Document:

EX-10.1

   

  Exhibit 10.1

  AMENDMENT NO. 5 TO ABL CREDIT AGREEMENT

  THIS AMENDMENT NO. 5 TO ABL CREDIT AGREEMENT (this “Fifth Amendment”), dated as of April 15, 2022 (the “Fifth Amendment Effective Date”), among JILL ACQUISITION LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Company”), J. JILL GIFT CARD SOLUTIONS, INC., a Florida corporation (“Gift Card Solutions” and, together with the Company, the “Borrowers”), the other Borrowers from time to time party hereto, J.JILL, INC., a Delaware corporation, as successor to JJill Holdings, Inc. and Jill Intermediate LLC (as replacement “Parent” of Jill Holdings LLC) (“Parent”), the other Guarantors from time to time party hereto, the other Lenders from time to time party hereto and CIT FiNANCE LLC, as the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent (in such capacities, the “Agent”).  All capitalized terms used herein (including in this preamble) and not otherwise defined herein shall have the respective meanings provided such terms in the ABL Credit Agreement (as defined below).

  W I T N E S S E T H:

  WHEREAS, the Borrowers, Parent, the Agent and the other parties thereto are parties to that certain ABL Credit Agreement, dated as of May 8, 2015 (as amended by Amendment No. 4 to ABL Credit Agreement and Waiver dated as of September 30, 2020, Amendment No. 3 to ABL Credit Agreement dated as of June 12, 2019, Amendment No. 2 to ABL Credit Agreement dated as of August 22, 2018, and Amendment No. 1 to ABL Credit Agreement dated as of May 27, 2016 (the “ABL Credit Agreement”) and as further amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Amended ABL Credit Agreement”); and

   

   

  WHEREAS, in connection with the foregoing, the Agent, the Lenders (constituting the Required Lenders) and the Borrowers have agreed to the making of certain amendments to, and certain waivers in respect of, the ABL Credit Agreement, in each case, subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein.

  NOW, THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which is acknowledged by each party hereto, it is agreed:

  I.Defined Terms.  All terms used but not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in the Amended ABL Credit Agreement.

  II.Amendments to ABL Credit Agreement.  Subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section III.E hereof, on and as of the Fifth Amendment Effective Date, the parties hereto agree that (i) the ABL Credit Agreement is hereby amended by incorporating the changes shown on the marked copy of the ABL Credit Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit A (it being understood that language which appears “struck out” has been deleted and language which appears as “double-underlined” has been added) and 

   

  

   

  (ii) Exhibits A-1 and A-2 to the Loan Agreement shall be added or replaced in their entireties with the applicable Exhibit attached hereto as Exhibit B. 

  III.Miscellaneous Provisions.

  A.Representations and Warranties. 

  1.Each Credit Party has the company power and authority to execute, deliver and perform the terms and provisions of this Fifth Amendment and has taken all necessary company action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance by it of this Fifth Amendment.  Each Credit Party has duly executed and delivered this Fifth Amendment, and this Fifth Amendment constitutes its legal, valid and binding obligation enforceable in accordance with its terms, except to the extent that the enforceability thereof may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws generally affecting creditors’ rights and by equitable principles (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in equity or at law).

  2.None of the execution, delivery or performance by any Credit Party of this Fifth Amendment, nor compliance by it with the terms and provisions thereof, will (a) contravene any provision of any law, statute, rule or regulation or any order, writ, injunction or decree of any court or Governmental Authority, (b) conflict with or result in any breach of any of the terms, covenants, conditions or provisions of, or constitute a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of (or the obligation to create or impose) any Lien (except Permitted Liens) upon any of the property or assets of any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to the terms of any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, credit agreement or loan agreement, or any other agreement, contract or instrument to which any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which it or any of its property or assets is bound or (c) violate any provision of the certificate or articles of incorporation, certificate of formation, limited liability company agreement or by-laws (or equivalent organizational documents), as applicable, of any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries, except with respect to any violation or conflict referred to in clauses (a) and (b) to the extent that such violation or conflict could not reasonably be expected to have individually or in the aggregate a Material Adverse Effect.

  3.No order, consent, approval, license, authorization or validation of, or filing, recording or registration with (except for those that have otherwise been obtained or made on or prior to the Fifth Amendment Effective Date and which remain in full force and effect on the Fifth Amendment Effective Date) or exemption by, any Governmental Authority or third party is required to be obtained or made by, or on behalf of, any Credit Party to authorize, or is required to be obtained or made by, or on behalf of, any Credit Party in connection with, (a) the execution, delivery and performance by the Credit Parties of this Fifth Amendment or (b) the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability of this Fifth Amendment which in the case of clauses (a) and (b), if not obtained, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

  4.There are no actions, suits or proceedings pending or, to the knowledge of Parent and the Borrowers, threatened (a) with respect this Fifth Amendment or (b) that has had, or could reasonably be expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

   

  

   

  B.This Fifth Amendment is limited to the matters specified herein and shall not constitute a modification, acceptance or waiver of any other provision of the ABL Credit Agreement or any other Credit Document. 

  C.This Fifth Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be deemed an original, but all such counterparts together shall constitute but one and the same instrument; signature pages may be detached from multiple separate counterparts and attached to a single counterpart so that all signature pages are physically attached to the same document.  The parties hereto agree that delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page to this Fifth Amendment by telefacsimile or in ‘PDF’ format by electronic mail shall be effective as delivery of an original executed counterpart of this Fifth Amendment.

  D.This Fifth Amendment and the rights and obligations of the parties hereunder shall be governed by, and shall be construed and enforced in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.

  E.The effectiveness of this Fifth Amendment shall be subject to the satisfaction or waiver by the Agent of the following conditions precedent:

  1.Executed Fifth Amendment.  Receipt by the Agent of counterparts of this Fifth Amendment, duly executed by each of the Borrowers, Parent, each other Credit Party and the Agent, which shall have been delivered (by way of electronic transmission) to the Agent, c/o Proskauer Rose LLP, 11 Times Square, New York, NY 10036, Attention: Andy Bettwy (e-mail address: abettwy@proskauer.com).

  2.Payment of Costs and Expenses. Receipt by the Agent of any fees, costs and expenses to the extent invoiced.

   

  3.Secretary’s Certificates.  Receipt by the Agent of a certificate from each Credit Party (other than Gift Card Solutions), dated the Fifth Amendment Effective Date, signed by an Authorized Officer of such Credit Party, and attested to by the secretary or any assistant secretary of such Credit Party, together with certified copies of the certificate or articles of incorporation and by-laws (or other equivalent organizational documents), as applicable, of such Credit Party and the resolutions of such Credit Party authorizing the execution, delivery and performance of this Fifth Amendment and, in the case of the Borrowers, the borrowings hereunder, and each of the foregoing shall be in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Agent.

   

  4.Good Standing Certificates. Receipt by the Agent on or prior to the Fifth Amendment Effective Date of good standing certificates and bring down letters, if any, of each Credit Party (other than Gift Card Solutions) which the Agent reasonably may have requested, to be certified by proper Governmental Authorities.

   

  5.No Default; Representations and Warranties.  On the Fifth Amendment Effective Date (after giving effect to the Fifth Amendment) (a) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and (b) all representations and warranties contained in the ABL Credit Agreement and in the other Credit Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects with the same effect as though such representations and warranties had been made on the Fifth Amendment Effective Date (it being understood and agreed that (x) any representation or warranty which by its terms is made as of a specified date 

   

  

   

  shall be required to be true and correct in all material respects only as of such specified date and (y) any representation or warranty that is qualified as to “materiality,” “Material Adverse Effect” or similar language shall be true and correct in all respects on such date).

   

  6.Opinions of Counsel.	On the Fifth Amendment Effective Date, the Agent shall have received from Kirkland & Ellis LLP, special counsel to the Credit Parties (other than Gift Card Solutions), an opinion addressed to the Agent and dated the Fifth Amendment Effective Date in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Agent.

   

  7.No Material Adverse Effect. After giving effect to the Transaction 2020, since February 1, 2020, nothing has occurred that has had, or could reasonably be expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. 

   

  F.Each Credit Party hereby acknowledges that it has read this Fifth Amendment and consents to the terms hereof and further hereby affirms, confirms, represents, warrants and agrees that (1) notwithstanding the effectiveness of this Fifth Amendment, the obligations of such Credit Party under each of the Credit Documents to which it is a party shall not be impaired and each of the Credit Documents to which such Credit Party is a party is, and shall continue to be, in full force and effect and is hereby confirmed and ratified in all respects, in each case, as amended hereby; (2) after giving effect to this Fifth Amendment, (a) neither the amendment of the ABL Credit Agreement or any other Credit Document effected pursuant to this Fifth Amendment nor the execution, delivery, performance or effectiveness of this Fifth Amendment or any other Credit Document shall impair the validity, effectiveness or priority of the Liens granted pursuant to the Security Documents (as in effect immediately prior to the Fifth Amendment Effective Date, the “Existing Security Documents”) and such Liens shall continue unimpaired with the same priority to secure repayment of all Obligations, whether heretofore or hereafter incurred and (b) in the case of any Guarantor, its guaranty, as and to the extent provided in the Guaranty, shall continue in full force and effect in respect of the Obligations under the ABL Credit Agreement, as amended by this Fifth Amendment, and the other Credit Documents; and (3) the position of the Lenders with respect to such Liens, the Collateral in which a security interest was granted pursuant to the Existing Security Documents, and the ability of the Agent to realize upon such Liens pursuant to the terms of the Security Documents have not been adversely affected by modification of the ABL Credit Agreement effected pursuant to this Fifth Amendment or by the execution, delivery, performance or effectiveness of this Fifth Amendment.

  G.	Each Credit Party acknowledges and agrees that (i) notwithstanding the conditions to effectiveness set forth in this Fifth Amendment, such Credit Party is not required by the terms of the ABL Credit Agreement or any other Credit Document to consent to this Fifth Amendment, (ii) nothing in the ABL Credit Agreement, this Fifth Amendment or any other Credit Document shall be deemed to require the consent of such Credit Party to any future waiver of the terms of the Amended ABL Credit Agreement and (iii) this Fifth Amendment shall not operate as a waiver of any right, power or remedy of the Agent or Lenders or serve to effect a novation of the Obligations.

  H.From and after the Fifth Amendment Effective Date, (1) all references in the ABL Credit Agreement and each of the other Credit Documents to the ABL Credit Agreement shall be deemed to be references to the ABL Credit Agreement as modified hereby on the Fifth Amendment Effective Date and (2) the Fifth Amendment shall be considered a “Credit Document” under the Amended ABL Credit Agreement.

   

  

   

  I.In consideration of the agreements of the Agent and the Lenders contained herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, each Credit Party hereby remises, releases and forever discharges the Agent, each Lender and their respective directors, officers, partners, shareholders, trustees, employees, agents, representatives, attorneys, Affiliates, Subsidiaries, successors and assigns, and any of them (collectively, the “Released Parties”), from any and all liabilities, obligations, actions, contracts, claims, causes of action, damages, demands, costs and expenses (each, a “Claim”) whatsoever of every kind and nature, however evidenced or created, whether known or unknown, arising prior to or on the date of this Fourth Amendment that relate, directly or indirectly, to the Credit Documents, other than any such Claim that arises hereafter from the gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct of any Released Party as determined by a final, non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction.

   

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  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused their duly authorized officers to execute and deliver this Fifth Amendment as of the date first above written.

  Borrowers:

   

  JILL ACQUISITION LLC

   

   

  By:	/s/ Mark Webb	

  	Name: Mark Webb

  	Title:   Chief Financial Officer

   

   

  J. JILL GIFT CARD SOLUTIONS, INC.

   

  By:	/s/ Mark Webb	

  	Name: Mark Webb

  	Title:   Chief Financial Officer

   

   

  GUARANTOR:

   

  J.JILL, INC.

   

   

  By:	/s/ Mark Webb	

  	Name: Mark Webb

  	Title:   Chief Financial Officer 

   

  [Jill Acquisition LLC – Signature Page to Fifth Amendment to ABL Credit Agreement]

  

   

  CIT FINANCE LLC,
as Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent and Lender

   

   

  By:	/s/ Robert L. Klein	

  	Name:  Robert L. Klein

  	Title:  Director

   

   

  [Jill Acquisition LLC – Signature Page to Fifth Amendment to ABL Credit Agreement]

  

  CONFORMED COPY – NOT EXECUTED IN THIS FORM

  INCORPORATING AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO ABL CREDIT AGREEMENT DATED AS OF MAY 27, 2016, AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO ABL CREDIT AGREEMENT DATED AS OF AUGUST 22, 2018, AMENDMENT NO. 3 TO ABL CREDIT AGREEMENT DATED AS OF JUNE 12, 2019 AND, AMENDMENT NO. 4 TO ABL CREDIT AGREEMENT AND WAIVER DATED AS OF SEPTEMBER 30, 2020 AND AMENDMENT NO. 5 TO ABL CREDIT AGREEMENT DATED AS OF APRIL 15, 2022

   

  Exhibit A

  to

  Fifth Amendment to ABL Credit Agreement

   

  Marked Loan Agreement

   

   

  See attached.

   

   

  4496910v.2

  119241028v1012926166v4

  

  CONFORMED COPY – NOT EXECUTED IN THIS FORM

  INCORPORATING AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO ABL CREDIT AGREEMENT DATED AS OF MAY 27, 2016, AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO ABL CREDIT AGREEMENT DATED AS OF AUGUST 22, 2018, AMENDMENT NO. 3 TO ABL CREDIT AGREEMENT DATED AS OF JUNE 12, 2019 AND, AMENDMENT NO. 4 TO ABL CREDIT AGREEMENT AND WAIVER DATED AS OF SEPTEMBER 30, 2020 AND AMENDMENT NO. 5 TO ABL CREDIT AGREEMENT DATED AS OF APRIL 15, 2022

   

   

   

  4496910v.2

  119241028v1012926166v4

  

   

  	
	 
$40,000,000
 
 
ABL CREDIT AGREEMENT
 
among
 
J.JILL, INC.,
as Parent,
 
JILL ACQUISITION LLC,
as Company,
 
CERTAIN SUBSIDIARIES OF JILL ACQUISITION LLC FROM TIME TO TIME
PARTY HERETO,
 
THE LENDERS PARTY HERETO
 
and
 
CIT FINANCE LLC,
as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent
 
__________________________________________________________
 
dated as of May 8, 2015
__________________________________________________________
 
 
JEFFERIES FINANCE LLC and MACQUARIE CAPITAL (USA) INC.,
as Co-Syndication Agents
 
and
 
JEFFERIES FINANCE LLC and MACQUARIE CAPITAL (USA) INC.,
as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Book Running Managers
 

   

   

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  TABLE OF CONTENTS

  Page

  SECTION 1. Definitions and Accounting Terms.	2

  1.01	Defined Terms	2

  1.02	Other Definitional Provisions	5860

  1.03	Divisions	61

  SECTION 2. Amount and Terms of Credit.	5961

  2.01	The Revolving Loan Commitments.	5961

  2.02	Minimum Amount of Each Borrowing	6264

  2.03	Notice of Borrowing	6364

  2.04	Disbursement of Funds	6465

  2.05	Notes	6567

  2.06	Conversions/Continuations	6667

  2.07	Pro Rata Borrowings	6768

  2.08	Interest	6768

  2.09	Interest Periods	6869

  2.10	Increased Costs, Illegality, etc	6870

  2.11	Compensation	7077

  2.12	Change of Lending Office	7177

  2.13	Replacement of Lenders	7178

  2.14	Company as Agent for Borrowers and other Credit Parties	7279

  2.15	Incremental Revolving Loans.	7380

  2.16	Extensions of Revolving Loan Commitments.	7481

  SECTION 3. Letters of Credit.	7784

  3.01	Letters of Credit	7784

  3.02	Maximum Letter of Credit Outstandings; Final Maturities	7885

  3.03	Letter of Credit Requests; Minimum Stated Amount	7985

  3.04	Letter of Credit Participations	7986

  3.05	Agreement to Repay Letter of Credit Drawings	8188

  3.06	Increased Costs	8288

  3.07	Extended Revolving Loan Commitments	8389

  3.08	Subrogation Rights; Letter of Credit Guaranty.	8389

  SECTION 4. Commitment Commission; Fees; Reductions of Commitment.	8490

  4.01	Fees	8490

  4.02	Voluntary Termination of Unutilized Commitments	8491

  4.03	Mandatory Termination of Commitments	8591

  SECTION 5. Prepayments; Payments; Taxes.	8591

  5.01	Voluntary Prepayments	8591

  5.02	Mandatory Repayments; Cash Collateralization	8693

  5.03	Method and Place of Payment	8894

  5.04	Taxes.	9096

  SECTION 6. Conditions Precedent to Credit Events on the Effective Date	95101

   

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  6.01	Effective Date; Notes	95101

  6.02	Officer’s Certificate	95101

  6.03	OpinionsOpinion of Counsel	95101

  6.04	Company Documents; Proceedings; etc	95101

  6.05	Initial Borrowing Base Certificate	95Reserved.	102

  6.06	Financial Statements; Pro Forma Balance Sheet; Projections	95102

  6.07	Consummation of the Equity Contribution and Acquisition	96102

  6.08	Reserved.	96102

  6.09	Fees, etc	96102

  6.10	Intercreditor Agreement	96102

  6.11	Security Agreements	96102

  6.12	Existing Term Loan Agreement; Other Indebtedness.	97103

  6.13	Solvency Certificate; Insurance Certificates	98104

  6.14	Patriot Act	98104

  6.15	No Company Material Adverse Effect	98104

  6.16	Purchase Agreement Representations and Specified Representations	98104

  SECTION 7. Conditions Precedent to All Credit Events	99105

  7.01	No Default; Representations and Warranties	99105

  7.02	Notice of Borrowing; Letter of Credit Request	99105

  7.03	Borrowing Base Limitations	99105

  7.04	Borrower Status	99106

  7.05	Available Cash Threshold	106

  SECTION 8. Representations, Warranties and Agreements	100106

  8.01	Company Status	100106

  8.02	Power and Authority	100106

  8.03	No Violation	101107

  8.04	Approvals	101107

  8.05	Financial Statements; Financial Condition; Projections.	101107

  8.06	Litigation	102108

  8.07	True and Complete Disclosure	102108

  8.08	Use of Proceeds; Margin Regulations	102108

  8.09	Tax Returns and Payments	103108

  8.10	Compliance with ERISA	103109

  8.11	Security Documents	104109

  8.12	Properties	104110

  8.13	OFAC	104110

  8.14	Patriot Act/FCPA	105110

  8.15	Compliance with Statutes	105111

  8.16	Investment Company Act	105111

  8.17	Environmental Matters	105111

  8.18	Employment and Labor Relations	106112

  8.19	Intellectual Property, Etc	106112

  8.20	Insurance	106112

  8.21	Borrowing Base Calculation	107112

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  SECTION 9. Affirmative Covenants	107112

  9.01	Information Covenants	107112

  9.02	Books, Records and Inspections; Quarterly Conference Calls	112118

  9.03	Maintenance of Property; Insurance	112119

  9.04	Existence; Franchises	113119

  9.05	Compliance with Statutes, etc	113120

  9.06	Compliance with Environmental Laws.	114120

  9.07	ERISA	114121

  9.08	End of Fiscal Years; Fiscal Quarters	115121

  9.09	[Reserved].	115121

  9.10	Payment of Taxes	115121

  9.11	Use of Proceeds	115122

  9.12	Additional Security; Further Assurances; etc	115122

  9.13	Certain Matters Regarding Collateral	118124

  9.14	Landlords’ Agreements, Mortgagee Agreements, Bailee Letters and Real Estate Purchases	118124

  9.15	Inventory	119125

  9.16	Permitted Acquisitions	119

  9.179.16	Ownership of Subsidiaries	120125

  9.17	Cash Flow Reporting; Variance Reporting; Liquidity Reporting; Store Closure Reporting.	126

  SECTION 10. Negative Covenants	120126

  10.01	Liens	120127

  10.02	Consolidation, Merger, Purchase or Sale of Assets, etc	124130

  10.03	Dividends	127133

  10.04	Indebtedness	129135

  10.05	Advances, Investments and Loans	132139

  10.06	Transactions with Affiliates	136142

  10.07	Modifications of Certificate of Incorporation, By-Laws and Certain Other Agreements; Limitations on Voluntary Payments, etc	137143

  10.08	Limitation on Certain Restrictions on Restricted Subsidiaries	138144

  10.09	Business; etc	139145

  10.10	Restricted and Unrestricted Subsidiaries	139[Reserved].	145

  10.11	Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio	140145

  10.12	No Additional Deposit Accounts; etc	140146

  SECTION 11. Events of Default.	140146

  11.01	Events of Default	140146

  11.02	Rescission	144150

  11.03	Application of Proceeds	144150

  11.04	Cure Right.	145151

  SECTION 12. The Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent.	147152

  12.01	Appointment	147152

  12.02	Nature of Duties	147154

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  12.03	Lack of Reliance on the Administrative Agent	148154

  12.04	Certain Rights of the Agents	149155

  12.05	Reliance	149156

  12.06	Indemnification	150156

  12.07	The Administrative Agent in its Individual Capacity	150157

  12.08	Holders	151158

  12.09	Resignation by the Administrative Agent	151158

  12.10	Collateral Matters	152159

  12.11	Delivery of Information	154161

  12.12	Withholding	155162

  12.13	Administrative Agent May File Bankruptcy Disclosure and Proofs of Claim	155162

  SECTION 13. Miscellaneous.	156163

  13.01	Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver; Costs and Expenses	156163

  13.02	Right of Setoff	158165

  13.03	Notices	159166

  13.04	Benefit of Agreement; Assignments; Participations	160168

  13.05	No Waiver; Remedies Cumulative	164171

  13.06	Payments Pro Rata	164172

  13.07	Calculations; Computations	165172

  13.08	GOVERNING LAW; SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION; VENUE; WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL	167174

  13.09	Counterparts	168175

  13.10	Effectiveness	168175

  13.11	Headings Descriptive	168175

  13.12	Amendment or Waiver; etc	168175

  13.13	Survival	172179

  13.14	Domicile of Loans	172179

  13.15	Register	172179

  13.16	Confidentiality	173180

  13.17	Special Notice Regarding Pledges of Equity Interests in, and Promissory Notes Owed by, Persons Not Organized in the United States	174180

  13.18	Patriot Act	174181

  13.19	OTHER LIENS ON COLLATERAL; TERMS OF INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENTS; ETC	174181

  13.20	Interest Rate Limitation	175182

  13.21	No Fiduciary Duty	175182

  13.22	Release of Borrowers	176183

  13.23	Post-Closing Actions	176183

  13.24	Revival and Reinstatement of Obligations	177184

  13.25	Lender Action	177184

  13.26	Cash Management Banks and Hedging Creditors	177184

  13.27	Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of Affected Financial Institutions	185

  13.28	Electronic Records	185

  13.29	Severability	186

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  13.30	Integration	186

  13.31	Acknowledgement Regarding any Supported QFCs.	186

  SECTION 14. Nature of Borrower Obligations.	178187

  14.01	Nature of Borrower Obligations	178187

  14.02	Independent Obligation	178187

  14.03	Authorization	178188

  14.04	Reliance	179188

  14.05	Contribution; Subrogation	179188

  14.06	Waiver	179188

  SECTION 15. Guaranty.	179189

  15.01	The Guaranty	179189

  15.02	Obligations Unconditional	180190

  15.03	Reinstatement	181191

  15.04	Subrogation; Subordination	181191

  15.05	Remedies	182191

  15.06	Instrument for the Payment of Money	182191

  15.07	Continuing Guarantee	182192

  15.08	Excluded Swap Obligations; Keepwell	182192

   

   

   

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  SCHEDULES

   

  SCHEDULE 1.01(a)	Commitments

  SCHEDULE 1.01(b)	Borrowers

  SCHEDULE 1.01(d)	Immaterial Subsidiaries

  SCHEDULE 1.01(e)	Existing Letters of Credit

  SCHEDULE 8.12	Real Property

  SCHEDULE 8.20	Insurance

  SCHEDULE 9.01(f)	Borrowing Base Ancillary Deliverables

  SCHEDULE 10.01	Existing Liens

  SCHEDULE 10.04	Existing Indebtedness

  SCHEDULE 10.08	Restrictive Agreements

  SCHEDULE 10.12	Deposit Accounts

  SCHEDULE 13.03	Lender Addresses

  SCHEDULE 13.23	Post-Closing Matters

   

   

  EXHIBITS

   

  EXHIBIT A-1	Form of Notice of Borrowing

  EXHIBIT A-2	Form of Notice of Conversion/Continuation

  EXHIBIT B-1	Form of Revolving Note

  EXHIBIT B-2	Form of Swingline Note

  EXHIBIT C	Form of Letter of Credit Request

  EXHIBIT D-1	Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate

  EXHIBIT D-2	Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate

  EXHIBIT D-3	Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate

  EXHIBIT D-4	Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate

  EXHIBIT E	Form of Officer’s Certificate

  EXHIBIT F	Form of Security Agreement

  EXHIBIT G	Form of Solvency Certificate

  EXHIBIT H	Form of Compliance Certificate

  EXHIBIT I	Form of Assignment and Assumption Agreement

  EXHIBIT J	Form of ABL Intercreditor Agreement

  EXHIBIT K	Form of Subordination Agreement 

  EXHIBIT L	Form of Joinder Agreement

  EXHIBIT M	Form of Borrowing Base Certificate

   

   

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  ABL CREDIT AGREEMENT, dated as of May 8, 2015, among JILL ACQUISITION LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Company”), J. JILL GIFT CARD SOLUTIONS, INC., a Florida corporation (“Gift Card”), the other Borrowers from time to time party hereto, J.JILL, INC., a Delaware corporation, as successor to JJill Holdings, Inc. and Jill Intermediate LLC (as replacement “Parent” of Jill Holdings LLC) (“Parent”), the other Guarantors from time to time party hereto, the Lenders from time to time party hereto and CIT FINANCE LLC (“CIT”), as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent.  All capitalized terms used herein and defined in Section 1 are used herein as therein defined.

  W I T N E S S E T H:

  WHEREAS, on or prior to the date hereof, JJill Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Holdings”), intends to acquire Jill Intermediate LLC (“Jill Intermediate”) and its subsidiaries (the “Acquisition”) pursuant to the terms of that certain Membership Interest Purchase Agreement, dated as of March 30, 2015, by and among Holdings, Jill Intermediate, the members of Jill Intermediate party thereto and JJ Holding Company Limited (as the same may be amended, restated, amended and restated, modified and/or supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof, and together with all exhibits, schedules and other disclosure letters thereto, collectively, the “Purchase Agreement”), pursuant to which (i) certain equity holders will receive equity interests in JJIP, LLC, and contribute such equity interests to JJill Topco Holdings, L.P. (“Topco”), in exchange for certain equity interests in Topco, (ii) Jill Intermediate will pay off interests under the Commodities Purchase Agreement (as defined in the Purchase Agreement as in effect on the Effective Date) and redeem certain of its other outstanding equity interests, (iii) certain affiliates of the Sponsor and certain other Persons will make direct or indirect contributions of cash to Topco, the proceeds of which will be further used to capitalize Holdings, and (iv) Holdings will purchase all of the remaining outstanding equity interests of Jill Intermediate from its members, all for an aggregate purchase price equal to the Purchase Price (as such term is defined in the Purchase Agreement as in effect on the Effective Date) (collectively, the “Acquisition Consideration”);

  WHEREAS, in order to finance, in part, the Acquisition described in the first recital to this Agreement, to pay certain fees and expenses in connection with the Transaction, and to provide for the general corporate purposes and working capital of the Company and its Subsidiaries, Parent and the Borrowers have requested that the Joint Lead Arrangers arrange, and the Lenders provide, a senior secured asset-based revolving credit facility in the form of this Agreement (the “ABL Facility”); and

  WHEREAS, subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Joint Lead Arrangers have arranged, and the Lenders are willing to make available to the Borrowers, the ABL Facility.

  NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS AGREED:

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  SECTION 1.  	Definitions and Accounting Terms.

  1.01	Defined Terms.  As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings (such meanings to be equally applicable to both the singular and plural forms of the terms defined):

  “ABL Facility” shall have the meaning provided in the Recitals to this Agreement.

  “ABL Facility Priority Collateral” shall have the meaning provided in the ABL Intercreditor Agreement.

  “ABL Intercreditor Agreement” shall mean that certain Amended and Restated Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of September 30, 2020, among Parent, the Company and the other Grantors party thereto from time to time, the Priming Term Loan Agent, the Existing Term Loan Agent, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the other parties thereto from time to time, in the form of Exhibit J hereto and as amended, restated, amended and restated modified and/or supplemented from time to time.

  “ABL Secured Cash Management Agreement” shall mean any Cash Management Agreement that is entered into by and between any Credit Party and any Cash Management Bank designated in writing by the Company (with the consent of all parties to the respective such Cash Management Agreement) to the Administrative Agent as an “ABL Secured Cash Management Agreement” for purposes of this Agreement and the other Credit Documents on or prior to the date of entering into such agreement (or in the case of any Cash Management Agreement existing on the Effective Date, within 30 days after the Effective Date); provided, that (a) a Cash Management Agreement may not be so designated, and will not constitute an ABL Secured Cash Management Agreement, if it is secured by any Term Loan Priority Collateral on a basis prior to the Obligations pursuant to this Agreement (whether secured on a pari passu basis with the Priming Term Loan Obligations or otherwise) and (b) such Cash Management Agreement (and related obligations) shall be permitted in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

  “ABL Secured Hedging Agreement” shall mean each Interest Rate Protection Agreement and/or Other Hedging Agreement entered into by one or more Credit Parties (which may be guaranteed by any other Credit Parties) with any Lender Counterparty designated in writing by the Company (with the consent of all parties to the respective such Interest Rate Protection Agreement and/or Other Hedging Agreement) to the Administrative Agent as an “ABL Secured Hedging Agreement” for purposes of this Agreement and the other Credit Documents within 30 days of entering into such agreement (or in the case of any Interest Rate Protection Agreement existing on the Effective Date, within 30 days after the Effective Date); provided, that (a) an Interest Rate Protection Agreement and/or Other Hedging Agreement may not be so designated, and will not constitute an ABL Secured Hedging Agreement, if it is secured by any Term Loan Priority Collateral on a basis prior to the Obligations pursuant to this Agreement (whether secured on a pari passu basis with the Priming Term Loan Obligations or otherwise) and (b) such Interest Rate Protection Agreement and/or Other Hedging Agreement (and related obligations) shall be permitted in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

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  “Account” shall mean an “account” as such term is defined in Article 9 of the UCC, and any and all supporting obligations in respect thereof.

  “Account Debtor” shall mean each Person who is obligated on an Account.

  “Acquired Entity or Business” shall mean either (a) all or substantially all of the assets constituting a business, division or product line of any Person not already a Subsidiary of the Company, or (b) 50.1% or more of the Equity Interests of any such Person (including by way of merger or consolidation), which Person shall, as a result of the acquisition of such Equity Interests or as a result of a merger or consolidation, become a Subsidiary of the Company (or shall be merged with and into any Borrower or any Subsidiary of any Borrower).

  “Acquisition” shall have the meaning provided in the Recitals to this Agreement.

  “Acquisition Consideration” shall have the meaning provided in the Recitals to this Agreement.

  “Additional Security Documents” shall have the meaning provided in Section 9.12(a).

  “Adjusted Term SOFR” shall mean for purposes of any calculation, the rate per annum equal to (a) Term SOFR for such calculation, plus (b) the Term SOFR Adjustment. In no event shall Adjusted Term SOFR equal less than the Floor.

  “Administrative Agent” shall mean CIT, in its capacity as Administrative Agent for the Lenders hereunder and under the other Credit Documents, and shall include any successor to the Administrative Agent appointed pursuant to Section 12.09.

  “Administrative Agent’s Account” shall have the meaning provided in Section 5.03(d).

  “Administrative Questionnaire” shall mean an Administrative Questionnaire in such form as may be supplied from time to time by the Administrative Agent.

  “Affected Financial Institution” shall mean (a) any EEA Financial Institution or (b) any UK Financial Institution.

  “Affiliate” shall mean, with respect to any Person, any other Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under common control with, such Person.  A Person shall be deemed to control another Person if such Person possesses, directly or indirectly, the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such other Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; provided, however, that none of the Administrative Agent, any Lender (other than an Affiliated Person) or any of their respective Affiliates shall be considered an Affiliate of Parent or any Subsidiary thereof.

  “Affiliated Person” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.04(b).

  “Agent Advance” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.01(e).

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  “Agent Advance Period” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.01(e).

  “Agents” shall mean and include, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Co-Syndication Agents; and “Agent” shall mean any of them.

  “Aggregate Exposure” shall mean, at any time, the sum of (a) the aggregate principal amount of all Revolving Loans, Agent Advances and Swingline Loans then outstanding and (b) the aggregate amount of all Letter of Credit Outstandings at such time.

  “Agreement” shall mean this ABL Credit Agreement, as modified, supplemented, amended, restated (including any amendment and restatement hereof), extended or renewed from time to time.

  “Annual Financial Statements” shall mean the audited consolidated balance sheet of Parent and its Subsidiaries as of February 1, 2020 and related statements of operations, member’s equity and cash flows of Parent and its Subsidiaries for the Fiscal Year ended February 1, 2020.

  “Anticipated Cure Deadline” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 11.04.

  “Applicable Budget” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.17(a).

  “Applicable Commitment Commission Percentage” shall mean (a) from the Effective Date to the last day of the calendar month immediately preceding the date of delivery to the Administrative Agent of the quarterly financial statements required by Section 9.01(a) for the first full Fiscal Quarter ended after the Effective Date, 0.375%, and (b) thereafter, (i) for each calendar quarter during which Historical Excess Availability is greater than 50% of Availability, 0.375%, and (ii) for each calendar quarter during which Historical Excess Availability is less than or equal to 50% of Availability, 0.25%.  From and after any Extension, with respect to any Extended Revolving Loan Commitments and Extended Loans, the Applicable Commitment Commission Percentage specified for such Extended Revolving Loan Commitments and Extended Loans shall be those set forth in the applicable definitive documentation thereof.  Each change in the Applicable Commitment Commission Percentage resulting from a change in Historical Excess Availability shall be effective with respect to all Loans and Letters of Credit outstanding on and after the first day of the calendar month immediately following the date of delivery to the Administrative Agent of the Borrowing Base Certificate required by Section 9.01(f) with respect to a fiscal period that is the final month in a Fiscal Quarter indicating such change until the last day of the calendar month immediately preceding the next date of delivery of such Borrowing Base Certificate with respect to a fiscal period that is the final month of a Fiscal Quarter indicating another such change.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, Applicable Commitment Commission Percentage shall be calculated in accordance with clause (b)(i) above at any time during which the Company has failed to deliver the Borrowing Base Certificate required by Section 9.01(f).

  “Applicable Margin” shall mean:

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  (a)	from the Effective Date to the last Business Day of the calendar month immediately preceding the date of delivery to the Administrative Agent of the Borrowing Base Certificate required by Section 9.01(f) for the first month following the first full Fiscal Quarter ended after the Effective Date, a rate per annum equal to (i) in the case of Base Rate Loans, 1%, and (b) in the case of LIBOR Loans, 2%.

  (b)	at all times thereafter, a rate per annum equal to the rate set forth below for the applicable Type of Loan opposite the applicable Historical Excess Availability:

  				
	 
	 
	 
	Revolving Loans and

	 
	 
	Revolving
	Swingline Loans

	 
	 
	Loans Maintained as LIBORTerm SOFR
	Maintained as

	  Level  
	 Historical Excess Availability 
	                   Loans                    
	         Base Rate Loans      

	 
	 
	 
	 

	I
	Greater than 50% of Availability
 
	1.50% 
(prior to the Fourth Amendment Effective Date)
 
	0.50%
(prior to the Fourth Amendment Effective Date)

	2.25% 
(on and after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date)
	1.25% 
(on and after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date)

	II
	Less than or equal to 50% of Availability
 
	1.75%
(prior to the Fourth Amendment Effective Date)
 
	0.75%
(prior to the Fourth Amendment Effective Date)

	2.50%
(on and after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date)
	1.50%
(on and after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date)

   

  Each change in the Applicable Margin resulting from a change in Historical Excess Availability shall be effective with respect to all Loans and Letters of Credit outstanding on and after the first Business Day of the calendar month immediately following the date of delivery to the Administrative Agent of the Borrowing Base Certificate required by Section 9.01(f) with respect to a fiscal period that is the final month in a Fiscal Quarter indicating such change until the last Business Day of the calendar month immediately preceding the next date of delivery of such Borrowing Base Certificate with respect to a fiscal period that is the final month of a Fiscal Quarter indicating another such change.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, Historical Excess Availability shall be deemed to be in Level II at any time during which the Company has failed to deliver the Borrowing Base Certificate required by Section 9.01(f).

  “Asset Sale” shall mean any sale, transfer or other disposition by Parent or any of its Subsidiaries to any Person other than to a Borrower or a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of any Borrower that is a Subsidiary of any asset (including, without limitation, any capital stock or other securities of, or Equity Interests in, another Person, other than Parent) pursuant to Section 10.02(d), but excluding any sale, transfer or disposition (for such purpose, treating any series of related sales, 

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  transfers or dispositions as a single such transaction) that generates Net Sale Proceeds of less than $1,500,000.

  “Assignment and Assumption Agreement” shall mean an Assignment And Assumption Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit I.

  “Authorized Officer” shall mean, with respect to (a) delivering the Notice of Borrowing, Notices of Conversion/Continuation, Letter of Credit Requests and similar notices, the chief executive officer, chief financial officer, treasurer, chief operating officer of the Company or any person or persons that are designated in writing by one or more persons described above to the Administrative Agent as being authorized by the Borrowers to deliver such notices and (b) any other matter in connection with this Agreement or any other Credit Document, the chief executive officer, the chief financial officer, the treasurer, the principal accounting officer, the president or other similar officer of the Company.

  “Availability” at any time shall mean the lesser of (a) the Borrowing Base at such time and (b) the Total Revolving Loan Commitment at such time.

  “Available Cash” means, at any time, the aggregate amount of all cash and Cash Equivalents on the balance sheet of the Parent and its Subsidiaries in excess of the Available Cash Threshold.

  “Available Cash Threshold” means (a) $15,000,000 on and after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date to and including December 31, 2020 and (b) $10,000,000 on and after January 1, 2021. 

  “Back-Stop Arrangements” shall mean, collectively, Letter of Credit Back-Stop Arrangements and Swingline Back-Stop Arrangements.

  “Bail-In Action” means the exercise of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an Affected Financial Institution.

  “Bail-In Legislation” means, (a) with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the implementing law for such EEA Member Country from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, Part I of the United Kingdom Banking Act 2009 (as amended from time to time) and any other law, regulation or rule applicable in the United Kingdom relating to the resolution of unsound or failing banks, investment firms or other financial institutions or their affiliates (other than through liquidation, administration or other insolvency proceedings).

  “Bankruptcy Code” shall have the meaning provided in Section 11.01(e).

  “Base Rate” shall mean, at any time, the highest of (a) the Prime Rate at such time, (b) 1/2 of 1% per annum in excess of the overnight Federal Funds Effective Rate at such time, (c) (c) the One-Month LIBO Rate for such daymost recently available Adjusted Term SOFR (as adjusted by any Floor) plus 1% and (d) 2%.  If the Administrative Agent shall have determined 

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  (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) that it is unable to ascertain the Federal Funds Effective Rate for any reason, including the inability or failure of the Administrative Agent to obtain sufficient quotations in accordance with the terms of the definition thereof, the Base Rate shall be determined without regard to clause (b) of the preceding sentence until the circumstances giving rise to such inability no longer exist.  Any change in the Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or such One-Month LIBOAdjusted Term SOFR Rate shall be effective as of the opening of business on the day of such change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or such One-Month LIBOAdjusted Term SOFR Rate, respectively.

  “Base Rate Loan” shall mean (a) each Revolving Loan designated or deemed designated as such by the relevant Borrower at the time of the incurrence thereof or conversion thereto and (b) each Swingline Loan.

  “Benchmark Replacement” means the sum of: (a) the alternate benchmark rate (which may include SOFR) that has been selected by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower giving due consideration to (i) any selection or recommendation of a replacement rate or the mechanism for determining such a rate by the Relevant Governmental Body or (ii) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a rate of interest as a replacement to the LIBO Rate for U.S. dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities and (b) the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment; provided, that any such Benchmark Replacement shall be administratively feasible as determined by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion; provided, further, if the Benchmark Replacement as so determined would be less than 1.00%, the Benchmark Replacement shall be deemed to be 1.00%; provided, further, that the Benchmark Replacement shall be a “qualified rate” within the meaning of Proposed Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-6.

  “Benchmark Replacement Adjustment” means, with respect to any replacement of the LIBO Rate with an Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for each applicable Interest Period, the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment (which may be a positive or negative value or zero), that has been selected by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower giving due consideration to (a) any selection or recommendation of a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of the LIBO Rate with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement by the Relevant Governmental Body or (b) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of the LIBO Rate with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for U.S. dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities at such time; provided, that any such Benchmark Replacement Adjustment shall be administratively feasible as determined by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion.

  “Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes” means, with respect to any Benchmark Replacement, any technical, administrative or operational changes (including changes to the definition of “Base Rate,” the definition of “LIBO Rate”, the definition of “Interest Period,” timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest and other administrative matters) that the Administrative Agent and the Borrower agree may be appropriate to reflect the adoption and implementation of such Benchmark Replacement and to permit the

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   administration thereof by the Administrative Agent in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Administrative Agent decides that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or if the Administrative Agent determines that no market practice for the administration of the Benchmark Replacement exists, in such other manner of administration as the Administrative Agent (x) decides is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement) and (y) determines is administratively feasible in its sole discretion.

  “Benchmark Replacement Date” means the earlier to occur of the following events with respect to the LIBO Rate:

  (a)	in the case of clause (a) or (b) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the later of (i) the date of the public statement or publication of information referenced therein and (ii) the date on which the administrator of the LIBO Rate permanently or indefinitely ceases to provide the LIBO Rate; and 

  (b)	in the case of clause (c) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the date of the public statement or publication of information referenced therein.

  “Benchmark Transition Event” shall mean the occurrence of one or more of the following events with respect to the LIBO Rate:

  (a)	a public statement or publication of information by or on behalf of the administrator of the LIBO Rate announcing that such administrator has ceased or will cease to provide the LIBO Rate, permanently or indefinitely; provided, that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide the LIBO Rate; 

  (b)	a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of the LIBO Rate, the U.S. Federal Reserve System, an insolvency official with jurisdiction over the administrator for the LIBO Rate, a resolution authority with jurisdiction over the administrator for the LIBO Rate or a court or an entity with similar insolvency or resolution authority over the administrator for the LIBO Rate, which states that the administrator of the LIBO Rate has ceased or will cease to provide the LIBO Rate permanently or indefinitely; provided, that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide the LIBO Rate; or 

  (c)	a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of the LIBO Rate announcing that the LIBO Rate is no longer representative.

  “Benchmark Transition Start Date” means (a) in the case of a Benchmark Transition Event, the earlier of (i) the applicable Benchmark Replacement Date and (ii) if such Benchmark Transition Event is a public statement or publication of information of a prospective event, the 90th day prior to the expected date of such event as of such public statement or publication of information (or if the expected date of such prospective event is fewer than 90 days after such statement or publication, the date of such statement or publication) and (b) in the case of an Early Opt-in Election, the date specified by the Administrative Agent (or, in the event such Early Opt-in Election has occurred as a result of a determination or election by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower) or the Required Lenders, as applicable, by notice to the 

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  Borrower, the Administrative Agent (in the case of such notice by the Required Lenders) and the Lenders.

  “Benchmark Unavailability Period” means, if a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred with respect to the LIBO Rate and solely to the extent that the LIBO Rate has not been replaced with a Benchmark Replacement, the period (a) beginning at the time that such Benchmark Replacement Date has occurred if, at such time, no Benchmark Replacement has replaced the LIBO Rate for all purposes hereunder in accordance with Section 2.10(e) and (b) ending at the time that a Benchmark Replacement has replaced the LIBO Rate for all purposes hereunder pursuant to Section 2.10(e).

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

  “Borrower Guaranteed Obligations” shall have the meaning provided in Section 15.01.

  “Borrower Materials” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.03(c).

  “Borrower Release” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.22.

  “Borrowers” shall mean, collectively, (a) the Company and each Subsidiary listed on Schedule 1.01(b) hereto, and (b) each other Subsidiary that is or becomes a party to this Agreement pursuant to Section 9.12; and “Borrower” shall mean any of them.

  “Borrowing” shall mean the borrowing of one Type of Revolving Loan from all the Lenders, or from the Swingline Lender in the case of Swingline Loans, on a given date (or resulting from a conversion or conversions on such date) having in the case of LIBORTerm SOFR Loans the same Interest Period; provided, that Base Rate Loans incurred pursuant to Section 2.10(b) shall be considered part of the related Borrowing of LIBORTerm SOFR Loans.

  “Borrowing Base” shall mean, as of any date of calculation, the amount, calculated pursuant to the Borrowing Base Certificate most recently delivered to the Administrative Agent in accordance with Section 9.01(f) (but as modified as provided below in this definition), equal to, without duplication:

  (a) 	90% of the net amount of Eligible Credit Card Receivables at such time, plus

  (b) 	85% of the net book value of Eligible Accounts at such time, plus 

  (c) 	the lesser of (A) 100% of the Value of Eligible Inventory at such time and (B) 90% of the Net Orderly Liquidation Value of Eligible Inventory at such time, plus

  (d)	the least of (A) 100% of the Value of Eligible In Transit Inventory at such time, (B) 90% of the Net Orderly Liquidation Value of Eligible In Transit Inventory at such time and (C) the In Transit Maximum Amount, minus 

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  (e) 	the sum of Reserves then established by the Administrative Agent, as may be modified, amended, eliminated or established from time to time by the Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion.

  Each of the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall have the right (but not the obligation) to review such computations and if, in its Permitted Discretion, such computations have not been calculated in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, each of the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall have the right to correct any such errors.  

  “Borrowing Base Certificate” shall have the meaning provided in Section 9.01(f).

  “Business Day” shall mean (a) any day which is neither a Saturday or Sunday nor a legal holiday on which banks are authorized or required to be closed in New York, New York; and (b) relative to the making, continuing, prepaying or repaying of any LIBORTerm SOFR Loans, any day which is a Business Day described in clause (a) above and which is also a day on which dealings in Dollars are carried on in the London interbank market.

  “Calculation Period” shall mean, with respect to any event expressly required to be calculated on a Pro Forma Basis pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, the Test Period most recently ended prior to the date of such event, in each case, for which financial statements have been (or were required to have been) delivered to the Lenders pursuant to Section 8.05 or 9.01(a) or (b), as applicable.

  “Capital Expenditures” shall mean, with respect to any Person, for any period, (a) all expenditures by such Person during such period which are required to be included as capital expenditures on a consolidated statement of cash flows in accordance with GAAP and (b) without duplication, the amount expended or capitalized under leases evidencing Capitalized Lease Obligations incurred by such Person in such period.

  “Capitalized Lease Obligations” shall mean, with respect to any Person, all rental obligations of such Person which, under GAAP, are or will be required to be capitalized on the books of such Person, in each case taken at the amount thereof accounted for as indebtedness in accordance with such principles.

  “Capitalized Software Expenditures” shall mean, for any period, the aggregate of all expenditures (whether paid in cash or accrued as liabilities) by a Person during such period in respect of licensed or purchased software or internally developed software and software enhancements that, in accordance with GAAP, are or are required to be reflected as capitalized costs on the consolidated balance sheet of such Person and its Subsidiaries.

  “Cash Equivalents” shall mean (a) marketable direct obligations issued by, or unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States or issued by any agency thereof and backed by the full faith and credit of the United States, in each case maturing within one year from the date of acquisition thereof, (b) marketable direct obligations issued or fully guaranteed by any state of the United States or any political subdivision of any such state or any public instrumentality thereof maturing within one year from the date of acquisition thereof and, at the time of acquisition, having one of the two highest ratings obtainable from either S&P or Moody’s, (c) commercial paper maturing no more than 270 days from the date of creation thereof and, at the time of acquisition, 

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  having a rating of at least A-1 from S&P or at least P-1 from Moody’s, (d) certificates of deposit, time deposits, overnight bank deposits or bankers’ acceptances maturing within one year from the date of acquisition thereof issued by any commercial bank (A) organized under the laws of the United States or any state thereof or the District of Columbia or any member nation of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and (B) having at the date of acquisition thereof combined capital and surplus of not less than $250,000,000 in the case of U.S. banks or $100,000,000 (or the Dollar equivalent as of the date of determination) in the case of non-U.S. banks, (e) Deposit Accounts maintained with (i) any bank that satisfies the criteria described in clause (d) above, or (ii) any other bank organized under the laws of the United States or any state thereof so long as the amount maintained with any such other bank is insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, (f) repurchase obligations of any commercial bank satisfying the requirements of clause (d) of this definition or any recognized securities dealer having combined capital and surplus of not less than $250,000,000 in the case of U.S. banks or $100,000,000 (or the Dollar equivalent as of the date of determination) in the case of non-U.S. banks, having a term of not more than seven days, with respect to securities satisfying the criteria in clauses (a) or (d) above, (g) debt securities with maturities of six months or less from the date of acquisition backed by standby letters of credit issued by any commercial bank satisfying the criteria described in clause (d) above, (h) Investments in money market funds substantially all of whose assets are invested in the types of assets described in clauses (a) through (g) above, and (i) in the case of any Foreign Subsidiary (i) such local currencies in those countries in which such Foreign Subsidiary transacts business from time to time in the ordinary course of business and (ii) investments of comparable tenor and credit quality to those described in clauses (a) through (g) above customarily utilized in such countries in which such Foreign Subsidiary operates for short term cash management purposes.

  “Cash Management Agreement” shall mean any agreement to provide cash management services, including treasury, depository, overdraft, credit or debit card, electronic funds transfer and other cash management arrangements.

  “Cash Management Bank” shall mean (a) any Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender that as of the Effective Date has a Cash Management Agreement that is permitted under this Agreement and (b) any Person that, at the time it enters into a Cash Management Agreement permitted under this Agreement, is a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender, in each case in its capacity as a party to such Cash Management Agreement.

  “Cash Management Obligations” shall mean any and all obligations, whether absolute or contingent and however and whenever created, arising, evidenced or acquired (including all renewals, extensions and modifications thereof and substitutions therefor), in connection with Cash Management Services.

  “Cash Management Services” shall mean any cash management or related services including treasury, depository, return items, overdraft, controlled disbursement, merchant store value cards, e-payable services, electronic funds transfer, interstate depository network, automatic clearing house transfer (including the Automated Clearing House processing of electronic funds transfers through the direct Federal Reserve Fedline system) and other cash management arrangements.

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  “CERCLA” shall mean the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as the same has been amended and may hereafter be amended from time to time, 42 U.S.C. § 9601 et seq.

  “Change of Control” shall mean that (a) any Person or “group” (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act) (other than the Sponsor) owns and controls, directly or indirectly, Equity Interests of Parent having the right to vote for the election of members of the board of directors of Parent representing (A) 35% or more of all such Equity Interests and (B) a percentage of such Equity Interests in excess of those held by the Sponsor, (b) Parent ceases to own and control, directly, 100% of the Equity Interests of the Company, or (c) a “change of control” or similar event shall occur as provided in the Priming Term Loan Agreement (or any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof), the Subordinated Facility Credit Agreement or any other Indebtedness or Disqualified Equity Interests with an outstanding principal amount (or aggregate liquidation preference) equal to or greater than $15,000,000.

  “Chattel Paper” shall mean “chattel paper” (as such term is defined in Article 9 of the UCC).

  “CIT” shall have the meaning provided in the introductory paragraph to this Agreement.

  “Claims” shall have the meaning provided in the definition of “Environmental Claims”.

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

  “Collateral” shall mean all property (whether real or personal) with respect to which any security interests have been granted (or are purported to be granted) pursuant to any Security Document, including, without limitation, all Security Agreement Collateral and all Mortgaged Properties.

  “Collateral Agent” shall mean CIT, in its capacity as Collateral Agent for the Lenders hereunder and under the other Credit Documents, and shall include any successor to the Collateral Agent appointed pursuant to Section 12.09.

  “Collection Account” shall mean each account established at a Collection Bank subject to a Control Agreement into which funds shall be transferred as provided in Section 5.03(b).

  “Collection Banks” shall have the meaning provided in Section 5.03(b).

  “Commingled Inventory” shall mean Inventory of any Borrower that is commingled (whether pursuant to a consignment, a toll manufacturing agreement or otherwise) with Inventory of another Person (other than another Borrower) at a location owned or leased by a Borrower to the extent that such Inventory of such Borrower is not readily identifiable.

  “Commitment Commission” shall have the meaning provided in Section 4.01(a).

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  “Commodity Exchange Act” shall mean the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.), as amended from time to time, and any successor statute.

  “Communications” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.03(b).

  “Company” shall have the meaning provided in the introductory paragraph to this Agreement.

  “Company Material Adverse Effect” shall mean any change, circumstance, development, effect or occurrence that, individually or in the aggregate, (a) has or would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the business, assets, liabilities, condition (financial or otherwise) or results of operations of the Company Group, taken as a whole; provided, however, that the term “Company Material Adverse Effect” will not include any change, circumstance, development, effect or occurrence to the extent caused by (i) changes or proposed changes in Laws or interpretations thereof or decisions by courts or any Governmental Entity first effected after the Effective Date, (ii) changes or proposed changes in GAAP first effected after the Effective Date, (iii) actions or omissions of any Company Group Member taken with the explicit written consent of Buyer in contemplation of the Contemplated Transactions, including the impact thereof on relationships, contractual or otherwise, with, or actual or potential loss or impairment of, customers, suppliers, distributors, partners, financing sources, officers, employees and/or consultants on revenue, profitability or cash flows, or actions by Buyer and its Affiliates, (iv) general conditions affecting the economy as a whole, including changes in the credit, debt, financial, capital or reinsurance markets (including changes in interest or exchange rates, prices of any security or market index or any disruption of such markets), in each case, in the United States or anywhere else in the world, (v) events or conditions generally affecting the industries in which any Company Group Member operates, (vi) global, national or regional political conditions, including national or international hostilities, acts of terror or acts of war, sabotage or terrorism or military actions or any escalation or worsening of any hostilities, acts of war, sabotage or terrorism or military actions, (vii) pandemics, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados or other natural disasters, (viii) other than for purposes of Section 3.5 and Section 3.16(b)(x) of the Purchase Agreement (and, to the extent related thereto, the conditions set forth in Section 7.3(a) of the Purchase Agreement) the announcement or pendency of the Purchase Agreement or the Contemplated Transactions to the extent related to the identity of Buyer, (ix) any matter set forth on Schedule 1.1(c) to the Purchase Agreement, (x) the failure by any Company Group Member to take any action that is prohibited by any Transaction Document and for which the written consent of Buyer was sought but denied, (xi) any change or prospective change in the credit ratings of any Company Group Member, or (xii) any failure to meet any projections, forecasts, guidance, estimates, milestones, budgets or financial or operating predictions of revenue, earnings, cash flow or cash position (provided, that (A) the matters described in clauses (i), (ii), (iv), (v), (vi) and (vii) shall be included in the term “Company Material Adverse Effect” to the extent any such matter has a disproportionate and adverse impact on the business, assets, condition (financial or otherwise) or results of operations of the Company Group, taken as a whole, relative to other participants in the same business as the Company Group, and (B) clauses (xi) and (xii) will not prevent a determination that any change or effect underlying any such change or failure, as applicable, has resulted in a Company Material Adverse Effect, to the extent such change or effect is not otherwise excluded from this definition of Company Material Adverse Effect), or (b) that has or would reasonably be expected to prevent the Members or the Company from performing their respective 

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  obligations under the Purchase Agreement or materially delay the ability of the Members or the Company Group to consummate the Contemplated Transactions.

  For purposes of the foregoing definition of Company Material Adverse Effect, capitalized terms used therein (other than “Purchase Agreement” and “Company Material Adverse Effect”) shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Purchase Agreement as in effect on the Effective Date.

  “Compliance Certificate” shall mean a certificate of an Authorized Officer of the Company substantially in the form of Exhibit H.

  “Concentration Account” shall have the meaning provided in Section 5.03(c).

  “Consolidated Current Assets” shall mean, at any time, the consolidated current assets of the Parent and its Subsidiaries at such time (other than current deferred tax assets).

  “Consolidated EBITDA” shall mean, as of any date for the applicable period ending on such date with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, and without duplication:

  (a)	Consolidated Net Income; plus

  (b)	an amount which, in the determination of Consolidated Net Income for such period, has been deducted (and not added back) (or, in the case of amounts pursuant to clause (i) below, not already included in Consolidated Net Income), without duplication,

  	(i)	Consolidated Interest Expense (and to the extent not included in interest expense, (A) all cash dividend payments (excluding items eliminated in consolidation) on any series of Preferred Equity or Disqualified Equity Interests and (B) costs of surety bonds in connection with financing activities) for such period,

  	(ii)	provision for Taxes based on income, profits or capital of the Company and its Subsidiaries, including federal, state, franchise, excise and similar taxes and foreign withholding taxes paid or accrued during such period including (A) penalties and interest related to such taxes or arising from any tax examinations and (B) in respect of repatriated funds,

  	(iii)	depreciation and amortization expense and impairment charges (including amortization of intangible assets (including goodwill), deferred financing fees or costs), Capitalized Software Expenditures and amortization of unrecognized prior service costs and actuarial gains and losses related to pensions and other post-employment benefits), 

  	(iv)	(x) net unusual, extraordinary or nonrecurring charges, expenses or losses (including accruals and payments for amounts payable under executive employment agreements, severance costs, relocation costs, strategic review costs, store/office closure costs, legal settlement costs, retention or completion bonuses and losses realized on disposition of property outside of the ordinary course of business, and losses relating to activities constituting a business that is being terminated or discontinued) and (y) restructuring charges (including any unusual, extraordinary or nonrecurring operating expenses directly attributable to the implementation of any cost savings 

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  initiatives), accruals or reserves and business optimization expense, costs associated with strategic reviews, project start-up costs, transition costs, costs related to the opening, closure and/or consolidation of offices, facilities and stores (including the termination or discontinuance of activities constituting a business) (and proposals in connection therewith, whether or not successful), retention charges, contract termination costs, recruiting and signing bonuses and expenses, future lease commitments, systems establishment costs, conversion costs and excess pension charges and consulting fees and Pre-Opening Expenses; provided, that any such cash charges, expenses, losses, accruals or reserves added to Consolidated Net Income in the calculation of Consolidated EBITDA pursuant to this clause (iv) shall not exceed 7.5% of Consolidated EBITDA (calculated prior to giving effect to the addbacks made pursuant to this clause (iv)),

  	(v)	other non-cash charges, expenses or losses (excluding any such non-cash charge, expense or loss to the extent that it represents an accrual of or reserve for cash expenses in any future period, an amortization of a prepaid cash expense that was paid in a prior period, or write-off or write-down or reserves with respect to Consolidated Current Assets) including (A) any non-cash increase in expenses resulting from the revaluation of Inventory (including any impact of changes to Inventory valuation policy methods including changes in capitalization and variances), (B) losses recognized in respect of post-retirement benefits as a result of the application of FASB ASC 715, (C) losses on minority interests owned by any Person, (D) all losses from Investments recorded using the equity method, (E) the non-cash impact of accounting changes or restatements, (F) non-cash fair value adjustments in Investments, (G) the non-cash portion of rent expense and (H) any non-cash charges, expenses, losses, accruals or reserves described in clause (iv) above),

  	(vi)	[reserved],

  	(vii)	[reserved],

  	(viii)	non-cash expenses resulting from any employee benefit or management compensation plan or the grant of stock and stock options or other Equity Interests to employees of Parent, the Company or any Subsidiary pursuant to a written plan or agreement (including expenses arising from the grant of stock and stock options prior to the Effective Date) or the treatment of such options or other Equity Interests under variable plan accounting,

  	(ix)	Transaction Costs,

  	(x)	the amount of expenses relating to payments made to option holders or related equity holders of Parent or any parent holding company in connection with, or as a result of, any distribution being made to shareholders of such Person or its direct or indirect parent companies, which payments are being made to compensate such option holders as though they were shareholders at the time of, and entitled to share in, such distribution, in each case to the extent permitted by this Agreement,

  	(xi)	any costs or expenses incurred pursuant to any management equity plan or share or unit option plan or any other management or employee benefit plan or agreement or share or unit subscription or shareholder or similar agreement, to the extent such costs or expenses are funded with cash proceeds contributed to the capital of the Company or the Net Cash Proceeds of 

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  any issuance of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) of Parent or the Company (or any parent holding company thereof),

  	(xii)	transaction fees and expenses incurred, or amortization thereof, in connection with, to the extent permitted hereunder, any Investment, any debt issuance, any issuance of Qualified Equity Interests, any acquisition, any disposition, any casualty event, or any amendments or waivers of the Credit Documents and Permitted Refinancings in connection therewith, in each case, whether or not consummated,

  	(xiii)	proceeds from business interruption insurance (to the extent not reflected as revenue or income in Consolidated Net Income and to the extent that the related loss was deducted in the determination of Consolidated Net Income),

  	(xiv)	charges, losses, lost profits, expenses or write-offs to the extent indemnified or insured by a third party, including expenses covered by indemnification provisions in connection with any acquisition permitted by the Credit Documents or any transaction permitted by the Credit Documents, in each case, to the extent that coverage has not been denied and so long as such amounts are actually reimbursed to the Company or any Subsidiary in cash within one year after the related amount is first added to Consolidated EBITDA pursuant to this clause (xiv) (and if not so reimbursed within one year, such amount shall be deducted from Consolidated EBITDA during the next measurement period),

  	(xv)	cash receipts (or any netting arrangements resulting in reduced cash expenses) not included in Consolidated EBITDA in any period to the extent non-cash gains relating to such receipts were deducted in the calculation of Consolidated EBITDA pursuant to clause (c) below for any previous period and not added back, 

  	(xvi)	[reserved],

  	(xvii)	[reserved], and

  	(xviii)	net realized losses relating to mark-to-market of amounts denominated in foreign currencies resulting from the application of FASB ASC 830, minus

  (c)	an amount which, in the determination of Consolidated Net Income, has been included for,

  	(i)	all non-recurring, extraordinary or unusual gains and non-cash income during such period (including income related to any purchase of the Priming Term Loans and the Existing Term Loans by any Affiliated Person),

  	(ii)	other non-cash income or gains including (A) any non-cash increase in income resulting from the revaluation of Inventory (including any impact of changes to Inventory valuation policy methods including changes in capitalization and variances and the non-cash portion of rent expense), (B) gains recognized in respect of postretirement benefits as a result of the application of FASB ASC 715 or FASB 106, (C) gains on minority interests owned by any Person, (D) all gains from Investments recorded using the equity method, (E) the non-cash impact of accounting changes or restatements and (F) non-cash fair value adjustments in Investments but 

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  excluding (1) accrual of revenue in the ordinary course, (2) any such items in respect of which cash was received in a prior period or will be received in a future period (and, in the case of cash that was received in a prior period, such amounts previously reduced Consolidated Net Income in a prior period (and would not have been required to be added back pursuant to preceding clause (b) of this definition)) or (3) any such items which represent the reversal in such period of any accrual of, or reserve for, anticipated cash charges in any prior period where such accrual or reserve is no longer required (and where such accrual or reserve previously reduced Consolidated Net Income in a prior period (and would not have been required to be added back pursuant to clause (b) of this definition)), all as determined on a consolidated basis,

  	(iii)	the amount of cash received in such period in respect of any non-cash income or gain in a prior period (to the extent such non-cash income or gain previously increased Consolidated Net Income in a prior period (and would not have been required to be deducted pursuant to preceding clause (c)(ii) of this definition)),

  	(iv)	any gains realized upon the disposition of property outside of the ordinary course of business or gains relating to activities constituting a business that is being terminated or discontinued; and

  	(v)	all cash payments made during the respective period in respect of any amounts that previously were added under preceding clause (b) on basis that they were non-cash items, minus

  (d)	the amount of Dividends paid (i) to Parent or any parent entity of Parent for operating expenses or (ii) as fees to and indemnities to directors of Parent or any parent entity of Parent or of the Company or its Subsidiaries, to the extent (A) such amount, if paid directly by the Company, would have reduced Consolidated Net Income (assuming such amount was paid by the Company) and would not otherwise have been required to be added back pursuant to preceding clause (b) of this definition or (B) such Dividend payment is paid by the Company in respect of an expense or other item that has resulted in, or will result in, a reduction of Consolidated EBITDA, as calculated pursuant to this definition).

  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, to the extent that such amounts were included in the determination of Consolidated Net Income, any calculation of Consolidated EBITDA shall exclude for any period, any income (loss) for such period attributable to the early extinguishment of (x) Indebtedness or (y) obligations under any Interest Rate Protection Agreement.

  “Consolidated Indebtedness” shall mean the sum of (without duplication) all Indebtedness (other than letters of credit or bank guarantees, to the extent undrawn) consisting of Capitalized Lease Obligations, Indebtedness for borrowed money and Disqualified Equity Interests of Parent, the Company and its Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.

  “Consolidated Interest Expense” shall mean, for any period, the total interest expense of the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis deducted in the determination of Consolidated Net Income of such Person for such period (and not added back), including, as applicable (a) amortization of original issue discount resulting from the issuance of Indebtedness 

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  at less than par, (b) all commissions, discounts and other fees and charges owed with respect to letters of credit or bankers’ acceptances, (c) non-cash interest payments, (d) the interest component of Capitalized Lease Obligations, (e) net payments, if any, made (less net amounts, if any, received) pursuant to Interest Rate Protection Agreements with respect to Indebtedness, (f) amortization or write-off of deferred financing fees, debt issuance costs, commissions, fees and expenses, including commitment, letter of credit and administrative fees and charges with respect to this Agreement and with respect to other Indebtedness permitted to be incurred hereunder and (g) any expensing of bridge, commitment and other financing fees, but excluding total interest expense associated with synthetic lease obligations) and, to the extent not reflected in such total interest expense, any losses on hedging obligations or other derivative instruments entered into for the purpose of hedging interest rate risk, net of interest income or gains on such hedging obligations, and costs of surety bonds in connection with financing activities (whether amortized or immediately expensed).

  “Consolidated Net Income” shall mean, as of any date for the applicable period ending on such date, with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, net income, determined in accordance with GAAP, but excluding, without duplication, (a) [reserved], (b) any amounts attributable to Investments in any joint venture to the extent that such amounts have not been distributed in cash to the Company and its Subsidiaries during such applicable period, (c) (i) any net unrealized gains and losses resulting from fair value accounting required by FASB ASC 815 and (ii) any net unrealized gains and losses relating to mark-to-market of amounts denominated in foreign currencies resulting from the application of FASB ASC 830, in each case, to the extent included in Consolidated Net Income, (d) the income (or loss) of any Person accrued prior to the date it becomes a Subsidiary of the Company or is merged into or consolidated with the Company or any Subsidiary (except to the extent required for any calculation of Consolidated EBITDA on a Pro Forma Basis), (e) net income of any Subsidiary (other than a Credit Party) for any period to the extent that, during such period, there exists any encumbrance or restriction on the ability of such Subsidiary to pay Dividends or make any other distributions in cash on the Equity Interests of such Subsidiary held by the Company and its Subsidiaries, except to the extent of cash actually distributed during such period to the Company or to a Subsidiary of the Company that is not itself subject to any such encumbrance or restriction, (f) to the extent not already excluded or deducted as minority interest expense in accordance with GAAP, payments made in respect of minority interests of third parties in any Non-Wholly-Owned Subsidiary, non-Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or joint venture in such period, including pursuant to Dividends declared or paid on equity interests held by third parties in respect of such Non-Wholly-Owned Subsidiary, non-Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or joint venture, and (g) the cumulative effect of a change in GAAP or the Company’s accounting policy.  There shall be excluded from Consolidated Net Income for any period the accounting effects of adjustments to Inventory, property and equipment, software and other intangible assets and deferred revenue required or permitted by GAAP and related authoritative pronouncements (including the effects of such adjustments pushed down to the Company and the Subsidiaries), as a result of any acquisition consummated prior to the Effective Date, any Investment permitted hereunder or the amortization or write-off of any amounts thereof.

  “Consolidated Total Assets” shall have the meaning provided in the Priming Term Loan Agreement as in effect on the Effective Date or as amended in accordance with the terms hereof.

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  “Contingent Obligation” shall mean, as to any Person, any obligation of such Person as a result of such Person being a general partner of any other Person, unless the underlying obligation is expressly made non-recourse as to such general partner, and any obligation of such Person guaranteeing or intended to guarantee any Indebtedness, leases, dividends or other obligations (“primary obligations”) of any other Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, including, without limitation, any obligation of such Person, whether or not contingent, (a) to purchase any such primary obligation or any property constituting direct or indirect security therefor, (b) to advance or supply funds (i) for the purchase or payment of any such primary obligation or (ii) to maintain working capital or equity capital of the primary obligor or otherwise to maintain the net worth or solvency of the primary obligor, (c) to purchase property, securities or services primarily for the purpose of assuring the owner of any such primary obligation of the ability of the primary obligor to make payment of such primary obligation or (d) otherwise to assure or hold harmless the holder of such primary obligation against loss in respect thereof; provided, however, that the term Contingent Obligation shall not include endorsements of instruments for deposit or collection in the ordinary course of business.  The amount of any Contingent Obligation shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the primary obligation in respect of which such Contingent Obligation is made or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof (assuming such Person is required to perform thereunder) as determined by such Person in good faith.

  “Control Agreement” shall mean a control agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, executed and delivered by a Borrower or one of its Subsidiaries, the Collateral Agent and the applicable securities intermediary (with respect to a Securities Account) or bank (with respect to a Deposit Account), subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreements and consistent with the requirements of Section 5.03.

  “Copyright Security Agreement” shall have the meaning specified in the Security Agreement.

  “Co-Syndication Agents” shall mean Jefferies Finance LLC and Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc., in their capacity as Co-Syndication Agents and any successor(s) thereto.

  “Credit Card Notification” shall have the meaning provided in Section 5.03(b).

  “Credit Documents” shall mean, collectively, (a) this Agreement, the Intercreditor Agreements, any Intercompany Subordination Agreement, the Notes (if any), any Joinder Agreement, each Security Document and the Fee Letter and (b) all other agreements, instruments, documents and certificates executed and delivered to, or in favor of, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Lender in connection with the foregoing.

  “Credit Event” shall mean the making of any Loan or the issuance, amendment, extension or renewal of any Letter of Credit (other than any amendment, extension or renewal that does not increase the maximum Stated Amount of such Letter of Credit).

  “Credit Parties” shall mean, collectively, the Borrowers and the Guarantors; and “Credit Party” shall mean any of them.

  “Cure Amount” shall have the meaning provided in Section 11.04.

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  “Cure Right” shall have the meaning provided in Section 11.04.

  “Customer Credit Liability Reserve” shall mean at any time, the aggregate remaining value at such time of (a) outstanding gift certificates and gift cards sold by any Borrower entitling the holder thereof to use all or a portion of the certificate or gift card to pay all or a portion of the purchase price for any Inventory, and (b) outstanding merchandise credits issued by and customer deposits received by any Borrower.

  “Default” shall mean any event, act or condition which solely with notice or lapse of time, or both, would constitute an Event of Default.

  “Defaulting Lender” shall mean any Lender with respect to which a Lender Default is in effect.

  “Deposit Account” shall mean any deposit account (as that term is defined in the UCC).

  “Designated Non-Cash Consideration” shall mean the fair market value (as determined by the Borrowers in good faith) of non-cash consideration received by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with a sale that is so designated as Designated Non-Cash Consideration pursuant to an officer’s certificate signed by an Authorized Officer, setting forth the basis of such valuation, less the amount of cash or Cash Equivalents received in connection with a subsequent sale, redemption or payment of, on or with respect to, such Designated Non-Cash Consideration.

  “Disbursement Account” shall mean each disbursement account maintained by each Credit Party for their respective general corporate purposes, including for the purpose of paying their trade payables and other operating expenses.

  “Disqualified Equity Interests” shall mean any Equity Interest that, by its terms (or by the terms of any security or other Equity Interests into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable), or upon the happening of any event or condition (a) matures or is mandatorily redeemable (other than solely for Qualified Equity Interests) pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise (except as a result of a change of control or asset sale so long as any rights of the holders thereof upon the occurrence of a change of control or asset sale event shall be subject to the prior repayment in full of the Loans and the termination of all Letters of Credit and all other Obligations that are accrued and payable and the termination of the Revolving Loan Commitments), (b) is redeemable at the option of the holder thereof (other than solely for Qualified Equity Interests), in whole or in part, (c) provides for the scheduled payments of dividends in cash, or (d) is or becomes convertible into or exchangeable for Indebtedness or any other Equity Interests that would constitute Disqualified Equity Interests, in each case, prior to the date that is 91 days after the then latest Final Maturity Date at the time of issuance; provided, that if such Equity Interests are issued pursuant to a plan for the benefit of employees of Parent, the Company or its Subsidiaries or by any such plan to such employees, such Equity Interests shall not constitute Disqualified Equity Interests solely because they may be required to be repurchased by Parent, the Company or its Subsidiaries in order to satisfy applicable statutory or regulatory obligations or as a result of such employee’s termination, death or disability.

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  “Disqualified Lender” shall mean (a) those competitors of Parent and its Subsidiaries and Affiliates of such competitors (other than any Affiliates that are banks, financial institutions, bona fide debt funds or investment vehicles that are engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans, bonds and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course), in each case, that were specified in writing to the Joint Lead Arrangers on March 30, 2015, as such list may be updated by written notice to the Administrative Agent from time to time (and subject to the consent of the Administrative Agent, not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) and (b) those certain banks, financial institutions and other entities that, in each case, were specified in writing to the Joint Lead Arrangers on March 30, 2015; provided, that to the extent the Borrowers update the list of Disqualified Lenders, the inclusion of any Person shall not retroactively apply to prior assignments or participations.

  “Dividend” shall mean, with respect to any Person, that such Person has paid a dividend, distribution or returned any equity capital to its stockholders, partners or members or authorized or made any other distribution, payment or delivery of property (other than common Equity Interests of such Person) or cash to its stockholders, partners or members in their capacity as such, or redeemed, retired, purchased or otherwise acquired for a consideration any shares of any class of its capital stock or any of its other Equity Interests outstanding on or after the Effective Date (or any options or warrants issued by such Person with respect to its capital stock or other Equity Interests) or shall have permitted any of its Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for a consideration any shares of any class of the capital stock or any other Equity Interests of such Person outstanding on or after the Effective Date (or any options or warrants issued by such Person with respect to its capital stock or other Equity Interests).  Without limiting the foregoing, “Dividends” with respect to any Person shall also include all payments made or required to be made by such Person with respect to any stock appreciation rights, plans, equity incentive or achievement plans or any similar plans.

  “Dollars” and the sign “$” shall each mean freely transferable lawful money of the United States.

  “Domestic Subsidiary” of any Person shall mean any Subsidiary of such Person incorporated or organized in the United States or any State or territory thereof or the District of Columbia.

  “Dominion Period” shall mean any period (a) commencing on the date on which (i) a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or (ii) Excess Availability has been less than the greater of (A) $5,000,000 and (ii) 12.5% of Availability for five consecutive Business Days, and (b) ending on the first date thereafter on which (i) in the case of a Dominion Period commencing as a result of clause (a)(i) above, no Default or Event of Default exists or is continuing (including as a result of such Default or Event of Default having been cured or waived in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement) and (ii) in the case of a Dominion Period commencing as a result of clause (a)(ii) above, Excess Availability has been equal to or greater than the greater of (A) $5,000,000 or (B) 12.5% of Availability for 30 consecutive days.

  “Drawing” shall have the meaning provided in Section 3.05(b).

  “Early Opt-in Election” shall mean the occurrence of:

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  	(a)	(i) a determination by the Administrative Agent or the Borrower (as notified to the Administrative Agent) or (ii) a notification by the Required Lenders to the Administrative Agent (with a copy to the Borrower) that the Required Lenders have determined that U.S. dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities being executed at such time, or that include language similar to that contained in Section 2.10 are being executed or amended, as applicable, to incorporate or adopt a new benchmark interest rate to replace the LIBO Rate, and

  (b)	(i) the election by the Administrative Agent or the Borrower or (ii) the election by the Required Lenders to declare that an Early Opt-in Election has occurred and the provision, as applicable, by the Administrative Agent of written notice of such election to the Borrower and the Lenders, by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent or by the Required Lenders of written notice of such election to the Administrative Agent.

  “EEA Financial Institution” means (a) any credit institution or investment firm established in any EEA Member Country which is subject to the supervision of an EEA Resolution Authority, (b) any entity established in an EEA Member Country which is a parent of an institution described in clause (a) of this definition, or (c) any financial institution established in an EEA Member Country which is a subsidiary of an institution described in clauses (a) or (b) of this definition and is subject to consolidated supervision with its parent.

  “EEA Member Country” means any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.

  1.	“EEA Resolution Authority” means any public administrative authority or any person entrusted with public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country (including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of any EEA Financial Institution.

  “Effective Date” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.10.

  “Eligible Accounts” shall mean all Accounts of (and owed to) the Borrowers that (x) arise in the ordinary course of their business, (y) arise out of their sale of goods or rendition of services, and (z) are not excluded as ineligible by virtue of one or more of the excluding criteria set forth below.  Eligible Accounts shall not include the following:

  (a)	Eligible Credit Card Receivables (and Accounts which would constitute Eligible Credit Card Receivables if not excluded pursuant to clauses (a) through (h) of the definition thereof);

  (b)	Accounts which either are 60 days or more past due or are unpaid more than 120 days after the original invoice date;

  (c)	Accounts owed by an Account Debtor (or its Affiliates) where 50% or more of the total amount of all Accounts owed by that Account Debtor (and its Affiliates) are deemed ineligible hereunder;

  (d)	Accounts with respect to which the Account Debtor is (i) a Credit Party or an Affiliate of a Credit Party (excluding portfolio companies of the Sponsor that are not Parent, Subsidiaries of Parent, any direct or indirect holding company of Parent or any 

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  other Person whose Equity Interests are owned by any of the foregoing) or (ii) an employee or agent of a Credit Party;

  (e)	Accounts arising in a transaction wherein goods are placed on consignment or are sold pursuant to a guaranteed sale, a sale or return, a sale on approval, a bill and hold, or any other terms by reason of which the payment by an Account Debtor may be conditional;

  (f)	Accounts that are not payable in Dollars or Canadian dollars, unless (i) the Account is supported by an irrevocable letter of credit satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, in its Permitted Discretion (as to form, substance, and issuer or domestic confirming bank), that has been delivered to the Administrative Agent and is directly drawable by the Administrative Agent, or (ii) the Account is covered by credit insurance in form, substance, and amount, and by an insurer satisfactory to the Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion;

  (g)	Accounts with respect to which the Account Debtor is a non-Governmental Authority unless:  (i) the Account Debtor either (A) maintains its chief executive office in the United States or Canada, or (B) is organized under the laws of the United States or Canada, or any state or subdivision thereof; or (ii) (A) the Account is supported by an irrevocable letter of credit satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, in its Permitted Discretion (as to form, substance, and issuer or domestic confirming bank), that has been delivered to the Administrative Agent and is directly drawable by the Administrative Agent, or (B) the Account is covered by credit insurance in form, substance, and amount, and by an insurer, satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, in its Permitted Discretion;

  (h)	Accounts with respect to which the Account Debtor is the government of any foreign country or sovereign state, or of any state, province, municipality, or other political subdivision thereof, or of any department, agency, public corporation, or other instrumentality thereof, unless (i) the Account is supported by an irrevocable letter of credit satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, in its Permitted Discretion (as to form, substance, and issuer or domestic confirming bank), that has been delivered to the Administrative Agent and is directly drawable by the Administrative Agent, or (ii) the Account is covered by credit insurance in form, substance, and amount, and by an insurer, satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, in its Permitted Discretion;

  (i)	Accounts with respect to which the Account Debtor is the government of the United States or of any state, territory, municipality, or other political subdivision thereof or any department, agency, municipality or instrumentality of any of the foregoing;

  (j)	Accounts with respect to which the Account Debtor (i) is also a creditor or supplier of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (ii) has or has asserted a right of setoff or (iii) has disputed its obligation to pay all or any portion of the Account; provided, that any such Account shall be eligible (A) to the extent such amount thereof exceeds any such obligation to a creditor, claim, contract, right of setoff, or dispute or (B) such Account Debtor has entered into a written agreement reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative 

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  Agent in its Permitted Discretion to waive any claim, right of setoff, or dispute with respect to the foregoing;

  (k)	Accounts with respect to an Account Debtor (and its Affiliates) whose total obligations owing to the Borrowers exceed 15% of all Eligible Accounts, to the extent of the obligations owing by such Account Debtor (and its Affiliates) in excess of such percentages; provided, further, that the amount of Eligible Accounts that are excluded because they exceed the foregoing percentages shall be determined by the Administrative Agent based on all of the otherwise Eligible Accounts prior to giving effect to any eliminations based upon the foregoing concentration limit;

  (l)	Accounts with respect to which the Account Debtor is subject to an Insolvency Proceeding, has gone out of business, or as to which any Credit Party has received notice of an imminent Insolvency Proceeding or a material impairment of the financial condition of such Account Debtor unless (i) such Account is supported by a letter of credit satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, in its Permitted Discretion (as to form, substance, and issuer or domestic confirming bank), that has been delivered to the Administrative Agent and is directly drawable by the Administrative Agent, (ii) such Account Debtor has received debtor-in-possession financing sufficient as determined by the Collateral Agent in its Permitted Discretion to finance its ongoing business activities or (iii) a court order satisfactory to the Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion relating to the Insolvency Proceeding has been issued allowing payment on such Account by the Account Debtor so long as the Administrative Agent is satisfied in its Permitted Discretion that the requisite Account Debtor has sufficient resources to pay, and will pay, such Accounts in a timely fashion;

  (m)	Accounts that are not subject to a valid and perfected First Priority Lien in favor of the Collateral Agent on behalf of the Secured Creditors pursuant to the relevant Security Documents as provided in the Intercreditor Agreement;

  (n)	Accounts with respect to which (i) the goods giving rise to such Account have not been shipped and billed to the Account Debtor, or (ii) the services giving rise to such Account have not been performed and billed to the Account Debtor;

  (o)	Accounts that represent the right to receive progress payments or other advance billings that are due prior to the completion of performance by a Credit Party of the subject contract for goods or services (other than customary maintenance contracts);

  (p)	Accounts with respect to which any return, rejection or repossession of any of the merchandise giving rise to such Account has occurred, but only to the extent of the value of the goods returned, rejected or repossessed;

  (q)	Accounts that are evidenced by Chattel Paper unless such Chattel Paper has been delivered to the Collateral Agent;

  (r)	any Account that has not been invoiced, has not been billed and has not been recognized as received by the applicable Account Debtor;

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  (s)	any Account with respect to which a partial payment of such Account has been made by the respective Account Debtor; provided, that to the extent such Account consists of multiple separate line-items, only the line items that have been partially paid shall be excluded;

  (t)	Accounts that are not payable to a Borrower;

  (u)	Accounts to the extent representing service charges or late fees up to the amount of such service charges or late fees; or

  (v)	Accounts to the extent representing unapplied cash balances up to the amount of such unapplied cash balances.

  “Eligible Credit Card Receivables” shall mean Accounts (net of any applicable fees) due to any Credit Party from Visa, MasterCard, American Express Company, Discover and other major credit card or debit card issuer and processors which may be approved by the Administrative Agent, as arise in the ordinary course of business and are not excluded as ineligible by one or more of the criteria set forth below (without duplication of any Reserves established in accordance with Section 2.01(d)).  Without limiting the foregoing, none of the following shall be deemed to be Eligible Credit Card Receivables:

  (a)	Accounts due from credit card or debit card processors that have been outstanding for more than five Business Days from the date of sale or for such longer period as may be approved by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion;

  (b)	Accounts due from credit card or debit card processors with respect to which a Credit Party does not have good, valid and marketable title, free and clear of any Lien (other than Liens granted to the Collateral Agent for its own benefit and the benefit of the other Secured Creditors and other Liens permitted pursuant to Sections 10.01(a), (b), (d), (e), (h), (j), (k), (n), (p), (q), (r), (t) and (w));

  (c)	Accounts due from credit card or debit card processors that are not subject to a First Priority security interest in favor of the Collateral Agent for its own benefit and the benefit of the Secured Creditors having priority by applicable law (it being the intent that chargebacks in the ordinary course by the credit card processors shall not be deemed violative of this clause (c));

  (d)	Accounts due from credit card or debit card processors which are disputed or with respect to which a claim, counterclaim, offset or chargeback has been asserted (to the extent of such claim, counterclaim, offset or chargeback and except to the extent such claim, counterclaim, offset or chargeback is limited by an agreement that is reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent);

  (e)	except as otherwise approved by the Administrative Agent (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld), Accounts due from credit card or debit card processors as to which the credit card or debit card processor has the right under certain circumstances to require any Borrower to repurchase the Accounts from such credit card processor;

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  (f)	except as otherwise approved by the Administrative Agent (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld), Accounts due from any Person on account of any private label credit card or debit card receivables other than such Accounts under programs between any Borrower and a third party reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent where the third party retains the consumer credit exposure;

  (g)	Accounts due from credit card or debit card processors (other than Visa, MasterCard, American Express Company and Discover) which the Administrative Agent determines in its Permitted Discretion to be uncertain of collection; or

  (h)	Accounts due from credit card or debit card processors with respect to which a Credit Card Notification has not been executed and delivered (and a copy thereof provided to the Administrative Agent); provided, that any such Accounts in existence on the Effective Date shall not be excluded so long as Credit Card Notifications are delivered with respect thereto in accordance with (and within the time period required by) Section 5.03(b).

  “Eligible In Transit Inventory” shall mean In Transit Inventory owned by the Borrowers which would qualify as “Eligible Inventory” but for clauses (d), (f), (g) and (o) in the definition of “Eligible Inventory”, and:

  (a)	is fully insured by marine cargo or other similar insurance, in such amounts, with such insurance companies and subject to such deductibles as are customary in the Borrowers’ industry and in respect of which the Administrative Agent has been named as loss payee;

  (b)	for which title has passed to a Borrower;

  (c)	has been in transit for a period not exceeding 45 days (whether by vessel, air or land) from any location to a location within the United States owned or leased by one or more Credit Parties; and

  (d)	either:

  	(i) 	is evidenced by a full set of clean, tangible, original, negotiable bills of lading that evidence ownership of such Inventory, and such bills of lading are in the physical possession, in the United States, of (i) the Administrative Agent or (ii) the Borrowers’ customs broker or freight forwarder from whom the Administrative Agent has received an acceptable agreement in which the custom broker or freight forwarder agrees that it holds the applicable negotiable bill of lading as agent for the Administrative Agent and has granted the Administrative Agent access to such Inventory; or

  	(ii)	with respect to Inventory located in the United States that was Eligible In Transit Inventory immediately prior to it having entered the United States, is in transit via rail or truck within the United States with a carrier hired by the Borrowers to a location owned or leased by one or more of the Credit Parties and for which (A) nonnegotiable bills of lading, documents or other documents of title (collectively, the “Nonnegotiable Title Documents”) have been issued, (B) upon request of the Administrative Agent, copies of all such Nonnegotiable Title Documents shall have been provided to the Administrative Agent, (C) no negotiable bills of lading or other 

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  negotiable documents exist with respect to such Inventory and (D) the Borrowers have provided to the Administrative Agent any other documentation relating to such Inventory as the Administrative Agent may reasonably require to confirm that such Inventory is otherwise Eligible In Transit Inventory.

  “Eligible Inventory” shall mean all of the Inventory owned by the Borrowers (without duplication as to Eligible In Transit Inventory) and properly reflected as “Eligible Inventory” in the most recent Borrowing Base Certificate delivered by the Company to the Administrative Agent, except any Inventory as to which any of the exclusionary criteria set forth below applies.  Eligible Inventory shall not include any Inventory of a Borrower that:

  (a)	is not of a type held for sale by the applicable Borrower in the ordinary course of business as is being conducted by each such Borrower;

  (b)	is not subject to a First Priority Lien in favor of the Collateral Agent on behalf of the Secured Creditors as provided in the Intercreditor Agreement; provided, that no Inventory subject to a Lien shall be Eligible Inventory to the extent such Lien (i) is not a Permitted Lien or (ii) primes the perfected lien granted to the Collateral Agent, as determined by the Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion, in each case only to the extent of the value of such Lien;

  (c)	is not owned by a Borrower free and clear of the rights of any other Person (including the rights of a purchaser that has made progress payments and the rights of a surety that has issued a bond to assure a Borrower’s performance with respect to that Inventory), except the First Priority Lien in favor of the Collateral Agent on behalf of the Secured Creditors and Permitted Liens (which shall be subject to the provisions of clause (b) above);

  (d)	(i) is not located on premises owned, leased or rented by a Borrower (excluding in-transit Inventory located in the United States, which is subject to the following clause (f), and In Transit Inventory, which shall be subject to the definition of “Eligible In Transit Inventory”) or stored with a bailee or warehouseman or (ii) is located on premises leased or rented by a Borrower (except for Inventory located at a retail store leased or rented by a Borrower) or stored with a bailee or warehouseman, unless, in the case of this sub-clause (ii), (A) in the case of leased or rented premises, either (1) if requested by the Administrative Agent, a reasonably satisfactory landlord waiver has been delivered to the Administrative Agent or (2) Rent Reserves reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion have been established with respect thereto, (B) if stored with a bailee at a leased location, either (1) a reasonably satisfactory landlord waiver or collateral access agreement has been delivered to the Administrative Agent, or (2) Rent Reserves reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion have been established with respect thereto, and/or (C) if stored with a bailee or warehouseman, either (1) a reasonably satisfactory and acknowledged bailee letter has been received by the Administrative Agent or (2) Reserves reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion have been established with respect thereto (provided, that any Reserves established under this clause (d) may be reduced or removed by the Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion (including if 

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  it subsequently receives a landlord waiver, collateral access agreement or bailee letter, as the case may be, as set forth above));

  (e)	is placed on consignment unless Reserves reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion have been established with respect thereto;

  (f)	is in transit, except inventory that (i) is in transit between domestic (U.S.) locations owned or leased by one or more Credit Parties or (ii) is in transit within the United States and is under the control of one or more Credit Parties;

  (g)	is covered by a negotiable document of title, unless, at the Administrative Agent’s request, such document has been delivered to the Collateral Agent or an agent thereof and such Credit Party takes such other actions as the Administrative Agent requests in order to create a perfected First Priority security interest in favor of the Collateral Agent in such Inventory with all necessary endorsements, free and clear of all Liens except Permitted Liens, and the amount of any shipping fees, costs and expenses shall be reflected in Reserves;

  (h)	consists of goods that are unsaleable, damaged or obsolete (to the extent not included in determining Net Orderly Liquidation Value) or constitute spare parts, samples or trim (not intended for sale), packaging and shipping materials, promotional products (not intended for sale), or supplies used or consumed in a Credit Party business;

  (i)	consists of any gross profit mark-up in connection with the sale and distribution thereof to any division of any Credit Party or Subsidiary or Affiliate of such Credit Party, to the extent of such gross profit mark-up;

  (j)	is manufactured, assembled or otherwise produced in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act and subject to the “hot goods” provisions contained in Title 25 U.S.C. 215(a)(i);

  (k)	is not covered by casualty insurance required by the terms of this Agreement;

  (l)	breaches in any material respect any of the representations or warranties pertaining to such Inventory set forth in any Credit Document;

  (m)	does not conform in all material respects to all standards imposed by any governmental agency, division or department thereof which has regulatory authority over such goods or the use or sale thereof;

  (n)	is Commingled Inventory;

  (o)	is located outside the United States (other than In Transit Inventory, which shall be subject to the definition of “Eligible In Transit Inventory”);

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  Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent to exercise its rights under the Credit Documents with respect to such Inventory unless (i) such third party has entered into an agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent permitting the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent to exercise its rights with respect to such Inventory, (ii) Reserves satisfactory to the Administrative Agent have been established with respect thereto or (iii) the Administrative Agent has otherwise agreed to allow such Inventory to be eligible in the Administrative Agent’s Permitted Discretion; or

  (q)	consists of Hazardous Materials or goods that can be transported or sold only with licenses that are not readily available.

  “Eligible Transferee” shall mean and include any Person that is eligible to become a Lender pursuant to Section 13.04, but in any event excluding (a) the Sponsor, the Borrowers, Guarantors and their respective Affiliates and Subsidiaries, (b) natural persons and (c) any Disqualified Lender.

  “Environmental Claims” shall mean any and all administrative, regulatory or judicial actions, suits, demands, demand letters, directives, claims, liens, notices of noncompliance or violation, investigations or proceedings arising under any Environmental Law or any permit issued, or any approval given, under any such Environmental Law (hereafter, “Claims”), including, without limitation, (a) any and all Claims by Governmental Authorities for enforcement, cleanup, removal, response, remedial or other actions or damages pursuant to any applicable Environmental Law, and (b) any and all Claims by any third party seeking damages, contribution, indemnification, cost recovery, compensation or injunctive relief in connection with alleged injury or threat of injury to health, safety or the environment due to the presence of Hazardous Materials.

  “Environmental Law” shall mean any applicable Federal, state, foreign or local statute, law, regulation and ordinance, and any legally binding code, guideline, policy and rule of common law now or hereafter in effect and in each case as amended, and any judicial or administrative interpretation thereof, including any judicial or administrative order, consent decree or judgment, relating to the environment, employee health and safety as such matters relate to Hazardous Materials or Hazardous Materials, including, without limitation, CERCLA; the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq.; the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.; the Toxic Substances Control Act, 15 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq.; the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. § 7401 et seq.; the Safe Drinking Water Act, 42 U.S.C. § 3803 et seq.; the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, 33 U.S.C. § 2701 et seq.; the Emergency Planning and the Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986, 42 U.S.C. § 11001 et seq.; the Hazardous Material Transportation Act, 49 U.S.C. § 5101 et seq.; the Occupational Safety and Health Act, 29 U.S.C. § 651 et seq. (as it relates to Hazardous Materials); and any state and local or foreign counterparts or equivalents, in each case as amended from time to time.

  “Equity Contribution” shall mean the direct or indirect equity contributions to Topco to be made by affiliates of the Sponsor and certain other Persons (including certain individuals who will be directors or officers of the Company upon consummation of the Acquisition), the Net Cash Proceeds of which will be further used to capitalize Holdings in an aggregate amount equal to, when combined with the fair market value of any Equity Interests of any management or other existing direct or indirect equity holders of Jill Intermediate, rolled over 

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  or invested in connection with the Transaction (whether contributed to Holdings or a direct or indirect parent of Holdings), at least 35% of the pro forma capitalization of Jill Intermediate and its Subsidiaries on the Effective Date after giving effect to the Transaction; provided, that the Sponsor shall own or control at least a majority of the economic and voting equity interests of Parent and its Subsidiaries on the Effective Date.  To the extent that all or any portion of such contributions made to Parent is not in the form of common equity, the amounts and terms thereof shall be reasonably acceptable to the Joint Lead Arrangers.

  “Equity Interests” of any Person shall mean any and all shares, interests, rights to purchase, warrants, options, participation or other equivalents of or interest in (however designated) equity of such Person, including any common stock, Preferred Equity, any limited or general partnership interest and any limited liability company membership interest.

  “ERISA” shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time, and the regulations promulgated and rulings issued thereunder.  Section references to ERISA are to ERISA, as in effect at the date of this Agreement and any subsequent provisions of ERISA, amendatory thereof, supplemental thereto or substituted therefor.

  “ERISA Affiliate” shall mean each person (as defined in Section 3(9) of ERISA) which together with Parent or a Subsidiary of Parent would be deemed to be a “single employer” within the meaning of Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Code.

  “ERISA Event” shall mean any one or more of the following:

  (a)	any Reportable Event;

  (b)	the filing of a notice of intent to terminate any Plan, if such termination would require material additional contributions in order to be considered a standard termination within the meaning of Section 4041(b) of ERISA; or the filing under Section 4041(a)(2) of ERISA of a notice of intent to terminate any Plan or the termination of any Plan under Section 4041(c) of ERISA;

  (c)	the institution of proceedings by the PBGC under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Plan;

  (d)	the failure to make a required contribution to any Plan that results in the imposition of a lien or other encumbrance under Section 430 of the Code or Section 303 or 4068 of ERISA, or the arising of such a lien or encumbrance; the failure of any Plan to satisfy the minimum funding standard under Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA, whether or not waived; or the filing of any request for or receipt of a minimum funding waiver under Section 412 of the Code with respect to any Plan; a determination that any Plan is considered an at-risk plan within the meaning of Section 430 of the Code or Section 303 of ERISA; or Parent, any Subsidiary of Parent or any ERISA Affiliate incurring any liability under Section 436 of the Code, or a violation of Section 436 of the Code with respect to a Plan; or the failure to make any required contribution to a Multiemployer Plan;

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  (e)	engaging in a non-exempt prohibited transaction within the meaning of Section 4975 of the Code or Section 406 of ERISA with respect to a Plan;

  (f)	the complete or partial withdrawal of Parent, any Subsidiary of Parent or any ERISA Affiliate from a Multiemployer Plan that results in a material liability to Parent or any Subsidiary; the reorganization or insolvency under Title IV of ERISA of any Multiemployer Plan that results in a material liability to Parent or any Subsidiary; or the receipt by Parent, any Subsidiary of Parent or any ERISA Affiliate, of any notice that a Multiemployer Plan is in endangered or critical status under Section 432 of the Code or Section 305 of ERISA; or

  (g)	Parent, any Subsidiary of Parent or any ERISA Affiliate incurring any liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to any Plan (other than premiums due and not delinquent under Section 4007 of ERISA).

  “EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule” means the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor person) as in effect from time to time.

  “Event of Default” shall have the meaning provided in Section 11.01.

  “Excess Availability” shall mean, as of any date of determination, the amount by which (a) Availability at such time exceeds (b) the Aggregate Exposure at such time.

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

  “Excluded Deposit Accounts” shall mean (a) Deposit Accounts and Securities Accounts established (or otherwise maintained) by Parent or any of its Subsidiaries the balance of which consists exclusively of (i) withheld income taxes and federal, state or local employment taxes in such amounts as are required in the reasonable judgment of the Company to be paid to the IRS or state or local government agencies with respect to employees of any of the Credit Parties and (ii) amounts required to be paid over to an employee benefit plan pursuant to DOL Reg. Sec. 2510.3-102 on behalf of or for the benefit of employees of one or more Credit Parties, (b) all segregated Deposit Accounts and Securities Accounts established (or otherwise maintained) by Parent or any of its Subsidiaries constituting (and the balance of which consists solely of funds set aside in connection with) tax accounts, payroll (and other wage and benefit) accounts, trust or similar accounts, (c) all other Deposit Accounts established (or otherwise maintained) by Parent or any of its Subsidiaries (excluding Collection Accounts, Concentration Accounts and Administrative Agent’s Accounts) that do not have cash balances at any time exceeding $1,000,000 for any individual Deposit Account or in the aggregate for all such Deposit Accounts and (d) Deposit Accounts of any Borrower maintained with the Administrative Agent the balance of which consists solely of proceeds of any sale or other disposition of any Term Loan Priority Collateral (and only such Collateral).

  “Excluded Subsidiary” shall mean (a) any Immaterial Subsidiary, (b) any Subsidiary that is prohibited by law, rule, regulation or contractual obligation (including organizational documentation in the case of a joint venture) (as in effect on the Effective Date or, if later, that date of acquisition of such Subsidiary so long as not created in contemplation thereof) from providing the Guaranty, for so long as such prohibition is in effect, or that would require 

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  governmental consent, approval, license or authorization to provide a guarantee (unless such consent, approval, license or authorization has been obtained) or (c) any Subsidiary to the extent that the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent reasonably agree that the cost or other consequence of obtaining the Guaranty by such Subsidiary is excessive in relation to the value afforded thereby.

  “Excluded Swap Obligation” shall mean, with respect to any Guarantor, any Swap Obligation if, and to the extent that, all or a portion of the Guaranty of such Guarantor of, or the grant by such Guarantor of a security interest to secure, such Swap Obligation (or any Guaranty thereof) is or becomes illegal under the Commodity Exchange Act or any rule, regulation or order of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (or the application or official interpretation of any thereof) by virtue of such Guarantor’s failure for any reason to constitute an “eligible contract participant” as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act and the regulations thereunder at the time the Guaranty of such Guarantor or the grant of such security interest becomes effective with respect to such Swap Obligation.  If a Swap Obligation arises under a master agreement governing more than one swap, such exclusion shall apply only to the portion of such Swap Obligation that is attributable to swaps for which such Guaranty or security interest is or becomes illegal.

  “Excluded Taxes” shall mean any of the following Taxes imposed on or with respect to a Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to a Recipient (a) Taxes imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated), franchise Taxes, and branch profits Taxes, in each case, (i) imposed as a result of such Recipient being organized under the laws of, or having its principal office or, in the case of any Lender, its applicable lending office located in, the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (or any political subdivision thereof) or (ii) that are Other Connection Taxes, (b) U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed on amounts payable to or for the account of such Recipient with respect to an applicable interest in the Loan (or any fees hereunder) pursuant to a law in effect on the date on which (i) such Recipient becomes a party to this Agreement (other than pursuant to an assignment request by a Borrower under Section 2.13) or (ii) in the case of a Lender, such Lender changes its lending office, except in each case to the extent that, pursuant to Section 5.04, amounts with respect to such Taxes were payable either to such Lender’s assignor immediately before such Lender became a party hereto or to such Lender immediately before it changed its lending office, (c) Taxes attributable to such Recipient’s failure to comply with Section 5.04(f) and (d) any U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA.

  “Existing Credit Documents” shall mean each of (a) the Credit Agreement, dated as of April 29, 2011, among JJ AB Funding Corp., as Borrower, the Lenders party thereto and The CIT Group/Business Credit, Inc., as Administrative Agent; (b) the Credit Agreement, dated as of April 29, 2011, among JJ Lease Funding Corp., as Borrower, the Lenders party thereto and Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch, as Administrative Agent; (c) the Credit Agreement, dated as of September 27, 2012, among JJ Mezz Funding Corp., as Borrower, the Lenders party thereto and CC Holdings Agency Corp., as Administrative Agent; (d) the Working Capital Murabaha Facility Agreement dated as of April 29, 2011, among JJ AB Funding Corp., Jill Acquisition LLC, AIA Limited, Arcapita Investment Funding Limited and The CIT Group/Business Credit, Inc., as agent; (e) the Registered Lease and License Financing and Purchase Option Agreement, dated as of April 29, 2011, among Jill Acquisition LLC, JJ Lease Funding Corp. and Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch, as agent; and (f) the Commodities Purchase Facility Agreement, dated as of 

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  September 27, 2012, among Jill Acquisition LLC, JJ Mezz Funding Corp., AIA Limited, Arcapita Investment Funding Limited, and CC Holdings Agency Corp.

  “Existing Letters of Credit” shall mean those letters of credit listed on Schedule 1.01(e).

  “Existing Term Loan Agent” shall mean Wilmington Trust, National Association (as successor to Jefferies Finance LLC) as “Administrative Agent” and as “Collateral Agent”, each under and as defined in the Existing Term Loan Credit Agreement, and any successor or replacement agent under the Existing Term Loan Credit Agreement or any other Existing Term Loan Document.

  “Existing Term Loan Amendment and Waiver” shall mean Amendment No. 2 to Term Loan Credit Agreement, Consent and Waiver, dated as of September 30, 2020, by and among Parent, the Company, certain of its Subsidiaries, the lenders party thereto and the Existing Term Loan Agent.

  “Existing Term Loan Credit Agreement” shall mean the Term Loan Credit Agreement, dated as May 8, 2015, by and among Parent, the Company, the lenders party thereto from time to time and the Existing Term Loan Agent, providing for the making of the Existing Term Loans on the Initial Term Loan Borrowing Date, as it may be amended, restated amended and restated, amended and extended, supplemented or modified from time to time, in each case, in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof and the ABL Intercreditor Agreement.  Any reference to the Existing Term Loan Credit Agreement hereunder shall be deemed a reference to any Existing Term Loan Credit Agreement then in existence.

  “Existing Term Loan Documents” shall mean the “Credit Documents” as defined in the Existing Term Loan Credit Agreement, including any amendments, restatements, amendments and restatements, supplements, modifications, or replacements thereto to the extent the same are permitted hereby and by the ABL Intercreditor Agreement.

  “Existing Term Loan Obligations” shall mean “Obligations” as defined in the Existing Term Loan Credit Agreement.

  “Existing Term Loan Secured Creditors” shall mean the “Secured Creditors” as defined in the Existing Term Loan Credit Agreement.

  “Existing Term Loans” shall mean the “Term Loans” as defined in the Existing Term Loan Credit Agreement or any equivalent term used to describe loans made thereunder.

  “Extended Final Maturity Date” shall mean, with respect to any Extended Loan or Extended Revolving Loan Commitment, the agreed upon date occurring after the Initial Maturity Date as specified in the applicable definitive documentation thereof.

  “Extended Loan” shall mean each Revolving Loan and each Swingline Loan pursuant to an Extended Revolving Loan Commitment.

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  “Extended Revolving Loan Commitments” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.16(b)(ii).

  “Extending Lender” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.16(d).

  “Extension” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.16(a).

  “Extension Amendment” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.16(d).

  “Extension Offer” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.16(a).

  “Facing Fee” shall have the meaning provided in Section 4.01(c).

  “Fair Market Value” shall mean, with respect to any asset (including any Equity Interests of any Person), the price at which a willing buyer, not an Affiliate of the seller, and a willing seller who does not have to sell, would agree to purchase and sell such asset, as determined in good faith by the Company.

  “FATCA” shall mean Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the date of this Agreement (or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof, any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code, and any fiscal or regulatory legislation, rules or practices adopted pursuant to any intergovernmental agreement entered into in connection with the implementation of such sections of the Code.

  “FCPA” shall mean The United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended.

  “Federal Funds Effective Rate” shall mean, for any period, a fluctuating interest rate equal for each day during such period to the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal Funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal Funds brokers, as published for such day (or, if such day is not a Business Day, for the next preceding Business Day) by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not so published for any day which is a Business Day, the average of the quotations (rounded upwards, if necessary to the next 1/100th of 1%) for such day on such transactions received by the Administrative Agent from three Federal Funds brokers of recognized standing selected by the Administrative Agent.

  “Fee Letter” shall mean the Fee Letter dated as of the Effective Date among the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent.

  “Fees” shall mean all amounts payable pursuant to or referred to in Section 4.01.

  “Fifth Amendment” shall mean Amendment No. 5 to ABL Credit Agreement, dated as of the Fifth Amendment Effective Date, by and among the Borrowers, Parent, the other Credit Parties party thereto, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Lenders party thereto.

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  “Fifth Amendment Effective Date” shall mean April 15, 2022.

  “Final Maturity Date” shall mean the Initial Maturity Date or, if such date is not a Business Day, the first Business Day thereafter; provided, that with respect to any Extended Revolving Loan Commitment, the Final Maturity Date with respect thereto instead shall be the Extended Final Maturity Date.

  “Financial Covenant Compliance Period” shall mean any period (a) commencing on the date on which Excess Availability is less than the greater of (i) $4,000,000 and (ii) 10% of Availability, and (b) ending on the first date thereafter on which Excess Availability has been equal to or greater than the greater of (i) $4,000,000 and (ii) 10% of Availability, in each case of this clause (b) for 21 consecutive Business Days.

  “First Priority” shall have the meaning provided in the ABL Intercreditor Agreement.

  “Fiscal Month” shall mean each monthly period beginning on the day after the last day of the immediately preceding Fiscal Month and ending on the Saturday closest to the last day of each calendar month.

  “Fiscal Quarter” shall mean each of the quarterly periods beginning on the day after the last day of the immediately preceding Fiscal Quarter and ending on the Saturday closest to April 30, July 31, October 31 and January 31.

  “Fiscal Year” shall mean each fiscal year of Parent and its Subsidiaries ending on the Saturday closest to January 31 in each calendar year.

  “Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio” shall mean, with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries for any period, the ratio of Consolidated EBITDA for such period, determined on a Pro Forma Basis, to Fixed Charges for such period, also determined on a Pro Forma Basis.

  “Fixed Charges” shall mean, with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries, for any period, the sum (without duplication) of (a) Consolidated Interest Expense less interest income, (b) all cash Dividends, distributions and other payments made in respect of any Qualified Preferred Stock or Disqualified Equity Interests (excluding items eliminated in consolidation) of Parent, other than Dividends deducted in calculating Consolidated EBITDA, (c) scheduled principal payments made on Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries, (d) cash taxes paid by the Company and its Subsidiaries and (e) except to the extent financed with long-term Indebtedness (but not under revolving or similar facilities), Capital Expenditures.

  “Floor” shall mean a rate of interest equal to 0%.

  “Foreign Lender” shall mean a Lender that is not a U.S. Person.

  “Foreign Pension Plan” shall mean any plan, fund (including, without limitation, any superannuation fund) or other similar program established or maintained outside the United States by Parent or any one or more of its Subsidiaries primarily for the benefit of employees of Parent or such Subsidiaries residing outside the United States, which plan, fund or other similar 

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  program provides, or results in, retirement income, a deferral of income in contemplation of retirement or payments to be made upon termination of employment, and which plan is not subject to ERISA or the Code.

  “Foreign Subsidiary” shall mean any Subsidiary that is not a Domestic Subsidiary.

  “Fourth Amendment” shall mean Amendment No. 4 to ABL Credit Agreement and Waiver, dated as of the Fourth Amendment Effective Date, by and among the Borrowers, Parent, the other Credit Parties party thereto, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Lenders party thereto.

  “Fourth Amendment Effective Date” shall mean September 30, 2020.

  “GAAP” shall mean generally accepted accounting principles in the United States as in effect from time to time; provided, that determinations in accordance with GAAP for purposes of Sections 9.16 and 10, including defined terms as used therein, and for all purposes of determining the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio and the Secured Net Leverage Ratio, are subject (to the extent provided therein) to Section 13.07(a).

  “Gift Card” shall have the meaning provided in the introductory paragraph to this Agreement.

  “Gift Certificate/Card and Merchandise Credit Liabilities” shall mean, at any time, the aggregate remaining value at such time of (a) gift certificates and gift cards of the Borrowers entitling the holder thereof to use all or a portion of the certificate or gift card to pay all or a portion of the purchase price for any Inventory that have been outstanding for three years or less, and (b) merchandise credits of the Borrowers that have been outstanding for three years or less.

  “Governmental Authority” shall mean the government of the United States, any other nation or any political subdivision thereof, whether state, provincial or local, and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government.

  “Guaranteed Obligations” shall have the meaning provided in Section 15.01.

  “Guarantors” shall mean, collectively, (a) Parent (in its capacity as a guarantor under the Guaranty of all Parent Guaranteed Obligations) and (b) each Borrower (in its capacity as a guarantor under the Guaranty of Borrower Guaranteed Obligations); and “Guarantor” shall mean any of them.

  “Guaranty” shall mean the guaranty of the Guarantors pursuant to Section 15.

  “Hazardous Materials” shall mean (a) any petroleum or petroleum products, radioactive materials, asbestos in any form that is or could become friable, urea formaldehyde foam insulation, dielectric fluid containing levels of polychlorinated biphenyls, and radon gas; (b) any chemicals, materials or substances defined as or included in the definition of “hazardous substances,” “hazardous waste,” “hazardous materials,” “extremely hazardous substances,” 

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  “restricted hazardous waste,” “toxic substances,” “toxic pollutants,” “contaminants,” or “pollutants,” or words of similar import, under any applicable Environmental Law; and (c) any other chemical, material or substance, the exposure to, or Release of which is prohibited, limited or regulated by any Governmental Authority.

  “Hedging Creditors” shall mean, collectively, each Lender Counterparty party to an ABL Secured Hedging Agreement.

  “Historical Excess Availability” shall mean, for the purposes of the definition of “Applicable Margin” and “Applicable Commitment Commission Percentage”, from and after each day of delivery of any Borrowing Base Certificate delivered in accordance with the definition of “Applicable Margin” or “Applicable Commitment Commission Percentage”, an amount equal to (a) the sum of each day’s Excess Availability during the most recently ended Fiscal Quarter divided by (b) the number of days in such Fiscal Quarter; provided, that Excess Availability shall be determined on a Pro Forma Basis in accordance with the requirements of the definition of “Pro Forma Basis” contained herein.

  “Holdings” shall have the meaning provided in the Recitals to this Agreement.

  “ICE” shall mean the ICE Benchmark Administration Direct Data Service.

  “Immaterial Subsidiary” shall mean any Subsidiary of the Company (that is not a Borrower) that the Company elects to treat as an Immaterial Subsidiary; provided, that a Subsidiary may be designated an Immaterial Subsidiary (and remain an Immaterial Subsidiary) only so long as such Subsidiary (a) does not, as of the last day of the Fiscal Quarter of the Company most recently ended, have assets with a value in excess of 2.5% of the total assets or revenues representing in excess of 2.5% of total revenues of Parent, the Company and their Subsidiaries, in each case, on a consolidated basis as of such date, and (b) taken together with all Immaterial Subsidiaries as of the last day of the Fiscal Quarter of the Company most recently ended, did not have assets with a value in excess of 5% of total assets or revenues representing in excess of 5% of total revenues of Parent, the Company and their Subsidiaries, in each case, on a consolidated basis as of such date.  Each Immaterial Subsidiary as of the Effective Date is set forth in Schedule 1.01(d).

  “In Transit Inventory” shall mean Inventory which is in transit and not yet in the physical possession of one or more Credit Parties at domestic (U.S.) locations owned or leased by one or more Credit Parties.

  “In Transit Maximum Amount” shall mean (a) during the months of January, February, March, July, August and September of each calendar year, $9,500,000, and (b) during all other months during each calendar year, $7,000,000.

  “Incremental Amendment” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.15(b).

  “Incremental Availability” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.15(a).

  “Incremental Facility” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.15(a).

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  “Incremental Facility Closing Date” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.15(b).

  “Incremental Revolving Loan Commitments” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.15(a).

  “Incremental Revolving Loans” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.15(b).

  “Indebtedness” shall mean, as to any Person, if and to the extent (other than with respect to clause (c)) the same would constitute indebtedness or a liability in accordance with GAAP, without duplication, (a) all indebtedness of such Person for borrowed money or for the deferred purchase price of property or services, (b) the maximum amount available to be drawn or paid under all letters of credit, bankers’ acceptances, bank guaranties, surety and appeal bonds and similar obligations issued for the account of such Person and all unpaid drawings and unreimbursed payments in respect of such letters of credit, bankers’ acceptances, bank guaranties, surety and appeal bonds and similar obligations, (c) all indebtedness of the types described in clause (a), (b), (d), (e), (f) or (g) of this definition secured by any Lien on any property owned by such Person, whether or not such indebtedness has been assumed by such Person (provided, that if the Person has not assumed or otherwise become liable in respect of such indebtedness, such indebtedness shall be deemed to be in an amount equal to the lesser of the amount secured and the Fair Market Value of the property to which such Lien relates), (d) all Capitalized Lease Obligations of such Person, (e) all obligations of such Person to pay a specified purchase price for goods or services, whether or not delivered or accepted (i.e., take or pay and similar obligations), (f) all Contingent Obligations of such Person in respect of Indebtedness of others of the kinds referred to in clauses (a) through (e) above and clause (g) below and (g) all net payments under any Interest Rate Protection Agreement or any Other Hedging Agreement that such Person would have to make in the event of an early termination, on the date Indebtedness of such Person is being determined.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, Indebtedness shall not include (i) trade and other ordinary course payables, accrued expenses and intercompany liabilities arising in the ordinary course of business, (ii) prepaid or deferred revenue, (iii) purchase price holdbacks in respect of assets pending the satisfaction by the seller of such assets of unperformed obligations, (iv) accrued expenses and deferred tax and other credits incurred by any Person in the ordinary course of business of such Person or (v) in the case of the Company and its Subsidiaries, (A) all intercompany Indebtedness having a term not exceeding 364 days (inclusive of any rollover or extension of terms) and made in the ordinary course of business and (B) intercompany liabilities in connection with the cash management, tax and accounting operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries.

  “Indemnified Liabilities” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.01(a)(iii).

  “Indemnified Person” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.01(a)(iii).

  “Indemnified Taxes” shall mean (a) Taxes, other than Excluded Taxes, imposed on or with respect to any payment made by or on account of any obligation of a Credit Party under any Credit Document and (b) to the extent not otherwise described in (a), Other Taxes.

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  “Individual Exposure” of any Lender shall mean, at any time, the sum of (a) the aggregate principal amount of all Revolving Loans made by such Lender and then outstanding, (b) such Lender’s RL Percentage of the aggregate principal amount of all Swingline Loans then outstanding and (c) such Lender’s RL Percentage of the aggregate amount of all Letter of Credit Outstandings at such time.

  “Initial Budget” shall mean the 13-week budget and cash flow forecast the Company shall have prepared and delivered to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the Fourth Amendment Effective Date as a condition precedent to the Fourth Amendment, in a form substantially similar to the budget delivered by the Company to certain lenders under the Existing Term Loan Credit Agreement prior to the Fourth Amendment Effective Date, which shall (x) reflect, on a line-item basis, the projected receipts and disbursements of Parent, the Company and their Subsidiaries (including all necessary and required expenses that such persons expect to incur) on a weekly basis and (y) cover the 13-week period that commences with the fiscal week of the Company ending on the first Saturday occurring after the date on which the Initial Budget is delivered and including the subsequent twelve (12) fiscal weeks.

  “Initial Intercreditor Agreement” shall have the meaning provided in Section 6.10.

  “Initial Maturity Date” means May 8, 20232024; provided that, if as of the date that is sixtyone hundred eighty (60180) days prior to the Priming Term Loan Maturity Date, such Priming Term Loan Maturity Date has not been extended (whether by amendment, restatement, refinancing or otherwise) to a date that is at least ninetyone hundred eighty (90180) days after the Initial Maturity Date, then the Initial Maturity Date shall automatically be deemed to be sixtyone hundred eighty (60180) days prior to such Priming Term Loan Maturity Date.

  “Initial Term Loan Borrowing Date” shall mean the date occurring on or after the Effective Date on which the initial borrowing of the Existing Term Loans occurs.

  “Insolvency Proceeding” shall mean any proceeding commenced by or against any Person under any provision of the Bankruptcy Code or under any state or foreign bankruptcy or insolvency law, assignments for the benefit of creditors, formal or informal moratoria, compositions, extensions generally with creditors, or proceedings seeking reorganization, arrangement, or other similar relief.

  “Intercompany Loans” shall have the meaning provided in Section 10.05(h).

  “Intercompany Note” shall mean any promissory note evidencing Intercompany Loans.

  “Intercompany Subordination Agreement” shall have the meaning provided in Section 10.05(h).

  “Intercreditor Agreement” shall mean the ABL Intercreditor Agreement and the Subordination Agreement, as applicable.

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  “Interest Determination Date” shall mean, with respect to any LIBOR Loan, the second Business Day prior to the commencement of any Interest Period relating to such LIBOR Loan.

  “Interest Period” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.09.

  “Interest Rate Protection Agreement” shall mean any interest rate swap agreement, interest rate cap agreement, interest collar agreement, interest rate hedging agreement or other similar agreement or arrangement.

  “Inventory” shall mean inventory (as such term is defined in Article 9 of the UCC).

  “Investments” shall have the meaning provided in Section 10.05.

  “IRS” shall mean the United States Internal Revenue Service.

  “Issuing Lender” shall mean each of (a) the Administrative Agent or an Affiliate thereof (except as otherwise provided in Section 12.09), (b) any other Lender reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Company which agrees to issue Letters of Credit hereunder and (c) a bank or other legally authorized Person selected by or acceptable to the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion and guaranteed by the Administrative Agent (a “Letter of Credit Guaranty”) and, so long as no Event of Default exists at the time of selection, reasonably satisfactory to the Company; provided, that if any Extension is effected in accordance with Section 2.16, then on the occurrence of the Initial Maturity Date (or any subsequent Final Maturity Date which has been extended), each Issuing Lender shall have the right to resign as such on, or on any date within 20 Business Days after, the Initial Maturity Date (or any subsequent Final Maturity Date which has been extended), upon not less than 10 Business Days’ prior written notice thereof to the Company and the Administrative Agent and, in the event of any such resignation and upon the effectiveness thereof, the resigning Issuing Lender shall retain all of its rights hereunder and under the other Credit Documents as Issuing Lender with respect to all Letters of Credit theretofore issued by it (which Letters of Credit shall remain outstanding in accordance with the terms hereof until their respective expirations) but shall not be required to issue any further Letters of Credit hereunder.  If at any time and for any reason (including as a result of resignations as contemplated by the last proviso to the preceding sentence), an Issuing Lender has resigned in such capacity in accordance with the preceding sentence and no Issuing Lenders exist at such time, then no Person shall be an Issuing Lender hereunder obligated to issue Letters of Credit unless and until (and only for so long as) a Lender (or Affiliate of a Lender) reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Company agrees to act as Issuing Lender hereunder.  Any Issuing Lender may, in its discretion, arrange for one or more Letters of Credit to be issued by one or more Affiliates of such Issuing Lender (and such Affiliate shall be deemed to be an “Issuing Lender” for all purposes of the Credit Documents).

  “Jill Intermediate” shall have the meaning provided in the Recitals to this Agreement.

  “Joinder Agreement” shall mean a Joinder Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit L.

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  “Joint Book-Running Managers” shall mean Jefferies Finance LLC and Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc., in their capacity as Joint Book-Running Managers and any successor(s) thereto.

  “Joint Lead Arrangers” shall mean Jefferies Finance LLC and Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc., in their capacity as Joint Lead Arrangers and any successor(s) thereto.

  “L/C Supportable Obligations” shall mean (a) obligations of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to workers compensation, surety bonds and other similar statutory obligations and (b) such other obligations of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries as are reasonably acceptable to the respective Issuing Lender and otherwise permitted to exist pursuant to the terms of this Agreement (other than obligations in respect of (i) Indebtedness pursuant to the Priming Term Loan Agreement, the Existing Term Loan Credit Agreement and the Subordination Facility Credit Agreement (and any Permitted Refinancings thereof), (ii) any Indebtedness or other obligations that are subordinated in right of payment (or in security) to the Obligations and (iii) any Equity Interests).

  “Leaseholds” of any Person shall mean all the right, title and interest of such Person as lessee, sublessee or licensee in, to and under leases, subleases or licenses of land, improvements and/or fixtures.

  “Legal Requirements” shall mean, as to any person, the organizational documents of such person, and any treaty, law (including the common law), statute, ordinance, code, rule, regulation, guidelines, license, permit requirement, judgment, decree, verdict, order, consent order, consent decree, writ, declaration or injunction or determination of an arbitrator or a court or other Governmental Authority, and the interpretation or administration thereof, in each case applicable to or binding upon such person or any of its property or to which such person or any of its property is subject, in each case whether or not having the force of law.

  “Lender” shall mean each financial institution listed on Schedule 1.01(a), as well as any Person that becomes a “Lender” hereunder pursuant to Section 2.13, or 13.04(b), in each case, (other than with respect to Section 12.06 or 13.01) for so long as such Person holds Loans or Revolving Loan Commitments hereunder.

  “Lender Affiliate” shall mean (a) any Affiliate of any Lender, (b) any person that is administered or managed by any Lender or any Affiliate of any Lender and that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business and (c) with respect to any Lender which is a fund that invests in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit, any other fund that invests in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit and is managed or advised by the same investment advisor as such Lender or by an Affiliate of such Lender or investment advisor.

  “Lender Counterparty” shall mean any counterparty to an Interest Rate Protection Agreement and/or Other Hedging Agreement that is the Administrative Agent, a Lender or an Affiliate of the Administrative Agent or a Lender at the time such Person enters into such Interest Rate Protection Agreement and/or Other Hedging Agreement (even if the Administrative Agent 

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  or such Lender subsequently ceases to be the Administrative Agent or a Lender, as the case may be, under this Agreement for any reason).

  “Lender Default” shall mean, as to any Lender, (a) the wrongful refusal (which has not been retracted) of such Lender or the failure of such Lender (which has not been cured) to make available its portion of any Borrowing (including any Mandatory Borrowing) or to fund its portion of any unreimbursed payment with respect to a Letter of Credit pursuant to Section 3.04(c), (b) such Lender having been deemed insolvent or having become the subject of an Insolvency Proceeding or a takeover by a regulatory authority, (c) such Lender having failed, within three Business Days after written request by the Administrative Agent or the Company to confirm in writing to the Administrative Agent and the Company that it will comply with its prospective funding obligations hereunder (provided, that such Lender Default shall cease to exist upon receipt of such written confirmation by the Administrative Agent and the Company), (d) such Lender having notified in writing to the Company and/or the Administrative Agent, the Swingline Lender, any Issuing Lender and/or any Credit Party (i) that it does not intend to comply with its obligations under Sections 2.01(a) or (c), 2.04 or 3, as the case may be, in circumstances where such non-compliance would constitute a breach of such Lender’s obligations under the respective Section or (ii) of the events described in preceding clause (b); provided, that for purposes of any documentation entered into pursuant to the Back-Stop Arrangements and any requirements to provide same (and the term “Defaulting Lender” as used therein), the term “Lender Default” shall also include, as to any Lender, (A) any Affiliate of such Lender that has “control” (within the meaning provided in the definition of “Affiliate”) of such Lender having been deemed insolvent or having become the subject of an Insolvency Proceeding or a takeover by a regulatory authority, (B) any previously cured “Lender Default” of such Lender under this Agreement, unless the Company, Administrative Agent, each Issuing Lender and the Swingline Lender have agreed in writing that the “Defaulting Lender” has adequately remedied all matters that caused such Lender Default, and (C) the failure of such Lender to make available its portion of any Borrowing (including any Mandatory Borrowing) or to fund its portion of any unreimbursed payment with respect to a Letter of Credit pursuant to Section 3.04(c) within one Business Day of the date (1) the Administrative Agent (in its capacity as a Lender) or (2) Lenders constituting the Required Lenders with Revolving Loan Commitments has or have, as applicable, funded its or their portion thereof or (e) such Lender becomes the subject of a Bail-In Action.

  “Letter of Credit” shall have the meaning provided in Section 3.01(a).

  “Letter of Credit Back-Stop Arrangements” shall have the meaning provided in Section 3.03(b).

  “Letter of Credit Fee” shall have the meaning provided in Section 4.01(b).

  “Letter of Credit Guaranty” shall have the meaning provided in the definition of Issuing Lender.

  “Letter of Credit Outstandings” shall mean, at any time, the sum of (a) the Stated Amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit at such time and (b) the aggregate amount of all Unpaid Drawings in respect of all Letters of Credit at such time.

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  “Letter of Credit Request” shall have the meaning provided in Section 3.03(a).

  “LIBO Rate” shall mean, with respect to any Borrowing of LIBOR Loans for any Interest Period, the rate per annum equal to the rate determined by CIT to be the London Interbank Offered Rate benchmark rate which is calculated and distributed daily by ICE (or any successor thereto) for deposits in Dollars (for delivery on the first day of such interest period) with a term equivalent to such interest period, distributed at approximately 11:45 a.m. (London time) (or such other time as confirmed by ICE) two business days prior to the first day of such Interest Period.  The Borrowers may elect to use the LIBO Rate provided (a) the Borrowers give CIT at least three business days prior notice of such election and (b) no Default is then outstanding under the Credit Documents.  Interest on any Borrowing of LIBOR Loans will be computed and payable at the end of the applicable Interest Period (or, in the case of any Interest Period longer than three months, at the end of each three-month period) in arrears on the basis of a 360 day year and based on the actual number of days elapsed. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for purposes of this Agreement, the LIBO Rate shall at no time be less than 1.00% per annum.

  “LIBOR Loan” shall mean each Loan (other than a Swingline Loan) designated as such by the applicable Borrower at the time of the incurrence thereof or conversion thereto bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the LIBO Rate.

  “Lien” shall mean any mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or other) or other security agreement of any kind or nature whatsoever (including, without limitation, any conditional sale or other title retention agreement and any Capitalized Lease Obligations having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing).

  “Loan” shall mean each Revolving Loan (including, without limitation, each extension of credit pursuant to the Incremental Facility) and each Swingline Loan.

  “Loan Communication” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.28.

  “Mandatory Borrowing” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.01(c).

  “Margin Stock” shall have the meaning provided in Regulation U.

  “Material Adverse Effect” shall mean (a) a material adverse effect on the business, operations, property, assets, liabilities or financial condition of Parent, the Company and their respective Subsidiaries taken as a whole (other than, in the case of this clause (a), as a direct result of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic) or (b) a material adverse effect (i) on the rights or remedies of the Lenders, the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent under the Credit Documents or (ii) on the ability of the Credit Parties (taken as a whole) to perform their obligations to the Lenders, the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent under the Credit Documents.

  “Maximum Letter of Credit Amount” shall mean $10,000,000.

  “Maximum Rate” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.20.

  “Maximum Swingline Amount” shall mean $5,000,000.

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  “Minimum Borrowing Amount” shall mean (a) for Revolving Loans, $250,000 and (b) for Swingline Loans, $100,000 or such lesser amount as may be agreed by the Administrative Agent.

  “Minimum Extension Condition” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.16(c).

  “Monthly Financial Statements” shall mean the unaudited consolidated statement of income of Parent and its Subsidiaries for the Fiscal Month ended August 29, 2020.

  “Monthly Reporting Period” shall mean any period (a) commencing on the date on which Excess Availability has been less than the greater of (i) $25,000,000 and (ii) 70% of Availability for three consecutive Business Days, and (b) ending on the first date thereafter on which Excess Availability has been equal to or greater than the greater of (i) $25,000,000 or (B) 70% of Availability for 30 consecutive days.

  “Moody’s” shall mean Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. or any successor to its rating agency business.

  “Mortgage” shall mean a mortgage, deed of trust, deed to secure debt, debenture or similar security instrument in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

  “Mortgage Policy” shall mean an ALTA Lender’s title insurance policy (Form 2006) or other form reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Administrative Agent.

  “Mortgaged Property” shall mean any Real Property owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries which is encumbered (or required to be encumbered) by a Mortgage pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.

  “Multiemployer Plan” shall mean any multiemployer plan as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA that is subject to Title IV of ERISA and is contributed to by (or to which there is an obligation to contribute of) Parent or a Subsidiary of Parent or an ERISA Affiliate, or to which Parent, a subsidiary of Parent or an ERISA Affiliate has any liability, contingent or otherwise.

  “NAIC” shall mean the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

  “Net Cash Proceeds” shall mean, with respect to any event, the gross cash proceeds received from such event, net of transaction costs (including, as applicable, any underwriting, brokerage or other customary commissions and reasonable legal, advisory and other fees and expenses associated therewith) incurred in connection with such event.

  “Net Orderly Liquidation Value” shall mean the cash proceeds of Inventory which could be obtained in an orderly liquidation (net of all liquidation expenses, costs of sale, commissions, operating expenses and retrieval and related costs), as determined pursuant to the most recent third-party appraisal of such Inventory delivered to the Administrative Agent by an appraiser reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, and in each case expressed as a 

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  recovery percentage with respect to each category of such assets.  The Net Orderly Liquidation Value for each category of assets will be increased or reduced promptly upon receipt by the Administrative Agent of each updated appraisal.

  “Net Sale Proceeds” shall mean for any sale or other disposition of assets, the gross cash proceeds (including any cash received by way of deferred payment pursuant to a promissory note, receivable or otherwise, but only as and when received) received from such sale or other disposition of assets, net of (a) transaction costs (including, without limitation, any underwriting, brokerage or other customary selling commissions, reasonable legal, advisory and other fees and expenses (including title and recording expenses), associated therewith and sales, VAT and transfer taxes arising therefrom), (b) payments of unassumed liabilities relating to the assets sold or otherwise disposed of at the time of, or within 90 days after, the date of such sale or other disposition, (c) the amount of such gross cash proceeds required to be used and actually used within 90 days following such sale or disposition to permanently repay any Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness secured by the assets disposed of on a junior or pari passu basis relative to the Obligations) which is secured by the respective assets which were sold or otherwise disposed of, and (d) the estimated income taxes payable in respect of such sale or other disposition; provided, however, that such gross proceeds shall not include any portion of such gross cash proceeds which the Company determines in good faith should be reserved for post-closing adjustments or indemnities (to the extent the Company delivers to the Administrative Agent a certificate signed by an Authorized Officer as to such determination), it being understood and agreed that on the day that all such post-closing adjustments have been determined (which shall not be later than eighteen months following the date of the respective asset sale), the amount (if any) by which the reserved amount in respect of such sale or disposition exceeds the actual post-closing adjustments payable by Parent or any of its Subsidiaries shall constitute Net Sale Proceeds on such date received by Parent and/or any of its Subsidiaries from such sale or other disposition.

  “Non-Defaulting Lender” shall mean and include each Lender, other than a Defaulting Lender.

  “Non-Wholly-Owned Subsidiary” shall mean, as to any Person, each Subsidiary of such Person which is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of such Person.

  “Note” shall mean each Revolving Note and the Swingline Note.

  “Notice of Borrowing” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.03(a).

  “Notice of Conversion/Continuation” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.06.

  “Notice Office” shall mean the office of the Administrative Agent located at 11 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036, Attention:  Timothy Kober and Bob Klein, and Emails:  Timothy.Kober@cit.com and Bob.Klein@cit.com, or such other office or person as the Administrative Agent may hereafter designate in writing as such to the other parties hereto.

  “Obligations” shall mean all amounts owing to the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Lender pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Credit Document, including, without limitation, all amounts in respect of any principal, interest 

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  (including any interest accruing following maturity of the Loans, all reimbursement obligations and Unpaid Drawings with respect to Letters of Credit and interest accruing subsequent to the filing of a petition in bankruptcy, reorganization or similar proceeding at the rate provided for in this Agreement, whether or not such interest is an allowed claim under any such proceeding or under applicable state, federal or foreign law), penalties, fees (including all legal fees and disbursements required to be paid by the Company and its Subsidiaries hereunder), expenses, indemnifications, reimbursements and other liabilities, and guarantees of the foregoing amounts.

  “OFAC” shall mean the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

  “One-Month LIBO Rate” shall mean, for any day, the rate per annum equal to the rate determined by CIT to be the London Interbank Offered Rate benchmark rate which is calculated and distributed daily by ICE (or any successor thereto) for deposits in Dollars (for delivery on such day) with a term equivalent to one month, distributed at approximately 11:45 a.m. (London time) (or such other time as confirmed by ICE) on such day (or if such day is not a Business Day, the immediately preceding Business Day).  In the event that such rate is not available at such time for any reason, then the “One-Month LIBO Rate” for such day shall be determined by CIT by reference to such other comparable publicly available service for displaying the offered rate for dollar deposits in the London interbank market as may be selected by CIT and, in the absence of availability, such other method as may be selected by CIT in its sole discretion.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, for purposes of this Agreement, the One-Month LIBO Rate shall at no time be less than 1.00%.

  “Organization” shall mean any corporation, limited liability company, partnership or other business entity (or the adjectival form thereof, where applicable) or the equivalent of the foregoing in any foreign jurisdiction.

  “Other Connection Taxes” shall mean, with respect to any Recipient, Taxes imposed as a result of a present or former connection between such Recipient and the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (other than connections arising solely from such Recipient having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under or enforced any Credit Document).

  “Other Hedging Agreements” shall mean any foreign exchange contracts, currency swap agreements, commodity agreements or other similar agreements (including commodity futures or forward purchase contracts), or arrangements designed to protect against fluctuations in currency values or commodity prices.

  “Other Taxes” shall mean all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing or similar Taxes that arise from any payment made under, from the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or registration of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to, any Credit Document except any such Taxes that are Other Connection Taxes imposed with respect to an assignment (other than an assignment made pursuant to Section 2.13).  

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  “Parent” shall have the meaning provided in the introductory paragraph to this Agreement.

  “Parent Common Stock” shall mean the authorized shares of common stock of Parent on the Effective Date, together with any subsequently authorized shares of common stock of Parent.

  “Parent Guaranteed Obligations” shall have the meaning provided in Section 15.01.

  “Participant” shall have the meaning provided in Section 3.04(a).

  “Participant Register” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.04(a).

  “Past-Due Rent Reserves” shall mean (A) with respect to those certain leased locations identified to and approved by the Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion as “approved but not papered locations” or “unapproved and passive locations”, (i) on and after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date to and including December 31, 2020, a reserve equal to 0%, (ii) on and after January 1, 2021 to and including January 31, 2021, a reserve equal to 25% applied against the outstanding past-due rent amounts for unexecuted agreements with respective Landlords, (iii) on and after February 1, 2021 to and including February 28, 2021, a reserve equal to 50% applied against the outstanding past-due rent amounts for unexecuted agreements with respective Landlords, and (iv) on and after March 1, 2021, a reserve equal to 100% applied against the outstanding past-due rent amounts for unexecuted agreements with respective Landlords, (B) with respect to those certain leased locations identified to and approved by the Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion as “unapproved and resistant locations”, (i) on and after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date to and including November 30, 2020, a reserve equal to 0%, (ii) on and after December 1, 2020 to and including December 31, 2020, a reserve equal to 50% applied against the outstanding past-due rent amounts for unexecuted agreements with respective Landlords, (iii) on and after January 1, 2021 to and including January 31, 2021, a reserve equal to 75% applied against the outstanding past-due rent amounts for unexecuted agreements with respective Landlords and (iv) on and after February 1, 2021, a reserve equal to 100% applied against the outstanding past-due rent amounts for unexecuted agreements with respective Landlords, and (C) with respect to those certain leased locations identified to and approved by the Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion as “approved and papered locations” for which an executed agreement is in effect with respective Landlords, any past-due rent that is not timely paid pursuant to the terms of the applicable executed agreement shall be subject to a reserve equal to 100% of such total remaining past-due rent; an updated spreadsheet detailing the foregoing information shall be delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 9.01(f).

  “Patent Security Agreement” shall have the meaning provided in the Security Agreement.

  “Patriot Act” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.18.

  “Payment Conditions” shall mean, with respect to any proposed action for which the Payment Conditions are required to be satisfied, that each of the following conditions are satisfied at the time such action is proposed to occur and immediately after giving effect thereto:

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  	(a)	(i) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (ii) Thirty-Day Excess Availability and Excess Availability (in each case calculated on a Pro Forma Basis after giving effect to the Borrowing of any Loans or issuance of any Letters of Credit in connection with the proposed action (and assuming that such Loans and Letters of Credit had remained outstanding throughout the applicable 30-day period for which Thirty-Day Excess Availability is to be determined)) shall be equal to or exceed the greater of (A) $6,000,000 and (B) 15% of Availability, (iii) the Company and its Subsidiaries shall be in compliance with a Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio of not less than 1.00:1.00 for the Test Period then most recently ended on a Pro Forma Basis as if such proposed action had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, and (iv) the Company shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent a certificate of an Authorized Officer of the Company certifying as to compliance with preceding clauses (i) through (iii) and demonstrating (in reasonable detail) the calculations required by preceding clauses (ii) and (iii); or

  	(b)	(i) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (ii) Thirty-Day Excess Availability and Excess Availability (in each case calculated on a Pro Forma Basis to include the Borrowing of any Revolving Loans or the issuance of any Letters of Credit in connection with the proposed action (and assuming that such Loans and Letters of Credit had remained outstanding throughout the applicable 30-day period for which Thirty-Day Excess Availability is to be determined)), shall be equal to or exceed the greater of (A) $10,000,000 and (B) 25% of Availability, and (iii) the Company shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent a certificate of an Authorized Officer of the Company certifying as to compliance with preceding clauses (i) and (ii) and demonstrating (in reasonable detail) the calculations required by preceding clause (ii).

  “Payment Office” shall mean the office of the Administrative Agent located at 11 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036, Attention:  Bob Klein, and Email:  Bob.Klein@cit.com, or such other office as the Administrative Agent may hereafter designate in writing as such to the other parties hereto.

  “PBGC” shall mean the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation established pursuant to Section 4002 of ERISA, or any successor thereto.

  “Permitted Audit Opinion Qualifications” shall mean (i) with respect to the Fiscal Year of Parent ending January 30, 2021, any qualification or exception, (ii) with respect to the Fiscal Year of Parent ending January 29, 2022, a qualification or exception that relates solely to any potential inability to satisfy the covenant set forth in Section 9.11 of the Priming Term Loan Agreement on a future date or in a future period, and (iii) with respect to the Fiscal Year of Parent ending January 28, 2023 and thereafter, none.

  “Permitted Discretion” shall mean a determination made in good faith and in the exercise of reasonable (from the perspective of a secured asset-based lender) business judgment.

  “Permitted Encumbrance” shall mean, with respect to any Mortgaged Property, easements, zoning restrictions, rights-of-way restrictions and other similar encumbrances permitted under Section 10.01(h), and such exceptions to title as are set forth in the Mortgage Policy delivered with respect thereto.

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  “Permitted Liens” shall have the meaning provided in Section 10.01.

  “Permitted Refinancing” shall mean, with respect to any Person, any modification, refinancing, replacement, refunding, renewal or extension of any Indebtedness of such Person; provided, that (a) the aggregate principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of the Indebtedness incurred pursuant to such modification, refinancing, replacement, refunding, renewal or extension does not exceed the aggregate principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of the Indebtedness so modified, refinanced, replaced, refunded, renewed or extended except by an amount equal to unpaid accrued interest, fees, expenses and premium thereon and any make-whole payments applicable thereto and by an amount equal to any existing commitments unutilized thereunder, (b) such modification, refinancing, replacement, refunding, renewal or extension has a final stated maturity date equal to or later than the final stated maturity date of, and has a Weighted Average Life to Maturity equal to or greater than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of, the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, replaced, refunded, renewed or extended (excluding the effects of nominal amortization in the amount of no greater than one percent per annum and prepayments of Indebtedness), (c) at the time thereof, no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (d) such modification, refinancing, replacement, refunding, renewal or extension does not add guarantors, change obligors or provide for security different from that which applied to the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, replaced, refunded, renewed or extended, (e) to the extent such Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, replaced, refunded, renewed or extended is subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations, such Indebtedness incurred pursuant to such modification, refinancing, replacement, refunding, renewal or extension is subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations on terms at least as favorable to the Lenders as those contained in the documentation governing the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, replaced, refunded, renewed or extended, (f) to the extent such Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, replaced, refunded, renewed or extended is secured by Liens that are subordinated to the Liens securing the Obligations, such Indebtedness incurred pursuant to such modification, refinancing, replacement, refunding, renewal or extension is unsecured or secured by Liens that are subordinated to the Liens securing the Obligations on terms at least as favorable to the Lenders as those contained in the documentation (including any intercreditor or similar agreements) governing the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, replaced, refunded, renewed or extended; provided, that a certificate of an officer of the Company delivered to the Administrative Agent at least five Business Days prior to the incurrence of such Indebtedness, together with a reasonably detailed description of the material terms and conditions of such Indebtedness or drafts of the documentation relating thereto, stating that the Company has determined in good faith that such terms and conditions satisfy the requirements of this clause (f) shall be conclusive evidence that such terms and conditions satisfy such requirement unless the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrowers within five Business Days following receipt of such certificate that it disagrees with such determination (including a reasonable description of the basis upon which it disagrees) and (g) in the case of any Permitted Refinancing in respect of the Priming Term Loan Obligations, Existing Term Loan Obligations and Subordinated Facility Obligations proposed to be secured by the Liens on the Collateral, such Permitted Refinancing is subject to the ABL Intercreditor Agreement and the Subordination Agreement, as applicable.

  “Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness” shall mean any Indebtedness implemented pursuant to, and in accordance with the requirements of, a Permitted Refinancing.

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  “Permitted Unsecured Ratio Debt” shall mean unsecured Indebtedness of a Borrower, so long as (a) such Indebtedness is unsecured Indebtedness or Subordinated Indebtedness, (b) such Indebtedness does not mature prior to the date that is 91 days after the then latest Final Maturity Date at the time such Indebtedness is incurred and the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of such Indebtedness is no shorter than the remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity applicable to the then outstanding Priming Term Loans, (c) immediately after giving effect thereto and to the use of the proceeds thereof, (i) no Event of Default shall exist or result therefrom and (ii) on a Pro Forma Basis giving effect to the occurrence of such Indebtedness, the Interest Coverage Ratio (as defined in the Priming Term Loan Agreement as in effect on the Effective Date or as amended in accordance with the terms hereof) shall equal or exceed 2.00:1.00 as of the last day of the most recently ended Calculation Period prior to the incurrence of such Indebtedness, (d) such Indebtedness is not guaranteed by any Person other than the Credit Parties, and (e) such Indebtedness does not have covenants more restrictive to the Credit Parties than those set forth in the Priming Term Loan Agreement as in effect on the date of incurrence.

  “Person” shall mean any individual, partnership, joint venture, firm, corporation, association, limited liability company, trust or other enterprise or any Governmental Authority.

  “Plan” shall mean any pension plan as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA which is maintained or contributed to by (or to which there is an obligation to contribute of) Parent or a Subsidiary of Parent or an ERISA Affiliate, or to which Parent, a subsidiary of Parent or an ERISA Affiliate has any liability, contingent or otherwise, and is subject to Section 302 or Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code, other than a Multiemployer Plan.

  “Platform” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.03(c).

  “Post-Closing Refunds” shall mean the proceeds of refunds of federal or state income taxes received by the Credit Parties following the Fourth Amendment Effective Date on account of the carryback by the Credit Parties of any tax attributes from the 2020 taxable year pursuant to the Coronavirus Aid, Relieve and Economic Security (CARES) Act.

  “Pre-Opening Expenses” shall mean, with respect to any fiscal period, the amount of expenses (other than interest expense) incurred with respect to stores which are classified as “pre-opening expenses” or “store-opening costs” (or any similar or equivalent caption) in the applicable financial statements of the Company and its Subsidiaries for such period, prepared in accordance with GAAP.

  “Preferred Equity” shall mean, as to any Person, Equity Interests of such Person (other than common Equity Interests of such Person) of any class or classes (however designed) that ranks prior, as to the payment of dividends or as to the distribution of assets upon any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of such Person, to shares of Equity Interests of any other class of such Person, and shall include any Qualified Preferred Stock.

  “Prime Rate” shall mean, for any day, the rate of interest per annum quoted by JPMorgan Chase Bank as its “prime rate” in effect from time to time (or if such rate is at any time not available, the prime rate so quoted by any banking institution selected by CIT), which rate is not intended to be the lowest rate charged by any such banking institution to its borrowers.

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  “Priming Term Loan Agent” shall mean Wilmington Trust, National Association, as “Administrative Agent” and as “Collateral Agent”, each under and as defined in the Priming Term Loan Agreement, and any successor or replacement agent under the Priming Term Loan Agreement.

  “Priming Term Loan Agreement” shall mean the Priming Term Loan Credit Agreement, dated as of September 30, 2020, by and among Parent, Company, the subsidiaries of Parent and the Company party thereto, the lenders party thereto from time to time and the Term Loan Agent, as it may be amended, restated, amended and restated, amended and extended, refinanced, supplemented or modified from time to time, in each case, in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof and the ABL Intercreditor Agreement.  Any reference to the Priming Term Loan Agreement hereunder shall be deemed a reference to any Priming Term Loan Agreement then in existence.

  “Priming Term Loan Documents” shall mean the “Credit Documents” as defined in the Primary Term Loan Agreement, including any amendments, restatements, amendments and restatements, supplements, modifications, or replacements thereto to the extent the same are permitted hereby and by the ABL Intercreditor Agreement.

  “Priming Term Loan Maturity Date” shall mean the “Maturity Date” as defined in the Primary Term Loan Agreement.

  “Priming Term Loan Obligations” shall mean “Obligations” as defined in the Priming Term Loan Agreement.

  “Priming Term Loans” shall mean the “Term Loans” as defined in the Priming Term Loan Agreement.

  “Pro Forma Basis” shall mean, in connection with any calculation of compliance with any financial ratio or test, in respect of a Specified Transaction, that such Specified Transaction and the following transactions in connection therewith (to the extent applicable) shall be deemed to have occurred as of the first day of the applicable period of measurement for the applicable covenant or requirement:  (a) income statement items (whether positive or negative) attributable to the property or Person, if any, subject to such Specified Transaction shall be (i) excluded (in the case of a disposition of all or substantially all Equity Interests in any Subsidiary or any division, product line or facility used for operations of the Company or any Subsidiary) and (ii) included (in the case of a purchase or other acquisition of all or substantially all of the property and assets or business of any Person, or of assets constituting a business unit, a line of business or division of such Person, or of all or substantially all of the Equity Interests in a Person or non-maintenance capital expenditures expected to result in increased revenue upon completion), (b) any retirement of Indebtedness, (c) if and to the extent applicable hereunder, any incurrence or assumption of Indebtedness by the Company or any Subsidiary (and if such Indebtedness has a floating or formula rate, such Indebtedness shall have an implied rate of interest for the applicable period for purposes of this definition determined by utilizing the rate which is or would be in effect with respect to such Indebtedness as at the relevant date of determination) and (d) any other Specified Transaction if consummated after the first day of the relevant Test Period or Calculation Period, as the case may be, and on or prior to the date of such Specified Transaction than being 

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  effected; provided, that (A) Pro Forma Basis, in respect of any Specified Transaction shall be calculated in a reasonable and factually supportable manner and certified by an Authorized Officer of the Company and (B) any such calculation shall be subject to the applicable limitations set forth in the definition of “Consolidated EBITDA”.

  “Pro Forma Financial Statements” shall have the meaning provided in Section 8.05(a)(ii).

  “Pro Rata Share” shall have the meaning provided in Section 12.05.

  “Projections” shall mean the projections that were prepared by or on behalf of the Company in connection with this Agreement and delivered to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders prior to the Effective Date.

  “Purchase Agreement” shall have the meaning provided in the Recitals to this Agreement.

  “Purchase Agreement Representations” shall mean the representations and warranties made by Jill Intermediate in the Purchase Agreement as are material to the interests of the Lenders, but only to the extent that Holdings or its applicable Affiliates have the right to terminate their respective obligations under the Purchase Agreement (or to decline to consummate the Acquisition) as a result of a breach of such representations.

  “QFC Credit Support” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.31.

  “Qualified ECP Guarantor” shall mean, in respect of any Swap Obligation, each Credit Party that has total assets exceeding $10,000,000 at the time the relevant Guaranty or grant of the relevant security interest becomes effective with respect to such Swap Obligation or such other person that constitutes an “eligible contract participant” under the Commodity Exchange Act or any regulations promulgated thereunder and can cause another person to qualify as an “eligible contract participant” at such time by entering into a keepwell under Section 1a(18)(A)(v)(II) of the Commodity Exchange Act.

  “Qualified Equity Interests” shall mean any Equity Interests that are not Disqualified Equity Interests.

  “Qualified Preferred Stock” of a Person shall mean any Preferred Equity of such Person that does not constitute Disqualified Equity Interests.

  “Quarterly Financial Statements” shall mean the unaudited consolidated balance sheets and related statements of operations and cash flows of Parent and its Subsidiaries for the Fiscal Quarter ended August 1, 2020.

  “Quarterly Payment Date” shall mean the last Business Day of each April, July, October and January occurring after the Effective Date.

  “Real Property” of any Person shall mean all the right, title and interest of such Person in and to land, improvements and fixtures, including Leaseholds.

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  “Recipient” shall mean (a) the Administrative Agent and (b) any Lender, as applicable.

  “Register” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.15.

  “Regulation D” shall mean Regulation D of the Board as from time to time in effect and any successor to all or a portion thereof establishing reserve requirements.

  “Regulation T” shall mean Regulation T of the Board as from time to time in effect and any successor to all or a portion thereof.

  “Regulation U” shall mean Regulation U of the Board as from time to time in effect and any successor to all or a portion thereof.

  “Regulation X” shall mean Regulation X of the Board as from time to time in effect and any successor to all or a portion thereof.

  “Related Persons” shall have the meaning provided in Section 12.06.

  “Release” shall mean actively or passively disposing, discharging, injecting, spilling, pumping, leaking, leaching, dumping, emitting, escaping, emptying, pouring, seeping, migrating or the like, into or upon any land or water or air, or otherwise entering into the environment.

  “Relevant Governmental Body” means the Federal Reserve Board and/or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the Federal Reserve Board and/or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or any successor thereto.

  “Rent Reserve” shall mean a reserve that may be established by the Administrative Agent in respect of rent payments made by a Borrower for a period equal to at least the liquidation period as established in the respective inventory appraisal last received by the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Agreement for each (a) leased store (i) that is in Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Washington, D.C. or any other State providing lessors with statutory or common law Lien rights on personal property located at such store securing payment of rent and other charges that prime a previously perfected security interest or (ii) that is subject to a lease that grants to the landlord a security interest in property that would otherwise constitute Eligible Inventory which would prime the perfected security interest granted to the Collateral Agent, as determined by the Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion, (b) distribution center, warehouse or other location other than a leased store at which Inventory of a Borrower is located, unless, in each case, such location is subject to a landlord waiver or collateral access agreement reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent (as reported to the Administrative Agent by the Company from time to time as requested by the Administrative Agent) and (c) without duplication of any amounts in clauses (a) and (b), Past-Due Rent Reserves, as adjusted from time to time by the Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion.

  “Replaced Lender” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.13.

  “Replacement Lender” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.13.

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  “Reportable Event” shall mean an event described in Section 4043(c) of ERISA with respect to a Plan that is subject to Title IV of ERISA other than those events as to which the 30-day notice period is waived under subsection.22, .23, .25, .27 or .28 of PBGC Regulation Section 4043.

  “Required Lenders” shall mean, at any time, Non-Defaulting Lenders the sum of whose outstanding Revolving Loan Commitments at such time (or, after the termination thereof, outstanding Revolving Loans and RL Percentages of (a) Swingline Loans at such time and (b) Letter of Credit Outstandings at such time) represents at least a majority of the sum of the Total Revolving Loan Commitment in effect at such time less the Revolving Loan Commitments of all Defaulting Lenders at such time (or, after the termination thereof, the sum of the total outstanding Revolving Loans of Non-Defaulting Lenders and the aggregate RL Percentage of all Non-Defaulting Lenders of the total outstanding Swingline Loans and Letter of Credit Outstandings at such time.

  “Requirements of Law” shall mean, collectively, any and all requirements of any Governmental Authority including any and all laws, judgments, orders, decrees, ordinances, rules, regulations, statutes or case law.

  “Reserves” shall mean reserves, if any, established by the Administrative Agent from time to time hereunder in its Permitted Discretion against the Borrowing Base, including without limitation, (a) Customer Credit Liability Reserves, (b) Rent Reserves, (c) potential dilution related to Accounts, (d) sums that the Borrowers are or will be required to pay (such as taxes, assessments and insurance premiums) and have not yet paid, (e) amounts owing by any Borrowers to any Person to the extent secured by a Lien on, or trust over, any Collateral that (i) is not a Permitted Lien or (ii) to the extent same could reasonably be expected to have priority over the Liens granted to the Collateral Agent pursuant to the Security Documents, (f) reserves for customs charges, freight and shipping charges related to any In Transit Inventory or other Inventory in transit, (g) reserves against Eligible Inventory as a result of rights of licensors with respect thereto and of Liens as described in Section 10.01(x), (h) reserves for Gift Certificate/Card and Merchandise Credit Liabilities (limited to 50% of such potential liability) and (i) such other events, conditions or contingencies as to which the Administrative Agent, in its Permitted Discretion, determines reserves should be established from time to time hereunder; provided, however, that the Administrative Agent may not implement reserves with respect to matters which are already specifically reflected as ineligible Accounts, Inventory or In Transit Inventory or criteria deducted in computing the net book value of Eligible Accounts, Eligible Credit Card Receivables, Eligible Inventory or Eligible In Transit Inventory or the Net Orderly Liquidation Value of Eligible Inventory or Eligible In Transit Inventory.

  “Restricted Junior Payments” shall have the meaning provided in Section 10.07(a).

  “Returns” shall have the meaning provided in Section 8.09.

  “Revolving Loan” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.01(a).

  “Revolving Loan Commitment” shall mean, for each Lender, the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name in Schedule 1.01(a) directly below the column entitled “Revolving 

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  Loan Commitment,” as same may be (a) reduced from time to time or terminated pursuant to Sections 4.02, 4.03 and/or 11, as applicable or (b) adjusted from time to time as a result of assignments to or from such Lender pursuant to Section 2.13 or 13.04(b).  In addition, the Revolving Loan Commitment of each Lender shall include, subject to the consent of such Lender, any Extended Revolving Loan Commitment and any Incremental Revolving Loan Commitment of such Lender.  The aggregate amount of the Revolving Loan Commitments as of the Effective Date is $40,000,000.

  “Revolving Note” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.05(a).

  “RL Percentage” of any Lender at any time shall mean a fraction (expressed as a percentage) the numerator of which is the Revolving Loan Commitment of such Lender at such time and the denominator of which is the Total Revolving Loan Commitment at such time; provided, that if the RL Percentage of any Lender is to be determined after the Total Revolving Loan Commitment has been terminated, then the RL Percentages of such Lender shall be determined immediately prior (and without giving effect) to such termination.

  “S&P” shall mean Standard & Poor’s Rating Service, a division of S&P Global, or any successor thereto.

  “SEC” shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any successor thereto.

  “Second Amendment” shall mean Amendment No. 2 to ABL Credit Agreement, dated as of the Second Amendment Effective Date, by and among the Borrowers, Parent, the other Credit Parties party thereto, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders party thereto.

  “Second Amendment Effective Date” shall mean August 22, 2018.

  “Second Priority” shall have the meaning provided in the ABL Intercreditor Agreement.

  “Secured Creditors” shall mean collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Lenders, the Swingline Lender, the Issuing Lender, each Hedging Creditor and each Cash Management Bank.

  “Secured Net Leverage Ratio” shall have the meaning provided in the Priming Term Loan Agreement as in effect on the Fourth Amendment Effective Date or as amended in accordance with the terms hereof.

  “Secured Obligations” shall mean all (a) Obligations and (b) obligations of any Credit Party arising under (i) any ABL Secured Hedging Agreement or the guarantee thereof pursuant to the Credit Documents (other than Excluded Swap Obligations) and (ii) any ABL Secured Cash Management Agreement.

  “Securities Account” shall mean a securities account (as that term is defined in the UCC).

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  “Security Agreement” shall have the meaning provided in Section 6.11.

  “Security Agreement Collateral” shall mean all “Collateral” as defined in the Security Agreement.

  “Security Document” shall mean and include each of the Security Agreement, each Control Agreement, each Copyright Security Agreement, each Patent Security Agreement, each Trademark Security Agreement, each Mortgage, after the execution and delivery thereof, each Additional Security Document and any other related document, agreement or grant pursuant to which Parent or any of its Subsidiaries grants, perfects or continues a security interest in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors.

  “Settlement Date” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.04(b)(i).

  “SOFR” with respect shall mean a rate per annum equal to any day means the secured overnight financing rate published for such dayas administered by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as the administrator of the benchmark,  (or a successor administrator of the secured overnight financing rate) on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Website.

  “Specified Foreign Guarantor” shall mean any Foreign Subsidiary that is a Guarantor (x) which has not entered into (and remains subject to) security documentation granting Liens to secure the Obligations over substantially all of its assets and property governed by the laws of the local jurisdiction of organization of such Foreign Subsidiary or (y) the capital stock of which is not subject to security documentation granting Liens to secure the Obligations governed by the laws of the local jurisdiction of organization of such Foreign Subsidiary, in each case, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent.

  “Specified Representations” shall mean those representations and warranties set forth in Sections 8.01(a) and (b), 802, 8.03(c) (as relating to the Credit Documents), 8.05(b), 8.08(b), 8.13, 8.14 and 8.16.

  “Specified Transaction” shall mean (a) any incurrence or repayment of Indebtedness (excluding revolving Indebtedness incurred in the ordinary course of business for working capital purposes), any Investment that results in a Person becoming a Subsidiary of the Company, any disposition that results in a Subsidiary ceasing to be a Subsidiary of the Company, any Investment constituting an acquisition of assets constituting a business unit, line of business or division of another Person or any disposition of a business unit, line of business or division of the Company or any Subsidiary, in each case whether by merger, consolidation, amalgamation or otherwise or any material restructuring of the Company or implementation of any initiative not in the ordinary course of business and (b) any non-maintenance capital expenditure expected to result in increased revenue upon completion.

  “Sponsor” shall mean, collectively, TowerBrook Capital Partners L.P., its Affiliates (excluding portfolio companies) and investment funds managed by any of them.

  “Stated Amount” of each Letter of Credit shall mean, at any time, the maximum amount available to be drawn thereunder in each case determined (a) as if any future automatic increases in the maximum amount available that are provided for in any such Letter of Credit had 

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  in fact occurred at such time and (b) without regard to whether any conditions to drawing could then be met but after giving effect to all previous drawings made thereunder.

  “Subordinated Facility Agent” shall mean Wilmington Trust, National Association, as “Administrative Agent” and as “Collateral Agent”, each under and as defined in the Subordinated Facility Credit Agreement, and any successor or replacement agent under the Subordinated Facility Credit Agreement.

  “Subordinated Facility Credit Agreement” shall mean that certain Subordinated Term Loan Credit Agreement, dated as of September 30, 2020, by and among the Company, Parent, the Subordinated Facility Agent, and the lenders party thereto, as may be amended, restated, amended and restated, amended and extended, supplemented or modified from time to time, in each case, in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof and the Subordination Agreement.  Any reference to the Subordinated Facility Credit Agreement hereunder shall be deemed a reference to any Subordinated Facility Credit Agreement then in existence.

  “Subordinated Facility Loan Documents” shall mean the “Credit Documents” (or any analogous term) as defined in the Subordinated Facility Credit Agreement, including any amendments, restatements, amendments and restatements, supplements, modifications, or replacements thereto to the extent permitted pursuant to the terms hereof and the Subordination Agreement.

  “Subordinated Facility Loans” shall mean the “Loans” (or any analogous term) as defined in the Subordinated Facility Credit Agreement or any equivalent term used to describe loans made thereunder, including any incremental loans thereunder.

  “Subordinated Facility Obligations” shall mean the “Obligations” (or any analogous term) as defined in the Subordinated Facility Credit Agreement or any equivalent term used to describe loans made thereunder.

  “Subordinated Indebtedness” shall mean, with respect to the Obligations, any Indebtedness of any Borrower or any Guarantor which is by its terms subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations (including, in the case of a Guarantor, Obligations of such Guarantor under its Guaranty).  The Subordinated Facility Loans and the Subordinated Facility Obligations are Subordinated Indebtedness.

  “Subordination Agreement” shall mean that certain Subordination and Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of September 30, 2020, by and among the Credit Parties, the Subordinated Facility Agent, the Priming Term Loan Agent, the Existing Term Loan Agent, the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent, in the form of Exhibit K hereto and as may be amended, restated, amended and restated, amended and extended, supplemented or modified from time to time, in each case, in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof.

  “Subsidiary” shall mean, as to any Person, (a) any corporation more than 50% of whose stock having by the terms thereof ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the directors of such corporation is owned by such Person and/or one or more Subsidiaries of such Person or (b) any partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture or other entity in which such Person and/or one or more Subsidiaries of such Person has more than a 50% equity interest 

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  at the time.  Unless otherwise qualified, all references to a “Subsidiary” or to “Subsidiaries” in this Agreement shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of Parent.  For the avoidance of doubt, the Company shall at all times constitute a Subsidiary of Parent.

  “Supermajority Lenders” shall mean those Non-Defaulting Lenders which would constitute the Required Lenders under, and as defined in, this Agreement if the reference to “a majority” contained therein were changed to “662/3%”.

  “Supported QFC” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.31.

  “Swap Obligation” shall mean, with respect to a Guarantor, any obligations under any ABL Secured Hedging Agreement that constitutes a “swap” within the meaning of the Commodity Exchange Act.

  “Swingline Back-Stop Arrangements” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.01(b).

  “Swingline Expiry Date” shall mean that date which is five Business Days prior to the Final Maturity Date.

  “Swingline Lender” shall mean the Administrative Agent, in its capacity as Swingline Lender hereunder.

  “Swingline Loan” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.01(b).

  “Swingline Note” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.05(a).

  “Taxes” shall mean all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings (including backup withholding), assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.

  “Temporary Store Closure Period” shall mean from any time that more than 50% of the stores of Parent and its Subsidiaries are required or recommended to be closed, and are so closed, by governmental mandates due to COVID-19, COVID-20 or any similar pandemic, until two months after the date on which no more than 5% of the stores of Parent and its Subsidiaries are closed (excluding any stores that have been permanently closed).

  “Term Loan Priority Collateral” shall mean “Term Loan Priority Collateral” as defined in the ABL Intercreditor Agreement.

  “Term SOFR” shall mean (a) for any calculation with respect to a Term SOFR Loan, the rate determined by the Administrative Agent to be the Term SOFR Reference Rate for a tenor comparable to the applicable Interest Period on the day (such day, the “Periodic Term SOFR Determination Day”) that is two (2) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period, as such rate is published by the Term SOFR Administrator and obtained by the Administrative Agent through the Bloomberg Data License service or a comparable service acceptable to the Administrative Agent; provided, however, that if as of 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on any Periodic Term 

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  SOFR Determination Day the Term SOFR Reference Rate for the applicable tenor has not been published by the Term SOFR Administrator and a Benchmark Replacement Date with respect to the Term SOFR Reference Rate has not occurred, then Term SOFR will be the Term SOFR Reference Rate for such tenor as published by the Term SOFR Administrator on the first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day for which such Term SOFR Reference Rate for such tenor was published by the Term SOFR Administrator so long as such first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day is not more than three (3) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to such Periodic Term SOFR Determination Day, and (b) for any calculation with respect to a Base Rate Loan on any day, the rate determined by the Administrative Agent to be the Term SOFR Reference Rate for a tenor of three months on the day (such day, the “Base Rate Term SOFR Determination Day”) that is two (2) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to such day, as such rate is published by the Term SOFR Administrator and obtained by the Administrative Agent through the Bloomberg Data License service or a comparable service acceptable to the Administrative Agent; provided, however, that if as of 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on any Base Rate Term SOFR Determination Day the Term SOFR Reference Rate for the applicable tenor has not been published by the Term SOFR Administrator and a Benchmark Replacement Date with respect to the Term SOFR Reference Rate has not occurred, then Term SOFR will be the Term SOFR Reference Rate for such tenor as published by the Term SOFR Administrator on the first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day for which such Term SOFR Reference Rate for such tenor was published by the Term SOFR Administrator so long as such first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day is not more than three (3) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to such Base Rate SOFR Determination Day.

  	“Term SOFR Adjustment” shall mean for any calculation with respect to a Base Rate Loan or a Term SOFR Loan, a percentage equal to 0.10% per annum. 

  “Term SOFR Administrator” shall mean CME Group Benchmark Administration Limited (CBA) (or a successor administrator of the Term SOFR Reference Rate selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion).

  “Term SOFR Loan” shall mean any Loan (other than Base Rate Loans bearing interest at a rate based on Adjusted Term SOFR) which accrues interest solely by reference to Adjusted Term SOFR plus the Applicable Margin, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

  “Term SOFR Reference Rate” shall mean rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent as the forward-looking term rate based on SOFR.

  “Test Period” shall mean each period of four consecutive Fiscal Quarters of the Borrowers (calculated, for any period beginning prior to the Effective Date, as if the Transaction had occurred on the first day of such period) then last ended, in each case, taken as one accounting period; provided, that, subject to adjustments to be made on a Pro Forma Basis other than the Transaction, if the respective Test Period (a) includes the period from February 1, 2014, to May 3, 2014, Consolidated EBITDA for such period shall be deemed to be $14,100,000, (b) includes the period from May 4, 2014, to August 2, 2014, Consolidated EBITDA for such period shall be 

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  deemed to be $20,200,000, (c) includes the period from August 3, 2014, to November 1, 2014, Consolidated EBITDA for such period shall be deemed to be $20,400,000 and/or (d) includes the period from November 2, 2014, to January 31, 2015, Consolidated EBITDA for such period shall be deemed to be $13,400,000.

  “Third Amendment” shall mean Amendment No. 3 to ABL Credit Agreement, dated as of the Third Amendment Effective Date, by and among the Borrowers, Parent, the other Credit Parties party thereto, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders party thereto.

  “Third Amendment Effective Date” shall mean June 12, 2019.

  “Thirty-Day Excess Availability” shall mean, as of any date of determination, the quotient obtained by dividing (a) the sum of each day’s Excess Availability during the 30 consecutive day period immediately preceding such date, by (b) 30; provided, that with respect to any test on a date that is less than 30 days from the Effective Date, “Thirty-Day Excess Availability” shall mean the quotient obtained by dividing (i) the sum of each day’s Excess Availability for the period commencing on the Effective Date and ending on the date immediately preceding the date of determination by (ii) the number of days in such period.

  “Topco” shall have the meaning provided in the introductory paragraph to this Agreement.

  “Total Revolving Loan Commitment” shall mean, at any time, the sum of the Revolving Loan Commitments of each of the Lenders at such time.

  “Total Unutilized Revolving Loan Commitment” shall mean, at any time, an amount equal to the remainder of (a) the Total Revolving Loan Commitment in effect at such time less (b) the sum of (i) the aggregate principal amount of all Revolving Loans and Swingline Loans outstanding at such time plus (ii) the aggregate amount of all Letter of Credit Outstandings at such time.

  “Trademark Security Agreement” shall have the meaning provided in the Security Agreement.

  “Transaction” shall mean, collectively, (a) the consummation of the Acquisition and the other transactions contemplated by the Purchase Agreement, (b) the execution and delivery by each Credit Party of the Credit Documents to which it is a party, the incurrence of Loans, if any, on the Effective Date and the use of proceeds thereof, (c) the execution and delivery by each Credit Party of the Existing Term Loan Documents, the incurrence of the Existing Term Loans on the Initial Term Loan Borrowing Date and the use of proceeds thereof and (d) the payment of all Transaction Costs.

  “Transaction 2020” shall mean, collectively, (a) the execution and delivery by each Credit Party of the Credit Documents to which it is a party and the incurrence of Loans (if any) on the Fourth Amendment Effective Date, (b) the execution and delivery by each Credit Party of the Priming Term Loan Agreement, (c) the execution and delivery of the Existing Term Loan Amendment and Waiver, (d) the execution and delivery of the Subordinated Facility Credit 

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  Agreement and the initial borrowing thereunder, (e) the execution and delivery of the Fourth Amendment and (f) the payment of all Transaction Costs relating to the foregoing.

  “Transaction Costs” shall mean, collectively, one-time costs, fees and expenses incurred in connection with the Transaction or the Transaction 2020, as applicable.

  “Treasury Regulations” shall mean the United States federal income tax regulations promulgated under the Code.

  “Type” shall mean the type of Loan determined with regard to the interest option applicable thereto, i.e., whether a Base Rate Loan or a LIBORTerm SOFR Loan.

  “UCC” shall mean the Uniform Commercial Code as from time to time in effect in the relevant state or jurisdiction.

  “Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement” means the Benchmark Replacement excluding the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment.

  “Unfunded Pension Liability” of any Plan shall mean the amount, if any, by which the value of the accumulated plan benefits under such Plan determined on a plan termination basis in accordance with actuarial assumptions at such time consistent with those prescribed by the PBGC for purposes of Section 4044 of ERISA, exceeds the Fair Market Value of all plan assets allocable to such liabilities under Title IV of ERISA (excluding any accrued but unpaid contributions).

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

  “Unpaid Drawing” shall have the meaning provided in Section 3.05(a).

   “Unutilized Revolving Loan Commitment” shall mean, with respect to any Lender at any time, such Lender’s Revolving Loan Commitment at such time less the sum of (a) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all Revolving Loans made by such Lender at such time and (b) such Lender’s RL Percentage of the Letter of Credit Outstandings at such time.

  “U.S. Government Securities Business Day” shall mean any day except for (a) a Saturday, (b) a Sunday or (c) a day on which the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association recommends that the fixed income departments of its members be closed for the entire day for purposes of trading in United States government securities.

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

  “U.S. Special Resolution Regimes” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.31.

  “U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate” shall have the meaning provided in Section 5.04(f)(ii)(B)(3).

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  “Value” shall mean, with respect to Eligible Inventory and Eligible In Transit Inventory, the lower of (a) the cost thereof computed on a first-in first-out basis in accordance with GAAP and (b) the market value thereof (net of any intercompany profit).

  “Variance Report” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.17(b). 

  “Variance Report Date” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.17(b). 

  “Voidable Transfer” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.24.

  “Weighted Average Life to Maturity” shall mean, when applied to any Indebtedness or Preferred Equity, as the case may be, at any date, the quotient obtained by dividing (a) the sum of the products of the number of years from the date of determination to the date of each successive scheduled principal payment of such Indebtedness or redemption or similar payment with respect to such Preferred Equity multiplied by the amount of such payment; by (b) the sum of all such payments.

  “Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary” shall mean, as to any Person, any Foreign Subsidiary of such Person that is a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary.

  “Wholly-Owned Subsidiary” shall mean, as to any Person, (a) any corporation 100% of whose capital stock is at the time owned by such Person and/or one or more Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries of such Person and (b) any partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture or other entity in which such Person and/or one or more Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries of such Person has a 100% equity interest at such time (other than, in the case of a Foreign Subsidiary of the Company with respect to the preceding clauses (a) and (b), directors’ qualifying shares and/or other nominal amounts of shares required to be held by Persons other than the Company and its Subsidiaries under applicable law).

  “Withholding Agent” shall mean the Credit Parties and the Administrative Agent.

  “Write-Down and Conversion Powers” means, (a) with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, any powers of the applicable Resolution Authority under the Bail-In Legislation to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a liability of any UK Financial Institution or any contract or instrument under which that liability arises, to convert all or part of that liability into shares, securities or obligations of that person or any other person, to provide that any such contract or instrument is to have effect as if a right had been exercised under it or to suspend any obligation in respect of that liability or any of the powers under that Bail-In Legislation that are related to or ancillary to any of those powers.

  1.02	Other Definitional Provisions.  (a) Unless otherwise specified therein, all terms defined in this Agreement shall have the defined meanings when used in the other Credit Documents or any certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant hereto or thereto.

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  (b)	As used herein and in the other Credit Documents, and any certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant hereto or thereto, (i) accounting terms not defined in Section 1.01 shall have the respective meanings given to them under GAAP, (ii) the words “include”, “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation”, (iii) the word “incur” shall be construed to mean incur, create, issue, assume, become liable in respect of or suffer to exist (and the words “incurred” and “incurrence” shall have correlative meanings), (iv) unless the context otherwise requires, the words “asset” and “property” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash, Equity Interests, securities, accounts, leasehold interests and contract rights, (v) the word “will” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall”, (vi) unless the context otherwise requires, any reference herein (A) to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns and (B) to the Company or any other Credit Party shall be construed to include the Company or such Credit Party as debtor and debtor-in-possession and any receiver or trustee for the Company or any other Credit Party, as the case may be, in any insolvency or liquidation proceeding and (vii) references to agreements (including this Agreement) or other contractual obligations shall, unless otherwise specified, be deemed to refer to such agreements or obligations as amended, supplemented, restated, amended and restated or otherwise modified from time to time.

  (c)	For purposes of determining compliance at any time with Sections 10.01, 10.02, 10.03, 10.04, 10.05, 10.06 or 10.07, as applicable, in the event that any Lien, disposition, Dividends, Indebtedness, Investments, Affiliate Transactions or Restricted Junior Payments, as applicable, meets the criteria of more than one basket or carveout under the applicable section at the time such Lien, disposition, Dividends, Indebtedness, Investment, Affiliate Transaction or Restricted Junior Payment was originally incurred or made, the Borrowers, in their sole discretion, may classify or reclassify such transaction or item (or portion thereof) in any such baskets or carveouts under the applicable section.  It is understood and agreed that any Indebtedness, Lien, Dividend, Restricted Junior Payment, Investment, disposition or Affiliate transaction, as applicable, need not be permitted solely by reference to one basket or carveout for permitted Liens, dispositions, Dividends, Indebtedness, Investments, Affiliate Transactions or Restricted Junior Payments under Sections 10.01, 10.02, 10.03, 10.04, 10.05, 10.06 or 10.07, respectively, but may instead be permitted in part under any combination thereof.

  (d)	The words “hereof”, “herein” and “hereunder” and words of similar import, when used in this Agreement, shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement, and Section, Schedule and Exhibit references are to this Agreement unless otherwise specified.

  (e)	The meanings given to terms defined herein shall be equally applicable to both the singular and plural forms of such terms.

  1.03	Divisions.  For all purposes under the Credit Documents, in connection with any division or plan of division under Delaware law (or any comparable event under a different jurisdiction’s laws): (a) if any asset, right, obligation or liability of any Person becomes the asset, right, obligation or liability of a different Person, then it shall be deemed to have been transferred from the original Person to the subsequent Person, and (b) if any new Person comes into existence, 

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  such new Person shall be deemed to have been organized on the first date of its existence by the holders of its Equity Interests at such time.

  SECTION 2.  	Amount and Terms of Credit.

  2.01	The Revolving Loan Commitments.  

  (a)	Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Lender with a Revolving Loan Commitment severally agrees to make, at any time and from time to time on or after the Effective Date and prior to the Final Maturity Date, a revolving loan or revolving loans (each, a “Revolving Loan” and, collectively, the “Revolving Loans”) to the Borrowers (on a joint and several basis), which Revolving Loans (i) shall be denominated in Dollars, (ii) shall, at the option of the Borrowers, be incurred and maintained as, and/or converted into, Base Rate Loans or LIBORTerm SOFR Loans; provided, that except as otherwise specifically provided in Section 2.10(b), all Revolving Loans comprising the same Borrowing shall at all times be of the same Type, (iii) may be repaid and reborrowed in accordance with the provisions hereof, (iv) shall not be made (and shall not be required to be made) by any Lender in any instance where the incurrence thereof (after giving effect to the use of the proceeds thereof on the date of the incurrence thereof to repay any amounts theretofore outstanding pursuant to this Agreement) would cause the Individual Exposure of such Lender to exceed the amount of its Revolving Loan Commitment at such time and (v) shall not be made (and shall not be required to be made) by any Lender in any instance where the incurrence thereof (after giving effect to the use of the proceeds thereof on the date of the incurrence thereof to repay any amounts theretofore outstanding pursuant to this Agreement) would cause the Aggregate Exposure to exceed Availability at such time.  Without in any way limiting the foregoing, the Borrowers acknowledge, confirm and agree that the aggregate outstanding principal amount of Loans made to Borrowers that have not contributed any assets to the Borrowing Base, as reflected in the most recent Borrowing Base Certificate received by the Administrative Agent in accordance with Section 9.01(f), shall not without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, exceed $5,000,000.

  (b)	Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Swingline Lender agrees to make, at any time and from time to time after the Effective Date and prior to the Swingline Expiry Date, a revolving loan or revolving loans (each, a “Swingline Loan” and, collectively, the “Swingline Loans”) to the Borrowers (on a joint and several basis), which Swingline Loans (i) shall be denominated in Dollars, (ii) shall be incurred and maintained as Base Rate Loans; (iii) may be repaid and reborrowed in accordance with the provisions hereof, (iv) shall not be made (and shall not be required to be made) by the Swingline Lender in any instance where the incurrence thereof (after giving effect to the use of the proceeds thereof on the date of the incurrence thereof to repay any amounts theretofore outstanding pursuant to this Agreement) would cause the Aggregate Exposure to exceed Availability at such time, and (v) shall not exceed in aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding the Maximum Swingline Amount.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 2.01(b), (A) the Swingline Lender shall not be obligated to make any Swingline Loans at a time when a Lender Default exists unless the Swingline Lender has entered into arrangements reasonably satisfactory to it to eliminate the Swingline Lender’s risk with respect to the Defaulting Lender’s or Defaulting Lenders’ participation in such Swingline Loans (which arrangements are hereby consented to by the Lenders), including by cash collateralizing such Defaulting Lender’s or Defaulting Lenders’ 

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  RL Percentage of the outstanding Swingline Loans (such arrangements, the “Swingline Back-Stop Arrangements”) and (B) the Swingline Lender shall not make any Swingline Loan after it has received written notice from any Borrower, any other Credit Party or the Required Lenders stating that a Default or an Event of Default exists and is continuing until such time as the Swingline Lender shall have received written notice (1) of rescission of all such notices from the party or parties originally delivering such notice or notices or (2) of the waiver of such Default or Event of Default by the Required Lenders.

  (c)	On any Business Day, the Swingline Lender may, in its sole discretion give notice to the Lenders that the Swingline Lender’s outstanding Swingline Loans shall be funded with one or more Borrowings of Revolving Loans (provided, that such notice shall be deemed to have been automatically given upon the occurrence of a Default or an Event of Default under Section 11.01(e) or upon the exercise of any of the remedies provided in the last paragraph of Section 11.01), in which case one or more Borrowings of Revolving Loans constituting Base Rate Loans (each such Borrowing, a “Mandatory Borrowing”) shall be made on the immediately succeeding Business Day by all Lenders pro rata based on each such Lender’s RL Percentage (determined before giving effect to any termination of the Revolving Loan Commitments pursuant to the last paragraph of Section 11.01) and the proceeds thereof shall be applied directly by the Swingline Lender to repay the Swingline Lender for such outstanding Swingline Loans.  Each Lender hereby irrevocably agrees to make Revolving Loans upon one Business Day’s prior notice pursuant to each Mandatory Borrowing in the amount and in the manner specified in the preceding sentence and on the date specified in writing by the Swingline Lender notwithstanding (i) the amount of the Mandatory Borrowing may not comply with the Minimum Borrowing Amount otherwise required hereunder, (ii) whether any conditions specified in Section 7 are then satisfied, (iii) whether a Default or an Event of Default then exists, (iv) the date of such Mandatory Borrowing, and (v) the amount of the Borrowing Base or the Total Revolving Loan Commitment at such time.  In the event that any Mandatory Borrowing cannot for any reason be made on the date otherwise required above (including, without limitation, as a result of the commencement of a proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code with respect to any Borrower), then each Lender hereby agrees that it shall forthwith purchase (as of the date the Mandatory Borrowing would otherwise have occurred, but adjusted for any payments received from any Borrower on or after such date and prior to such purchase) from the Swingline Lender such participations in the outstanding Swingline Loans as shall be necessary to cause the Lenders to share in such Swingline Loans ratably based upon their respective RL Percentages (determined before giving effect to any termination of the Revolving Loan Commitments pursuant to the last paragraph of Section 11.01); provided, that (A) all interest payable on the Swingline Loans shall be for the account of the Swingline Lender until the date as of which the respective participation is required to be purchased and, to the extent attributable to the purchased participation, shall be payable to the participant from and after such date and (B) at the time any purchase of participations pursuant to this sentence is actually made, the purchasing Lender shall be required to pay the Swingline Lender interest on the principal amount of participation purchased for each day from and including the day upon which the Mandatory Borrowing would otherwise have occurred to but excluding the date of payment for such participation, at the overnight Federal Funds Effective Rate for the first three days and at the interest rate otherwise applicable to Revolving Loans maintained as Base Rate Loans hereunder for each day thereafter.

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  (d)	Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Section 2.01(a) or elsewhere in this Agreement, the Administrative Agent shall have the right to establish Reserves in such amounts, and with respect to such matters, but subject to the limitations contained in the definition of “Reserves” herein, as the Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion shall deem necessary or appropriate, against the Borrowing Base (which Reserves shall reduce the then existing Borrowing Base in an amount equal to such Reserves).

  (e)	In the event that (i) the Borrowers are unable to comply with the Borrowing Base limitations set forth in Section 2.01(a) or (ii) the Borrowers are unable to satisfy the conditions precedent to the making of Revolving Loans set forth in Section 7, in either case, the Lenders, subject to the immediately succeeding proviso, hereby authorize the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Lenders, to make Revolving Loans to the Borrowers (on a joint and several basis), in either case solely in the event that the Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion deems necessary or desirable (A) to preserve or protect the Collateral, or any portion thereof, (B) to enhance the likelihood of repayment of the Obligations, or (C) to pay any other amount chargeable to the Borrowers pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, including, without limitation, expenses and Fees, which Revolving Loans may only be made as Base Rate Loans (each, an “Agent Advance”) for a period commencing on the date the Administrative Agent first receives a Notice of Borrowing requesting an Agent Advance until the earliest of (1) the 20th Business Day after such date (or such earlier date as determined by the Administrative Agent), (2) the date the Borrowers are again able to comply with the Borrowing Base limitations and the conditions precedent to the making of Revolving Loans, or obtain an amendment or waiver with respect thereto and (3) the date the Required Lenders instruct the Administrative Agent to cease making Agent Advances (in each case, the “Agent Advance Period”); provided, that the Administrative Agent shall not make any Agent Advance to the extent that at the time of the making of such Agent Advance, the amount of such Agent Advance (x) when added to the aggregate outstanding amount of all other Agent Advances made to the Borrowers at such time, would exceed 10% of the Borrowing Base at such time or (y) when added to the Aggregate Exposure as then in effect (immediately prior to the incurrence of such Agent Advance), would exceed the Total Revolving Loan Commitment at such time.  Agent Advances may be made by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion and the Borrowers shall have no right whatsoever to require that any Agent Advances be made.  Agent Advances will be subject to periodic settlement with the Lenders pursuant to Section 2.04(b).

  (f)	If the Initial Maturity Date shall have occurred at a time when Extended Revolving Loan Commitments are in effect, then on the Initial Maturity Date all then outstanding Swingline Loans shall be repaid in full on such date (and there shall be no adjustment to the participations in such Swingline Loans as a result of the occurrence of such Initial Maturity Date) or refinanced with a borrowing of an Extension pursuant to Section 2.16; provided, that, if on the occurrence of the Initial Maturity Date (after giving effect to any repayments of Revolving Loans and any reallocation of Letter of Credit participations as contemplated in Section 3.07), there shall exist sufficient unutilized Extended Revolving Loan Commitments so that the respective outstanding Swingline Loans could be incurred pursuant to the Extended Revolving Loan Commitments which will remain in effect after the occurrence of the Initial Maturity Date, then there shall be an automatic adjustment on such date of the participations in such Swingline Loans and same shall be deemed to have been incurred solely pursuant to the Extended Revolving Loan 

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  Commitments and such Swingline Loans shall not be so required to be repaid in full on the Initial Maturity Date.

  2.02	Minimum Amount of Each Borrowing.  The aggregate principal amount of each Borrowing of Loans of a specific Type shall not be less than the Minimum Borrowing Amount applicable thereto.  More than one Borrowing may occur on the same date, but at no time shall there be outstanding more than eight Borrowings of LIBORTerm SOFR Loans (or such greater number of Borrowings of LIBORTerm SOFR Loans as may be agreed to from time to time by the Administrative Agent).

  2.03	Notice of Borrowing.  (a) When the Borrowers desire to incur (i) LIBORTerm SOFR Loans hereunder, the Company shall give the Administrative Agent at the Notice Office notice thereof, which notice must be received by the Administrative Agent prior to 1:00 P.M. (New York City time) at least three Business Days prior to the requested date of Borrowing (except with respect to a requested Borrowing on the Effective Date, for which notice must be received by the Administrative Agent prior to 1:00 P.M. (New York City time) on the Business Day immediately preceding the Effective Date), and (ii) Base Rate Loans hereunder (including Agent Advances, but excluding Swingline Loans and Revolving Loans made pursuant to a Mandatory Borrowing), the Company shall give the Administrative Agent at the Notice Office notice thereof, which notice must be received by the Administrative Agent prior to 1:00 P.M. (New York City time) on the Business Day of the requested date of Borrowing.  Each such notice (each, a “Notice of Borrowing”), except as otherwise expressly provided in Section 2.10, shall be irrevocable and shall be in writing, or by telephone promptly confirmed in writing, in the form of Exhibit A-1, appropriately completed to specify:  (A) the aggregate principal amount of the Revolving Loans to be incurred pursuant to such Borrowing, (B) the date of such Borrowing (which shall be a Business Day), (C) if the Revolving Loans proposed to be made pursuant to such Borrowing will constitute Agent Advances (it being understood that the Administrative Agent shall be under no obligation to make such Agent Advance), notice thereof, (D) whether the Revolving Loans being incurred pursuant to such Borrowing are to be initially maintained as Base Rate Loans or, to the extent permitted hereunder, LIBORTerm SOFR Loans and, if LIBORTerm SOFR Loans, the initial Interest Period to be applicable thereto and (E) the Borrowing Base at such time.  Except as provided in Section 2.04(b), the Administrative Agent shall promptly give each Lender notice of such proposed Borrowing, of such Lender’s proportionate share thereof and of the other matters required by the immediately preceding sentence to be specified in the Notice of Borrowing.

  (b)	(i) Whenever the Borrowers desire to incur Swingline Loans hereunder, the Company shall give the Swingline Lender no later than 1:00 P.M. (New York City time) on the date that a Swingline Loan is to be incurred, written notice or telephonic notice promptly confirmed in writing of each Swingline Loan to be incurred hereunder.  Each such notice shall be irrevocable and specify in each case (A) the date of Borrowing (which shall be a Business Day) and (B) the aggregate principal amount of the Swingline Loans to be incurred pursuant to such Borrowing.

  (ii)	Mandatory Borrowings shall be made upon the notice specified in Section 2.01(c), with the Borrowers irrevocably agreeing, by their incurrence of any Swingline Loan, to the making of the Mandatory Borrowings as set forth in Section 2.01(c).

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  (c)	Without in any way limiting the obligation of the Company to confirm in writing any telephonic notice of any Borrowing or prepayment of Loans, the Administrative Agent or the Swingline Lender, as the case may be, shall be entitled to rely and act without liability upon the basis of telephonic notice of such Borrowing or prepayment, as the case may be, believed by the Administrative Agent or the Swingline Lender, as the case may be, in good faith to be from an Authorized Officer of the Company, prior to receipt of written confirmation.  In each such case, each Borrower hereby waives the right to dispute the Administrative Agent’s or the Swingline Lender’s record of the terms of such telephonic notice of such Borrowing or prepayment of Loans, as the case may be, absent manifest error.

  2.04	Disbursement of Funds.  (a) No later than 1:00 P.M. (New York City time) on the date specified in each Notice of Borrowing (or (i) in the case of Revolving Loans that are Base Rate Loans that are to be made on same day notice, no later than 2:00 P.M. (New York City time) on the date specified pursuant to Section 2.03(a), (ii) in the case of Swingline Loans, no later than 2:00 P.M. (New York City time) on the date specified pursuant to Section 2.03(b) or (iii) in the case of Mandatory Borrowings, no later than 1:00 P.M. (New York City time) on the date specified in Section 2.01(c)), each Lender will make available its pro rata portion (determined in accordance with Section 2.07) of each such Borrowing requested to be made on such date (or in the case of Swingline Loans, the Swingline Lender will make available the full amount thereof).  All such amounts will be made available in Dollars and in immediately available funds at the Payment Office, and the Administrative Agent will make available to the Borrowers at the Payment Office, or to such other account as the Company may specify in writing prior to the Effective Date, the aggregate of the amounts so made available by the Lenders; provided, that, if, on the date of a Borrowing of Revolving Loans (other than a Mandatory Borrowing), there are Unpaid Drawings or Swingline Loans then outstanding, then the proceeds of such Borrowing shall be applied, first, to the payment in full of any such Unpaid Drawings with respect to Letters of Credit, second, to the payment in full of any such Swingline Loans, and third, to the Borrowers as otherwise provided above.  Unless the Administrative Agent shall have been notified by any Lender prior to the date of any Borrowing that such Lender does not intend to make available to the Administrative Agent such Lender’s portion of such Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such amount available to the Administrative Agent on the date of such Borrowing and the Administrative Agent may (but shall not be obligated to), in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrowers a corresponding amount.  If such corresponding amount is not in fact made available to the Administrative Agent by such Lender, the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to recover such corresponding amount on demand from such Lender.  If such Lender does not pay such corresponding amount forthwith upon the Administrative Agent’s demand therefor, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Borrowers, and the Borrowers shall repay such corresponding amount to the Administrative Agent within one Business Day.  The Administrative Agent also shall be entitled to recover on demand from such Lender or the Borrowers, as the case may be, interest on such corresponding amount in respect of each day from the date such corresponding amount was made available by the Administrative Agent to the Borrowers until the date such corresponding amount is recovered by the Administrative Agent, at a rate per annum equal to (A) if recovered from such Lender, the overnight Federal Funds Effective Rate for the first three days and at the interest rate otherwise applicable to such Loans for each day thereafter and (B) if recovered from the Borrowers, the rate of interest applicable to the respective Borrowing, as determined pursuant to Section 2.08.  Nothing in this Section 2.04 shall be deemed to relieve any Lender from its obligation to make Loans hereunder or to prejudice any rights which 

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  the Borrowers may have against any Lender as a result of any failure by such Lender to make Loans hereunder.

  (b)	Unless the Required Lenders have instructed the Administrative Agent to the contrary, the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders may, but shall not be obligated to, make Revolving Loans to the Borrowers that are maintained as Base Rate Loans under Section 2.01(a) without prior notice of the proposed Borrowing to the Lenders as follows:

  (i)	The amount of each Lender’s RL Percentage of Revolving Loans shall be computed weekly (or more frequently in the Administrative Agent’s sole discretion) and shall be adjusted upward or downward on the basis of the amount of outstanding Revolving Loans as of 12:00 P.M. (noon) (New York City time) on the last Business Day of each week, or such other period specified by the Administrative Agent (each such date, a “Settlement Date”).  The Lenders shall transfer to the Administrative Agent, or the Administrative Agent shall transfer to the Lenders, such amounts as are necessary so that (after giving effect to all such transfers) the amount of Revolving Loans made by each Lender shall be equal to such Lender’s RL Percentage of the aggregate amount of Revolving Loans outstanding as of such Settlement Date.  If a notice from the Administrative Agent of any such necessary transfer is received by a Lender on or prior to 12:00 P.M. (noon) (New York City time) on any Business Day, then such Lender shall make transfers described above in immediately available funds no later than 2:00 P.M. (New York City time) on the day such notice was received; and if such notice is received by a Lender after 12:00 P.M. (noon) (New York City time) on any Business Day, such Lender shall make such transfers no later than 3:00 P.M. (New York City time) on the next succeeding Business Day.  The obligation of each of the Lenders to transfer such funds shall be irrevocable and unconditional and without recourse to, or without representation or warranty by, the Administrative Agent.  Each of the Administrative Agent and each Lender agrees and the Lenders agree to mark their respective books and records on each Settlement Date to show at all times the dollar amount of their respective RL Percentage of the outstanding Revolving Loans on such date.

  (ii)	To the extent that the settlement described in preceding clause (i) shall not yet have occurred with respect to any particular Settlement Date, upon any repayment of Revolving Loans by the Borrowers prior to such settlement, the Administrative Agent may apply such amounts repaid directly to the amounts that would otherwise be made available by the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 2.04(b).

  (iii)	Because the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders may be advancing and/or may be repaid Revolving Loans prior to the time when the Lenders will actually advance and/or be repaid Revolving Loans, interest with respect to Revolving Loans shall be allocated by the Administrative Agent to each Lender and the Administrative Agent in accordance with the amount of Revolving Loans actually advanced by and repaid to each Lender and the Administrative Agent and shall accrue from and including the date such Revolving Loans are so advanced to but excluding the date such Revolving Loans are either repaid by the Borrowers in accordance with the terms of this Agreement or actually settled by the Administrative Agent or the applicable Lender as described in this Section 2.04(b).

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  by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 13.15 and shall, if requested by such Lender, also be evidenced (i) in the case of Revolving Loans, by a promissory note duly executed and delivered by each Borrower substantially in the form of Exhibit B-1, with blanks appropriately completed in conformity herewith (each, a “Revolving Note” and, collectively, the “Revolving Notes”), and (ii) in the case of Swingline Loans, by a promissory note duly executed and delivered by each Borrower substantially in the form of Exhibit B-2, with blanks appropriately completed in conformity herewith (the “Swingline Note”).

  (b)	Each Lender will note on its internal records the amount of each Loan made by it and each payment in respect thereof and prior to any transfer of any of its Notes will endorse on the reverse side thereof the outstanding principal amount of Loans evidenced thereby.  Failure to make any such notation or any error in such notation shall not affect any Borrower’s obligations in respect of such Loans.

  (c)	Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained above in this Section 2.05 or elsewhere in this Agreement, Notes shall only be delivered to Lenders which at any time specifically request the delivery of such Notes.  No failure of any Lender to request, obtain, maintain or produce a Note evidencing its Loans to the Borrowers shall affect, or in any manner impair, the joint and several obligations of the Borrowers to repay the Loans (and all related Obligations) incurred by the Borrowers which would otherwise be evidenced thereby in accordance with the requirements of this Agreement, and shall not in any way affect the security or guaranties therefor provided pursuant to any Credit Document.  Any Lender which does not have a Note evidencing its outstanding Loans shall in no event be required to make the notations otherwise described in preceding clause (b).  At any time when any Lender requests the delivery of a Note to evidence any of its Loans, the Borrowers shall reasonably promptly execute and deliver to the respective Lender the requested Note in the appropriate amount or amounts to evidence such Loans.

  2.06	Conversions/Continuations.  The Borrowers shall have the option to convert (or continue), on any Business Day, all or a portion equal to at least the Minimum Borrowing Amount of the outstanding principal amount of Revolving Loans made pursuant to one or more Borrowings of one or more Types of Revolving Loans into a Borrowing of another Type of Revolving Loan (or to continue all or a portion of any LIBORTerm SOFR Loan as a LIBORTerm SOFR Loan); provided, that (a) except as otherwise provided in Section 2.10(b), LIBORTerm SOFR Loans may be converted into Base Rate Loans (or continued as LIBORTerm SOFR Loans with a new Interest Period) only on the last day of an Interest Period applicable to the Revolving Loans being converted (or continued) and no such partial conversion of LIBORTerm SOFR Loans shall reduce the outstanding principal amount of such LIBORTerm SOFR Loans made pursuant to a single Borrowing to less than the Minimum Borrowing Amount applicable thereto, (b) unless the Required Lenders otherwise agree, Base Rate Loans may only be converted into LIBORTerm SOFR Loans if no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing on the date of the conversion, and (c) no conversion pursuant to this Section 2.06 shall result in a greater number of Borrowings of LIBORTerm SOFR Loans than is permitted under Section 2.02.  Each such conversion or continuation shall be effected by the Borrowers by the Company giving the Administrative Agent at the Notice Office prior to 1:00 P.M. (New York City time) at least (i) in the case of conversions of Base Rate Loans into LIBORTerm SOFR Loans (or continuations of LIBORTerm SOFR Loans), three U.S. Government Securities Business Days’ prior notice 

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  and (ii) in the case of conversions of LIBORTerm SOFR Loans into Base Rate Loans, one Business Day’s prior notice (each, a “Notice of Conversion/Continuation”), in each case in the form of Exhibit A-2, appropriately completed to specify the Revolving Loans to be so converted (or continued), the Borrowing or Borrowings pursuant to which such Revolving Loans were incurred and, if to be converted into (or continued as) LIBORTerm SOFR Loans, the Interest Period to be applicable thereto.  The Administrative Agent shall give each Lender prompt notice of any such proposed conversion affecting any of its Revolving Loans. The Administrative Agent does not warrant or accept responsibility for, nor shall it have any liability with respect to, administration, submission or any other matter related to any rate described in the definition of Adjusted Term SOFR.

  2.07	Pro Rata Borrowings.  All Borrowings of Revolving Loans under this Agreement shall be incurred from the Lenders pro rata on the basis of their Revolving Loan Commitments; provided, that all Mandatory Borrowings shall be incurred from the Lenders pro rata on the basis of their RL Percentages.  It is understood that no Lender shall be responsible for any default by any other Lender of its obligation to make Loans hereunder and that each Lender shall be obligated to make the Loans provided to be made by it hereunder, regardless of the failure of any other Lender to make its Loans hereunder.

  2.08	Interest  (a) Each Borrower jointly and severally agrees to pay interest in respect of the unpaid principal amount of each Base Rate Loan from the date of Borrowing thereof until the earlier of (i) the maturity thereof (whether by acceleration or otherwise) and (ii) the conversion of such Base Rate Loan to a LIBORTerm SOFR Loan pursuant to Section 2.06 or 2.09, as applicable, at a rate per annum which shall be equal to the sum of the relevant Applicable Margin plus the Base Rate, each as in effect from time to time.

  (b)	Each Borrower jointly and severally agrees to pay interest in respect of the unpaid principal amount of each LIBORTerm SOFR Loan from the date of Borrowing thereof until the earlier of (i) the maturity thereof (whether by acceleration or otherwise) and (ii) the conversion of such LIBORTerm SOFR Loan to a Base Rate Loan pursuant to Section 2.06, 2.09 or 2.10, as applicable, at a rate per annum which shall, during each Interest Period applicable thereto, be equal to the sum of the relevant Applicable Margin plus the LIBOTerm SOFR Rate for such Interest Period.

  (c)	At any time when an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, overdue principal in respect of each Loan shall bear interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code or other applicable bankruptcy laws) or accrue as applicable, at a rate per annum equal to the rate which is 2% in excess of the rate otherwise then applicable to such Loans.  To the maximum extent permitted by law, overdue interest in respect of each Loan, Letter of Credit Fees and all overdue amounts payable hereunder and under any other Credit Document shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the rate which is 2% in excess of the rate applicable to Base Rate Loans from time to time.  Interest that accrues under this Section 2.08(c) shall be payable on demand.

  (d)	Accrued (and theretofore unpaid) interest shall be payable (i) in respect of each Base Rate Loan, (A) quarterly in arrears on each Quarterly Payment Date, (B) on the date of any repayment or prepayment (on the amount repaid or prepaid), and (C) at maturity (whether by 

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  acceleration or otherwise) and, after such maturity, on demand, and (ii) in respect of each LIBORTerm SOFR Loan, (A) on the last day of each Interest Period applicable thereto and, in the case of an Interest Period in excess of three months, on each date occurring at three month intervals after the first day of such Interest Period, (B) on the date of any repayment or prepayment (on the amount repaid or prepaid), and (C) at maturity (whether by acceleration or otherwise) and, after such maturity, on demand.

  (e)	Upon each Interest Determination Date, the Administrative Agent shall determine the LIBO RateAdjusted Term SOFR for each Interest Period applicable to the respective LIBORTerm SOFR Loans and shall promptly notify the Borrowers and the Lenders thereof.  Each such determination shall, absent manifest error, be final and conclusive and binding on all parties hereto.

  2.09	Interest Periods.  At the time the Company gives any Notice of Borrowing or Notice of Conversion/Continuation in respect of the making of, continuation as or conversion into any LIBORTerm SOFR Loan, the Borrowers shall have the right to elect the interest period (each, an “Interest Period”) applicable to such LIBORTerm SOFR Loan, which Interest Period shall, at the option of the Borrowers, be (x) a one, two, three or six month period, (y) to the extent agreed to by all Lenders, a twelve month period or (z) if agreed by the Administrative Agent in its discretion and each Lender, such other period not to exceed one-month; provided, that (in each case) in each case subject to subject to availability thereof:

  (a)	all LIBOR Loans comprising a Borrowing shall at all times have the same Interest Period;

  (b)	the initial Interest Period for any LIBOR Loan shall commence on the date of Borrowing of such LIBOR Loan (including the date of any conversion thereto from a Base Rate Loan) and each Interest Period occurring thereafter in respect of such LIBOR Loan shall commence on the day on which the next preceding Interest Period applicable thereto expires;

  (a)	(c) if any Interest Period for a LIBOR Loan begins on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period, such Interest Period shall end on its end or if such corresponding day falls after the last Business Day of such calendar month; (d) if any Interest Period for a LIBOR Loan would otherwise expire on a day which is not a Business Day, suchmonth then the Interest Period shall expire on the next succeeding Business Day; provided, however, that if any Interest Period for a LIBOR Loan would otherwise expire on a day which is not a Business Day but is a day of the month after which no further Business Day occurs in such month, such Interest Periodlast Business Day of such month; and if any Interest Period would otherwise expire on a day that is not a Business Day, the period shall expire on the next preceding Business Day;

  (b)	no Interest Period in respect of any Borrowing shall be selected which extends beyond the Final Maturity Date; and no Interest Period for a Term SOFR Loan may be established that would require repayment before the end of an Interest Period in order to make any scheduled principal payment on Term Loans; 

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  (c)	no tenor that has been removed from this definition pursuant to Section 2.10 shall be available in such Notice of Borrowing, Notice of Conversion/Continuation or any interest rate election; and

  (d)	(e) unless the Required Lenders otherwise agree, no Interest Period may be selected at any time when a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing; and (f)	no Interest Period in respect of any Borrowing shall be selected which extends beyond the Final Maturity Date.

  If by 1:00 P.M. (New York City time) on the third Business Day prior to the expiration of any Interest Period applicable to a Borrowing of LIBORTerm SOFR Loans, the Borrowers have failed to elect, or is not permitted to elect, a new Interest Period to be applicable to such LIBORTerm SOFR Loans as provided above, the Borrowers shall be deemed to have elected to convert such LIBORTerm SOFR Loans into Base Rate Loans effective as of the expiration date of such current Interest Period.

  2.10	Increased Costs, Illegality, etc.  In the event that any Lender shall have determined (which determination shall, absent manifest error, be final and conclusive and binding upon all parties hereto but, with respect to clause (i) below, may be made only by the Administrative Agent):  (a)	on any Interest Determination Date that, by reason of any changes arising after the date of this Agreement affecting the London interbank market, adequate and fair means do not exist for ascertaining the applicable interest rate on the basis provided for in the definition of “LIBO Rate”; or

  (i)	on any Interest Determination Date that, by reason of any changes arising after the date of this Agreement affecting the London interbank market, adequate and fair means do not exist for ascertaining the applicable interest rate on the basis provided for the definition of “LIBO Rate”. orthat any Law has made it unlawful, or that any Governmental Authority has asserted that it is unlawful, for any Lender or its applicable lending office to make, maintain or fund Loans whose interest is determined by reference to SOFR, the Term SOFR Reference Rate, Adjusted Term SOFR or Term SOFR, or to determine to charge interest rates based upon, SOFR, the Term SOFR Reference Rate, Adjusted Term SOFR or Term SOFR, then, upon notice thereof by such Lender to the Borrower (through the Adminstrative Agent), (a) any obligation of the Lenders to make Term SOFR Loans, and any right of the Borrower to continue Term SOFR Loans or to convert Base Rate Loans to Term SOFR Loans, shall be suspended, and (b) the interest rate on which Base Rate Loans shall, if necessary to avoid such illegality, be determined by the Administrative Agent shall be so determined without reference to clause (c) of the definition of “Base Rate”, in each case until such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Borrower that the circumstances giving rise to such determination no longer exist.  Upon receipt of such notice, (i) the Borrower shall, if necessary to avoid such illegality, upon demand from any Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), prepay or, if applicable, convert all Term SOFR Loans to Base Rate Loans (the interest rate on which Base Rate Loans of such Lender shall, if necessary to avoid such illegality, be determined by the Administrative Agent shall be so determined without reference to clause (c) of the definition of “Base Rate”), on the last day of the Interest Period therefor, if all affected Lenders may lawfully continue to maintain such Term SOFR Loans to such day, or immediately, if any Lender may not lawfully continue to 

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  maintain such Term SOFR Loans to such day, and (ii) if necessary to avoid such illegality, the Adminsitrative Agent shall during the period of such suspension compute the Base Rate without reference to clause (c) of the definition of “Base Rate,” in each case until the Administrative Agent is advised in writing by each affected Lender that it is no longer illegal for such Lender to determine or charge interest rates based upon SOFR, the Term SOFR Reference Rate, Adjusted Term SOFR or Term SOFR.  Upon any such prepayment or conversion, the Borrower shall also pay accrued interest on the amount so prepaid or converted, together with any additional amounts required pursuant to this Section 2.10.  Each Lender agrees to use reasonable efforts consistent with legal and regulatory requirements to designate a different Lending Office if such designation will avoid the need for such notice and will not, in the good faith judgment of such Lender, otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender or cost any additional amount ; or

  (ii)	at any time, that such Lender shall incur increased costs or reductions in the amounts received or receivable hereunder with respect to any LIBOR Loan because of any change since the Effective Date (or the date such Lender became a Lender hereunder, if later) in any applicable law or governmental rule, regulation, order, guideline or request (whether or not having the force of law) or in the interpretation or administration thereof and including the introduction of any new law or governmental rule, regulation, order, guideline or request, such as, but not limited to:  (A) a change in official reserve requirements, but, in all events, excluding reserves required under Regulation D to the extent included in the computation of the LIBO Rate, or (B) any change subjecting any Recipient to any Taxes (except for Excluded Taxes and any Indemnified Taxes) on its loans, loan principal, letters of credit, commitments, or other obligations, or its deposits, reserves, other liabilities or capital attributable thereto; orif, on or prior to the first day of any Interest Period for any Term SOFR Loan (a) the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error) that “Adjusted Term SOFR” cannot be determined pursuant to the definition thereof, or (b) the Required Lenders determine that for any reason in connection with any request for a Term SOFR Loan or a conversion thereto or a continuation thereof that Adjusted Term SOFR for any requested Interest Period does not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of funding such Loan, and the Required Lenders have provided notice of such determination to the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent will promptly so notify the Borrower and each Lender. Upon such notice, any obligation of the Lenders to make Term SOFR Loans, and any right of the Borrower to continue Term SOFR Loans or to convert Base Rate Loans to Term SOFR Loans, shall be suspended (to the extent of the affected Term SOFR Loans or affected Interest Periods) until the Administrative Agent (with respect to clause (b), at the instruction of the Required Lenders) revokes such notice.  Upon receipt of such notice, (i) the Borrower may revoke any pending request for a borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Term SOFR Loans (to the extent of the affected Term SOFR Loans or affected Interest Periods) or, failing that, the Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a Borrowing of or conversion to Base Rate Loans in the amount specified therein and (ii) any outstanding affected Term SOFR Loans will be deemed to have been converted into Base Rate Loans at the end of the applicable Interest Period.  Upon any such conversion, the Borrower shall also pay accrued interest on the amount so converted, together with any additional amounts required pursuant to Section 2.11. Subject to Section 2.10(d), if the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error) that 

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  “Adjusted Term SOFR” cannot be determined pursuant to the definition thereof on any given day, the interest rate on Base Rate Loans shall be determined by the Administrative Agent without reference to clause (c) of the definition of “Base Rate” until the Agent revokes such determination;

  (iii)	at any time, that the making or continuance of any LIBOR Loan has been made (A) unlawful by any law or governmental rule, regulation or order, (B) impossible by compliance by any Lender in good faith with any request from a Governmental Authority (whether or not having force of law) or (C) impracticable as a result of a contingency, other than with respect to a tax matter not otherwise provided for in this Section 2.10, occurring after the Effective Date or since the date such Person becomes a Lender, if later, which materially and adversely affects the London interbank market generally;

  then, and in any such event, such Lender (or the Administrative Agent, in the case of clause (i) above) shall promptly give notice (by telephone promptly confirmed in writing) to the Company and, except in the case of clause (i) above, to the Administrative Agent of such determination (which notice the Administrative Agent shall promptly transmit to each of the other Lenders).  Thereafter (1) in the case of clause (i) above, LIBOR Loans shall not be available until such time as the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrowers and the Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice by the Administrative Agent no longer exist, and any Notice of Borrowing or any Notice of Conversion/Continuation given by any Borrower with respect to LIBOR Loans which have not yet been incurred (including by way of conversion) shall be deemed rescinded by the Borrowers, (2) in the case of clause (ii) above, the Borrowers jointly and severally agree to pay to such Lender, upon such Lender’s written request therefor, such additional amounts (in the form of an increased rate of, or a different method of calculating, interest or otherwise as such Lender in its sole discretion shall determine) as shall be required to compensate such Lender for such increased costs or reductions in amounts received or receivable hereunder (a written notice as to the additional amounts owed to such Lender, showing in reasonable detail the basis for the calculation thereof, and stating that such Lender is charging such costs to its borrowers generally pursuant to its internal policies, submitted to the Company by such Lender shall, absent manifest error, be final and conclusive and binding on all the parties hereto) and (3) in the case of clause (iii) above, the Borrowers shall take one of the actions specified in Section 2.10(b) as promptly as reasonably possible and, in any event, within the time period required by law.

  (b)	At any time that any LIBOR Loan is affected by the circumstances described in Section 2.10(a)(ii), the Borrowers may, and in the case of a LIBOR Loan affected by the circumstances described in Section 2.10(a)(iii), the Borrowers shall, either (i) if the affected LIBOR Loan is then being made initially or pursuant to a conversion, cancel such Borrowing by the Company giving the Administrative Agent telephonic notice (confirmed in writing) on the same date that the Company was notified by the affected Lender or the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 2.10(a)(ii) or (iii) or (ii) if the affected LIBOR Loan is then outstanding, upon at least three Business Days’ written notice by the Company to the Administrative Agent, require the affected Lender to convert such LIBOR Loan into a Base Rate Loan; provided, that if more than one Lender is affected at any time, then all affected Lenders must be treated the same pursuant to this Section 2.10(b).

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  (b)	(c) If any Lender determines that after the Effective Date (or the date such Lender became a Lender hereunder, if later) the introduction of or any change in any applicable law or governmental rule, regulation, order, guideline, directive or request (whether or not having the force of law) concerning capital adequacy, or any change in interpretation or administration thereof by the NAIC or any Governmental Authority, central bank or comparable agency, will have the effect of increasing the amount of capital required or expected to be maintained by such Lender or any corporation controlling such Lender based on the existence of such Lender’s Revolving Loan Commitment hereunder or its obligations hereunder, then the Borrowers jointly and severally agree to pay to such Lender, upon its written demand therefor, such additional amounts as shall be required to compensate such Lender or such other corporation for the increased cost to such Lender or such other corporation or the reduction in the rate of return to such Lender or such other corporation as a result of such increase of capital.  In determining such additional amounts, each Lender will act reasonably and in good faith and will use averaging and attribution methods which are reasonable; provided, that such Lender’s determination of compensation owing under this Section 2.10(c) shall, absent manifest error, be final and conclusive and binding on all the parties hereto.  Each Lender, upon determining that any additional amounts will be payable pursuant to this Section 2.10(c), will give prompt written notice thereof to the Company, which notice shall show in reasonable detail the basis for calculation of such additional amounts provided, further, that, notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, (i) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and all requests, rules, guidelines, requirements and directives thereunder, issued in connection therewith or in implementation thereof, and (ii) all requests, rules, guidelines or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III shall, in each case, be deemed to be a change after the Effective Date in a requirement of law or government rule, regulation or order, regardless of the date enacted, adopted, issued or implemented (including for purposes of this Section 2.10).

  (c)	(d) It is understood that this Section 2.10 shall not apply to Excluded Taxes or Indemnified Taxes.

  (e)	Effect of Benchmark Transition Event.

  (d)	(i)	Benchmark Replacement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Credit Document, upon the occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event or an Early Opt-in Election, as applicable, the Administrative Agent, the Required Lenders and the Borrower may amend this Agreement to replace the LIBO Rate with a Benchmark Replacement, provided that any such Benchmark Replacement shall be administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent (and the Lenders hereby (A) authorize and direct the Administrative Agent to execute and deliver any such amendment in which the Required Lenders are a signatory thereto and (B) acknowledge and agree that the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to all of the exculpations, protections and indemnifications provided for in this Agreement in favor of the Administrative Agent in executing and delivering any such amendment).  In addition, the Administrative Agent shall not be bound to comply with, acknowledge or consent to any Benchmark Replacement or Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes or any other amendment to this Agreement or any Credit Document that would affect its rights, duties, privileges, protections, obligations or liabilities, or in such Administrative Agent’s reasonable 

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  judgment, otherwise adversely affect it. No replacement of the LIBO Rate with a Benchmark Replacement pursuant to this Section 2.10(e) will occur prior to the applicable Benchmark Transition Start Date. Setting; Conforming Changes.

  (i)	(ii) Benchmark Replacement.

  (A)	Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, if a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred prior any setting of the then-current Benchmark, then (x) if a Benchmark Replacement is determined in accordance with clause (a) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement” for such Benchmark Replacement Date, such Benchmark Replacement will replace such Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in respect of such Benchmark setting and subsequent Benchmark settings without any amendment to, or further action or consent of any other party to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document and (y) if a Benchmark Replacement is determined in accordance with clause (b) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement” for such Benchmark Replacement Date, such Benchmark Replacement will replace such Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in respect of any Benchmark setting at or after 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the fifth (5th) Business Day after the date notice of such Benchmark Replacement is provided to the Lenders and the Borrower without any amendment to, or further action or consent of any other party to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document so long as the Administrative Agent has not received, by such time, written notice of objection to such Benchmark Replacement from Lenders comprising the Required Lenders.

  (B)	No Other Hedging Agreement shall be deemed to be a “Loan Document” for purposes of this Section 2.10(d). 

  (ii)	Conforming Changes. In connection with the use or administration of Term SOFR, or the use, administration, adoption or implementation of a Benchmark Replacement, the Administrative Agent, the Required Lenders and the Borrower will have the right to make Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other CreditLoan Document, any amendments implementing such Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement, provided that any such Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes shall be administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent.  In addition, the Administrative Agent shall not be bound to comply with, acknowledge or consent to any Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes or any other amendment to this Agreement or any Credit Document that would affect its rights, duties, privileges, protections, obligations or liabilities, or in such Administrative Agent’s reasonable judgment, otherwise adversely affect it or any other Loan Document.

  (iv)	Notices; Standards for Decisions and Determinations. The Required LendersAdministrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrower, the Administrative Agent  and the Lenders of (i) any occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event or an Early Opt-in Election, as applicable, and its related Benchmark Replacement Date and Benchmark Transition Start Date, (ii) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement, and (iiiii) the effectiveness of 

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  any Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes and (iv) the commencement or conclusion of any Benchmark Unavailability Period.  Conforming Changes.  The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrower of the removal or reinstatement of any tenor of a Benchmark pursuant to Section 2.10(d)(iv).  Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Lenders or the Administrative Agent or, if applicable, any Lender (or group of Lenders) pursuant to this Section 2.10(ed), including any determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may be made in its or their sole discretion and without consent from any other party heretoto this Agreement or any other Loan Document, except, in each case, as expressly required pursuant to this Section 2.10(e).  In the event that the LIBO Rate is unavailable and the Administrative Agent has not been notified in writing of a Benchmark Replacement by the Required Lenders and the Borrower in accordance with this Agreement within two Business Days prior to an applicable Interest Determination Date, the Administrative Agent shall use the LIBO Rate in effect for the immediately prior Interest Period until a Benchmark Replacement has become effective in accordance with this Agreementd).

  (v)	Unavailability of Tenor of Benchmark. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, at any time (including in connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement), (i) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate (including the Term SOFR Reference Rate) and either (A) any tenor for such Benchmark is not displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion or (B) the administrator of such Benchmark or the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark has provided a public statement or publication of information announcing that any tenor for such Benchmark is not or will not be representative or in compliance with or aligned with the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) Principles for Financial Benchmarks, then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for any Benchmark settings at or after such time to remove such unavailable, non-representative, non-compliant or non-aligned tenor and (ii) if a tenor that was removed pursuant to clause (i) above either (A) is subsequently displayed on a screen or information service for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement) or (B) is not, or is no longer, subject to an announcement that it is not or will not be representative or in compliance with or aligned with the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) Principles for Financial Benchmarks for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement), then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for all Benchmark settings at or after such time to reinstate such previously removed tenor.

  (vi)	(iv) Benchmark Unavailability Period. Upon the Borrower’s receipt of notice from the Required Lenders of the commencement of a Benchmark Unavailability Period, the Borrower may revoke any pending request for a LIBO Rate Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of LIBORTerm SOFR Loans to be made, converted or continued during any Benchmark Unavailability Period and, failing that, the Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a Borrowing of or conversion to Base Rate Loans.  During anya Benchmark Unavailability Period or at any time that a tenor for the then-current Benchmark is not an Available Tenor, the component of Base Rate based upon the LIBO Ratethen-current 

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  Benchmark or such tenor for such Benchmark, as applicable, will not be used in any determination of Base Rate.

  The following terms shall have the following meanings:

  “Available Tenor”: as of any date of determination and with respect to the then-current Benchmark, as applicable, (a) if such Benchmark is a term rate, any tenor for such Benchmark (or component thereof) that is or may be used for determining the length of an interest period pursuant to this Agreement or (y) otherwise, any payment period for interest calculated with reference to such Benchmark (or component thereof) that is or may be used for determining any frequency of making payments of interest calculated with reference to such Benchmark, in each case, as of such date and not including, for the avoidance of doubt, any tenor for such Benchmark that is then-removed from the definition of “Interest Period” pursuant to Section 2.10(d)(iv).

  “Benchmark”: initially, the Term SOFR Reference Rate; provided that if a Benchmark Transition Event has occurred with respect to the Term SOFR Reference Rate or the then-current Benchmark, then “Benchmark” means the applicable Benchmark Replacement to the extent that such Benchmark Replacement has replaced such prior benchmark rate pursuant to Section 2.10(d)(i).

  “Benchmark Replacement”: with respect to any Benchmark Transition Event, 

  the first alternative set forth in the order below that can be determined by the Administrative Agent for the applicable Benchmark Replacement Date:

  (a) Daily Simple SOFR; or 

  (b) the sum of: (i) the alternate benchmark rate that has been selected by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower giving due consideration to (A) any selection or recommendation of a replacement benchmark rate or the mechanism for determining such a rate by the Relevant Governmental Body or (B) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a benchmark rate as a replacement to the then-current Benchmark for Dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities and (ii) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment.

  If the Benchmark Replacement as determined pursuant to clause (a) or (b) above would be less than the Floor, the Benchmark Replacement will be deemed to be the Floor for the purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.

  “Benchmark Replacement Adjustment”: with respect to any replacement of the then-current Benchmark with an Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement, the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) that has been selected by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower giving due consideration to (a) any 

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  selection or recommendation of a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement by the Relevant Governmental Body or (b) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for Dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities.

  “Benchmark Replacement Date”: the earliest to occur of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark:

  (a)	in the case of clause (a) or (b) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event”, the later of (i) the date of the public statement or publication of information referenced therein and (ii) the date on which the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) permanently or indefinitely ceases to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof); or

  (b)	in the case of clause (c) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event”, the first date on which such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) has been determined and announced by or on behalf of the administrator of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) or the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) to be non-representative or non-compliant with or non-aligned with the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) Principles for Financial Benchmarks; provided that such non-representativeness, non-compliance or non-alignment will be determined by reference to the most recent statement or publication referenced in such clause (c) and even if any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) continues to be provided on such date.

  For the avoidance of doubt, the “Benchmark Replacement Date” will be deemed to have occurred in the case of clause (a) or (b) with respect to any Benchmark upon the occurrence of the applicable event or events set forth therein with respect to all then-current Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).

  “Benchmark Transition Event”: the occurrence of one or more of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark:

  (a)	a public statement or publication of information by or on behalf of the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) announcing that such administrator has ceased or will cease to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof), permanently or indefinitely; provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue 

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  to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof);

  (b)	a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof), the FRB, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, an insolvency official with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component), a resolution authority with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component) or a court or an entity with similar insolvency or resolution authority over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component), which states that the administrator of such Benchmark (or such component) has ceased or will cease to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) permanently or indefinitely; provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof); or

  (c)	a public statement or publication of information by or on behalf of the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) or the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) announcing that all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) are not, or as of a specified future date will not be, representative or in compliance with or aligned with the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) Principles for Financial Benchmarks.

  For the avoidance of doubt, a “Benchmark Transition Event” will be deemed to have occurred with respect to any Benchmark if a public statement or publication of information set forth above has occurred with respect to each then-current Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).

  Benchmark Transition Start Date: in the case of a Benchmark Transition Event, the earlier of (a) the applicable Benchmark Replacement Date and (b) if such Benchmark Transition Event is a public statement or publication of information of a prospective event, the 90th day prior to the expected date of such event as of such public statement or publication of information (or if the expected date of such prospective event is fewer than 90 days after such statement or publication, the date of such statement or publication).

  “Benchmark Unavailability Period”: the period (if any) (a) beginning at the time that a Benchmark Replacement Date has occurred if, at such time, no Benchmark Replacement has replaced the then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in accordance with Section 2.10(d) and (b) ending at the time that a Benchmark Replacement has 

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  replaced the then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in accordance with Section 2.10(d).

  “Conforming Changes”: with respect to either the use or administration of Term SOFR or the use, administration, adoption or implementation of any Benchmark Replacement, any technical, administrative or operational changes (including changes to the definition of “Base Rate,” “Business Day,” “U.S. Government Securities Business Day,” or “Interest Period” or any similar or analogous definition (or the addition of a concept of “interest period”), timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest, timing of borrowing requests or prepayment, conversion or continuation notices, the applicability and length of lookback periods, the applicability of Section 2.11 and other technical, administrative or operational matters) that the Administrative Agent decides may be appropriate to reflect the adoption and implementation of any such rate or to permit the use and administration thereof by the Administrative Agent in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Administrative Agent decides that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or determines that no market practice for the administration of any such rate exists, in such other manner of administration as the Administrative Agent decides is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents).

  “Daily Simple SOFR”:  for any day, SOFR, with the conventions for this rate (which will include a lookback) being established by the Administrative Agent in accordance with the conventions for this rate recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body for determining “Daily Simple SOFR” for syndicated business loans; provided, that if the Administrative Agent decides that any such convention is not administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent, then the Administrative Agent, may establish another convention in its reasonable discretion.

  “Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement”: the applicable Benchmark Replacement excluding the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment.

  2.11	Compensation.  Each Borrower jointly and severally agrees to compensate each Lender, upon its written request (which request shall set forth in reasonable detail the basis for requesting such compensation) to the Company, for all losses, expenses and liabilities (including, without limitation, any loss, expense or liability incurred by reason of the liquidation or reemployment of deposits or other funds required by such Lender to fund its LIBORTerm SOFR Loans but excluding loss of anticipated profits) which such Lender may sustain:  (a) if for any reason (other than a default by such Lender or the Administrative Agent) a Borrowing of, or conversion from or into, LIBORTerm SOFR Loans does not occur on a date specified therefor in a Notice of Borrowing or in a Notice of Conversion/Continuation (whether or not withdrawn by the Borrowers or deemed withdrawn or rescinded pursuant to Section 2.10(a)); (b) if any prepayment or repayment (including any prepayment or repayment made pursuant to Section 5.01, 

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  5.02 or as a result of an acceleration of the Loans pursuant to Section 11) or conversion of any of its LIBORTerm SOFR Loans occurs on a date which is not the last day of an Interest Period with respect thereto; (c) if any prepayment of any of its LIBORTerm SOFR Loans is not made on any date specified in a notice of prepayment given by, or on behalf of, any Borrower; or (d) as a consequence of (i) any other default by any Borrower to repay LIBORTerm SOFR Loans when required by the terms of this Agreement or any Note held by such Lender or (ii) any election made pursuant to Section 2.10(b).

  2.12	Change of Lending Office.  Each Lender agrees that on the occurrence of any event giving rise to the operation of Section 2.10(a)(ii) or (iii), Section 2.10(c), 3.06 or 5.04 with respect to such Lender, it will, if requested by the Borrowers, use reasonable efforts (subject to overall policy considerations of such Lender) to designate another lending office for any Loans or Letters of Credit affected by such event or to assign and delegate its rights and obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches or Affiliates, if any; provided, that such designation is made on such terms that such Lender and its lending office suffer no economic, legal or regulatory disadvantage, with the object of avoiding the consequence of the event giving rise to the operation of such Section.  Nothing in this Section 2.12 shall affect or postpone any of the obligations of any Borrower or the right of any Lender provided in Sections 2.10, 3.06 and 5.04.

  2.13	Replacement of Lenders.  (a) (x) If any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, (y) upon the occurrence of any event giving rise to the operation of Section 2.10(a)(ii) or (iii), 2.10(c), 3.06 or 5.04 with respect to any Lender which results in such Lender charging to the Borrowers increased costs in excess of those being generally charged by the other Lenders or which results in any Borrower being required to pay any Indemnified Taxes or additional amounts to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of such Lender pursuant to Section 5.04 or (z) in the case of a refusal by a Lender to consent to a proposed amendment, change, waiver, discharge or termination with respect to this Agreement which expressly requires the consent of such Lender and which has been approved by the Required Lenders as (and to the extent) provided in Section 13.12(b), the Company shall have the right, in accordance with Section 13.04(b), to replace such Lender (the “Replaced Lender”) with one or more other Eligible Transferees, none of whom shall constitute a Defaulting Lender at the time of such replacement (collectively, the “Replacement Lender”) and each of which shall (other than in the case of an existing Lender) be reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and each Issuing Lender; provided, that:

  (i)	at the time of any replacement pursuant to this Section 2.13, the Replacement Lender shall enter into one or more Assignment and Assumption Agreements pursuant to Section 13.04(b) (and with all fees payable pursuant to said Section 13.04(b) to be paid by the Borrowers) pursuant to which the Replacement Lender shall acquire the entire Revolving Loan Commitment and all outstanding Revolving Loans of, and all participations in Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans by, the Replaced Lender and, in connection therewith, shall pay to (A) the Replaced Lender in respect thereof an amount equal to the sum of (1) an amount equal to the principal of, and all accrued interest on, all outstanding Revolving Loans of the respective Replaced Lender, (2) an amount equal to all Unpaid Drawings that have been funded by (and not reimbursed to) such Replaced Lender, together with all then unpaid interest with respect thereto at such time and (3) an amount equal to all accrued, but theretofore unpaid, Fees owing to the Replaced Lender pursuant to Section 4.01, (B) each Issuing Lender an amount equal to such 

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  Replaced Lender’s RL Percentage of any Unpaid Drawing relating to Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Lender (which at such time remains an Unpaid Drawing) to the extent such amount was not theretofore funded by such Replaced Lender and (C) the Swingline Lender an amount equal to such Replaced Lender’s RL Percentage of any Mandatory Borrowing to the extent such amount was not theretofore funded by such Replaced Lender to the Swingline Lender; and

  (ii)	all obligations of the Borrowers then owing to the Replaced Lender (other than those specifically described in clause (i) above in respect of which the assignment purchase price has been, or is concurrently being, paid, but including all amounts, if any, owing under Section 2.11) shall be paid in full to such Replaced Lender concurrently with such replacement.

  (b)	Upon receipt by the Replaced Lender of all amounts required to be paid to it pursuant to this Section 2.13 and satisfaction of the other conditions set forth in this Section 2.13, the Administrative Agent shall be entitled (but not obligated) and is hereby authorized (which authorization is coupled with an interest) to execute an Assignment and Assumption Agreement on behalf of such Replaced Lender, and any such Assignment and Assumption Agreement so executed by the Administrative Agent and the Replacement Lender shall be effective for purposes of this Section 2.13 and Section 13.04.  Upon the execution of the respective Assignment and Assumption Agreement, the payment of amounts referred to in clauses (i) and (ii) immediately preceding clause (a), recordation of the assignment on the Register by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 13.15 and, if so requested by the Replacement Lender, delivery to the Replacement Lender of the appropriate Note or Notes executed by the Borrowers, (i) the Replacement Lender shall become a Lender hereunder and the Replaced Lender shall cease to constitute a Lender hereunder, except with respect to indemnification provisions under this Agreement (including, without limitation, Sections 2.10, 2.11, 3.06, 5.04, 12.06, 13.01 and 13.06), which shall survive as to such Replaced Lender and (ii) the RL Percentages of the Lenders shall be automatically adjusted at such time to give effect to such replacement.

  2.14	Company as Agent for Borrowers and other Credit Parties.  Each Credit Party hereby irrevocably appoints the Company as its agent and attorney-in-fact for all purposes under this Agreement and each other Credit Document, which appointment shall remain in full force and effect unless and until the Administrative Agent shall have consented in writing to the revocation of such appointment.  (a) Each Borrower hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Company to (i) provide the Administrative Agent with all notices with respect to Loans and Letters of Credit obtained for the benefit of the Borrowers and (ii) take such action as the Company deems appropriate on its behalf to obtain Loans and Letters of Credit and to exercise such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto to carry out the purposes of this Agreement and the other Credit Documents, and (b) each Credit Party hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Company to (i) provide the Administrative Agent with all other notices and instructions under this Agreement or any other Credit Document, (ii) receive statements of account and all other notices from the Administrative Agent with respect to the Obligations or otherwise under or in connection with this Agreement and the other Credit Documents, and (iii) otherwise act on behalf of such Credit Party pursuant to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents.  It is understood that the co-borrower structure, as more fully set forth herein, is done solely as an accommodation to the Borrowers in order to utilize the collective borrowing powers of the Borrowers in the most efficient and economical manner and at their request, and that the Lenders shall not incur liability to any 

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  Borrower as a result thereof.  Each Borrower expects to derive benefit, directly or indirectly, in a combined fashion from this Agreement since the successful operation of each Borrower is dependent on the continued successful performance of the consolidated group.  Each Borrower hereby jointly and severally agrees to indemnify each Lender and hold each Lender harmless against any and all liability, expense, loss or claim of damage or injury, made against any Lender by any Borrower or by any third party whosoever, arising from or incurred by reason of the Lenders’ relying on any instructions of the Company; except, that the Borrowers will have no liability to any Lender, Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent with respect to any liability that has been finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to have (A) resulted solely from (i) the bad faith, gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Lender, the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, as the case may be, or (2) the breach of a material obligation hereunder or under any other Credit Document by such Lender, the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, as the case may be, or (B) resulted from any disputes solely among such Lender, the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, as the case may be that do not relate to any action or inaction on the part of the Borrowers or their respective Affiliates and which does not involve any dispute with the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent in its capacity as such.

  2.15	Incremental Revolving Loans.

  (a)	The Borrowers may at any time or from time to time after the Effective Date (but not to exceed four times prior to the Initial Maturity Date), upon not less than five Business Days’ notice to the Administrative Agent (whereupon the Administrative Agent shall promptly deliver a copy to each of the Lenders), request that an increase in the then existing Revolving Loan Commitments (the “Incremental Revolving Loan Commitments”; with Revolving Loans made pursuant to any Incremental Revolving Loan Commitments being, “Incremental Revolving Loans”) be made available to the Borrowers (the “Incremental Facility”); provided, that immediately before and after giving effect to the incurrence of such Incremental Facility, (i) the representations and warranties contained in Section 8 and the other Credit Documents are true and correct in all material respects); provided, that to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, they shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date; provided, further, that any representation and warranty that is qualified as to “materiality,” “Material Adverse Effect” or similar language shall be true and correct (after giving effect to any qualification therein) in all respects on such respective dates, (ii) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred at the time of the incurrence of such Incremental Facility and be continuing or result therefrom, (iii) the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio shall be not less than 1.00:1.00, (A) determined on a Pro Forma Basis as of the last day of the Calculation Period most recently ended prior to the date of the incurrence of such Incremental Facility, as if such Incremental Facility (and any other Indebtedness incurred or to be incurred after the last day of such Calculation Period and on or prior to the date of determination) had been incurred (and, if incurred to finance a Specified Transaction, such Specified Transaction had been consummated) on the first day of such Calculation Period and (B) without netting the cash proceeds of any Incremental Facility in calculating such ratio and (iv) on a Pro Forma Basis after giving effect to any such Incremental Facility, Excess Availability shall be no less than $5,000,000.  Each Incremental Revolving Loan Commitment shall be in an aggregate principal amount of at least $2,500,000.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the aggregate principal amount of the Incremental Facility shall not exceed $10,000,000 (the “Incremental Availability”).  The Incremental Facility shall rank pari passu in right of payment and of security with the existing 

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  Facilities.  Any Incremental Revolving Loan Commitments and Incremental Revolving Loans shall (A) mature on the same date as the Final Maturity Date applicable to the existing ABL Facility, (B) require no scheduled amortization or mandatory commitment reduction prior to the final maturity thereof and (C) be subject to the same terms and conditions as the ABL Facility and shall be treated substantially the same as, and made under the same documentation as, the existing ABL Facility.  Any Incremental Facility may participate on a pro rata basis or on a less than pro rata basis (but not on a greater than pro rata basis) in any voluntary or mandatory prepayments hereunder, as specified in the applicable Incremental Amendment.

  (b)	Each notice from the Borrowers pursuant to this Section 2.15 shall set forth the requested amount and proposed terms of the relevant Incremental Revolving Loan Commitments.  Incremental Revolving Loan Commitments may be made by any existing Lender or by any other bank or other financial institution reasonably acceptable to (i) the Borrowers, (ii) if the consent of the Administrative Agent would be required for an assignment to such additional bank or other financial institution under this Agreement, the Administrative Agent and (iii) each Issuing Lender (any such other bank or other financial institution being called an “Additional Lender”).  Commitments in respect of Incremental Revolving Loan Commitments shall become Commitments under this Agreement pursuant to an amendment (an “Incremental Amendment”) to this Agreement and, as appropriate, the other Credit Documents, executed by the Borrowers, the Guarantors, each Lender agreeing to provide such Incremental Revolving Loan Commitment, if any, each Additional Lender, if any, and, to the extent such Incremental Amendment will affect the rights, obligations and duties of the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent.  The Incremental Amendment may, without the consent of any other Lenders, effect such amendments to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers, to effect the provisions of this Section 2.15.  The effectiveness of, and the borrowing under, any Incremental Amendment shall not be subject to the satisfaction on the date thereof (each, an “Incremental Facility Closing Date”) of each of the conditions set forth in Section 7, but only such other conditions as the parties thereto shall agree.  The Borrowers will use the proceeds of the Incremental Revolving Loan Commitments for any purpose not prohibited by this Agreement.  No Lender shall be obligated to provide any Incremental Revolving Loan Commitments, unless it so agrees.

  2.16	Extensions of Revolving Loan Commitments.  

  (a)	Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, subject to the terms of this Section 2.16, the Company may extend the maturity date, and otherwise modify the terms of the Total Revolving Loan Commitment, or any portion thereof (including by increasing the interest rate or fees payable in respect of any Loans and/or Revolving Loan Commitments or any portion thereof (and related outstandings) (the “Extension”) pursuant to a written offer (the “Extension Offer”) made by the Company to all Lenders of a given tranche, in each case on a pro rata basis (based on the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the respective outstanding Revolving Loans and unfunded Revolving Loan Commitments) and on the same terms to each such Lender.  In connection with any Extension, the Company will provide notification to the Administrative Agent (for distribution to the Lenders) no later than 10 days prior to the maturity date of the Revolving Loan Commitments to be extended of the requested new Extended Final Maturity Date for the Extension and the due date for Lender responses.  In connection with any Extension, each Lender of the applicable tranche wishing to participate in the Extension shall, prior 

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  to such due date, provide the Administrative Agent with a written notice thereof in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.  Any Lender that does not respond to the Extension Offer by the applicable due date shall be deemed to have rejected the Extension.  After giving effect to the Extension, the Revolving Loan Commitments so extended shall cease to be a part of the tranche of the Revolving Loan Commitments they were a part of immediately prior to the Extension and shall be a new tranche of Extended Revolving Loan Commitments hereunder.

  (b)	The Extension shall be subject to the following:

  (i)	no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time any offering document in respect of an Extension Offer is delivered to the Lenders and at the time of such Extension;

  (ii)	except as to interest rates, commitment commissions, upfront fees, final maturity (which shall be determined by the Company and set forth in the Extension Offer), the Revolving Loan Commitment of any Lender extended pursuant to the Extension (the “Extended Revolving Loan Commitment”), and the related outstandings, shall be a Revolving Loan Commitment (or related outstandings, as the case may be) and shall have the same terms as the original Revolving Loan Commitments (and related outstandings); provided, that, subject to the provisions of Sections 3.07 and 2.01(f) to the extent dealing with Swingline Loans and Letters of Credit which mature or expire after the Initial Maturity Date, all Swingline Loans and Letters of Credit shall be participated in on a pro rata basis by all Lenders with Revolving Loan Commitments and/or Extended Revolving Loan Commitments in accordance with their RL Percentages (and except as provided in Sections 3.07 and 2.01(f), without giving effect to changes thereto on the Initial Maturity Date with respect to Swingline Loans and Letters of Credit theretofore incurred or issued) and all borrowings under Revolving Loan Commitments and Extended Revolving Loan Commitments and repayments thereunder shall be made on a pro rata basis (except for (A) payments of interest and fees at different rates on Extended Revolving Loan Commitments (and related outstandings) and (B) repayments required upon any Final Maturity Date of any tranche of Revolving Loan Commitments or Extended Revolving Loan Commitments);

  (iii)	if the aggregate principal amount of Revolving Loan Commitments in respect of which Lenders shall have accepted the Extension Offer shall exceed the maximum aggregate principal amount of Revolving Loan Commitments offered to be extended by the Borrowers pursuant to such Extension Offer, then the Revolving Loan Commitments of such Lenders shall be extended ratably up to such maximum amount based on the respective principal amounts (but not to exceed actual holdings of record) with respect to which such Lenders have accepted the Extension Offer;

  (iv)	all documentation in respect of the Extension shall be consistent with the foregoing; and

  (v)	any applicable Minimum Extension Condition shall be satisfied.

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  (c)	With respect to each Extension consummated by the Borrowers pursuant to this Section 2.16, (i) such Extension shall not constitute voluntary or mandatory payments or prepayments for purposes of Section 5.01, 5.02, 5.03, 13.02 or 13.06, (ii) such Extension Offer shall be required to contain a condition (a “Minimum Extension Condition”) to consummating any such Extension that a minimum amount (to be determined and specified in the relevant Extension Offer in the Company’s discretion, but in no event less than $5,000,000 (unless another amount is agreed to by the Administrative Agent)) be tendered, (iii) if the amount extended is less than the Maximum Letter of Credit Amount, the Maximum Letter of Credit Amount shall be reduced upon the date that is five Business Days prior to the Initial Maturity Date (to the extent needed so that the Maximum Letter of Credit Amount does not exceed the aggregate Revolving Loan Commitments which would be in effect after the Initial Maturity Date), and, if applicable, the Borrowers shall cash collateralize obligations under any issued Letters of Credit in an amount equal to 105% of the portion of the Stated Amount of such Letters of Credit in excess of the Maximum Letter of Credit Amount, as reduced as provided above, and (iv) if the amount extended is less than the Maximum Swingline Amount, the Maximum Swingline Amount shall be reduced upon the date that is five Business Days prior to the Initial Maturity Date (to the extent needed so that the Maximum Swingline Amount does not exceed the aggregate Revolving Loan Commitments which would be in effect after the Initial Maturity Date), and, if applicable, the Borrowers shall prepay any outstanding Swingline Loans.  The Administrative Agent, Swingline Lender, Issuing Lenders and the Lenders hereby consent to the Extension and the other transactions contemplated by this Section 2.16 (including, for the avoidance of doubt, payment of any interest or fees in respect of any Extended Revolving Loan Commitments on such terms as may be set forth in the Extension Offer) and hereby waive the requirements of any provision of this Agreement (including, without limitation, Section 5.01, 5.02, 5.03, 13.02 or 13.06) or any other Credit Document that may otherwise prohibit the Extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.16.

  (d)	Each Extension shall be established pursuant to an amendment (each, an “Extension Amendment”) to this Agreement among the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and each Lender providing an Extended Revolving Loan Commitment thereunder (each, an “Extending Lender”), which shall be consistent with the provisions set forth in this Section 2.16 (but which shall not require the consent of any other Lender).  The effectiveness of any Extension Amendment shall be subject to the satisfaction (or waiver in accordance with such Extension Amendment) on the date thereof of each of the conditions set forth in Section 7 and, to the extent reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, receipt by the Administrative Agent of (i) legal opinions and officers’ certificates consistent with those delivered on the Effective Date under Section 6 and (ii) reaffirmation agreements and/or such amendments to the Credit Documents (including, without limitation, any Mortgage modifications and related date-down endorsements to the Mortgage Policies) as may be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent in order to ensure that the Extended Revolving Loan Commitments are provided with the benefit of the applicable Credit Documents.  Each of the parties hereto hereby agrees that this Agreement and the other Credit Documents may be amended pursuant to an Extension Amendment, without the consent of any other Lenders, as may be necessary or appropriate, in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent and the Company, to effect the provisions of this Section 2.16, and the Required Lenders hereby expressly authorize the Administrative Agent to enter into any such Extension Amendment.  The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender as to the effectiveness of each Extension Amendment.  Without limiting the foregoing, in connection with 

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  any Extensions the respective Credit Parties shall (at their expense) amend (and the Collateral Agent is hereby directed to amend) any Mortgage that has a maturity date prior to the then latest Maturity Date so that such maturity date is extended to the then latest Maturity Date (or such later date as may be advised by local counsel to the Collateral Agent).

  (e)	In connection with the Extension, the Company shall provide the Administrative Agent at least five Business Days’ (or such shorter period as may be agreed by the Administrative Agent) prior written notice thereof, and shall agree to such procedures (including, without limitation, rendering timing, rounding and other adjustments and to ensure reasonable administrative management of the credit facilities hereunder after such Extension), if any, as may be established by, or acceptable to, the Administrative Agent, in each case acting reasonably to accomplish the purposes of this Section 2.16.

  SECTION 3.  	Letters of Credit.  

  3.01	Letters of Credit.  (a) Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, (i) Letters of Credit may be issued on the Effective Date in order to backstop or replace existing letters of credit issued under facilities no longer available to the Borrowers as of the Effective Date and (ii) the Company (on behalf of the Borrowers) may request that an Issuing Lender issue, at any time and from time to time after the Effective Date and prior to the 30th day prior to the Final Maturity Date, for the joint and several account of the Borrowers and for the benefit of (A) any holder (or any trustee, agent or other similar representative for any such holders) of L/C Supportable Obligations, an irrevocable standby letter of credit, in a form customarily used by such Issuing Lender or in such other form as is reasonably acceptable to such Issuing Lender, and (B) sellers of goods to the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries, an irrevocable trade letter of credit, in a form customarily used by such Issuing Lender or in such other form as has been approved by such Issuing Lender (each such letter of credit, a “Letter of Credit” and, collectively, the “Letters of Credit”) (provided, that without limiting the joint and several nature of the Borrowers’ obligations in respect of the Letters of Credit, any particular Letter of Credit may name only one or more Borrowers as the account party therein).  All Letters of Credit shall be issued on a sight basis only.  The Borrowers, the other Credit Parties and the Lender hereby acknowledge and agree that all Existing Letters of Credit shall constitute Letters of Credit under this Agreement on and after the Effective Date with the same effect as if such Existing Letters of Credit were issued by Issuing Lender at the request of the Borrowers on the Effective Date.

  (b)	Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Issuing Lender agrees that it will, at any time and from time to time on and after the Effective Date and prior to the 30th day prior to the Final Maturity Date, following its receipt of the respective Letter of Credit Request, issue for the joint and several account of the Borrowers, one or more Letters of Credit; provided, that no Issuing Lender shall be under any obligation to issue any Letter of Credit if at the time of such issuance:

  (i)	any order, judgment or decree of any Governmental Authority shall purport by its terms to enjoin or restrain such Issuing Lender from issuing such Letter of Credit or any requirement of law applicable to such Issuing Lender or any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) from any Governmental Authority with jurisdiction over such Issuing Lender shall prohibit, or request that such Issuing Lender 

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  refrain from, the issuance of letters of credit generally or such Letter of Credit in particular or shall impose upon such Issuing Lender with respect to such Letter of Credit any restriction or reserve or capital requirement (for which such Issuing Lender is not otherwise compensated hereunder) not in effect with respect to such Issuing Lender on the date hereof, or any unreimbursed loss, cost or expense which was not applicable or in effect with respect to such Issuing Lender as of the date hereof and which such Issuing Lender reasonably and in good faith deems material to it; or

  (ii)	such Issuing Lender shall have received from such Borrower, any other Credit Party or the Required Lenders prior to the issuance of such Letter of Credit notice of the type described in the second sentence of Section 3.03(b).

  3.02	Maximum Letter of Credit Outstandings; Final Maturities.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, (a) no Letter of Credit shall be issued (or required to be issued) if the Stated Amount of such Letter of Credit, when added to the Letter of Credit Outstandings (exclusive of Unpaid Drawings which are repaid on the date of, and prior to the issuance of, the respective Letter of Credit) at such time would exceed the Maximum Letter of Credit Amount, (b) no Letter of Credit shall be issued (or required to be issued) at any time when the Aggregate Exposure exceeds (or would after giving effect to such issuance exceed) Availability at such time, (c) each Letter of Credit shall be denominated in Dollars, (d) each standby Letter of Credit shall by its terms terminate on or before the earlier of (i) the date which occurs 12 months after the date of the issuance thereof (although any such standby Letter of Credit may be extendible for successive periods of up to 12 months) and (ii) five Business Days prior to the Final Maturity Date unless, in the case of this clause (ii), cash collateralized on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Lender and (e) each trade Letter of Credit shall by its terms terminate on or before the earlier of (i) the date which occurs 180 days after the date of issuance thereof and (ii) five Business Days prior to the Final Maturity Date.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, if there are at any time multiple Final Maturity Dates then in effect, Letters of Credit will not be issued which extend beyond any applicable Final Maturity Date unless at the time of the issuance of each such Letter of Credit, that portion of the Total Revolving Loan Commitment which matures after the stated termination of all then outstanding Letters of Credit which mature after each earlier Final Maturity Date equals or exceeds the aggregate stated amounts thereof.

  3.03	Letter of Credit Requests; Minimum Stated Amount.  (a) Whenever the Borrowers desire that a Letter of Credit be issued for their account, the Company shall give the Administrative Agent and the respective Issuing Lender at least three Business Days’ (or such shorter period as is acceptable to such Issuing Lender) prior written notice thereof (including by way of facsimile).  Each notice shall be in the form of Exhibit C, appropriately completed (each, a “Letter of Credit Request”).

  (b)	The making of each Letter of Credit Request shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty by each Borrower to the Lenders that such Letter of Credit may be issued in accordance with, and will not violate the requirements of, Section 3.02.  Unless the respective Issuing Lender has received notice from any Borrower, any other Credit Party or the Required Lenders before it issues a Letter of Credit that one or more of the conditions specified in Section 6 or 7 are not then satisfied, or that the issuance of such Letter of Credit would violate 

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  Section 3.02, then such Issuing Lender shall, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, issue the requested Letter of Credit for the account of the Borrowers in accordance with such Issuing Lender’s usual and customary practices.  Upon the issuance of or modification or amendment to any standby Letter of Credit, each Issuing Lender shall promptly notify the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent, in writing of such issuance, modification or amendment and such notice shall be accompanied by a copy of such Letter of Credit or the respective modification or amendment thereto, as the case may be.  Promptly after receipt of such notice the Administrative Agent shall notify the Participants, in writing, of such issuance, modification or amendment.  On the first Business Day of each week, each Issuing Lender shall furnish the Administrative Agent with a written (including via facsimile) report of the daily aggregate outstandings of trade Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Lender for the immediately preceding week.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, in the event that a Lender Default exists with respect to a Lender, no Issuing Lender shall be required to issue, renew, extend or amend any Letter of Credit unless such Issuing Lender has entered into arrangements reasonably satisfactory to it to eliminate such Issuing Lender’s risk with respect to the participation in Letters of Credit by the Defaulting Lender (which arrangements are hereby consented to by the Lenders), including by cash collateralizing such Defaulting Lender’s or Defaulting Lenders’ RL Percentage of the Letter of Credit Outstandings with respect to such Letters of Credit (such arrangements, the “Letter of Credit Back-Stop Arrangements”).

  (c)	The initial Stated Amount of each Letter of Credit shall not be less than $50,000 or such lesser amount as is acceptable to the respective Issuing Lender.

  3.04	Letter of Credit Participations.  (a) Immediately upon the issuance by an Issuing Lender of any Letter of Credit, such Issuing Lender shall be deemed to have sold and transferred to each Lender, and each such Lender (in its capacity under this Section 3.04, a “Participant”) shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received from such Issuing Lender, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation, to the extent of such Participant’s RL Percentage, in such Letter of Credit, each drawing or payment made thereunder and the obligations of the Borrowers under this Agreement with respect thereto, and any security therefor or guaranty pertaining thereto.  Upon any change in the Revolving Loan Commitments or RL Percentages of the Lenders pursuant to Section 2.13 or 13.04(b), it is hereby agreed that, with respect to all outstanding Letters of Credit and Unpaid Drawings relating thereto, there shall be an automatic adjustment to the participations pursuant to this Section 3.04 to reflect the new RL Percentages of the assignor and assignee Lender, as the case may be.

  (b)	In determining whether to pay under any Letter of Credit, no Issuing Lender shall have any obligation relative to the other Lenders other than to confirm that any documents required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit appear to have been delivered and that they appear to substantially comply on their face with the requirements of such Letter of Credit.  Any action taken or omitted to be taken by an Issuing Lender under or in connection with any Letter of Credit issued by it shall not create for such Issuing Lender any resulting liability to any Borrower, any other Credit Party, any Lender or any other Person unless such action is taken or omitted to be taken with gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of such Issuing Lender (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable decision).

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  (c)	In the event that an Issuing Lender makes any payment under any Letter of Credit issued by it and the Borrowers shall not have reimbursed such amount in full to such Issuing Lender pursuant to Section 3.05(a), such Issuing Lender shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent, which shall promptly notify each Participant of such failure, and each Participant shall promptly and unconditionally pay to such Issuing Lender the amount of such Participant’s RL Percentage of such unreimbursed payment in Dollars and in same day funds.  If the Administrative Agent so notifies, prior to 2:00 P.M. (New York City time) on any Business Day, any Participant required to fund a payment under a Letter of Credit, such Participant shall make available to the respective Issuing Lender in Dollars such Participant’s RL Percentage of the amount of such payment on such Business Day in same day funds.  If and to the extent such Participant shall not have so made its RL Percentage of the amount of such payment available to the respective Issuing Lender, such Participant agrees to pay to such Issuing Lender, forthwith on demand such amount, together with interest thereon, for each day from such date until the date such amount is paid to such Issuing Lender at the overnight Federal Funds Effective Rate for the first three days and at the interest rate applicable to Loans that are maintained as Base Rate Loans for each day thereafter.  The failure of any Participant to make available to an Issuing Lender its RL Percentage of any payment under any Letter of Credit issued by such Issuing Lender shall not relieve any other Participant of its obligation hereunder to make available to such Issuing Lender its RL Percentage of any payment under any Letter of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no Participant shall be responsible for the failure of any other Participant to make available to such Issuing Lender such other Participant’s RL Percentage of any such payment.

  (d)	Whenever an Issuing Lender receives a payment of a reimbursement obligation as to which it has received any payments from the Participants pursuant to clause (c) above, such Issuing Lender shall pay to each such Participant which has paid its RL Percentage thereof, in Dollars and in same day funds, an amount equal to such Participant’s share (based upon the proportionate aggregate amount originally funded by such Participant to the aggregate amount funded by all Participants) of the principal amount of such reimbursement obligation and interest thereon accruing after the purchase of the respective participations.

  (e)	Upon the request of any Participant, each Issuing Lender shall furnish to such Participant copies of any standby Letter of Credit issued by it and such other documentation as may reasonably be requested by such Participant.

  (f)	The obligations of the Participants to make payments to each Issuing Lender with respect to Letters of Credit shall be irrevocable and not subject to any qualification or exception whatsoever and shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement under all circumstances, including, without limitation, any of the following circumstances:

  (g)	any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents;

  (h)	the existence of any claim, setoff, defense or other right which Parent or any of its Subsidiaries may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a Letter of Credit, any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee may be acting), the Administrative Agent, any Participant, or any other Person, whether in connection with this 

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  Agreement, any Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transactions (including any underlying transaction between Parent or any Subsidiary of Parent and the beneficiary named in any such Letter of Credit);

  (i)	any draft, certificate or any other document presented under any Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;

  (j)	the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of any of the terms of any of the Credit Documents; or

  (k)	the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default.

  3.05	Agreement to Repay Letter of Credit Drawings.  (a) Each Borrower hereby jointly and severally agrees to reimburse each Issuing Lender, by making payment to the Administrative Agent in Dollars in immediately available funds at the Payment Office, for any payment or disbursement made by such Issuing Lender under any Letter of Credit issued by it (each such amount, so paid until reimbursed by the Borrowers, an “Unpaid Drawing”), not later than one Business Day following receipt by the Company of notice of such payment or disbursement (provided, that no such notice shall be required to be given if a Default or an Event of Default under Section 11.01(e) shall have occurred and be continuing, in which case the Unpaid Drawing shall be due and payable immediately without presentment, demand, protest or notice of any kind (all of which are hereby waived by the Borrowers)), with interest on the amount so paid or disbursed by such Issuing Lender, to the extent not reimbursed prior to 12:00 P.M. (noon) (New York City time) on the date of such payment or disbursement from and including the date paid or disbursed to but excluding the date such Issuing Lender was reimbursed by the Borrowers therefor at a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate as in effect from time to time plus the Applicable Margin as in effect from time to time for Loans that are maintained as Base Rate Loans; provided, however, to the extent such amounts are not reimbursed prior to 12:00 P.M. (noon) (New York City time) on the third Business Day following the receipt by the Company of notice of such payment or disbursement or following the occurrence of a Default or an Event of Default under Section 11.01(e), interest shall thereafter accrue on the amounts so paid or disbursed by such Issuing Lender (and until reimbursed by the Borrowers) at a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate as in effect from time to time plus the Applicable Margin for Loans that are maintained as Base Rate Loans as in effect from time to time plus 2%, with such interest to be payable on demand.  Each Issuing Lender shall give the Company prompt written notice of each Drawing under any Letter of Credit issued by it; provided, that the failure to give any such notice shall in no way affect, impair or diminish the Borrowers’ obligations hereunder.

  (b)	The joint and several obligations of the Borrowers under this Section 3.05 to reimburse each Issuing Lender with respect to drafts, demands and other presentations for payment under Letters of Credit issued by it (each, a “Drawing”) (including, in each case, interest thereon) shall be absolute and unconditional under any and all circumstances and irrespective of any setoff, counterclaim or defense to payment which Parent or any Subsidiary of Parent may have or have had against any Lender (including in its capacity as an Issuing Lender or as a Participant), including, without limitation, any defense based upon the failure of any drawing under a Letter of Credit to conform to the terms of the Letter of Credit or any nonapplication or misapplication by 

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  the beneficiary of the proceeds of such Drawing; provided, however, that no Borrower shall be obligated to reimburse any Issuing Lender for any wrongful payment made by such Issuing Lender under a Letter of Credit issued by it as a result of acts or omissions constituting willful misconduct or gross negligence on the part of such Issuing Lender (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable decision).

  3.06	Increased Costs.  If at any time after the Effective Date, the introduction of or any change in any applicable law, rule, regulation, order, guideline or request or in the interpretation or administration thereof by the NAIC or any Governmental Authority charged with the interpretation or administration thereof, or compliance by any Issuing Lender or any Participant with any request or directive by the NAIC or by any such Governmental Authority (whether or not having the force of law), shall either (a) impose, modify or make applicable any reserve, deposit, capital adequacy or similar requirement against letters of credit issued by any Issuing Lender or participated in by any Participant, or (b) impose on any Issuing Lender or any Participant any other conditions relating, directly or indirectly, to this Agreement or any Letter of Credit; and the result of any of the foregoing is to increase the cost to any Issuing Lender or any Participant of issuing, maintaining or participating in any Letter of Credit, or reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by any Issuing Lender or any Participant hereunder or reduce the rate of return on its capital with respect to Letters of Credit (except for Indemnified Taxes and the imposition of, or any change in the rate of, any Excluded Tax payable by such Issuing Lender or Participant), then, upon the delivery of the certificate referred to below to the Company by any Issuing Lender or any Participant (a copy of which certificate shall be sent by such Issuing Lender or such Participant to the Administrative Agent), the Borrowers jointly and severally agree to pay to such Issuing Lender or such Participant such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Issuing Lender or such Participant for such increased cost or reduction in the amount receivable or reduction on the rate of return on its capital.  Any Issuing Lender or any Participant, upon determining that any additional amounts will be payable to it pursuant to this Section 3.06, will give prompt written notice thereof to the Company, which notice shall include a certificate submitted to the Company by such Issuing Lender or such Participant (a copy of which certificate shall be sent by such Issuing Lender or such Participant to the Administrative Agent), setting forth in reasonable detail the basis for the calculation of such additional amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Issuing Lender or such Participant.  The certificate required to be delivered pursuant to this Section 3.06 shall, absent manifest error, be final and conclusive and binding on the Borrowers.

  3.07	Extended Revolving Loan Commitments.  If the Initial Maturity Date shall have occurred at a time when Extended Revolving Loan Commitments are in effect, then such Letters of Credit shall automatically be deemed to have been issued (including for purposes of the obligations of the Lenders to purchase participations therein and to make payments in respect thereof pursuant to Sections 3.04 and 3.05) under (and ratably participated in by Lenders under the applicable tranche pursuant to) the Extended Revolving Loan Commitments up to an aggregate amount not to exceed the aggregate principal amount of the unutilized Extended Revolving Loan Commitments thereunder at such time (it being understood that no partial face amount of any Letter of Credit may be so reallocated).  Except to the extent of reallocations of participations pursuant to the prior sentence, the occurrence of the Initial Maturity Date shall have no effect upon (and shall not diminish) the percentage participations of the Lenders under the Revolving Loan Commitments in any Letter of Credit issued before the Initial Maturity Date.

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  3.08	Subrogation Rights; Letter of Credit Guaranty.

  (a)	Upon any payments made by Administrative Agent to an Issuing Lender under a Letter of Credit Guaranty, the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, shall acquire by subrogation, any rights, remedies, duties or obligations granted to or undertaken by the applicable Borrower to the Issuing Lender in any application for Letters of Credit, any standing agreement relating to Letters of Credit or otherwise, all of which shall be deemed to have been granted to Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, and apply in all respects to the Administrative Agent and shall be in addition to any rights, remedies, duties or obligations contained herein.

  (b)	Each Borrower hereby authorizes and directs any Issuing Lender which is not a Lender hereunder to deliver to the Administrative Agent all instruments, documents, and other writings and property received by such Issuing Lender pursuant to such Letter of Credit and to accept and rely upon the Administrative Agent’s instructions with respect to all matters arising in connection with such Letter of Credit and the related application.

  (c)	Any and all charges, commissions, out-of-pocket fees, and costs incurred by the Administrative Agent relating to Letters of Credit issued by an Issuing Lender which is not a Lender hereunder in reliance on a Letter of Credit Guaranty shall constitute Obligations for purposes of this Agreement and immediately shall be reimbursable by Borrowers to the Administrative Agent.

  SECTION 4.  	Commitment Commission; Fees; Reductions of Commitment.  

  4.01	Fees.  (a) The Borrowers jointly and severally agree to pay to the Administrative Agent for distribution to each Non-Defaulting Lender a commitment commission (the “Commitment Commission”) for the period from and including the Effective Date to and including the Final Maturity Date (or such earlier date on which the Total Revolving Loan Commitment has been terminated) computed at a rate per annum equal to the Applicable Commitment Commission Percentage of the Unutilized Revolving Loan Commitment of such Non-Defaulting Lender as in effect from time to time.  Accrued Commitment Commission shall be due and payable quarterly in arrears on each Quarterly Payment Date and on the date upon which the Total Revolving Loan Commitment is terminated.

  (b)	The Borrowers jointly and severally agree to pay to the Administrative Agent for distribution to each Lender (based on each such Lender’s respective RL Percentage) a fee in respect of each Letter of Credit (the “Letter of Credit Fee”) for the period from and including the date of issuance of such Letter of Credit to and including the date of termination or expiration of such Letter of Credit, computed at a rate per annum equal to the Applicable Margin as in effect from time to time during such period with respect to Revolving Loans that are maintained as LIBORTerm SOFR Loans on the daily Stated Amount of each such Letter of Credit.  Accrued Letter of Credit Fees shall be due and payable quarterly in arrears on each Quarterly Payment Date and on the first day on or after the termination of the Total Revolving Loan Commitment upon which no Letters of Credit remain outstanding.

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  (c)	The Borrowers jointly and severally agree to pay to each Issuing Lender, for its own account, a facing fee in respect of each Letter of Credit issued by it (the “Facing Fee”) for the period from and including the date of issuance of such Letter of Credit to and including the date of termination or expiration of such Letter of Credit, computed at a rate per annum equal to 1/8 of 1% on the daily Stated Amount of such Letter of Credit.  Accrued Facing Fees shall be due and payable quarterly in arrears on each Quarterly Payment Date and upon the first day on or after the termination of the Total Revolving Loan Commitment, upon which no Letters of Credit remain outstanding.

  (d)	The Borrowers jointly and severally agree to pay to each Issuing Lender, for its own account, upon each payment under, issuance of, or amendment to, any Letter of Credit issued by it, such amount as shall at the time of such event be the administrative charge and the reasonable expenses which such Issuing Lender is generally imposing in connection with such occurrence with respect to letters of credit.

  (e)	The Borrowers jointly and severally agree to pay to the Administrative Agent such fees as may have been, or are hereafter, agreed to in writing from time to time by Parent or any of its Subsidiaries and the Administrative Agent (including, without limitation, pursuant to the Fee Letter).

  4.02	Voluntary Termination of Unutilized Commitments.  (a) Upon at least three Business Days’ prior written notice to the Administrative Agent at the Notice Office (which notice the Administrative Agent shall promptly transmit to each of the Lenders), the Company shall have the right, at any time or from time to time, without premium or penalty, to terminate the Total Unutilized Revolving Loan Commitment in whole, or reduce it in part, pursuant to this Section 4.02(a), in an amount not less than $1,000,000 and an integral multiple of $500,000 in the case of partial reductions to the Total Unutilized Revolving Loan Commitment; provided, that (i) each such reduction shall apply proportionately to permanently reduce the Revolving Loan Commitment of each Lender and (ii) after giving effect to such termination (A) the aggregate amount of the Letter of Credit Outstandings shall not exceed the Maximum Letter of Credit Amount and (B) the aggregate principal amount of Swingline Loans then outstanding shall not exceed the Maximum Swingline Amount.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Company may, subject to Section 2.11, rescind any notice of termination pursuant to this Section 4.02(a) if such termination would have resulted from a refinancing which is not consummated or is otherwise delayed.

  (b)	In the event of refusal by a Lender to consent to proposed changes, waivers, discharges or terminations with respect to this Agreement which have been approved by the Required Lenders as (and to the extent) provided in Section 13.12(b), the Borrowers shall have the right, subject to obtaining the consents required by Section 13.12(b), upon five Business Days’ prior written notice by the Company to the Administrative Agent at the Notice Office (which notice the Administrative Agent shall promptly transmit to each of the Lenders), to terminate the entire Revolving Loan Commitment of such Lender, so long as (i) all Loans, together with accrued and unpaid interest, Fees and all other amounts then owing to such Lender (including all amounts, if any, owing pursuant to Section 2.11) are repaid concurrently with the effectiveness of such termination (at which time Schedule 1.01(a) shall be deemed modified to reflect such Revolving Loan Commitments) and (ii) such Lender’s RL Percentage of all outstanding Letters of Credit is 

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  cash collateralized in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the respective Issuing Lenders, and at such time such Lender shall no longer constitute a “Lender” for purposes of this Agreement, except with respect to indemnifications under this Agreement (including, without limitation, Sections 2.10, 2.11, 3.06, 5.04, 12.06, 13.01 and 13.06), which shall survive as to such repaid Lender.

  4.03	Mandatory Termination of Commitments.  The Total Revolving Loan Commitment (and the Revolving Loan Commitment of each Lender) shall terminate in its entirety upon the Final Maturity Date.

  SECTION 5.  	Prepayments; Payments; Taxes.  

  5.01	Voluntary Prepayments.  (a) The Borrowers shall have the right to prepay the Loans, without premium or penalty (other than reimbursement of Lenders’ costs in accordance with Section 2.11), in whole or in part at any time and from time to time on the following terms and conditions:  (i) the Company shall give the Administrative Agent prior to 12:00 P.M. (noon) (New York City time) at the Notice Office (A) at least one Business Day’s prior written notice (or telephonic notice promptly confirmed in writing) of the Borrowers’ intent to prepay Base Rate Loans (or same day notice in the case of a prepayment of Swingline Loans) and (B) at least three Business Days’ prior written notice (or telephonic notice promptly confirmed in writing) of the Borrowers’ intent to prepay LIBORTerm SOFR Loans, which notice (in each case) shall specify whether Revolving Loans or Swingline Loans shall be prepaid, the amount of such prepayment, the date of prepayment (which shall be a Business Day) and the Types of Loans to be prepaid and, in the case of LIBORTerm SOFR Loans, the specific Borrowing or Borrowings pursuant to which such LIBORTerm SOFR Loans were made, and which notice the Administrative Agent shall, except in the case of a prepayment of Swingline Loans, promptly transmit to each of the Lenders; (ii) (A) each partial prepayment of Revolving Loans pursuant to this Section 5.01(a) shall be in an aggregate principal amount of at least $250,000 (or such lesser amount as is acceptable to the Administrative Agent) and (B) each partial prepayment of Swingline Loans pursuant to this Section 5.01(a) shall be in an aggregate principal amount of at least $100,000 (or such lesser amount as is acceptable to the Administrative Agent in any given case); provided, that if any partial prepayment of LIBORTerm SOFR Loans made pursuant to any Borrowing shall reduce the outstanding principal amount of LIBORTerm SOFR Loans made pursuant to such Borrowing to an amount less than the Minimum Borrowing Amount applicable thereto, then such Borrowing may not be continued as a Borrowing of LIBORTerm SOFR Loans (and same shall automatically be converted into a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans) and any election of an Interest Period with respect thereto given by the Company shall have no force or effect; and (iii) each prepayment pursuant to this Section 5.01(a) in respect of any Revolving Loans made pursuant to a Borrowing shall be applied pro rata among such Revolving Loans; provided, that at the Company’s election in connection with any prepayment of Revolving Loans pursuant to this Section 5.01(a), such prepayment shall not, so long as no Default or Event of Default then exists, be applied to any Revolving Loan of a Defaulting Lender.

  (b)	In the event of refusal by a Lender to consent to proposed changes, waivers, discharges or terminations with respect to this Agreement which have been approved by the Required Lenders as (and to the extent) provided in Section 13.12(b), the Borrowers shall have the right, upon five Business Days’ prior written notice by the Company to the Administrative Agent 

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  at the Notice Office (which notice the Administrative Agent shall promptly transmit to each of the Lenders), to repay all Revolving Loans of such Lender, together with accrued and unpaid interest, Fees and all other amounts then owing to such Lender (including all amounts, if any, owing pursuant to Section 2.11) in accordance with, and subject to the requirements of Section 13.12(b), so long as in the case of the repayment of Revolving Loans of any Lender pursuant to this clause (b), (A) the Revolving Loan Commitment of such Lender is terminated concurrently with such repayment pursuant to Section 4.02(b) (at which time Schedule 1.01(a) shall be deemed modified to reflect the changed Revolving Loan Commitments) and (B) such Lender’s RL Percentage of all outstanding Letters of Credit is cash collateralized in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the respective Issuing Lenders.

  (c)	Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Company may, subject to Section 2.11, rescind any notice of prepayment pursuant to this Section 5.01 if such prepayment would have resulted from a refinancing which is not consummated or is otherwise delayed.

  5.02	Mandatory Repayments; Cash Collateralization.  (a) (i) On any day on which the Aggregate Exposure exceeds Availability (plus, during an Agent Advance Period, the principal amount of any then outstanding Agent Advances which have not remained outstanding beyond the period described in Section 2.01(e) and do not exceed 10% of the Borrowing Base as then in effect) at such time, then in each case, the Borrowers shall, and shall be jointly and severally obligated to, repay on such day the principal of Swingline Loans and, after all Swingline Loans have been repaid in full or if no Swingline Loans are outstanding, Revolving Loans in an amount equal to such excess.  If, after giving effect to the repayment of all outstanding Swingline Loans and Revolving Loans, the aggregate amount of the Letter of Credit Outstandings exceeds Availability at such time, then in each case, the Borrowers shall, and shall be jointly and severally obligated to, pay to the Administrative Agent at the Payment Office on such day an amount of cash and/or Cash Equivalents equal to the amount of such excess (up to a maximum amount equal to the Letter of Credit Outstandings at such time), such cash and/or Cash Equivalents to be held as security for all Obligations of the Borrowers to each applicable Issuing Lender and the Lenders hereunder in a cash collateral account to be established by, and under the sole dominion and control of, the Administrative Agent; provided, that, subject to compliance with the requirements set forth in Section 5.03, all such cash and/or Cash Equivalents paid to the Administrative Agent by the Borrowers as security in such cash collateral account shall be made available to the Borrowers promptly following the Company’s written request (in reasonable detail as to any requested funds transfer) delivered to the Administrative Agent, when (and then to the extent) the Aggregate Exposure no longer exceeds Availability.

  (ii)	On any day on which the aggregate amount of the Letter of Credit Outstandings exceeds the Maximum Letter of Credit Amount, the Borrowers shall, and shall be jointly and severally obligated to, pay to the Administrative Agent at the Payment Office on such day an amount of cash and/or Cash Equivalents equal to the amount of such excess, such cash and/or Cash Equivalents to be held as security for all Obligations of the Borrowers to each applicable Issuing Lender and the Lenders hereunder in a cash collateral account to be established by, and under the sole dominion and control of, the Administrative Agent; provided, that, subject to the compliance with the requirements set forth in Section 5.03, all such cash and/or Cash Equivalents paid to the Administrative Agent by the Borrowers as security in such cash collateral 

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  account shall be made available to the Borrowers promptly following the Company’s written request (in reasonable detail as to any requested funds transfer) delivered to the Administrative Agent, when (and then to the extent) the Letter of Credit Outstandings no longer exceed the Maximum Letter of Credit Amount.

  (iii)	On any day on which the aggregate principal amount of Swingline Loans then outstanding exceeds the Maximum Swingline Amount, the Borrowers shall, and shall be jointly and severally obligated to, repay on such day the principal of Swingline Loans in an amount equal to such excess.

  (iv)	If the Borrowers have Available Cash (after giving pro forma effect to any anticipated use of proceeds of such Available Cash within the next five (5) Business Days) as of the close of business on (x) the last Business Day of the first full fiscal week of Parent ending after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date, and (y) the last Business Day of each fiscal week of Parent ending thereafter (the “Determination Date”), the Borrowers shall, and shall be jointly and severally obligated to, repay the outstanding Revolving Loans under this Agreement no later than the fifth (5th) Business Day following the applicable Determination Date in an amount equal to the lesser of (i) the amount of such Available Cash and (ii) the aggregate principal amount of Revolving Loans then outstanding.

  (b)	With respect to each repayment of Loans required by this Section 5.02, the Company (on behalf of the Borrowers) may designate the Types of Loans which are to be repaid and, in the case of LIBORTerm SOFR Loans, the specific Borrowing or Borrowings pursuant to which such LIBORTerm SOFR Loans were made; provided, that:  (i) repayments of LIBORTerm SOFR Loans pursuant to this Section 5.02 made on a day other than the last day of an Interest Period applicable thereto shall be subject to Section 2.11; (ii) if any repayment of LIBORTerm SOFR Loans made pursuant to a single Borrowing shall reduce the outstanding LIBORTerm SOFR Loans made pursuant to such Borrowing to an amount less than the Minimum Borrowing Amount applicable thereto, such Borrowing shall be automatically converted into a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans; and (iii) each repayment of any Revolving Loans made pursuant to a Borrowing shall be applied pro rata among the Lenders holding such Revolving Loans.  In the absence of a designation by the Company as described in the preceding sentence, the Administrative Agent shall, subject to the above, apply such repayment first, to the then outstanding Borrowings of Base Rate Loans and second, at such time as there remain no outstanding Borrowings of Base Rate Loans, to LIBORTerm SOFR Loans in direct order of the maturities of the Interest Periods applicable thereto (or pro rata to such Borrowings with Interest Periods expiring on the same date).  For the avoidance of doubt, it is understood that all mandatory repayments made pursuant to Section 5.02(a) will be made without a corresponding reduction to the Total Revolving Loan Commitment.

  (c)	In addition to any other mandatory repayments pursuant to this Section 5.02, (i) all then outstanding Swingline Loans shall be repaid in full on the earlier of (A) the fifth Business Day following the date the incurrence of such Swingline Loans and (B) Swingline Expiry Date and (ii) all then outstanding Revolving Loans shall be repaid in full on the Final Maturity Date.

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  (d)	If any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender at any time that any Letter of Credit issued by any Issuing Lender is outstanding, the Borrowers shall, and shall be jointly and severally obligated to, enter into the applicable Letter of Credit Back-Stop Arrangements with such Issuing Lender no later than five Business Days after the date such Lender has become a Defaulting Lender.

  5.03	Method and Place of Payment.  (a) Except as otherwise specifically provided herein, all payments under this Agreement and under any Note shall be made to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lender or Lenders entitled thereto not later than 12:00 P.M. (noon) (New York City time) on the date when due and shall be made in Dollars in immediately available funds at the Payment Office.  Any amounts received after such time on any date may, in the discretion of the Administrative Agent, be deemed to have been received on the next succeeding Business Day for purposes of calculating interest thereon.  Whenever any payment to be made hereunder or under any Note shall be stated to be due on a day which is not a Business Day, the due date thereof shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day and, with respect to payments of principal, interest shall be payable at the applicable rate during such extension.

  (b)	The Borrowers and each other Credit Party shall, along with the Collateral Agent and certain financial institutions selected by the Company and reasonably approved by the Administrative Agent (the “Collection Banks”), enter into and thereafter maintain separate Control Agreements with respect to all Deposit Accounts (other than Excluded Deposit Accounts) of such Credit Parties (A) in the case of Deposit Accounts in existence on the Effective Date, on or prior to the 90th day following the Effective Date (as such date may be extended from time to time by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion), (B) [reserved], (C) in the case of any new Deposit Account, concurrently with the establishment thereof and (D) in the case of any existing Excluded Deposit Account into which the depositing of funds would result in such account ceasing to be an Excluded Deposit Account, prior to depositing any such funds.  The Borrowers shall also deliver to the Administrative Agent notifications in form reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent executed on behalf of such Borrower and addressed to such Borrower’s credit card clearinghouses and processors (each a “Credit Card Notification”) (A) in the case of the Borrower’s credit card clearinghouses and processors as the Effective Date, on or prior to the 30th day thereafter (as such date may be extended from time to time by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion), (B) [reserved] and (C) in the case of all other credit card clearinghouse and processor arrangements, concurrently with the establishment thereof.  Each Credit Party shall instruct all Account Debtors of the Credit Parties to remit all payments to the applicable “P.O. Boxes” or “Lockbox Addresses” of the applicable Collection Bank (or to remit such payments to the applicable Collection Bank by electronic settlement) with respect to all Accounts of such Account Debtor which remittances shall be collected by the applicable Collection Bank and deposited in the applicable Collection Account.  All amounts received by any Credit Party and any Collection Bank, in respect of any Account, in addition to all other cash received from any other source, shall upon receipt be deposited into a Collection Account or directly into a Concentration Account or, subject to the limitations in the definition of “Excluded Deposit Account”, an Excluded Deposit Account.

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  Collateral Agent and/or one or more other institutions reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent (each, a “Concentration Account”) unless such amounts are otherwise required or permitted to be applied pursuant to Section 5.02.  All of the Collection Accounts and Disbursement Accounts (other than Excluded Deposit Accounts) shall be “zero” balance accounts.  So long as no Dominion Period then exists, the Borrowers shall be permitted to transfer cash from the Concentration Accounts to the Disbursement Accounts to be used for working capital and general corporate purposes, all subject to the requirements of this Section 5.03(c) and pursuant to procedures and arrangements to be reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent.  If a Dominion Period exists, all collected amounts held in the Concentration Accounts shall be applied as provided in Section 5.03(d).

  (d)	Each Control Agreement relating to a Concentration Account shall (unless otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion) include provisions that allow, during any Dominion Period, for all collected amounts held in such Concentration Account from and after the date requested by the Administrative Agent, to be sent by ACH or wire transfer or similar electronic transfer no less frequently than once per Business Day to one or more accounts maintained with the Administrative Agent (each, a, “Administrative Agent’s Account”).  Subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement, all amounts received in an Administrative Agent’s Account shall be applied (and allocated) by the Administrative Agent (i) if the circumstances described in Section 11.03 are applicable, in accordance with such Section 11.03 and (ii) otherwise, on a daily basis in the following order (in each case, to the extent the Administrative Agent has actual knowledge of the amounts owing or outstanding as described below):  (A) first, to the payment (on a ratable basis) of any outstanding expenses actually due and payable to the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent under any of the Credit Documents and to repay or prepay outstanding Loans advanced by the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders pursuant to Sections 2.01(e) and 2.04(b); (B) second, to the extent all amounts referred to in preceding clause (A) have been paid in full, to pay (on a ratable basis) all outstanding expenses actually due and payable to each Issuing Lender under any of the Credit Documents and to repay all outstanding Unpaid Drawings and all interest thereon; (C) third, to the extent all amounts referred to in preceding clauses (A) and (B) have been paid in full, to pay (on a ratable basis) all accrued and unpaid interest actually due and payable on the Loans and all accrued and unpaid Fees actually due and payable to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lenders and the Lenders under any of the Credit Documents; (D) fourth, to the extent all amounts referred to in preceding clauses (A) through (C), inclusive, have been paid in full, to repay (on a ratable basis) the outstanding principal of Loans which are then due and payable; (E) fifth, to the extent all amounts referred to in preceding clauses (A) through (D), inclusive, have been paid in full, to pay (on a ratable basis) all other outstanding Obligations then due and payable to the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Lenders under any of the Credit Documents; (F) sixth, to the extent all amounts referred to in preceding clauses (A) through (E), inclusive, have been paid in full to repay (on a ratable basis) the outstanding principal of Loans which are not then due and payable; (G) seventh, to the extent all amounts referred to in preceding clauses (A) through (F), inclusive, have been paid in full, to pay an amount to the Administrative Agent equal to 105% of the Stated Amount of outstanding Letters of Credit on such date, to be held in a cash collateral account to be established by, and under the sole dominion and control of, the Administrative Agent; and (H) eighth, to the extent all amounts referred to in preceding clauses (A) through (G), inclusive, have been paid in full and so long as no Default under Section 11.01(a), (b) or (e) or any Event of Default then exists, to be returned to the Borrowers (as directed by the Company) for the Borrowers’ own account.

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  5.04	Taxes. 

  (a)	Payments Free of Taxes.  Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of any Credit Party under any Credit Document shall be made without deduction or withholding for any Taxes, except as required by applicable law.  If any applicable law (as determined in the good faith discretion of an applicable Withholding Agent) requires the deduction or withholding of any Tax from any such payment by a Withholding Agent, then the applicable Withholding Agent shall be entitled to make such deduction or withholding and shall timely pay the full amount deducted or withheld to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law and, if such Tax is an Indemnified Tax, then the sum payable by the applicable Credit Party shall be increased as necessary so that after such deduction or withholding has been made (including such deductions and withholdings applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 5.04) the applicable Recipient receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deduction or withholding been made.

  (b)	Payment of Other Taxes.  The Credit Parties shall timely pay to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law any Other Taxes, or at the option of the Administrative Agent timely reimburse it for the payment of any Other Tax.

  (c)	Indemnification by the Borrowers.  The Credit Parties shall, without duplication of Section 5.04(a) or (b) above, jointly and severally indemnify each Recipient, within 10 days after demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section 5.04) payable or paid by such Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to such Recipient and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority.  A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrowers by a Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

  (d)	Indemnification by the Lenders.  Each Lender shall severally indemnify the Administrative Agent, within 10 days after demand therefor, for (i) any Indemnified Taxes attributable to such Lender (but only to the extent that any Credit Party has not already indemnified the Administrative Agent for such Indemnified Taxes and without limiting the obligation of the Credit Parties to do so), (ii) any Taxes attributable to such Lender’s failure to comply with the provisions of Section 13.04 relating to the maintenance of a Participant Register and (iii) any Excluded Taxes attributable to such Lender, in each case, that are payable or paid by the Administrative Agent in connection with any Credit Document, and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority.  A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to any Lender by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error.  Each Lender hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender under any Credit Document or otherwise payable by the Administrative Agent to the Lender from any other source against any amount due to the Administrative Agent under this clause (d).

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  (e)	Evidence of Payments.  As soon as reasonably practicable after any payment of Taxes by any Credit Party to a Governmental Authority pursuant to this Section 5.04, such Credit Party shall deliver to the Administrative Agent the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

  (f)	Status of Lenders.  (i) Any Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding Tax with respect to payments made under any Credit Document shall deliver to the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent, at the time or times reasonably requested by the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation reasonably requested by the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate of withholding.  In addition, any Lender, if reasonably requested by the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by applicable law or reasonably requested by the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent as will enable the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent to determine whether or not such Lender is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding two sentences, the completion, execution and submission of such documentation (other than such documentation set forth in clauses (ii)(A), (ii)(B) and (ii)(D) below) shall not be required if (A) a change in treaty, law or regulation has occurred prior to the date on which such delivery would otherwise be required that renders any such form or certificate inapplicable or would prevent the Lender from duly completing and delivering any such form or certificate with respect to it and such Lender so advises the Borrowers and (B) in the Lender’s reasonable judgment such completion, execution or submission would subject such Lender to any material unreimbursed cost or expense or would materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Lender.

  (ii)	Without limiting the generality of the foregoing,

  (A)	any Lender that is a U.S. Person shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent (in such number of copies as shall be reasonably requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent) duly completed and executed originals of IRS Form W-9 certifying that such Lender is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding tax;

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

  (1)	in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party (x) with respect to payments of interest under any Credit Document, duly 

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  completed and executed originals of IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “interest” article of such tax treaty and (y) with respect to any other applicable payments under any Credit Document, duly completed and executed originals of IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “business profits” or “other income” article of such tax treaty;

  (2)	duly completed and executed originals of IRS Form W-8ECI with respect to such Foreign Lender;

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

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

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

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  the Administrative Agent to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made; and

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

  (E)	each Agent that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding tax with respect to any payment under this Agreement made by any Borrower to such Agent under the law of the jurisdiction in which such Borrower is located shall deliver to the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent, as applicable, (in such number of copies as shall be reasonably requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Agent becomes an Agent under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the request of the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent, as applicable), any such properly completed and executed documentation prescribed by applicable law and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent as may permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate of withholding tax.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Agent that is a U.S. Person shall deliver to the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent (or, in the case of an Administrative Agent, the Borrowers) (in such number of copies as shall be reasonably requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Agent becomes an Agent under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the request of the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent, as applicable) duly completed and executed originals of IRS Form W-9 (or successor form) certifying that such Agent is exempt from United States federal backup withholding tax and such other documentation as will enable the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent, as applicable, to determine whether or not such Agent is subject to United States federal backup withholding tax or information reporting requirements.

  Each Lender and Agent agrees that if any form or certification it previously delivered expires or becomes obsolete or inaccurate in any respect, it shall promptly (1) update such form or certification or (2) notify the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent in writing of its legal inability to do so.  Each Lender shall promptly (x) notify the Borrowers and the 

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  Administrative Agent of any change in circumstances which would modify or render invalid any claimed exemption or reduction, and (y) take such steps as shall not be disadvantageous to it, in the sole reasonable judgment of such Lender, and as may be reasonably necessary to avoid any requirement of applicable laws of any jurisdiction that the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent make any withholding or deduction for Taxes from amounts payable to such Lender.

  (g)	Treatment of Certain Refunds.  If any party determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, that it has received a refund of any Taxes as to which it has been indemnified pursuant to this Section 5.04 (including by the payment of additional amounts pursuant to this Section 5.04) it shall pay to the indemnifying party an amount equal to such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, under this Section 5.04 with respect to the Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses (including Taxes) incurred by such indemnified party and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund).  Such indemnifying party, upon the request of such indemnified party, shall repay to such indemnified party the amount paid over pursuant to this clause (g) (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) in the event that such indemnified party is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this clause (g), in no event will the indemnified party be required to pay any amount to an indemnifying party pursuant to this clause (g) the payment of which would place the indemnified party in a less favorable net after-Tax position than the indemnified party would have been in if the Tax subject to indemnification and giving rise to such refund had not been deducted, withheld or otherwise imposed and the indemnification payments or additional amounts with respect to such Tax had never been paid.  This clause (g) shall not be construed to require any indemnified party to make available its Tax returns (or any other information relating to its Taxes that it deems confidential) to the indemnifying party or any other Person.

  (h)	Survival.  Each party’s obligations under this Section 5.04 shall survive the resignation or replacement of the Administrative Agent or any assignment of rights by, or the replacement of, a Lender, the termination of the Revolving Loan Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all obligations under any Credit Document.

  SECTION 6.  	Conditions Precedent to Credit Events on the Effective Date.  The occurrence of the Effective Date and the obligation of each Lender to make Loans, and the obligation of each Issuing Lender to issue Letters of Credit, on the Effective Date, are subject at the time of the making of such Loans or the issuance of such Letters of Credit to the satisfaction or waiver (in accordance with Section 13.12) of the following conditions:

  6.01	Effective Date; Notes.  On or prior to the Effective Date, (a) this Agreement shall have been executed and delivered as provided in Section 13.10 and (b) there shall have been delivered to the Administrative Agent for the account of each of the Lenders that has requested same in writing, the appropriate Revolving Notes executed by the Borrowers and if requested by the Swingline Lender, the appropriate Swingline Notes executed by the Borrowers, in each case, in the amount, maturity and as otherwise provided herein.

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  Authorized Officer of the Company, certifying on behalf of the Borrowers, that all of the conditions in Sections 6.07, 6.12, 6.15, 6.16, 7.01 and 7.03 have been (or will be concurrently with the funding of the Existing Term Loans and any Loans on the Effective Date) satisfied on such date.

  6.03	Opinion of Counsel.  On the Effective Date, the Administrative Agent shall have received from Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, special counsel to the Credit Parties, an opinion addressed to the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Lenders and dated the Effective Date in form reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent.

  6.04	Company Documents; Proceedings; etc.  (a) On the Effective Date, the Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate from each Credit Party, dated the Effective Date, signed by an Authorized Officer of such Credit Party, and attested to by the secretary or any assistant secretary of such Credit Party, in the form of Exhibit E with appropriate insertions, together with certified copies of the certificate or articles of incorporation and by-laws (or other equivalent organizational documents), as applicable, of such Credit Party and the resolutions of such Credit Party referred to in such certificate, and each of the foregoing shall be in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent.

  (b)	On or prior to the Effective Date, the Administrative Agent shall have received all records of Company proceedings, good standing certificates and bring down letters, if any, which the Administrative Agent reasonably may have requested, such documents and papers where appropriate to be certified by proper Company or Governmental Authorities.

  6.05	Reserved.

  6.06	Financial Statements; Pro Forma Balance Sheet; Projections.  The Joint Lead Arrangers shall have received the Annual Financial Statements, the Quarterly Financial Statements and the Pro Forma Financial Statements. 

  6.07	Consummation of the Equity Contribution and Acquisition.  On the Effective Date and substantially concurrently with the incurrence of the Existing Term Loans and any Loans, (a) the Equity Contribution shall have been consummated, and (b) the Acquisition shall have been consummated in accordance with the terms of the Purchase Agreement; there shall have been no modifications or waivers of, or consents under the Purchase Agreement which are materially adverse to the interests of the Lenders without the consent of the Joint Lead Arrangers (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed); it is hereby understood and agreed that (i) any modification, amendment, or waiver to the definition of Material Adverse Effect (as defined in the Purchase Agreement as in effect on the Effective Date) and (ii) any reduction in the Acquisition Consideration shall, in each case, be deemed to be materially adverse to the interests of the Lenders, unless, in the case of clause (ii), such reduction of the purchase price (A) does not exceed 20% of the original consideration and (B) is applied as follows: (1) 25% to reduce the Equity Contribution and (2) 75% to reduce the amount of the Existing Term Loan to be funded under the Existing Term Loan Credit Agreement on the Effective Date.

  6.08	Reserved.

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  6.09	Fees, etc.  On the Effective Date, the Company shall have paid to the Administrative Agent (and its relevant affiliates), the Collateral Agent and the Joint Lead Arrangers all costs, fees and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable and documented legal fees and expenses) and other compensation contemplated hereby payable to the Administrative Agent (and/or its relevant affiliates), the Collateral Agent or any Joint Lead Arranger to the extent presented for payment at least three Business Days prior to the Effective Date and for which reasonably detailed invoices have been provided. 

  6.10	Intercreditor Agreement.  On the Effective Date, each Credit Party, the Collateral Agent (for and on behalf of the Secured Creditors) and the Existing Term Loan Agent (for and on behalf of the Existing Term Loan Secured Creditors) shall have duly authorized, executed and delivered the Intercreditor Agreement (as amended, restated, amended and restated, modified and/or supplemented prior to the Fourth Amendment Effective Date, the “Initial Intercreditor Agreement”).

  6.11	Security Agreements.  On the Effective Date, each Credit Party shall have duly authorized, executed and delivered (a) the Security Agreement in the form of Exhibit F (as amended, restated, amended and restated, modified and/or supplemented from time to time, the “Security Agreement”) covering all of such Credit Party’s Security Agreement Collateral, (b) to the extent applicable, the Copyright Security Agreement for filing with the United States Copyright Office, (c) to the extent applicable, the Patent Security Agreement for filing with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and (d) to the extent applicable, the Trademark Security Agreement for filing with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, together with:

  (i)	proper financing statements (Form UCC-1 or the equivalent) for filing under the UCC or other appropriate filing offices of each jurisdiction as may be necessary or, in the reasonable opinion of the Collateral Agent, desirable, to perfect the security interests purported to be created by the foregoing Security Documents;

  (ii)	(A) any certificates representing Pledged Interests (as defined in the Security Agreement), together with executed and undated endorsements of transfer and (B) any promissory notes endorsed in blank; provided, that 100% of the total outstanding non-voting stock and not more than 65% of the total outstanding voting stock in or of any Excluded Subsidiary of the type referred to in clauses (c) and (d) of the definition thereof shall be pledged or similarly hypothecated to guarantee or support any Loan;

  (iii)	reports as of a recent date listing all effective financing statements that name Parent or any of its domestic Subsidiaries as debtor and that are filed in the jurisdictions referred to in clause (i) above, none of which shall evidence any Lien other than (A) Permitted Liens or (B) Liens in respect of which the Collateral Agent shall have received satisfactory termination or other release documentation; and

  (iv)	evidence of the completion of all other recordings and filings of, or with respect to, each such Security Document as may be necessary or, in the reasonable opinion of the Collateral Agent, desirable, to perfect and protect the security interests intended to be created by each such Security Document;

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  and each such Security Document shall be in full force and effect; provided, that (A) to the extent any security interest under a Security Document (other than any Collateral the security interest in which may be perfected by the filing of a UCC financing statement or the delivery or possession of certified securities) is not perfected on the Effective Date (1) due to undue burden or expense or (2) after the Borrowers have used commercially reasonable efforts to do so, such perfection shall not be a condition to Borrowing on the Effective Date, and (B) any such unperfected security shall be perfected promptly after the Effective Date, and in no event later than 90 days after the Effective Date or such later date as the Administrative Agent may agree pursuant to Section 13.23.

  6.12	Existing Term Loan Agreement; Other Indebtedness.  

  (a)	On the Effective Date, the Administrative Agent shall have received a true and correct copy of the Existing Term Loan Credit Agreement, which shall be in full force and effect.

  (b)	On the Effective Date, after giving effect to the Transaction, Parent, the Company and its Subsidiaries shall have outstanding no Indebtedness for borrowed money or Preferred Equity other than (i) the Existing Term Loans (not to exceed $400,000,000) and (ii) the Loans.

  (c)	The Administrative Agent shall have received reasonably satisfactory pay off letters for all existing Indebtedness to be repaid from the proceeds of the initial Borrowing, confirming that all Liens upon any of the property of the Credit Parties constituting Collateral will be terminated concurrently with such payment and all letters of credit issued or guaranteed as part of such Indebtedness shall have been cash collateralized or supported by a Letter of Credit.

  (d)	The Administrative Agent shall have received a “pay-off” letter (or other documentation of termination or unwinding) in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent with respect to all Existing Credit Documents, and the Administrative Agent shall have received, or been given reasonable assurance of receiving contemporaneous with the closing, from any person holding any Lien securing any such Existing Credit Documents, such UCC (or equivalent) termination statements, mortgage releases, releases of assignments of leases and rents, releases of security interests in intellectual property and other instruments, in each case in proper form for recording or filing, as the Administrative Agent shall have reasonably requested to release and terminate of record the Liens securing such Existing Credit Documents.

  6.13	Solvency Certificate; Insurance Certificates.  On the Effective Date, the Administrative Agent shall have received:

  (a)	a solvency certificate from the chief financial officer (or other officer with reasonably equivalent duties) of the Company in the form of Exhibit G; and

  (b)	certificates of insurance and related policy endorsements, each in form reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent complying with the requirements of Section 9.03 for the business and properties of the Company and its Subsidiaries and naming the Collateral Agent as an additional insured and/or as loss payee, as applicable.

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  6.14	Patriot Act.  The Administrative Agent shall have received at least five days prior to the Effective Date (or such shorter period as may be agreed to by the Administrative Agent) all documentation and other information about Parent and the other Credit Parties required under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the Patriot Act that has been requested by the Administrative Agent at least 10 days prior to the Effective Date.

  6.15	No Company Material Adverse Effect.  Since March 30, 2015, there have not have occurred a Company Material Adverse Effect.

  6.16	Purchase Agreement Representations and Specified Representations.  The Purchase Agreement Representations and the Specified Representations shall be true and correct in all material respects (it being understood and agreed that (a) any representation or warranty which by its terms is made as of a specified date shall be required to be true and correct in all material respects only as of such specified date and (b) any representation or warranty that is qualified as to “materiality,” “Material Adverse Effect” or similar language shall be true and correct in all respects).

  In determining the satisfaction of the conditions specified in this Section 6, to the extent any item is required to be satisfactory to any Lender or the Administrative Agent, such item shall be deemed satisfactory to each Lender which has not notified the Administrative Agent in writing prior to the occurrence of the Effective Date that the respective item or matter does not meet its satisfaction.

  SECTION 7.  	Conditions Precedent to All Credit Events.  The obligation of each Lender to make Loans (including Loans made on the Effective Date), and the obligation of each Issuing Lender to issue Letters of Credit (including Letters of Credit issued on the Effective Date), are subject, at the time of each such Credit Event (except as hereinafter indicated), to the satisfaction of the following conditions:

  7.01	No Default; Representations and Warranties.  Immediately prior to such Borrowing and also immediately after giving effect thereto (a) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and (b) all representations and warranties contained herein and in the other Credit Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects with the same effect as though such representations and warranties had been made on the date of such Borrowing (it being understood and agreed that (i) any representation or warranty which by its terms is made as of a specified date shall be required to be true and correct in all material respects only as of such specified date and (ii) any representation or warranty that is qualified as to “materiality,” “Material Adverse Effect” or similar language shall be true and correct in all respects on such date); provided, that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, (A) preceding clause (b) shall not apply to Borrowings on the Effective Date and (B) the only representations relating to Parent, the Company and its Subsidiaries and their businesses the truth and correctness of which shall be conditions to the borrowing of Loans on the Effective Date, shall be as provided in Section 6.16.

  7.02	Notice of Borrowing; Letter of Credit Request.  (a) Prior to the making of each Loan (other than a Swingline Loan or a Revolving Loan made pursuant to a Mandatory Borrowing), the Administrative Agent shall have received a Notice of Borrowing meeting the requirements of Section 2.03(a); it being understood and agreed that, with respect to the initial 

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  Loan made hereunder, the Administrative Agent shall have also received, concurrently with the delivery of a Notice of Borrowing, an initial Borrowing Base Certificate meeting the requirements of Section 9.01(f).  Prior to the making of each Swingline Loan, the Swingline Lender shall have received the notice referred to in Section 2.03(b)(i).

  (b)	Prior to the issuance of each Letter of Credit, the Administrative Agent and the respective Issuing Lender shall have received a Letter of Credit Request meeting the requirements of Section 3.03(a).

  7.03	Borrowing Base Limitations.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein (but subject to Section 2.01(e)), it shall be a condition precedent to each Credit Event that after giving effect thereto (and the use of the proceeds thereof):

  (a)	the Aggregate Exposure would not exceed 100% (or, during an Agent Advance Period, 110% to the extent the excess above 100% is attributable to one or more Agent Advances) of the Borrowing Base at such time; and

  (b)	the Aggregate Exposure at such time would not exceed the Total Revolving Loan Commitment at such time.

  7.04	Borrower Status.  Other than in connection with a Borrower Release pursuant to Section 13.22, no Borrower shall have revoked, limited or otherwise modified, or shall have purported to revoke, limit or otherwise modify the authority of the Company to act on its behalf as provided in Section 2.14.

  7.05	Available Cash Threshold.  After giving effect to each Borrowing (and pro forma effect to any anticipated use of such proceeds within the next five (5) Business Days), Borrower shall not have Available Cash in excess of the Available Cash Threshold.

  The acceptance of the benefits of the Credit Events shall constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrowers to the Administrative Agent and each of the Lenders that all the conditions specified in Sections 6.07, 6.12, 6.15 and 6.16 (with respect to the occurrence of the Effective Date and Credit Events on the Effective Date) and in this Section 7 (with respect to the occurrence of the Effective Date and Credit Events on or after the Effective Date) and applicable to such Credit Event are satisfied as of that time.  All of the Notes, certificates, legal opinions and other documents and papers referred to in Section 6 and in this Section 7, unless otherwise specified, shall be delivered to the Administrative Agent at the Notice Office.

  SECTION 8.  	Representations, Warranties and Agreements.  In order to induce the Lenders to enter into this Agreement and to make the Loans, and issue (or participate in) the Letters of Credit as provided herein, each of Parent, the Company and each of its Subsidiaries makes the following representations, warranties and agreements, in each case after giving effect to the Transaction and the Transaction 2020, all of which shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the Notes and the making of the Loans and the issuance of the Letters of Credit, on the Effective Date and each Credit Event on or after the Effective Date being deemed to constitute a representation and warranty that the matters specified in this Section 8 are true and correct in all material respects and on the date of each such Credit Event (it being understood and agreed that (a) any representation or warranty which by its terms is made as of a specified date 

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  shall be required to be true and correct in all material respects only as of such specified date and (b) any representation or warranty that is qualified by “materiality”, “Material Adverse Effect” or similar language shall be true and correct in all respects):

  8.01	Company Status.  Parent, the Company and each of its Subsidiaries (a) is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, (b) has all requisite power and authority to own its property and assets and to transact the business in which it is engaged and (c) is duly qualified and is authorized to do business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction where the ownership, leasing or operation of its property or the conduct of its business requires such qualifications except for failures to be so qualified or authorized which, either individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

  8.02	Power and Authority.  Each Credit Party has the Organization power and authority to execute, deliver and perform the terms and provisions of each of the Credit Documents to which it is party and has taken all necessary Organization action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance by it of each of such Credit Documents.  Each Credit Party has duly executed and delivered each of the Credit Documents to which it is party, and each such Credit Document constitutes its legal, valid and binding obligation enforceable in accordance with its terms, except to the extent that the enforceability thereof may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws generally affecting creditors’ rights and by equitable principles (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in equity or at law).

  8.03	No Violation.  Neither the consummation of the Transaction, the consummation of the Transaction 2020, nor the execution, delivery or performance by any Credit Party of the Credit Documents to which it is a party, nor compliance by it with the terms and provisions thereof, (a) will contravene any provision of any law, statute, rule or regulation or any order, writ, injunction or decree of any court or Governmental Authority, (b) will conflict with or result in any breach of any of the terms, covenants, conditions or provisions of, or constitute a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of (or the obligation to create or impose) any Lien (except Permitted Liens) upon any of the property or assets of any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to the terms of any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, credit agreement or loan agreement, or any other agreement, contract or instrument to which any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which it or any of its property or assets is bound or (c) will violate any provision of the certificate or articles of incorporation, certificate of formation, limited liability company agreement or by-laws (or equivalent organizational documents), as applicable, of any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries, except with respect to any violation or conflict referred to in clauses (a) and (b) to the extent that such violation or conflict could not reasonably be expected to have individually or in the aggregate a Material Adverse Effect.

  8.04	Approvals.  No order, consent, approval, license, authorization or validation of, or filing, recording or registration with (except for (a) those that have otherwise been obtained or made on or prior to the Effective Date and which remain in full force and effect on the Effective Date and (b) filings which are necessary to perfect the security interests created or intended to be created under the Security Documents), or exemption by, any Governmental Authority or third party is required to be obtained or made by, or on behalf of, any Credit Party to authorize, or is required to be obtained or made by, or on behalf of, any Credit Party in connection with, (i) the 

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  execution, delivery and performance of any Credit Document or (ii) the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability of any such Credit Document which in the case of clauses (i) and (ii), if not obtained, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

  8.05	Financial Statements; Financial Condition; Projections.  

  (a)	The Annual Financial Statements, the Quarterly Financial Statements and the Monthly Financial Statements fairly present in all material respects the consolidated financial condition of Parent and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of the dates thereof and their results of operations for the period covered thereby in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the periods covered thereby, (A) except as otherwise expressly noted therein and (B) subject, in the case of the Quarterly Financial Statements, to changes resulting from normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes.

  (b)	[Reserved].

  (c)	[Reserved].

  (d)	(i) After giving effect to the Transaction 2020, since February 1, 2020, nothing has occurred that has had, or could reasonably be expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

  8.06	Litigation.  There are no actions, suits or proceedings pending or, to the knowledge of Parent and the Company, threatened (a) with respect to the Transaction, the Transaction 2020 or any Credit Document or (b) that has had, or could reasonably be expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

  8.07	True and Complete Disclosure.  All factual information (taken as a whole) furnished by or on behalf of Parent or the Company in writing to the Administrative Agent (including, without limitation, information contained in the Credit Documents) for purposes of or in connection with this Agreement is true and accurate in all material respects as of the date furnished and does not fail to state any material fact necessary to make such information (taken as a whole) not materially misleading at such time in light of the circumstances under which such information was provided, it being understood and agreed that for purposes of this Section 8.07, such factual information shall not include the Projections, any pro forma financial information or other forward-looking information or information relating generally to the economy or the industry in which Parent and its Subsidiaries operate.

  8.08	Use of Proceeds; Margin Regulations.  (a)(i) All proceeds of the Loans will be used by the Borrowers for lawful corporate purposes including, but not limited to, financing, in part, the Transaction and paying Transaction Costs, in each case, on the Effective Date (in an aggregate principal amount, subject to Availability, not to exceed $10,000,000), debt refinancing, acquisitions and distributions and dividends (in each case, to the extent permitted under this Agreement); provided, that the proceeds of Swingline Loans shall not be used to refinance then outstanding Swingline Loans, and (ii) Letters of Credit will be used for lawful corporate purposes, excluding support of payment obligations with respect to Indebtedness for borrowed money.

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  (b)	No part of the proceeds of any Credit Event will be used to purchase or carry any Margin Stock or to extend credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any Margin Stock.  Neither the making of any Loan, nor the issuance of any Letter of Credit, nor the use of the proceeds thereof will violate or be inconsistent with the provisions of Regulation T, U or X.

  8.09	Tax Returns and Payments.  Except as would not reasonably be expected to have, either individually, or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, (a) there are no ongoing actions, suits, proceedings, investigations, audits. proposed or pending tax assessments, deficiencies or claims, to the best knowledge of Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, being asserted by any Governmental Authority regarding any Taxes relating to Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; (b) each of Parent, the Company or each of its Subsidiaries has paid or caused to be paid all Taxes and assessments payable by it which have become due, other than those that are being contested in good faith and for which Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (as the case may be) has adequately disclosed and fully provided for on its financial statements in accordance with GAAP; (c) as of the Effective Date, (i) neither Parent, the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has entered into a written agreement or waiver or been requested in writing to enter into an agreement or waiver extending any statute of limitations relating to the payment or collection of Taxes of Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and (ii), to the best knowledge of Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, the taxable years or other taxable periods of Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries are subject to the normally applicable statute of limitations; and (d) each of Parent, the Company and each of its Subsidiaries has timely filed or caused to be timely filed with the appropriate taxing authority all returns, statements, forms and reports for Taxes (the “Returns”) required to be filed by, or with respect to the income, properties, or operations of, it.  Except as would not reasonably be expected to have, either individually, or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, each such Return accurately reflects all liability for Taxes of Parent, the Company and its Subsidiaries, as applicable, for the periods covered thereby.

  8.10	Compliance with ERISA.  (a) None of Parent, the Company, any Subsidiary of the Company or any ERISA Affiliate maintains or contributes to (or is obligated to contribute to) any Plan, or has within five calendar years immediately preceding the date this assurance is given, maintained or contributed to (or been obligated to contribute to) any Plan.  No ERISA Event has occurred, or is reasonably expected to occur, other than as would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect.

  (b)	None of Parent, the Company, any Subsidiary of the Company or any ERISA Affiliate is making or accruing an obligation to make any contributions, or has within any of the five calendar years immediately preceding the date this assurance is given, made or accrued an obligation to make contributions to any Multiemployer Plan.

  (c)	Except as would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (i) each Foreign Pension Plan has been maintained in compliance with its terms and with the requirements of any and all applicable laws, statutes, rules, regulations and orders and has been maintained, where required, in good standing with applicable regulatory authorities, except as would not reasonably be expected to result in a material liability; (ii) all contributions required to be made with respect to a Foreign Pension Plan have been timely made, and (iii) neither Parent 

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  nor any of its Subsidiaries has incurred any obligation in connection with the termination of, or withdrawal from, any Foreign Pension Plan.

  8.11	Security Documents.  The provisions of the Security Agreement are effective to create in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors a legal and valid security interest in all right, title and interest of the Credit Parties in all of the Security Agreement Collateral, and the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Creditors, has (or upon the filing of financing statements and intellectual property filings, entry into of Control Agreements and the taking of possession by the Collateral Agent (or its agent, bailee or designee, including the Collateral Agent under the Priming Term Loan Agreement in accordance with the ABL Intercreditor Agreement) of the Security Agreement Collateral with respect to which a security interest may be perfected only by possession will have) (x) a First Priority (subject to the ABL Intercreditor Agreement) perfected security interest in all right, title and interest in all of the Security Agreement Collateral described therein that is ABL Facility Priority Collateral and (y) a Second Priority (subject to the ABL Intercreditor Agreement) perfected security interest in all right, title and interest in all of the Security Agreement Collateral described therein that is Term Loan Priority Collateral (in each case, except for Excluded Deposit Accounts and Securities Accounts over which Control Agreements are not required pursuant to Section 5.03(b) or 10.12, or for Collateral for which possession or control is required for perfection and such possession or control is not otherwise required by the Security Agreement), subject to no other Liens other than Permitted Liens (it being understood that the Permitted Liens described in Section 10.01(d) are subject to the terms of the ABL Intercreditor Agreement and the Permitted Liens described in Section 10.01(g) are subject to the ABL Intercreditor Agreement and the Subordination Agreement, as applicable).  The recordation of (a) the Grant of Security Interest in U.S. Patents and (b) the Grant of Security Interest in U.S. Trademarks in the respective forms attached to the Security Agreement, in each case in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, together with filings on Form UCC-1 made pursuant to the Security Agreement, will create, as may be perfected by such filings and recordation, a perfected security interest in the United States trademarks and patents covered by the Security Agreement, and the recordation of the Grant of Security Interest in U.S. Copyrights in the form attached to the Security Agreement with the United States Copyright Office, will create, as may be perfected by such filings and recordation, a perfected security interest in the United States copyrights covered by the Security Agreement.

  8.12	Properties.  All Real Property owned or leased by Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries as of the Effective Date, and the nature of the interest therein, is correctly set forth in Schedule 8.12.  Each of Parent, the Company and each of its Subsidiaries has good and marketable title to all material property owned by such entity free and clear of all Liens, other than Permitted Liens, except such property (other than Real Property required to be subject to a Mortgage) where the failure to have such title could not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.  Each of Parent, the Company and each of its Subsidiaries have a valid leasehold interest in the material properties leased by it free and clear of all Liens other than Permitted Liens, except where the failure to have such valid, free and clear interest could not reasonably be expected to have individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

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  subject to blocking pursuant to Section 1 of Executive Order 13224 of September 23, 2001 Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten to Commit, or Support Terrorism (66 Fed. Reg. 49079 (2001)), (b) does knowingly engage in any dealings or transactions prohibited by Section 2 of such executive order, or otherwise knowingly associate with any such person in any manner violative of Section 2, and (c) is a Person on the list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons published by OFAC on June 24, 2003, as updated from time to time, or the subject of the limitations or prohibitions under any other OFAC regulation or executive order.

  8.14	Patriot Act/FCPA.  Parent, the Company and their respective Subsidiaries are in compliance with the Patriot Act.  No part of the proceeds of the Loans will be used, directly or indirectly, in violation of the laws of the United States or other jurisdiction, for any payments to any governmental official or employee, political party, official of a political party, candidate for political office, or anyone else acting in an official capacity, in order to obtain, retain or direct business or obtain any improper advantage, in violation of the FCPA.

  8.15	Compliance with Statutes.  Each of Parent, the Company and each of its Subsidiaries is in compliance with all applicable statutes, regulations and orders of, and all applicable restrictions imposed by, all Governmental Authorities in respect of the conduct of its business and the ownership of its property (including, without limitation applicable statutes, regulations, orders and restrictions relating to environmental standards and controls), except such non-compliances as could not, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

  8.16	Investment Company Act.  No Credit Party nor any of its Subsidiaries is an “investment company” or a company “controlled” by an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

  8.17	Environmental Matters.  (a) Each of Parent, the Company and each of its Subsidiaries is in compliance with all applicable Environmental Laws and the requirements of any permits issued under such Environmental Laws; there are no pending or, to the knowledge of Parent and the Company, threatened Environmental Claims against Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any Real Property owned, leased or operated by Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (including any such claim arising out of the ownership, lease or operation by Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of any Real Property formerly owned, leased or operated by Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries but no longer owned, leased or operated by Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries); there are no facts, circumstances, conditions or occurrences with respect to the business or operations of Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or any Real Property owned, leased or operated by Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (including, to the knowledge of Parent and the Company, any Real Property formerly owned, leased or operated by Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries but no longer owned, leased or operated by Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries) or, to the knowledge of Parent and the Company, any property adjoining or adjacent to any such Real Property that could be reasonably expected (i) to form the basis of an Environmental Claim against Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any Real Property owned, leased or operated by Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (ii) to cause any Real Property owned, leased or operated by Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to be subject to any restrictions on the ownership, 

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  lease, occupancy or transferability of such Real Property by Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries under any applicable Environmental Law.

  (b)	Hazardous Materials have not at any time been generated, used, treated or stored on, or transported to or from, or Released on or from, any Real Property currently owned, leased or operated by Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of Parent and the Company, any Real Property formerly owned, leased or operated by Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or property adjoining or adjacent to any Real Property, where such generation, use, treatment, storage, transportation or Release has violated any applicable Environmental Law or could reasonably be expected to give rise to an Environmental Claim.

  (c)	Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 8.17, the representations and warranties made in Section 8.17(a) and (b) shall be untrue only if the effect of any or all conditions, violations, claims, restrictions, failures and noncompliances of the types described above could, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

  8.18	Employment and Labor Relations.  Neither Parent, the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is engaged in any unfair labor practice that could reasonably be expected, either individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect.  There is (a) no unfair labor practice complaint pending against Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of Parent and the Company, threatened against any of them, before the National Labor Relations Board, and no grievance or arbitration proceeding arising out of or under any collective bargaining agreement is so pending against Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of Parent and the Company, threatened against any of them, (b) no strike, labor dispute, slowdown or stoppage pending against Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of Parent and the Company, threatened against Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (c) no equal employment opportunity charges or other claims of employment discrimination are pending or, to the knowledge of Parent and the Company, threatened against Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and (d) no wage and hour department investigation has been made of Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, except (with respect to any matter specified in clauses (a) through (d) above, either individually or in the aggregate) such as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

  8.19	Intellectual Property, Etc.  Each of Parent, the Company and each of its Subsidiaries owns or has the right to use all the patents, trademarks, domain names, service marks, trade names, copyrights, inventions, trade secrets, proprietary information and know-how of any type, whether or not written (including, but not limited to, rights in computer programs and databases) and formulas, or rights with respect to the foregoing, and has obtained all necessary licenses for the use of any of the foregoing used in the present conduct of its business, without any known conflict with the rights of others which, or the failure to own or have which, as the case may be, could reasonably be expected, either individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect.

  8.20	Insurance.  Schedule 8.20 sets forth a listing of all insurance maintained by Parent, the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the Effective Date, with the amounts insured (and any deductibles) set forth therein.

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  8.21	Borrowing Base Calculation.  Each calculation by the Borrowers of the Borrowing Base as shown in any Borrowing Base Certificate and the valuation thereunder is complete and accurate in all material respects.

  SECTION 9.  	Affirmative Covenants.  Each of Parent, the Company and each of its Subsidiaries hereby covenants and agrees that on and after the Effective Date and until the Total Revolving Loan Commitment has been terminated and all Letters of Credit have been terminated (unless fully cash collateralized in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Lenders), and the Loans, Notes and Unpaid Drawings (in each case together with interest thereon), Fees and all other Obligations (other than indemnities described in Section 13.13 and reimbursement obligations under Section 13.01 which are, in either case, not then due and payable), are paid in full:

  9.01	Information Covenants.  The Borrowers will furnish to the Administrative Agent for delivery to each Lender:

  (a)	Quarterly Financial Statements.  Within 45 days after the close of each of the first three Fiscal Quarters in each Fiscal Year of the Borrowers, or, in the case of the first Fiscal Quarter ending after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date, within 60 days after the close of such Fiscal Quarter, commencing with the Fiscal Quarter ending on or about October 31, 2020, (i) the consolidated balance sheet of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries as at the end of such Fiscal Quarter and the related consolidated statements of income and retained earnings and statement of cash flows for such Fiscal Quarter and for the elapsed portion of the Fiscal Year ended with the last day of such Fiscal Quarter, in each case, setting forth comparative figures for the corresponding Fiscal Quarter in the prior Fiscal Year, all of which shall be certified by the chief financial officer or principal accounting officer of the Company as fairly presenting in all material respects in accordance with GAAP the consolidated financial condition of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries as of the dates indicated and the consolidated results of their operations for the periods indicated, subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes, and (ii) management’s discussion and analysis of the important operational and financial developments during such Fiscal Quarter.

  (b)	Annual Financial Statements.  Within 120 days after the close of each Fiscal Year of the Borrowers, commencing with the Fiscal Year ended on January 30, 2016, (i) the consolidated balance sheet of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries as at the end of such Fiscal Year and the related consolidated statements of income and retained earnings and statement of cash flows for such Fiscal Year setting forth comparative figures for the preceding Fiscal Year and certified by PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP or other independent certified public accountants of recognized national standing reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, accompanied by an opinion of such accounting firm (which opinion, beginning with the Fiscal Year ended January 29, 2022, shall be without a “going concern” or like qualification or exception and without any qualification or exception as to scope of audit, other than Permitted Audit Opinion Qualifications), and (ii) management’s discussion and analysis of the important operational and financial developments during such Fiscal Year.

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  consolidated balance sheet of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries as at the end of such Fiscal Month and the related consolidated statements of income and retained earnings and statement of cash flows for such Fiscal Month and for the elapsed portion of the Fiscal Year ended with the last day of such Fiscal Month, in each case setting forth comparative figures for the corresponding Fiscal Month in the prior Fiscal Year, all of which shall be certified by the chief financial officer or principal accounting officer of the Company as fairly presenting in all material respects in accordance with GAAP the consolidated financial condition of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries as of the dates indicated and the consolidated results of their operations for the periods indicated, subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes; provided, that such information required by this clause (c) shall only be required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent for distribution to the private-side Lenders.

  In the event that (A) Parent is not engaged in any business or activity, and does not own any assets or have other liabilities, other than those incidental to its ownership directly or indirectly of the Equity Interests of Parent (and, without limitation on the foregoing, does not have any subsidiaries other than the Company and the Company’s Subsidiaries or (B) in connection with any reporting requirements described in clauses (a), (b) and (c) of this Section 9.01, the Borrowers deliver consolidating financial information that explains, at a level of detail reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, the differences between the information relating to Parent, on the one hand, and the information relating to the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries on a standalone basis, on the other hand, then such consolidated reporting at Parent in a manner consistent with that described in clauses (a), (b) and (c) of this Section 9.01 for the Borrowers will satisfy the requirements of such clauses.

  (d)	Budgets.  No later than the 90th day of each Fiscal Year of the Borrowers (beginning with its Fiscal Year ended closest to January 31, 2016), a budget in form and detail reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (including budgeted statements of income, cash flow statement and balance sheets for the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis) for such Fiscal Year setting forth, with appropriate discussion, the principal assumptions upon which such budget is based.

  (e)	Officer’s Certificates.  At the time of the delivery of the financial statements provided for in Sections 9.01(a), (b) or (c), a compliance certificate from an Authorized Officer of the Company in the form of Exhibit H certifying on behalf of the Company that, to such officer’s knowledge, no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or, if any Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, specifying the nature and extent thereof, which certificate shall, in the case of financial statements provided for in Sections 9.01(a) or (b), set forth in reasonable detail the calculations required to establish whether the Borrowers were (or would have been) in compliance with (1) the provisions of Section 10.11 at the end of such Fiscal Year or Fiscal Quarter, as the case may be (setting forth, for the purposes of such certificate, calculations of the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for the Test Period ended on the last day of such fiscal period irrespective of whether a Financial Covenant Compliance Period exists at such time) and (2) the provisions of Section 9.01(h) at the end of such Fiscal Year or Fiscal Quarter.

  (f)	Borrowing Base Certificate.  (i) Unless clause (ii) below applies, not later than (A) so long no Monthly Reporting Period is in effect, 5:00 P.M. (New York City time) on or before the 15th day after the close of each Fiscal Quarter, or (B) during any period in which a Monthly 

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  Reporting Period is in effect, 5:00 P.M. (New York City time) on or before the 20th day of each Fiscal Month thereafter, (ii) during any period in which a Dominion Period is in effect, not later than 5:00 P.M. (New York City time) on or before Friday of each week with respect to the business week ended the previous Saturday, (iii) [reserved] and (iv) at the time of the consummation of any Asset Sale involving ABL Facility Priority Collateral, a borrowing base certificate setting forth the Borrowing Base (in each case with supporting calculations in reasonable detail) substantially in the form of Exhibit M (each, a “Borrowing Base Certificate”), which shall be (A) prepared as of the last Business Day of the preceding Fiscal Month in the case of each Borrowing Base Certificate delivered after the Effective Date pursuant to clause (i)(B) above (or, if (x) any such Borrowing Base Certificate is delivered pursuant to clause (i)(A) above, as of the last Business Day of the preceding Fiscal Quarter or (y) any such Borrowing Base Certificate is delivered more frequently than monthly, as of the last Business Day of the week preceding such delivery), (B) in the case of preceding clause (iv), prepared as of the date most recently required above, but on a Pro Forma Basis for any relevant events described in clause (iv) above and (C) accompanied by the supporting documentation required in connection therewith as set forth on Schedule 9.01(f).  Each such Borrowing Base Certificate shall include such supporting information as may be reasonably requested from time to time by the Administrative Agent.  In addition to the delivery of a Borrowing Base Certificate provided for in this Sections 9.01(f), the Borrowers shall provide an updated spreadsheet including information on the leased locations, such locations’ designation as “approved but not papered locations”, “unapproved and passive locations”, “unapproved and resistant locations” and “approved and papered locations”, related rent information and such other information as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request for purposes of determining the Past-Due Rent Reserves.  

  (g)	Notice of Dominion Period or Financial Covenant Compliance Period.  Promptly, and in any event within two Business Days after any officer of Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries obtains knowledge thereof, notice of the commencement of a Dominion Period or a Financial Covenant Compliance Period.

  (h)	Field Examinations; Appraisals.  As of the Fourth Amendment Effective Date, the Administrative Agent may request (i) an appraisal of the Inventory of the Borrowers (an “Appraisal”) or (ii) a collateral examination of the Inventory and Accounts and related accounts of the Borrowers (a “Field Exam”), in each case, in scope, and from a third-party appraiser and a third-party consultant, respectively, reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Company and at the sole cost and expense of the Borrowers, and the results of such appraisal and collateral examination shall be in form, scope and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.  The Administrative Agent may request any such Appraisal or Field Exam as frequently as set forth in the table below, based on the most recent calculation of the applicable levels as set forth in the compliance certificates delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 9.01(e):  

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	Field Exam requests per 12-month period following the Fourth Amendment Effective Date
	Appraisal requests per 12-month period following the Fourth Amendment Effective Date

	Level 1:
For the 12-month period following the Fourth Amendment Effective Date; or, at any time thereafter, if the Borrowers fail to achieve Level 2 or Level 3 based on the most recently delivered compliance certificate. 
	2
	3

	Level 2:
After the one-year anniversary of the Fourth Amendment Effective Date, if (1) Excess Availability taken as an average over the preceding 6-month period is greater than 50% of the Total Revolving Loan Commitment and (2) the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for the most recent Test Period is greater than or equal to 1.05:1.00; provided, that Level 3 does not apply.
	1
	2

	Level 3: 
After the one-year anniversary of the Fourth Amendment Effective Date, if (1) Excess Availability taken as an average over the preceding 12-month period is greater than 75% of the Total Revolving Loan Commitment and (2) the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for the most recent Test Period is greater than or equal to 1.10:1.00
	1
	1

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  provided that, at any time that any Default or Event of Default exists, Administrative Agent may request a Field Exam or an Appraisal at any time without limitation, at the sole cost and expense of the Borrowers, and such Field Exams and Appraisals will not be counted against the permitted number of requests in the table above. 

  (i)	Other Reporting.  Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, in each case, as soon as available, but in any event no later than five Business Days after the end of each Fiscal Month of the Borrowers or such longer time period as the Administrative Agent may agree:  (i) an Inventory report with respect to the Borrowers by type, 

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  location and department as of the last day of such Fiscal Month (and including the amounts of Inventory and value thereof at any leased locations and at premises of warehouses, consignees, processors or other third parties); (ii) a detailed aged trial balance for such period and a detailed summary of all Accounts indicating which Accounts are thirty, sixty and ninety days past due and listing the names of all Account Debtors, accompanied by such supporting detail and documentation as shall be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent; (iii) a detailed listing and a detailed summary of the Borrowers’ accounts payable in form and scope reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, in each case accompanied by such supporting detail and documentation as shall be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent (and with all of the foregoing reports and information to be in form and scope reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent); and (iv) the most recently available monthly management report consistent with the form of monthly management reports provided to the Administrative Agent prior to the Effective Date.  In addition, upon the request of the Administrative Agent (regardless of whether an Event of Default is in existence), the Company shall furnish the Administrative Agent, as soon as available, but in any event no later than 10 Business Days after the respective request or such longer time period as the Administrative Agent may agree, reports as described in the preceding sentence for the Fiscal Month most recently ended (to the extent not already delivered to the Administrative Agent).  For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in clause (iv) hereof shall be deemed a requirement to deliver monthly management reports prior to the date such reports are required to be delivered pursuant to clause (c) of this Section 9.01.

  (j)	Notice of Default; Litigation and Material Adverse Effect.  Promptly, and in any event within five Business Days after any officer of Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries obtains knowledge thereof, notice of (i) the occurrence of any event which constitutes a Default or an Event of Default, (ii) any litigation or governmental investigation or proceeding pending against Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries which, either individually or in the aggregate, has had, or could reasonably be expected to have, a Material Adverse Effect or (iii) any other event, change or circumstance that has had, or could reasonably be expected to have, a Material Adverse Effect.

  (k)	Other Reports and Filings.  Promptly after the filing or delivery thereof, copies of all financial information, proxy materials and reports, if any, which Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries publicly filed with the SEC.

  (l)	Cancellation of Insurance.  Promptly (but in any event within five Business Days of receipt thereof) inform the Administrative Agent if any Credit Party receives notice of cancellation of any insurance policy required to be maintained pursuant to Section 9.03.

  (m)	Environmental Matters.  Promptly after any officer of Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries obtains knowledge thereof, notice of one or more of the following environmental matters to the extent that such environmental matters, either individually or when aggregated with all other such environmental matters, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect:

  (i)	any pending or threatened Environmental Claim against Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any Real Property owned, leased or operated by Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries;

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  (ii)	any condition or occurrence on or arising from any Real Property owned, leased or operated by Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that (A) results in noncompliance by Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries with any applicable Environmental Law or (B) could reasonably be expected to form the basis of an Environmental Claim against Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any such Real Property;

  (iii)	any condition or occurrence on any Real Property owned, leased or operated by Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that could reasonably be expected to cause such Real Property to be subject to any restrictions on the ownership, lease, occupancy, use or transferability by Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of such Real Property under any Environmental Law; and

  (iv)	taking of any removal or remedial action in response to the actual or alleged presence of any Hazardous Material on any Real Property owned, leased or operated by Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries as required by any Environmental Law or any governmental or other administrative agency; provided, that in any event the Company shall deliver to the Administrative Agent all notices received by Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries from any government or governmental agency under, or pursuant to, CERCLA which identify Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries as potentially responsible parties for remediation costs or which otherwise notify Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of potential liability under CERCLA.

  All such notices shall describe in reasonable detail the nature of the claim, investigation, condition, occurrence or removal or remedial action and Parent’s, the Company’s or such Subsidiary’s response thereto.

  (n)	Material Real Property.  Promptly upon, and in any event within 10 Business Days after, Parent or any other Credit Party acquires any fee interest in Real Property the fair market value of which is equal to or greater than $2,000,000, notice of such acquisition, together with the Company’s good faith determination of the fair market value thereof.

  (o)	Priming Term Loan Information; Subordinated Loan Information.	All written reports required to be delivered to (i) the Priming Term Loan Agent and/or lenders under the Priming Term Loan Agreement and (ii) the Subordinated Facility Agent and/or lenders under the Subordinated Facility Credit Agreement; provided, that such information required by this clause (o) shall only be required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent for distribution to the private-side Lenders.

  (p)	Other Information.  From time to time, such other information or documents (financial or otherwise) with respect to Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request.

  9.02	Books, Records and Inspections; Quarterly Conference Calls.  (a) Parent and the Company will, and will cause each of the Company’s Subsidiaries to, keep proper books of record and accounts in which true and correct entries in conformity with GAAP and all requirements of law shall be made.  Parent and the Company will, and will cause each of the 

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  Company’s Subsidiaries to, permit officers and designated representatives of the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent (i) to visit and inspect, under guidance of officers of Parent, the Company or such Subsidiary, any of the properties of Parent, the Company or such Subsidiary and (ii) to examine the books of account of Parent, the Company or such Subsidiary and discuss the affairs, finances and accounts of Parent, the Company or such Subsidiary with, and be advised as to the same by, its and their officers and independent accountants, all upon reasonable prior notice and at such reasonable times (during normal business hours) and intervals and to such reasonable extent as the Administrative Agent or any such other Agent may reasonably request; provided, that so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, no more than one such visitation and inspection referred to in preceding clause (i) may occur in any Fiscal Year; provided, further, that, in no event shall Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries be required pursuant to the terms of this Section 9.02 to allow any Person to inspect or examine, or be required to discuss, any records, documents or other information (A) with respect to which Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has obligations of confidentiality that would be violated as a result thereof (whether pursuant to law, contract or otherwise) (it being understood that Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall, following a reasonable request from the Administrative Agent or a Lender, (1) use commercially reasonable efforts to request consent from the applicable contractual counterparty to disclose such information (but shall not be required to incur any cost or expense or pay any consideration of any type to such party in order to obtain such consent) and (2) permit the Administrative Agent or the respective Lender at its option, to enter into a confidentiality agreement if same will allow it access to such information) or (B) that is subject to attorney-client privilege.  Any Lender may accompany the Administrative Agent on any such inspection.

  (b)	At the request of the Administrative Agent, within 10 days following the date of the delivery of the quarterly and annual financial information pursuant to Sections 9.01(a) and (b), the Borrowers will hold a conference call or teleconference, at a time selected by the Company and reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, with all of the Lenders that choose to participate, to review the financial results of the previous Fiscal Year or Fiscal Quarter, as the case may be, and the financial condition of Parent and its Subsidiaries and the budgets presented for the current Fiscal Year or Fiscal Quarter, as the case may be, of Parent and its Subsidiaries if applicable.

  9.03	Maintenance of Property; Insurance.  (a) Parent and the Company will, and will cause each of the Company’s Subsidiaries to, (i) keep all property necessary to the business of Parent, the Company and its Subsidiaries in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted and subject to the occurrence of casualty events, (ii) maintain with financially sound and reputable insurance companies insurance on all such property and against all such risks as is consistent and in accordance with industry practice for companies similarly situated owning similar properties and engaged in similar businesses as Parent, the Company and its Subsidiaries, and (iii) furnish to the Administrative Agent, upon its request therefor, information as to the insurance carried.  Such insurance shall include physical damage insurance on all material real and tangible personal property (whether now owned or hereafter acquired) on an all risk basis and business interruption insurance.

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  maintained pursuant to the preceding clause (a) and as an additional insured on liability policies maintained pursuant to the preceding clause (a).

  (c)	If at any time any portion of a Mortgaged Property is located in an area identified as a special flood hazard area by the Federal Emergency Management Agency or any successor thereto or other applicable agency, the Borrowers or the relevant Credit Party, as applicable, shall keep and maintain at all times flood insurance in an amount sufficient to comply with the rules and regulations promulgated under the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 and Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, each as amended from time to time.

  (d)	If Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall fail to maintain insurance in accordance with this Section 9.03, or if Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall fail to so endorse all policies or certificates with respect thereto, the Administrative Agent shall have the right (but shall be under no obligation) to procure such insurance and Parent, the Company and each of its Subsidiaries jointly and severally agree to reimburse the Administrative Agent for all costs and expenses of procuring such insurance.

  9.04	Existence; Franchises.  Parent and the Company will, and will cause each of the Company’s Subsidiaries to, do or cause to be done, all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its existence and its rights (charter and statutory), franchises, licenses, permits, copyrights, trademarks, patents and approvals; provided, however, that nothing in this Section 9.04 shall prevent (a) sales of assets and other transactions by Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in accordance with Section 10.02 or (b) the withdrawal or lapse by Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of its qualification as a foreign Organization in any jurisdiction or the failure to preserve or keep in full force and effect any other right, license, franchise, intellectual property or approval if such withdrawal, lapse or failure could not, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

  9.05	Compliance with Statutes, etc.  Parent and the Company will, and will cause each of the Company’s Subsidiaries to, comply with all applicable statutes, regulations and orders of, and all applicable restrictions imposed by, all Governmental Authorities in respect of the conduct of its business and the ownership of its property (including, without limitation, FCPA, OFAC (including sanctions administered and enforced thereunder) applicable statutes, regulations, orders and restrictions relating to environmental standards and controls), except such non-compliances as could not, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

  9.06	Compliance with Environmental Laws.  

  (a)	Parent and the Company will comply, and will cause each of the Company’s Subsidiaries to comply, with all Environmental Laws and permits applicable to, or required by, the ownership, lease or use of its Real Property now or hereafter owned, leased or operated by Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and will promptly pay or cause to be paid all costs and expenses incurred in connection with such compliance, and will keep or cause to be kept all such Real Property free and clear of any Liens imposed pursuant to such Environmental Laws other than Permitted Liens, in each case except such noncompliances and non-payments as could 

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  not, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

  (b)	(i) After the receipt by the Administrative Agent or any Lender of any notice of the type described in Section 9.01(m), (ii) at any time that Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries are not in compliance with Section 9.06(a) or (iii) in the event that the Administrative Agent or the Lenders have exercised any of the remedies pursuant to the last paragraph of Section 11.01, Parent and the Company will (in each case) provide, at the sole expense of Parent, the Company and its Subsidiaries, upon the reasonable request of the Administrative Agent, an environmental site assessment report concerning any relevant Real Property owned, leased or operated by Parent or any of its Subsidiaries, prepared by an environmental consulting firm reasonably approved by the Administrative Agent, indicating the presence or absence of Hazardous Materials and the potential cost of any removal or remedial action in connection with such Hazardous Materials on such Real Property.  If Parent and the Company fail to provide the same within 30 days after such request was made, the Administrative Agent may order the same, the cost of which shall be borne by Parent, the Company and its Subsidiaries, and Parent, the Company and its Subsidiaries shall grant and hereby grant to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and their respective agents access to such Real Property and specifically grant the Administrative Agent and the Lenders an irrevocable non-exclusive license, subject to the rights of tenants, to undertake such an assessment at any reasonable time upon reasonable notice to Parent or the Company, all at the sole expense of Parent, the Company and its Subsidiaries.

  9.07	ERISA.  Parent and the Company shall supply to the Administrative Agent:

  (a)	promptly and in any event within 30 days after Parent, any Subsidiary of Parent or any ERISA Affiliate receives any notice from a Multiemployer Plan sponsor concerning an ERISA Event, a copy of such notice;

  (b)	promptly and in any event within 30 days after Parent, the Company, any Subsidiary of Company or any ERISA Affiliate knows of the occurrence of any ERISA Event, a certificate of the chief financial officer of the Company describing such ERISA Event, what action Parent, the Company, any Subsidiary of the Company or any ERISA Affiliate has taken, is taking or proposes to take with respect to such ERISA Event and a copy of any notice filed with the PBGC or the IRS pertaining to such ERISA Event and any notices received by Parent, the Company, any Subsidiary of the Company or any ERISA Affiliate from the PBGC or any other governmental agency with respect thereto; provided, that in the case of ERISA Events under clause (b) of the definition thereof, in no event shall notice be given later than five Business Days following the occurrence of the ERISA Event; and

  (c)	promptly, and in any event within 30 days, after becoming aware that there has been (i) a material increase in Unfunded Pension Liabilities (taking into account only Plans with positive Unfunded Pension Liabilities) since the date the representations hereunder are given or from any prior notice, as applicable; (ii) the adoption of, or the commencement of contributions to, any Plan subject to Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA by Parent, the Company, any Subsidiary of the Company or any ERISA Affiliate; or (iii) the adoption of any amendment to a Plan subject to Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA which results in a material increase in contribution obligations of Parent, the 

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  Company, any  Subsidiary of the Company or any ERISA Affiliate, a detailed written description thereof from the chief financial officer of the Company.

  9.08	End of Fiscal Years; Fiscal Quarters.  Other than as reasonably agreed to by the Administrative Agent, Parent and the Company will cause (a) its and each of its Subsidiaries’ Fiscal Years to end on a date specified for such Fiscal Year end in the definition of “Fiscal Year” and (b) its and each of its Subsidiaries’ Fiscal Quarters to end on a date specified for such Fiscal Quarter end in the definition of “Fiscal Quarter”; provided, that any Acquired Entity or Business may have a different fiscal year and fiscal quarter ends for a period not exceeding 270 days following the acquisition thereof.

  9.09	[Reserved].  

  9.10	Payment of Taxes.  Parent and the Company will pay and discharge, and will cause each of the Company’s Subsidiaries to pay and discharge, all material Taxes, assessments and governmental charges or levies imposed upon it or upon its income or profits or upon any properties belonging to it, prior to the date on which penalties attach thereto, and all material lawful claims which, if unpaid, might become a Lien or charge upon any material properties of Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries not otherwise permitted under Section 10.01(a); provided, that neither Parent, the Company nor any of the Company’s Subsidiaries shall be required to pay or discharge any such Tax, assessment, charge, levy or claim which is being contested in good faith and by proper proceedings if it has maintained adequate reserves with respect thereto in accordance with GAAP.

  9.11	Use of Proceeds.  The Borrowers will use the proceeds of the Loans only as provided in Section 8.08.

  9.12	Additional Security; Further Assurances; etc.  (a) Subject to clause (e) of this Section 9.12, Parent and the Company will, and will cause each of the Company’s Subsidiaries to, grant to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors, at the expense of the Borrowers, security interests and Mortgages (not to exceed 110% of the Fair Market Value of the Real Property being mortgaged) in the assets and Real Property of Parent, the Company and such other  Subsidiary as are not covered by the original Security Documents, as may be reasonably requested from time to time by the Administrative Agent (or otherwise required at such time pursuant to the Intercreditor Agreements) (collectively, the “Additional Security Documents”).  All such security interests and Mortgages shall be granted pursuant to documentation reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Administrative Agent and shall constitute valid and enforceable (i) First Priority (subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreements) perfected security interests, hypothecations and Mortgages with respect to ABL Facility Priority Collateral and (ii) Second Priority (subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreements) perfected security interests, hypothecations and Mortgages with respect to Term Loan Priority Collateral.  The Additional Security Documents or instruments related thereto shall, at the expense of the Borrowers, be duly recorded or filed in such manner and in such places as are required by law to establish, perfect, preserve and protect the Liens in favor of the Collateral Agent required to be granted pursuant to the Additional Security Documents and all taxes, fees and other charges payable in connection therewith shall be paid in full.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Section 9.12(a) shall not apply to (and Parent, the Company and its Subsidiaries shall not be required to 

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  grant a security interest or Mortgage in) (A) any owned Real Property the Fair Market Value of which is less than $2,000,000 or any Leasehold unless, in either case, a Mortgage is granted (or required to be granted) in respect of such Real Property pursuant to the terms of the Priming Term Loan Documents or the documents governing any secured Indebtedness incurred or issued in reliance on Section 10.04(r), (B) any motor vehicles, (C) [reserved] or (D) any other assets expressly excluded from Security Agreement Collateral or any other Collateral under any of the Security Documents, including any Excluded Assets (as defined in the Security Agreement).

  (b)	Subject to clause (e) of this Section 9.12, Parent and the Company will, and will cause each of the Company’s Subsidiaries to, at the expense of Parent and the Company, make, execute, endorse, acknowledge, file and/or deliver to the Collateral Agent from time to time such schedules, confirmatory assignments, financing statements (including, but not limited to, UCC fixture filings to be filed along with the applicable Mortgages), transfer endorsements, powers of attorney, certificates, collateral access agreements, control agreements and other assurances or instruments and take such further steps relating to the Collateral covered by any of the Security Documents as the Collateral Agent may reasonably require, subject to the terms of the ABL Intercreditor Agreement; provided, that in the case of any such agreements, assurances or instruments that require the consent of, or any action by, a third party, Parent, the Company and its Subsidiaries shall only be required to use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the same; provided, further, that in no event shall any bailee agreements, landlord lien waivers, collateral access agreements or similar agreements, or the execution of any local law pledge and/or security agreements or taking other actions with respect thereto be required.  Furthermore, in the case of additional Real Property Collateral, Parent and the Company will, and will cause each of the Company’s Subsidiaries to, deliver to the Collateral Agent such opinions of counsel in each jurisdiction in which the mortgaged Real Property is located, surveys or survey updates or ExpressMaps, as required to the extent necessary to allow the issuer of the Mortgage Policy to issue such policy without exception.  Mortgage Policies and other related documents as may be reasonably requested by, and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to, the Collateral Agent to assure itself that this Section 9.12 has been complied with.

  (c)	If the Administrative Agent reasonably determines that the Lenders are required by law or regulation to have appraisals prepared in respect of any Real Property of Parent, the Company and its Subsidiaries constituting Collateral, subject to clause (e) of this Section 9.12, Parent, the Company and its Subsidiaries will, at their own expense, provide to the Administrative Agent appraisals which satisfy the applicable requirements of the Real Estate Appraisal Reform Amendments of the Financial Institution Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989, as amended.

  (d)	Subject to clause (e) of this Section 9.12, the Credit Parties shall deliver to the Collateral Agent a “Life-of-Loan” Federal Emergency Management Agency Standard Flood Hazard Determination with respect to each parcel of Mortgaged Property (together with notice about special flood hazard area status and flood disaster assistance, duly executed by the Borrowers or the relevant Credit Party, as applicable, and evidence of flood insurance, in the event any such parcel of Mortgaged Property is located in a special flood hazard area).

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  reasonably practicable, but in no event later than 60 days (or 30 days in the case of clauses (f) and (g) of this Section 9.12) after such action is requested to be taken by the Administrative Agent (or such longer period of time as may be agreed to by the Administrative Agent in its discretion); provided, that in no event will Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries be required to take any action, other than using its commercially reasonable efforts, to obtain consents from, or actions by, third parties with respect to its compliance with this Section 9.12.

  (f)	Parent and the Company will cause each Person that becomes a Subsidiary (other than an Excluded Subsidiary) of the Company after the Effective Date to (i) promptly pledge the capital stock or other Equity Interests owned by it pursuant to, and to the extent required by, the Security Agreement and deliver to the Collateral Agent (or to its agent, bailee or designee, including the Collateral Agent under the Priming Term Loan Agreement in accordance with the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement) the certificates, if any, representing such stock or other Equity Interests, together with stock or other appropriate powers duly executed in blank, (ii) (A) execute a Joinder Agreement or such comparable documentation to become a Borrower or Guarantor hereunder and a joinder agreement to the applicable Security Agreement, substantially in the form annexed thereto, (B) take all actions reasonably necessary or advisable in the reasonable opinion of, and requested by, the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent to cause the Lien created by the applicable Security Agreement to be duly perfected to the extent required by such agreement in accordance with all applicable Requirements of Law, including the filing of financing statements in such jurisdictions as may be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent and (C) become a party to the ABL Intercreditor Agreement, the Subordination Agreement or any other intercreditor or subordination arrangement entered into pursuant to the terms hereof (if required thereby) and, if applicable, execute Control Agreements, a Patent Security Agreement, a Trademark Security Agreement and a Copyright Security Agreement, (iii) to the extent reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders, take all actions required pursuant to this Section 9.12 and (iv) at least five days prior to the effective date of any new Subsidiary of the Company becoming a Borrower or Guarantor hereunder pursuant to clause (ii), provide to all Lenders all documentation and other information required by bank regulatory authorities under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations including, without limitation, the Patriot Act and the information described in Section 13.18.  In addition, to the extent reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent, each new Subsidiary of the Company that is required to execute any Credit Document shall execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, all other relevant documentation (including opinions of counsel) of the type described in Section 6 as such new Subsidiary of the Company would have had to deliver if such new Subsidiary were a Credit Party on the Effective Date.  Notwithstanding the foregoing in this clause (f), (a) no Foreign Subsidiary shall be required to enter into security documentation governed by the laws of the local jurisdiction of organization of such Foreign Subsidiary and (b) no Credit Party that owns capital stock any Foreign Subsidiary shall be required to pledge the capital stock of such Foreign Subsidiary pursuant to security documentation governed by the laws of the local jurisdiction of organization of such Foreign Subsidiary; provided, that such Foreign Subsidiary shall execute the Guaranty and Security Agreement and such Credit Party shall pledge such capital stock pursuant to the Security Agreement.

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  Section 9.12 as if such Subsidiary were then established, created or acquired.  Each Borrower and each other Credit Party shall, within 90 days following the Effective Date (as such date may be extended from time to time by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion), enter into one or more Control Agreements as, and to the extent, required by Section 5.03(b).

  9.13	Certain Matters Regarding Collateral.  Parent, the Company and its Subsidiaries shall not effect any change (a) in any Credit Party’s legal name, (b) in any Credit Party’s identity or organizational structure, (c) in any Credit Party’s Federal Taxpayer Identification Number or organizational identification number, if any, or (d) in any Credit Party’s jurisdiction of organization (in each case, including by merging with or into any other entity, dissolving, liquidating, reorganizing or organizing in any other jurisdiction) unless it provides at least five Business Days’ prior written notice of such change to the Administrative Agent.  Each Credit Party agrees (i) to promptly provide the Collateral Agent with certified organizational documents reflecting any of the changes described in the preceding sentence and with such other information in connection therewith as the Collateral Agent or the Administrative Agent may reasonably request and (ii) to promptly take all action reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent to maintain the perfection and priority of the security interest of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the Collateral, if applicable.

  9.14	Landlords’ Agreements, Mortgagee Agreements, Bailee Letters and Real Estate Purchases.  With respect to locations in the United States only, each Credit Party shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain a landlord waiver, collateral access agreement, mortgagee agreement or bailee letter, as applicable, from the lessor of each leased property, mortgagee of owned property or bailee with respect to any warehouse, processor or converter facility or other location where Inventory of a Credit Party with a book value in excess of $1,000,000 is stored or located (other than any retail store operated by the Borrowers or its Subsidiaries), which agreement or letter shall (unless otherwise agreed to in writing by the Administrative Agent) contain a waiver or subordination of all Liens or claims that the landlord, mortgagee or bailee may assert against the Collateral at that location, and shall otherwise be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Administrative Agent.  With respect to such locations or warehouse space leased or owned as of the Effective Date and thereafter in the United States, if the Collateral Agent has not received a landlord, collateral access or mortgagee agreement or bailee letter as of the Effective Date (or, if later, as of the date such location is acquired or leased), any Eligible Inventory at that location shall be subject to such Reserves as may be established by the Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion in accordance with clause (f) of the definition of “Eligible Inventory”.  Each Credit Party shall timely and fully pay and perform its obligations under all leases and other agreements with respect to each leased location or public warehouse in the United States where any Collateral is or may be located, except to the extent that the same are being contested in good faith; provided, that, the Credit Parties’ failure to comply with the foregoing shall not constitute a Default or Event of Default under this Section 9.14 unless such failure of compliance with the foregoing is with respect to leased locations or public warehouses (a) where, individually or in the aggregate, Inventory of the Credit Parties (or any of them) with a book value in excess of $1,000,000, is stored or located, or (b) where any Credit Party’s books and records are kept or maintained, and such failure results in (x) the termination of the leases or other agreements with respect to any such leased locations or public warehouses, (y) the termination of a Credit Party’s access rights with respect to any such leased locations or public 

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  warehouses, or (z) the commencement of any other enforcement action by the lessors or bailees, as applicable, with respect to any such leased locations or public warehouses. 

  9.15	Inventory.  With respect to the Inventory:

  (a)	each Borrower will at all times maintain records (in all material respects) of Inventory consistent with past practices, keep correct and accurate records itemizing and describing the kind, type, quality and quantity of Inventory, the cost therefore and daily withdrawals therefrom and additions thereto;

  (b)	each Borrower will conduct cyclical or physical counts of its Inventory consistent with past practices, and (ii) upon the reasonable request of the Administrative Agent shall supply the Administrative Agent with a report in the form and with such specificity as may be reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent concerning such count; and

  (c)	each Borrower will keep the Inventory (other than any immaterial portion thereof) in good and marketable condition (damage by any casualty event excepted).

  9.16	Ownership of Subsidiaries.  Except as otherwise permitted pursuant an Investment or an asset disposition pursuant to Section 10.02(d), in each case consummated in accordance with the terms hereof, Parent and the Company will, and will cause each of the Company’s Subsidiaries to, own 100% of the Equity Interests of each of their Subsidiaries (other than directors’ qualifying shares and other nominal amounts of shares to the extent required by applicable law).

  9.17	Cash Flow Reporting; Variance Reporting; Liquidity Reporting; Store Closure Reporting.

  (a)	The Company shall prepare and deliver to the Administrative Agent for distribution to the private-side Lenders, on Thursday of each fiscal week of Parent occurring after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date (each an “Applicable Budget”), a 13-week budget and cash flow forecast, in a form substantially similar to the Initial Budget, which shall (x) reflect, on a line-item basis, the projected receipts and disbursements of Parent, the Company and their Subsidiaries (including all necessary and required expenses that such Persons expect to incur) on a weekly basis, and (y) cover the 13-week period that commences with the fiscal week of Parent ending on the first Saturday occurring after the date on which the Applicable Budget is delivered and including the subsequent twelve (12) fiscal weeks.

  (b)	On Thursday of each fiscal week, commencing with the Thursday following the first full fiscal week after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date (each such Thursday, a “Variance Report Date”), the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent for distribution to the private-side Lenders a variance report (each, a “Variance Report”) in form substantially similar to the variance reports delivered by the Company to the lenders under the Existing Term Loan Credit Agreement prior to the Fourth Amendment Effective Date and setting forth, in reasonable detail, on a line-by-line basis any differences between actual receipts and disbursements for each line item for the prior fiscal week versus projected receipts and disbursements set forth in the Applicable Budget for each such line item for such prior fiscal week.

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  (c)	On Thursday of each fiscal week, commencing with Thursday following the first full fiscal week after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date, the Company shall deliver to the Administrative Agent for distribution to the private-side Lenders a report certifying the liquidity (including the component parts thereof) of the Credit Parties as of the last Business Day of the prior fiscal week and certifying as to compliance or failure to comply, as applicable, with Section 10.10 hereof.

  (d)	On Thursday of each fiscal week during any Temporary Store Closure Period, the Company shall deliver to the Administrative Agent for distribution to the private-side Lenders a report certifying the stores of Parent and its Subsidiaries that are closed and open.

  SECTION 10.  Negative Covenants.  Each of Parent, the Company and each of its Subsidiaries hereby covenants and agrees that on and after the Effective Date and until the Revolving Loan Commitment has been terminated and all Letters of Credit have been terminated (unless fully cash collateralized in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Lenders), and the Loans, Notes and Unpaid Drawings (in each case, together with interest thereon), Fees and all other Obligations (other than any indemnities described herein and reimbursement obligations under Section 13.01 which, in either case, are not then due and payable), are paid in full:

  10.01	Liens.  Parent will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon any property or assets (real or personal, tangible or intangible) of Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, or assign (as security) any right to receive income; provided, that the provisions of this Section 10.01 shall not prevent the creation, incurrence, assumption or existence of the following (Liens described below are herein referred to as “Permitted Liens”):

  (a)	inchoate Liens for Taxes, assessments or governmental charges or levies not yet due or Liens for Taxes, assessments or governmental charges or levies being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings for which adequate reserves have been established in accordance with GAAP;

  (b)	Liens in respect of property or assets of Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, which were incurred in the ordinary course of business and do not secure Indebtedness for borrowed money, such as carriers’, warehousemen’s, materialmen’s and mechanics’ or construction liens and other similar Liens arising in the ordinary course of business, so long as, in each case, such Liens secure amounts not overdue for a period of more than 30 days, or if more than 30 days overdue, are unfiled and no action has been taken to enforce such Liens or are being contested in good faith by appropriate actions, if adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of the applicable Person in accordance with GAAP;

  (c)	Liens in existence on the Fourth Amendment Effective Date which are listed, and the property subject thereto described, in Schedule 10.01, plus renewals, replacements and extensions of such Liens; provided, that (i) the aggregate principal amount of the Indebtedness, if any, secured by such Liens does not increase from that amount outstanding at the time of any such renewal, replacement or extension (except by the amount associated with costs, fees, expenses and premiums) and (ii) any such renewal, replacement or extension does not encumber any additional 

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  assets or properties of Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries other than (a) after-acquired property that is affixed to or incorporated into the property covered by such Lien and (b) proceeds and products thereof;

  (d)	(i) Liens created by or pursuant to this Agreement and the Security Documents and (ii) Liens created by or pursuant to the Priming Term Loan Documents (including any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof) outstanding pursuant to Section 10.04(j), subject to the terms of the ABL Intercreditor Agreement;

  (e)	(i) licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases (including with respect to any intellectual property, to the extent such license, sublicense, lease or sublease is non-exclusive) granted by Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and (ii) any interest or title of a lessor, sublessor or licensor under any lease, sublease or license agreement existing as of the date hereof or otherwise permitted by this Agreement to which Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party;

  (f)	Liens securing Indebtedness permitted by Section 10.04(d); provided, that such Liens encumber only the assets financed thereby, the proceeds thereof and improvements and accessions thereto;

  (g)	(x) Liens created by or pursuant to the Existing Term Loan Documents; provided, that such Liens shall not extend to any assets or property other than Collateral and shall be subject to the terms of the ABL Intercreditor Agreement; (y) Liens created by or pursuant to the Subordinated Facility Loan Documents; provided, that such Liens shall not extend to any assets or property other than Collateral and shall be subject to the terms of the Subordination Agreement; and (z) Liens securing Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Section 10.04(s); provided, that such Liens shall extend solely to the Post-Closing Refunds;

  (h)	easements, servitudes, rights-of-way, restrictions, encroachments, covenants, licenses and other similar charges or encumbrances, and minor title deficiencies, in each case not securing Indebtedness and not materially interfering with the ordinary conduct of the business of Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole;

  (i)	Liens arising out of the existence of judgments to the extent and so long as such judgments do not individually or in the aggregate constitute an Event of Default under Section 11.01(j);

  (j)	statutory and common law landlords’ liens under leases to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party;

  (k)	(i) Liens (other than Liens imposed under ERISA) incurred in the ordinary course of business in connection with workers compensation claims, unemployment insurance and social security benefits and Liens securing the performance of bids, tenders, leases and contracts in the ordinary course of business, statutory obligations, surety bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature incurred in the ordinary course of business (exclusive of obligations in respect of the payment for borrowed money) and (ii) Liens on pledges or deposits in the ordinary course securing liability for reimbursement or indemnification obligations of 

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  (including obligations in respect of letters of credit and bank guarantees for the benefit of) insurance carriers providing property, casualty or liability insurance to Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries;

  (l)	Permitted Encumbrances and Liens arising in the ordinary course in connection with Investments permitted pursuant to Section 10.05(n), (o) or (u);

  (m)	Liens on property or assets (other than on ABL Facility Priority Collateral, unless junior and subordinated in priority to the Liens thereon securing the Secured Obligations) acquired pursuant to a permitted Investment, or on property or assets of a Subsidiary of the Company in existence at the time such Subsidiary is acquired pursuant to a permitted Investment; provided, that (i) any Indebtedness that is secured by such Liens is permitted to exist under Section 10.04, and (ii) such Liens are not incurred in connection with, or in contemplation or anticipation of, such acquisition and do not attach to any asset of Parent or any other asset of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries other than proceeds thereof and improvements and accessions thereto;

  (n)	Liens arising out of any conditional sale, title retention, consignment or other similar arrangements for the sale of goods entered into by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business to the extent such Liens do not attach to any assets other than the goods subject to such arrangements;

  (o)	Liens (i) incurred in the ordinary course of business in connection with the purchase or shipping of goods or assets (or the related assets and proceeds thereof), which Liens are in favor of the seller or shipper of such goods or assets and only attach to such goods or assets, and (ii) in favor of customs and revenue authorities arising as a matter of law to secure payment of customs duties in connection with the importation of goods;

  (p)	bankers’ Liens, rights of setoff and other similar Liens existing solely with respect to cash and Cash Equivalents on deposit in one or more accounts maintained by Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, in each case granted in the ordinary course of business in favor of the bank or banks or other entity with which such accounts are maintained;

  (q)	Liens granted in the ordinary course of business on the unearned portion of insurance premiums securing the financing of insurance premiums to the extent the financing is permitted under Section 10.04;

  (r)	Liens on earnest money deposits made in connection with any permitted Investment or in respect of any permitted Investment and Liens that may be deemed to exist by reason of any agreement to sell assets;

  (s)	Liens on cash and Cash Equivalents of the Company and its Subsidiaries deposited as collateral in favor of a hedging counterparty to secure obligations under Interest Rate Protection Agreements and/or Other Hedging Agreements otherwise permitted to be entered into by this Agreement;

  (t)	Liens securing obligations in respect of Indebtedness permitted under Section 10.04(t) (other than on ABL Facility Priority Collateral, unless junior and subordinated in priority to the Liens thereon securing the Secured Obligations);

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  (u)	[reserved];

  (v)	additional Liens (other than on ABL Facility Priority Collateral, unless junior and subordinated in priority to the Liens thereon securing the Secured Obligations) on assets of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company not otherwise permitted by this Section 10.01, so long as the aggregate amount of obligations secured by such additional Liens (other than, in the case of obligations constituting Indebtedness, accrued but unpaid interest and fees thereon not paid in kind or capitalized as principal) at any time outstanding does not exceed $7,500,000; provided, that if such Liens secure Indebtedness for borrowed money, such Liens shall not extend to any assets or property other than Collateral and shall be subject to the terms of an intercreditor or subordination arrangement in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent (at the direction of Required Lenders) and the Company;

  (w)	Liens arising from precautionary UCC financing statements or consignments entered into in connection with any transaction otherwise permitted under this Agreement;

  (x)	(i) Liens on Equity Interests in joint ventures securing obligations of such joint ventures and (ii) customary rights of first refusal and tag, drag and similar rights in joint venture agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business;

  (y)	[reserved];

  (z)	Liens on securities that are the subject of repurchase agreements constituting Cash Equivalents under clause (f) of the definition thereof; 

  (aa)	Liens in favor of any Borrower or any other Credit Party; provided, that if any Lien covers the Collateral, the holder thereof shall execute a subordination agreement reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent; and

  (bb)	Liens with respect to property or assets of any Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor, so long as such Liens secure obligations of such Subsidiaries that are otherwise permitted by this Agreement.

  In connection with the granting of Liens of the type described in clauses  (f), (m), (s) or (x) of this Section 10.01 by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall be authorized to subordinate its Liens on property subject to such Liens and take any other actions reasonably requested by the Company in connection therewith (including, without limitation, by executing appropriate lien subordination agreements in favor of the holder or holders of such Liens solely with respect to the item or items of equipment or other assets subject to such Liens); provided, that the Company has provided to the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent a certificate executed by an Authorized Officer of the Company certifying that (x) the Lien is permitted under the applicable clause of this Section 10.01 and (y) the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent are authorized to subordinate its Lien on the specified property (and the Lenders hereby authorize and direct the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to conclusively rely on such certificate in performing their obligations under this paragraph).

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  10.02	Consolidation, Merger, Purchase or Sale of Assets, etc.  Parent and the Company will not, and will not permit any of the Company’s Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or merge or consolidate into or with any Person, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of any of its property or assets, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions, or purchase or otherwise acquire an Acquired Entity or Business; except, that:

  (a)	each of the Company and its Subsidiaries may sell inventory in the ordinary course of business;

  (b)	each of the Company and its Subsidiaries may liquidate or otherwise dispose of obsolete or worn-out property in the ordinary course of business;

  (c)	Investments may be made to the extent permitted by Section 10.05;

  (d)	each of the Company and its Subsidiaries may sell assets (including by way of merger or consolidation or in connection with sale-leaseback transactions) so long as (i) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, (ii) the Company or the respective Subsidiary receives at least Fair Market Value as determined in good faith by the Company, (iii) with respect to any such transaction in which the purchase price is in excess of $3,000,000, the consideration received by the Company or such Subsidiary consists of at least 75% cash or Cash Equivalents paid at the time of the closing of such sale; provided, however, that for the purposes of this clause (iii), (A) the amount of any Indebtedness or other liabilities (other than Indebtedness or other liabilities that are subordinated to the Obligations or that is secured by Liens that are subordinated to the Liens securing the Obligations or that are owed to the Company or any Subsidiary) of the Company or any Subsidiary (as shown on such Person’s most recent balance sheet or statement of financial position (or the notes thereto) that are assumed by the transferee of any such assets and for which the Company and/or its applicable Subsidiary have been validly released by all relevant creditors in writing, (B) the amount of any trade-in value applied to the purchase price of any replacement assets acquired in connection with such disposition, (C) any securities received by the Company or any Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by such Person into Cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the Cash or Cash Equivalents received) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable disposition and (D) any Designated Non-Cash Consideration received by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in such sale having an aggregate Fair Market Value, taken together with all other Designated Non-Cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (D) that is at such time outstanding, not to exceed $3,750,000 at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-Cash Consideration, with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-Cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value, shall be deemed to be cash, and (iv) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied and/or reinvested as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02; provided, that no capital stock or other Equity Interests of any Subsidiary shall be sold pursuant to this clause (d), unless (A) all of the capital stock or other Equity Interests of such Subsidiary are sold in accordance with this clause (d) or (B) such sale is a sale of less than 100% of the capital stock or other Equity Interests of an Excluded Subsidiary; provided, that the aggregate Fair Market Value of all such sales of capital stock or other Equity Interests pursuant to this clause (B) does not exceed 2.5% of Consolidated Total Assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the date of any such sale;

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  (e)	each of the Company and its Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee), sublease (as sublessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation except to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(d)); provided, that Parent and its Subsidiaries may not exclusively license any of their intellectual property;

  (f)	each of the Company and its Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case without recourse and in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction;

  (g)	each of the Company and its Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases (including with respect to intellectual property, to the extent such license, sublicense, lease or sublease is non-exclusive) to other Persons in the ordinary course of business not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries;

  (h)	the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company may convey, sell or otherwise transfer all or any part of its business, properties and assets to any Borrower, so long as any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors pursuant to the Security Documents in the assets so transferred shall remain in full force and effect (including, as the case may be, as same may be replaced by the transferee Borrower) and perfected (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such transfer) and all actions required to maintain or renew said perfected status have been taken;

  (i)	any Subsidiary of the Company may merge or consolidate with and into, or be dissolved or liquidated into, any Borrower, so long as (i) in the case of any such merger, consolidation, dissolution or liquidation involving the Company, the Company is the surviving or continuing entity of any such merger, consolidation, dissolution or liquidation, (ii) in the case of any such merger, consolidation, dissolution or liquidation involving a Borrower, a Borrower is the surviving or continuing entity of any such merger, consolidation, dissolution or liquidation, and (iii) all actions required to create or maintain perfected Liens in respect of assets required to be Collateral have been taken;

  (j)	[reserved];

  (k)	each of the Company and its Subsidiaries may liquidate or otherwise dispose of Cash Equivalents, in each case for cash or Cash Equivalents;

  (l)	Liens may be granted to the extent permitted by Section 10.01;

  (m)	any involuntary loss, damage or destruction of property and the disposition of the assets so damaged or destroyed shall be permitted;

  (n)	any involuntary condemnation, seizure or taking, by exercise of the power of eminent domain or otherwise, or confiscation or requisition of use of property shall be permitted;

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  (o)	the lapse, abandonment or cancellation of registered or pending patents, trademarks and other intellectual property of the Company and its Subsidiaries shall be permitted in the reasonable business judgment of the Company or such Subsidiary;

  (p)	any Subsidiary of the Company that is not a Credit Party may be merged, consolidated or amalgamated with and into, or be dissolved or liquidated into, or transfer any of its assets to, any Subsidiary of the Company that is not a Credit Party, so long as any security interests required to be granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors pursuant to the Security Documents or Section 9.12 in the Equity Interests of such Subsidiary shall remain in full force and effect, or as the case may be, be granted, and perfected and enforceable and all actions required to maintain or create said perfected status have been taken;

  (q)	Dividends may be paid to the extent permitted by Section 10.03;

  (r)	the discount of Inventory, accounts receivable or notes receivable in the ordinary course of business or the conversion of accounts receivable to notes receivable may be made, in each case, consistent with past practices prior to the Effective Date;

  (s)	dispositions of receivables in connection with the compromise, settlement or collection thereof in the ordinary course of business or in bankruptcy or similar proceedings may be made; and

  (t)	Parent may merge or consolidate with and into, or be dissolved or liquidated into, any direct or indirect parent of Parent (“New Parent”) so long as (i) as a result of such merger, consolidation, liquidation or dissolution, New Parent shall directly own 100% of the Equity Interests of the Company and (ii) concurrently with such merger, New Parent signs a Joinder Agreement (and pursuant to which New Parent agrees to become “Parent” hereunder and subject to all of the rights and obligations of Parent hereunder) along with such other security documents as may be reasonably requested by the Agents or the Required Lenders, and otherwise complies with Section 9.12; provided, that, for the avoidance of doubt, concurrent with such merger, consolidation or liquidation, all actions required to give the Collateral Agent a perfected security interest in the Equity Interests of the Company shall have been taken, including, without limitation, that New Parent has delivered to the Collateral Agent certificates, together with undated powers (or other documents of transfer acceptable to the Collateral Agent) endorsed in blank by New Parent, representing the Equity Interests of the Company.  For the avoidance of doubt, such transaction shall not be deemed a “Change of Control”.

  To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 10.02 with respect to the sale, transfer or disposition of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold, transferred or disposed of as permitted by this Section 10.02 (other than to a Credit Party), such Collateral shall be sold, transferred or disposed of free and clear of the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent are hereby authorized and directed to take any actions reasonably requested by the Borrowers in order to effect or evidence the foregoing; provided, that the Company has provided to the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent a certificate executed by an Authorized Officer of the Company certifying that the applicable sale, transfer or disposition is permitted by this Section 10.02 (and the Lenders hereby authorize and 

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  direct the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to conclusively rely on such certificate in performing their obligations under this paragraph).

  10.03	Dividends.  Parent and the Company will not, and will not permit any of the Company’s Subsidiaries to, authorize, declare or pay any Dividends with respect to Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; except, that:

  (a)	any Subsidiary of the Company may pay Dividends to the Company or to any Subsidiary of the Company that owns Equity Interests therein;

  (b)	any Non-Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Company may pay Dividends to its shareholders, members or partners generally, so long as the Company or its respective Subsidiary which owns the Equity Interest in the Subsidiary paying such Dividends receives at least its proportionate share thereof (based upon its relative holding of the Equity Interest in the Subsidiary paying such Dividends and taking into account the relative preferences, if any, of the various classes of Equity Interests of such Subsidiary);

  (c)	the Company may pay cash Dividends to Parent, and Parent may pay cash Dividends to any parent entity of Parent, for the purpose of enabling Parent (or any parent entity of Parent) to redeem, repurchase or otherwise acquire for value outstanding Equity Interests of Parent (or such parent entity) originally issued to (or for the benefit of), and following the death, disability, resignation or termination of employment of, officers, directors or employees of Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (so long as Parent (or any parent holding company) promptly uses the proceeds therefrom for such purposes); provided, that (i) the aggregate amount of Dividends paid by the Company in reliance on this clause (c) shall not exceed $2,000,000 in any Fiscal Year of the Company, and (ii) at the time of any Dividend, purchase or payment permitted to be made pursuant to this clause (c), no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom;

  (d)	the Company may pay cash Dividends to Parent and Parent may pay cash Dividends to any parent entity of Parent that serves as the common parent of an affiliated, consolidated or unitary group that includes the Company at the times and in the amounts necessary to enable Parent or such parent holding company to pay its tax obligations, to the extent attributable solely to the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries; provided, that (i) the amount of cash Dividends paid by the Company pursuant to this clause (d) to enable Parent to pay Federal and state income and franchise taxes at any time shall not exceed the amount of such Federal and state income and franchise taxes actually owing by Parent at such time for the respective period as determined in good faith by Parent and (ii) the proceeds of such Dividends shall be used promptly by Parent and/or any parent holding company for the purposes described above in this clause (d);

  (e)	the Company may pay cash Dividends to Parent and Parent may pay cash Dividends to any parent entity of Parent, so long as the proceeds thereof are promptly used by Parent or such parent entity to pay operating expenses of Parent or such parent entity incurred in the ordinary course of business (including, without limitation, outside directors and professional fees, expenses and indemnities) and other similar corporate overhead costs and expenses, in each case, to the extent attributable solely to the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries; provided, that the aggregate amount of all Dividends paid by the Company or Parent pursuant to this clause 

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  (e) to one or more parent entities of Parent shall not exceed $2,000,000 in any Fiscal Year of the Company;

  (f)	Parent may pay regularly scheduled Dividends on its Qualified Preferred Stock pursuant to the terms thereof solely through the issuance of additional shares of Qualified Preferred Stock (but not in cash); provided, that in lieu of issuing additional shares of such Qualified Preferred Stock as Dividends, Parent may increase the liquidation preference of the shares of Qualified Preferred Stock in respect of which such Dividends have accrued;

  (g)	the Company may, in lieu of making direct cash payments to Sponsor and its Affiliates as otherwise permitted by Sections 10.06(g), pay cash Dividends to Parent and Parent may pay such cash Dividends to any parent holding company thereof to enable Parent or such parent holding company to make such payments, so long as Parent or such parent holding company promptly uses the proceeds of such Dividends to make the payments permitted by such Sections; provided, that all payments pursuant to this clause (g) shall be treated as having been made pursuant to the relevant clauses of Section 9.06 for purposes of determining compliance therewith;

  (h)	[reserved];

  (i)	Dividends deemed to occur upon the cashless exercise of stock options and warrants or similar equity incentive awards of Parent shall be permitted;

  (j)	the Company may pay dividends to Parent and Parent may pay Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of any parent holding company to make payments in cash in lieu of the issuance of fractional shares upon the exercise of warrants or upon the conversion or exchange of Equity Interests of any such Person; provided, that the aggregate amount of all dividends paid by Parent pursuant to this clause (j) shall not exceed $3,000,000; 

  (k)	Parent and its Subsidiaries may pay other Dividends in an aggregate amount, together with all other Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.03(k), not to exceed $250,000; and

  (l)	Parent and its Subsidiaries may make additional Dividends so long as the Payment Conditions are satisfied both before and after giving effect to the respective Dividend.

  10.04	Indebtedness.  Parent and the Company will not, and will not permit any of the Company’s Subsidiaries to, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Indebtedness, except:

  (a)	Indebtedness incurred pursuant to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents;

  (b)	Indebtedness outstanding on the Effective Date and listed on Schedule 10.04 and any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof;

  (c)	(i) Indebtedness under Interest Rate Protection Agreements entered into with respect to other Indebtedness permitted under this Section 10.04 and (ii) under Other Hedging Agreements, in either case so long as the entering into of such Interest Rate Protection Agreements 

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  or Other Hedging Agreements are bona fide hedging activities and are not for speculative purposes;

  (d)	Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries evidenced by Capitalized Lease Obligations and purchase money Indebtedness and any Permitted Refinancing in respect thereof not to exceed $5,000,000 in aggregate principal amount for all such Indebtedness incurred pursuant to this clause (d) at any time;

  (e)	Indebtedness constituting Intercompany Loans to the extent permitted by Sections 10.05(h) and (q);

  (f)	Indebtedness consisting of guaranties (i) by the Borrowers of each other’s Indebtedness and lease and other contractual obligations permitted under this Agreement and (ii) by non-Credit Parties of each other’s Indebtedness and lease and other contractual obligations permitted under this Agreement;

  (g)	[Reserved];

  (h)	Indebtedness arising from the honoring by a bank or other financial institution of a check, draft or similar instrument drawn against insufficient funds in the ordinary course of business, so long as such Indebtedness is extinguished within three Business Days of its incurrence;

  (i)	Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries with respect to performance bonds, surety bonds, appeal bonds, customs bonds, worker’s compensation claims and similar obligations, required in the ordinary course of business or in connection with the enforcement of rights or claims of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or in connection with judgments that do not result in a Default or an Event of Default (including guarantees or obligations of the Company or any Subsidiary with respect to letters of credit supporting such performance, appeal, customs or surety bonds or workers’ compensation claims);

  (j)	(x) Indebtedness of the Credit Parties under the Priming Term Loan Documents (and any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness incurred in respect thereof) in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $231,142,125.05 plus any Additional PIK Interest (as defined in the Priming Term Loan Agreement) at the rate provided in the Priming Term Loan Agreement, as in effect on the Fourth Amendment Effective Date, and/or PIK Payment (as defined in the Priming Term Loan Agreement) that is capitalized and added to such principal amount (plus, in the case of any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness, unpaid accrued interest, fees, expenses and premium thereon and any make-whole payments applicable thereto) at any time outstanding; and (y) Indebtedness of the Credit Parties under the Existing Term Loan Documents in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $5,037,224.35 at any time outstanding;

  (k)	Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries which may be deemed to exist in connection with agreements providing for indemnification, purchase price adjustments, earnouts and similar obligations in connection with the acquisition or disposition of assets in accordance with the requirements of this Agreement, so long as any such obligations are those of the Person making the respective acquisition or sale, and are not guaranteed by any other Person except as permitted by Section 10.04(f); 

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  (l)	Indebtedness owed to any Person providing property, casualty, liability, or other insurance to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, so long as the amount of such Indebtedness is not in excess of the amount of the unpaid cost of, and shall be incurred only to defer the cost of, such insurance for the period in which such Indebtedness is incurred and such Indebtedness is outstanding only for a period not exceeding twelve months;

  (m)	Indebtedness in respect of treasury, depositary and cash management services or automated clearinghouse transfer of funds, including without limitation the Cash Management Obligations, in the ordinary course of business;

  (n)	[Reserved];

  (o)	[Reserved];

  (p)	Indebtedness of the Credit Parties under the Subordinated Facility Loan Documents in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $15,000,000 at any time outstanding (as increased pursuant to payments of interest in-kind pursuant to the terms thereof); provided, that Subordinated Facility Loans in excess of $15,000,000 may be incurred (on the same terms as those incurred on the Fourth Amendment Effective Date, including with respect to the interest rate thereon, maturity thereof and guarantors and collateral) for cash (without any cash fees or other cash payments made in connection therewith) (x) to the extent that the Post-Closing Refunds received by the Company prior to the PIK Increase Date (as defined in the Priming Term Loan Agreement) total less than $25,000,000, in an amount equal to the excess of (1) $25,000,000 plus the amount of legal costs and expenses incurred in connection therewith over (2) the actual amount of Post-Closing Refunds received by the Company prior to the PIK Increase Date (as defined in the Priming Term Loan Agreement), solely for the purpose of making the PIK Increase Paydown (as defined in the Priming Term Loan Agreement) and paying reasonable expenses incurred in connection therewith and the proceeds therefrom are used solely therefor, (y) to fund a Cure Right in accordance with Section 11.04 of this Agreement or with Section 10.04 or 10.05 of the Priming Term Loan Agreement or (z) in an amount not in excess of the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness permitted to be incurred by the Company pursuant to clause (t) at the time of such incurrence, such incurrence pursuant to this clause (p)(z) reducing the amount of Indebtedness permitted to be in incurred pursuant to clause (t); provided, further, that only the Sponsor and the lenders under the Subordinated Facility Credit Agreement as of the Closing Date may provide, directly or indirectly, the additional Subordinated Facility Loans described in clauses (x) and (y) of the foregoing proviso;

  (q)	Permitted Unsecured Ratio Debt and any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof; provided, that (i) such Indebtedness may not be incurred or guaranteed by any Persons other than the Credit Parties, (ii) such Indebtedness shall be incurred on market terms (as reasonably determined by the Company), (iii) such Indebtedness shall have a final stated maturity date equal to or later than the 91 days after the Priming Term Loan Maturity Date and have a Weighted Average Life to Maturity equal to or greater than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Priming Term Loans and (iv) such Indebtedness shall not have covenants or defaults or events of default more restrictive than those set forth in the Priming Term Loan Agreement as in effect on the date of incurrence (unless applying solely after the Priming Term Loan Maturity Date);

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  (r)	Indebtedness of the Borrower that is secured on a junior basis to the Obligations (and which may be guaranteed by the other Credit Parties) so long as (i) after giving effect to the incurrence and application of proceeds thereof, the Secured Net Leverage Ratio for the Calculation Period most recently ended does not exceed 3.50:1.00; provided, that with respect to Indebtedness incurred pursuant to this clause (r), (i) such Indebtedness shall not be guaranteed by any Person other than the Credit Parties, (ii) such Indebtedness is not secured by any asset of Parent, the Company or any Subsidiary other than the Collateral, (iii) such Indebtedness shall not mature and is not subject to mandatory redemption, repurchase, repayment or sinking fund obligation (other than customary offers to repurchase on a change of control, asset sale or casualty event and customary acceleration rights after an event of default, and prepayment requirements substantially similar to the Priming Term Loans), in each case, prior to the date that is 90 days after the then latest Final Maturity Date then in effect and, until the 91st day after such then latest Final Maturity Date, scheduled amortization or prepayments thereof shall not exceed 1% per annum of the original principal amount thereof, and (iv) the Liens securing such Indebtedness shall be junior to the Liens securing the Obligations pursuant to a subordination arrangement in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent (at the direction of Required Lenders) and the Company; (v) such Indebtedness shall not have covenants or defaults or events of defaults more restrictive than those set forth in the Priming Term Loan Agreement (unless applying solely after the Priming Term Loan Maturity Date);

  (s)	additional Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $25,000,000 plus the amount of all reasonable fees, legal costs and other expenses incurred in connection therewith; provided, (i) such Indebtedness may be secured solely pursuant to Section 10.01(g)(z), (ii) such Indebtedness may not be incurred or guaranteed by any Persons other than the Credit Parties, (iii) the proceeds from such Indebtedness must be used to repay the Priming Term Loans at par and (iv) the all-in-cost of such Indebtedness reflects market rates and customary terms for a tax-receivables financing and the Borrower shall have provided the Lenders under the Priming Term Loan Agreement an opportunity to provide such Indebtedness (on market terms for a tax-receivables financings); provided, further, that upon receipt of any Post-Closing Refunds that secure such Indebtedness, such Indebtedness shall be promptly (and no later than seven (7) Business Days after such receipt) repaid;

  (t)	so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing at the time of the incurrence thereof, or would result therefrom, additional Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $15,000,000; provided, that (i) such Indebtedness shall not be guaranteed by any Person other than the Guarantors, (ii) no such Indebtedness shall be secured by any asset of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries other than the Collateral (other than ABL Facility Priority Collateral, unless junior and subordinated in priority to the Liens thereon securing the Secured Obligations), (iii) such Indebtedness shall not mature or require any scheduled amortization or scheduled payments of principal and is not subject to mandatory redemption, repurchase, repayment or sinking fund obligation (other than customary offers to repurchase on a change of control, asset sale or casualty event and customary acceleration rights after an event of default and prepayment requirements substantially similar to those applicable to the Priming Term Loans), in each case, prior to the date that is 91 days after the Final Maturity Date then in effect, (iv) such Indebtedness shall be incurred on market terms (as reasonably determined by the Company), and (v) such Indebtedness shall not 

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  have covenants or defaults or events of default more restrictive than those set forth in the Priming Term Loan Agreement (unless applying solely after the Priming Term Loan Maturity Date);

  (u)	unsecured Indebtedness in respect of obligations of the Company or any Subsidiary to pay the deferred purchase price of goods or services or progress payments in connection with such goods and services; provided, that such obligations are incurred in connection with open accounts extended by suppliers on customary trade terms in the ordinary course of business and not in connection with the borrowing of money;

  (v)	Indebtedness issued by the Company or a Subsidiary to future, present or former officers, directors, employees, members of management or consultants thereof or any direct or indirect parent thereof, their respective estates, spouses, former spouses, domestic partners or former domestic partners, in each case to finance the purchase or redemption of Equity Interests of Parent, the Company, a Subsidiary of the Company or any of their direct or indirect parent companies permitted by Section 10.03(c) hereof; and

  (w)	(i) Indebtedness of Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties in an aggregate principal amount outstanding at any time not to exceed $1,000,000 and (ii) letters of credit issued for the account of Subsidiaries that are not Borrowers in an aggregate principal amount outstanding at any time not to exceed $1,000,000.

  10.05	Advances, Investments and Loans.  Parent and the Company will not, and will not permit any of the Company’s Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, lend money or credit or make advances to any Person, or purchase or acquire any stock, obligations or securities of, or any other Equity Interest in, or make any capital contribution to, any other Person, or hold any cash or Cash Equivalents (each of the foregoing, an “Investment” and, collectively, “Investments”); except, that the following shall be permitted:

  (a)	the Company and its Subsidiaries may acquire and hold accounts receivables owing to any of them, if created or acquired in the ordinary course of business;

  (b)	Parent, the Company and its Subsidiaries may acquire and hold cash and Cash Equivalents; provided, that from and after the date required therefor under Section 5.03 (and to the extent required thereunder), all such cash and Cash Equivalents of the Company and its Subsidiaries that are Credit Parties are held or credited to Deposit Accounts or Securities Accounts set forth in Parts A through D of Schedule 10.12;

  (c)	Parent, the Company and its Subsidiaries may hold the Investments held by them on the Fourth Amendment Effective Date, and any modification, replacement, renewal or extension thereof that does not increase the amount thereof unless any additional Investments made with respect thereto are permitted under the other provisions of this Section 10.05;

  (d)	the Company and its Subsidiaries may acquire and own investments (including debt obligations and Equity Interests) received in connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of suppliers and customers and in good faith settlement of delinquent obligations of, and other disputes with, customers and suppliers arising in the ordinary course of business;

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  (e)	the Company and its Subsidiaries may make loans and advances to their officers and employees for moving, relocation and travel expenses and other similar expenditures, in each case in the ordinary course of business in an aggregate amount not to exceed $1,000,000 outstanding at any time (determined without regard to any write-downs or write-offs of such loans and advances but taking into account any return of capital, repayment, dividend or distribution in respect thereof);

  (f)	Parent, the Company and its Subsidiaries may acquire and hold obligations of their officers and employees in connection with such officers’ and employees’ acquisition of Equity Interests of Parent (so long as no cash is actually advanced by Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with the acquisition of such obligations);

  (g)	the Company may enter into Interest Rate Protection Agreements and Other Hedging Agreements to the extent permitted by Section 10.04(c);

  (h)	(i) Parent and any Borrower may make intercompany loans and advances to any Borrower, (ii) any Subsidiary of the Company which is not a Borrower may make intercompany loans and advances to any Borrower, (iii) Subsidiary of the Company which is not a Borrower may make intercompany loans and advances to any other Subsidiary of the Company which is not a Borrower and (iv) any Borrower may make intercompany loans and advances to any Subsidiary of the Company which is not a Borrower not to exceed at any time outstanding $1,000,000 (such intercompany loans and advances referred to in preceding clauses (i) through (iv), collectively, the “Intercompany Loans”); provided, that (A) each Intercompany Note owed to a Credit Party (which may, at the Company’s discretion, be in the form of one or more global intercompany notes) shall be pledged by such Credit Party to the Collateral Agent pursuant to the Security Agreement, (B) each Intercompany Loan made to a Borrower by a Person that is not a Borrower shall be subject to an intercompany subordination agreement (an “Intercompany Subordination Agreement”) in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Required Lenders, pursuant to which the obligations in respect of such Intercompany Loan shall be subordinated to the Obligations, and (C) at no time shall the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all Intercompany Loans made pursuant to preceding subclause (iv) of this clause (h) when added to the amount of contributions and acquisitions of Equity Interests theretofore made and then outstanding pursuant to subclause (i)(iv) of this Section 10.05 (for this purpose taking the Fair Market Value of any property (other than cash) so contributed at the time of such contributions) exceed $1,000,000 (determined without regard to any write-downs or write-offs of such loans, advances and other Investments referenced above but taking into account any return of capital, repayment, dividend or distribution in respect thereof); provided, further, that no Investment by any Credit Party in any Specified Foreign Guarantor may be made or held pursuant to this clause (h);

  (i)	(i) Parent may make capital contributions to, or acquire Equity Interests of, the Company, (ii) the Borrowers may make capital contributions to, or acquire Equity Interests of, any other Borrower (other than the Company), (iii) any Subsidiary of the Company that is not a Borrower may make capital contributions to, or acquire Equity Interests of, any other Subsidiary of the Company which is not a Borrower and (iv) any Borrower may make capital contributions to, or acquire Equity Interests of, any Subsidiary of the Company which is not a Borrower not to exceed at any time outstanding $1,000,000; provided, that the aggregate amount of contributions 

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  and acquisitions of Equity Interests on and after the Effective Date made and outstanding pursuant to preceding subclause (iv) (for this purpose, taking the Fair Market Value of any property (other than cash) so contributed at the time of such contribution), when added to the aggregate outstanding principal amount of Intercompany Loans made to any Subsidiary of the Company which is not a Borrower pursuant to subclause (iv) of Section 10.05(h) (determined without regard to any write-downs or write-offs thereof but taking into account any return of capital, repayment, dividend or distribution in respect thereof), shall not exceed $1,000,000; provided, further, that no Investment by any Credit Party in any Specified Foreign Guarantor may be made or held pursuant to this clause (i);

  (j)	Parent, the Company and its Subsidiaries may own the Equity Interests of their respective Subsidiaries created or acquired in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (so long as all amounts invested in such Subsidiaries are independently permitted under another provision of this Section 10.05);

  (k)	Contingent Obligations permitted by Section 10.04, to the extent constituting Investments;

  (l)	[Reserved];

  (m)	the Company and its Subsidiaries may receive and hold promissory notes and other non-cash consideration received in connection with any asset sale permitted by Section 10.02(d);

  (n)	the Company and its Subsidiaries may make advances (i) of payroll to employees of the Company and its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business and (ii) in the form of a prepayment of expenses to vendors, suppliers, distributors and trade creditors, so long as such prepayments are made, and expenses will be incurred in the ordinary course of business of the Company or such Subsidiary;

  (o)	the Company and its Subsidiaries may make advances in connection with purchases of goods or services in the ordinary course of business;

  (p)	so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing at the time of the making of such Investment or would result therefrom, the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries may from time to time make Investments not otherwise permitted by this Section 10.05; provided, that the aggregate amount of Investments made and outstanding pursuant to this clause (p) shall not exceed $12,500,000 (determined without regard to any write downs or write offs thereof but taking into account any return of capital, repayments, dividend or distribution in respect thereof);

  (q)	[Reserved].

  (r)	additional Investments (excluding acquisitions of an Acquired Entity or Business) at any time so long as the Payment Conditions are satisfied both before and after giving effect thereto;

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  (s)	Investments in joint ventures in an aggregate amount not to exceed $5,000,000 outstanding at any time;

  (t)	[Reserved];

  (u)	Investments in the nature of pledges or deposits with respect to leases or utilities provided to third parties in the ordinary course of business;

  (v)	Investments in the ordinary course of business consisting of (i) UCC Article 3 endorsements for collection or deposit and (ii) customary trade arrangements with customers consistent with past practices;

  (w)	to the extent that they constitute Investments, purchases and acquisitions of inventory, supplies, materials and equipment or purchases of contract rights or licenses or leases of intellectual property, in each case in the ordinary course of business; and

  (x)	so long as no Default or Event of Default is then in existence, the forgiveness or conversion to equity of any Indebtedness owed to a Credit Party and otherwise permitted by this Section 10.05.

  10.06	Transactions with Affiliates.  Parent and the Company will not, and will not permit any of the Company’s Subsidiaries to, enter into any transaction or series of related transactions with any Affiliate of Parent or any of its Subsidiaries (other than Parent, the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company), except (x) on terms and conditions substantially as favorable to Parent, the Company or such Subsidiary as would reasonably be obtained by Parent, the Company or such Subsidiary at that time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate and (y) in the case of any such transaction or series of related transactions involving one or more payments by Parent, the Company or its Subsidiaries in excess of $1,000,000, to the extent same has been disclosed to the Administrative Agent prior to the consummation thereof; provided, that the following in any event shall be permitted:

  (a)	Dividends may be paid to the extent provided in Section 10.03;

  (b)	loans may be made and other transactions may be entered into by Parent, the Company and its Subsidiaries to the extent permitted by Section 10.05(e), (f) and (s);

  (c)	customary fees, indemnities and reimbursements may be paid to directors of Parent, the Company and its Subsidiaries;

  (d)	Parent may issue Parent Common Stock (and options, warrants and rights with respect thereto) and Qualified Preferred Stock;

  (e)	Parent, the Company and its Subsidiaries may enter into, and may make payments under, employment agreements, employee benefits plans, stock option plans, indemnification provisions and other similar compensatory arrangements with officers, employees and directors of Parent, the Company and its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business;

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  (f)	payments of principal, interest and fees under the Priming Term Loan Documents and the Existing Term Loan Documents to Affiliated Persons that are lenders thereunder solely in their capacities as such lenders;

  (g)	Parent and/or the Company may reimburse the Sponsor and its Affiliates for their (i) reasonable out-of-pocket expenses and in an amount not to exceed $100,000 in any Fiscal Year and (ii) indemnification claims, in each case, incurred in connection with their providing management services to Parent, the Company and its Subsidiaries; and

  (h)	transactions pursuant to the Subordinated Facility Credit Agreement and the other Subordinated Facility Loan Documents.

  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in any other Credit Documents, in no event shall Parent, Company or any of its Subsidiaries pay to Sponsor (including in its capacity as a lender under the Subordinated Facility Credit Agreement) (i) any expenses pursuant to any financial advisory, financing, underwriting, or placement agreement (other than for the avoidance of doubt, the Subordinated Facility Loan Documents and the Subordination Agreement) or in respect of other investment banking activities, (ii) fees for any transaction-based financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, (iii) any management fees (whether pursuant to a contract currently in existence or hereafter created) or (iv) any out-of-pocket expenses (including reimbursement therefor) except in amounts that would be permitted by clause (g) of this Section 10.06, amounts paid to directors or officers affiliated with the Sponsor pursuant to clause (c) and (e) in this Section 9.06 or in amounts permitted as Permitted Payments pursuant to and as defined in the Subordination Agreement.

  10.07	Modifications of Certificate of Incorporation, By-Laws and Certain Other Agreements; Limitations on Voluntary Payments, etc.  Parent and the Company will not, and will not permit any of the Company’s Subsidiaries to:

  (a)	except in connection with a Permitted Refinancing thereof or, for the avoidance of doubt, regularly scheduled principal or interest payments thereon and mandatory prepayments from asset sales, insurance and condemnation events, debt issuances and excess cash flow of the type required by the Term Loans, make any voluntary or optional payment or prepayment on or redemption or acquisition for value of, or any prepayment, repayment or redemption as a result of any asset sale, insurance or condemnation event, debt issuance, equity issuance, capital contribution, change of control or similar required “repurchase” event (including, in each case without limitation, by way of depositing with any agent or trustee with respect thereto or any other Person money or securities before due for the purpose of paying when due) any Indebtedness for borrowed money (other than Indebtedness under this Agreement and the other Credit Documents) (collectively, “Restricted Junior Payments”); provided, that the Company or the applicable Subsidiary may make voluntary or optional prepayments of any such Indebtedness, so long as both before and after giving effect to the respective prepayment, the Payment Conditions shall be satisfied;

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  (c)	amend or modify, or permit the amendment or modification of, any provision of any Subordinated Indebtedness in any manner that is, or could reasonably be expected to be, adverse in any material respect to the interests of any Agent or Lender; 

  (d)	amend, modify or change its certificate or articles of incorporation, articles of designation, certificate of formation, limited liability company agreement, by-laws or equivalent organizational documents, as applicable, unless such amendment, modification, change or other action contemplated by this clause (d) would not be adverse in any material respect to the interests of the Lenders and the terms of any such amendment, modification, change or other action will not violate any of the other provisions of this Agreement or any other Credit Document (it being understood and agreed that any amendments, modifications, changes or other actions relating solely to stock splits, reverse stock splits or similar corporate transactions are not adverse in any material respect to the interests of the Lenders and the terms of any such amendment, modification, change or other action do not violate any of the other provisions of this Agreement or any other Credit Document);

  (e)	notwithstanding clause (a) above, make any payment with respect to any principal of the Existing Term Loans, except on or after the date that is five (5) Business Days prior to the stated maturity thereof (as of the Fourth Amendment Effective Date), so long as (i) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and (ii) the Company (x) is in compliance with Section 9.10 of the Priming Term Loan Agreement on a Pro Forma Basis immediately following such payment and (y) reasonably expects to be in compliance with Section 9.10 of the Priming Term Loan Agreement on a Pro Forma Basis for the full calendar month immediately succeeding such payment (based on reasonable projections of the Company delivered to the Administrative Agent for delivery to private-side Lenders), in each case, as certified by a Responsible Officer of the Company in a certificate delivered to the Administrative Agent and private-side Lenders prior to such payment; or

  (f)	notwithstanding clause (a) above, make (x) any cash payments in respect of principal, interest or fees or otherwise in respect of the Subordinated Facility Loans, other obligations under the Subordinated Facility Loan Documents or any other Indebtedness of Parent or its Subsidiaries held by the Sponsor or (y) consent to any amendment, waiver or modification to the terms of the Subordinated Facility Loan Documents that are adverse to the Lenders or in a manner that is prohibited by the terms of the Subordination Agreement.

  10.08	Limitation on Certain Restrictions on Subsidiaries.  Parent and the Company will not, and will not permit any of the Company’s Subsidiaries to, create or otherwise cause or suffer to exist or become effective any consensual encumbrance or restriction on the ability of any such Subsidiary to (a) pay dividends or make any other distributions on its capital stock or any other Equity Interest or participation in its profits, in each case owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or pay any Indebtedness owed to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (b) make loans or advances to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that are Borrowers or (c) transfer any of its properties or assets to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that are Borrowers, except for such encumbrances or restrictions existing under or by reason of (i) any agreement in effect on the Effective Date and described on Schedule 10.08, (ii) applicable law, (iii) this Agreement and the other Credit Documents (and restrictions applicable to other Indebtedness so long as not more restrictive in any material respect than those contained in this Agreement and the 

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  other Credit Documents), (iv) the Priming Term Loan Agreement and the other Priming Term Loan Documents (and restrictions applicable to other Indebtedness so long as not more restrictive in any material respect than those contained in the Priming Term Loan Agreement and the other Priming Term Loan Documents), (v) customary provisions restricting subletting or assignment of any lease governing any leasehold interest of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (vi) [reserved], (vii) customary provisions restricting assignment, sublicensing or subletting of any licensing or leasing agreement (in which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is the licensee or lessee), any acquisition or sale agreement permitted by this Agreement or any other contract entered into by Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business, (viii) restrictions on the transfer of any asset or Subsidiary or the conduct of business related thereto pending the close of the sale of such asset or Subsidiary, (ix) restrictions on the transfer of any asset subject to a Lien permitted by Sections 10.01(c), (e), (f), (m), (n), (r), (s), (t), (v) or (x); (x) any agreement or instrument in effect at the time any entity becomes a Subsidiary of the Company or any assets are acquired by a Credit Party, which encumbrance or restriction is not applicable to any Person or the properties or assets of any Person, other than the Person or the properties or assets of the Person so acquired and so long as the respective encumbrances or restrictions were not created (or made more restrictive) in connection with or in anticipation of the acquisition of such Subsidiary or assets by a Credit Party; (xi) restrictions applicable to any joint venture that is a Subsidiary, (xii) customary restrictions on the transfer of joint venture interests, (xiii) restrictions and conditions on any Foreign Subsidiary imposed by the terms of any Indebtedness of such Foreign Subsidiary permitted to be incurred pursuant to Section 10.04, (xiv) customary net worth provisions contained in real property leases entered into by the Company and the Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business, so long as the Company has determined in good faith that such net worth provisions would not reasonably be expected to impair the ability of the Company and Subsidiaries to meet their ongoing obligations, (xv) any restrictions regarding licenses or sublicenses by the Company and the Subsidiaries of intellectual property rights in the ordinary course of business (in which case such restrictions shall relate only to such intellectual property rights); and (xvi) any amendments, modifications, restatements, renewals, increases, supplements, refundings, replacements or refinancings of the contracts, instruments or obligations referred to in the foregoing clauses (i) through (xv); provided, that such amendments, modifications, restatements, renewals, increases, supplements, refundings, replacements or refinancings are, in the good faith judgment of the Company, no more restrictive with respect to such encumbrance or restriction than those contained in the encumbrance or restriction prior to such amendment, modification, restatement, renewal, increase, supplement, refunding, replacement or refinancing.

  10.09	Business; etc.  (a) Parent and the Company will not, and will not permit any of the Company’s Subsidiaries to, engage directly or indirectly in any business other than the businesses engaged in by Parent, the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the Effective Date and businesses reasonably related, ancillary or complimentary thereto.

  (b)	Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything else in this Agreement to the contrary, Parent will not engage in any business or own any significant assets or have any material liabilities other than (i) its ownership of the capital stock of the Company, cash and Cash Equivalents, (ii) holding intercompany loans made to the Company, (iii) other activities attributable to or ancillary to its role as a holding company, including making contributions to the capital of the Company, guaranteeing the obligations of the Subsidiaries solely to the extent such obligations are not prohibited hereunder, making Dividends and Investments permitted to be made 

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  by this Agreement, and providing indemnification to officers and directors, and (iv) those liabilities which it is responsible for under this Agreement and the other Credit Documents to which it is a party and those related to its ownership of the capital stock of the Company; provided, that Parent may engage in those activities and have liabilities that are incidental to (A) the maintenance of its existence in compliance with applicable law and (B) legal, tax and accounting matters in connection with any of the foregoing activities.

  10.10	[Reserved].

  10.11	Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio.  During each Financial Covenant Compliance Period, the Company shall not permit the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for (a) the last Test Period ended prior to the beginning of such Financial Covenant Compliance Period for which financial statements are available (or were required to be made available), or (b) any Test Period ended before or during such Financial Covenant Compliance Period for which financial statements become available (or were required to be made available) during such Financial Covenant Compliance Period, to be less than 1.00:1.00.

  10.12	No Additional Deposit Accounts; etc.  No Credit Party will, directly or indirectly, open, acquire, maintain or otherwise have any checking, savings, deposit, securities or other accounts at any bank or other financial institution where cash or Cash Equivalents are or may be deposited or maintained with any Person, other than (a) the Concentration Accounts set forth on Part A of Schedule 10.12, (b) the Collection Accounts set forth on Part B of Schedule 10.12, (c) the Disbursement Accounts set forth on Part C of Schedule 10.12, (d) the other Deposit Accounts set forth on Part D of Schedule 10.12 and (e) the Excluded Deposit Accounts set forth on Part E of Schedule 10.12; provided, that the Company or any other Credit Party may (i) open a new Concentration Account, Collection Account, Disbursement Account, other Deposit Account or Excluded Deposit Account not set forth in such Schedule 10.12 or (ii) deposit funds into an Excluded Deposit Account that would result in such account ceasing to be an Excluded Deposit Account, so long as (A) the Borrowers have delivered an updated Schedule 10.12 to the Administrative Agent reflecting same and (B) a Control Agreement reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent is executed and delivered in accordance with Section 5.03(b).  Unless consented to in writing by the Administrative Agent, no Credit Party will enter into any agreements with credit card or debit card issuers or processors other than the ones set forth on Part F of Schedule 10.12 unless (1) the Borrowers have delivered an updated Schedule 10.12 to the Administrative Agent describing such arrangement and (2) a Credit Card Notification is executed and delivered in accordance with Section 5.03(b).

  SECTION 11.  Events of Default.  

  11.01	Events of Default.  Upon the occurrence of any of the following specified events (each, an “Event of Default”):

  (a)	Payments.  The Borrowers shall (i) default in the payment when due of any principal of any Loan or any Note or any Unpaid Drawing, or (ii) default in the payment when due of any interest on any Loan or any Note or any Unpaid Drawing or any Fees or any other amounts owing hereunder or under any other Credit Document, and such default pursuant to this clause (ii) shall continue unremedied for five or more Business Days; or

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  (b)	Representations, etc.  Any representation, warranty or statement made, confirmed or deemed made by any Credit Party herein or in any other Credit Document or in any certificate delivered to the Administrative Agent or any Lender pursuant hereto or thereto shall prove to be untrue in any material respect on the date as of which made, confirmed or deemed made; or

  (c)	Covenants.  Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall (i) default in the due performance or observance by it of any term, covenant or agreement contained in Section 5.03, 9.01(f), (g), (h), (i) or (j)(i), 9.04 (with respect to company existence) or Section 10, (ii) default in the due performance or observance by it of any other term, covenant or agreement contained in this Agreement or any other Credit Document (other than those set forth in Sections 11.01(a) and (b) and clauses (i) or (iii) of this Section 11.01(c)) and such default shall continue unremedied for a period of 30 days after the date on which written notice thereof is given to the Borrowers by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or (iii) default in the due performance or observance of Section 9.01(j)(ii) or (iii) or Section 9.17 and such default shall remain unremedied for a period of three Business Days after such default (regardless of whether notice thereof is given to the Company by the by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders); or

  (d)	Default Under Other Agreements.  (i) Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall (A) default in any payment of any Indebtedness (other than the Obligations and the Indebtedness described in clause (ii) below) beyond the period of grace, if any, provided in an instrument or agreement under which such Indebtedness was created or (B) default in the observance or performance of any agreement or condition relating to any Indebtedness (other than the Obligations and the Indebtedness described in clause (ii) below) beyond any period of grace, if any, provided therein if the effect of such default (however denominated) is to cause, or to permit the holder or holders of such Indebtedness (or a trustee or agent on behalf of such holder or holders) to cause (determined without regard to whether any notice is required), any such Indebtedness to become due prior to its stated maturity; provided, that it shall not be a Default or an Event of Default under clause (i) of this Section 11.01(d) unless the aggregate principal amount of all Indebtedness as described above with respect to which such default, other event or condition, has occurred and is continuing is at least $15,000,000 (other than Indebtedness incurred under the Priming Term Loan Documents, the Existing Term Loan Documents or the Subordinated Facility Loan Documents), or (ii) Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall (A) default in any payment of any Indebtedness under the Priming Term Loan Documents, Existing Term Loan Documents or the Subordinated Facility Loan Documents, in each case, beyond the period of grace, if any, provided therein or (B) default in the observance or performance of any agreement or condition relating to the Indebtedness under, or contained in, the Priming Term Loan Documents, Existing Term Loan Documents or the Subordinated Facility Loan Documents, in each case, beyond any period of grace, if any, provided therein, if the effect of such default (however denominated) is to cause, or to permit the holder or holders of commitments or Indebtedness under the Priming Term Loan Documents (or an agent on behalf of such holder or holders) to cause (determined without regard to whether any notice is required), any such commitments or Indebtedness to be terminated or become due, as applicable, prior to its stated expiration or maturity, as the case may be; provided, that, notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any breach or default with respect to Section 9.11 and/or Section 9.12 of the Priming Term Loan Agreement (or any other financial covenant(s) subsequently added to the Priming Term 

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  Loan Agreement or contained in any Permitted Refinancing of the Priming Term Loan Agreement), such breach or default shall constitute an Event of Default under this Agreement only if the maturity of the obligations under the Priming Term Loan Agreement are accelerated as a result of such breach or default; or

  (e)	Bankruptcy, etc.  Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other than an Immaterial Subsidiary) shall commence a voluntary case concerning itself under Title 11 of the United States Code entitled “Bankruptcy,” as now or hereafter in effect, or any successor thereto (the “Bankruptcy Code”); or an involuntary case is commenced against Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other than an Immaterial Subsidiary), and the petition is not controverted within 10 days, or is not dismissed within 60 days after the filing thereof; or a custodian (as defined in the Bankruptcy Code) is appointed for, or takes charge of, all or substantially all of the property of Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other than an Immaterial Subsidiary), to operate all or any substantial portion of the business of Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other than an Immaterial Subsidiary), or Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other than an Immaterial Subsidiary) commences any other proceeding under any reorganization, arrangement, adjustment of debt, relief of debtors, dissolution, insolvency or liquidation or similar law of any jurisdiction whether now or hereafter in effect relating to Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other than an Immaterial Subsidiary), or there is commenced against Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries any such proceeding which remains undismissed for a period of 60 days after the filing thereof, or Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other than an Immaterial Subsidiary) is adjudicated insolvent or bankrupt; or any order of relief or other order approving any such case or proceeding is entered; or Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other than an Immaterial Subsidiary) makes a general assignment for the benefit of creditors; or Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other than an Immaterial Subsidiary) shall fail generally to pay its debts as they become due; or

  (f)	ERISA.  (i)(A) one or more ERISA Events shall have occurred, or

  (B)	there is or arises an Unfunded Pension Liability (taking into account only Plans with positive Unfunded Pension Liability); or

  (C)	there is or arises any withdrawal liability under Section 4201 of ERISA, if Parent, the Company, any Subsidiary of the Company or any of the ERISA Affiliates withdraws completely from any and all Multiemployer Plans; and

  (ii)	there shall result from any such event or events described in clause (a) the imposition of a lien, the granting of a security interest or a liability; and such lien, security interest or liability, individually, and/or in the aggregate, has had, or would reasonably be expected to have, a Material Adverse Effect; or

  (g)	Security Documents.  Any of the Security Documents shall cease to be in full force and effect, or shall cease to give the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors the Liens, rights, powers and privileges purported to be created thereby (including, without limitation, a perfected security interest in, and Lien on, all of the Collateral, in favor of the Collateral Agent, prior (on a First Priority basis with respect to the ABL Facility Priority Collateral and on a Second Priority basis with respect to Term Loan Priority Collateral and prior in all 

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  respects to the Subordinated Loans) to the rights of all third Persons (except for Liens permitted by Section 10.01), and subject to no other Liens (except for Liens permitted by Section 10.01); provided, that the failure to have such a perfected and enforceable Lien on Collateral in favor of the Collateral Agent shall not give rise to an Event of Default under this Section 11.01(g), if either (A) the aggregate fair market value of all Collateral over which the Collateral Agent fails to have such a perfected and enforceable Lien is less than $3,000,000, (B) such lack of perfection or enforceability results from any act or omission of the Collateral Agent or the Administrative Agent (so long as such act or omission does not result from the breach or non-compliance by a Credit Party with the terms of any Credit Document), (C) the lack of perfection or enforceability is with respect to a Mortgaged Property and is covered by a lender’s title insurance policy for the benefit of the Collateral Agent and the Required Lenders shall be reasonably satisfied with the credit of such insurer and the amount insured, or (D) the lack of perfection results from limitations of foreign laws, rules or regulations as they apply to pledges of Equity Interests in Foreign Subsidiaries or applications thereof); or

  (h)	Guaranties.  Any Guaranty or any material provision thereof shall cease to be in full force or effect as to any Guarantor (except as a result of a release of any Guarantor in accordance with the terms thereof), or any Guarantor or any Person acting for or on behalf of such Guarantor shall deny or disaffirm in writing such Guarantor’s obligations under the Guaranty to which it is a party; or

  (i)	[Reserved]; or

  (j)	Judgments.  One or more judgments or decrees shall be entered against Parent, the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company and such judgments and decrees shall be final and non-appealable and shall not be vacated, satisfied, discharged or stayed, covered by a reputable and solvent insurance company or bonded pending appeal for any period of 30 consecutive days, and the aggregate amount of all such judgments equals or exceeds $15,000,000, or any action shall be legally taken by a judgment creditor to attach or levy upon any assets of Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to enforce any such judgment equal to or in excess of $15,000,000; or

  (k)	Change of Control.  A Change of Control shall occur; or

  (l)	Intercreditor Agreements.  Any Intercreditor Agreement, or any provision of any thereof shall cease to be in full force or effect (except in accordance with its terms) or, any Credit Party shall deny or disaffirm in writing its obligations thereunder;

  then, and in any such event, and at any time thereafter, if any Event of Default shall then be continuing, the Administrative Agent, upon the written request of the Required Lenders, shall by written notice to the Borrowers, take any or all of the following actions, without prejudice to the rights of the Administrative Agent to enforce its claims against any Credit Party, or the rights of any Lender or the holder of any Note to enforce its claims against the Borrowers (provided, that if an Event of Default specified in Section 11.01(e) shall occur with respect to any Borrower, the result of which would occur upon the giving of written notice by the Administrative Agent as specified in clauses (a) and (b) below, shall occur automatically without the giving of any such notice):  (a) declare the Total Revolving Loan Commitment terminated, whereupon the Revolving Loan Commitment of each Lender shall forthwith terminate immediately and any accrued 

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  Commitment Commission shall forthwith become due and payable without any other notice of any kind; (b) declare the principal of and any accrued interest in respect of all Loans and the Notes and all Obligations owing hereunder and thereunder to be, whereupon the same shall become, forthwith due and payable without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by each Credit Party; (c) terminate any Letter of Credit which may be terminated in accordance with its terms; (d) direct the Borrowers to pay (and the Borrowers jointly and severally agree that upon receipt of such notice, or upon the occurrence of an Event of Default specified in clause (e) above with respect to any Borrower, they will pay) to the Collateral Agent at the Payment Office, such additional amount of cash or Cash Equivalents, to be held as security by the Collateral Agent, as is equal to the aggregate Stated Amount of all Letters of Credit issued for the account of the Borrowers and then outstanding; (e) apply any cash collateral held by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 5.02 to the repayment of the Obligations; (f) subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreements, enforce, as Collateral Agent, all of the Liens and security interests created pursuant to the Security Documents in accordance with the terms thereof; and (g) enforce each Guaranty.

  11.02	Rescission.  If (1) at any time after termination of the Revolving Loan Commitments or acceleration of the maturity of the Loans, the Borrowers shall have paid all arrears of interest and all payments on account of principal of the Loans and reimbursement obligations with respect to Letters of Credit owing by them that shall have become due otherwise than by acceleration (with interest on principal and, to the extent permitted by law, on overdue interest, at the rates specified herein) and (2) all Defaults (in each case, other than non-payment of principal of and accrued interest on the Loans due and payable solely by virtue of acceleration) shall have been remedied or waived pursuant to Section 13.12 and all Events of Default (in each case, other than non-payment of principal of and accrued interest on the Revolving Loans due and payable solely by virtue of acceleration) shall have been waived (it being understood that Events of Default may not be remedied, except pursuant to Section 11.04) pursuant to Section 13.12, then upon the written consent of the Required Lenders and written notice to the Borrowers, the termination of the Revolving Loan Commitments or the acceleration and its consequences may be rescinded and annulled.  For the avoidance of doubt, such action shall not affect any subsequent Default or Event of Default or impair any right or remedy consequent thereon.  The provisions of the first sentence of this Section 11.02 do not give any Borrower the right to require the Lenders to rescind or annul any acceleration hereunder, even if the conditions set forth herein are met.

  11.03	Application of Proceeds.  Subject to the Intercreditor Agreements, the proceeds received by the Collateral Agent in respect of any sale of, collection from or other realization upon all or any part of the Collateral pursuant to the exercise by the Collateral Agent of its remedies during the continuation of an Event of Default shall be applied, together with any other sums then held by the Collateral Agent pursuant to this Agreement, promptly by the Collateral Agent as follows:

  (a)	First, to the payment of all reasonable costs and expenses, fees, commissions and taxes of such sale, collection or other realization and all expenses, liabilities and advances made or incurred by the Collateral Agent in connection therewith and all amounts for which the Collateral Agent is entitled to indemnification pursuant to the provisions of any Credit Document;

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  (b)	Second, in the order, and to the amounts, specified in clauses (i) through (iv) of Section 5.03(d);

  (c)	Third, to repay all outstanding principal of Swingline Loans;

  (d)	Fourth, to pay all outstanding principal of Revolving Loans (whether or not due and payable);

  (e)	Fifth, to pay an amount to the Administrative Agent equal to 105% of the Stated Amount of outstanding Letters of Credit on such date, to be held in a cash collateral account to be established by, and under the sole dominion and control of, the Administrative Agent;

  (f)	Sixth, to the payment in full (on a ratable basis) of all other outstanding Obligations then due and payable to the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Lenders under any of the Credit Documents;

  (g)	Seventh, to the payment of all amounts due and payable under ABL Secured Cash Management Agreements and ABL Secured Hedging Agreements and any interest accrued thereon, in each case equally and ratably in accordance with the respective amounts thereof then due and owing; and

  (h)	Eighth, the balance, if any, to the Person lawfully entitled thereto (including the applicable Credit Party or its successors or assigns) or as a court of competent jurisdiction may direct.

  In the event that any such proceeds are insufficient to pay in full the items described in clauses First through Seventh of this Section 11.03, the Credit Parties shall remain liable, jointly and severally, for any deficiency.

  11.04	Cure Right.  

  (a)	Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 11, in the event that the Borrowers fail to comply with the requirements of the covenant under Section 10.11, until the expiration of the 10th Business Day subsequent to the date financial statements are required to be delivered pursuant to Section 9.01(a) or Section 9.01(b) (the “Anticipated Cure Deadline”), in respect of the period ending on the last day of such Fiscal Quarter, the Borrowers shall have the right to request Parent to issue Qualified Preferred Stock, obtain a contribution to its common equity or borrow additional Subordinated Facility Loans pursuant to Section 10.04(p), in each case, for cash and to be contributed to the equity capital of the Company as common equity (the “Cure Right”), in each case following the end of such Fiscal Quarter and on or prior to the Anticipated Cure Deadline, in each case in an aggregate amount not to exceed the amount necessary to cure the relevant failure to comply with such covenant may, at the election of the Borrowers be included in the calculation of Consolidated EBITDA for purposes of determining compliance with such covenant, and upon the earlier of (x) the delivery by the Borrowers of written notice to the Administrative Agent that they intend to exercise the Cure Right hereunder (it being understood that to the extent such notice is provided in advance of delivery of a compliance certificate for the applicable period, the amount of such net cash proceeds that are received as the Cure Amount may be lower than specified in such notice to the extent that the amount necessary 

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  to cure such failure to comply with the requirements of the covenant under Section 10.11 is less than the full amount of any originally designated amount) and (y) receipt by the Company of such cash proceeds (the “Cure Amount”), such covenant shall be recalculated giving effect to the following pro forma adjustments:

  (i)	solely for purpose of determining the existence of a failure to comply with the requirements of the covenant under Section 10.11, Consolidated EBITDA for the Fiscal Quarter of the Borrowers for which such certificate is required to be delivered shall be increased by an amount equal to the Cure Amount, and such increase shall be effective for all periods that include the Fiscal Quarter of the Borrowers for which such Cure Right was exercised and not for any other purpose under this Agreement; provided, that (A) the receipt by the Company of the Cure Amount pursuant to the Cure Right shall be deemed to have no other effect whatsoever under this Agreement (including determining the availability or amount of any covenant baskets or carve-outs) and (B) no Cure Amount shall reduce Indebtedness (whether on a Pro Forma Basis or otherwise and whether by netting (including with respect to the calculation of Consolidated Indebtedness or otherwise) for any period in which the Cure Amount is included in the calculation of Consolidated EBITDA for purposes of calculating the financial covenant set forth in Section 10.11; provided, further, that the proceeds of any Cure Amount may be used, at the Borrowers’ option, to prepay the Loans (it being understood and agreed that such prepayments shall not be given effect in determining compliance with the financial covenant set forth in Section 10.11 for any period in which the Cure Amount is included in the calculation of Consolidated EBITDA); and

  (ii)	if, after giving effect to the foregoing recalculations (but not giving effect to any payment of Indebtedness made with such Cure Amount when calculating compliance with Section 10.11 at the end of such (but no other) Fiscal Quarter), the Borrowers shall then be in compliance with the requirements of the covenant under Section 10.11 at the end of such Fiscal Quarter, the Borrowers shall be deemed to have satisfied the requirements of the covenant under Section 10.11 as of the last day of such Fiscal Quarter with the same effect as though there had been no failure to comply therewith at such date, and the applicable breach or Default or Event of Default of the covenant under Section 10.11 that had occurred shall be deemed cured for this purpose under this Agreement and the other Credit Documents; provided, that if the Cure Amount is not received by the Company prior to the Anticipated Cure Deadline, such Default or Event of Default shall be deemed reinstated.

  (b)	Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (i) in each consecutive four-fiscal-quarter period of the Borrowers there shall be at least two Fiscal Quarters in which the Cure Right is not exercised, (ii) the Cure Right shall not be exercised more than five times during the term of this Agreement, (iii) the Cure Amount shall not exceed the amount required to cause the Borrowers to be in compliance with the covenant under Section 10.11; (iv) neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender or Secured Creditor shall exercise any remedy under the Credit Documents or applicable law on the basis of an Event of Default caused by the failure to comply with Section 10.11 until after the Borrowers’ ability to cure has lapsed and the Borrowers have not exercised the Cure Right; (v) prior to the Company’s receipt of the Cure Amount in accordance with the terms hereof, any Event of Default that has occurred as a result of a breach 

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  the covenant under Section 10.11 shall be deemed to be continuing and, as a result, the Lenders shall have no obligation to make additional loans (including providing the Incremental Facility) or otherwise extend additional credit hereunder; and (vi) ) the Cure Right shall not be exercised if, at the time of the Company’s receipt of the Cure Amount, an Event of Default (other than the Event of Default that has occurred as a result of a breach the covenant under Section 10.11) has occurred and is continuing.

  SECTION 12.  The Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent.  

  12.01	Appointment.  (a) The Lenders hereby irrevocably designate and appoint CIT as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent (for purposes of this Section 12 and Section 13.01, the term “Administrative Agent” also shall include CIT in its capacity as Collateral Agent pursuant to the Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreements and the other Credit Documents) to act as specified herein and in the other Credit Documents and CIT hereby accepts such designation and appointment.  Each Lender hereby irrevocably authorizes, and each holder of any Note by the acceptance of such Note shall be deemed irrevocably to authorize, the Administrative Agent to take such action on its behalf under the provisions of this Agreement, the other Credit Documents and any other instruments and agreements referred to herein or therein and to exercise such powers and to perform such duties hereunder and thereunder as are specifically delegated to or required of the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof and thereof and such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto.  The Administrative Agent may perform any of its duties and exercise its rights and powers hereunder by or through its officers, directors, agents, sub-agents, employees or affiliates.  Any sub-agent may perform any and all its duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through its directors, trustees, officers, employees, agents, advisors or affiliates.  The exculpatory and indemnification provisions contained in this Section 12 shall apply to the Administrative Agent and any sub-agent and to their respective directors, trustees, officers, employees, agents, advisors and affiliates, and shall apply to their respective activities in connection with the syndication of the Loans, as well as activities as Agent or sub-agent, and shall apply, without limiting the foregoing, to their respective activities in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein as well as activities as Agent.  The Agents shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any sub-agent except to the extent that a court of competent jurisdiction determines in a final and nonappealable judgment that such Agent acted with gross negligence or willful misconduct in the selection of such sub-agent.  The provisions of this Section 12 are solely for the benefit of the Agents and the Lenders, and no Credit Party shall have rights as a third party beneficiary of any such provisions.

  (b)	Each Lender irrevocably appoints each other Lender as its agent and bailee for the purpose of perfecting Liens (whether pursuant to Section 8-301(a)(2) of the UCC or otherwise), for the benefit of the Secured Creditors, in assets in which, in accordance with the UCC or any other applicable legal requirement a security interest can be perfected by possession or control.  Should any Lender (other than the Collateral Agent) obtain possession or control of any such Collateral, such Lender shall notify the Collateral Agent thereof, and, promptly following the Collateral Agent’s request therefor, shall deliver such Collateral to the Collateral Agent or otherwise deal with such Collateral in accordance with the Collateral Agent’s instructions.   The Lenders hereby acknowledge and agree that the Collateral Agent may act, subject to and in accordance with the terms of the Intercreditor Agreements, as the collateral agent for the Lenders.

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  (c)	Any corporation or association into which the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent may be converted or merged, or with which it may be consolidated, or to which it may sell or transfer all or substantially all of its corporate trust business and assets as a whole or substantially as a whole, or any corporation or association resulting from any such conversion, sale, merger, consolidation or transfer to which the Administrative Agent or the Collateral is a party, will be and become the successor Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent, as applicable, under this Agreement and will have and succeed to the rights, powers, duties, immunities and privileges as its predecessor, without the execution or filing of any instrument or paper or the performance of any further act.

  12.02	Nature of Duties.  (a) The Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities except those expressly set forth in this Agreement and in the other Credit Documents.  Neither the Administrative Agent nor any of its officers, directors, agents, employees or affiliates shall be liable for any action taken or omitted by it or them hereunder or under any other Credit Document or in connection herewith or therewith (i) with the consent or at the request of the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as provided in Section 11.01 or Section 13.12) or (ii) in the absence of its or their gross negligence or willful misconduct (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable decision).  The duties of the Administrative Agent shall be mechanical and administrative in nature; the Administrative Agent shall not have by reason of this Agreement or any other Credit Document a fiduciary relationship in respect of any Lender or the holder of any Note; and nothing in this Agreement or in any other Credit Document, expressed or implied, is intended to or shall be so construed as to impose upon the Administrative Agent any obligations in respect of this Agreement or any other Credit Document except as expressly set forth herein or therein.

  (b)	Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or any provision of any other Credit Document, each of the Joint Lead Arrangers, the Joint Book-Running Managers and the Co-Syndication Agents are named as such for recognition purposes only, and in its capacity as such shall have no powers, duties, responsibilities or liabilities with respect to this Agreement or the other Credit Documents or the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby; it being understood and agreed that each of the Joint Lead Arrangers, the Joint Book-Running Managers and the Co-Syndication Agents shall be entitled to all indemnification and reimbursement rights in favor of the Administrative Agent as, and to the extent, provided for under Sections 12.06 and 13.01.  Without limitation of the foregoing, none of the Joint Lead Arrangers, the Joint Book-Running Managers or the Co-Syndication Agents shall, solely by reason of this Agreement or any other Credit Documents, have any fiduciary relationship in respect of any Lender or any other Person.

  12.03	Lack of Reliance on the Administrative Agent.  (a) Independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, each Lender and the holder of each Note, to the extent it deems appropriate, has made and shall continue to make (i) its own independent investigation of the financial condition and affairs of Parent and its Subsidiaries in connection with the making and the continuance of the Loans, the issuance of any Letter of Credit and the taking or not taking of any action in connection herewith and (ii) its own appraisal of the creditworthiness of Parent and its Subsidiaries and, except as expressly provided in this Agreement, the Administrative Agent shall not have any duty or responsibility, either initially or on a continuing 

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  basis, to provide any Lender or the holder of any Note with any credit or other information with respect thereto, whether coming into its possession before the making of the Loans or the issuance of any Letter of Credit, or at any time or times thereafter.  The Administrative Agent shall not be responsible to any Lender or the holder of any Note for any recitals, statements, information, representations or warranties herein or in any document, certificate or other writing delivered in connection herewith or for the execution, effectiveness, genuineness, validity, enforceability, perfection, collectibility, priority or sufficiency of this Agreement or any other Credit Document or the financial condition of Parent or any of its Subsidiaries or be required to make any inquiry concerning the financial condition of Parent or any of its Subsidiaries or the existence or possible existence of any Default or Event of Default.  The Administrative Agent shall be deemed to have no knowledge of any Default or Event of Default unless and until written notice thereof is given to the Administrative Agent by Parent, the Borrowers or a Lender.  No Agent shall be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into (A) any statement, warranty or representation made in or in connection with any Credit Document, (B) the contents of any certificate, report or other document delivered hereunder or thereunder or in connection herewith or therewith, (C) the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth in any Credit Document or the occurrence of any Default, (D) the validity, enforceability, effectiveness or genuineness of any Credit Document or any other agreement, instrument or document, (E) the value or the sufficiency of any Collateral  or (F) the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Sections 6 and 7 or elsewhere in any Credit Document.  Each party to this Agreement acknowledges and agrees that the Administrative Agent may from time to time use one or more outside service providers for the tracking of all UCC financing statements (and/or other collateral related filings and registrations from time to time) required to be filed or recorded pursuant to the Credit Documents and the notification to the Administrative Agent, of, among other things, the upcoming lapse or expiration thereof, and that each of such service providers will be deemed to be acting at the request and on behalf of the Borrowers and the other Credit Parties.  No Agent shall be liable for any action taken or not taken by any such service provider.

  (b)	Each Lender, by delivering its signature page to this Agreement or an Assignment and Assumption Agreement and funding its initial Revolving Loan, shall be deemed to have acknowledged receipt of, and consented to and approved, each Credit Document and each other document required to be approved by any Agent, the Required Lenders or the Lenders, as applicable, on the Effective Date.

  12.04	Certain Rights of the Agents.  If any Agent shall request instructions from the Required Lenders (or such other Lenders as may be required to give such instructions under Section 13.12) with respect to any act or action (including failure to act) in connection with this Agreement or any other Credit Document, such Agent shall be entitled to refrain from such act or taking such action unless and until such Agent shall have received instructions from the Required Lenders (or such other Lenders, as the case may be); and such Agent shall not incur liability to any Lender by reason of so refraining.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (a) no Agent shall be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of whether a Default has occurred and is continuing, and (b) no Agent (nor any of their officers, partners, directors, employees or agents) shall have any duty to take any discretionary action or exercise any discretionary powers, except discretionary rights and powers expressly contemplated by the Credit Documents that such Agent is required to exercise in writing by the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as 

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  provided in Section 12.01 or13.12); provided, that no Agent shall be required to take any action that, in its opinion or the opinion of its counsel, may expose such Agent to liability, if the Agent is not indemnified to its satisfaction, or that is contrary to any Credit Document or applicable Legal Requirements including, for the avoidance of doubt any action that may be in violation of the automatic stay under the Bankruptcy Code and any and all other insolvency, bankruptcy, receivership, liquidation, conservatorship, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, reorganization, or similar Legal Requirements of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect and affecting the rights of creditors generally or that may affect a foreclosure, modification or termination of property of a Defaulting Lender under the Bankruptcy Code, and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect.

  The Administrative Agent does not warrant or accept responsibility for, and shall not have any liability with respect to (a) the continuation, administration of, submission of, or calculation of or any other matter related to the Base Rate, the Term SOFR Reference Rate, Adjusted Term SOFR or Term SOFR, or any component definition thereof or rates referencedreferred to in the definition thereof, or any alternative, comparable or successor or replacement rate thereto (including any then-current Benchmark or any Benchmark Replacement), including whether the composition or characteristics of any such alternative, comparable or successor or replacement rate (including any Benchmark Replacement) will be similar to, or produce the same value or economic equivalence of, or have the same volume or liquidity as, the Base Rate, the Term SOFR Reference Rate, Adjusted Term SOFR, Term SOFR or any other Benchmark Replacementprior to its discontinuance or unavailability, or (b) the effect, implementation or composition of any Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes (including, but not limited to, determining whether any Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes, if any, are necessary or advisable).   The Administrative Agent shall be under no duty or obligation (i) to monitor, determine or verify the availability, cessation or replacement of any Benchmark, or the occurrence of any Benchmark Transition Event or Benchmark Replacement Date, or (ii) to identify, determine or select any Benchmark Replacement, any Benchmark Replacement Adjustment, or other replacement benchmark or any replacement or successor index
and its affiliates or other related entities may engage in transactions that affect the calculation of the Base Rate, the Term SOFR Reference Rate, Adjusted Term SOFR, Term SOFR, any alternative, successor or replacement rate (including any Benchmark Replacement) or any relevant adjustments thereto, in each case, in a manner adverse to the Borrower.  The Administrative Agent shall not have any liability for any interest rate published on any publicly available source (including but not limited to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Website), by any publication or other source for determining any interest rates applicable to any Loan, including, without limitation, any inaccuracy or error relating to the publication of any such interest rates.  The Administrative Agent shall not be liable for any delay or failure in performing its duties under this Agreement directly or indirectly as a result of the unavailability of any Benchmark or the absence of a designated replacement Benchmark, including as a result of any delay or error on the part of any other Person, or whether as a result of any other Person providing or failing to provide the Administrative Agent with any information or directionmay select information sources or services in its reasonable discretion to ascertain the Base Rate, the Term OSFR Reference Rate, Adjusted Term SOFR.  Term SOFR, or any other Bencharmk, in each case pursuant to the terms of this 

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  Agreement or any Credit Document other than, in each case, to the extent of the Administrative Agent’s gross negligence or willful misconduct as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable decision.  Nothing in this Section shall constitute a representation or warranty by Parent, the Company or any of their Subsidiaries nor can it constitute the basis of any Default or Event of Default.. and shall have no liability to the Borrower, any Lender or any other person or entity for damages of any kind, including direct or indirect, special, punitive, incidental or consequential damages, costs, losses or expenses (whether in tort, contract or otherwise and whether at law or in equity), for any error or calculation of any such rate (or component thereof) provided by any such information source or service.

  12.05	Reliance.  The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely, and shall be fully protected in relying, upon any note, writing (including any electronic message, Internet or intranet website posting or other distribution), resolution, notice, statement, certificate, telex, teletype or telecopier message, cablegram, radiogram, order or other document or telephone message signed, sent or made or otherwise authenticated by any Person that the Administrative Agent believed to be the proper Person, and each Agent also may rely upon any statement made to it orally and believed by it to be made by a proper person, and shall not incur any liability for relying thereon.  In determining compliance with any condition hereunder to the making of a Loan that by its terms must be fulfilled to the satisfaction of a Lender, each Agent may presume that such condition is satisfactory to such Lender unless each Agent shall have received written notice to the contrary from such Lender prior to the making of such Loan.  The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely, and shall be fully protected in relying, upon, with respect to all legal matters pertaining to this Agreement and any other Credit Document and its duties hereunder and thereunder, upon advice of counsel (who may be counsel for the Borrowers), independent accountants and other experts selected by the Administrative Agent and shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken in good faith by it in accordance with the advice of any such counsel, accountants or experts.

  12.06	Indemnification.  To the extent each Agent, and each of the officers, directors, partners, trustees, employees, affiliates, shareholders, legal counsel (including local, foreign and in-house counsel), auditors, accountants, consultants, appraisers, engineers or other advisors, agents, attorneys-in-fact and controlling persons of each of the foregoing and each other person designated, nominated or otherwise mandated by or assisting such Agent pursuant to Section 12.01 or any comparable provision of any Credit Document (collectively, the “Related Persons”), is not reimbursed and indemnified by the Borrowers (without limiting the obligation of the Borrowers to do so), the Lenders will reimburse, indemnify and hold harmless such Agent (or such Related Persons) (IN ALL CASES, WHETHER OR NOT CAUSED OR ARISING, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, OUT OF THE COMPARATIVE, CONTRIBUTORY OR SOLE NEGLIGENCE OF ANY AGENT OR RELATED PERSON); provided, that no Lender shall be liable for any portion of such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, claims, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements resulting from the such Agent’s (or such Related Person’s) gross negligence or willful misconduct (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable decision) (provided, that no action taken in accordance with the directions of the Required Lenders shall be deemed to constitute gross negligence or willful misconduct for purposes of this Section).  In the case of any investigation, litigation or proceeding giving rise to any Indemnified Liabilities, this Section applies whether any such investigation, litigation or proceeding is brought by any Lender or any other Person.  Without 

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  limitation of the foregoing, the Lenders shall reimburse each Agent upon demand in proportion to the Lenders’ respective Pro Rata Shares (determined at the time such reimbursement is sought (or, if such reimbursement is sought after the date upon which all Revolving Loan Commitments shall have terminated and the Revolving Loans shall have been paid in full, ratably in accordance with such Pro Rata Shares as in effect immediately prior to such date)) for any costs or reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses (including the fees, disbursements and other charges of (x) one primary counsel to the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent taken as a whole and (y) one firm of local counsel to the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent taken as a whole in each appropriate jurisdiction) incurred by the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent in connection with preparation, execution, delivery, administration, modification, amendment or enforcement (whether through negotiations, legal proceedings or otherwise) of, or legal advice in respect of rights and responsibilities under, this Agreement, any other Credit Document, or any document contemplated by or referred to herein, to the extent that the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, as applicable, is not reimbursed for such costs or expenses by or on behalf of the Company.  Each Lender hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender under any Credit Document or otherwise payable by the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent to such Lender from any source against any amount due to the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent under this Section 12.06.  The undertaking in this Section 12.06 shall survive termination of the Revolving Loan Commitments, the payment of all other Obligations and the resignation and/or replacement of the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, as the case may be. For purposes of this Section 12.06, (a) “Pro Rata Share” shall mean, with respect to any Lender at any time, the percentage obtained by dividing (i) the sum of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Revolving Loans of such Lender at such time and its unused Revolving Loan Commitments at such time by (ii) the sum of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Revolving Loans of all Lenders at such time and the aggregate unused Revolving Loan Commitments of all Lenders at such time.

  12.07	The Administrative Agent in its Individual Capacity.  With respect to its obligation to make Loans or issue or participate in Letters of Credit under this Agreement, the Administrative Agent shall have the rights and powers specified herein for a “Lender” and may exercise the same rights and powers as though it were not performing the duties specified herein; and the term “Lender”, “Required Lenders”, “holders of Notes”, “Supermajority Lenders” or any similar terms shall, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, include the Administrative Agent in its individual capacity.  The Administrative Agent and its affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to, and generally engage in any kind of banking, investment banking, trust or other business with, or provide debt financing, equity capital or other services (including financial advisory services) to any Credit Party or any Affiliate of any Credit Party (or any Person engaged in a similar business with any Credit Party or any Affiliate thereof) as if they were not performing the duties specified herein, and may accept fees and other consideration from any Credit Party or any Affiliate of any Credit Party for services in connection with this Agreement and otherwise without having to account for the same to the Lenders.

  12.08	Holders.  Any Agent may deem and treat the payee of any Note as the owner thereof for all purposes hereof unless and until a written notice of the assignment, transfer or endorsement thereof, as the case may be, shall have been filed with the Administrative Agent.  Any request, authority or consent of any Person who, at the time of making such request or giving 

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  such authority or consent, is the holder of any Note shall be conclusive and binding on any subsequent holder, transferee, assignee or endorsee, as the case may be, of such Note or of any Note or Notes issued in exchange therefor.

  12.09	Resignation by the Administrative Agent.  (a) The Administrative Agent may resign from the performance of all of its respective functions and duties hereunder and/or under the other Credit Documents at any time by notifying the Lenders and, unless a Default or an Event of Default under Section 11.01(e) has occurred and is continuing, the Borrowers.  Any such resignation by the Administrative Agent hereunder shall also constitute its resignation as an Issuing Lender and the Swingline Lender, in which case the resigning Administrative Agent (i) shall not be required to issue any further Letters of Credit or make any additional Swingline Loans hereunder and (ii) shall maintain all of its rights as Issuing Lender or Swingline Lender, as the case may be, with respect to any Letters of Credit issued by it, or Swingline Loans made by it, prior to the date of such resignation.  Such resignation shall take effect upon the appointment of a successor Administrative Agent pursuant to clauses (b) and (c) below or as otherwise provided below.

  (b)	Upon any such notice of resignation by the Administrative Agent, the Required Lenders shall appoint a successor Administrative Agent hereunder or thereunder who shall be a commercial bank or trust company reasonably acceptable to the Borrowers, which acceptance shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed; provided, that the Borrowers’ approval shall not be required if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.

  (c)	If no successor Administrative Agent shall have been so appointed and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the retiring Administrative Agent gives notice of its resignation, with the consent of the Borrowers (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed) (provided, that the Borrowers’ approval shall not be required if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing), then the retiring Administrative Agent may, on behalf of the Lenders, appoint a successor Administrative Agent which shall be a commercial banking institution organized under the laws of the United States (or any State thereof) or a United States branch or agency of a commercial banking institution, in each case, having combined capital and surplus of at least $500,000,000, who shall serve as Administrative Agent hereunder or thereunder until such time, if any, as the Required Lenders appoint a successor Administrative Agent as provided above.

  (d)	If no successor Administrative Agent has been appointed pursuant to clause (b) or (c) above by such 30th day after the date such notice of resignation was given by such Administrative Agent, such Administrative Agent’s resignation shall become effective and the Required Lenders shall thereafter perform all the duties of such Administrative Agent hereunder and/or under any other Credit Document until such time, if any, as the Required Lenders appoint a successor Administrative Agent.

  (e)	Upon a resignation of the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 12.09, the Administrative Agent shall remain indemnified to the extent provided in this Agreement and the other Credit Documents and the provisions of this Section 12 (and the analogous provisions of the other Credit Documents) and Sections 13.01, 13.08 and 13.24 shall continue in effect for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, its sub-agents and their respective Affiliates for each of their actions and inactions while serving as the Administrative Agent.

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  (f)	Upon the acceptance of its appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder by a successor, such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Administrative Agent, and the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder (unless discharged earlier as provided above).  The fees payable by the Borrowers to a successor Administrative Agent shall be the same as those payable to its predecessor unless otherwise agreed among the Borrowers and such successor.

  12.10	Collateral Matters.  (a) Each Secured Creditor hereby authorizes and directs the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, as applicable, to enter into the Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreements for the benefit of the Lenders and the other Secured Creditors (and any amendments, amendments and restatements, restatements or waivers of or supplements to or other modifications to, such agreements in connection with the incurrence by any Credit Party of any Indebtedness permitted hereby, in order to permit such Indebtedness to be secured by a valid, perfected lien (with such priority as is expressly permitted hereby)); provided, that neither the Administrative Agent nor the Collateral Agent shall owe any fiduciary duty, duty of loyalty, duty of care, duty of disclosure or any other obligation whatsoever to any holder of Obligations with respect to any ABL Secured Hedging Agreement.  Each Lender hereby agrees, and each holder of any Note by the acceptance thereof will be deemed to agree, that, except as otherwise set forth herein, any action taken by the Required Lenders in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement or the Security Documents, and the exercise by the Required Lenders of the powers set forth herein or therein, together with such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, shall be authorized and binding upon all of the Lenders.  The Collateral Agent is hereby authorized on behalf of all of the Lenders, without the necessity of any notice to or further consent from any Lender, from time to time prior to an Event of Default, to take any action with respect to any Collateral or Security Documents which may be necessary to perfect and maintain perfected the security interest in and liens upon the Collateral granted pursuant to the Security Documents.

  (b)	The Lenders hereby authorize the Collateral Agent to release or subordinate, as applicable, any Lien granted to or held by the Collateral Agent upon any Collateral (without notice to, or vote or consent of, any Lender, or any affiliate of any Lender that is a party to any ABL Secured Hedging Agreement) (i) upon termination of the Total Commitment and payment and satisfaction of all of the Obligations (other than inchoate indemnification and reimbursement obligations and other than obligations in respect of any ABL Secured Hedging Agreement) at any time arising under or in respect of this Agreement or the Credit Documents or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, whether or not on the date of such release there may be outstanding Obligations in respect of ABL Secured Hedging Agreements, (ii) constituting property being sold or otherwise disposed of (to Persons other than Parent and the Credit Parties) upon the sale or other disposition thereof in compliance with Section 10.02, (iii) if approved, authorized or ratified in writing by the Required Lenders (or all of the Lenders hereunder, to the extent required by Section 13.12), (iv) as otherwise may be expressly provided in the relevant Security Documents, in the Intercreditor Agreements or the last sentence of each of Sections 10.01 (so long as the Priming Term Loan Agent has released or concurrently releases its Lien on such Collateral) and 10.02, (v) constituting property following or concurrently with a sale or other disposition (to Persons other than Parent and the other Credit Parties) of a Subsidiary of Parent in compliance with Section 10.02, constituting property owned by such Subsidiary or (vi) constituting property 

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  subject to (or which will become subject to promptly following such release) Liens pursuant to Section 9.01(f) or (m), and the Collateral Agent shall promptly, at the written request of the Borrowers, release or subordinate, as applicable, the Collateral Agent’s Liens on such property; provided, that the Borrowers have delivered to the Agents a certificate executed by an Authorized Officer of the Borrowers certifying that the applicable transaction is permitted under the Credit Documents (and the Required Lenders hereby authorize and direct the Agents to conclusively rely on such certificate in performing their obligations under this sentence).  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or any other Credit Document, when all Obligations (other than inchoate indemnification and reimbursement obligations and obligations in respect of any ABL Secured Hedging Agreement) have been paid in full and all Commitments have terminated or expired, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, upon request of the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent shall (without notice to, or vote or consent of, any Lender, or any affiliate of any Lender that is a party to any ABL Secured Hedging Agreement) take such actions as shall be required to release all guarantee obligations provided for in any Credit Document, whether or not on the date of such release there may be outstanding Obligations in respect of ABL Secured Hedging Agreements.  Any such release of guarantee obligations shall be deemed subject to the provision that such guarantee obligations shall be reinstated if after such release any portion of any payment in respect of the Obligations guaranteed thereby shall be rescinded or must otherwise be restored or returned upon the insolvency, bankruptcy, dissolution, liquidation or reorganization of any Borrower or any Guarantor, or upon or as a result of the appointment of a receiver, intervenor or conservator of, or trustee or similar officer for, any Borrower or any Guarantor or any substantial part of its or their property, or otherwise, all as though such payment had not been made.

  (c)	Upon request by the Administrative Agent at any time, the Lenders will confirm in writing the Collateral Agent’s authority to release particular types or items of Collateral pursuant to this Section 12.10.

  (d)	The Collateral Agent shall have no obligation whatsoever to the Lenders or to any other Person to assure that the Collateral exists or is owned by any Credit Party or is cared for, protected or insured or that the Liens granted to the Collateral Agent herein or pursuant hereto have been properly or sufficiently or lawfully created, perfected, protected or enforced or are entitled to any particular priority, or to exercise or to continue exercising at all or in any manner or under any duty of care, disclosure or fidelity any of the rights, authorities and powers granted or available to the Collateral Agent in this Section 12.10 or in any of the Security Documents, it being understood and agreed that in respect of the Collateral, or any act, omission or event related thereto, the Collateral Agent may act in any manner it may deem appropriate, in its sole discretion, given the Collateral Agent’s own interest in the Collateral as one of the Lenders and that the Collateral Agent shall have no duty or liability whatsoever to the Lenders, except for its gross negligence or willful misconduct (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable decision).

  (e)	Anything contained in any of the Credit Documents to the contrary notwithstanding, Parent, the other Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and each other Secured Creditor hereby agree that (i) no Secured Creditor other than the Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent, as applicable, shall have any right individually to realize upon any of the Collateral or to enforce the Guaranty; it being understood and agreed that all 

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  powers, rights and remedies hereunder and under any of the Credit Documents may be exercised solely by the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, as applicable, for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof and all powers, rights and remedies under the Security Documents may be exercised solely by the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in accordance with the terms thereof, and (ii) in the event of a foreclosure or similar enforcement action by the Collateral Agent on any of the Collateral pursuant to a public or private sale or other disposition (including, without limitation, pursuant to Section 363(k), Section 1129(b)(2)(a)(ii) or otherwise of the Bankruptcy Code), the Collateral Agent (or any Lender, except with respect to a “credit bid” pursuant to Section 363(k), Section 1129(b)(2)(a)(ii) or otherwise of the Bankruptcy Code) may be the purchaser or licensor of any or all of such Collateral at any such sale or other disposition and the Collateral Agent, as agent for and representative of the Secured Creditors (but not any Lender or Lenders in its or their respective individual capacities) shall be entitled, upon instructions from the Required Lenders, for the purpose of bidding and making settlement or payment of the purchase price for all or any portion of the Collateral sold at any such sale or disposition, to use and apply any of the Obligations as a credit on account of the purchase price for any collateral payable by the Collateral Agent at such sale or other disposition.

  12.11	Delivery of Information.  The Administrative Agent shall not be required to deliver to any Lender originals or copies of any documents, instruments, notices, communications or other information received by the Administrative Agent from any Credit Party, any Subsidiary thereof, the Required Lenders, any Lender or any other Person under or in connection with this Agreement or any other Credit Document except (a) as specifically provided in this Agreement or any other Credit Document and (b) as specifically requested from time to time in writing by any Lender with respect to a specific document, instrument, notice or other written communication received by and in the possession of the Administrative Agent at the time of receipt of such request and then only in accordance with such specific request.

  12.12	Withholding.  To the extent required by any applicable law, the Administrative Agent may withhold from any payment to any Lender an amount equivalent to any withholding tax applicable to such payment.  If the IRS or any other Governmental Authority asserts a claim that the Administrative Agent did not properly withhold tax from amounts paid to or for the account of any Lender for any other reason, or the Administrative Agent has paid over to the IRS applicable withholding tax relating to a payment to a Lender but no deduction has been made from such payment, such Lender shall indemnify the Administrative Agent fully for all amounts paid, directly or indirectly, by the Administrative Agent as tax or otherwise, including any penalties or interest and together with any and all expenses incurred (including legal expenses, allocated internal costs and out-of-pocket expenses), unless such amounts have been indemnified by any Credit Party or the relevant Lender.

  12.13	Administrative Agent May File Bankruptcy Disclosure and Proofs of Claim.  In case of the pendency of any proceeding under any the Bankruptcy Code, and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect relative to any Credit Party, the Administrative Agent (irrespective of whether the principal of any Revolving Loans shall then be due and payable as herein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the 

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  Administrative Agent shall have made any demand on the Borrowers) shall be entitled and empowered (but not obligated) by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise:

  (a)	to file a verified statement pursuant to rule 2019 of the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure that, in its sole opinion, complies with such rule’s disclosure requirements for entities representing more than one creditor;

  (b)	to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of the principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Revolving Loans and all other Obligations that are owing and unpaid and to file such other documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Lenders and the Administrative Agent (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Administrative Agent and its respective agents and counsel and all other amounts due the Administrative Agent under the Credit Documents) allowed in such judicial proceeding;

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

  (d)	any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Lender to make such payments to the Administrative Agent and, in the event that the Administrative Agent shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Lenders, to pay to the Administrative Agent any amount due for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Administrative Agent and its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Administrative Agent under this Agreement.  To the extent that the payment of any such compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Administrative Agent, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Administrative Agent under this Agreement out of the estate in any such proceeding, shall be denied for any reason, payment of the same shall be secured by a Lien on, and shall be paid out of, any and all distributions, dividends, money, securities and other properties that the Lenders may be entitled to receive in such proceeding whether in liquidation or under any plan of reorganization or arrangement or otherwise.

   

  	Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to authorize the Administrative Agent to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Lender any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Obligations or the rights of any Lender or to authorize the Administrative Agent to vote in respect of the claim of any Lender in any such proceeding.

   

  SECTION 13.  Miscellaneous.  

  13.01	Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver; Costs and Expenses.  (a) The Borrowers hereby jointly and severally agree to:

  (i)	whether or not the transactions herein contemplated are consummated, pay all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses of (A) the Administrative Agent and its Affiliates (including, without limitation, (1) the reasonable fees and disbursements of Proskauer Rose LLP and of a single separate firm of local counsel in each appropriate 

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  jurisdiction, and (2) the costs and expenses of consultants and fees and expenses in connection with appraisals and collateral examinations required pursuant to Section 9.01(h) and all reasonable third party administrative, audit and monitory expenses incurred in connection with the Borrowing Base and determinations thereunder) in connection with the preparation, execution, delivery and administration of this Agreement and the other Credit Documents and the documents and instruments referred to herein and therein and any amendment, waiver or consent relating hereto or thereto, (B) the Administrative Agent and its Affiliates in connection with its or their syndication efforts with respect to this Agreement and (C) the Administrative Agent and each of the Issuing Lenders and the Lenders in connection with the enforcement (or amendment) of this Agreement and the other Credit Documents and the documents and instruments referred to herein and therein or in connection with any refinancing or restructuring of the credit arrangements provided under this Agreement in the nature of a “work-out” or pursuant to any insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings (including, in each case without limitation, the reasonable and documented fees and disbursements of (1) counsel for the Agents (taken as a whole) and (2) counsel and consultants or financial advisors for the Issuing Lenders and the Lenders (taken as a whole)); provided, that reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel shall be limited to (x) one counsel for the Agents taken as a whole and, if reasonably required by the Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent, local or specialist counsel and (y) one additional counsel for the Issuing Lenders and the Lenders taken as a whole (unless there is a conflict of interest that requires separate representation for any Issuing Lender or Lender, in which case those Issuing Lenders or Lenders similarly affected shall, as a whole, be entitled to one separate counsel) and, to the extent reasonably necessary, local or specialist counsel; provided, further, that fees with respect to any financial advisor or similar consultant shall be limited to one such financial advisor or consultant (for the Agents, the Issuing Lenders and the Lenders taken as a whole);

  (ii)	pay all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses of the Administrative Agent, each Issuing Lender and the Swingline Lender in connection with the Back-Stop Arrangements entered into by such Persons; and

  (iii)	indemnify the Administrative Agent, each Joint Lead Arranger, each Issuing Lender and each Lender, and each of their respective officers, directors, employees, representatives, attorneys, agents, Affiliates, trustees and investment advisors (each, an “Indemnified Person”) from and hold each of them harmless against any and all liabilities, obligations (including removal or remedial actions), losses, damages, penalties, claims, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses and disbursements (including reasonable and documented attorneys’ and consultants’ fees and disbursements, but limited, in the case of legal fees, to the reasonable fees, disbursements and other charges of (x) one counsel for the Agents and their Related Persons (taken as a whole) and, if necessary, of a single separate firm of local counsel to the Agents and their Related Persons (taken as a whole) in each appropriate jurisdiction (which may include a single special counsel acting in multiple jurisdictions) and (y) one counsel for all other Indemnified Persons and, if necessary, of a single separate firm of local counsel in each appropriate jurisdiction (which may include a single special counsel acting in multiple jurisdictions) for all such other Indemnified Persons (and, in the case of an actual or perceived conflict of interest (as reasonably determined by the Indemnified Person affected by such conflict) where such Indemnified Person informs the Borrowers of such conflict and thereafter retains its own counsel, of another firm or counsel (and local counsel in each appropriate jurisdiction) for such affected Indemnified Person)) incurred by, imposed on or assessed against any of them as a 

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  result of, or arising out of or by reason of, (A) any investigation, litigation or other proceeding (whether or not the Administrative Agent, any Joint Lead Arranger, any Issuing Lender or any Lender is a party thereto and whether or not such investigation, litigation or other proceeding is brought by or on behalf of any Credit Party) related to the entering into and/or performance of this Agreement or any other Credit Document or the use of the proceeds of any Loans or Letters of Credit hereunder or the consummation of the Transaction, the Transaction 2020 or any other transactions contemplated herein or in any other Credit Document or the exercise of any of their rights or remedies provided herein or in the other Credit Documents, or (B) the actual or alleged presence of Hazardous Materials in the air, surface water or groundwater or on the surface or subsurface of any Real Property at any time owned, leased or operated by Parent or any of its Subsidiaries, the generation, storage, transportation, handling or disposal of Hazardous Materials by Parent or any of its Subsidiaries at any location, whether or not owned, leased or operated by Parent or any of its Subsidiaries, the non-compliance by Parent or any of its Subsidiaries with any Environmental Law (including applicable permits thereunder) applicable to any Real Property, or any Environmental Claim asserted against Parent, the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any Real Property at any time owned, leased or operated by Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (including, in each case, without limitation, the reasonable and documented fees and disbursements of counsel and other consultants incurred in connection with any such investigation, litigation or other proceeding) (all of the foregoing, collectively, the “Indemnified Liabilities”), but excluding any losses, liabilities, claims, damages or expenses to the extent (1) found in a final, non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from (x) the gross negligence, bad faith (other than in the case of the Agents and their Related Persons) or willful misconduct of the Indemnified Person to be indemnified or (y) other than in the case of the Agents and their Related Persons, any material breach of the obligations under the Credit Documents of the Indemnified Person to be indemnified or (2) relating to any dispute solely among the Indemnified Persons (other than (aa) claims against the Administrative Agent or any Joint Lead Arranger or their respective Affiliates in their capacity or in fulfilling their role as the Administrative Agent or arranger or any other similar role under the Credit Documents and (bb) claims arising out of any act or omission on the part of Parent, the Company or its Subsidiaries); provided, further, that clause (ii) of this Section 13.01(a) shall not apply with respect to Taxes other than any Taxes that represent losses, claims, damages, etc. arising from any non-Tax claim.  To the extent that the undertaking to indemnify, pay or hold harmless the Administrative Agent, Joint Lead Arrangers, any Issuing Lender or any Lender set forth in the preceding sentence may be unenforceable because it is violative of any law or public policy, the Borrowers shall make the maximum contribution to the payment and satisfaction of each of the indemnified liabilities which is permissible under applicable law.

  (b)	To the full extent permitted by applicable law, each of Parent and the Borrowers shall not assert, and hereby waives, any claim against any Indemnified Person, on any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential or incidental damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of, this Agreement or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby, the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, any Loan, any Letter of Credit or the use of the proceeds thereof.  No Indemnified Person shall be liable for any damages arising from the use by unintended recipients of any information or other materials distributed by it through telecommunications, electronic or other information transmission systems in connection with this Agreement or the other Credit Documents or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, except to the extent the liability of such Indemnified 

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  Person results from such Indemnified Person’s gross negligence or willful misconduct (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable decision).

  13.02	Right of Setoff.  (a) In addition to any rights now or hereafter granted under applicable law or otherwise, and not by way of limitation of any such rights, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, the Administrative Agent, each Issuing Lender and, subject to Section 13.25, each Lender is hereby authorized at any time or from time to time, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind to any Credit Party or to any other Person, any such notice being hereby expressly waived, to set off and to appropriate and apply any and all deposits (general or special, other than accounts used exclusively for payroll, payroll taxes, fiduciary and trust purposes and employee benefits) and any other Indebtedness at any time held or owing by the Administrative Agent or such Lender (including, without limitation, by branches and agencies of the Administrative Agent or such Lender wherever located) to or for the credit or the account of Parent or any of the other Credit Parties against and on account of the Obligations, irrespective of whether or not the Administrative Agent or such Lender shall have made any demand hereunder and although said Obligations, liabilities or claims, or any of them, shall be unmatured.

  (b)	NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING SUBSECTION (a), AT ANY TIME THAT THE LOANS, ANY LETTER OF CREDIT OR ANY OTHER OBLIGATION SHALL BE SECURED BY REAL PROPERTY LOCATED IN CALIFORNIA, NO LENDER SHALL EXERCISE A RIGHT OF SETOFF, LIEN OR COUNTERCLAIM OR TAKE ANY COURT OR ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION OR INSTITUTE ANY PROCEEDING TO ENFORCE ANY PROVISION OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY NOTE UNLESS IT IS TAKEN WITH THE CONSENT OF THE REQUIRED LENDERS OR APPROVED IN WRITING BY THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, IF SUCH SETOFF OR ACTION OR PROCEEDING WOULD OR MIGHT (PURSUANT TO SECTIONS 580a, 580b, 580d AND 726 OF THE CALIFORNIA CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE OR SECTION 2924 OF THE CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE, IF APPLICABLE, OR OTHERWISE) AFFECT OR IMPAIR THE VALIDITY, PRIORITY OR ENFORCEABILITY OF THE LIENS GRANTED TO THE COLLATERAL AGENT PURSUANT TO THE SECURITY DOCUMENTS OR THE ENFORCEABILITY OF THE NOTES AND OTHER OBLIGATIONS HEREUNDER, AND ANY ATTEMPTED EXERCISE BY ANY LENDER OF ANY SUCH RIGHT WITHOUT OBTAINING SUCH CONSENT OF THE REQUIRED LENDERS OR THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT SHALL BE NULL AND VOID.  THIS SUBSECTION (b) SHALL BE SOLELY FOR THE BENEFIT OF EACH OF THE ISSUING LENDERS, THE LENDERS AND THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT HEREUNDER.

  13.03	Notices.  (a) Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all notices and other communications provided for hereunder shall be in writing (including telegraphic, telecopier, cable communication or other electronic image transmission) and mailed, telegraphed, telecopied, cabled or delivered:  if to any Credit Party, at the address specified on Schedule 13.03; and if to the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, at the Notice Office; or, as to any Credit Party or the Administrative Agent, at such other address as shall be designated by such party in a written notice to the other parties hereto and, as to each Lender, at such other address as shall be designated by such Lender in a written notice to the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent.  All 

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  such notices and communications shall, when mailed, telegraphed, telecopied, or cabled or sent by overnight courier, be effective when deposited in the mails, delivered to the telegraph company, cable company or overnight courier, as the case may be, or sent by telecopier; except, that notices and communications to the Administrative Agent, and the Company shall not be effective until received by the Administrative Agent or the Company, as the case may be.

  (b)	Notwithstanding Section 13.03(a), unless directed otherwise by the Administrative Agent, Parent and the Company will, or will cause its respective Subsidiaries to, provide to the Administrative Agent all information, documents and other materials that it is obligated to furnish to the Administrative Agent or to the Lenders pursuant to the Credit Documents, including all notices, requests, financial statements, financial and other reports, certificates and other information materials, but excluding any such communication that is or relates to a Notice of Borrowing or a notice pursuant to Section 2.06 or the delivery of a Letter of Credit Request (all such non-excluded communications being referred to herein collectively as “Communications”), by transmitting the Communications in an electronic/soft medium in a format acceptable to the Administrative Agent to an electronic mail address as directed by the Administrative Agent.  In addition, each of Parent and the Company agrees, and agrees to cause its respective Subsidiaries, to continue to provide the Communications to the Administrative Agent or the Lenders, as the case may be, in the manner specified in Section 13.03(a) but only to the extent specifically requested by the Administrative Agent in a particular instance.

  (c)	Each of the Borrowers and the Guarantors hereby acknowledges that (a) the Administrative Agent will make available to the Lenders materials and/or information provided by or on behalf of Parent and/or the Borrowers hereunder (collectively, the “Borrower Materials”) by posting the Borrower Materials on Intralinks or another similar electronic system (the “Platform”) and (b) certain of the Lenders may be “public-side” Lenders (i.e., Lenders that do not wish to receive information of a type that would constitute material non-public information with respect to the Borrowers or its securities (each, a “Public Lender”)). Each of Parent and the Borrowers hereby agrees that (w) at the request of the Administrative Agent, Borrower Materials that are to be made available to Public Lenders shall be clearly and conspicuously marked “PUBLIC” which shall mean that the word “PUBLIC” shall appear prominently on the first page thereof; (x) by marking Borrower Materials “PUBLIC,” Parent and the Borrowers shall be deemed to have authorized the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to treat such Borrower Materials as not containing any information of a type that would constitute material non-public information with respect to Parent or the Borrowers or its securities for purposes of United States federal securities laws (provided, however, that to the extent such Borrower Materials constitute confidential information, they shall be treated as such as set forth in Section 12.16); (y) all Borrower Materials marked “PUBLIC” are permitted to be made available through a portion of the Platform designated as “Public Investor;” and (z) the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to treat any Borrower Materials that are not marked “PUBLIC” as being suitable only for posting on a portion of the Platform not marked as “Public Investor.” Notwithstanding the foregoing, the following Borrower Materials shall be marked “PUBLIC”, unless the Borrowers notify the Administrative Agent promptly that any such document contains material non-public information: (1) the Credit Documents and (2) notification of changes in the terms of the Term Loans.  Each Public Lender agrees to cause at least one individual at or on behalf of such Public Lender to at all times have selected the “Private Side Information” or similar designation on the content declaration screen of the Platform in order to enable such Public Lender or its delegate, in 

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  accordance with such Public Lender’s compliance procedures and applicable law, including United States Federal and state securities laws, to make reference to Communications that are not made available through the “Public Side Information” portion of the Platform and that may contain information of a type that would constitute material non-public information with respect to Parent or the Borrowers or their securities for purposes of United States Federal or state securities laws.

  (d)	THE PLATFORM IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”.  NEITHER THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT NOR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES WARRANTS THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE COMMUNICATIONS OR THE ADEQUACY OF THE PLATFORM AND EACH EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS LIABILITY FOR ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN THE COMMUNICATIONS.  NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS OR FREEDOM FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER CODE DEFECTS IS MADE BY THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT OR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES IN CONNECTION WITH THE COMMUNICATIONS OR THE PLATFORM.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT OR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES HAVE ANY LIABILITY TO ANY CREDIT PARTY, ANY LENDER OR ANY OTHER PERSON FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER OR NOT BASED ON STRICT LIABILITY AND INCLUDING DIRECT OR INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOSSES OR EXPENSES (WHETHER IN TORT, CONTRACT OR OTHERWISE) ARISING OUT OF ANY CREDIT PARTY’S OR THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT’S TRANSMISSION OF COMMUNICATIONS THROUGH THE PLATFORM, EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT THE LIABILITY OF ANY SUCH PERSON IS FOUND IN A FINAL RULING BY A COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION TO HAVE RESULTED PRIMARILY FROM SUCH PERSON’S GROSS NEGLIGENCE OR WILLFUL MISCONDUCT.

  (e)	Notwithstanding Section 13.03(a), the Administrative Agent, Issuing Lenders and Lenders agree that the receipt of the Communications by the Administrative Agent at its electronic mail address shall constitute effective delivery of the Communications to the Administrative Agent for purposes of the Credit Documents.  Each Issuing Lender and Lender agrees that receipt of notice to it (as provided in the next sentence) specifying that the Communications have been posted to the Platform shall constitute effective delivery of the Communications to such Lender for purposes of the Credit Documents.  Each Issuing Lender and Lender agrees to notify the Administrative Agent in writing (including by electronic communication) from time to time of such Lender’s electronic mail address to which the foregoing notice may be sent by electronic transmission and that the foregoing notice may be sent to such electronic mail address.

  13.04	Benefit of Agreement; Assignments; Participations.  (a) This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by the respective successors and assigns of the parties hereto; provided, however, that neither Parent nor the Borrowers may assign or transfer any of its rights, obligations or interest hereunder without the prior written consent of the Lenders (and any purported assignment or transfer without such consent shall be null and void); provided, further, that, although any Lender may grant participations to Eligible Transferees (each a “Participant”) in its rights hereunder, such Lender shall remain a “Lender” for all purposes hereunder (and may not transfer or assign all or any portion of its Revolving Loan 

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  Commitment, Loans, Letters of Credit, Note or other Obligations hereunder except as provided in Sections 2.13 and 13.04(b)) and the Participant shall not constitute a “Lender” hereunder; provided, further, that any agreement or instrument pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce this Agreement and no Lender shall transfer or grant any participation under which the Participant shall have rights to approve any amendment to or waiver of this Agreement or any other Credit Document except to the extent such amendment or waiver would (i) extend the final scheduled maturity of any Loan, Letter of Credit or Note (unless such Letter of Credit is not extended past the Final Maturity Date) in which such participant is participating, or reduce the rate or extend the time of payment of interest thereon (except in connection with a waiver of applicability of any post-default increase in interest rates) or reduce the principal amount thereof, or increase the amount of the Participant’s participation over the amount thereof then in effect (it being understood that a waiver of any Default or Event of Default or of a mandatory reduction in the Total Revolving Loan Commitment or a mandatory repayment of the Loans shall not constitute a change in the terms of such participation, and that an increase in any Revolving Loan Commitment (or the available portion thereof) or Loan (or the addition of additional Revolving Loan Commitments or Loans) shall be permitted without the consent of any Participant if the Participant’s participation is not increased as a result thereof), (ii) consent to the assignment or transfer by Parent or the Borrowers of any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement or (iii) release all or substantially all of the Collateral under all of the Security Documents (except as expressly provided in the Credit Documents) supporting the Loans and Letters of Credit hereunder in which such Participant is participating.  In the case of any such participation, except as otherwise set forth below in this Section 13.04(a), the Participant shall not have any rights under this Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents (the Participant’s rights against such Lender in respect of such participation to be those set forth in the agreement executed by such Lender in favor of the Participant relating thereto) and all amounts payable by the Borrowers hereunder shall be determined as if such Lender had not sold such participation.

  The Borrowers agree that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.10, 2.11, 3.06 and 5.04 (subject to the requirements and limitations therein, including the requirements under Section 5.04(f) (it being understood that the documentation required under Section 5.04(f) shall be delivered to the participating Lender)) to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to clause (b) of this Section 13.04; provided, that such Participant (A) agrees to be subject to the provisions of Sections 2.12 and 2.13 as if it were an assignee under clause (b) of this Section 13.04; and (B) shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Sections 2.10, 2.11, 3.06 and 5.04, with respect to any participation, than its participating Lender would have been entitled to receive.  A participant shall not be entitled to the benefits of Section 5.04 to the extent such Participant fails to comply with Section 5.04(f) as though it were a Lender (it being understood that the documentation required under Section 5.04(f) shall be delivered to the participating Lender).  Each Lender that sells a participation agrees, at the Company’s request and expense, to use reasonable efforts to cooperate with the Borrowers to effectuate the provisions of Section 2.13 with respect to any Participant.  To the extent permitted by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 13.02 as though it were a Lender; provided, that such Participant agrees to be subject to Section 13.06 as though it were a Lender.  Each Lender that sells a participation shall, acting solely for this purpose as an agent of the Borrowers, maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of each Participant and the principal amounts (and stated interest) of each Participant’s interest in the 

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  Loans or other obligations under the Credit Documents (the “Participant Register”); provided, that no Lender shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register (including the identity of any Participant or any information relating to a Participant’s interest in any commitments, loans, letters of credit or its other obligations under any Credit Document) to any Person except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish that such commitment, loan, letter of credit or other obligation is in registered form under Section 5f.103-1(c) of the Treasury Regulations.  The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and such Lender shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of such participation for all purposes of this Agreement notwithstanding any notice to the contrary.  For the avoidance of doubt, the Administrative Agent (in its capacity as Administrative Agent) shall have no responsibility for maintaining a Participant Register.

  (b)	Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Lender may (in each case below, excluding any assignments to any of Parent, any Borrower, the Sponsor or any of their respective Affiliates (each an “Affiliated Person”)) (i) assign (in each case pursuant to this clause (i) to an Eligible Transferee) all or a portion of its Revolving Loan Commitment and related outstanding Obligations (or, if the Revolving Loan Commitment has terminated, outstanding Obligations) hereunder to (A) (1) any Lender Affiliate of such Lender or (2) to one or more other Lenders or any Lender Affiliate of any such other Lender (provided, that any fund that invests in loans and is managed or advised by the same investment advisor of another fund which is a Lender (or by an Affiliate of such investment advisor) shall be treated as a Lender Affiliate of such other Lender for the purposes of this subclause (i)(A)(2)), or (B) in the case of any Lender that is a fund that invests in loans, any other fund that invests in loans and is managed or advised by the same investment advisor as such Lender or by an Affiliate of such investment advisor or (ii) assign all, or if less than all, a portion equal to at least $5,000,000 (or such lesser amount as the Administrative Agent and, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Company may otherwise agree, which agreement shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed) in the aggregate for the assigning Lender, of such Revolving Loan Commitment and related outstanding Obligations (or, if the Revolving Loan Commitment has terminated, outstanding Obligations) hereunder to one or more Eligible Transferees (treating any fund that invests in loans and any other fund that invests in loans and is managed or advised by the same investment advisor of such fund or by an Affiliate of such investment advisor as a single assignor or Eligible Transferee (as applicable) (if any) for purposes of the dollar limitation set forth above), each of which assignees shall become a party to this Agreement as a Lender by execution of an Assignment and Assumption Agreement; provided, that (v) at such time, Schedule 1.01(a) shall be deemed modified to reflect the Revolving Loan Commitments and/or outstanding Loans, as the case may be, of such new Lender and of the existing Lenders, (w) upon the surrender of the relevant Notes (if any) by the assigning Lender (or, upon such assigning Lender’s indemnifying the Borrowers for any lost Note pursuant to a customary indemnification agreement) new Notes will be issued, at the Borrowers’ expense, to such new Lender and to the assigning Lender upon the request of such new Lender or assigning Lender, such new Notes to be in conformity with the requirements of Section 2.05 (with appropriate modifications) to the extent needed to reflect the revised Revolving Loan Commitments and/or outstanding Loans, as the case may be, (x) the consent of the Administrative Agent, the Swingline Lender and each Issuing Lender shall be required in connection with any assignment pursuant to clause (i) or (ii) above (such consent, in each case, not to be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned) and, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the consent of the Company (such consent deemed to have been made with respect to 

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  any assignment if the Company has not responded within 10 Business Days after delivery of notice of such assignment) shall be required in connection with any such assignment pursuant to clause (ii) above (such consent, in any case, not to be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned), (y) the Administrative Agent shall receive at the time of each such assignment, from the assigning or assignee Lender, the payment of a non-refundable assignment fee of $3,500 (provided, that only one such fee shall be payable in the case of one or more concurrent assignments by or to investment funds managed or advised by the same investment advisor or an affiliated investment advisor and which fee may be waived or reduced in the sole discretion of the Administrative Agent), and (z) no such transfer or assignment will be effective until recorded by the Administrative Agent on the Register pursuant to Section 13.15.  To the extent of any assignment pursuant to this Section 13.04(b), the assigning Lender shall be relieved of its obligations hereunder with respect to its assigned Revolving Loan Commitment and outstanding Loans.  At the time of each assignment pursuant to this Section 13.04(b) to a Person which is not already a Lender hereunder, the respective assignee Lender shall, (aa) to the extent legally entitled to do so, provide to the Company the appropriate IRS Forms described in Section 5.04(f), and (bb) deliver to the Administrative Agent an Administrative Questionnaire (in which the assignee Lender shall designate one or more credit contacts to whom all syndicate-level information (which may contain material non-public information about the Credit Parties and their Affiliates or their respective securities) will be made available and who may receive such information in accordance with the assignee Lender’s compliance procedures and applicable laws, including Federal and state securities laws).  To the extent that an assignment of all or any portion of a Lender’s Revolving Loan Commitment and related outstanding Obligations pursuant to Section 2.13 or this Section 13.04(b) would, at the time of such assignment, result in increased costs under Section 2.10 or 5.04 from those being charged by the respective assigning Lender prior to such assignment, then the Company shall not be obligated to pay such increased costs (although the Company shall be obligated to pay increased costs, as and to the extent provided in Section 2.10 and 5.04 (excluding for the avoidance of doubt Excluded Taxes), after the date of the respective assignment).

  (c)	Nothing in this Agreement shall prevent or prohibit any Lender from pledging its Loans and Notes hereunder to a Federal Reserve Bank in support of borrowings made by such Lender from such Federal Reserve Bank, and any Lender which is a fund may pledge all or any portion of its Loans and Notes to its trustee or to a collateral agent providing credit or credit support to such Lender in support of its obligations to such trustee, such collateral agent or a holder of such obligations, as the case may be.  In the case of any Lender that is a fund that invests in bank loans, such Lender may, without the consent of the Company or the Administrative Agent, collaterally assign or pledge all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement, including the Loans, Letters of Credit and Notes or any other instrument evidencing its rights as a Lender under this Agreement, to any holder of, trustee for, or any other representative of holders of, obligations owed or securities issued by, such fund, as security for such obligations or securities.  No pledge pursuant to this clause (c) shall release the transferor Lender from any of its obligations hereunder.

  (d)	Any Lender which assigns all of its Revolving Loan Commitment and/or Loans hereunder in accordance with Section 13.04(b) shall cease to constitute a “Lender” hereunder, except with respect to indemnification provisions under this Agreement (including, without limitation, Sections 2.10, 2.11, 3.06, 5.04, 12.06, 13.01 and 13.06), which shall survive as to such assigning Lender.

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  (e)	The Administrative Agent shall not be responsible or have any liability for, or have any duty to ascertain, inquire into, monitor or enforce, compliance with the provisions hereof relating to Disqualified Lenders.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Administrative Agent shall not ‎(i) be obligated to ascertain, monitor or inquire as to whether any Lender or Participant or prospective Lender or Participant is a Disqualified ‎Lender or (ii) have any liability with respect to or arising out of any assignment or participation of Revolving Loans, or disclosure of confidential information, to any ‎Disqualified Lender.‎

  (f)	Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, any Lender may exchange, continue or rollover all or a portion of its Revolving Loans in connection with any refinancing, extension, loan modification or similar transaction permitted by the terms of this Agreement, pursuant to a cashless settlement mechanism approved by the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent and such Lender.

  13.05	No Waiver; Remedies Cumulative.  No failure or delay on the part of the Administrative Agent or any Lender in exercising any right, power or privilege hereunder or under any other Credit Document and no course of dealing between the Borrowers or any other Credit Party and the Administrative Agent or any Lender shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, power or privilege hereunder or under any other Credit Document preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege hereunder or thereunder.  The rights, powers and remedies herein or in any other Credit Document expressly provided are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights, powers or remedies which the Administrative Agent or any Lender would otherwise have.  No notice to or demand on any Credit Party in any case shall entitle any Credit Party to any other or further notice or demand in similar or other circumstances or constitute a waiver of the rights of the Administrative Agent or any Lender to any other or further action in any circumstances without notice or demand.

  13.06	Payments Pro Rata.  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, the Administrative Agent agrees that promptly after its receipt of each payment from or on behalf of any Borrower in respect of any Obligations hereunder, the Administrative Agent shall distribute such payment to the Lenders entitled thereto (other than any Lender that has consented in writing to waive its pro rata share of any such payment) pro rata based upon their respective shares, if any, of the Obligations with respect to which such payment was received.

  (b)	Each of the Lenders agrees that, if it should receive any amount hereunder (whether by voluntary payment, by realization upon security, by the exercise of the right of setoff or banker’s lien, by counterclaim or cross action, by the enforcement of any right under the Credit Documents, or otherwise), but excluding amounts received from sales of assignments or participations in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, which is applicable to the payment of the principal of, or interest on, the Loans, Unpaid Drawings, Commitment Commission or Letter of Credit Fees, of a sum which constitutes a greater proportion of the total of such Obligation then owed and due to such Lender than the related sum or sums received by other Lenders constitutes of such Obligation then owed and due to all of the Lenders immediately prior to such receipt, then such Lender receiving such excess payment shall purchase for cash without recourse or warranty from the other Lenders an interest in the Obligations of the respective Credit Party to such Lenders in such amount as shall result in a proportional participation by all the Lenders in such amount; provided, that if all or any portion of such excess amount is thereafter 

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  recovered from such Lenders, such purchase shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, but without interest.

  (c)	Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the provisions of the preceding Sections 13.06(a) and (b) shall be subject to the express provisions of this Agreement which require, or permit, differing payments to be made to Non-Defaulting Lenders as opposed to Defaulting Lenders.

  13.07	Calculations; Computations.  (a) The financial statements to be furnished to the Lenders pursuant hereto shall be made and prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the periods involved (except as set forth in the notes thereto); provided, that (i) except as otherwise specifically provided herein, all computations and all definitions (including accounting terms) used in determining compliance with Sections 9.16 and 10 and calculations of the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio and the Secured Net Leverage Ratio, shall utilize GAAP and policies in conformity with those used to prepare the Pro Forma Financial Statements (subject to purchase accounting and other adjustments reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent as a result of the Acquisition); provided, that if the Borrowers notify the Administrative Agent that the Borrowers request an amendment to any provision hereof to eliminate the effect of any change occurring in GAAP or in the application thereof on the operation of such provision (or if the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrowers that the Required Lenders request an amendment to any provision hereof for such purpose), regardless of whether any such notice is given before or after such change in GAAP or in the application thereof, then such provision shall be interpreted on the basis of GAAP as in effect and applied immediately before such change becomes effective until such notice shall have been withdrawn or such provision amended in accordance herewith; provided, further, that if such an amendment is requested by the Borrowers or the Required Lenders, then the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent shall negotiate in good faith to enter into an amendment of the relevant affected provisions (without the payment of any amendment or similar fee to the Lenders) to preserve the original intent thereof in light of such change in GAAP or the application thereof, (ii) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, for purposes of calculating financial terms, all covenants and related definitions, all such calculations shall be based on the operations, assets and results of the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, (iii) notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, all covenants and financial ratios contained herein or in any other Credit Document shall be calculated, in each case, without giving effect to any election under FASB ASC 825 (or any similar accounting principle) permitting a Person to value its financial liabilities at the fair value thereof, (iv) all financial statements delivered to the Administrative Agent in accordance with the terms of this Agreement after the date of any accounting change shall contain a schedule showing the adjustments, in any, necessary to reconcile such financial statements with GAAP as in effect immediately prior to such accounting changes, and (v) all references in this Agreement to a four-Fiscal Quarter period of the Company referring to a period prior to the Effective Date shall refer to the applicable period prior to the Effective Date as if the Company had existed and the Transaction has occurred on the first day of said period.

  (b)	All computations of interest, Commitment Commission and other Fees hereunder shall be made on the basis of a year of 360 days (except for interest calculated by reference to the Prime Rate in the case of Base Rate Loans, which shall be based on a year of 365 

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  or 366 days, as applicable) for the actual number of days (including the first day but excluding the last day) occurring in the period for which such interest are payable.

  (c)	Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, to the extent that the terms of this Agreement require (i) compliance with any financial ratio or test (including, without limitation, any Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio and/or the amount of Consolidated EBITDA) or (ii) the absence of a Default or Event of Default (or any type of Default or Event of Default) as a condition to (A) the making of any Dividend and/or (B) the making of any Restricted Junior Payment, the determination of whether the relevant condition is satisfied may be made, at the election of the Borrowers, (1) in the case of any Dividend, at the time of (or on the basis of the financial statements for the most recently ended Test Period at the time of) (A) the declaration of such Dividend or (B) the making of such Dividend and (2) in the case of any Restricted Junior Payment, at the time of (or on the basis of the financial statements for the most recently ended Test Period at the time of) (1) delivery of irrevocable (which may be conditional) notice with respect to such Restricted Junior Payment or (2) the making of such Restricted Junior Payment, in each case, after giving effect to the relevant acquisition, Dividend and/or Restricted Junior Payment on a Pro Forma Basis.

  (d)	For purposes of determining the permissibility of any action, change, transaction or event that requires a calculation of any financial ratio or test (including, without limitation, Section 10.11, any Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio test and/or the amount of Consolidated EBITDA), such financial ratio or test shall be calculated at the time such action is taken, such change is made, such transaction is consummated or such event occurs, as the case may be, and no Default or Event of Default shall be deemed to have occurred solely as a result of a change in such financial ratio or test occurring after the time such action is taken, such change is made, such transaction is consummated or such event occurs, as the case may be.

  (e)	Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in paragraph (a) above or in the definition of “Capitalized Lease Obligations”, in the event of an accounting change requiring all leases to be capitalized, only those leases (assuming for purposes hereof that such leases were in existence on the date hereof) that would constitute Capitalized Lease Obligations in conformity with GAAP on the date hereof shall be considered Capitalized Lease Obligations, and all calculations and deliverables under this Agreement or any other Credit Document shall be made or delivered, as applicable, in accordance therewith (provided, that together with all financial statements delivered to the Administrative Agent in accordance with the terms of this Agreement after the date of any such accounting change, the Borrowers shall deliver a schedule showing the adjustments necessary to reconcile such financial statements with GAAP as in effect immediately prior to such accounting change).

  13.08	GOVERNING LAW; SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION; VENUE; WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL.  (a) THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER CREDIT DOCUMENTS AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER AND THEREUNDER SHALL, EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED IN ANY SECURITY DOCUMENT, BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND BE GOVERNED BY THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.  ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING WITH RESPECT TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER CREDIT DOCUMENT MAY BE BROUGHT IN THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK OR OF THE UNITED 

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  STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK SITTING IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, IN EACH CASE WHICH ARE LOCATED IN THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK, AND, BY EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER CREDIT DOCUMENT, EACH BORROWER AND EACH GUARANTOR HEREBY IRREVOCABLY ACCEPTS FOR ITSELF AND IN RESPECT OF ITS PROPERTY, GENERALLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY, THE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THE AFORESAID COURTS (INCLUDING ANY APPELLATE COURTS THEREOF).  EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY CLAIM THAT ANY SUCH COURTS LACK PERSONAL JURISDICTION OVER SUCH PARTY, AND AGREES NOT TO PLEAD OR CLAIM, IN ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING WITH RESPECT TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER CREDIT DOCUMENT BROUGHT IN ANY OF THE AFOREMENTIONED COURTS, THAT SUCH COURTS LACK PERSONAL JURISDICTION OVER SUCH PARTY.  EACH PARTY HERETO FURTHER IRREVOCABLY CONSENTS TO THE SERVICE OF PROCESS OUT OF ANY OF THE AFOREMENTIONED COURTS IN ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING BY THE MAILING OF COPIES THEREOF BY REGISTERED OR CERTIFIED MAIL, POSTAGE PREPAID, TO SUCH PARTY AT THE ADDRESS REFERENCED IN SECTION 13.03, SUCH SERVICE TO BECOME EFFECTIVE 30 DAYS AFTER SUCH MAILING.  EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY OBJECTION TO SUCH SERVICE OF PROCESS AND FURTHER IRREVOCABLY WAIVES AND AGREES NOT TO PLEAD OR CLAIM IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING COMMENCED HEREUNDER OR UNDER ANY OTHER CREDIT DOCUMENT THAT SERVICE OF PROCESS WAS IN ANY WAY INVALID OR INEFFECTIVE.  NOTHING HEREIN SHALL AFFECT THE RIGHT OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, ANY LENDER OR THE HOLDER OF ANY NOTE TO SERVE PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY LAW OR TO COMMENCE LEGAL PROCEEDINGS OR OTHERWISE PROCEED AGAINST ANY BORROWER OR ANY GUARANTOR IN ANY OTHER JURISDICTION.

  (b)	EACH OF THE PARTIES TO THIS AGREEMENT HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY OBJECTION WHICH IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE LAYING OF VENUE OF ANY OF THE AFORESAID ACTIONS OR PROCEEDINGS ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER CREDIT DOCUMENT BROUGHT IN THE COURTS REFERRED TO IN CLAUSE (a) ABOVE AND HEREBY FURTHER IRREVOCABLY WAIVES AND AGREES NOT TO PLEAD OR CLAIM IN ANY SUCH COURT THAT ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING BROUGHT IN ANY SUCH COURT HAS BEEN BROUGHT IN AN INCONVENIENT FORUM.

  (c)	EACH OF THE PARTIES TO THIS AGREEMENT HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ALL RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION, PROCEEDING OR COUNTERCLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, THE OTHER CREDIT DOCUMENTS OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY.

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  same instrument.  A set of counterparts executed by all the parties hereto shall be lodged with the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent.  Delivery of an executed counterpart hereof by facsimile or by other electronic method of transmission shall be as effective as delivery of any original executed counterpart hereof.  Any party delivering an executed counterpart of this Agreement by facsimile or other electronic method of transmission also shall deliver an original executed counterpart of this Agreement but the failure to deliver an original executed counterpart shall not affect the validity, enforceability, and binding effect of this Agreement.  The foregoing shall apply to each other Credit Document mutatis mutandis.

  13.10	Effectiveness.  This Agreement shall become effective on the date (the “Effective Date”) on which (a) Parent, the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and each of the Lenders shall have signed a counterpart hereof (whether the same or different counterparts) and shall have delivered the same to the Administrative Agent at the Notice Office or, in the case of the Lenders, shall have given to the Administrative Agent telephonic (confirmed in writing), written or telex notice (actually received) at such office that the same has been signed and mailed to it, and (b) the conditions contained in Section 6 have been met to the reasonable satisfaction of the Administrative Agent, which date is May 8, 2015.

  13.11	Headings Descriptive.  The headings of the several sections and subsections of this Agreement are inserted for convenience only and shall not in any way affect the meaning or construction of any provision of this Agreement.

  13.12	Amendment or Waiver; etc.  (a) Neither this Agreement nor any other Credit Document nor any terms hereof or thereof may be changed, waived, discharged or terminated (other than upon payment in full of the Obligations or as expressly provided herein or therein) unless such change, waiver, discharge or termination, in the case of this Agreement, is in writing signed by the Credit Parties party hereto or thereto and signed or consented to in writing by the Required Lenders and acknowledged by the Administrative Agent or, in the case of any other Credit Document, pursuant to an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by the Administrative Agent and/or the Collateral Agent, as applicable (with the consent of the Required Lenders) and the Credit Party or Credit Parties that are parties thereto (although additional parties may be added to (and annexes may be modified to reflect such additions), and Subsidiaries of the Company and Collateral may be released from, the Security Documents and the Intercreditor Agreements in accordance with the provisions hereof and thereof, additional Borrowers may be added to this Agreement and the Security Documents in accordance with the provisions of Section 9.12(f), and Borrowers which are Subsidiaries of the Company may be released as Borrowers hereunder (and as parties to the relevant Security Documents) as provided in Section 13.22, without the consent of the other Credit Parties party thereto or the Required Lenders); provided, that no such change, waiver, discharge or termination shall, without the consent of each Lender (with Obligations being directly affected in the case of following clauses (i) and (iv)), (i) extend the final scheduled maturity of any Loan or Note, or extend the stated expiration date of any Letter of Credit beyond the Final Maturity Date (except as contemplated herein), or reduce the rate or extend the time of payment of interest or Fees thereon (except in connection with the waiver of applicability of any post-default increase in interest rates), or reduce (or forgive) the principal amount thereof (it being understood that any amendment or modification to the financial definitions in this Agreement or to Section 13.07(a) shall not constitute a reduction in the rate of interest for the purposes of this clause (i)), or amend Section 2.09 to permit the Borrowers to select 

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  Interest Periods for any Loans in excess of six months at any time when such longer Interest Periods is not available to all Lenders, (ii) release all or substantially all of the Collateral under the Security Documents or release all or substantially all of the value of the Guaranty provided by any Guarantor (except as expressly provided in the Credit Documents), (iii) amend, modify or waive any provision of this Section 13.12(a) (except for technical amendments with respect to additional extensions of credit pursuant to this Agreement which afford the protections to such additional extensions of credit of the type provided to the Revolving Loan Commitments and the Loans on the Effective Date), (iv) reduce the “majority” voting threshold specified in the definition of “Required Lenders”, (v) consent to the assignment or transfer by Parent or the Borrowers of any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement, (vi) amend, modify or waive the application of payments set forth in Section 5.03(d), 11.03 or Section 13.06 hereof, or (vii) contractually subordinate the payment of Obligations to any other Indebtedness, or except as permitted herein or as provided in the Intercreditor Agreement, contractually subordinate the priority of any of the Administrative Agent’s Liens to the Liens securing other Indebtedness; provided further, that no such change, waiver, discharge or termination shall (A) increase the Revolving Loan Commitment of any Lender over the amount thereof then in effect without the consent of such Lender (it being understood that waivers or modifications of conditions precedent, covenants, Defaults or Events of Default or of a mandatory reduction in the Total Revolving Loan Commitment or a mandatory repayment of Loans shall not constitute an increase of the Revolving Loan Commitment of any Lender, and that an increase in the available portion of the Revolving Loan Commitment of any Lender shall not constitute an increase of the Revolving Loan Commitment of such Lender), (B) without the consent of (x) the Administrative Agent, amend, modify or waive any provision of Section 12 or any other provision of this Agreement or any other Credit Document as same relates to, or affects, the rights or obligations of the Administrative Agent or (y) the Collateral Agent, amend, modify or waive any provision of Section 12 or any other provision of this Agreement or any other Credit Document as same relates to, or affects, the rights or obligations of the Collateral Agent, (C) without the consent of the Collateral Agent, amend, modify or waive any provision relating to the rights or obligations of the Collateral Agent, (D) without the consent of each Issuing Lender, amend, modify or waive any provision of Section 3 or alter its rights or obligations with respect to Letters of Credit, (E) without the consent of the Swingline Lender, alter the Swingline Lender’s rights or obligations with respect to Swingline Loans or (F) without the consent of the Supermajority Lenders, (1) amend the definition of “Supermajority Lenders” (it being understood that, with the consent of the Required Lenders, additional extensions of credit pursuant to this Agreement may be included in the determination of the Supermajority Lenders on substantially the same basis as the extensions of Loans and Revolving Loan Commitments are included on the Effective Date), (2) increase the advance rates applicable to the Borrowing Base over those in effect on the Effective Date (it being understood that the establishment, modification or elimination of Reserves and adjustment, establishment and elimination of criteria for Eligible Accounts, Eligible Credit Card Receivables, Eligible Inventory and or Eligible In Transit Inventory, in each case by the Administrative Agent in accordance with the terms hereof, will not be deemed such an increase in advance rates) or (3) amend or expand any of the following definitions, in each case the effect of which would be to increase the amounts available for borrowing hereunder:  Borrowing Base, Eligible Accounts, Eligible Credit Card Receivables, Eligible Inventory and or Eligible In Transit Inventory (including, in each case, the defined terms used therein) (it being understood that the establishment, modification or elimination of Reserves and adjustment, establishment and elimination of criteria for Eligible Accounts, Eligible Credit 

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  Card Receivables, Eligible Inventory and or Eligible In Transit Inventory, in each case by the Administrative Agent in accordance with the terms hereof, will not be deemed to require a Supermajority Lender consent).

  (b)	If, in connection with any proposed change, waiver, discharge or termination of or to any of the provisions of this Agreement as contemplated by clauses (i) through (vii), inclusive, of the first proviso to Section 13.12(a), the consent of the Required Lenders is obtained but the consent of one or more of such other Lenders whose consent is required is not obtained, then the Borrowers shall have the right, so long as all non-consenting Lenders whose individual consent is required are treated as described in either clause (i) or (ii) below, to either (i) replace each such non-consenting Lender or Lenders with one or more Replacement Lenders pursuant to Section 2.13 so long as at the time of such replacement, each such Replacement Lender consents to the proposed change, waiver, discharge or termination or (ii) repay all outstanding Loans and terminate all Revolving Loan Commitments of such Lender in accordance with Section 4.02(b); provided, that unless the Loans which are repaid or Revolving Loan Commitments which are terminated pursuant to preceding clause (ii) are immediately replaced in full at such time through the addition of new Lenders or the increase of the outstanding Loans or Revolving Loan Commitments of existing Lenders (who in each case must specifically consent thereto), then in the case of any action pursuant to preceding clause (ii), (A) the calculation of Required Lenders shall be determined after giving effect to any such repayment or termination, (B) the Required Lenders (determined after giving effect to the proposed action) shall specifically consent thereto and (C) by the terms of such agreement the Revolving Loan Commitment of each Lender not consenting to the amendment provided for therein shall terminate upon the effectiveness of such amendment and all Loans of any such non-consenting Lender (with accrued and unpaid interest and any breakage costs or other amounts owing to such Lender) shall be repaid in full at such time; provided further, that the Borrowers shall not have the right to replace a Lender, terminate its Revolving Loan Commitment or repay its Loans solely as a result of the exercise of such Lender’s rights (and the withholding of any required consent by such Lender) pursuant to the second proviso to Section 13.12(a).

  (c)	Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 13.12, no Lender consent is required (although the consent of the Administrative Agent shall be required (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed)) to effect any amendment or supplement to an Intercreditor Agreement that is for the purpose of adding the holders of secured Indebtedness permitted hereunder and having priority expressly permitted hereby (or a representative agent or trustee with respect thereto) (it being understood that any such amendment or supplement may make such other changes to the applicable intercreditor agreement as, in the good faith determination of the Administrative Agent, are required to effectuate the foregoing; provided, that such other changes are not adverse, in any material respect, to the interests of the Lenders); provided, further, that no such agreement shall amend, modify or otherwise affect the rights or duties of the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any other Credit Document without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, as applicable.

  (d)	If Indebtedness is incurred pursuant to Section 10.04 hereof that is secured by a Lien on any Collateral, the Administrative Agent and/or the Collateral Agent is authorized to enter into any amendment to the Intercreditor Agreements (and the Administrative Agent and the 

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  Collateral Agent shall enter into such amendment) if reasonably requested to do so by the Borrowers in order to reflect the incurrence of such Indebtedness and the Lien priority intended by the express terms hereof to be created therefor.

  (e)	[Reserved].

  (f)	Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 13.12, guarantees, collateral security documents and related documents executed by Foreign Subsidiaries in connection with this Agreement may be in a form reasonably determined by the Collateral Agent and may be amended and waived with the consent of the Collateral Agent at the request of the Borrowers without the need to obtain the consent of any other Lenders if such amendment or waiver is delivered in order (i) to reflect local law or advice of local counsel, (ii) to cure ambiguities or defects or (iii) to cause such guaranty, collateral security document or other document to be consistent with this Agreement and the other Credit Documents.

  (g)	Further, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 13.12, (i) (A) Security Documents and related documents executed by the Credit Parties in connection with this Agreement may be in a form reasonably determined by the Collateral Agent, (B) [reserved], and (C) such Security Documents and related documents and the Intercreditor Agreements may be amended, supplemented and waived with the consent of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers without the need to obtain the consent of any other Person if such amendment, supplement or waiver is delivered (1) in order to comply with local law or advice of local counsel, (2) in order to cause such Security Document or other document to be consistent with this Agreement and the other Credit Documents or (3) in connection with the incurrence of any Indebtedness under Sections 10.04(j) or (s) (and the addition of any collateral as Collateral in connection therewith) and the entry by the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent into any amendment, amendment and restatement or supplement to the ABL Intercreditor Agreement pursuant to Section 8.3 of the ABL Intercreditor Agreement or amendment or modification thereof) in connection therewith (and the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent agree to enter into such agreements, amendments and modifications if reasonably requested by the Borrowers in connection with the transactions described above) and (ii) if, following the Effective Date, the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers shall have jointly identified an obvious error or any error or omission of a typographical, technical or immaterial nature, in each case, in any provision of any Credit Document, then the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers shall be permitted to amend such provision and such amendment shall become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to any Credit Document if the same is not objected to in writing by the Required Lenders within five Business Days following receipt of notice thereof.

  13.13	Survival.  All indemnities set forth herein including, without limitation, in Sections 2.10, 2.11, 3.06, 5.04, 12.06 and 13.01 shall survive the execution, delivery and termination of this Agreement and the Notes and the making and repayment of the Obligations.

  13.14	Domicile of Loans.  Each Lender may transfer and carry its Loans at, to or for the account of any office, Subsidiary or Affiliate of such Lender.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, to the extent that a transfer of Loans pursuant to this Section 13.14 would, at the time of such transfer, result in increased costs under Section 2.10, 2.11, 3.06 or 5.04 from those being charged by the respective Lender prior to such transfer, then the Borrowers shall 

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  not be obligated to pay such increased costs (although the Borrowers shall be obligated to pay any other increased costs of the type described above resulting from changes in law after the date of the respective transfer).

  13.15	Register.  The Borrowers hereby designate the Administrative Agent to serve as its non-fiduciary agent, solely for purposes of this Section 13.15 and such agency being solely for Tax purposes, to maintain a register (the “Register”) on which it will record the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Revolving Loan Commitments of, and the principal amounts (and stated interest) of the Loans made by each of the Lenders pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time.  Failure to make any such recordation, or any error in such recordation, shall not affect the Borrower’s obligations in respect of such Loans.  With respect to any Lender, the transfer of the Revolving Loan Commitment of such Lender and the rights to the principal of, and interest on, any Loan made pursuant to such Revolving Loan Commitment shall not be effective until such transfer is recorded on the Register maintained by the Administrative Agent with respect to ownership of such Revolving Loan Commitment and Loans and prior to such recordation all amounts owing to the transferor with respect to such Revolving Loan Commitment and Loans shall remain owing to the transferor.  The registration of assignment or transfer of all or part of any Revolving Loan Commitments and Loans shall be recorded by the Administrative Agent on the Register upon and only upon the acceptance by the Administrative Agent of a properly executed and delivered Assignment and Assumption Agreement pursuant to Section 13.04(b), an Administrative Questionnaire completed in respect of the assignee Lender (unless the assignee Lender shall already be a Lender hereunder), the appropriate IRS Forms, if applicable, the processing and recordation fee referred to in Section 13.04(b), if applicable, and the consent of the Administrative Agent and, if required, the Borrowers.  Upon such acceptance and recordation, the assignee specified therein shall be treated as a Lender for all purposes of this Agreement.  Coincident with the delivery of such an Assignment and Assumption Agreement to the Administrative Agent for acceptance and registration of assignment or transfer of all or part of a Revolving Loan Commitment or Loan, or as soon thereafter as practicable, the assigning or transferor Lender shall surrender the Note (if any) evidencing such Revolving Loan Commitment or Loan, and thereupon one or more new Notes in the same aggregate principal amount shall be issued to the assigning or transferor Lender and/or the new Lender at the request of any such Lender.  The Borrowers agree to indemnify the Administrative Agent from and against any and all losses, claims, damages and liabilities of whatsoever nature which may be imposed on, asserted against or incurred by the Administrative Agent in performing its duties under this Section 13.15, except to the extent incurred by reason of its gross negligence or willful misconduct (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final, non-appealable decision).  The entries in the Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error.  The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrowers, the Collateral Agent, and any Lender (with respect to its interests only), at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.

  13.16	Confidentiality.  Each Lender agrees that it will not disclose without the prior written consent of the Borrowers (other than to its affiliates, and its and their partners, directors, officers, employees, agents, representatives, auditors, advisors or counsel if such Lender or such Lender’s holding or parent company in its sole discretion determines that any such party should have access to such information; provided such Persons shall be subject to the provisions of this Section 13.16 to the same extent as such Lender) any information with respect to Parent or any of its Subsidiaries which is now or in the future furnished pursuant to this Agreement or any 

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  other Credit Document; provided, that any Lender may disclose any such information (a) as has become generally available to the public other than by virtue of a breach of this Section 13.16 by the respective Lender, (b) as may be required or requested by any municipal, state or Federal regulatory body or self-regulatory body having or claiming to have jurisdiction over such Lender or to the Federal Reserve Board or the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or similar organizations (whether in the United States or elsewhere) or their successors, (c) as may be required or appropriate in respect to any summons or subpoena or in connection with any litigation, (d) in order to comply with any law, order, regulation or ruling applicable to such Lender, (e) to the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent or any other Lender, (f) to any direct or indirect contractual (actual or prospective) counterparty in any cash management, swap, hedge or similar agreement (and/or to any such contractual counterparty’s professional advisor) relating to the Obligations, so long as such contractual counterparty (or such professional advisor) agrees to be bound by the provisions of this Section 13.16 and no such disclosure shall be made to a Disqualified Lender and (g) to any prospective or actual transferee, pledgee or participant in connection with any contemplated transfer, pledge or participation of any of the Notes, Letters of Credit. Revolving Loan Commitments, Revolving Loans or any interest therein by such Lender; provided, that such prospective transferee, pledgee or participant agrees to be bound by the confidentiality provisions contained in this Section 13.16.

  13.17	Special Notice Regarding Pledges of Equity Interests in, and Promissory Notes Owed by, Persons Not Organized in the United States.  The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that the Security Documents require that certain promissory notes, and certain capital stock and other Equity Interests owned by the respective Credit Party be pledged, and, in certain cases, delivered for pledge, to the Collateral Agent.  The parties hereto further acknowledge and agree that, except to the extent requested by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 9.12(b), each Credit Party shall only be required to take actions under the laws of the United States and any State thereof to perfect the security interests in the pledged capital stock and other Equity Interests of, and promissory notes issued by, any Person regardless of where organized (and in each case, to the extent said capital stock, other Equity Interests or promissory notes are owned by any Credit Party).  To the extent any Security Document requires or provides for the pledge of promissory notes issued by, or capital stock or other Equity Interests in, any Foreign Subsidiary of the Borrowers or any other Person organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than those specified in the immediately preceding sentence, it is acknowledged that no actions have been required or will be taken to perfect, under local law of the jurisdiction of the Person who issued the respective promissory notes or whose capital stock or other Equity Interests are pledged, under the Security Documents.  All conditions and representations (other than with respect to Investments in such Foreign Subsidiaries) contained in this Agreement and the other Credit Documents shall be deemed modified to the extent necessary to effect the foregoing and so that same are not violated by reason of the failure to take actions (unless otherwise requested pursuant to Section 9.12(b)) under local law of any non-U.S. jurisdiction (but only with respect to capital stock of, other Equity Interests in, and promissory notes issued by, a Foreign Subsidiary of the Borrowers or any other Persons organized under laws of jurisdictions other than the United States and any State thereof).

  13.18	Patriot Act.  Each Lender and Agent subject to the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act (Pub. L. 109-177 (signed into law March 9, 2009)) (the “Patriot Act”) hereby notifies Parent and the other Credit Parties that pursuant to the requirements of the Patriot Act, it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies Parent, the 

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  Borrowers and the other Credit Parties and other information that will allow such Lender or Agent, as applicable, to identify the Borrowers and the other Credit Parties in accordance with the Patriot Act.

  13.19	OTHER LIENS ON COLLATERAL; TERMS OF INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENTS; ETC.  (a) EACH LENDER UNDERSTANDS, ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT LIENS SHALL BE CREATED ON THE COLLATERAL PURSUANT TO THE PRIMING TERM LOAN DOCUMENTS, WHICH LIENS SHALL BE SUBJECT TO TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE ABL INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT.  PURSUANT TO THE EXPRESS TERMS OF THE ABL INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT, IN THE EVENT OF ANY CONFLICT BETWEEN THE TERMS OF THE ABL INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT AND ANY OF THE CREDIT DOCUMENTS, THE PROVISIONS OF THE ABL INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT SHALL GOVERN AND CONTROL.

  (b)	EACH LENDER AUTHORIZES AND INSTRUCTS THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND THE COLLATERAL AGENT TO ENTER INTO THE ABL INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT ON BEHALF OF THE LENDERS, AND TO TAKE ALL ACTIONS (AND EXECUTE ALL DOCUMENTS) REQUIRED (OR DEEMED ADVISABLE) BY IT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS OF THE ABL INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT.

  (c)	THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION 13.19 ARE NOT INTENDED TO SUMMARIZE ALL RELEVANT PROVISIONS OF THE ABL INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT, THE FORM OF WHICH IS ATTACHED AS AN EXHIBIT TO THIS AGREEMENT.  REFERENCE MUST BE MADE TO THE ABL INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT ITSELF TO UNDERSTAND ALL TERMS AND CONDITIONS THEREOF.  EACH LENDER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING ITS OWN ANALYSIS AND REVIEW OF THE ABL INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT AND THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS THEREOF, AND NEITHER THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT NOR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES MAKES ANY REPRESENTATION TO ANY LENDER AS TO THE SUFFICIENCY OR ADVISABILITY OF THE PROVISIONS CONTAINED IN THE ABL INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT.

  (d)	EACH LENDER HEREBY AUTHORIZES AND INSTRUCTS THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND THE COLLATERAL AGENT TO ENTER INTO THE ABL INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT, THE SUBORDINATION AGREEMENT AND ANY OTHER INTERCREDITOR OR SUBORDINATION ARRANGEMENT ENTERED INTO PURSUANT TO THE TERMS HEREOF AND TO SUBJECT THE LIENS SECURING THE SECURED OBLIGATIONS TO THE PROVISIONS THEREOF.  EACH LENDER HEREUNDER (A) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT HAS RECEIVED A COPY OF THE ABL INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT AND THE SUBORDINATION AGREEMENT, (B) CONSENTS TO THE SUBORDINATION OF LIENS PROVIDED FOR IN THE ABL INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT, AND (C) AGREES THAT IT WILL BE BOUND BY AND WILL TAKE NO ACTIONS CONTRARY TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE ABL INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT AND THE SUBORDINATION AGREEMENT. IN THE EVENT OF ANY CONFLICT OR INCONSISTENCY BETWEEN ANY OF THE PROVISIONS OF THE ABL INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT OR THE SUBORDINATION AGREEMENT 

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  AND THIS AGREEMENT, THE PROVISIONS OF THE ABL INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT OR THE SUBORDINATION AGREEMENT, AS APPLICABLE, SHALL CONTROL.

  13.20	Interest Rate Limitation.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any Credit Document, the interest paid or agreed to be paid under the Credit Documents shall not exceed the maximum rate of non-usurious interest permitted by applicable law (the “Maximum Rate”).  If the Administrative Agent or any Lender shall receive interest in an amount that exceeds the Maximum Rate, the excess interest shall be applied to the principal of the Loans or, if it exceeds such unpaid principal, refunded to the Borrowers.  In determining whether the interest contracted for, charged, or received by the Administrative Agent or a Lender exceeds the Maximum Rate, such Person may, to the extent permitted by applicable law, (a) characterize any payment that is not principal as an expense, fee, or premium rather than interest, (b) exclude voluntary prepayments and the effects thereof, and (c) amortize, prorate, allocate, and spread in equal or unequal parts the total amount of interest throughout the contemplated term of the Obligations hereunder.

  13.21	No Fiduciary Duty.  Each Agent, each Lender and their respective Affiliates (collectively, solely for purposes of this Section 13.21, the “Lenders”), may have economic interests that conflict with those of the Credit Parties, their stockholders and/or their respective affiliates.  Each Credit Party agrees that nothing in the Credit Documents or otherwise will be deemed to create an advisory, fiduciary or agency relationship or fiduciary duty between any Lender, on the one hand, and any Credit Party, its respective stockholders or its respective affiliates, on the other.  The Credit Parties acknowledge and agree that:  (a) the transactions contemplated by the Credit Documents (including the exercise of rights and remedies hereunder and thereunder) are arm’s-length commercial transactions between the Lenders, on the one hand, each Credit Party, on the other, and (b) in connection therewith and with the process leading thereto, (i) no Lender has assumed an advisory or fiduciary responsibility in favor of any Credit Party, its respective stockholders or its respective affiliates with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby (or the exercise of rights or remedies with respect thereto) or the process leading thereto (irrespective of whether any Lender has advised, is currently advising or will advise any Credit Party, its respective stockholders or its respective Affiliates on other matters) or any other obligation to any Credit Party except the obligations expressly set forth in the Credit Documents and (ii) each Lender is acting solely as principal and not as the agent or fiduciary of such Credit Party, its respective management, stockholders, creditors or any other Person.  Each Credit Party acknowledges and agrees that such Credit Party has consulted its own legal and financial advisors to the extent it deemed appropriate and that it is responsible for making its own independent judgment with respect to such transactions and the process leading thereto.  Each Credit Party agrees that it will not claim that any Lender has rendered advisory services of any nature or respect, or owes a fiduciary or similar duty to such Credit Party, in connection with such transaction or the process leading thereto.

  13.22	Release of Borrowers.  Upon the consummation of any Asset Sale permitted under Section 10.02 of this Agreement as a result of which any Borrower (other than the Company) ceases to be a Subsidiary of a Borrower, the Administrative Agent may, without the consent of any Subsidiary other than the Company or any Lender, release such Borrower from its obligations under the Credit Documents and all security interests in the Collateral of such 

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  Borrower shall be automatically released in connection therewith (a “Borrower Release”); provided, that (a) the Administrative Agent shall have received a written request of the Company with respect to such Borrower Release at least five Business Days prior to the effective date of such requested Borrower Release and (b) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred or shall be continuing prior to, or would occur after giving effect to, such Borrower Release.  In connection with any termination or release pursuant to this Section 13.22, the Administrative Agent and/or the Collateral Agent, as the case may be, shall promptly execute and deliver to the Company and any Borrower, as applicable, at the Company’s or such Borrower’s expense, all documents that the Company or such Borrower shall reasonably request to evidence such termination or release.  Any execution and delivery of documents pursuant to this Section 13.22 shall be without recourse to or warranty by the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent.

  13.23	Post-Closing Actions.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement or the other Credit Documents, the parties hereto acknowledge and agree that Parent, the Company and its Subsidiaries shall be required to take the actions specified in Schedule 13.23 attached hereto as promptly as practicable, and in any event within the time periods set forth in Schedule 13.23, unless and then only to the extent extended by the Administrative Agent.

  All conditions precedent and representations contained in this Agreement and the other Credit Documents shall be deemed modified to the extent necessary to effect the foregoing (and to permit the taking of the actions described above within the time periods required above, rather than as elsewhere provided in the Credit Documents); provided, that to the extent any representation and warranty would not be true because the foregoing actions were not taken on the Effective Date, the respective representation and warranty shall be required to be true and correct in all material respects (or in all respects, to the extent such representation or warranty is qualified as to “materiality,” “Material Adverse Effect” or similar language) at the time the respective action is taken (or was required to be taken) in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Section 13.23.  The acceptance of the benefits of the Borrowing on the Effective Date shall constitute a representation, warranty and covenant by the Borrowers and Parent to each of the Secured Creditors that the actions required pursuant to this Section 13.23 will be taken within the relevant time periods referred to in this Section 13.23 and Schedule 13.23, and the parties hereto acknowledge and agree that the failure to take any of the actions required above, within the relevant time periods required above, shall give rise to an Event of Default pursuant to this Agreement.

  13.24	Revival and Reinstatement of Obligations.  If the incurrence or payment of the Secured Obligations by the Borrowers or any Guarantor or the transfer to the Secured Creditors of any property should for any reason subsequently be asserted, or declared, to be void or voidable under any state or federal law relating to creditors’ rights, including provisions of the Bankruptcy Code relating to fraudulent conveyances, preferences, or other voidable or recoverable payments of money or transfers of property (each, a “Voidable Transfer”), and if the Secured Creditors are required to repay or restore, in whole or in part, any such Voidable Transfer, or elect to do so upon the reasonable advice of their counsel, then, as to any such Voidable Transfer, or the amount thereof that the Secured Creditors are required or elect to repay or restore, and as to all reasonable costs, expenses, and attorneys’ fees of the Secured Creditors related thereto, the liability of the Borrowers or the Guarantors automatically shall be revived, reinstated, and restored and shall exist as though such Voidable Transfer had never been made.

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  13.25	Lender Action.  Each Lender agrees that it shall not take or institute any actions or proceedings, judicial or otherwise, for any right or remedy against any Credit Party or any other obligor under any of the Credit Documents (including the exercise of any right of setoff, rights on account of any banker’s lien or similar claim or other rights of self-help), or institute any actions or proceedings, or otherwise commence any remedial procedures, with respect to any Collateral or any other property of any such Credit Party, unless expressly provided for herein or in any other Credit Document, without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent (in respect of the exercise of any set off, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld).  The provisions of this Section 13.25 are for the sole benefit of the Lenders and shall not afford any right to, or constitute a defense available to, any Credit Party.

  13.26	Cash Management Banks and Hedging Creditors.  Each Cash Management Bank and each Hedging Creditor shall be deemed a third party beneficiary hereof and of the provisions of the other Credit Documents solely for purposes of and solely with respect to any reference in a Credit Document to the parties for whom the Collateral Agent is acting.  The Collateral Agent hereby agrees to act as agent for such Cash Management Banks and such Hedging Creditors and, by virtue of being a counterparty to an ABL Secured Cash Management Agreement or ABL Secured Hedging Agreement, as the case may be, each Cash Management Bank and each Hedging Creditor shall be automatically deemed to have appointed the Collateral Agent as its agent; it being understood and agreed that the rights and benefits of each Cash Management Bank and each Hedging Creditor under the Credit Documents consist exclusively of such Cash Management Bank’s or such Hedging Creditor’s being a beneficiary of the Liens and security interests (and, if applicable, guarantees) granted to the Collateral Agent and the right to share in payments and collections out of the Collateral as more fully set forth herein.  In connection with any such distribution of payments and collections, the Collateral Agent shall be entitled to assume no amounts are owing to any Cash Management Bank or any Hedging Creditor unless such Cash Management Bank or such Hedging Creditor, as the case may be, has provided written notification to the Administrative Agent of the amount that is owing to it and such notification is received by the Administrative Agent a reasonable period of time prior to the making of such distribution.

  13.27	Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of Affected Financial Institutions.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Credit Document or in any other agreement, arrangement or understanding among any such parties, each party hereto acknowledges that any liability of any Affected Financial Institution arising under any Credit Document, to the extent such liability is unsecured, may be subject to the write-down and conversion powers of the applicable Resolution Authority and agrees and consents to, and acknowledges and agrees to be bound by:

  (a)	the application of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable Resolution Authority to any such liabilities arising hereunder which may be payable to it by any party hereto that is an Affected Financial Institution; and

  (b)	the effects of any Bail-In Action on any such liability, including, if applicable:

  (i)	a reduction in full or in part or cancellation of any such liability;

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  (ii)	a conversion of all, or a portion of, such liability into shares or other instruments of ownership in such Affected Financial Institution, its parent undertaking, or a bridge institution that may be issued to it or otherwise conferred on it, and that such shares or other instruments of ownership will be accepted by it in lieu of any rights with respect to any such liability under this Agreement or any other Credit Document; or

  (c)	the variation of the terms of such liability in connection with the exercise of the write-down and conversion powers of the applicable Resolution Authority.

  13.28	Electronic Records.  This Agreement and any document, amendment, approval, consent, information, notice, certificate, request, statement, disclosure or authorization related to this Agreement (each a “Loan Communication”), including Loan Communications required to be in writing, may be in the form of an Electronic Record and may be executed using Electronic Signatures.  The Borrowers agree that any Electronic Signature on or associated with any Loan Communication shall be valid and binding of the Borrowers to the same extent as a manual, original signature, and that any Loan Communication entered into by Electronic Signature, will constitute the legal, valid and binding obligation of each of the Credit Parties enforceable against such in accordance with the terms thereof to the same extent as if a manually executed original signature was delivered.   Any Loan Communication may be executed in as many counterparts as necessary or convenient, including both paper and electronic counterparts, but all such counterparts are one and the same Loan Communication.  For the avoidance of doubt, the authorization under this paragraph may include, without limitation, use or acceptance by the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and each of the Lenders of a manually signed paper Loan Communication which has been converted into electronic form (such as scanned into PDF format), or an electronically signed Loan Communication converted into another format, for transmission, delivery and/or retention. The Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and each of the Lenders may, at its option, create one or more copies of any Loan Communication in the form of an imaged Electronic Record (“Electronic Copy”), which shall be deemed created in the ordinary course of such Person’s business, and destroy the original paper document.  All Loan Communications in the form of an Electronic Record, including an Electronic Copy, shall be considered an original for all purposes, and shall have the same legal effect, validity and enforceability as a paper record.  Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent are under no obligation to accept an Electronic Signature in any form or in any format unless expressly agreed to by the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent pursuant to procedures approved by it; provided, further, without limiting the foregoing, (a) to the extent the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent have agreed to accept such Electronic Signature, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and each of the Lenders shall be entitled to rely on any such Electronic Signature purportedly given by or on behalf of any Credit Party without further verification and (b) upon the request of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Lender, any Electronic Signature shall be promptly followed by such manually executed counterpart.  For purposes hereof, “Electronic Record” and “Electronic Signature” shall have the meanings assigned to them, respectively, by 15 USC §7006, as it may be amended from time to time.

  13.29	Severability.  Any provision of this Agreement held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability without affecting the validity, legality and 

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  enforceability of the remaining provisions hereof; and the invalidity of a particular provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate such provision in any other jurisdiction.

  13.30	Integration.  This Agreement and the other Credit Documents constitute the entire contract among the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersede any and all previous agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof, and there are no promises, undertakings, representations or warranties by the Company, the other Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent nor any Lender relative to the subject matter hereof not expressly set forth or referred to herein or in the other Credit Documents.

  13.31	Acknowledgement Regarding any Supported QFCs.  To the extent that the Credit Documents provide support, through a guarantee or otherwise, for Other Hedging Agreements or any other QFC (such support, “QFC Credit Support”, and each such QFC, a “Supported QFC”), the parties acknowledge and agree as follows with respect to the resolution power of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation under the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and Title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (together with the regulations promulgated thereunder, the “U.S. Special Resolution Regimes”) in respect of such Supported QFC and QFC Credit Support, notwithstanding that the Credit Documents and any Supported QFC may in fact be stated to be governed by the laws of the State of NewYork and/or of the United States or any other state of the United States:

  (a)	If a Covered Entity that is party to a Supported QFC (each, a “Covered Party”): becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, the transfer of such Supported QFC and the benefit of such QFC Credit Support (and any interest and obligation therein or thereunder, and any rights in property securing such Supported QFC or such QFC Credit Support) from such Covered Party will be effective to the same extent as the transfer would be effective under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if the Supported QFC and such QFC Credit Support (and any such interest, obligation and rights in property) were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States. If a Covered Party or a BHC Act Affiliate of a Covered Party becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, Default Rights under the Loan Documents that might otherwise apply to such Supported QFC or any QFC Credit Support that may be exercised against such Covered Party are permitted to be exercised to no greater extent than such Default Rights could be exercised under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if the Supported QFC and the Loan Documents were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States. Without limitation of the foregoing, it is understood and agreed that rights and remedies of the parties with respect to a Defaulting Lender shall in no event affect the rights of any Covered Party with respect to a Supported QFC or any QFC Credit Support.

  (b)	As used in this Section 12.23, the following terms have the following meanings:

  “BHC Act Affiliate” of a party means an "“affiliate"” (as such term is defined under, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. 1841(k)) of such party.

  “Covered Entity” means any of the following: (i) a "“covered entity"” as defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 252.82(b), (ii) a "“covered bank"” as defined in, and 

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  interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 47.3(b); or (iii) a "“covered FSI"” as defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 382.2(b).

   

  “Default Right” has the meaning assigned to that term in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § § 252.81, 47.2 or 382.1 as applicable

   

  “QFC” has the meaning assigned to the term "“qualified financial contract"” in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. 5390(c)(8)(D).

   

  SECTION 14.  Nature of Borrower Obligations.  

  14.01	Nature of Borrower Obligations.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained elsewhere in this Agreement, it is understood and agreed by the various parties to this Agreement that all Obligations to repay principal of, interest on, and all other amounts with respect to, all Loans, Letters of Credit and all other Obligations pursuant to this Agreement and each other Credit Document (including, without limitation, all fees, indemnities, taxes and other Obligations in connection therewith or in connection with the related Revolving Loan Commitments) shall constitute the joint and several obligations of each of the Borrowers.  In addition to the direct (and joint and several) obligations of the Borrowers with respect to Obligations as described above, all such Obligations shall be guaranteed pursuant to, and in accordance with the terms of, the Guaranty.

  14.02	Independent Obligation.  The obligations of each Borrower with respect to the Obligations are independent of one another and of the obligations of Parent under the Guaranty of such Obligations, and a separate action or actions may be brought and prosecuted against each Borrower and Parent (in its capacity as a Guarantor), whether or not any other Borrower or Parent is joined in any such action or actions.  Each Borrower waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the benefit of any statute of limitations affecting its liability hereunder or the enforcement thereof.  Any payment by any Borrower or other circumstance which operates to toll any statute of limitations as to any Borrower shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, operate to toll the statute of limitations as to each Borrower.

  14.03	Authorization.  Each of the Borrowers authorizes the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lenders and the Lenders without notice or demand (except as shall be required by applicable statute and cannot be waived), and without affecting or impairing its liability hereunder, from time to time to:

  (a)	exercise or refrain from exercising any rights against any other Borrower or Parent or others or otherwise act or refrain from acting;

  (b)	release or substitute any other Borrower, endorsers, Parent, guarantors or other obligors;

  (c)	settle or compromise any of the Obligations of any other Borrower or any other Credit Party, any security therefor or any liability (including any of those hereunder) incurred directly or indirectly in respect thereof or hereof, and may subordinate the payment of all or any 

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  part thereof to the payment of any liability (whether due or not) of any Borrower to its creditors other than the Lenders;

  (d)	apply any sums paid by any other Borrower or any other Person, howsoever realized, to any liability or liabilities of such other Borrower or other Person regardless of what liability or liabilities of such other Borrower or other Person remain unpaid; and/or

  (e)	consent to or waive any breach of, or act, omission or default under, this Agreement or any of the instruments or agreements referred to herein, or otherwise, by any other Borrower or any other Person.

  14.04	Reliance.  It is not necessary for the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Lender or any Lender to inquire into the capacity or powers of any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or the officers, directors, members, partners or agents acting or purporting to act on its behalf, and any Obligations made or created in reliance upon the professed exercise of such powers shall constitute the joint and several obligations of the Borrowers hereunder.

  14.05	Contribution; Subrogation.  No Borrower shall exercise any rights of contribution or subrogation with respect to any other Borrower as a result of payments made by it hereunder, in each case unless and until the Total Revolving Loan Commitment and all Letters of Credit have been terminated (or, in the case of Letters of Credit, cash collateralized on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Lenders) and all Obligations, other than contingent, indemnity and similar Obligations with respect to which no claim has been made, have been paid in full in cash.

  14.06	Waiver.  Each Borrower waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any right to require the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Issuing Lenders or the Lenders to (a) proceed against any other Borrower, Parent or any other party, (b) proceed against or exhaust any security held from any Borrower, Parent or any other party or (c) pursue any other remedy in the Administrative Agent’s, the Collateral Agent’s, any Issuing Lender’s or Lender’s power whatsoever.  Each Borrower waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any defense based on or arising out of suretyship or any impairment of security held from any Borrower, Parent or any other party or on or arising out of any defense of any other Borrower, Parent or any other party other than payment in full in cash of the Obligations, including, without limitation, any defense based on or arising out of the disability of any other Borrower, Parent or any other party, or the unenforceability of the Obligations or any part thereof from any cause, or the cessation from any cause of the liability of any other Borrower, in each case other than as a result of the payment in full in cash of the Obligations.

  SECTION 15.  Guaranty.  

  15.01	The Guaranty.  (a) Parent hereby guarantees, as a primary obligor and not as a surety, to each Secured Creditor and their respective successors and assigns, the prompt payment in full when due (whether at stated maturity, by required prepayment, declaration, demand, by acceleration or otherwise) of the principal of and interest (including any interest, fees, costs or charges that would accrue but for the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code after any bankruptcy or insolvency petition under the Bankruptcy 

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  Code) on the Loans made by the Lenders to, and the Notes held by each Lender of, any Borrower, and all other Secured Obligations from time to time owing to the Secured Creditors by any Credit Party under any Credit Document, any ABL Secured Cash Management Agreement or any ABL Secured Hedging Agreement, in each case strictly in accordance with the terms thereof (such obligations being herein collectively called the “Parent Guaranteed Obligations”) and (b) each Borrower hereby guarantees, as a primary obligor and not as a surety, to each Secured Creditor and their respective successors and assigns, the prompt payment in full when due of Secured Obligations from time to time owing to the Secured Creditors by any Credit Party under any ABL Secured Cash Management Agreement or any ABL Secured Hedging Agreement, in each case strictly in accordance with the terms thereof (such obligations being herein collectively called the “Borrower Guaranteed Obligations” and, together with the Parent Guaranteed Obligations, the “Guaranteed Obligations”).  Parent hereby agrees that if any Borrower shall fail to pay in full when due (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) any of the Guaranteed Obligations, Parent will promptly pay the same in cash, upon demand, and that in the case of any extension of time of payment or renewal of any of the Parent Guaranteed Obligations, the same will be promptly paid in full when due (whether at extended maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) in accordance with the terms of such extension or renewal.  Each Borrower hereby agrees that if any Credit Party shall fail to pay in full when due (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) any of the Borrower Guaranteed Obligations, such Borrower will promptly pay the same in cash, upon demand, and that in the case of any extension of time of payment or renewal of any of the Borrower Guaranteed Obligations, the same will be promptly paid in full when due (whether at extended maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) in accordance with the terms of such extension or renewal.

  15.02	Obligations Unconditional.  The obligations of each Guarantor under Section 15.01 shall constitute a guaranty of payment and not of collection and to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Requirements of Law, are absolute, irrevocable and unconditional, irrespective of the value, genuineness, validity, regularity or enforceability of the Guaranteed Obligations of any Borrower under this Agreement, the Notes, if any, or any other agreement or instrument referred to herein or therein, or any substitution, release or exchange of any other guaranty of or security for any of the Guaranteed Obligations, and, irrespective of any other circumstance whatsoever that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a surety or Guarantor (except for payment in full (other than contingent indemnity obligations not then yet due and payable)).  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing and subject to applicable law, it is agreed that the occurrence of any one or more of the following shall not alter or impair the liability of any Guarantor hereunder which shall remain absolute, irrevocable and unconditional under any and all circumstances as described above:

  (a)	at any time or from time to time, without notice to any Guarantor, the time for any performance of or compliance with any of the Guaranteed Obligations shall be extended, or such performance or compliance shall be waived;

  (b)	any of the acts mentioned in any of the provisions of this Agreement or the Notes, if any, or any other agreement or instrument referred to herein or therein shall be done or omitted;

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  (c)	the maturity of any of the Guaranteed Obligations shall be accelerated, or any of the Guaranteed Obligations shall be amended in any respect, or any right under the Credit Documents or any other agreement or instrument referred to herein or therein shall be amended or waived in any respect or any other guaranty of any of the Guaranteed Obligations or any security therefor shall be released or exchanged in whole or in part or otherwise dealt with; or

  (d)	any Lien or security interest granted to, or in favor of, any Lender or Agent as security for any of the Guaranteed Obligations shall fail to be perfected.

  Each Guarantor hereby expressly waives, to the maximum extent permitted by law, diligence, presentment, demand of payment, protest and all notices whatsoever, and any requirement that any Secured Creditor exhaust any right, power or remedy or proceed against any Borrower under this Agreement or the Notes, if any, or any other agreement or instrument referred to herein or therein, or against any other Person under any other guaranty of, or security for, any of the Guaranteed Obligations.  Each Guarantor waives any and all notice of the creation, renewal, extension, waiver, termination or accrual of any of the Guaranteed Obligations and notice of or proof of reliance by any Secured Creditor upon this Guaranty or acceptance of this Guaranty, and the Guaranteed Obligations, and any of them, shall conclusively be deemed to have been created, contracted or incurred in reliance upon this Guaranty, and all dealings between any Borrower and the Secured Creditors shall likewise be conclusively presumed to have been had or consummated in reliance upon this Guaranty.  This Guaranty shall be construed as a continuing, absolute, irrevocable and unconditional guaranty of payment without regard to any right of offset with respect to the Guaranteed Obligations at any time or from time to time held by Secured Creditors, and the obligations and liabilities of the Guarantor hereunder shall not be conditioned or contingent upon the pursuit by the Secured Creditors or any other Person at any time of any right or remedy against the Borrowers or against any other Person which may be or become liable in respect of all or any part of the Guaranteed Obligations or against any collateral security or guaranty therefor or right of offset with respect thereto.  This Guaranty shall remain in full force and effect and be binding in accordance with and to the extent of its terms upon the Guarantor and the successors and assigns thereof, and shall inure to the benefit of the Lenders, and their respective successors and assigns, notwithstanding that from time to time during the term of this Agreement there may be no Guaranteed Obligations outstanding.

  15.03	Reinstatement.  The obligations of Parent and each Borrower under this Section 15 shall be automatically reinstated if and to the extent that for any reason any payment by or on behalf of any Borrower or other Credit Party in respect of the Parent Guaranteed Obligations, on the one hand, or the Borrower Guaranteed Obligations, on the other hand, is rescinded or must be otherwise restored by any holder of any such Parent Guaranteed Obligations or Borrower Guaranteed Obligations, whether as a result of any proceedings in bankruptcy or reorganization or otherwise.

  15.04	Subrogation; Subordination.  Each Guarantor hereby agrees that until the payment and satisfaction in full in cash of all Guaranteed Obligations (other than contingent indemnity obligations not then due and payable) and the expiration or termination of the Revolving Loan Commitments of the Lenders under this Agreement it shall waive any claim and shall not exercise any right or remedy, direct or indirect, arising by reason of any performance by it of its guaranty in Section 15.01, whether by subrogation or otherwise, against any Borrower of any of 

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  the Guaranteed Obligations or any security for any of the Guaranteed Obligations.  Any Indebtedness of a Guarantor to any other Credit Party shall be subordinated in right of payment to the payment in full in cash of the Guaranteed Obligations and any proceeds of such Indebtedness collected or received by any Credit Party during the continuance of an Event of Default shall, at the request of the Administrative Agent, be paid over to the Administrative Agent for application against the Guaranteed Obligations; provided, that upon the indefeasible payment and satisfaction in full in cash of all Guaranteed Obligations (other than contingent indemnity obligations not then due and payable) and the expiration or termination of the Revolving Loan Commitments of the Lenders under this Agreement, without any further action by any Person, the respective Credit Party shall be automatically subrogated to the rights of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to the extent of any payment hereunder.

  15.05	Remedies.  Each Guarantor agrees that, as between such Guarantor and the Lenders, the obligations of any Borrower under this Agreement and the Notes, if any, may be declared to be forthwith due and payable as provided in Section 11.01 (and shall be deemed to have become automatically due and payable in the circumstances provided in Section 11.01) for purposes of Section 15.01, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing such declaration (or such obligations from becoming automatically due and payable) as against any Borrower and that, in the event of such declaration (or such obligations being deemed to have become automatically due and payable), such obligations (whether or not due and payable by any Borrower) shall forthwith become due and payable by such Guarantor for purposes of Section 15.01.

  15.06	Instrument for the Payment of Money.  Each Guarantor hereby acknowledges that the guaranty in this Section 15 constitutes an instrument for the payment of money, and consents and agrees that any Lender or Agent, at its sole option, in the event of a dispute by such Guarantor in the payment of any moneys due hereunder, shall have the right to bring a motion-action under New York CPLR Section 3213.

  15.07	Continuing Guarantee.  The guaranty in this Section 15 is a continuing guaranty of payment, and shall apply to all Guaranteed Obligations whenever arising.

  15.08	Excluded Swap Obligations; Keepwell.  Each Qualified ECP Guarantor hereby jointly and severally absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably undertakes to provide such funds or other support as may be needed from time to time by each other Guarantor to honor all of its obligations under this Guaranty in respect of Swap Obligations (provided, however, that each Qualified ECP Guarantor shall only be liable under this Section 15 for the maximum amount of such liability that can be hereby incurred without rendering its obligations under this Section 15, or otherwise under this Guaranty, voidable under applicable law relating to fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer, and not for any greater amount).  The obligations of each Qualified ECP Guarantor under this Section 15 shall remain in full force and effect until the Discharge of ABL Facility Obligations (as defined in the ABL Intercreditor Agreement).  Each Qualified ECP Guarantor intends that this Section 15 constitute, and this Section 15 shall be deemed to constitute, a “keepwell, support, or other agreement” for the benefit of each other Loan Party for all purposes of Section 1a(18)(A)(v)(II) of the Commodity Exchange Act.

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PERFORMANCE SHARE AWARD AGREEMENT
(2016 Long-Term Incentive Plan for Associates)

This PERFORMANCE SHARE AWARD AGREEMENT (this “AGREEMENT”) is made to be effective as of (the date on which the COMMITTEE (as defined below) approves the award, referred to as the “GRANT DATE”), by and between Abercrombie & Fitch Co., a Delaware corporation (the “COMPANY”), and employee of the COMPANY or one of the COMPANY’s subsidiaries or affiliates (“PARTICIPANT”).
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, pursuant to the provisions of the 2016 Long-Term Incentive Plan for Associates of the COMPANY (the “PLAN”), the Compensation and Organization Committee (the “COMMITTEE”) of the Board of Directors of the COMPANY (the “BOARD”) administers the PLAN; and
WHEREAS, the COMMITTEE has determined that PARTICIPANT should be granted rights to earn a target number of shares of Class A Common Stock, $0.01 par value (the “SHARES”), of the COMPANY equal to SHARES (such rights, the “AWARD”), subject to the restrictions, conditions and other terms set forth in this AGREEMENT;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises, the parties hereto make the following agreement, intending to be legally bound thereby:
1.    Grant of AWARD.  Pursuant to, and subject to, the terms and conditions set forth in this AGREEMENT and in the PLAN, the COMPANY hereby grants to PARTICIPANT an AWARD with a target number of SHARES of the COMPANY (the “TARGET AWARD”) equal to SHARES (subject to adjustment as provided in Section 11(c) of the PLAN and Section 5(F) of this AGREEMENT, if applicable).  The AWARD represents the right to earn up to 200% of the target number of SHARES of the COMPANY subject to the AWARD, subject to the restrictions, conditions and other terms set forth in this AGREEMENT.  
2.    Terms and Conditions of the AWARD.
(A)    EARNED UNITS.  The issuance of SHARES of the COMPANY pursuant to this AGREEMENT shall be subject to the COMPANY’s achievement with respect to the performance goals of (i) RELATIVE TOTAL SHAREHOLDER RETURN, (ii)CUMULATIVE GAAP SALES CAGR, and (iii) THREE-YEAR AVERAGE NON-GAAP EBIT MARGIN PERCENT as set forth in the tables below (each and collectively, the “PERFORMANCE GOALS”).  Each PERFORMANCE GOAL metric will be equally weighted.  If any of the PERFORMANCE GOALS for the three-fiscal-year period ending February 1, 2025 does not exceed the respective THRESHOLD performance level set forth in the respective table below, the portion of the AWARD associated with such PERFORMANCE GOAL shall be forfeited.  If all three of the PERFORMANCE GOALS fall below the respective THRESHOLD performance level set forth in the respective table below, the AWARD and PARTICIPANT’s right to receive any SHARES of the COMPANY pursuant to this AGREEMENT shall expire and be forfeited without payment of any additional consideration, effective as of the last day of the fiscal year ending February 1, 2025.  Subject to the foregoing, the number of “EARNED UNITS” for purposes of this AGREEMENT shall be determined in accordance with the following schedule:

(i)  RELATIVE TOTAL SHAREHOLDER RETURN:

									
	Performance Level	FY 2022 through FY 2024 Relative Total Shareholder Return (1) Required to Achieve Performance Level
	% of TARGET AWARD Earned
	BELOW THRESHOLD	Below 30th percentile of COMPARATOR GROUP 
	0%
	THRESHOLD	30th percentile as compared to COMPARATOR GROUP 
	25%
	TARGET	55th percentile as compared to COMPARATOR GROUP 
	100%
	MAXIMUM	At or above 80th percentile 
as compared to  
COMPARATOR GROUP
	200%

(1)  Relative Total Shareholder Return is measured against the following fourteen companies (the “COMPARATOR GROUP”): AMERICAN EAGLE OUTFITTERS, INC.; CAPRI HOLDINGS LIMITED; CARTER’S, INC.; CHICO’S FAS, INC.; THE CHILDREN’S PLACE, INC.; EXPRESS, INC.; FOSSIL GROUP, INC.; GUESS?, INC.; LEVI STRAUSS & CO.; LULULEMON ATHLETICA INC.; RALPH LAUREN CORPORATION; TAPESTRY, INC.; URBAN OUTFITTERS, INC.; and VICTORIA’S SECRET & CO.  Relative Total Shareholder Return shall be measured as follows:
(a)    Total Shareholder Return shall be measured using an average of the closing stock price for the 20 trading days immediately before the first day of the COMPANY’s 2022 fiscal year and an average of the closing stock price for the 20 trading days immediately before and including the last day of the COMPANY’s 2024 fiscal year.  Total shareholder return shall assume dividend reinvestment on the ex-dividend date.
(b)    For companies that are in the COMPARATOR GROUP as of the first day of the COMPANY’s 2022 fiscal year but that do not remain in the COMPARATOR GROUP through the last day of the COMPANY’s 2024 fiscal year, treatment will be as follows:
i.    Acquisition – For a company that is acquired (other than in connection with merger activity) during the PERFORMANCE PERIOD, it shall be removed entirely from the COMPARATOR GROUP and thus not considered for measurement purposes.

ii.    Merger – For a company that is impacted by merger activity during the PERFORMANCE PERIOD:

1.    Such company shall be removed from the COMPARATOR GROUP (and thus not considered for measurement purposes) if it is not the surviving company following a merger with either a non-COMPARATOR GROUP company or another COMPARATOR GROUP company; or

2.    Such company shall be included in the COMPARATOR GROUP if it is the surviving company following a merger with another COMPARATOR GROUP company; or
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3.    Such company shall be included in the COMPARATOR GROUP if it is the surviving company in a merger with a non-COMPARATOR GROUP company (unless 50% or more of such company’s post-merger business has a non-retail GICS code, in which case such company shall be removed from the COMPARATOR GROUP and thus not considered for measurement purposes).

iii.    Spin-Off – For a company that is spun-off during the PERFORMANCE PERIOD, such company shall be removed from the COMPARATOR GROUP (and thus not considered for measurement purposes); however, the parent company of such spun-off company shall be included for measurement purposes if such parent company remains in the COMPARATOR GROUP and remains at least 50% of such company’s pre-spin-off size as measured by revenues.    

iv.    Bankruptcy – For a company that goes bankrupt (either voluntarily or involuntarily) during the PERFORMANCE PERIOD, such company shall be placed at the bottom of the COMPARATOR GROUP for measurement purposes, with a deemed negative Total Shareholder Return of (-100%). 

(c)    Payout shall be capped at the TARGET AWARD if the COMPANY’s Total Shareholder Return over the full PERFORMANCE PERIOD is negative. In the event that the COMPANY’s level of achievement with respect to the PERFORMANCE GOAL is between the THRESHOLD and the TARGET performance levels, or between the TARGET and the MAXIMUM performance levels, linear interpolation will be used to determine the number of EARNED UNITS.  Any portion of the TARGET AWARD not earned based upon the actual level of performance achieved by the COMPANY shall expire and be forfeited to the COMPANY without payment of any additional consideration, effective as of the last day of the fiscal year ending February 1, 2025.  The COMPANY’s level of achievement with respect to the PERFORMANCE GOAL set forth in this Section 2(A) (and the extent or lack thereof) shall be evidenced by the COMMITTEE’s written certification.  

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(ii)  CUMULATIVE GAAP SALES CAGR:

									
	Performance Level	FY 2022 through FY 2024 Cumulative GAAP Sales CAGR (1) Required to Achieve Performance Level
	% of TARGET AWARD Earned
	BELOW THRESHOLD	Less than 1.0%
	0%
	THRESHOLD	1.0%	25%
	TARGET	2.0%	100%
	150%	3.0%	150%
	MAXIMUM	4.0% or greater
	200%

(1)   For purposes of this Agreement, “CUMULATIVE GAAP SALES CAGR” is defined as the straight three-year average of the growth rate in GAAP Net Sales in each Fiscal Year of the three-year 2022-2024 performance period, in each case calculated in comparison to the GAAP Net Sales for Fiscal Year 2021, where GAAP Net Sales reflects net sales as reported in the Company’s consolidated financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles as in effect on March 28, 2022.

 (iii)   THREE-YEAR AVERAGE NON-GAAP EBIT MARGIN PERCENT:
									
	Performance Level	FY 2022 through FY 2024 Three-Year Average Non-GAAP EBIT Margin Percent (1)  Required to Achieve Performance Level
	% of TARGET AWARD Earned
	BELOW THRESHOLD	Less than 6.0%
	0%
	THRESHOLD	6.0%	25%
	TARGET	8.0%	100%
	150%	9.0%	150%
	MAXIMUM	10.5% or greater
	200%

(1)  For purposes of this Agreement, EBIT is defined as net income less interest and income taxes as reported in the Company’s consolidated financial statements for each such year in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles as in effect on March 28, 2022.  For purposes of this agreement, EBIT Margin Percent shall be equal to the EBIT (as defined herein) for each fiscal year of the three-year performance period FYs 2022-2024, divided by the corresponding fiscal year’s net sales (as reported in the Company’s consolidated financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles as in effect on March 28, 2022), and expressed as a percentage.  Further, for purposes of this agreement, “THREE-YEAR AVERAGE NON-GAAP EBIT MARGIN PRECENT” shall be equal to the straight average of the EBIT Margin Percent results for each of the performance years of Fiscal 2022, Fiscal 2023, and Fiscal 2024.  The measurement of EBIT Margin Percent shall exclude or adjust for the impact(s) of the following:
(a)    changes in accounting principles (i.e., cumulative effect of U.S. GAAP changes);
(b)    changes in accounting policies that were not contemplated in the initial targets;
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(c)    changes in tax structures or statutory rates that result in a cumulative EBIT impact of greater than $5.0 million (per fiscal year) during the performance period;
(d)    all items of gain, loss or expense for the performance period related to an exit activity (including flagship closures);
(e)    impairment of long-lived assets, finite or indefinite lived intangible assets, or goodwill;
(f)    total legal settlements in excess of a cumulative amount of $5.0 million (per fiscal year) during the performance period; and
(g)    charges or gains from the early extinguishment of funded debt obligations and/or lease obligations 
(h)    acquisition-related costs for acquisitions of business(es), as defined under U.S. GAAP

For the avoidance of doubt, the potential exclusions noted in (c) and (f) above would be triggered once the cumulative amount of the respective potential exclusion item exceeds $5.0 million (per fiscal year) during the performance period, in which case the amount greater than $5.0 million would be excluded.
In the event that performance for one, two, or three of the performance goals is between the respective THRESHOLD, TARGET, 150% (in the case of CUMULATIVE GAAP SALES CAGR and THREE-YEAR AVERAGE NON-GAAP EBIT MARGIN PRECENT), or MAXIMUM performance levels, linear interpolation will be used to determine the number of EARNED UNITS with respect to that metric.  Any portion of the TARGET AWARD not earned based upon the actual performance achieved shall expire and be forfeited without payment of any additional consideration, effective as of the last day of the fiscal year ending February 1, 2025.  The achievement of the performance goals set forth in this Section 2(A) (and the extent or lack thereof) shall be evidenced by the COMMITTEE’s written certification.   
(B)    RESTRICTED PERIOD.  Except as provided under Sections 3 and 4 of this AGREEMENT, the period of restriction (the “RESTRICTED PERIOD”), after which the EARNED UNITS shall become vested and no longer be subject to forfeiture to the COMPANY, shall lapse according to the following terms.  The VESTING DATE shall be defined as the date for vesting which is approved by the COMMITTEE following completion of the three-year performance period and then recorded and communicated through the System of Record, but not later than 60 days after the close of the performance period (or the date of filing of Form 10-K, if sooner).  The RESTRICTED PERIOD shall lapse as to one hundred percent of the EARNED UNITS (subject to adjustment as provided in Section 11(c) of the PLAN), and such EARNED UNITS shall become vested, on the VESTING DATE, provided PARTICIPANT is employed by the COMPANY or a subsidiary or affiliate of the COMPANY on such date;
(C)    Non-Transferability of AWARD.  The AWARD and any EARNED UNITS may not be  pledged, hypothecated or otherwise encumbered or subject to any lien, obligation or liability of PARTICIPANT to any party (other than the COMPANY or a subsidiary or affiliate of the COMPANY), or assigned or transferred (whether by operation of law or otherwise) by PARTICIPANT, otherwise than  by will or by the applicable laws of descent and distribution, and the AWARD and any EARNED UNITS shall not be subject to execution, attachment or similar process.
(D)    Lapse of RESTRICTED PERIOD.  Upon the lapse of the RESTRICTED PERIOD applicable to any EARNED UNITS, as promptly as is reasonably practicable, and in no case later than the 15th day of the third month immediately following the completion of the three-year performance period, SHARES of the COMPANY shall be issued to PARTICIPANT and the COMPANY shall deliver a stock certificate or other appropriate documentation evidencing the 
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number of SHARES of the COMPANY issued in settlement of such vested EARNED UNITS to PARTICIPANT (with each EARNED UNIT representing the right to receive one SHARE of the COMPANY).
(E)    Tax Withholding.  The COMPANY shall have the right to require PARTICIPANT to remit to the COMPANY an amount sufficient to satisfy any applicable federal, state, local and foreign tax withholding requirements in respect of the settlement of the AWARD.  Unless PARTICIPANT is notified otherwise, the COMPANY will withhold SHARES of the COMPANY otherwise deliverable upon settlement of the AWARD having a FAIR MARKET VALUE (as defined in the PLAN) on the date of settlement equal to the amount required to be withheld (but only to the extent of the minimum amount that must be withheld to comply with applicable federal, state, local and foreign income, employment and wage tax laws).  
(F)    Rights as Holder of AWARD.  With respect to the AWARD, PARTICIPANT shall have no rights as a stockholder of the COMPANY (including no right to vote or receive dividends) with respect to any SHARES of the COMPANY covered by the AWARD until the date of issuance to PARTICIPANT of a certificate or other evidence of ownership representing such SHARES in settlement thereof.  In addition, dividend equivalents will not be paid or payable with respect to the SHARES of the COMPANY and/or the EARNED UNITS subject to this AGREEMENT until such date of issuance.
3.    Change of Control.  Unless the BOARD or the COMMITTEE provides otherwise prior to a “Change of Control” (as such term is defined in the PLAN), upon a Change of Control, Section 9 of the PLAN shall govern the treatment of the AWARD.  For the avoidance of doubt, the performance period under this AGREEMENT for purposes of Section 9(b) of the PLAN shall be the three-fiscal-year period ending February 1, 2025.  Notwithstanding anything in Section 9(b) of the PLAN to the contrary, for all purposes under this AGREEMENT, in the event of a Change of Control in which fifty percent (50%) or more of the performance period applicable to the AWARD has elapsed as of the date of the Change of Control, the PARTICIPANT shall be entitled to a pro-rata payment, vesting or settlement of such AWARD based upon actual performance of each of the three performance goals.  In the event of a Change of Control in which less than fifty percent (50%) of the performance period applicable to the AWARD has elapsed as of the date of the Change of Control, the PARTICIPANT shall be entitled to a pro-rata payment, vesting or settlement of such AWARD based upon a TARGET level of performance of each of the three performance goals.
4.    Effect of Termination of Employment.
(A)    The grant of the AWARD shall not confer upon PARTICIPANT any right to continue in the employment of the COMPANY or any of the subsidiaries or affiliates of the COMPANY or interfere with or limit in any way the right of the COMPANY or any of the subsidiaries or affiliates of the COMPANY to modify the terms of or terminate the employment of PARTICIPANT at any time in accordance with applicable law and the COMPANY’s or the subsidiary’s or affiliate’s governing corporate documents.
(B)    Except as the COMMITTEE may at any time provide, if the employment of PARTICIPANT with the COMPANY and the subsidiaries and affiliates of the COMPANY is terminated by the COMPANY for “CAUSE” or as a result of PARTICIPANT’S resignation for any reason other than “retirement” (as defined below), in either case, prior to the lapsing of the RESTRICTED PERIOD applicable to the AWARD and/or any EARNED UNITS, such AWARD and/or the EARNED UNITS shall be forfeited to the COMPANY.  For purposes of this AGREEMENT only, “CAUSE” shall mean: (i) PARTICIPANT’S conviction of, or entrance of a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to, a felony under federal or state law; or (ii) fraudulent conduct 
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by PARTICIPANT in connection with the business affairs of the COMPANY; or (iii) PARTICIPANT’S willful refusal to materially perform PARTICIPANT’S duties; or (iv) PARTICIPANT’S willful misconduct which has, or would have if generally known, a materially adverse effect on the business or reputation of the COMPANY; or (v) PARTICIPANT’S material breach of a covenant, representation, warranty or obligation of PARTICIPANT to the COMPANY.   As to the grounds stated in the above-mentioned clauses (iii), (iv), and (v), such grounds will only constitute CAUSE once the COMPANY has provided PARTICIPANT written notice and PARTICIPANT has failed to cure such issue within 30 days.
(C)    If PARTICIPANT’s employment is terminated by the COMPANY without CAUSE prior to the lapsing of the RESTRICTED PERIOD, such RESTRICTED PERIOD shall immediately lapse and (1) if such termination occurs within the first year of the three-year performance period, the AWARD and/or the EARNED UNITS shall be forfeited to the COMPANY, or (2) if such termination occurs after the first year of  the three-year performance period, the AWARD shall remain outstanding, the number of EARNED UNITS shall be earned based upon the actual achievement of the respective performance goals over the full three-fiscal-year period and then pro-rated for the number of days PARTICIPANT was employed during the performance period, and such pro-rated number of EARNED UNITS shall become vested upon the COMMITTEE’s written certification of the achievement of such goals and payable as of the VESTING DATE notwithstanding the fact that PARTICIPANT is not employed as of the VESTING DATE and any remaining  portion of the AWARD shall be forfeited to the COMPANY.
(D)    If PARTICIPANT becomes totally disabled prior to the lapsing of the RESTRICTED PERIOD, such RESTRICTED PERIOD shall immediately lapse and (1) if such termination occurs after the end of the three-year performance period, the EARNED UNITS shall become fully vested and payable immediately, or (2) if such termination occurs prior to the end of the three-year performance period, the TARGET AWARD shall become fully vested and payable immediately.
(E)    If PARTICIPANT dies while employed by the COMPANY or one of the subsidiaries or affiliates of the COMPANY prior to the lapsing of the RESTRICTED PERIOD, such RESTRICTED PERIOD shall immediately lapse and (1) if PARTICIPANT’s death occurs after the end of the three-year performance period, the EARNED UNITS shall become fully vested and payable immediately,  or (2) if PARTICIPANT’s death occurs prior to the end of the three-year performance period, the TARGET AWARD shall become fully vested and payable immediately.
(F)    If PARTICIPANT retires from employment with the COMPANY and the subsidiaries and affiliates of the COMPANY at or after attaining the age of 65 (such termination of employment, a “retirement”) prior to the lapsing of the RESTRICTED PERIOD applicable to any EARNED UNITS, such RESTRICTED PERIOD shall immediately lapse and the EARNED UNITS shall become fully vested and payable as of the VESTING DATE notwithstanding the fact that PARTICIPANT is not employed as of the VESTING DATE (and, if such termination occurs prior to February 1, 2025,  the number of EARNED UNITS shall be based upon the actual achievement of the respective performance goals over the full three-fiscal-year period and such EARNED UNITS shall become fully vested upon the COMMITTEE’s written certification of the achievement of such goals and payable as of the VESTING DATE notwithstanding the fact that PARTICIPANT is not employed as of the VESTING DATE and any remaining  portion of the AWARD shall be forfeited to the COMPANY.
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(G)    For purposes of this AGREEMENT, “total disability” shall have the definition set forth in the Abercrombie & Fitch Co. Long Term Disability Plan, which definition is incorporated herein by reference.
5.    Forfeiture of AWARD.  
(A)  The AWARD and any EARNED UNITS shall be subject to the following additional forfeiture conditions, to which PARTICIPANT, by accepting the AWARD, agrees.  If any of the events specified in Section 5(B)(i), (ii), (iii) or (iv) of this AGREEMENT occurs (a “FORFEITURE EVENT”), the following forfeiture will result: 
(i)     the AWARD and any EARNED UNITS held by PARTICIPANT and not then settled will be immediately forfeited and canceled upon the occurrence of the FORFEITURE EVENT; and 
(ii)  PARTICIPANT will be obligated to repay to the COMPANY, in cash, within five business days after demand is made therefor by the COMPANY, the total amount of “AWARD GAIN” (as defined below) realized by PARTICIPANT upon settlement of the AWARD that occurred on or after (x) the date that is twenty-four months prior to the occurrence of the FORFEITURE EVENT, if the FORFEITURE EVENT occurred while PARTICIPANT was employed by the COMPANY or a subsidiary or affiliate of the COMPANY, or (y) the date that is twenty-four months prior to the date PARTICIPANT’s employment by the COMPANY or a subsidiary or affiliate of the COMPANY terminated, if the FORFEITURE EVENT occurred after PARTICIPANT ceased to be so employed.  For purposes of this Section 5, the term “AWARD GAIN” shall mean, in respect of any settlement of the AWARD granted to PARTICIPANT, the FAIR MARKET VALUE of the cash and/or SHARES of the COMPANY paid or payable to PARTICIPANT (regardless of any elective deferrals).
(B)     The forfeitures specified in Section 5(A) of this AGREEMENT will be triggered upon the occurrence of any one of the following FORFEITURE EVENTS at any time during PARTICIPANT’s employment by the COMPANY or a subsidiary or affiliate of the COMPANY, or during the twenty-four - month period following termination of such employment:
(i)    PARTICIPANT, acting alone or with others, directly or indirectly, (I) engages, either as employee, employer, consultant, advisor, or director, or as an owner, investor, partner, or stockholder unless PARTICIPANT’s interest is insubstantial, in any business in an area or region in which the COMPANY or any subsidiary or affiliate of the COMPANY conducts business at the date the event occurs, which is directly in competition with a business then conducted by the COMPANY or a subsidiary or affiliate of the COMPANY; (II) induces any customer or supplier of the COMPANY or a subsidiary or affiliate of the COMPANY, with which the COMPANY or a subsidiary or affiliate of the COMPANY has a business relationship, to curtail, cancel, not renew, or not continue his or her or its business with the COMPANY or any subsidiary or affiliate of the COMPANY; or (III) induces, or attempts to influence, any employee of or service provider to the COMPANY or a subsidiary or affiliate of the COMPANY to terminate such employment or service.  The COMMITTEE shall, in its discretion, determine which lines of business the COMPANY and the subsidiaries and affiliates of the COMPANY conduct on any particular date and which third parties may reasonably be deemed to be in competition with the COMPANY or any subsidiary or affiliate of the COMPANY.  For purposes of this Section 5(B)(i), PARTICIPANT’s interest as a stockholder is insubstantial if it represents beneficial ownership of less than five percent of the outstanding class of stock, and PARTICIPANT’s interest as an owner, investor, or partner is insubstantial if it represents ownership, as determined by the COMMITTEE in its discretion, of less than five percent of the outstanding equity of the entity; 
(ii)    PARTICIPANT discloses, uses, sells, or otherwise transfers, except in the course of employment with or other service to the COMPANY or any subsidiary or affiliate of the COMPANY, any confidential or proprietary information of the COMPANY or any 
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subsidiary or affiliate of the COMPANY, including but not limited to information regarding the COMPANY’s or any subsidiary’s or affiliate’s current and potential customers, organization, employees, finances, and methods of operations and investments, so long as such information has not otherwise been disclosed to the public or is not otherwise in the public domain (other than by PARTICIPANT’s breach of this provision), except as required by law or pursuant to legal process, or PARTICIPANT makes statements or representations, or otherwise communicates, directly or indirectly, in writing, orally, or otherwise, or takes any other action which may, directly or indirectly, disparage or be damaging to the COMPANY or any of the subsidiaries or affiliates of the COMPANY or their respective officers, directors, employees, advisors, businesses or reputations, except as required by law or pursuant to legal process; 
(iii)    PARTICIPANT fails to cooperate with the COMPANY or any subsidiary or affiliate of the COMPANY in any way, including, without limitation, by making PARTICIPANT available to testify on behalf of the COMPANY or such subsidiary or affiliate of the COMPANY in any action, suit, or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative, or investigative, or otherwise fails to assist the COMPANY or any subsidiary or affiliate of the COMPANY in any way, including, without limitation, in connection with any such action, suit, or proceeding by providing information and meeting and consulting with members of management of, other representatives of, or counsel to, the COMPANY or such subsidiary or affiliate of the COMPANY, as reasonably requested; or
(iv)    PARTICIPANT, during the period PARTICIPANT is employed by the COMPANY or any subsidiary or affiliate of the COMPANY and for twenty-four months thereafter (the “NON-SOLICITATION PERIOD”), alone or in conjunction with another person, (I) interferes with or harms, or attempts to interfere with or harm, the relationship of the COMPANY or any subsidiary or affiliate of the COMPANY with any person who at any time was a customer or supplier of the COMPANY or any subsidiary or affiliate of the COMPANY or otherwise had a business relationship with the COMPANY or any subsidiary or affiliate of the COMPANY; or (II) hires, solicits for hire, aids in or facilitates the hire, or causes to be hired, either as an employee, contractor or consultant, any person who is currently employed, or was employed at any time during the six-month period prior thereto, as an employee, contractor or consultant of the COMPANY or any subsidiary or affiliate of the COMPANY.  
(C)    Despite the conditions set forth in this Section 5, PARTICIPANT is not hereby prohibited from engaging in any activity set forth in Section 5(B)(i) of this AGREEMENT, including but not limited to competition with the COMPANY and the subsidiaries and affiliates of the COMPANY.  Rather, the non-occurrence of the FORFEITURE EVENTS set forth in Section 5(B) of this AGREEMENT is a condition to PARTICIPANT’s right to realize and retain value from the AWARD, and the consequences under the PLAN and this AGREEMENT if PARTICIPANT engages in an activity giving rise to any such FORFEITURE EVENTS are the forfeitures specified therein and as otherwise provided in this AGREEMENT.  The COMPANY and PARTICIPANT shall not be precluded by this provision or otherwise from entering into other agreements concerning the subject matter of Sections 5(A) and 5(B) of this AGREEMENT.  
(D)     The COMMITTEE may, in its discretion, waive in whole or in part the COMPANY’s right to forfeiture under this Section 5, but no such waiver shall be effective unless evidenced by a writing signed by a duly authorized officer of the COMPANY.  
(E)    In addition to the above, PARTICIPANT agrees that any of the conduct described in Sections 5(B), (ii) and (iv) of this AGREEMENT would result in irreparable injury and damage to the COMPANY for which the COMPANY would have no adequate remedy at law. PARTICIPANT agrees that in the event of such occurrence or any threat thereof, the COMPANY shall be entitled to an immediate injunction and restraining order to prevent such conduct and threatened conduct and/or continued conduct by PARTICIPANT and/or any and all persons and/or entities acting for and/or with PARTICIPANT, and without having to prove damages and to all 
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costs and expenses incurred by the COMPANY in seeking to enforce the COMPANY’s rights under this AGREEMENT.  These remedies are in addition to any other remedies to which the COMPANY may be entitled at law or in equity. PARTICIPANT agrees that the covenants of PARTICIPANT contained in Section 5(B) of this AGREEMENT are reasonable.
(F)    If the COMMITTEE determines that the earlier determination as to the achievement of any performance goal or performance-based vesting criteria hereunder was based on incorrect data and that in fact the performance goal or performance-based vesting criteria had not been achieved or had been achieved to a lesser extent than originally determined and a number of the EARNED UNITS would not have been granted, earned and/or vested, given the correct data, then (i) the aggregate number of SHARES of the COMPANY subject to the TARGET AWARD set forth in Section 1 of this AGREEMENT, and/or the aggregate number of EARNED UNITS earned hereunder, shall be reduced by such number of EARNED UNITS that would not have been granted, earned and/or vested (such EARNED UNITS, the “EXCESS UNITS”), (ii) any EXCESS UNITS that have not yet vested in accordance with the terms of this AGREEMENT shall be forfeited and (iii) any SHARES of the COMPANY received upon settlement of vested EXCESS UNITS (or if such SHARES were disposed of, the cash equivalent) shall be returned to the COMPANY as provided by the COMMITTEE.
6.    Restrictions on Transfers of SHARES. Anything contained in this AGREEMENT or elsewhere to the contrary notwithstanding, the COMPANY may postpone the issuance and delivery of SHARES of the COMPANY upon any settlement of the AWARD until completion of any stock exchange listing or registration or other qualification of such SHARES under any state, federal or foreign law, rule or regulation as the COMPANY may consider appropriate; and may require PARTICIPANT in connection with the issuance of the SHARES to make such representations and furnish such information as the COMPANY may consider appropriate in connection with the issuance of the SHARES in compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations. SHARES of the COMPANY issued and delivered upon settlement of the AWARD shall be subject to such restrictions on trading, including appropriate legending of certificates to that effect, as the COMPANY, in its discretion, shall determine are necessary to satisfy applicable laws, rules and regulations.
7.    PLAN as Controlling; PARTICIPANT Acknowledgments.  All terms and conditions of the PLAN applicable to the AWARD which are not set forth in this AGREEMENT shall be deemed incorporated herein by reference.  In the event that any term or condition of this AGREEMENT is inconsistent with the terms and conditions of the PLAN, the PLAN shall be deemed controlling.  PARTICIPANT acknowledges receipt of a copy of the PLAN and of the Prospectus related to the PLAN.  PARTICIPANT also acknowledges that all decisions, determinations and interpretations of the COMMITTEE in respect of the PLAN, this AGREEMENT and the AWARD shall be final, conclusive and binding on PARTICIPANT, all other persons interested in the PLAN and stockholders of the COMPANY.
8.    Governing Law.  To the extent not preempted by applicable federal or foreign law, this AGREEMENT shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, except with respect to provisions relating to the covenants set forth in Section 5 of this AGREEMENT, which shall be governed by the laws of the State of Ohio.
9.    Rights and Remedies Cumulative.  All rights and remedies of the COMPANY and of PARTICIPANT enumerated in this AGREEMENT shall be cumulative and, except as expressly provided otherwise in this AGREEMENT, none shall exclude any other rights or remedies allowed by law or in equity, and each of said rights or remedies may be exercised and enforced concurrently.
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10.    Captions.  The captions contained in this AGREEMENT are included only for convenience of reference and do not define, limit, explain or modify this AGREEMENT or its interpretation, construction or meaning and are in no way to be construed as a part of this AGREEMENT.
11.    Severability.  If any provision of this AGREEMENT or the application of any provision hereof to any person or any circumstance shall be determined to be invalid or unenforceable, then such determination shall not affect any other provision of this AGREEMENT or the application of said provision to any other person or circumstance, all of which other provisions shall remain in full force and effect, and it is the intention of each party to this AGREEMENT that if any provision of this AGREEMENT is susceptible of two or more constructions, one of which would render the provision enforceable and the other or others of which would render the provision unenforceable, then the provision shall have the meaning which renders it enforceable.
12.    Number and Gender.  When used in this AGREEMENT, the number and gender of each pronoun shall be construed to be such number and gender as the context, circumstances or its antecedent may require.  
13.    Entire Agreement.  This AGREEMENT, including the PLAN incorporated herein by reference, constitutes the entire agreement between the COMPANY and PARTICIPANT in respect of the subject matter of this AGREEMENT, and this AGREEMENT supersedes all prior and contemporaneous agreements between the parties hereto in connection with the subject matter of this AGREEMENT.  No officer, employee or other servant or agent of the COMPANY, and no servant or agent of PARTICIPANT, is authorized to make any representation, warranty or other promise not contained in this AGREEMENT.  Other than as set forth in Section 11(e) of the PLAN, no change, termination or attempted waiver of any of the provisions of this AGREEMENT shall be binding upon either party hereto unless contained in a writing signed by the party to be charged.
14.    Successors and Assigns of the COMPANY.  The obligations of the COMPANY under this AGREEMENT shall be binding upon any successor corporation or organization resulting from the merger, consolidation or other reorganization of the COMPANY, or upon any successor corporation or organization succeeding to substantially all of the assets and businesses of the COMPANY.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the COMPANY has caused this AGREEMENT to be executed by its duly authorized officer, and PARTICIPANT has executed this AGREEMENT, in each case effective as of the GRANT DATE.
COMPANY:

ABERCROMBIE & FITCH CO.

/S/Jay Rust
    
By: Jay Rust
Title: SVP & Head of Global Human  Resources

PARTICIPANT:

    

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