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EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT 

 

     EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT (“Agreement”) dated as of September 14, 2010 among Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation, a North Carolina corporation (“KKDC”), Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc., a North Carolina corporation (the “Company” and, together with KKDC, the “Companies”), and G. Dwayne Chambers (the “Executive”). 

 

     The parties hereto agree as follows:

 

ARTICLE 1

 

DEFINITIONS 

 

     SECTION 1.01. Definitions. For purposes of this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings set forth below: 

 

     “Base Salary” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.01. 

 

     “Board” means the Board of Directors of the Company. 

 

     “Cause” shall mean (i) the Executive’s failure or refusal to perform the Executive’s lawful and proper duties hereunder (other than as a result of total or partial incapacity due to physical or mental illness or a court or governmental order), (ii) the Executive’s conviction of or plea of nolo contendere to any felony (other than a traffic infraction), (iii) an act or acts on the Executive’s part constituting fraud, theft or embezzlement or that otherwise constitutes a felony under the laws of the United States or any state thereof which results or was intended to result directly or indirectly in gain or personal enrichment by the Executive at the expense of the Companies, or (iv) the Executive’s insubordination to the Companies’ most senior executive officer or willful violation of any material provision of the code of ethics of the Companies applicable to the Executive. In the case of any item described in the previous sentence, the Executive shall be given written notice of the alleged act or omission constituting Cause, which notice shall set forth in reasonable detail the reason or reasons that the Board believes the Executive is to be terminated for Cause, including any act or omission that is the basis for the decision to terminate the Executive. In the case of an act or omission described in clause (i) or (iv) of the definition of Cause, (A) if reasonably capable of being cured, the Executive shall be given 30 days from the date of such notice to effect a cure of such alleged act or omission constituting “Cause” which, upon such cure to the reasonable satisfaction of the Board, shall no longer constitute a basis for Cause, and (B) the Executive shall be given an opportunity to make a presentation to the Board (accompanied by counsel or other representative, if the Executive so desires) at a meeting of the Board held promptly following such 30-day cure period if the Board intends to determine that no cure has occurred. At or following such meeting, the Board shall determine whether or not to terminate the Executive for “Cause” and shall notify the Executive in writing of its determination and the effective date of such termination (which date may be no earlier than the date of the aforementioned Board meeting). 

 

 

     “Change in Control” means any of the following events: 

 

     (a) the acquisition by any Person of “beneficial ownership” (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act) of fifty percent (50%) or more of the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding voting securities; provided, however, that a Change in Control shall not be deemed to occur solely because fifty percent (50%) or more of the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding securities is acquired by (i) a trustee or other fiduciary holding securities under one or more employee benefit plans maintained by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or (ii) any Person, which, immediately prior to such acquisition, is owned directly or indirectly by the shareholders of the Company in the same proportion as their ownership of stock in the Company immediately prior to such acquisition; 

 

     (b) consummation of (i) a merger or consolidation involving the Company if the shareholders of the Company, immediately before such merger or consolidation do not, as a result of such merger or consolidation, own, directly or indirectly, more than fifty percent (50%) of the combined voting power of the then outstanding voting securities of the corporation resulting from such merger or consolidation in substantially the same proportion as their ownership of the combined voting power of the voting securities of the Company outstanding immediately before such merger or consolidation, or (ii) a sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company other than to a Person which is owned directly or indirectly by the shareholders of the Company in the same proportion as their ownership of stock in the Company; 

 

     (c) a change in the composition of the Board such that the individuals who, as of the Effective Date, constitute the Board (such Board shall be hereinafter referred to as the “Incumbent Board”) cease for any reason to constitute at least a majority of the Board; provided, however, for purposes of this definition, that any individual who becomes a member of the Board subsequent to the Effective Date whose election, or nomination for election by the Company’s shareholders, was approved by a vote of at least a majority of those individuals who are members of the Board and who were also members of the Incumbent Board (or deemed to be such pursuant to this proviso) shall be considered as though such individual were a member of the Incumbent Board; provided further, however, that any such individual whose initial assumption of office occurs as a result of either an actual or threatened election contest (as such terms are used in Rule 14a-11 of Regulation 14A promulgated under the Exchange Act, including any successor to such Rule), or other actual or threatened solicitation or proxies or consents by or on behalf of a Person other than the Board, shall not be so considered as a member of the Incumbent Board; or 

 

     (d) approval by shareholders of the Company of a complete liquidation or dissolution of the Company. 

 

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

 

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     “Confidential Information” means information that is not generally known to the public and that was or is used, developed or obtained by the Company or its Subsidiaries in connection with the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries and which constitutes trade secrets or information which they have attempted to protect, which may include, but is not limited to, trade “know-how”, customer information, supplier information, cost and pricing information, marketing and sales techniques, strategies and programs, computer programs and software and financial information. It shall not include information (a) required to be disclosed by court or administrative order; (b) lawfully obtainable from other sources or which is in the public domain through no fault of the Executive; or (c) the disclosure of which is consented to in writing by the Company. 

 

     “Date of Termination” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.07. 

 

     “Effective Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.01. 

 

     “Employment Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.01. 

 

     “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. 

 

     “Good Reason” shall mean the occurrence of any of the following without the Executive’s consent (i) the failure of the Companies to pay any material amount of compensation to the Executive when due hereunder, (ii) the Executive is no longer the most senior marketing officer of (A) the Company or (B) in the event of a merger, consolidation or other business combination involving the Company, the successor to the Company’s business or assets or (C) if all or substantially all of the voting stock of the Company is held by another public company, such public company, (iii) the assignment to the Executive of any duties or responsibilities materially inconsistent with the Executive’s status under clause (ii) of this sentence or his failure at any time to report directly to the most senior executive officer of the applicable company described in clause (ii), (iv) any failure by the Companies to maintain the Executive’s principal place of employment and the executive offices of the Companies within 25 miles of the Winston-Salem, North Carolina area, (v) any material breach by the Companies of this Agreement, or (vi) the term of the Employment Period ending as a result of the Companies giving the Executive notice of nonextension of the term of this Agreement in accordance with Section 5.01 solely at either the end of the initial term or the end of the first, second or third one year extensions of the term under Section 5.01 (but, for the avoidance of doubt, not at the end of any further extension of the term); provided, however, that for any of the foregoing to constitute Good Reason, the Executive must provide written notification of his intention to resign within 60 days after the Executive knows or has reason to know of the occurrence of any such event, and the Companies shall have 30 days (10 days in the case of a material breach related to payment of any amounts due hereunder) from the date of receipt of such notice to effect a cure of the condition constituting Good Reason, and, upon cure thereof by the Companies, such event shall no longer constitute Good Reason. 

 

     “Notice of Termination” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.06.

 

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     “Permanent Disability” means the Executive becomes permanently disabled within the meaning of the long-term disability plan of the Companies applicable to the Executive, and the Executive commences to receive benefits under such plan. 

 

     “Person” means an individual, a partnership, a corporation, a limited liability company, an association, a joint stock company, an estate, a trust, a joint venture, an unincorporated organization or a governmental entity or any department, agency or political subdivision thereof. 

 

     “Reimbursable Expenses” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.04. 

 

     “Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. 

 

     “Subsidiary” or “Subsidiaries” means, with respect to any Person, any corporation, partnership, limited liability company, association or other business entity of which (a) if a corporation, 50 percent or more of the total voting power of shares of stock entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by that Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of that Person or combination thereof; or (b) if a partnership, limited liability company, association or other business entity, 50 percent or more of the partnership or other similar ownership interests thereof are at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by any Person or one or more Subsidiaries of that Person or a combination thereof. For purposes of this definition, a Person or Persons will be deemed to have a 50 percent or more ownership interest in a partnership, limited liability company, association or other business entity if such Person or Persons are allocated 50 percent or more of partnership, limited liability company, association or other business entity gains or losses or control the managing director or member or general partner of such partnership, limited liability company, association or other business entity. 

 

ARTICLE 2 

 

EMPLOYMENT 

 

     SECTION 2.01. Employment. The Companies shall employ the Executive, and the Executive shall accept employment with the Companies, upon the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement for the period beginning on September 20, 2010 (the “Effective Date”) and ending as provided in Section 5.01 (the “Employment Period”). 

 

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ARTICLE 3 

 

POSITION AND DUTIES 

 

     SECTION 3.01. Position and Duties. During the Employment Period, the Executive shall serve as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of the Company reporting directly to the most senior executive officer and shall be the Company’s most senior marketing officer. During the Employment Period, the Executive also shall serve as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of KKDC and shall be KKDC’s most senior marketing officer. The Executive shall have such responsibilities, powers and duties as may from time to time be prescribed by the Board or the most senior executive officer of the Companies; provided that such responsibilities, powers and duties are substantially consistent with those customarily assigned to individuals serving in such position at comparable companies or as may be reasonably required for the proper conduct of the business of the Companies. During the Employment Period, the Executive shall devote substantially all of his working time and efforts to the business and affairs of the Company and its Subsidiaries. The Executive shall not directly or indirectly render any services of a business, commercial or professional nature to any other person or organization not related to the business of the Company or its Subsidiaries, whether for compensation or otherwise, without the prior approval of the Board; provided, however, the Executive may serve on the board of directors of one for-profit corporation with the prior approval of the Board, which will not be unreasonably withheld, and the Executive may serve as a director of not-for-profit organizations or engage in other charitable, civic or educational activities, so long as the activities described in this proviso do not interfere with the Executive’s performance of his duties hereunder or result in any conflict of interest with the Companies. 

 

ARTICLE 4 

 

BASE SALARY AND BENEFITS 

 

     SECTION 4.01. Base Salary. During the Employment Period, the Executive will receive base salary from the Companies equal to $275,000 per annum (the “Base Salary”). The Base Salary will be payable in accordance with the normal payroll practices of the Companies. Annually during the Employment Period, the Company shall review with the Executive his job performance and compensation, and if deemed appropriate by the Board or its Compensation Committee, in their discretion, the Executive’s Base Salary may be increased but not decreased. After any such increase, the term “Base Salary” as used in this Agreement will thereafter refer to the increased amount. 

 

     SECTION 4.02. Bonuses. In addition to Base Salary, the Executive shall be eligible to be considered for an annual bonus, and the Executive’s annual target bonus shall be equal to 50% of Base Salary. The Executive’s annual target bonus for the fiscal year of the Company including the Effective Date shall be pro rated by the number of full months that the Executive is employed by the Companies during such year. The Compensation Committee of the Board and the Board shall set targets with respect to and otherwise determine Executive’s bonus in accordance with the Company’s then current incentive plans. The Executive will also receive a signing bonus of $15,000 (before taxes) as soon as practicable following the Effective Date. 

 

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     SECTION 4.03. Benefits. During the Employment Period, the Executive shall be entitled to participate in all employee benefit, perquisite and fringe benefit plans and arrangements made available by the Companies to their executives and key management employees upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the applicable plan or arrangement. Such benefits shall include medical, life and disability insurance provided in accordance with the policies of the Companies. Executive shall be entitled to four weeks of paid vacation annually during the Employment Period. 

 

     SECTION 4.04. Expenses. The Companies shall reimburse the Executive for all reasonable expenses incurred by him in the course of performing his duties under this Agreement which are consistent with the Companies’ policies in effect from time to time with respect to travel, entertainment and other business expenses (“Reimbursable Expenses”), subject to the Companies’ requirements with respect to reporting and documentation of expenses. The amount of Reimbursable Expenses eligible for reimbursement during a taxable year may not affect the expenses eligible for reimbursement in any other taxable year, and any Reimbursable Expenses shall be paid on or before the last day of the Executive’s taxable year following the taxable year during which the expense was incurred and shall not be subject to liquidation or exchange for another benefit.

 

     SECTION 4.05. Restricted Stock Units. The Company shall grant to the Executive on the Effective Date an award of restricted stock units for 25,000 shares of the Company’s common stock (the “Restricted Stock Units”). Except as otherwise provided below, the Restricted Stock Units will vest, provided that the Executive’s employment continues through the applicable vesting dates, in four equal installments, on September 11, 2011, September 11, 2012, September 11, 2013, and September 11, 2014. The Executive agrees that in the event of his resignation, without the prior written consent of the Board, he will not sell or otherwise transfer any of the shares received under this Section 4.05 or the economic benefit thereof prior to the first anniversary of his termination of employment with the Companies, except that this Agreement shall not prevent the Executive from selling a number of such shares required to fund his tax liability resulting from the vesting of the Restricted Stock Units. The Restricted Stock Units shall be subject to the terms of the Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. 2000 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended, and form of Restricted Stock Unit Agreement previously approved by the Compensation Committee of the Board. The Executive agrees and acknowledges that the future grant of equity awards, if any, and the terms of any such equity awards shall be subject to the sole discretion of the Compensation Committee of the Board. 

 

     SECTION 4.06. Compliance with Compensation and Equity Policies. The Executive agrees to comply with the Company’s Equity Retention Policy, Compensation Recovery Policy, and Stock Ownership Guidelines, each as in effect from time to time, with respect to annual or long-term incentive or other compensation, as applicable. The terms of the Company’s Equity Retention Policy, Compensation Recovery Policy, and Stock Ownership Guidelines, each as in effect from time to time, are hereby incorporated by reference into this Agreement.

 

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     SECTION 4.07. Relocation. The Companies shall reimburse the Executive for all reasonable expenses incurred by him in relocating his and his immediate family’s household items to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, subject to the Companies’ requirements with respect to reporting and documentation of such expenses, such relocation reimbursements to include all normal expenses of moving (including interim commuting costs), packing and unpacking, home hunting, temporary housing, buying and selling brokerage fees, transfer taxes, origination fees (not to exceed 1% of the loan amount) and mortgage points (not to exceed 1% of the loan amount). In addition, the Companies will reimburse Executive up to $100,000 (net of applicable taxes) on loss on the sale of his primary residence in Colorado, upon presentation of evidence satisfactory to the Companies of the amount of such loss. The Companies may require the Executive to use a home owned by the Companies for his temporary housing needs. 

 

ARTICLE 5 

 

TERM AND TERMINATION 

 

     SECTION 5.01. Term. The Employment Period will terminate on September 20, 2013, unless sooner terminated as hereinafter provided; provided, however, that the Employment Period will be automatically extended for successive one-year periods following the original term ending September 20, 2013 until either the Companies, on the one hand, or the Executive, on the other hand, at least 180 days prior to the expiration of the original term or any extended term, shall give written notice to the other of their intention not to so extend the Employment Period. 

 

     SECTION 5.02. Termination Due to Death or Permanent Disability. If the Employment Period shall be terminated due to death or Permanent Disability of the Executive, the Executive (or his estate or legal representative) shall be entitled solely to the following: (i) Base Salary through the Date of Termination; and (ii) medical benefits as provided in Section 5.05 below. The Executive’s entitlements under any other benefit plan or program shall be as determined thereunder. In addition, promptly following any such termination, the Executive (or his estate or legal representative) shall be reimbursed for all Reimbursable Expenses incurred by the Executive prior to such termination. 

 

     SECTION 5.03. Termination for Good Reason or Without Cause. Except as otherwise set forth in Section 5.09 below, if the Employment Period shall be terminated (a) by the Executive for Good Reason, or (b) by the Companies not for Cause, provided the Executive has executed an irrevocable (except to the extent required by law, and to the extent required by law to be revocable, has not revoked) general release of claims, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A, the Executive shall be entitled solely to the following: (i) Base Salary through the Date of Termination; (ii) an amount equal to one times the Base Salary, provided that, the Executive shall be entitled to any unpaid amounts only if the Executive has not breached and does not breach the provisions of Sections 6.01, 7.01, 8.01 or 9 below; (iii) a bonus for the year of termination of employment equal to the Executive’s target annual bonus for such year pro rated for the number of full months during the bonus year prior to such termination of employment, payable as soon as practicable following such termination of employment; and (iv) medical benefits as provided in Section 5.05 below. The Executive’s entitlements under any other benefit plan or program shall be as determined thereunder, except that duplicative severance benefits shall not be payable under any other plan or program. Amounts described in clause (ii) above will be payable in equal monthly installments for a period of 12 months commencing on the first month anniversary of the Date of Termination, except, to the extent required by Section 409A of the Code, amounts otherwise payable under clause (ii) within six months after the Executive’s termination of employment shall be deferred to and paid on the day following the six month anniversary of such termination of employment. In addition, promptly following any such termination, the Executive shall be reimbursed for all Reimbursable Expenses incurred by the Executive prior to such termination.

 

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     SECTION 5.04. Termination for Cause or Other Than Good Reason. If the Employment Period shall be terminated (a) by the Companies for Cause, or (b) as a result of the Executive’s resignation or leaving of his employment other than for Good Reason, the Executive shall be entitled to receive solely Base Salary through the Date of Termination and reimbursement of all Reimbursable Expenses incurred by the Executive prior to such termination. The Executive’s rights under the benefit plans and programs shall be as determined thereunder. A voluntary resignation by the Executive shall not be deemed to be a breach of this Agreement. 

 

     SECTION 5.05. Benefits. If the Employment Period is terminated as a result of a termination of employment as specified in Section 5.02, 5.03 or 5.09, the Executive and his covered dependents shall continue to receive medical insurance coverage benefits from the Companies, with the same contribution toward such coverage from the Executive or his estate, for a period equal to the lesser of (x) eighteen months following the Date of Termination, or (y) until the Executive is provided by another employer with benefits substantially comparable to the benefits provided by the Companies’ medical plan. Furthermore, in the event of Executive’s Permanent Disability, insurance benefits will continue under the Companies’ long term disability plan in accordance with its terms. 

 

     SECTION 5.06. Notice of Termination. Any termination by the Companies for Permanent Disability or Cause or without Cause or by the Executive with or without Good Reason shall be communicated by written Notice of Termination to the other party hereto. For purposes of this Agreement, a “Notice of Termination” shall mean a notice which shall indicate the specific termination provision in this Agreement relied upon and shall set forth in reasonable detail the facts and circumstances claimed to provide a basis for termination of employment under the provision indicated. 

 

     SECTION 5.07. Date of Termination. “Date of Termination” shall mean (a) if the Employment Period is terminated as a result of a Permanent Disability, five days after a Notice of Termination is given, (b) if the Employment Period is terminated as a result of his death, on the date of his death, and (c) if the Employment Period is terminated for any other reason, the later of the date of the Notice of Termination and the end of any applicable correction period. 

 

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     SECTION 5.08. No Duty to Mitigate. The Executive shall have no duty to seek new employment or other duty to mitigate following a termination of employment as described in this Article 5, and no compensation or benefits described in this Article 5 shall be subject to reduction or offset on account of any subsequent compensation, other than as provided in Section 5.05. 

 

     SECTION 5.09. Termination for Good Reason or Without Cause Following a Change in Control. If the Employment Period shall be terminated within two years after a Change in Control (a) by the Executive for Good Reason, or (b) by the Companies not for Cause, then Executive’s compensation and benefits upon termination shall be governed by this Section 5.09 instead of the provisions of Section 5.03 above, and, provided the Executive has executed an irrevocable (except to the extent required by law, and to the extent required by law to be revocable, has not revoked) general release of claims, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A, the Executive shall be entitled solely to the following: (i) Base Salary through the Date of Termination; (ii) an amount equal to 1.25 times the sum of his Base Salary and his target annual bonus for the year of termination, provided that, the Executive shall be entitled to any unpaid amounts only if the Executive has not breached and does not breach the provisions of Sections 6.01, 7.01, 8.01 or 9 below; (iii) a bonus for the year of termination of employment equal to the Executive’s target annual bonus for such year pro rated for the number of full months during the bonus year prior to such termination of employment; and (iv) medical benefits as provided in Section 5.05. The Executive’s entitlements under any other benefit plan or program shall be as determined thereunder, except that duplicative severance benefits shall not be payable under any other plan or program. In addition, promptly following any such termination, the Executive shall be reimbursed for all Reimbursable Expenses incurred by the Executive prior to such termination. The amounts due under clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) of this Section 5.09 shall be paid in a lump sum upon termination of employment. 

 

ARTICLE 6 

 

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION 

 

     SECTION 6.01. Nondisclosure and Nonuse of Confidential Information. The Executive will not disclose or use at any time during or after the Employment Period any Confidential Information of which the Executive is or becomes aware, whether or not such information is developed by him, except to the extent he reasonably believes that such disclosure or use is directly related to and appropriate in connection with the Executive’s performance of duties assigned to the Executive pursuant to this Agreement. Under all circumstances and at all times, the Executive will take all appropriate steps to safeguard Confidential Information in his possession and to protect it against disclosure, misuse, espionage, loss and theft. Executive also agrees to execute and comply with such other confidentiality agreements or provisions as required of executive officers of the Company. 

 

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ARTICLE 7 

 

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 

 

     SECTION 7.01. Ownership of Intellectual Property. In the event that the Executive as part of his activities on behalf of the Companies generates, authors or contributes to any invention, design, new development, device, product, method of process (whether or not patentable or reduced to practice or comprising Confidential Information), any copyrightable work (whether or not comprising Confidential Information) or any other form of Confidential Information relating directly or indirectly to the business of the Company or its Subsidiaries as now or hereafter conducted (collectively, “Intellectual Property”), the Executive acknowledges that such Intellectual Property is the sole and exclusive property of the Company and its Subsidiaries and hereby assigns all right, title and interest in and to such Intellectual Property to the Company or its designated Subsidiary. Any copyrightable work prepared in whole or in part by the Executive during the Employment Period will be deemed “a work made for hire” under Section 201(b) of the Copyright Act of 1976, as amended, and the Company or its designated Subsidiary will own all of the rights comprised in the copyright therein. The Executive will promptly and fully disclose all Intellectual Property and will cooperate with the Companies to protect their interests in and rights to such Intellectual Property (including providing reasonable assistance in securing patent protection and copyright registrations and executing all documents as reasonably requested by the Companies, whether such requests occur prior to or after termination of Executive’s employment hereunder). 

 

ARTICLE 8 

 

DELIVERY OF MATERIALS UPON TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT 

 

     SECTION 8.01. Delivery of Materials upon Termination of Employment. As requested by the Companies from time to time, and upon the termination of the Executive’s employment with the Companies for any reason, the Executive will promptly deliver to the Companies all property of the Company or its Subsidiaries, including, without limitation, all copies and embodiments, in whatever form or medium, of all Confidential Information in the Executive’s possession or within his control (including written records, notes, photographs, manuals, notebooks, documentation, program listings, flow charts, magnetic media, disks, diskettes, tapes and all other materials containing any Confidential Information) irrespective of the location or form of such material and, if requested by the Companies, will provide the Companies with written confirmation that to the best of his knowledge all such materials have been delivered to the Companies or destroyed. 

 

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ARTICLE 9 

 

NON-COMPETITION AND NONSOLICITATION 

 

     SECTION 9.01. Noncompetition. The Executive acknowledges that, during his employment with the Companies, he will become familiar with trade secrets and other Confidential Information concerning the Company and its Subsidiaries and his services will be of special, unique and extraordinary value to the Companies. In addition, the Executive hereby agrees that at any time during the Noncompetition Period (as defined below), he will not directly or indirectly own, manage, control, participate in, consult with, become employed by or otherwise render services to any business listed on Exhibit B hereto in the Territory. During the Noncompetition Period, the Company shall have the right to, in good faith, add other entities which are in substantial competition with the Companies to the list of businesses on Exhibit B, subject to the consent of the Executive which shall not be unreasonably withheld. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Executive’s termination of employment occurs at the end of the Employment Period due to the Companies giving written notice after the fifth anniversary of the Effective Date pursuant to Section 5.01 of its intention not to extend the Employment Period, this Section 9.01 will only apply if the Companies elect and agree in writing to pay the Executive his Base Salary and his annual target bonus in effect for the year during which his employment is terminated for an additional one-year period following the termination of employment, such amount to be payable in monthly installments over the additional one-year period, except that, to the extent required by Section 409A of the Code, amounts otherwise payable under this sentence within six months after the Executive’s termination of employment shall be deferred to and paid on the day following the six month anniversary of such termination of employment. It shall not be considered a violation of this Section 9.01 for the Executive to be a passive owner of not more than 2% of the outstanding stock of any class of any corporation which is publicly traded, so long as the Executive has no active participation in the business of such corporation. 

 

     SECTION 9.02. Nonsolicitation. The Executive hereby agrees that (a) during the Nonsolicitation Period (as defined below), the Executive will not, directly or indirectly through another Person, induce or attempt to induce any employee of the Company or its Subsidiaries to leave the employ of the Company or its Subsidiaries, or in any way interfere with the relationship between the Company or its Subsidiaries and any person employed by them at any time during such Nonsolicitation Period, and (b) during the Nonsolicitation Period, the Executive will not induce or attempt to induce any customer, supplier, client or other business relation of the Company or its Subsidiaries to cease doing business with the Company or its Subsidiaries. 

 

     SECTION 9.03. Definitions. It is agreed that the “Territory,” for purposes of this Article 9, shall mean: 

 

          (i) The entire United States and any other country where the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, joint venturers, franchisees or affiliates has operated a retail facility at which the Company’s products have been sold at any time in the one-year period ending on the last day of the Executive’s employment with the Companies; 

 

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          (ii) In the event that the preceding clause shall be determined by judicial action to define too broad a territory to be enforceable, then “Territory” shall mean the entire United States;

 

          (iii) In the event that the preceding clauses shall be determined by judicial action to define too broad a territory to be enforceable, then “Territory” shall mean the states in the United States where the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, joint venturers, franchisees or affiliates has operated a retail facility at which the Company’s products have been sold at any time in the one-year period ending on the last day of Executive’s employment with the Companies; 

 

          (iv) In the event that the preceding clauses shall be determined by judicial action to define too broad a territory to be enforceable, then “Territory” shall mean the area that includes all of the areas that are within a 50-mile radius of any retail store location in the United States at which the Company’s products have been sold at any time in the one-year period ending on the last day of the Executive’s employment with the Companies; and 

 

          (v) In the event that the preceding clauses shall be determined by judicial action to define too broad a territory to be enforceable, then “Territory” shall mean the entire state of North Carolina. 

 

     It is also agreed that “Noncompetition Period,” for purposes hereof, shall mean: 

 

          (i) the Employment Period and a period ending one year after the Date of Termination; and 

 

          (ii) In the event that the preceding clause shall be determined by judicial action to define too long a period to be enforceable, “Noncompetition Period” shall mean the Employment Period and a period ending six months after the Date of Termination. 

 

     It is also agreed that “Nonsolicitation Period,” for purposes hereof, shall mean: 

 

          (i) the Employment Period and a period ending two years after the Date of Termination;

 

          (ii) In the event that the preceding clause shall be determined by judicial action to define too long a period to be enforceable, “Nonsolicitation Period” shall mean the Employment Period and a period ending eighteen months after the Date of Termination; 

 

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          (iii) In the event that the preceding clauses shall be determined by judicial action to define too long a period to be enforceable, “Nonsolicitation Period” shall mean the Employment Period and a period ending one year after the Date of Termination; and 

 

          (iv) In the event that the preceding clauses shall be determined by judicial action to define too long a period to be enforceable, “Nonsolicitation Period” shall mean the Employment Period and a period ending six months after the Date of Termination. 

 

ARTICLE 10 

 

EQUITABLE RELIEF 

 

     SECTION 10.01. Equitable Relief. The Executive acknowledges that (a) the covenants contained herein are reasonable, (b) the Executive’s services are unique, and (c) a breach or threatened breach by him of any of his covenants and agreements with the Companies contained in Sections 6.01, 7.01, 8.01 or Article 9 could cause irreparable harm to the Companies for which they would have no adequate remedy at law. Accordingly, and in addition to any remedies which the Companies may have at law, in the event of an actual or threatened breach by the Executive of his covenants and agreements contained in Sections 6.01, 7.01, 8.01 or Article 9, the Companies shall have the absolute right to apply to any court of competent jurisdiction for such injunctive or other equitable relief, without the necessity to post bond, as such court may deem necessary or appropriate in the circumstances. 

 

ARTICLE 11 

 

EXECUTIVE REPRESENTATION AND INDEMNIFICATION 

 

     SECTION 11.01. Executive Representation. The Executive hereby represents and warrants to the Companies that (a) the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by the Executive does not and will not conflict with, breach, violate or cause a default under any contract, agreement, instrument, order, judgment or decree to which the Executive is a party or by which he is bound, (b) the Executive is not a party to or bound by any employment agreement, noncompetition agreement or confidentiality agreement with any other Person, and (c) upon the execution and delivery of this Agreement by the Companies, this Agreement will be the valid and binding obligation of the Executive, enforceable in accordance with its terms. Notwithstanding Section 11.02 below, in the event that any action is brought against Executive involving any breach of any employment agreement, noncompetition agreement or confidentiality agreement with any other Person, the Executive shall bear his own costs incurred in defending such action, including but not limited to court fees, arbitration costs, mediation costs, attorneys’ fees and disbursements. 

 

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     SECTION 11.02. General Indemnification. The Companies, jointly and severally, agree that if the Executive is made a party, or is threatened to be made a party, to any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (each, a “Proceeding”), by reason of the fact that he is or was a director, officer or employee of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or is or was serving at the request of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries as a director, officer, member, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to employee benefit plans, whether or not the basis of such Proceeding is the Executive’s alleged action in an official capacity while serving as a director, officer, member, employee or agent, the Executive shall be indemnified and held harmless by the Companies to the fullest extent permitted or authorized by applicable law and their bylaws, against all cost, expense, liability and loss (including, without limitation, advancement of attorneys’ and other fees and expenses) reasonably incurred or suffered by the Executive in connection therewith. The Companies agree to use their best efforts to maintain a directors’ and officers’ liability insurance policy covering the Executive during the Employment Period and for at least four years thereafter to the extent available on commercially reasonable terms. 

 

ARTICLE 12 

 

CERTAIN ADDITIONAL PAYMENTS 

 

     SECTION 12.01. Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, in the event it shall be determined that any payment, award, benefit or distribution (including, without limitation, the acceleration of any payment, award, distribution or benefit) by the Company or its Subsidiaries to or for the benefit of the Executive (whether pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or otherwise, but determined without regard to any additional payments required under this Article 12) (a “Payment”) would be subject to the excise tax imposed by Section 4999 of the Code or any corresponding provisions of state or local tax law, or any interest or penalties are incurred by the Executive with respect to such excise tax (such excise tax, together with any such interest and penalties, are hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Excise Tax”), then the Executive shall be entitled to receive an additional payment (a “Gross-Up Payment”) in an amount such that after payment by the Executive of all taxes (including any Excise Tax, income tax or employment tax) imposed upon the Gross-Up Payment and any interest or penalties imposed with respect to such taxes, the Executive retains from the Gross-Up Payment an amount equal to the Excise Tax imposed upon the Payments. The payment of a Gross-Up Payment under this Section 12.01 shall not be conditioned upon the Executive’s termination of employment. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 12.01, if it shall be determined that the Executive is entitled to a Gross-Up Payment, but that the portion of the Payments that would be treated as “parachute payments” under Section 280G of the Code does not exceed the lesser of 110% of the Safe Harbor Amount (as defined in the following sentence) or $200,000, then no Gross-Up Payment shall be made to the Executive and the amounts payable under this Agreement shall be reduced so that the Payments, in the aggregate, are reduced to the Safe Harbor Amount. 

 

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The “Safe Harbor Amount” is the greatest amount of payments in the nature of compensation that are contingent on a Change in Control for purposes of Section 280G of the Code that could be paid to the Executive without giving rise to any Excise Tax. The reduction of the amounts payable hereunder, if applicable, shall be made by first reducing the cash payments under Article 5 hereof. For purposes of reducing the payments to the Safe Harbor Amount, only amounts payable under this Agreement (and no other Payments) shall be reduced. If the reduction of the amounts payable under this Agreement would not result in a reduction of the Payments to the Safe Harbor Amount, no amounts payable under this Agreement shall be reduced pursuant to this Section 12.01. 

 

     SECTION 12.02. Subject to the provisions of Section 12.03, all determinations required to be made under this Article 12, including the determination of whether a Gross-Up Payment is required and of the amount of any such Gross-up Payment, shall be made by the Company’s independent auditors or such other accounting firm agreed by the parties hereto (the “Accounting Firm”), which shall provide detailed supporting calculations to the Companies within 15 business days after the receipt of notice from the Companies that the Executive has received a Payment, or such earlier time as is requested by the Companies, provided that any determination that an Excise Tax is payable by the Executive shall be made on the basis of substantial authority. The Companies will promptly provide copies of such supporting calculations to the Executive on which the Executive may rely. The initial Gross-Up Payment, if any, as determined pursuant to this Section 12.02, shall be paid to the Executive (or for the benefit of the Executive to the extent of the Companies’ withholding obligation with respect to applicable taxes) no later than one day prior to the due date for the payment of any Excise Tax. If the Accounting Firm determines that no Excise Tax is payable by the Executive, it shall furnish the Companies with a written opinion that substantial authority exists for the Executive not to report any Excise Tax on his Federal income tax return and, as a result, the Companies are not required to withhold Excise Tax from payments to the Executive. The Companies will promptly provide a copy of any such opinion to the Executive on which the Executive may rely. Any determination by the Accounting Firm meeting the requirements of this Section 12.02 shall be binding upon the Companies and the Executive. As a result of the uncertainty in the application of Section 4999 of the Code at the time of the initial determination by the Accounting Firm hereunder, it is possible that Gross-Up Payments which will not have been made by the Companies should have been made (“Underpayment”), consistent with the calculations required to be made hereunder. In the event that the Companies exhaust their remedies pursuant to Section 12.03 and the Executive thereafter is required to make a payment of any Excise Tax, the Accounting Firm shall determine the amount of the Underpayment that has occurred, and any such Underpayment shall be promptly paid by the Companies to or for the benefit of the Executive. The fees and disbursements of the Accounting Firm shall be paid by the Companies. 

 

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     SECTION 12.03. The Executive shall notify the Companies in writing of any claim by the Internal Revenue Service that, if successful, would require the payment by the Companies of a Gross-Up Payment. Such notification shall be given as soon as practicable but not later than ten business days after the Executive receives written notice of such claim and shall apprise the Companies of the nature of such claim and the date on which such Claim is requested to be paid. The Executive shall not pay such claim prior to the expiration of the 30-day period following the date on which it gives such notice to the Companies (or such shorter period ending on the date that any payment of taxes with respect to such claim is due). If the Companies notify the Executive in writing prior to the expiration of such period that they desire to contest such claim, the Executive shall: 

 

          (i) give the Companies any information reasonably requested by the Companies relating to such claim, 

 

          (ii) take such action in connection with contesting such claim as the Companies shall reasonably request in writing from time to time, including, without limitation, accepting legal representation with respect to such claim by an attorney reasonably selected by the Companies, 

 

          (iii) cooperate with the Companies in good faith in order to effectively contest such claim, and 

 

          (iv) permit the Companies to participate in any proceedings relating to such claim;

 

provided, however, that the Companies shall bear and pay directly all costs and expenses (including additional interest and penalties) incurred in connection with such contest and shall indemnify and hold the Executive harmless, on an after-tax basis, for any Excise Tax, income tax or employment tax, including interest and penalties with respect thereto, imposed as a result of such representation and payment of costs and expenses. Without limitation on the foregoing provisions of this Section 12.03, the Companies shall control all proceedings taken in connection with such contest and, at their sole option, may pursue or forgo any and all administrative appeals, proceedings, hearings and conferences with the taxing authority in respect of such claim and may, at their sole option, either direct the Executive to pay the tax claimed and sue for a refund or contest the claim in any permissible manner, and the Executive agrees to prosecute such contest to a determination before any administrative tribunal, in a court of initial jurisdiction and in one or more appellate courts, as the Companies shall determine; provided, however, that if the Companies direct the Executive to pay such claim and sue for a refund, the Companies shall advance the amount of such payment to the Executive on an interest-free basis and shall indemnify and hold the Executive harmless, on an after-tax basis, from any Excise Tax, income tax or employment tax, including interest or penalties with respect thereto, imposed with respect to such advance (except that if such a loan would not be permitted under applicable law, the Companies may not direct the Executive to pay the claim and sue for a refund); and further provided that any extension of the statute of limitations relating to the payment of taxes for the taxable year of the Executive with respect to which such contested amount is claimed to be due is limited solely to such contested amount. Furthermore, the Companies’ control of the contest shall be limited to issues with respect to which a Gross-Up Payment would be payable hereunder and the Executive shall be entitled to settle or contest, as the case may be, any other issue raised by the Internal Revenue Service or any other taxing authority. 

 

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     SECTION 12.04. If, after the receipt by the Executive of an amount advanced by the Companies pursuant to Section 12.03, the Executive becomes entitled to receive any refund with respect to such claim, the Executive shall (subject to the compliance by the Companies with the requirements of Section 12.03) promptly pay to the Companies the amount of such refund (together with any interest paid or credited thereon after taxes applicable thereto). If, after the receipt by the Executive of an amount advanced by the Companies pursuant to Section 12.03, a determination is made that the Executive shall not be entitled to any refund with respect to such claim and the Companies do not notify the Executive in writing of their intent to contest such denial of refund prior to the expiration of 30 days after such determination, then such advance shall be forgiven and shall not be required to be repaid and the amount of such advance shall offset, to the extent thereof, the amount of the Gross-Up Payment required to be paid. 

 

ARTICLE 13 

 

MISCELLANEOUS 

 

     SECTION 13.01. Binding Arbitration. The parties agree that, except as provided in Articles 9 and 10 above, any disputes under this Agreement shall be settled exclusively by arbitration conducted in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Except to the extent inconsistent with this Agreement, such arbitration shall be conducted in accordance with the National Rules for the Resolution of Employment Disputes of the American Arbitration Association then in effect at the time of the arbitration and otherwise in accordance with principles which would be applied by a court of law or equity. The arbitrator shall be acceptable to both the Companies and the Executive. If the parties cannot agree on an acceptable arbitrator, the dispute shall be decided by a panel of three arbitrators, one appointed by each of the parties and the third appointed by the other two arbitrators or if the two arbitrators do not agree, appointed by the American Arbitration Association. The costs of arbitration incurred by the Executive (or his beneficiaries) will be borne by the Companies (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees and other reasonable charges of counsel) (i) if the arbitration occurs prior to a Change in Control, if the Executive prevails on a majority of the material issues in the dispute, and (ii) if the arbitration occurs after a Change in Control, if the Executive prevails on at least one material issue in the dispute. Judgment upon the final award rendered by such arbitrator(s) may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof.

 

     SECTION 13.02. Consent to Amendments; No Waivers. The provisions of this Agreement may be amended or waived only by a written agreement executed and delivered by the Companies and the Executive. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Companies shall have unilateral authority to amend this Agreement (without Executive consent) to the extent necessary to comply with applicable laws, rules or regulations (including but not limited to Section 409A) or changes to applicable laws, rules or regulations. No other course of dealing between the parties to this Agreement or any delay in exercising any rights hereunder will operate as a waiver of any rights of any such parties. 

 

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     SECTION 13.03. Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements contained in this Agreement by or on behalf of any of the parties hereto will bind and inure to the benefit of the respective successors, assigns, heirs, executors and estates of the parties hereto whether so expressed or not, provided that the Executive may not assign his rights or delegate his obligations under this Agreement without the written consent of the Companies (other than to his estate or heirs) and the Company may assign this Agreement only to a successor to all or substantially all of the assets of the Company. 

 

     SECTION 13.04. Severability. Whenever possible, each provision of this Agreement will be interpreted in such manner as to be effective and valid under applicable law, but if any provision of this Agreement is held to be prohibited by or invalid under applicable law, such provision will be ineffective only to the extent of such prohibition or invalidity, without invalidating the remainder of this Agreement. 

 

     SECTION 13.05. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed simultaneously in two or more counterparts, any one of which need not contain the signatures of more than one party, but all of which counterparts taken together will constitute one and the same agreement. 

 

     SECTION 13.06. Descriptive Headings. The descriptive headings of this Agreement are inserted for convenience only and do not constitute a part of this Agreement. 

 

     SECTION 13.07. Notices. All notices, demands or other communications to be given or delivered under or by reason of the provisions of this Agreement will be in writing and will be deemed to have been given when delivered personally to the recipient, two business days after the date when sent to the recipient by reputable express courier service (charges prepaid) or four business days after the date when mailed to the recipient by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested and postage prepaid. Such notices, demands and other communications will be sent to the Executive and to the Companies at the addresses set forth below. 

 

	If to the Executive:	To the last address delivered to the Companies by the Executive in the manner set forth herein.
	 	 
	If to the Companies:	
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc.

Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation

Suite 500

370 Knollwood Street

Winston-Salem, NC 27103

 

Attn: Senior Vice President – Human Resources

 

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or to such other address or to the attention of such other person as the recipient party has specified by prior written notice to the sending party. 

 

     SECTION 13.08. Withholding. The Companies may withhold from any amounts payable under this Agreement such federal, state, local or foreign taxes as shall be required to be withheld pursuant to any applicable law or regulation. 

 

     SECTION 13.09. No Third-Party Beneficiary. This Agreement will not confer any rights or remedies upon any person other than the Companies, the Executive and their respective heirs, executors, successors and assigns. 

 

     SECTION 13.10. Entire Agreement. This Agreement (including any other documents referred to herein) constitutes the entire agreement among the parties and supersedes any prior understandings, agreements or representations by or among the parties, written or oral, that may have related in any way to the subject matter hereof. 

 

     SECTION 13.11. Construction. The language used in this Agreement will be deemed to be the language chosen by the parties to express their mutual intent, and no rule of strict construction will be applied against any party. Any reference to any federal, state, local or foreign statute or law will be deemed also to refer to all rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, unless the context requires otherwise. 

 

     SECTION 13.12. Survival. Sections 6.01, 7.01, 8.01 and Articles 5, 9, 11, 12 and 13 will survive and continue in full force in accordance with their terms notwithstanding any termination of the Employment Period, and the Agreement shall otherwise remain in full force to the extent necessary to enforce any rights and obligations arising hereunder during the Employment Period. 

 

     SECTION 13.13. GOVERNING LAW. ALL QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE CONSTRUCTION, VALIDITY AND INTERPRETATION OF THIS AGREEMENT WILL BE GOVERNED BY THE INTERNAL LAW OF NORTH CAROLINA, WITHOUT REGARD TO PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICT OF LAWS. 

 

     SECTION 13.14. Section 409A. It is intended that this Agreement will comply with Section 409A of the Code (and any regulations and guidelines issued thereunder) to the extent the Agreement is subject thereto, and the Agreement shall be interpreted on a basis consistent with such intent. In the event that this Agreement or any compensation payable hereunder shall be deemed not to comply with (or be exempt from) Section 409A, then neither the Companies, the Board, the Board of Directors of KKDC, nor its or their designees or agents, shall be liable to the Executive of other persons for actions, decisions or determinations made in good faith.

 

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     SECTION 13.15. Representations of the Companies. The Companies represent and warrant that (i) the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by the Companies has been fully and validly authorized by all necessary corporate action, (ii) the officer(s) signing this Agreement on behalf of the Companies is duly authorized to do so, (iii) the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement does not violate any applicable law, regulation, order, judgment or decree or any agreement, plan or corporate governance document to which the Companies are a party or by which they are bound, and (iv) upon execution and delivery of this Agreement by the parties hereto, it will be a valid and binding obligation of the Companies enforceable against the Companies and their successors and assigns in accordance with its terms, except to the extent that enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally. 

 

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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the date and year first above written. 

 

	 	KRISPY KREME DOUGHNUTS, INC.
	 	 
	 	By: 	/s/ James H. Morgan
	 	 	James H. Morgan
	 	 	Chief Executive Officer
	 	 	 
	 	KRISPY KREME DOUGHNUT CORPORATION
	 	 	 
	 	By: 	/s/ Douglas R. Muir
	 	 	Douglas R. Muir
	 	 	
Chief Financial Officer

	 	 	 
	 	EXECUTIVE
	 	 
	 	 	/s/ G. Dwayne Chambers
	 	 	G. Dwayne Chambers

 

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Exhibit A

 

MUTUAL RELEASE 

 

This mutual release (this “Release”) is entered into as of this ____ day of ______, ____ (the “Release Date”) among Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation, a North Carolina corporation (“KKDC”), Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc., a North Carolina corporation (the “Company” and, together with KKDC, the “Companies”) and G. Dwayne Chambers (the “Executive”).

 

1. Reference is hereby made to the employment agreement dated as of September 14, 2010 (the “Employment Agreement”) by the parties hereto setting forth the agreements among the parties regarding the termination of the employment relationship between the Executive and the Companies. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the meanings ascribed to them in the Employment Agreement.

 

2. The Executive, for himself, his spouse, heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns, hereby releases and discharges the Companies and its respective direct and indirect parents and subsidiaries, and other affiliated companies, and each of their respective past and present officers, directors, agents and employees, from any and all actions, causes of action, claims, demands, grievances and complaints, known and unknown, which the Executive or his spouse, heirs, executors, administrators, successors or assigns ever had or may have at any time through the Release Date. The Executive acknowledges and agrees that this Release is intended to and does cover, but is not limited to, (i) any claim of employment discrimination of any kind whether based on a federal, state or local statute or court decision, including the Age Discrimination in Employment Act with appropriate notice and rescission periods observed; (ii) any claim, whether statutory, common law or otherwise, arising out of the terms or conditions of the Executive’s employment at the Companies and/or the Executive’s separation from the Companies; enumeration of specific rights, claims and causes of action being released shall not be construed to limit the general scope of this Release. It is the intent of the parties that by this Release the Executive is giving up all rights, claims and causes of action occurring prior to the Release Date, whether or not any damage or injury therefrom has yet occurred. The Executive accepts the risk of loss with respect to both undiscovered claims and with respect to claims for any harm hereafter suffered arising out of conduct, statements, performance or decisions occurring before the Release Date.

 

3. The Companies hereby release and discharge the Executive, his spouse, heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns, from any and all actions, causes of actions, claims, demands, grievances and complaints, known and unknown, which the Companies ever had or may have at any time through the Release Date. The Companies acknowledge and agree that this Release is intended to and does cover, but is not limited to, (i) any claim, whether statutory, common law or otherwise, arising out of the terms or conditions of the Executive’s employment at the Companies and/or the Executive’s separation from the Companies, and (ii) any claim for attorneys’ fees, costs, disbursements or other like expenses. The enumeration of specific rights, claims and causes of action being released shall not be construed to limit the general scope of this Release. It is the intent of the parties that by this Release the Companies are giving up all of their respective rights, claims and causes of action occurring prior to the Release Date, whether or not any damage or injury therefrom has yet occurred. The Companies accept the risk of loss with respect to both undiscovered claims and with respect to claims for any harm hereafter suffered arising out of conduct, statements, performance or decisions occurring before the Release Date.

 

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4. This Release shall in no event (i) apply to any claim by either the Executive or the Companies arising from any breach by the other party of its obligations under the Employment Agreement occurring on or after the Release Date, (ii) waive the Executive’s claim with respect to compensation or benefits earned or accrued prior to the Release Date to the extent such claim survives termination of the Executive’s employment under the terms of the Employment Agreement, (iii) waive the Executive’s right to indemnification under the charters and by-laws of the Companies, or (iv) waive the Executive’s rights as a shareholder.

 

5. This Mutual Release shall be effective as of the Release Date and only if executed by both parties.

 

6. All questions concerning the construction, validity and interpretation of this Mutual Release will be governed by the internal law of North Carolina, without regard to principles of conflict of laws.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each party hereto, intending to be legally bound, has executed this Mutual Release on the date indicated below.

 

	 	KRISPY KREME DOUGHNUTS, INC.
	 	 
	 	By: 	 
	 	 	 
	 	KRISPY KREME DOUGHNUT CORPORATION
	 	 
	 	By:	 
	 	 	  
	 	
EXECUTIVE 

	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	 	G. Dwayne Chambers 

 

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Exhibit B 

 

The following businesses, together with their Subsidiaries, are the businesses for purposes of Section 9.01 hereof:

 

Dunkin Brands Inc.

Tim Hortons, Inc.

George Weston Limited

Interstate Bakeries Corporation

Flowers Foods, Inc.

McKee Foods Inc.

Starbucks

 

24exhibit10-1.htm

	 

 

CREDIT AGREEMENT

 

dated as of

 

December 1, 2010

 

among

 

VISHAY INTERTECHNOLOGY, INC.,

 

The Subsidiary Borrowers Party Hereto,

 

The Lenders Party Hereto

 

and

 

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,

as Administrative Agent

 

——————————————

 

J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC,

as Sole Lead Arranger and Joint Bookrunner 

 

COMERICA BANK

and

BANK LEUMI USA,

as Joint Bookrunners and Co-Syndication Agents 

 

THE BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI UFJ, LTD.

and

HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as Co-Documentation Agents

	 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

	 	 	 	 	     	Page
	ARTICLE I
	 
	Definitions
	 
	SECTION  	1.01.	     	Defined Terms	 	1
	SECTION	1.02.	 	Types of Loans and Borrowings	 	36
	SECTION	1.03.	 	Terms Generally	 	36
	SECTION	1.04.	 	Accounting Terms; GAAP; Pro Forma Calculations	 	37
	 
	ARTICLE II
	 
	The Credits
	 
	SECTION	2.01.	 	Commitments	 	38
	SECTION	2.02.	 	Loans and Borrowings	 	38
	SECTION	2.03.	 	Requests for Borrowings	 	39
	SECTION	2.04.	 	Swingline Loans	 	40
	SECTION	2.05.	 	Letters of Credit	 	41
	SECTION	2.06.	 	Funding of Borrowings	 	47
	SECTION	2.07.	 	Interest Elections	 	48
	SECTION	2.08.	 	Termination and Reduction of Commitments	 	49
	SECTION	2.09.	 	Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt	 	50
	SECTION	2.10.	 	Prepayment of Loans	 	50
	SECTION	2.11.	 	Fees	 	51
	SECTION	2.12.	 	Interest	 	52
	SECTION	2.13.	 	Alternate Rate of Interest	 	53
	SECTION	2.14.	 	Increased Costs	 	53
	SECTION	2.15.	 	Break Funding Payments	 	55
	SECTION	2.16.	 	Taxes	 	56
	SECTION	2.17.	 	Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Setoffs	 	59
	SECTION	2.18.	 	Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders	 	61
	SECTION	2.19.	 	Defaulting Lenders	 	62
	SECTION	2.20.	 	Designation of Subsidiary Borrowers	 	64
	SECTION	2.21.	 	Incremental Commitments	 	65
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE III
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Representations and Warranties
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	SECTION	3.01.	 	Organization; Powers	 	68
	SECTION	3.02.	 	Authorization; Enforceability	 	68
	SECTION	3.03.	 	Governmental Approvals; Absence of Conflicts	 	68
	SECTION	3.04.	 	Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change	 	69

 

	SECTION 	3.05.	     	Properties	     	69
	SECTION	3.06.	 	Litigation and Environmental Matters	 	69
	SECTION	3.07.	 	Compliance with Laws and Agreements	 	70
	SECTION	3.08.	 	Investment Company Status	 	70
	SECTION	3.09.	 	Taxes	 	70
	SECTION	3.10.	 	ERISA; Labor Matters	 	70
	SECTION	3.11.	 	Subsidiaries and Joint Ventures	 	71
	SECTION	3.12.	 	Insurance	 	71
	SECTION	3.13.	 	Solvency	 	71
	SECTION	3.14.	 	Disclosure	 	71
	SECTION	3.15.	 	Collateral Matters	 	72
	SECTION	3.16.	 	Federal Reserve Regulations	 	72
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE IV
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Conditions
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	SECTION	4.01.	 	Effective Date	 	73
	SECTION	4.02.	 	Each Credit Event	 	75
	SECTION	4.03.	 	Initial Credit Event for each Subsidiary Borrower	 	75
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE V
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Affirmative Covenants
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	SECTION	5.01.	 	Financial Statements and Other Information	 	76
	SECTION	5.02.	 	Notices of Material Events	 	79
	SECTION	5.03.	 	Additional Subsidiaries	 	79
	SECTION	5.04.	 	Information Regarding Collateral	 	80
	SECTION	5.05.	 	Existence; Conduct of Business	 	80
	SECTION	5.06.	 	Payment of Obligations	 	80
	SECTION	5.07.	 	Maintenance of Properties	 	81
	SECTION	5.08.	 	Insurance	 	81
	SECTION	5.09.	 	Books and Records; Inspection and Audit Rights	 	81
	SECTION	5.10.	 	Compliance with Laws	 	81
	SECTION	5.11.	 	Use of Proceeds and Letters of Credit	 	82
	SECTION	5.12.	 	Further Assurances	 	82
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE VI
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Negative Covenants
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	SECTION	6.01.	 	Indebtedness; Certain Equity Securities	 	82
	SECTION	6.02.	 	Liens	 	85
	SECTION	6.03.	 	Fundamental Changes; Business Activities	 	86
	SECTION	6.04.	 	Investments, Loans, Advances, Guarantees and Acquisitions	 	87
	SECTION	6.05.	 	Asset Sales	 	89

 

	SECTION 	6.06.	     	Sale/Leaseback Transactions	     	91
	SECTION	6.07.	 	Hedging Agreements	 	91
	SECTION	6.08.	 	Restricted Payments; Certain Payments of Indebtedness	 	91
	SECTION	6.09.	 	Transactions with Affiliates	 	93
	SECTION	6.10.	 	Restrictive Agreements	 	93
	SECTION	6.11.	 	Amendment of Material Documents	 	94
	SECTION	6.12.	 	Interest Expense Coverage Ratio	 	94
	SECTION	6.13.	 	Leverage Ratio	 	94
	SECTION	6.14.	 	Fiscal Year	 	94
	 
	ARTICLE VII
	 
	Events of Default
	 
	ARTICLE VIII
	 
	The Administrative Agent
	 
	ARTICLE IX
	 
	Miscellaneous
	 
	SECTION	9.01.	 	Notices	 	101
	SECTION	9.02.	 	Waivers; Amendments	 	103
	SECTION	9.03.	 	Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver	 	104
	SECTION	9.04.	 	Successors and Assigns	 	106
	SECTION	9.05.	 	Survival	 	109
	SECTION	9.06.	 	Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness	 	110
	SECTION	9.07.	 	Severability	 	110
	SECTION	9.08.	 	Right of Setoff	 	110
	SECTION	9.09.	 	Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process	 	111
	SECTION	9.10.	 	WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL	 	111
	SECTION	9.11.	 	Headings	 	112
	SECTION	9.12.	 	Confidentiality	 	112
	SECTION	9.13.	 	Release of Liens and Guarantees	 	112
	SECTION	9.14.	 	USA PATRIOT Act Notice	 	114
	SECTION	9.15.	 	No Fiduciary Relationship	 	114
	SECTION	9.16.	 	Non-Public Information	 	114
	SECTION	9.17.	 	Application of Proceeds	 	115
	SECTION	9.18.	 	Parallel Debt	 	116
	 
	SCHEDULES:

 

	Schedule 	1.01	 — Existing Letters of Credit	     	 
	Schedule	2.01	 — Commitments	 	 
	Schedule	3.11	 — Subsidiaries and Joint Ventures	 	 
	Schedule	3.12	 — Insurance	 	 
	Schedule	6.01	 — Existing Indebtedness	 	 
	Schedule	6.02	 — Existing Liens	 	 
	Schedule	6.04	 — Existing Investments	 	 
	Schedule	6.10	 — Existing Restrictions	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	EXHIBITS:	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	Exhibit A — Form of Assignment and Assumption	 	 
	Exhibit B — Form of Borrowing Request	 	 
	Exhibit C — Form of Guarantee and Collateral Agreement	 	 
	Exhibit D — Form of Compliance Certificate	 	 
	Exhibit E — Form of Interest Election Request	 	 
	Exhibit F — Form of Perfection Certificate	 	 
	Exhibit G — Form of Subsidiary Borrower Agreement	 	 
	Exhibit H — Form of Subsidiary Borrower Termination	 	 
	Exhibit I — Form of Intercompany Subordination Agreement	 	 
	Exhibit J — Form of U.S. Tax Certificate	 	 

 

     CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of December 1, 2010, among VISHAY INTERTECHNOLOGY, INC., the SUBSIDIARY BORROWERS party hereto, the LENDERS party hereto and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent. 

 

          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, means that such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, bears interest at a rate determined by reference to the Alternate Base Rate. 

 

          “Acquired Person” has the meaning assigned to such term in the definition of the term “Permitted Acquisition”. 

 

          “Acquisition Basket Amount” means an amount equal to $750,000,000; provided that, of such aggregate amount, an amount of not less than $300,000,000 shall be funded entirely with cash located outside of the United States of America and held by a Foreign Subsidiary and no portion of such cash shall be provided by, or represent an Investment by, any Domestic Subsidiary or shall represent the proceeds of the incurrence of Indebtedness by any Domestic Subsidiary. 

 

          “Acquisition Basket Expenditures” means Investments made pursuant to Section 6.04(m) and Investments made pursuant to Section 6.04(q), in each case that are based on usage of the Acquisition Basket Amount. 

 

          “Adjusted LIBO Rate” means, with respect to any Eurocurrency Borrowing for any Interest Period, an interest rate per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) equal to (a) the LIBO Rate for such Interest Period multiplied by (b) the Statutory Reserve Rate. 

 

          “Administrative Agent” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., in its capacity as administrative agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, and its successors in such capacity as provided in Article VIII. 

 

          “Administrative Questionnaire” means an Administrative Questionnaire in a form supplied by the Administrative Agent. 

 

          “Affiliate” means, with respect to a specified Person, another Person that directly or indirectly Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with the Person specified; provided, however, that for purposes of Section 6.09, the term 

 

 

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“Affiliate” also means any Person that is a director or an executive officer of the Person specified, any Person that directly or indirectly beneficially owns Equity Interests in the Person specified representing 10% or more of the aggregate ordinary voting power or the aggregate equity value represented by the issued and outstanding Equity Interests in the Person specified and any Person that would be an Affiliate of any such beneficial owner pursuant to this definition (but without giving effect to this proviso). 

 

          “Aggregate Commitment” means the sum of the Commitments of all the Revolving Lenders. 

 

          “Aggregate Revolving Exposure” means the sum of the Revolving Exposures of all the Revolving Lenders. 

 

          “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 Federal Funds Effective 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 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 rate per annum appearing on the Reuters “LIBOR01” screen displaying British Bankers’ Association Interest Settlement Rates (or on any successor or substitute screen provided by Reuters, or any successor to or substitute for such service, providing rate quotations comparable to those currently provided on such screen, as determined by the Administrative Agent from time to time for purposes of providing quotations of interest rates applicable to dollar deposits in the London interbank market) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to such day for deposits in dollars with a maturity of one month. Any change in the Alternate Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or the Adjusted LIBO Rate shall be effective from and including the effective date of such change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or the Adjusted LIBO Rate, respectively. 

 

          “Applicable Percentage” means, at any time, with respect to any Revolving Lender, the percentage of the Aggregate Commitment represented by such Lender’s Commitment at such time; provided that, in the case of Section 2.19, when a Defaulting Lender shall exist, “Applicable Percentage” shall mean the percentage of the Aggregate Commitment (disregarding any Defaulting Lender’s Commitment) represented by such Lender’s Commitment. If the Commitments have terminated or expired, the Applicable Percentages shall be determined based upon the Commitments most recently in effect, giving effect to any assignments and to any Lender’s status as a Defaulting Lender at the time of determination. 

 

          “Applicable Rate” means, for any day, with respect to any ABR Loan or Eurocurrency Loan, or with respect to the facility fees payable hereunder, the applicable rate per annum set forth below under the caption “ABR Spread”, “Eurocurrency Spread” or “Facility Fee Rate”, as the case may be, based upon the Leverage Ratio as of the end of the fiscal quarter of the Company for which consolidated financial statements have theretofore been most recently delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or 5.01(b); provided 

 

 

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that, until the date of the delivery of the consolidated financial statements pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or 5.01(b) as of and for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010, the Applicable Rate shall be based on the rates per annum set forth in Category 5:

 

	Leverage Ratio:	Eurocurrency

Spread	ABR

Spread	Facility Fee

Rate
	Category 1

≥ 3.00 to 1.00	2.75%	1.75%	0.50%
	Category 2

< 3.00 to 1.00

≥ 2.50 to 1.00	2.40%	1.40%	0.50%
	Category 3

< 2.50 to 1.00

≥ 2.00 to 1.00	2.25%	1.25%	0.35%
	Category 4

< 2.00 to 1.00

≥ 1.50 to 1.00	1.95%	0.95%	0.35%
	Category 5

< 1.50 to 1.00	1.65%	0.65%	0.35%

          For purposes of the foregoing, each change in the Applicable Rate resulting from a change in the Leverage Ratio shall be effective during the period commencing on and including the Business Day following the date of delivery to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or 5.01(b) of the consolidated financial statements indicating such change and ending on the date immediately preceding the effective date of the next such change. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Applicable Rate shall be based on the rates per annum set forth in Category 1 (i) at the request of the Required Lenders, at any time that an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or (ii) if the Company fails to deliver the consolidated financial statements required to be delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or 5.01(b) or any Compliance Certificate required to be delivered pursuant hereto, in each case within the time periods specified herein for such delivery, during the period commencing on and including the day of the occurrence of a Default resulting from such failure and until the delivery thereof. 

 

          “Approved Fund” means any Person (other than a natural person) that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course and that is administered or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages a Lender. 

 

          “Arranger” means J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, in its capacity as the sole lead arranger and joint bookrunner for the credit facilities provided for herein. 

 

          “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 

 

 

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form of Exhibit A or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion. 

 

          “Availability Period” means the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the earlier of the Maturity Date and the date of termination of the Commitments. 

 

          “Bankruptcy Event” means, with respect to any Person, such Person becomes 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 or instrumentality thereof; 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 or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permit such Person (or such Governmental Authority or instrumentality) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made by such Person. 

 

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

 

          “Bookrunners” means J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Comerica Bank and Bank Leumi USA, each in its capacity as a joint bookrunner for the credit facilities provided herein. 

 

          “Borrowers” means the Company and the Subsidiary Borrowers. 

 

          “Borrowing” means (a) Loans of the same Type made, converted or continued on the same date and, in the case of Eurocurrency Loans, as to which a single Interest Period is in effect, or (b) a Swingline Loan. 

 

          “Borrowing Request” means a request by a Borrower for a Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.03 or 2.04, as applicable, which shall be, in the case of any such written request, in the form of Exhibit B or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion. 

 

          “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 Eurocurrency Loan, the term “Business Day” shall also exclude any day on which banks are not open for dealings in dollar deposits in the London interbank market. 

 

          “Capital Expenditures” means, for any period, (a) the additions to property, plant and equipment and other capital expenditures of the Company and its 

 

 

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consolidated Subsidiaries that are (or should be) set forth in a consolidated statement of cash flows of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries for such period prepared in accordance with GAAP, excluding (i) any such expenditures made to restore, replace or rebuild assets to substantially the same condition as that of such assets immediately prior to any casualty or other insured damage to, or any taking under power of eminent domain or by condemnation or similar proceeding of, such assets to the extent such expenditures are made with insurance proceeds, condemnation awards or damage recovery proceeds relating to any such casualty, damage, taking, condemnation or similar proceeding and (ii) any such expenditures to the extent made with the proceeds of any grant received during such period by the Company or any Subsidiary from any Governmental Authority, and (b) such portion of principal payments on Capital Lease Obligations made by the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries during such period as is attributable to additions to property, plant and equipment that have not otherwise been reflected on the consolidated statement of cash flows as additions to property, plant and equipment. 

 

          “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; the amount of such obligations shall be the capitalized amount thereof determined in accordance with GAAP, and the final maturity of such obligations shall be the date of the last payment of such or any other amounts due under such lease (or other arrangement) prior to the first date on which such lease (or other arrangement) may be terminated by the lessee without payment of a premium or a penalty. 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. 

 

          “CFC” means (a) each Person that is a “controlled foreign person” for purposes of the Code and (b) each subsidiary of any such controlled foreign person. 

 

          “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 Exchange Act and the rules of the SEC thereunder), other than the Permitted Holders, of Equity Interests in the Company representing more than 35% of the aggregate ordinary voting power represented by the issued and outstanding Equity Interests in the Company; (b) persons who were (i) directors of the Company on the date hereof, (ii) nominated by the board of directors of the Company or (iii) appointed by directors who were directors of the Company on the date hereof or were nominated as provided in clause (ii) above, in each case other than any person whose initial nomination or appointment occurred as a result of an actual or threatened solicitation of proxies or consents for the election or removal of one or more directors on the board of directors of the Company (other than any such solicitation made by the board of directors of the Company), ceasing to occupy a majority of the seats (excluding vacant seats) on the board of directors of the Company; or (c) the occurrence of any “change of control” (or similar event, however denominated) with respect to the Company under and as defined in any indenture or other agreement or instrument evidencing, governing the rights of the holders of or otherwise relating to any 

 

 

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Material Indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary or any preferred Equity Interests in Holdings. 

 

          “Change in Law” means the occurrence, after the date of this Agreement, of any of the following: (a) the adoption of any rule, regulation, treaty or other law, (b) any change in any rule, regulation, treaty or other law or in the administration, interpretation 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, however, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith shall be deemed to be a “Change in Law”, regardless of the date enacted, adopted or issued. 

 

          “Charitable Organization” has the meaning assigned to such term in the definition of the term “Permitted Transferee”. 

 

          “Class B Common Stock” means the Class B Common Stock, $0.10 par value per share, of the Company. 

 

          “CNI Basket Amount” means, at any date, an aggregate amount equal to 20% of cumulative Consolidated Net Income during the period (treated as one accounting period) from December 31, 2012 to the end of the fiscal quarter of the Company for which consolidated financial statements have theretofore been most recently delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or 5.01(b). 

 

          “CNI Expenditures” means Investments made pursuant to Section 6.04(m), Investments made pursuant to Section 6.04(q) and Restricted Payments made pursuant to Section 6.08(a)(viii), in each case that are based on usage of the CNI Basket Amount. 

 

          “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. 

 

          “Collateral” means any and all assets, whether real or personal, tangible or intangible, on which Liens are purported to be granted pursuant to the Security Documents as security for the Secured Obligations. 

 

          “Collateral Agreement” means the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement among the Company, the Domestic Subsidiary Loan Parties and the Administrative Agent, substantially in the form of Exhibit C, together with all supplements thereto. 

 

          “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement” means, at any time, the requirement that: 

 

     (a) the Administrative Agent shall have received from the Company and each Designated Domestic Subsidiary either (i) a counterpart of the Collateral Agreement duly executed and delivered on behalf of such Person or (ii) in the case of any Person that becomes a Designated Domestic Subsidiary after the Effective Date, a supplement to the Collateral Agreement, in the form specified 

 

 

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therein, duly executed and delivered on behalf of such Person, together with documents and opinions of the type referred to in paragraphs (b) and (c) of Section 4.01 with respect to such Designated Domestic Subsidiary; 

 

     (b) all Equity Interests in any Subsidiary owned directly by or on behalf of any Domestic Loan Party shall have been pledged pursuant to the Collateral Agreement (or, in the case of Equity Interests in any Subsidiary owned directly by or on behalf of any Domestic Loan Party that is a Foreign DRE, a Foreign DRE Pledge Agreement) or, in the case of Equity Interests in any Foreign Subsidiary or any Foreign DRE, where the Administrative Agent so requests in connection with the pledge of such Equity Interests, a Foreign Pledge Agreement (provided that the Domestic Loan Parties shall not be required to pledge Equity Interests in any Foreign Subsidiary that is not a Designated Foreign Subsidiary or Equity Interests in any Foreign DRE that is not a Designated Domestic Subsidiary and shall not be required to pledge more than 65% of the voting power of the outstanding voting Equity Interests of any Designated Foreign Subsidiary), and the Administrative Agent shall, to the extent required by the Collateral Agreement, such Foreign DRE Pledge Agreement or such Foreign Pledge Agreement, as applicable, have received certificates or other instruments representing all such Equity Interests, together with undated stock powers or other instruments of transfer with respect thereto endorsed in blank; 

 

     (c) (i) all Indebtedness of the Company and each Subsidiary and (ii) all Indebtedness (other than Permitted Investments) of any other Person in a principal amount of $1,000,000 or more that, in each case, is owing to any Domestic Loan Party (other than any Foreign DRE) shall be evidenced by a promissory note and shall have been pledged pursuant to the Collateral Agreement, and the Administrative Agent shall have received all such promissory notes, together with undated instruments of transfer with respect thereto endorsed in blank; 

 

     (d) all documents and instruments, including Uniform Commercial Code financing statements, required by applicable law or reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent to be filed, registered or recorded to create the Liens intended to be created by the Security Documents and perfect such Liens to the extent required by, and with the priority required by, the Security Documents, shall have been filed, registered or recorded or delivered to the Administrative Agent for filing, registration or recording; 

 

     (e) each Domestic Loan Party (other than any Foreign DRE) shall have obtained all landlord, warehouseman, agent, bailee and processor acknowledgments required to be obtained by it pursuant to the Collateral Agreement and all other consents and approvals required to be obtained by it in connection with the execution and delivery of all Security Documents to which it is a party, the performance of its obligations thereunder and the granting by it of the Liens thereunder; and 

 

 

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     (f) if the Company shall have designated any Foreign Subsidiary Borrower pursuant to Section 2.20, (i) the Administrative Agent shall have received from each Designated Foreign Subsidiary (excluding each Israeli-Owned Subsidiary that is not a Foreign Subsidiary Borrower and each Israeli Subsidiary) a counterpart of a Foreign Guarantee Agreement duly executed and delivered on behalf of such Person and (ii) all Equity Interests in any Foreign Subsidiary Loan Party owned by or on behalf of any Foreign Subsidiary Loan Party shall have been pledged pursuant to a Foreign Pledge Agreement and the Administrative Agent shall, to the extent required by a Foreign Pledge Agreement, have received certificates or other instruments representing all such Equity Interests, together with undated stock powers or other instruments of transfer with respect thereto endorsed in blank. 

 

          The foregoing definition shall not require the creation or perfection of pledges of or security interests in, or the obtaining of title insurance, legal opinions or other deliverables with respect to, particular assets of the Loan Parties, or the provision of Guarantees by any Subsidiary, if, and for so long as the Administrative Agent, in consultation with the Company, reasonably determines that the cost of creating or perfecting such pledges or security interests in such assets, or obtaining such title insurance, legal opinions or other deliverables in respect of such assets, or providing such Guarantees (taking into account any adverse tax consequences to the Company and its Affiliates (including the imposition of withholding or other taxes)), shall be excessive in view of the benefits to be obtained by the Lenders therefrom. The Administrative Agent may grant extensions of time for the creation and perfection of security interests in or the obtaining of title insurance, legal opinions or other deliverables with respect to particular assets or the provision of any Guarantee by any Subsidiary (including extensions beyond the Effective Date or in connection with assets acquired, or Subsidiaries formed or acquired, after the Effective Date) where it determines that such action cannot be accomplished without undue effort or expense by the time or times at which it would otherwise be required to be accomplished by this Agreement or the Security Documents. 

 

          “Commitment” means, with respect to each Lender, the commitment, if any, of such Lender to make Revolving Loans and to acquire participations in Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans hereunder, expressed as an amount representing the maximum aggregate permitted amount of such Lender’s Revolving Exposure hereunder, as such commitment may be (a) reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.08, (b) reduced or increased from time to time pursuant to assignments by or to such Lender pursuant to Section 9.04 or (c) increased pursuant to Incremental Commitments of such Lender pursuant to Section 2.21. The initial amount of each Lender’s Commitment is set forth on Schedule 2.01, or in the Assignment and Assumption or Incremental Facility Agreement pursuant to which such Lender shall have assumed its Commitment, as applicable. The initial aggregate amount of the Lenders’ Commitments is $450,000,000. 

 

          “Company” means Vishay Intertechnology, Inc., a Delaware corporation. 

 

 

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          “Compliance Certificate” means a Compliance Certificate in the form of Exhibit D or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion. 

 

          “Consolidated Cash Interest Expense” means, for any period, the excess of (a) the sum, without duplication, of (i) the interest expense (including imputed interest expense in respect of Capital Lease Obligations) of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries for such period, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, (ii) any interest or other financing costs becoming payable during such period in respect of Indebtedness of the Company or its consolidated Subsidiaries to the extent such interest or other financing costs shall have been capitalized rather than included in consolidated interest expense for such period in accordance with GAAP (except for any such interest or other financing costs capitalized on or prior to the last day of the fiscal quarter ended October 2, 2010) and (iii) any cash payments made during such period in respect of obligations referred to in clause (b)(ii) below that were amortized or accrued in a previous period, minus (b) the sum of (i) to the extent included in such consolidated interest expense for such period, noncash amounts attributable to amortization or write-off of capitalized interest or other financing costs paid in a previous period (except for any noncash amounts attributable to amortization or write-off of capitalized interest or other financing costs paid on or prior to the last day of the fiscal quarter ended October 2, 2010) and (ii) to the extent included in such consolidated interest expense for such period, noncash amounts attributable to amortization of debt discounts or accrued interest payable in kind for such period. 

 

          “Consolidated EBITDA” means, for any period (including any period a portion of which occurs prior to the Effective Date), Consolidated Net Income for such period, plus 

 

     (a) without duplication and to the extent deducted in determining such Consolidated Net Income, the sum of 

 

     (i) consolidated interest expense for such period (including imputed interest expense in respect of Capital Lease Obligations), determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, 

 

     (ii) consolidated income tax expense for such period, 

 

     (iii) all amounts attributable to depreciation and amortization for such period (excluding amortization expense attributable to a prepaid cash item that was paid in a prior period), 

 

     (iv) any extraordinary charges for such period, 

 

     (v) any noncash charges for such period (excluding any additions to bad debt reserves or bad debt expense), 

 

     (vi) any losses attributable to the early extinguishment of Indebtedness or obligations under any Hedging Agreement, 

 

 

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     (vii) the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principles, 

 

     (viii) restructuring charges and reserves in an aggregate amount not to exceed $25,000,000 for any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters (provided that 50% of any unused amount under this clause (viii) during each fiscal year may be carried forward to, and applied to restructuring charges and reserves taken, at any time during, the next succeeding fiscal year; provided, further, that all restructuring charges and reserves taken in any fiscal year shall be deemed to first utilize the $25,000,000 basket for such year prior to utilizing any such carry-forward amount) and 

 

     (ix) restructuring charges and reserves in connection with any Material Acquisition (i) that are taken substantially simultaneously with the consummation of such Material Acquisition and (ii) substantially all the cash expenditures in connection with which are anticipated to occur during the one-year period following the date of such consummation, in a cumulative aggregate amount not exceeding $100,000,000 over the term of this Agreement; 

 

provided that any cash expenditure made with respect to any noncash items added back in computing Consolidated EBITDA for any prior period pursuant to clause (a)(v) above (or that would have been added back had this Agreement been in effect during such prior period) shall be subtracted in computing Consolidated EBITDA for the period in which such cash expenditure is made; and minus 

 

     (b) without duplication and to the extent included in determining such Consolidated Net Income,

 

     (i) any extraordinary gains for such period, all determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, 

 

     (ii) any gains attributable to the early extinguishment of Indebtedness or obligations under any Hedging Agreement and 

 

     (iii) the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principles; 

 

provided further that Consolidated EBITDA shall be calculated so as to exclude the effect of any gain or loss that represents after-tax gains or losses attributable to any sale, transfer or other disposition, or any exclusive license, of assets by the Company or any of its consolidated Subsidiaries, other than dispositions of inventory and other dispositions and licenses in the ordinary course of business.

 

          “Consolidated Net Income” means, for any period, the net income or loss of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries for such period, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP; provided that there shall be excluded (a) the income of any Person (other than the Company) that is not a consolidated Subsidiary (other than Facilities Service GmbH, so long as it is accounted for by the equity method 

 

 

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and engages only in businesses substantially the same as those in which it engages on the date hereof) except to the extent of the amount of cash dividends or similar cash distributions actually paid by such Person to the Company or, subject to clauses (b) and (c) below, to any other consolidated Subsidiary during such period, (b) the income of, and any amounts referred to in clause (a) above paid to, any consolidated Subsidiary (other than any Domestic Subsidiary Loan Party) to the extent that, on the date of determination, the declaration or payment of cash dividends or similar cash distributions by such Subsidiary is not permitted without any prior approval of any Governmental Authority that has not been obtained or is not permitted by the operation of the terms of the organizational documents of such Subsidiary, any agreement or other instrument binding upon the Company or any Subsidiary or any law applicable to the Company or any Subsidiary, unless such restrictions with respect to the payment of cash dividends and other similar cash distributions has been legally and effectively waived and (c) the income or loss of, and any amounts referred to in clause (a) above paid to, any consolidated Subsidiary that is not wholly owned by the Company to the extent such income or loss or such amounts are attributable to the noncontrolling interest in such consolidated Subsidiary. 

 

          “Consolidated Tangible Net Worth” shall mean on any date the aggregate amount of assets (less applicable reserves and other properly deductible items) after deducting therefrom (a) all liabilities, and (b) all goodwill, trade names, trademarks, patents, unamortized debt discount and expense, capitalized software, customer relationships, non-competition agreements and other intangible assets, all as set forth on the most recent quarterly or annual consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries and computed 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, or the dismissal or appointment of the management, of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. “Controlling” and “Controlled” have meanings correlative thereto. 

 

          “Convertible Senior Debentures” means the 2.25% Convertible Senior Debentures due 2040 issued by the Company under the Indenture dated as of November 9, 2010, between the Company and Wilmington Trust Company, as trustee. 

 

          “Credit Party” means the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank, the Swingline Lender or any other Lender. 

 

          “Default” means any event or condition that constitutes, or upon notice, lapse of time or both would constitute, an Event of Default. 

 

          “Defaulting Lender” means any Lender that (a) has failed, within two Business Days of the date required to be funded or paid, to (i) fund any portion of its Loans, (ii) fund any portion of its participations in Letters of Credit or Swingline Loans or (iii) pay over to any Credit Party any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder, unless, in the case of clause (i) above, such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent in 

 

 

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writing that such failure is the result of such Lender’s good faith determination that a condition precedent to funding (specifically identified and including the particular default, if any) has not been satisfied, (b) has notified the Company or any Credit Party in writing, or has made a public statement to the effect, that it does not intend or expect to comply with any of its funding obligations under this Agreement (unless such writing or public statement indicates that such position is based on such Lender’s good faith determination that a condition precedent (specifically identified and including the particular default, if any) to funding a loan under this Agreement cannot be satisfied) or generally under other agreements in which it commits to extend credit, (c) has failed, within three Business Days after request by a Credit Party, acting in good faith, to provide a certification in writing from an authorized officer of such Lender that it will comply with its obligations (and is financially able to meet such obligations) to fund prospective Loans and participations in then outstanding Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans under this Agreement, provided that such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender pursuant to this clause (c) upon such Credit Party’s receipt of such certification in form and substance satisfactory to it and the Administrative Agent, or (d) has become the subject of a Bankruptcy Event. 

 

          “Designated Domestic Subsidiary” means (a) each Domestic Subsidiary Borrower and (b) each Material Domestic Subsidiary. 

 

          “Designated Foreign Subsidiary” means (a) each Foreign Subsidiary Borrower and (b) each Material Foreign Subsidiary. 

 

          “Designated Subsidiary” means each Designated Domestic Subsidiary and each Designated Foreign Subsidiary. 

 

          “Documentation Agents” means The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. and HSBC Bank USA, N.A., each in its capacity as a co-documentation agent for the credit facilities provided for herein. 

 

          “Disqualified Equity Interest” means, with respect to any Person, any Equity Interest in such Person that by its terms (or by the terms of any security into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable, either mandatorily or at the option of the holder thereof), or upon the happening of any event or condition: 

 

     (a) matures or is mandatorily redeemable (other than solely for Equity Interests in such Person that do not constitute Disqualified Equity Interests and cash in lieu of fractional shares of such Equity Interests), whether pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise; 

 

     (b) is convertible or exchangeable, either mandatorily or at the option of the holder thereof, for Indebtedness or Equity Interests (other than solely for Equity Interests in such Person that do not constitute Disqualified Equity Interests and cash in lieu of fractional shares of such Equity Interests); or 

 

     (c) is redeemable (other than solely for Equity Interests in such Person that do not constitute Disqualified Equity Interests and cash in lieu of fractional shares 

 

 

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of such Equity Interests) or is required to be repurchased by the Company or any Subsidiary, in whole or in part, at the option of the holder thereof;

 

in each case, on or prior to the date 91 days after the Maturity Date; provided, however, that an Equity Interest in any Person that would not constitute a Disqualified Equity Interest but for terms thereof giving holders thereof the right to require such Person to redeem or purchase such Equity Interest upon the occurrence of an “asset sale” or a “change of control” (or similar event, however denominated) shall not constitute a Disqualified Equity Interest if any such requirement becomes operative only after repayment in full of all the Loans and all other Loan Documents Obligations that are accrued and payable, the cancellation or expiration of all Letters of Credit and the termination or expiration of the Commitments. 

 

          “dollars” or “$” refers to lawful money of the United States of America. 

 

          “Domestic Loan Party” means the Company and each Domestic Subsidiary Loan Party. 

 

          “Domestic Parallel Debt” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Collateral Agreement. 

 

          “Domestic Secured Obligations” means all the Secured Obligations that are obligations of any Domestic Loan Party (other than the Domestic Parallel Debt of such Domestic Loan Party). 

 

          “Domestic Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary (a) incorporated or organized under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia or (b) which is considered to be a “disregarded entity” for United States Federal income tax purposes that, in the case of each of clauses (a) and (b), is not a CFC. 

 

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

 

          “Domestic Subsidiary Loan Party” means each Domestic Subsidiary that is a party to the Collateral Agreement. 

 

          “EBITDA” means, with respect to any Subsidiary for any period, the portion of Consolidated EBITDA attributable to such Subsidiary and its consolidated subsidiaries during such period. 

 

          “Effective Date” means the date on which the conditions specified in Section 4.01 are satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 9.02). 

 

          “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 the Company, any Subsidiary or any other Affiliate of the Company. 

 

 

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          “Engagement Letter” means the Engagement Letter dated as of October 22, 2010, among the Company, the Administrative Agent and the Arranger. 

 

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

 

          “Environmental Liability” means any liability, obligation, loss, claim, action, order or cost, contingent or otherwise (including any liability for damages, costs of environmental remediation, fines, penalties and indemnities), 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 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, beneficial interests or other ownership interests, whether voting or nonvoting, in, or interests in the income or profits of, a Person, and any warrants, options or other rights entitling the holder thereof to purchase or acquire any of the foregoing, but excluding, in each case, Indebtedness convertible by its terms into Equity Interests. 

 

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

 

          “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 414(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) any failure by any Plan to satisfy the minimum funding standard (within the meaning of Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA) applicable to such Plan, in each case 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 303(i)(4) of ERISA or Section 430(i)(4) of the Code), (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 Plan, or (h) the 

 

 

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receipt by the Company or any ERISA Affiliate of any notice, or the receipt by any Multiemployer Plan from the Company or any ERISA Affiliate of any notice, concerning the imposition of Withdrawal Liability or a determination that a Multiemployer Plan is, or is expected to be, insolvent or in reorganization, within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA or in endangered or critical status, within the meaning of Section 305 of ERISA. 

 

          “Eurocurrency”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, means that such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, bears interest at a rate determined by reference to the Adjusted LIBO Rate. 

 

          “Event of Default” has the meaning assigned to such term in Article VII. 

 

          “Exchange Act” means the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934. 

 

          “Excluded Collateral” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Collateral Agreement. 

 

          “Excluded Taxes” means, with respect to any payment to be made by any Loan Party under any Loan Document, any of the following Taxes imposed on or with respect to a Recipient: (a) income or franchise Taxes imposed on (or measured by) net income by the United States of America or by the jurisdiction under the laws of which such Recipient is organized or in which its principal office is located or, in the case of any Lender, in which its applicable lending office is located, (b) any branch profits Taxes imposed by the United States of America or any similar Taxes imposed by any other jurisdiction referred to in the preceding clause (a) and (c) in the case of a Non-U.S. Lender (other than an assignee pursuant to a request by the Company under Section 2.18(b)), any U.S. Federal withholding Taxes resulting from any law in effect (including FATCA) on the date such Non-U.S. Lender becomes a party to this Agreement (or designates a new lending office) or is attributable to such Non-U.S. Lender’s failure to comply with Section 2.16(f), except to the extent that such Non-U.S. Lender (or its assignor, if any) was entitled, at the time of designation of a new lending office (or assignment), to receive additional amounts from a Loan Party with respect to such withholding Taxes pursuant to Section 2.16(a). 

 

          “Existing Credit Agreement” means the Fourth Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of June 24, 2008, as amended and supplemented prior to the date hereof, among the Company, the permitted borrowers party thereto, the lenders party thereto and Comerica Bank, as administrative agent. 

 

          “Existing Letter of Credit” means each letter of credit previously issued for the account of the Company or any Subsidiary that (a) is outstanding on the Effective Date and (b) is listed on Schedule 1.01. 

 

          “FATCA” means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the date of this Agreement and any regulations or official interpretations thereof. 

 

 

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          “Federal Funds Effective Rate” means, for any day, the weighted average (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers, as published on the next succeeding Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not so published for any day that is a Business Day, the average (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) of the quotations for such day for such transactions received by the Administrative Agent from three Federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by it. 

 

          “Financial Officer” means, with respect to any Person, the chief financial officer, principal accounting officer, treasurer or controller of such Person. 

 

          “Foreign DRE” means a Domestic Subsidiary meeting the criteria set forth in clause (b) of the definition of the term “Domestic Subsidiary” but not meeting the criteria set forth in clause (a) of the definition of such term. 

 

          “Foreign DRE Pledge Agreement” means a pledge or charge agreement granting a Lien on Equity Interests in a Subsidiary owned directly by or on behalf of any Domestic Loan Party that is a Foreign DRE to secure the Secured Obligations, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. 

 

          “Foreign Guarantee Agreement” means a guarantee agreement of a Foreign Subsidiary Loan Party pursuant to which such Foreign Subsidiary Loan Party shall Guarantee the Foreign Secured Obligations, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. 

 

          “Foreign Pledge Agreement” means a pledge or charge agreement granting a Lien on Equity Interests in a Foreign Subsidiary or Foreign DRE to secure the Foreign Secured Obligations or the Secured Obligations, as applicable, governed by the law of the jurisdiction of organization of such Foreign Subsidiary or Foreign DRE and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. 

 

          “Foreign Secured Obligations” means all the Secured Obligations that are obligations of any Foreign Subsidiary Loan Party. 

 

          “Foreign Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is not a Domestic Subsidiary. 

 

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

 

          “Foreign Subsidiary Loan Party” means (a) each Foreign Subsidiary Borrower and (b) each Foreign Subsidiary that is a party to a Foreign Guarantee Agreement. 

 

          “GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America, applied in accordance with the consistency requirements thereof. 

 

 

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          “Governmental Approvals” means all authorizations, consents, approvals, permits, licenses and exemptions of, registrations and filings with, and reports to, Governmental Authorities. 

 

          “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 or other obligation of any other Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of the guarantor, direct or indirect, (a) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other obligation or to purchase (or to advance or supply funds for the purchase of) any security for the payment thereof, (b) to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the owner of such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment thereof, (c) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other obligation or (d) as an account party in respect of any letter of credit or letter of guaranty issued to support such Indebtedness or other obligation; 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 Indebtedness or other obligation guaranteed thereby (or, in the case of (i) any Guarantee the terms of which limit the monetary exposure of the guarantor or (ii) any Guarantee of an obligation that does not have a principal amount, the maximum monetary exposure as of such date of the guarantor under such Guarantee (as determined, in the case of clause (i), pursuant to such terms or, in the case of clause (ii), reasonably and in good faith by the chief financial officer of the Company)). 

 

          “Hazardous Materials” means all explosive, radioactive, 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 agreement with respect to any swap, forward, future or derivative transaction, or any option or similar agreement, involving, or settled by reference to, one or more rates, currencies, commodities, prices of equity or debt securities or instruments, or economic, financial or pricing indices or measures of economic, financial or pricing risk or value, or any similar transaction or combination of the foregoing transactions; provided that no phantom stock or similar plan providing for payments only on account of services provided by current or former directors, officers, 

 

 

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employees or consultants of the Company or the Subsidiaries shall be a Hedging Agreement. 

 

          “Incremental Commitments” means, with respect to any Lender, the commitment, if any, of such Lender, established in accordance with Section 2.21 pursuant to an Incremental Facility Agreement, to make Revolving Loans and to acquire participations in Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans hereunder, expressed as an amount representing the maximum aggregate permitted amount of such Lender’s Revolving Exposure under such Incremental Facility Agreement. 

 

          “Incremental Facility Agreement” means an Incremental Facility Agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, among the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent and one or more Incremental Revolving Lenders, establishing Incremental Commitments and effecting such other amendments hereto and to the other Loan Documents as are contemplated by Section 2.21. 

 

          “Incremental Revolving Lender” means a Lender with an Incremental Commitment. 

 

          “Indebtedness” of any Person means, without duplication, (a) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money or with respect to deposits or advances of any kind, (b) all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments (including, for the avoidance of doubt, obligations owed to Dr. Felix Zandman under the Zandman Employment Agreement), (c) all obligations of such Person under conditional sale or other title retention agreements relating to property acquired by such Person (excluding trade accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of business), (d) all obligations of such Person in respect of the deferred purchase price of property or services (including payments in respect of non-competition agreements or other arrangements representing acquisition consideration, in each case entered into in connection with an acquisition, but excluding (i) current accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of business, (ii) deferred compensation payable to directors, officers or employees of the Company or any Subsidiary and (iii) any purchase price adjustment, earnout or deferred payment of a similar nature incurred in connection with an acquisition), (e) all Capital Lease Obligations of such Person, (f) the maximum aggregate amount of all letters of credit and letters of guaranty in respect of which such Person is an account party, (g) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such Person in respect of bankers’ acceptances, (h) 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 by such Person, and (i) all Guarantees by such Person of Indebtedness of others. The Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any other Person (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 other Person, except to the extent the terms of such Indebtedness provide that such Person is not liable therefor. 

 

 

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          “Indemnified Taxes” means (a) Taxes, other than Excluded Taxes, imposed on or with respect to any payment made by any Loan Party under any Loan Document and (b) Other Taxes. 

 

          “Indemnitee” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.03(b). 

 

          “Information” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.12. 

 

          “Intercompany Subordination Agreement” means the Intercompany Subordination Agreement in the form of Exhibit I or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion. 

 

          “Interest Election Request” means a request by a Borrower to convert or continue a Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.07, which shall be, in the case of any such written request, in the form of Exhibit E or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion. 

 

          “Interest Payment Date” means (a) with respect to any ABR Loan (other than a Swingline Loan), the last day of each March, June, September and December, (b) with respect to any Eurocurrency 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 Eurocurrency Borrowing with an Interest Period of more than three months’ duration, such day or days prior to the last day of such Interest Period as shall occur at intervals of three months’ duration after the first day of such Interest Period, and (c) with respect to any Swingline Loan, the day that such Loan is required to be repaid. 

 

          “Interest Period” means, with respect to any Eurocurrency 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 thereafter (or, if agreed to by each Lender participating therein, nine or twelve months thereafter), as the applicable 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. 

 

          “Interim CNI Basket Amount” means, at any date, an aggregate amount equal to 20% of cumulative Consolidated Net Income during the period (treated as one accounting period) from December 31, 2011 to the earlier of (a) the end of the fiscal quarter of the Company for which consolidated financial statements have theretofore been most recently delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or 5.01(b) and (b) December 31, 2012. 

 

 

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          “Investment” means, with respect to a specified Person, (i) any Equity Interests, evidences of Indebtedness or other securities (including any option, warrant or other right to acquire any of the foregoing) of, or any capital contribution or loans or advances (other than advances made in the ordinary course of business that would be recorded as accounts receivable on the balance sheet of the specified Person prepared in accordance with GAAP) to, Guarantees of any Indebtedness or other obligations of, or any other investment in, any other Person that are held or made by the specified Person and (ii) the purchase or acquisition (in one transaction or a series of related transactions) of all or substantially all the property and assets or business of any other Person or assets constituting a business unit, line of business, division or product line of any other Person. The amount, as of any date of determination, of (a) any Investment in the form of a loan or an advance shall be the principal amount thereof outstanding on such date, without any adjustment for write-downs or write-offs (including as a result of forgiveness of any portion thereof) with respect to such loan or advance after the date thereof, (b) any Investment in the form of a Guarantee shall be determined in accordance with the definition of the term “Guarantee”, (c) any Investment in the form of a transfer of Equity Interests or other non-cash property by the investor to the investee, including any such transfer in the form of a capital contribution, shall be the fair value (as determined reasonably and in good faith by the chief financial officer of the Company) of such Equity Interests or other property as of the time of the transfer, without any adjustment for increases or decreases in value of, or write-ups, write-downs or write-offs with respect to, such Investment after the date of such transfer, (d) any Investment (other than any Investment referred to in clause (a), (b) or (c) above) by the specified Person in the form of a purchase or other acquisition for value of any Equity Interests, evidences of Indebtedness, other securities or assets of any other Person shall be the original cost of such Investment (including any Indebtedness assumed in connection therewith), plus the cost of all additions, as of such date, thereto, and minus the amount, as of such date, of any portion of such Investment repaid to the investor in cash as a repayment of principal or a return of capital, as the case may be, but without any other adjustment for increases or decreases in value of, or write-ups, write-downs or write-offs with respect to, such Investment after the date of such Investment, and (e) any Investment (other than any Investment referred to in clause (a), (b), (c) or (d) above) by the specified Person in any other Person resulting from the issuance by such other Person of its Equity Interests to the specified Person shall be the fair value (as determined reasonably and in good faith by the chief financial officer of the Company) of such Equity Interests at the time of the issuance thereof. For purposes of Section 6.04, if an Investment involves the acquisition of more than one Person, the amount of such Investment shall be allocated among the acquired Persons in accordance with GAAP; provided that pending the final determination of the amounts to be so allocated in accordance with GAAP, such allocation shall be as reasonably determined by a Financial Officer. 

 

          “IP Security Agreements” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Collateral Agreement. 

 

          “IRS” means the United States Internal Revenue Service. 

 

 

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          “Israeli Subsidiary” means each Subsidiary that is incorporated or organized under the laws of the State of Israel. 

 

          “Israeli-Owned Subsidiary” means each direct or indirect subsidiary of an Israeli Subsidiary that is not an Israeli Subsidiary. 

 

          “Issuing Bank” means (a) JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., (b) solely in respect of any Existing Letter of Credit, the Person that is the issuer thereof and (c) each Revolving Lender that shall have become an Issuing Bank hereunder as provided in Section 2.05(j) (other than any Person that shall have ceased to be an Issuing Bank as provided in Section 2.05(k)), each in its capacity as an issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder. Each Issuing Bank may, in its discretion, arrange for one or more Letters of Credit to be issued by Affiliates of such Issuing Bank, in which case the term “Issuing Bank” shall include any such Affiliate with respect to Letters of Credit issued by such Affiliate (it being agreed that such Issuing Bank shall, or shall cause such Affiliate to, comply with the requirements of Section 2.05 with respect to such Letters of Credit). 

 

          “LC Disbursement” means a payment made by an Issuing Bank pursuant to a Letter of Credit. 

 

          “LC Exposure” means, at any time, the sum of (a) the aggregate amount of all Letters of Credit that remains available for drawing at such time and (b) the aggregate amount of all LC Disbursements that have not yet been reimbursed by or on behalf of the Borrowers at such time. The LC Exposure of any Revolving Lender at any time shall be its Applicable Percentage of the total LC Exposure at such time. 

 

          “Lenders” means the Persons listed on Schedule 2.01 and any other Person that shall have become a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption or an Incremental Facility Agreement, other than any such Person that shall have ceased to be a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption. Unless the context otherwise requires, the term “Lenders” includes the Swingline Lender. 

 

          “Letter of Credit” means any letter of credit issued pursuant to this Agreement and any Existing Letter of Credit, other than any such letter of credit that shall have ceased to be a “Letter of Credit” outstanding hereunder pursuant to Section 9.05. 

 

          “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 most recently ended on or prior to such date.

 

          “LIBO Rate” means, with respect to any Eurocurrency Borrowing for any Interest Period, the rate appearing on the Reuters “LIBOR01” screen displaying British Bankers’ Association Interest Settlement Rates (or on any successor or substitute screen provided by Reuters, or any successor to or substitute for such service, providing rate quotations comparable to those currently provided on such screen, as determined by the Administrative Agent from time to time for purposes of providing quotations of interest rates applicable to dollar deposits in the London interbank market) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest 

 

 

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Period, as the rate for dollar deposits with a maturity comparable to such Interest Period. In the event that such rate is not available at such time for any reason, then the “LIBO Rate” with respect to such Eurocurrency Borrowing for such Interest Period shall be the rate at which dollar deposits of $5,000,000 and for a maturity comparable to such Interest Period are offered by the principal London office of the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds in the London interbank market at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period. 

 

          “Lien” means, with respect to any asset, (a) any mortgage, deed of trust, lien, pledge, hypothecation, charge, security interest or other encumbrance on, in or of such asset, including any agreement to provide any of the foregoing and any arrangement entered into for the purpose of making particular assets available to satisfy any Indebtedness or other obligation, (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, the Collateral Agreement, the other Security Documents, the Subsidiary Borrower Agreements, the Subsidiary Borrower Terminations, the Incremental Facility Agreements, the Foreign Guarantee Agreements, the Intercompany Subordination Agreement and, except for purposes of Section 9.02, any promissory notes delivered pursuant to Section 2.09(c). 

 

          “Loan Documents Obligations” has the meaning set forth in the Collateral Agreement. 

 

          “Loan Party” means the Company, each Subsidiary Borrower and each other Subsidiary Loan Party. 

 

          “Loans” means the loans made by the Lenders to the Borrowers pursuant to this Agreement. 

 

          “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 (including Indebtedness assumed in connection therewith, all obligations in respect of deferred purchase price (including obligations under any purchase price adjustment but excluding earnout or similar payments) and all other consideration payable in connection therewith (including payment obligations in respect of noncompetition agreements or other arrangements representing acquisition consideration)) exceeds $75,000,000. 

 

          “Material Adverse Effect” means an event or condition that has resulted, or could reasonably be expected to result, in a material adverse effect on (a) the business, assets, liabilities, operations, or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Company and 

 

 

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the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (b) the ability of any Loan Party to perform any of its material 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 or any 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 (including Indebtedness assumed by the transferee in connection therewith, all obligations in respect of deferred purchase price (including obligations under any purchase price adjustment but excluding earnout or similar payments) and all other consideration payable in connection therewith (including payment obligations in respect of noncompetition agreements or other arrangements representing acquisition consideration)) exceeds $75,000,000. For purposes of Sections 1.04(b) and 1.04(c), the spin-off of VPG consummated on July 6, 2010 shall not be deemed to have constituted a Material Disposition. 

 

          “Material Domestic Subsidiary” means each Domestic Subsidiary (a) the consolidated total assets of which exceed $25,000,000 or (b) the consolidated EBITDA of which exceeds $10,000,000, in each case as of the end of or for the most recent period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Company for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or 5.01(b) (or, prior to the first delivery of any such financial statements, as of the end of or for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Company most recently ended prior to the date of this Agreement); provided that if at the end of or for any such most recent period of four consecutive fiscal quarters the combined consolidated total assets or combined consolidated EBITDA of all Subsidiaries that would not constitute Material Domestic Subsidiaries in accordance with the foregoing shall have exceeded 20% of the combined consolidated total assets of the Company and the Domestic Subsidiaries or 20% of the combined consolidated EBITDA of the Company and the Domestic Subsidiaries, then one or more of such Domestic Subsidiaries that would not otherwise be Material Domestic Subsidiaries shall for all purposes of this Agreement be and automatically become Material Domestic Subsidiaries in descending order based on the amounts of their consolidated total assets or consolidated EBITDA, as the case may be, until such excess shall have been eliminated. 

 

          “Material Foreign Subsidiary” means each Foreign Subsidiary (a) the consolidated total assets of which exceed $125,000,000 or (b) the consolidated EBITDA of which exceeds $20,000,000, in each case as of the end of or for the most recent period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Company for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or 5.01(b) (or, prior to the first delivery of any such financial statements, as of the end of or for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of Company most recently ended prior to the date of this Agreement). 

 

          “Material Indebtedness” means Indebtedness (other than the Loans, Letters of Credit and Guarantees under the Loan Documents), or obligations in respect of one or more Hedging Agreements, of any one or more of the Company and the 

 

 

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Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount of $25,000,000 or more. For purposes of determining Material Indebtedness, the “principal amount” of the obligations of the Company or any Subsidiary 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. 

 

          “Material Subsidiary” means each Material Domestic Subsidiary and each Material Foreign Subsidiary. 

 

          “Maturity Date” means the fifth anniversary of the Effective Date. 

 

          “MNPI” means material information concerning the Company and the other Subsidiaries and their securities that has not been disseminated in a manner making it available to investors generally, within the meaning of Regulation FD under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act. 

 

          “Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., and any successor to its rating agency business. 

 

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

 

          “Net Debt” means, on any date, an amount equal to (a) Total Indebtedness as of such date, less (b) the aggregate amount of Unrestricted Cash. 

 

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

 

          “Non-U.S. Lender” means a Lender that is not a U.S. Person. 

 

          “Original Indebtedness” has the meaning assigned to such term in the definition of the term “Refinancing Indebtedness”. 

 

          “Other Connection Taxes” means, with respect to any Recipient, Taxes imposed as a result of a present or former connection between such Recipient and the jurisdiction imposing such Taxes (other than a connection arising from such Recipient 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 present or future stamp, court, documentary, intangible, recording, filing or similar excise or property Taxes that arise from any payment made under, from the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or registration of, or from the registration, receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to, any Loan Document, except any such Taxes that are Other 

 

 

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Connection Taxes imposed with respect to an assignment (other than an assignment under Section 2.18(b)). 

 

          “Parent” means, with respect to any Lender, any Person of which such Lender is a direct or indirect subsidiary. 

 

          “Participant Register” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.04(c). 

 

          “Participants” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.04(c). 

 

          “PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation referred to and defined in ERISA. 

 

          “Perfection Certificate” means a certificate in the form of Exhibit F or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion. 

 

          “Permitted Acquisition” means the purchase or other acquisition by the Company or any Subsidiary of Equity Interests in, or 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 if 

 

     (a) in the case of any purchase or other acquisition of Equity Interests in a Person, upon the consummation of such acquisition, such Person and each of its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Acquired Person”), other than less than wholly-owned Subsidiaries or Foreign Subsidiaries meeting the requirements of clause (v)(A) and (B) below, will be a wholly-owned Subsidiary (including as a result of a merger or consolidation between any Subsidiary and such Person) or (b) in the case of any purchase or other acquisition of other assets, such assets will be owned by the Company or a Domestic Subsidiary Loan Party; provided that 

 

     (i) such purchase or acquisition was not preceded by, or consummated pursuant to, an unsolicited tender offer or proxy contest initiated by or on behalf of the Company or any Subsidiary, 

 

     (ii) all transactions related thereto are consummated in all material respects in accordance with applicable law, 

 

     (iii) the business of the Acquired Person, or such assets, as the case may be, constitute a business of the type conducted by the Company and the Subsidiaries on the date hereof and businesses reasonably related or incidental thereto, 

 

     (iv) with respect to each such purchase or other acquisition, all actions required to be taken with respect to each newly created or acquired Subsidiary or assets in order to satisfy the requirements set forth in the definition of the term “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement” shall have 

 

 

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been taken (or arrangements for the taking of such actions reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent shall have been made), and 

 

     (v)(A) as of the last day of and for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters ending on the fiscal quarter of the Acquired Person most recently ended prior to the consummation of such purchase or acquisition for which financial statements of such Acquired Person are available, each of the combined total assets and combined total revenues of all Foreign Subsidiaries and less than wholly-owned Subsidiaries, taken together, included in such Acquired Person shall not have exceeded 20% of the combined total assets or combined total revenues, respectively, of the Acquired Person and (B) as of the date of the consummation of such purchase or acquisition, no more than 20% of such assets shall be located outside of the United States of America; 

 

     (vi) at the time of and immediately after giving effect to any such purchase or other acquisition, 

 

     (A) no Default shall have occurred and be continuing, 

 

     (B) the Company shall be in compliance with the covenants set forth in Sections 6.12 and 6.13 on a pro forma basis in accordance with Section 1.04(b) (provided that, for purposes of Section 6.13, the Leverage Ratio shall not exceed 2.75 to 1.00), and 

 

     (C) the Company shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent a certificate of a Financial Officer of the Company, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, certifying that all the requirements set forth in this definition have been satisfied with respect to such purchase or other acquisition, together with reasonably detailed calculations demonstrating satisfaction of the requirement set forth in clauses (v) and (vi)(B) above. 

 

          “Permitted Class B Holder” means a holder of record of shares of Class B Common Stock that is a Permitted Holder under clause (a) of the definition of such term. 

 

          “Permitted Encumbrances” means: 

 

     (a) Liens imposed by law for Taxes that are not yet due or are being contested in compliance with Section 5.06; 

 

     (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 5.06; 

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

     (f) easements, covenants, zoning restrictions, rights-of-way and similar encumbrances on real property imposed by law or arising in the ordinary course of business, and other minor title imperfections with respect to real property, that in each case 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; 

 

     (g) banker’s liens, rights of setoff or similar rights and remedies as to deposit accounts or other funds maintained with depository institutions; provided that such deposit accounts 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; and 

 

     (h) Liens arising by virtue of Uniform Commercial Code financing statement filings (or similar filings under applicable law) regarding operating leases or consignments entered into by the Company and the Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business; 

 

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

 

          “Permitted Holder” means (a) Dr. Felix Zandman, his estate, heirs, executor, administrator or other personal representative, or any of his immediate family members or any trust, fund or other entity which is controlled by him, his estate, heirs or any of his immediate family members and (b) any Permitted Transferee. 

 

          “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 any agency thereof to the extent such obligations are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States of America), in each case maturing within one year from the date of acquisition thereof; 

 

 

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     (b) investments in commercial paper maturing within 270 days from the date of acquisition thereof and having, at such date of acquisition, a credit rating of at least A-1 from S&P or at least P-1 from Moody’s; 

 

     (c) investments in certificates of deposit, banker’s acceptances and demand or time deposits, in each case maturing within 180 days from the date of acquisition thereof, 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 that has a combined capital and surplus and undivided profits of not less than $500,000,000; 

 

     (d) 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 (c) above; 

 

     (e) money market funds that (i) comply with the criteria set forth in Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, (ii) are rated in one of the two highest ratings categories by each of S&P and Moody’s and (iii) have portfolio assets of at least $5,000,000,000; 

 

     (f) any fund or collective investment pooling arrangement the assets of which consist of only those investments described in clauses (a) through (e) above; and 

 

     (g) in the case of any Foreign Subsidiary, other short-term investments that are analogous to the foregoing, are of comparable credit quality and are consistent with the investment practices of such Foreign Subsidiary as of the date hereof. 

 

          “Permitted IP Transfer” means one or more sales after the Effective Date of intellectual property owned by a Domestic Subsidiary to a Foreign Subsidiary; provided that (a) any such sale is made solely for cash consideration paid by the acquiring Foreign Subsidiary to such Domestic Subsidiary at the time of transfer in an amount not less than the fair market value of the intellectual property transferred, (b) no Liens (other than Permitted Encumbrances and Liens under the Security Documents) shall exist on any such transferred intellectual property at the time of its transfer and (c) the aggregate, cumulative fair market value of all such transferred intellectual property shall not exceed $125,000,000. 

 

          “Permitted Senior Unsecured Indebtedness” means senior capital markets Indebtedness of the Company that (a) is unsecured, (b) is not Guaranteed by any Subsidiary other than by Subsidiary Loan Parties on an unsecured basis and (c) does not mature or require any amortization payment to be made prior to the date that is 91 days after the Maturity Date. 

 

          “Permitted Subordinated Indebtedness” means capital markets Indebtedness of the Company the payment of which is subordinated to the Company’s

 

 

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obligations in respect of the Loan Documents Obligations on market terms reasonably acceptable to, and approved in writing by, the Administrative Agent, and which Indebtedness (a) is unsecured, (b) is not Guaranteed by any Subsidiary other than by Subsidiary Loan Parties on an unsecured and subordinated basis on market terms reasonably acceptable to, and approved in writing by, the Administrative Agent, and (c) does not mature or require any amortization payment to be made prior to the date that is 91 days after the Maturity Date. 

 

       “Permitted Transferee” means, with respect to each Permitted Class B Holder, 

 

       (a) in the case of a Permitted Class B Holder that is a natural person, (i) the spouse of such Permitted Class B Holder, any lineal descendant of a great grandparent of either such Permitted Class B Holder or the spouse of such Permitted Class B Holder, including adopted children; (ii) the trustee of a trust (whether testamentary, intervivos or a voting trust) principally for the benefit of such Permitted Class B Holder and/or one or more of such Permitted Class B Holder’s Permitted Transferees described in each subclause of this clause (a); (iii) any organization to which contributions are deductible for federal income, estate or gift tax purposes or any split-interest trust described in Section 4947 of the Code (a “Charitable Organization”); (iv) a corporation, of which outstanding capital stock entitled to a majority of the votes in the election of directors is owned beneficially solely by, or a partnership, of which a majority of the partnership interests entitled to participate in the management of the partnership is owned beneficially solely by, such Permitted Class B Holder and/or one or more of such Permitted Class B Holder’s Permitted Transferees determined under this clause (a); and (v) the estate of such Permitted Class B Holder; 

 

       (b) in the case of a Permitted Class B Holder holding the shares of Class B Common Stock in question as trustee pursuant to a trust (other than pursuant to a trust described in clause (f) below), (i) any person transferring Class B Common Stock to such trust and (ii) any Permitted Transferee of any such transferor determined pursuant to clause (a) above; 

 

       (c) in the case of a Permitted Class B Holder which is a Charitable Organization holding record and beneficial ownership of the shares of Class B Common Stock in question, any Permitted Class B Holder; 

 

       (d) in the case of a Permitted Class B Holder which is a corporation or partnership (other than a Charitable Organization) acquiring record and beneficial ownership of the shares of Class B Common Stock in question upon its initial issuance by the Company, (i) a partner of such partnership or shareholder of such corporation at the time of issuance, and (ii) any Permitted Transferee (determined pursuant to clause (a) above) of any such partner or shareholder referred to in subclause (i) of this clause (d); 

 

       (e) in the case of a Permitted Class B Holder which is a corporation or partnership (other than a Charitable Organization or a corporation or partnership described in clause (d) above) holding record and beneficial ownership of the shares of 

 

 

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Class B Common Stock in question, (i) any person transferring such shares of Class B Common Stock to such corporation or partnership and (ii) any Permitted Transferee of any such transferor determined under clause (a) above; 

 

       (f) in the case of a Permitted Class B Holder holding the shares of Class B Common Stock in question as trustee pursuant to a trust which was irrevocable at the time of issuance of the Class B Common Stock, (i) any person to whom or for whose benefit principal may be distributed either during or at the end of the term of such trust whether by power of appointment or otherwise and (ii) any Permitted Transferee of any such person determined pursuant to clause (a) above; and 

 

       (g) in the case of a Permitted Class B Holder which is the estate of a deceased Permitted Class B Holder or which is the estate of a bankrupt or insolvent Permitted Class B Holder, which holds record and beneficial ownership of the shares of Class B Common Stock in question, a Permitted Transferee of such deceased, bankrupt or insolvent Permitted Class B Holder as determined pursuant to clause (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f) above, as the case may be. 

 

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

 

       “Plan” means any employee pension benefit plan (other than a Multiemployer Plan) subject to the provisions of Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA sponsored, maintained or contributed by the Company or any ERISA Affiliate. 

 

       “Platform” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.16(b). 

 

       “Prime Rate” means the rate of interest per annum publicly announced from time to time by JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. 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. 

 

       “Private Side Lender Representatives” means, with respect to any Lender, representatives of such Lender that are not Public Side Lender Representatives. 

 

       “Public Side Lender Representatives” means, with respect to any Lender, representatives of such Lender that do not wish to receive MNPI. 

 

       “Ratings Condition” means the condition that (a) the public issuer or corporate credit rating assigned to the Company by S&P is BBB- or higher and (b) the public issuer rating assigned to the Company by Moody’s is Baa3 or higher, in each case with a stable outlook or better. 

 

       “Recipient” means, as applicable, (a) the Administrative Agent, (b) any Lender and (c) the Issuing Bank. 

 

 

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       “Refinancing Indebtedness” means, in respect of any Indebtedness (the “Original Indebtedness”), any Indebtedness that extends, renews or refinances such Original Indebtedness (or any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof); provided that (a) the principal amount of such Refinancing Indebtedness shall not exceed the principal amount of such Original Indebtedness except by an amount no greater than accrued and unpaid interest with respect to such Original Indebtedness and reasonable fees, and expenses relating to such extension, renewal or refinancing; (b) the final maturity of such Refinancing Indebtedness shall not be earlier, and the weighted average life to maturity of such Refinancing Indebtedness shall not be shorter, than that of such Original Indebtedness; (c) such Refinancing Indebtedness shall not be required to be repaid, prepaid, redeemed, repurchased or defeased, whether on one or more fixed dates, upon the occurrence of one or more events or at the option of any holder thereof (except, in each case, upon the occurrence of an event of default or a change in control or as and to the extent such repayment, prepayment, redemption, repurchase or defeasance would have been required pursuant to the terms of such Original Indebtedness) prior to the earlier of (i) the maturity of such Original Indebtedness and (ii) the date 91 days after the Maturity Date; (d) such Refinancing Indebtedness shall not be issued or Guaranteed by the Company or any Subsidiary that was not the issuer of, or a guarantor of, such Original Indebtedness; (e) if such Original Indebtedness was subordinated to the Loan Documents Obligations, such Refinancing Indebtedness shall be subordinated to the Loan Documents Obligations on terms not less favorable in any material respect to the Lenders; and (f) such Refinancing Indebtedness shall not be secured by any Lien on any asset other than the assets that secured such Original Indebtedness (or would have been required to secure such Original Indebtedness pursuant to the terms thereof) or, in the event Liens securing such Original Indebtedness shall have been contractually subordinated to any Lien securing the Loan Documents Obligations, by any Lien that shall not have been contractually subordinated to at least the same extent. 

 

       “Register” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.04(b)(iv). 

 

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

 

       “Release” means any release, spill, emission, leaking, dumping, injection, pouring, deposit, disposal, discharge, dispersal, leaching or migration into or through the surface or subsurface environment or within, upon or underneath any building, structure, facility or fixture. 

 

       “Release Date” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.13(b). 

 

       “Required Lenders” means, at any time, Lenders having Revolving Exposures and unused Commitments representing more than 50% of the sum of the Aggregate Revolving Exposure and unused Commitments at such time. 

 

       “Restricted Payment” means any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property, but excluding any dividend or distribution paid by 

 

 

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the Company to holders of its Equity Interests solely in shares of common Equity Interests of the Company) 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, cancelation or termination of, or any other return of capital with respect to, 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. 

 

       “Revolving Borrowing” means a Borrowing of Revolving Loans. 

 

       “Revolving Exposure” means, with respect to any Lender at any time, the sum of the outstanding principal amount of such Lender’s Revolving Loans and such Lender’s LC Exposure and Swingline Exposure at such time. 

 

       “Revolving Lender” means a Lender with a Commitment or Revolving Exposure. 

 

       “Revolving Loan” means a Loan made pursuant to Section 2.01. 

 

       “Sale/Leaseback Transaction” means an arrangement relating to property owned by the Company or any Subsidiary whereby the Company or such Subsidiary sells or transfers such property to any Person and the Company or any Subsidiary leases such property, or other property that it intends to use for substantially the same purpose or purposes as the property sold or transferred, from such Person or its Affiliates. 

 

       “S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., and any successor to its rating agency business. 

 

       “SEC” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. 

 

       “Secured Obligations” has the meaning set forth in the Collateral Agreement. 

 

       “Secured Parties” has the meaning set forth in the Collateral Agreement. 

 

       “Securities Act” means the United States Securities Act of 1933. 

 

       “Securitization” means any transaction or series of transactions entered into by Foreign Subsidiaries pursuant to which such Foreign Subsidiaries sell, convey or otherwise transfer to a Securitization Vehicle Securitization Assets of such Foreign Subsidiaries (or grants a security interest in such Securitization Assets transferred or purported to be transferred to such Securitization Vehicle), and which Securitization Vehicle finances the acquisition of such Securitization Assets (i) with proceeds from the issuance of Third Party Interests, (ii) with Sellers’ Retained Interests or (iii) with proceeds from the sale or collection of Securitization Assets previously purchased by such Securitization Vehicle. 

 

 

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       “Securitization Assets” means any accounts receivable owed to a Foreign Subsidiary (whether now existing or arising or acquired in the future) arising in the ordinary course of business from the sale of goods or services, all collateral securing such accounts receivable, all contracts and contract rights and all guarantees or other obligations in respect of such accounts receivable, all proceeds of such accounts receivable and other assets (including contract rights) which are of the type customarily transferred in connection with securitizations of accounts receivable and which are sold, transferred or otherwise conveyed by such Foreign Subsidiary to a Securitization Vehicle in connection with a Securitization permitted by Section 6.05. 

 

       “Securitization Vehicle” means a Person that is a direct wholly owned Subsidiary of a Foreign Subsidiary formed for the purpose of effecting one or more Securitizations to which such Foreign Subsidiary transfers Securitization Assets and which, in connection therewith, issues Third Party Interests; provided that such Securitization Vehicle shall engage in no business other than the purchase of Securitization Assets pursuant to Securitizations permitted by Section 6.05, the issuance of Third Party Interests or other funding of such Securitizations and any activities reasonably related thereto. 

 

       “Security Documents” means the Collateral Agreement, the Foreign DRE Pledge Agreements, the Foreign Pledge Agreements, the IP Security Agreements and each other security agreement or other instrument or document executed and delivered pursuant to Section 5.03 or 5.12 to secure the Secured Obligations. 

 

       “Sellers’ Retained Interests” means the debt or equity interests held by a Foreign Subsidiary in a Securitization Vehicle to which Securitization Assets have been transferred in a Securitization permitted by Section 6.05, including any such debt or equity received in consideration for the Securitization Assets transferred. 

 

       “Significant Subsidiary” means (a) each Material Subsidiary and (b) each Subsidiary the consolidated total assets or consolidated revenues of which exceeded 5% of the consolidated total assets of the Company or 5% of the consolidated revenues of the Company as of the end of or for the most recent period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Company for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or 5.01(b) (or, prior to the first delivery of any such financial statements, as of the end of or for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Company most recently ended prior to the date of this Agreement). 

 

       “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 of Governors to which the Administrative Agent is subject for eurocurrency funding (currently referred to as “Eurocurrency Liabilities” in Regulation D of the Board of Governors). Such reserve percentages shall include those imposed pursuant to such Regulation D. Eurodollar Loans shall be deemed to constitute eurocurrency funding and to be subject to such reserve requirements without benefit of or credit for proration, 

 

 

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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. 

 

       “Subordinated Indebtedness” of any Person means any Indebtedness of such Person that is subordinated in right of payment to any other Indebtedness of such Person. 

 

       “subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person (the “parent”) at any date, (a) any Person 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 and (b) any other Person of which Equity Interests representing more than 50% of the equity value 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 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. 

 

       “Subsidiary Borrower” means each wholly-owned Subsidiary that the Company has designated as a Subsidiary Borrower pursuant to Section 2.20 and that has not ceased to be a Subsidiary Borrower as provided in such Section. 

 

    “Subsidiary Borrower Agreement” means a Subsidiary Borrower Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit G or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion. 

 

    “Subsidiary Borrower Termination” means a Subsidiary Borrower Termination substantially in the form of Exhibit H or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion. 

 

    “Subsidiary Loan Party” means each Domestic Subsidiary Loan Party and each Foreign Subsidiary Loan Party. 

 

    “Swingline Exposure” means, at any time, the aggregate principal amount of all Swingline Loans outstanding at such time. The Swingline Exposure of any Revolving Lender at any time shall be its Applicable Percentage of the total Swingline Exposure at such time. 

 

    “Swingline Lender” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., in its capacity as lender of Swingline Loans hereunder. 

 

    “Swingline Loan” means a Loan made pursuant to Section 2.04. 

 

    “Syndication Agent” means Comerica Bank and Bank Leumi USA, each in its capacity as a co-syndication agent for the credit facilities provided herein. 

 

 

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    “Taxes” means any present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings, assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto. 

 

    “Third Party Interests” means, with respect to any Securitization, notes, bonds or other debt instruments, beneficial interests in a trust, undivided ownership interests in receivables or other securities issued for cash consideration by the relevant Securitization Vehicle to banks, financing conduits, investors or other financing sources (other than the Company and the Subsidiaries) the proceeds of which are used to finance, in whole or in part, the purchase by such Securitization Vehicle of Securitization Assets in a Securitization. The amount of any Third Party Interests at any time shall be deemed to equal the aggregate principal, stated or invested amount of such Third Party Interests which are outstanding at such time. 

 

    “Total Indebtedness” means, as of any date, the sum of 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 without giving effect to any election to value any Indebtedness at “fair value”, as described in Section 1.04(a), or any other accounting principle that results in the amount of any such Indebtedness (other than zero coupon Indebtedness) as reflected on such balance sheet to be below the stated principal amount of such Indebtedness). For purposes of determining the Leverage Ratio under Section 6.13, Total Indebtedness shall exclude (a) the Indebtedness outstanding under the Floating Rate Unsecured Loan Notes due 2102 issued by the Company under the Note Instrument dated as of December 13, 2002 and (b) obligations owed to Dr. Felix Zandman under the Zandman Employment Agreement. 

 

    “Transactions” means the execution, delivery and performance by each Loan Party of the Loan Documents to which it is to be a party, the borrowing of the Loans, the use of the proceeds thereof and the issuance of Letters of Credit hereunder. 

 

    “Transition Services Agreement” means the Transition Services Agreement dated July 6, 2010, between VPG and the Company, as in effect on the date hereof. 

 

    “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. 

 

    “Unrestricted Cash” means unrestricted cash and cash equivalents owned by the Company and the Subsidiaries and not controlled by or subject to any Lien or other preferential arrangement in favor of any creditor (other than Liens created under the Loan Documents and Liens constituting Permitted Encumbrances of the type referred to in clause (g) of the definition of such term). 

 

 

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    “U.S. Person” means a “United States person” within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. 

 

    “U.S. Tax Certificate” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.16(f)(ii)(D)(2). 

 

    “USA PATRIOT Act” means the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001. 

 

    “VPG” means Vishay Precision Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation. 

 

    “wholly-owned”, when used in reference to a subsidiary of any Person, means 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, beneficially and of record, by such Person, another wholly-owned subsidiary of such Person or any combination thereof. 

 

    “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. 

 

    “Withholding Agent” means any Loan Party and the Administrative Agent. 

 

    “Zandman Employment Agreement” means the Amended and Restated Employment Agreement dated as of May 13, 2009, between the Company and Dr. Felix Zandman, as in effect on the date hereof. 

 

    SECTION 1.02. Types of Loans and Borrowings. For purposes of this Agreement, Loans and Borrowings may be classified and referred to by Type (e.g., a “Eurocurrency Loan” or “Eurocurrency 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 “will” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall”. The words “asset” and “property” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all real and personal, tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights. 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. Unless the context requires otherwise, (a) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document (including this Agreement and the other Loan Documents) shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to 

 

 

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any restrictions on such amendments, supplements or modifications set forth herein), (b) any definition of or reference to any statute, rule or regulation shall be construed as referring thereto as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified (including by succession of comparable successor laws), (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 and (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. 

 

    SECTION 1.04. Accounting Terms; GAAP; Pro Forma Calculations. (a) Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all terms of an accounting or financial nature used herein shall be construed in accordance with GAAP as in effect from time to time; provided that (i) if the Company, by notice to the Administrative Agent, shall request an amendment to any provision hereof to eliminate the effect of any change occurring after the date hereof in GAAP or in the application thereof on the operation of such provision (or if the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders, by notice to the Company, shall 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 and (ii) notwithstanding any other provision contained herein, (A) 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 any election under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 159, The Fair Value Option for Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities, or any successor thereto (including pursuant to the Accounting Standards Codification), to value any Indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary at “fair value”, as defined therein and (B) all computations of amounts of Indebtedness in respect of convertible or equity-linked securities shall be reflected as the stated principal amount of such Indebtedness. 

 

    (b) All pro forma computations required to be made hereunder giving effect to any Material Acquisition, Material Disposition, Permitted Acquisition or other transaction shall be calculated after giving pro forma effect thereto (and, in the case of any pro forma computations made hereunder to determine whether such Material Acquisition, Material Disposition, Permitted Acquisition or other transaction is permitted to be consummated hereunder, to any other such transaction consummated since the first day of the period covered by any component of such pro forma computation and on or prior to the date of such computation) as if such transaction had occurred on the first day of the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters ending with the most recent fiscal quarter for which financial statements shall have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or 5.01(b) (or, prior to the delivery of any such financial statements, ending with the last fiscal quarter included in the financial statements referred to in Section 3.04(a)), and, to 

 

 

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the extent applicable, to the historical earnings and cash flows associated with the assets acquired or disposed of, any related incurrence or reduction of Indebtedness, and any cost savings reasonably expected to be realized in connection with any such acquisition, in each case calculated in accordance with Article 11 of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act. If any Indebtedness bears a floating rate of interest and is being given pro forma effect, the interest on such Indebtedness shall be calculated as if the rate in effect on the date of determination had been the applicable rate for the entire period (taking into account any Hedging Agreement applicable to such Indebtedness if such Hedging Agreement has a remaining term in excess of 12 months). 

 

    (c) For purposes of determining compliance with the covenants set forth in Sections 6.12 and 6.13 during any period in which a Material Acquisition or Material Disposition has occurred, Consolidated EBITDA and Consolidated Interest Expense will be calculated for such period giving effect to such Material Acquisition or Material Disposition on a pro forma basis in accordance with paragraph (b) of this Section. 

 

ARTICLE II 

 

The Credits 

 

    SECTION 2.01. Commitments. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Lender agrees to make Revolving Loans to the Borrowers from time to time during the Availability Period in an aggregate principal amount that will not result in such Lender’s Revolving Exposure exceeding such Lender’s Commitment or the Aggregate Revolving Exposure exceeding the Aggregate Commitment. Within the foregoing limits and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrowers may borrow, prepay and reborrow Revolving Loans. 

 

    SECTION 2.02. Loans and Borrowings. (a) Each Loan (other than a Swingline Loan) shall be made as part of a Borrowing consisting of Loans of the same Type made by the Lenders ratably in accordance with their individual 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 2.13, each Revolving Borrowing shall be comprised entirely of ABR Loans or Eurocurrency Loans as the applicable Borrower may request in accordance herewith; provided that all Borrowings made on the Effective Date must be made as ABR Borrowings unless the Company shall have given the notice required for a Eurocurrency Borrowing under Section 2.03 and provided an indemnity letter, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, extending the benefits of Section 2.15 to Lenders in respect of such Borrowings. Each Swingline Loan shall be an ABR Loan. 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 applicable 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 Eurocurrency Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of $1,000,000 and not less than $5,000,000; provided that a Eurocurrency Borrowing that results from a continuation of an outstanding Eurocurrency Borrowing may be in an aggregate amount that is equal to such outstanding Borrowing. At the time that each ABR Borrowing is made, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of $1,000,000 and not less than $5,000,000; provided that an ABR Revolving Borrowing may be in an aggregate amount that is equal to the entire unused balance of the Aggregate Commitment or that is required to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as contemplated by Section 2.05(f). Each Swingline Loan shall be in an amount that is an integral multiple of $500,000 and not less than $1,000,000. 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 10 Eurocurrency Borrowings outstanding. 

 

    (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, no Borrower shall be entitled to request, or to elect to convert to or continue, any Eurodollar Borrowing if the Interest Period requested with respect thereto would end after the Maturity Date. 

 

    SECTION 2.03. Requests for Borrowings. To request a Revolving Borrowing, the applicable Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such request by telephone (a) in the case of a Eurocurrency Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, three Business Days before the date of the proposed Borrowing (or, in the case of any Eurocurrency Borrowing to be made on the Effective Date, such shorter period of time as may be agreed to by the Administrative Agent) or (b) in the case of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the day of the proposed Borrowing. Each such telephonic Borrowing Request shall be irrevocable and shall be confirmed promptly by hand delivery or facsimile to the Administrative Agent of an executed written Borrowing Request. Each such telephonic and written Borrowing Request shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 2.02: 

 

    (i) the Borrower requesting such Borrowing; 

 

    (ii) the aggregate amount of such Borrowing; 

 

    (iii) the date of such Borrowing, which shall be a Business Day; 

 

    (iv) whether such Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or a Eurocurrency Borrowing; 

 

    (v) in the case of a Eurocurrency Borrowing, the initial Interest Period to be applicable thereto, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term “Interest Period”; and 

 

    (vi) the location and number of the account of the applicable Borrower to which funds are to be disbursed or, in the case of any ABR Revolving Borrowing 

 

 

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requested to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as provided in Section 2.05(f), the identity of the Issuing Bank that made such LC Disbursement. 

 

If no election as to the Type of Borrowing is specified, then the requested Borrowing shall be an ABR Borrowing. If no Interest Period is specified with respect to any requested Eurocurrency Borrowing, then the applicable Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration. Promptly following receipt of a Borrowing Request in accordance with this Section, the Administrative Agent shall advise each Lender 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. Swingline Loans. (a) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Swingline Lender agrees to make Swingline Loans to the Company from time to time during the Availability Period in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding that will not result in (i) the aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Swingline Loans exceeding $30,000,000 or (ii) the Aggregate Revolving Exposure exceeding the Aggregate Commitment; provided that the Swingline Lender shall not be required to make a Swingline Loan to refinance an outstanding Swingline Loan. Within the foregoing limits and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Company may borrow, prepay and reborrow Swingline Loans. 

 

    (b) To request a Swingline Loan, the Company shall notify the Administrative Agent of such request by telephone not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the day of the proposed Swingline Loan. Each such telephonic Borrowing Request shall be irrevocable and shall be confirmed promptly by hand delivery or facsimile to the Administrative Agent of an executed written Borrowing Request. Each such telephonic and written Borrowing Request shall specify the requested date (which shall be a Business Day) and the amount of the requested Swingline Loan and the location and number of the account of the Company to which funds are to be disbursed or, in the case of any Swingline Loan requested to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as provided in Section 2.05(f), the identity of the Issuing Bank that has made such LC Disbursement. Promptly following the receipt of a Borrowing Request in accordance with this Section, the Administrative Agent shall advise the Swingline Lender of the details thereof. The Swingline Lender shall make each Swingline Loan available to the Company by means of a wire transfer to the account specified in such Borrowing Request or to the applicable Issuing Bank, as the case may be, by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the requested date of such Swingline Loan. 

 

    (c) The Swingline Lender may by written notice given to the Administrative Agent not later than 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on any Business Day require the Revolving Lenders to acquire participations on such Business Day in all or a portion of the Swingline Loans outstanding. Such notice shall specify the aggregate amount of the Swingline Loans in which Revolving Lenders will be required to participate. Promptly upon receipt of such notice, the Administrative Agent will give notice thereof to each Revolving Lender, specifying in such notice such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of such Swingline Loan or Loans. Each Revolving Lender hereby absolutely and unconditionally agrees to pay, upon receipt of notice as provided above, to 

 

 

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the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Swingline Lender, such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of such Swingline Loan or Loans. Each Revolving Lender acknowledges and agrees that, in making any Swingline Loan, the Swingline Lender shall be entitled to rely, and shall not incur any liability for relying, upon the representation and warranty of the Company deemed made pursuant to Section 4.02, unless, at least one Business Day prior to the time such Swingline Loan was made, the Required Lenders shall have notified the Swingline Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) in writing that, as a result of one or more events or circumstances described in such notice, one or more of the conditions precedent set forth in Section 4.02(a) or 4.02(b) would not be satisfied if such Swingline Loan were then made (it being understood and agreed that, in the event the Swingline Lender shall have received any such notice, it shall have no obligation to make any Swingline Loan until and unless it shall be satisfied that the events and circumstances described in such notice shall have been cured or otherwise shall have ceased to exist). Each Revolving Lender further acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to acquire participations in Swingline Loans pursuant to this paragraph is absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance whatsoever, including the occurrence and continuance of a Default or any reduction or termination of the Commitments, and that each such payment shall be made without any offset, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever. Each Revolving Lender shall comply with its obligation under this paragraph by wire transfer of immediately available funds, in the same manner as provided in Section 2.06 with respect to Loans made by such Lender (and Section 2.06 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the payment obligations of the Revolving Lenders pursuant to this paragraph), and the Administrative Agent shall promptly remit to the Swingline Lender the amounts so received by it from the Revolving Lenders. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Company of any participations in any Swingline Loan acquired pursuant to this paragraph, and thereafter payments in respect of such Swingline Loan shall be made to the Administrative Agent and not to the Swingline Lender. Any amounts received by the Swingline Lender from the Company (or other Person on behalf of the Company) in respect of a Swingline Loan after receipt by the Swingline Lender of the proceeds of a sale of participations therein shall be promptly remitted to the Administrative Agent; any such amounts received by the Administrative Agent shall be promptly remitted by the Administrative Agent to the Revolving Lenders that shall have made their payments pursuant to this paragraph and to the Swingline Lender, as their interests may appear; provided that any such payment so remitted shall be repaid to the Swingline Lender or to the Administrative Agent, as applicable, if and to the extent such payment is required to be refunded to the Company for any reason. The purchase of participations in a Swingline Loan pursuant to this paragraph shall not constitute a Loan and shall not relieve the Company of its obligation to repay such Swingline Loan.

 

    SECTION 2.05. Letters of Credit. (a) General. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Borrower may request the issuance of Letters of Credit for its own account, denominated in dollars and in a form reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the applicable Issuing Bank, at any time and from time to time during the Availability Period. Each Existing Letter of Credit shall be deemed, for all purposes of this Agreement (including paragraphs (d) and (f) of this Section), to be a Letter of Credit issued hereunder for the account of the Company. The Company 

 

 

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unconditionally and irrevocably agrees that, in connection with any Existing Letter of Credit, it will be fully responsible for the reimbursement of LC Disbursements, the payment of interest thereon and the payment of fees due under Section 2.12(b) to the same extent as if it were the account party in respect of such Existing Letter of Credit. Notwithstanding anything contained in any letter of credit application furnished to any Issuing Bank in connection with the issuance of any Letter of Credit, (i) all provisions of such letter of credit application purporting to grant liens in favor of the Issuing Bank to secure obligations in respect of such Letter of Credit shall be disregarded, it being agreed that such obligations shall be secured to the extent provided in this Agreement and in the Security Documents, and (ii) in the event of any inconsistency between the terms and conditions of such letter of credit application and the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the terms and conditions of this Agreement shall control. 

 

    (b) Notice of Issuance, Amendment, Renewal, Extension; Certain Conditions. To request the issuance of a Letter of Credit or the amendment, renewal or extension of an outstanding Letter of Credit, the applicable Borrower shall hand deliver or fax (or transmit by electronic communication, if arrangements for doing so have been approved by the recipient) to the applicable Issuing Bank and the Administrative Agent, reasonably in advance of the requested date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension, a notice requesting the issuance of a Letter of Credit, or identifying the Letter of Credit to be amended, renewed or extended, and specifying the requested date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension (which shall be a Business Day), the date on which such Letter of Credit is to expire (which shall comply with paragraph (c) of this Section), the amount of such Letter of Credit, the name and address of the beneficiary thereof and such other information as shall be necessary to enable the applicable Issuing Bank to prepare, amend, renew or extend such Letter of Credit. If requested by the applicable Issuing Bank, the applicable Borrower also shall submit a letter of credit application on such Issuing Bank’s standard form in connection with any such request. A Letter of Credit shall be issued, amended, renewed or extended only if (and upon each issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit the applicable Borrower shall be deemed to represent and warrant that), after giving effect to such issuance, amendment, renewal or extension, (i) the LC Exposure will not exceed $45,000,000 and (ii) the Aggregate Revolving Exposure will not exceed the Aggregate Commitment. Each Issuing Bank agrees that it shall not permit any issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of a Letter of Credit to occur unless it shall have given to the Administrative Agent written notice thereof required under paragraph (l) of this Section. 

 

    (c) Expiration Date. Each Letter of Credit shall expire at or prior to the close of business on the earlier of (i) the date one year after the date of the issuance of such Letter of Credit (or, in the case of any renewal or extension thereof, one year after such renewal or extension) and (ii) the date that is five Business Days prior to the Maturity Date; provided that any Letter of Credit may contain customary automatic renewal provisions agreed upon by the applicable Borrower and the applicable Issuing Bank pursuant to which the expiration date of such Letter of Credit shall automatically be extended for a period of up to 12 months (but not to a date later than the date set forth in clause (ii) above), subject to a right on the part of such Issuing Bank to prevent any such 

 

 

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renewal from occurring by giving notice to the beneficiary in advance of any such renewal. 

 

    (d) Participations. By the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or an amendment to a Letter of Credit increasing the amount thereof) and without any further action on the part of the applicable Issuing Bank or any Revolving Lender, the Issuing Bank that is the issuer thereof hereby grants to each Revolving Lender, and each Revolving Lender hereby acquires from such Issuing Bank, a participation in such Letter of Credit equal to such Revolving Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the aggregate amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit. In consideration and in furtherance of the foregoing, each Revolving Lender hereby absolutely and unconditionally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of such Issuing Bank, such Revolving Lender’s Applicable Percentage of each LC Disbursement made by such Issuing Bank under such Letter of Credit and not reimbursed by the applicable Borrower on the date due as provided in paragraph (f) of this Section, or of any reimbursement payment required to be refunded to a Borrower for any reason. Each Revolving Lender acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to acquire participations pursuant to this paragraph in respect of Letters of Credit is absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance whatsoever, including any amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or the occurrence and continuance of a Default or any reduction or termination of the Commitments, and that each such payment shall be made without any offset, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever. Each Revolving Lender further acknowledges and agrees that, in issuing, amending, renewing or extending any Letter of Credit, the applicable Issuing Bank shall be entitled to rely, and shall not incur any liability for relying, upon the representation and warranty of the Company and each Subsidiary Borrower deemed made pursuant to Section 4.02, unless, at least one Business Day prior to the time such Letter of Credit is issued, amended, renewed or extended, the Required Lenders shall have notified the applicable Issuing Bank (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) in writing that, as a result of one or more events or circumstances described in such notice, one or more of the conditions precedent set forth in Section 4.02(a) or 4.02(b) would not be satisfied if such Letter of Credit were then issued, amended, renewed or extended (it being understood and agreed that, in the event any Issuing Bank shall have received any such notice, it shall have no obligation to issue, amend, renew or extend any Letter of Credit until and unless it shall be satisfied that the events and circumstances described in such notice shall have been cured or otherwise shall have ceased to exist). 

 

    (e) Disbursements. Each Issuing Bank shall, promptly following its receipt thereof, examine all documents purporting to represent a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit and shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent and the applicable Borrower by telephone (confirmed by hand delivery or facsimile) of such demand for payment and whether such Issuing Bank has made or will make an LC Disbursement thereunder; provided that any failure to give or delay in giving such notice shall not relieve such Borrower of its obligation to reimburse such LC Disbursement. 

 

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Disbursement by paying to the Administrative Agent an amount equal to such LC Disbursement not later than (i) if such Borrower shall have received notice of such LC Disbursement prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on any Business Day, then 12:00 noon, New York City time, on such Business Day or (ii) otherwise, 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the Business Day immediately following the day that such Borrower receives such notice; provided that, if the amount of such LC Disbursement is $500,000 or more, the applicable Borrower may, subject to the conditions to borrowing set forth herein, request in accordance with Section 2.03 or 2.04 that such payment be financed with an ABR Revolving Borrowing or a Swingline Loan and, to the extent so financed, such Borrower’s obligation to make such payment shall be discharged and replaced by the resulting ABR Revolving Borrowing or Swingline Loan. If the applicable Borrower fails to reimburse any LC Disbursement by the time specified above, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Revolving Lender of such failure, the payment then due from such Borrower in respect of the applicable LC Disbursement and such Revolving Lender’s Applicable Percentage thereof. Promptly following receipt of such notice, each Revolving Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent its Applicable Percentage of the amount then due from such Borrower, in the same manner as provided in Section 2.06 with respect to Loans made by such Lender (and Section 2.06 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the payment obligations of the Revolving Lenders pursuant to this paragraph), and the Administrative Agent shall promptly remit to the applicable Issuing Bank the amounts so received by it from the Revolving Lenders. Promptly following receipt by the Administrative Agent of any payment from a Borrower pursuant to this paragraph, the Administrative Agent shall distribute such payment to the applicable Issuing Bank or, to the extent that Revolving Lenders have made payments pursuant to this paragraph to reimburse such Issuing Bank, then to such Revolving Lenders and such Issuing Bank as their interests may appear. Any payment made by a Revolving Lender pursuant to this paragraph to reimburse an Issuing Bank for an LC Disbursement (other than the funding of an ABR Revolving Borrowing or a Swingline Loan as contemplated above) shall not constitute a Loan and shall not relieve the applicable Borrower of its obligation to reimburse such LC Disbursement. 

 

    (g) Obligations Absolute. Each Borrower’s obligation to reimburse LC Disbursements as provided in paragraph (f) of this Section is absolute, unconditional and irrevocable and shall be performed strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement under any and all circumstances whatsoever and irrespective of (i) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Letter of Credit or this Agreement, or any term or provision thereof or hereof, (ii) any draft or other document presented under a Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent or invalid in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect, (iii) payment by an Issuing Bank under a Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft or other document that does not comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit or (iv) any other event or circumstance whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing, that might, but for the provisions of this paragraph, constitute a legal or equitable discharge of, or provide a right of setoff against, such Borrower’s obligations hereunder. None of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the Issuing Banks or any of their Related Parties shall have any liability or responsibility by reason of or in connection with the issuance or transfer of any Letter of Credit, any payment or failure to make any payment thereunder (irrespective of any of the 

 

 

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circumstances referred to in the preceding sentence), any error, omission, interruption, loss or delay in transmission or delivery of any draft, notice or other communication under or relating to any Letter of Credit (including any document required to make a drawing thereunder), any error in interpretation of technical terms or any other act, failure to act or other event or circumstance; provided that the foregoing shall not be construed to excuse any Issuing Bank from liability to a Borrower to the extent of any direct damages (as opposed to consequential damages, claims in respect of which are hereby waived by each Borrower to the extent permitted by applicable law) suffered by such Borrower that are caused by such Issuing Bank’s failure to exercise care when determining whether drafts and other documents presented under a Letter of Credit comply with the terms thereof. The parties hereto expressly agree that, in the absence of gross negligence or wilful misconduct on the part of an Issuing Bank (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and nonappealable judgment), such Issuing Bank shall be deemed to have exercised care in each such determination. In furtherance of the foregoing and without limiting the generality thereof, the parties agree that, with respect to documents presented that appear on their face to be in substantial compliance with the terms of a Letter of Credit, an Issuing Bank may, in its sole discretion, either accept and make payment upon such documents without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any notice or information to the contrary, or refuse to accept and make payment upon such documents if such documents are not in strict compliance with the terms of such Letter of Credit. 

 

   (h) Interim Interest. If an Issuing Bank shall make any LC Disbursement, then, unless the applicable Borrower shall reimburse such LC Disbursement in full on the date such LC Disbursement is made, the unpaid amount thereof shall bear interest, for each day from and including the date such LC Disbursement is made to but excluding the date that the applicable Borrower reimburses such LC Disbursement in full, at the rate per annum then applicable to ABR Revolving Loans; provided that, if the applicable Borrower fails to reimburse such LC Disbursement when due pursuant to paragraph (f) of this Section, then Section 2.12(c) shall apply. Interest accrued pursuant to this paragraph shall be paid to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the applicable Issuing Bank, except that interest accrued on and after the date of payment by any Revolving Lender pursuant to paragraph (f) of this Section to reimburse such Issuing Bank shall be for the account of such Lender to the extent of such payment, and shall be payable on demand or, if no demand has been made, on the date on which the applicable Borrower reimburses the applicable LC Disbursement in full. 

 

    (i) Cash Collateralization. If any Event of Default described in clause (a), (b), (h) or (i) of Article VII shall occur and be continuing, on the Business Day that the Company receives notice from the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders demanding the deposit of cash collateral pursuant to this paragraph, each Borrower shall deposit in an account with the Administrative Agent, in the name of the Administrative Agent and for the benefit of the Lenders, an amount in cash equal to the LC Exposure attributable to Letters of Credit issued for the account of such Borrower as of such date plus any accrued and unpaid interest thereon; provided that the obligation to deposit such cash collateral shall become effective immediately, and such deposit shall become immediately due and payable, without demand or other notice of any kind, upon the 

 

 

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occurrence of any Event of Default described in clause (h) or (i) of Article VII. The Borrowers also shall deposit cash collateral in accordance with this paragraph as and to the extent required by Section 2.10(b). Each such deposit shall be held by the Administrative Agent as collateral for the payment and performance of the Secured Obligations. The Administrative Agent shall have exclusive dominion and control, including the exclusive right of withdrawal, over such account. Other than any interest earned on the investment of such deposits, which investments shall be made at the option and sole discretion of the Administrative Agent and at the applicable Borrower’s risk and expense, such deposits shall not bear interest. Interest or profits, if any, on such investments shall accumulate in such account. Moneys in such account shall be applied by the Administrative Agent to reimburse the Issuing Banks for LC Disbursements for which they have not been reimbursed and, to the extent not so applied, shall be held for the satisfaction of the reimbursement obligations of the applicable Borrower for the LC Exposure attributable to Letters of Credit issued for the account of such Borrower at such time or, if the maturity of the Loans has been accelerated, be applied to satisfy other obligations of the Borrowers under this Agreement. If a Borrower is required to provide an amount of cash collateral hereunder as a result of the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default, such amount (to the extent not applied as aforesaid) shall be returned to such Borrower within three Business Days after all Events of Default have been cured or waived. If a Borrower is required to provide an amount of cash collateral hereunder pursuant to Section 2.10(b), such amount (to the extent not applied as aforesaid) shall be returned to such Borrower as and to the extent that, after giving effect to such return, the Aggregate Revolving Exposure would not exceed the Aggregate Commitment and no Default shall have occurred and be continuing. 

 

    (j) Designation of Additional Issuing Banks. The Company may, at any time and from time to time, with the consent of the Administrative Agent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), designate as additional Issuing Banks one or more Revolving Lenders that agree to serve in such capacity as provided below. The acceptance by a Revolving Lender of an appointment as an Issuing Bank hereunder shall be evidenced by an agreement, which shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, executed by the Company, the Administrative Agent and such designated Revolving Lender and, from and after the effective date of such agreement, (i) such Revolving Lender shall have all the rights and obligations of an Issuing Bank under this Agreement and (ii) references herein to the term “Issuing Bank” shall be deemed to include such Revolving Lender in its capacity as an issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder. 

 

    (k) Termination of an Issuing Bank. The Company may terminate the appointment of any Issuing Bank as an “Issuing Bank” hereunder by providing a written notice thereof to such Issuing Bank, with a copy to the Administrative Agent. Any such termination shall become effective upon the earlier of (i) such Issuing Bank acknowledging receipt of such notice and (ii) the 10th Business Day following the date of the delivery thereof; provided that no such termination shall become effective until and unless the LC Exposure attributable to Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank (or its Affiliates) shall have been reduced to zero. At the time any such termination shall become effective, the applicable Borrower shall pay all unpaid fees accrued for the 

 

 

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account of the terminated Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 2.11(b). Notwithstanding the effectiveness of any such termination, the terminated Issuing Bank shall remain a party hereto and shall continue to have all the rights of an Issuing Bank under this Agreement with respect to Letters of Credit issued by it prior to such termination, but shall not issue any additional Letters of Credit. 

 

    (l) Issuing Bank Reports to the Administrative Agent. Unless otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent, each Issuing Bank shall, in addition to its notification obligations set forth elsewhere in this Section, report in writing to the Administrative Agent (i) periodic activity (for such period or recurrent periods as shall be requested by the Administrative Agent) in respect of Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank, including all issuances, extensions, amendments and renewals, all expirations and cancelations and all disbursements and reimbursements, (ii) reasonably prior to the time that such Issuing Bank issues, amends, renews or extends any Letter of Credit, the date of such issuance, amendment, renewal or extension, and the face amount of the Letters of Credit issued, amended, renewed or extended by it and outstanding after giving effect to such issuance, amendment, renewal or extension (and whether the amounts thereof shall have changed), (iii) on each Business Day on which such Issuing Bank makes any LC Disbursement, the date and amount of such LC Disbursement, (iv) on any Business Day on which a Borrower fails to reimburse an LC Disbursement required to be reimbursed to such Issuing Bank on such day, the date of such failure and the amount of such LC Disbursement and (v) on any other Business Day, such other information as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably request as to the Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank. 

 

    (m) LC Exposure Determination. For all purposes of this Agreement, the amount of a Letter of Credit that, by its terms or the terms of any document related thereto, provides for one or more automatic increases in the stated amount thereof shall be deemed to be the maximum stated amount of such Letter of Credit after giving effect to all such increases, whether or not such maximum stated amount is in effect at the time of determination. 

 

    SECTION 2.06. 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 12:00 noon, New York City time, to the account of the Administrative Agent most recently designated by it for such purpose by notice to the Lenders; provided that Swingline Loans shall be made as provided in Section 2.04. The Administrative Agent will make such Loans available to the applicable Borrower by promptly remitting the amounts so received, in like funds, to an account of such Borrower or, in the case of ABR Revolving Loans made to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as provided in Section 2.05(f), to the Issuing Bank specified by such Borrower in the applicable Borrowing Request. 

 

    (b) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the proposed date of any Borrowing that such Lender will not make available to the Administrative Agent such Lender’s share of such Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such share available on 

 

 

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such date in accordance with paragraph (a) of this Section and may, in reliance on such assumption, make available to the applicable Borrower a corresponding amount. In such event, if a Lender has not in fact made its share of the applicable Borrowing available to the Administrative Agent, then the applicable Lender and the applicable Borrower severally agree to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is made available to such Borrower to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at (i) in the case of a payment to be made by such Lender, the greater of the Federal Funds Effective Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation or (ii) in the case of a payment to be made by such Borrower, the interest rate applicable to ABR Revolving Loans. If such Lender pays such amount to the Administrative Agent, then such amount shall constitute such Lender’s Loan included in such Borrowing. The Company shall, in any event, preserve all rights and remedies against such Lender. 

 

    SECTION 2.07. Interest Elections. (a) Each Revolving Borrowing initially shall be of the Type and, in the case of a Eurocurrency Borrowing, shall have an initial Interest Period as specified in the applicable Borrowing Request or as otherwise provided in Section 2.03. Thereafter, the applicable 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 Eurocurrency Borrowing, may elect Interest Periods therefor, all as provided in this Section. A Borrower may elect different options with respect to different portions of the affected Borrowing, in which case each such portion shall be allocated ratably among the Lenders holding the Loans comprising such Borrowing, and the Loans comprising each such portion shall be considered a separate Borrowing. This Section shall not apply to Swingline Borrowings, which may not be converted or continued. 

 

    (b) To make an election pursuant to this Section, a Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such election by telephone by the time that a Borrowing Request would be required under Section 2.03 if such Borrower were requesting a Revolving Borrowing of the Type resulting from such election to be made on the effective date of such election. Each such telephonic Interest Election Request shall be irrevocable and shall be confirmed promptly by hand delivery or facsimile to the Administrative Agent of an executed written Interest Election Request. 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; 

 

 

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    (iii) whether the resulting Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or a Eurocurrency Borrowing; and 

 

    (iv) if the resulting Borrowing is to be a Eurocurrency Borrowing, the Interest Period to be applicable thereto after giving effect to such election, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term “Interest Period”. 

 

If any such Interest Election Request requests a Eurocurrency Borrowing but does not specify an Interest Period, then such Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration. 

 

    (c) Promptly following receipt of an Interest Election Request in accordance with this Section, the Administrative Agent shall advise each Lender of the details thereof and of such Lender’s portion of each resulting Borrowing. 

 

    (d) If the applicable Borrower fails to deliver a timely Interest Election Request with respect to a Eurocurrency 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. Notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof, if an Event of Default under clause (h) or (i) of Article VII has occurred and is continuing, or if any other Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Administrative Agent, at the request of the Required Lenders, has notified the Company of the election to give effect to this sentence on account of such other Event of Default, then, in each such case, so long as such Event of Default is continuing, (i) no outstanding Borrowing may be converted to or continued as a Eurocurrency Borrowing and (ii) unless repaid, each Eurocurrency Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing at the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto. 

 

    SECTION 2.08. Termination and Reduction of Commitments. (a) Unless previously terminated, the Commitments shall terminate on the Maturity Date. 

 

    (b) The Company may at any time terminate, or from time to time permanently reduce, the Commitments; provided that (i) each reduction of the Commitments shall be in an amount that is an integral multiple of $1,000,000 and not less than $20,000,000 and (ii) the Company shall not terminate or reduce the Commitments if, after giving effect to any concurrent prepayment of the Revolving Loans or Swingline Loans in accordance with Section 2.10, the Aggregate Revolving Exposure would exceed the Aggregate Commitment. 

 

    (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 three Business Days prior to the effective date of such termination or reduction, specifying the effective date thereof. Promptly following receipt of any such notice, the Administrative Agent shall advise the Revolving Lenders of the contents thereof. Each notice delivered by the Company pursuant to this Section shall be irrevocable; provided that a notice of termination or reduction of the Commitments under paragraph (b) of this Section may state that such notice is conditioned upon the occurrence of one or more events specified 

 

 

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therein, in which case such notice may be revoked 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 Revolving Lenders in accordance with their individual Commitments. 

 

    SECTION 2.09. Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt. (a) Each Borrower hereby unconditionally promises to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Lender the then unpaid principal amount of each Revolving Loan of such Borrower on the Maturity Date, and the Company hereby unconditionally promises to pay to the Swingline Lender the then unpaid principal amount of each Swingline Loan on the earlier of the Maturity Date and the first date after such Swingline Loan is made that is the 15th or last day of a calendar month and is at least two Business Days after such Swingline Loan is made; provided that on each date that a Revolving Borrowing is made, the Company shall repay all Swingline Loans that were outstanding on the date such Borrowing was requested. 

 

    (b) The records maintained by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall be prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts of the obligations of each Borrower in respect of the Loans, LC Disbursements, interest and fees due or accrued hereunder; provided that the failure of the Administrative Agent or any Lender to maintain such records or any error therein shall not in any manner affect the obligation of any Borrower to pay any amounts due hereunder in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. 

 

    (c) Any Lender may request that Loans made by it be evidenced by a promissory note. In such event, each 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 approved by 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, if such promissory note is a registered note, to such payee and its registered assigns). 

 

    SECTION 2.10. Prepayment of Loans. (a) Each Borrower shall have the right at any time and from time to time to prepay any Borrowing in whole or in part, without penalty or premium (but subject to the provisions of Section 2.15), in accordance with the requirements of this Section. 

 

    (b) In the event and on each occasion that the Aggregate Revolving Exposure exceeds the Aggregate Commitment, each applicable Borrower shall prepay Revolving Borrowings or Swingline Borrowings (or, if no such Borrowings are outstanding, deposit cash collateral in an account with the Administrative Agent in accordance with Section 2.05(i)) in an aggregate principal amount sufficient to eliminate such excess. 

 

 

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    (c) Prior to any optional or mandatory prepayment of Borrowings under this Section, each applicable Borrower shall specify the Borrowing or Borrowings to be prepaid in the notice of such prepayment delivered pursuant to paragraph (d) of this Section. 

 

    (d) Each applicable Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent (and, in the case of prepayment of a Swingline Loan, the Swingline Lender) by telephone (confirmed by hand delivery or facsimile) of any optional prepayment and, to the extent practicable, any mandatory prepayment hereunder (i) in the case of prepayment of a Eurocurrency Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, three Business Days before the date of prepayment, (ii) in the case of prepayment of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, one Business Day before the date of prepayment or (iii) in the case of prepayment of a Swingline Loan, not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the date of prepayment. Each such notice shall be irrevocable and shall specify the prepayment date, the principal amount of each Borrowing or portion thereof to be prepaid and, in the case of a mandatory prepayment, a reasonably detailed calculation of the amount of such prepayment; provided that if a notice of optional prepayment is given in connection with a conditional notice of termination of the Commitments as contemplated by Section 2.08, then such notice of prepayment may be revoked if such notice of termination is revoked in accordance with Section 2.08. Promptly following receipt of any such notice (other than a notice relating solely to Swingline Loans), the Administrative Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents thereof. Each partial prepayment of any Borrowing shall be in an amount that would be permitted in the case of an advance of a Borrowing of the same Type as provided in Section 2.02, except as necessary to apply fully the required amount of a mandatory prepayment. Each prepayment of a Borrowing shall be applied ratably to the Loans included in the prepaid Borrowing. Prepayments shall be accompanied by accrued interest to the extent required by Section 2.12. 

 

    SECTION 2.11. Fees. (a) The Company agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Lender a facility fee, which shall accrue at the Applicable Rate on the daily amount of the Commitment of such Lender (regardless of whether utilized) during the period from and including the date hereof to but excluding the date on which such Commitment terminates. Accrued facility fees shall be payable in arrears on the last day of March, June, September and December of each year and on the date on which the Commitments terminate, commencing on the first such date to occur after the date hereof. All facility fees 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). 

 

    (b) The Company agrees to pay (i) to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Lender a participation fee with respect to its participations in Letters of Credit, which shall accrue at the Applicable Rate used to determine the interest rate applicable to Eurocurrency Revolving Loans on the daily amount of such Lender’s LC Exposure (excluding any portion thereof attributable to unreimbursed LC Disbursements) during the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the later of the date on which such Lender’s Commitment terminates and the date on 

 

 

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which such Lender ceases to have any LC Exposure (excluding any portion thereof attributable to unreimbursed LC Disbursements), and (ii) to each Issuing Bank a fronting fee, which shall accrue at the rate or rates per annum separately agreed upon between the Company and such Issuing Bank on the average daily amount of the LC Exposure attributable to Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank (excluding any portion thereof attributable to unreimbursed LC Disbursements) during the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the later of the date of termination of the Company Commitments and the date on which there ceases to be any such LC Exposure (excluding any portion thereof attributable to unreimbursed LC Disbursements), as well as such Issuing Bank’s standard fees with respect to the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or processing of drawings thereunder. Participation fees and fronting fees accrued through and including the last day of March, June, September and December of each year shall be payable on the third Business Day following such last day, commencing on the first such date to occur after the Effective Date; provided that all such fees shall be payable on the date on which the Commitments terminate and any such fees accruing after the date on which the Commitments terminate shall be payable on demand. Any other fees payable to an Issuing Bank pursuant to this paragraph shall be payable within 10 days after demand. All participation fees and fronting fees 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 (or to an Issuing Bank, in the case of fees payable to it) for distribution, in the case of facility fees and participation fees, to the Revolving Lenders entitled thereto. Fees paid shall not be refundable under any circumstances (except to the extent of any errors in the calculation thereof). 

 

    SECTION 2.12. Interest. (a) The Loans comprising each ABR Borrowing (including each Swingline Loan) shall bear interest at the Alternate Base Rate plus the Applicable Rate. 

 

    (b) The Loans comprising each Eurocurrency 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 or any fee or other amount payable by a 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% per annum plus the 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% per annum plus the rate applicable to ABR Revolving Loans as provided in paragraph (a) of this Section. 

 

 

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    (d) Accrued interest on each Loan shall be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date for such Loan and, in the case of a Revolving Loan, upon termination of the Commitments; provided that (i) interest accrued pursuant to paragraph (c) of this Section shall be payable on demand, (ii) in the event of any repayment or prepayment of any Loan (other than a prepayment of an ABR Revolving Loan prior to the end of the Availability Period), accrued interest on the principal amount repaid or prepaid shall be payable on the date of such repayment or prepayment and (iii) in the event of any conversion of a Eurocurrency 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. 

 

    (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 Alternate Base Rate or Adjusted LIBO Rate shall be determined by the Administrative Agent, and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error. 

 

    SECTION 2.13. Alternate Rate of Interest. If prior to the commencement of any Interest Period for a Eurocurrency 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 for such Interest Period; or 

 

    (b) the Administrative Agent is advised by the Required Lenders that the Adjusted LIBO Rate for such Interest Period will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of making or maintaining their Loans included in such Eurocurrency Borrowing for such Interest Period; 

 

then the Administrative Agent shall give notice (which may be telephonic) thereof to the applicable Borrower and the Lenders as promptly as practicable and, until the Administrative Agent notifies the applicable Borrower and the 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 continuation of any Borrowing as, a Eurocurrency Borrowing shall be ineffective, and such Borrowing shall be continued as an ABR Borrowing, and (ii) any Borrowing Request for a Eurocurrency Borrowing shall be treated as a request for an ABR Borrowing. 

 

    SECTION 2.14. 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 by, any Lender or Issuing Bank (except any such reserve requirement reflected in the Adjusted LIBO Rate); 

 

 

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    (ii) impose on any Lender or Issuing Bank or the London interbank market any other condition, cost or expense (other than Taxes) affecting this Agreement or Eurocurrency Loans made by such Lender or any Letter of Credit or participation therein; or 

 

    (iii) subject any Recipient to any Taxes (other than (A) Indemnified Taxes and (B) Other Connection Taxes on gross or net income, profits or revenue (including value-added or similar Taxes)) on its loans, loan principal, letters of credit, commitments, or other obligations, or its deposits, reserves, other liabilities or capital attributable thereto; 

 

and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such Lender or such other Recipient of making or maintaining any Eurocurrency Loan (or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan), to increase the cost to such Lender, Issuing Bank or such other Recipient of participating in, issuing or maintaining any Letter of Credit (or of maintaining its obligation to participate in or issue any Letter of Credit) or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender, Issuing Bank or such other Recipient hereunder (whether of principal, interest or otherwise), then, from time to time upon request of such Lender or Issuing Bank, the applicable Borrower will pay to such Lender, Issuing Bank or such other Recipient, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender, Issuing Bank or such other Recipient, as the case may be, for such additional costs or expenses incurred or reduction suffered. 

 

    (b) If any Lender or Issuing Bank determines that any Change in Law regarding capital requirements has had or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s or Issuing Bank’s capital or on the capital of such Lender’s or Issuing Bank’s holding company, if any, as a consequence of this Agreement, the Commitments of or the Loans made by, or participations in Letters of Credit or Swingline Loans held by, such Lender, or the Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank, to a level below that which such Lender or Issuing Bank or such Lender’s or Issuing Bank’s holding company could have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lender’s or Issuing Bank’s policies and the policies of such Lender’s or Issuing Bank’s holding company with respect to capital adequacy), then, from time to time upon request of such Lender or Issuing Bank, the applicable Borrower will pay to such Lender or Issuing Bank, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or Issuing Bank or such Lender’s or Issuing Bank’s holding company for any such reduction suffered. 

 

    (c) If the cost to any Lender of making or maintaining any Loan to, or participating in any Letter of Credit or of any Issuing Bank of issuing or maintaining any Letter of Credit to, a Subsidiary Borrower is increased (or the amount of any sum received or receivable by any Lender (or its applicable lending office) or any Issuing Bank is reduced) by an amount deemed in good faith by such Lender or such Issuing Bank to be material, by reason of the fact that such Subsidiary Borrower is incorporated in, has its principal place of business in, or borrows from, a jurisdiction outside the United States, such Lender or such Issuing Bank shall provide prompt notice thereof to the Company and such Subsidiary Borrower shall indemnify such Lender or such Issuing 

 

 

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Bank for such increased cost or reduction within 10 days after demand by such Lender or such Issuing Bank (with a copy to the Administrative Agent); provided that failure by such Lender or such Issuing Bank to provide prompt notice pursuant to this Section will not impair its rights to indemnification under this Section (except, and only to the extent, such Subsidiary Borrower suffers an actual loss by the failure to provide such notice within 180 days from the incurrence of such increased cost). A certificate of such Lender or such Issuing Bank claiming compensation under this paragraph and setting forth the additional amount or amounts to be paid to it hereunder (and the basis for the calculation of such amount or amounts) shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error. 

 

    (d) A certificate of a Lender or Issuing Bank setting forth the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender or Issuing Bank or its holding company, as the case may be, as specified in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section delivered to the Company shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Company shall pay, or shall cause the applicable Borrower to pay, such Lender or Issuing Bank, as the case may be, the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 10 days after receipt thereof. 

 

    (e) Failure or delay on the part of any Lender or Issuing Bank to demand compensation pursuant to this Section shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s or Issuing Bank’s right to demand such compensation; provided that neither the applicable Borrower nor the Company shall be required to compensate a Lender or Issuing Bank pursuant to this Section for any increased costs or expenses incurred or reductions suffered more than 180 days prior to the date that such Lender or Issuing Bank, as the case may be, notifies the Company of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or expenses or reductions and of such Lender’s or Issuing Bank’s intention to claim compensation therefor; provided further that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or expenses or reductions is retroactive, then the 180-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof. 

 

    SECTION 2.15. Break Funding Payments. In the event of (a) the payment of any principal of any Eurocurrency 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 Eurocurrency Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, (c) the failure to borrow, convert or continue any Eurocurrency Loan on the date specified in any notice delivered pursuant hereto or (d) the assignment of any Eurocurrency Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto as a result of a request by the Company pursuant to Section 2.18, then, in any such event, the applicable Borrower shall compensate each Lender for the loss, cost and expense 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 that 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 (but not including the Applicable Rate applicable thereto), 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 

 

 

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the commencement of such period, for dollar deposits of a comparable amount and period from other banks in the London interbank market. A certificate of any Lender delivered to the applicable Borrower and setting forth any amount or amounts that such Lender is entitled to receive pursuant to this Section shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The applicable Borrower shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 10 days after receipt thereof. 

 

    SECTION 2.16. Taxes. (a) Withholding of Taxes; Gross-Up. Each payment by any Loan Party under any Loan Document shall be made without withholding for any Taxes, unless such withholding is required by any law. If any Withholding Agent determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, that it is so required to withhold Taxes, then such Withholding Agent may so withhold and shall timely pay the full amount of withheld Taxes to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law. If such Taxes are Indemnified Taxes, then the amount payable by such Loan Party shall be increased as necessary so that, net of such withholding (including such withholding applicable to additional amounts payable under this Section), the applicable Recipient receives the amount it would have received had no such withholding been made. 

 

    (b) Payment of Other Taxes by the Loan Parties. Each Loan Party shall timely pay any Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law. 

 

    (c) Evidence of Payments. As soon as practicable after any payment of Indemnified Taxes by any Loan Party to a Governmental Authority, 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) Indemnification by the Loan Parties. Each Loan Party shall indemnify each Recipient for any Indemnified Taxes that are paid or payable by such Recipient in connection with any Loan Document (including amounts paid or payable under this Section 2.16(d)) and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. The indemnity under this Section 2.16(d) shall be paid within 10 days after the Recipient delivers to any Loan Party a certificate stating the amount of any Indemnified Taxes so paid or payable by such Recipient and describing the basis for the indemnification claim. Such certificate shall be conclusive of the amount so paid or payable absent manifest error. Such Recipient shall deliver a copy of such certificate to the Administrative Agent. 

 

    (e) Indemnification by the Lenders. Each Lender shall severally indemnify the Administrative Agent for any Taxes (but, in the case of any Indemnified Taxes, only to the extent that any Loan Party has not already indemnified the Administrative Agent for such Indemnified Taxes and without limiting the obligation of the Loan Parties to do so) attributable to such Lender that are paid or payable by the 

 

 

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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 Section 2.16(e) 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 conclusive of the amount so paid or payable absent manifest error. 

 

    (f) Status of Lenders. (i) Any Lender that is entitled to an exemption from, or reduction of, any applicable withholding Tax with respect to any payments under any Loan Document shall deliver to the Company and the Administrative Agent, at the time or times reasonably requested by the Company or the Administrative Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation reasonably requested by the Company or the Administrative Agent as will permit such payments to be made without, or at a reduced rate of, withholding. 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 the preceding two sentences, the completion, execution and submission of such documentation (other than such documentation set forth in Section 2.16(f)(ii)(A) through (E) 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, in the case of a Change in Law, any incremental 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 2.16(f). If any form or certification previously delivered pursuant to this Section 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, if any Borrower is a U.S. Person, any Lender with respect to such Borrower shall, if it is legally eligible to do so, deliver to the Company and the Administrative Agent (in such number of copies reasonably requested by such Borrower and the Administrative Agent) on or prior to the date on which such Lender becomes a party hereto, duly completed and executed copies of whichever of the following is applicable: 

 

    (A) in the case of a Lender that is a U.S. Person, IRS Form W-9 certifying that such Lender is exempt from U.S. Federal backup withholding tax; 

 

    (B) in the case of a Non-U.S. Lender claiming the benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party (1) with respect to 

 

 

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payments of interest under any Loan Document, IRS Form W-8BEN establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. Federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “interest” article of such tax treaty and (2) with respect to any other applicable payments under this Agreement, IRS Form W-8BEN establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. Federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “business profits” or “other income” article of such tax treaty; 

 

    (C) in the case of a Non-U.S. Lender for whom payments under this Agreement constitute income that is effectively connected with such Lender’s conduct of a trade or business in the United States, IRS Form W-8ECI; 

 

    (D) in the case of a Non-U.S. Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under Section 881(c) of the Code both (1) IRS Form W-8BEN and (2) a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit J (a “U.S. Tax Certificate”) to the effect that such Lender is not (a) a “bank” within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (b) a “10 percent shareholder” of the Company within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code (c) a “controlled foreign corporation” described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code and (d) conducting a trade or business in the United States with which the relevant interest payments are effectively connected; 

 

    (E) in the case of a Non-U.S. Lender that is not the beneficial owner of payments made under this Agreement (including a partnership or a participating Lender) (1) an IRS Form W-8IMY on behalf of itself and (2) the relevant forms prescribed in clauses (A), (B), (C), (D) and (F) of this paragraph (f)(ii) that would be required of each such beneficial owner or partner of such partnership if such beneficial owner or partner were a Lender; provided, however, that if the Lender is a partnership and one or more of its partners are claiming the exemption for portfolio interest under Section 881(c) of the Code, such Lender may provide a U.S. Tax Certificate on behalf of such partners; or 

 

    (F) any other form prescribed by law as a basis for claiming exemption from, or a reduction of, U.S. Federal withholding Tax together with such supplementary documentation necessary to enable the applicable Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine the amount of Tax (if any) required by law to be withheld. 

 

    (iii) If a payment made to a Lender under any Loan Document would be subject to U.S. Federal withholding Tax imposed by FATCA if such Lender were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Lender shall deliver to the Withholding Agent, at the time or times prescribed by law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Withholding Agent, 

 

 

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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 Withholding Agent as may be necessary for the Withholding 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 or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment. Solely for purposes of this Section 2.16(f)(iii), “FATCA” shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the date of this Agreement. 

 

    (g) Treatment of Certain Refunds. If any party determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, that it has received a refund of any Taxes as to which it has been indemnified pursuant to this Section 2.16 (including additional amounts paid pursuant to this Section 2.16), it shall pay to the indemnifying party an amount equal to such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made under this Section with respect to the Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses (including any Taxes) of such indemnified party and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund). Such indemnifying party, upon the request of such indemnified party, shall repay to such indemnified party the amount paid to such indemnified party pursuant to the previous sentence (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) in the event such indemnified party is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.16(g), in no event will any indemnified party be required to pay any amount to any indemnifying party pursuant to this Section 2.16(g) to the extent such payment would place such indemnified party in a less favorable position (on a net after-Tax basis) than such indemnified party would have been in if the indemnification payments or additional amounts giving rise to such refund had never been paid. This Section 2.16(g) shall not be construed to require any indemnified party to make available its Tax returns (or any other information relating to its Taxes which it deems confidential) to the indemnifying party or any other Person. 

 

    (h) Issuing Bank. For purposes of Section 2.16(e) and (f), the term “Lender” includes any Issuing Bank. 

 

    SECTION 2.17. Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Setoffs. (a) Each Borrower shall make each payment required to be made by it hereunder or under any other Loan Document 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 12:00 noon, New York City time), on the date when due, in immediately available funds, without any defense, setoff, 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 such account as may be specified by the Administrative Agent, except that payments required to be made directly to any Issuing Bank or the Swingline Lender shall be so made, payments pursuant to Sections 2.14, 2.15, 2.16 and 9.03 shall be made directly to the Persons entitled thereto and payments pursuant to other Loan Documents shall be 

 

 

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made to the Persons specified therein. The Administrative Agent shall distribute any such payment 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 under each Loan Document shall be made in dollars. 

 

    (b) If at any time insufficient funds are received by and available to the Administrative Agent to pay fully all amounts of principal, unreimbursed LC Disbursements, interest and fees then due hereunder, such funds shall be applied towards payment of the amounts then due hereunder ratably among the parties entitled thereto, in accordance with the amounts then due to such parties. 

 

    (c) If any Lender shall, by exercising any right of setoff or counterclaim or otherwise, obtain payment in respect of any principal of or interest on any of its Loans or participations in LC Disbursements or Swingline Loans resulting in such Lender receiving payment of a greater proportion of the aggregate amount of its Loans and participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline Loans and accrued interest thereon 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 Loans and participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline Loans of other Lenders to the extent necessary so that the amount of all such payments shall be shared by the Lenders ratably in accordance with the aggregate amounts of principal of and accrued interest on their Loans and participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline Loans; 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 any 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 Loans or participations in LC Disbursements or Swingline Loans to any assignee or participant, other than to the Company, any Subsidiary or any other Affiliate of any of the foregoing (as to which the provisions of this paragraph shall apply). Each Borrower consents to the foregoing and agrees, to the extent it may effectively do so under applicable law, that any Lender acquiring a participation pursuant to the foregoing arrangements may exercise against such Borrower rights of setoff and counterclaim with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were a direct creditor of such Borrower in the amount of such participation. 

 

    (d) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Borrower prior to the date on which any payment is due to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders or Issuing Banks hereunder that such Borrower will not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Borrower has made such payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such assumption, distribute to the Lenders or Issuing Banks, as the case may be, the amount due. In such event, if such Borrower has not in fact made such payment, then each of the Lenders or 

 

 

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Issuing Banks, as the case may be, severally agrees to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the amount so distributed to such Lender or Issuing Bank 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 the Federal Funds Effective Rate and 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(c), 2.05(d) or (f), 2.06(b), 2.17(d) or 9.03(c), then the Administrative Agent may, in its discretion and notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof, (i) apply any amounts thereafter received by the Administrative Agent for the account of such Lender for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the Swingline Lender or the Issuing Bank to satisfy such Lender’s obligations to it under such Section until all such unsatisfied obligations are fully paid, and/or (ii) hold any such amounts in a segregated account as cash collateral for, and application to, any future funding obligations of such Lender under any such Section, in the case of each of clauses (i) and (ii) above, in any order as determined by the Administrative Agent in its discretion. 

 

    (f) In the event that any financial statements delivered under Section 5.01(a) or 5.01(b), or any Compliance Certificate delivered under Section 5.01(c), shall prove to have been materially inaccurate (regardless of whether any Commitments are in effect or any amounts are outstanding hereunder when such inaccuracy is discovered), and such inaccuracy shall have resulted in the payment of any interest or fees at rates lower than those that were in fact applicable for any period (based on the actual Leverage Ratio), each applicable Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent, for distribution to the Lenders (or former Lenders) as their interests may appear, the accrued interest or fees that should have been paid but were not paid as a result of such misstatement. 

 

    SECTION 2.18. Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders. (a) If any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.14, or if any Loan Party is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or to any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.16, then such Lender shall use commercially reasonable efforts to designate a different lending office for funding or booking its Loans hereunder or to assign and delegate its rights and obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches or Affiliates if, in the judgment of such Lender, such designation or assignment and delegation (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to Section 2.14 or 2.16, 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 Company hereby agrees to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with any such designation or assignment and delegation. 

 

    (b) If (i) any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.14, (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 2.16, (iii) any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender or (iv) any Lender has failed to consent to a proposed 

 

 

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amendment, waiver, discharge or termination that under Section 9.02 requires the consent of all the Lenders (or all the affected 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 and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents (or, in the case of any such assignment and delegation resulting from a failure to provide a consent, all its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as a Lender) to an Eligible Assignee that shall assume such obligations (which may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment and delegation); provided that (A) the Company shall have received the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent (and, if a Commitment is being assigned, each Issuing Bank), which consent 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 and participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline Loans, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts payable to it hereunder, from the assignee or the Company, (C) in the case of any such assignment and delegation resulting from a claim for compensation under Section 2.14 or payments required to be made pursuant to Section 2.16, such assignment will result in a reduction in such compensation or payments and (D) 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 or consent by such Lender or otherwise, the circumstances entitling the Company to require such assignment and delegation have ceased 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. 

 

          SECTION 2.19. Defaulting Lenders. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, if any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then the following provisions shall apply for so long as such Lender is a Defaulting Lender: 

 

     (a) fees shall cease to accrue on the Commitment of such Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 2.11(a) and (without affecting clause (c)(v) below) such Defaulting Lender shall not be entitled to payment of such fees in respect of any period during which it is a Defaulting Lender; 

 

     (b) the Commitment and Revolving Exposure of such Defaulting Lender shall not be included in determining whether the Required Lenders have taken or may take any action hereunder (including any consent to any amendment, waiver or other modification pursuant to Section 9.02); provided, that this clause (b) shall not apply to the vote of a Defaulting Lender in the case of an amendment, waiver or other modification requiring the consent of such Lender or each Lender affected thereby; 

 

 

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     (c) if any Swingline Exposure or LC Exposure exists at the time such Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender then: 

 

     (i) all or any part of the Swingline Exposure and LC Exposure of such Defaulting Lender shall be reallocated among the non-Defaulting Lenders in accordance with their respective Applicable Percentages, but only to the extent the sum of all non-Defaulting Lenders’ Revolving Exposures plus such Defaulting Lender’s Swingline Exposure and LC Exposure does not exceed the total of all non-Defaulting Lenders’ Commitments; 

 

     (ii) if the reallocation described in clause (i) above cannot, or can only partially, be effected, each applicable Borrower shall within one Business Day following notice by the Administrative Agent (x) first, prepay such Swingline Exposure and (y) second, cash collateralize for the benefit of the Issuing Bank only such applicable Borrower’s obligations corresponding to such Defaulting Lender’s LC Exposure (after giving effect to any partial reallocation pursuant to clause (i) above) in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 2.05(i) for so long as such LC Exposure is outstanding; 

 

     (iii) if any Borrower cash collateralizes any portion of such Defaulting Lender’s LC Exposure pursuant to clause (ii) above, such Borrower shall not be required to pay any fees to such Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 2.11(b) with respect to such Defaulting Lender’s LC Exposure during the period such Defaulting Lender’s LC Exposure is cash collateralized; 

 

     (iv) if the LC Exposure of the non-Defaulting Lenders is reallocated pursuant to clause (i) above, then the fees payable to the Lenders pursuant to Sections 2.11(a) and 2.11(b) shall be adjusted in accordance with such non-Defaulting Lenders’ Applicable Percentages; and 

 

     (v) if all or any portion of such Defaulting Lender’s LC Exposure is neither reallocated nor cash collateralized pursuant to clause (i) or (ii) above, then, without prejudice to any rights or remedies of the Issuing Bank or any other Lender hereunder, all facility fees that otherwise would have been payable to such Defaulting Lender (solely with respect to the portion of such Defaulting Lender’s Commitment that was utilized by such LC Exposure) and letter of credit fees payable under Section 2.11(b) with respect to such Defaulting Lender’s LC Exposure shall be payable to the Issuing Bank until and to the extent that such LC Exposure is reallocated and/or cash collateralized; and 

 

     (d) so long as such Lender is a Defaulting Lender, the Swingline Lender shall not be required to fund any Swingline Loan and the Issuing Bank shall not 

 

 

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be required to issue, amend or increase any Letter of Credit, unless it is satisfied that the related exposure and the Defaulting Lender’s then outstanding LC Exposure will be 100% covered by the Commitments of the non-Defaulting Lenders and/or cash collateral will be provided by the applicable Borrower in accordance with Section 2.19(c), and participating interests in any newly made Swingline Loan or any newly issued or increased Letter of Credit shall be allocated among non-Defaulting Lenders in a manner consistent with Section 2.19(c)(i) (and such Defaulting Lender shall not participate therein). 

 

          If (i) a Bankruptcy Event with respect to a Parent of any Lender shall occur following the date hereof and for so long as such event shall continue or (ii) the Swingline Lender or the Issuing Bank has a good faith belief that any Lender has defaulted in fulfilling its obligations under one or more other agreements in which such Lender commits to extend credit, the Swingline Lender shall not be required to fund any Swingline Loan and the Issuing Bank shall not be required to issue, amend or increase any Letter of Credit, unless the Swingline Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, shall have entered into arrangements with the applicable Borrower or such Lender, satisfactory to the Swingline Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, to defease any risk to it in respect of such Lender hereunder. 

 

          In the event that the Administrative Agent, the Company, the Swingline Lender and the Issuing Bank each agrees that a Defaulting Lender has adequately remedied all matters that caused such Lender to be a Defaulting Lender, then the Swingline Exposure and LC Exposure of the Lenders shall be readjusted to reflect the inclusion of such Lender’s Commitment and on such date such Lender shall purchase at par such of the Loans of the other Lenders (other than Swingline Loans) as the Administrative Agent shall determine may be necessary in order for such Lender to hold such Loans in accordance with its Applicable Percentage (without giving effect to the proviso in the definition of such term). 

 

          SECTION 2.20. Designation of Subsidiary Borrowers. The Company may, at any time and from time to time, designate any wholly-owned Subsidiary as a Subsidiary Borrower pursuant to a Subsidiary Borrower Agreement executed and delivered by the Company, such wholly-owned Subsidiary and the Administrative Agent, and upon the effectiveness of such Subsidiary Borrower Agreement such Subsidiary shall for all purposes of this Agreement be a Subsidiary Borrower and a party to this Agreement. The Company shall provide written notice to the Administrative Agent of its intent to designate any Subsidiary as a Subsidiary Borrower at least 10 Business Days (or such shorter period as may be agreed to by the Administrative Agent) prior to the date on which the Company proposes that any Subsidiary Borrower Agreement shall be effective, and the Administrative Agent shall notify Lenders promptly upon receipt by the Administrative Agent of any such notice. Any Subsidiary Borrower shall continue to be a Subsidiary Borrower until the Company shall have executed and delivered to the Administrative Agent a Subsidiary Borrower Termination with respect to such Subsidiary Borrower, whereupon such Subsidiary Borrower shall cease to be a Subsidiary Borrower and a party to this Agreement. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, (a) no Subsidiary Borrower Agreement shall become effective as to any Subsidiary if it shall be 

 

 

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unlawful for such Subsidiary to become a Borrower hereunder or for any Lender to make Loans or otherwise extend credit to such Subsidiary as provided herein and (b) no Subsidiary Borrower Termination will become effective as to any Subsidiary Borrower until all Loans made to such Subsidiary Borrower shall have been repaid, all Letters of Credit issued for the account of such Subsidiary Borrower have been drawn in full or have expired and all amounts payable by such Subsidiary Borrower in respect of LC Disbursements, interest and/or fees (and, to the extent notified by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, any other amounts payable under this Agreement by such Subsidiary Borrower) shall have been paid in full; provided that such Subsidiary Borrower Termination shall be effective to terminate such Subsidiary Borrower’s right to request or receive further Borrowings or other extensions of credit under this Agreement. As soon as practicable upon the execution and delivery of a Subsidiary Borrower Agreement, the Administrative Agent shall send a copy thereof to each Lender. 

 

          SECTION 2.21. Incremental Commitments. (a) The Company may on one or more occasions, by written notice to the Administrative Agent, request prior to the Maturity Date, the establishment of Incremental Commitments; provided that the aggregate, cumulative amount of all Incremental Commitments established pursuant to this Section 2.21 shall not exceed $100,000,000. Each such notice shall specify (i) the date on which the Company proposes that the Incremental Commitments shall be effective, which shall be a date not less than 10 Business Days (or such shorter period as may be agreed to by the Administrative Agent) after the date on which such notice is delivered to the Administrative Agent, (B) the amount of the Incremental Commitments being requested, (C) the identity of each Lender or other Person that the Company proposes become an Incremental Revolving Lender with respect thereto, together with the proposed aggregate amount of the Incremental Commitment for each such Lender or other Person (it being agreed that (x) any Lender approached to provide any Incremental Commitment may elect or decline, in its sole discretion, to provide such Incremental Commitment and (y) any such Person that is not a Lender must be an Eligible Assignee that is reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and each Issuing Bank). 

 

          (b) The terms and conditions of any Incremental Commitment and Revolving Loans and other extensions of credit to be made thereunder shall be identical to the terms and conditions of the Commitments and Revolving Loans and other extensions of credit made thereunder; provided that if the interest rate spread applicable to Revolving Loans to be made under any Incremental Commitments (taking into account any applicable interest rate “floor” but not taking into account any upfront fees) exceeds the Applicable Rate or any applicable interest rate “floor” then in effect for Revolving Loans, then the Applicable Rate or interest rate “floor” in respect of Revolving Loans (and participation fees in respect of Letters of Credit) shall automatically be increased, effective on the date of the effectiveness of such Incremental Commitments, to equal the interest rate spread or interest rate floor, or both, as the case may be, applicable to Revolving Loans under the Incremental Commitments. 

 

          (c) The Incremental Commitments shall be effected pursuant to one or more Incremental Facility Agreements executed and delivered by the Company, each applicable Borrower, each Incremental Revolving Lender providing such Incremental 

 

 

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Commitments and the Administrative Agent; provided that no Incremental Commitments shall become effective unless (i) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of effectiveness thereof, both immediately prior to and immediately after giving effect to such Incremental Commitments and the making of Revolving Loans and other extensions of credit thereunder to be made on such date, (ii) on the date of effectiveness thereof, the representations and warranties of each Loan Party set forth in the Loan Documents shall be true and correct (A) in the case of the representations and warranties qualified as to materiality, in all respects and (B) otherwise, in all material respects, except in the case of any such representation and warranty that expressly relates to a prior date, in which case such representation and warranty shall be so true and correct on and as of such prior date, (iii) after giving effect to and the making of Revolving Loans and other extensions of credit thereunder to be made on the date of effectiveness thereof, the Company shall be in compliance with the covenants set forth in Sections 6.12 and 6.13 on a pro forma basis in accordance with Section 1.04(b), (iv) the Company shall make any payments required to be made pursuant to Section 2.15 in connection with such Incremental Commitments and the related transactions under this Section 2.21 and (v) the Company shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent such legal opinions, board resolutions, secretary’s certificates, officer’s certificates and other documents as shall reasonably be requested by the Administrative Agent in connection with any such transaction. Each Incremental Facility Agreement may, without the consent of any Lender, effect such amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in the reasonable judgment of the Administrative Agent, to give effect to the provisions of this Section 2.21. 

 

          (d) Upon effectiveness of an Incremental Commitment of any Incremental Revolving Lender, (i) such Incremental Revolving Lender shall be deemed to be a “Lender” and a “Revolving Lender” hereunder, and henceforth shall be entitled to all the rights of, and benefits accruing to, Lenders and Revolving Lenders hereunder and shall be bound by all agreements, acknowledgements and other obligations of Lenders and Revolving Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, and (ii)(A) such Incremental Commitment shall constitute (or, in the event such Incremental Revolving Lender already has a Commitment, shall increase) the Commitment of such Incremental Revolving Lender and (B) the Aggregate Commitment shall be increased by the amount of such Incremental Commitment, in each case, subject to further increase or reduction from time to time as set forth in the definition of the term “Commitment”. For the avoidance of doubt, upon the effectiveness of any Incremental Commitment, the Revolving Exposure of the Incremental Revolving Lender holding such Commitment, and the Applicable Percentages of all the Revolving Lenders, shall automatically be adjusted to give effect thereto. 

 

          (e) On the date of the effectiveness of any Incremental Commitments, each Revolving Lender shall be deemed to have assigned to each Incremental Revolving Lender holding such Incremental Commitments, and each such Incremental Revolving Lender shall be deemed to have purchased from each Revolving Lender, in an amount equal to the principal amount thereof (together with accrued and unpaid interest), such interests in the Revolving Loans and participations in Letters of Credit outstanding on 

 

 

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such date as shall be necessary in order that, after giving effect to all such assignments and purchases, such Revolving Loans and participations in Letters of Credit will be held by all the Revolving Lenders (including such Incremental Revolving Lenders) ratably in accordance with their Applicable Percentages after giving effect to the effectiveness of such Incremental Commitments. Any Revolving Loans outstanding immediately prior to the date of the effectiveness of such Incremental Commitments that are Eurocurrency Loans will (except to the extent otherwise repaid in accordance herewith) continue to be held by, and all interest thereon will continue to accrue for the accounts of, the Revolving Lenders holding such Revolving Loans immediately prior to the date of the effectiveness of such Incremental Commitments, in each case until the last day of the then-current Interest Period applicable to any such Loan, at which time such Revolving Loans will be repaid or refinanced with new Revolving Loans made pursuant to Section 2.01 in accordance with the Applicable Percentages of the Revolving Lenders (including the Incremental Revolving Lenders) after giving effect to the effectiveness of such Incremental Commitments; provided, however, that upon the occurrence of any Event of Default, each Incremental Revolving Lender will promptly purchase (for cash at face value) assignments of portions of such outstanding Revolving Loans of other Revolving Lenders so that, after giving effect thereto, all Revolving Loans that are Eurocurrency Loans are held by the Revolving Lenders (including the Incremental Revolving Lenders) in accordance with their then-current Applicable Percentages. Any such assignments shall be effected in accordance with the provisions of Section 9.04, provided that the parties hereto hereby consent to such assignments and the minimum assignment amounts and processing and recordation fee set forth in Section 9.04(b) shall not apply thereto. Any ABR Loans outstanding on the date of the effectiveness of such Incremental Commitments shall either be prepaid on such date or refinanced on such date (subject to the satisfaction of applicable borrowing conditions) with Revolving Loans made on such date by the Revolving Lenders (including the Incremental Revolving Lenders) in accordance with their Applicable Percentages. In order to effect any such refinancing, (i) each Incremental Revolving Lender will make ABR Loans by transferring funds to the Administrative Agent in an amount equal to the aggregate outstanding amount of such Loans of such Type times a percentage obtained by dividing the amount of such Incremental Revolving Lender’s Incremental Commitment by the Aggregate Commitment (after giving effect to the effectiveness of the Incremental Commitments on such date) and (ii) such funds will be applied to the prepayment of outstanding ABR Loans held by the Revolving Lenders other than the Incremental Revolving Lenders, and transferred by the Administrative Agent to the Revolving Lenders other than the Incremental Revolving Lenders, in such amounts so that, after giving effect thereto, all ABR Loans will be held by the Revolving Lenders in accordance with their then-current Applicable Percentages. On the date of the effectiveness of such Incremental Commitments, each Borrower will pay to the Administrative Agent, for the accounts of the Revolving Lenders receiving such prepayments, accrued and unpaid interest on the aggregate principal amount of the Revolving Loans of such Borrower being prepaid. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby agree that the minimum borrowing, pro rata borrowing and pro rata payment requirements contained elsewhere in this Agreement shall not apply to the transactions effected pursuant to the immediately preceding sentence. 

 

 

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          (f) The Administrative Agent shall notify Lenders promptly upon receipt by the Administrative Agent of any notice from the Company referred to in Section 2.21(a) and of the effectiveness of any Incremental Commitments, in each case advising the Lenders of the details thereof and of the Applicable Percentages of the Revolving Lenders after giving effect thereto and of the assignments deemed to have been made pursuant to Section 2.21(e). 

 

ARTICLE III 

 

Representations and Warranties 

 

          The Company represents and warrants to the Lenders as to itself and each Subsidiary, and each Subsidiary Borrower represents and warrants to the Lenders as to itself and its subsidiaries, as follows: 

 

          SECTION 3.01. Organization; Powers. The Company and each Subsidiary is duly organized, validly existing and (to the extent the concept is applicable in such jurisdiction) in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, has all power and authority and all material Governmental Approvals required for the ownership and operation of its properties and the conduct of its business as now conducted and as proposed to be 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 Transactions to be entered into by each Loan Party are within such Loan Party’s corporate or other organizational powers and have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other organizational and, if required, stockholder or other equityholder action of each Loan Party. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Company 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 Company or such Loan Party, as the case may be, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and to general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law. 

 

          SECTION 3.03. Governmental Approvals; Absence of Conflicts. The Transactions (a) do not require any consent or approval of, registration or filing with or any other action by any Governmental Authority, except (i) such as have been obtained or made and are in full force and effect and (ii) filings necessary to perfect Liens created under the Loan Documents, (b) will not violate any applicable law, including any order of any Governmental Authority, (c) will not violate the charter, by-laws or other organizational documents of the Company or any Subsidiary, (d) will not violate or result (alone or with notice or lapse of time, or both) in a default under any indenture or other agreement or instrument binding upon the Company or any Subsidiary or any of their 

 

 

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assets, or give rise to a right thereunder to require any payment, repurchase or redemption to be made by the Company or any Subsidiary, or give rise to a right of, or result in, any termination, cancellation, acceleration or right of renegotiation of any obligation thereunder, and (e) except for Liens created under the Loan Documents, will not result in the creation or imposition of any Lien on any asset of the Company or any Subsidiary. 

 

          SECTION 3.04. Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change. (a) The Company has heretofore furnished to the Lenders its consolidated balance sheet and statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows (i) as of and for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009, audited by and accompanied by the opinion of Ernst & Young LLP, independent registered public accounting firm, and (ii) as of and for the fiscal quarter and the portion of the fiscal year ended October 2, 2010, certified by its chief financial officer. Such financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position, 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 normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of certain footnotes in the case of the statements referred to in clause (ii) above. 

 

          (b) Since December 31, 2009, there has been no event or condition that has resulted, or could reasonably be expected to result, in a material adverse change in the business, assets, operations, or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Company and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole. For the avoidance of doubt, the spin-off of VPG consummated on July 6, 2010, in and of itself, shall not be deemed to have resulted in a material adverse change in the business, assets, operations, or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Company and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole. 

 

          SECTION 3.05. Properties. (a) The Company and each Subsidiary has good title to, or valid leasehold interests in, all its 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 and defects in title that could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. 

 

          (b) The Company and each Subsidiary 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 pending against or, to the knowledge of the Company or any Subsidiary, threatened against or affecting the Company or any Subsidiary that (i) could reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) involve any of the Loan Documents or the Transactions. 

 

          (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, none 

 

 

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of the Company or any Subsidiary (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. The Company and each Subsidiary is in compliance with all laws, including all orders of Governmental Authorities, 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. 

 

          SECTION 3.08. Investment Company Status. None of the Company or any Subsidiary is an “investment company” as defined in, or subject to regulation under, the Investment Company Act of 1940. 

 

          SECTION 3.09. Taxes. The Company and each Subsidiary 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 the failure to do so could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. 

 

          SECTION 3.10. ERISA; Labor Matters. (a) No ERISA Events have occurred or are reasonably expected to occur that could, in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. The present value of all accumulated benefit obligations under each Plan (based on the assumptions used for purposes of Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification Topic 715) did not, as of the date of the most recent financial statements reflecting such amounts, exceed by more than $225,000,000 the fair value of the assets of such Plan, and the present value of all accumulated benefit obligations of all underfunded Plans (based on the assumptions used for purposes of Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification Topic 715) did not, as of the date or dates of the most recent financial statements reflecting such amounts, exceed by more than $300,000,000 the fair value of the assets of all such underfunded Plans. 

 

          (b) As of the Effective Date, there are no strikes, lockouts or slowdowns against the Company or any Subsidiary pending or, to their knowledge, threatened. The hours worked by and payments made to employees of the Company and the Subsidiaries have not been in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act or any other applicable Federal, state, local or foreign law relating to such matters. All material 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 liabilities on the books of the Company or such Subsidiary. The consummation of the Transactions will not give rise to 

 

 

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any right of termination or right of renegotiation on the part of any union under any collective bargaining agreement under which the Company or any Subsidiary is bound. 

 

          SECTION 3.11. Subsidiaries and Joint Ventures. Schedule 3.11 sets forth, as of the Effective Date, the name and jurisdiction of organization of, and the percentage of each class of Equity Interests owned by the Company or any Subsidiary in, (a) each Subsidiary and (b) each joint venture in which the Company or any Subsidiary owns any Equity Interests, and identifies each Designated Domestic Subsidiary, each Designated Foreign Subsidiary, each Material Domestic Subsidiary and each Material Foreign Subsidiary. 

 

          SECTION 3.12. Insurance. Schedule 3.12 sets forth a description of all insurance maintained by or on behalf of the Company and the Domestic Subsidiaries (excluding Foreign DREs) as of the Effective Date. 

 

          SECTION 3.13. Solvency. Immediately after the consummation of the Transactions to occur on the Effective Date, including the making of each Loan to be made on the Effective Date and the application of the proceeds of such Loans, and after giving effect to the rights of subrogation and contribution under the Collateral Agreement, (a) the fair value of the assets of each Loan Party will exceed its debts and liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, (b) the present fair saleable value of the assets of each Loan Party will be greater than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability on its debts and other liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as such debts and other liabilities become absolute and matured, (c) each Loan Party will be able to pay its debts and liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as such debts and liabilities become absolute and matured and (d) each Loan Party will not have unreasonably small capital with which to conduct the business in which it is engaged, as such business is now conducted and is proposed to be conducted following the Effective Date. 

 

          SECTION 3.14. Disclosure. The Company has disclosed to the Lenders all agreements, instruments and corporate or other restrictions to which the Company or any Subsidiary is subject, and all other matters known to the Company, that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. None of the reports, financial statements, certificates or other information furnished by or on behalf of the Company or any Subsidiary to the Administrative Agent, the Arranger or any Lender in connection with the negotiation of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, included herein or therein or furnished 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 forecasts or projected financial information, the Company represents only that such information was prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed by it to be reasonable at the time made and at the time so furnished and, if furnished prior to the Effective Date, as of the Effective Date (it being understood that such forecasts and projections may vary from actual results and that such variances may be material). 

 

 

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          SECTION 3.15. Collateral Matters. (a) The Collateral Agreement, upon execution and delivery thereof by the parties thereto, will create in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a valid and enforceable security interest in the Collateral (as defined therein) and (i) when the Collateral (as defined therein) constituting certificated securities (as defined in the Uniform Commercial Code) is delivered to the Administrative Agent, together with instruments of transfer duly endorsed in blank, the security interest created under the Collateral Agreement will constitute a fully perfected security interest in all right, title and interest of the pledgors thereunder in such Collateral, prior and superior in right to any other Person, and (ii) when financing statements in appropriate form are filed in the applicable filing offices, the security interest created under the Collateral Agreement will constitute a fully perfected security interest in all right, title and interest of the Loan Parties in the remaining Collateral (as defined therein) to the extent perfection can be obtained by filing Uniform Commercial Code financing statements, prior and superior to the rights of any other Person, except for rights secured by Liens permitted under Section 6.02. 

 

          (b) Upon the recordation of the IP Security Agreements with the United States Patent and Trademark Office or the United States Copyright Office, as applicable, and the filing of the financing statements referred to in paragraph (a) of this Section, the security interest created under the Collateral Agreement will constitute a fully perfected security interest in all right, title and interest of the Domestic Loan Parties in the Intellectual Property (as defined in the Collateral Agreement) in which a security interest may be perfected by filing in the United States of America, in each case prior and superior in right to any other Person, but subject to Liens permitted under Section 6.02 (it being understood that subsequent recordings in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or the United States Copyright Office may be necessary to perfect a security interest in such Intellectual Property acquired by the Domestic Loan Parties after the Effective Date). 

 

          (c) Each Security Document, other than any Security Document referred to in the preceding paragraphs of this Section, upon execution and delivery thereof by the parties thereto and the making of the filings and taking of the other actions provided for therein, will be effective under applicable law to create in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a valid and enforceable security interest in the Collateral subject thereto, and will constitute a fully perfected security interest in all right, title and interest of the Loan Parties in the Collateral subject thereto, prior and superior to the rights of any other Person, except for rights secured by Liens permitted under Section 6.02. 

 

          SECTION 3.16. Federal Reserve Regulations. None of the Company or any Subsidiary is engaged or will engage, principally or as one of its important activities, in the business of purchasing or carrying margin stock (within the meaning of Regulation U of the Board of Governors), or extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stock. No part of the proceeds of the Loans will be used, directly or indirectly, for any purpose that entails a violation (including on the part of any Lender) of any of the regulations of the Board of Governors, including Regulations U and X. Not more than 25% of the value of the assets subject to any provision of this Agreement or 

 

 

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any other Loan Document that restricts the ability of the Company or any Subsidiary to sell, create any Lien on or otherwise dispose of its assets will at any time be represented by margin stock. 

 

ARTICLE IV 

 

Conditions 

 

          SECTION 4.01. Effective Date. The obligations of the Lenders to make Loans and of the Issuing Banks to issue Letters of Credit hereunder shall not become effective until the date on which each of the following conditions shall be satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 9.02): 

 

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

 

     (b) The Administrative Agent shall have received a favorable written opinion (addressed to the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Issuing Banks and dated the Effective Date) of each of (i) Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, counsel for the Company, and (ii) foreign counsel for the Company and the Administrative Agent in each jurisdiction in which any Subsidiary Loan Party is organized or in which any Foreign Subsidiary or Foreign DRE the Equity Interests of which shall have been pledged pursuant to a Foreign Pledge Agreement is organized, and the laws of which are not covered by the opinion letter referred to in clause (i) above, in each case 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 may reasonably request relating to the organization, existence and good standing of each Loan Party, the authorization of the Transactions and any other legal matters relating to the Loan Parties, the Loan Documents or the Transactions, all in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. 

 

     (d) The Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate, dated the Effective Date and signed by the chief executive officer or the chief financial officer of the Company, confirming compliance with the conditions set forth in paragraphs (a) and (b) of Section 4.02. 

 

     (e) The Administrative Agent shall have received all fees and other amounts due and payable on or prior to the Effective Date, including, to the extent invoiced, payment or reimbursement of all fees and expenses (including reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of counsel) required to be paid or 

 

 

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reimbursed by any Loan Party under the Engagement Letter or any Loan Document. 

 

     (f) The Collateral and Guarantee Requirement shall have been satisfied. The Administrative Agent shall have received a completed Perfection Certificate, dated the Effective Date and signed by an executive officer or a Financial Officer of the Company, together with all attachments contemplated thereby, including the results of a search of the Uniform Commercial Code (or equivalent) filings made with respect to the Domestic Loan Parties in the jurisdictions contemplated by the Perfection Certificate and copies of the financing statements (or similar documents) disclosed by such search and evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that the Liens indicated by such financing statements (or similar documents) are permitted under Section 6.02 or have been, or substantially contemporaneously with the initial funding of Loans on the Effective Date will be, released. 

 

     (g) The Lenders shall have received the financial statements, opinions and certificates referred to in Section 3.04. 

 

     (h) Prior to or substantially contemporaneously with the initial funding of Loans on the Effective Date, all principal, premium, if any, interest, fees and other amounts due or outstanding under the Existing Credit Agreement shall have been or shall be paid in full, the commitments thereunder shall have been or shall be terminated and all guarantees and Liens existing in connection therewith shall have been or shall be discharged and released, and the Administrative Agent shall have received reasonably satisfactory evidence thereof. Immediately after giving effect to the Transactions, neither the Company nor any Subsidiary shall have outstanding any shares of preferred stock or other preferred Equity Interests or any Indebtedness, other than (i) Indebtedness incurred under the Loan Documents and (ii) Indebtedness set forth on Schedule 6.01. 

 

     (i) The Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate, dated the Effective Date and signed by the chief financial officer of the Company, as to the solvency of the Loan Parties as of the Effective Date on a consolidated basis after giving effect to the Transactions, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. 

 

     (j) The Lenders shall have received all documentation and other information required by bank regulatory authorities under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the USA PATRIOT Act. 

 

The Administrative Agent shall notify the Company and the Lenders of the Effective Date, and such notice shall be conclusive and binding. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the obligations of the Lenders to make Loans and of the Issuing Bank to issue Letters of Credit hereunder shall not become effective unless each of the foregoing conditions shall have been satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 9.02) at or prior to 5:00 p.m., 

 

 

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New York City time, on December 1, 2010 (and, in the event such conditions shall not have been so satisfied or waived, the Commitments shall terminate at such time). 

 

          SECTION 4.02. Each Credit Event. The obligation of each Lender to make a Loan on the occasion of any Borrowing, and of each Issuing Bank to issue, amend, renew or extend any Letter of Credit, is subject to receipt of the request therefor in accordance herewith and to the satisfaction of the following conditions: 

 

     (a) The representations and warranties of each Loan Party set forth in the Loan Documents shall be true and correct (i) in the case of the representations and warranties qualified as to materiality, in all respects and (ii) otherwise, in all material respects, in each case on and as of the date of such Borrowing or the date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of such Letter of Credit, as applicable, except in the case of any such representation and warranty that expressly relates to a prior date, in which case such representation and warranty shall be so true and correct on and as of such prior date. 

 

     (b) At the time of and immediately after giving effect to such Borrowing or the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of such Letter of Credit, as applicable, no Default shall have occurred and be continuing. 

 

On the date of any Borrowing or the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit, the Company and each Subsidiary Borrower shall be deemed to have represented and warranted that the conditions specified in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section have been satisfied and that, after giving effect to such Borrowing, or such issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of a Letter of Credit, the Aggregate Revolving Exposure (or any component thereof) shall not exceed the maximum amount thereof (or the maximum amount of any such component) specified in Section 2.01, 2.04(a) or 2.05(b). 

 

          SECTION 4.03. Initial Credit Event for each Subsidiary Borrower. The obligation of each Lender and Issuing Bank to make Loans or issue Letters of Credit for the account of any Subsidiary Borrower designated pursuant to Section 2.20 is subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions: 

 

     (a) The Administrative Agent shall have received such Subsidiary Borrower’s Subsidiary Borrower Agreement, duly executed by each party thereto. 

 

     (b) The Collateral and Guarantee Requirement shall have been satisfied with respect to such Subsidiary Borrower and, if such Subsidiary Borrower is a Foreign Subsidiary Borrower, the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement shall have been satisfied with respect to each other Designated Foreign Subsidiary. 

 

     (c) The Administrative Agent shall have received a favorable written opinion (addressed to the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Issuing Banks as of such date) of counsel for such Subsidiary Borrower and, if such Subsidiary Borrower is a Foreign Subsidiary Borrower and no other Subsidiary is a Foreign Subsidiary Borrower at such time, counsel for each Foreign Subsidiary 

 

 

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Loan Party, in each case in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. 

 

     (d) The Administrative Agent shall have received such documents and certificates as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request relating to the organization, existence and good standing of such Subsidiary Borrower and, if such Subsidiary Borrower is a Foreign Subsidiary Borrower and no other Subsidiary is a Foreign Subsidiary Borrower at such time, of the Foreign Subsidiary Loan Parties, and any other legal matters relating to such Subsidiary Borrower and, if applicable, the Foreign Subsidiary Loan Parties, all in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. 

 

     (e) The Lenders shall have received all documentation and other information required by bank regulatory authorities under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the USA PATRIOT Act, with respect to such Subsidiary Borrower and, if applicable, the Foreign Subsidiary Loan Parties. 

 

ARTICLE V 

 

Affirmative Covenants 

 

          Until the Commitments shall have expired or been terminated, the principal of and interest on each Loan and all fees payable hereunder shall have been paid in full, all Letters of Credit shall have expired or been terminated and all LC Disbursements shall have been reimbursed, the Company and each Subsidiary Borrower covenants and agrees with the Lenders (but, in the case of each Subsidiary Borrower, only as to such Subsidiary Borrower and its subsidiaries) that: 

 

          SECTION 5.01. Financial Statements and Other Information. the Company will furnish to the Administrative Agent, on behalf of each Lender: 

 

     (a) within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company (or, so long as the Company shall be subject to periodic reporting obligations under the Exchange Act, by the date that the Annual Report on Form 10-K of the Company for such fiscal year would be required to be filed under the rules and regulations of the SEC, giving effect to any automatic extension available thereunder for the filing of such form), its audited consolidated balance sheet and related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows as of the end of and for such fiscal year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the prior fiscal year, all audited by and accompanied by the opinion of Ernst & Young LLP or another 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 position, results of operations and cash flows of 

 

 

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the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis as of the end of and for such year in accordance with GAAP; 

 

          (b) within 45 days after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year of the Company (or, so long as the Company shall be subject to periodic reporting obligations under the Exchange Act, by the date that the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of the Company for such fiscal quarter would be required to be filed under the rules and regulations of the SEC, giving effect to any automatic extension available thereunder for the filing of such form), its consolidated balance sheet and related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows as of the end of and for such fiscal quarter and the then elapsed portion of the fiscal year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the corresponding period or periods of (or, in the case of the balance sheet, as of the end of) the prior fiscal year, all certified by a Financial Officer of the Company as presenting fairly, in all material respects, the financial position, results of operations and cash flows of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis as of the end of and for such fiscal quarter and such portion of the fiscal year in accordance with GAAP, subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of certain footnotes; 

 

          (c) concurrently with each delivery of financial statements under clause (a) or (b) above, a completed Compliance Certificate signed by a Financial Officer of the Company, (i) certifying as to whether a Default has occurred and, if a Default has occurred, specifying the details thereof and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto, (ii) setting forth reasonably detailed calculations demonstrating compliance with Sections 6.12 and 6.13, (iii) setting forth reasonably detailed calculations with respect to which Subsidiaries are Material Domestic Subsidiaries and Material Foreign Subsidiaries based on the information contained in such financial statements and identifying each Domestic Subsidiary, if any, that has automatically been designated a Material Domestic Subsidiary in order to satisfy the condition set forth in the definition of the term “Material Domestic Subsidiary”, (iv) stating whether any change in GAAP or in the application thereof has occurred since the date of the consolidated balance sheet of the Company most recently theretofore delivered under clause (a) or (b) above (or, prior to the first such delivery, referred to in Section 3.04) and, if any such change has occurred, specifying the effect of such change on the financial statements (including those for the prior periods) accompanying such certificate, (v) certifying that all notices required to be provided under Sections 5.03 and 5.04 have been provided and (vi) setting forth a complete and correct schedule, in the form of Schedule III to the Collateral Agreement, of all Intellectual Property (as defined in the Collateral Agreement) of each Domestic Loan Party, including all applications filed by such Domestic Loan Party, either itself or through any agent, employee, licensee or designee, for any Patent, Trademark or Copyright (or for the registration of any Patent, Trademark or Copyright) (each as defined in the Collateral Agreement) with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, United States Copyright Office or any office or agency in any political subdivision of the United States, in existence on the date thereof and not 

 

 

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theretofore disclosed to the Administrative Agent on Schedule III to the Collateral Agreement, as supplemented from time to time in accordance herewith; 

 

     (d) concurrently with each delivery of financial statements under clause (a) above, a certificate of a Financial Officer or other executive officer of the Company (i) either confirming that, since the date of the Perfection Certificate delivered on the Effective Date, as supplemented by the certificates delivered pursuant to this Section 5.01(d), there has been no change in the information set forth therein or identifying all such changes in the information set forth therein and (ii) certifying that all Uniform Commercial Code financing statements and all supplemental intellectual property security agreements or other appropriate filings, recordings or registrations, have been (or, in the case of any such statements, agreements, filings, recordings or registrations specifically identified in such certificate, promptly after delivery of such certificate will be) filed of record in each governmental, municipal or other appropriate office in each jurisdiction identified pursuant to Section 5.04(a) (or in such Perfection Certificate) to the extent necessary to effect, protect and perfect the security interests under the Security Documents for a period of not less than 18 months after the date of such certificate (except as noted therein with respect to any continuation statements to be filed within such period); 

 

     (e) not later than 30 days after the commencement of each fiscal year of the Company, a detailed consolidated budget for such fiscal year (including a projected consolidated balance sheet and related projected statements of income and cash flows as of the end of and for such fiscal year and setting forth the assumptions used for purposes of preparing such budget) and, promptly after the same become available, any significant revisions to such budget; 

 

     (f) promptly after any request therefor by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, copies of (i) any documents described in Section 101(k)(1) of ERISA that the Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates may request with respect to any Multiemployer Plan and (ii) any notices described in Section 101(l)(1) of ERISA that the Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates may request with respect to any Multiemployer Plan; provided that if the Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates has not requested such documents or notices from the administrator or sponsor of the applicable Multiemployer Plan, the Company or the applicable ERISA Affiliate shall promptly make a request for such documents and notices from such administrator or sponsor and shall provide copies of such documents and notices promptly after receipt thereof; and 

 

     (g) promptly after any request therefor, such other information regarding the operations, business affairs, assets, liabilities (including contingent liabilities) 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 may reasonably request. 

 

 

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Information required to be delivered pursuant to this Section shall be deemed to have been delivered if such information, or one or more annual or quarterly reports containing such information (including, in the case of certifications required pursuant to clause (b) above, the certifications accompanying any such quarterly report pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002), shall have been posted by the Administrative Agent on an IntraLinks or similar site to which the Lenders have been granted access or shall be available on the website of the SEC at http://www.sec.gov. Information required to be delivered pursuant to this Section may also be delivered by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by the Administrative Agent. In the event any financial statements delivered under clause (a) or (b) above shall be restated, the Company shall deliver, promptly after such restated financial statements become available, revised Compliance Certificates with respect to the periods covered thereby that give effect to such restatement, signed by a Financial Officer of the Company. 

 

          SECTION 5.02. Notices of Material Events. The Company will furnish to the Administrative Agent prompt written notice of the following: 

 

     (a) the occurrence of, or receipt by the Company of any written notice claiming 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 Subsidiary that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or that in any manner questions the validity of any Loan Document; 

 

     (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 of $25,000,000 or more;

 

     (d) any other development that has resulted, 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. Additional Subsidiaries. (a) If any Subsidiary is formed or acquired after the Effective Date, the Company will, as promptly as practicable, and in any event within 30 days (or such longer period as the Administrative Agent may agree to in writing), notify the Administrative Agent thereof and cause the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement to be satisfied with respect to such Subsidiary (if it is a Designated Subsidiary) and with respect to any Equity Interests in or Indebtedness of such Subsidiary owned by any Domestic Loan Party or any Equity Interests in such Subsidiary owned by any Foreign Subsidiary Loan Party. 

 

 

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     (b) Not later than the date of delivery of financial statements pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or (b) on the basis of which one or more Subsidiaries are deemed to be new Material Subsidiaries in accordance with the definition of the term “Material Subsidiary”, (i) the Company shall have caused the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement to be satisfied with respect to such Subsidiary, (ii) if such Subsidiary shall have been required to become a Loan Party hereunder, the Company shall have delivered a certificate of a Financial Officer or other executive officer of the Company to the effect that, after giving effect to any such designation and such Subsidiary becoming a Loan Party hereunder, the representations and warranties set forth in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as to such Subsidiary are true and correct in all material respects, and (iii) if such Subsidiary shall have been required to become a Loan Party hereunder, such Subsidiary shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent documents and opinions of the type referred to in paragraphs (b) and (c) of Section 4.01. 

 

          SECTION 5.04. Information Regarding Collateral. The Company will furnish to the Administrative Agent prompt written notice of any change in (i) the legal name of any Loan Party, as set forth in its organizational documents, (ii) the jurisdiction of organization or the form of organization of any Loan Party (including as a result of any merger or consolidation), (iii) the location of the chief executive office of any Loan Party or (iv) the organizational identification number, if any, or, with respect to any Loan Party organized under the laws of a jurisdiction that requires such information to be set forth on the face of a Uniform Commercial Code financing statement, the Federal Taxpayer Identification Number of such Loan Party. The Company agrees not to effect or permit any change referred to in the preceding sentence unless all filings have been made under the Uniform Commercial Code or otherwise that are required in order for the Administrative Agent to continue at all times following such change to have a valid, legal and perfected security interest in all the Collateral. 

 

          SECTION 5.05. Existence; Conduct of Business. The Company and each Subsidiary will 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 transaction permitted under Section 6.03 or 6.05. 

 

          SECTION 5.06. Payment of Obligations. The Company and each Subsidiary will pay its obligations (other than Indebtedness), including 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 such 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. 

 

 

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          SECTION 5.07. Maintenance of Properties. The Company and each Subsidiary will keep and maintain all property material to the conduct of its business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted. 

 

          SECTION 5.08. Insurance. (a) The Company and each Subsidiary will maintain, with financially sound and reputable insurance companies, insurance in such amounts (with no greater risk retention) and against such risks as are customarily maintained by companies of established repute engaged in the same or similar businesses operating in the same or similar locations. Each such policy of liability or casualty insurance maintained by or on behalf of Domestic Loan Parties shall (i) in the case of each liability insurance policy, name the Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, as an additional insured thereunder, (ii) in the case of each casualty insurance policy, contain a loss payable clause or endorsement that names the Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, as the loss payee thereunder and (iii) provide for at least 30 days’ (or such shorter number of days as may be agreed to by the Administrative Agent) prior written notice to the Administrative Agent of any cancellation of such policy. In furtherance of the foregoing, the Company and each Subsidiary shall not cancel any insurance policy unless it shall have provided at least 30 days’ prior written notice thereof to the Administrative Agent. 

 

          (b) As soon as practicable following the Effective Date, but in no event later than 10 days after the Effective Date (or such longer period of time as may be agreed to by the Administrative Agent), the Company shall deliver to the Administrative Agent evidence that the insurance required by clause (a) above is in effect, together with endorsements naming the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, as additional insured and loss payee thereunder to the extent required under clause (a) above. 

 

          SECTION 5.09. Books and Records; Inspection and Audit Rights. The Company and each Subsidiary will keep proper books of record and account in which full, true and correct entries in conformity with GAAP and applicable law are made of all dealings and transactions in relation to its business and activities. The Company and each Subsidiary will permit the Administrative Agent or any Lender, and any agent designated by any of the foregoing, upon reasonable prior notice, (a) to visit and inspect its properties, provided that, except if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, such visits and inspections shall be limited to one such visit and inspection per calendar year, (b) to examine and make extracts from its books and records and (c) to discuss its operations, business affairs, assets, liabilities (including contingent liabilities) and financial condition with its officers and independent accountants, all at such reasonable times and as often as reasonably requested. 

 

          SECTION 5.10. Compliance with Laws. The Company and each Subsidiary will comply with all laws, including all 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. 

 

 

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          SECTION 5.11. Use of Proceeds and Letters of Credit. The proceeds of the Revolving Loans and Swingline Loans will be used only for working capital and other general corporate purposes of the Company and the Subsidiaries, including to finance acquisitions and stock repurchases. Letters of Credit will be issued only to support obligations of the Borrowers incurred in the ordinary course of business. 

 

          SECTION 5.12. Further Assurances. The Company and each other Loan Party will execute any and all further documents, financing statements, agreements and instruments, and take all such further actions (including the filing of financing statements and other documents), that may be required under any applicable law, or that the Administrative Agent may reasonably request, to cause the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement to be and remain satisfied at all times or otherwise to effectuate the provisions of the Loan Documents, all at the expense of the Loan Parties. The Company will provide to the Administrative Agent, from time to time upon request, evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent as to the perfection and priority of the Liens created or intended to be created by the Security Documents. 

 

ARTICLE VI 

 

Negative Covenants 

 

          Until the Commitments shall have expired or been terminated, the principal of and interest on each Loan and all fees payable hereunder shall have been paid in full, all Letters of Credit shall have expired or been terminated and all LC Disbursements shall have been reimbursed the Company and each Subsidiary Borrower covenants and agrees with the Lenders (but, in the case of each Subsidiary Borrower, only as to such Subsidiary Borrower and its subsidiaries) that: 

 

          SECTION 6.01. Indebtedness; Certain Equity Securities. (a) Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary will create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Indebtedness, except: 

 

     (i) Indebtedness created under the Loan Documents; 

 

     (ii) Indebtedness existing on the date hereof and set forth on Schedule 6.01 and Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof (excluding Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of Indebtedness of any Subsidiary to the Company or any other Subsidiary or of the Company to any Subsidiary); 

 

     (iii) Indebtedness of any Subsidiary to the Company or any other Subsidiary, or of the Company to any Subsidiary; provided that (A) such Indebtedness shall not have been transferred to any Person other than the Company or any other Subsidiary, (B) any such Indebtedness owing by any Domestic Loan Party shall be subordinated to the Loan Documents Obligations pursuant to the Intercompany Subordination Agreement, (C) any such Indebtedness owing to any Domestic Loan Party shall be evidenced by a promissory note that shall have been pledged in accordance with the Collateral 

 

 

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and Guarantee Requirement, (D) any such Indebtedness owing by any Subsidiary that is not a Domestic Loan Party to any Domestic Loan Party shall be incurred in compliance with Section 6.04 and (E) any such Indebtedness arising from loans or advances made by Domestic Subsidiaries to Foreign Subsidiaries after the Effective Date will be owed only to a Domestic Loan Party and will (unless the Company determines that adverse tax or legal consequences would result therefrom) be incurred and owed by a Foreign Subsidiary that is a Designated Foreign Subsidiary (it being understood that such Designated Foreign Subsidiary will not be restricted in onlending the proceeds of such loan or advance to any other Foreign Subsidiary); 

 

     (iv) Guarantees incurred in compliance with Section 6.04; 

 

     (v) Indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary incurred to finance the acquisition, construction or improvement of any fixed or capital assets, including Capital Lease Obligations and any Indebtedness assumed in connection with the acquisition of any such assets (it being understood that obligations of the Company or any Subsidiary under any lease existing on the Effective Date which do not constitute Capital Lease Obligations shall not be deemed to constitute Capital Lease Obligations as a result of a change in GAAP requiring such obligations to be classified and accounted for in the same way as Capital Lease Obligations); provided that (A) such Indebtedness is incurred prior to or within 90 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 (B) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness permitted by this clause (vi) shall not exceed, at any time outstanding, the greater of (I) $100,000,000 and (II) 10% of Consolidated Tangible Net Worth, determined on the basis of the financial statements most recently delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or (b) at the time any such Indebtedness is incurred;

 

     (vi) Indebtedness of any Person that becomes a Subsidiary (or of any Person not previously a Subsidiary that is merged or consolidated with or into a Subsidiary in a transaction permitted hereunder) after the date hereof, or Indebtedness of any Person that is assumed by any Subsidiary in connection with an acquisition of assets by such Subsidiary in a Permitted Acquisition or other acquisition permitted hereunder; provided that (A) such Indebtedness exists at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary (or is so merged or consolidated) or such assets are acquired and is not created in contemplation of or in connection with such Person becoming a Subsidiary (or such merger or consolidation) or such assets being acquired, (B) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness permitted by this clause (vii) shall not exceed, at any time outstanding, the greater of (I) $100,000,000 and (II) 10% of Consolidated Tangible Net Worth, determined on the basis of the financial statements most recently delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or (b) at the time any such Indebtedness is incurred, and (C) neither the Company nor any Subsidiary (other than such Person or the Subsidiary with which such Person is merged or consolidated or that so assumes 

 

 

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such Person’s Indebtedness) shall Guarantee or otherwise become liable for the payment of such Indebtedness; 

 

     (vii) Indebtedness owed in respect of any overdrafts and related liabilities arising from treasury, depository and cash management services or in connection with any automated clearing-house transfers of funds; provided that such Indebtedness shall be repaid in full within five Business Days of the incurrence thereof; 

 

     (viii) Indebtedness of Foreign Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount not in excess of $100,000,000 at any time outstanding; 

 

     (ix) Permitted Subordinated Indebtedness, provided that, after giving effect to the incurrence thereof, the Company shall be in compliance with the covenants set forth in Sections 6.12 and 6.13 on a pro forma basis in accordance with Section 1.04(b); 

 

     (x) Permitted Senior Unsecured Indebtedness, provided that, after giving effect to the incurrence thereof, the Company shall be in compliance with the covenants set forth in Sections 6.12 and 6.13 on a pro forma basis in accordance with Section 1.04(b) (provided that, for purposes of pro forma compliance with Section 6.13, the Leverage Ratio shall not exceed 2.75 to 1.00); 

 

     (xi) Indebtedness in respect of Third Party Interests issued by Securitization Vehicles in Securitizations permitted by Section 6.05 and Indebtedness consisting of representations, warranties, covenants and indemnities made by, and repurchase and other obligations of, a Foreign Subsidiary in connection with Securitizations permitted by Section 6.05; provided that such representations, warranties, covenants, indemnities and repurchase and other obligations are of the type customarily included in securitizations of accounts receivable intended to constitute true sales of such accounts receivable to a securitization vehicle; and 

 

     (xii) other Indebtedness of the Company and any Subsidiary Loan Party in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding, at any time outstanding, the greater of (a) $100,000,000 and (b) 10% of Consolidated Tangible Net Worth, determined on the basis of the financial statements most recently delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or (b) at the time any such Indebtedness is incurred. 

 

          (b) Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary will issue any preferred stock or other preferred Equity Interests; provided that (i) the Company may issue preferred stock or other preferred Equity Interests that, in each case, do not constitute Disqualified Equity Interests, (ii) any Subsidiary may issue preferred stock or other preferred Equity Interests issued to and at all times held by the Company or a wholly-owned Subsidiary and (iii) Securitization Vehicles may issue Third Party Interests. 

 

 

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          SECTION 6.02. Liens. Neither the Company nor any other Subsidiary will create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Lien on any 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) Liens created under the Loan Documents; 

 

     (b) Permitted Encumbrances; 

 

     (c) any Lien on any asset of the Company or any Subsidiary existing on the date hereof and set forth on Schedule 6.02; provided that (i) such Lien shall not apply to any other asset of the Company nor any Subsidiary and (ii) such Lien shall secure only those obligations that it secures on the date hereof; 

 

     (d) 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 date hereof 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 asset of the Company or any Subsidiary and (iii) such Lien shall secure only those obligations that it secures on the date of such acquisition or the date such Person becomes a Subsidiary, as the case may be; 

 

     (e) Liens on fixed or capital assets acquired, constructed or improved by the Company or any Subsidiary; provided that (i) such Liens secure only Indebtedness permitted by clause (v) of Section 6.01(a) and obligations relating thereto not constituting Indebtedness and (ii) such Liens shall not apply to any other asset of the Company or any Subsidiary; provided further that in the event purchase money obligations are owed to any Person with respect to financing of more than one purchase of any fixed or capital assets, such Liens may secure all such purchase money obligations and may apply to all such fixed or capital assets financed by such Person; 

 

     (f) in connection with the sale or transfer of all the Equity Interests in a Subsidiary (other than a Subsidiary Borrower) in a transaction permitted under Section 6.05, customary rights and restrictions contained in agreements relating to such sale or transfer pending the completion thereof; 

 

     (g) in the case of any Subsidiary that is not a wholly-owned Subsidiary, any put and call arrangements related to its Equity Interests set forth in its organizational documents or any related joint venture or similar agreement; 

 

     (h) any Lien securing Indebtedness of any Foreign Subsidiary incurred pursuant to Section 6.01(a)(viii) in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $75,000,000 at any time outstanding, provided that such Lien shall not apply to any Collateral (including any Equity Interests in any Subsidiary that constitute Collateral) or any other assets of the Company or any Domestic Subsidiary; 

 

 

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     (i) Liens in favor of any Securitization Vehicle or any collateral agent on Securitization Assets transferred or purported to be transferred to such Securitization Vehicle in connection with Securitizations permitted by Section 6.05; and 

 

     (j) other Liens securing Indebtedness or other obligations in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $20,000,000 at any time outstanding. 

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company will not at any time permit to exist any Lien (other than Permitted Encumbrances and Liens under the Security Documents) on any intellectual property that has been transferred to a Foreign Subsidiary pursuant to a Permitted IP Transfer so long as such intellectual property is owned by any Foreign Subsidiary. 

 

          SECTION 6.03. Fundamental Changes; Business Activities. (a) Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary will merge into or consolidate with any other Person, or permit any other Person to merge into 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 Person may merge into the Company in a transaction in which the Company is the surviving corporation, (ii) any Person (other than a Borrower) may merge or consolidate with any Subsidiary (other than a Subsidiary Borrower) in a transaction in which the surviving entity is a Subsidiary (and, if any party to such merger or consolidation is a Domestic Subsidiary Loan Party, is a Domestic Subsidiary Loan Party), (iii) any Person may merge into a Subsidiary Borrower in a transaction in which a Subsidiary Borrower is the surviving corporation (and, if any party to such merger is a Domestic Subsidiary Borrower, is a Domestic Subsidiary Borrower), (iv) any Subsidiary (other than a Subsidiary Borrower) may merge into or consolidate with any Person in a transaction permitted under Section 6.05 in which the surviving entity is not a Subsidiary and (v) any Subsidiary (other than any Designated 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; provided that any such merger or consolidation involving a Person that is not a direct or indirect wholly-owned Subsidiary immediately prior thereto shall not be permitted unless it is also permitted under Section 6.04. 

 

          (b) Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary will engage to any material extent in any business other than businesses of the type conducted by the Company and the Subsidiaries on the date hereof and businesses reasonably related or incidental thereto. 

 

          (c) The Company will not permit any Person other than the Company, or one or more Domestic Subsidiaries, to own any Equity Interests in any Subsidiary meeting the criteria set forth in clause (a) of the definition of the term “Domestic Subsidiary”, except (a) as set forth on Schedule 3.11 or (b) any such Subsidiary that is a subsidiary of Foreign Subsidiaries acquired in connection with Investments or other acquisitions permitted under Sections 6.04(m), 6.04(o) or 6.04(q), provided that the fair 

 

 

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market value of all Equity Interests of all such Subsidiaries so acquired (determined in each case at the time of acquisition) shall not exceed $75,000,000 in the aggregate. 

 

          SECTION 6.04. Investments, Loans, Advances, Guarantees and Acquisitions. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary will purchase, hold, acquire (including pursuant to any merger or consolidation with any Person that was not a wholly-owned Subsidiary prior thereto), make or otherwise permit to exist any Investment in any other Person, except: 

 

     (a) Permitted Investments; 

 

     (b) Investments existing on the date hereof in Subsidiaries, and other Investments existing on the date hereof and set forth on Schedule 6.04 (but not any additions thereto (including any capital contributions) made after the date hereof); 

 

     (c) investments by the Company and the Subsidiaries in Equity Interests in their subsidiaries; provided that (i) such subsidiaries are Subsidiaries prior to such investments, (ii) any such Equity Interests held by a Domestic Loan Party shall be pledged in accordance with, and to the extent required by, the requirements of the definition of the term “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement” and (iii) the aggregate amount of such investments by Domestic Loan Parties in, loans and advances by Domestic Loan Parties to, evidences of Indebtedness held by Domestic Loan Parties in respect of Indebtedness owing by, and Guarantees by Domestic Loan Parties of Indebtedness and other obligations of, Subsidiaries that are not Domestic Loan Parties (excluding all such investments, loans, advances and Guarantees existing on the date hereof and permitted by clause (b) above) shall not exceed $50,000,000 at any time outstanding; 

 

     (d) loans or advances made by the Company or any Subsidiary to the Company or any other Subsidiary, or evidences of Indebtedness held by the Company or any Subsidiary in respect of Indebtedness owing by the Company or any other Subsidiary; provided that (i) the Indebtedness resulting therefrom or evidenced thereby is permitted by Section 6.01(a)(iii) and (ii) the amount of such loans and advances made by Domestic Loan Parties to Subsidiaries that are not Domestic Loan Parties shall be subject to the limitation set forth in clause (c) above; 

 

     (e) Guarantees by the Company or any Subsidiary of Indebtedness or other obligations of the Company or any Subsidiary (including any such Guarantees arising as a result of any such Person being a joint and several co-applicant with respect to any letter of credit or letter of guaranty); provided that (i) a Subsidiary that has not Guaranteed the Secured Obligations or Foreign Secured Obligations, as applicable, pursuant to the Collateral Agreement or a Foreign Guarantee Agreement, as applicable, shall not Guarantee any Indebtedness or other obligations of any Loan Party, (ii) the aggregate amount of 

 

 

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Indebtedness and other obligations of Subsidiaries that are not Domestic Loan Parties that is Guaranteed by any Domestic Loan Party shall be subject to the limitation set forth in clause (c) above; 

 

     (f) acquisitions by any Subsidiary that is not a Domestic Loan Party of all or substantially all the assets of any other Subsidiary that is not a Domestic Loan Party or of a business unit, division, product line or line of business of any other Subsidiary that is not a Domestic Loan Party, in each case, at the time of such acquisition, in connection with sales, transfers, leases and other dispositions of assets in compliance with Section 6.05(b). 

 

     (g) Investments received in connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of, or settlement of delinquent accounts and disputes with, customers and suppliers or as an advance in the ordinary course of business that will be applied as payment for the provision of goods or services from suppliers, in each case in the ordinary course of business; 

 

     (h) Investments made as a result of the receipt of noncash consideration from a sale, transfer, lease or other disposition of any asset in compliance with Section 6.05; 

 

     (i) Investments by the Company or any Subsidiary that result solely from the receipt by the Company or such Subsidiary from any of its subsidiaries of a dividend or other Restricted Payment in the form of Equity Interests, evidences of Indebtedness or other securities; 

 

     (j) Investments in the form of Hedging Agreements permitted under Section 6.07; 

 

     (k) payroll, travel and similar advances to directors and employees of the Company or any Subsidiary to cover matters that are expected at the time of such advances to be treated as expenses of the Company or such Subsidiary for accounting purposes and that are made in the ordinary course of business; 

 

     (l) loans or advances to directors and employees of the Company or any Subsidiary made in the ordinary course of business; provided that the aggregate amount of such loans and advances outstanding at any time shall not exceed $5,000,000; 

 

     (m) Investments in joint ventures in an aggregate amount outstanding at any time not to exceed the sum of (i) an aggregate amount which, when taken together with the aggregate amount (determined as of the date on which any such Investment is made or consummated) of all other Investments made pursuant to Acquisition Basket Expenditures subsequent to the Effective Date, does not exceed the Acquisition Basket Amount and (ii) an aggregate amount which, when taken together with the aggregate amount of all other CNI Expenditures subsequent to the Effective Date, does not exceed the CNI Basket Amount as of the date on which any such Investment is made; 

 

 

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     (n) Investments consisting of Sellers’ Retained Interests in Securitizations permitted by Section 6.05; 

 

     (o) Investments by Foreign Subsidiaries, provided that (a) at the time any Investment is made in reliance on this clause (o), the Ratings Condition shall have been satisfied and (b) immediately after giving effect to any such Investment, Net Debt shall not exceed zero on a pro forma basis in accordance with Section 1.04(b); 

 

     (p) Permitted Acquisitions; 

 

     (q) other Investments and other acquisitions, provided that, at the time each such Investment or acquisition is purchased, made or otherwise acquired, (i) no Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, (ii) the Company shall be in compliance with the covenants set forth in Sections 6.12 and 6.13 on a pro forma basis in accordance with Section 1.04(b) and (iii) the aggregate amount of all Investments and acquisitions made in reliance on this clause (i) outstanding at any time (including the aggregate amount of all consideration paid in connection with all other acquisitions made in reliance on this clause (q)), shall not exceed, in the aggregate at any time, the sum of (A) an aggregate amount which, when taken together with the aggregate amount (determined as of the date on which any such Investment or acquisition is made or consummated) of all other Investments made pursuant to Acquisition Basket Expenditures subsequent to the Effective Date, does not exceed the Acquisition Basket Amount, (B) the aggregate cash proceeds (net of all Taxes and fees, commissions, discounts, costs and other expenses incurred in connection therewith) received by the Company in respect of any issuance or sale by the Company of any of its Equity Interests subsequent to the Effective Date (other than any issuance of Equity Interests to any Subsidiary or any issuance of Equity Interests to management or employees of the Company or any Subsidiary under any employee stock option or stock purchase plan or employee benefit plan or to a trust established for the benefit of management or employees of the Company or any Subsidiary), and the aggregate fair market value (at the time of issuance) of any Equity Interests of the Company issued as consideration for any Investments made in reliance on this clause (q), and (C) an aggregate amount which, when taken together with the aggregate amount of all other CNI Expenditures subsequent to the Effective Date, does not exceed the CNI Basket Amount as of the date on which any such Investment or acquisition is made or consummated. 

 

          SECTION 6.05. Asset Sales. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary will sell, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of any asset, including any Equity Interest owned by it, nor will any Subsidiary issue any additional Equity Interest in such Subsidiary (other than to the Company or any Subsidiary in compliance with Section 6.04, and other than directors’ qualifying shares and other nominal amounts of Equity Interests that are required to be held by other Persons under applicable law), except: 

 

 

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     (a) sales, transfers and other dispositions of inventory, used or surplus equipment, cash and Permitted Investments in the ordinary course of business; 

 

     (b) sales, transfers, leases and other dispositions to the Company or any Subsidiary (other than transfers, sales or dispositions of intellectual property owned by the Company or a Domestic Subsidiary to a Foreign Subsidiary); provided that any such sales, transfers, leases or other dispositions involving a Subsidiary that is not a Domestic Loan Party shall be made in compliance with Sections 6.04 and 6.09;

 

     (c) any Permitted IP Transfer; 

 

     (d) any Foreign Subsidiary may sell Securitization Assets to one or more Securitization Vehicles in Securitizations; provided that (i) each such Securitization is effected on market terms, (ii) the aggregate amount of Third Party Interests in respect of all such Securitizations shall not exceed $75,000,000 at any time outstanding, (iii) the aggregate amount of the Sellers’ Retained Interests in such Securitizations does not exceed an amount at any time outstanding that is customary for similar transactions and (iv) the proceeds to each such Securitization Vehicle from the issuance of Third Party Interests are applied substantially simultaneously with the receipt thereof to the purchase from such Foreign Subsidiary of Securitization Assets; 

 

     (e) non-recourse sales, transfers or other dispositions of accounts receivable in connection with the compromise, settlement or collection thereof, in each case, not constituting Securitizations; 

 

     (f) sales, transfers and other dispositions of Equity Interests or assets purchased or otherwise acquired in connection with a Permitted Acquisition or other acquisition permitted hereunder; provided that (i) each such sale, transfer or other disposition shall have been made within 18 months of the consummation of the related Permitted Acquisition or other acquisition and (ii) the aggregate fair market value of the Equity Interests or assets sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of in reliance on this clause (f) shall not exceed $25,000,000 during any fiscal year of the Company; and 

 

     (g) sales, transfers, leases and other dispositions of assets that are not permitted by any other clause of this Section; provided that (i) the aggregate fair value of all assets sold, transferred, leased or otherwise disposed of in reliance on this clause (g) shall not exceed $50,000,000 during any fiscal year of the Company and (ii) all sales, transfers, leases and other dispositions made in reliance on this clause shall be made for fair value and at least 75% cash consideration. 

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, no such sale or transfer of any Equity Interests in any Subsidiary shall be permitted unless (i) such Equity Interests constitute all the Equity Interests in such Subsidiary held by the Company and the Subsidiaries and 

 

 

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(ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, the Company and the Subsidiaries shall otherwise be in compliance with Section 6.04; provided that a Foreign Subsidiary may sell or transfer less than all the Equity Interests in a Foreign Subsidiary that is not a Designated Foreign Subsidiary so long as, immediately after giving effect to such transaction, (A) the Company and the Subsidiaries shall be in compliance with the covenants set forth in Sections 6.12 and 6.13 on a pro forma basis in accordance with Section 1.04(b) and (B) the Company and the Subsidiaries shall otherwise be in compliance with Section 6.04. 

 

          SECTION 6.06. Sale/Leaseback Transactions. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary will enter into any Sale/Leaseback Transaction unless (a) the sale or transfer of the property thereunder is permitted under Section 6.05, (b) any Capital Lease Obligations arising in connection therewith are permitted under Section 6.01 and (c) any Liens arising in connection therewith (including Liens deemed to arise in connection with any such Capital Lease Obligations) are permitted under Section 6.02. 

 

          SECTION 6.07. Hedging Agreements. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary will enter into any Hedging Agreement, except (a) Hedging Agreements entered into to hedge or mitigate risks to which the Company or any Subsidiary has actual exposure (other than in respect of Equity Interests or Indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary) and (b) Hedging Agreements entered into in order to effectively cap, collar or exchange interest rates (from fixed to floating rates, from one floating rate to another floating rate or otherwise) with respect to any interest-bearing liability or investment of the Company or any Subsidiary. 

 

          SECTION 6.08. Restricted Payments; Certain Payments of Indebtedness. (a) Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary will declare or make, or agree to pay or make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment, or incur any obligation (contingent or otherwise) to do so, except that (i) the Company may declare and pay dividends with respect to its Equity Interests payable solely in additional common Equity Interests of the Company, (ii) any Subsidiary may declare and pay dividends or make other distributions with respect to its capital stock, partnership or membership interests or other similar Equity Interests, ratably to the holders of such Equity Interests, (iii) the Company may repurchase Equity Interests upon the exercise of stock options if such Equity Interests represent a portion of the exercise price of such options, (iv) the Company may make cash payments in lieu of the issuance of fractional shares representing insignificant interests in the Company in connection with the exercise of warrants, options or other securities convertible into or exchangeable for capital stock in the Company, (v) the Company may make Restricted Payments, not exceeding $3,000,000 in the aggregate for any fiscal year, pursuant to and in accordance with stock option plans or other benefit plans or agreements for directors, officers or employees of the Company and the Subsidiaries, (vi) the Company may make cash payments upon conversion of the Convertible Senior Debentures (or other convertible securities with terms substantially similar to, and no less favorable to the Lenders than, those of the Convertible Senior Debentures) into common stock of the Company in an amount not to exceed the stated principal amount of the Convertible Senior Debentures (or such other convertible securities) so converted and otherwise in accordance with Section 6.08(b)(vi)(B), 

 

 

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(vii) Vishay Europe GmbH may redeem a portion of its Equity Interests owned by the Company in satisfaction of intercompany Indebtedness owing by the Company to Vishay Europe GmbH and (viii) so long as no Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of any purchase or other Restricted Payment, the Company may repurchase shares of its common stock for cash and declare and pay dividends with respect to its common stock payable in cash in an aggregate amount for all such repurchases and dividends subsequent to November 9, 2010 not exceeding the sum of (A) $150,000,000, (B) the Interim CNI Basket Amount as of the date on which any such Restricted Payment is made and (C) an aggregate amount which, when taken together with the aggregate amount of all other CNI Expenditures subsequent to the Effective Date, does not exceed the CNI Basket Amount as of the date on which any such Restricted Payment is made, provided that, immediately after giving effect to any Restricted Payments made in reliance on this clause (viii), the Leverage Ratio is, on a pro forma basis, less than 2.75 to 1.00 and the Company is in compliance, on a pro forma basis, with the covenant set forth in Section 6.12. 

 

          (b) Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary will 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, conversion, retirement, acquisition, defeasance, cancelation or termination of any Indebtedness, except: 

 

     (i) payments of or in respect of Indebtedness created under the Loan Documents; 

 

     (ii) regularly scheduled interest and principal payments as and when due in respect of any Indebtedness, and payments in respect of Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 6.01(a)(iii), in each case, other than payments in respect of Subordinated Indebtedness prohibited by the subordination provisions thereof; 

 

     (iii) refinancing of Indebtedness to the extent permitted under Section 6.01; 

 

     (iv) payments of secured Indebtedness that becomes due as a result of the voluntary sale or transfer of the assets securing such Indebtedness in transactions permitted hereunder; 

 

     (v) payments of or in respect of Indebtedness made solely with Equity Interests in the Company; 

 

     (vi) payments upon conversion of the Convertible Senior Debentures (or other convertible securities with terms substantially similar to, and no less favorable to the Lenders than, those of the Convertible Senior Debentures) into common stock of the Company (A) made solely in shares of common stock of the Company, together with cash payments in lieu of the issuance of fractional shares 

 

 

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of common stock of the Company in connection with such conversion and (B) made in cash in an amount not to exceed the stated principal amount of the Convertible Senior Debentures (or such other convertible securities) so converted (provided that, after giving effect to any such cash payment, the Company shall be in compliance with the covenants set forth in Sections 6.12 and 6.13 on a pro forma basis in accordance with Section 1.04(b)); and 

 

     (vii) payments made by the Company to Dr. Felix Zandman pursuant to the Zandman Employment Agreement. 

 

          SECTION 6.09. Transactions with Affiliates. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary will sell, lease, license or otherwise transfer any assets to, or purchase, lease, license or otherwise acquire any assets from, or otherwise engage in any other transactions with, any of its Affiliates, except (a) transactions that are at prices and on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Company or such Subsidiary than those that would prevail in arm’s-length transactions with unrelated third parties, (b) transactions between or among (i) Domestic Loan Parties not involving any other Affiliate, (ii) Domestic Subsidiaries other than Domestic Subsidiary Loan Parties not involving any other Affiliate, (iii) Foreign Subsidiary Loan Parties not involving any other Affiliate and (iv) Foreign Subsidiaries other than Foreign Subsidiary Loan Parties not involving any other Affiliate, (c) any Restricted Payment permitted under Section 6.08, (d) issuances by the Company of Equity Interests and receipt by the Company of capital contributions, (e) compensation and indemnification of, and other employment arrangements with, directors, officers and employees of the Company or any Subsidiary entered in the ordinary course of business, (f) loans and advances permitted under clauses (k) and (l) of Section 6.04, (g) transactions between the Company and the Subsidiaries, on the one hand, and VPG and its subsidiaries, on the other hand, contemplated by and in accordance with the Transition Services Agreement and (h) payments made by the Company to Dr. Felix Zandman pursuant to and in accordance with the Zandman Employment Agreement and (i) Securitizations permitted by Section 6.05. 

 

          SECTION 6.10. Restrictive Agreements. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary will, directly or indirectly, enter into, incur or permit to exist any agreement or other arrangement that restricts or imposes any condition upon (a) the ability of the Company or any Subsidiary to create, incur or permit to exist any Lien upon any of its assets to secure any Secured Obligations or (b) the ability of any Subsidiary to pay dividends or other distributions with respect to its Equity Interests or to make or repay loans or advances to the Company or any Subsidiary or to Guarantee Indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary; provided that (i) the foregoing shall not apply to (A) restrictions and conditions imposed by law or by any Loan Document, (B) restrictions and conditions existing on the date hereof identified on Schedule 6.10 (but shall apply to any amendment or modification expanding the scope of, any such restriction or condition), and (C) in the case of any Subsidiary that is not a wholly-owned Subsidiary, restrictions and conditions imposed by its organizational documents or any related joint venture or similar agreement, provided that such restrictions and conditions apply only to such Subsidiary and to any Equity Interests in such Subsidiary, (ii) clause 

 

 

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(a) of the foregoing shall not apply to (A) restrictions or conditions imposed by any agreement relating to secured Indebtedness permitted by clause (v) of Section 6.01(a) if such restrictions or conditions apply only to the assets securing such Indebtedness and the proceeds thereof or (B) customary provisions in leases and other agreements restricting the assignment thereof and (iii) clause (b) of the foregoing shall not apply to (A) customary restrictions and conditions contained in agreements relating to the sale of a Subsidiary, or a business unit, division, product line or line of business, that are applicable solely pending such sale, provided that such restrictions and conditions apply only to the Subsidiary, or the business unit, division, product line or line of business, that is to be sold and such sale is permitted hereunder, (B) restrictions and conditions imposed by agreements relating to Indebtedness of any Subsidiary in existence at the time such Subsidiary became a Subsidiary and otherwise permitted by clause (vi) of Section 6.01(a) (but shall apply to any extension or renewal of, or any amendment or modification expanding the scope of, any such restriction or condition), provided that such restrictions and conditions apply only to such Subsidiary, or (C) restrictions and conditions imposed by agreements relating to Indebtedness of Foreign Subsidiaries permitted under Section 6.01(a), provided that such restrictions and conditions apply only to Foreign Subsidiaries. Nothing in this paragraph shall be deemed to modify the requirements set forth in the definition of the term “Guarantee and Collateral Requirement” or the obligations of the Loan Parties under Sections 5.03, 5.04 or 5.12 hereof or under the Security Documents.

 

          SECTION 6.11. Amendment of Material Documents. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary will amend, modify or waive any of its rights under (a) any agreement or instrument governing or evidencing any Material Indebtedness or (b) its certificate of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational documents, in each case to the extent such amendment, modification or waiver could reasonably be expected to be adverse in any material respect to the Lenders. 

 

          SECTION 6.12. Interest Expense Coverage Ratio. The Company will not permit the ratio of (a) Consolidated EBITDA less the amount of Capital Expenditures to (b) Consolidated Cash Interest Expense, in each case for any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters to be less than 2.00 to 1.00. 

 

          SECTION 6.13. Leverage Ratio. The Company will not permit the Leverage Ratio as of the last day of any fiscal quarter to exceed 3.25 to 1.00. 

 

          SECTION 6.14. Fiscal Year. The Company will not, and the Company will not permit any other Loan Party to, change its fiscal year to end on a date other than December 31. 

 

 

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ARTICLE VII 

 

Events of Default 

 

          If any of the following events (“Events of Default”) shall occur: 

 

	     	
     (a) any Borrower shall fail to pay any principal of any Loan or any reimbursement obligation in respect of any LC Disbursement 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) any 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, warranty or statement made or deemed made by or on behalf of the Company or any Subsidiary in any Loan Document or in any report, certificate, financial statement or other information provided pursuant to or in connection with any Loan Document or any amendment or modification thereof or waiver thereunder shall prove to have been incorrect when made or deemed made; 

 

     (d) the Company or any Subsidiary shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement contained in Section 5.02, 5.05 (with respect to the existence of any Borrower) or 5.11 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 or any Lender to the Company (with a copy to the Administrative Agent in the case of any such notice from a Lender); 

 

     (f) the Company or any Subsidiary shall fail to make any payment (whether of principal, interest, termination payment or other payment obligation and regardless of amount) in respect of any Material Indebtedness, when and as the same shall become due and payable; 

 

     (g) any event or condition occurs that results in any Material Indebtedness becoming due prior to its scheduled maturity or that enables or permits (with or without the giving of notice, the lapse of time or both) the holder or holders of any Material Indebtedness or any trustee or agent on its or their behalf, or, in the case of any Hedging Agreement, the applicable counterparty, to cause such Material Indebtedness to become due, or to require the prepayment, repurchase, redemption or defeasance thereof, prior to its scheduled maturity or, in the case of any Hedging Agreement, to cause the termination thereof; provided that this 

 

 

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clause (g) shall not apply to secured Indebtedness that becomes due as a result of the voluntary sale or transfer of the 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 Company 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 Company 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 Company or any Significant Subsidiary shall (i) voluntarily commence any proceeding or file any petition seeking liquidation (other than any liquidation permitted by clause (v) of Section 6.03(a)), 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 Company 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 Company 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 $25,000,000 (other than any such judgment covered by insurance (other than under a self-insurance program) to the extent a claim therefor has been made in writing and liability therefor has not been denied by the insurer, so long as, in the opinion of the Required Lenders, such insurer is financially sound), shall be rendered against the Company, any 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 Company or any Subsidiary to enforce any such judgment; 

 

     (l) one or more ERISA Events shall have occurred that, in the opinion of the Required Lenders, could, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; 

 

     (m) any Lien purported to be created under any Security Document shall cease to be, or shall be asserted in writing by any Loan Party not to be, a valid and 

 

 

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perfected Lien on any material Collateral, with the priority required by the applicable Security Document, except (i) as expressly provided in Section 9.13 or (ii) as a result of the Administrative Agent’s failure to maintain possession of any stock certificate, promissory note or other instrument delivered to it under the Collateral Agreement or the Administrative Agent’s failure to file Uniform Commercial Code continuation statements; 

 

     (n) any Guarantee purported to be created under any Loan Document shall cease to be, or shall be asserted in writing by any Loan Party not to be, in full force and effect, except upon the consummation of any transaction permitted under this Agreement as a result of which the Subsidiary Loan Party providing such Guarantee ceases to be a Subsidiary or upon the termination of such Loan Document in accordance with its terms; or 

 

     (o) a Change in Control shall occur; 

 

then, and in every such event (other than an event 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 any or all of the following actions, at the same or different times: (i) terminate the Commitments, and thereupon the Commitments shall terminate immediately, (ii) declare the Loans then outstanding to be due and payable in whole (or in part, in which case any principal not so declared to be due and payable may thereafter be declared to be due and payable), and thereupon the principal of the Loans so declared to be due and payable, together with accrued interest thereon and all fees and other obligations of each Borrower hereunder, shall become due and payable immediately, and (iii) require the deposit of cash collateral in respect of LC Exposure as provided in Section 2.05(i), in each case without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by each Borrower; and in the case of any event described in clause (h) or (i) of this Article, the Commitments shall automatically terminate, the principal of the Loans then outstanding, together with accrued interest thereon and all fees and other obligations of each Borrower hereunder, shall immediately and automatically become due and payable and the deposit of such cash collateral in respect of LC Exposure shall immediately and automatically become due, in each case without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by each Borrower. 

 

ARTICLE VIII 

 

The Administrative Agent 

 

          Each of the Lenders and the Issuing Banks hereby irrevocably appoints the entity named as Administrative Agent in the heading of this Agreement to serve as administrative agent and collateral 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. In addition, to the extent required under 

 

 

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the laws of any jurisdiction other than the United States, each of the Lenders and the Issuing Banks hereby grants to the Administrative Agent any required powers of attorney to execute any Security Document governed by the laws of such jurisdiction on such Lender’s or Issuing Bank’s behalf. 

 

          The Person serving as the Administrative Agent hereunder shall have the same rights and powers in its capacity as a Lender or an Issuing Bank as any other Lender or Issuing Bank 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. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (a) the Administrative Agent shall not be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of whether a Default has occurred and is continuing, (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 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 the 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 Section 9.02) or in the absence of its own gross negligence or wilful misconduct. The Administrative Agent shall be deemed not to have knowledge of any Default unless and until written notice thereof is given to the Administrative Agent by the Company, a Lender or an Issuing Bank, 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 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

 

 

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condition that expressly refers to the matters described therein being acceptable or satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Administrative Agent shall not have any liability arising from any confirmation of the Revolving Exposure or the component amounts thereof. 

 

          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 Company), independent accountants and other experts selected by it, and shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it in accordance with the advice of any such counsel, accountants or experts. 

 

          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. 

 

          Subject to the terms of this paragraph, the Administrative Agent may resign at any time from its capacity as such. In connection with such resignation, the Administrative Agent shall give notice of its intent to resign to the Lenders, the Issuing Banks and the Company. Upon receipt of any such notice of resignation, the Required Lenders shall have the right, in consultation with the Company, to appoint a successor. If no successor shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the retiring Administrative Agent gives notice of its intent to resign, then the retiring Administrative Agent may, on behalf of the Lenders and the Issuing Banks, 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. 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 and under the other Loan Documents. The fees payable by the Company to a successor Administrative Agent shall be the same as those payable to its predecessor unless otherwise agreed by the Company 

 

 

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and such successor. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event 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 intent to resign, the retiring Administrative Agent may give notice of the effectiveness of its resignation to the Lenders, the Issuing Banks and the Company, whereupon, on the date of effectiveness of such resignation stated in such notice, (a) the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, provided that, solely for purposes of maintaining any security interest granted to the Administrative Agent under any Security Document for the benefit of the Secured Parties, the retiring Administrative Agent shall continue to be vested with such security interest as collateral agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties and, in the case of any Collateral in the possession of the Administrative Agent, shall continue to hold such Collateral, in each case until such time as a successor Administrative Agent is appointed and accepts such appointment in accordance with this paragraph (it being understood and agreed that the retiring Administrative Agent shall have no duty or obligation to take any further action under any Security Document, including any action required to maintain the perfection of any such security interest), and (b) the Required Lenders shall succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Administrative Agent, provided that (i) all payments required to be made hereunder or under any other Loan Document to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Person other than the Administrative Agent shall be made directly to such Person and (ii) all notices and other communications required or contemplated to be given or made to the Administrative Agent shall also directly be given or made to each Lender and each Issuing Bank. Following the effectiveness of the Administrative Agent’s resignation from its capacity as such, the provisions of this Article and Section 9.03, as well as any exculpatory, reimbursement and indemnification provisions set forth in any other Loan Document, 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 and in respect of the matters referred to in the proviso under clause (a) above. 

 

          Each Lender and Issuing Bank acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, the Arranger or any other Lender or Issuing Bank, 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 and Issuing Bank also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, the Arranger or any other Lender or Issuing Bank, 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 delivering its signature page to this Agreement and funding its Loans on the Effective Date, or delivering its signature page to an Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which it shall become a Lender hereunder, shall be deemed 

 

 

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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 the Effective Date. 

 

          No Secured Party shall have any right individually to realize upon any of the Collateral or to enforce any Guarantee of the Secured Obligations, it being understood and agreed that all powers, rights and remedies under the Loan Documents may be exercised solely by the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties in accordance with the terms thereof. In the event of a foreclosure by the Administrative Agent on any of the Collateral pursuant to a public or private sale or other disposition, the Administrative Agent or any Lender may be the purchaser or licensor of any or all of such Collateral at any such sale or other disposition, and the Administrative Agent, as agent for and representative of the Secured Parties (but not any Lender or Lenders in its or their respective individual capacities unless Required Lenders shall otherwise agree in writing) shall be entitled, for the purpose of bidding and making settlement or payment of the purchase price for all or any portion of the Collateral sold at any such public sale, to use and apply any of the Loan Documents Obligations as a credit on account of the purchase price for any collateral payable by the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties at such sale or other disposition. Each Secured Party, whether or not a party hereto, will be deemed, by its acceptance of the benefits of the Collateral and of the Guarantees of the Secured Obligations provided under the Loan Documents, to have agreed to the foregoing provisions. 

 

          Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, neither the Arranger nor any Person named on the cover page of this Agreement as a Bookrunner, 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 or an Issuing Bank), 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 the Issuing Banks, and neither the Company nor any other Loan Party shall have any rights as a third party beneficiary of any such provisions. 

 

ARTICLE IX 

 

Miscellaneous 

 

          SECTION 9.01. Notices. (a) Except in the case of notices and other communications expressly permitted to be given by telephone (and subject to paragraph (b) below), all notices and other communications provided for herein shall be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or overnight courier service, mailed by certified or registered mail or sent by fax, as follows: 

 

	     	
     (i) if to the Company or any Subsidiary Borrower, to it, or to it in care of the Company, as the case may be, at 63 Lancaster Avenue, Malvern, Pennsylvania 

 

 

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19355, Attention of the Chief Financial Officer (Fax No. (610) 644-5812), with a copy to the General Counsel (Fax No. (610) 889-0965); 

 

     (ii) if to the Administrative Agent, to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Loan and Agency Services Group, 10 South Dearborn, Chicago, Illinois 60603, Attention of April Yebd (Fax No. (888) 208-7168; E-mail: JPM.Agency.Servicing.6@jpmchase.com), with a copy to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 277 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10172, Attention of James A. Knight (Fax No. (646) 534-3081; E-mail: james.a.knight@jpmorgan.com); 

 

     (iii) if to any Issuing Bank, to it at its address (or fax number) most recently specified by it in a notice delivered to the Administrative Agent, the Company (or, in the absence of any such notice, to the address (or fax number) set forth in the Administrative Questionnaire of the Lender that is serving as such Issuing Bank or is an Affiliate thereof); 

 

     (iv) if to the Swingline Lender, to it at JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Loan and Agency Services Group, 10 South Dearborn, Chicago, Illinois 60603, Attention of April Yebd (Fax No. (888) 208-7168; E-mail: JPM.Agency.Servicing.6@jpmchase.com)); and 

 

     (v) if to any other Lender, to it at its address (or fax number) set forth in its Administrative Questionnaire. 

 

          Notices sent by hand or overnight courier service, or mailed by certified or registered mail, shall be deemed to have been given when received; notices 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 delivered through electronic communications to the extent provided in paragraph (b) below shall be effective as provided in such paragraph. 

 

          (b) Notices and other communications to the Lenders and Issuing Banks hereunder may be delivered or furnished by electronic communications (including email and Internet and intranet websites) pursuant to procedures approved by the Administrative Agent; provided that the foregoing shall not apply to notices under Article II to any Lender or Issuing Bank if such Lender or Issuing Bank, as applicable, has notified the Administrative Agent that it is incapable of receiving notices under such Article by electronic communication. Any notices or other communications to the Administrative Agent or a Borrower may be delivered or furnished by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by the recipient thereof prior thereto; provided that approval of such procedures may be limited or rescinded by any such Person by notice to each other such Person. 

 

          (c) Any party hereto may change its address or fax number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the other parties hereto. 

 

 

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          SECTION 9.02. Waivers; Amendments. (a) No failure or delay by the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank 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, the Issuing Banks 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 purpose for which given. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the making of a Loan or the issuance of a Letter of Credit shall not be construed as a waiver of any Default, regardless of whether the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any Issuing Bank may have had notice or knowledge of such Default at the time. 

 

          (b) None of this Agreement, any other 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, the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders and, 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 (i) any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document may be amended by an agreement in writing entered into by the Company and the Administrative Agent to cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency so long as, in each case, the Lenders shall have received at least five Business Days’ prior written notice thereof and the Administrative Agent shall not have received, within five Business Days of the date of such notice to the Lenders, a written notice from the Required Lenders stating that the Required Lenders object to such amendment and (ii) no such agreement shall (A) increase the Commitment of any Lender without the written consent of such Lender, (B) reduce the principal amount of any Loan or LC Disbursement or reduce the rate of interest thereon, or reduce any fees payable hereunder, without the written consent of each Lender affected thereby, (C) postpone the scheduled maturity date of any Loan or the required date of reimbursement of any LC Disbursement, or any date for the payment of any 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, (D) change Section 2.17(b) or 2.17(c) in a manner that would alter the pro rata sharing of payments required thereby without the written consent of each Lender, (E) change any of the provisions of this Section or the percentage set forth in the definition of the term “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 that, with the consent of the Required Lenders, the provisions of this Section and the definition 

 

 

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of the term “Required Lenders” may be amended to include references to any new class of loans created under this Agreement (or to lenders extending such loans) on substantially the same basis as the corresponding references relating to the existing Loans or Lenders, (F) release any Subsidiary Loan Party from its Guarantee under the Collateral Agreement or a Foreign Guarantee Agreement, as applicable (except as expressly provided in Section 9.13, the Collateral Agreement or a Foreign Guarantee Agreement), or limit its liability in respect of such Guarantee, without the written consent of each Lender and (G) release all or substantially all the Collateral from the Liens of the Security Documents, without the written consent of each Lender (except as expressly provided in Section 9.13 or the applicable Security Document (including any such release by the Administrative Agent in connection with any sale or other disposition of the Collateral upon the exercise of remedies under the Security Documents), it being understood that an amendment or other modification of the type of obligations secured by the Security Documents shall not be deemed to be a release of the Collateral from the Liens of the Security Documents); provided further that no such agreement shall amend, modify, extend or otherwise affect the rights or obligations of the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank or the Swingline Lender without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, such Issuing Bank or the Swingline Lender, as the case may be. 

 

          SECTION 9.03. Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver. (a) The Borrowers agree, jointly and severally, to pay (i) all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent, the Arranger and their Affiliates, including the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of counsel for any of the foregoing, in connection with the structuring, arrangement and syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein and any credit or similar facility refinancing or replacing, in whole or in part, any of the credit facilities provided for herein, including the preparation, execution and delivery of the Engagement Letter, as well as the preparation, execution, delivery and administration of this Agreement, the other Loan Documents or any amendments, modifications or waivers of the provisions hereof or thereof (whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby shall be consummated), (ii) all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by any Issuing Bank in connection with the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or any demand for payment thereunder and (iii) all out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent, the Arranger, any Issuing Bank or any Lender, including the fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for any of the foregoing, 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 or Letters of Credit issued hereunder, including all such out-of-pocket expenses incurred during any workout, restructuring or negotiations in respect of such Loans or Letters of Credit. 

 

          (b) The Borrowers agree, jointly and severally, to indemnify the Administrative Agent (and any sub-agent thereof), the Arranger, each Bookrunner, Syndication Agent, Documentation Agent, Lender and Issuing Bank, 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 fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for any Indemnitee, incurred by or asserted against any Indemnitee arising 

 

 

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out of, in connection with, or as a result of (i) the structuring, arrangement and the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein, the preparation, execution, delivery and administration of the Engagement Letter, this Agreement, the other Loan Documents or any other agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby, the performance by the parties to the Engagement Letter, this Agreement or the other Loan Documents of their obligations thereunder or the consummation of the Transactions or any other transactions contemplated thereby, (ii) any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use of the proceeds therefrom (including any refusal by any Issuing Bank to honor a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit if the documents presented in connection with such demand do not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit), (iii) any actual or alleged presence or Release of Hazardous Materials on or from any property currently or formerly owned or operated by the Company or any Subsidiary, or any Environmental Liability related in any way to the Company or any Subsidiary, or (iv) any actual or prospective claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, whether based on contract, tort or any other theory and whether initiated against or by any party to the Engagement Letter, this Agreement or any other Loan Document, any Affiliate of any of the foregoing or any third party (and regardless of whether any Indemnitee is a party thereto); provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that such losses, claims, penalties, damages, liabilities or related expenses are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence or wilful misconduct of such Indemnitee. 

 

          (c) To the extent that the Borrowers fail to pay any amount required to be paid by them under paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section to the Administrative Agent (or any sub-agent thereof), any Issuing Bank, the Swingline Lender or any Related Party of any of the foregoing, each Lender severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent), such Issuing Bank, the Swingline Lender or such Related Party, as the case may be, such Lender’s pro rata share (determined as of the time that the applicable unreimbursed expense or indemnity payment is sought) 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), such Issuing Bank or the Swingline Lender in its capacity as such, or against any Related Party of any of the foregoing acting for the Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent), any Issuing Bank or the Swingline Lender in connection with such capacity. For purposes hereof, a Lender’s “pro rata share” shall be determined based upon its share of the sum of the total Revolving Exposures, and unused Commitments at the time (or most recently outstanding and in effect). 

 

          (d) To the extent permitted by applicable law, no Borrower shall assert, or permit any of its Affiliates or Related Parties to assert, and each 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), 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, any other Loan 

 

 

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Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby, the Transactions, any Loan or Letter of Credit 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 (including any Affiliate of any Issuing Bank that issues any Letter of Credit), except that (i) no Borrower may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent and each Lender (and any attempted assignment or transfer by a 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 (including any Affiliate of any Issuing Bank that issues any Letter of Credit), Participants (to the extent provided in paragraph (c) of this Section), the Arranger, the Bookrunners, the Syndication Agents, the Documentation Agents and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Related Parties of any of the Administrative Agent, the Arranger, any Bookrunner, any Syndication Agent, any Documentation Agent, any Issuing Bank 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 Commitment and the Loans at the time owing to it) with the prior written consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld) of: 

 

	          	
     (A) the Company; provided that no consent of the Company shall be required (1) for an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund and (2) if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, for any other assignment; and 

 

     (B) the Administrative Agent and each Issuing Bank. 

 

	     	
     (ii) Assignments shall be subject to the following additional conditions: 

 

	          	
     (A) except in the case of an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund or an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Lender’s Commitment or Loans, the amount of the Commitment or Loans of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment (determined as of the date the Assignment and Assumption with respect to such assignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent) shall not be less than $5,000,000 unless each of the Company and the Administrative Agent otherwise consents; provided that no such consent 

 

 

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of the Company shall be required if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing; 

 

     (B) each partial assignment shall be made as an assignment of a proportionate part of all the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement; 

 

     (C) the parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption, together with a processing and recordation fee of $3,500; and 

 

     (D) the assignee, if it shall not be a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an Administrative Questionnaire in which the assignee designates one or more credit contacts to whom all syndicate-level information (which may contain material non-public information about the Company and its Related Parties or their securities) will be made available and who may receive such information in accordance with the assignee’s compliance procedures and applicable law, including Federal, State and foreign securities laws. 

 

	     	
     (iii) Subject to acceptance and recording thereof pursuant to paragraph (b)(v) 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 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 2.14, 2.15, 2.16 and 9.03).

 

     (iv) The Administrative Agent shall maintain at one of its offices a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to it and records of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Loans and LC Disbursements owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the “Register”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive, and the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Banks and the Lenders shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the contrary. The Register shall be available for inspection by any Borrower and, as to entries pertaining to it, any Issuing Bank or Lender, at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. 

 

     (v) Upon its receipt of a duly completed Assignment and Assumption executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee, the assignee’s completed 

 

 

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Administrative Questionnaire (unless the assignee shall already be a Lender hereunder), the processing and recordation fee referred to in this Section and any written consent to such assignment required by 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. Each assignee, by its execution and delivery of an Assignment and Assumption, shall be deemed to have represented to the assigning Lender and the Administrative Agent that such assignee is an Eligible Assignee. 

 

          (c) Any Lender may, without the consent of any Borrower, the Administrative Agent or any Issuing Bank, sell participations to one or more Eligible Assignees (“Participants”) in all or a portion of such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitments and the Loans owing to it); provided that (i) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations and (iii) the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Banks 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 this Agreement and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document; 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 or requires the approval of all the Lenders. Each Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.14, 2.15 and 2.16 (subject to the requirements and limitations therein, including the requirements under Section 2.16(f) (it being understood that the documentation required under Section 2.16(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 2.17 and 2.18 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 2.14 or 2.16, 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. 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 such Participant agrees to be subject to Section 2.17(c) as though it were a Lender. Each Lender that sells a participation shall maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of each Participant and the principal amounts (and stated interest) of each Participant’s interest in the Loans or other obligations under this Agreement (the “Participant Register”); provided that no Lender shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register to any Person (including the identity of any Participant or any information relating to a Participant’s interest in any Commitments, Loans, Letters of Credit or its other obligations under any Loan Document) except to the extent that such disclosure is 

 

 

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necessary to establish that such Commitment, Loan, Letter of Credit or other obligation is in registered form under Section 5f.103-1(c) of the United States Treasury Regulations. The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and such Lender shall treat each person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of such participation for all purposes of this Agreement notwithstanding any notice to the contrary. 

 

          (d) 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, 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 and issuance of any Letters of Credit, regardless of any investigation made by any such other party or on its behalf and notwithstanding that the Administrative Agent, the Arranger, any Bookrunner, any Syndication Agent, any Documentation Agent, any Issuing Bank or any Lender may have had notice or knowledge of any Default or incorrect representation or warranty at the time any Loan Document is executed and delivered or 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 or any Letter of Credit is outstanding and so long as the Commitments have not expired or terminated. Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything else to the contrary set forth in this Agreement or any other Loan Document, in the event that, in connection with the refinancing or repayment in full of the credit facilities provided for herein, an Issuing Bank shall have provided to the Administrative Agent a written consent to the release of the Revolving Lenders from their obligations hereunder with respect to any Letter of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank (whether as a result of the obligations of the applicable Borrower (and any other account party) in respect of such Letter of Credit having been collateralized in full by a deposit of cash with such Issuing Bank, or being supported by a letter of credit that names such Issuing Bank as the beneficiary thereunder, or otherwise), then from and after such time such Letter of Credit shall cease to be a “Letter of Credit” outstanding hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and the Revolving Lenders shall be deemed to have no participations in such Letter of Credit, and no obligations with respect thereto, under Section 2.05(d) or 2.05(f). The provisions of Sections 2.14, 2.15, 2.16, 2.17(e), 2.17(f) 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 Letters of Credit and the Commitments or the termination of this Agreement or any provision hereof. 

 

 

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          SECTION 9.06. Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness. 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 and the other Loan Documents 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, including the commitments of the Lenders and, if applicable, their Affiliates under the Engagement Letter and any commitment advices submitted by them (but do not supersede any other provisions of the Engagement Letter (or any separate letter agreements with respect to fees payable to the Administrative Agent or any Issuing Bank) that do not by the terms of such documents terminate upon the effectiveness of this Agreement, all of which provisions shall remain in full force and effect). Except as provided in Section 4.01, this Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall have received counterparts hereof that, when taken together, bear the signatures of each of the other parties hereto, 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 shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement. 

 

          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 Issuing Bank, and each Affiliate of any of the foregoing, is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final, in whatever currency) or other amounts at any time held and other obligations (in whatever currency) at any time owing by such Lender or Issuing Bank, or by such an Affiliate, to or for the credit or the account of any Borrower against any of and all the obligations then due of such Borrower now or hereafter existing under this Agreement owed to such Lender or Issuing Bank, irrespective of whether or not such Lender or Issuing Bank shall have made any demand under this Agreement. The rights of each Lender and Issuing Bank, and each Affiliate of any of the foregoing, under this Section are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) that such Lender, Issuing Bank or Affiliate may have. Each Lender or Issuing Bank exercising its rights under this Section shall notify the Company promptly after the exercise thereof, provided that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such setoff. 

 

 

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          SECTION 9.09. Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process. (a) This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the law of the State of New York. 

 

          (b) Each Borrower hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for itself and its property, to the exclusive 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 this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or for recognition or enforcement of any judgment, and each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that all claims in respect of any such action or proceeding may be heard and determined 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, any Issuing Bank or any Lender may otherwise have to bring any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document against any Borrower or any of its properties in the courts of any jurisdiction. 

 

          (c) Each Borrower hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any objection that 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. 

 

          (d) Each party to this Agreement irrevocably consents to service of process in the manner provided for notices in Section 9.01. Nothing in this Agreement or any other Loan Document will affect the right of any party to this Agreement to serve process in any other manner permitted by law. 

 

          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 (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. 

 

 

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          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. Each of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Issuing Banks agrees to maintain the confidentiality of the Information (as defined below), except that Information may be disclosed (a) to its Related Parties, including accountants, legal counsel and other agents and 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, (b) to the extent requested by any regulatory authority purporting to have jurisdiction over it (including any self-regulatory authority, such as the National Association of Insurance Commissioners), (c) to the extent required by applicable law 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 under this Agreement or any other Loan Document 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 confidentiality undertakings substantially similar to 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 Related Parties) to any swap or derivative transaction relating to the Company or any Subsidiary and its obligations, (g) with the consent of the Company or (h) to the extent such Information (i) becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this Section or (ii) becomes available to the Administrative Agent, any Lender, any Issuing Bank or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing on a nonconfidential basis from a source other than the Company. For purposes of this Section, “Information” means all information received from the Company relating to the Company or any Subsidiary or their businesses, including any information received by the Administrative Agent or any Lender in the exercise of its inspection and audit rights pursuant to Section 5.09, other than any such information that is available to the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any Issuing Bank on a nonconfidential basis prior to disclosure by the Company (other than any such information that the Administrative Agent, such Lender or such Issuing Bank knew became available as a result of a breach of an obligation to the Company or any Subsidiary to maintain the confidentiality thereof); provided that, in the case of information received from the Company after the date hereof, such information is clearly identified at the time of delivery as confidential. 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. Release of Liens and Guarantees. (a) Notwithstanding any contrary provision in any Security Document, (i) a Subsidiary Loan Party (other than any Subsidiary Borrower) shall automatically be released from its obligations under the Loan Documents, and all security interests created by the Security Documents in Collateral owned by such Subsidiary Loan Party shall be automatically released, upon the 

 

 

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consummation of any transaction permitted by this Agreement as a result of which such Subsidiary Loan Party ceases to be a Subsidiary; provided that, if so required by this Agreement, the Required Lenders shall have consented to such transaction and the terms of such consent shall not have provided otherwise and (ii) upon any sale or other transfer by any Loan Party (other than to the Company or any Subsidiary) of any Collateral in a transaction permitted under this Agreement, or upon the effectiveness of any written consent to the release of the security interest created under any Security Document in any Collateral pursuant to Section 9.02, the security interests in such Collateral created by the Security Documents shall be automatically released. 

 

          (b) Notwithstanding any contrary provision herein or in any other Loan Document, but subject to subsection (c) below, if (i) the Ratings Condition is satisfied, (ii) the Company shall have provided notice to the Administrative Agent of a request to release the Liens created under the Security Documents specifying the date of such proposed release (which shall be a Business Day at least 15 days after such notice) (the “Release Date”), (iii) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing on the Release Date and (iv) on the Release Date, the Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate, dated the Release Date and executed on behalf of the Company by an authorized officer thereof, confirming the satisfaction of each of the conditions set forth in clauses (i) and (iii) above, then (A) the Administrative Agent shall, without the consent of any Secured Party and at the Company’s expense, execute and deliver all documents that the Company shall reasonably request to evidence such release, (B) the provisions of the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement, insofar as they relate to the creation and perfection of Liens under the Security Documents, shall be deemed to be ineffective and (C) all other provisions of this Agreement, insofar as they relate to the creation and perfection of Liens under the Security Documents, shall be deemed to be ineffective. 

 

          (c) In the event that, subsequent to the release of Liens under the Security Documents pursuant to subsection (b) above, the Ratings Condition is not satisfied, (i) the provisions of the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement and each other provision of this Agreement that has been deemed to be ineffective pursuant to subsection (b) above shall cease to be ineffective and shall be deemed to be reinstated and in full force and effect, (ii) the Company shall cause the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement to be satisfied as promptly as practicable thereafter and in any event within 30 days thereafter (or such longer period as the Administrative Agent may agree to in writing) and (iii) the provisions of subsection (b) above shall be deemed to be ineffective. In connection with the foregoing, the Company shall, and shall cause the Subsidiary Loan Parties to, deliver such perfection certificates, lien searches, opinions and other documents and certificates as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request. 

 

          (d) Any Subsidiary that ceases to be a Foreign DRE and becomes a Foreign Subsidiary as a result of its election, or the election of its parent, to be classified as a “corporation” for United States Federal income tax purposes shall automatically be released from its obligations under the Security Documents, and all security interests created by the Security Documents in the Equity Interests of such Foreign DRE or in the Collateral owned by such Foreign DRE shall be automatically released, in each case to 

 

 

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the extent, and only to the extent, necessary to effect the treatment of such Subsidiary as a Foreign Subsidiary for purposes of the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the foregoing, the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement shall, at all times, be required to be satisfied with respect to such Subsidiary. 

 

          (e) In connection with any termination or release pursuant to this Section, the Administrative Agent shall execute and deliver to any Loan Party, at such Loan Party’s expense, all documents that such Loan Party shall reasonably request to evidence such termination or release. Any execution and delivery of documents pursuant to this Section shall be without recourse to or warranty by the Administrative Agent. 

 

          SECTION 9.14. USA PATRIOT Act Notice. Each Lender and the Administrative Agent (for itself and not on behalf of any Lender) hereby notifies each Loan Party that pursuant to the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies such Loan Party, which information includes the name and address of such Loan Party and other information that will allow such Lender or the Administrative Agent, as applicable, to identify such Loan Party in accordance with such Act. 

 

          SECTION 9.15. No Fiduciary Relationship. The Company, on behalf of itself and the Subsidiaries, agrees that in connection with all aspects of the transactions contemplated hereby and any communications in connection therewith, the Company, the Subsidiaries and their Affiliates, on the one hand, and the Administrative Agent, 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 Lenders or their Affiliates, and no such duty will be deemed to have arisen in connection with any such transactions or communications. 

 

          SECTION 9.16. Non-Public Information. (a) Each Lender acknowledges that all information, including requests for waivers and amendments, furnished by any Borrower or the Administrative Agent pursuant to or in connection with, or in the course of administering, this Agreement will be syndicate-level information, which may contain MNPI. Each Lender represents to each Borrower and the Administrative Agent that (i) it has developed compliance procedures regarding the use of MNPI and that it will handle MNPI in accordance with such procedures and applicable law, including Federal, state and foreign securities laws, and (ii) 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. 

 

          (b) Each Borrower and each Lender acknowledge that, if information furnished by any Borrower pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement is being distributed by the Administrative Agent through IntraLinks/IntraAgency, SyndTrak or another website or other information platform (the “Platform”), (i) the Administrative Agent may post any information that such Borrower has indicated as containing MNPI solely on that portion of the Platform as is designated for Private Side Lender 

 

 

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Representatives and (ii) if any Borrower has not indicated whether any information furnished by it pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement contains MNPI, the Administrative Agent reserves the right to post such information solely on that portion of the Platform as is designated for Private Side Lender Representatives. 

 

          (c) Each Borrower agrees, at the request of the Administrative Agent, to specify whether any information furnished by such Borrower to the Administrative Agent pursuant to, or in connection with, this Agreement contains MNPI (it being acknowledged that nothing in this paragraph shall be deemed to obligate the Administrative Agent to make any such request). 

 

          SECTION 9.17. Application of Proceeds. The Administrative Agent shall apply the proceeds of any collection or sale of Collateral, including any Collateral consisting of cash, as follows: 

 

	     	
     FIRST, to the payment of all costs and expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent in connection with such collection or sale or otherwise in connection with this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any of the Secured Obligations, including all court costs and the fees and expenses of its agents and legal counsel, the repayment of all advances made by the Administrative Agent hereunder or under any other Loan Document on behalf of any Loan Party and any other costs or expenses incurred in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy hereunder or under any other Loan Document; 

 

     SECOND, (a) if the security interest of the Administrative Agent in such Collateral secures the Secured Obligations, to the payment in full of the Secured Obligations (the amounts so applied to be distributed among the Secured Parties pro rata in accordance with the amounts of the Secured Obligations owed to them on the date of any such distribution) and (b) if the security interest of the Administrative Agent in such Collateral secures solely the Foreign Secured Obligations and does not secure any other Secured Obligations, to the payment in full of the Foreign Secured Obligations (the amounts so applied to be distributed among the Secured Parties pro rata in accordance with the amounts of the Foreign Secured Obligations owed to them on the date of any such distribution); and 

 

     THIRD, to the Loan Parties, their successors or assigns, or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct. 

 

The Administrative Agent shall have absolute discretion as to the time of application of any such proceeds, moneys or balances in accordance with this Agreement. Upon any sale of Collateral by the Administrative Agent (including pursuant to a power of sale granted by statute or under a judicial proceeding), the receipt of the Administrative Agent or of the officer making the sale shall be a sufficient discharge to the purchaser or purchasers of the Collateral so sold and such purchaser or purchasers shall not be obligated to see to the application of any part of the purchase money paid over to the Administrative Agent or such officer or be answerable in any way for the misapplication thereof. 

 

 

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          SECTION 9.18. Parallel Debt. (a) Each party hereto acknowledges, agrees and accepts the provisions set forth in Section 7.15 of the Collateral Agreement. 

 

          (b) Each party hereto acknowledges, agrees and accepts that the Administrative Agent holds the security interests granted under any Foreign Pledge Agreement in its own name and as sole creditor in accordance with the terms of the parallel debt provisions as set forth in the Collateral Agreement and that the terms of its appointment shall be as set forth in the Collateral Agreement and this Agreement. 

 

          (c) Each of the parties hereto agrees that the claim of the Administrative Agent in respect of the Domestic Parallel Debt of each Domestic Loan Party and the claims of any one or more of the Secured Parties in respect of the Domestic Secured Obligations do not constitute common property (gemeenschap) within the meaning of section 3:166 of the Netherlands Civil Code and that the provisions relating to common property shall not apply. Should a court determine that the claim of the Administrative Agent and the claims of any one or more of the Secured Parties in respect of the Domestic Secured Obligations do constitute common property and the provisions of common property do apply, the Secured Parties agree that this Agreement, together with the Collateral Agreement, shall constitute the administration agreement (beheersregeling) within the meaning of section 3:168 of the Netherlands Civil Code, pursuant to which the Administrative Agent shall be solely authorized to exercise any and all rights in relation to the Domestic Parallel Debts and any related security interest in favor of the Administrative Agent pursuant to any Foreign Pledge Agreement or other Security Document governed by the laws of (or affecting assets situated in) the Netherlands, in each case securing any or all Domestic Parallel Debts. 

 

 

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

 

	 	VISHAY INTERTECHNOLOGY, INC.,
	 	 
	 	       by 	/s/ Lior E. Yahalomi
	 	 	 
	 	 	Name: Dr. Lior E. Yahalomi
	 	 	Title: Executive Vice President –
	 	 	Chief Financial Officer
	 	 
	 	 
	 	JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,
	 	individually and as Administrative Agent,
	 	 
	 	       by	/s/
	 	 	 
	 	 	Name:
	 	 	Title:

 

	 	SIGNATURE PAGE TO
	 	THE CREDIT AGREEMENT
	 	OF VISHAY INTERTECHNOLOGY, INC.
	 	 
	 	Name of Institution: Comerica Bank
	 	 
	 	       by 	/s/
	 	 	 
	 	 	Name:
	 	 	Title:
	 	 
	 	 
	 	For any Lender requiring a second signature block:
	 	 
	 	       by	 
	 	 	 
	 	 	Name:
	 	 	Title:

 

	 	SIGNATURE PAGE TO
	 	THE CREDIT AGREEMENT
	 	OF VISHAY INTERTECHNOLOGY, INC.
	 	 
	 	Name of Institution: Bank Leumi USA
	 	 
	 	       by 	/s/
	 	 	 
	 	 	Name:
	 	 	Title:
	 	 
	 	 
	 	For any Lender requiring a second signature block:
	 	 
	 	       by	/s/
	 	 	 
	 	 	Name:
	 	 	Title:

 

	 	SIGNATURE PAGE TO
	 	THE CREDIT AGREEMENT
	 	OF VISHAY INTERTECHNOLOGY, INC.
	 	 
	 	Name of Institution: Bank Hapoalim B.M.
	 	 
	 	       by 	/s/
	 	 	 
	 	 	Name:
	 	 	Title:
	 	 
	 	 
	 	For any Lender requiring a second signature block:
	 	 
	 	       by	/s/
	 	 	 
	 	 	Name:
	 	 	Title:

 

	 	SIGNATURE PAGE TO
	 	THE CREDIT AGREEMENT
	 	OF VISHAY INTERTECHNOLOGY, INC.
	 	 
	 	Name of Institution: RBS Citizens, N.A.
	 	 
	 	       by 	/s/
	 	 	 
	 	 	Name:
	 	 	Title:
	 	 
	 	 
	 	For any Lender requiring a second signature block:
	 	 
	 	       by	 
	 	 	 
	 	 	Name:
	 	 	Title:

 

	 	SIGNATURE PAGE TO
	 	THE CREDIT AGREEMENT
	 	OF VISHAY INTERTECHNOLOGY, INC.
	 	 
	 	Name of Institution: HSBC Bank USA, N.A.
	 	 
	 	       by 	/s/
	 	 	 
	 	 	Name:
	 	 	Title:
	 	 
	 	 
	 	For any Lender requiring a second signature block:
	 	 
	 	       by	 
	 	 	 
	 	 	Name:
	 	 	Title:

 

	 	SIGNATURE PAGE TO
	 	THE CREDIT AGREEMENT
	 	OF VISHAY INTERTECHNOLOGY, INC.
	 	 
	 	Name of Institution: The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.
	 	 
	 	       by 	/s/
	 	 	 
	 	 	Name:
	 	 	Title:
	 	 
	 	 
	 	For any Lender requiring a second signature block:
	 	 
	 	       by	 
	 	 	 
	 	 	Name:
	 	 	Title:

 

	 	SIGNATURE PAGE TO
	 	THE CREDIT AGREEMENT
	 	OF VISHAY INTERTECHNOLOGY, INC.
	 	 
	 	Name of Institution: Sovereign Bank
	 	 
	 	       by 	/s/
	 	 	 
	 	 	Name:
	 	 	Title:
	 	 
	 	 
	 	For any Lender requiring a second signature block:
	 	 
	 	       by	 
	 	 	 
	 	 	Name:
	 	 	Title:

 

	 	SIGNATURE PAGE TO
	 	THE CREDIT AGREEMENT
	 	OF VISHAY INTERTECHNOLOGY, INC.
	 	 
	 	Name of Institution: TD Bank, N.A.
	 	 
	 	       by 	/s/
	 	 	 
	 	 	Name:
	 	 	Title:
	 	 
	 	 
	 	For any Lender requiring a second signature block:
	 	 
	 	       by	 
	 	 	 
	 	 	Name:
	 	 	Title:

 

	 	SIGNATURE PAGE TO
	 	THE CREDIT AGREEMENT
	 	OF VISHAY INTERTECHNOLOGY, INC.
	 	 
	 	Name of Institution: KBC Bank N.V.
	 	 
	 	       by 	/s/
	 	 	 
	 	 	Name:
	 	 	Title:
	 	 
	 	 
	 	For any Lender requiring a second signature block:
	 	 
	 	       by	/s/
	 	 	 
	 	 	Name:
	 	 	Title:

 

	 	SIGNATURE PAGE TO
	 	THE CREDIT AGREEMENT
	 	OF VISHAY INTERTECHNOLOGY, INC.
	 	 
	 	Name of Institution: Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A - New York Branch
	 	 
	 	       by 	/s/
	 	 	 
	 	 	Name:
	 	 	Title:
	 	 
	 	 
	 	For any Lender requiring a second signature block:
	 	 
	 	       by	/s/
	 	 	 
	 	 	Name:
	 	 	Title:

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