereunder.
The provisions of this Article are solely for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, and, except solely to the extent of the Company's right to approve a successor Administrative Agent as set forth above, none of the Company or any other Loan Party shall have any rights as a third party beneficiary of any such provisions.
ARTICLE IX 
 
Miscellaneous
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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 fax, as follows:
(i)      if to the Company, to it at 1300 Morris Drive, Suite 100, Chesterbrook, PA 19087, Attention of J.F. Quinn (Fax No. (610) 727-3639), with a copy to the Company, Attention of General Counsel;
(ii)      if to the Administrative Agent, to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 500 Stanton Christiana Road, NCC5, 2nd Floor, Newark, DE 19713-2107, Attention of Dan Lougheed (Phone No.: 302-634-1956, Fax No.: 302-634-4250, Email: Dan.P.Lougheed@jpmorgan.com) with a copy to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 383 Madison Avenue, Floor 24, New York, NY 10179, Attention of Dawn Lee Lum (Fax No. (212) 270-3279); and
(iii)      if to any other Lender, to it at its address (or fax number) set forth in its Administrative Questionnaire.
(b)      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 fax 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); and notices and other communications delivered through Electronic Systems to the extent provided in paragraph (c) below shall be effective as provided in such paragraph.
(c)      Notices and other communications to the Lenders hereunder may be delivered or furnished by electronic communications (including email) or using Electronic Systems pursuant to procedures approved by the Administrative Agent; provided that the foregoing shall not apply to notices under Article II to any Lender if such Lender has notified the Administrative Agent that it is incapable of receiving notices under such Article by electronic communication or using Electronic Systems.  Any notices or other communications to the Administrative Agent or the Borrower may be delivered or furnished by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by it; provided that approval of such procedures may be limited or rescinded by such Person by notice to each other such Person.
(d)      Any party hereto may change its address or fax number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the other parties hereto.
(e)      Each Loan Party agrees that the Administrative Agent may, but shall not be obligated to, make Communications available to the Lenders by posting the Communications on an Electronic System.  Any Electronic System used by the Administrative Agent is provided “as is” and “as available.” The Administrative Agent and its Related Parties do not warrant the adequacy of any Electronic System and expressly disclaim liability for errors or omissions in the Communications.  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 the Administrative Agent or its Related Parties in connection with the Communications or any Electronic System.  In no event shall the Administrative Agent or any of its Related Parties have any liability to the Loan Parties, any Lender or any other Person for damages of any kind, including direct or indirect, special, incidental, consequential or punitive damages, losses or expenses (whether in tort, contract or otherwise) arising out of any Loan 








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SECTION 9.02.      Waivers; Amendments.  (a) No failure or delay by the Administrative Agent or any Lender in exercising any right or power hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right or power, or any abandonment or discontinuance of steps to enforce such a right or power, preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right or power.  The rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Documents are cumulative and are not exclusive of any rights or remedies that they would otherwise have.  No waiver of any provision of any Loan Document or consent to any departure by any Loan Party therefrom shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be permitted by paragraph (b) of this Section, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the execution and delivery of this Agreement or the making of a Loan shall not be construed as a waiver of any Default, regardless of whether the Administrative Agent, any Lender may have had notice or knowledge of such Default at the time.
(b)      None of this Agreement, any Loan Document or any provision hereof or thereof may be waived, amended or modified except, in the case of this Agreement, pursuant to an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by the Company and the Required Lenders or, in the case of any other Loan Document, pursuant to an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by the Administrative Agent and the Loan Party or Loan Parties that are parties thereto, in each case with the consent of the Required Lenders; provided that no such agreement shall (i) increase any Commitment of any Lender without the written consent of such Lender, (ii) reduce the principal amount of any Loan or reduce the rate of interest thereon, or reduce any fees payable hereunder, without the written consent of each Lender affected thereby, (iii) postpone the scheduled maturity of any Loan or any date for the payment of any principal, interest or fees payable hereunder, or reduce the amount of, waive or excuse any such payment, or postpone the scheduled date of expiration of any Commitment, without the written consent of each Lender affected thereby, (iv) change Section 2.15(b) or 2.15(c) in a manner that would alter the pro rata sharing of payments required thereby, without the written consent of each Lender or (v) change any of the provisions of this Section or the percentage set forth in the definition of “Required Lenders” or any other provision of any Loan Document specifying the number or percentage of Lenders required to waive, amend or modify any rights thereunder or make any determination or grant any consent thereunder, without the written consent of each Lender; provided further that no such agreement shall amend, modify or otherwise affect the rights or duties of the Administrative Agent without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, (A) any provision of this Agreement may be amended by an agreement in writing entered into by the Company, the Required Lenders and the Administrative Agent if (1) by the terms of such agreement the Commitments of each Lender not consenting to the amendment provided for therein shall terminate upon the effectiveness of such amendment and (2) at the time such amendment becomes effective, each Lender not consenting thereto receives payment in full of the principal of and interest accrued on each Loan made by it and all other amounts owing to it or accrued for its account under this Agreement and (B) any amendment of the definition of the term “Applicable Rate” pursuant to the last sentence of such definition shall require only the written consent of the Company and the Required Lenders.
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Lender.  Any amendment, waiver or other modification effected in accordance with this Section 9.02 shall be binding upon each Person that is at the time thereof a Lender and each Person that subsequently becomes a Lender.
SECTION 9.03.      Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver.  (a) The Company shall pay (i) all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent, the Arrangers and their Affiliates, including the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of outside counsel for the Administrative Agent, the Arrangers and their Affiliates, in connection with the structuring, arrangement and syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein, the preparation and administration of the Loan Documents or any amendments, modifications or waivers of the provisions thereof (whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby shall be consummated) and (ii) all out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent or any Arranger or Lender, including the fees, charges and disbursements of any outside counsel for the Administrative Agent or such Arranger or Lender, in connection with the enforcement or protection of its rights in connection with the Loan Documents, including its rights under this Section, or in connection with the Loans made hereunder, including all such out-of-pocket expenses incurred during any workout, restructuring or negotiations in respect of such Loans.
(b)      The Company shall indemnify the Administrative Agent, each Arranger, each Lender, 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, penalties, liabilities and related expenses, including the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of any outside counsel for any Indemnitee, incurred by or asserted against any Indemnitee arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of (i) the structuring, arrangement and syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein, (ii) the execution or delivery of any Loan Document or any other agreement or instrument contemplated hereby, the performance by the parties to the Loan Documents of their respective obligations thereunder or the consummation of the Transactions or any other transactions contemplated hereby, (iii) any Loan or the use of the proceeds therefrom, (iv) any Environmental Liability related in any way to the Company or any of the Subsidiaries or (v) any actual or prospective claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, whether based on contract, tort or any other theory and regardless of whether initiated by any Indemnitee, any party hereto or a third party or 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, penalties, liabilities or related expenses are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from (A) the gross negligence or wilful misconduct of such Indemnitee, (B) the breach by such Indemnitee in bad faith of its obligations under the Loan Documents.
(c)      To the extent that the Company fails to pay any amount required to be paid by it to the Administrative Agent (or any sub-agent thereof) or any Related Party of the foregoing, under paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, each Lender severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent) 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) of such unpaid amount; provided 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 such sub-agent) or against any Related Party of the foregoing acting for the Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent) in connection with such capacity.  For purposes of this paragraph, a Lender’s “pro rata share” shall be determined based upon its share of the sum 








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of the aggregate outstanding Loans and unused Commitments at the time (or most recently outstanding and in effect).
(d)      To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Borrower shall not assert, and hereby waives, any claim against any Indemnitee (i) for any damages arising from the use by others of information or other materials obtained through telecommunications, electronic or other information transmission systems (including the Internet and Electronic Systems), or (ii) 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 or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby, the Transactions, any Loan or the use of the proceeds thereof.
(e)      All amounts due under this Section shall be payable promptly after written demand therefor.
SECTION 9.04.      Successors and Assigns.  (a) The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, except that (i) the Borrower may not assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each Lender (and any attempted assignment or transfer by the Borrower without such consent shall be null and void) and (ii) no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer its rights or obligations hereunder except in accordance with this Section.  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 paragraph (f) of this Section), the Arrangers, the Syndication Agent, the Documentation Agents and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the sub-agents of the Administrative Agent and the Related Parties of any of the Administrative Agent, the Arrangers, the Syndication Agent, the Documentation Agents and any Lender) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.
(b)      (i) Subject to the conditions set forth in paragraph (b)(ii) below, any Lender may assign to one or more Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitments and the Loans and other amounts at the time owing to it) with the prior written consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) of:  
(A)      the Company; provided that (x) no consent of the Company shall be required for an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender, an Approved Fund or, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, any other assignee, and (y) the Company shall be deemed to have consented to any such assignment unless it shall object thereto by written notice to the Administrative Agent within five Business Days after having received notice thereof; and
(B)      the Administrative Agent.
(ii)      Assignments shall be subject to the following additional conditions:
(A)      except in the case of an assignment to a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender or an assignment of the entire remaining amount of any Commitment or Loan (as applicable) of the assigning Lender, the amount of each Commitment or Loan (as applicable) of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment (determined as of the date the Assignment and Assumption with respect to such 








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assignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent) shall not be less than US$5,000,000 unless each of the Company and the Administrative Agent shall otherwise consent; provided that (x) no such consent of the Company shall be required if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and (y) the Company shall be deemed to have consented to any such assignment unless it shall object thereto by written notice to the Administrative Agent within five Business Days after having received notice thereof;
(B)      each partial assignment of a Commitment or Loan (as applicable) shall be made as an assignment of a proportionate part of all the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations;
(C)      the parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption (or an agreement incorporating by reference a form of Assignment and Assumption posted on the Electronic System), together with a processing and recordation fee of US$3,500; and
(D)      the assignee, if it shall not be a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent any tax forms required by Section 2.14 and an Administrative Questionnaire in which the assignee designates one or more credit contacts to whom all syndicate-level information (which may contain MNPI) will be made available and who may receive such information in accordance with the assignee’s compliance procedures and applicable laws, including Federal, State and foreign securities laws.
(c)      Subject to acceptance and recording thereof pursuant to paragraph (e) of this Section, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption, the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all of the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.12, 2.13, 2.14 and 9.03).  Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with this Section shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with paragraph (f) of this Section.
(d)      The Administrative Agent, acting for this purpose as an agent of the Borrower, shall maintain at one of its offices in The City of New York a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to it and records of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitments of, and principal amounts (and stated interest) 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 Borrower, 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, notwithstanding notice to the contrary.  The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower and the Lenders at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.








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(e)      Upon its receipt of a duly completed Assignment and Assumption (or an agreement incorporating by reference a form of Assignment and Assumption posted on the Electronic System) executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee, the assignee’s completed Administrative Questionnaire (unless the assignee shall already be a Lender hereunder), the processing and recordation fee referred to in paragraph (b) of this Section and any written consent to such assignment required by paragraph (b) of this Section, the Administrative Agent shall accept such Assignment and Assumption and record the information contained therein in the Register.  No assignment shall be effective for purposes of this Agreement unless it has been recorded in the Register as provided in this paragraph.
(f)      Any Lender may, without the consent of the Company, the Administrative Agent, or any other Lender, sell participations to one or more Eligible Assignees (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 Commitments or its Loans; 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 Borrower, the Administrative Agent, and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement.  Any agreement or instrument pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce the Loan Documents and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of the Loan Documents; provided that such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, modification or waiver described in the first proviso to Section 9.02(b) that affects such Participant.  The Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.12, 2.13, and 2.14 (subject to the requirements and limitations therein, including the requirements under Section 2.14(f) (it being understood that the documentation required under Section 2.14(f) shall be delivered to the participating Lender)) 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 2.15 and 2.16 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 2.12 and 2.14, with respect to any participation, than its participating Lender 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 2.16(b) with respect to any Participant.  To the extent permitted by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 9.08 as though it were a Lender; provided that such Participant agrees to be subject to Section 2.15(c) as though it were a Lender.  Each Lender that sells a participation shall, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrower, 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 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 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 








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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.
(g)      Any Lender may at any time pledge or assign a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement to secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank or other central bank, and this Section shall not apply to any such pledge or assignment of a security interest; provided that no such pledge or assignment of a security interest shall release a Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.
SECTION 9.05.      Survival.  All covenants, agreements, representations and warranties made by the Loan Parties in the Loan Documents and in the certificates or other instruments delivered in connection with or pursuant to this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall be considered to have been relied upon by the other parties hereto and shall survive the execution and delivery of the Loan Documents and the making of any Loans, regardless of any investigation made by any such other party or on its behalf and notwithstanding that the Administrative Agent or any Lender may have had notice or knowledge of any Default or incorrect representation or warranty at the time any credit is extended hereunder, and shall continue in full force and effect as long as the principal of or any accrued interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount payable under this Agreement is outstanding and unpaid and so long as the Commitments have not expired or terminated.  The provisions of Sections 2.12, 2.13, 2.14 and 9.03 and Article VIII shall survive and remain in full force and effect regardless of the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, the repayment of the Loans, the expiration or termination of the Commitments or the termination of this Agreement or any provision hereof.
SECTION 9.06.      Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness; Electronic Execution.  (a) This Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto on different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract.  This Agreement, the other Loan Documents, any separate letter agreements with respect to fees payable to the Administrative Agent or to the Arrangers and their Affiliates and any provisions in any commitment letter executed and delivered by the Company in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby that by the express terms of such commitment letter survive the execution or effectiveness of this Agreement 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.  This Agreement shall become effective as provided in the Restatement Agreement, and thereafter shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns.  Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Agreement by facsimile or other electronic imaging means shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement.
(b)  The words “execution”, “signed”, “signature”, “delivery” and words of like import in or relating to any document to be signed in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document and the transactions contemplated hereby shall be deemed to include Electronic Signatures, deliveries 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, physical delivery thereof 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 








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state laws based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act; provided that nothing herein shall require the Administrative Agent to accept electronic signatures in any form or format without its prior written consent.
SECTION 9.07.      Severability.  Any provision of this Agreement held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability without affecting the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions hereof; and the invalidity of a particular provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate such provision in any other jurisdiction.
SECTION 9.08.      Right of Setoff.  If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, each Lender and each of its Affiliates is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final) at any time held and other obligations at any time owing by such Lender or Affiliate to or for the credit or the account of the Company against any of and all the obligations of the Company in its capacity as the Borrower, irrespective of whether or not such Lender shall have made any demand under this Agreement and although such obligations may be unmatured.  The rights of each Lender under this Section are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) which such Lender may have.
SECTION 9.09.      Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process.  (a) This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of New York.
(b)      The Borrower hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for itself and its property, to the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the State of New York sitting in New York County and of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York, and any appellate court from any thereof, in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to any Loan Document, and each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that all claims in respect of any such action or proceeding brought by it shall be brought and heard and determined, exclusively in such New York State or, to the extent permitted by 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 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 its properties in the courts of any jurisdiction.
(c)      The Borrower hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent it may legally and effectively do so, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any suit, 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 law, the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding in any such court.
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SECTION 9.10.      WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL.  EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY 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, 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 PARTY HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY 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 BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION.
SECTION 9.11.      Headings.  Article and Section headings and the Table of Contents used herein are for convenience of reference only, are not part of this Agreement and shall not affect the construction of, or be taken into consideration in interpreting, this Agreement.
SECTION 9.12.      Confidentiality.  The Administrative Agent and each Lender agrees to maintain the confidentiality of the Information (as defined below), and will not use such confidential Information for any purpose or in any manner except in connection with this Agreement, except that Information may be disclosed (a) to its and its Affiliates’ Related Parties, including accountants, legal counsel and other advisors (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 or shall be subject to a professional obligation of confidentiality), (b) to the extent requested by any governmental, supervisory or regulatory authority purporting to have jurisdiction over it or its Affiliates (including any self-regulatory authority, such as the National Association of Insurance Commissioners) (it being understood that, other than in the case of any request by any bank regulatory authority exercising examination or audit authority, it will to the extent reasonably practicable provide the Company with an opportunity to request confidential treatment from such authority), (c) to the extent required by applicable laws or regulations or by any subpoena or similar legal process, (d) to any other party to this Agreement, (e) in connection with the exercise of any remedies hereunder or any suit, 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 counterparty (or its advisors) to any swap or derivative transaction relating to the Company or any Subsidiary and its obligations, (g) with the written consent of the Company, (h) to the extent such Information (i) becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this Section or any other confidentiality agreement to which it is party with the Company or any Subsidiary or (ii) becomes available to the Administrative Agent or such Lender on a nonconfidential basis from a source other than the Company, (i) on a confidential basis to (i) any rating agency in connection with the rating of the Company or its Subsidiaries or this Agreement or (ii) the CUSIP Service Bureau or any similar agency in connection with the issuance and monitoring of CUSIP numbers with respect to this Agreement, (j) to market data collectors, similar service providers, including league table providers, to the lending industry, in each case, information of the type routinely provided to such providers and (k) to service providers to the Administrative Agent or any of the Lenders in connection with the administration or servicing of this Agreement, the other Loan Documents and the Commitments (it being understood that the Persons to whom such disclosure is made will be informed of the confidential nature of such 








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Information and instructed to keep such Information confidential or shall be subject to a professional obligation of confidentiality).  For the purposes of this Section, “Information” means all confidential information received from the Company relating to the Company or its businesses other than any such information that is available to the Administrative Agent or any Lender on a nonconfidential basis prior to disclosure by the Company.  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.
SECTION 9.13.      Interest Rate Limitation.  Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if at any time the interest rate applicable to any extension of credit hereunder, together with all fees, charges and other amounts which are treated as interest on such extension of credit under applicable law (collectively, the “Charges”), shall exceed the maximum lawful rate (the “Maximum Rate”) which may be contracted for, charged, taken, received or reserved by the Lender that made such extension of credit in accordance with applicable law, the rate of interest payable in respect of such extension of credit hereunder, together with all Charges payable in respect thereof, shall be limited to the Maximum Rate and, to the extent lawful, the interest and Charges that would have been payable in respect of such extension of credit but were not payable as a result of the operation of this Section shall be cumulated and the interest and Charges payable to such Lender in respect of other extensions of credit or periods shall be increased (but not above the Maximum Rate therefor) until such cumulated amount, together with interest thereon at the NYFRB Rate to the date of repayment, shall have been received by such Lender.
SECTION 9.14.      USA PATRIOT Act.  Each Lender hereby notifies the Borrower that pursuant to the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act, it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies the Borrower, which information includes the name and address of the Borrower and other information that will allow such Lender to identify the Borrower in accordance with the USA PATRIOT Act.
SECTION 9.15.      Non-Public Information.  (a) Each Lender acknowledges that all information furnished to it pursuant to this Agreement by the Company or on its behalf and relating to the Company, the Subsidiaries or their businesses may include MNPI, and confirms that it has developed compliance procedures regarding the use of MNPI and that it will handle MNPI in accordance with the procedures and applicable law, including Federal, state and foreign securities laws.
(b)      All such information, including requests for waivers and amendments, furnished by the Company or the Administrative Agent pursuant to, or in the course of administering, this Agreement will be syndicate-level information, which may contain MNPI.  Accordingly, each Lender represents to the Company and the Administrative Agent that it has identified in its Administrative Questionnaire a credit contact who may receive information that may contain MNPI in accordance with its compliance procedures and applicable law, including Federal, state and foreign securities laws.
SECTION 9.16.      Acknowledgment and Consent to Bail-In of EEA Financial Institutions.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Loan Document or in any other agreement, arrangement or understanding among the parties hereto, each party hereto acknowledges that any liability of any EEA Financial Institution arising under any Loan Document, to the extent 








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such liability is unsecured, may be subject to the Write-Down and Conversion Powers of an EEA Resolution Authority and agrees and consents to, and acknowledges to be bound by:
(a)      the application of any Write-Down and Conversion Power by any EEA Resolution Authority to any such liabilities arising hereunder that may be payable to it by any party hereto that is an EEA Financial Institution; and
(b)      the effects of any Bail-In Action on any such liability, including, if applicable, (i) a reduction in full or in part or cancelation of any such liability, (ii) a conversion of all, or a portion of, such liability into shares or other instruments of ownership in such EEA Financial Institution, its parent entity, or a bridge institution that may be issued to it or otherwise conferred on it, and that such shares or other instruments of ownership will be accepted by it in lieu of any rights with respect to any such liability under this Agreement or any other Loan Document or (iii) the variation of the terms of such liability in connection with the exercise of the Write-Down and Conversion Powers of any EEA Resolution Authority.
SECTION 9.17.      No Fiduciary Duty.  The Company agrees that in connection with all aspects of the Transactions and any communications in connection therewith, the Company and its Affiliates, on the one hand, and the Administrative Agent, the Arrangers, the Lenders and their Affiliates, on the other hand, will have a business relationship that does not create, by implication or otherwise, any fiduciary duty on the part of the Administrative Agent, the Arrangers, the Lenders or their Affiliates, and no such duty will be deemed to have arisen in connection with any such Transactions or communications.