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Senior Unsecured Term Loan Agreement dated 03/01/2004

 EXHIBIT 10.23 
  
 U.S.$125,000,000 
  
 SENIOR UNSECURED TERM LOAN AGREEMENT 
  
 Dated as of March 1, 2004 
  
 Among 
  
 DRESSER, INC. 
  
 as Borrower 
  
 and 
  
 THE INITIAL LENDERS NAMED HEREIN 
  
 as Initial Lenders 
  
 and 
  
 MORGAN STANLEY SENIOR FUNDING, INC. 
  

as Administrative Agent 
  
 and 
  
 CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON 
  
 as Syndication Agent 
  
 and 
  
 MORGAN STANLEY SENIOR
FUNDING, INC. 
  
 and 
  
 CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON 
  
 as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint
Bookrunners 

 T A B L E  O F  C O N T E N T S 
  

					
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	ARTICLE I
	
	DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
			
	SECTION 1.01.	 	Certain Defined Terms	  	5
	SECTION 1.02.	 	Computation of Time Periods; Other Definitional Provisions	  	38
	
	ARTICLE II
	
	AMOUNTS AND TERMS OF THE ADVANCES AND THE LETTERS OF CREDIT
			
	SECTION 2.01.	 	The Advances	  	39
	SECTION 2.02.	 	Making the Advances	  	39
	SECTION 2.03.	 	Repayment of Advances	  	40
	SECTION 2.04.	 	Termination or Reduction of the Commitments	  	40
	SECTION 2.05.	 	Prepayments	  	41
	SECTION 2.06.	 	Interest	  	41
	SECTION 2.07.	 	Agents’ Fees	  	42
	SECTION 2.08.	 	Conversion of Advances	  	42
	SECTION 2.09.	 	Increased Costs, Etc.	  	43
	SECTION 2.10.	 	Payments and Computations	  	44
	SECTION 2.11.	 	Taxes	  	45
	SECTION 2.12.	 	Sharing of Payments, Etc.	  	48
	SECTION 2.13.	 	Use of Proceeds	  	49
	SECTION 2.14.	 	Evidence of Debt	  	49
	SECTION 2.15.	 	Offer to Prepay by Application of Prepayment Offer Amount	  	49
	SECTION 2.16.	 	Increase in the Commitments	  	51
	
	ARTICLE III
	
	CONDITIONS OF LENDING
			
	SECTION 3.01.	 	Conditions Precedent to Initial Borrowing	  	52
	SECTION 3.02.	 	Conditions Precedent to Commitment Increase	  	54
	SECTION 3.03.	 	Determinations Under Section 3.01	  	55
	
	ARTICLE IV
	
	REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
			
	SECTION 4.01.	 	Representations and Warranties of the Borrower	  	55

					
	ARTICLE V
	
	COVENANTS
			
	SECTION 5.01.	 	Covenants of the Borrower and Restricted Subsidiaries	  	60
	SECTION 5.02.	 	Successors	  	74
	
	ARTICLE VI
	
	EVENTS OF DEFAULT
			
	SECTION 6.01.	 	Events of Default	  	76
	SECTION 6.02.	 	Acceleration	  	77
	SECTION 6.03.	 	Other Remedies	  	78
	SECTION 6.04.	 	Waiver of Past Defaults	  	78
	SECTION 6.05.	 	Control by Majority	  	79
	SECTION 6.06.	 	Limitation on Suits	  	79
	SECTION 6.07.	 	Rights of Lenders to Receive Payment	  	79
	SECTION 6.08.	 	Collection Suit by Administrative Agent	  	79
	SECTION 6.09.	 	Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim	  	80
	SECTION 6.10.	 	Priorities	  	80
	SECTION 6.11.	 	Undertaking for Costs	  	81
	SECTION 6.12.	 	Restoration of Rights and Remedies	  	81
	
	ARTICLE VII
	
	THE AGENTS
			
	SECTION 7.01.	 	Authorization and Action	  	81
	SECTION 7.02.	 	Agents’ Reliance, Etc.	  	81
	SECTION 7.03.	 	MSSF, CSFB and Affiliates	  	82
	SECTION 7.04.	 	Lender Credit Decision	  	82
	SECTION 7.05.	 	Indemnification	  	82
	SECTION 7.06.	 	Successor Agents	  	83
	SECTION 7.07.	 	The Syndication Agent	  	84
	
	ARTICLE VIII
	
	GUARANTY
			
	SECTION 8.01.	 	Guaranty; Limitation of Liability	  	84
	SECTION 8.02.	 	Guaranty Absolute	  	85
	SECTION 8.03.	 	Waivers and Acknowledgments	  	86
	SECTION 8.04.	 	Subrogation	  	86
	SECTION 8.05.	 	Guaranty Supplements	  	87
	SECTION 8.06.	 	Continuing Guaranty; Assignments	  	87
	SECTION 8.07.	 	Release of Guarantor	  	88

  

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	SECTION 8.08.	 	Payment	  	88
	
	ARTICLE IX
	
	MISCELLANEOUS
			
	SECTION 9.01.	 	Amendments, Etc.	  	88
	SECTION 9.02.	 	Notices, Etc.	  	89
	SECTION 9.03.	 	No Waiver; Remedies	  	89
	SECTION 9.04.	 	Costs and Expenses	  	89
	SECTION 9.05.	 	Right of Set-off	  	91
	SECTION 9.06.	 	Binding Effect	  	91
	SECTION 9.07.	 	Assignments and Participations	  	91
	SECTION 9.08.	 	Execution in Counterparts	  	95
	SECTION 9.09.	 	Confidentiality	  	95
	SECTION 9.10.	 	Jurisdiction, Etc.	  	95
	SECTION 9.11.	 	Governing Law	  	96
	SECTION 9.12.	 	Waiver of Jury Trial	  	96

  

					
	        SCHEDULES	  	 	  	 
			
	        Schedule I	  	-	  	Commitments and Applicable Lending Offices
	        Schedule II	  	-	  	Guarantors
	        Schedule 4.01(c)	  	-	  	Authorizations, Approvals, Actions, Notices and Filings
	        Schedule 4.01(m)	  	-	  	Environmental Disclosure
			
	        EXHIBITS	  	 	  	 
			
	        Exhibit A	  	-	  	Form of Term Note
	        Exhibit B	  	-	  	Form of Notice of Borrowing
	        Exhibit C	  	-	  	Form of Assignment and Acceptance
	        Exhibit D	  	-	  	Form of Solvency Certificate
	        Exhibit E	  	-	  	Form of Opinion of United States Counsel to the Loan Parties
	        Exhibit F	  	-	  	Form of Guaranty Supplement

  

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 SENIOR UNSECURED TERM LOAN AGREEMENT 
  
 SENIOR UNSECURED TERM LOAN AGREEMENT dated as of March 1, 2004 among DRESSER, INC., a Delaware corporation (the
“Borrower”), the banks, financial institutions and other institutional lenders listed on the signature pages hereof as the Initial Lenders (the “Initial Lenders”), MORGAN STANLEY SENIOR FUNDING, INC.
(“MSSF”), as administrative agent (together with any successor administrative agent appointed pursuant to Article VII, the “Administrative Agent”) for the Lenders (as hereinafter defined), CREDIT
SUISSE FIRST BOSTON (“CSFB”), as syndication agent (in such capacity, the “Syndication Agent”; together with the Administrative Agent, the “Agents”), and MSSF and CSFB, as joint
lead arrangers (the “Joint Lead Arrangers”) and joint bookrunners (the “Joint Bookrunners”). 
  
 PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS: 
  
 (1) The Borrower has entered into a Credit Agreement dated as of April 10, 2001, as amended by Amendment No. 1 thereto dated as of March 13, 2002,
Amendment No. 2 thereto dated as of June 17, 2002, Amendment No. 3 thereto dated as of December 11, 2002, Amendment No. 4 and Waiver thereto dated as of March 31, 2003, Amendment No. 5 thereto dated as of June 30, 2003, and Amendment No. 6 and
Waiver thereto dated as of August 5, 2003 and Amendment No. 7 thereto dated as of March 1, 2004, with the lenders party thereto, MSSF, as administrative agent for such lenders, and others (such Credit Agreement, as so amended and as hereafter
amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Existing Credit Agreement”). 
  
 (2) The Borrower has requested that the Lenders lend to the Borrower term loans of up to U.S.$125,000,000, the proceeds of which will be used, together
with the proceeds of a new class of Tranche C Term Advances to be borrowed under Amendment No. 7 to the Existing Credit Agreement dated as of the date hereof (“Amendment No. 7”), solely to refinance in full the Tranche B Term
Advances outstanding under the Existing Credit Agreement as of the date hereof and, at the Borrower’s election, to pay transaction fees and costs. The Lenders have indicated their willingness to agree to lend such amount on the terms and
conditions of this Agreement. 
  
 NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration
of the premises and of the mutual covenants and agreements contained herein, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows: 
  

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 ARTICLE I 
  

DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS 
  
 SECTION 1.01. Certain 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): 
  
 “Accepting Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15. 
  
 “Acquired Debt” means Debt of a Person or any of its Subsidiaries existing at the time such Person becomes a
Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower or at the time it merges or consolidates with or into the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or that is assumed in connection with the acquisition of assets from such Person and in each case not
incurred by such Person in connection with, or in anticipation or contemplation of, such Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower or such acquisition, merger or consolidation. 
  
 “Adjusted EBITDA” means, with respect to any Person,
for any period, the sum (without duplication) of such Person’s: 
  
 (a) Consolidated Net Income, and 
  
 (b) to the extent Consolidated Net Income has been reduced thereby: 
  
 (i) all income taxes and foreign withholding taxes of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries paid or accrued in accordance with GAAP
for such period; 
  
 (ii) Consolidated Interest
Expense; 
  
 (iii) Consolidated Non-cash Charges
less any non-cash items increasing Consolidated Net Income for such period (other than normal accruals in the ordinary course of business); 
  
 (iv) any cash charges resulting from the Transactions (as defined in the Indenture) and the related financings that, in each case, are
incurred prior to October 10, 2001; and 
  
 (v)
any non-capitalized transactions costs incurred in connection with actual, proposed or abandoned financings, acquisitions or divestitures, including, but not limited to, financing and refinancing fees and costs incurred in connection with the
Transactions (as defined in the Indenture) and fees payable and expenses incurred in connection with any amendments or waivers of the Existing Credit Agreement (including the expenses and fees relating to this Agreement); 
  

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 (vi) fees and expenses related to or resulting from the re-audit and restatement of
financial statements of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (including, without limitation, the fees of accountants, legal counsel and other engaged to perform services in connection therewith); and 
  
 (vii) fees payable in an aggregate amount reasonably
approved by the Administrative Agent and expenses incurred in connection with the consent solicitation relating to Section 4.03 of the Indenture. 
  
 all as determined on a consolidated basis for such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP. 
  
 “Administrative Agent” has the
meaning specified in the recital of parties to this Agreement. 
  
 “Administrative Agent’s Account” means the account of the Administrative Agent maintained by the Administrative Agent as the Administrative Agent shall specify in writing to the Lenders.

  
 “Advance” means an
advance made by any Lender to the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.01 or Section 2.16. 
  
 “Affiliate” means, as to any Person, any other Person that, directly or indirectly, controls, is controlled by or
is under common control with such Person or is a director or officer of such Person. For purposes of this definition, the term “control” (including the terms “controlling”, “controlled by” and “under common control
with”) of a Person means the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person, whether through the ownership of Voting Stock, by contract or otherwise. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, no Person (other than the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower) in whom a Securitization Entity makes an Investment in connection with a Qualified Securitization Transaction shall be deemed to be an Affiliate of the Borrower or
any of its Subsidiaries solely by reason of such Investment. 
  
 “Affiliate Transaction” has the meaning specified in Section 5.01(j). 
  
 “Agents” has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this Agreement. 
  
 “Amendment No. 7” has the meaning
specified in the Preliminary Statements. 
  
 “Applicable Lending Office” means, with respect to each Lender, (a) such Lender’s Domestic Lending Office in the case of a Base Rate Advance, and (b) such Lender’s Eurodollar Lending Office in the case of a
Eurodollar Rate Advance. 
  
 “Applicable Margin” means a percentage per annum equal to (a) 3.50% in the case of Eurodollar Rate Advances and (b) 2.50% in the case of Base Rate Advances. 
  

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 “Approved Fund” means, with respect to any Lender that is a fund
that invests in bank loans, any other fund that invests in bank loans and is advised or managed by the same investment advisor as such Lender or by an Affiliate of such investment advisor. 
  
 “Asset Acquisition” means (a) an
Investment by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower in any other Person pursuant to which such Person shall become a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower, or shall be merged with or into or consolidated with the Borrower or any
Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower, or (b) the acquisition by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower of the assets of any Person (other than a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower) which constitute all or substantially all of
the assets of such Person or comprises any division or line of business of such Person or any other properties or assets of such Person, other than in the ordinary course of business. 
  
 “Asset Sales” means any direct or
indirect sale, issuance, conveyance, transfer, lease (other than leases entered into in the ordinary course of business), assignment or other transfer for value by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (including any Sale and Leaseback
Transaction) to any Person other than the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower of: 
  
 (b) any Capital Stock of any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower, or 
  
 (c) any other property or assets of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower other than in
the ordinary course of business; 
  
 provided, however,
that Asset Sales shall not include: 
  
 (i) a
transaction or series of related transactions for which the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries receive aggregate consideration of less than $5,000,000; 
  
 (ii) the sale, lease, conveyance, disposition or other transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Borrower as permitted
under Section 5.02(a) or any disposition that constitutes a Change of Control; 
  
 (iii) the sale or discount, in each case without recourse, of accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in
connection with the compromise or collection thereof; 
  
 (iv) disposals or replacements of obsolete equipment in the ordinary course of business; 
  
 (v) the sale, lease, conveyance, disposition or other transfer by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower of assets or
property to one or more Restricted Subsidiaries of the Borrower in connection with Investments permitted under Section 5.01(f) or pursuant to any Permitted Investment; and 
  

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 (vi) sales of accounts receivable, equipment and related assets (including contract
rights) of the type specified in the definition of Qualified Securitization Transaction to a Securitization Entity for the fair market value thereof, including cash in an amount at least equal to 75% of the fair market value thereof as determined in
accordance with GAAP. For the purposes of this clause (vi), Purchase Money Notes shall be deemed to be cash; 
  
 (vii) dispositions in the ordinary course of business; 
  
 (viii) foreclosures on assets; 
  
 (ix) any exchange of like property pursuant to Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code, for use in a
Permitted Business; 
  
 (x) a Permitted
Investment or a Restricted Payment that is permitted by Section 5.01(f); 
  
 (xi) the sale of equipment to the extent that such equipment is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement equipment, or the proceeds of such sale are reasonably promptly applied to the
purchase price of similar replacement equipment; and 
  
 (xii) in the ordinary course of business, the license of patents, trademarks, copyrights and know-how to third Persons. 
  
 “Assignment and Acceptance” means an assignment and acceptance entered into by a Lender and an Eligible Assignee,
and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in accordance with Section 9.07 and in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto. 
  
 “Assuming Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 2.16(d). 
  
 “Bankruptcy Law” means Title 11,
U.S. Code or any similar federal or state law for the relief of debtors. 
  
 “Base Rate” means a fluctuating interest rate per annum in effect from time to time, which rate per annum shall at all times be equal to the higher of: 
  
 (c) the rate of interest announced publicly by Citibank,
N.A. in New York, New York, from time to time, as Citibank, N.A.’s base rate; and 
  
 (d) 1/2 of 1% per annum above the Federal Funds Rate. 
  
 “Base Rate Advance” means an Advance that bears interest as provided in Section
2.06(a)(i). 
  
 “Borrower” has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this Agreement. 
  

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 “Borrower’s Account” means the account of the Borrower
maintained by the Borrower with Wells Fargo Bank N.A., 420 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA 94104, SWIFT: WFBIUS6S, ABA 121000248, Account Number: 4496875212, Beneficiary: Dresser Inc., Currency: USD, or such other account as the Borrower shall
specify in writing to the Administrative Agent. 
  
 “Borrowing” means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous Advances of the same Type made by the Lenders. 
  
 “Business Day” means a day of the year on which banks are not required or authorized by law to close in New York
City and, if the applicable Business Day relates to any Eurodollar Rate Advances, a day on which dealings are carried on in the London interbank market. 
  
 “Capital Stock” means: 
  
 (a) with respect to any Person that is a corporation, any and all shares, interests, rights to purchase, warrants, options, participations
or other equivalents (however designated and whether or not voting) of corporate stock, including each class of Common Stock and Preferred Stock of such Person or options to purchase the same; and 
  
 (b) with respect to any Person that is not a corporation,
any and all partnership or other equity interests of such Person. 
  
 “Capitalized Lease Obligation” means, as to any Person, the obligations of such Person under a lease that are required to be classified and accounted for as capital lease obligations under
GAAP. For purposes of this definition, the amount of such obligations at any date shall be the capitalized amount of such obligations at such date, determined in accordance with GAAP. 
  
 “Cash Equivalents” means: 
  
 (a) marketable direct obligations issued by, or unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States Government
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 by any state of the United States of America 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
one year from the date of creation thereof and, at the time of acquisition, having a rating of at least A-2 from S&P or at least P-2 from Moody’s; 
  

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 (d) certificates of deposit or bankers’ acceptances maturing within one year from
the date of acquisition thereof issued by any bank organized under the laws of the United States of America or any state thereof or the District of Columbia or any U.S. branch of a foreign bank having at the date of acquisition thereof combined
capital and surplus of not less than $250,000,000; 
  
 (e) repurchase obligations with a term of not more than seven days for underlying securities of the types described in clause (a) above entered into with any bank meeting the qualifications specified in clause (d) above; 
  
 (f) investments in money market funds which invest
substantially all their assets in securities of the types described in clauses (a) through (e) above; and 
  
 (g) in the case of any Subsidiary organized or having its principal place of business outside the United States, investments denominated
in the currency of the jurisdiction in which that Subsidiary is organized or has its principal place of business which are similar to the items specified in clauses (a), (b), (c), (e) and (f) above. 
  
 “CERCLA” means the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as amended from time to time. 
  
 “CERCLIS” means the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Information System maintained
by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 
  
 “Change of Control” means the occurrence of one or more of the following events: 
  
 (d) any sale, lease, exchange or other transfer (in one transaction or a series of related transactions) of all or substantially all of
the assets of the Borrower to any Person or group of related Persons for purposes of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act (a “Group”), other than to the Permitted Investors or their Related Parties or any Permitted Group;

  
 (e) the approval by the holders of Capital
Stock of the Borrower of any plan or proposal for the liquidation or dissolution of the Borrower (whether or not otherwise in compliance with the provisions of this Agreement); 
  
 (f) any Person or Group (other than the Permitted Investors or their Related Parties or any Permitted Group)
shall become the owner, directly or indirectly, beneficially or of record, of shares representing more than 50% of the aggregate ordinary voting power represented by the issued and outstanding Capital Stock of the Borrower; or 
  
 (d) the first day on which a majority of the members of the
Board of Directors of the Borrower are not Continuing Directors. 
  
 “Change of Control Offer” has the meaning specified in Section 5.01(m). 
  

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 “Change of Control Prepayment Date” has the meaning specified in
Section 5.01(m). 
  
 “Closing
Date” means the first date on which the conditions set forth in Article III are satisfied. 
  
 “Commitment” means, with respect to any Lender at any time, the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name
on Schedule I hereto under the caption “Commitment” or, if such Lender has entered into one or more Assignment and Acceptances, the amount set forth for such Lender in the Register maintained by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section
9.07(d) as such Lender’s “Commitment”, as such amount may be reduced at or prior to such time pursuant to Section 2.04. 
  
 “Commitment Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.16(b). 
  
 “Commitment Increase” has the
meaning specified in Section 2.16(a). 
  
 “Common Stock” of any Person means any and all shares, interests or other participations in, and other equivalents (however designated and whether voting or non-voting) of such Person’s common stock, whether
outstanding on the Closing Date or issued after the Closing Date, and includes, without limitation, all series and classes of such common stock. 
  
 “Confidential Information” means information that any Loan Party furnishes to any Agent or any Lender on a
confidential basis, but does not include any such information that is or becomes generally available to the public or that is or becomes available to such Agent or such Lender from a source other than the Loan Parties. 
  
 “Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage
Ratio” means, with respect to any Person, the ratio of (x) Adjusted EBITDA of such Person during the four full fiscal quarters (the “Four-Quarter Period”) ending prior to the date of the transaction giving rise
to the need to calculate the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for which financial statements are available (the “Transaction Date”) to (y) Consolidated Fixed Charges of such Person for the Four-Quarter Period. In
addition to and without limitation of the foregoing, for purposes of this definition, “Adjusted EBITDA” and “Consolidated Fixed Charges” shall be calculated after giving effect on a pro forma basis for the period of such
calculation to: 
  
 (a) the incurrence or
repayment of any Debt or the issuance of any Designated Preferred Stock of such Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and the application of the proceeds thereof) giving rise to the need to make such calculation and any incurrence or
repayment of other Debt or the issuance or redemption of other Preferred Stock (and the application of the proceeds thereof), other than the incurrence or repayment of Debt in the ordinary course of business for working capital purposes pursuant to
revolving credit facilities, occurring during the Four-Quarter Period or at any time subsequent to the last day of the Four-Quarter Period and on or prior to the Transaction Date, as if such incurrence or repayment or issuance or redemption, as the
case may be (and the application of the proceeds thereof), had occurred on the first day of the Four-Quarter Period; and 
  

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 (b) Asset Sales or other dispositions or Asset Acquisitions (including, without
limitation, (A) any Asset Acquisition giving rise to the need to make such calculation as a result of such Person or one of its Restricted Subsidiaries (including any Person who becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of the Asset Acquisition)
incurring, assuming or otherwise being liable for Acquired Debt, and (B) any Adjusted EBITDA (including any pro forma expense and cost reductions and other operating improvements that have occurred or are reasonably expected to occur, in the
reasonable judgment of the chief financial officer of the Borrower (regardless of whether those cost savings or operating improvements could then be reflected in pro forma financial statements in accordance with GAAP, Regulation S-X promulgated
under the Securities Act or any other regulation or policy of the SEC related thereto) attributable to the assets which are the subject of the Asset Acquisition or Asset Sale or other disposition and without regard to clause (4) of the definition of
Consolidated Net Income) occurring during the Four-Quarter Period or at any time subsequent to the last day of the Four-Quarter Period and on or prior to the Transaction Date, as if such Asset Sale or other disposition or Asset Acquisition
(including the incurrence or assumption of any such Acquired Debt) occurred on the first day of the Four-Quarter Period. If such Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries directly or indirectly guarantees Debt of a third Person, the preceding
sentence shall give effect to the incurrence of such guaranteed Debt as if such Person or any Restricted Subsidiary of such Person had directly incurred or otherwise assumed such other Debt that was so guaranteed. 
  
 Furthermore, in calculating “Consolidated Fixed
Charges” for purposes of determining the denominator (but not the numerator) of this “Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio”: 
  
 (a) interest on outstanding Debt determined on a fluctuating basis as of the Transaction Date and which will continue to be so determined
thereafter shall be deemed to have accrued at a fixed rate per annum equal to the rate of interest on such Debt in effect on the Transaction Date; and 
  
 (b) notwithstanding clause (a) of this paragraph, interest on Debt determined on a fluctuating basis, to the extent such interest is
covered by agreements relating to Interest Swap Obligations, shall be deemed to accrue at the rate per annum resulting after giving effect to the operation of such agreements. 
  
 “Consolidated Fixed Charges” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the
sum, without duplication, of: 
  
 (a)
Consolidated Interest Expense; plus 
  

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 (b) the product of (x) the amount of all cash dividend payments on any series of
Preferred Stock of such Person times (y) a fraction, the numerator of which is one and the denominator of which is one minus the then current effective consolidated federal, state and local income tax rate of such Person, expressed as a decimal;
provided that with respect to any series of Preferred Stock that was not paid cash dividends during such period but that is eligible to be paid cash dividends during any period prior to the maturity date of the Senior Unsecured Obligations,
cash dividends shall be deemed to have been paid with respect to such series of Preferred Stock during such period for purposes of this clause (b). 
  
 “Consolidated Interest Expense” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the sum of, without duplication: 
  
 (a) the aggregate of all cash and non-cash interest expense
with respect to all outstanding Debt of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries, including the net costs associated with Interest Swap Obligations, for such period determined on a consolidated basis in conformity with GAAP, but excluding
amortization or write-off of debt issuance costs; 
  
 (b) the consolidated interest expense of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries that was capitalized during such period; and 
  
 (c) the interest component of Capitalized Lease Obligations paid, accrued and/or scheduled to be paid or accrued by such Person and its
Restricted Subsidiaries during such period as determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP. 
  
 “Consolidated Net Income” means, with respect to any Person, for any period, the aggregate net income (or loss) of
such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period on a consolidated basis, determined in accordance with GAAP and without any deduction in respect of Preferred Stock dividends; provided that there shall be excluded therefrom:

  
 (a) gains and losses from Asset Sales
(without regard to the $5,000,000 limitation set forth in the definition thereof) and the related tax effects according to GAAP; 
  
 (b) all extraordinary, unusual or nonrecurring charges, gains and losses (including, without limitation, all restructuring costs and any
expense or charge related to the repurchase of Capital Stock or warrants or options to purchase Capital Stock) and the related tax effects according to GAAP; 
  

(c) the net income (or loss) of any Person acquired in a pooling of interests transaction accrued prior to the date it becomes a
Restricted Subsidiary of the referent Person or is merged or consolidated with or into such Person or any Restricted Subsidiary of such Person; 
  

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 (d) the net income (or loss) of any Restricted Subsidiary of the referent Person to the
extent that the declaration of dividends or similar distributions by that Restricted Subsidiary of that income is prohibited by contract, operation of law or otherwise; 
  
 (e) the net loss of any Person, other than a Restricted Subsidiary of the referent Person; 
  
 (f) the net income of any Person, other than a Restricted
Subsidiary of the referent Person, except to the extent of cash dividends or distributions paid to the referent Person or a Restricted Subsidiary of the referent Person by such Person; 
  
 (g) in the case of a successor to the referent Person by consolidation or merger or as a transferee of the
referent Person’s assets, any earnings of the successor corporation prior to such consolidation, merger or transfer of assets; and 
  
 (h) any non-cash compensation charges, including any arising from existing stock options resulting from any merger or recapitalization
transaction. 
  
 “Consolidated Net
Tangible Assets” means, with respect to any Person, the total assets minus unamortized deferred tax assets, goodwill, patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights and all other items which would be treated as
intangibles, in each case on the most recent consolidated balance sheet of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries prepared in accordance with GAAP. 
  
 “Consolidated Non-cash Charges” means, with respect to any Person, for any period, the aggregate depreciation,
amortization and other non-cash charges and expenses of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries reducing Consolidated Net Income of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance
with GAAP (excluding any such charges that require an accrual of or a reserve for cash payments for any future period other than accruals or reserves in the ordinary course of business or associated with mandatory repurchases of equity securities).
Notwithstanding the foregoing, accruals in respect to payables in the ordinary course of business shall be deemed not to constitute a “Consolidated Non-cash Charge.” 
  
 “Continuing Directors” means (a) members of the board of directors on the Closing
Date; and (b) other Persons nominated or elected to the board of directors with the approval of a majority of the Continuing Directors who were members of the board of directors at the time of such election or nomination. 
  
 “Conversion”,
“Convert” and “Converted” each refer to a conversion of Advances of one Type into Advances of the other Type pursuant to Section 2.08 or 2.09. 
  
 “Credit Facilities” means one or
more debt facilities (including, without limitation, facilities under the New Credit Agreement) or commercial paper facilities with banks or other institutional lenders providing for revolving credit loans, term loans, receivables financing
(including through the sale of receivables to such lenders or to special purpose entities formed to borrow from such lenders against such receivables) and/or letters of credit, bank guarantees or banker’s acceptances. 
  

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 “CSFB” has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to
this Agreement. 
  
 “Currency
Agreement” means any foreign exchange contract, currency swap agreement or other similar agreement or arrangement designed to protect the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower against fluctuations in currency values.

  
 “Debt” means with respect to any
Person, without duplication: 
  
 (a) all
Obligations of such Person for borrowed money; 
  
 (b) all Obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments; 
  
 (c) all Capitalized Lease Obligations of such Person; 
  
 (d) all Obligations of such Person issued or assumed as the deferred purchase price of property, all
conditional sale obligations and all Obligations under any title retention agreement (but excluding trade accounts payable and other accrued liabilities arising in the ordinary course of business); 
  
 (e) all Obligations for the reimbursement of any obligor on
any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar credit transaction; 
  
 (f) guarantees and other contingent Obligations in respect of Debt referred to in clauses (a) through (e) above and clause (h) below; 
  
 (g) all Obligations of any other Person of the type referred to in clauses (a) through (f) which are secured
by any Lien on any property or asset of such Person, the amount of such Obligation being deemed to be the lesser of the fair market value of such property or asset or the amount of the Obligation so secured; 
  
 (h) all Obligations under Currency Agreements and Interest
Swap Obligations of such Person; and 
  
 (i) all
Disqualified Capital Stock issued by such Person with the amount of Debt represented by such Disqualified Capital Stock being equal to the greater of its voluntary or involuntary liquidation preference and its maximum fixed repurchase price, but
excluding accrued dividends, if any. 
  
 For
purposes hereof, the “maximum fixed repurchase price” of any Disqualified Capital Stock which does not have a fixed repurchase price shall be calculated in accordance with the terms of such Disqualified Capital Stock as if such
Disqualified Capital Stock were purchased on any date on which Debt shall be required to be determined pursuant to this Agreement, and if such price is based upon, or measured by, the fair market value of such Disqualified Capital Stock, such fair
market value shall be 
  

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 determined reasonably and in good faith by the Board of Directors of the issuer of such Disqualified
Capital Stock. For the purposes of calculating the amount of Debt of a Securitization Entity outstanding as of any date, the face or notional amount of any interest in receivables or equipment that is outstanding as of such date shall be deemed to
be Debt but any such interests held by Affiliates of such Securitization Entity shall be excluded for purposes of such calculation. 
  
 The amount of any Debt outstanding as of any date shall be: 
  
 (a) the accreted value thereof, in the case of any Debt that does not require current payments of interest;
and 
  
 (b) the principal amount thereof
(together with any interest thereon that is more than 30 days past due), in the case of any other Debt provided that the principal amount of any Debt that is denominated in any currency other than United States dollars shall be the amount
thereof, as determined pursuant to the foregoing provision, converted into United States dollars at the Spot Rate in effect on the date that Debt was incurred or, if that indebtedness was incurred prior to the date of this Agreement, the Spot Rate
in effect on the date of this Agreement. If such Debt is incurred to refinance other Debt denominated in a foreign currency, and such refinancing would cause the applicable U.S. dollar-denominated restriction to be exceeded if calculated at the
relevant Spot Rate in effect on the date of such refinancing, such U.S. dollar-denominated restriction shall be deemed not to have been exceeded so long as the principal amount of such refinancing Debt does not exceed the principal amount of such
Debt being refinanced. The principal amount of any Debt incurred to refinance other Debt, if incurred in a different currency from the Debt being refinanced, shall be calculated based on the Spot Rate applicable to the currencies in which such
respective Debt is denominated that is in effect on the date of such refinancing. 
  
 Debt shall not include obligations of any Person (A) arising from the honoring by a bank or other financial institution of a check, draft
or similar instrument inadvertently drawn against insufficient funds in the ordinary course of business, provided that such obligations are extinguished within two Business Days of their incurrence, (B) resulting from the endorsement of
negotiable instruments for collection in the ordinary course of business and consistent with past business practices and (C) under stand-by letters of credit to the extent collateralized by cash or Cash Equivalents. 
  
 “Declining Lender” has the meaning
specified in Section 2.15. 
  
 “Default” means any Event of Default or any event that would constitute an Event of Default but for the requirement that notice be given or time elapse or both. 
  
 “DEG Acquisitions” means DEG
Acquisitions, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and an indirect parent of the Borrower. 
  

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 “Designated Noncash Consideration” means any non-cash
consideration received by the Borrower or one of its Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with an Asset Sale that is designated as Designated Noncash Consideration pursuant to an Officers’ Certificate that is delivered to the Administrative
Agent and executed by the principal executive officer and the principal financial officer of the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at the time of such Asset Sale. Any particular item of Designated Noncash Consideration will cease to be
considered to be outstanding once it has been sold for cash or Cash Equivalents. At the time of receipt of any Designated Noncash Consideration, the Borrower shall deliver an Officers’ Certificate to the Administrative Agent which shall state
the fair market value of such Designated Noncash Consideration and shall state the basis of such valuation, which shall be a report of a nationally recognized investment banking, appraisal or accounting firm with respect to the receipt in one
transaction or a series of related transactions, of Designated Noncash Consideration with a fair market value in excess of $10,000,000. 
  
 “Designated Preferred Stock” means Preferred Stock that is designated as “Designated Preferred Stock”
pursuant to an Officers’ Certificate executed by the principal executive officer and the principal financial officer of the Borrower to the Administrative Agent on the issue date thereof, the cash proceeds of which are excluded from the
calculation set forth in clause (C)(2) of the first paragraph of Section 5.01(f). 
  
 “Disqualified Capital Stock” means that portion of any Capital Stock which, by its terms (or by the terms of any
security into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable at the option of the holder thereof), or upon the happening of any event (other than an event which would constitute a Change of Control), matures (excluding any maturity as the
result of an optional redemption by the issuer thereof) or is mandatorily redeemable, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, or is redeemable at the sole option of the holder thereof (except, in each case, upon the occurrence of a
Change of Control) on or prior to the final maturity date of the Facility. 
  
 “Dollars” and the sign “U.S.$” each means lawful money of the United States of America. 
  
 “Domestic Lending Office” means, with respect to any Lender, the office of such
Lender specified as its “Domestic Lending Office” opposite its name on Schedule I hereto or in the Assignment and Acceptance or other instrument pursuant to which it became a Lender, as the case may be, or such other office of such Lender
as such Lender may from time to time specify to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent. 
  
 “Domestic Restricted Subsidiary” means any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower that is incorporated under the
laws of the United States or any state thereof or the District of Columbia. 
  
 “Eligible Assignee” means any commercial bank or financial institution (including, without limitation, any fund that regularly invests in loans similar to the Advances) as approved (which
approval shall be required only so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing at the time of an assignment) by the Borrower 
  

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 (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed); provided, however, that neither
any Loan Party nor any Subsidiary of a Loan Party shall qualify as an Eligible Assignee under this definition. 
  
 “Environmental Action” means any action, suit, demand, demand letter, claim, notice of non-compliance or
violation, notice of liability or potential liability, investigation, proceeding, consent order or consent agreement relating in any way to any Environmental Law, any Environmental Permit or Hazardous Material or arising from alleged injury or
threat to health, safety or the environment, including, without limitation, (a) by any governmental or regulatory authority for enforcement, cleanup, removal, response, remedial or other actions or damages and (b) by any governmental or regulatory
authority or third party for damages, contribution, indemnification, cost recovery, compensation or injunctive relief. 
  
 “Environmental Law” means any applicable Federal, state, local or foreign statute, law, ordinance, rule,
regulation, code, order, writ, judgment, injunction or decree, or any judicial or agency interpretation, policy or guidance having the force or effect of law, relating to pollution or protection of the environment, health, safety or natural
resources, including, without limitation, those relating to the use, handling, transportation, treatment, storage, disposal, release or discharge of Hazardous Materials. 
  
 “Environmental Permit” means any permit, approval, identification number, license or
other authorization required under any Environmental Law. 
  
 “ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time, and the regulations promulgated and rulings issued thereunder. 
  
 “ERISA Affiliate” means any Person
that for purposes of Title IV of ERISA is a member of the controlled group of any Loan Party, or under common control with any Loan Party, within the meaning of Section 414 (b) or (c) of the Internal Revenue Code, and solely for purposes of Section
412 of the Internal Revenue Code, within the meaning of Section 414(m) or (o) of the Internal Revenue Code. 
  
 “ERISA Event” means (a) (i) the occurrence of a reportable event, within the meaning of Section 4043 of ERISA,
with respect to any Plan unless the 30-day notice requirement with respect to such event has been waived by the PBGC or (ii) the requirements of Section 4043(b) of ERISA apply with respect to a contributing sponsor, as defined in Section 4001(a)(13)
of ERISA, of a Plan, and an event described in paragraph (9), (10), (11), (12) or (13) of Section 4043(c) of ERISA is reasonably expected to occur with respect to such Plan within the following 30 days; (b) the application for a minimum funding
waiver with respect to a Plan; (c) the provision by the administrator of any Plan of a notice of intent to terminate such Plan, pursuant to Section 4041(a)(2) of ERISA (including any such notice with respect to a plan amendment referred to in
Section 4041(e) of ERISA); (d) the cessation of operations at a facility of any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate in the circumstances described in Section 4062(e) of ERISA; (e) the withdrawal by any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate 
  

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 from a Multiple Employer Plan during a plan year for which it was a substantial employer, as defined in
Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA; (f) the conditions for imposition of a lien under Section 302(f) of ERISA shall have been met with respect to any Plan; (g) the adoption of an amendment to a Plan requiring the provision of security to such Plan pursuant
to Section 307 of ERISA; or (h) the institution by the PBGC of proceedings to terminate a Plan pursuant to Section 4042 of ERISA, or the occurrence of any event or condition described in Section 4042 of ERISA that constitutes grounds for the
termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, such Plan. 
  
 “Eurocurrency Liabilities” has the meaning specified in Regulation D of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as in effect from time to time. 
  
 “Eurodollar Lending Office” means,
with respect to any Lender, the office of such Lender specified as its “Eurodollar Lending Office” opposite its name on Schedule I hereto or in the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which it became a Lender (or, if no such office is
specified, its Domestic Lending Office), or such other office of such Lender as such Lender may from time to time specify to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent. 
  
 “Eurodollar Rate” means, for any Interest Period for all Eurodollar Rate Advances
comprising part of the same Borrowing, an interest rate per annum equal to the rate per annum obtained by dividing (a) the rate per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest 1/100 of 1%) appearing on Telerate Page 3750 (or any successor
page) as the London interbank offered rate for deposits in U.S. dollars at 11:00 A.M. (London time) two Business Days before the first day of such Interest Period for a period equal to such Interest Period (provided that, if for any reason
such rate is not available, the term “Eurodollar Rate” shall mean, for any Interest Period for all Eurodollar Rate Advances comprising part of the same Borrowing, the rate per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest 1/100 of
1%) appearing on Reuters Screen LIBOR Page as the London interbank offered rate for deposits in Dollars at approximately 11:00 A.M. (London time) two Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period for a term comparable to such Interest
Period; provided, however, if more than one rate is specified on Reuters Screen LIBO Page, the applicable rate shall be the arithmetic mean of all such rates) by (b) a percentage equal to 100% minus the Eurodollar Rate Reserve Percentage for
such Interest Period. 
  
 “Eurodollar
Rate Advance” means an Advance that bears interest as provided in Section 2.07(a)(ii). 
  
 “Eurodollar Rate Reserve Percentage” for any Interest Period for all Eurodollar Rate Advances comprising part of
the same Borrowing means the reserve percentage applicable two Business Days before the first day of such Interest Period under regulations issued from time to time by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (or any successor) for
determining the maximum reserve requirement (including, without limitation, any emergency, supplemental or other marginal reserve requirement) for a member bank of the Federal Reserve System in New York City with respect to liabilities or assets
consisting of or including Eurocurrency Liabilities (or with respect to any other category of liabilities related to the basis on which the interest rate on Eurodollar Rate Advances is determined) having a term equal to such Interest Period.

  

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 “Events of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 6.01.

  
 “Excluded Taxes” has
the meaning specified in Section 2.11(a). 
  
 “Existing Credit Agreement” has the meaning specified in the Preliminary Statements. 
  
 “Facility” means, at any time, the aggregate amount of the Lenders’ Commitments at such time. 
  
 “Fair Market Value” means, with
respect to any asset or property, the price which could be negotiated in an arm’s-length, free market transaction, for cash, between a willing seller and a willing and able buyer, neither of whom is under undue pressure or compulsion to
complete the transaction. Fair Market Value shall be determined by the Board of Directors of the Borrower acting reasonably and in good faith and shall be evidenced by a resolution of the Board of Directors of the Borrower delivered to the
Administrative Agent. 
  
 “Federal
Funds Rate” means, for any period, a fluctuating interest rate per annum 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 that is a Business
Day, the average of the quotations for such day for such transactions received by the Administrative Agent from three Federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by it. 
  
 “Four-Quarter Period” has the meaning specified in the definition of Consolidated
Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio. 
  
 “GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and
pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other statements by such other entity as may be approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession of the United States, as in effect from time to time. 
  
 “Guaranties” means the guaranty of
the Guarantors set forth in Article VIII. 
  
 “Guarantor” means any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower that incurs a Guaranty; provided that upon the release and discharge of such Restricted Subsidiary from its Guaranty in accordance with Section 8.07,
such Restricted Subsidiary shall cease to be a Guarantor. 
  

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 “Hazardous Materials” means (a) petroleum or petroleum products,
by-products or breakdown products, radioactive materials, asbestos-containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls and radon gas and (b) any other chemicals, materials or substances designated, classified or regulated as hazardous or toxic or as a
pollutant or contaminant under any Environmental Law. 
  
 “Hedging Agreement” means any agreement with respect to the hedging of price risk associated with the purchase of commodities used in the business of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries. 
  
 “Increase Dates” has the meaning
specified in Section 2.16(a). 
  
 “Increasing Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 2.16(a). 
  
 “Indemnified Party” has the meaning specified in Section 9.04(b). 
  
 “Indenture” means the indenture
dated as of April 10, 2001, and entered into by and among, the Borrower, the subsidiary guarantors party thereto and State Street Bank and Trust Company, as trustee, as such indenture may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to
time in accordance with its terms through the date hereof. 
  
 “Information Memorandum” means the information memorandum dated February 2004 used by the Joint Lead Arrangers in connection with the syndication of the Commitments. 
  
 “Initial Lenders” has the meaning
specified in the recital of parties to this Agreement. 
  
 “Insufficiency” means, with respect to any Plan, the amount, if any, of its unfunded benefit liabilities, as defined in Section 4001(a)(18) of ERISA. 
  
 “Interest Period” means for each Eurodollar Rate Advance comprising part of the same
Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Eurodollar Rate Advance or the date of the Conversion of any Base Rate Advance into such Eurodollar Rate Advance, and ending on the last day of the period selected by the Borrower pursuant to the
provisions below and, thereafter, each subsequent period commencing on the last day of the immediately preceding Interest Period and ending on the last day of the period selected by the Borrower pursuant to the provisions below. The duration of each
Interest Period with respect to any Eurodollar Rate Advances shall be one, two, three or six months, or, to the extent made available by all the Lenders, twelve months, as the Borrower may, upon notice received by the Administrative Agent not later
than 11:00 A.M. (New York City time) on the third Business Day prior to the first day of such Interest Period, select; provided, however, that: 
  

(a) the Borrower may not select any Interest Period with respect to any Eurodollar Rate Advance that ends after any principal repayment
installment date unless, after giving effect to such selection, the aggregate principal amount of 
  

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 Base Rate Advances and of Eurodollar Rate Advances having Interest Periods that end on or prior to such
principal repayment installment date shall be at least equal to the aggregate principal amount of Advances due and payable on or prior to such date; 
  
 (b) Interest Periods commencing on the same date for Eurodollar Rate Advances comprising part of the same Borrowing shall be of the same
duration; 
  
 (c) whenever the last day of any
Interest Period would otherwise occur on a day other than a Business Day, the last day of such Interest Period shall be extended to occur on the next succeeding Business Day, provided, however, that, if such extension would cause the
last day of such Interest Period to occur in the next following calendar month, the last day of such Interest Period shall occur on the next preceding Business Day; 
  
 (d) whenever the first day of any Interest Period occurs on a day of an initial calendar month for which
there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month that succeeds such initial calendar month by the number of months equal to the number of months in such Interest Period, such Interest Period shall end on the last Business Day of such
succeeding calendar month; and 
  
 (e)
notwithstanding anything provided herein, the Applicable Borrower shall only be entitled to select an Interest Period of seven days with regard to any Eurodollar Rate Advances to be made as of the Closing Date. 
  
 “Interest Swap Obligations” means
the obligations of any Person pursuant to any arrangement with any other Person, whereby, directly or indirectly, such Person is entitled to receive from time to time periodic payments calculated by applying either a floating or a fixed rate of
interest on a stated notional amount in exchange for periodic payments made by such other Person calculated by applying a fixed or a floating rate of interest on the same notional amount and shall include, without limitation, interest rate swaps,
caps, floors, collars and similar agreements. 
  
 “Internal Revenue Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, and the regulations promulgated and rulings issued thereunder. 
  
 “Investment” means, with respect to
any Person, any direct or indirect loan or other extension of credit (including, without limitation, a guarantee) or capital contribution to (by means of any transfer of cash or other property to others or any payment for property or services for
the account or use of others), or any purchase or acquisition by such Person of any Capital Stock, bonds, notes, debentures or other securities or evidences of Debt issued by, any Person. “Investment” shall exclude extensions of trade
credit by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries in accordance with normal trade practices of the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be. If the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower sells or otherwise
disposes of any Common Stock of any direct or indirect Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower such that, after giving effect to any such sale or disposition, such Restricted 
  

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 Subsidiary is no longer a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower, the Borrower shall be deemed to have
made an Investment on the date of any such sale or disposition equal to the fair market value of the Common Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary not sold or disposed of. 
  
 “Joint Bookrunners” has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this
Agreement. 
  
 “Joint Lead
Arrangers” has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this Agreement. 
  
 “Lenders” means the Initial Lenders and each Person that shall become a Lender hereunder pursuant to Section 9.07
or pursuant to Section 2.16 or pursuant to any amendment to this Agreement, for so long as such Initial Lender or Person, as the case may be, shall be a party to this Agreement. 
  
 “Lien” means any lien, mortgage, deed of trust, pledge, security interest, charge or
encumbrance of any kind (including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any lease in the nature thereof and any agreement to give any security interest). 
  
 “Loan Documents” means (a) for purposes of this Agreement and the Notes and any
amendment, supplement or modification hereof or thereof, (i) this Agreement, (ii) the Notes, and (iii) the Guaranties, and (b) for purposes of the Guaranties and for all other purposes other than for purposes of this Agreement and the Notes, (i)
this Agreement, (ii) the Notes, and (iii) the Guaranties, in each case as amended. 
  
 “Loan Parties” means the Borrower and each of the Guarantors. 
  
 “Margin Stock” has the meaning
specified in Regulation U. 
  
 “Material Adverse Change” means any material adverse change in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations, performance or properties of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

  
 “Material Adverse
Effect” means a material adverse effect on (a) the business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations, performance or properties of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (b) the rights and remedies of any Agent or
any Lender under any Loan Document or (c) the ability of any Loan Party to perform its material Obligations under any Loan Document. 
  
 “Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. 
  
 “MSSF” has the meaning specified in
the recital of parties hereto. 
  
 “Multiemployer Plan” means a multiemployer plan, as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA, to which any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate is making or accruing an obligation to make contributions, or has within any
of the preceding five plan years made or accrued an obligation to make contributions. 
  

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 “Multiple Employer Plan” means a single employer plan, as defined
in Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA, that (a) is maintained for employees of any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate and at least one Person other than the Loan Parties and the ERISA Affiliates or (b) was so maintained and in respect of which any Loan
Party or any ERISA Affiliate could reasonably be expected to have liability under Section 4064 or 4069 of ERISA in the event such plan has been or were to be terminated. 
  
 “Net Cash Proceeds” means, with respect to any Asset Sale, the proceeds in the form
of cash or Cash Equivalents, including payments in respect of deferred payment obligations when received in the form of cash or Cash Equivalents (other than the portion of any such deferred payment constituting interest) received by the Borrower or
any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from such Asset Sale net of: 
  
 (a) reasonable out-of-pocket expenses and fees relating to such Asset Sale (including, without limitation, legal, accounting and investment banking fees and sales commissions); 
  
 (b) taxes paid or payable after taking into account any
reduction in consolidated tax liability due to available tax credits or deductions and any tax sharing arrangements; and 
  
 (c) appropriate amounts to be provided by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower, as the case may be, as a reserve, in
accordance with GAAP, against any liabilities associated with such Asset Sale and retained by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower, as the case may be, after such Asset Sale, including, without limitation, pension and other
post-employment benefit liabilities, liabilities related to environmental matters and liabilities under any indemnification obligations associated with such Asset Sale. 
  
 “New Credit Agreement” means the Existing Credit Agreement, as such agreement may be
amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from to time after the date hereof, including any agreement extending the maturity of, refinancing, replacing or otherwise restructuring (including increasing the amount of available
borrowings thereunder or adding Restricted Subsidiaries of the Borrower as additional borrowers or guarantors thereunder) all or any portion of the Debt under such agreement or any successor or replacement agreement (including by means of sales of
debt securities to institutional investors). 
  
 “Note” means a promissory note of the Borrower payable to the order of any Lender, in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto, evidencing the indebtedness of the Borrower to such Lender resulting from the Advance
made by such Lender, as amended. 
  
 “Notice of Borrowing” has the meaning specified in Section 2.02(a). 
  
 “NPL” means the National Priorities List under CERCLA. 
  

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 “Obligations” means all obligations for principal, premium,
interest, penalties, fees, indemnifications, reimbursements, damages and other liabilities payable under the documentation governing any Debt. 
  
 “Offer Period” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15. 
  
 “Other Taxes” has the meaning
specified in Section 2.11(b). 
  
 “Parent” means Dresser Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation. 
  
 “PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (or any successor). 
  
 “Permitted Business” means
any business (including stock or assets) that derives a majority of its revenues from the business engaged in by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries on the Closing Date and/or activities that are reasonably similar, ancillary or related to,
or a reasonable extension, development or expansion of, the businesses in which the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries are engaged on the Closing Date. 
  

“Permitted Group” means any group of investors that is deemed to be a “person” (as such term is used
in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) by virtue of the Stockholders Agreements, as the same may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, provided that no single Person (together with its Affiliates), other than the Permitted
Investors and their Related Parties, is the “beneficial owner” (as such term is used in Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the voting power of the issued and outstanding Capital Stock of the
Borrower that is “beneficially owned” (as defined above) by such group of investors. 
  
 “Permitted Debt” means, without duplication, each of the following: 
  
 (a) Debt under this Agreement and the Notes; 
  
 (b) [Intentionally Omitted.] 
  
 (c) Debt of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries incurred pursuant to one or more Credit
Facilities in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding not to exceed $820,000,000 less the sum of (i) the aggregate amount of Debt outstanding under this Agreement and the Notes and (ii) the aggregate amount of Debt of Securitization
Entities at the time outstanding, provided that the amount of Debt permitted to be incurred pursuant to Credit Facilities in accordance with this clause (c) shall be in addition to any Debt permitted to be incurred pursuant to Credit
Facilities in reliance on, and in accordance with, clauses (h), (n) and (p) below; 
  
 (d) other Debt of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries outstanding on the Closing Date reduced by the amount of any scheduled
amortization payments or mandatory prepayments when actually paid or permanent reductions thereof; 
  

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 (e) Interest Swap Obligations of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries
covering Debt of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries; provided that any Debt to which any such Interest Swap Obligations correspond is otherwise permitted to be incurred under this Agreement; and provided, further, that
such Interest Swap Obligations are entered into, in the judgment of the Borrower, to protect the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from fluctuations in interest rates on its outstanding Debt and not for purposes of speculation;

  
 (f) Debt of the Borrower or any Restricted
Subsidiary of the Borrower under Hedging Agreements and Currency Agreements so long as such agreement has been entered into in the ordinary course of business and not for purposes of speculation; 
  
 (g) the incurrence by the Borrower or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries of intercompany Debt between or among the Borrower and any such Restricted Subsidiaries; provided, however, that: 
  
 (i) if the Borrower is the obligor on such Debt and the aggregate principal amount thereof exceeds $1,000,000, and the payee is a
Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower that is not a Guarantor, such Debt is expressly subordinated to the prior payment in full in cash of all Senior Unsecured Obligations; and 
  
 (ii) (A) any subsequent issuance or transfer of Capital Stock that results in any such Debt being held by a
Person other than the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof, and 
  
 (B) any sale or other transfer of any such Debt to a Person that is not either the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower (other than by way of granting a Lien permitted under this Agreement or in
connection with the exercise of remedies by a secured creditor) 
  
 shall be deemed, in each case, to constitute an incurrence of such Debt by the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, that was not permitted by this clause (g); 
  
 (h) Debt (including Capitalized Lease Obligations) incurred
by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to finance the purchase, lease or improvement of property (real or personal) or equipment (whether through the direct purchase of assets or the Capital Stock of any Person owning such assets) in
an aggregate principal amount outstanding after giving effect to that incurrence not to exceed the greater of (i) $40,000,000 or (ii) 10% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets at the time of incurrence; 
  
 (i) Refinancing Debt; 
  

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 (j) guarantees by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries of one another’s
Debt; provided that such Debt is permitted to be incurred under this Agreement; 
  
 (k) Debt arising from agreements of the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower providing for indemnification, adjustment of
purchase price, earn out or other similar obligations, in each case, incurred or assumed in connection with the disposition of any business, assets or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower, other than guarantees of Debt incurred by any Person
acquiring all or any portion of such business, assets or Restricted Subsidiary for the purpose of financing such acquisition; provided that the maximum assumable liability in respect of all such Debt shall at no time exceed the gross proceeds
actually received by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with such disposition; 
  
 (l) obligations in respect of performance and surety bonds and completion guarantees provided by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary
of the Borrower in the ordinary course of business; 
  
 (m) the incurrence by a Securitization Entity of Debt in a Qualified Securitization Transaction that is non-recourse to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower (except for Standard Securitization Undertakings); 

 
 (n) additional Debt of the Borrower and its Restricted
Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount that does not exceed $50,000,000 at any one time outstanding (which amount may, but need not, be incurred in whole or in part under a Credit Facility); 
  
 (o) Debt arising from the honoring by a bank or other
financial institution of a check, draft or similar instrument inadvertently (except in the case of daylight overdrafts) drawn against insufficient funds in the ordinary course of business; provided that such Debt is extinguished within five
business days of incurrence; 
  
 (p) Debt of the
Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries represented by letters of credit for the account of the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, issued in the ordinary course of business of the Borrower or such Restricted
Subsidiary, including, without limitation, in order to provide security for workers’ compensation claims or payment obligations in connection with self-insurance or similar requirements in the ordinary course of business and other Debt with
respect to workers’ compensation claims, self-insurance obligations, performance, surety and similar bonds and completion guarantees provided by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower in the ordinary course of business;

  
 (q) unsecured Debt incurred by the Borrower
to current or former employees in connection with the purchase or redemption of Capital Stock of the Borrower not to exceed in the aggregate $10,000,000; and 
  

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 (r) Debt of a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower incurred and outstanding on the date
such Restricted Subsidiary was acquired by the Borrower in a principal amount that, when taken together with the principal amount of all other Debt incurred pursuant to this clause (r) that is at the time outstanding, does not exceed $40,000,000;
provided that such Debt was incurred by such Restricted Subsidiary prior to such acquisition by the Borrower or one of its Restricted Subsidiaries and was not incurred in connection with, or contemplation of, such acquisition by the Borrower
or one of its Restricted Subsidiaries. 
  
 For
purposes of determining compliance with Section 5.01(h), in the event that an item of Debt meets the criteria of more than one of the categories of Permitted Debt described in clauses (a) through (r) above or is permitted to be incurred pursuant to
the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio provisions of Section 5.01(h), the Borrower shall, in its sole discretion, classify (or later reclassify) such item of Debt in any manner that complies with Section 5.01(h). Accrual of interest, accretion
or amortization of original issue discount, the payment of interest on any Debt in the form of additional Debt with the same terms, and the payment of dividends on Disqualified Capital Stock in the form of additional shares of the same class of
Disqualified Capital Stock will not be deemed to be an incurrence of Debt or an issuance of Disqualified Capital Stock for purposes of Section 5.01(h). 
  
 “Permitted Investments” means: 
  
 (a) Investments by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower in any Restricted Subsidiary of
the Borrower (whether existing on the Closing Date or created thereafter) or any Person (including by means of any transfer of cash or other property) if as a result of such Investment such Person shall become a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower
or that will merge with or consolidate into the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower and Investments in the Borrower by any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower; 
  
 (b) Investments in cash and Cash Equivalents; 
  
 (c) loans and advances to employees and officers of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for bona
fide business purposes in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $5,000,000 at any one time outstanding; 
  
 (d) Currency Agreements, Hedging Agreements and Interest Swap Obligations entered into in the ordinary course of business and otherwise in
compliance with this Agreement and not for purposes of speculation; 
  
 (e) Investments in securities of trade creditors or customers received pursuant to any plan of reorganization or similar arrangement upon the bankruptcy or insolvency of such trade creditors or customers or in good
faith settlement of delinquent obligations of such trade creditors or customers; 
  

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 (f) Investments made by the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries as a result of
consideration received in connection with an Asset Sale made in compliance with Section 5.01(i); 
  
 (g) Investments existing on the Closing Date or made pursuant to commitments existing on the Closing Date; 
  
 (h) accounts receivable created or acquired in the ordinary
course of business; 
  
 (i) guarantees by the
Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower permitted to be incurred under this Agreement; 
  
 (j) any Investment in a Person engaged in a Permitted Business (other than an Investment in an Unrestricted Subsidiary) having an
aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Investments made pursuant to this clause (j) that are at that time outstanding, not to exceed 5% of Total Assets at the time of that Investment (with the fair market value of each Investment
being measured at the time made and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value); 
  
 (k) any Investment by the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower in a Securitization Entity or any Investment by a
Securitization Entity in any other Person in connection with a Qualified Securitization Transaction; provided that any Investment in a Securitization Entity is in the form of a Purchase Money Note or an equity interest; and 
  
 (l) other Investments to the extent paid for with Qualified
Capital Stock of the Borrower. 
  
 “Permitted Investors” shall mean First Reserve Corporation, its Affiliates and any general or limited partners of First Reserve Corporation on the Closing Date, Odyssey Investment Partners Fund, LP, its Affiliates
and any general or limited partners of Odyssey Investment Partners Fund, LP on the Closing Date. 
  
 “Permitted Liens” means the following types of Liens: 
  
 (a) Liens for taxes, assessments or governmental charges or
claims either 
  
 (i) not delinquent; or

  
 (ii) contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings and as to which the Borrower or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary has set aside on its books such reserves as may be required pursuant to GAAP; 
  

(b) statutory Liens of landlords and Liens of carriers, warehousemen, mechanics, suppliers, materialmen and repairmen and other Liens
imposed by law incurred in the ordinary course of business for sums not yet delinquent or being contested in good faith, if such reserve or other appropriate provision, if any, as shall be required by GAAP has been made in respect thereof;

  

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 (c) Liens incurred or deposits made in the ordinary course of business in connection with
workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other types of social security, including any Lien securing letters of credit issued in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice in connection therewith, or to secure the
performance of tenders, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, bids, leases, government contracts, performance and return-of-money bonds and other similar obligations (exclusive of obligations for the payment of borrowed money); 

 
 (d) judgment Liens not giving rise to an Event of
Default; 
  
 (e) easements, rights-of-way, zoning
restrictions and other similar charges or encumbrances in respect of real property not interfering in any material respect with the ordinary conduct of the business of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries; 
  
 (f) any interest or title of a lessor under any Capitalized
Lease Obligation; 
  
 (g) purchase money Liens to
finance property or assets of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower acquired, constructed or improved in the ordinary course of business; provided, however, that 
  
 (i) the related purchase money Debt shall not exceed the
cost of such property or assets and shall not be secured by any property or assets of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower other than the property and assets so acquired, and 
  
 (ii) the Lien securing such Debt shall be created within 90
days of such acquisition; 
  
 (h) Liens upon
specific items of inventory or other goods and proceeds of any Person securing such Person’s obligations in respect of bankers’ acceptances issued or created for the account of such Person to facilitate the purchase, shipment or storage of
such inventory or other goods; 
  
 (i) Liens
securing reimbursement obligations with respect to commercial letters of credit which encumber documents and other property relating to such letters of credit and products and proceeds thereof; 
  
 (j) Liens encumbering deposits made to secure obligations
arising from statutory, regulatory, contractual or warranty requirements of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including rights of offset and set-off; 
  

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 (k) Liens securing Interest Swap Obligations entered into in the ordinary course of
business and not for the purposes of speculation which Interest Swap Obligations relate to Debt that is otherwise permitted under this Agreement; 
  
 (l) Liens securing Debt under Currency Agreements and Hedging Agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business and not for the
purposes of speculation; 
  
 (m) Liens incurred
in the ordinary course of business of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower with respect to obligations that do not in the aggregate exceed $50,000,000 at any one time outstanding; 
  
 (n) Liens on assets transferred to a Securitization Entity
or on assets of a Securitization Entity, in either case incurred in connection with a Qualified Securitization Transaction; 
  
 (o) leases or subleases granted to others that do not materially interfere with the ordinary course of business of the Borrower and its
Restricted Subsidiaries; 
  
 (p) Liens arising
from filing Uniform Commercial Code financing statements regarding leases; 
  
 (q) Liens in favor of customs and revenue authorities arising as a matter of law to secure payment of custom duties in connection with the importation of goods; and 
  
 (r) Liens securing Acquired Debt incurred in compliance with
Section 5.01(h); provided that 
  
 (i)
such Liens secured such Acquired Debt at the time of and prior to the incurrence of such Acquired Debt by the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower and were not granted in connection with, or in anticipation of, the incurrence of such
Acquired Debt by the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower; and 
  
 (ii) such Liens do not extend to or cover any property or assets of the Borrower or of any of its Restricted Subsidiaries other than the
property or assets that secured the Acquired Debt prior to the time such Debt became Acquired Debt of the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower and are no more favorable to the lienholders than those securing the Acquired Debt prior to
the incurrence of such Acquired Debt by the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower. 
  
 “Person” means an individual, partnership, corporation (including a business trust), limited liability company,
joint stock company, trust, unincorporated association, joint venture or other entity, or a government or any political subdivision or agency thereof. 
  

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 “Plan” means a Single Employer Plan or a Multiple Employer Plan.

  
 “Preferred Stock” of
any Person means any Capital Stock of such Person that has preferential rights to any other Capital Stock of such Person with respect to dividends or redemptions or upon liquidation. 
  
 “Prepayment Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15. 
  
 “Prepayment Offer” has the meaning
specified in Section 5.01(i). 
  
 “Prepayment Offer Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 5.01(i). 
  
 “Prepayment Offer Payment Date” has the meaning specified in Section 5.01(i). 
  
 “Prepayment Trigger Date” has the
meaning specified in Section 5.01(i). 
  
 “Productive Assets” means assets (including Capital Stock) that are used or usable by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries in Permitted Businesses. 
  
 “Purchase Money Note” means a
promissory note of a Securitization Entity evidencing amounts owed to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower in connection with a Qualified Securitization Transaction to a Securitization Entity, which note shall be repaid from
cash available to the Securitization Entity other than amounts required to be established as reserves pursuant to agreements, amounts paid to investors in respect of interest and principal and amounts paid in connection with the purchase of newly
generated receivables or newly acquired equipment. 
  
 “Qualified Capital Stock” means any Capital Stock that is not Disqualified Capital Stock. 
  
 “Qualified Securitization Transaction” means any transaction or series of transactions that may be entered into by
the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries pursuant to which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries may sell, convey or otherwise transfer to: 
  
 (a) a Securitization Entity (in the case of a transfer by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries); and 
  
 (b) any other Person (in the case of a transfer by a
Securitization Entity), 
  
 or may grant a security interest in
any accounts receivable or equipment (whether now existing or arising or acquired in the future) of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, and any assets related thereto, including, without limitation, all collateral securing such
accounts receivable and equipment, all contracts and contract rights and all guarantees or other obligations in respect of such accounts receivable and equipment, proceeds of such accounts receivable and equipment and other assets (including
contract rights) which are customarily transferred or in respect of which security interests are customarily granted in connection with assets securitization transactions involving accounts receivable and equipment. 
  

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 “Receivables Fees” means distributions or payments made directly
or by means of discounts with respect to any participation interests issued or sold in connection with, and other fees paid to a Person that is not a Restricted Subsidiary in connection with, any Qualified Securitization Transaction. 
  
 “Reduction Amount” has the meaning
specified in Section 2.05(b)(v). 
  
 “Refinance” means, in respect of any security or Debt, to refinance, extend, renew, refund, repay, prepay, redeem, defease or retire, or to issue a security or Debt in exchange or replacement for, such security or
Debt in whole or in part. “Refinanced” and “Refinancing” shall have correlative meanings. 
  
 “Refinancing Debt” means any refinancing, modification, replacement, restatement, refunding, deferral, extension,
substitution, supplement, reissuance or resale of existing or future Debt (other than intercompany Debt), including any additional Debt incurred to pay interest or premiums required by the instruments governing such existing or future Debt as in
effect at the time of issuance thereof (“Required Premiums”) and fees in connection therewith; provided that Debt the proceeds of which are used to refinance or refund the Senior Unsecured Obligations or other then
existing Debt that is pari passu with, or subordinated in right of payment to, the Senior Unsecured Obligations shall only be permitted hereunder if, in the event that the Debt to be refinanced is subordinated in right of payment to the
Senior Unsecured Obligations, such new Debt, by its terms or by the terms of any agreement or instrument pursuant to which such new Debt is issued or remains outstanding, is expressly made subordinate in right of payment to the Senior Unsecured
Obligations at least to the extent that the Debt to be refinanced is subordinated to the Senior Unsecured Obligations and such new Debt, determined as of the date of incurrence of such new Debt, does not mature prior to the stated maturity of the
Debt to be refinanced or refunded (or, if less, the stated maturity of the Senior Unsecured Obligations); provided further that any such event shall not: 
  
 (a) directly or indirectly result in an increase in the aggregate principal amount of Permitted Debt, except
to the extent such increase is a result of a simultaneous incurrence of additional Debt: 
  
 (i) to pay Required Premiums and related fees; or 
  
 (ii) otherwise permitted to be incurred under this Agreement; and 
  
 (b) create Debt with a Weighted Average Life to Maturity at
the time such Debt is incurred that is less than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity at such time of the Debt being refinanced, modified, replaced, renewed, restated, refunded, deferred, extended, substituted, supplemented, reissued or resold.

  
 “Register” has the
meaning specified in Section 9.07(d). 
  

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 “Regulation U” means Regulation U of the Board of Governors of
the Federal Reserve System, as in effect from time to time. 
  
 “Related Party” with respect to any Permitted Investor means, (a) (i) any spouse, sibling, parent, or child of such Permitted Investor, or (ii) the estate of any Permitted Investor during any
period in which such estate holds Capital Stock of the Borrower for the benefit of any Person referred to in clause (a)(i) above, or (b) any trust, corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity the beneficiaries, stockholders,
partners, owners or Persons beneficially owning an interest of more than 50% of which consist of, or the sole managing member of which is, one or more Permitted Investors and/or such other Persons referred to in the immediately preceding clause (a).

  
 “Required Lenders”
means, at any time, Lenders owed or holding at least a majority in interest of the aggregate principal amount of the Advances outstanding at such time; provided, however, that, if any Lender shall be an Affiliate of any Loan Party at
such time, there shall be excluded from the determination of Required Lenders at such time the aggregate principal amount of the Advances owing to such Lender (in its capacity as a Lender) and outstanding at such time. 
  
 “Responsible Officer” means any
officer of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries. 
  
 “Restricted Payments” has the meaning specified in Section 5.01(f). 
  
 “Restricted Subsidiary” of any Person means any Subsidiary of such Person which at the time of determination is
not an Unrestricted Subsidiary. 
  
 “S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. 
  
 “Sale and Leaseback Transaction” means any direct or indirect arrangement with any Person or to which any such
Person is a party providing for the leasing to the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower of any property, whether owned by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower at the Closing Date or later acquired, which has been
or is to be sold or transferred by the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary to such Person or to any other Person from whom funds have been or are to be advanced by such Person on the security of such Property. 
  
 “Securities Act” means the
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 “Securitization Entity” means any person in which the Borrower or
any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower makes an Investment and to which the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower transfers accounts receivable or equipment (and related assets including contract rights) which engages in no
activities other than in connection with the financing of accounts receivable or equipment or related assets (including contract rights) and which is designated by the Board of Directors of the Borrower (as provided below) as a Securitization
Entity: 
  
 (a) no portion of the Debt or any
other Obligations (contingent or otherwise) of which 
  
 (iii) is guaranteed by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower (excluding guarantees of Obligations (other than the principal of, and interest on, Debt)) pursuant to Standard Securitization Undertakings; 
  
 (iv) is recourse to or obligates the Borrower or any
Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower in any way other than pursuant to Standard Securitization Undertakings; or 
  
 (v) subjects any property or asset of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower, directly or indirectly, contingently or
otherwise, to the satisfaction thereof, other than pursuant to Standard Securitization Undertakings; 
  
 (b) with which neither the Borrower nor any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower has any material contract, agreement, arrangement or
understanding other than on terms no less favorable to the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary than those that might be obtained at the time from Persons that are not Affiliates of the Borrower, other than fees payable in the ordinary course of
business in connection with servicing receivables of such entity; and 
  
 (c) to which neither the Borrower nor any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower has any obligation to maintain or preserve such entity’s financial condition or cause such entity to achieve certain levels of
operating results. 
  
 Any such designation by
the Board of Directors of the Borrower shall be evidenced to the Administrative Agent by filing with the Administrative Agent a certified copy of the Board Resolution of the Borrower giving effect to such designation and an Officers’
Certificate certifying that such designation complied with foregoing conditions. 
  
 “Senior Unsecured Obligations” means the Obligations of the Borrower and the Guarantors under this Agreement, the
Notes and the Guaranties. 
  
 “Significant Subsidiary” with respect to any Person, means any Restricted Subsidiary of such Person that satisfies the criteria for a “significant subsidiary” set forth in Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X
under the Securities Act. 
  
 “Single
Employer Plan” means a single employer plan, as defined in Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA, that (a) is maintained for employees of any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate and no Person other than the Loan Parties and the ERISA Affiliates or
(b) was so maintained and in respect of which any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate could reasonably be expected to have liability under Section 4069 of ERISA in the event such plan has been or were to be terminated. 
  

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 “Solvent” and “Solvency” mean, with
respect to any Person on a particular date, that on such date (a) the fair value of the property of such Person is greater than the total amount of liabilities, including, without limitation, contingent liabilities, of such Person, (b) the present
fair salable value of the assets of such Person is not less than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of such Person on its debts as they become absolute and matured, (c) such Person does not intend to, and does not believe
that it will, incur debts or liabilities beyond such Person’s ability to pay such debts and liabilities as they mature and (d) such Person is not engaged in business or a transaction, and is not about to engage in business or a transaction, for
which such Person’s property would constitute an unreasonably small capital. The amount of contingent liabilities at any time shall be computed as the amount that, in the light of all the facts and circumstances existing at such time,
represents the amount that can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability. 
  
 “Standard Securitization Undertaking” means representations, warranties, covenants, repurchase obligations and
indemnities entered into by the Borrower or any Subsidiary which are reasonable and customary in accounts receivable or equipment transactions. 
  
 “Subsidiary” of any Person means any corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company, trust or
estate of which (or in which) more than 50% of (a) the issued and outstanding capital stock having ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the Board of Directors of such corporation (irrespective of whether at the time capital stock of any
other class or classes of such corporation shall or might have voting power upon the occurrence of any contingency), (b) the interest in the capital or profits of such partnership, joint venture or limited liability company or (c) the beneficial
interest in such trust or estate is at the time directly or indirectly owned or controlled by such Person, by such Person and one or more of its other Subsidiaries or by one or more of such Person’s other Subsidiaries. 
  
 “Supermajority Lenders” means, at
any time, Lenders owed or holding at least two-thirds in interest of the aggregate principal amount of the sum of the aggregate principal amount of the Advances outstanding at such time; provided, however, that if any Lender shall be
an Affiliate of any Loan Party at such time, there shall be excluded from the determination of Supermajority Lenders at such time the aggregate principal amount of the Advances owing to such Lender (in its capacity as a Lender). 
  
 “Surviving Debt” means Debt of each
Loan Party and its Subsidiaries outstanding immediately before and after giving effect to the initial Borrowing hereunder. 
  
 “Tax Sharing Agreement” means that certain tax sharing agreement to be entered into between the Borrower and DEG
Acquisitions, pursuant to which (i) DEG Acquisitions will agree to file consolidated, combined or unitary federal, state, local and foreign income tax returns on behalf of itself and its Subsidiaries, including the Borrower, to the extent it is
permitted to do so under the relevant law, and (ii) the Borrower will be obligated to pay to DEG Acquisitions a portion of the total income tax liability of DEG Acquisitions and its Subsidiaries, in an amount equal to the excess of 
  

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 (a) the relevant income tax liability of DEG Acquisitions and its subsidiaries for a taxable period over
(b) the corresponding consolidated, combined or unitary income tax liability of DEG Acquisitions and its Subsidiaries that DEG Acquisitions would have incurred if the Borrower and its Subsidiaries had not been Subsidiaries of DEG Acquisitions.

  
 “Taxes” has the
meaning specified in Section 2.11(a). 
  
 “Termination Date” means the earlier of (a) the date of termination in whole of the Commitments pursuant to Section 2.04 or Section 6.01 and (b) March 1, 2010. 
  
 “Total Assets” means the total
consolidated assets of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, as set forth on the Borrower’s most recent consolidated balance sheet. 
  
 “Type” refers to the distinction among Advances bearing interest based on the Base Rate and Advances bearing
interest based on the Eurodollar Rate. 
  
 “Unrestricted Subsidiary” of any Person means: 
  
 (a) any Subsidiary of such Person that at the time of determination shall be or continue to be designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary by
the Board of Directors of such Person in the manner provided below; and 
  
 (b) any Subsidiary of an Unrestricted Subsidiary. 
  
 The Board of Directors may designate any Subsidiary (including any newly acquired or newly formed Subsidiary) to be an Unrestricted
Subsidiary unless such Subsidiary owns any Capital Stock of, or owns or holds any Lien on any property of, the Borrower or any other Subsidiary of the Borrower that is not a Subsidiary of the Subsidiary to be so designated; provided that:

  
 (a) the Borrower certifies to the
Administrative Agent that such designation complies with Section 5.01(f); and 
  
 (b) each Subsidiary to be so designated and each of its Subsidiaries has not at the time of designation, and does not thereafter, create, incur, issue, assume, guarantee or otherwise become directly or indirectly
liable with respect to any Debt pursuant to which the lender has recourse to any of the assets of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries. 
  
 The Board of Directors may designate any Unrestricted Subsidiary to be a Restricted Subsidiary only if (x) immediately after giving effect
to such designation, the Borrower is able to incur at least $1.00 of additional Debt (other than Permitted Debt) in compliance with Section 5.01(h) and (y) immediately before and immediately after giving effect to such designation, no Default or
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing. Any such designation by the Board of Directors of the Borrower shall be evidenced to the Administrative Agent by promptly filing with the Administrative Agent a copy of the Board Resolution
giving effect to such designation and an Officers’ Certificate certifying that such designation complied with the foregoing provisions. 
  

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 “Voting Stock” of any Person as of any date means the Capital
Stock of such Person that is at the time entitled to vote in the election of the Board of Directors of such Person. 
  
 “Weighted Average Life to Maturity” means, when applied to any Debt at any date, the number of years obtained by
dividing: 
  
 (a) the then outstanding aggregate
principal amount of such Debt into 
  
 (b) the
sum of the total of the products obtained by multiplying 
  
 (i) the amount of each then remaining installment, sinking fund, serial maturity or other required payment of principal, including payment at final maturity, in respect thereof by 
  
 (ii) the number of years (calculated to the nearest
one-twelfth) which will elapse between such date and the making of such payment. 
  
 “Welfare Plan” means a welfare plan, as defined in Section 3(1) of ERISA, that is maintained for employees of any
Loan Party or in respect of which any Loan Party could have liability. 
  
 “Wholly Owned Domestic Restricted Subsidiary” of any Person means any Domestic Restricted Subsidiary of such Person of which 95% or more of the outstanding voting securities are owned by such
Person or any Wholly Owned Domestic Restricted Subsidiary of such Person. 
  
 “Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary” of any Person means any Wholly Owned Subsidiary of such Person which at the time of determination is a Restricted Subsidiary. 
  
 “Wholly Owned Subsidiary” of any
Person means any Subsidiary of such Person of which all the outstanding voting securities (other than in the case of a Restricted Subsidiary that is incorporated in a jurisdiction other than a State in the United States or the District of Columbia,
directors’ qualifying shares or an immaterial amount of shares required to be owned by other Persons pursuant to applicable law) are owned by such Person or any Wholly Owned Subsidiary of such Person. 
  
 “Withdrawal Liability” has the
meaning specified in Part I of Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA. 
  
 SECTION 1.02. Computation of Time Periods; Other Definitional Provisions. In this Agreement and the other Loan Documents in the computation of periods of time from a specified date to a later specified date, the word
“from” means “from and including” and the words “to” and “until” each mean “to but excluding”. References in the Loan Documents to any agreement or contract
shall mean and be a reference to such agreement or contract as amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with its terms and in compliance with the Loan Documents. 
  

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 ARTICLE II 
  

AMOUNTS AND TERMS OF THE ADVANCES AND THE LETTERS OF CREDIT 
  
 SECTION 2.01. The Advances. Each Lender severally agrees, on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, to make
a single advance to the Borrower on the Closing Date in Dollars in an amount equal to such Lender’s Commitment at such time. The Borrowing shall consist of Advances made simultaneously by the Lenders ratably according to their Commitments.
Amounts borrowed under this Section 2.01 and repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed. 
  
 SECTION 2.02. Making the Advances. (a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 2.02(b), the Borrowing shall be made on notice, given not later than 11:00 A.M. (New York City time) on the third Business Day
prior to the date of the proposed Borrowing in the case of a Borrowing consisting of Eurodollar Rate Advances or on the first Business Day prior to the date of the proposed Borrowing in the case of a Borrowing consisting of Base Rate Advances, by
the Borrower to the Administrative Agent, which shall give to each Lender prompt notice thereof by telex or telecopier. Each such notice of a Borrowing (a “Notice of Borrowing”) shall be by telephone, confirmed immediately in
writing, or telex or telecopier, in substantially the form of Exhibit B hereto, specifying therein the requested (i) date of the Borrowing, (ii) Type of Advances comprising the Borrowing, (iii) aggregate amount of the Borrowing and (iv) in the case
of a Borrowing consisting of Eurodollar Rate Advances, initial Interest Period for each such Advance. Each Lender shall, before 11:00 A.M. (New York City time) on the date of the Borrowing, make available for the account of its Applicable Lending
Office to the Administrative Agent at the Administrative Agent’s Account, in same day funds, such Lender’s ratable portion of the Borrowing in accordance with the respective Commitments of such Lender and the other Lenders. After the
Administrative Agent’s receipt of such funds and upon fulfillment of the applicable conditions set forth in Article III, the Administrative Agent will make such funds available to the Borrower by crediting the Borrower’s Account.

  
 (b) Anything in subsection (a) above to the contrary
notwithstanding, the Borrower may not select Eurodollar Rate Advances for the Borrowing if the aggregate amount of the Borrowing is less than U.S.$5,000,000 or Eurodollar Rate Advances if the obligation of the Lenders to make Eurodollar Rate
Advances shall then be suspended pursuant to Section 2.09 or Section 2.10; provided, however, that if the syndication under this Agreement has not been completed on or prior to the Closing Date then the Borrower may only select
Eurodollar Rate Advances with 7-day Interest Period until the earlier of (i) the date which is one month after the Closing Date and (ii) the date the syndication has been completed as shall be specified by the Joint Lead Arrangers in a notice to the
Borrower. 
  
 (c) Each Notice of Borrowing shall be irrevocable
and binding on the Borrower. In the case of the Borrowing that the related Notice of Borrowing specifies is to be comprised of Eurodollar Rate Advances, the Borrower shall indemnify each Lender against any loss, cost or 
  

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 expense incurred by such Lender as a result of any failure to fulfill on or before the date specified in such Notice of
Borrowing for the Borrowing the applicable conditions set forth in Article III, including, without limitation, any loss (including loss of anticipated profits), cost or expense incurred by reason of the liquidation or reemployment of deposits or
other funds acquired by such Lender to fund the Advance to be made by such Lender as part of the Borrowing when such Advance, as a result of such failure, is not made on such date. 
  
 (d) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the date of the Borrowing that such
Lender will not make available to the Administrative Agent such Lender’s ratable portion of the Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such portion available to the Administrative Agent on the date of the
Borrowing in accordance with subsection (a) of this Section 2.02 and the Administrative Agent may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower on such date a corresponding amount. If and to the extent that such Lender shall not
have so made such ratable portion available to the Administrative Agent, such Lender and the Borrower severally agree to repay or pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount and to pay interest thereon, for each day
from the date such amount is made available to the Borrower until the date such amount is repaid or paid to the Administrative Agent, at (i) in the case of the Borrower, the interest rate applicable at such time under Section 2.06 to Advances
comprising the Borrowing and (ii) in the case of such Lender, the Federal Funds Rate in the case of Advances denominated in Dollars. If such Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent such corresponding amount, such amount so paid shall constitute
such Lender’s Advance as part of the Borrowing for all purposes. 
  
 (e) The failure of any Lender to make the Advance to be made by it as part of the Borrowing shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligation, if any, hereunder to make its Advance on the date of the Borrowing, but no Lender shall be
responsible for the failure of any other Lender to make the Advance to be made by such other Lender on the date of the Borrowing. 
  
 SECTION 2.03. Repayment of Advances. The Borrower shall repay to the Administrative Agent for the ratable account of the Lenders the aggregate
outstanding principal amount of the Advances on the Termination Date. 
  
 SECTION 2.04. Termination or Reduction of the Commitments. (a) Optional. The Borrower may, upon at least five Business Days’ notice to the Administrative Agent, terminate in whole or reduce in part the unused portions of
the Commitments; provided, however, that each partial reduction of the Facility (i) shall be in an aggregate amount of U.S.$5,000,000 or an integral multiple of U.S.$1,000,000 in excess thereof and (ii) shall be made ratably among the
Lenders in accordance with their Commitments with respect to the Facility. 
  
 (b) Mandatory. On the date of each repayment or prepayment of the Advances, the aggregate Commitments of the Lenders shall be automatically and permanently reduced, on a pro rata basis, by an amount equal to
the amount by which the aggregate Commitments immediately prior to such reduction exceed the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Advances then outstanding. 
  

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 SECTION 2.05. Prepayments. (a) Optional. The Borrower may, upon at least one Business
Day’s notice in the case of Base Rate Advances and three Business Days’ notice in the case of Eurodollar Rate Advances, in each case to the Administrative Agent stating the proposed date and aggregate principal amount of the prepayment,
and if such notice is given the Borrower shall, prepay the outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Advances comprising part of the same Borrowing in whole or ratably in part, together with accrued interest to the date of such prepayment on the
aggregate principal amount prepaid at any time and from time to time, without premium or penalty; provided, however, that to the extent the Borrower makes a voluntary prepayment of any Advances within three (3) years after the Closing
Date, such prepayment shall be made with a premium such that the aggregate amount of such voluntary prepayment shall be in an amount equal to (1) 103% of the principal amount prepaid if such voluntary prepayment is made during the period from the
Closing Date through the first anniversary of the Closing Date, (2) 102% of the principal amount prepaid if such voluntary prepayment is made during the period from the first anniversary of the Closing Date through the second anniversary of the
Closing Date, and (3) 101% of the principal amount prepaid if such voluntary prepayment is made during the period from the second anniversary of the Closing Date through the third anniversary of the Closing Date; provided further that the
prepayment of any Advances made after the third anniversary of the Closing Date shall be made without premium or penalty. Each partial prepayment shall be in an aggregate principal amount of U.S.$3,000,000 or an integral multiple of U.S.$1,000,000
in excess thereof. If any prepayment of a Eurodollar Rate Advance is made on a date other than the last day of an Interest Period for such Advance, the Borrower shall also pay any amounts owing pursuant to Section 9.04(c). Each such prepayment shall
be applied, at the option of the Borrower to the next four installments in order of maturity of the Facility and to such installments on a pro rata basis, subject to Section 2.05(b). 
  
 (b) All prepayments under subsection (a) shall be made together with accrued interest to the date of such prepayment on the
principal amount prepaid. 
  
 SECTION 2.06.
Interest. (a) Scheduled Interest. The Borrower shall pay interest on the unpaid principal amount of each Advance owing to each Lender from the date of such Advance until such principal amount shall be paid in full, at the following
rates per annum: 
  
 (i) Base Rate
Advances. During such periods as such Advance is a Base Rate Advance, a rate per annum equal at all times to the sum of (A) the Base Rate in effect from time to time plus (B) the Applicable Margin in effect from time to time, payable in
arrears quarterly on the last day of each March, June, September and December during such periods and on the date such Base Rate Advance shall be Converted or paid in full. 
  
 (ii) Eurodollar Rate Advances. During such periods as such Advance is a Eurodollar Rate Advance, a
rate per annum equal at all times during each Interest Period for such Advances to the sum of (A) the Eurodollar Rate for such Interest Period for such Advance plus (B) the Applicable Margin in effect from time to time, payable in arrears on
the last day of such Interest Period and, if such Interest Period has a duration of more than three months, on each day that occurs during such Interest Period every three months from the first day of such Interest Period and on the date such
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 (b) Default Interest. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default and
the request of the Required Lenders, interest shall accrue on (i) the unpaid principal amount of each Advance owing to each Lender, payable in arrears on the dates referred to in clause (a)(i) or (a)(ii) above and on demand, at a rate per annum
equal at all times to 2% per annum above the rate per annum required to be paid on such Advance pursuant to clause (a)(i) or (a)(ii) above and (ii) to the fullest extent permitted by law, the amount of any interest, fee or other amount payable under
the Loan Documents that is not paid when due, from the date such amount shall be due until such amount shall be paid in full, payable in arrears on the date such amount shall be paid in full and on demand, at a rate per annum equal at all times to
2% per annum above the rate per annum required to be paid, in the case of interest, on the Advance on which such interest has accrued pursuant to clause (a)(i) or (a)(ii) above and, in all other cases, on Base Rate Advances pursuant to clause (a)(i)
above. 
  
 (c) Notice of Interest Period and Interest Rate.
Promptly after receipt of a Notice of Borrowing pursuant to Section 2.02(a), a notice of Conversion pursuant to Section 2.08 or a notice of selection of an Interest Period pursuant to the terms of the definition of “Interest Period”, the
Administrative Agent shall give notice to the Borrower and each Lender of the applicable Interest Period and the applicable interest rate determined by the Administrative Agent for purposes of clause (a)(i) or (a)(ii) above. 
  
 SECTION 2.07. Agents’ Fees. The Borrower shall pay such fees as
may be agreed between the Borrower and the Agents from time to time. 
  
 SECTION 2.08. Conversion of Advances. (a) Optional. The Borrower may on any Business Day, upon notice given to the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 A.M. (New York City time) on the third Business Day prior to the date
of the proposed Conversion and subject to the provisions of Section 2.10, Convert all or any portion of the Advances of one Type into Advances of the other Type; provided, however, that any Conversion of Eurodollar Rate Advances into
Base Rate Advances shall be made only on the last day of an Interest Period for such Eurodollar Rate Advances, any Conversion of Base Rate Advances into Eurodollar Rate Advances shall be in an amount not less than the minimum amount specified in
Section 2.02(b), no Conversion of any Advances shall result in Interest Periods other than as permitted under Section 2.02(b) and each Conversion of Advances shall be made ratably among the Lenders in accordance with their Commitments. Each such
notice of Conversion shall, within the restrictions specified above, specify (i) the date of such Conversion, (ii) the Advances to be Converted and (iii) if such Conversion is into Eurodollar Rate Advances, the duration of the initial Interest
Period for such Advances. Each notice of Conversion shall be irrevocable and binding on the Borrower. 
  
 (b) Mandatory. (i) If the Borrower shall fail to select the duration of any Interest Period for any Eurodollar Rate Advances, in accordance with
the provisions contained in the definition of “Interest Period” in Section 1.01, the Administrative Agent will forthwith so notify the Borrower and the Lenders, whereupon each such Eurodollar Rate Advance will automatically, on the last
day of the then existing Interest Period therefor, be continued as a Eurodollar Rate Advance for a one-month Interest Period. 
  

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 (ii) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, (x) each Eurodollar Rate
Advance will automatically, on the last day of the then existing Interest Period therefor, Convert into a Base Rate Advance and (y) the obligation of the Lenders to make, or to Convert Advances into, Eurodollar Rate Advances shall be suspended until
circumstances giving rise to such Event of Default shall no longer exist. 
  
 SECTION 2.09. Increased Costs, Etc. (a) If, due to either (i) the introduction of or any change in or in the interpretation of any law or regulation after the date hereof or (ii) the compliance with any
guideline or request issued or made after the date hereof by any central bank or other governmental authority, including, without limitation, any agency of the European Union or similar monetary or multinational authority (whether or not having the
force of law), there shall be any increase in the cost to any Lender of agreeing to make or of making, funding or maintaining Eurodollar Rate Advances (excluding, for purposes of this Section 2.09, any such increased costs resulting from or
representing (x) Taxes or Other Taxes (as to which Section 2.11 shall govern) and (y) Excluded Taxes), then the Borrower shall from time to time, upon demand by such Lender (with a copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent), pay to the
Administrative Agent for the account of such Lender additional amounts sufficient to compensate such Lender for such increased cost; provided, however, that a Lender claiming additional amounts under this Section 2.09(a) agrees to use
reasonable efforts (consistent with its internal policy and legal and regulatory restrictions) to designate a different Applicable Lending Office if the making of such a designation would avoid the need for, or reduce the amount of, such increased
cost that may thereafter accrue and would not, in the reasonable judgment of such Lender, be otherwise disadvantageous to such Lender. A certificate as to the amount of such increased cost, submitted to the Borrower by such Lender, shall be
conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error. 
  
 (b) If, due to either (i) the introduction of or any change in or in the interpretation of any law or regulation after the date hereof or (ii) the compliance with any guideline or request issued or made after the date hereof by any central
bank or other governmental authority, including, without limitation, any agency of the European Union or similar monetary or multinational authority (whether or not having the force of law), there shall be any increase in the amount of capital
required or expected to be maintained by any Lender or any corporation controlling such Lender as a result of or based upon the existence of such Lender’s commitment to lend hereunder and other commitments of such type, then, upon demand by
such Lender or such corporation (with a copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent), the Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Lender, from time to time as specified by such Lender, additional amounts sufficient
to compensate such Lender in the light of such circumstances, to the extent that such Lender reasonably determines such increase in capital to be allocable to the existence of such Lender’s commitment to lend hereunder. A certificate as to such
amounts submitted to the Borrower by such Lender shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error. 
  
 (c) If, with respect to any Eurodollar Rate Advances, the Required Lenders notify the Administrative Agent in writing, that the Eurodollar Rate for such
Interest Period will not adequately reflect the cost to such Lenders of making, funding or maintaining their Eurodollar Rate Advances for such Interest Period (setting forth in the writing the nature and amount of such costs), the Administrative
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 whereupon, unless the Borrower offers to pay such increased costs to such Lenders, (x) each such Eurodollar Rate Advance
will automatically, on the last day of the then existing Interest Period therefor, Convert into a Base Rate Advance and (y) the obligation of the Lenders to make, or to Convert Advances into such Eurodollar Rate Advances shall be suspended until the
Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower that such Lenders have determined that the circumstances causing such suspension no longer exist. 
  
 (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, if the introduction of or any change in or in the interpretation of any law or regulation shall
make it unlawful, or any central bank or other governmental authority shall assert that it is unlawful, for any Lender or its Eurodollar Lending Office to perform its obligations hereunder to make Eurodollar Rate Advances or to continue to fund or
maintain Eurodollar Rate Advances hereunder, then, on notice thereof and demand therefor by such Lender to the Borrower through the Administrative Agent, (x) each Eurodollar Rate Advance will automatically, upon such demand, Convert into a Base Rate
Advance and (y) the obligation of the Lenders to make, or to Convert Advances into, Eurodollar Rate Advances shall be suspended until the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower that such Lender has determined that the circumstances causing
such suspension no longer exist; provided, however, that, before making any such demand, such Lender agrees to use reasonable efforts (consistent with its internal policy and legal and regulatory restrictions) to designate a different
Eurodollar Lending Office if the making of such a designation would allow such Lender or its Eurodollar Lending Office to continue to perform its obligations to make Eurodollar Rate Advances or to continue to fund or maintain Eurodollar Rate
Advances and would not, in the judgment of such Lender, be otherwise disadvantageous to such Lender. 
  
 (e) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Section 2.09, the Borrower shall not be liable in any respect for any amounts incurred or accrued pursuant
to this Section 2.09 more than 180 days prior to the date on which notice of the event or occurrence giving rise to the obligation to make a payment under this Section 2.09 is given to the Borrower. 
  
 SECTION 2.10. Payments and Computations. (a) The Borrower shall make
each payment hereunder and under the Notes, irrespective of any right of counterclaim or set-off, not later than 2:00 P.M. (New York City time) on the day when due in Dollars to the Administrative Agent at the Administrative Agent’s Account in
same day funds, with payments being received by the Administrative Agent after such time being deemed to have been received on the next succeeding Business Day. The Administrative Agent will promptly thereafter cause like funds to be distributed (i)
if such payment by the Borrower is in respect of principal, interest, commitment fees or any other Obligation then payable hereunder and under the Notes to more than one Lender, to such Lenders for the account of their respective Applicable Lending
Offices ratably in accordance with the amounts of such respective Obligations then payable to such Lenders and (ii) if such payment by the Borrower is in respect of any Obligation then payable hereunder to one Lender, to such Lender for the account
of its Applicable Lending Office, in each case to be applied in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Upon its acceptance of an Assignment and Acceptance and recording of the information contained therein in the Register pursuant to Section
9.07(d), from and after the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance, the Administrative Agent shall make all payments hereunder and under the Notes in respect of the interest assigned thereby to the Lender assignee thereunder, and the
parties to such Assignment and Acceptance shall make all appropriate adjustments in such payments for periods prior to such effective date directly between themselves. 
  

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 (b) The Borrower hereby authorizes each Lender and each of its Affiliates, if and to the extent payment
owed to such Lender is not made when due hereunder or, in the case of a Lender, under the Note held by such Lender, to charge from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by law, against any or all of the Borrower’s accounts with such
Lender or such Affiliate any amount so due. 
  
 (c) All
computations of interest shall be made by the Administrative Agent on the basis of a year of 360 days (or, to the extent interest is determined based on the Base Rate, 365 or 366 days, as applicable), in each case for the actual number of days
(including the first day but excluding the last day) occurring in the period for which such interest is payable. Each determination by the Administrative Agent of an interest rate hereunder shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent
manifest error. 
  
 (d) Whenever any payment hereunder or under
the Notes shall be stated to be due on a day other than a Business Day, such payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day, and such extension of time shall in such case be included in the computation of payment of interest or commitment
fee, as the case may be; provided, however, that, if such extension would cause payment of interest on or principal of Eurodollar Rate Advances to be made in the next following calendar month, such payment shall be made on the next
preceding Business Day. 
  
 (e) Unless the Administrative Agent
shall have received notice from the Borrower prior to the date on which any payment is due to any Lender hereunder that the Borrower will not make such payment in full, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower has made such payment in
full to the Administrative Agent on such date and the Administrative Agent may, in reliance upon such assumption, cause to be distributed to each such Lender on such due date an amount equal to the amount then due such Lender. If and to the extent
the Borrower shall not have so made such payment in full to the Administrative Agent, each such Lender shall repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such amount distributed to such Lender together with interest thereon, for each day
from the date such amount is distributed to such Lender until the date such Lender repays such amount to the Administrative Agent, at the Federal Funds Rate. 
  
 (f) If the Administrative Agent receives funds for application to the Obligations under the Loan Documents under circumstances for which the Loan
Documents do not specify the Advances to which, or the manner in which, such funds are to be applied, the Administrative Agent may, but shall not be obligated to, elect to distribute such funds to each Lender ratably in accordance with such
Lender’s proportionate share of the principal amount of all outstanding Advances then outstanding, in repayment or prepayment of such of the outstanding Advances or other Obligations owed to such Lender, and for application to such principal
installments, as the Administrative Agent shall direct. 
  
 SECTION 2.11. Taxes. (a) Any and all payments by the Loan Parties hereunder or under the Notes shall be made, in accordance with Section 2.09, free and clear of 
  

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 and without deduction for any and all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, deductions, charges or withholdings, and
all liabilities with respect thereto, excluding, in the case of each Lender and each Agent, taxes that are imposed on its net income (including branch profits taxes, minimum taxes and franchise taxes imposed in lieu of net income taxes) by
the country, state or foreign jurisdiction under the laws of which such Lender or such Agent, as the case may be, is organized or any political subdivision thereof or in which such Lender or such Agent (but not the Borrower) is engaged in a trade or
business and, in the case of each Lender, taxes that are imposed on its overall net income (including branch profits taxes, minimum taxes and franchise taxes imposed in lieu of net income taxes) by the country, state or foreign jurisdiction of such
Lender’s Applicable Lending Office or any political subdivision thereof (hereinafter, “Excluded Taxes”) (all such taxes, levies, imposts, deductions, charges, withholdings and liabilities in respect of payments hereunder
or under the Notes, other than Excluded Taxes, being hereinafter referred to as “Taxes”). If a Loan Party shall be required by law to deduct any Taxes from or in respect of any sum payable hereunder or under any Note to any
Lender or any Agent, (i) the sum payable by such Loan Party shall be increased as may be necessary so that after such Loan Party and the Administrative Agent have made all required deductions (including deductions applicable to additional sums
payable under this Section 2.11) such Lender or such Agent, as the case may be, receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deductions been made, (ii) such Loan Party shall make all such deductions and (iii) such Loan
Party shall pay the full amount deducted to the relevant taxation authority or other authority in accordance with applicable law. 
  
 (b) In addition, the Loan Parties shall pay any present or future stamp, documentary, excise, property or similar taxes, charges or levies that arise from
any payment made hereunder or under the Notes or from the execution, delivery or registration of, performance under, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or the Notes, or with respect to the transfer of Notes in accordance with the
provisions of Section 9.07 (hereinafter referred to as “Other Taxes”). 
  
 (c) Each Loan Party shall indemnify each Lender and each Agent for and hold them harmless against the full amount of Taxes and Other Taxes (including Taxes and Other Taxes, but not including Excluded Taxes, imposed on
the indemnity payable under this subsection (c)), imposed on or paid by such Lender or such Agent (as the case may be) (including penalties, additions to tax, interest and expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto), provided,
however, that the Loan Parties shall not be obligated to make payment to the Lenders or any Agent (as the case may be) pursuant to this subsection (c) in respect of penalties, interest and other liabilities attributable to any Taxes or Other
Taxes, if (i) written demand therefor has not been made by such Lender or such Agent within 90 days from the date on which such Lender or such Agent received written notice of the imposition of Taxes or Other Taxes by the relevant taxing or
governmental authority, but only if one or more of the Loan Parties have not received a written demand or notice of the imposition of Taxes or Other Taxes from such authority and only to the extent such penalties, interest and other similar
liabilities are attributable to such failure or delay by such Lender or such Agent in making such written demand, (ii) such penalties, interest and other liabilities have accrued after the Loan Party had indemnified or paid an additional amount due
as of the date of such payment pursuant to this subsection (c) and are imposed because the Lender failed to deposit the indemnity payment with the applicable taxing or other governmental authority or (iii) such penalties, interest and other

  

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 liabilities are attributable to the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Lender or the Agent. This
indemnification shall be made within 30 days from the date such Lender or such Agent (as the case may be) makes written demand therefor. 
  
 (d) Within 30 days after the date of any payment of Taxes, the Borrower shall furnish to the Administrative Agent, at its address referred to in Section
9.02, the original or a certified copy of a receipt evidencing such payment or, if such receipt is not obtainable, other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. 
  
 (e) In the case of payments made by the Borrower, each Lender organized under
the laws of a jurisdiction outside the United States shall, on or prior to the date of its execution and delivery of this Agreement in the case of each Initial Lender and on the date of the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which it becomes a
Lender in the case of each other Lender, and in the case of any Lender, on or prior to the date the Lender changes its Applicable Lending Office, and from time to time thereafter as requested in writing by the Borrower (but only so long thereafter
as such Lender remains lawfully able to do so), provide each of the Administrative Agent and the Borrower with two original Internal Revenue Service forms W-8ECI or W-8BEN (or successor form) (and, if such Lender delivers a form W-8BEN claiming the
benefits of exemption from United States withholding tax under Section 881(c), a certificate representing that such Lender is not a “bank” for purposes of Section 881(c) of the Internal Revenue Code, is not a 10-percent shareholder (within
the meaning of Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code) of the Borrower and is not a controlled foreign corporation related to the Borrower (within the meaning of Section 864(d)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code). If a Lender is unable to
deliver one of these forms or if the forms provided by a Lender at the time such Lender first becomes a party to this Agreement or at the time a Lender changes its Applicable Lending Office (other than at the request of one of the Borrower) indicate
a United States interest withholding tax rate in excess of zero, withholding tax at such rate shall be considered excluded from Taxes unless and until such Lender provides the appropriate forms certifying that a lesser rate applies, whereupon
withholding tax at such lesser rate only shall be considered excluded from Taxes for periods governed by such forms; provided, however, that if, at the effective date of the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which a Lender becomes
a party to this Agreement, the Lender assignor was entitled to payments under subsection (a) of this Section 2.12 in respect of United States withholding tax with respect to interest paid at such date, then, to such extent, the term Taxes shall
include (in addition to withholding taxes that may be imposed in the future or other amounts otherwise includable in Taxes) United States withholding tax, if any, applicable with respect to the Lender assignee on such date. If any form or document
referred to in this subsection (e) requires the disclosure of information, other than information necessary to compute the tax payable and information required on the date hereof by Internal Revenue Service form W-8BEN or W-8ECI (or the related
certificate described above) or any successor form, that the applicable Lender reasonably considers to be confidential, such Lender shall give notice thereof to the Borrower and shall not be obligated to include in such form or document such
confidential information. 
  
 (f) For any period with respect to
which a Lender has failed to provide the Borrower with the appropriate form described in subsection (e) above (other than if such failure is due to a change in law occurring after the date on which a form originally was required to be
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 Lender assignee), such Lender shall not be entitled to indemnification under subsection (a) or (c) of this Section 2.11
with respect to Taxes imposed by reason of such failure; provided, however, that, should a Lender become subject to Taxes because of its failure to deliver a form required hereunder, the Borrower shall take such steps as such Lender
shall reasonably request to assist such Lender to recover such Taxes. 
  
 (g) Any Lender claiming any additional amounts payable pursuant to this Section 2.11 agrees to use reasonable efforts (consistent with its internal policy and legal and regulatory restrictions) to change the jurisdiction of its Eurodollar
Lending Office if the making of such a change would avoid the need for, or reduce the amount of, any such additional amounts that may thereafter accrue and would not, in the reasonable judgment of such Lender, be disadvantageous to such Lender.

  
 SECTION 2.12. Sharing of Payments, Etc. If any Lender
shall obtain at any time any payment (whether voluntary, involuntary, through the exercise of any right of set-off or otherwise, other than as a result of an assignment pursuant to Section 9.07) (a) on account of Obligations due and payable to such
Lender hereunder and under the Notes at such time in excess of its ratable share (according to the proportion of (i) the amount of such Obligations due and payable to such Lender at such time to (ii) the aggregate amount of the Obligations due and
payable to all Lenders hereunder and under the Notes at such time) of payments on account of the Obligations due and payable to all Lenders hereunder and under the Notes at such time obtained by all the Lenders at such time or (b) on account of
Obligations owing (but not due and payable) to such Lender hereunder and under the Notes at such time in excess of its ratable share (according to the proportion of (i) the amount of such Obligations owing to such Lender at such time to (ii) the
aggregate amount of the Obligations owing (but not due and payable) to all Lenders hereunder and under the Notes at such time) of payments on account of the Obligations owing (but not due and payable) to all Lenders hereunder and under the Notes at
such time obtained by all of the Lenders at such time, such Lender shall forthwith purchase from the other Lenders such interests or participating interests in the Obligations due and payable or owing to them, as the case may be, as shall be
necessary to cause such purchasing Lender to share the excess payment ratably with each of them; provided, however, that if all or any portion of such excess payment is thereafter recovered from such purchasing Lender, such purchase
from each other Lender shall be rescinded and such other Lender shall repay to the purchasing Lender the purchase price to the extent of such Lender’s ratable share (according to the proportion of (i) the purchase price paid to such Lender to
(ii) the aggregate purchase price paid to all Lenders) of such recovery together with an amount equal to such Lender’s ratable share (according to the proportion of (i) the amount of such other Lender’s required repayment to (ii) the total
amount so recovered from the purchasing Lender) of any interest or other amount paid or payable by the purchasing Lender in respect of the total amount so recovered; provided further that, so long as the Obligations under the Loan Documents
shall not have been accelerated, any excess payment received by any Lender shall be shared on a pro rata basis only with other Lenders. The Borrower agrees that any Lender so purchasing an interest or participating interest from another Lender
pursuant to this Section 2.12 may, to the fullest extent permitted by law, exercise all its rights of payment (including the right of set-off) with respect to such interest or participating interest, as the case may be, as fully as if such Lender
were the direct creditor of the Borrower in the amount of such interest or participating interest, as the case may be. 
  

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 SECTION 2.13. Use of Proceeds. The proceeds of the Advances shall be available (and the Borrower
agrees that it shall use such proceeds) solely to refinance a portion of the Tranche B Term Advances outstanding under the Existing Credit Agreement and pay fees and expenses incurred in connection with such refinancing. 
  
 SECTION 2.14. Evidence of Debt. (a) Each Lender shall maintain in
accordance with its usual practice an account or accounts evidencing the indebtedness of the Borrower to such Lender resulting from each Advance owing to such Lender from time to time, including the amounts of principal and interest payable and paid
to such Lender from time to time hereunder. The Borrower agrees that upon notice by any Lender to the Borrower (with a copy of such notice to the Administrative Agent) to the effect that a promissory note or other evidence of indebtedness is
required or appropriate in order for such Lender to evidence (whether for purposes of pledge, enforcement or otherwise) the Advances owing to, or to be made by, such Lender, the Borrower shall promptly execute and deliver to such Lender, with a copy
to the Administrative Agent, a Term Note, in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto, payable to the order of such Lender in a principal amount equal to the Commitment of such Lender. All references to Notes in the Loan Documents shall mean
Notes, if any, to the extent issued hereunder. 
  
 (b) The
Register maintained by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 9.07(d) shall include a control account, and a subsidiary account for each Lender, in which accounts (taken together) shall be recorded (i) the date and amount of the Borrowing made
hereunder, the Type of Advances comprising the Borrowing and, if appropriate, the Interest Period applicable thereto, (ii) the terms of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it, (iii) the amount of any principal or interest due
and payable or to become due and payable from the Borrower to each Lender hereunder, and (iv) the amount of any sum received by the Administrative Agent from the Borrower hereunder and each Lender’s share thereof. 
  
 (c) Entries made in good faith by the Administrative Agent in the Register
pursuant to subsection (b) above, and by each Lender in its account or accounts pursuant to subsection (a) above, shall be prima facie evidence of the amount of principal and interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the
Borrower to, in the case of the Register, each Lender and, in the case of such account or accounts, such Lender, under this Agreement, absent manifest error; provided, however, that the failure of the Administrative Agent or such
Lender to make an entry, or any finding that an entry is incorrect, in the Register or such account or accounts shall not limit or otherwise affect the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement. 
  
 SECTION 2.15. Offer to Prepay by Application of Prepayment Offer
Amount. In the event that the Borrower shall be required to commence a Prepayment Offer pursuant to Section 5.01(i), it shall follow the procedures specified below. 
  
 The Prepayment Offer shall remain open for a period of 20 Business Days following its commencement or such longer period as
may be required by applicable law (the “Offer Period”). No later than five Business Days after the termination of the Offer Period (the “Prepayment Date”), the Borrower shall prepay the Prepayment
Offer Amount plus any applicable premium as set forth below, except if Lenders holding Advances in an aggregate 
  

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 principal amount less than the Prepayment Offer Amount have elected to accept the Prepayment Offer (each, an
“Accepting Lender”), in which case the Borrower shall prepay all Advances of such Accepting Lenders; it being understood that any Lender that shall not have given written notice (via telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or
letter) to the Administrative Agent declining the Prepayment Offer by 11:00 A.M. (New York City time) on the Business Day immediately preceding the Prepayment Date (each, a “Declining Lender”) shall be deemed to an Accepting
Lender. Payment for any Advances so prepaid shall be made in the same manner as interest payments are made. 
  
 Upon the commencement of a Prepayment Offer, the Borrower shall send, by first-class mail, a notice of such Prepayment Offer to the Administrative Agent
and each of the Lenders, with a copy to the Administrative Agent. The notice shall contain all instructions and materials necessary to enable such Lenders to accept such Prepayment Offer pursuant to the Prepayment Offer. The Prepayment Offer shall
be made to all Lenders. The notice, which shall govern the terms of the Prepayment Offer, shall state: 
  
 (a) that the Prepayment Offer is being made pursuant to this Section 2.15 and Section 5.01(i) and the length of time the Prepayment Offer
shall remain open; 
  
 (b) the Prepayment Offer
Amount, the prepayment amount to be made to such Lender and the Prepayment Date; 
  
 (c) that the outstanding principal amount of Advances owed to any Declining Lender shall continue to accrue interest; 
  
 (d) that, unless the Borrower defaults in making such
payment, the outstanding principal amount of Advances owed to any Accepting Lender shall cease to accrue interest after the Prepayment Date and the only remaining right of such Accepting Lender is to receive the prepayment amount offered to be made
to such Lender pursuant to the Prepayment Offer; 
  
 (e) that Lenders electing to have a portion of the outstanding principal amount of the Advances owed to such Lenders pursuant to a Prepayment Offer may only elect to have such principal amount prepaid in integral multiples of $1,000;

  
 (f) that Accepting Lenders shall be required
to surrender the Note or Notes, if any, held by such Lenders, at the address specified in the notice at least three days before the Prepayment Date; 
  
 (g) that, if the aggregate principal amount of Advances owed to Accepting Lenders exceeds the Prepayment Offer Amount, the Borrower shall
select the Advances to be purchased on a pro rata basis; and 
  
 (h) that Lenders whose Notes were prepaid only in part shall be issued a new Note or Notes in principal amount equal to the unpaid portion of the Notes surrendered in the name of the Lender thereof upon cancellation
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 On or before the Prepayment Date, the Borrower shall, to the extent lawful, apply, on a pro rata
basis to the extent necessary, an amount equal to 100% of the Prepayment Offer Amount, in each case to Advances or portions thereof of the Accepting Lenders, or if Lenders holding less than the Prepayment Offer Amount have validly accepted the
Prepayment Offer, all Senior Unsecured Obligations or portions thereof of the Accepting Lenders, and shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an Officers’ Certificate stating that such Senior Unsecured Obligations or portions thereof were
accepted for prepayment by the Borrower in accordance with the terms of this Section 2.15. The Borrower, or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be, shall promptly (but in any case not later than five days after the Prepayment Date) mail or
deliver to each Accepting Lender an amount equal to the amount accepted for prepayment in respect of such Accepting Lender, and the Borrower shall promptly issue a new Note, if applicable, and the Administrative Agent, upon written request from the
Borrower shall mail or deliver such new Note to such Lender, in a principal amount equal to any unpaid portion of the Note surrendered. 
  
 SECTION 2.16. Increase in the Commitments (a) The Borrower may, at any time and from time to time prior to the Termination Date, by notice to the
Administrative Agent, request the addition of a new facility pursuant to an increase in the Commitments (each, a “Commitment Increase”) to be effective as of a date that is at least 90 days prior to the scheduled
Termination Date then in effect (the “Increase Date”) as specified in the related notice to the Administrative Agent; provided, however, that (i) on the date of any request by the Borrower for a Commitment
Increase and on the related Increase Date, the applicable conditions set forth in Section 3.02 and in clause (d) of this Section 2.16 shall be satisfied and, to the extent such Commitment Increase is to be used to finance a Permitted Acquisition,
the conditions set forth in respectively the definition of Permitted Acquisition shall be satisfied, and (ii) such new facility shall contain such other terms as may be agreed by the Borrower and the Agents. 
  
 (b) The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders of a request
by the Borrower for a Commitment Increase, which notice shall include (i) the proposed amount of such requested Commitment Increase, (ii) the proposed Increase Date and (iii) the date by which Lenders wishing to participate in the Commitment
Increase must commit to an increase in the amount of their respective Commitments (the “Commitment Date”). Each Lender that is willing to participate in the requested Commitment Increase (each an “Increasing
Lender”) shall, in its sole discretion, give written notice to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the Commitment Date of the amount by which it is willing to increase its Commitment. If the Lenders notify the Administrative Agent
that they are willing to participate in a Commitment Increase by an aggregate amount that exceeds the amount of the requested Commitment Increase, the requested Commitment Increase shall be allocated among the Lenders willing to participate therein
in such amounts as are agreed between the Borrower and the Administrative Agent. 
  
 (c) Promptly following the applicable Commitment Date, the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower as to the amount, if any, by which the Lenders are willing to participate in the requested Commitment Increase.
If the aggregate amount by which the Lenders are willing to participate in the requested Commitment Increase on any such Commitment Date is less than the requested Commitment Increase, then the Borrower may extend offers to one or more Eligible
Assignees to participate in any portion of the requested Commitment Increase that has not been committed to by the Lenders as of the Commitment Date; provided, however, that the Commitment of each such Eligible Assignee shall be in an
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 (d) On the applicable Increase Date, each Eligible Assignee that accepts an offer to participate in a
requested Commitment Increase in accordance with Section 2.16(c) (each such Eligible Assignee, an “Assuming Lender”) shall become a Lender party to this Agreement as of the applicable Increase Date and the Commitment of each
Increasing Lender for such Commitment Increase shall be so increased by such amount (or by the amount allocated to such Lender pursuant to the last sentence of Section 2.16(b)) as of such Increase Date; provided, however, that the
Administrative Agent shall have received on or before the Increase Date the following, each dated such date: 
  
 (i) (A) certified copies of resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Borrower approving the applicable Commitment Increase and the
corresponding modifications to this Agreement and (B) an opinion of counsel for the Borrower (which may be in-house counsel), in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent; 
  
 (ii) an assumption agreement from each Assuming Lender, if
any, in form and substance satisfactory to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (each an “Assumption Agreement”), duly executed by such Eligible Assignee, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower; and 
  
 (iii) confirmation from each Increasing Lender of the
increase in the amount of its Commitment in a writing satisfactory to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent. 
  
 On the applicable Increase Date, upon fulfillment of the conditions set forth in the immediately preceding sentence of this Section 2.16(d), the
Administrative Agent shall notify the Lenders (including, without limitation, each Assuming Lender) and the Borrower, on or before 1:00 P.M. (New York City time), by telecopier or telex, of the occurrence of the applicable Commitment Increase to be
effected on the related Increase Date and shall record in the Register the relevant information with respect to each Increasing Lender and each Assuming Lender on such date. 
  
 ARTICLE III 
  
 CONDITIONS OF LENDING 
  
 SECTION 3.01. Conditions Precedent to Initial Borrowing. The obligation of each Lender to make an Advance hereunder is subject to the satisfaction
of the following conditions precedent before or concurrently with the initial Borrowing: 
  
 (a) The Administrative Agent shall have received on or before the day of the initial Borrowing the following, each dated such day (unless
otherwise specified), in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (unless otherwise specified) and (except for the Notes) in sufficient copies for each Lender: 
  

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 (i) The Notes payable to the order of the Lenders to the extent requested pursuant to
Section 2.14. 
  
 (ii) Certified copies of the
resolutions of the Board of Directors of each Loan Party approving the transactions contemplated hereby and each Loan Document to which it is or is to be a party, and of all documents evidencing other necessary corporate action and governmental and
other third party approvals and consents, if any, with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby and each Loan Document to which it is or is to be a party. 
  
 (iii) A copy of a certificate of the Secretary of State of the jurisdiction of incorporation of each Loan
Party (or other appropriate governmental official), dated reasonably near the Closing Date, certifying (A) as to a true and correct copy of the charter of such Loan Party and each amendment thereto on file in such Secretary’s office and (B)
that (1) such amendments are the only amendments to such Loan Party’s charter on file in such Secretary’s office, (2) such Loan Party has paid all franchise taxes to the date of such certificate and (C) such Loan Party is duly incorporated
and in good standing or presently subsisting under the laws of the state of the jurisdiction of its incorporation. 
  
 (iv) A certificate of each Loan Party, signed on behalf of such Loan Party by its President or a Vice President and its Secretary or any
Assistant Secretary, dated the Closing Date (the statements made in which certificate shall be true on and as of the Closing Date), certifying as to (A) the absence of any amendments to the charter of such Loan Party since the date of the Secretary
of State’s certificate referred to in Section 3.01(a)(iii), (B) a true and correct copy of the bylaws of such Loan Party as in effect on the date on which the resolutions referred to in Section 3.01(a)(iv) were adopted and on the Closing Date,
(C) the due incorporation and good standing or valid existence of such Loan Party as a corporation organized under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, and the absence of any proceeding for the dissolution or liquidation of such Loan
Party, (D) the truth of the representations and warranties contained in the Loan Documents as though made on and as of the Closing Date and (E) the absence of any event occurring and continuing, or resulting from the initial Borrowing, that
constitutes a Default. 
  
 (v) A certificate of
the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of each Loan Party certifying the names and true signatures of the officers of such Loan Party authorized to sign each Loan Document to which it is or is to be a party and the other documents to be delivered
hereunder and thereunder. 
  
 (vi) Certificates,
in substantially the form of Exhibit D hereto, attesting to the Solvency of the Borrower and the Guarantors before and after giving effect to the refinancing, from its President, Chief Financial Officer or Treasurer. 
  

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 (vii) A Notice of Borrowing relating to the initial Borrowing, except that the three
Business Day notice requirement in Section 2.02(a) is hereby waived. 
  
 (viii) A favorable opinion of Latham & Watkins, counsel for the Loan Parties, in substantially the form of Exhibit D hereto. 
  
 (b) The Lenders shall be satisfied with the corporate and legal structure and capitalization of each Loan
Party and each of its Subsidiaries, including the terms and conditions of the charter, bylaws and each class of Capital Stock in each Loan Party and each such Subsidiary and of each agreement or instrument relating to such structure or
capitalization. 
  
 (c) There shall have occurred
no Material Adverse Change since September 30, 2003 (after giving effect to the Borrower’s financial statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 12, 2003). 
  
 (d) There shall exist no action, suit, investigation,
litigation or proceeding affecting any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries pending or threatened before any court, governmental agency or arbitrator that (i) could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) purports to affect
the legality, validity or enforceability of any Loan Document or the consummation of the Refinancing. 
  
 (e) All governmental and third party consents and approvals necessary in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby shall have
been obtained (without the imposition of any conditions that are not acceptable to the Lenders) and shall remain in effect (other than any consent or approval the absence of which, either individually or together with all other such consents or
approvals, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect). 
  
 (f) The Borrower shall have directed the Administrative Agent to pay, from the proceeds of the initial Borrowing all accrued fees and
expenses for which invoices have been presented then due and payable under any of the Loan Documents. 
  
 (g) Concurrently with the occurrence of the Closing Date, Amendment No. 7 shall have become effective and in full force and effect.

  
 SECTION 3.02. Conditions Precedent to Commitment
Increase. The obligation of each Lender to make an Advance on the occasion of a Commitment Increase, shall be subject (a) to the further conditions precedent that on the date of such Commitment Increase the following statements shall be true
(and the giving of the applicable Notice of Borrowing and the acceptance by the Borrower of the proceeds of such Commitment Increase shall constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrower that both on the date of such notice and on the date
of such Commitment Increase such statements are true): 
  
 (i) the representations and warranties contained in each Loan Document are correct on and as of such date, before and after giving effect to such Commitment Increase and to the application of the proceeds therefrom, as though made on and as
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 the date of such Commitment Increase, other than any such representations or warranties that, by their
terms, refer to a specific date other than the date of such Commitment Increase, in which case as of such specific date; and 
  
 (ii) no Default has occurred and is continuing, or would result from such Commitment Increase or issuance or renewal or from the
application of the proceeds therefrom; 
  
 and (b) the Administrative Agent shall
have received such other certificates, opinions and other documents as any Lender through the Administrative Agent may reasonably request in order to confirm (i) the accuracy of the Borrower’s representations and warranties, (ii) the
Borrower’s timely compliance with the terms, covenants and agreements set forth in this Agreement and (iii) the absence of any Default. 
  
 SECTION 3.03. Determinations Under Section 3.01. For purposes of determining compliance with the conditions specified in Section 3.01, each Lender
shall be deemed to have consented to, approved or accepted or to be satisfied with each document or other matter required thereunder to be consented to or approved by or acceptable or satisfactory to the Lenders unless an officer of the
Administrative Agent responsible for the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents shall have received notice from such Lender prior to the Closing Date specifying its objection thereto and such Lender shall not have made available to the
Administrative Agent such Lender’s ratable portion of the Borrowing. 
  
 ARTICLE IV 
  
 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES 
  
 SECTION 4.01.
Representations and Warranties of the Borrower. The Borrower represents and warrants as follows: 
  
 (a) Each Loan Party and each of its Subsidiaries (i) is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws
of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, (ii) is duly qualified and in good standing as a foreign corporation in each other jurisdiction in which it owns or leases property or in which the conduct of its business requires it to so qualify or be
licensed except where the failure to so qualify or be licensed would not be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect and (iii) has all requisite corporate power and authority (including, without limitation, all governmental licenses,
permits and other approvals) to own or lease and operate its properties and to carry on its business as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted, except, in the case of such licenses, permits and approvals, where a failure to obtain such
licenses, permits or approvals would not, either individually or in the aggregate, be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect. 
  
 (b) The execution, delivery and performance by each Loan Party of each Loan Document to which it is or is to be a party, and the
consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, are within such Loan Party’s corporate or organizational powers, have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or organizational action, and do not 
  

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 (i) contravene such Loan Party’s charter or bylaws, (ii) violate any law, rule, regulation
(including, without limitation, Regulation X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), order, writ, judgment, injunction, decree, determination or award or (iii) conflict with or result in the breach of, or constitute a default or
require any payment to be made under, any contract, loan agreement, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, lease or other instrument binding on or affecting any Loan Party, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their properties, the conflict, breach,
default or payment of which could be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect. No Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries is in violation of any such law, rule, regulation, order, writ, judgment, injunction, decree, determination or award
or in breach of any such contract, loan agreement, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, lease or other instrument, the violation or breach of which could be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect. 
  
 (c) No authorization or approval or other action by, and no
notice to or filing with, any governmental authority or regulatory body or any other third party is required for (i) the due execution, delivery or performance by any Loan Party of any Loan Document to which it is or is to be a party, or for the
consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, or (ii) the exercise by any Agent or any Lender of its rights under the Loan Documents, except for the authorizations, approvals, actions, notices and filings listed on Schedule 4.01(c) hereto,
all of which have been duly obtained, taken, given or made and are in full force and effect. Amendment No. 7 shall be or has been approved on the Closing Date. 
  

(d) This Agreement has been, and each other Loan Document when delivered hereunder will have been, duly executed and delivered by each
Loan Party thereto. This Agreement is, and each other Loan Document when delivered hereunder will be, the legal, valid and binding obligation of each Loan Party party thereto, enforceable against such Loan Party in accordance with its terms, subject
to the effect of bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws now or hereafter in effect relating to or affecting the rights or remedies of creditors generally and the effect of general principles of equity. 

 
 (e) There is no action, suit, investigation, litigation
or proceeding affecting any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, including any Environmental Action, pending or, to the knowledge of the Loan Parties, threatened before any court, governmental agency or arbitrator that (i) could be reasonably
likely to have a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) purports to affect the legality, validity or enforceability of any Loan Document or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby. 
  
 (f) The Consolidated balance sheets of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries as at December 31, 2002, and the related Consolidated statements of income and Consolidated statement of cash flows of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the fiscal year then ended, accompanied by an unqualified opinion of
PricewaterhouseCoopers, independent public accountants, copies of which have been furnished to each Lender, fairly present the Consolidated financial condition of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as at such dates and the Consolidated results of
operations of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the periods ended on such dates, all in accordance with GAAP, subject (in the case of interim 
  

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 statements) to normal year-end adjustments and the absence of footnote disclosure and since September 30,
2003 (after giving effect to the Borrower’s financial statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 12, 2003), there has been no Material Adverse Change. 
  
 (g) The Consolidated pro forma balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as at September 30, 2003,
certified by the Chief Financial Officer of the Borrower, copies of which have been furnished to each Lender, fairly presents the Consolidated pro forma financial condition of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as at such date, giving effect to the
transactions contemplated hereby, all in accordance with GAAP. 
  
 (h) Taken as a whole, neither the Information Memorandum nor any other information, exhibit or report furnished by or on behalf of any Loan Party to any Agent or any Lender in connection with the negotiation and
syndication of the Loan Documents or pursuant to the terms of the Loan Documents contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made therein not materially misleading.

  
 (i) The Borrower is not engaged in the
business of extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying Margin Stock, and no proceeds of any Advance will be used to purchase or carry any Margin Stock or to extend credit to others for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any Margin
Stock. 
  
 (j) Neither any Loan Party nor any of
its Subsidiaries is an “investment company”, or an “affiliated person” of, or “promoter” or “principal underwriter” for, an “investment company”, as such terms are defined in the Investment Company
Act of 1940, as amended. Neither any Loan Party nor any of its Subsidiaries is a “holding company”, or a “subsidiary company” of a “holding company”, or an “affiliate” of a “holding company” or of a
“subsidiary company” of a “holding company”, as such terms are defined in the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended. Neither the making of any Advances nor the application of the proceeds or repayment thereof by
the Borrower, nor the consummation of the other transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents, will violate any provision of any such Act or any rule, regulation or order of the Securities and Exchange Commission thereunder. 
  
 (k) Each Loan Party is, together with its Subsidiaries,
Solvent. 
  
 (l) (i) Except as could not,
individually or in the aggregate, be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect: 
  
 (A) No ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur with respect to any Plan that has resulted in or is reasonably expected
to result in a material liability of any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate; 
  
 (B) Schedule B (Actuarial Information) to the most recent annual report (Form 5500 Series) for each Plan, copies of which have been filed with the Internal Revenue Service and furnished to the Lender Parties, is
complete and accurate and fairly presents the funding status of such Plan, and since the date of such Schedule B there has been no material adverse change in such funding status; 
  

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 (C) Neither any Loan Party nor any ERISA Affiliate has incurred or is reasonably expected
to incur any Withdrawal Liability to any Multiemployer Plan; 
  
 (D) Neither any Loan Party nor any ERISA Affiliate has been notified by the sponsor of a Multiemployer Plan that such Multiemployer Plan is in reorganization or has been terminated, within the meaning of Title IV of
ERISA, and no such Multiemployer Plan is reasonably expected to be in reorganization or to be terminated, within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA; and 
  
 (E) With respect to each scheme or arrangement mandated by a government other than the United States (a “Foreign Government
Scheme or Arrangement”) and with respect to each employee benefit plan maintained or contributed to by any Loan Party or any Subsidiary of any Loan Party that is not subject to United States law (a “Foreign
Plan”): 
  
 (1) Any employer and
employee contributions required by law or by the terms of any Foreign Government Scheme or Arrangement or any Foreign Plan have been made, or, if applicable, accrued, in accordance with normal accounting practices; 
  
 (2) The fair market value of the assets of each funded
Foreign Plan, the liability of each insurer for any Foreign Plan funded through insurance or the book reserve established for any Foreign Plan, together with any accrued contributions, is sufficient to procure or provide for the accrued benefit
obligations, as of the date hereof, with respect to all current and former participants in such Foreign Plan according to the actuarial assumptions and valuations most recently used to account for such obligations in accordance with applicable
generally accepted accounting principles; and 
  
 (3) Each Foreign Plan required to be registered has been registered and has been maintained in good standing with applicable regulatory authorities. 
  

(m) (i) Except as otherwise set forth on Part I of Schedule 4.01(m) hereto, and except as could not reasonably be likely to have,
individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, the operations and properties of each Loan Party and each of its Subsidiaries comply with all applicable Environmental Laws and Environmental Permits, all past non-compliance with such
Environmental Laws and Environmental Permits has been resolved without ongoing obligations or costs, and no circumstances exist that could be reasonably likely to (A) form the basis of an Environmental Action against any Loan Party or any of its
Subsidiaries or any of their properties or (B) cause any such property to be subject to any restrictions on ownership, occupancy, use or transferability under any Environmental Law. 
  

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 (ii) Except as otherwise set forth on Part II of Schedule 4.01(m) hereto, (a) none of the
properties currently or formerly owned or operated by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries is listed or, to the best of the Parent’s or the Borrower’s knowledge, proposed for listing on the NPL or on the CERCLIS or any analogous state
or local list or is adjacent to any such property; (b) except as could not reasonably be likely to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, there are no and never have been any underground or aboveground storage tanks or
any surface impoundments, septic tanks, pits, sumps or lagoons in which Hazardous Materials are being or have been treated, stored or disposed on any property currently owned or operated by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or, to the best
of its knowledge, on any property formerly owned or operated by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries; (c) except as could not reasonably be likely to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, there is no asbestos or
asbestos-containing material on any property currently owned or operated by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries; and (d) Hazardous Materials have not been released, discharged or disposed of on any property currently or formerly owned or
operated by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, except as could not reasonably be likely to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. 
  
 (iii) Except as otherwise set forth on Part III of Schedule 4.01(m) hereto, and except as could not
reasonably be likely to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, neither any Loan Party nor any of its Subsidiaries is undertaking, and has not completed, either individually or together with other potentially responsible
parties, any investigation or assessment or remedial or response action relating to any actual or threatened release, discharge or disposal of Hazardous Materials at any site, location or operation, either voluntarily or pursuant to the order of any
governmental or regulatory authority or the requirements of any Environmental Law; and all Hazardous Materials generated, used, treated, handled or stored at, or transported to or from, any property currently or formerly owned or operated by any
Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries have been disposed of in a manner not reasonably expected to result in liability to any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries. 
  
 (n) (i) Neither any Loan Party nor any of its Subsidiaries is party to any tax sharing agreement other than
the Tax Sharing Agreement. 
  
 (ii) Except for
any matter that could not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect on the businesses of the Borrower or each other Loan Party, or each of their respective Affiliates or Subsidiaries, the Borrower,
each other Loan Party, their Subsidiaries and Affiliates have filed or been included in any and all returns, reports, forms, schedules, attachments, statements, and other similar declarations and documents (“Tax Returns”) in
respect of Taxes required to be filed by them taking into account all applicable extensions; all Taxes shown as due on such Tax Returns have been paid; all such Tax Returns are true, correct and complete in all respects; and no adjustment relating
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 (iii) There are no pending tax audits or examinations and no deficiencies or other claims
for unpaid Taxes are proposed in writing in respect of Taxes due from, or with respect to, the Borrower, each other Loan Party, their Subsidiaries and Affiliates or with respect to any Tax Return filed by, or in respect of, any of them that could
have a Material Adverse Effect. 
  
 ARTICLE V 
  
 COVENANTS 
  
 SECTION 5.01. Covenants of the Borrower and Restricted Subsidiaries. 
  
 (a) Payment of Advances. Pay or cause to be paid the
principal amount, premium, if any, and interest (including any default interest), if any, on the Senior Unsecured Obligations on the dates and in the manner provided in the Notes and this Agreement. Principal amount, premium, if any, and interest
and Additional Interest, if any, shall be considered paid on the date due if the Administrative Agent holds as of 10:00 a.m. New York City time on the due date money deposited by the Borrower in immediately available funds and designated for and
sufficient to pay all principal amount, premium, if any, and interest (including any default interest), if any, then due. 
  
 (b) Reports to Lenders. Whether or not required by the rules and regulations of the SEC, so long as any Senior Unsecured
Obligations are outstanding, the Borrower shall furnish to the Lenders: 
  
 (i) all quarterly and annual financial information that would be required to be contained in a filing with the SEC on Forms 10-Q and 10-K if the Borrower were required to file such forms (provided that the annual
information required for fiscal years prior to the fiscal year ended December 31, 2001 may be unaudited and the quarterly financial information required for periods prior to December 31, 2001 will not have been subject to a limited review of interim
financial information in accordance with the standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, i.e. SAS 100), including a “Management”s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations” that describes the financial condition and results of operations of the Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries (showing in reasonable detail, either on the face of the financial statements or in the footnotes thereto and in
“Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” the financial condition and results of operations of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries separate from the financial condition and
results of operations of the Unrestricted Subsidiaries of the Borrower) and, with respect to the annual information for fiscal years beginning with and including the fiscal year ended December 31, 2001 only, a report thereon by the Borrower’s
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 (ii) all current reports that would be required to be filed with the SEC on Form 8-K if
the Borrower were required to file such reports, in each case, within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and regulations. 
  
 (c) Compliance Certificate. (i) The Borrower and each Guarantor shall deliver to the Administrative Agent, within 90 days after the
end of each fiscal year, an Officers’ Certificate stating that a review of the activities of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries during the preceding fiscal year has been made under the supervision of the signing Officers with a view to
determining whether the Borrower has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled its obligations under this Agreement, and further stating, as to each such Officer signing such certificate, that to the best of his or her knowledge the Borrower has kept,
observed, performed and fulfilled each and every covenant contained in this Agreement and is not in default in the performance or observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions of this Agreement (or, if a Default or Event of Default shall
have occurred, describing all such Defaults or Events of Default of which he or she may have knowledge and what action the Borrower is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto) and that to the best of his or her knowledge no event has
occurred and remains in existence by reason of which payments on account of the principal of or interest, if any, on the Senior Unsecured Obligations is prohibited or if such event has occurred, a description of the event and what action the
Borrower is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto. For purposes of this paragraph, such compliance shall be determined without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice provided under this Agreement. 
  
 (ii) So long as not contrary to the then current
recommendations of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the year-end financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(b)(i) above shall be accompanied by a written statement of the Borrower’s independent public
accountants (who shall be a firm of established national reputation) that in making the examination necessary for certification of such financial statements, nothing has come to their attention that would lead them to believe that the Borrower has
violated any provisions of Sections 5.01 or 5.02 or, if any such violation has occurred, specifying the nature and period of existence thereof, it being understood that such accountants shall not be liable directly or indirectly to any Person for
any failure to obtain knowledge of any such violation. 
  
 (iii) Upon any Officer becoming aware of any Default or Event of Default, an Officers’ Certificate specifying such Default or Event of Default and what action the Borrower is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto. 

 
 (d) Payment of Taxes and Other Claims. The
Borrower shall pay, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to pay, prior to delinquency, (i) all material taxes, assessments and governmental levies levied or imposed upon (a) the Borrower or any such Subsidiary, (b) the income or profits of any
such Subsidiary which is a corporation or (c) the property of the Borrower or any such Subsidiary and (ii) all material lawful 
  

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 claims for labor, materials and supplies that, if unpaid, could reasonably be expected by law to become a
lien upon the property of the Borrower or any such Subsidiary, except such as are contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings or where the failure to effect such payment is not adverse in any material respect to the Lenders. 

 
 (e) Stay, Extension and Usury Laws. The Borrower
and each of the Guarantors covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it shall not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay, extension or usury law wherever
enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, that may affect the covenants or the performance of this Agreement; and the Borrower and each of the Guarantors (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or
advantage of any such law, and covenants that it shall not, by resort to any such law, hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Administrative Agent, but shall suffer and permit the execution of every such power as
though no such law has been enacted. 
  
 (f)
Limitation on Restricted Payments. The Borrower shall not, and shall not cause or permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly: 
  

(i) declare or pay any dividend or make any distribution (other than dividends or distributions payable in Qualified Capital Stock of
the Borrower) on or in respect of shares of the Borrower’s Capital Stock to holders of such Capital Stock; 
  
 (ii) purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire or retire for value any Capital Stock of the Borrower or any direct or indirect parent of the
Borrower or any warrants, rights or options to purchase or acquire shares of any class of such Capital Stock; 
  
 (iii) make any principal payment on, purchase, defease, redeem, prepay, decrease or otherwise acquire or retire for value, prior to any
scheduled final maturity, scheduled repayment or scheduled sinking fund payment, any Debt of the Borrower that is subordinate or junior in right of payment to the Senior Unsecured Obligations; or 
  
 (iv) make any Investment (other than Permitted Investments)

  
 (each of the foregoing actions set forth in clauses (i),
(ii), (iii) and (iv) being referred to as a “Restricted Payment”)), if at the time of such Restricted Payment or immediately after giving effect thereto: 
  
 (A) a Default or an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing; 
  
 (B) the Borrower is not able to incur at least $1.00 of
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 (C) the aggregate amount of Restricted Payments (including such proposed Restricted
Payment) made subsequent to the Closing Date (other than Restricted Payments made pursuant to clauses (ii)(A), (iii) through (xiii) of the following paragraph) (the amount expended for such purposes, if other than in cash, being the fair market
value of such property) shall exceed the sum, without duplication, of: 
  
 (1) 50% of the cumulative Consolidated Net Income (or if cumulative Consolidated Net Income shall be a loss, minus 100% of such loss) of the Borrower earned subsequent to the beginning of the first fiscal quarter
commencing after the Closing Date and on or prior to the date the Restricted Payment occurs (the “Reference Date”) (treating such period as a single accounting period); plus 
  
 (2) 100% of the aggregate net proceeds (including the fair market value of
property other than cash that would constitute Marketable Securities or a Permitted Business) received by the Borrower from any Person (other than a Subsidiary of the Borrower) from the issuance and sale subsequent to the Closing Date and on or
prior to the Reference Date of Qualified Capital Stock of the Borrower or other securities of the Borrower that have been converted into such Qualified Capital Stock; plus 
  
 (3) without duplication of any amounts included in clause (C)(2) above, 100% of the aggregate net cash proceeds of any
equity contribution received by the Borrower from a holder of the Borrower’s Capital Stock; plus 
  
 (4) 100% of the aggregate net proceeds (including the fair market value of property other than cash that would constitute Marketable Securities or a
Permitted Business) of any (A) sale or other disposition of any Investment (other than a Permitted Investment) made by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries subsequent to the Closing Date or (B) dividend from, or the sale of the stock of, an
Unrestricted Subsidiary of the Borrower made subsequent to the Closing Date. 
  
 Notwithstanding the foregoing, the provisions set forth in the immediately preceding paragraph shall not prohibit: 
  
 (i) the payment of any dividend or the consummation of any irrevocable redemption within 60 days after the date of declaration of such
dividend or notice of such redemption if the dividend or payment of the redemption price, as the case may be, would have been permitted on the date of declaration or notice; 
  

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 (ii) if no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or shall
occur as a consequence thereof, the acquisition of any shares of Capital Stock of the Borrower (the “Retired Capital Stock”) either (1) solely in exchange for shares of Qualified Capital Stock of the Borrower (the
“Refunding Capital Stock”) or (2) through the application of net proceeds of a substantially concurrent sale for cash (other than to a Subsidiary of the Borrower) of shares of Qualified Capital Stock of the Borrower and, in
the case of subclause (1) of this clause (ii), if immediately prior to the retirement of the Retired Capital Stock the declaration and payment of dividends thereon was permitted under clause (iv) of this paragraph, the declaration and payment of
dividends on the Refunding Capital Stock in an aggregate amount per year no greater than the aggregate amount of dividends per annum that was declarable and payable on such Retired Capital Stock immediately prior to such retirement; provided
that at the time of the declaration of any such dividends on the Refunding Capital Stock, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or shall occur as a consequence thereof; 
  
 (iii) if no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred
and be continuing or shall occur as a consequence thereof, the acquisition of any Debt of the Borrower that is subordinate or junior in right of payment to the Senior Unsecured Obligations either (1) solely in exchange for shares of Qualified
Capital Stock of the Borrower or (2) through the application of net proceeds of a substantially concurrent sale for cash (other than to a Subsidiary of the Borrower) of (A) shares of Qualified Capital Stock of the Borrower or (B) Refinancing Debt;

  
 (iv) if no Default or Event of Default shall
have occurred and be continuing or shall occur as a consequence thereof, the declaration and payment of dividends to holders of any class or series of Disqualified Capital Stock issued after the Closing Date (including, without limitation, the
declaration and payment of dividends on Refunding Capital Stock in excess of the dividends declarable and payable thereon pursuant to clause (ii) of this paragraph); provided that, at the time of such issuance, the Borrower, after giving
effect to such issuance on a pro forma basis, would have been able to incur $1.00 of additional Debt (other than Permitted Debt) in compliance with Section 5.01(h) hereof; 
  
 (v) if no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or shall occur as a consequence
thereof, the redemption or repurchase of the Borrower’s common equity or options in respect thereof, in each case in connection with the repurchase provisions of employee stock option or stock purchase agreements or other agreements to
compensate management employees; provided that all such redemptions or repurchases pursuant to this clause (v) shall not exceed $5,000,000 (with unused amounts in any fiscal year being carried over to succeeding fiscal years subject to a
maximum of $10,000,000 in any fiscal year) in any fiscal year (which amount shall be increased by the amount of any net cash proceeds received from the sale since the Closing Date of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock) to members
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 Restricted Payments pursuant to the terms of clause (C) of the immediately preceding paragraph and by the
cash proceeds of any “key-man” life insurance policies that are used to make such redemptions or repurchases) since the Closing Date; provided, further, that the cancellation of Debt owing to the Borrower from members of management
of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with any repurchase of Capital Stock of the Borrower (or warrants or options or rights to acquire such Capital Stock) will not be deemed to constitute a Restricted Payment under
this Agreement; 
  
 (vi) repurchases of Capital
Stock deemed to occur upon the exercise of stock options if such Capital Stock represents a portion of the exercise price thereof; 
  
 (vii) all payments and transactions provided for in the Transaction Agreements (as defined in the Indenture) as the same are in effect on
the Closing Date; 
  
 (viii) distributions or
payments of Receivable Fees; 
  
 (ix) any
purchase or repayment of Subordinated Debt upon a Change of Control or an Asset Sale to the extent required by the agreement governing such Subordinated Debt but only if: in the case of an Asset Sale, the Borrower shall have applied the Net Cash
Proceeds from such Asset Sale in accordance with Section 5.01(i); 
  
 (x) any other Investment made in a Permitted Business which, together with all other Investments made pursuant to this clause (x) since the date of this Agreement, does not exceed $5,000,000 (in each case, after
giving effect to all subsequent reductions in the amount of any Investment made pursuant to this clause (x), either as a result of (1) the repayment or disposition thereof for cash or (2) the redesignation of an Unrestricted Subsidiary as a
Restricted Subsidiary (valued, proportionate to the Borrower’s equity interest in that Subsidiary at the time of that redesignation, at the fair market value of the net assets of that Subsidiary at the time of that redesignation), in the case
of clauses (1) and (2), not to exceed the amount of the Restricted Investment previously made pursuant to this clause (x)); provided that no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing immediately after making that
Investment; 
  
 (xi) distributions to DEG
Acquisitions provided for in the Tax Sharing Agreement; 
  
 (xii) distributions to DEG Acquisitions to pay administrative and other operating expenses in an aggregate amount not to exceed $500,000 per fiscal year; and 
  
 (xiii) if no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred
and be continuing or shall occur as a consequence thereof, other Restricted Payments in an aggregate amount not to exceed $25,000,000. 
  

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 In determining the aggregate amount of Restricted Payments made subsequent to the Closing Date in
accordance with clause (C) of the immediately preceding paragraph, (a) amounts expended pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii)(y) shall be included in such calculation, and (b) amounts expended pursuant to clauses (ii)(x) and (iii) through (xiii) shall be
excluded from such calculation. 
  
 (g)
Limitation on Dividend and Other Payment Restrictions Affecting Restricted Subsidiaries. The Borrower shall not, and shall not cause or permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create or otherwise cause or permit
to exist or become effective any consensual encumbrance or consensual restriction on the ability of any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower to: 
  
 (i) pay dividends or make any other distributions on or in respect of its Capital Stock; 
  
 (ii) make loans or advances or pay any Debt or other
obligation owed to the Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower; or 
  
 (iii) transfer any of its property or assets to the Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower, 
  
 except for such encumbrances or restrictions existing under or by reason of:

  
 (A) applicable law; 
  
 (B) the Notes or this Agreement; 
  
 (C) non-assignment provisions of any contract or any lease
of any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower entered into in the ordinary course of business; 
  
 (D) any instrument governing Acquired Debt, 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; 
  
 (E) the New Credit Agreement; 
  
 (F) agreements existing on the Closing Date to the extent and in the manner such agreements are in effect on the Closing Date; 

 
 (G) restrictions on the transfer of assets subject to any
Lien permitted under this Agreement imposed by the holder of such Lien; 
  
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 (I) any agreement or instrument governing Capital Stock of any Person that is acquired;

  
 (J) any Purchase Money Note or other Debt or
other contractual requirements of a Securitization Entity in connection with a Qualified Securitization Transaction; provided that such restrictions apply only to such Securitization Entity; 
  
 (K) other Debt outstanding on the Closing Date or permitted
to be issued or incurred under this Agreement; provided that any such restrictions are ordinary and customary with respect to the type of Debt being incurred or Preferred Stock being issued (under the relevant circumstances) if the Board of
Directors of the Borrower determines that any such encumbrance or restriction will not materially adversely affect the Borrower’s ability to make principal or interest payments on the Senior Unsecured Obligations; 
  
 (L) restrictions on cash or other deposits or net worth
imposed by customers under contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business; and 
  
 (M) any encumbrances or restrictions imposed by any amendments, modifications, restatements, renewals, increases, supplements, refundings,
replacements or refinancings of the contracts, instruments or obligations referred to in clauses (A) through (L) above; provided that such amendments, modifications, restatements, renewals, increases, supplements, refundings, replacements or
refinancings are, in the good faith judgment of the Borrower’s Board of Directors (evidenced by a Board Resolution) whose judgment shall be conclusively binding, not materially more restrictive with respect to such dividend and other payment
restrictions than those contained in the dividend or other payment restrictions prior to such amendment, modification, restatement, renewal, increase, supplement, refunding, replacement or refinancing. 
  
 (h) Limitation on the Incurrence of Additional Debt.
The Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create, incur, issue, assume, guarantee, acquire, become liable, contingently or otherwise, with respect to, or otherwise become responsible
for payment of (collectively, “incur”) any Debt (other than Permitted Debt) and the Borrower will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to issue any Preferred Stock; provided, however, that if no Default or
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time or as a consequence of the incurrence of any such Debt, the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries may incur Debt (including, without limitation, Acquired Debt) and
Restricted Subsidiaries of the Borrower may issue Preferred Stock, in each case if on the date of the incurrence of such Debt or issuance of such Preferred Stock, after giving effect to the incurrence of such Debt or issuance of such Preferred
Stock, the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio of the Borrower would have been greater than 2.0 to 1.0. 
  
 (i) Limitation on Asset Sales. The Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, consummate an
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 (i) the Borrower or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, receives
consideration at the time of such Asset Sale at least equal to the fair market value of the assets sold or otherwise disposed of; 
  
 (ii) at least 75% of the consideration received by the Borrower or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, from such
Asset Sale shall be in the form of Productive Assets, cash and/or Cash Equivalents and shall be received at the time of such disposition; provided that the amount of: 
  
 (A) liabilities (as shown on the Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance
sheet) of the Borrower or any such Restricted Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Senior Unsecured Obligations) that are assumed by the transferee of any such assets and for which the Borrower and its
Restricted Subsidiaries receive a written release from all creditors; 
  
 (B) any notes or other obligations received by the Borrower or any such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash within 180 days of the
receipt thereof (to the extent of the cash received); and 
  
 (C) any Designated Noncash Consideration received by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such Asset Sale having an aggregate fair market value, when taken together with all other Designated Noncash
Consideration received pursuant to this clause (C) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed 15% of Total Assets at the time of the receipt of such Designated Noncash Consideration (A) with the fair market value of each item of Designated
Noncash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value and (B) with respect to any Designated Noncash Consideration in excess of $50,000,000, the Board of Directors’ determination of
the fair market value of such Designated Noncash Consideration must be based upon an opinion or appraisal issued by an accounting, appraisal or investment banking firm of national standing, 
  
 shall be deemed to be cash solely for the purposes of this provision or for
purposes of the second paragraph of this Section 5.01(i); and 
  
 (iii) upon the consummation of an Asset Sale, the Borrower shall apply, or cause such Restricted Subsidiary to apply, the Net Cash Proceeds relating to such Asset Sale within 365 days of receipt thereof either:

  
 (A) to prepay any Credit Facility or any
Debt of a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower that is not a Guarantor and, in the case of any such Debt under any revolving credit facility, effect a corresponding reduction in the availability under such revolving credit facility (or effect a
permanent reduction in the availability under such revolving credit facility regardless of the fact that no prepayment is required in order to do so), 
  

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 (B) to reinvest in Productive Assets, or 
  
 (C) a combination of prepayment and investment permitted by
the foregoing clauses (A) and (B). 
  
 Pending
the final application of any such Net Cash Proceeds, the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary may temporarily reduce Debt under a revolving credit facility, if any, or otherwise invest such Net Cash Proceeds in Cash Equivalents. On the 366th day
after an Asset Sale or such earlier date, if any, as the Board of Directors of the Borrower or of such Restricted Subsidiary determines not to apply the Net Cash Proceeds relating to such Asset Sale as set forth in clauses (iii)(A), (iii)(B) or
(iii)(C) of the preceding paragraph and prior to the occurrence of the Prepayment Trigger Date (each, a “Prepayment Trigger Date”), such aggregate amount of Net Cash Proceeds which have not been so applied on or before such
Prepayment Trigger Date (each, a “Prepayment Offer Amount”) shall be offered by the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary to prepay (the “Prepayment Offer”) on a date (the “Prepayment Offer
Payment Date”) not less than 30 nor more than 60 days following the applicable Prepayment Trigger Date, to all Senior Unsecured Obligations on a pro rata basis, a maximum amount of Senior Unsecured Obligations, plus accrued and unpaid
interest thereon, if any, to the date of prepayment that may be prepaid with such Prepayment Offer Amount; provided, however, that if at any time any non-cash consideration (including any Designated Noncash Consideration) received by the
Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower, as the case may be, in connection with any Asset Sale is converted into or sold or otherwise disposed of for cash (other than interest received with respect to any such non-cash consideration),
then such conversion or disposition shall be deemed to constitute an Asset Sale hereunder and the Net Cash Proceeds thereof shall be applied in accordance with this Section 5.01(i). Notwithstanding the foregoing, if a Prepayment Offer Amount is less
than $15,000,000, the application of the Net Cash Proceeds constituting such Prepayment Offer Amount may be deferred until such time as such Prepayment Offer Amount plus the aggregate amount of all Prepayment Offer Amounts arising subsequent to the
Prepayment Trigger Date relating to such initial Prepayment Offer Amount from all Asset Sales by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries aggregate at least $15,000,000, at which time the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall apply all
Net Cash Proceeds constituting all Prepayment Offer Amounts that have been so deferred to make a Prepayment Offer (the first date the aggregate of all such deferred Prepayment Offer Amounts is equal to $15,000,000 or more shall be deemed to be a
Prepayment Trigger Date). 
  
 Upon completion of any such
Prepayment Offer, the Prepayment Offer Amount shall be reset at zero. 
  
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 (j) Transactions with Affiliates. (i) The Borrower shall not, and shall not permit
any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, enter into or permit to occur any transaction or series of related transactions (including, without limitation, the purchase, sale, lease or exchange of any property or the rendering of
any service) with, or for the benefit of, any of its Affiliates (an “Affiliate Transaction”), other than Affiliate Transactions on terms that are not materially less favorable than those that might reasonably have been
obtained in a comparable transaction at such time on an arm’s-length basis from a Person that is not an Affiliate of the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary; provided, however, that for an Affiliate Transaction with an aggregate value
of $7,500,000 or more, at the Borrower’s option, either: 
  
 (A) a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors of the Borrower shall determine in good faith that such Affiliate Transaction is on terms that are not materially less favorable than those that
might reasonably have been obtained in a comparable transaction at such time on an arm’s-length basis from a Person that is not an Affiliate of the Borrower; or 
  
 (B) the Board of Directors of the Borrower or any such Restricted Subsidiary party to such Affiliate
Transaction shall obtain an opinion from a nationally recognized investment banking, appraisal or accounting firm that such Affiliate Transaction is on terms that are not materially less favorable than those that might reasonably have been obtained
in a comparable transaction at such time on an arm’s-length basis from a Person that is not an Affiliate of the Borrower; 
  
 (ii) The restrictions set forth in Section 5.01(j) shall not apply to: 
  
 (A) reasonable fees and compensation paid to, and indemnity provided on behalf of, officers, directors,
employees or consultants of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower as determined in good faith by the Borrower’s Board of Directors or senior management; 
  
 (B) transactions exclusively between or among the Borrower and any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or
exclusively between or among such Restricted Subsidiaries, provided such transactions are not otherwise prohibited by this Agreement; 
  
 (C) any agreement as in effect as of the Closing Date or any amendment thereto or any transaction contemplated thereby (including pursuant
to any amendment thereto) in any replacement agreement thereto so long as any such amendment or replacement agreement is not more disadvantageous to the Lenders in any material respect than the original agreement as in effect on the Closing Date;

  
 (D) Restricted Payments or Permitted
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 (E) transactions effected as part of a Qualified Securitization Transaction; 

 
 (F) the payment of customary annual management,
consulting and advisory fees and related expenses to the Permitted Investors and their Affiliates made pursuant to any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement agreement or in respect of other investment banking activities,
including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which are approved by the Board of Directors of the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary in good faith; 
  
 (G) payments or loans to employees or consultants that are approved by the Board of Directors of the
Borrower in good faith; 
  
 (H) sales of
Qualified Capital Stock; 
  
 (I) the existence
of, or the performance by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it is a party
as of the Closing Date and any similar agreements which it may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of obligations under, any future
amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Closing Date shall only be permitted by this clause (I) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not disadvantageous to the
Lenders in any material respect; 
  
 (J) any
payments or transactions provided for in any of the Transaction Agreements; 
  
 (K) distributions to DEG Acquisitions provided for in the Tax Sharing Agreement; and 
  
 (L) distributions to DEG Acquisitions to pay administrative and other operating expenses in an aggregate amount not to exceed $500,000 per
fiscal year. 
  
 (k) Limitation on Liens. The Borrower
shall not, and shall not cause or permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly create, incur, assume or permit or suffer to exist any Liens of any kind against or upon any property or assets or any proceeds therefrom of the
Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries whether owned on the Closing Date or acquired after the Closing Date, in each case to secure Debt, unless: 
  
 (i) in the case of Liens securing Debt that is expressly subordinate or junior in right of payment to the Senior Unsecured Obligations,
the Senior Unsecured Obligations are secured by a Lien on such property, assets or proceeds that is senior in priority to such Liens; and 
  

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 (ii) in all other cases, the Senior Unsecured Obligations are equally and ratably
secured, except for 
  
 (A) Liens existing as of
the Closing Date to the extent and in the manner such Liens are in effect on the Closing Date; 
  
 (B) Liens securing Debt and other obligations outstanding under the Credit Facilities to the extent permitted under Section 5.01(h);

  
 (C) Liens securing the Senior Unsecured
Obligations; 
  
 (D) Liens of the Borrower or a
Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower on assets of any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower; 
  
 (E) Liens securing Refinancing Debt which is incurred to Refinance any Debt that was secured by a Lien permitted under this Agreement and
that has been incurred in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement; provided, however, that such Liens do not extend to or cover any property or assets of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries not securing the Debt so
Refinanced; and 
  
 (F) Permitted Liens.

  
 (l) Corporate Existence. Subject to
Section 5.02, do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect (i) its corporate existence, and the corporate, partnership or other existence of each of its Restricted Subsidiaries, in accordance with the
respective organizational documents (as the same may be amended from time to time) of the Borrower or any such Restricted Subsidiary and (ii) the rights (charter and statutory), licenses and franchises of the Borrower and its Restricted
Subsidiaries; provided, however, that the Borrower shall not be required to preserve any such right, license or franchise, or the corporate, partnership or other existence of any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, if the Board of Directors shall
determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and that the loss thereof is not adverse in any material respect to the Lenders.

  
 (m) Offer to Prepay Upon Change of
Control. (i) If a Change of Control occurs, each Lender will have the right to require that the Borrower prepay all or a portion of the Senior Unsecured Obligations owing to such Lender pursuant to the offer described below (the
“Change of Control Offer”), in an amount equal to 101% of the outstanding principal amount of the Senior Unsecured Obligations owing to such Lender plus accrued interest to the date of prepayment. Within 90 days following the
date upon which the Change of Control occurred (or, at the Borrower’s option, prior to the occurrence of such Change of Control), the Borrower must send, by first class mail, a notice to each Lender, which notice shall govern the terms of the
Change of Control Offer. Such notice shall state, among other things, the prepayment date, which must be no earlier than 30 days nor later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed, other 
  

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 than as may be required by law (the “Change of Control Payment Date”) provided
that any change of Control Offer made prior to any date of such Change of Control shall be made only in the reasonable anticipation of such Change of Control; and provided further, that the Borrower shall not be required to prepay any Senior
Unsecured Obligations requested to be prepaid pursuant to such Change of Control Offer if such Change of Control does not occur. 
  
 (ii) On the Change of Control Payment Date, the Borrower shall, to the extent lawful, (1) prepay all Senior Unsecured Obligations or
portions thereof pursuant to the Change of Control Offer, (2) deposit with the Administrative Agent an amount equal to the Change of Control Payment in respect of all Senior Unsecured Obligations or portions thereof which have been requested to be
prepaid and (3) deliver or cause to be delivered to the Administrative Agent an Officers’ Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of Senior Unsecured Obligations or portions thereof being prepaid by the Borrower. The Administrative
Agent shall promptly mail to each Lender requesting such prepayment the Change of Control Payment for such Lender’s Senior Unsecured Obligations, and the Administrative Agent shall promptly mail to each Lender, if applicable, a new Note equal
in principal amount to any unpaid portion of the Notes surrendered, if any. The Borrower shall publicly announce the results of the Change of Control Offer on or as soon as practicable after the Change of Control Payment Date. 
  
 Prior to the mailing of the notice referred to in Section
5.01(m)(i) above, but in any event within 30 days following any Change of Control, the Borrower covenants to: (i) repay in full and terminate all commitments under all Debt under any Credit Facility the terms of which require repayment upon a Change
of Control; or (ii) obtain the requisite consents under such Credit Facilities to permit the prepayment of Senior Unsecured Obligations as provided below. The Borrower’s failure to comply with the covenant described in the immediately preceding
sentence shall constitute an Event of Default described in clause (c) and not in clause (b) under Section 6.01. 
  
 (iii) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 5.01(m), the Borrower shall not be required to make a Change of Control
Offer upon a Change of Control, if a third party makes the Change of Control Offer in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements set forth in this Section 5.01(m) and prepays Senior Unsecured Obligations owing to all
Lenders validly requesting prepayment under such Change of Control Offer. 
  
 (n) Future Guaranties by Wholly Owned Domestic Restricted Subsidiaries. Create or acquire another Wholly Owned Domestic Restricted Subsidiary unless such Wholly Owned Domestic Restricted Subsidiary executes and
delivers a Guaranty Supplement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, providing for a Guaranty of payment of the Senior Unsecured Obligations by such Wholly Owned Domestic Restricted Subsidiary on the terms set
forth herein. 
  
 (o) Limitation on Issuances
of Guaranties by Restricted Subsidiaries. The Borrower will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary, directly or indirectly, to guarantee any Debt of the Borrower that is pari passu with or subordinate in right of payment to the 
  

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 Senior Unsecured Obligations (“Guaranteed Debt”), unless (i) such Restricted
Subsidiary simultaneously executes and delivers a supplemental indenture to this Agreement providing for a Guaranty on the same terms as set forth in this Agreement of payment of the Senior Unsecured Obligations by such Restricted Subsidiary and
(ii) to the extent permitted by law, such Restricted Subsidiary waives and agrees that it will not in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of any rights of reimbursement, indemnity or subrogation or any other rights against
the Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary as a result of any payment by such Restricted Subsidiary under its Guaranty; provided that this paragraph shall not be applicable to any guarantee of any Restricted Subsidiary that existed at
the time such Person became a Restricted Subsidiary and was not incurred in connection with, or in contemplation of, such Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary. If the Guaranteed Debt is (A) pari passu with the Senior Unsecured Obligations, then
the guarantee of such Guaranteed Debt shall be pari passu with, or subordinated to, the Guaranty or (B) subordinated to the Senior Unsecured Obligations, then the guarantee of such Guaranteed Debt shall be subordinated to the Guaranty at least to
the extent that the Guaranteed Debt is subordinated to the Senior Unsecured Obligations. 
  
 SECTION 5.02. Successors. 
  
 (a) Merger, Consolidation and Sale of Assets. The Borrower shall not, in a single transaction or series of related transactions, consolidate or merge with or into any Person, or sell, assign, transfer, lease,
convey or otherwise dispose of (or cause or permit any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower to sell, assign, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of) all or substantially all of the Borrower’s assets (determined on a consolidated basis
for the Borrower and the Borrower’s Restricted Subsidiaries) whether as an entirety or substantially as an entirety to any Person unless: 
  
 (i) either: 
  
 (A) the Borrower shall be the surviving or continuing corporation; or 
  
 (B) the Person (if other than the Borrower) formed by such consolidation or into which the Borrower is
merged or the Person which acquires by sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition the properties and assets of the Borrower and of the Borrower’s Restricted Subsidiaries substantially as an entirety (the
“Surviving Entity”): 
  
 (2) shall be a
corporation organized and validly existing under the laws of the United States or any State thereof or the District of Columbia; and 
  
 (3) shall expressly assume, by supplemental indenture (in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent), executed and delivered to the
Administrative Agent, the due and punctual payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on all of the Senior Unsecured Obligations and the performance of every covenant of the Notes, this Agreement and the Registration Rights
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 (ii) except in the case of a merger of the Borrower with or into a Wholly Owned
Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower and except in the case of a merger entered into solely for the purpose of reincorporating the Borrower in another jurisdiction, immediately after giving effect to such transaction and the assumption contemplated
by clause (1)(b)(y) above (including giving effect to any Debt and Acquired Debt incurred or anticipated to be incurred in connection with or in respect of such transaction), the Borrower or such Surviving Entity, as the case may be, shall be able
to incur at least $1.00 of additional Debt (other than Permitted Debt) pursuant to Section 5.01(h); 
  
 (iii) except in the case of a merger of the Borrower with or into a Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower and except in the
case of a merger entered into solely for the purpose of reincorporating the Borrower in another jurisdiction, immediately after giving effect to such transaction and the assumption contemplated by clause (1)(b)(y) above (including, without
limitation, giving effect to any Debt and Acquired Debt incurred or anticipated to be incurred and any Lien granted or to be released in connection with or in respect of the transaction), no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred or be
continuing; and 
  
 (iv) the Borrower or the
Surviving Entity shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition and, if a
supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental indenture comply with the applicable provisions of this Agreement and that all conditions precedent in this Agreement relating to such transaction have been
satisfied. 
  
 For purposes of the foregoing, the transfer (by
lease, assignment, sale or otherwise, in a single transaction or series of transactions) of all or substantially all of the properties or assets of one or more Restricted Subsidiaries of the Borrower the Capital Stock of which constitutes all or
substantially all of the properties and assets of the Borrower shall be deemed to be the transfer of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Borrower. However, transfer of assets between or among the Borrower and its Restricted
Subsidiaries will not be subject to this Section 5.02(a). 
  
 (b) Successor Corporation Substituted. Upon any consolidation, combination or merger, or any transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Borrower in accordance with Section 5.02(a), in which the
Borrower is not the continuing corporation, the successor Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Borrower is merged or to which such conveyance, lease or transfer is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise
every right and power of, the Borrower under this Agreement and the Notes with the same effect as if such surviving entity had been named as such and that, in the event of a conveyance, lease or transfer, the conveyor, lessor or 
  

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 transferor will be released from the provisions of this Agreement; provided that the Borrower
shall not be released from its obligation to pay the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the Senior Unsecured Obligations in the case of a lease of all or substantially all of its property and assets. 
  
 ARTICLE VI 
  
 EVENTS OF DEFAULT 
  
 SECTION 6.01. Events of Default. “Events of
Default” are: 
  
 (a) the failure to
pay interest on any Senior Unsecured Obligations when the same becomes due and payable and the default continues for a period of 30 days; or 
  
 (b) the failure to pay the principal on any Senior Unsecured Obligations when such principal becomes due and payable, at maturity, upon
redemption or otherwise (including the failure to make a payment to Prepay Senior Unsecured Obligations accepted for prepayment pursuant to a Change of Control Offer or a Prepayment Offer on the date specified for such payment in the applicable
offer to purchase); or 
  
 (c) a default in the
observance or performance of any other covenant or agreement contained herein if the default continues for a period of 30 days after the Borrower receives written notice specifying the default (and demanding that such default be remedied) from the
Administrative Agent or the Lenders holding of at least 25% of the outstanding principal amount of the Senior Unsecured Obligations (except in the case of a default with respect to Section 5.02(a), which will constitute an Event of Default with such
notice requirement but without such passage of time requirement); or 
  
 (d) the failure to pay at final stated maturity (giving effect to any applicable grace periods and any extensions thereof) the principal amount of any Debt of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower
(other than a Securitization Entity) which failure continues for at least 20 days, or the acceleration of the final stated maturity of any such Debt, which acceleration remains uncured and unrescinded for at least 20 days, if the aggregate principal
amount of such Debt, together with the principal amount of any other such Debt in default for failure to pay principal at final maturity or which has been accelerated (in each case with respect to which the 20-day period described above has passed),
aggregates $25,000,000 or more at any time; or 
  
 (e) one or more judgments in an aggregate amount in excess of $25,000,000 shall have been rendered against the Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries and such judgments remain undischarged, unpaid or unstayed for a period of 60
days after such judgment or judgments become final and non-appealable; or 
  
 (f) the Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries pursuant to or within the meaning of Bankruptcy Law: 
  
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 (ii) consents to the entry of an order for relief against it in an involuntary case;

  
 (iii) consents to the appointment of a
custodian of it or for all or substantially all of its property; or 
  
 (iv) makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors; or 
  
 (g) a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any Bankruptcy Law that: 
  
 (i) is for relief against the Borrower or any of its
Significant Subsidiaries; 
  
 (ii) appoints a
custodian of the Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries or for all or substantially all of the property of the Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries; or 
  
 (iii) orders the liquidation of the Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries; 
  
 and the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for
60 consecutive days; or 
  
 (h) any Guaranty of a
Significant Subsidiary ceases to be in full force and effect or any Guaranty of a Significant Subsidiary is declared to be null and void and unenforceable or any Guaranty of a Significant Subsidiary is found to be invalid or any Guarantor that is a
Significant Subsidiary denies its liability under its Guaranty (other than by reason of release of a Guarantor in accordance with the terms of this Agreement). 
  

SECTION 6.02. Acceleration. If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default specified in clause (f) or (g) of Section 6.01 with respect
to the Borrower) occurs and is continuing, the Administrative Agent or the Lenders holding at least 25% in principal amount of the then outstanding Senior Unsecured Obligations may declare the principal of and accrued interest on all the Senior
Unsecured Obligations to be due and payable immediately by notice in writing to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent specifying the applicable Event of Default and that it is a “notice of acceleration” (the “Acceleration
Notice”), and the same (i) shall become immediately due and payable or (ii) if there are any amounts outstanding under the New Credit Agreement, shall become immediately due and payable upon the first to occur of an acceleration under
the New Credit Agreement or five Business Days after receipt by the Borrower and the Representative under the New Credit Agreement of such Acceleration Notice but only if such Event of Default is then continuing. If an Event of Default specified in
clause (f) or (g) of Section 6.01 with respect to the Borrower occurs and is continuing, then all unpaid principal of, and premium, if any, and accrued and unpaid interest on all the outstanding Senior Unsecured Obligations shall ipso facto
become and be immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Administrative Agent or any Lender. 
  
 At any time after such declaration of acceleration, but before a judgment or decree for the payment of the money due has been obtained by the
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 holding at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Senior Unsecured Obligations by written notice to the
Borrower and to the Administrative Agent, may waive all past Defaults and rescind and annul a declaration of acceleration and its consequences if (a) the Borrower has paid or deposited with the Administrative Agent a sum sufficient to pay (i) all
sums paid or advanced by the Administrative Agent hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Administrative Agent, its agents and counsel, (ii) all overdue interest on all Senior Unsecured Obligations,
(iii) the principal of and premium, if any, on any Senior Unsecured Obligations that have become due otherwise than by such declaration or occurrence of acceleration and interest thereon at the rate prescribed therefor under this Agreement, and (iv)
to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful, interest upon overdue interest, if any, at the rate prescribed therefor under this Agreement, (b) all existing Events of Default, other than the non-payment of the principal of, premium, if any,
and accrued interest on the Senior Unsecured Obligations that have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived and (c) the rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree of a court of competent
jurisdiction. 
  
 SECTION 6.03. Other Remedies. If an Event
of Default occurs and is continuing, the Administrative Agent may and at the direction of the Lenders holding at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Senior Unsecured Obligations shall, pursue any available remedy to collect the
payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest on the Senior Unsecured Obligations or to enforce the performance of any provision of the Notes or this Agreement. 
  
 The Administrative Agent may maintain a proceeding even if it does not hold any of the Senior Unsecured Obligations or does
not produce any of the Notes in the proceeding. A delay or omission by the Administrative Agent or any Lender in exercising any right or remedy accruing upon an Event of Default shall not impair the right or remedy or constitute a waiver of or
acquiescence in the Event of Default. All remedies are cumulative to the extent permitted by law. Every right and remedy given by this Article 6 or by law to the Administrative Agent or to the Lenders may be exercised from time to time, and as often
as may be deemed expedient by the Administrative Agent or by the Lenders, as the case may be. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other
appropriate right or remedy. 
  
 SECTION 6.04. Waiver of Past
Defaults. Subject to Sections 6.02, 6.07 and 9.01, Lenders holding not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Senior Unsecured Obligations by notice to the Administrative Agent may, on behalf of all Lenders,
waive an existing Default or Event of Default and its consequences hereunder, except a continuing Default or Event of Default in the payment of the principal of, premium and Additional Interest, if any, or interest on, the Senior Unsecured
Obligations (including in connection with an offer to prepay) or in respect of a covenant or provision of this Agreement which cannot be modified or amended without the consent of each Lender affected. Upon any such waiver, such Default shall cease
to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured for every purpose of this Agreement; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or impair any right consequent thereon. 
  

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 SECTION 6.05. Control by Majority. Lenders holding a majority in principal amount of the then
outstanding Senior Unsecured Obligations may direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for exercising any remedy available to the Administrative Agent or exercising any trust or power conferred on it. However, the Administrative
Agent may refuse to follow any direction that conflicts with law or this Agreement that the Administrative Agent determines may be unduly prejudicial to the rights of other Lenders or that may involve the Administrative Agent in personal liability.

  
 In the event the Administrative Agent takes any action or
follows any direction pursuant to this Agreement, the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to indemnification from the Borrower satisfactory to it in its sole discretion against any fees, loss, liability, cost or expense caused by taking such
action or following such direction. 
  
 SECTION 6.06.
Limitation on Suits. A Lender may pursue a remedy with respect to this Agreement or the Notes only if: 
  
 (a) the Lender gives to the Administrative Agent written notice of a continuing Event of Default; 
  
 (b) the Lenders holding at least 25% in principal amount of the then
outstanding Senior Unsecured Obligations make a written request to the Administrative Agent to pursue the remedy; 
  
 (c) such Lender or Lenders offer and, if requested, provide to the Administrative Agent indemnity satisfactory to the Administrative Agent against any
loss, liability or expense; 
  
 (d) the Administrative Agent does
not comply with the request within 60 days after receipt of the request and the offer and, if requested, the provision of indemnity; and 
  
 (e) during such 60-day period the Lenders holding a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Senior Unsecured Obligations do not give the
Administrative Agent a direction inconsistent with the request. 
  
 A Lender may
not use this Agreement to prejudice the rights of another Lender or to obtain a preference or priority over another Lender. 
  
 SECTION 6.07. Rights of Lenders to Receive Payment. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the right of any Lender to receive
payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest on the Senior Unsecured Obligations, on or after the respective due dates expressed in the Note or hereunder (including in connection with an offer to prepay), or to bring suit for the enforcement
of any such payment on or after such respective dates, shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of such Lender. 
  
 SECTION 6.08. Collection Suit by Administrative Agent. If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(a) or (b) occurs and is continuing, the
Administrative Agent is authorized to recover judgment in its own name and as trustee of an express trust against the Borrower for the whole amount of principal amount of, premium, if any, and interest remaining unpaid on the Senior Unsecured
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 lawful, interest and such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including
the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Administrative Agent, its agents and counsel, and any amounts due the Administrative Agent under Section 7.05 and 9.04. 
  
 SECTION 6.09. Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim. The
Administrative Agent is authorized to file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Administrative Agent (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Administrative Agent, its agents and counsel) and the Lenders allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the Borrower (or any other obligor upon the Senior Unsecured Obligations), its creditors or its property
and shall be entitled and empowered to collect, receive and distribute any money or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and any custodian 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 to it for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Administrative Agent, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Administrative Agent under Sections 7.05 and 9.04. 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 Sections 7.05 and 9.04 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 herein contained 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 Senior Unsecured 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 6.10. Priorities. If the Administrative Agent collects any money pursuant to this Article, it shall pay out
the money in the following order: 
  
 First: to the Administrative Agent, its agents and attorneys for amounts due under Sections 7.05 and 9.04, including payment of all compensation, expense and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Administrative Agent
and the costs and expenses of collection; 
  
 Second: to Lenders for amounts due and unpaid on the Senior Unsecured Obligations for principal amount, premium and Additional Interest, if any, and interest ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the
amounts due and payable on the Senior Unsecured Obligations for principal amount, premium, if any, and interest, respectively; and 
  
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 The Administrative Agent may fix a record date and payment date for any payment to Lenders pursuant to
this Section 6.10; provided, however, that the failure to give any such notice shall not affect the establishment of such record date or payment date or any payments to Lenders pursuant to this Section 6.10. 
  
 SECTION 6.11. Undertaking for Costs. In any suit for the enforcement
of any right or remedy under this Agreement or in any suit against the Administrative Agent for any action taken or omitted by it as the Administrative Agent, a court in its discretion may require the filing by any party litigant in the suit of an
undertaking to pay the costs of the suit, and the court in its discretion may assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any party litigant in the suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or
defenses made by the party litigant. This Section does not apply to a suit by the Administrative Agent, a suit by a Lender pursuant to Section 6.07, or a suit by Lenders holding more than 10% in principal amount of the then outstanding Senior
Unsecured Obligations. 
  
 SECTION 6.12. Restoration of Rights
and Remedies. If the Administrative Agent or any Lender has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Agreement and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to
the Administrative Agent or to such Lender, then and in every case, subject to any determination in such proceeding, the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall be restored severally and respectively to their former positions
hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted. 
  
 ARTICLE VII 
  
 THE AGENTS 
  
 SECTION 7.01. Authorization and Action. Each Lender hereby appoints and authorizes each Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as
are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto. As to any matters not expressly provided for by the Loan Documents (including, without limitation,
enforcement or collection of the Notes), no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the
instructions of the Required Lenders, and such instructions shall be binding upon all Lenders and all holders of Notes; provided, however, that no Agent shall be required to take any action that exposes such Agent to personal liability
or that is contrary to this Agreement or applicable law. Each Agent agrees to give to each Lender prompt notice of each notice given to it by the Borrower pursuant to the terms of this Agreement. 
  
 SECTION 7.02. Agents’ Reliance, Etc. Neither any Agent nor any of
their respective directors, officers, agents or employees shall be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it or them under or in connection with the Loan Documents, except for its or their own gross negligence or willful misconduct.
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 foregoing, each Agent: (a) may treat the payee of any Note as the holder thereof until, in the case of the Administrative
Agent, the Administrative Agent receives and accepts an Assignment and Acceptance entered into by the Lender that is the payee of such Note, as assignor, and an Eligible Assignee, as assignee, or, in the case of any other Agent, such Agent has
received notice from the Administrative Agent that it has received and accepted such Assignment and Acceptance, in each case as provided in Section 9.07; (b) may consult with legal counsel (including counsel for any Loan Party), independent public
accountants and other experts selected by it and shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken in good faith by it in accordance with the advice of such counsel, accountants or experts; (c) makes no warranty or representation to
any Lender and shall not be responsible to any Lender for any statements, warranties or representations (whether written or oral) made in or in connection with the Loan Documents; (d) shall not have any duty to ascertain or to inquire as to the
performance or observance of any of the terms, covenants or conditions of any Loan Document on the part of any Loan Party or to inspect the property (including the books and records) of any Loan Party; (e) shall not be responsible to any Lender for
the due execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of, or the perfection or priority of any lien or security interest created or purported to be created under or in connection with, any Loan Document or any
other instrument or document furnished pursuant thereto; and (f) shall incur no liability under or in respect of any Loan Document by acting upon any notice, consent, certificate or other instrument or writing (which may be by telegram, telecopy or
telex) believed by it to be genuine and signed or sent by the proper party or parties. 
  
 SECTION 7.03. MSSF, CSFB and Affiliates. With respect to its Commitments, the Advances made by it and the Notes issued to it, each of MSSF and CSFB shall have the same rights and powers under the Loan Documents
as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not an Agent; and the term “Lender” or “Lenders” shall, unless otherwise expressly indicated, include MSSF and CSFB in their respective individual capacities. MSSF
and CSFB and their respective affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to, act as trustee under indentures of, accept investment banking engagements from and generally engage in any kind of business with, any Loan Party, any of its
Subsidiaries and any Person that may do business with or own securities of any Loan Party or any such Subsidiary, all as if MSSF and CSFB were not Agents and without any duty to account therefor to the Lenders. 
  
 SECTION 7.04. Lender Credit Decision. Each Lender acknowledges that it
has, independently and without reliance upon any Agent or any other Lender and based on the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and
decision to enter into this Agreement. Each Lender also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon any Agent or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue
to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement. 
  
 SECTION 7.05. Indemnification. (a) Each Lender severally agrees to indemnify each Agent (to the extent not promptly reimbursed by the Borrower) from and against such Lender’s ratable share (determined as
provided below) of any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever that may be imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against such Agent in

  

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 any way relating to or arising out of the Loan Documents or any action taken or omitted by such Agent under the Loan
Documents (collectively, the “Indemnified Costs”); provided, however, that no Lender shall be liable for any portion of such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits,
costs, expenses or disbursements resulting from such Agent’s gross negligence or willful misconduct as found in a final, non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction. Without limitation of the foregoing, each Lender agrees to
reimburse each Agent promptly upon demand for its ratable share of any costs and expenses (including, without limitation, fees and expenses of counsel) payable by the Borrower under Section 9.04, to the extent that such Agent is not promptly
reimbursed for such costs and expenses by the Borrower. In the case of any investigation, litigation or proceeding giving rise to any Indemnified Costs, this Section 7.05 applies whether any such investigation, litigation or proceeding is brought by
any Lender or any other Person. 
  
 (b) For purposes of this
Section 7.05, the Lenders’ respective ratable shares of any amount shall be determined, at any time, according to the aggregate principal amount of the Senior Unsecured Obligations outstanding at such time and owing to the respective Lenders.
The failure of any Lender to reimburse any Agent, promptly upon demand for its ratable share of any amount required to be paid by the Lenders to such Agent, as provided herein shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligation hereunder to
reimburse such Agent, for its ratable share of such amount, but no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to reimburse such Agent, for such other Lender’s ratable share of such amount. Without prejudice to the survival
of any other agreement of any Lender hereunder, the agreement and obligations of each Lender contained in this Section 7.05 shall survive the payment in full of principal, interest and all other amounts payable hereunder and under the other Loan
Documents. 
  
 SECTION 7.06. Successor Agents. Any Agent
may resign as to the Facility at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Lenders and the Borrower and may be removed as to the Facility at any time with or without cause by the Required Lenders. Upon any such resignation or removal, the
Required Lenders shall have the right to appoint a successor Agent as to the Facility with the consent of the Borrower (which shall not be unreasonably withheld and which shall not be required if a Default has occurred or is continuing). If no
successor Agent shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders, and shall have accepted such appointment, within 30 days after the retiring Agent’s giving of notice of resignation or the Required Lenders’ removal of the retiring
Agent, then the retiring Agent may, on behalf of the Lenders, with the consent of the Borrower (which shall not be unreasonably withheld and which shall not be required if a Default has occurred or is continuing), appoint a successor Agent, which
shall be a commercial bank organized under the laws of the United States or of any State thereof and having a combined capital and surplus of at least U.S.$250,000,000. Upon the acceptance of any appointment as Agent hereunder by a successor Agent
as to the Facility, such successor Agent shall succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, discretion, privileges and duties of the retiring Agent, and the retiring Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations under the
Loan Documents. If within 45 days after written notice is given of the retiring Agent’s resignation or removal under this Section 7.06 no successor Agent shall have been appointed and shall have accepted such appointment, then on such 45th day
(a) the retiring Agent’s resignation or removal shall become effective, (b) the retiring Agent shall thereupon be discharged from its duties and obligations under the Loan Documents and (c) the Required Lenders shall thereafter perform all
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 Documents until such time, if any, as the Required Lenders appoint a successor Agent as provided above. After any
retiring Agent’s resignation or removal hereunder as Agent shall have become effective, the provisions of this Article VII shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was Agent under this Agreement.

  
 SECTION 7.07. The Syndication Agent. The Syndication
Agent shall not have any duty in connection with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. 
  
 ARTICLE VIII 
  
 GUARANTY

  
 SECTION 8.01. Guaranty; Limitation of Liability.
(a) Each Guarantor and the Borrower, jointly and severally, hereby absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees the punctual payment when due, whether at scheduled maturity or on any date of a required prepayment or by acceleration, demand
or otherwise, of all Obligations of each other Loan Party now or hereafter existing under or in respect of the Loan Documents (including, without limitation, any extensions, modifications, substitutions, amendments or renewals of any or all of the
foregoing Obligations), whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, and whether for principal, interest, premiums, fees, indemnities, contract causes of action, costs, expenses or otherwise (such obligations being the “Guaranteed
Obligations”), and agrees to pay any and all reasonable expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable fees and expenses of counsel) incurred by the Administrative Agent or any Lender in enforcing any rights under this Guaranty or
any other Loan Document. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor’s liability and the Borrower’s liability shall extend to all amounts that constitute part of the Guaranteed Obligations and would be owed by any
other Loan Party to any Lender under or in respect of the Loan Documents but for the fact that they are unenforceable or not allowable due to the existence of a bankruptcy, reorganization or similar proceeding involving such other Loan Party.

  
 (b) Each Guarantor and the Borrower, and by its acceptance of
this Guaranty, the Administrative Agent and each Lender, hereby confirms that it is the intention of all such Persons that this Guaranty and the Obligations of each Guarantor hereunder not constitute a fraudulent transfer or conveyance for purposes
of Bankruptcy Law, the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act, the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act or any similar foreign, federal or state law to the extent applicable to this Guaranty and the Obligations of each Guarantor hereunder. To effectuate the
foregoing intention, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the Borrower and the Guarantors hereby irrevocably agree that the obligations of each Guarantor under this Guaranty at any time shall be limited to the maximum amount as will result in the
Obligations of such Guarantor under this Guaranty not constituting a fraudulent transfer or conveyance. 
  
 (c) Each Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably agrees that in the event any payment shall be required to be made to any Lender under this
Guaranty or any other guaranty, such Guarantor will contribute, to the maximum extent permitted by law, such amounts to each other Guarantor and each other guarantor so as to maximize the aggregate amount paid to the Lenders under or in respect of
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 SECTION 8.02. Guaranty Absolute. Each of the Guarantors and the Borrower, as the case may be,
guarantees that the Guaranteed Obligations will be paid strictly in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents, regardless of any law, regulation or order now or hereafter in effect in any jurisdiction affecting any of such terms or the rights
of any Lender with respect thereto. The obligations of each Guarantor and the Borrower, as the case may be, under or in respect of this Guaranty are independent of the Guaranteed Obligations or any other obligations of any other Loan Party under or
in respect of the Loan Documents, and a separate action or actions may be brought and prosecuted against each Guarantor and the Borrower, as the case may be, to enforce this Guaranty, irrespective of whether any action is brought against the
Borrower or any other Loan Party or whether the Borrower or any other Loan Party is joined in any such action or actions. The liability of each of the Guarantors under this Guaranty shall be irrevocable, absolute and unconditional irrespective of,
and each Guarantor and the Borrower, as the case may be, hereby irrevocably waives any defenses it may now have or hereafter acquire in any way relating to, any or all of the following: 
  
 (a) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Loan Document or any agreement or instrument relating
thereto; 
  
 (b) any change in the time, manner
or place of payment of, or in any other term of, all or any of the Guaranteed Obligations or any other obligations of any other Loan Party under or in respect of the Loan Documents, or any other amendment or waiver of or any consent to departure
from any Loan Document, including, without limitation, any increase in the Guaranteed Obligations resulting from the extension of additional credit to any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or otherwise; 
  
 (c) any taking, release or amendment or waiver of, or
consent to departure from, any other guaranty, for all or any of the Guaranteed Obligations; 
  
 (d) any change, restructuring or termination of the corporate structure or existence of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries;

  
 (e) any failure of any Lender to disclose to
any Loan Party any information relating to the business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations, performance, properties or prospects of any other Loan Party now or hereafter known to such Lenders (each Guarantor and the Borrower waiving any
duty on the part of the Lenders to disclose such information); 
  
 (f) the failure of any other Person to execute or deliver this Guaranty, any Guaranty Supplement or any other guaranty or agreement or the release or reduction of liability of any Guarantor, the Borrower or other
guarantor or surety with respect to the Guaranteed Obligations; or 
  
 (g) any other circumstance (including, without limitation, any statute of limitations), except payment, or any existence of or reliance on any representation by any Lender that might otherwise constitute a defense
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 This Guaranty shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any payment of any of
the Guaranteed Obligations is rescinded or must otherwise be returned by the Administrative Agent or any Lender or any other Person upon the insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of the Borrower or any other Loan Party or otherwise, all as though
such payment had not been made. 
  
 SECTION 8.03. Waivers and
Acknowledgments. (a) Each of the Guarantors and the Borrower hereby unconditionally and irrevocably waives promptness, diligence, notice of acceptance, presentment, demand for performance, notice of nonperformance, default, acceleration, protest
or dishonor and any other notice with respect to any of the Guaranteed Obligations and this Guaranty and any requirement that any Lender protect, secure, perfect or insure any Lien or any property subject thereto or exhaust any right or take any
action against any Loan Party or any other Person or any Collateral. 
  
 (b) Each of the Guarantors and the Borrower hereby unconditionally and irrevocably waives any right to revoke this Guaranty and acknowledges that this Guaranty is continuing in nature and applies to all Guaranteed Obligations, whether
existing now or in the future. 
  
 (c) Each of the Guarantors and
the Borrower hereby unconditionally and irrevocably waives (i) any defense arising by reason of any claim or defense based upon an election of remedies by any Lender that in any manner impairs, reduces, releases or otherwise adversely affects the
subrogation, reimbursement, exoneration, contribution or indemnification rights of such Guarantor or the Borrower other rights of such Guarantor to proceed against any of the other Loan Parties, any other guarantor or any other Person or any
collateral and (ii) any defense based on any right of set-off or counterclaim against or in respect of the Obligations of such Guarantor hereunder. 
  
 (d) Each of the Guarantors and the Borrower hereby unconditionally and irrevocably waives any duty on the part of any Lender to disclose to such Guarantor
or the Borrower any matter, fact or thing relating to the business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations, performance, properties or prospects of any other Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries now or hereafter known by such Lender.

  
 (e) Each of the Guarantors and the Borrower acknowledges that
it will receive substantial direct and indirect benefits from the financing arrangements contemplated by the Loan Documents and that the waivers set forth in Section 8.02 and this Section 8.03 are knowingly made in contemplation of such benefits.

  
 SECTION 8.04. Subrogation. Each of the Guarantors and
the Borrower hereby unconditionally and irrevocably agrees not to exercise any rights that it may now have or hereafter acquire against the Borrower or any other Loan Party or any other inside guarantor that arise from the existence, payment,
performance or enforcement the Obligations of such Guarantor or the Borrower under or in respect of this Guaranty or any other Loan Document, including, without limitation, any right of subrogation, reimbursement, exoneration, contribution or
indemnification and any right to participate in any claim or remedy of any Lender against the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other insider guarantor or any Collateral, whether or not 
  

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 such claim, remedy or right arises in equity or under contract, statute or common law, including, without limitation, the
right to take or receive from the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other insider guarantor, directly or indirectly, in cash or other property or by set-off or in any other manner, payment or security on account of such claim, remedy or right,
unless and until all of the Guaranteed Obligations and all other amounts payable under this Guaranty shall have been paid in full in cash, and the Commitments shall have expired or been terminated. If any amount shall be paid to any Guarantor or the
Borrower, as the case may be, in violation of the immediately preceding sentence at any time prior to the later of (a) the payment in full in cash of the Guaranteed Obligations and all other amounts payable under this Guaranty, and (b) the
Termination Date, such amount shall be received and held in trust for the benefit of the Lenders, shall be segregated from other property and funds of such Guarantor or the Borrower, as the case may be, and shall forthwith be paid or delivered to
the Administrative Agent in the same form as so received (with any necessary endorsement or assignment) to be credited and applied to the Guaranteed Obligations and all other amounts payable under this Guaranty, whether matured or unmatured, in
accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents, or to be held as collateral for any Guaranteed Obligations or other amounts payable under this Guaranty thereafter arising. If (i) any Guarantor or the Borrower, as the case may be, shall make payment
to any Lender of all or any part of the Guaranteed Obligations, (ii) all of the Guaranteed Obligations and all other amounts payable under this Guaranty shall have been paid in full in cash, and (iii) the Termination Date shall have occurred, the
Lenders will, at such request and expense of such Guarantor, execute and deliver to such Guarantor or the Borrower, as the case may be, appropriate documents, without recourse and without representation or warranty, necessary to evidence the
transfer by subrogation to such Guarantor or the Borrower, as the case may be, of an interest in the Guaranteed Obligations resulting from such payment made by such Guarantor or the Borrower, as the case may be, pursuant to this Guaranty.

  
 SECTION 8.05. Guaranty Supplements. Upon the execution
and delivery by any Person of a guaranty supplement in substantially the form of Exhibit F hereto (each, a “Guaranty Supplement”), (a) such Person shall be referred to as an “Additional Guarantor” and
shall become and be a Guarantor hereunder, and each reference in this Guaranty to a “Guarantor” shall also mean and be a reference to such Additional Guarantor, and each reference in any other Loan Document to a
“Guarantor” shall also mean and be a reference to such Additional Guarantor, and (b) each reference herein to “this Guaranty”, “hereunder”, “hereof” or
words of like import referring to this Guaranty, and each reference in any other Loan Document to the “Guaranty”, “thereunder”, “thereof” or words of like import referring to
this Guaranty, shall mean and be a reference to this Guaranty as supplemented by such Guaranty Supplement. 
  
 SECTION 8.06. Continuing Guaranty; Assignments. This Guaranty is a continuing guaranty and shall (a) remain in full force and effect until the
latest of (i) the payment in full in cash of the Guaranteed Obligations and all other amounts payable under this Guaranty and (ii) the Termination Date, (b) be binding upon each of the Guarantors, the Borrower, their respective successors and
assigns and (c) inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by the Lenders and their successors, transferees and assigns. Without limiting the generality of clause (c) of the immediately preceding sentence, subject to Section 9.07, any Lender may
assign or otherwise transfer all or any portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or any portion of its Commitments, the Senior Unsecured 
  

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 Obligations owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it) to any other Person, and such other Person shall thereupon
become vested with all the benefits in respect thereof granted to such Lender herein or otherwise, in each case as and to the extent provided in Section 9.07. Neither any Guarantor nor the Borrower shall have the right to assign its rights hereunder
or any interest herein without the prior written consent of the Lenders. 
  
 SECTION 8.07. Release of Guarantor. (a) In the event that all of the Capital Stock held by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in one or more Guarantors is sold or otherwise disposed of (except to the Borrower or
any of its Subsidiaries) or liquidated in compliance with the requirements of this Agreement (or such sale or other disposition or liquidation has been approved in writing by the Required Lenders) and the proceeds of such sale, disposition or
liquidation are applied as permitted or required by this Agreement, each such Guarantor or Guarantors shall be released from this Guaranty and this Guaranty shall, as to each such Guarantor or Guarantors, terminate and have no further force or
effect (it being understood and agreed that the sale of Capital Stock in one or more persons that own, directly or indirectly, all of such Capital Stock in any Guarantor shall be deemed to be a sale of such Capital Stock in such Guarantor for the
purposes of this Section 8.07). 
  
 (b) Upon the later of (i) the
payment in full in cash of all principal, interest and fees in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations and (ii) the Termination Date, the guarantees granted pursuant to this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall terminate. Upon any such
termination, the Administrative Agent will, at the applicable Guarantor’s expense, execute and deliver to such Guarantor such documents as such Guarantor shall reasonably request to evidence such termination. 
  
 SECTION 8.08. Payment. All payments made by the Guarantors pursuant to
this Article VIII will be made without setoff, counterclaim or other defense. 
  
 ARTICLE IX 
  
 MISCELLANEOUS 
  
 SECTION 9.01. Amendments,
Etc. No amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or the Notes or any other Loan Document, nor consent to any departure by any Loan Party therefrom, shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed (or,
in the case of the Collateral Documents, consented to) by the Required Lenders, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given; provided, however, that (a)
no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by all of the Lenders (other than any Lender that is, at such time, a Defaulting Lender or any Affiliate of any Loan Party), do any of the following at any time: (i) waive any of
the conditions specified in Section 3.01, (ii) change the number of Lenders or the percentage of (x) the Commitments, or (y) the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Advances that, in each case, shall be required for the Lenders or any of them
to take any action hereunder, (iii) reduce or limit the obligations of any Guarantor under Section 8.01 or release such Guarantor or otherwise limit such Guarantor’s liability with respect to the Obligations owing to the Agents and the Lenders,
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 hereof, (iv) amend, modify or waive Section 2.12 or this Section 9.01, or (v) limit the liability of any Loan Party under
any of the Loan Documents, (b) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the Required Lenders and each Lender, if such Lender is directly affected by such amendment, waiver or consent, (i) increase any Commitment of such
Lender, (ii) reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Senior Unsecured Obligations held by such Lender or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder to such Lender, (iii) postpone any date scheduled for any payment of interest on the Senior
Unsecured Obligations held by such Lender or the Senior Unsecured Obligations outstanding to such Lender pursuant to Section 2.06 or any date fixed for payment of fees or other amounts payable to such Lender hereunder (other than pursuant to Section
2.03), or (iv) postpone the final maturity date of the Facility, and (c) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the Supermajority Lenders (other than any such Lender that is, at such time, an Affiliate of any Loan
Party), amend the provisions of Section 2.03 (other than the final maturity date for the Facility); provided that no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by an Agent in addition to the Lenders required above to
take such action, affect the rights or duties of such Agent under this Agreement or the other Loan Documents. 
  
 SECTION 9.02. Notices, Etc. All notices and other communications provided for hereunder shall be in writing (including telegraphic, telecopy or
telex communication) and mailed, telegraphed, telecopied, telexed or delivered, if to the Borrower, at its address at 15455 Dallas Parkway Suite 1100, Addison, Texas 75001, Attention: Frank P. Pittman; if to any Initial Lender, at its Domestic
Lending Office specified opposite its name on Schedule I hereto; if to any other Lender, at its Domestic Lending Office specified in the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which it became a Lender; if to the Administrative Agent, at its address
at 1633 Broadway, 25th Floor, New York, New York 10036, Attention: James Morgan; or, as to the Borrower or the
Administrative Agent, at such other address as shall be designated by such party in a written notice to the other parties and, as to each other party, at such other address as shall be designated by such party in a written notice to the Borrower and
the Administrative Agent. All such notices and other communications shall, when mailed, telegraphed, telecopied or telexed, be effective when deposited in the mails, delivered to the telegraph company, transmitted by telecopier or confirmed by telex
answerback, respectively, except that notices and communications to any Agent pursuant to Article II, III or VIII shall not be effective until received by such Agent. Delivery by telecopier of an executed counterpart of any amendment or waiver of
any provision of this Agreement or the Notes or of any Exhibit hereto to be executed and delivered hereunder shall be effective as delivery of an original executed counterpart thereof. 
  
 SECTION 9.03. No Waiver; Remedies. No failure on the part of any Lender or any Agent to exercise, and no delay in
exercising, any right hereunder or under any Note shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right. The remedies herein
provided are cumulative and not exclusive of any remedies provided by law. 
  
 SECTION 9.04. Costs and Expenses. (a) The Borrowers jointly and severally agree to pay on demand (i) all reasonable costs and expenses of the Administrative Agent in connection with the preparation, execution,
delivery, administration, modification and amendment of the Loan Documents (including, without limitation, (A) all due diligence, collateral review, syndication, transportation, computer, duplication, appraisal, audit, insurance, 
  

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 consultant, search, filing and recording fees and expenses and (B) the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel for the
Administrative Agent with respect thereto, with respect to advising the Administrative Agent as to its rights and responsibilities or the protection or preservation of rights or interests, under the Loan Documents, with respect to negotiations with
any Loan Party or with other creditors of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries arising out of any Default or any events or circumstances that may give rise to a Default and with respect to presenting claims in or otherwise participating in or
monitoring any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar proceeding involving creditors’ rights generally and any proceeding ancillary thereto) and (ii) all reasonable costs and expenses of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders in connection
with the enforcement of the Loan Documents, whether in any action, suit or litigation, or any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar proceeding affecting creditors’ rights generally (including, without limitation, the reasonable fees and
expenses of counsel for each of the Agents and for the Lenders (as a group) with respect thereto). 
  
 (b) The Borrower agrees to indemnify, defend and save and hold harmless each Agent, each Lender and each of their Affiliates and their respective
officers, directors, employees, agents and advisors (each, an “Indemnified Party”) from and against, and shall pay on demand, any and all claims, damages, losses, liabilities and expenses (including, without limitation,
reasonable fees and expenses of counsel) that may be incurred by or asserted or awarded against any Indemnified Party, in each case arising out of or in connection with or by reason of (including, without limitation, in connection with any
investigation, litigation or proceeding or preparation of a defense in connection therewith) (i) the Facility, the actual or proposed use of the proceeds of the Advances, the Loan Documents or any of the transactions contemplated thereby, or (ii)
the actual or alleged presence of Hazardous Materials on any property of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or any Environmental Action relating in any way to any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, except to the extent such claim, damage,
loss, liability or expense results from such Indemnified Party’s gross negligence or willful misconduct. In the case of an investigation, litigation or other proceeding to which the indemnity in this Section 9.04(b) applies, such indemnity
shall be effective whether or not such investigation, litigation or proceeding is brought by any Loan Party, its directors, shareholders or creditors or an Indemnified Party, whether or not any Indemnified Party is otherwise a party thereto and
whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby is consummated. The Borrower also agrees not to assert any claim against any Agent, any Lender or any of their Affiliates, or any of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents and
advisors, on any theory of liability, for special, indirect or consequential damages or (to the extent waiver thereof is permitted by Law) for any punitive damages arising out of or otherwise relating to the Facility, the actual or proposed use of
the proceeds of the Advances, the Loan Documents or any of the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents. 
  
 (c) If any payment of principal of, or Conversion of, any Eurodollar Rate Advance is made by the Borrower to or for the account of a Lender other than on
the last day of the Interest Period for such Advance, as a result of a payment or Conversion pursuant to Section 2.05, 2.09(b)(i) or 2.09(d), acceleration of the maturity of the Senior Unsecured Obligations pursuant to Section 6.01 or for any other
reason, or by an Eligible Assignee to a Lender other than on the last day of the Interest Period for such Advance upon an assignment of rights and obligations under this Agreement pursuant to Section 9.07 as a result of a demand by the Borrower
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 prepayment of an Advance for which a notice of prepayment has been given or that is otherwise required to be made,
whether pursuant to Section 2.03, 2.05 or 6.01 or otherwise, the Borrower shall, upon demand by such Lender (with a copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent), pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Lender any amounts required
to compensate such Lender for any additional losses, costs or expenses that it may reasonably incur as a result of such payment or Conversion or such failure to pay or prepay, as the case may be, including, without limitation, any loss (including
loss of anticipated profits), cost or expense incurred by reason of the liquidation or reemployment of deposits or other funds acquired by any Lender to fund or maintain such Advance. 
  
 (d) Without prejudice to the survival of any other agreement of any Loan Party hereunder or under any other Loan Document,
the agreements and obligations of the Borrower contained in Sections 2.09 and 2.11 and this Section 9.04 shall survive the payment in full of principal, interest and all other amounts payable hereunder and under any of the other Loan Documents.

  
 SECTION 9.05. Right of Set-off. Upon (a) the occurrence
and during the continuance of any Event of Default and (b) the making of the request or the granting of the consent specified by Section 6.01 to authorize the Administrative Agent to declare the Senior Unsecured Obligations due and payable pursuant
to the provisions of Section 6.01, each Agent and each Lender is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to set off and otherwise apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand,
provisional or final) at any time held and other indebtedness at any time owing by such Agent or such Lender to or for the credit or the account of the Borrower against any and all of the Obligations of the Borrower now or hereafter existing under
the Loan Documents, irrespective of whether such Agent or such Lender shall have made any demand under this Agreement or such Note or Notes and although such Obligations may be unmatured. Each Agent and each Lender agrees promptly to notify the
Borrower after any such set-off and application; provided, however, that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such set-off and application. The rights of each Agent and each Lender under this Section are in
addition to other rights and remedies (including, without limitation, other rights of set-off) that such Agent and such Lender may have. 
  
 SECTION 9.06. Binding Effect. This Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the Borrower and each Agent and the
Administrative Agent shall have been notified by each Initial Lender that such Initial Lender has executed it and thereafter shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of each the Borrower, each Agent and each Lender and their respective
successors and assigns, except that the Borrower shall have the right to assign its rights hereunder or any interest herein without the prior written consent of the Lenders. 
  
 SECTION 9.07. Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may and, so long as no Default shall have occurred and
be continuing, if demanded by the Borrower (following a demand by such Lender pursuant to Section 2.09 or 2.11) upon at least five Business Days’ notice to such Lender and the Administrative Agent, will assign to one or more Eligible Assignees
all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment or Commitments, the Senior Unsecured Obligations owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it);
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 assignment shall be of a uniform, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under and in respect of one
or more Facilities, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender, an Affiliate of any Lender or an Approved Fund of any Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender’s rights and
obligations under this Agreement, the aggregate amount of the Commitments being assigned to such Eligible Assignee pursuant to such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no
event be less than U.S.$1,000,000 (or such lesser amount as agreed to by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent), (iii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender, an Affiliate of any
Lender or an Approved Fund of any Lender, such assignment shall be approved by the Administrative Agent and, so long as no Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of effectiveness of such assignment, the Borrower (such approvals
not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed), (iv) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee (except as otherwise provided in (iii) above), (v) each such assignment made as a result of a demand by the Borrower pursuant to this Section
9.07(a) shall be arranged by the Borrower after consultation with the Administrative Agent and shall be either an assignment of all of the rights and obligations of the assigning Lender under this Agreement or an assignment of a portion of such
rights and obligations made concurrently with another such assignment or other such assignments that together cover all of the rights and obligations of the assigning Lender under this Agreement, (vi) no Lender shall be obligated to make any such
assignment as a result of a demand by the Borrower pursuant to this Section 9.07(a) unless and until such Lender shall have received one or more payments from either the Borrower or one or more Eligible Assignees in an aggregate amount at least
equal to the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Senior Unsecured Obligations owing to such Lender, together with accrued interest thereon to the date of payment of such principal amount and all other amounts payable to such Lender under
this Agreement, (vii) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note or Notes subject to such
assignment and (viii) no consent of the Borrower shall be required for any reason with respect to assignments made in connection with the primary syndication hereunder. No processing or recordation fee shall be due. 
  
 (b) Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after
the effective date specified in such Assignment and Acceptance, (i) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have
the rights and obligations of a Lender, hereunder and (ii) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights (other
than its rights under Sections 2.09, 2.11 and 9.04 to the extent any claim thereunder relates to an event arising prior to such assignment) and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance
covering all of the remaining portion of an assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). 
  

(c) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, each Lender assignor thereunder and each assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with
each other and the other parties thereto and hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no 
  

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 responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with any Loan
Document or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of, or the perfection or priority of any lien or security interest created or purported to be created under or in connection with, any Loan Document or
any other instrument or document furnished pursuant thereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of any Loan Party or the performance or observance by
any Loan Party of any of its obligations under any Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant thereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial
statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and
without reliance upon any Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this
Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes each Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under the Loan Documents as are
delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that by
the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. 
  
 (d) The Administrative Agent shall, acting for this purpose (but only for this purpose) as the agent of the Borrower, maintain at its address referred to in Section 9.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance
delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment under the Facility of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the
“Register”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agents and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a
Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Agent or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. 
  
 (e) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning
Lender and an assignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Administrative Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and approved as required by Section 9.07(a) and is in substantially the form of
Exhibit C hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower and each other Agent. Any assignment of any Advance, whether or not
evidenced by a Note, shall be effective only upon appropriate entries with respect thereto. In the case of any assignment by a Lender, within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and
deliver to the Administrative Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note or Notes a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it under the Facility pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and,
if any assigning Lender has retained a Commitment hereunder under the Facility, a new Note to the order of such assigning Lender in an amount equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or 
  

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 Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or
Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto. 
  
 (f) Each Lender may, without notice to or consent of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, sell participations to one or more Persons (other than any
Loan Party or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitments, the Senior Unsecured Obligations owing to it and the Note or Notes
(if any) held by it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitments) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the
other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the Borrower, the Agents and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and
directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) no participant under any such participation shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of any Loan
Document, or any consent to any departure by any Loan Party therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Senior Unsecured Obligations or any fees or other amounts payable
hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Senior Unsecured Obligations or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent
subject to such participation, or release all or substantially all of the Collateral. 
  
 (g) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 9.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant
any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided, however, that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to
preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information received by it from such Lender as set forth in Section 9.09. 
  
 (h) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its
rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Senior Unsecured Obligations owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System. 
  
 (i) In the case of any Lender that is a fund
that invests in bank loans, such Lender may, without the consent of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, assign or pledge all or any portion of its Notes or any other instrument evidencing its rights as a Lender under this Agreement to any
trustee for, or any other representative of, holders of obligations owed or securities issued, by such fund, as security for such obligations or securities; provided that any foreclosure or similar action by such trustee or representative
shall be subject to the provisions of this Section 9.07 concerning assignments. 
  

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 SECTION 9.08. Execution in Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of
counterparts and by different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Delivery of an executed counterpart
of a signature page to this Agreement by telecopier shall be effective as delivery of an original executed counterpart of this Agreement. 
  
 SECTION 9.09. Confidentiality. Neither any Agent nor any Lender shall disclose any Confidential Information to any Person without the consent of
the Borrower, other than (a) to such Agent’s or such Lender’s Affiliates and their officers, directors, employees, agents and advisors and to actual or prospective Eligible Assignees and participants, and then only on a confidential basis
as set forth in this Section 9.09, (b) as required by any law, rule or regulation or judicial process, (c) as requested or required by any state, Federal or foreign authority or examiner regulating such Lender (including the National Association of
Insurance Commissioners), (d) or to any direct or indirect contractual counterparty in any swap, hedge or similar agreement (or to any such contractual counterparty’s professional advisor), so long as such contractual counterparty (or such
professional advisor) agrees to be bound by the provisions of this Section 9.09 and (e) to any rating agency when required by it, provided that, prior to any such disclosure, such rating agency shall undertake to preserve the confidentiality
of any Confidential Information relating to the Loan Parties received by it from such Lender. 
  
 SECTION 9.10. Jurisdiction, Etc. (a) Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for itself and its property, to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of any New York state court or
federal court of the United States of America sitting in New York City, and any appellate court from any thereof, in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents to which it is a party, or
for recognition or enforcement of any judgment, and each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that all claims in respect of any such action or proceeding may be heard and determined in any such New York state court or,
to the fullest extent permitted by law, in such federal court. The Borrower hereby agrees that service of process in any such action or proceeding brought in any such New York state court or in such federal court may be made upon CT Corporation
System at its offices at 111 Eighth Avenue, 13th Floor, New York, New York 10011 (the “Process Agent”) and the Borrower hereby irrevocably appoints the Process Agent its authorized agent to accept such service of process, and
agrees that the failure of the Process Agent to give any notice of any such service shall not impair or affect the validity of such service or of any judgment rendered in any action or proceeding based thereon. The Borrower hereby further
irrevocably consents to the service of process in any action or proceeding in such courts by the mailing thereof by any parties hereto by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, to the Borrower at its address specified pursuant to Section
8.02. Each of the parties hereto agrees that a final judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law. Nothing in this Agreement
shall affect any right that any party may otherwise have to bring any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents in the courts of any jurisdiction. 
  
 (b) Each of the parties hereto irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent it may legally and effectively
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 to the laying of venue of any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or any of the other
Loan Documents to which it is a party in any New York State or Federal court. Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or
proceeding in any such court. 
  
 SECTION 9.11. Governing
Law. This Agreement and the Notes shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York. 
  
 SECTION 9.12. Waiver of Jury Trial. Each of the Borrower, the Agents and the Lenders irrevocably waives all right to trial by jury in any action,
proceeding or counterclaim (whether based on contract, tort or otherwise) arising out of or relating to any of the Loan Documents, the Senior Unsecured Obligations or the actions of any Agent or any Lender in the negotiation, administration,
performance or enforcement thereof. 
  

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

			
	DRESSER, INC., as Borrower
		
	 By
	 	

	 	 	 Name:

	 	 	 Title:

			
	DRESSER INTERNATIONAL, INC.,
	 as Guarantor

		
	 By
	 	  

	 	 	 Name:

	 	 	 Title:

	
	 DRESSER RE, INC.,

	 as Guarantor

		
	 By
	 	  

	 	 	 Name:

	 	 	 Title:

	
	 DRESSER RUSSIA, INC.,

	 as Guarantor

		
	 By
	 	  

	 	 	 Name:

	 	 	 Title:

	
	 LVF HOLDING CORPORATION,

	 as Guarantor

		
	 By
	 	  

	 	 	 Name:

	 	 	 Title:

	
	 MODERN ACQUISITION, INC.,

	 as Guarantor

		
	 By
	 	  

	 	 	 Name:

	 	 	 Title:

			
	 DRESSER ENTECH, INC.,

	 as Guarantor

		
	 By
	 	  

	 	 	 Name:

	 	 	 Title:

	
	 RING-O VALVE, INCORPORATED,

	 as Guarantor

		
	 By
	 	  

	 	 	 Name:

	 	 	 Title:

	
	 DRESSER CHINA, INC.,

	 as Guarantor

		
	 By
	 	  

	 	 	 Name:

	 	 	 Title:

			
	MORGAN STANLEY SENIOR FUNDING, INC., as Administrative Agent
		
	 By
	 	  

	 	 	 Name:

	 	 	 Title:

			
	 CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON,

	 as Syndication Agent

		
	 By
	 	  

	 	 	 Name:

	 	 	 Title:

		
	 By
	 	  

	 	 	 Name:

	 	 	 Title:

 Initial Lenders 
  

			
	  

	 [Print Name of Institution]

		
	 By
	 	  

	 	 	 Name:

	 	 	 Title:EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

 Exhibit 10(iv) 
  
 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA 
  
 COUNTY OF ALAMANCE 
  
 EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT 
  
 THIS AGREEMENT is entered into as of the 1st day of October, 2001 by and between ALAMANCE NATIONAL BANK (hereinafter referred to as the “Bank”) and WILLIAM M. GRIFFITH, JR. (hereinafter
referred to as “Employee”). 
  
 W I T N E S S E T H:

  
 WHEREAS, the expertise and experience of Employee
and his relationships and reputation in the financial institutions industry are extremely valuable to the Bank; and 
  
 WHEREAS, it is in the best interests of the Bank and its shareholders to maintain an experienced and sound executive management team to manage the
Bank and to further the Bank’s overall strategies to protect and enhance the value of its shareholders’ investments; and 
  
 WHEREAS, the Bank and Employee desire to enter into this Agreement to establish the scope, terms and conditions of Employee’s employment by
the Bank; and 
  
 WHEREAS, the Bank and Employee desire to
enter into this Agreement also to provide Employee with security in the event of a change in control in the Bank and to insure the continued loyalty of Employee during any such change in control in order to maximize shareholder value as well as the
continued safe and sound operation of the Bank. 
  
 NOW,
THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the premises and mutual promises, covenants and conditions hereinafter set forth, and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which hereby is acknowledged, the Bank and
Employee hereby agree as follows: 
  
 1. Employment.
The Bank hereby agrees to employ Employee, and Employee hereby agrees to serve as an officer of the Bank, all upon the terms and conditions stated herein. As an officer of the Bank, Employee will (i) serve as President and Chief Executive Officer of
the Bank, and (ii) have such other duties and responsibilities, and render to the Bank such other management services, as are customary for persons in Employee’s position with the Bank or as shall otherwise be reasonably assigned to him from
time to time by the Bank. 

 Further the Board of Directors of the Bank shall nominate Employee to serve as a director for a three (3) year term upon
the expiration of Employee’s current term as a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank, and upon each three (3) year anniversary thereafter, assuming Employee remains employed by the Bank in an executive capacity. Employee shall faithfully
and diligently discharge his duties and responsibilities under this Agreement and shall use his best efforts to implement the policies established by the Bank. Employee hereby agrees to devote such number of hours of his working time and endeavors
to the employment granted hereunder as Employee and the Bank shall deem to be necessary to discharge his duties hereunder, and, for so long as employment hereunder shall exist, Employee shall not engage in any other occupation which requires a
significant amount of Employee’s personal attention during the Bank’s regular business hours or which otherwise interferes with Employee’s attention to or performance of his duties and responsibilities as an officer of the Bank
hereunder except with the prior written consent of the Bank. However, nothing herein contained shall restrict or prevent Employee from personally, and for Employee’s own account, trading in stocks, bonds, securities, real estate or other forms
of investment (including but not limited to up to three percent (3%) of the outstanding securities of any bank or bank holding company which has securities publicly traded on any national securities exchange or through an over-the-counter market)
for Employee’s own benefit so long as said activities do not interfere with Employee’s attention to or performance of his duties and responsibilities as an officer of the Bank hereunder. 
  
 During the term of this Agreement, Employee shall be allowed, in his sole
discretion, to maintain his primary work location in Graham, North Carolina. 
  
 2. Compensation. For all services rendered by Employee to the Bank under this Agreement, the Bank shall pay Employee a base salary at a rate of One Hundred One Thousand Eight Hundred Ninety Dollars and
00/100’s ($101,890.00) per annum; provided that the amount of such base salary shall be reviewed by the Board of Directors within forty-five (45) days of each calendar year end for the purpose of determining any increase, but not decrease, in
the base salary. Any such increase shall be made retroactively effective as of the first day of the year in which such determination is made. Salary paid under this Agreement shall be payable in cash not less frequently than monthly. All
compensation hereunder shall be subject to customary withholding taxes and such other employment taxes as are required by law. In the event of a Change in Control (as defined in Paragraph 8), Employee’s base salary shall be increased not less
than six percent (6%) annually during the term of this Agreement. 
  

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 In addition to the foregoing, Employee shall be entitled to receive cash bonuses on an annual basis
during the term of this Agreement as may be determined by the Board of Directors of the Bank or its Compensation Committee. 
  
 3. Participation in Retirement and Employee Benefit Plans; Fringe Benefits. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Employee
shall be entitled to participate in any and all employee benefit programs and compensation plans from time to time maintained by the Bank and available to all employees of the Bank, all in accordance with the terms and conditions (including
eligibility requirements) of such programs and plans of the Bank, resolutions of the Bank’s Board of Directors establishing such programs and plans, and the Bank’s normal practices and established policies regarding such programs and
plans. 
  
 In addition to the other compensation and benefits
described in this Agreement, the Bank shall: 
  
 (a)
annually provide Employee with four (4) weeks of paid vacation leave notwithstanding the policy for the Bank for all other employees with the right to carry over into the following year up to five unused vacation days; 
  
 (b) assume payment of dues and assessments associated with
Employee’s membership in Quarry Hills Country Club and Employee’s membership in one (1) civic club; 
  
 (c) reimburse Employee for all reasonable expenses incurred by him in the performance of his duties under this Agreement and documented to the
reasonable satisfaction of the Bank pursuant to established policies; 
  
 (d) provide to Employee and Employee’s minor child, Mitchell P. Griffith (“Child”), major medical insurance coverage, including health, term life, and disability at no cost to Employee or his immediate family which
will be under policies at least equivalent to the insurance coverage generally provided to active full-time employees of the Bank from time to time; and 
  
 (e) upon the death or permanent disability of Employee, provide to Child, major medical insurance coverage, including health, term life, and
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 coverage to remain in effect until the earlier of: (i) Child’s completion of his highest intended level of
post-secondary education (such determination to be at Child’s sole discretion), or (ii) Child’s attainment of the age of 23. 
  
 4. Term. Unless sooner terminated as provided in this Agreement and subject to the right of either Employee or the Bank to terminate
Employee’s employment at any time as provided herein, the initial term of this Agreement and Employee’s employment with the Bank hereunder shall be for a period commencing on the date hereof and continuing for a period of three (3) years
(the “Initial Term”). At the end of the Initial Term and upon each anniversary thereafter, the Agreement shall automatically be extended for an additional one (1) year period unless written notice from the Bank or Employee is received
sixty (60) days prior to such date notifying the other party that this Agreement shall not be further extended. 
  
 5. Confidentiality; Noncompetition. Employee hereby acknowledges and agrees that (i) in the course of his service as an officer of the Bank,
he will gain substantial knowledge of and familiarity with the Bank’s customers and its dealings with them, and other information concerning the Bank’s business, all of which constitute valuable assets and privileged information of the
Bank that are particularly sensitive due to the fiduciary responsibilities inherent in the banking business; and, (ii) in order to protect the Bank’s interest in and to assure it the benefit of its business, it is reasonable and necessary to
place certain restrictions on Employee’s ability to compete against the Bank and on his disclosure of information about the Bank’s business and customers. For that purpose, and in consideration of the Bank’s agreements contained
herein, Employee covenants and agrees as provided below. 
  
 (a) Covenant Not to Compete. During a period of two (2) years following the effective date of termination of this Agreement or Employee’s employment with the Bank (other than in the event that Employee’s employment
is voluntarily terminated by the Bank without Cause and no additional non-competition agreement is made a part of a separate severance agreement) by unilateral action of Employee, Employee will not “Compete” (as defined below), directly or
indirectly, with the Bank within a twenty-five (25) mile radius of Graham, North Carolina (the “Relevant Market”). 
  

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 For the purposes of this Paragraph 5, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:

  
 Compete. The term “Compete” means:
(i) soliciting or securing deposits from any Person residing in the Relevant Market for any Financial Institution; (ii) soliciting any Person residing in the Relevant Market to become a borrower from any Financial Institution, or assisting (other
than through the performance of ministerial or clerical duties) any Financial Institution in making loans to any such Person; (iii) inducing or attempting to induce any Person who was a Customer of the Bank on the date of termination of
Employee’s employment with the Bank, to change such Customer’s depository, loan and/or other banking relationship from the Bank to another Financial Institution; (iv) acting as a consultant, officer, director, independent contractor, or
employee of any Financial Institution that has its main or principal office in the Relevant Market, or, in acting in any such capacity with any other Financial Institution, to maintain an office or be employed at or assigned to or to have any direct
involvement in the management, business or operation of any office of such Financial Institution located in the Relevant Market; or (v) communicating to any Financial Institution the names or addresses or any financial information concerning any
Person who was a Customer of the Bank at the date of Employee’s termination of this Agreement. 
  
 Customer. The term “Customer” means any Person with whom, as of the effective date of termination of this Agreement or
during Employee’s employment with the Bank, the Bank has or has had a depository, loan and/or other banking relationship. 
  
 Financial Institution. The term “Financial Institution” means any federal or state chartered bank, savings bank, savings and loan
association or credit union, or any holding company for or corporation that owns or controls any such entity, or any other Person engaged in the business of making loans of any type or receiving deposits, other than the Bank. 
  
 Person. The term “Person” means any natural person
or any corporation, partnership, proprietorship, joint venture, limited liability company, trust, estate, governmental agency or instrumentality, fiduciary, unincorporated association or other entity. 
  
 (b) Confidentiality Covenant. Employee covenants and agrees
that any and all data, figures, projections, estimates, lists, files, records, documents, manuals or other such materials or information (financial or otherwise) relating to the Bank and its banking business, regulatory examinations, financial
results and condition, lending and deposit operations, customers (including lists of the Bank’s customers and information regarding their 
  

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 accounts and business dealings with the Bank), policies and procedures, computer systems and software, shareholders,
employees, officers and directors (herein referred to as “Confidential Information”) are proprietary to the Bank and are valuable, special and unique assets of the Bank’s business to which Employee will have access during his
employment with the Bank. Employee agrees that (i) all such Confidential Information shall be considered and kept as the confidential, private and privileged records and information of the Bank, and (ii) at all times during the term of his
employment with the Bank and following the termination of this Agreement or his employment for any reason, and except as shall be required in the course of the performance by Employee of his duties on behalf of the Bank or otherwise pursuant to the
direct, written authorization of the Bank, Employee will not: divulge any such Confidential Information to any other Person or Financial Institution; remove any such Confidential Information in written or other recorded form from the Bank’s
premises; or make any use of any Confidential Information for his own purposes or for the benefit of any Person or Financial Institution other than the Bank. However, following the termination of Employee’s employment with the Bank, this
subparagraph (b) shall not apply to any Confidential Information which then is in the public domain (provided that Employee was not responsible, directly or indirectly, for permitting such Confidential Information to enter the public domain without
the Bank’s consent), or which is obtained by Employee from a third party which or who is not obligated under an agreement of confidentiality with respect to such information, or which is divulged by the employee pursuant to judicial or
administrative order.. 
  
 (c) Remedies for Breach.
Employee understands and agrees that a breach or violation by him of the covenants contained in Paragraph 5(a) and 5(b) of this Agreement will be deemed a material breach of this Agreement and will cause irreparable injury to the Bank, and that it
would be difficult to ascertain the amount of monetary damages that would result from any such violation. In the event of Employee’s actual or threatened breach or violation of the covenants contained in Paragraph 5(a) or 5(b), the Bank shall
be entitled to bring a civil action seeking an injunction restraining Employee from violating or continuing to violate those covenants or from any threatened violation thereof, or for any other legal or equitable relief relating to the breach or
violation of such covenant. Employee agrees that, if the Bank institutes any action or proceeding against Employee seeking to enforce any of such covenants or to 
  

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 recover other relief relating to an actual or threatened breach or violation of any of such covenants, Employee shall be
deemed to have waived the claim or defense that the Bank has an adequate remedy at law and shall not urge in any such action or proceeding the claim or defense that such a remedy at law exists. However, the exercise by the Bank of any such right,
remedy, power or privilege shall not preclude the Bank or its successors or assigns from pursuing any other remedy or exercising any other right, power or privilege available to it for any such breach or violation, whether at law or in equity,
including the recovery of damages, all of which shall be cumulative and in addition to all other rights, remedies, powers or privileges of the Bank. 
  
 Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, Employee agrees that the provisions of Paragraph 5(a) and 5(b) above and the remedies provided
in this Paragraph 5(c) for a breach by Employee shall be in addition to, and shall not be deemed to supersede or to otherwise restrict, limit or impair the rights of the Bank under the Trade Secrets Protection Act contained in Article 24, Chapter 66
of the North Carolina General Statutes, or any other state or federal law or regulation dealing with or providing a remedy for the wrongful disclosure, misuse or misappropriation of trade secrets or other proprietary or confidential information.

  
 (d) Survival of Covenants. Employee’s
covenants and agreements and the Bank’s rights and remedies provided for in this Paragraph 5 shall survive any termination of this Agreement or Employee’s employment with the Bank. 
  
 6. Termination and Termination Pay. 
  
 (a) Employee’s employment under this Agreement may be
terminated at any time by Employee upon sixty (60) days written notice to the Bank. Upon such termination, Employee shall be entitled to receive compensation through the effective date of such termination; provided, however, that the Bank, in its
sole discretion, may elect for Employee not to serve out part or all of said notice period. 
  
 (b) Employee’s employment under this Agreement shall be terminated upon the death of Employee during the term of this Agreement. Upon any such termination, Employee’s estate shall be entitled to
receive any compensation due to Employee computed through the last day of the calendar month in which his death shall have occurred but which remains unpaid and the Bank shall continue to provide the insurance coverages then in effect for
Employee’s family as set forth in Paragraph 3(d) hereof. 
  

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 (c) In the event Employee becomes disabled during the term of his employment hereunder and it is
determined by the Bank that Employee is permanently unable to perform his duties under this Agreement, the Bank shall continue to compensate Employee at the level of compensation described in Paragraph 2 above, and shall continue to provide Employee
each of the other benefits set forth or described in this Agreement, for the remaining term of this Agreement, less any other payments provided under any disability income plan of the Bank which is applicable to Employee. In the event of any
disagreement between Employee and the Bank as to whether Employee is physically or mentally incapacitated such as will result in the termination of Employee’s employment pursuant to this Paragraph 6(c), the question of such incapacity shall be
submitted to an impartial and reputable physician for determination, selected by mutual agreement of Employee and the Bank or, failing such agreement, by two (2) physicians (one (1) of whom shall be selected by the Bank and the other by Employee),
and such determination of the question of such incapacity by such physician or physicians shall be final and binding on Employee and the Bank. The Bank shall pay the reasonable fees and expenses of such physician or physicians in making any
determination required under this Paragraph 6(c). 
  
 (d)
The Bank may terminate Employee’s employment at any time for any reason with or without “Cause” (as defined below), but any termination by the Bank other than termination for “Cause” (as defined below), shall not prejudice
Employee’s right to compensation or other benefits throughout the remaining term of this Agreement. Following any termination of Employee’s employment by the Bank for “Cause,” Employee shall have no further rights under this
Agreement (including any right to receive compensation or other benefits for any period after such termination). 
  
 For purposes of this Paragraph 6(d), the Bank shall have “Cause” to terminate Employee’s employment upon: 
  
 (i) A determination by the Bank, in good faith, that Employee
(A) has breached in any material respect any of the terms or conditions of this Agreement, or (B) is engaging or has engaged in willful misconduct or conduct which is detrimental to the business prospects of the Bank or which has had or
likely will have a material adverse effect on the 
  

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 Bank’s business or reputation. Prior to any termination by the Bank of Employee’s employment for a breach,
failure to perform or conduct described in this subparagraph (i), the Bank shall give Employee written notice which describes such breach, failure to perform or conduct and if during a period of five (5) business days following such notice Employee
cures or corrects the same to the reasonable satisfaction of the Bank, then this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect. However, notwithstanding the above, if the Bank has given written notice to Employee on a previous occasion of the same
or a substantially similar breach, failure to perform or conduct, or of a breach, failure to perform or conduct which the Bank determines in good faith to be of substantially similar import, or if the Bank determines in good faith that the then
current breach, failure to perform or conduct is not reasonably curable, then termination under this subparagraph (i) shall be effective immediately and Employee shall have no right to cure such breach, failure to perform or conduct. Notwithstanding
anything contained herein to the contrary, any act, or failure to act, based upon authority granted pursuant to resolutions duly adopted by the Board of Directors of the Bank or based upon the advice of counsel for the Bank shall be conclusively
presumed to be done, or omitted to be done, by Employee in good faith and in the interest of the Bank and shall not be considered Cause. 
  
 (ii) The violation by Employee of any applicable federal or state law, or any applicable rule, regulation, order or statement of policy
promulgated by any governmental agency or authority having jurisdiction over the Bank or any of its affiliates or subsidiaries (a “Regulatory Authority,” including without limitation the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Office of
Comptroller of the Currency or any other banking regulator having legal jurisdiction over the Bank), which results from Employee’s gross negligence, willful misconduct or intentional disregard of such law, rule, regulation, order or policy
statement and results in any substantial damage, monetary or otherwise, to the Bank or any of its affiliates or subsidiaries or to the Bank’s reputation; 
  

(iii) The commission in the course of Employee’s employment with the Bank of an act of fraud, embezzlement, theft or proven personal
dishonesty (whether or not resulting in criminal prosecution or conviction); 
  
 (iv) The conviction of Employee of any felony or any criminal offense involving dishonesty or breach of trust, or the occurrence of any event described in 
  

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 Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act or any other event or circumstance which disqualifies Employee from
serving as an employee or executive officer of, or a party affiliated with, the Bank or its bank holding company; 
  
 (v) Employee becomes unacceptable to, or is removed, suspended or prohibited from participating in the conduct of the Bank’s affairs (or if
proceedings for that purpose are commenced) by any Regulatory Authority; and 
  
 (vi) The occurrence of any event believed by the Bank, in good faith, to have resulted in Employee being excluded from coverage, or having coverage limited as to Employee as compared to other covered officers
or employees, under the Bank’s then current “blanket bond” or other fidelity bond or insurance policy covering its directors, officers or employees. 
  
 7. Additional Regulatory Requirements. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary,
it is understood and agreed that the Bank (or its successors in interest) shall not be required to make any payment or take any action under this Agreement if (a) the Bank is declared by any Regulatory Authority to be insolvent, in default or
operating in an unsafe or unsound manner, or if (b) in the opinion of counsel to the Bank such payment or action (i) would be prohibited by or would violate any provision of state or federal law applicable to the Bank, including
without limitation the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the National Bank Act as now in effect or hereafter amended, (ii) would be prohibited by or would violate any applicable rules, regulations, orders or statements of policy, whether now
existing or hereafter promulgated, of any Regulatory Authority, or (iii) otherwise would be prohibited by any Regulatory Authority. 
  
 8. Change in Control 
  
 (a) In the event of a “Change in Control” (as defined in Subparagraph (d) below), of the Bank, Employee shall be entitled to terminate
this Agreement upon the occurrence within twenty-four (24) months following a change in control of any Termination Event as defined in Subparagraph (b) below. 
  

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 (b) Termination Event shall mean the occurrence of any of the following events: 
  
 (i) Employee is assigned any duties and/or responsibilities that are
inconsistent with his position, duties or responsibilities at the time of the Change in Control; 
  
 (ii) Employee’s annual base salary is reduced below the amount in effect as of the effective date of a Change in Control or as the same shall
have been increased from time to time following such effective date; 
  
 (iii) Employee’s life insurance, major medical insurance, disability insurance, dental insurance, stock option plans, stock purchase plans, deferred compensation plans, management retention plans, retirement plans, or similar
plans or benefits being provided by the Bank to Employee as of the effective date of the Change in Control are adversely affected in their level, scope, or coverage, or any such insurance, plans, or benefits are eliminated, unless such reduction or
elimination applies proportionately to all salaried employees of the Bank who participated in such benefits prior to such Change in Control; or 
  
 (iv) Employee is transferred to a location outside of Graham, North Carolina, without Employee’s express written consent. 
  
 A Termination Event shall be deemed to have occurred on the date such action
or event is implemented or takes effect. 
  
 (c) In the
event that Employee or the Bank terminates this Agreement pursuant to this Paragraph 8, the Bank will be obligated (i) to provide Employee major medical coverage (as described in Paragraph 3(d) hereof) for the then remaining term of this
agreement (provided however, that if Executive becomes re-employed with another employer and is eligible to receive substantially the same benefits under the other employer’s plans as Employee would receive under the terms of this Agreement,
then the major medical coverage provided hereunder shall be secondary to such other employer’s plans during such applicable period of eligibility); and (ii) to pay or cause to be paid to Employee all amounts due and owing to the end of
the term of this Agreement and an amount equal to two hundred ninety-nine percent (299%) of the average annual salary, bonuses and incentives paid to Employee over the three (3) previous twelve (12) month periods. 
  

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 (d) For the purposes of this Agreement, the term Change in Control shall mean any of the
following events: 
  
 (i) After the effective date of
this Agreement, any “person” (as such term is defined in Section 7(j)(8)(A) of the Change in Bank Control Act of 1978), directly or indirectly, acquires beneficial ownership of voting stock, or acquires irrevocable proxies or any
combination of voting stock and irrevocable proxies, representing twenty-five percent (25%) or more of any class of voting securities of the Bank, or acquires control of in any manner the election of a majority of the directors of the Bank;

  
 (ii) The Bank consolidates or merges with or into
another corporation, association, or entity, or is otherwise reorganized, where the Bank is not the surviving corporation in such transaction; or 
  
 (iii) All or substantially all of the assets of the Bank are sold or otherwise transferred to or are acquired by any other corporation,
association, or other person, entity, or group. 
  
 Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Paragraph 8, a transaction or event shall not be considered a Change in Control if, prior to the consummation or occurrence of such transaction or event, Employee and the Bank agree in writing
that the same shall not be treated as a Change in Control for purposes of this Agreement. Provided further, any transaction effecting a reorganization of the Bank into the bank holding company form of organization shall not be considered a Change in
Control for purposes of this Agreement. 
  
 (e) Amounts
payable pursuant to this Paragraph 8 shall be paid, at the option of Employee either in one lump sum or in equal monthly payments over the remaining term of this Agreement. 
  
 (f) Following a Termination Event which gives rise to Employee’s rights hereunder, Employee shall have
twenty-four (24) months from the date of occurrence of the Termination Event to terminate this Agreement pursuant to this Paragraph 8. Any such termination shall be deemed to have occurred only upon delivery to the Bank or any successor thereto, of
written notice of termination which describes the Change in Control and Termination Event. If Employee does not so terminate this Agreement within such twenty-four month period, Employee shall thereafter have no further rights hereunder with respect
to that Termination Event, but shall retain rights, if any, hereunder with respect to any other Termination Event as to which such period has not expired. 
  

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 (g) It is the intent of the parties hereto that all payments made pursuant to this Agreement be
deductible by the Bank for federal income tax purposes and not result in the imposition of an excise tax on Employee. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary, any payments to be made to or for the benefit of Employee
which are deemed to be “parachute payments” as that term is defined in Section 28OG(b)(2) of the Code, shall be modified or reduced to the extent deemed to be necessary by the Bank’s Board of Directors to avoid the imposition of an
excise tax on Employee under Section 4999 of the Code or the disallowance of a deduction to the Bank under Section 28OG(a) of the Code. 
  
 (h) In the event any dispute shall arise between Employee and the Bank as to the terms or interpretation of this Agreement, including this
Paragraph 8, whether instituted by formal legal proceedings or otherwise, including any action taken by Employee to enforce the terms of this Paragraph 8 or in defending against any action taken by the Bank, the Bank shall reimburse Employee for all
costs and expenses, proceedings or actions, in the event Employee prevails in any such action.  
  
 9. Successors and Assigns. 
  
 (a) This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon any corporate or other successor of the Bank which shall acquire, directly or
indirectly, by conversion, merger, consolidation, purchase or otherwise, all or substantially all of the assets of the Bank. 
  
 (b) The Bank is contracting for the unique and personal skills of Employee. Therefore, Employee shall be precluded from assigning or delegating
his rights or duties hereunder without first obtaining the written consent of the Bank. 
  
 10. Modification; Waiver; Amendments. No provision of this Agreement may be modified, waived or discharged unless such waiver, modification or discharge is agreed to in writing and signed by the parties
hereto. No waiver by either party hereto, at any time, of any breach by the other party hereto of, or compliance with, any condition or provision of this Agreement to be performed by such other party shall be deemed a waiver of similar or dissimilar
provisions or conditions at the same or at any prior or subsequent time. No amendments or additions to this Agreement shall be binding unless in writing and signed by both parties, except as herein otherwise provided. 
  

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 11. Applicable Law. This Agreement shall be governed in all respects whether as to
validity, construction, capacity, performance or otherwise, by the laws of North Carolina, except to the extent that federal law shall be deemed to apply. 
  
 12. Severability. The provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed severable and the invalidity or unenforceability of any provision shall
not affect the validity or enforceability of the other provisions hereof. 
  
 13. Entire Agreement. This Agreement contains the entire agreement of the parties with respect to the transactions described herein and supersedes any and all other oral or written agreements heretofore
made, and there are no representations or inducements by or to, or any agreements between, any of the parties hereto other than those contained herein in writing. 
  
 14. Arbitration. The Bank and Employee agree that any and all disputes, controversies or claims arising out of
or relating to this Agreement, including without limitation, claims based on contract, tort, or statute, shall be determined by arbitration. If the parties hereto cannot mutually agree on a single arbitrator, each party shall pick one and a third
will be selected by the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”). The arbitration will be conducted in accordance with the commercial arbitration rules, regulations and procedures of the AAA then in effect. The arbitration will be held and
the award be made in Graham, North Carolina, or at such other location within the State of North Carolina as the Bank and Employee may mutually agree. The parties hereto agree to be bound by the decision of the arbitrator or arbitrator panel and
judgment upon the award rendered may be entered in any court having jurisdiction. Any and all expenses of the Bank and the Employee, including expenses of their respective counsel, shall be borne by the Bank. 
  
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement under
seal and in such form as to be binding as of the day and year first hereinabove written. 
  

			
	ALAMANCE NATIONAL BANK
		
	 By:
	 	 /s/ Paul Edward Love

	 	 	 Paul Edward Love, Chairman

  

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	ATTEST:	 	 
		
	 /s/ Dawn Griswold

	 	 
	 Assistant Secretary
	 	 
		
	 	 	 /s/ William M. Griffith, Jr.

	 	 	 William M. Griffith, Jr.

  

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