Document:

EX-10.1

 Exhibit 10.1 

Private and Confidential 
 DATED
25 April 2019 
 NAVIOS MARITIME HOLDINGS INC. (1) 

as borrower 
 and

 NAVIOS SOUTH AMERICAN LOGISTICS INC. (2) 

as lender 
  

 
 LOAN
AGREEMENT 
 in respect of 

a loan of up to USD50,000,000 

in up to ten Advances 
  

 
  

  
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 Index 
  

							
	Clause	 	 	  	Page	 
			
	 1
	 	Purpose and definitions	  	 	3	 
			
	 2
	 	The lender’s commitment, loan and use of proceeds	  	 	15	 
			
	 3
	 	Interest	  	 	16	 
			
	 4
	 	Repayment and prepayment	  	 	18	 
			
	 5
	 	Fees and expenses	  	 	19	 
			
	 6
	 	Payments and taxes; Accounts and calculations	  	 	20	 
			
	 9
	 	Conditions	  	 	35	 
			
	 10
	 	Events of Default	  	 	36	 
			
	 11
	 	Indemnities	  	 	40	 
			
	 12
	 	Unlawfulness and increased costs mitigation	  	 	41	 
			
	 13
	 	Security, set-off and miscellaneous	  	 	43	 
			
	 14
	 	Account	  	 	46	 
			
	 15
	 	Assignment, transfer and disclosure	  	 	47	 
			
	 16
	 	Notices	  	 	48	 
			
	 17
	 	Governing law	  	 	49	 
			
	 18
	 	Jurisdiction	  	 	49	 

  

					
	 Schedule 1
	  			
		
	 Schedule 2
	  			
		
	 Schedule 3
	  			
		
	 Schedule 4
	  			
		
	 Schedule 5
	  			
		
	 Schedule 6
	  			

  
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 THIS AGREEMENT is dated 25 April 2019 and made BETWEEN: 

 

	(1)	 NAVIOS MARITIME HOLDINGS INC. as Borrower; and 

 

	(2)	 NAVIOS SOUTH AMERICAN LOGISTICS INC. as Lender. 

IT IS AGREED as follows: 
  

	1	 PURPOSE AND DEFINITIONS 

 

	1.1	 Purpose 

This Agreement sets out the terms and conditions upon which the Lender agrees to make available to the Borrower a loan facility of up to
USD50,000,000 in up to ten Advances for general corporate purposes (including to enable it to repurchase the Notes and to pay fees and expenses related to the loan facility). 
  

	1.2	 Definitions 

In this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires: 

“Account Pledge” the US governed law pledge required to be executed hereunder by the Borrower over its Securities Account;

 “Advance” means the principal amount of each drawing to be made in respect of the Loan pursuant to Clause 2.2; 

“Banking Day” means a day on which dealings in deposits in USD are carried on in the London Interbank Eurocurrency Market and
a day (other than Saturday or Sunday) on which banks are open for general business in London, Piraeus, Hamburg and New York City; 

“Bareboat Owners” means each of the companies listed in Schedule 6 and in the plural means all of them; 

“Bareboat Owners’ Shares Pledge” means, in relation to each Bareboat Owner, a pledge of all the shares of and in that
Bareboat Owner required to be executed hereunder by the Shareholder in favour of the Lender, in such form as the Lender may agree or require in its sole discretion, and in the plural means all of them; 

  
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 “Borrowed Money” means Indebtedness in respect of (i) money borrowed
and debit balances at banks, (ii) any bond, note, loan stock, debenture or similar debt instrument, (iii) acceptance or documentary credit facilities, (iv) receivables sold or discounted (otherwise than on a non-recourse basis), (v) deferred payments for assets or services acquired, (vi) finance leases and hire purchase contracts, (vii) swaps, forward exchange contracts, futures and other derivatives,
(viii) any other transaction (including without limitation forward sale or purchase agreements) having the commercial effect of a borrowing or of any of (ii) to (vii) above and (ix) guarantees in respect of Indebtedness of any person
falling within any of (i) to (viii) above; 
 “Borrower” means Navios Maritime Holdings Inc. a company incorporated in
the Marshall Islands and having its registered office at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Marshall Islands, MH96960; 

“Certified Copy” means in relation to any document delivered or issued by or on behalf of any company, a copy of such document
certified as a true, complete and up to date copy of the original by any of the directors or officers for the time being of such company or by such company’s attorneys or solicitors; 

“Closing Date” means the date on which the conditions precedent set out in Clause 9 have been satisfied or waived by the
Lender; 
 “Commitment” means, in relation to the Loan, the maximum amount which the Lender has agreed to lend to the
Borrower under clause 2.1 as reduced by any relevant term of this Agreement; 
 “Compliance Certificate” means a certificate
substantially in the form set out in schedule 5 signed by a director of the Borrower; 
 “Default” means any Event of
Default or any event or circumstance which with the giving of notice or lapse of time or the satisfaction of any other condition (or any combination thereof) would constitute an Event of Default; 

  
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 “Dollars” and “USD” mean the lawful currency of the USA
and in respect of all payments to be made under any of the Loan Documents means funds which are for same day settlement in the New York Clearing House Interbank Payments System (or such other US dollar funds as may at the relevant time be customary
for the settlement of international banking transactions denominated in US dollars); 
 “Drawdown Date” means, in respect of
an Advance, any date being a Banking Day falling during the Drawdown Period, on which that Advance is, or is to be, made available; 

“Drawdown Notice” means a notice substantially in the form of schedule 1; 

“Drawdown Period” means the period commencing on the Closing Date and ending on the earlier of (i) 31 December 2019 or
such other date as the Lender and the Borrower may agree and (ii) any date on which the Commitment is finally cancelled or fully drawn under the terms of this Agreement; 

“Encumbrance” means any mortgage, charge, pledge, lien, hypothecation, assignment, title retention, preferential right,
option, trust arrangement or security interest or any other encumbrance, security or arrangement conferring howsoever a priority of payment in respect of any obligation of any person; 

“Event of Default” means any of the events or circumstances listed in clause 10.1; 

“Execution Date” means the date on which this Agreement has been executed by all the parties hereto; 

“Existing Term Loan B” means the Credit Agreement dated as of November 3, 2017 among Navios South American Logistics Inc.
and Navios Logistics Finance (US) Inc., as the Borrowers, the Several Lenders from Time to Time Party thereto, Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as Administrative Agent, Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as Sole Lead Arranger and Bookrunner
and S. Goldman Advisors LLC, as Manager; 
 “Facility Period” means the period starting on the Drawdown Date and
ending on such date as the Lender determines that all payment obligations whatsoever of the Borrower under or pursuant to the Loan Documents whensoever arising, actual or contingent, have been irrevocably paid; 

  
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 “FATCA” means: 

 

	 	(a)	 sections 1471 to 1474 of the Code or any associated regulations or other associated official guidance;

  

	 	(b)	 any treaty, law, regulation or other official guidance enacted in any other jurisdiction, or relating to an
intergovernmental agreement between the US and any other jurisdiction, which (in either case) facilitates the implementation of paragraph (a) above; or 

  
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	 	(c)	 any agreement pursuant to the implementation of paragraphs (a) or (b) above with the US Internal Revenue
Service, the US government or any governmental or taxation authority in any other jurisdiction; 

 “FATCA
Application Date” means: 
  

	 	(a)	 in relation to a “withholdable payment” described in section 1473(1)(A)(i) of the Code (which relates
to payments of interest and certain other payments from sources within the US), 1 July 2014; or 

  

	 	(b)	 in relation to a “passthru payment” described in section 1471(d)(7) of the Code not falling within
paragraph (a) above, the first date from which such payment may become subject to a deduction or withholding required by FATCA; 

“FATCA Deduction” means a deduction or withholding from a payment under a Loan Document required by FATCA; 

“FATCA Exempt Party” means a party that is entitled to receive payments free from any FATCA Deduction; 

“Group” means at any relevant time the Borrower and its subsidiaries but not including any subsidiary which is listed on any
public stock exchange; 
 “Group Member” means any member of the Group; 

“Indebtedness” means any obligation howsoever arising (whether present or future, actual or contingent, secured or unsecured
as principal, surety or otherwise) for the payment or repayment of money; 
 “Indenture Excerpt” means the
excerpt from the Secured Indenture set out in Schedule 3; 
 “Interest Period” means each period for the calculation of
interest in respect of the Loan ascertained in accordance with clauses 3.2 and 3.3; 
 “Latest Accounts”
means, in respect of any financial year of the Group, the latest financial statements required to be prepared pursuant to clause 8.1.6; 

  
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 “Legal Reservations” means: 

 

	 	(a)	 the principle that equitable remedies may be granted or refused at the discretion of a court, the limitation of
enforcement by laws relating to insolvency, reorganisation and other laws generally affecting the rights of creditors; 

  

	 	(b)	 the time barring of claims under applicable limitation laws, the possibility that an undertaking to assume
liability for or indemnify a person against non-payment of UK stamp duty may be void and defences of set-off or counterclaim; 

 

	 	(c)	 any general principles, reservations or qualifications, in each case as to matters of law as set out in any
legal opinion; 

  

	 	(d)	 the principle that any additional interest imposed under any relevant agreement may be held to be unenforceable
on the grounds that it is a penalty and thus void; 

  

	 	(e)	 the principle that, in certain circumstances, security granted by way of fixed charge may be characterised as a
floating charge or that security purported to be constituted by way of an assignment may be recharacterised as a charge; 

  

	 	(f)	 the principle that the courts of England may not give effect to an indemnity for legal costs incurred by an
unsuccessful litigant; and 

  

	 	(g)	 similar principles, rights and defences under the laws of any Pertinent Jurisdiction 

“Lender” means Navios South American Logistics Inc., a company incorporated in the Marshall Islands and having its registered
office at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Marshall Islands, MH96960; 
 “Loan” means the
principal amount borrowed by the Borrower under this Agreement or (as the context may require) the principal amount owing to the Lender under this Agreement at any relevant time (as the same shall be increased from time to time by the capitalisation
of interest in accordance with clause 3.1); 

  
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 “Loan Documents” means this Agreement and the Security Documents; 

“Material Adverse Effect” means, a material adverse effect on: 

 

	 	(a)	 the business, assets or financial condition of the Borrower; or 

 

	 	(b)	 the ability of the Borrower to perform its obligations under the Loan Documents; or 

 

	 	(c)	 subject to the Legal Reservations and the Perfection Requirements, the validity or enforceability of, or the
effectiveness or ranking of, any Encumbrance granted or purporting to be granted pursuant to any of the Security Documents;. 

“Notes” means those of the 7.375% First Priority Ship Mortgage Notes due in 2022 issued pursuant to the Secured Indenture that
have been or will be purchased with the proceeds of the Loan; 
 “Permitted Encumbrance” means any Encumbrance created
pursuant to or expressly permitted by the Loan Documents and Permitted Liens or otherwise permitted by the Lender and any lien arising by the operation of law; 

“Perfection Requirements” means the making or procuring of appropriate registrations, filings, endorsements, notarisations,
stampings and/or notifications of the Security Documents and/or the security expressed to be created under the Security Documents determined by the legal advisers to the Lender to be necessary in any Pertinent Jurisdiction for the enforceability or
production in evidence of the relevant Security Document to the extent such matters are complied with within any timeframe specified by law or the relevant Security Document; 

“Pertinent Jurisdiction” means any jurisdiction in which or where any Security Party is incorporated, resident, domiciled, has
a permanent establishment or assets which are secured under the Security Documents; 
 “Proceedings” means any litigation,
arbitration, legal action or complaint or judicial, quasi-judicial or administrative proceedings whatsoever arising or instigated by anyone in any court, tribunal, public office or other forum whatsoever and wheresoever (including, without
limitation, any action for provisional or permanent attachment of any thing or for injunctive remedies or interim relief and any action instigated on an ex parte basis); 

  
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 “Prohibited Person” means a person that is: 

 

	 	(a)	 listed on, or owned or controlled by a person listed on any Sanctions List; 

 

	 	(b)	 located, organised or resident in, a country or territory that is the target of country-wide Sanctions; or

  

	 	(c)	 otherwise a target of Sanctions. 

“Register” has the meaning specified in clause 15.3 

“Repayment Date” means the date which falls 24 months after the Closing Date; 

“Required Authorisation” means any authorisation, consent, declaration, licence, permit, exemption, approval or other
document, whether imposed by or arising in connection with any law, regulation, custom, contract, security or otherwise howsoever which must be obtained at any time from any person, government entity or central bank or other self-regulating or
supra-national authority in order to enable the Borrower lawfully to draw the Loan and/or to enable any Security Party lawfully and continuously to continue its corporate existence and/or perform all its obligations whatsoever whensoever arising
under the Loan Documents and/or grant security under the Security Documents and/or to ensure the continuous validity and enforceability thereof; 

  
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 “Sanctions” means any economic or trade sanctions laws, regulations,
embargoes or restrictive measures administered, enacted or enforced by: 
  

	 	(a)	 the United States government; 

 

	 	(b)	 the United Nations; 

  

	 	(c)	 the European Union or any of its Member States; 

 

	 	(d)	 the United Kingdom; 

  

	 	(e)	 any country to which any Security Party is bound; or 

 

	 	(f)	 the respective governmental institutions and agencies of any of the foregoing, including without limitation,
the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Department of Treasury (“OFAC”), the United States Department of State, and Her Majesty’s Treasury (“HMT”) (together “Sanctions Authorities”).

 “Sanctions List” means the “Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons” list issued
by OFAC, the “Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets and Investment Ban List” issued by HMT, or any similar list issued or maintained or made public by any of the Sanctions Authorities. 

  
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 “Second Secured Indenture” means the Indenture dated as of
21 November 2017 for USD 305,000,000 issued by the Borrower and Navios Maritime Finance II (US) Inc. for 11.25% Senior Secured Notes due in 2022; 

“Secured Indenture” means the Indenture dated as of 29 November 2013 for USD 650,000,000 issued by the
Borrower and Navios Maritime Finance II (US) Inc. for 7.375% First Priority Ship Mortgage Notes due in 2022; 
 “Securities
Account” means a securities or brokerage account in the name of the Borrower and any associated cash account and includes any other account designated in writing by the Lender to be a Securities Account for the purpose of this Agreement;

 “Security Documents” means, the Account Pledge, the Bareboat Owners’ Shares Pledges (unless released pursuant to the
terms of this Agreement) and any other documents designated by the Borrower and the Lender as “Security Documents” or any other documents as may have been or shall from time to time after the date of this Agreement be executed in favour of
the Lender to guarantee and/or to govern and/or to secure payment of all or any part of the Loan, interest thereon and other moneys from time to time owing by the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement; 

“Security Party” means the Borrower, the Shareholder or any other person who may at any time be a party to any of the Loan
Documents (other than the Lender); 
 “Senior Notes” means the Lender’s 7.250% Senior Noted due 2022; 

“Shareholder” means Anemos Maritime Holdings Inc., a company incorporated in the Marshall Islands and having its registered
office at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Marshall Islands MH96960; 
 “subsidiary” of a
person means any company or entity directly or indirectly controlled by such person, and for this purpose “control” means either the ownership of more than fifty per cent (50%) of the voting share capital (or equivalent rights of
ownership) of such company or entity; 

  
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 “Taxes” includes all present and future income, corporation, capital or
value-added taxes and all stamp and other taxes and levies, imposts, deductions, duties, charges and withholdings whatsoever together with interest thereon and penalties in respect thereto, if any, and charges, fees or other amounts made on or in
respect thereof (and “Taxation” shall be construed accordingly); 
 “Unlawfulness” means any event or circumstance
which either is or, as the case may be, might in the reasonable opinion of the Lender become the subject of a notification by the Lender to the Borrower under clause 12.1; and 

Words and expressions defined in Schedule 4 shall have the meaning given to them when used in Schedule 3. 

 

	1.3	 Construction 

In this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires: 
  

	1.3.1	 clause headings and the index are inserted for convenience of reference only and shall be ignored in the
construction of this Agreement; 

  

	1.3.2	 references to clauses and schedules are to be construed as references to clauses of, and schedules to, this
Agreement and references to this Agreement include its schedules; 

  

	1.3.3	 references to (or to any specified provision of) this Agreement or any other document shall be construed as
references to this Agreement, that provision or that document as in force for the time being and as duly amended and/or supplemented and/or novated; 

  

	1.3.4	 references to a “regulation” include any present or future regulation, rule, directive, requirement,
request or guideline (whether or not having the force of law) of any Government Entity, central bank or any self-regulatory or other supra-national authority (including, without limitation, any regulation implementing or complying with (1) the
“International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards, a Revised Framework” published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in June 2004, in the form existing on the date of this Agreement (“Basel
II”) and/or (2) Basel III and/or (3) Basel IV and (4) any other law or regulation which, at any time and from time to time, implements and/or amends and/or supplements and/or re-enacts
and/or supersedes, whether in whole or in part, Basel II and/or Basel III and/or Basel IV (including CRD IV and CRR), and whether such implementation, application or compliance is by a Government Entity, a lender or any company affiliated to it);

  
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	1.3.5	 references to any person in or party to this Agreement shall include reference to such person’s lawful
successors and assigns and references to the Lender shall also include a Transferee; 

  

	1.3.6	 words importing the plural shall include the singular and vice versa; 

 

	1.3.7	 references to a time of day are, unless otherwise stated, to London time; 

 

	1.3.8	 references to a person shall be construed as references to an individual, firm, company, corporation or
unincorporated body of persons or any Government Entity; 

  

	1.3.9	 references to a “guarantee” include references to an indemnity or any other kind of assurance
whatsoever (including, without limitation, any kind of negotiable instrument, bill or note) against financial loss or other liability including, without limitation, an obligation to purchase assets or services as a consequence of a default by any
other person to pay any Indebtedness and “guaranteed” shall be construed accordingly; 

  

	1.3.10	 references to any statute or other legislative provision are to be construed as references to any such statute
or other legislative provision as the same may be re-enacted or modified or substituted by any subsequent statute or legislative provision (whether before or after the date hereof) and shall include any
regulations, orders, instruments or other subordinate legislation issued or made under such statute or legislative provision; 

  
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	1.3.11	 a certificate by the Lender as to any amount due or calculation made or any matter whatsoever determined in
connection with this Agreement shall be conclusive and binding on the Borrower except for manifest error; 

  

	1.3.12	 if any document, term or other matter or thing is required to be approved, agreed or consented to by the Lender
such approval, agreement or consent must be obtained in writing unless the contrary is stated; and 

  

	1.3.13	 the words “other” and “otherwise” shall not be construed eiusdem generis with any foregoing
words where a wider construction is possible. 

  

	1.4	 Contracts (Rights of Third Parties Act) 1999 

Except for clause 17.6.4 no part of this Agreement shall be enforceable under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 by a person who
is not a party to this Agreement. 
  

	2	 THE LENDER’S COMMITMENT, LOAN AND USE OF PROCEEDS 

 

	2.1	 The Commitment 

In reliance upon each of the representations and warranties in clause 7, the Lender agrees to make available by way of loan to the Borrower on
the terms of this Agreement the principal sum of up to USD50,000,000 for general corporate purposes (including to enable it to repurchase the Notes and to pay fees and expenses related to the loan facility). 

 

	2.2	 Drawdown  

On the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement, the Loan shall be advanced in up to ten Advances, each on a Drawdown Date
following receipt by the Lender from the Borrower of a Drawdown Notice not later than 10 a.m. London time on the Banking Day before such proposed Drawdown Date. A Drawdown Notice shall be effective on actual receipt by the Lender and, once given,
shall be irrevocable. 

  
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	2.3	 Amount 

The principal amount specified in a Drawdown Notice for borrowing on a Drawdown Date shall, subject to the terms of this Agreement, not exceed
(i) USD50,000,000 less (ii) the aggregate of such amounts as may prior thereto have been made available under this Agreement. 
  

	2.4	 Availability 

Upon receipt of a Drawdown Notice complying with the terms of this Agreement the Lender shall, subject to the provisions of clause 9, make an
Advance available to the Borrower on the relevant Drawdown Date in payment to such account as the Borrower shall specify in the relevant Drawdown Notice. 
  

	2.5	 Cancellation 

If any part of the Loan is not drawn down by the end of the Drawdown Period, the Commitment shall thereupon be automatically cancelled and the
Lender shall have no further obligation under this Agreement. 
  

	2.6	 Use of Proceeds 

The Lender shall have no responsibility for the Borrower’s use of the proceeds of the Loan and is not bound to monitor or verify the
application of any amount borrowed pursuant to the terms of this Agreement. 
  

	3	 INTEREST  

 

	3.1	 Interest rate 

The Loan shall bear interest in respect of each Interest Period, at the rate of: 

 

	 	(a)	 up to and including the first anniversary from the date hereof, 12.75% per annum; and 

 

	 	(b)	 thereafter, 14.75% per annum, 

  
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 in each case payable on the last day of such Interest Period, provided that, following the
successful re-financing of (i) the Senior Notes and (ii) the Existing Term Loan B, if the Borrower elects to be released from all its obligations under the Bareboat Owners’ Shares’ Pledge,
then an additional rate in the amount of 3.00% per annum shall accrue over the interest rate referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) above respectively with such additional interest to accrue and to be added to the Loan at the end of each
Interest Period and to be payable on the Repayment Date provided that the Borrower may, at its option, pay all or any part of such capitalised interest in cash at any time. 
  

	3.2	 Selection of Interest Periods 

Subject to clause 3.3, the Borrower may by notice received by the Lender not later than 10:00 a.m. on the third Banking Day before the
beginning of each Interest Period specify whether such Interest Period shall have a duration of twelve (12) months or such shorter period as the Borrower may select and the Lender may agree. 

 

	3.3	 Determination of Interest Periods 

Subject to Clause 3.3.1, every Interest Period shall be of the duration determined pursuant to clause 3.2 but so that: 

 

	3.3.1	 the first Interest Period in respect of the Loan shall start on the date the Loan is drawn and each subsequent
Interest Period shall start on the last day of the previous Interest Period; 

  

	3.3.2	 if the Borrower fails to specify the duration of an Interest Period in accordance with the provisions of clause
3.2 and this clause 3.3, such Interest Period shall have a duration of twelve (12) months or such other period as shall comply with this clause 3.3. 

  

	3.4	 Default interest 

If the Lender fails to receive any sum whatsoever on its due date for payment under any of the Loan Documents, the Borrower must pay interest
on such sum on demand from the due date up to the date of actual payment (as well after as before judgment) at a rate of two (2.0) per cent per annum over the interest rate referred to in Clause 3.1. Such interest shall be due and payable on demand,
shall accrue daily and shall be compounded annually. 

  
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	4	 REPAYMENT AND PREPAYMENT 

 

	4.1	 Repayment 

Subject as otherwise provided in this Agreement, the Borrower must repay the Loan on the Repayment Date. 

 

	4.2	 Voluntary prepayment 

The Borrower may prepay the Loan in whole or in part (being USD1,000,000 or any larger sum which is a whole multiple of USD1,000,000) at any
time without premium or penalty. 
  

	4.3	 Mandatory Prepayment 

The Borrower shall prepay the Loan: 
  

	4.3.1	 in full upon the occurrence of a “Change of Control” (as such term is defined in the Secured
Indenture); 

  

	4.3.2	 in full upon any Indebtedness being incurred by the Borrower contrary to the provisions of Clause 7.1.17 and
the terms of this Agreement on the date such Indebtedness incurs; and 

  

	4.3.3	 upon any of the Notes being retired by the Borrower, in an amount equal to the average price paid by the
Borrower for Notes that have, at any time, being credited to the Securities Account multiplied by the number of Notes so retired, on the date such Notes are retired. 

 

	4.4	 Amounts payable on prepayment 

Any prepayment of all or part of the Loan under this Agreement shall be made together with: 

 

	4.4.1	 accrued interest on the amount to be prepaid to the date of such prepayment; 

 

	4.4.2	 any additional amount payable under clause 6.6; 

 

	4.4.3	 if of the whole Loan, all other sums payable by the Borrower to the Lender under this Agreement or any of the
other Loan Documents. 

  
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	4.5	 Notice of prepayment; reduction of repayment instalments 

 

	4.5.1	 No prepayment may be effected under clause 4.2 unless the Borrower shall have given the Lender at least three
(3) Banking Day’s prior written notice of its intention to make such prepayment. Every notice of prepayment shall be effective only on actual receipt by the Lender, shall be irrevocable, shall specify the amount to be prepaid and shall
oblige the Borrower to make such prepayment on the date specified. 

  

	4.5.2	 The Borrower may not prepay any part of the Loan except as expressly provided in this Agreement.

  

	4.5.3	 No amount prepaid may be reborrowed. 

 

	5	 FEES AND EXPENSES 

 

	5.1	 Fees 

The Borrower agrees to pay to the Lender on the Closing Date (whether from the proceeds of the Loan or elsewhere) a non-refundable upfront fee of USD500,000. 
  

	5.2	 Expenses 

The Borrower agrees to reimburse the Lender on a full indemnity basis on demand for all expenses and/or disbursements whatsoever: 

 

	5.2.1	 in respect of, legal fees certified by the Lender as having been incurred by it from time to time and at any
time and all other expenses and/or disbursements certified by the Lender as having been incurred by it in relation to the negotiation, consideration, approval and structuring of this Agreement and the arrangements contemplated hereby:

  

	5.2.2	 in connection howsoever with the negotiation, preparation, execution and, where relevant, registration of the
Loan Documents and of any contemplated or actual amendment, indulgence or the granting of any waiver or consent howsoever in connection with any of the Loan Documents; and 

 

	5.2.3	 in contemplation or furtherance of, or otherwise howsoever in connection with, the exercise or enforcement of,
or preservation of any rights, powers, remedies or discretion under any of the Loan Documents or any amendment thereto or consideration of the Lender’s rights thereunder or any action proposed or taken with interest at the rate referred to in
clause 3.3 from the date on which such expenses and/or disbursements were demanded by the Lender to the date of payment (as well after as before judgment). 

  
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	5.3	 Value Added Tax 

All fees and expenses payable under to this clause 5 must be paid with value added tax or any similar tax (if any) properly chargeable thereon.
Any value added tax chargeable in respect of any services supplied by the Lender under this Agreement must, on delivery of the value added tax invoice, be paid in addition to any sum agreed to be paid hereunder. 

 

	5.4	 Stamp and other duties 

The Borrower must pay all stamp, documentary, registration or other like duties or taxes (including any duties or taxes payable by the Lender)
imposed on or in connection with any Loan Documents or the Loan and agree to indemnify the Lender against any liability arising by reason of any delay or omission by the Borrower to pay such duties or taxes other than to the extent such duties or
taxes arise as a result of the Lender transferring its Loan or Commitments under this Agreement. 
  

	6	 PAYMENTS AND TAXES; ACCOUNTS AND CALCULATIONS 

 

	6.1	 No set-off or counterclaim 

All payments to be made by the Borrower under any of the Loan Documents must be made in full, without any
set-off or counterclaim whatsoever and, subject to clause 6.6, free and clear of any deductions or withholdings, in USD not later than 11 a.m. London time on the due date to such account of the Lender
as the Lender may from time to time notify to the Borrower. 

  
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	6.2	 Payment by the Lender 

The proceeds of the Loan to be advanced by the Lender to the Borrower under this Agreement must be remitted by in USD on the relevant Drawdown
Date to the account or accounts specified in the relevant Drawdown Notice. 
  

	6.3	 Non-Banking Days 

When any payment under any of the Loan Documents would otherwise be due on a day which is not a Banking Day, the due date for payment shall be
extended to the next following Banking Day. 
  

	6.4	 Calculations 

All interest and other payments of an annual nature under any of the Loan Documents shall accrue from day to day and be calculated on the basis
of actual days elapsed and a 360 day year. 
  

	6.5	 Currency of account 

If any sum due from the Borrower under any of the Loan Documents, or under any order or judgment given or made in relation thereto or for any
other reason whatsoever, must be converted from the currency (“the first currency”) in which the same is payable thereunder into another currency (“the second currency”) for the purpose of (i) making or filing a claim or
proof against the Borrower, (ii) obtaining an order or judgment in any court or other tribunal or (iii) enforcing any order or judgment given or made in relation thereto, the Borrower undertakes to indemnify and hold harmless the Lender
from and against any loss suffered as a result of any discrepancy between (a) the rate of exchange used for such purpose to convert the sum in question from the first currency into the second currency and (b) the rate or rates of exchange
at which the Lender may in the ordinary course of business purchase the first currency with the second currency upon receipt of a sum paid to it in satisfaction, in whole or in part, of any such order, judgment, claim or proof. Any amount due from
the Borrower under this clause 6.5 shall be due as a separate debt and shall not be affected by judgment being obtained for any other sums due under or in respect of any of the Loan Documents and the term “rate of exchange” includes any
premium and costs of exchange payable in connection with the purchase of the first currency with the second currency. 

  
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	6.6	 Grossing-up for Taxes 

If at any time the Borrower must make any deduction or withholding in respect of Taxes from any payment due under any of the Loan Documents,
the sum due from the Borrower in respect of such payment must then be increased to the extent necessary to ensure that, after the making of such deduction or withholding, the Lender receives on the due date for such payment (and retains, free from
any liability in respect of such deduction or withholding), a net sum equal to the sum which it would have received had no such deduction or withholding been made and the Borrower agrees to indemnify the Lender on demand against any losses or costs
certified by the Lender to have been incurred by it by reason of any failure of the Borrower to make any such deduction or withholding or by reason of any increased payment not being made on the due date for such payment. The Borrower must promptly
deliver to the Lender any receipts, certificates or other proof evidencing the amounts (if any) paid or payable in respect of any deduction or withholding as aforesaid. . The Lender shall use commercially reasonable efforts (including the delivery
of properly completed and executed Tax forms or documentation prescribed by applicable law) to reduce or eliminate any deduction or withholding for Taxes from any payment due under any of the Loan Documents and to mitigate any circumstances which
arise and which would result in any amount becoming payable under or pursuant to this clause 6.6. 
  

	6.7	 Loan account 

The Lender agrees to maintain a control account showing the Loan and other sums owing by the Borrower under the Loan Documents and all payments
in respect thereof being made from time to time. The control account shall, in the absence of manifest error, absent prompt objection by the Borrower, be conclusive as to the amount from time to time owing by the Borrower under the Loan Documents.

  

	6.8	 Partial payments 

If, on any date on which a payment is due to be made by the Borrower under any of the Loan Documents, the amount received by the Lender from
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to any rights or remedies available to the Lender under any of the Loan Documents, the Lender must apply the amount actually received from the Borrower in or towards discharge of the obligations
of the Borrower under the Loan Documents in the following order, notwithstanding any appropriation made, or purported to be made, by the Borrower: 
  

	6.8.1	 first, in or towards payment, on a pro-rata basis, of any unpaid costs
and expenses of the Lender under any of the Loan Documents; 

  

	6.8.2	 secondly, in or towards payment of any fees payable to the Lender under, or in relation to, the Loan Documents
which remain unpaid; 

  

	6.8.3	 thirdly, in or towards payment to the Lender of any accrued interest owing in respect of the Loan which shall
have become due under any of the Loan Documents but remains unpaid; 

  

	6.8.4	 fourthly, in or towards payment to the Lender of any principal in respect of the Loan which shall have become
due but remains unpaid; 

  

	6.8.5	 fifthly, in or towards payment to the Lender of any other sum which shall have become due under any of the Loan
Documents but remains unpaid (and, if more than one such sum so remains unpaid, on a pro rata basis). 

 The order of
application set out in clauses 6.8.1 to 6.8.5 may be varied by the Lender without any reference to, or consent or approval from, the Borrower. 
  

	6.9	 FATCA  

  

	6.9.1	 Subject to Clause 6.9.3 below, each party shall, within ten (10) Banking Days of a reasonable request by
another party: 

  

	 	(a)	 confirm to that other party whether it is: 

 

	 	(i)	 a FATCA Exempt Party; or 

 

	 	(ii)	 not a FATCA Exempt Party; and 

 

	 	(b)	 supply to that other party such forms, documentation and other information relating to its status under FATCA
(including its applicable passthru percentage or other information required under the Treasury Regulations or other official guidance including intergovernmental agreements) as that other party reasonably requests for the purposes of that other
party’s compliance with FATCA. 

  
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	6.9.2	 If a party confirms to another party pursuant to Clause 6.9.1(a) above that it is a FATCA Exempt Party and it
subsequently becomes aware that it is not, or has ceased to be a FATCA Exempt Party, that party shall notify that other party reasonably promptly. 

  

	6.9.3	 Clause 6.9.1(a) above shall not oblige the Lender to do anything which would or might in its reasonable opinion
constitute a breach of: 

  

	 	(a)	 any law or regulation; 

 

	 	(b)	 any policy of the Lender; 

 

	 	(c)	 any fiduciary duty; or 

 

	 	(d)	 any duty of confidentiality. 

 

	6.9.4	 If the Borrower is required to make a FATCA Deduction, the Borrower shall make that FATCA Deduction and any
payment required in connection with that FATCA Deduction within the time allowed and in the minimum amount required by FATCA; 

  

	6.9.5	 The Borrower shall promptly upon becoming aware that it must make a FATCA Deduction (or that there is any
change in the rate or the basis of a FATCA Deduction) notify the Lender accordingly; and

  

	6.9.6	 Within thirty days of making either a FATCA Deduction or any payment required in connection with that FATCA
Deduction, the Borrower shall deliver to the Lender evidence satisfactory to the Lender that the FATCA Deduction has been made or (as applicable) any appropriate payment paid to the relevant governmental or taxation authority. 

 

	7	 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES 

 

	7.1	 Continuing representations and warranties 

The Borrower represents and warrants to the Lender that: 
  

	7.1.1	 Due incorporation 

each of the Security Parties is duly incorporated and validly existing in good standing, under the laws of the Marshall Islands as a
corporation and has power to carry on its respective business as it is now being conducted and to own its property and other assets to which it has unencumbered legal and beneficial title except as disclosed to the Lender in writing; 

  
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	7.1.2	 Corporate power 

each of the Security Parties has power to execute, deliver and perform its obligations and, as the case may be, to exercise its rights under
the Loan Documents to which it is a party; all necessary corporate, shareholder and other action has been taken to authorise the execution, delivery and on the execution of the Loan Documents performance of the same and no limitation on the powers
of the Borrower to borrow or any other Security Party to howsoever incur liability and/or to provide or grant security will be exceeded as a result of borrowing any part of the Loan; 

 

	7.1.3	 Binding obligations 

subject to the Legal Reservations and the Perfection Requirements, the Loan Documents, when executed, will constitute valid and legally binding
obligations of the relevant Security Parties enforceable in accordance with their respective terms and admissible in evidence and the Security Documents will create first priority Encumbrances; 

 

	7.1.4	 No conflict with other obligations 

the execution and delivery of, the performance of its obligations under, and compliance with the provisions of, the Loan Documents by the
relevant Security Parties will not (i) contravene in any material respect any existing applicable law, statute, rule or regulation or any judgment, decree or permit of any Pertinent Jurisdiction to which any Security Party or other member of
the Group is subject, (ii) conflict with, or result in any breach of any of the terms of, or constitute a default under, any agreement or other instrument to which any Security Party or any other member of the Group is a party or is subject or
by which it or any of its property is bound which is likely to have a Material Adverse Effect , (iii) contravene or conflict with any provision of the constitutional documents of any Security Party or (iv) result in the creation or imposition
of, or oblige any Security Party to create, any Encumbrance (other than a Permitted Encumbrance) on any of the undertakings, assets, rights or revenues of any Security Party secured under the Security Documents; 

  
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	7.1.5	 No default 

no Default has occurred which is continuing; 
  

	7.1.6	 No litigation or judgments 

no Proceedings are current, pending or, to the knowledge of the officers of the Borrower, threatened against any Security Party or any other
Group Members or their assets which could have a Material Adverse Effect and there exist no judgments, orders, injunctions which would materially affect the obligations of any Security Party under the Loan Documents other than have been publicly
disclosed by the Borrower prior to the Execution Date; 
  

	7.1.7	 No filings required 

it is not necessary to ensure the legality, validity, enforceability or admissibility in evidence of any of the Loan Documents that they or any
other instrument be notarised, filed, recorded, registered or enrolled in any court, public office or elsewhere in any Pertinent Jurisdiction or that any stamp, registration or similar tax or charge be paid in any Pertinent Jurisdiction on or in
relation to the Loan Documents and each of the Loan Documents is in proper form for its enforcement in the courts of each Pertinent Jurisdiction; 
  

	7.1.8	 Required Authorisations and legal compliance 

all Required Authorisations have been obtained or effected and are in full force and effect and no Security Party has in any way contravened
any applicable law, statute, rule or regulation (including all such as relate to money laundering); 
  

	7.1.9	 Choice of law 

the choice of English law to govern this Agreement and the Bareboat Owners’ Shares Pledge, the choice of US law to govern the Account
Pledge and the submissions by the Security Parties to the jurisdiction of the English courts and the obligations of the Security Parties associated therewith, are valid and binding; 

  
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	7.1.10	 No immunity 

no Security Party nor any of their assets is entitled to immunity on the grounds of sovereignty or otherwise from any Proceedings whatsoever;

  

	7.1.11	 Financial statements correct and complete 

the Latest Accounts of the Borrower in respect of the relevant financial year as delivered to the Lender present fairly and accurately the
financial position of the Borrower for the financial year, ended on such date and, as at such date, the Borrower had no material liabilities (contingent or otherwise) or any unrealised or anticipated losses which are not disclosed by, or reserved
against or provided for in, such financial statements or notes thereto; 
  

	7.1.12	 Pari passu 

the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement are direct, general and unconditional obligations of the Borrower and rank at least pari
passu with all present and future unsubordinated Indebtedness of the Borrower except for obligations which are mandatorily preferred by operation of law and not by contract; 
  

	7.1.13	 Information/ Material Adverse Effect 

all written factual information, whatsoever provided by any Security Party to the Lender in connection with the negotiation and preparation of
the Loan Documents or otherwise provided hereafter in relation to, or pursuant to this Agreement is true and accurate in all material respects and not misleading and the Borrower’s public filings do or will not omit material facts and all
reasonable enquiries have been made to verify the facts and statements contained therein as of such date and there has not occurred a Material Adverse Effect on any Security Party since such information was provided to the Lender; 

 

	7.1.14	 Freedom from Encumbrances 

save as otherwise disclosed in writing by the Borrower to the Lender on or prior to the date of this Agreement, no properties or rights which
are, or are to be, the subject of any of the Security Documents nor any part thereof will be subject to any Encumbrance except Permitted Encumbrances; 

  
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	7.1.15	 Copies true and complete 

the copies of the constitutional documents of the Security Parties delivered or to be delivered to the Lender pursuant to clause 9.1 are, or
will when delivered be, true and complete copies; and there have been no amendments or variations thereof; 
  

	7.1.16	 Indebtedness 

no Security Party has incurred any Indebtedness other than as permitted under the Secured Indenture and the Second Secured Indenture or as
otherwise disclosed to the Lender in writing or as disclosed in the Group’s public filings; 
  

	7.1.17	 Use of proceeds 

the Borrower shall apply the Loan only for the purposes specified in clauses 1.1. and 2.1; 

 

	7.1.18	 Filings 

subject to any permissible extensions, the Borrower has filed all material tax and other fiscal returns required to be filed with any tax
authority to which it is subject; 
  

	7.1.19	 Office 

the Borrower does not have an office in England; 
  

	7.1.20	 Prohibited Persons, unlawful activity 

 

	 	(a)	 none of the Group Members are a Prohibited Person; and 

 

	 	(b)	 to the best of its knowledge, no title in any property or other assets subject to an Encumbrance created by a
Loan Document has been obtained in breach of any existing applicable law, statute, rule or regulation; 

  

	7.1.21	 Insolvency 

none of the Security Parties is unable or has admitted inability to pay its debts as they fall due, has suspended making payments on any of its
debts or has announced an intention to do so, is or has become insolvent; or, save as disclosed to the Lender prior to the Execution Date, or has suffered the declaration of a moratorium in respect of any of its Indebtedness; 

  
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	7.1.22	 Sanctions 

no Security Party nor any director, officer, agent, employee of any Security Party or any person acting on behalf of any Security Party, is a
Prohibited Person nor acts directly or indirectly on behalf of a Prohibited Person; and 
  

	7.2	 Repetition of representations and warranties 

On the Execution Date, the Drawdown Date and on the first day of each Interest Period, the Borrower shall be deemed to repeat the
representations and warranties in clause 7.1 updated mutatis mutandis as if made with reference to the facts and circumstances existing on such day. 
  

	8	 UNDERTAKINGS 

  

	8.1	 General 

The Borrower undertakes with the Lender that, from the Execution Date until the end of the Facility Period, it will: 

 

	8.1.1	 Notice of Default and Proceedings 

promptly inform (and any public filing of the Borrower containing the relevant information about the matters hereafter described shall
constitute compliance with this covenant to inform) the Lender of (a) when required under the Secured Indenture and the Second Secured Indenture, any Default (including the occurrence of any Event of Default under (and as defined in) the
Secured Indenture or the Second Secured Indenture,, in which case the Borrower shall also provide to the Lender copies of all demands or notices made in connection therewith) and of any other circumstances or occurrence which might materially and
adversely affect the ability of the Borrower to perform its obligations under any of the Loan Documents and (b) as soon as the same is instituted or formally threatened in writing, details of any Proceedings involving the Borrower which could
have a Material Adverse Effect on the Borrower and will from time to time, if so reasonably requested by the Lender, confirm to the Lender in writing that, save as otherwise stated in such confirmation, no Default has occurred and is continuing and
no such Proceedings are on foot or have been formally threatened in writing; 

  
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	8.1.2	 Authorisation 

obtain or cause to be obtained, maintain in full force and effect and comply fully with all Required Authorisations, provide the Lender, upon
request, with Certified Copies of the same and do, or cause to be done, all other acts and things which may from time to time be necessary under any applicable law for the continued due performance of all the obligations of the Security Parties
under each of the Loan Documents; 
  

	8.1.3	 Corporate Existence/Ownership 

ensure that each Security Party maintains its corporate existence as a body corporate duly organised and validly existing and in good standing
under the laws of the Pertinent Jurisdiction and ensure that the Borrower is owned and controlled, directly or through other companies, by the persons disclosed to the Lender prior to the date hereof; 

 

	8.1.4	 Use of proceeds 

  

	 	(a)	 use the Loan exclusively for the purposes specified in clauses 1.1 and 2.1; and 

 

	 	(b)	 any Notes purchased using the proceeds of the Loan shall be immediately credited to the Securities Account;

  

	8.1.5	 Pari passu 

ensure that its obligations under this Agreement shall at all times rank at least pari passu with all its present and future unsecured and
unsubordinated Indebtedness with the exception of any obligations which are mandatorily preferred by law and not by contract; 
  

	8.1.6	 Financial statements 

provide the Lender (or procure that is provided): 
  

	 	(a)	 as soon as possible, but in no event later than 120 days after the end of each of its financial years, annual
audited (prepared in accordance with US GAAP by a firm of accountants acceptable to the Lender) consolidated balance sheet and profit and loss accounts of the Borrower (commencing with the financial year ending 31 December 2019) and public
filing in respect of the Borrower shall constitute delivery; 

  
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	 	(b)	 as soon as possible, but in no event later than 90 days after the end of each of its first three financial
quarters, commencing with the first financial quarter of 2019, the Borrower’s unaudited consolidated balance sheet and profit and loss accounts for that 3 month period certified as to their correctness by its chief financial officer;

  

	 	(c)	 prior to the start of each of its financial years, an annual forecast in respect of the Borrower;

  

	 	(d)	 details of any litigation, arbitration, administrative proceedings, Default and any other events or
circumstances which are likely to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Borrower; 

  

	8.1.7	 Compliance Certificates 

deliver to the Lender on the dates on which the financial statements must be delivered to the Lender under clause 8.1.6(b), a Compliance
Certificate and such other supporting information as the Lender may require; 
  

	8.1.8	 Provision of further information 

provide the Lender with such financial or other information concerning the Borrower, all vessels (including those under construction) owned,
acquired, sold or managed by any Group Member, or any of its subsidiaries, including, commitments, financial standing, operations and in relation to Borrowed Moneys, repayment of Borrowed Money, as the Lender may from time to time reasonably
require; 
  

	8.1.9	 Compliance with Laws and payment of taxes 

comply in all material respects with all relevant applicable laws, statutes, directives, decrees, rulings and analogous rules (including, but
not limited to, those relating to Sanctions) and regulations (other than in the case of Sanctions) where failure to do so would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect and pay all taxes for which it is liable as they fall due unless
disputed in good faith; 

  
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	8.1.10	 Bareboat Owners’ Shares Pledge etc. 

It is hereby agreed that the Borrower may elect at any time, following the successful re-financing of
(a) the Senior Notes and (b) the Existing Term Loan B, to request the Lender to release the Borrower from all its obligations under the Bareboat Owners’ Shares’ Pledges, in which case the provisions of clause 3.1 shall apply and
the Lender shall promptly provide to the Borrower with an unconditional release of the Bareboat Owners Shares’ Pledges; 
  

	8.1.11	 Secured Indenture 

comply with all of its obligations under the Secured Indenture which are set out in the Indenture Excerpt and the Borrower further agrees: 

 

	 	(a)	 any terms defined in the Secured Indenture shall have those meanings when used in the Indenture Excerpt;

  

	 	(b)	 no waiver or variation of any term of the Secured Indenture by any person shall waive or vary the
Borrower’s obligations hereunder to comply with the obligations in the Indenture Excerpt, except with the consent of the Lender; 

  

	 	(c)	 the Borrower shall continue to be bound by its obligations as set out in the Indenture Excerpt following a
Covenant Defeasance (as defined in the Secured Indenture) or a Legal Defeasance (as defined in the Secured Indenture) or other termination or cancellation of the Secured Indenture; and 

  
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	 	(d)	 the Borrower will not vary any material term of the Secured Indenture without the prior written consent of the
Lender, however this will not affect its right of partial or full prepayment of the Secured Indenture; 

  

	8.1.12	 Sanctions 

will not and will use reasonable endeavours to ensure that no Group Member does, conduct or undertake any business: 

 

	 	(a)	 in breach of any Sanctions of: 

 

	 	(i)	 the United Nations Security Council; 

 

	 	(ii)	 the European Union; 

  

	 	(iii)	 the United Kingdom; 

  

	 	(iv)	 the United States of America 

 

	 	(v)	 the Marshall Islands 

as they apply to their members or nationals; or 
  

	 	(b)	 in any trade, carriage of goods or business which is forbidden by the laws of the United Kingdom or the United
States of America as they apply to their members or nationals, or any law applicable to the Borrower; or 

  

	 	(c)	 in carrying illicit or prohibited goods; or 

 

	 	(d)	 in a way which may make it liable to be condemned by a prize court or destroyed, seized or confiscated; or

  

	 	(e)	 to the knowledge of the Borrower, by or for the benefit of a Prohibited Person; 

  
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	8.1.13	 Delivery of reports 

deliver to the Lender upon request a copy of each report, circular, notice or like document issued by the Borrower to its shareholders or
creditors generally; 
  

	8.1.14	 Securities Account 

hold the Notes in the Securities Account throughout the Facility Period, subject to any of the Notes being retired, following which the
provisions of clause 4.3.3 shall apply; 
  

	8.1.15	 Dividends 

declare or pay dividends in accordance with the terms of the Secured Indenture for so long as no Event of Default has then occurred which is
continuing, or would occur as a result of such declaration and/or payment; 
  

	8.1.16	 Investments and payments 

make certain investments and payments always in accordance with the terms of the Secured Indenture for so long as no Event of Default has then
occurred which is continuing, or would occur as a result of such investment /or payment. 
  

	8.2	 Negative undertakings 

The Borrower undertakes with the Lender that, from the Execution Date until the end of the Facility Period, it will not, without the prior
written consent of the Lender: 
  

	8.2.1	 Negative pledge 

without prejudice to the Secured Indenture, permit any Encumbrance (other than a Permitted Encumbrance or as otherwise disclosed in writing by
the Borrower to the Lender on or prior to the date of this Agreement) to subsist, arise or be created or extended over any shares owned by the Borrower to secure or prefer any present or future Indebtedness or other liability or obligation of any
Group Member or any other person; 

  
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	8.2.2	 Ownership 

permit any Change of Control (as such term is defined in the Indenture Excerpt); 

 

	8.2.3	 No merger or transfer 

enter into any form of amalgamation, merger, consolidation, liquidation, dissolution, change in its organisational structure or any form of
reconstruction or reorganisation (unless such change, reconstruction or reorganisation would not adversely affect the security constituted hereunder); 
  

	8.2.4	 Transactions 

enter into any transactions with or involving such a person or company on terms which are, in any respect, less favourable to the Borrower than
those which it could obtain at arm’s length; or 
  

	8.2.5	 Prohibited Persons 

, and shall use reasonable endeavours to procure that no Group Member will, have any course of dealings, directly or indirectly, with any
Prohibited Person. 
  

	8.3	 Secured Indenture 

Notwithstanding anything in cause 8.2 of this Agreement: 
  

	 	(a)	 any terms, transactions or events permitted by the Indenture Excerpt; and 

 

	 	(b)	 save as otherwise expressly provided in clause 8.2, any other terms or transactions or events permitted by the
Secured Indenture, 

 shall be deemed to be permitted under clause 8.2 of this Agreement. 

 

	9	 CONDITIONS 

  

	9.1	 Documents and evidence 

The Lender’s obligation to make available the Loan is subject to the following conditions precedent: 

  
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	9.1.1	 that on or before the Drawdown Date, the Lender has received the documents described in Schedule 2 in form and
substance satisfactory to the Lender; 

  

	9.1.2	 the representations and warranties contained in clause 7.1 being then true and correct as if each was made with
respect to the facts and circumstances existing at such time; and 

  

	9.1.3	 no Default shall have occurred and be continuing and no Default would result from the making of the Loan.

  

	9.2	 Waiver of conditions precedent 

The conditions specified in this clause 9 are inserted solely for the benefit of the Lender and may be waived by the Lender in whole or in part
and with or without conditions. 
  

	9.3	 English language 

All documents required to be delivered under and/or supplied in connection with any of the Loan Documents must either be in the English
language or accompanied by an English translation certified by a notary, lawyer or consulate acceptable to the Lender. 
  

	10	 EVENTS OF DEFAULT 

 

	10.1	 Events 

Each of the following events shall constitute an Event of Default (whether such event shall occur voluntarily or involuntarily or by operation
of law or regulation or in connection with any judgment, decree or order of any court or other authority or otherwise, howsoever): 
  

	10.1.1	 Non-payment: the Borrower fails to pay any sum payable by it
under any of the Loan Documents at the time, in the currency and in the manner stipulated in the Loan Documents (and so that, for this purpose, sums payable (i) under clause 4.1 shall be treated as having been paid at the stipulated time if
(a) received by the Lender within five (5) days of the dates therein referred to and (b) such delay in receipt is caused by administrative or other delays or errors within the banking system and (ii) on demand shall be treated as
having been paid at the stipulated time if paid within five (5) Banking Days of demand); or 

  
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	10.1.2	 Breach of other obligations: any Security Party commits any breach of or omits to observe any of its
obligations or undertakings expressed to be assumed by it under any of the Loan Documents (other than those referred to in clause 10.1.1 above) unless such breach or omission, in the reasonable opinion of the Lender is capable of remedy, in which
case the same shall constitute an Event of Default if it has not been remedied within thirty (30) Business Days of the Lender giving written notice to the Borrower of, or the Borrower becoming aware of the occurrence thereof; or

  

	10.1.3	 Misrepresentation: any representation or warranty made or deemed to be made or repeated by or in respect
of any Security Party in or pursuant to any of the Loan Documents or in any notice, certificate or statement referred to in or delivered under any of the Loan Documents is or proves to have been incorrect or misleading in any material respect unless
the circumstances giving rise to the misrepresentation are in the reasonable opinion of the Lender capable of remedy and are remedied within thirty 30 Business Day of the Lender giving written notice to the Borrower of, or the Borrower becoming
aware of, the occurrence thereof; or 

  

	10.1.4	 Cross-default: any Indebtedness of the Borrower (which is not intra group or subordinated debt) in
excess of USD30,000,000 is not paid when due (subject to applicable grace periods) or any Indebtedness of the Borrower becomes (whether by declaration or automatically in accordance with the relevant agreement or instrument constituting the same)
due and payable prior to the date when it would otherwise have become due (unless as a result of the exercise by the Borrower of a voluntary right of prepayment), or any creditor of the Borrower becomes entitled to declare any such Indebtedness due
and payable or any facility or commitment available to the Borrower relating to Indebtedness is withdrawn, suspended or cancelled by reason of any default (however described) of the person concerned (unless the relevant creditor has granted to the
Borrower a waiver in respect thereof) ; or 

  

	10.1.5	 Execution: any uninsured judgment or order made against the Borrower in an amount in excess of
USD30,000,000 is not stayed, appealed against or complied with within twenty (20) days or a creditor attaches or takes possession of, or a distress, execution, sequestration or other process is levied or enforced upon or sued out against, any
of the undertakings, assets, rights or revenues of the Borrower and is not discharged within thirty (30) days; or 

  

	10.1.6	 Insolvency: the Borrower is unable or admits inability to pay its debts as they fall due; suspends
making payments on all or substantially all of its debts or announces an intention to do so; becomes insolvent; or suffers the declaration of a moratorium in respect of all or substantially all of its Indebtedness; or 

  
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	10.1.7	 Dissolution: any corporate action, Proceedings or other steps are taken to dissolve or wind-up the Borrower or an order is made or resolution passed for the dissolution or winding up of the Borrower; or 

  

	10.1.8	 Administration: any petition is presented, notice given or other steps are taken anywhere to appoint an
administrator of any Security Party or an administration order is made in relation to any Security Party; or 

  

	10.1.9	 Appointment of receivers and managers: any administrative or other receiver is appointed anywhere of any
Security Party or any part of its assets and/or undertaking or any other steps are taken to enforce any Encumbrance over all or any part of the assets of any Security Party; or 

 

	10.1.10	 Compositions: any corporate action, legal proceedings or other procedures are taken, by the Borrower or
by any of its creditors with a view to the general readjustment or rescheduling of all or substantially all of its Indebtedness, or to proposing any kind of composition, compromise or arrangement involving such company and all or substantially all
of its creditors; or 

  

	10.1.11	 Analogous proceedings: there occurs, in relation to a Security Party, in any country or territory in
which it carries on business or to the jurisdiction of whose courts any part of its assets is subject, any event which, in the reasonable opinion of the Lender, appears in that country or territory to correspond with, or have an effect equivalent or
similar to, any of those mentioned in clauses 10.1.6 to 10.1.10 (inclusive) in respect of the Borrower or the Borrower otherwise becomes subject, in any such country or territory, to the operation of any law relating to insolvency, bankruptcy or
liquidation; or 

  

	10.1.12	 Cessation of business: any Security Party suspends or ceases to carry on its business; or

  

	10.1.13	 Seizure: all or a material part of the undertaking, assets, rights or revenues of, or shares or other
ownership interests in, the Borrower are seized, nationalised, expropriated or compulsorily acquired by or under the authority of any government entity; or 

  

	10.1.14	 Invalidity: any of the Loan Documents shall, other than as a result of any act or omission of the
Lender, at any time and for any reason become invalid or unenforceable or otherwise cease to remain in full force and effect, or if the validity or enforceability of any of the Loan Documents shall at any time and for any reason be contested by any
Security Party which is a party thereto, or if any Security Party shall deny that it has any, or any further, liability thereunder; or 

  
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	10.1.15	 Unlawfulness: any Unlawfulness occurs or it becomes impossible or unlawful at any time for any Security
Party, to fulfil any of the covenants and obligations expressed to be assumed by it in any of the Loan Documents or for the Lender to exercise the rights or any of them vested in it under any of the Loan Documents or otherwise; or

  

	10.1.16	 Repudiation: any Security Party repudiates any of the Security Documents or does or causes or permits to
be done any act or thing evidencing an intention to repudiate any of the Security Documents; or 

  

	10.1.17	 Encumbrances enforceable: any Encumbrance (other than Permitted Liens) in respect of any of the property
(or part thereof) which is the subject of any of the Security Documents becomes enforceable; or 

  

	10.1.18	 Material events: any other event occurs or circumstance arises which, in the reasonable opinion of the
Lender, is likely to have a Material Adverse Effect or, if such event or circumstance is capable of remedy it is not remedied within 15 Business Days of the earlier of (i) the Lender notifying the Borrower of such event or (ii) the
Borrower becoming aware of the same; or 

  

	10.1.19	 Litigation: any Proceedings are current, pending or threatened against any of the Security Parties which
could have a Material Adverse Effect; or 

  

	10.1.20	 Required Authorisations: any Required Authorisation is revoked or withheld or modified or is otherwise
not granted or fails to remain in full force and effect or if any exchange control or other law or regulation shall exist which would make any transaction under the Loan Documents or the continuation thereof, unlawful or would prevent the
performance by any Security Party of any term of any of the Loan Documents; 

  
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	10.1.21	 Change of Control: there occurs a “Change of Control” (as such term is defined in the
Indenture Excerpt); 

  

	10.1.22	 Money Laundering: any Security Party is in breach of or fails to observe any law, requirement, measure
or procedure implemented to combat “money laundering” as defined in Article 1 of the Directive (91/308 EEC) of the Council of the European Communities. 

 

	10.2	 Acceleration 

The Lender may, without prejudice to any other rights of the Lender, at any time after the happening of an Event of Default so long as the same
is continuing by notice to the Borrower: 
  

	10.2.1	 declare that the obligation of the Lender to make the Commitment available shall be terminated, whereupon the
Commitment shall immediately be cancelled; and/or 

  

	10.2.2	 declare that the Loan and all interest accrued and all other sums payable whensoever under the Loan Documents
have become due and payable, whereupon the same shall, immediately or in otherwise accordance with the terms of such notice, become due and payable; and/or 

  

	10.2.3	 exercise any or all of its rights, remedies, powers or discretions under the Loan Documents.

  

	10.3	 Demand basis 

If, under clause 10.2.2, the Lender has declared the Loan to be due and payable on demand, at any time thereafter the Lender may by further
notice to the Borrower demand repayment of the Loan on such date as may be specified whereupon the Loan shall become due and payable accordingly with all interest accrued and all other sums payable under this Agreement. 

 

	11	 INDEMNITIES 

  

	11.1	 General indemnity 

The Borrower agrees to indemnify the Lender on demand, without prejudice to any of the Lender’s other rights under any of the Loan
Documents, against any loss (including loss of interest), cost or expense which the Lender shall certify as sustained at any time by it in connection with this Agreement, including (without limitation) any such loss, cost or expense

  
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arising from any action, claim, suit or proceeding directly or indirectly related to this Agreement, the other Loan Documents or the Loan (excluding any default by the Lender determined by a
court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from (i) the gross negligence, bad faith or wilful misconduct of the Lender or (ii) a material breach of the Loan Documents by the Lender). 

 

	12	 UNLAWFULNESS AND INCREASED COSTS MITIGATION 

 

	12.1	 Unlawfulness 

Regardless of any other provision of this Agreement, in the event that the Lender notifies the Borrower that by reason of: 

 

	 	(a)	 the introduction of or any change in any applicable law or regulation or any change in the interpretation or
application thereof; or 

  

	 	(b)	 compliance by the Lender with any directive, request or requirement (whether or not having the force of law) of
any central bank or Government Entity 

 it becomes unlawful or it is prohibited by or contrary to such directive request
or requirement for the Lender to maintain or give effect to any of its obligations in connection howsoever with this Agreement then (i) the Commitment shall be reduced to zero and (ii) the Borrower shall be obliged to prepay the Loan
either immediately or on a future date (specified in the Lender’s notice) not being earlier than the latest date permitted by the relevant law, regulation, directive, request or requirement with interest and commitment commission accrued to the
date of prepayment and all other sums payable whensoever by the Borrower under this Agreement. 
  

	12.2	 Increased costs 

If the Lender certifies to the Borrower that at any time the effect of any applicable law, regulation or regulatory requirements or the
interpretation or application thereof or any change therein is to: 
  

	12.2.1	 subject the Lender to Taxes or change the basis of Taxation of the Lender relating to any payment under any of
the Loan Documents (other than Taxes or Taxation on the overall net income of the Lender imposed in the jurisdiction in which its principal or lending office under this Agreement is located); and/or 

  
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	12.2.2	 increase the cost to, or impose an additional cost on, the Lender in making or keeping the Commitment available
or maintaining or funding all or part of the Loan; and/or 

  

	12.2.3	 reduce the amount payable or the effective return to the Lender under any of the Loan Documents; and/or

  

	12.2.4	 require the Lender to make a payment or forgo a return on or calculated by reference to any amount received or
receivable by the Lender under any of the Loan Documents; and/or 

 then and in each such case (subject to clause 12.3) the
Borrower must on demand either: 
  

	 	(a)	 pay to the Lender the amount which the Lender certifies (in a certificate setting forth the basis of the
computation of such amount but not including any matters which the Lender or its holding company regards as confidential) is required to compensate the Lender for such liability to Taxes, cost, reduction, payment, forgone return or loss; or

  

	 	(b)	 prepay the Loan, in respect of which prepayment the terms of clause 4.3 shall apply. 

 

	12.3	 Exception 

Nothing in clause 12.2 shall entitle the Lender to receive any amount relating to compensation for any such liability to Taxes, increased or
additional cost, reduction, payment, foregone return or loss to the extent that the same is the subject of an additional payment under clause 5.3, 5.4 or 6.6. 

  
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	13	 SECURITY, SET-OFF AND MISCELLANEOUS 

 

	13.1	 Application of moneys 

All moneys received by the Lender under or pursuant to any of the Loan Documents and expressed to be applicable in accordance with the
provisions of this clause 13.1 shall be applied by the Lender as follows: 
  

	13.1.1	 first in or toward payment of all unpaid fees, sums which have been demanded by way of indemnity and expenses
which may be owing to the Lender under any of the Loan Documents; 

  

	13.1.2	 secondly in or towards payment of any arrears of interest owing in respect of the Loan or any part thereof;

  

	13.1.3	 thirdly in or towards repayment of the Loan (whether the same is due and payable or not);

  

	13.1.4	 fourthly in or towards payment to the Lender of any other sums which the Lender certifies are owing to it under
any of the Loan Documents; and 

  

	13.1.5	 fifthly the surplus (if any) shall be paid to the Borrower. 

 

	13.2	 Set-off 

 

	13.2.1	 The Borrower authorises the Lender following the occurrence of a Default that is continuing (without prejudice
to any of the Lender’s rights at law, in equity or otherwise), at any time and without notice to the Borrower, to apply any dividend to which the Borrower (as shareholder in the Lender) is then entitled in or towards satisfaction of any sum due
and payable from the Borrower to the Lender under any of the Loan Documents. 

  
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	13.2.2	 The Lender shall not be obliged to exercise any right given to it by this clause 13.2. The Lender shall notify
the Borrower prior to the exercise or purported exercise of any right of set-off. 

  

	13.2.3	 Nothing in this clause 13.2 shall be effective to create a charge or other security interest.

  

	13.3	 Further assurance 

The Borrower will, at its expense, execute, sign, perfect and do, and will procure the execution, signing, perfecting and doing by each of the
other Security Parties of, any and every such further assurance, document, act or thing as in the reasonable opinion of the Lender may be necessary or desirable for perfecting the security contemplated or constituted by the Loan Documents. 

 

	13.4	 Conflicts 

In the event of any conflict between this Agreement and any of the other Loan Documents executed by the Borrower, the provisions of this
Agreement shall prevail. 
  

	13.5	 No implied waivers, remedies cumulative 

No failure or delay on the part of the Lender to exercise any power, right or remedy under any of the Loan Documents shall operate as a waiver
thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise by the Lender of any power, right or remedy preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other power, right or remedy. The remedies provided in the Loan Documents are
cumulative and are not exclusive of any remedies provided by law. No waiver by the Lender shall be effective unless it is in writing. 
  

	13.6	 Severability 

If any provision of this Agreement is prohibited, invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, such prohibition, invalidity,
illegality or unenforceability shall not affect or impair howsoever the remaining provisions thereof or affect the validity, legality or enforceability of such provision in any other jurisdiction. 

  
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	13.7	 Force Majeure 

Regardless of any other provision of this Agreement the Lender shall not be liable for any failure to perform the whole or any part of this
Agreement resulting directly or indirectly from (i) the action or inaction or purported action of any governmental or local authority (ii) any strike, lockout, boycott or blockade (including any strike, lockout, boycott or blockade
effected by or upon the Lender or any of its representatives or employees) (iii) any act of God (iv) any act of war (whether declared or not) or terrorism (v) any failure of any information technology or other operational systems or
equipment affecting the Lender or (vi) any other circumstances whatsoever outside the Lender’s control. 
  

	13.8	 Amendments 

This Agreement may be amended or varied only by an instrument in writing executed by both parties hereto who irrevocably agree that the
provisions of this clause 13.8 may not be waived or modified except by an instrument in writing to that effect signed by both of them. 
  

	13.9	 Counterparts 

This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and all such counterparts taken together shall be deemed to constitute one and the
same agreement which may be sufficiently evidenced by one counterpart. 
  

	13.10	 English language  

All documents required to be delivered under and/or supplied whensoever in connection howsoever with any of the Loan Documents and all notices,
communications, information and other written material whatsoever given or provided in connection howsoever therewith must either be in the English language or accompanied by an English translation certified by a notary, lawyer or consulate
acceptable to the Lender. 

  
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	14	 ACCOUNT 

  

	14.1	 General 

The Borrower undertakes with the Lender that it will ensure that: 
  

	14.1.1	 it will on or before the Drawdown Date, open the Securities Account in respect of the Notes held in its name;
and 

  

	14.1.2	 all moneys payable to the Borrower in respect of the Notes shall, unless and until the Lender directs to the
contrary, be paid to the Securities Account, and pending any such payment into the Securities Account any amount received by the Borrower will be held on Trust for the Lender. 

 

	14.2	 Securities Account: withdrawals 

The moneys then standing to the credit of the Securities Account may be applied from time to time (i) firstly to make the payments
required under this Agreement and (ii) secondly, subject to no Event of Default having occurred and to there being at any time sufficient funds to maintain or pay amounts due under (i) as they fall due, for the general corporate purposes
of the Borrower. 
  

	14.3	 Application of account 

At any time after the occurrence of an Event of Default, the Lender may, without notice to the Borrower, apply all moneys then standing to the
credit of the Securities Account (together with interest from time to time accruing or accrued thereon) in or towards satisfaction of any sums outstanding to the Lender under the Loan Documents in the manner specified in clause 13.1. 

  
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	14.4	 Charging of account 

The Securities Account and all amounts from time to time standing to the credit thereof shall be subject to the security constituted and the
rights conferred by the Account Pledge. 
  

	15	 ASSIGNMENT, TRANSFER AND DISCLOSURE 

 

	15.1	 Benefit and burden 

This Agreement shall be binding upon, and ensure for the benefit of, the Lender and the Borrower and their respective successors. 

 

	15.2	 No assignment by Borrower 

The Borrower may not assign or transfer any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement without the prior written consent of the Lender.
Neither the Borrower nor any affiliate of the Borrower may become a Lender or a sub-participant. 
  

	15.3	 Assignment by Lender 

The Lender may not assign, sell, sub-participate all or any part of its rights under any Loan Document
to another branch, subsidiary or affiliate of the Lender, another first class bank or financial institution, a member of the European System of Central Banks, an insurance company, a trust corporation or a capital investment company, without the
prior written consent of the Borrower. . The Lender, acting solely for this purpose as an agent of the Borrower, shall maintain a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of any such assignee or participant of the Lender, and the
Commitments of, and principal amounts (and stated interest) of the Loans owing to, each such assignee or participant pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the “Register”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive
absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Lender, and any such assignee or participant of Lender 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.
The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower, the Lender and any such assignee or participant of the Lender, at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. It is the intention that this Loan Agreement be
treated as a registered obligation and in “registered form” within the meaning of Sections 163(f), 871(h)(2) and 881(c)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the United States Treasury Regulations thereunder. 

  
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	15.4	 Disclosure of information 

The Lender may disclose to a prospective assignee, transferee or to any other person who may propose entering into contractual relations with
the Lender in relation to this Agreement such information about or in connection with any of the Security Parties and the Loan Documents as the Lender considers appropriate, provided that the Lender shall consult with the Borrower prior to
disclosing (i) any such information which is not public or contained in the Loan Agreement and/or (ii) any documentation other that a copy of this Agreement or any other Security Document. 

 

	16	 NOTICES 

  

	16.1	 General 

  

	16.1.1	 unless otherwise specifically provided herein, every notice under or in connection with this Agreement shall be
given in English by letter delivered personally and/or sent by post and/or transmitted by fax; 

  

	16.1.2	 in this clause “notice” includes any demand, consent, authorisation, approval, instruction,
certificate, request, waiver or other communication. 

  

	16.2	 Addresses for communications, effective date of notices 

 

	16.2.1	 Subject to clause 16.2.2 notices to the Borrower shall be deemed to have been given and shall take effect when
received in full legible form by the Borrower at the address and/or the fax number appearing below (or at such other address or fax number as the Borrower may hereafter specify for such purpose to the Lender by notice in writing);

 Address           7, Avenue de Grande Bretagne 

Office 11B2 
 MC 98000 Monaco

 Fax no:           +377 9798-2141 

notwithstanding the provisions of clause 16.2.1, a notice of Default and/or a notice given pursuant to clause 10.2 or clause 10.3 shall be
deemed to have been given and shall take effect when delivered, sent or transmitted by the Lender to the Borrower to the address or fax number referred to in clause 16.2.1; 

  
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	16.2.2	 notices to the Lender shall be deemed to be given, and shall take effect, when received in full legible form by
the Lender at the address and/or the fax number appearing below (or at any such other address or fax number as the Lender may hereafter specify for such purpose to the Borrower by notice in writing); 

Address           Aguada Park Free Zone 

Paraguay 2141, Of. 1603 

Montevideo, Uruguay 
 Fax no:
          +598 2927-2219 
 if under clause 16.2.1 or clause 16.2.2 a notice would be
deemed to have been given and effective on a day which is not a working day in the place of receipt or is outside the normal business hours in the place of receipt, the notice shall be deemed to have been given and to have taken effect at the
opening of business on the next working day in such place. 
  

	17	 GOVERNING LAW  

 

	17.1	 Law 

This Agreement and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with it is governed
by and shall be construed in accordance with English law. 
  

	18	 JURISDICTION 

  

	18.1	 Exclusive jurisdiction 

Subject to clause 18.4 below, the Borrower and the Lender hereby irrevocably agree that the courts of England shall have exclusive
jurisdiction: 
  

	18.1.1	 to settle any disputes or other matters whatsoever arising under or in connection with this Agreement (or any non-contractual obligation arising out of or in connection with this Agreement) and any disputes or other such matters arising in connection with the negotiation, validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any
part thereof, whether the alleged liability shall arise under the laws of England or under the laws of some other country and regardless of whether a particular cause of action may successfully be brought in the English courts; and

  
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	18.1.2	 to grant interim remedies or other provisional or protective relief. 

 

	18.2	 Submission and service of process 

Subject to clause 18.4 below, the Borrower and the Lender accordingly irrevocably and unconditionally submit to the jurisdiction of the English
courts. Without prejudice to any other mode of service the Borrower: 
  

	18.2.1	 irrevocably empowers and appoints Messrs Hill Dickinson Services (London) Ltd at present of The Broadgate
Tower, 20 Primrose Street, London, EC2A 2EW, England as its agent to receive and accept on its behalf any process or other document relating to any proceedings before the English courts in connection with this Agreement; 

 

	18.2.2	 agrees to maintain such an agent for service of process in England from the date hereof until the end of the
Facility Period; 

  

	18.2.3	 agrees that failure by a process agent to notify the Borrower of service of process will not invalidate the
proceedings concerned; 

  

	18.2.4	 without prejudice to the effectiveness of service of process on its agent under clause 18.2.1 above but as an
alternative method, consents to the service of process relating to any such proceedings by mailing or delivering a copy of the process to its address for the time being applying under clause 16.2; 

 

	18.2.5	 agrees that if the appointment of any person mentioned in clause 18.2.1 ceases to be effective, the Borrower
shall immediately appoint a further person in England to accept service of process on its behalf in England and, failing such appointment with in seven (7) days the Lender shall thereupon be entitled and is hereby irrevocably authorised by the
Borrower in those circumstances to appoint such person by notice to the Borrower. 

  
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	18.3	 Forum non conveniens and enforcement abroad 

The Borrower and the Lender: 
  

	18.3.1	 waive any right and agree not to apply to the English court or other court in any jurisdiction whatsoever to
stay or strike out any proceedings commenced in England on the ground that England is an inappropriate forum and/or that proceedings have been or will be started in any other jurisdiction in connection with any dispute or related matter falling
within clause 17.1; and 

  

	18.3.2	 agree that a final non-appealable judgment or order of an English court
in a dispute or other matter falling within clause 18.1 shall be conclusive and binding on the Borrower and the Lender and may be enforced against them in the courts of any other jurisdiction. 

 

	18.4	 Right of Lender, but not Borrower, to bring proceedings in any other jurisdiction 

 

	18.4.1	 nothing in this clause 18 limits the right of the Lender to bring proceedings in connection with the
enforcement of its security, or the enforcement or recovery of any judgment debt or judicial award or order made (i) in each case, in the courts of England and (ii) under or in relation to this Agreement or any Security Document, including
third party proceedings, against the Borrower, or to apply for interim remedies, in any other court and/or concurrently in more than one jurisdiction; and 

  

	18.4.2	 the obtaining by the Lender of judgment in one jurisdiction shall not prevent the Lender from bringing or
continuing proceedings in any other jurisdiction proceedings in connection with the enforcement of its security, or the enforcement or recovery of any judgment debt or judicial award or order made (i) in each case, in the courts of England and
(ii) under or in relation to this Agreement or any Security Document, whether or not these shall be founded on the same cause of action. 

IN WITNESS whereof the parties to this Agreement have caused this Agreement to be duly executed on the date first above written. 

  
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 Execution page 

BORROWER 
  

			
	SIGNED by /s/ Vasiliki Papaefthymiou	  	)
		
	for on behalf of	  	)
		
	NAVIOS MARITIME HOLDINGS INC.	  	)

 LENDER 
  

			
	SIGNED by /s/ Ioannis Karyotis	  	)
		
	for on behalf of	  	)
		
	NAVIOS SOUTH AMERICAN LOGISTICS INC.	  	)EX-10.2

 Exhibit 10.2 

ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT 

This ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT (the “Assignment”), is made this August 29, 2019, by and between NAVIOS CORPORATION (the
“NC”), NAVIOS SOUTH AMERICAN LOGISTICS INC. (“NSAL”) and NAVIOS SHIPMANAGEMENT INC. (“Assignee”) and relates to the Administrative Services Agreement (the “Agreement”) entered into between NSAL and
Navios Maritime Holdings Inc. on April 12, 2011 as such Agreement was assigned to NC via an assignment dated May 28, 2014 and subsequently amended on April 6, 2016. 

RECITALS: 
 A. NC has
provided NSAL with administrative services pursuant to the Agreement; 
 B. NC wishes to assign to Assignee, and Assignee wishes to assume,
the Agreement; and 
 C. NSAL is willing to consent to assignment of the Agreement to Assignee, subject to the terms and conditions set forth
below. 
 NOW, THEREFORE, for valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties, intending to
be legally bound, mutually agree as follows: 
 SECTION I. Assignment. Subject to the terms hereinafter set forth, NC hereby assigns
to Assignee all of its right, title and interest and all of its covenants, obligations and duties under the Agreement. 
 SECTION 2.
Acceptance. Assignee hereby accepts the foregoing assignment. 
 SECTION 3. Consent of NSAL. NSAL hereby consents to the
foregoing assignment. 
 SECTION 4. Release. NSAL hereby releases and discharges NC from any and all claims, debts, or demands which
NSAL may have, or may ever have, against NC that arise or relate to NC’s or Assignee’s performance or non-performance of its contractual duties and obligations under the Agreement. 

SECTION 5. Execution in Counterparts. This Assignment Agreement may be executed in several counterparts, and such counterparts shall
constitute a single instrument. 
 [Signature Page Follows] 

 IN WITNESS WHEREOF the parties have executed this Agreement by their duly authorized
signatories with effect on the date first above written. 
  

			
	NAVIOS SOUTH AMERICAN LOGISTICS INC.
		
	By:	 	 /s/ Ioannis Karyotis

		 	Name: Ioannis Karyotis
		 	Title:   CFO
	
	NAVIOS SHIPMANAGEMENT INC.
		
	By:	 	 /s/ Pantazis Michalas

		 	Name: Pantazis Michalas
		 	Title:   Operations Manager
	
	NAVIOS CORPORATION
		
	By:	 	 /s/ Shunji Sasada

		 	Name: Shunji Sasada
		 	Title:   President

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