FIRST AMENDMENT



 

 


Exhibit 10(c)



First Amendment

Dated as of April 19, 2000

to

Amended and Restated Receivables Sale Agreement

Dated as of February 29, 2000


 

 



           
This Amendment (the "Amendment"), dated as of April 19, 2000,
is entered into among Blue Hill, Inc. (the "Seller"), Bergen
Brunswig Drug Company, as the Initial Collection Agent (the "Collection
Agent"), Wachovia Bank, N.A., as the Agent (the "Agent"
), the Related Bank Purchasers (the "Related Bank Purchasers"
) from time to time party thereto and the Conduit Purchasers from time to
time party thereto (together with the Related Bank Purchasers, the "
Purchasers").



           
Reference is hereby made to that certain Amended and Restated Receivables Sale
Agreement, dated as of February 29, 2000 (as has been amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified through the date hereof, the "Sale Agreement"
), among the Seller, the Collection Agent, the Purchasers and the Agent.
Terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein which are defined in the
Sale Agreement or the other Transaction Documents (as defined in the Sale
Agreement) shall have the same meaning herein as defined therein.



           
For good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are
hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:



           
Section 1.
           
Subject to the following terms and conditions, including without limitation the
conditions precedent set forth in Section 2, upon execution by the parties
hereto in the space provided for that purpose below, the Sale Agreement shall
be, and it hereby is, amended as follows:



           
           
(a)           
The first sentence of Section 4.1(e) of the Sale Agreement is hereby
amended and as so amended shall be restated in its entirety to read as follows:



Upon the creation of Receivables and the sale or contribution of such
Receivables to the Seller, the Originator was the owner of, and effectively
sold, such Receivables to the Seller, free and clear of any Adverse Claim.





           
           
(b)           
The following defined terms appearing in Schedule I to the Sale Agreement shall
be amended and as so amended shall be restated in their entirety to read as
follows:


 "Credit Agreement Margin" means (i) if the
Credit Agreements described in clause (A) of the definition of Credit Agreements
are in effect, the higher of the Applicable Margins or (ii) if the Credit
Agreement described in clause (B) of the definition of Credit Agreements is in
effect, the Applicable Rate.


 "Credit Agreements" means (A) prior to the
execution and effectiveness of the Credit Agreement referred to in subsection
(B) to this definition, collectively, that certain (i) Amended and Restated
Credit Agreement dated as of September 30, 1994 by and among the Originator
and the Parent, as Borrowers, certain financial institutions, as the Lenders,
and Bank of America, N.A. ("BofA"), as Agent for the Lenders,
as has been amended and as may be amended, restated, substituted or replaced
from time to time, and (ii) Credit Agreement dated as of April 23, 1999
by and among the Originator and the Parent, as Borrowers, certain financial
institutions named therein, as the Lenders, BofA, as Administrative Agent,
Chase Securities Inc., as Syndication Agent and Wachovia, as Documentation
Agent as has been amended and as may be amended, restated, substituted or
replaced from time to time or (B) after the execution and effectiveness of the
following Credit Agreement, that certain Credit Agreement dated as of April 20,
2000 among the Parent, the Originator, Pharmerica, Inc., the other borrowing
subsidiaries party thereto, the lenders party thereto, Wachovia, as Syndication
Agent, First Union National Bank and Fleet National Bank, as Co-Documentation
Agents, CIT Financial Group, as Collateral Agent and The Chase Manhattan Bank
as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent as has been amended and as may be
amended, restated, substituted or replaced from time to time.





           
           
(c)           
The defined term "Termination Event" appearing in Schedule I
to the Sale Agreement shall be amended by adding the following new subsections
(v) and (w) immediately following subsection (u) with appropriate
punctuation corrections:



(v)           
any one of the following events shall occur:



           
(i) less than 60% of all Collections for the period from May 16-June 15, 2000
shall have been made to a Lock-Box or a Lock-Box Account; a report indicating
such collection activity due no later than June 20, 2000;



           
(ii) less than 75% of all Collections for the period from June 16-July 15,
2000 shall have been made to a Lock-Box or a Lock-Box Account; a report
indicating such collection activity due no later than July 20, 2000; or



           
(iii) less than 90% of all Collections for the period from July 16-August 15,
2000 shall have been made to a Lock-Box or a Lock-Box Account; a report
indicating such collection activity due no later than August 21, 2000; or







(w)           
(A) any rating agency indicates that the transactions contemplated by the
Intercreditor Agreement and this Agreement as amended by the First Amendment
to Receivables Sale Agreement dated as of April 19, 2000 (the "First
Amendment") shall cause such rating agency to be unable to confirm
the rating on the commercial paper notes of any Conduit Purchaser and (B)
the Seller is unable to execute an amendment to the Intercreditor Agreement
or this Agreement as amended by the First Amendment satisfactory for such
rating agency to confirm the rating on the commercial paper notes of such
Conduit Purchaser within 30 days of such rating agency indication.






           
           
(d)           
Schedule I to the Sale Agreement shall be amended by adding the following
definitions to such Schedule in their proper alphabetical order:
"Applicable Rate" refers to such term as
defined in the Credit Agreement referred to in subsection (B) of the definition
of Credit Agreements as such term may be amended from time to time:
provided, if the Credit Agreement referred to in subsection (B) of the
definition of Credit Agreements shall be terminated, the term "
Applicable Rate" shall have the same meaning such term had
immediately prior to such termination.


"Intercreditor Agreement" means that certain
Intercreditor Agreement dated as April 19, 2000 among the Originator, the
Seller, Wachovia, in its capacity as Senior Agent thereunder, and The Chase
Manhattan Bank, in its capacity as Junior Lien Collateral Agent thereunder.





           
Section 2.
           
The Sale Agreement, as amended and supplemented hereby or as contemplated herein,
and all rights and powers created thereby and thereunder or under the other
Transaction Documents and all other documents executed in connection therewith,
are in all respects ratified and confirmed.  From and after the date hereof,
the Sale Agreement shall be amended and supplemented as herein provided, and,
except as so amended and supplemented, the Sale Agreement, each of the other
Transaction Documents and all other documents executed in connection therewith
shall remain in full force and effect.



           
Section 3.
           
This Amendment may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which shall
constitute an original but both or all of which, when taken together, shall
constitute but one instrument.



           
Section 4.
           
This Amendment shall be governed and construed in accordance with the internal
laws of the State of New York.


 

 




 

 



           
           
In Witness Whereof, the parties have caused this Amendment to be executed and
delivered by their duly authorized officers as of the date first above written.



	
WACHOVIA BANK, N.A., as the Related Bank

	 	
Purchaser for Blue Ridge, as the Blue Ridge

	 	
Purchaser and as Agent

	 	 
	
By:
	 
	
	



	
Title:
	 
	
	



	 	 
	 	 
	
Blue Ridge Asset Funding Corporation,

	 	
as a Conduit Purchaser

	 	 
	
By:  Wachovia Bank, N.A., as attorney-in-fact

	 	 
	
By:
	 
	
	



	
Title:
	 
	
	



	 	 
	 	 
	
Blue Hill, Inc., as Seller

	 	 
	 	 
	
By:
	 
	
	



	
Title:
	 
	
	



	 	 
	 	 
	
Bergen Brunswig Drug Company, as Initial

	 	
Collection Agent

	 	 
	 	 
	
By:
	 
	
	



	
Title:
	 
	
	



	 	 
	 	 






 

 

	
The Bank of Nova Scotia, as the Related

	 	
Bank Purchaser for Liberty Street, and as 

	 	
the Liberty Street Purchaser Agent

	 	 
	
By:
	 
	
	



	
Title:
	 
	
	



	 	 
	 	 
	
Liberty Street Funding Corp., as a Conduit

	 	
Purchaser

	 	 
	 	 
	
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Title:
	 
	
	



	 	 
	 	 
	
General Electric Capital Corporation,

	 	
as the Related Bank Purchaser for GECC 

	 	
and as the GECC Purchaser Agent

	 	 
	 	 
	
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Title:
	 
	
	



	 	 
	 	 
	
General Electric Capital Corporation,

	 	
as a Conduit Purchaser

	 	 
	 	 
	
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Title: