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Exhibit 10.25

 

 

 

CREDIT AGREEMENT

dated as of

November 22, 2011,

among

SHUTTERFLY, INC.,

The LENDERS Party Hereto

and

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,

as Administrative Agent

___________________________

J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC and WELLS FARGO SECURITIES, LLC,

as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners

WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as Syndication Agent

and

FIFTH THIRD BANK,

as Documentation Agent

 

  

  

  

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

	  	  	
Page

	  	  	  
	
ARTICLE I

	  	  	  
	
Definitions

	  	  	  
	
SECTION 1.01.

	
Defined Terms

	
2

	
SECTION 1.02.

	
Classification of Loans and Borrowings

	
2

	
SECTION 1.03.

	
Terms Generally

	
2

	
SECTION 1.04.

	
Accounting Terms; GAAP; Pro Forma Calculations

	
2

	
SECTION 1.05.

	
Status of Obligations

	
2

	  	  	  
	
ARTICLE II

	  	  	  
	
The Credits

	  	  	  
	
SECTION 2.01.

	
Commitments

	
2

	
SECTION 2.02.

	
Loans and Borrowings

	
2

	
SECTION 2.03.

	
Requests for Borrowings

	
2

	
SECTION 2.04.

	
Swingline Loans

	
2

	
SECTION 2.05.

	
Letters of Credit

	
2

	
SECTION 2.06.

	
Funding of Borrowings

	
2

	
SECTION 2.07.

	
Interest Elections

	
2

	
SECTION 2.08.

	
Termination and Reduction of Commitments

	
2

	
SECTION 2.09.

	
Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt

	
2

	
SECTION 2.10.

	
Prepayment of Loans

	
2

	
SECTION 2.11.

	
Fees

	
2

	
SECTION 2.12.

	
Interest

	
2

	
SECTION 2.13.

	
Alternate Rate of Interest

	
2

	
SECTION 2.14.

	
Increased Costs

	
2

	
SECTION 2.15.

	
Break Funding Payments

	
2

	
SECTION 2.16.

	
Taxes

	
2

	
SECTION 2.17.

	
Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Payments

	
2

	
SECTION 2.18.

	
Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders

	
2

	
SECTION 2.19.

	
Defaulting Lenders

	
2

	
SECTION 2.20.

	
Incremental Commitments

	
2

	
SECTION 2.21.

	
Extension Offers

	
2

	  	  	  
	
ARTICLE III

	  	  	  
	
Representations and Warranties

	  	  	  
	
SECTION 3.01.

	
Organization; Powers

	
2

  

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SECTION 3.02.

	
Authorization; Enforceability

	
2

	
SECTION 3.03.

	
Governmental Approvals; Absence of Conflicts

	
2

	
SECTION 3.04.

	
Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change

	
2

	
SECTION 3.05.

	
Properties

	
2

	
SECTION 3.06.

	
Litigation and Environmental Matters

	
2

	
SECTION 3.07.

	
Compliance with Laws and Agreements

	
2

	
SECTION 3.08.

	
Investment Company Status

	
2

	
SECTION 3.09.

	
Taxes

	
2

	
SECTION 3.10.

	
ERISA

	
2

	
SECTION 3.11.

	
Subsidiaries and Joint Ventures

	
2

	
SECTION 3.12.

	
Insurance

	
2

	
SECTION 3.13.

	
Solvency

	
2

	
SECTION 3.14.

	
Disclosure

	
2

	
SECTION 3.15.

	
Collateral Matters

	
2

	
SECTION 3.16.

	
Federal Reserve Regulations

	
2

	  	  	  
	
ARTICLE IV

	  	  	  
	
Conditions

	  	  	  
	
SECTION 4.01.

	
Effective Date

	
2

	
SECTION 4.02.

	
Each Credit Event

	
2

	  	  	  
	
ARTICLE V

	  	  	  
	
Affirmative Covenants

	  	  	  
	
SECTION 5.01.

	
Financial Statements and Other Information

	
2

	
SECTION 5.02.

	
Notices of Material Events

	
2

	
SECTION 5.03.

	
Additional Subsidiaries

	
2

	
SECTION 5.04.

	
Information Regarding Collateral; Deposit and Securities Accounts

	
2

	
SECTION 5.05.

	
Existence; Conduct of Business

	
2

	
SECTION 5.06.

	
Payment of Obligations

	
2

	
SECTION 5.07.

	
Maintenance of Assets

	
2

	
SECTION 5.08.

	
Insurance

	
2

	
SECTION 5.09.

	
Books and Records; Inspection and Audit Rights

	
2

	
SECTION 5.10.

	
Compliance with Laws

	
2

	
SECTION 5.11.

	
Use of Proceeds and Letters of Credit

	
2

	
SECTION 5.12.

	
Further Assurances

	
2

	
SECTION 5.13.

	
Certain Post-Closing Collateral Obligations

	
2

  

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ARTICLE VI

	  	  	  
	
Negative Covenants

	  	  	  
	
SECTION 6.01.

	
Indebtedness; Certain Equity Securities

	
2

	
SECTION 6.02.

	
Liens

	
2

	
SECTION 6.03.

	
Fundamental Changes; Business Activities

	
2

	
SECTION 6.04.

	
Investments, Loans, Advances, Guarantees and Acquisitions

	
2

	
SECTION 6.05.

	
Asset Sales

	
2

	
SECTION 6.06.

	
Sale/Leaseback Transactions

	
2

	
SECTION 6.07.

	
Hedging Agreements

	
2

	
SECTION 6.08.

	
Restricted Payments; Payments of Certain Indebtedness

	
2

	
SECTION 6.09.

	
Transactions with Affiliates

	
2

	
SECTION 6.10.

	
Restrictive Agreements

	
2

	
SECTION 6.11.

	
Leverage Ratio

	
2

	
SECTION 6.12.

	
Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio

	
2

	
SECTION 6.13.

	
Fiscal Year

	
2

	  	  	  
	
ARTICLE VII

	  	  	  
	
Events of Default

	  	  	  
	
ARTICLE VIII

	  	  	  
	
The Administrative Agent

	  	  	  
	
ARTICLE IX

	  	  	  
	
Miscellaneous

	  	  	  
	
SECTION 9.01.

	
Notices

	
2

	
SECTION 9.02.

	
Waivers; Amendments

	
2

	
SECTION 9.03.

	
Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver

	
2

	
SECTION 9.04.

	
Successors and Assigns

	
2

	
SECTION 9.05.

	
Survival

	
2

	
SECTION 9.06.

	
Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness

	
2

	
SECTION 9.07.

	
Severability

	
2

	
SECTION 9.08.

	
Right of Setoff

	
2

	
SECTION 9.09.

	
Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process

	
2

	
SECTION 9.10.

	
WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL

	
2

	
SECTION 9.11.

	
Headings

	
2

	
SECTION 9.12.

	
Confidentiality

	
2

	
SECTION 9.13.

	
Interest Rate Limitation

	
2

	
SECTION 9.14.

	
Release of Liens and Guarantees

	
2

  

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SECTION 9.15.

	
USA PATRIOT Act Notice

	
2

	
SECTION 9.16.

	
No Fiduciary Relationship

	
2

	
SECTION 9.17.

	
Non-Public Information

	
2

  

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SCHEDULES:

	  	  
	  	  	  
	
Schedule 2.01

	
—

	
Commitments

	
Schedule 3.11

	
—

	
Subsidiaries and Joint Ventures

	
Schedule 3.12

	
—

	
Insurance

	
Schedule 6.01

	
—

	
Existing Indebtedness

	
Schedule 6.02

	
—

	
Existing Liens

	
Schedule 6.04

	
—

	
Existing Investments

	
Schedule 6.10

	
—

	
Existing Restrictions

	  	  	  
	
EXHIBITS:

	  	  
	  	  	  
	
Exhibit A

	
—

	
Form of Assignment and Assumption

	
Exhibit B

	
—

	
Form of Borrowing Request

	
Exhibit C

	
—

	
Form of Guarantee and Collateral Agreement

	
Exhibit D

	
—

	
Form of Compliance Certificate

	
Exhibit E

	
—

	
Form of Interest Election Request

	
Exhibit F

	
—

	
Form of Perfection Certificate

	
Exhibit G-1

	
—

	
Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate for Foreign Lenders that are not Partnerships for U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes

	
Exhibit G-2

	
—

	
Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate for Foreign Participants that are not Partnerships for U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes

	
Exhibit G-3

	
—

	
Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate for Foreign Participants that are Partnerships for U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes

	
Exhibit G-4

	
—

	
Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate for Foreign Lenders that are Partnerships for U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes

  

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CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of November 22, 2011, among SHUTTERFLY, INC., a Delaware corporation, the LENDERS party hereto and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent.

The parties hereto agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

Definitions

SECTION 1.01. Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings specified below:

“ABR”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, shall bear interest at a rate determined by reference to the Alternate Base Rate.

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Alternate Base Rate” means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the greatest of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day, (b) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day plus 1⁄2 of 1.00% per annum and (c) the Adjusted LIBO Rate on such day (or if such day is not a Business Day, the immediately preceding Business Day) for a deposit in dollars with a maturity of one month plus 1.00% per annum. For purposes of clause (c) above, the Adjusted LIBO Rate on any day shall be based on the rate per annum appearing on the Reuters “LIBOR01” screen displaying British Bankers’ Association Interest Settlement Rates (or on any successor or substitute screen provided by Reuters, or any successor to or substitute for such service, providing rate quotations comparable to those currently provided on such screen, as determined by the Administrative Agent from time to time for purposes of providing quotations of interest rates applicable to dollar deposits in the London interbank market) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, on such day for deposits in dollars with a maturity of one month. Any change in the Alternate Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or the Adjusted LIBO Rate shall be effective from and including the effective date of such change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or the Adjusted LIBO Rate.

  

 

  

“Applicable Percentage” means, at any time, with respect to any Lender, the percentage of the Aggregate Commitment represented by such Lender’s Commitment at such time. If all the Commitments have terminated or expired, the Applicable Percentages shall be determined based upon the Commitments most recently in effect, giving effect to any assignments.

“Applicable Rate” means, for any day, with respect to any ABR Loan or Eurocurrency Loan, or with respect to the commitment fees payable hereunder, the applicable rate per annum set forth below under the caption “ABR Spread”, “Eurocurrency Spread” or “Commitment Fee Rate”, as the case may be, based upon the Leverage Ratio as of the end of the fiscal quarter of the Borrower for which consolidated financial statements have theretofore been most recently delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or 5.01(b); provided that until the date of the delivery of the consolidated financial statements pursuant to Section 5.01(b) as of and for the fiscal quarter ending June 30, 2012, the Applicable Rate shall be no less than the rates per annum set forth in Category 3:

	
Category

	
Leverage Ratio

	
Commitment Fee Rate

	
Eurocurrency Spread

	
ABR Spread

	
1

	
>2.50

	
0.400%

	
2.250%

	
1.250%

	
2

	
> 1.50 and ≤ 2.50

	
0.350%

	
2.000%

	
1.000%

	
3

	
> 1.00 and ≤ 1.50

	
0.300%

	
1.750%

	
0.750%

	
4

	
≤ 1.00

	
0.250%

	
1.500%

	
0.500%

For purposes of the foregoing, each change in the Applicable Rate resulting from a change in the Leverage Ratio shall be effective during the period commencing on and including the Business Day following the date of delivery to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or 5.01(b) of the consolidated financial statements indicating such change and ending on the date immediately preceding the effective date of the next such change. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Borrower fails to deliver the consolidated financial statements required to be delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or 5.01(b) or any Compliance Certificate required to be delivered pursuant hereto, in each case within the time periods specified herein for such delivery, the Applicable Rate shall thereafter be based on the rates per annum set forth in Category 1 until the delivery of such financial statements.

  

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

“Arrangers” means each of J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, in its capacity as a joint lead arranger and joint bookrunner for the credit facilities provided for herein.

“Assignment and Assumption” means an assignment and assumption entered into by a Lender and an Eligible Assignee, with the consent of any Person whose consent is required by Section 9.04, and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in the form of Exhibit A or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent.

“Bankruptcy Event” means, with respect to any Person, that such Person has become the subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding, or has had a receiver, conservator, trustee, administrator, custodian, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with the reorganization or liquidation of its business appointed for it, or, in the good faith determination of the Administrative Agent, has taken any action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of or acquiescence in, any such proceeding or appointment; provided that a Bankruptcy Event shall not result solely by virtue of any ownership interest, or the acquisition of any ownership interest, in such Person by a Governmental Authority; provided, however, that such ownership interest does not result in or provide such Person with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States of America or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permit such Person (or such Governmental Authority) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any agreements made by such Person.

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

“Borrower” means Shutterfly, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

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

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

“Business Day” means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized or required by law to remain closed; provided that, when used in connection with a Eurocurrency Loan, the term “Business Day” shall also exclude any day on which banks are not open for dealings in dollar deposits in the London interbank market.

  

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“Capital Lease Obligations” of any Person means the obligations of such Person to pay rent or other amounts under any lease of (or other arrangement conveying the right to use) real or personal property, or a combination thereof, which obligations are required to be classified and accounted for as capital leases on a balance sheet of such Person under GAAP as in effect on the date hereof; the amount of such obligations shall be the capitalized amount thereof determined in accordance with GAAP as in effect on the date hereof, and the final maturity of such obligations shall be the date of the last payment of such amounts due under such lease (or other arrangement) prior to the first date on which such lease (or other arrangement) may be terminated by the lessee without payment of a premium or a penalty. For purposes of Section 6.02, a Capital Lease Obligation shall be deemed to be secured by a Lien on the property being leased and such property shall be deemed to be owned by the lessee.

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

“Change in Control” means (a) the acquisition of ownership, directly or indirectly, beneficially or of record, by any Person or group (within the meaning of the Exchange Act and the rules of the SEC thereunder) of Equity Interests in the Borrower representing more than 35% of either the aggregate ordinary voting power or the aggregate equity value represented by the issued and outstanding Equity Interests in the Borrower or (b) persons who were (i) directors of the Borrower on the date hereof, (ii) nominated by the board of directors of the Borrower or (iii) appointed by directors who were directors of the Borrower on the date hereof or were nominated as provided in clause (ii) above, in each case other than any person whose initial nomination or appointment occurred as a result of a solicitation (not made or approved prior to its commencement by such board of directors) of proxies or consents for the election or removal of one or more directors on such board of directors, ceasing to occupy a majority of the seats (excluding vacant seats) on such board of directors.

“Change in Law” means the occurrence, after the date of this Agreement, of any of the following: (a) the adoption of any rule, regulation, treaty or other law, (b) any change in any rule, regulation, treaty or other law or in the administration, interpretation, implementation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority or (c) the making or issuance of any request, rule, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) of any Governmental Authority; provided that, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (i) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith and (ii) all requests, rules, guidelines or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case shall be deemed to be a “Change in Law”, regardless of the date enacted, adopted, promulgated or issued.

  

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“Charges” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.13.

“Class”, when used in reference to (a) any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are Revolving Loans, Swingline Loans or Loans of any new Class established pursuant to Section 2.20 or 2.21 and (b) any Lender, refers to whether such Lender has a Loan or Commitment of a particular Class.

“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.

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

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

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

(a) the Administrative Agent shall have received from the Borrower and each Designated Subsidiary either (i) a counterpart of the Collateral Agreement duly executed and delivered on behalf of such Person or (ii) in the case of any Person that becomes a Designated Subsidiary after the Effective Date, a supplement to the Collateral Agreement, in the form specified therein, duly executed and delivered on behalf of such Person, together with documents and opinions of the type referred to in paragraphs (b) and (c) of Section 4.01 with respect to such Designated Subsidiary;

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

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

  

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

(e) the Administrative Agent shall have received (i) counterparts of a Mortgage with respect to each Mortgaged Property duly executed and delivered by the record owner of such Mortgaged Property, (ii) a policy or policies of title insurance issued by a nationally recognized title insurance company insuring the Lien of each such Mortgage as a valid and enforceable first Lien on the Mortgaged Property described therein, free of any other Liens except as permitted under Section 6.02, together with such endorsements, coinsurance and reinsurance as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request, (iii) if any Mortgaged Property is located in an area determined by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to have special flood hazards, evidence of such flood insurance as may be required under applicable law, including Regulation H of the Board of Governors, and (iv) such surveys, abstracts, appraisals, legal opinions and other documents as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request with respect to any such Mortgage or Mortgaged Property;

(f) the Administrative Agent shall have received a counterpart, duly executed and delivered by the applicable Loan Party and the applicable depositary bank or securities intermediary, as the case may be, of a Control Agreement with respect to (i) each deposit account maintained by any Loan Party with any depositary bank, other than any Excluded Deposit Account, and (ii) each securities account maintained by any Loan Party with any securities intermediary, other than any Excluded Securities Account; and

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

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

  

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“Commitment” means, with respect to each Lender, the commitment of such Lender to make Revolving Loans and to acquire participations in Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans hereunder, expressed as an amount representing the maximum aggregate permitted amount of such Lender’s Revolving Exposure hereunder, as such commitment may be (a) reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.08, (b) increased from time to time pursuant to Section 2.20 and (c) reduced or increased from time to time pursuant to assignments by or to such Lender pursuant to Section 9.04. The initial amount of each Lender’s Commitment is set forth on Schedule 2.01, or in the Assignment and Assumption or the Incremental Commitment Agreement pursuant to which such Lender shall have assumed its Commitment, as applicable. The initial aggregate amount of the Lenders’ Commitments is $125,000,000.

“Commitment Letter” means the Commitment Letter dated October 21, 2011, among JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and the Borrower.

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

“Confidential Information Memorandum” means the Confidential Information Memorandum dated November 2011, relating to the credit facilities provided for herein.

“Connection Income Taxes” means Other Connection Taxes that are imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated) or that are franchise Taxes or branch profits Taxes.

“Consolidated EBITDA” means, for any period, Consolidated Net Income for such period, plus

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

(i) Consolidated Interest Expense for such period;

(ii) consolidated income tax expense for such period;

  

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(iii) all amounts attributable to depreciation or to amortization of intangible assets or other capitalized assets for such period;

(iv) any non-cash charges for such period (including (A) any non-cash expenses for such period resulting from the grant or modification of stock options or other equity-based incentives to any director, officer or employee of the Borrower or any Subsidiary pursuant to a written plan or agreement approved by the board of directors of the Borrower, (B) any losses attributable to early extinguishment of Indebtedness or obligations under any Hedging Agreement and (C) any unrealized losses for such period attributable to the application of “mark to market” accounting in respect of Hedging Agreements, but excluding any such non-cash charges (1) consisting of additions to bad debt reserves or bad debt expense, (2) in respect of items paid in cash, but not reducing Consolidated Net Income, in any prior period and (3) resulting from the write-down or write-off of inventory);

(v) cash charges incurred in such period in connection with acquisitions permitted by Section 6.4 in an amount not to exceed $5,000,000 in any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters; and

(vi) the cumulative effect of any change in accounting principles;

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

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

(i) any non-cash items of income for such period (but excluding any such non-cash items (A) in respect of which cash was received in a prior period or will be received in a future period or (B) that represent the reversal of any accrual for, or cash reserves for, anticipated cash charges in any period), all determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP;

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

(iii) any unrealized gains for such period attributable to the application of “mark to market” accounting in respect of Hedging Agreements; and

(iv) the cumulative effect of any change in accounting principles;

provided further that Consolidated EBITDA shall be calculated so as to exclude the effect of any gain or loss that represents after-tax gains or losses attributable to any sale, transfer or other disposition, or any exclusive license, of assets by the Borrower or any of its consolidated Subsidiaries, other than dispositions of inventory and other dispositions and licenses in the ordinary course of business. All amounts added back in computing Consolidated EBITDA for any period pursuant to clause (a) above, and all amounts subtracted in computing Consolidated EBITDA pursuant to clause (b) above, to the extent such amounts are, in the reasonable judgment of a Financial Officer of the Borrower, attributable to any Subsidiary that is not wholly-owned by the Borrower, shall be reduced by the portion thereof that is attributable to the noncontrolling interest in such Subsidiary. For purposes of calculating Consolidated EBITDA for any period to determine the Leverage Ratio and the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio, if during such period the Borrower or any Subsidiary shall have consummated a Material Acquisition or a Material Disposition, Consolidated EBITDA for such period shall be calculated after giving pro forma effect thereto in accordance with Section 1.04(b).

  

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“Consolidated Fixed Charges” means, for any period, the sum, without duplication, of (a) Consolidated Interest Expense for such period, (b) the aggregate amount of scheduled principal payments made or required to be made during such period in respect of Long-Term Indebtedness of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries (other than payments made by the Borrower or any Subsidiary to the Borrower or a Subsidiary), (c) the aggregate amount of principal payments (other than scheduled principal payments) made during such period in respect of Long-Term Indebtedness of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries (other than payments made by the Borrower or any Subsidiary to the Borrower or a Subsidiary), to the extent that such payments reduced any scheduled principal payments that would have become due within one year after the date of the applicable payment, (d) the principal component of the aggregate amount of payments made or required to be made in respect of Capital Lease Obligations of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries during such period, determined in accordance with GAAP and (e) Consolidated Rental Expense for such period.

“Consolidated Interest Expense” means, for any period, the sum, without duplication, of (a) the interest expense (including imputed interest expense in respect of Capital Lease Obligations) of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries for such period, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, (b) the dividends paid on Disqualified Equity Interests for such period and (c) any interest or other financing costs becoming payable during such period in respect of Indebtedness of the Borrower or its consolidated Subsidiaries to the extent such interest or other financing costs shall have been capitalized rather than included in consolidated interest expense for such period in accordance with GAAP.

“Consolidated Net Income” means, for any period, the net income or loss of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries for such period, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP; provided that there shall be excluded from such net income (to the extent otherwise included therein), without duplication (a) the income of any Person (other than the Borrower) that is not a consolidated Subsidiary except to the extent of the amount of cash dividends or similar cash distributions actually paid by such Person to the Borrower or, subject to clauses (b) and (c) below, any other consolidated Subsidiary during such period, (b) the income of, and any amounts referred to in clause (a) above paid to, any consolidated Subsidiary (other than the Borrower or any Subsidiary Loan Party) to the extent that, on the date of determination, the declaration or payment of cash dividends or similar cash distributions by such Subsidiary is not permitted without any prior approval of any Governmental Authority that has not been obtained (it being agreed that any amounts excluded as a result of the absence of any such approval of a Governmental Authority, including amounts in respect of any prior period, shall increase Consolidated Net Income in any period during which such approval shall be obtained) or is not permitted by the operation of the terms of the organizational documents of such Subsidiary, any agreement or other instrument binding upon the Borrower or any Subsidiary or any law applicable to the Borrower or any Subsidiary, unless such restrictions with respect to the payment of cash dividends and other similar cash distributions has been legally and effectively waived, and (c) the income or loss of, and any amounts referred to in clause (a) above paid to, any consolidated Subsidiary that is not wholly-owned by the Borrower to the extent such income or loss or such amounts are attributable to the noncontrolling interest in such consolidated Subsidiary.

  

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“Consolidated Rental Expense” means, for any period, the aggregate payments made or required to be made by the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries in respect of rent or other amounts under any lease of (or other arrangement conveying the right to use) real or personal property, or a combination thereof, during such period, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP; provided that (i) Consolidated Rental Expense for any period of four fiscal quarters shall be reduced by up to $1,000,000 of rental income of the Borrower earned during such period and (ii) Consolidated Rental Expense shall not include obligations that constitute Capital Lease Obligations under GAAP as in effect on the date of this Agreement.

“Consolidated Total Assets” means, as of any date, the consolidated total assets of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of the end of the most recent quarter for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or (b) (or, prior to the first delivery of any such financial statements, as of June 30, 2011).

“Consolidated Total Indebtedness” means, as of any date, the sum of (a) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries outstanding as of such date, in the amount that would be reflected on a balance sheet prepared as of such date on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP (but without giving effect to any election to value any Indebtedness at “fair value”, as described in Section 1.04(a), or any other accounting principle that results in the amount of any such Indebtedness (other than zero coupon Indebtedness or Indebtedness initially issued at a deep discount) as reflected on such balance sheet to be above or below the stated principal amount of such Indebtedness), and (b) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries as of such date that is not required to be reflected on a balance sheet in accordance with GAAP, determined on a consolidated basis.

“Control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies, or the dismissal or appointment of the management, of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. “Controlling” and “Controlled” have meanings correlative thereto.

  

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“Control Agreement” means, with respect to any deposit account or securities account maintained by any Loan Party, a control agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, duly executed and delivered by such Loan Party and the depositary bank or the securities intermediary, as the case may be, with which such account is maintained.

“Credit Party” means the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank, the Swingline Lender and each other Lender.

“Declining Lenders” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.21.

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

“Defaulting Lender” means any Lender that (a) has failed, within two Business Days of the date required to be funded or paid, (i) to fund any portion of its Loans, (ii) to fund any portion of its participations in Letters of Credit or Swingline Loans or (iii) to pay to any Credit Party any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder, unless, in the case of clause (i) above, such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent in writing that such failure is the result of such Lender’s good faith determination that a condition precedent to funding (specifically identified in such writing, including, if applicable, by reference to a specific Default) has not been satisfied; (b) has notified the Borrower or any Credit Party in writing, or has made a public statement, to the effect that it does not intend or expect to comply with any of its funding obligations under this Agreement (unless such writing or public statement indicates that such position is based on such Lender’s good-faith determination that a condition precedent (specifically identified in such writing, including, if applicable, by reference to a specific Default) to funding a Loan cannot be satisfied) or generally under other agreements in which it commits to extend credit; (c) has failed, within three Business Days after request by a Credit Party made in good faith, to provide a certification in writing from an authorized officer of such Lender that it will comply with its obligations to fund prospective Loans and participations in then outstanding Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans; provided that such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender pursuant to this clause (c) upon such Credit Party’s receipt of such certification in form and substance satisfactory to it and the Administrative Agent; or (d) has become the subject of a Bankruptcy Event.

“Designated Subsidiary” means each Subsidiary other than (i) any Subsidiary that is a CFC and (ii) any Subsidiary that is not a Material Subsidiary. The term “Designated Subsidiary” shall include any Subsidiary designated as such pursuant to Section 5.03(b).

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

  

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

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

(c) is redeemable (other than solely for Equity Interests in such Person that do not constitute Disqualified Equity Interests and cash in lieu of fractional shares of such Equity Interests) or is required to be repurchased by the Borrower or any Subsidiary, in whole or in part, at the option of the holder thereof;

in each case, on or prior to the date 180 days after the Maturity Date (determined as of the date of issuance thereof or, in the case of any such Equity Interests outstanding on the date hereof, the date hereof); provided, however, that (i) an Equity Interest in any Person that would not constitute a Disqualified Equity Interest but for terms thereof giving holders thereof the right to require such Person to redeem or purchase such Equity Interest upon the occurrence of an “asset sale” or a “change of control” (or similar event, however denominated) shall not constitute a Disqualified Equity Interest if any such requirement becomes operative only after repayment in full of all the Loans and all other Loan Document Obligations that are accrued and payable, the cancellation or expiration of all Letters of Credit and the termination or expiration of the Commitments and (ii) an Equity Interest in any Person that is issued to any employee or to any plan for the benefit of employees or by any such plan to such employees shall not constitute a Disqualified Equity Interest solely because it may be required to be repurchased by such Person or any of its subsidiaries in order to satisfy applicable statutory or regulatory obligations or as a result of such employee’s termination, death or disability.

“Documentation Agent” means Fifth Third Bank, in its capacity as documentation agent for the credit facilities provided for herein.

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

“Domestic Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary incorporated or organized under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia.

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

  

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“Eligible Assignee” means (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender, (c) an Approved Fund and (d) any other Person, other than, in each case, a natural person or the Borrower, any Subsidiary or any other Affiliate of the Borrower.

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

“Environmental Liability” means any liability, obligation, loss, claim, action, order, fine, penalty or cost, contingent or otherwise (including any liability for damages, costs of environmental remediation, fines, penalties and indemnities), directly or indirectly resulting from or based upon (a) compliance or non-compliance with of any Environmental Law, (b) the generation, use, handling, transportation, storage, treatment or disposal of any Hazardous Materials, (c) exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the Release or threatened Release of any Hazardous Materials or (e) any contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement pursuant to which liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the foregoing.

“Equity Interests” means shares of capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests, beneficial interests or other ownership interests, whether voting or nonvoting, in, or interests in the income or profits of, a Person, and any warrants, options or other rights entitling the holder thereof to purchase or acquire any of the foregoing.

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

“ERISA Affiliate” means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that, together with the Borrower or any Subsidiary, is treated as a single employer under Section 414(b) or 414(c) of the Code or, solely for purposes of Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code, is treated as a single employer under Section 414(m) or 414(o) of the Code.

“ERISA Event” means (a) any “reportable event”, as defined in Section 4043 of ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder with respect to a Plan (other than an event for which the 30-day notice period is waived), (b) any failure by any Plan to satisfy the minimum funding standard (within the meaning of Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA) applicable to such Plan, in each case whether or not waived, (c) the filing pursuant to Section 412(c) of the Code or Section 302(c) of ERISA, of an application for a waiver of the minimum funding standard with respect to any Plan, (d) a determination that any Plan is, or is expected to be, in “at-risk” status (as defined in Section 303(i)(4) of ERISA or Section 430(i)(4) of the Code), (e) the incurrence by the Borrower, any Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate of any liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to the termination of any Plan, (f) the receipt by the Borrower, any Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate from the PBGC or a plan administrator of any notice relating to an intention to terminate any Plan or Plans or to appoint a trustee to administer any Plan, (g) the incurrence by the Borrower, any Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate of any liability with respect to the withdrawal or partial withdrawal from any Plan or Multiemployer Plan, or (h) the receipt by the Borrower, any Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate of any notice, or the receipt by any Multiemployer Plan from the Borrower, any Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate of any notice, concerning the imposition of Withdrawal Liability or a determination that a Multiemployer Plan is, or is expected to be, insolvent or in reorganization, within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA or in endangered or critical status, within the meaning of Section 305 of ERISA.

  

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“Eurocurrency”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, shall bear interest at a rate determined by reference to the Adjusted LIBO Rate.

“Event of Default” has the meaning set forth in Article VII.

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

“Existing Revolving Maturity Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.21.

“Excluded Deposit Accounts” means (a) any deposit account the funds in which are used solely for the payment of salaries and wages, workers’ compensation and similar expenses (including payroll taxes) in the ordinary course of business, (b) any deposit account that is a zero-balance disbursement account, (c) any deposit account the funds in which consist solely of (i) funds held by the Borrower or any Subsidiary in trust for any director, officer or employee of the Borrower or any Subsidiary or any employee benefit plan maintained by the Borrower or any Subsidiary or (ii) funds representing deferred compensation for the directors and employees of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries, (d) any deposit account the funds in which consist solely of cash earnest money deposits or funds deposited under escrow or similar arrangements in connection with any letter of intent or purchase agreement for a Permitted Acquisition or any other transaction permitted hereunder and (e) deposit accounts the aggregate daily balance in which does not at any time exceed $1,000,000 for all such accounts.

“Excluded Securities Accounts” means any securities account the securities entitlements in which consist solely of (a) securities entitlements held by the Borrower or any Subsidiary in trust for any director, officer or employee of the Borrower or any Subsidiary or any employee benefit plan maintained by the Borrower or any Subsidiary or (b) securities entitlements representing deferred compensation for the directors and employees of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries.

“Excluded Taxes” means any of the following Taxes imposed on or with respect to a Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to a Recipient: (a) Taxes imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated), franchise Taxes, and branch profits Taxes, in each case, (i) imposed as a result of such Recipient being organized under the laws of, or having its principal office or, in the case of any Lender, its applicable lending office located in, the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (or any political subdivision thereof) or (ii) that are Other Connection Taxes, (b) in the case of a Lender, U.S. Federal withholding Taxes imposed on amounts payable to or for the account of such Lender with respect to an applicable interest in a Loan or Commitment pursuant to a law in effect on the date on which (i) such Lender acquires such interest in the Loan or Commitment (other than pursuant to an assignment request by the Borrower under Section 2.18(b)) or (ii) such Lender changes its lending office, except in each case to the extent that, pursuant to Section 2.16, amounts with respect to such Taxes were payable either to such Lender’s assignor immediately before such Lender acquired the applicable interest in a Loan or Commitment or to such Lender immediately before it changed its lending office, (c) Taxes attributable to such Recipient’s failure to comply with Section 2.16(f) and (d) any U.S. Federal withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA.

  

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“Extending Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.21.

“Extension Agreement” means an Extension Agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, among the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and one or more Extending Lenders, effecting an Extension Permitted Amendment and such other amendments hereto and to the other Loan Documents as are contemplated by Section 2.21.

“Extension Offer” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.21.

“Extension Permitted Amendment” means an amendment to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, approved by the Required Lenders and effected in connection with an Extension Offer pursuant to Section 2.21, providing for a one year extension of the Maturity Date applicable to the Loans and/or Commitments of the applicable Extension Request Class (such Loans or Commitments being referred to as the “Extended Loans” or “Extended Commitments”, as applicable) and, in connection therewith, (a) a change in the rate of interest accruing on such Extended Loans, (b) a change in the fees payable to, or the inclusion of new fees to be payable to, the Extending Lenders in respect of such Extension Offer or their Extended Loans or Extended Commitments and/or (c) an addition of any affirmative or negative covenants applicable to the Borrower and the Subsidiaries; provided that any such additional covenant with which the Borrower and the Subsidiaries shall be required to comply for the benefit of the Extending Lenders shall also be for the benefit of all other Lenders.

“Extension Request Class” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.21.

“FATCA” means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the date of this Agreement (or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with) and any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof.

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

  

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“Fee Letter” means the fee letter dated October 21, 2011, among JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and the Borrower.

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

“Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio” means the ratio of (a) Consolidated EBITDA to (b) Consolidated Fixed Charges, in each case for any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters.

“Foreign Lender” means (a) if the Borrower is a U.S. Person, a Lender, with respect to such Borrower, that is not a U.S. Person, and (b) if the Borrower is not a U.S. Person, a Lender, with respect to such Borrower, that is resident or organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than that in which the Borrower is resident for tax purposes.

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

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

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

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

“Governmental Authority” means the government of the United States of America, any other nation or any political subdivision thereof, whether state or local, and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government (including any supra-national body exercising such powers or functions, such as the European Union or the European Central Bank).

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

  

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“Hazardous Materials” means all explosive, radioactive, hazardous or toxic substances, wastes or other pollutants, including petroleum or petroleum distillates, asbestos or asbestos containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas, infectious or medical wastes and all other substances or wastes of any nature regulated pursuant to any Environmental Law.

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

“Incremental Commitment” means an Incremental Revolving Commitment or an Incremental Term Commitment.

“Incremental Commitment Agreement” means an Incremental Commitment Agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, among the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and one or more Incremental Lenders, establishing Incremental Term Commitments or Incremental Revolving Commitments and effecting such other amendments hereto and to the other Loan Documents as are contemplated by Section 2.20.

  

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“Incremental Lender” means an Incremental Revolving Lender or an Incremental Term Lender.

Incremental Revolving Commitment” means, with respect to any Lender, the commitment, if any, of such Lender, established pursuant to an Incremental Commitment Agreement and Section 2.20, to make Revolving Loans and to acquire participations in Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans hereunder, expressed as an amount representing the maximum aggregate permitted amount of such Lender’s Revolving Exposure under such Incremental Commitment Agreement.

“Incremental Revolving Commitment Effective Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.20.

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

“Incremental Term Commitment” means, with respect to any Lender, the commitment, if any, of such Lender, established pursuant an Incremental Commitment Agreement and Section 2.20, to make Incremental Term Loans hereunder, expressed as an amount representing the maximum principal amount of the Incremental Term Loans to be made by such Lender.

“Incremental Term Lender” means a Lender with an Incremental Term Commitment or an outstanding Incremental Term Loan.

“Incremental Term Loan” means a Loan made by an Incremental Term Lender to the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.20.

“Indebtedness” of any Person means, without duplication, (a) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money or with respect to deposits or advances of any kind, (b) all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments, (c) all obligations of such Person under conditional sale or other title retention agreements relating to property acquired by such Person (excluding trade accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of business), (d) all obligations of such Person in respect of the deferred purchase price of property or services (including payments in respect of non-competition agreements or other arrangements accounted for as acquisition consideration under GAAP, in each case entered into in connection with an acquisition, but excluding (i) current accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of business, (ii) deferred compensation payable to directors, officers or employees of the Borrower or any Subsidiary and (iii) any purchase price adjustment or earn-out incurred in connection with an acquisition, except to the extent that the amount payable pursuant to such purchase price adjustment or earn-out becomes fixed and determined), (e) all Capital Lease Obligations of such Person, (f) the maximum aggregate amount of all letters of credit and letters of guaranty in respect of which such Person is an account party, (g) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such Person in respect of bankers’ acceptances, (h) all Disqualified Equity Interests in such Person, valued, as of the date of determination, at the greater of (i) the maximum aggregate amount that would be payable upon maturity, redemption, repayment or repurchase thereof (or of Disqualified Equity Interests or Indebtedness into which such Disqualified Equity Interests are convertible or exchangeable) and (ii) the maximum liquidation preference of such Disqualified Equity Interests, (i) all Indebtedness of others secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on property owned or acquired by such Person, whether or not the Indebtedness secured thereby has been assumed by such Person and (j) all Guarantees by such Person of Indebtedness of others. The Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any other Person (including any partnership in which such Person is a general partner) to the extent such Person is liable therefor as a result of such Person’s ownership interest in or other relationship with such other Person, except to the extent the terms of such Indebtedness provide that such Person is not liable therefor.

  

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

“Indemnitee” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.03(b).

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

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

“Interest Period” means, with respect to any Eurocurrency Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Borrowing and ending on the numerically corresponding day in the calendar month that is one, two, three or six months thereafter (or, if agreed to by each Lender, any other number of months not more than twelve months thereafter), as the Borrower may elect; provided that (a) if any Interest Period would end on a day other than a Business Day, such Interest Period shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless such next succeeding Business Day would fall in the next calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day, and (b) any Interest Period that commences on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the last calendar month of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the last calendar month of such Interest Period. For purposes hereof, the date of a Borrowing initially shall be the date on which such Borrowing is made and thereafter shall be the effective date of the most recent conversion or continuation of such Borrowing.

  

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“Investment” means, with respect to a specified Person, any Equity Interests, evidences of Indebtedness or other securities (including any option, warrant or other right to acquire any of the foregoing) of, or any capital contribution or loans or advances (other than advances made in the ordinary course of business that would be recorded as accounts receivable on the balance sheet of the specified Person prepared in accordance with GAAP) to, Guarantees of any Indebtedness or other obligations of, or any other investment (including any investment in the form of transfer of property for consideration that is less than the fair value thereof (as determined in good faith by the chief financial officer of the Borrower)) in, any other Person that are held or made by the specified Person. The amount, as of any date of determination, of (a) any Investment in the form of a loan or an advance shall be the principal amount thereof outstanding on such date, without any adjustment for write-downs or write-offs (including as a result of forgiveness of any portion thereof) with respect to such loan or advance after the date thereof, (b) any Investment in the form of a Guarantee shall be determined in accordance with the definition of the term “Guarantee”, (c) any Investment in the form of a purchase or other acquisition for value of any Equity Interests, evidences of Indebtedness or other securities of any Person shall be the fair value (as determined in good faith by the chief financial officer of the Borrower) of the consideration therefor (including any Indebtedness assumed in connection therewith), plus the fair value (as so determined) of all additions, as of such date of determination, thereto, and minus the amount, as of such date of determination, of any portion of such Investment repaid to the investor in cash as a repayment of principal or a return of capital, as the case may be, but without any other adjustment for increases or decreases in value of, or write-ups, write-downs or write-offs with respect to, such Investment after the time of such Investment, (d) any Investment (other than any Investment referred to in clause (a), (b) or (c) above) in the form of a transfer of Equity Interests or other property by the investor to the investee, including any such transfer in the form of a capital contribution, shall be the fair value (as determined in good faith by the chief financial officer of the Borrower) of such Equity Interests or other property as of the time of such transfer (less, in the case of any investment in the form of transfer of property for consideration that is less than the fair value thereof, the fair value (as so determined) of such consideration as of the time of the transfer), minus the amount, as of such date of determination, of any portion of such Investment repaid to the investor in cash as a return of capital, but without any other adjustment for increases or decreases in value of, or write-ups, write-downs or write-offs with respect to, such Investment after the time of such transfer, and (e) any Investment (other than any Investment referred to in clause (a), (b), (c) or (d) above) in any other Person resulting from the issuance by such other Person of its Equity Interests to the specified Person shall be the fair value (as determined in good faith by the chief financial officer of the Borrower) of such Equity Interests at the time of the issuance thereof.

“IP Security Agreements” has the meaning set forth in the Collateral Agreement.

“IRS” means the United States Internal Revenue Service.

  

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“Issuing Bank” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. in its capacity as an issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder. The Issuing Bank may, in its discretion, arrange for one or more Letters of Credit to be issued by Affiliates of the Issuing Bank, in which case the term “Issuing Bank” shall include any such Affiliate with respect to Letters of Credit issued by such Affiliate (it being agreed that the Issuing Bank shall, or shall cause such Affiliate to, comply with the requirements of Section 2.05 with respect to such Letters of Credit).

“Joint Venture” means a corporation, partnership or other Person (other than a Subsidiary) jointly owned by the Borrower or a Subsidiary and one or more Persons that are not Affiliates of the Borrower for the purpose of engaging in any business in which the Borrower would be permitted to engage under Section 6.03(b).

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

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

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

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

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

“Leverage Ratio” means, on any date, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Total Indebtedness as of such date to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower most recently ended on or prior to such date.

“LIBO Rate” means, with respect to any Eurocurrency Borrowing for any Interest Period, the rate appearing on the Reuters “LIBOR01” screen displaying British Bankers’ Association Interest Settlement Rates (or on any successor or substitute screen provided by Reuters, or any successor to or substitute for such service, providing rate quotations comparable to those currently provided on such screen, as determined by the Administrative Agent from time to time for purposes of providing quotations of interest rates applicable to dollar deposits in the London interbank market) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period, as the rate for dollar deposits with a maturity comparable to such Interest Period. In the event that such rate is not available at such time for any reason, then the “LIBO Rate” with respect to such Eurocurrency Borrowing for such Interest Period shall be the rate at which dollar deposits of $5,000,000 and for a maturity comparable to such Interest Period are offered by the principal London office of the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds in the London interbank market at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period.

  

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“Lien” means, with respect to any asset, (a) any mortgage, deed of trust, lien, pledge, hypothecation, charge, security interest or similar encumbrance on, in or of such asset, including any agreement to provide any of the foregoing, and any restricted deposit arrangement entered into for the purpose of making deposited cash or Permitted Investments available to satisfy any Indebtedness or other obligation ahead of the claims of other creditors, (b) the interest of a vendor or a lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or title retention agreement (or any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing) relating to such asset and (c) in the case of securities, any purchase option, call or similar right of a third party with respect to such securities.

“Liquidity” means, at any time, the sum of (a)(i) the total aggregate amount of the Commitments then in effect minus (ii) the total aggregate amount of the Revolving Exposures, and (b) Unrestricted Cash.

“Loan Documents” means this Agreement, the Incremental Commitment Agreements, the Extension Agreements, the Collateral Agreement, the other Security Documents and, except for purposes of Section 9.02, any promissory notes delivered pursuant to Section 2.09(c).

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

“Loan Parties” means the Borrower and each Subsidiary Loan Party.

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

“Long-Term Indebtedness” means any Indebtedness that, in accordance with GAAP, constitutes (or, when incurred, constituted) a long-term liability.

“Material Acquisition” means any acquisition, or a series of related acquisitions, of (a) Equity Interests in any Person if, after giving effect thereto, such Person will become a Subsidiary or (b) assets comprising all or substantially all the assets (or all or substantially all the assets constituting a business unit, division, product line or line of business) of any Person; provided that the aggregate consideration therefor (including Indebtedness assumed in connection therewith, all obligations in respect of deferred purchase price (including obligations under any purchase price adjustment but excluding earn-out or similar payments) and all other consideration payable in connection therewith (including payment obligations in respect of noncompetition agreements or other arrangements representing acquisition consideration)) exceeds $50,000,000.

  

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“Material Adverse Effect” means a material adverse effect on (a) the business, assets, liabilities, operations or financial condition of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (b) the ability of any Loan Party to perform its obligations under any Loan Document or (c) the rights of or remedies available to the Lenders under any Loan Document.

“Material Disposition” means any sale, transfer or other disposition, or a series of related sales, transfers or other dispositions, of (a) all or substantially all the issued and outstanding Equity Interests in any Person that are owned by the Borrower or any Subsidiary or (b) assets comprising all or substantially all the assets (or all or substantially all the assets constituting a business unit, division, product line or line of business) of any Person; provided that the aggregate consideration therefor (including Indebtedness assumed by the transferee in connection therewith, all obligations in respect of deferred purchase price (including obligations under any purchase price adjustment but excluding earn-out or similar payments) and all other consideration payable in connection therewith (including payment obligations in respect of noncompetition agreements or other arrangements representing acquisition consideration)) exceeds $50,000,000.

“Material Indebtedness” means Indebtedness (other than under the Loan Documents), or obligations in respect of one or more Hedging Agreements, of any one or more of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount of $25,000,000 or more. For purposes of determining Material Indebtedness, the “principal amount” of the obligations of the Borrower or any Subsidiary in respect of any Hedging Agreement at any time shall be the maximum aggregate amount (giving effect to any netting agreements) that the Borrower or such Subsidiary would be required to pay if such Hedging Agreement were terminated at such time.

“Material Subsidiary” means each Subsidiary (a) the consolidated total assets of which equal 5% or more of the consolidated total assets of the Borrower or (b) the consolidated revenues of which equal 5% or more of the consolidated revenues of the Borrower, in each case as of the end of or for the most recent period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or 5.01(b) (or, prior to the first delivery of any such financial statements, as of the end of or for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower most recently ended prior to the date of this Agreement); provided that if at the end of or for any such most recent period of four consecutive fiscal quarters the combined consolidated total assets or combined consolidated revenues of all Subsidiaries (other than CFCs) that under clauses (a) and (b) above would not constitute Material Subsidiaries shall have exceeded 10% of the consolidated total assets of the Borrower or 10% of the consolidated revenues of the Borrower, then one or more of such excluded non-CFC Subsidiaries shall for all purposes of this Agreement be deemed to be Material Subsidiaries in descending order based on the amounts of their consolidated total assets or consolidated revenues, as the case may be, until such excess shall have been eliminated.

“Maturity Date” means November 22, 2016, as such date may be extended in accordance with Section 2.21.

  

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“Maximum Rate” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.13.

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

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

“Mortgage” means a mortgage, deed of trust, assignment of leases and rents or other security document granting a Lien on any Mortgaged Property to secure the Secured Obligations. Each Mortgage shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

“Mortgaged Property” means each parcel of real property owned in fee by a Loan Party, and the improvements thereto, that (together with such improvements) has a book or fair value of $5,000,000 or more.

“Multiemployer Plan” means a multiemployer plan as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA that has been maintained, sponsored or contributed to the Borrower, any Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate.

“Net Cash Proceeds” means, with respect to any event, (a) the cash (which term, for purposes of this definition, shall include cash equivalents) proceeds received in respect of such event, including any cash received in respect of any non-cash proceeds, but only as and when received, net of (b) the sum, without duplication, of (i) all fees and out-of-pocket expenses paid in connection with such event by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries to Persons that are not Affiliates of the Borrower, (ii) in the case of a sale, transfer, lease or other disposition (including pursuant to a Sale/Leaseback Transaction), or an exclusive license, of an asset, the amount of all payments required to be made by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries as a result of such event to repay Indebtedness (other than Loans) secured by such asset and (iii) the amount of all taxes paid (or estimated in good faith to be payable) by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries, and the amount of any reserves established by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP to fund purchase price adjustment, indemnification and similar contingent liabilities (other than any earnout obligations) estimated in good faith to be payable, in each case during the year that such event occurred or the next succeeding year and that are directly attributable to the occurrence of such event (as determined in good faith by the chief financial officer of the Borrower). For purposes of this definition, in the event any contingent liability reserve established with respect to any event as described in clause (b)(iii) above shall be reduced, the amount of such reduction shall, except to the extent such reduction is made as a result of a payment having been made in respect of the contingent liabilities with respect to which such reserve has been established, be deemed to be receipt, on the date of such reduction, of cash proceeds in respect of such event.

  

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

“Other Connection Taxes” means, with respect to any Recipient, Taxes imposed as a result of a present or former connection between such Recipient and the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (other than connections arising from such Recipient having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to or enforced, any Loan Document, or sold or assigned an interest in any Loan Document).

“Other Taxes” means all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing or similar Taxes that arise from any payment made under, from the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or registration of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to, any Loan Document, except any such Taxes that are Other Connection Taxes imposed with respect to an assignment (other than an assignment made pursuant to Section 2.18).

“Outstanding Borrowings” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.20.

“Participant Register” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.04(c)(i).

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

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

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

“Permitted Acquisition” means the purchase or other acquisition, in one transaction or a series of related transactions, by the Borrower or any wholly-owned Subsidiary Loan Party of all the outstanding Equity Interests in, or all or substantially all the assets of (or all or substantially all the assets of a business unit, division, product line or line of business of) any Person if (a) in the case of any purchase or other acquisition of Equity Interests in a Person, (i) such Person (and each subsidiary of such Person other than subsidiaries accounting for not more than 25% of the consolidated assets or revenues of such Person at the end of and for the most recently completed four fiscal quarters of such Person) is organized under the laws of, and substantially all its assets (or the assets of such division or line of business, as the case may be) are located in, the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia and (ii) upon the consummation of such acquisition, such Person will be a wholly-owned Subsidiary that is a Domestic Subsidiary (including as a result of a merger or consolidation between any Subsidiary and such Person); provided, that if subsidiaries of such Person account for more than 25% of the consolidated assets or revenues of such Person at the end of and for the most recently completed four fiscal quarters of such Person, such acquisition may nevertheless constitute a Permitted Acquisition if a Specified Foreign Acquisition for consideration equal to the Excess Foreign Amount (as defined below) could at the time be made under Section 6.04(m) (and the basket for Specified Foreign Acquisitions in such Section 6.04(m) will be deemed for all purposes of this Agreement to be utilized in an amount equal to such Excess Foreign Amount) or (b) in the case of any purchase or other acquisition of other assets, such assets will be owned by the Borrower or a wholly-owned Subsidiary Loan Party; provided that (i) such purchase or acquisition was not preceded by, or consummated pursuant to, an unsolicited tender offer or proxy contest initiated by or on behalf of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, (ii) all transactions related thereto are consummated in accordance with applicable law, (iii) the business of such Person, or such assets, as the case may be, constitute a business permitted under Section 6.03(b), (iv) with respect to each such purchase or other acquisition (other than an acquisition, through merger or share purchase, of all of the outstanding Equity Interests in a Person that is not, following such acquisition, a Material Subsidiary), all actions required to be taken with respect to each newly created or acquired Subsidiary or assets in order to satisfy the requirements set forth in the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement” shall have been taken (or arrangements for the taking of such actions satisfactory to the Administrative Agent shall have been made) and (v) at the time of and immediately after giving effect to any such purchase or other acquisition and any related incurrence of Indebtedness, (A) no Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (B) after giving effect to such purchase or acquisition, and any related incurrence or repayment of Indebtedness, on a pro forma basis in accordance with Section 1.04(b), the Borrower shall be in compliance with the covenants set forth in Sections 6.11 and 6.12 (assuming, for purposes of Section 6.11, that the maximum Leverage Ratio then permitted under such Section is 2.50 to 1.00), (C) at the time of and immediately after giving effect to any such purchase or acquisition, and any related incurrence of Indebtedness, on a pro forma basis in accordance with Section 1.04(b), the Borrower and the Domestic Subsidiaries shall have Liquidity of not less than $50,000,000 and (D) the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent a certificate of a Financial Officer of the Borrower, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, certifying that all the requirements set forth in this definition have been satisfied with respect to such purchase or other acquisition, together with reasonably detailed calculations demonstrating satisfaction of the requirement set forth in clauses (v)(B) and (v)(C) above. For purposes of this definition, “Excess Foreign Amount” means, with respect to any acquisition, a percentage of the total consideration paid in such acquisition equal to the greater of (1) the difference (if positive) between (A) the percentage of the book value of the consolidated assets of the acquired Person represented by the combined assets of the foreign subsidiaries of such Person at the end of the most recently completed fiscal quarter of such Person for which financial statements are available minus (B) 25%, and (2) the difference (if positive) between (A) the percentage of the consolidated revenues of the acquired Person represented by the combined revenues of the foreign subsidiaries of such Person for the most recently completed four fiscal quarters of such Person for which financial statements are available minus (B) 25%.

  

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“Permitted Encumbrances” means:

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

  

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(b) carriers’, warehousemen’s, landlords’, mechanics’, materialmen’s, repairmen’s and other like Liens imposed by law (other than any Lien imposed pursuant to Section 430(k) of the Code or Section 303(k) of ERISA or a violation of Section 436 of the Code), arising in the ordinary course of business and securing obligations that are not overdue by more than 30 days or are being contested in compliance with Section 5.06;

(c) pledges and deposits made (i) in the ordinary course of business in compliance with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security laws and (ii) in respect of letters of credit, bank guarantees or similar instruments issued for the account of the Borrower or any Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business supporting obligations of the type set forth in clause (i) above;

(d) pledges and deposits made (i) to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts, leases, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature, in each case in the ordinary course of business and (ii) in respect of letters of credit, bank guarantees or similar instruments issued for the account of the Borrower or any Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business supporting obligations of the type set forth in clause (i) above;

(e) judgment liens in respect of judgments that do not constitute an Event of Default under clause (k) of Article VII and deposits securing appeal and other surety bonds related to any such judgments;

(f) easements, zoning restrictions, rights-of-way and similar encumbrances on real property imposed by law or arising in the ordinary course of business that do not secure any monetary obligations and do not materially detract from the value of the affected property or interfere with the ordinary conduct of business of the Borrower or any Subsidiary;

(g) banker’s liens, rights of setoff or similar rights and remedies as to deposit accounts or other funds maintained with depository institutions and securities accounts and other financial assets maintained with a securities intermediary; provided that such deposit accounts or funds and securities accounts and financial assets are not established or deposited for the purpose of providing collateral for any Indebtedness and are not subject to restrictions on access by the Borrower or any Subsidiary in excess of those required by applicable banking regulations;

(h) Liens arising by virtue of Uniform Commercial Code financing statement filings (or similar filings under applicable law) regarding operating leases or consignments or similar arrangements;

(i) Liens representing any interest or title of a licensor, lessor or sublicensor or sublessor, or a licensee, lessee or sublicensee or sublessee, in the property subject to any lease, license or sublicense or concession agreement not prohibited by this Agreement; and

  

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(j) Liens that are contractual rights of set-off;

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

“Permitted Investments” means:

(a) direct obligations of, or obligations the principal of and interest on which are unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States of America (or any agency thereof to the extent such obligations are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States of America), in each case maturing within two years from the date of acquisition thereof;

(b) investments in commercial paper maturing within 270 days from the date of acquisition thereof and having, at such date of acquisition, a rating of at least A1 by S&P or P1 by Moody’s;

(c) investments in certificates of deposit, banker’s acceptances and demand or time deposits, in each case maturing within one year from the date of acquisition thereof, issued or guaranteed by or placed with, and money market deposit accounts issued or offered by, any domestic office of any commercial bank organized under the laws of the United States of America or any State thereof that has a combined capital and surplus and undivided profits of not less than $500,000,000;

(d) fully collateralized repurchase agreements with a term of not more than 30 days for securities described in clause (a) above and entered into with a financial institution satisfying the criteria described in clause (c) above;

(e) money market funds that (i) comply with the criteria set forth in Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, (ii) are rated AAA by S&P and Aaa by Moody’s and (iii) have portfolio assets of at least $1,000,000,000;

(f) investments in debt securities of issuers organized in the United States of America or any political subdivision thereof and maturing within two years from the date of acquisition thereof that are rated at least A2 by S&P or A by Moody’s; provided that the aggregate amount of investments permitted under this clause (f) at any time shall not exceed 5% of the aggregate Permitted Investments of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries; and

(g) in the case of any Foreign Subsidiary, other short-term investments that are analogous to the foregoing, are of comparable credit quality and are customarily used by companies in the jurisdiction of such Foreign Subsidiary for cash management purposes.

  

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“Permitted Unsecured Indebtedness” means unsecured Indebtedness of the Borrower and Guarantees thereof by any Loan Party; provided that (a) the stated final maturity of such Indebtedness shall not be earlier than 91 days after the Maturity Date, and such stated final maturity shall not be subject to any conditions that could result in such stated final maturity occurring on a date that precedes the date that is 91 days after the Maturity Date, (b) such Indebtedness shall not be required to be repaid, prepaid, redeemed, repurchased or defeased, whether on one or more fixed dates, upon the occurrence of one or more events or at the option of any holder thereof (except, in each case, upon the occurrence of an event of default, a change in control, an asset disposition or an event of loss) prior to the date 91 days after the Maturity Date, (c) such Indebtedness contains terms and conditions (excluding interest rate, fees and other pricing terms, premiums and optional prepayment or optional redemption provisions) that are market terms on the date such Indebtedness is incurred or are not materially more restrictive, taken as a whole, than the covenants and events of default contained in this Agreement (in each case as determined in good faith by the chief financial officer of the Borrower), (d) such Indebtedness shall not constitute an obligation (including pursuant to a Guarantee) of any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party, (e) such Indebtedness shall not be secured by any Lien on any asset of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, (f) at the time of and immediately after giving effect to the incurrence of such Indebtedness and the application of the proceeds thereof, no Default shall have occurred and be continuing and (g) after giving effect to the incurrence of such Indebtedness and the application of the proceeds thereof on a pro forma basis in accordance with Section 1.04(b), the Borrower shall be in compliance with the covenants set forth in Sections 6.11 and 6.12 (assuming for purposes of Section 6.11, that the maximum Leverage Ratio then permitted under such Section is 2.50 to 1.00).

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

“Plan” means any “employee pension benefit plan”, as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA (other than a Multiemployer Plan), that is subject to the provisions of Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA, and in respect of which the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates is (or, if such plan were terminated, would under Section 4069 of ERISA be deemed to be) an “employer” as defined in Section 3(5) of ERISA.

“Platform” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.17(b).

“Prime Rate” means the rate of interest per annum publicly announced from time to time by JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. as its prime rate in effect at its principal office in New York City. Each change in the Prime Rate shall be effective from and including the date such change is publicly announced as being effective.

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

  

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

“Recipient” means the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the Issuing Bank, as applicable.

“Refinancing Indebtedness” means, in respect of any Indebtedness (the “Original Indebtedness”), any Indebtedness that extends, renews or refinances such Original Indebtedness (or any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof); provided that (a) the principal amount of such Refinancing Indebtedness shall not exceed the principal amount of such Original Indebtedness except by an amount no greater than accrued and unpaid interest with respect to such Original Indebtedness and fees, premium and expenses relating to such extension, renewal or refinancing; (b) the stated final maturity of such Refinancing Indebtedness shall not be earlier than that of such Original Indebtedness, and such stated final maturity shall not be subject to any conditions that could result in such stated final maturity occurring on a date that precedes the stated final maturity of such Original Indebtedness; (c) such Refinancing Indebtedness shall not be required to be repaid, prepaid, redeemed, repurchased or defeased, whether on one or more fixed dates, upon the occurrence of one or more events or at the option of any holder thereof (except, in each case, upon the occurrence of an event of default or a change in control or as and to the extent such repayment, prepayment, redemption, repurchase or defeasance would have been required pursuant to the terms of such Original Indebtedness) prior to the earlier of (i) the maturity of such Original Indebtedness and (ii) the date 91 days after the Maturity Date in effect on the date of such extension, renewal or refinancing; (d) such Refinancing Indebtedness shall not constitute an obligation (including pursuant to a Guarantee) of any Subsidiary that shall not have been (or, in the case of after-acquired Subsidiaries, shall not have been required to become) an obligor in respect of such Original Indebtedness, and shall not constitute an obligation of the Borrower if the Borrower shall not have been an obligor in respect of such Original Indebtedness, and, in each case, shall constitute an obligation of such Subsidiary or of the Borrower only to the extent of their obligations in respect of such Original Indebtedness; (e) if such Original Indebtedness shall have been subordinated to the Loan Document Obligations, such Refinancing Indebtedness shall also be subordinated to the Loan Document Obligations on terms not less favorable in any material respect to the Lenders; and (f) such Refinancing Indebtedness shall not be secured by any Lien on any asset other than the assets that secured such Original Indebtedness (or would have been required to secure such Original Indebtedness pursuant to the terms thereof) or, in the event Liens securing such Original Indebtedness shall have been contractually subordinated to any Lien securing the Loan Document Obligations, by any Lien that shall not have been contractually subordinated to at least the same extent.

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

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

  

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

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

“Responsible Officer” of any Person means any executive officer or Financial Officer of such Person and any other officer or similar official thereof responsible for the administration of the obligations of such Person in respect of this Agreement.

“Restricted Payment” means any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) with respect to any Equity Interests in the Borrower or any Subsidiary, or any payment or distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, acquisition, exchange, conversion, cancelation or termination of, or any other return of capital with respect to, any Equity Interests in the Borrower or any Subsidiary.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  

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

“Specified Foreign Acquisition” means any purchase or other acquisition that would constitute a Permitted Acquisition but for the fact that (a) such purchase or acquisition is made by a Foreign Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party and/or (b)(i) the requirements of clause (a) of the definition of “Permitted Acquisition” (other than the requirement that the Person whose Equity Interests are acquired become a wholly-owned Subsidiary) are not satisfied or (ii) in the case of any purchase or other acquisition of other assets, such assets will be owned by a Foreign Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party.

“Statutory Reserve Rate” means a fraction (expressed as a decimal), the numerator of which is the number one and the denominator of which is the number one minus the aggregate of the maximum reserve percentages (including any marginal, special, emergency or supplemental reserves), expressed as a decimal, established by the Board of Governors to which the Administrative Agent is subject for eurocurrency funding (currently referred to as “Eurocurrency Liabilities” in Regulation D of the Board of Governors). Such reserve percentages shall include those imposed pursuant to such Regulation D. Eurocurrency Loans shall be deemed to constitute eurocurrency funding and to be subject to such reserve requirements without benefit of or credit for proration, exemptions or offsets that may be available from time to time to any Lender under such Regulation D or any comparable regulation. The Statutory Reserve Rate shall be adjusted automatically on and as of the effective date of any change in any reserve percentage.

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

“Subsequent Borrowings” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.20.

“subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person (the “parent”) at any date, (a) any Person the accounts of which would be consolidated with those of the parent in the parent’s consolidated financial statements if such financial statements were prepared in accordance with GAAP as of such date and (b) any other Person (i) of which Equity Interests representing more than 50% of the equity value or more than 50% of the ordinary voting power or, in the case of a partnership, more than 50% of the general partnership interests are, as of such date, owned, controlled or held, or (ii) that is, as of such date, otherwise Controlled, by the parent or one or more subsidiaries of the parent or by the parent and one or more subsidiaries of the parent.

“Subsidiary” means any subsidiary of the Borrower.

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

  

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

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

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

“Syndication Agent” means Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, in its capacity as syndication agent for the credit facilities provided for herein.

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

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

“Type”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether the rate of interest on such Loan, or on the Loans comprising such Borrowing, is determined by reference to the Adjusted LIBO Rate or the Alternate Base Rate.

“Unrestricted Cash” means cash and Permitted Investments owned by the Borrower or any Domestic Subsidiary and not subject to any Lien in favor of any creditor (other than Liens created under the Loan Documents and Permitted Encumbrances described in clauses (a), (g) or (j) of the definition of such term).

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

“U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.16(f)(ii)(B)(3).

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

“Weighted Average Yield” means, with respect to any Loan, the weighted average yield to stated maturity of such Loan based on the interest rate or rates applicable thereto and giving effect to all upfront or similar fees or original issue discount payable to the Lenders advancing such Loan with respect thereto and to any interest rate “floor”. Determinations of the Weighted Average Yield of any Loans for purposes of Section 2.20 shall be made by the Administrative Agent in a manner determined by it to be consistent with accepted financial practice, and any such determination shall be conclusive, absent manifest error.

  

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“wholly-owned”, when used in reference to a subsidiary of any Person, means that all the Equity Interests in such subsidiary (other than directors’ qualifying shares and other nominal amounts of Equity Interests that are required to be held by other Persons under applicable law) are owned, beneficially and of record, by such Person, another wholly-owned subsidiary of such Person or any combination thereof.

“Withdrawal Liability” means liability to a Multiemployer Plan as a result of a complete or partial withdrawal from such Multiemployer Plan, as such terms are defined in Part I of Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA.

SECTION 1.02. Classification of Loans and Borrowings. For purposes of this Agreement, Loans and Borrowings may be classified and referred to by Class (e.g., a “Revolving Loan” or “Revolving Borrowing”) or by Type (e.g., a “Eurocurrency Loan” or “Eurocurrency Borrowing”) or by Class and Type (e.g., a “Eurocurrency Revolving Loan” or “Eurocurrency Revolving Borrowing”).

SECTION 1.03. Terms Generally. The definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the singular and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words “include”, “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation”. The word “will” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall”. The words “asset” and “property” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all real and personal, tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights. The word “law” shall be construed as referring to all statutes, rules, regulations, codes and other laws (including official rulings and interpretations thereunder having the force of law or with which affected Persons customarily comply), and all judgments, orders, writs and decrees, of all Governmental Authorities. Unless the context requires otherwise, (a) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document (including this Agreement and the other Loan Documents) shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, supplements or modifications set forth herein), (b) any definition of or reference to any statute, rule or regulation shall be construed as referring thereto as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified (including by succession of comparable successor laws), (c) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns (subject to any restrictions on assignment set forth herein) and, in the case of any Governmental Authority, any other Governmental Authority that shall have succeeded to any or all functions thereof, (d) the words “herein”, “hereof” and “hereunder”, and words of similar import, shall be construed to refer to this Agreement in its entirety and not to any particular provision hereof and (e) all references herein to Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and Exhibits and Schedules to, this Agreement.

  

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SECTION 1.04. Accounting Terms; GAAP; Pro Forma Calculations. (a) Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all terms of an accounting or financial nature used herein shall be construed in accordance with GAAP as in effect from time to time; provided that (i) if the Borrower, by notice to the Administrative Agent, shall request an amendment to any provision hereof to eliminate the effect of any change occurring after the date hereof in GAAP or in the application thereof on the operation of such provision (or if the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders, by notice to the Borrower, shall request an amendment to any provision hereof for such purpose), regardless of whether any such notice is given before or after such change in GAAP or in the application thereof, then such provision shall be interpreted on the basis of GAAP as in effect and applied immediately before such change shall have become effective until such notice shall have been withdrawn or such provision amended in accordance herewith and (ii) notwithstanding any other provision contained herein, all terms of an accounting or financial nature used herein shall be construed, and all computations of amounts and ratios referred to herein shall be made, without giving effect to any election or obligation under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 159, The Fair Value Option for Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities, or any successor thereto (including pursuant to the Accounting Standards Codification), to value any Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Subsidiary at “fair value”, as defined therein.

(b) All pro forma computations required to be made hereunder giving effect to any Material Acquisition, Material Disposition, Permitted Acquisition or other transaction (i) shall be calculated after giving pro forma effect thereto (and, in the case of any pro forma computations made hereunder to determine whether such Material Acquisition, Material Disposition, Permitted Acquisition or other transaction is permitted to be consummated hereunder, to any other such transaction consummated since the first day of the period covered by any component of such pro forma computation and on or prior to the date of such computation) as if such transaction had occurred on the first day of the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters ending with the most recent fiscal quarter for which financial statements shall have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or 5.01(b) (or, prior to the delivery of any such financial statements, ending with the last fiscal quarter included in the financial statements referred to in Section 3.04) and, to the extent applicable, to the historical earnings and cash flows associated with the assets acquired or disposed of and any related incurrence or reduction of Indebtedness, all in accordance with Article 11 of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act. If any Indebtedness bears a floating rate of interest and is being given pro forma effect, the interest on such Indebtedness shall be calculated as if the rate in effect on the date of determination had been the applicable rate for the entire period (taking into account any Hedging Agreement applicable to such Indebtedness if such Hedging Agreement has a remaining term in excess of 12 months).

SECTION 1.05. Status of Obligations. In the event that the Borrower or any other Loan Party shall at any time issue or have outstanding any Subordinated Indebtedness, the Borrower shall take or cause such other Loan Party to take all such actions as shall be necessary to cause the Loan Document Obligations to constitute senior indebtedness (however denominated) in respect of such Subordinated Indebtedness and to enable the Lenders to have and exercise any payment blockage or other remedies available or potentially available to holders of senior indebtedness under the terms of such Subordinated Indebtedness. Without limiting the foregoing, the Loan Document Obligations are hereby designated as “senior indebtedness” and as “designated senior indebtedness” under and in respect of any indenture or other agreement or instrument under which such Subordinated Indebtedness is outstanding and are further given all such other designations as shall be required under the terms of any such Subordinated Indebtedness in order that the Lenders may have and exercise any payment blockage or other remedies available or potentially available to holders of senior indebtedness under the terms of such Subordinated Indebtedness.

  

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ARTICLE II

The Credits

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

SECTION 2.02. Loans and Borrowings. (a) Each Loan (other than a Swingline Loan) shall be made as part of a Borrowing consisting of Loans of the same Class and Type made by the Lenders ratably in accordance with their respective Commitments. The failure of any Lender to make any Loan required to be made by it shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligations hereunder; provided that the Commitments of the Lenders are several and no Lender shall be responsible for any other Lender’s failure to make Loans as required.

(b) Subject to Section 2.13, each Revolving Borrowing shall be comprised entirely of ABR Loans or Eurocurrency Loans as the Borrower may request in accordance herewith; provided that all Borrowings made on the Effective Date must be made as ABR Borrowings unless the Borrower shall have given the notice required for a Eurocurrency Borrowing under Section 2.03 and provided an indemnity letter, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, extending the benefits of Section 2.15 to Lenders in respect of such Borrowings. Each Swingline Loan shall be an ABR Loan. Each Lender at its option may make any Loan by causing any domestic or foreign branch or Affiliate of such Lender to make such Loan; provided that any exercise of such option shall not affect the obligation of the Borrower to repay such Loan in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

(c) At the commencement of each Interest Period for any Eurocurrency Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of $1,000,000 and not less than $5,000,000; provided that a Eurocurrency Borrowing that results from a continuation of an outstanding Eurocurrency Borrowing may be in an aggregate amount that is equal to such outstanding Borrowing. At the time that each ABR Borrowing is made, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of $1,000,000 and not less than $5,000,000; provided that an ABR Revolving Borrowing may be in an aggregate amount that is equal to the entire unused balance of the Aggregate Commitment or that is required to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as contemplated by Section 2.05(f). Each Swingline Loan shall be in an amount that is an integral multiple of $100,000 and not less than $1,000,000; provided that a Swingline Loan may be in an aggregate amount that is required to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as contemplated by Section 2.05(f). Borrowings of more than one Type may be outstanding at the same time; provided that there shall not at any time be more than a total of five (or such greater number as may be agreed to by the Administrative Agent) Eurocurrency Borrowings outstanding.

  

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(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Borrower shall not be entitled to request, or to elect to convert to or continue, any Eurocurrency Borrowing if the Interest Period requested with respect thereto would end after the Maturity Date.

SECTION 2.03. Requests for Borrowings. To request a Revolving Borrowing, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such request by telephone (a) in the case of a Eurocurrency Borrowing, not later than 10:00 a.m., New York City time, three Business Days before the date of the proposed Borrowing (or, in the case of any Eurocurrency Borrowing to be made on the Effective Date, such shorter period of time as may be agreed to by the Administrative Agent) or (b) in the case of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the day of the proposed Borrowing. Each such telephonic Borrowing Request shall be irrevocable and shall be confirmed promptly by hand delivery or facsimile to the Administrative Agent of an executed written Borrowing Request. Each such telephonic and written Borrowing Request shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 2.02:

(i) the aggregate amount of such Borrowing;

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

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

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

(v) the location and number of the account of the Borrower to which funds are to be disbursed or, in the case of any ABR Revolving Borrowing requested to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as provided in Section 2.05(f), the identity of the Issuing Bank that made such LC Disbursement.

If no election as to the Type of Borrowing is specified, then the requested Borrowing shall be an ABR Borrowing. If no Interest Period is specified with respect to any requested Eurocurrency Borrowing, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration. Promptly following receipt of a Borrowing Request in accordance with this Section, the Administrative Agent shall advise each Lender of the applicable Class of the details thereof and of the amount of such Lender’s Loan to be made as part of the requested Borrowing.

  

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SECTION 2.04. Swingline Loans. (a) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Swingline Lender agrees to make Swingline Loans to the Borrower from time to time during the Revolving Availability Period in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding that will not result in (i) the aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Swingline Loans exceeding $10,000,000 or (ii) the Aggregate Revolving Exposure exceeding the Aggregate Commitment; provided that the Swingline Lender shall not be required to make any Swingline Loan to refinance an outstanding Swingline Loan. Within the foregoing limits and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may borrow, prepay and reborrow Swingline Loans.

(b) To request a Swingline Loan, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such request by telephone not later than 1:00 p.m., New York City time, on the day of the proposed Swingline Loan. Each such telephonic Borrowing Request shall be irrevocable and shall be confirmed promptly by hand delivery or facsimile to the Administrative Agent of an executed written Borrowing Request. Each such telephonic and written Borrowing Request shall specify the requested date (which shall be a Business Day) and the amount of the requested Swingline Loan and shall set forth the location and number of the account of the Borrower to which funds are to be disbursed (or shall indicate that the Swingline Loan is being requested to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as provided in Section 2.05(f)). Promptly following the receipt of a Borrowing Request in accordance with this Section, the Administrative Agent shall advise the Swingline Lender of the details thereof. The Swingline Lender shall make each Swingline Loan available to the Borrower by means of a wire transfer to the account specified in such Borrowing Request or to the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the requested date of such Swingline Loan.

(c) The Swingline Lender may by written notice given to the Administrative Agent not later than 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on any Business Day require the Lenders to acquire participations on such Business Day in all or a portion of the Swingline Loans outstanding. Such notice shall specify the aggregate amount of the Swingline Loans in which the Lenders will be required to participate. Promptly upon receipt of such notice, the Administrative Agent will give notice thereof to each Lender, specifying in such notice such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of such Swingline Loan or Loans. Each Lender hereby absolutely and unconditionally agrees to pay, upon receipt of notice as provided above, to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Swingline Lender, such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of such Swingline Loan or Loans. Each Lender acknowledges and agrees that, in making any Swingline Loan, the Swingline Lender shall be entitled to rely, and shall not incur any liability for relying, upon the representation and warranty of the Borrower deemed made pursuant to Section 4.02, unless, at least one Business Day prior to the time such Swingline Loan was made, the Required Lenders shall have notified the Swingline Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) in writing that, as a result of one or more events or circumstances described in such notice, one or more of the conditions precedent set forth in Section 4.02(a) or 4.02(b) would not be satisfied if such Swingline Loan were then made (it being understood and agreed that, in the event the Swingline Lender shall have received any such notice, it shall have no obligation to make (and shall not make) any Swingline Loan until and unless it shall be satisfied that the events and circumstances described in such notice shall have been cured or otherwise shall have ceased to exist). Each Lender further acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to acquire participations in Swingline Loans pursuant to this paragraph is absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance whatsoever, including the occurrence and continuance of a Default or any reduction or termination of the Commitments, and that each such payment shall be made without any offset, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever. Each Lender shall comply with its obligation under this paragraph by wire transfer of immediately available funds, in the same manner as provided in Section 2.06 with respect to Loans made by such Lender (and Section 2.06 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the payment obligations of the Lenders pursuant to this paragraph), and the Administrative Agent shall promptly remit to the Swingline Lender the amounts so received by it from the Lenders. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower of any participations in any Swingline Loan acquired pursuant to this paragraph, and thereafter payments in respect of such Swingline Loan shall be made to the Administrative Agent and not to the Swingline Lender. Any amounts received by the Swingline Lender from the Borrower (or other Person on behalf of the Borrower) in respect of a Swingline Loan after receipt by the Swingline Lender of the proceeds of a sale of participations therein shall be promptly remitted to the Administrative Agent; any such amounts received by the Administrative Agent shall be promptly remitted by the Administrative Agent to the Lenders that shall have made their payments pursuant to this paragraph and to the Swingline Lender, as their interests may appear; provided that any such payment so remitted shall be repaid to the Swingline Lender or to the Administrative Agent, as applicable, if and to the extent such payment is required to be refunded to the Borrower for any reason. The purchase of participations in a Swingline Loan pursuant to this paragraph shall not constitute a Loan and shall not relieve the Borrower of its obligation to repay such Swingline Loan.

  

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SECTION 2.05. Letters of Credit. (a) General. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may request the issuance of Letters of Credit for its own account, denominated in dollars and in a form reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the applicable Issuing Bank, at any time and from time to time during the Revolving Availability Period. Notwithstanding anything contained in any letter of credit application furnished to the Issuing Bank in connection with the issuance of any Letter of Credit, (i) all provisions of such letter of credit application purporting to grant liens in favor of the Issuing Bank to secure obligations in respect of such Letter of Credit shall be disregarded, it being agreed that such obligations shall be secured to the extent provided in this Agreement and in the Security Documents, and (ii) in the event of any inconsistency between the terms and conditions of such letter of credit application and the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the terms and conditions of this Agreement shall control.

  

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(b) Notice of Issuance, Amendment, Renewal, Extension; Certain Conditions. To request the issuance of a Letter of Credit or the amendment, renewal or extension of an outstanding Letter of Credit (other than an automatic renewal permitted pursuant to paragraph (c) of this Section), the Borrower shall hand deliver or fax (or transmit by electronic communication, if arrangements for doing so have been approved by the recipient) to the Issuing Bank and the Administrative Agent, reasonably in advance of the requested date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension, a notice requesting the issuance of a Letter of Credit, or identifying the Letter of Credit to be amended, renewed or extended, and specifying the requested date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension (which shall be a Business Day), the date on which such Letter of Credit is to expire (which shall comply with paragraph (c) of this Section), the amount of such Letter of Credit, the name and address of the beneficiary thereof and such other information as shall be necessary to enable the Issuing Bank to prepare, amend, renew or extend such Letter of Credit. If requested by the Issuing Bank, the Borrower also shall submit a letter of credit application on the Issuing Bank’s standard form in connection with any such request. A Letter of Credit shall be issued, amended, renewed or extended only if (and upon each issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit the Borrower shall be deemed to represent and warrant that), after giving effect to such issuance, amendment, renewal or extension, (i) the LC Exposure will not exceed $15,000,000 and (ii) the Aggregate Revolving Exposure will not exceed the Aggregate Commitment.

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

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

  

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

(f) Reimbursements. If the Issuing Bank shall make an LC Disbursement in respect of a Letter of Credit, the Borrower shall reimburse such LC Disbursement by paying to the Administrative Agent an amount equal to such LC Disbursement not later than (i) if the Borrower shall have received notice of such LC Disbursement prior to 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on any Business Day, then 2:30 p.m., New York City time, on such Business Day or (ii) otherwise, 1:30 p.m., New York City time, on the Business Day immediately following the day that the Borrower receives such notice; provided that, if the amount of such LC Disbursement is $1,000,000 or more, the Borrower may, subject to the conditions to borrowing set forth herein, request in accordance with Section 2.03 or 2.04 that such payment be financed with an ABR Revolving Borrowing or a Swingline Loan and, to the extent so financed, the Borrower’s obligation to make such payment shall be discharged and replaced by the resulting ABR Revolving Borrowing or Swingline Loan. If the Borrower fails to reimburse any LC Disbursement by the time specified above, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Lender of such failure, the payment then due from the Borrower in respect of the applicable LC Disbursement and such Lender’s Applicable Percentage thereof. Promptly following receipt of such notice, each Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent its Applicable Percentage of the amount then due from the Borrower, in the same manner as provided in Section 2.06 with respect to Loans made by such Lender (and Section 2.06 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the payment obligations of the Lenders pursuant to this paragraph), and the Administrative Agent shall promptly remit to the Issuing Bank the amounts so received by it from the Lenders. Promptly following receipt by the Administrative Agent of any payment from the Borrower pursuant to this paragraph, the Administrative Agent shall distribute such payment to the Issuing Bank or, to the extent that Lenders have made payments pursuant to this paragraph to reimburse the Issuing Bank, then to such Lenders and the Issuing Bank as their interests may appear. Any payment made by a Lender pursuant to this paragraph to reimburse the Issuing Bank for an LC Disbursement (other than the funding of an ABR Revolving Borrowing or a Swingline Loan as contemplated above) shall not constitute a Loan and shall not relieve the Borrower of its obligation to reimburse such LC Disbursement.

  

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(g) Obligations Absolute. The Borrower’s obligation to reimburse LC Disbursements as provided in paragraph (f) of this Section is absolute, unconditional and irrevocable and shall be performed strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement under any and all circumstances whatsoever and irrespective of (i) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Letter of Credit or this Agreement, or any term or provision thereof or hereof, (ii) any draft or other document presented under a Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent or invalid in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect, (iii) payment by the Issuing Bank under a Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft or other document that does not comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit or (iv) any other event or circumstance whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing, that might, but for the provisions of this paragraph, constitute a legal or equitable discharge of, or provide a right of setoff against, the Borrower’s obligations hereunder. None of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the Issuing Bank or any of their Related Parties shall have any liability or responsibility by reason of or in connection with the issuance or transfer of any Letter of Credit, any payment or failure to make any payment thereunder (irrespective of any of the circumstances referred to in the preceding sentence), any error, omission, interruption, loss or delay in transmission or delivery of any draft, notice or other communication under or relating to any Letter of Credit (including any document required to make a drawing thereunder), any error in interpretation of technical terms or any other act, failure to act or other event or circumstance; provided that the foregoing shall not be construed to excuse the Issuing Bank from liability to the Borrower to the extent of any direct damages (as opposed to special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages, claims in respect of which are hereby waived by the Borrower to the extent permitted by applicable law) suffered by the Borrower that are caused by the Issuing Bank’s failure to exercise care when determining whether drafts and other documents presented under a Letter of Credit comply with the terms thereof. The parties hereto expressly agree that, in the absence of gross negligence or wilful misconduct on the part of the Issuing Bank (with such absence to be presumed unless otherwise determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and nonappealable judgment), the Issuing Bank shall be deemed to have exercised care in each such determination. In furtherance of the foregoing and without limiting the generality thereof, the parties agree that, with respect to documents presented that appear on their face to be in substantial compliance with the terms of a Letter of Credit, the Issuing Bank may, in its sole discretion, either accept and make payment upon such documents without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any notice or information to the contrary, or refuse to accept and make payment upon such documents if such documents are not in strict compliance with the terms of such Letter of Credit.

  

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

(i) Cash Collateralization. If any Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, on the Business Day that the Borrower receives notice from the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders demanding the deposit of cash collateral pursuant to this paragraph, the Borrower shall deposit in an account with the Administrative Agent, in the name of the Administrative Agent and for the benefit of the Lenders, an amount in cash equal to the LC Exposure as of such date plus any accrued and unpaid interest thereon; provided that the obligation to deposit such cash collateral shall become effective immediately, and such deposit shall become immediately due and payable, without demand or other notice of any kind, upon the occurrence of any Event of Default with respect to the Borrower described in clause (h) or (i) of Article VII. The Borrower also shall deposit cash collateral in accordance with this paragraph as and to the extent required by Section 2.10(b) or 2.19. Each such deposit shall be held by the Administrative Agent as collateral for the payment and performance of the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement. The Administrative Agent shall have exclusive dominion and control, including the exclusive right of withdrawal, over such account. Other than any interest earned on the investment of such deposits, which investments shall be made at the option and sole discretion of the Administrative Agent and at the Borrower’s risk and expense, such deposits shall not bear interest. Interest or profits, if any, on such investments shall accumulate in such account. Moneys in such account shall be applied by the Administrative Agent to reimburse the Issuing Bank for LC Disbursements for which it has not been reimbursed and, to the extent not so applied, shall be held for the satisfaction of the reimbursement obligations of the Borrower for the LC Exposure at such time or, if the maturity of the Loans has been accelerated (but subject to (i) the consent of the Required Lenders and (ii) in the case of any such application at a time when any Lender is a Defaulting Lender (but only if, after giving effect thereto, the remaining cash collateral shall be less than the aggregate LC Exposure of all the Defaulting Lenders), the consent of the Issuing Bank), be applied to satisfy other obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement. If the Borrower is required to provide an amount of cash collateral hereunder as a result of the occurrence of an Event of Default, such amount (to the extent not applied as aforesaid) shall be returned to the Borrower within three Business Days after all Events of Default have been cured or waived. If the Borrower is required to provide an amount of cash collateral hereunder pursuant to Section 2.10(b), such amount (to the extent not applied as aforesaid) shall be returned to the Borrower to the extent that, after giving effect to such return, the Aggregate Revolving Exposure would not exceed the Aggregate Commitment and no Default shall have occurred and be continuing. If the Borrower is required to provide an amount of cash collateral hereunder pursuant to Section 2.19, such amount (to the extent not applied as aforesaid) shall be returned to the Borrower as promptly as practicable to the extent that, after giving effect to such return, the Issuing Bank shall have no exposure in respect of any outstanding Letter of Credit that is not fully covered by the Commitments of the Non-Defaulting Lenders and/or the remaining cash collateral and no Default shall have occurred and be continuing.

  

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

SECTION 2.06. Funding of Borrowings. (a) Each Lender shall make each Loan to be made by it hereunder on the proposed date thereof by wire transfer of immediately available funds by 1:00 p.m., New York City time, to the account of the Administrative Agent most recently designated by it for such purpose by notice to the Lenders; provided that Swingline Loans shall be made as provided in Section 2.04. The Administrative Agent will make such Loans available to the Borrower by promptly remitting the amounts so received, in like funds, to an account of the Borrower specified in the applicable Borrowing Request or, in the case of ABR Revolving Loans made to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as provided in Section 2.05(f), to the Issuing Bank.

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

  

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

(b) To make an election pursuant to this Section, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such election by telephone by the time that a Borrowing Request would be required under Section 2.03 if the Borrower were requesting a Revolving Borrowing of the Type resulting from such election to be made on the effective date of such election. Each such telephonic Interest Election Request shall be irrevocable and shall be confirmed promptly by hand delivery or facsimile to the Administrative Agent of an executed written Interest Election Request. Each telephonic and written Interest Election Request shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 2.02:

(i) the Borrowing to which such Interest Election Request applies and, if different options are being elected with respect to different portions thereof, the portions thereof to be allocated to each resulting Borrowing (in which case the information to be specified pursuant to clauses (iii) and (iv) below shall be specified for each resulting Borrowing);

(ii) the effective date of the election made pursuant to such Interest Election Request, which shall be a Business Day;

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

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

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

  

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

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

SECTION 2.08. Termination and Reduction of Commitments.

vii)Unless previously terminated, the Commitments shall automatically terminate on the Maturity Date.

(b) The Borrower may at any time terminate, or from time to time permanently reduce, the Commitments; provided that (i) each reduction of the Commitments shall be in an amount that is an integral multiple of $1,000,000 and not less than $5,000,000 and (ii) the Borrower shall not terminate or reduce the Commitments if, after giving effect to any concurrent prepayment of the Revolving Loans or Swingline Loans in accordance with Section 2.10, the Aggregate Revolving Exposure would exceed the Aggregate Commitment.

(c) The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of any election to terminate or reduce the Commitments under paragraph (b) of this Section at least three Business Days prior to the effective date of such termination or reduction, specifying the effective date thereof. Promptly following receipt of any such notice, the Administrative Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents thereof. Each notice delivered by the Borrower pursuant to this Section shall be irrevocable; provided that a notice of termination or reduction of the Commitments under paragraph (b) of this Section may state that such notice is conditioned upon the occurrence of one or more events specified therein, in which case such notice may be revoked by the Borrower (by notice to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the specified effective date) if such condition is not satisfied. Any termination or reduction of the Commitments shall be permanent. Each reduction of the Commitments shall be made ratably among the Lenders in accordance with their respective Commitments.

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

  

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

(c) Any Lender may request that Loans made by it be evidenced by a promissory note. In such event, the Borrower shall prepare, execute and deliver to such Lender a promissory note payable to such Lender (or, if requested by such Lender, to such Lender and its registered assigns) and in a form approved by the Administrative Agent. Thereafter, the Loans evidenced by such promissory note and interest thereon shall at all times (including after assignment pursuant to Section 9.04) be represented by one or more promissory notes in such form payable to the payee named therein (or, if such promissory note is a registered note, to such payee and its registered assigns).

SECTION 2.10. Prepayment of Loans. (a) The Borrower shall have the right at any time and from time to time to prepay any Borrowing in whole or in part, subject to the requirements of this Section.

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

(c) The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent (and, in the case of prepayment of a Swingline Loan, the Swingline Lender) by telephone (confirmed by hand delivery or facsimile) of any optional prepayment (i) in the case of prepayment of a Eurocurrency Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, three Business Days before the date of prepayment, (ii) in the case of prepayment of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, one Business Day before the date of prepayment or (iii) in the case of prepayment of a Swingline Loan, not later than 1:00 p.m., New York City time, on the date of prepayment. Each such notice shall be irrevocable and shall specify the prepayment date and the principal amount of each Borrowing or portion thereof to be prepaid; provided that if a notice of optional prepayment is given in connection with a conditional notice of termination of the Commitments as contemplated by Section 2.08, then such notice of prepayment may be revoked if such notice of termination is revoked in accordance with Section 2.08. Promptly following receipt of any such notice (other than a notice relating solely to Swingline Loans), the Administrative Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents thereof. Each partial prepayment of any Borrowing shall be in an amount that would be permitted in the case of an advance of a Borrowing of the same Type as provided in Section 2.02. Each prepayment of a Borrowing shall be applied ratably to the Loans included in the prepaid Borrowing. Prepayments shall be accompanied by accrued interest to the extent required by Section 2.12.

  

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SECTION 2.11. Fees. (a) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender a commitment fee, which shall accrue at the Applicable Rate on the daily unused amount of the Commitment of such Lender during the period from and including the date hereof to but excluding the date on which such Commitment terminates. Accrued commitment fees shall be payable in arrears on the last day of March, June, September and December of each year and on the date on which the Commitments terminate, commencing on the first such date to occur after the date hereof. All commitment fees shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days and shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day). For purposes of computing commitment fees, the Commitment of a Lender shall be deemed to be used to the extent of the outstanding Revolving Loans and LC Exposure of such Lender (and the Swingline Exposure of such Lender shall be disregarded for such purpose).

(b) The Borrower agrees to pay (i) to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender a participation fee with respect to its participations in Letters of Credit, which shall accrue at the Applicable Rate in effect from time to time for the purpose of determining the interest rates applicable to Eurocurrency Borrowings on the daily amount of such Lender’s LC Exposure (excluding any portion thereof attributable to unreimbursed LC Disbursements) during the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the later of the date on which such Lender’s Commitment terminates and the date on which such Lender ceases to have any LC Exposure, and (ii) to the Issuing Bank a fronting fee, which shall accrue at the rate per annum separately agreed upon between the Borrower and the Issuing Bank on the average daily amount of the LC Exposure (excluding any portion thereof attributable to unreimbursed LC Disbursements) during the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the later of the date of termination of the Commitments and the date on which there ceases to be any such LC Exposure, as well as the Issuing Bank’s standard fees with respect to the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or processing of drawings thereunder. Participation fees and fronting fees accrued through and including the last day of March, June, September and December of each year shall be payable on the third Business Day following such last day, commencing on the first such date to occur after the Effective Date; provided that all such fees shall be payable on the date on which the Commitments terminate and any such fees accruing after the date on which the Commitments terminate shall be payable on demand. Any other fees payable to the Issuing Bank pursuant to this paragraph shall be payable within 10 days after demand. All participation fees and fronting fees shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days and shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day).

  

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(c) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for its own account, fees payable in the amounts and at the times separately agreed upon between the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.

(d) All fees payable hereunder shall be paid on the dates due, in immediately available funds, to the Administrative Agent (or to the Issuing Bank, in the case of fees payable to it) for distribution, in the case of commitment fees and participation fees, to the Lenders entitled thereto. Fees paid shall not be refundable.

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

(b) The Loans comprising each Eurocurrency Borrowing shall bear interest at the Adjusted LIBO Rate for the Interest Period in effect for such Borrowing plus the Applicable Rate.

(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any principal of or interest on any Loan or any fee or other amount payable by the Borrower hereunder is not paid when due, whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise, such overdue amount shall bear interest, after as well as before judgment, at a rate per annum equal to (i) in the case of overdue principal of any Loan, 2.00% per annum plus the rate otherwise applicable to such Loan as provided in the preceding paragraphs of this Section or (ii) in the case of any other amount, 2.00% per annum plus the rate applicable to ABR Revolving Loans as provided in paragraph (a) of this Section.

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

(e) All interest hereunder shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days, except that interest computed by reference to the Alternate Base Rate at times when the Alternate Base Rate is based on the Prime Rate shall be computed on the basis of a year of 365 days (or 366 days in a leap year), and in each case shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day). The applicable Alternate Base Rate or Adjusted LIBO Rate shall be determined by the Administrative Agent, and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

SECTION 2.13. Alternate Rate of Interest. If prior to the commencement of any Interest Period for a Eurocurrency Borrowing:

  

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(a) the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) that adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the Adjusted LIBO Rate for such Interest Period; or

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

then the Administrative Agent shall give notice (which may be telephonic) thereof to the Borrower and the Lenders as promptly as practicable and, until the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower and the Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer exist, (i) any Interest Election Request that requests the conversion of any Borrowing to, or continuation of any Borrowing as, a Eurocurrency Borrowing shall be ineffective, and such Borrowing shall be continued as an ABR Borrowing, and (ii) any Borrowing Request for a Eurocurrency Borrowing shall be treated as a request for an ABR Borrowing.

SECTION 2.14. Increased Costs. (a) If any Change in Law shall:

(i) impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit, compulsory loan, insurance charge or similar requirement against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit extended by, any Lender or the Issuing Bank (except any such reserve requirement reflected in the Adjusted LIBO Rate);

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

(iii) subject any Recipient to any Taxes (other than (A) Indemnified Taxes, (B) Taxes described in clauses (b) through (d) of the definition of the term “Excluded Taxes” and (C) Connection Income Taxes) on its loans, loan principal, letters of credit, commitments or other obligations, or its deposits, reserves, other liabilities or capital attributable thereto;

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

  

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

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

(d) Failure or delay on the part of any Lender or the Issuing Bank to demand compensation pursuant to this Section shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s right to demand such compensation; provided that the Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender or the Issuing Bank pursuant to this Section for any increased costs or expenses incurred or reductions suffered more than 180 days prior to the date that such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, notifies the Borrower of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or expenses or reductions and of such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s intention to claim compensation therefor; provided further that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or expenses or reductions is retroactive, then the 180-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof.

SECTION 2.15. Break Funding Payments. In the event of (a) the payment of any principal of any Eurocurrency Loan other than on the last day of an Interest Period applicable thereto (including as a result of an Event of Default), (b) the conversion of any Eurocurrency Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, (c) the failure to borrow, convert or continue any Eurocurrency Loan on the date specified in any notice delivered pursuant hereto, (d) the failure to prepay any Eurocurrency Loan on a date specified therefor in any notice of prepayment given by the Borrower (whether or not such notice may be revoked in accordance with the terms hereof) or (e) the assignment of any Eurocurrency Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto as a result of a request by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.18, then, in any such event, the Borrower shall compensate each Lender for the loss, cost and expense attributable to such event. Such loss, cost or expense to any Lender shall be deemed to include an amount determined by such Lender to be the excess, if any, of (i) the amount of interest that would have accrued on the principal amount of such Loan had such event not occurred, at the Adjusted LIBO Rate that would have been applicable to such Loan (but not including the Applicable Rate applicable thereto), for the period from the date of such event to the last day of the then current Interest Period therefor (or, in the case of a failure to borrow, convert or continue, for the period that would have been the Interest Period for such Loan), over (ii) the amount of interest that would accrue on such principal amount for such period at the interest rate such Lender would bid, if it were to bid, at the commencement of such period, for dollar deposits of a comparable amount and period from other banks in the London interbank market. A certificate of any Lender delivered to the Borrower and setting forth any amount or amounts that such Lender is entitled to receive pursuant to this Section shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrower shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 10 days after receipt thereof.

  

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SECTION 2.16. Taxes. (a) Payments Free of Taxes. Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document shall be made without deduction or withholding for any Taxes, except as required by applicable law. If any applicable law (as determined in the good faith discretion of an applicable withholding agent) requires the deduction or withholding of any Tax from any such payment by a withholding agent, then the applicable withholding agent shall be entitled to make such deduction or withholding and shall timely pay the full amount deducted or withheld to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law and, if such Tax is an Indemnified Tax, then the sum payable by the applicable Loan Party shall be increased as necessary so that after such deduction or withholding has been made (including such deductions and withholdings applicable to additional sums payable under this Section) the applicable Recipient receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deduction or withholding been made.

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

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

(d) Indemnification by the Loan Parties. The Loan Parties shall jointly and severally indemnify each Recipient, within 10 days after demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section) payable or paid by such Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to such Recipient and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrower by a Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

  

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(e) Indemnification by the Lenders. Each Lender severally agrees to indemnify the Administrative Agent, within 10 days after demand therefor, for (i) any Indemnified Taxes attributable to such Lender (but only to the extent that any Loan Party has not already indemnified the Administrative Agent for such Indemnified Taxes and without limiting the obligation of the Loan Parties to do so), (ii) any Taxes attributable to such Lender’s failure to comply with the provisions of Section 9.04(c) relating to the maintenance of a Participant Register and (iii) any Excluded Taxes attributable to such Lender, in each case, that are payable or paid by the Administrative Agent in connection with any Loan Document, and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to any Lender by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Each Lender hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender under any Loan Document or otherwise payable by the Administrative Agent to the Lender from any other source against any amount due to the Administrative Agent under this paragraph.

(f) Status of Lenders. (i) Any Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding Tax with respect to payments made under any Loan Document shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, at the time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate of withholding. In addition, any Lender, if reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by applicable law or reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will enable the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine whether or not such Lender is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding two sentences, the completion, execution and submission of such documentation (other than such documentation set forth in Section 2.16(f)(ii)(A), (ii)(B) and (ii)(D) below) shall not be required if in the Lender’s reasonable judgment such completion, execution or submission would subject such Lender to any material unreimbursed cost or expense or would materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Lender.

(ii) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, in the event that the Borrower is a U.S. Person:

  

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(A) any Lender that is a U.S. Person shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent on or prior to the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), executed originals of IRS Form W-9 certifying that such Lender is exempt from U.S. Federal backup withholding tax;

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

(1) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party (x) with respect to payments of interest under any Loan Document, executed originals of IRS Form W-8BEN establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. Federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “interest” article of such tax treaty and (y) with respect to any other applicable payments under any Loan Document, IRS Form W-8BEN establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. Federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “business profits” or “other income” article of such tax treaty;

(2) executed originals of IRS Form W-8ECI;

(3) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under Section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit G-1 to the effect that such Foreign Lender is not a “bank” within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, a “10 percent shareholder” of the Borrower (or, in the case where the Borrower is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(b)(1)(ii), the Borrower's owner for U.S. tax purposes) within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code, or a “controlled foreign corporation” described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code (a “U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate”) and (y) executed originals of IRS Form W-8BEN; or

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

  

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

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

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

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

  

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

SECTION 2.17. Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Payments. (a) The Borrower shall make each payment required to be made by it hereunder or under any other Loan Document prior to the time required hereunder or under such other Loan Document for such payment (or, if no such time is specified, prior to 1:00 p.m., New York City time), on the date when due, in immediately available funds, without any defense, setoff, recoupment or counterclaim. Any amounts received after such time on any date may, in the discretion of the Administrative Agent, be deemed to have been received on the next succeeding Business Day for purposes of calculating interest thereon. All such payments shall be made to such account as may be specified by the Administrative Agent, except that payments required to be made directly to the Issuing Bank or the Swingline Lender shall be so made, payments pursuant to Sections 2.14, 2.15, 2.16 and 9.03 shall be made directly to the Persons entitled thereto and payments pursuant to other Loan Documents shall be made to the Persons specified therein. The Administrative Agent shall distribute any such payment received by it for the account of any other Person to the appropriate recipient promptly following receipt thereof. If any payment under any Loan Document shall be due on a day that is not a Business Day, the date for payment shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day and, in the case of any payment accruing interest, interest thereon shall be payable for the period of such extension. All payments under each Loan Document shall be made in dollars.

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

  

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(c) If any Lender shall, by exercising any right of setoff or counterclaim or otherwise, obtain payment in respect of any principal of or interest on any of its Loans or participations in LC Disbursements or Swingline Loans resulting in such Lender receiving payment of a greater proportion of the aggregate amount of its Loans and participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline Loans and accrued interest thereon than the proportion received by any other Lender, then the Lender receiving such greater proportion shall purchase (for cash at face value) participations in the Loans and participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline Loans of other Lenders to the extent necessary so that the amount of all such payments shall be shared by the Lenders ratably in accordance with the aggregate amounts of principal of and accrued interest on their Loans and participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline Loans; provided that (i) if any such participations are purchased and all or any portion of the payment giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, without interest, and (ii) the provisions of this paragraph shall not be construed to apply to any payment made by the Borrower pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement (giving effect to any amendment effected in accordance with Section 9.02) or any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans or participations in LC Disbursements or Swingline Loans to any Person that is an Eligible Assignee (as such term is defined from time to time). The Borrower consents to the foregoing and agrees, to the extent it may effectively do so under applicable law, that any Lender acquiring a participation pursuant to the foregoing arrangements may exercise against the Borrower rights of setoff and counterclaim with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were a direct creditor of the Borrower in the amount of such participation.

(d) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Borrower prior to the date on which any payment is due to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders or the Issuing Bank hereunder that the Borrower will not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower has made such payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such assumption, distribute to the Lenders or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, the amount due. In such event, if the Borrower has not in fact made such payment, then each of the Lenders or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, severally agrees to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the amount so distributed to such Lender or the Issuing Bank with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is distributed to it to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at the greater of the Federal Funds Effective Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation.

(e) If any Lender shall fail to make any payment required to be made by it hereunder to or for the account of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or the Swingline Lender, then the Administrative Agent may, in its discretion (notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof), (i) apply any amounts thereafter received by the Administrative Agent for the account of such Lender to satisfy such Lender’s obligations in respect of such payment until all such unsatisfied obligations have been discharged or (ii) hold any such amounts in a segregated account as cash collateral for, and application to, any future funding obligations of such Lender pursuant to Sections 2.04(c), 2.05(d) and (e), 2.06(b), 2.17(d) and 9.03(c), in each case in such order as shall be determined by the Administrative Agent in its discretion.

  

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(f) In the event that any financial statements delivered under Section 5.01(a) or 5.01(b), or any Compliance Certificate delivered under Section 5.01(d), shall prove to have been materially inaccurate, and such inaccuracy shall have resulted in the payment of any interest or fees at rates lower than those that were in fact applicable for any period (based on the actual Leverage Ratio), then, whether or not such inaccuracy is discovered prior to the termination of the Commitments and the repayment in full of the principal of all Loans and the reduction of the LC Exposure to zero, the Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent, for distribution to the Lenders (or former Lenders) as their interests may appear, the accrued interest or fees that should have been paid but were not paid as a result of such misstatement.

SECTION 2.18. Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders. (a) If any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.14, or if the Borrower is required to pay any Indemnified Taxes or additional amounts to any Lender or to any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.16, then such Lender shall (at the request of the Borrower) use commercially reasonable efforts to designate a different lending office for funding or booking its Loans hereunder or to assign and delegate its rights and obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches or Affiliates if, in the judgment of such Lender, such designation or assignment and delegation (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to Section 2.14 or 2.16, as the case may be, in the future and (ii) would not subject such Lender to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender. The Borrower hereby agrees to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with any such designation or assignment and delegation.

(b) If (i) any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.14, (ii) the Borrower is required to pay any Indemnified Taxes or additional amounts to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.16, (iii) any Lender has become a Defaulting Lender or a Declining Lender or (iv) any Lender has failed to consent to a proposed amendment, waiver, discharge or termination that under Section 9.02 requires the consent of all the Lenders (or all the affected Lenders) and with respect to which the Required Lenders shall have granted their consent, then the Borrower may, at its sole expense and effort, upon notice to such Lender and the Administrative Agent, require such Lender to assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in Section 9.04), all its interests, rights (other than its existing rights to payments pursuant to Section 2.14 or 2.16) and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to an Eligible Assignee that shall assume such obligations (which may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment and delegation); provided that (A) the Borrower shall have received the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent (and, (x) in the case of clause (iii) above and (y) in circumstances where its consent would be required under Section 9.04, the Issuing Bank and the Swingline Lender), which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld, (B) such Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to the outstanding principal of its Loans and, if applicable, participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline Loans, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts payable to it hereunder from the assignee (in the case of such principal and accrued interest and fees) or the Borrower (in the case of all other amounts), (C) in the case of any such assignment and delegation resulting from a claim for compensation under Section 2.14 or payments required to be made pursuant to Section 2.16, such assignment will result in a reduction in such compensation or payments and (D) in the case of any such assignment and delegation resulting from the failure to provide a consent, the assignee shall have given such consent and, as a result of such assignment and delegation and any contemporaneous assignments and delegations and consents, the applicable amendment, waiver, discharge or termination can be effected. A Lender shall not be required to make any such assignment and delegation if, prior thereto, as a result of a waiver or consent by such Lender or otherwise, the circumstances entitling the Borrower to require such assignment and delegation have ceased to apply. Each party hereto agrees that an assignment and delegation required pursuant to this paragraph may be effected pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption executed by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the assignee and that the Lender required to make such assignment and delegation need not be a party thereto.

  

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

(a) commitment fees shall cease to accrue on the unused amount of the Commitment of such Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 2.11(a);

(b) the Commitment and Revolving Exposure of such Defaulting Lender shall not be included in determining whether the Required Lenders or any other requisite Lenders have taken or may take any action hereunder or under any other Loan Document (including any consent to any amendment, waiver or other modification pursuant to Section 9.02); provided that any amendment, waiver or other modification requiring the consent of all Lenders or all Lenders affected thereby shall, except as otherwise provided in Section 9.02, require the consent of such Defaulting Lender in accordance with the terms hereof;

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

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

  

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(ii) if the reallocation described in clause (i) above cannot, or can only partially, be effected, the Borrower shall within one Business Day following notice by the Administrative Agent (A) first, prepay the portion of such Defaulting Lender’s Swingline Exposure that has not been reallocated and (B) second, cash collateralize for the benefit of the Issuing Bank the portion of such Defaulting Lender’s LC Exposure that has not been reallocated in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 2.05(i) for so long as such LC Exposure is outstanding;

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

(iv) if any portion of the LC Exposure of such Defaulting Lender is reallocated pursuant to clause (i) above, then the fees payable to the Lenders pursuant to Sections 2.11(a) and 2.11(b) shall be adjusted to give effect to such reallocation; and

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

(d) so long as such Lender is a Defaulting Lender, the Swingline Lender shall not be required to fund any Swingline Loan and no Issuing Bank shall be required to issue, amend, renew or extend any Letter of Credit, unless, in each case, it is satisfied that the related exposure and the Defaulting Lender’s then outstanding Swingline Exposure or LC Exposure, as applicable, will be fully covered by the Commitments of the Non-Defaulting Lenders and/or cash collateral provided by the Borrower in accordance with Section 2.19(c), and participating interests in any such funded Swingline Loan or in any such issued, amended, renewed or extended Letter of Credit will be allocated among the Non-Defaulting Lenders in a manner consistent with Section 2.19(c)(i) (and such Defaulting Lender shall not participate therein).

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

  

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In the event that the Administrative Agent, the Borrower, the Swingline Lender and the Issuing Bank each agree that a Defaulting Lender has adequately remedied all matters that caused such Lender to be a Defaulting Lender, then the Swingline Exposure and LC Exposure of the Lenders shall be readjusted to reflect the inclusion of such Lender’s Commitment and on such date such Lender shall purchase at par such of the Revolving Loans of the other Lenders as the Administrative Agent shall determine may be necessary in order for such Lender to hold such Loans in accordance with its Applicable Percentage.

SECTION 2.20. Incremental Commitments. (a) The Borrower may on one or more occasions, by written notice to the Administrative Agent, request during the Revolving Availability Period, (i) the establishment of Incremental Revolving Commitments and/or (ii) the establishment of Incremental Term Commitments; provided that the aggregate amount of all the Incremental Commitments established hereunder during the term of this Agreement shall not exceed $75,000,000. Each such notice shall specify (A) the date on which the Borrower proposes that the Incremental Revolving Commitments or the Incremental Term Commitments, as applicable, shall be effective, which shall be not less than 10 Business Days (or such shorter period as may be agreed to by the Administrative Agent) after the date on which such notice is delivered to the Administrative Agent and (B) the amount of the Incremental Revolving Commitments or Incremental Term Commitments, as applicable, being requested (which shall not be less than $25,000,000). Incremental Commitments may be provided by any Lender or by one or more other financial institutions identified by the Borrower; provided, that (x) any Lender requested by the Borrower to provide any Incremental Revolving Commitment or Incremental Term Commitment may elect or decline, in its sole discretion, to provide such Incremental Revolving Commitment or Incremental Term Commitment and (y) any Person becoming an Incremental Lender, if such Person is not already a Lender, must be an Eligible Assignee and must be approved by the Administrative Agent and, in the case of any proposed Incremental Revolving Lender, the Issuing Bank and the Swingline Lender (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld).

(b) The terms and conditions of any Incremental Revolving Commitments and of the Loans and other extensions of credit to be made thereunder shall be identical to those of the original Commitments and Revolving Loans and other extensions of credit made hereunder, and shall be treated as a single class with such Commitments and Loans, and if the Borrower determines to increase the interest rates or fees payable in respect of Incremental Revolving Commitments or Loans and other extensions of credit made thereunder, such increase shall only be permitted if the interest rates or fees payable in respect of the original Commitments and Loans and other extensions of credit made hereunder, as applicable, shall be increased to equal such interest rates or fees payable in respect of such Incremental Revolving Commitments or Loans and other extensions of credit, as the case may be. Any Incremental Term Commitments and the Incremental Term Loans to be made thereunder shall be on such terms as the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and the Incremental Term Lenders may agree; provided, that (i) all Incremental Term Loans shall bear interest on the same basis as the Revolving Credit Loans, but with such adjustments to the spreads set forth in the definition of “Applicable Rate” as the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and the Incremental Term Lenders may agree upon; provided, that if the Weighted Average Yield for any Incremental Term Loans shall at any time exceed by more than 0.50% per annum the Weighted Average Yield for Revolving Credit Loans or any other Class of Incremental Term Loans, then the Applicable Rate for Revolving Loans or such other Class of Incremental Term Loans shall automatically be increased to reduce such excess to 0.50% per annum, (ii) Incremental Term Loans may amortize, and may have the benefit of mandatory prepayment events, on terms customary at the time of the establishment thereof for “Tranche A” term loans, but may not mature prior to the Maturity Date and (iii) Incremental Term Loans shall not have the benefit of any representations or warranties, affirmative or negative covenants or Events of Default that do not equally benefit all other Classes of Loans hereunder.

  

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(c) Incremental Commitments shall be established pursuant to one or more Incremental Commitment Agreements executed and delivered by the Borrower, each Incremental Lender providing an Incremental Commitment and the Administrative Agent; provided that no Incremental Commitments shall become effective unless such Incremental Commitments amount to at least $25,000,000 in the aggregate and unless on the date of effectiveness thereof, both immediately prior to and immediately after giving effect to such Incremental Commitments, (i) no Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (ii) the representations and warranties of each Loan Party set forth in the Loan Documents shall be true and correct (A) in the case of the representations and warranties qualified as to materiality, in all respects and (B) otherwise, in all material respects, in each case on and as of such date, except in the case of any such representation and warranty that expressly relates to a prior date, in which case such representation and warranty shall be so true and correct on and as of such prior date and (iii) the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent such legal opinions, evidence of authority, officer’s certificates and other documents as shall have been requested by the Administrative Agent. Each Incremental Commitment Agreement may, without the consent of any Lender, effect such amendments to, or amend and restate, this Agreement and the other Loan Documents (including provisions hereof or thereof that would otherwise require the consent of all the Lenders) as may be necessary or appropriate, in the opinion of the Administrative Agent, to provide for the applicable Incremental Commitments and the Loans and other extensions of credit thereunder and otherwise to give effect to the provisions of this Section; provided that no such Incremental Commitment Agreement shall effect any amendment or waiver referred to in Section 9.02(b)(ii)(A), (B) or (C) without the consent of each Lender affected thereby.

(d) Upon the effectiveness of an Incremental Commitment of any Incremental Lender, (i) such Incremental Lender shall be deemed to be a “Lender” (and a Lender in respect of Commitments and Loans of the applicable Class) hereunder, and henceforth shall be entitled to all the rights of and benefits accruing to, and bound by all agreements and other obligations of, a Lender (or a Lender in respect of Commitments and Loans of the applicable Class) hereunder and under the other Loan Documents and (ii) in the case of any Incremental Revolving Commitment, (A) such Incremental Revolving Commitment shall constitute (or, in the event such Incremental Lender already has a Commitment, shall increase) the Commitment of such Incremental Lender and (B) the Aggregate Commitment shall be increased by the amount of such Incremental Revolving Commitment, in each case, subject to further increase or reduction from time to time as set forth in the definition of the term “Commitment”.

  

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(e) On the date of effectiveness of any Incremental Revolving Commitments (the “Incremental Revolving Commitment Effective Date”), (i) the aggregate principal amount of the Revolving Loans outstanding immediately prior to such effectiveness (the “Outstanding Borrowings”) shall be deemed to be repaid; (ii) each Incremental Revolving Lender that shall have been a Lender prior to the Incremental Revolving Commitment Effective Date shall pay to the Administrative Agent in same day funds an amount equal to the difference between (A) the product of (1) such Lender’s Applicable Percentage (calculated after giving effect to the Incremental Revolving Commitments) multiplied by (2) the amount of the Subsequent Borrowings (as hereinafter defined) and (B) the product of (1) such Lender’s Applicable Percentage (calculated without giving effect to the Incremental Revolving Commitments) multiplied by (2) the amount of the Outstanding Borrowings; (iii) each Incremental Revolving Lender that shall not have been a Lender prior to the Incremental Revolving Commitment Effective Date shall pay to the Administrative Agent in same day funds an amount equal to the product of (A) such Incremental Revolving Lender’s Applicable Percentage (calculated after giving effect to the Incremental Revolving Commitments) multiplied by (B) the amount of the Subsequent Borrowings; (iv) after the Administrative Agent receives the funds specified in clauses (ii) and (iii) above, the Administrative Agent shall pay to each Lender that is not an Incremental Revolving Lender the portion of such funds that is equal to the difference between (A) the product of (1) such Lender’s Applicable Percentage (calculated without giving effect to the Incremental Revolving Commitments) multiplied by (2) the amount of the Outstanding Borrowings, and (B) the product of (1) such Lender’s Applicable Percentage (calculated after giving effect to the Incremental Revolving Commitments) multiplied by (2) the amount of the Subsequent Borrowings; (v) after the effectiveness of the Incremental Revolving Commitments, the Borrower shall be deemed to have made new Borrowings (the “Subsequent Borrowings”) in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Borrowings and of the Types and for the Interest Periods specified in a borrowing request delivered in accordance with Section 2.03; (vi) each Lender shall be deemed to hold its Applicable Percentage of each Subsequent Borrowing (calculated after giving effect to the Incremental Revolving Commitments); and (vii) the Borrower shall pay to each Lender any and all accrued but unpaid interest on the Outstanding Borrowings. The deemed payments made pursuant to clause (i) above in respect of each Eurocurrency Loan shall be subject to indemnification by the Borrower pursuant to the provisions of Section 2.15 if the Incremental Revolving Commitment Effective Date occurs other than on the last day of the Interest Period relating thereto.

(f) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein and in the applicable Incremental Commitment Agreement, each Lender holding an Incremental Term Commitment shall make a loan to the Borrower in an amount equal to such Incremental Term Commitment on the date specified in such Incremental Commitment Agreement.

  

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(g) The Administrative Agent shall notify the Lenders promptly upon receipt by the Administrative Agent of any notice from the Borrower referred to in Section 2.20(a) and of the effectiveness of any Incremental Commitments, in each case advising the Lenders of the details thereof and of the Applicable Percentages of the Lenders after giving effect thereto.

SECTION 2.21. Extension Offers. (a) The Borrower may, on not more than two occasions prior to the fourth anniversary of the Effective Date, by written notice to the Administrative Agent, make offers (collectively, an “Extension Offer”) to all the Lenders of one or more Classes, other than any Class of Incremental Term Commitments or Incremental Term Loans established under Section 2.20 (each Class subject to such an Extension Offer, an “Extension Request Class”) to enter into an Extension Permitted Amendment pursuant to procedures reasonably specified by the Administrative Agent and reasonably acceptable to the Borrower. Such notice shall set forth (i) the terms and conditions of the requested Extension Permitted Amendment and (ii) the date on which such Extension Permitted Amendment is requested to become effective (which shall not be fewer than 10 Business Days or more than 30 Business Days after the date of such notice, unless otherwise agreed to by the Administrative Agent). Extension Permitted Amendments shall become effective (A) only with respect to the Loans and Commitments of the Lenders of the Extension Request Class that accept the applicable Extension Offer (such Lenders being called “Extending Lenders”, and Lenders of such Class that do not accept such Extension Offer being called “Declining Lenders”), (B) only if Lenders representing at least a majority of the Commitments of the Extension Request Class accept such Extension Offer and (C) in the case of any Extending Lender, only with respect to such Lender’s Loans and Commitments of such Extension Request Class as to which such Lender’s acceptance has been made.

(b) An Extension Permitted Amendment shall be effected pursuant to an Extension Agreement executed and delivered by the Borrower, each applicable Extending Lender and the Administrative Agent; provided that no Extension Permitted Amendment shall become effective unless (i) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of effectiveness thereof, (ii) on the date of effectiveness thereof, the representations and warranties of each Loan Party set forth in the Loan Documents shall be true and correct (A) in the case of the representations and warranties qualified as to materiality, in all respects and (B) otherwise, in all material respects, in each case on and as of such date, except in the case of any such representation and warranty that specifically relates to an earlier date, in which case such representation and warranty shall be so true and correct on and as of such earlier date, and (iii) the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent such legal opinions, evidence of authority, officer’s certificates and other documents as shall reasonably have been requested by the Administrative Agent in connection therewith. The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of the effectiveness of each Extension Agreement. Each Extension Agreement may, without the consent of any Lender other than the applicable Extending Lenders, effect such amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents (including provisions hereof or thereof that would otherwise require the consent of all the Lenders) as may be necessary or appropriate, in the opinion of the Administrative Agent, to give effect to the provisions of this Section, including any amendments necessary to treat the applicable Loans and/or Commitments of the applicable Extending Lenders as a new Class of loans and/or commitments hereunder; provided that, (i) no such Extension Agreement shall effect any amendment or waiver referred to in Section 9.02(b)(ii)(A), (B) or (C) without the consent of each Lender affected thereby and (ii) except as otherwise agreed by the Issuing Bank and the Swingline Lender, as applicable, (A) the allocation of the participation exposures with respect to any then-existing or subsequent Letters of Credit or Swingline Loans shall be made on a ratable basis as between the new Class of Commitments and the remaining Commitments and (B) the Revolving Availability Period and the Maturity Date, as such terms are used in reference to Letters of Credit or Swingline Loans, may not be extended.

  

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(c) The applicable Commitment of any Declining Lender shall terminate on the Maturity Date in effect as to such Lender prior to the effectiveness of any such Extension Permitted Amendment (the “Existing Revolving Maturity Date”). The principal amount of any outstanding Revolving Loans made by Declining Lenders, together with any accrued interest thereon and any accrued fees and other amounts payable to or for the accounts of such Declining Lenders, shall be due and payable on the Existing Revolving Maturity Date, and on such date the Borrower shall also make such other prepayments of Loans as shall be required in order that, after giving effect to the termination of the Commitments of, and all payments to, Declining Lenders pursuant to this sentence, the Aggregate Revolving Exposures will not exceed the Aggregate Commitments. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this paragraph, the Borrower shall have the right, pursuant to and in accordance with Section 2.18(b) and such procedures as the Administrative Agent may reasonably specify, at any time prior to the Existing Revolving Maturity Date, to replace a Declining Lender with a Lender or other financial institution that will agree to the Extension Permitted Amendment, and any such replacement Lender shall for all purposes constitute an Extending Lender.

ARTICLE III

Representations and Warranties

The Borrower represents and warrants to the Lenders that:

SECTION 3.01. Organization; Powers. The Borrower and each Subsidiary is duly organized, validly existing and (to the extent the concept is applicable in such jurisdiction) in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, has all power and authority required for the ownership and operation of its properties and the conduct of its business as now conducted and, except where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, is qualified to do business, and is in good standing, in every jurisdiction where such qualification is required.

  

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SECTION 3.02. Authorization; Enforceability. The Transactions to be entered into by each Loan Party are within such Loan Party’s corporate or other organizational powers and have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other organizational and, if required, stockholder or other equityholder action of each Loan Party. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Borrower and constitutes, and each other Loan Document to which any Loan Party is to be a party, when executed and delivered by such Loan Party, will constitute, a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Borrower or such Loan Party, as the case may be, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and to general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.

SECTION 3.03. Governmental Approvals; Absence of Conflicts. The Transactions (a) do not require any consent or approval of, registration or filing with or any other action by any Governmental Authority, except (i) such as have been obtained or made and are (or will at all relevant times be) in full force and effect and (ii) filings necessary to perfect Liens created under the Loan Documents, (b) will not violate any applicable law, including any order of any Governmental Authority, except to the extent any such violations, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (c) will not violate the charter, by-laws or other organizational documents of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, (d) will not violate or result (alone or with notice or lapse of time, or both) in a default under any indenture or other agreement or instrument binding upon the Borrower or any Subsidiary, or any of their assets, or give rise to a right thereunder to require any payment, repurchase or redemption to be made by the Borrower or any Subsidiary, or give rise to a right of, or result in, any termination, cancellation, acceleration or right of renegotiation of any obligation thereunder, except to the extent any such violations, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, and (e) except for Liens created under the Loan Documents, will not result in the creation or imposition of any Lien on any asset of the Borrower or any Subsidiary.

SECTION 3.04. Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change. (a) The Borrower has heretofore furnished to the Lenders its consolidated balance sheet and statements of income, comprehensive income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows (i) as of and for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010, audited by and accompanied by the opinion of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, independent registered public accounting firm, and (ii) as of and for the fiscal quarters and the portion of the fiscal year ended March 31, June 30 and September 30, 2011, certified by its chief financial officer. Such financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position, results of operations and cash flows of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of such dates and for such periods in accordance with GAAP, subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of certain footnotes in the case of the statements referred to in clause (ii) above.

(b) Since December 31, 2010, there has been no event or condition that has resulted, or would be materially likely to result, in a material adverse change in the business, assets, liabilities, operations or financial condition of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

  

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SECTION 3.05. Properties. (a) The Borrower and each Subsidiary has good title to, or valid leasehold interests in, all its tangible property material to its business, except for minor defects in title that do not interfere with its ability to conduct its business as currently conducted or to utilize such properties for their intended purposes.

(b) The Borrower and each Subsidiary owns, or is licensed to use, all patents, trademarks, copyrights, licenses, technology, software, domain names and other intellectual property that is necessary for the conduct of its business as currently conducted without conflict with the rights of any other Person, except to the extent any such conflict, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. No patents, trademarks, copyrights, licenses, technology, software, domain names or other intellectual property used by the Borrower or any Subsidiary in the operation of its business infringes upon the rights of any other Person, except for any such infringements that, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. As of the Effective Date, each patent, trademark, copyright, license, technology, software, domain name or other intellectual property that, individually or in the aggregate, is material to the business of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries (or to the business of the Borrower and the Domestic Subsidiaries) is owned by the Borrower or a Domestic Subsidiary.

(c) As of the Effective Date, the Borrower and its Subsidiaries do not own any real property.

SECTION 3.06. Litigation and Environmental Matters. (a) There are no actions, suits or proceedings by or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority pending against or, to the knowledge of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, threatened against or affecting the Borrower or any Subsidiary, that (i) would be materially likely, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) involve any of the Loan Documents or the Transactions.

(b) Except with respect to any matters that, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, none of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, (i) has failed to comply with any Environmental Law or to obtain, maintain or comply with any permit, license or other approval required under any Environmental Law, (ii) has become subject to any Environmental Liability, (iii) has received notice of any claim with respect to any Environmental Liability or (iv) knows of any basis for any Environmental Liability.

SECTION 3.07. Compliance with Laws and Agreements. The Borrower and each Subsidiary is in compliance with all laws, including all orders of Governmental Authorities, applicable to it or its property and all indentures, agreements and other instruments binding upon it or its property, except where the failure to comply, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. No Default has occurred and is continuing.

  

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

SECTION 3.09. Taxes. The Borrower and each Subsidiary has timely filed or caused to be filed all Tax returns and reports required to have been filed and has paid or caused to be paid all Taxes required to have been paid by it, except where (a) (i) the validity or amount thereof is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and (ii) the Borrower or such Subsidiary, as applicable, has set aside on its books reserves with respect thereto to the extent required by GAAP or (b) the failure to do so would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

SECTION 3.10. ERISA. No ERISA Events have occurred or are reasonably expected to occur that, in the aggregate, would be materially likely to result in a Material Adverse Effect. The present value of all accumulated benefit obligations under each Plan (based on the assumptions used for purposes of Accounting Standards Codification Topic 715) did not, as of the date of the most recent financial statements reflecting such amounts, exceed the fair value of the assets of such Plan by an amount that, if required to be paid as of such date by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries would be materially likely to have a Material Adverse Effect, and the present value of all accumulated benefit obligations of all underfunded Plans (based on the assumptions used for purposes of Accounting Standards Codification Topic 715) did not, as of the date or dates of the most recent financial statements reflecting such amounts, exceed the fair value of the assets of all such underfunded Plans by an amount that, if required to be paid as of such date by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries would be materially likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

SECTION 3.11. Subsidiaries and Joint Ventures. Schedule 3.11 sets forth, as of the Effective Date, the name and jurisdiction of organization of, and the percentage of each class of Equity Interests owned the Borrower or any Subsidiary in (a) each Subsidiary and (b) each joint venture in which the Borrower or any Subsidiary owns any Equity Interests, and identifies each Designated Subsidiary and each Material Subsidiary. The Equity Interests in each Subsidiary have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and non-assessable. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.11, as of the Effective Date, there is no existing option, warrant, call, right, commitment or other agreement to which the Borrower or any Subsidiary is a party requiring, and there are no Equity Interests in any Subsidiary outstanding that upon exercise, conversion or exchange would require, the issuance by any Subsidiary of any additional Equity Interests or other securities exercisable for, convertible into, exchangeable for or evidencing the right to subscribe for or purchase any Equity Interests in any Subsidiary. As of the Effective Date, Tiny Prints, LLC is the only Subsidiary of the Borrower and such Subsidiary has no assets or revenues and conducts no business.

  

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SECTION 3.12. Insurance. Schedule 3.12 sets forth a description of all insurance maintained by or on behalf of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries as of the Effective Date.

SECTION 3.13. Solvency. Immediately after the making of each Loan on the occasion of each Borrowing and the application of the proceeds thereof, and giving effect to the rights of subrogation and contribution under the Collateral Agreement, (a) the fair value of the assets of the Loan Parties will exceed their debts and liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, (b) the present fair saleable value of the assets of the Loan Parties will be greater than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability on their debts and other liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as such debts and other liabilities become absolute and matured, (c) the Loan Parties will be able to pay their debts and liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as such debts and liabilities become absolute and matured and (d) the Loan Parties will not have unreasonably small capital with which to conduct the business in which they are engaged, as such business is conducted at the time of and is proposed to be conducted following the making of such Loan.

SECTION 3.14. Disclosure. Neither the Confidential Information Memorandum nor any other information furnished by or on behalf of the Borrower or any Subsidiary to the Administrative Agent, any Arranger or any Lender (other than information of a general economic or industry nature) in connection with the negotiation of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, included herein or therein or furnished hereunder or thereunder (as modified or supplemented by other information so furnished) contains any material misstatement of fact or, when such information is taken as a whole, omits to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided that, with respect to forecasts or projected financial information, the Borrower represents only that such information was prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed by it to be reasonable at the time made and at the time so furnished and, if furnished prior to the Effective Date, as of the Effective Date (it being understood that such forecasts and projections may vary from actual results and that such variances may be material).

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

  

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(b) Each Mortgage, upon execution and delivery thereof by the parties thereto, will create in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a legal, valid and enforceable security interest in all the applicable mortgagor’s right, title and interest in and to the Mortgaged Properties subject thereto and the proceeds thereof, and when the Mortgages have been filed in the jurisdictions specified therein, the Mortgages will constitute a fully perfected security interest in all right, title and interest of the mortgagors in the Mortgaged Properties and the proceeds thereof, prior and superior in right to any other Person, but subject to Liens permitted under Section 6.02.

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

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

SECTION 3.16. Federal Reserve Regulations. None of the Borrower or any Subsidiary is engaged or will engage, principally or as one of its important activities, in the business of purchasing or carrying margin stock (within the meaning of Regulation U of the Board of Governors), or extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stock. No part of the proceeds of the Loans will be used, directly or indirectly, for any purpose that entails a violation (including on the part of any Lender) of any of the regulations of the Board of Governors, including Regulations U and X. Not more than 25% of the value of the assets of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries subject to any restrictions on the sale, pledge or other disposition of assets under this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other agreement to which any Lender or Affiliate of a Lender is party will at any time be represented by margin stock.

  

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ARTICLE IV

Conditions

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

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

(b) The Administrative Agent shall have received a favorable written opinion (addressed to the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Issuing Bank and dated the Effective Date) of Fenwick & West LLP, counsel for the Borrower, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

(c) The Administrative Agent shall have received such documents and certificates as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request relating to the organization, existence and good standing of each Loan Party, the authorization of the Transactions and any other legal matters relating to the Loan Parties, the Loan Documents or the Transactions, all in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

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

(e) The Administrative Agent shall have received all fees and other amounts due and payable on or prior to the Effective Date, including, to the extent invoiced, payment or reimbursement of all fees and expenses (including fees, charges and disbursements of counsel) required to be paid or reimbursed by any Loan Party under the Commitment Letter, the Fee Letter or any Loan Document.

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

  

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(g) The Administrative Agent shall have received evidence that the insurance required by Section 5.08 is in effect, together with endorsements naming the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, as additional insured and loss payee thereunder to the extent required under Section 5.08.

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

(i) Immediately after giving effect to the Transactions, none of the Borrower or any Subsidiary shall have outstanding any Indebtedness or Disqualified Equity Interests or, in the case of any Subsidiary, any other shares of preferred stock or other preferred Equity Interests, other than (i) Indebtedness incurred under the Loan Documents and (ii) as set forth on Schedule 6.01.

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

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

Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Borrower shall have used commercially reasonable efforts to procure and deliver, but shall nevertheless be unable to deliver, any Mortgage, Foreign Pledge Agreement or Control Agreement that is required to be delivered in order to satisfy the requirements of the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement, such delivery shall not be a condition precedent to the obligations of the Lenders and the Issuing Bank hereunder on the Effective Date, but shall be required to be accomplished as provided in Section 5.13.

The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders of the Effective Date, and such notice shall be conclusive and binding. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the obligations of the Lenders to make Loans and of the Issuing Bank to issue Letters of Credit hereunder shall not become effective unless each of the foregoing conditions shall have been satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 9.02) at or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on December 15, 2011 (and, in the event such conditions shall not have been so satisfied or waived, the Commitments shall terminate at such time).

  

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

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

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

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

ARTICLE V

Affirmative Covenants

Until the Commitments shall have expired or been terminated, the principal of and interest on each Loan and all fees payable hereunder shall have been paid in full, all Letters of Credit shall have expired or been terminated and all LC Disbursements shall have been reimbursed, the Borrower covenants and agrees with the Lenders that:

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

(a) within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower, its audited consolidated balance sheet and related consolidated statements of income, comprehensive income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows as of the end of and for such fiscal year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the prior fiscal year, all audited by and accompanied by the opinion of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP or another independent registered public accounting firm of recognized national standing (without a “going concern” or like qualification or exception and without any qualification or exception as to the scope of such audit) to the effect that such consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position, results of operations and cash flows of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis as of the end of and for such year in accordance with GAAP;

  

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(b) within 45 days after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year of the Borrower, its consolidated balance sheet as of the end of such fiscal quarter, the related consolidated statements of income for such fiscal quarter and the then elapsed portion of the fiscal year and the related statements of cash flows for the then elapsed portion of the fiscal year, in each case setting forth in comparative form the figures for the corresponding period or periods of (or, in the case of the balance sheet, as of the end of) the prior fiscal year, all certified by a Financial Officer of the Borrower as presenting fairly, in all material respects, the financial position, results of operations and cash flows of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis as of the end of and for such fiscal quarter and such portion of the fiscal year in accordance with GAAP, subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of certain footnotes;

(c) concurrently with each delivery of financial statements under clause (a) or (b) above, a completed Compliance Certificate signed by a Financial Officer of the Borrower, (i) certifying as to whether a Default has occurred and, if a Default has occurred, specifying the details thereof and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto, (ii) setting forth reasonably detailed calculations demonstrating compliance with Sections 6.11 and 6.12, (iii) if any change in GAAP or in the application thereof has occurred since the date of the consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower most recently theretofore delivered under clause (a) or (b) above (or, prior to the first such delivery, referred to in Section 3.04) that has had, or could have, a significant effect on the calculations of the Leverage Ratio or the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio, specifying the nature of such change and the effect thereof on such calculations and (iv) certifying that all notices required to be provided under Sections 5.03 and 5.04 have been provided and that the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement remains satisfied in all material respects or setting forth any information not included in the Perfection Certificate that would have been required to be included in such Perfection Certificate had it been dated as of the date of the Compliance Certificate delivered pursuant to this Section;

(d) concurrently with any delivery of financial statements under clause (a) above, a certificate of the accounting firm that audited such financial statements stating whether it obtained knowledge during the course of its examination of such financial statements of any Default and, in the case it shall have obtained knowledge of any Default, specifying the details thereof (which certificate may be limited to the extent required by accounting rules or guidelines); provided that such certificate shall not be required to be delivered if the Borrower has used commercially reasonable efforts to cause such certificate to be delivered by such accounting firm and such accounting firm has informed the Borrower that it is not willing to provide such certificate;

  

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(e) promptly after the same become publicly available, copies of all periodic and other reports, proxy statements and other materials filed by the Borrower or any Subsidiary with the SEC or with any national securities exchange, or distributed by the Borrower to its shareholders generally, as the case may be;

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

(g) promptly after any request therefor, such other information regarding the operations, business affairs, assets, liabilities (including contingent liabilities) and financial condition of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, or compliance with the terms of any Loan Document, as the Administrative Agent or any Lender may reasonably request.

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

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

(a) the occurrence of, or receipt by the Borrower of any written notice claiming the occurrence of, any Default;

(b) the filing or commencement of any action, suit or proceeding by or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority against or affecting the Borrower or any Subsidiary, or any adverse development in any such pending action, suit or proceeding not previously disclosed in writing by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, that in each case would be materially likely to result in a Material Adverse Effect or that in any manner questions the validity of any Loan Document;

  

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(c) the occurrence of any ERISA Event, or any fact or circumstance that gives rise to a reasonable expectation than an ERISA Event will occur, that alone or together with any other ERISA Events that have occurred, would be materially likely to result in a material liability to the Borrower and the Subsidiaries; and

(d) any other development that has resulted, or would be materially likely to result, in a Material Adverse Effect.

Each notice delivered under this Section shall be accompanied by a statement of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower setting forth the details of the event or development requiring such notice and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto.

SECTION 5.03. Additional Subsidiaries. (a) If any Subsidiary is formed or acquired after the Effective Date, the Borrower will, as promptly as practicable, and in any event within 30 days (or such longer period as the Administrative Agent may agree to in writing), notify the Administrative Agent thereof and cause the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement to be satisfied with respect to such Subsidiary (if it is a Designated Subsidiary) and with respect to any Equity Interests in or Indebtedness of such Subsidiary owned by any Loan Party.

(b) The Borrower may designate a Domestic Subsidiary meeting the criteria set forth in clause (b) of the definition of the term “Designated Subsidiary” as a Designated Subsidiary; provided that (i) such Subsidiary shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent a supplement to the Collateral Agreement, in the form specified therein, duly executed by such Subsidiary, (ii) the Borrower shall have delivered a certificate of a Financial Officer or other executive officer of the Borrower to the effect that, after giving effect to any such designation and such Subsidiary becoming a Subsidiary Loan Party hereunder, the representations and warranties set forth in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as to such Subsidiary shall be true and correct and no Default shall have occurred and be continuing, and (iii) such Subsidiary shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent documents and opinions of the type referred to in Sections 4.01(b) and 4.01(c).

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

  

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(b) The Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent prompt written notice of (i) the acquisition by any Loan Party of, or any real property otherwise becoming, a Mortgaged Property after the Effective Date and (ii) the acquisition by any Loan Party of any other material assets after the Effective Date, other than any assets constituting Collateral under the Security Documents in which the Administrative Agent shall have a valid, legal and perfected security interest (with the priority contemplated by the applicable Security Document) upon the acquisition thereof.

(c) The Borrower will, in each case as promptly as practicable, notify the Administrative Agent of the existence of any deposit account or securities account maintained by a Loan Party in respect of which a Control Agreement is required to be in effect pursuant to clause (f) of the definition of the term “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement” but is not yet in effect.

SECTION 5.05. Existence; Conduct of Business. The Borrower and each Subsidiary will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect its legal existence and the rights, licenses, permits, privileges, franchises, patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade names material to the conduct of its business; provided that the foregoing shall not prohibit any transaction permitted under Section 6.03 or 6.05.

SECTION 5.06. Payment of Obligations. The Borrower and each Subsidiary will pay its obligations, including Tax liabilities, before the same shall become delinquent or in default, except where (a) (i) the validity or amount thereof is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings, (ii) the Borrower or such Subsidiary has set aside on its books reserves with respect thereto to the extent required by GAAP and (iii) such contest effectively suspends collection of the contested obligation and the enforcement of any Lien securing such obligation or (b) the failure to make payment would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

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

SECTION 5.08. Insurance. The Borrower and each Subsidiary will maintain, with financially sound and reputable insurance companies, insurance in such amounts (with no greater risk retention) and against such risks as are customarily maintained by companies of established repute engaged in the same or similar businesses operating in the same or similar locations. Each such policy of liability or casualty insurance maintained by or on behalf of Loan Parties shall (a) in the case of each liability insurance policy (other than workers’ compensation, director and officer liability or other policies in which such endorsements are not customary), name the Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, as an additional insured thereunder, (b) in the case of each casualty insurance policy, contain a loss payable clause or endorsement that names the Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, as the loss payee thereunder and (c) provide for at least 30 days’ (or such shorter number of days as may be agreed to by the Administrative Agent) prior written notice to the Administrative Agent of any cancellation of such policy. With respect to each Mortgaged Property that is located in an area determined by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to have special flood hazards, the applicable Loan Party has obtained, and will maintain, with financially sound and reputable insurance companies, such flood insurance as is required under applicable law, including Regulation H of the Board of Governors.

  

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SECTION 5.09. Books and Records; Inspection and Audit Rights. The Borrower and each Subsidiary will keep proper books of record and account in which full, true and correct entries in accordance with GAAP and applicable law are made of all dealings and transactions in relation to its business and activities. The Borrower and each Subsidiary will permit the Administrative Agent or any Lender, and any agent designated by any of the foregoing, upon reasonable prior notice, (a) to visit and inspect its properties, (b) to examine and make extracts from its books and records and (c) to discuss its operations, business affairs, assets, liabilities (including contingent liabilities) and financial condition with its officers and independent accountants, all at such reasonable times and as often as reasonably requested; provided that unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, no such discussion with any such independent accountants shall be permitted unless the Borrower shall have received reasonable notice thereof and a reasonable opportunity to participate therein.

SECTION 5.10. Compliance with Laws. The Borrower and each Subsidiary will comply with all laws, including all orders of any Governmental Authority, applicable to it or its property, except where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

SECTION 5.11. Use of Proceeds and Letters of Credit. The proceeds of the Loans will be used solely for working capital, permitted acquisitions, capital expenditures and other general corporate purposes of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries. Letters of Credit will be issued only to support obligations of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries incurred in the ordinary course of business.

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

  

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SECTION 5.13. Certain Post-Closing Collateral Obligations. As promptly as practicable, and in any event within 30 days, after the Effective Date, the Borrower and each Loan Party will deliver all agreements, instruments and other documents that would have been required to be delivered on the Effective Date but for the penultimate sentence of Section 4.01, in each case except to the extent otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent pursuant to its authority as set forth in the definition of the term “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement”.

ARTICLE VI

Negative Covenants

Until the Commitments shall have expired or been terminated, the principal of and interest on each Loan and all fees payable hereunder shall have been paid in full, all Letters of Credit shall have expired or been terminated and all LC Disbursements shall have been reimbursed, the Borrower covenants and agrees with the Lenders that:

SECTION 6.01. Indebtedness; Certain Equity Securities. (a) None of the Borrower or any Subsidiary will create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Indebtedness, except:

(i) Indebtedness created under the Loan Documents;

(ii) Indebtedness existing on the date hereof and set forth on Schedule 6.01 and Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof;

(iii) Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Subsidiary to the Borrower or any Subsidiary; provided that (A) such Indebtedness shall not have been transferred to any Person other than the Borrower or any Subsidiary, (B) any such Indebtedness owing by any Loan Party to a Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party shall be unsecured and subordinated in right of payment to the Loan Document Obligations on terms customary for intercompany subordinated Indebtedness, as reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent, (C) any such Indebtedness owing to any Loan Party shall be evidenced by a promissory note that shall have been pledged pursuant to the Collateral Agreement and (D) any such Indebtedness owing by any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party to any Loan Party shall be incurred in compliance with Section 6.04;

(iv) Guarantees incurred in compliance with Section 6.04;

(v) Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Subsidiary (A) incurred to finance the acquisition, construction or improvement of any fixed or capital assets, including Capital Lease Obligations; provided that such Indebtedness is incurred prior to or within 90 days after such acquisition or the completion of such construction or improvement and the principal amount of such Indebtedness does not exceed the cost of acquiring, constructing or improving such fixed or capital assets (and related fees and costs) or (B) assumed in connection with the acquisition of any fixed or capital assets, and Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of any of the foregoing; provided that the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness permitted by this clause (v) shall not exceed the greater of (x) 5.0% of Consolidated Total Assets and (y) $25,000,000, at any time outstanding;

  

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(vi) Indebtedness of any Person that becomes a Subsidiary (or of any Person not previously a Subsidiary that is merged or consolidated with or into a Subsidiary in a transaction permitted hereunder) after the date hereof, or Indebtedness of any Person that is assumed by any Subsidiary in connection with an acquisition of assets by such Subsidiary in a Permitted Acquisition or a Specified Foreign Acquisition permitted under Section 6.04(m), provided that (A) such Indebtedness exists at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary (or is so merged or consolidated) or such assets are acquired and is not created in contemplation of or in connection with such Person becoming a Subsidiary (or such merger or consolidation) or such assets being acquired and (B) neither the Borrower nor any Subsidiary (other than such Person or the Subsidiary with which such Person is merged or consolidated or the Person that so assumes such Person’s Indebtedness) shall Guarantee or otherwise become liable for the payment of such Indebtedness, and Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of any of the foregoing; provided that the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness permitted by this clause (vi) shall not exceed $25,000,000 at any time outstanding;

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

(viii) Indebtedness in respect of letters of credit, bank guarantees and similar instruments issued for the account of the Borrower or any Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business supporting obligations under (A) workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security laws and (B) bids, trade contracts, leases, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and obligations of a like nature;

(ix) Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Subsidiary in the form of purchase price adjustments, earn-outs, non-competition agreements or other arrangements representing acquisition consideration or deferred payments of a similar nature incurred in connection with any Permitted Acquisition, Specified Foreign Acquisition or other Investment permitted by Section 6.04;

  

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(x) Permitted Unsecured Indebtedness and Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof;

(xi) Indebtedness of Foreign Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding $20,000,000 at any time outstanding; and

(xii) Indebtedness of any Loan Party pursuant to Hedging Agreements permitted by Section 6.07.

(b) No Subsidiary will issue or permit to exist any Disqualified Equity Interests.

SECTION 6.02. Liens. (a) None of the Borrower or any Subsidiary will create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Lien on any asset now owned or hereafter acquired by it, or assign or sell any income or revenues (including accounts receivable and royalties) or rights in respect of any thereof, except:

(i) Liens created under the Loan Documents;

(ii) Permitted Encumbrances;

(iii) any Lien on any asset of the Borrower or any Subsidiary existing on the date hereof and set forth on Schedule 6.02; provided that (A) such Lien shall not apply to any other asset of the Borrower or any Subsidiary and (B) such Lien shall secure only those obligations that it secures on the date hereof and any extensions, renewals and refinancings thereof that do not increase the outstanding principal amount thereof and, in the case of any such obligations constituting Indebtedness, that are permitted under Section 6.01 as Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof;

(iv) any Lien existing on any asset prior to the acquisition thereof by the Borrower or any Subsidiary or existing on any asset of any Person that becomes a Subsidiary (or of any Person not previously a Subsidiary that is merged or consolidated with or into a Subsidiary in a transaction permitted hereunder) after the date hereof prior to the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary (or is so merged or consolidated); provided that (A) such Lien is not created in contemplation of or in connection with such acquisition or such Person becoming a Subsidiary (or such merger or consolidation), (B) such Lien shall not apply to any other asset of the Borrower or any Subsidiary (other than, in the case of any such merger or consolidation, the assets of any special purpose merger Subsidiary that is a party thereto) and (C) such Lien shall secure only those obligations that it secures on the date of such acquisition or the date such Person becomes a Subsidiary (or is so merged or consolidated), and any extensions, renewals and refinancings thereof that do not increase the outstanding principal amount thereof and, in the case of any such obligations constituting Indebtedness, that are permitted under Section 6.01 as Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof;

  

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

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

(vii) Liens solely on any cash earnest money deposits, escrow arrangements or similar arrangements made by the Borrower or any Subsidiary in connection with any letter of intent or purchase agreement for a Permitted Acquisition or other transaction permitted hereunder;

(viii) in the case of (A) any Subsidiary that is not a wholly-owned Subsidiary or (B) the Equity Interests in any Person that is not a Subsidiary, any encumbrance or restriction, including any put and call arrangements, related to Equity Interests in such Subsidiary or such other Person set forth in the organizational documents of such Subsidiary or such other Person or any related joint venture, shareholders’ or similar agreement;

(ix) Liens on assets of any Foreign Subsidiary securing Indebtedness of such Subsidiary permitted under Section 6.01; provided that such Liens shall not apply to any Collateral (including any Equity Interests in any Subsidiary that constitute Collateral) or any other assets of the Borrower or any other Domestic Subsidiary;

(x) sales of accounts receivable permitted by Section 6.05(d); or

(xi) other Liens securing Indebtedness or other obligations in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $15,000,000 at any time outstanding.

SECTION 6.03. Fundamental Changes; Business Activities. (a) None of the Borrower or any Subsidiary will merge into or consolidate with any other Person, or permit any other Person to merge into or consolidate with it, or liquidate or dissolve, except that if at the time thereof and immediately after giving effect thereto no Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (i) any Person may merge into the Borrower in a transaction in which the Borrower is the surviving corporation, (ii) any Person (other than the Borrower) may merge or consolidate with any Subsidiary in a transaction in which the surviving entity is a Subsidiary (and, if any party to such merger or consolidation is a Subsidiary Loan Party, is a Subsidiary Loan Party), (iii) any Subsidiary may merge into or consolidate with any Person (other than the Borrower) in a transaction permitted under Section 6.05 in which, after giving effect to such transaction, the surviving entity is not a Subsidiary and (iv) any Subsidiary may liquidate or dissolve if the Borrower determines in good faith that such liquidation or dissolution is in the best interests of the Borrower and is not materially disadvantageous to the Lenders; provided that any such merger or consolidation involving a Person that is not a wholly-owned Subsidiary immediately prior thereto shall not be permitted unless it is also permitted under Section 6.04.

  

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(b) None of the Borrower or any Subsidiary will engage to any material extent in any business other than businesses of the type conducted by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries on the date hereof and businesses reasonably related thereto or that constitute reasonable extensions thereof.

(c) The Borrower will not permit any Person other than the Borrower, or one or more of its Subsidiaries that is not a CFC, to own any Equity Interests in any Domestic Subsidiary other than any Domestic Subsidiary owned by a Foreign Subsidiary at the time such Foreign Subsidiary is acquired by the Borrower; provided that the Equity Interests in any such Domestic Subsidiary shall be transferred to a Loan Party as promptly as reasonably practicable following such acquisition unless, in the good faith determination of a Financial Officer of the Borrower, such transfer would result in a material tax liability or other material disadvantage to the Borrower.

SECTION 6.04. Investments, Loans, Advances, Guarantees and Acquisitions. None of the Borrower or any Subsidiary will purchase, hold, acquire (including pursuant to any merger or consolidation with any Person that was not a wholly-owned Subsidiary prior thereto), make or otherwise permit to exist any Investment in any other Person, or purchase or otherwise acquire (in one transaction or a series of transactions) all or substantially all the assets of any other Person or of a business unit, division, product line or line of business of any other Person, or assets acquired other than in the ordinary course of business that, following the acquisition thereof, would constitute a substantial portion of the assets of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, except:

(a) Permitted Investments;

(b) Investments existing on the date hereof and set forth on Schedule 6.04 (but not any additions thereto (including any capital contributions) made after the date hereof unless such additions are permitted by other clauses of this Section 6.04);

(c) Investments by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries in Equity Interests in their subsidiaries; provided that (i) such subsidiaries are Subsidiaries prior to such investments, (ii) any such Equity Interests held by a Loan Party shall be pledged in accordance with the requirements of the definition of the term “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement” and (iii) the aggregate outstanding amount of the Investments made, acquired or entered into by the Loan Parties in Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties under this clause (c) and under clauses (d) and (e) of this Section 6.04 shall not exceed the greater of (x) 5.0% of Consolidated Total Assets and (y) $25,000,000;

  

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(d) Investments consisting of loans or advances made by the Borrower or any Subsidiary to any Subsidiary; provided that (i) the Indebtedness resulting therefrom is permitted by Section 6.01(a)(iii) and (ii) such loans and advances made by the Loan Parties to Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties shall be subject to the limitation set forth in clause (c)(iii) above;

(e) Investments consisting of Guarantees by the Borrower or any Subsidiary of Indebtedness or other obligations of the Borrower or any Subsidiary (including any such Guarantees arising as a result of any such Person being a joint and several co-applicant with respect to any loan, letter of credit or letter of guaranty); provided that (i) a Subsidiary that has not Guaranteed the Secured Obligations pursuant to the Collateral Agreement shall not Guarantee any Indebtedness or other obligations of any Loan Party and (ii) such Guarantees by Loan Parties of Indebtedness and other obligations of Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties shall be subject to the limitation set forth in clause (c)(iii) above;

(f) Investments consisting of accounts receivable, or received in connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of, or settlement of delinquent accounts and disputes with, customers and suppliers, in each case in the ordinary course of business;

(g) Investments made as a result of the receipt of non-cash consideration from a sale, transfer, lease or other disposition, or an exclusive license, of any asset in compliance with Section 6.05;

(h) Investments by the Borrower or any Subsidiary that result solely from the receipt by the Borrower or such Subsidiary from any of its subsidiaries of a dividend or other Restricted Payment in the form of Equity Interests, evidences of Indebtedness or other securities (but not any additions thereto made after the date of the receipt thereof);

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

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

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

(l) Permitted Acquisitions;

  

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(m) Specified Foreign Acquisitions; provided that the sum of (i) the aggregate consideration paid (whether consisting of cash or other assets and including the aggregate amount of any Indebtedness or other obligations assumed, but excluding consideration in the form of Equity Interests of the Borrower that do not constitute Disqualified Equity Interests) for all such Specified Foreign Acquisitions, (ii) the aggregate outstanding amount of Investments in Foreign Subsidiaries pursuant to clauses (c), (d) and (e) of this Section 6.04 and (iii) the aggregate outstanding amount of Investments in Joint Ventures pursuant to clause (n) of this Section 6.04, shall not exceed the greater of (x) 15% of Consolidated Total Assets and (y) $100,000,000 (as reduced by any deemed utilization of such basket provided for in the definition of “Permitted Acquisition”);

(n) Investments in Joint Ventures in an aggregate amount at any time outstanding not in excess of $20,000,000; and

(o) other Investments in an aggregate amount outstanding at any time not in excess of $5,000,000.

SECTION 6.05. Asset Sales. None of the Borrower or any Subsidiary will sell, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of, or exclusively license, any asset, including any Equity Interest owned by it, nor will any Subsidiary issue any additional Equity Interest in such Subsidiary (other than to the Borrower or any Subsidiary in compliance with Section 6.04, and other than directors’ qualifying shares and other nominal amounts of Equity Interests that are required to be held by other Persons under applicable law), except:

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

(b) sales, transfers, leases and other dispositions to the Borrower or any Subsidiary; provided that any such sales, transfers, leases or other dispositions involving a Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party shall be made in compliance with Sections 6.04 and 6.09;

(c) dispositions in the form of Liens permitted by Section 6.02, Investments permitted by Section 6.04 and Restricted Payments permitted by Section 6.08(a) (provided that, in the case of any such Restricted Payment by the Borrower, the assets disposed thereby shall be solely in the form of cash or Permitted Investments);

(d) sales, transfers or other dispositions of accounts receivable in connection with the compromise or collection thereof in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice and not as part of any accounts receivables financing transaction;

(e) dispositions of assets subject to any casualty or condemnation proceeding (including in lieu thereof);

  

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(f) dispositions of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property;

(g) licenses or sublicenses of intellectual property entered into in the ordinary course of business, or not interfering in any respect with the ordinary conduct of, or not materially detracting from the value of, the business of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries;

(h) termination of leases in the ordinary course of business;

(i) voluntary terminations of Hedging Agreements;

(j) dispositions after the Effective Date of assets acquired as part of acquisitions permitted under Section 6.04 of Persons owning such assets; provided that (i) such assets are disposed of within one year of their acquisition by the Borrower or any Subsidiary and (ii) the board of directors of the Borrower shall have determined that such assets are surplus to the needs of the Borrower’s business or that the retention of such assets is not consistent with the Borrower’s business plan.

(k) sales, transfers, leases and other dispositions of assets that are not permitted by any other clause of this Section; provided that (i) at the time of and after giving effect to any such sale, transfer, lease or other disposition, the fair value of the assets disposed of therein, taken together with the fair value of all assets theretofore sold, transferred, leased or otherwise disposed of in reliance on this clause (k) during the same fiscal year of the Borrower, shall not exceed 10% of the Consolidated Total Assets of the Borrower at the time of such sale, transfer, lease or other disposition, (ii) all such sales, transfers, leases and other dispositions and exclusive licenses shall be made for fair value and at least 75% cash consideration and (iii) if any Net Cash Proceeds of all such sales, transfers, leases and other dispositions and exclusive licenses are not applied by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries within 360 days of the receipt thereof to acquire assets (other than cash, Permitted Investments or other short-term investments) used or useful in the conduct of their businesses, the Commitments shall be reduced by the amount thereof (and if, after giving effect to such reduction, the Aggregate Revolving Exposure exceeds the Aggregate Commitment, the Borrower shall make prepayments and deposits of cash collateral as required by Section 2.10(b)).

Notwithstanding the foregoing, no such sale, transfer or issuance (other than to the Borrower or another Subsidiary) of any Equity Interests in any Subsidiary shall be permitted unless (i) such Equity Interests constitute all the Equity Interests in such Subsidiary held by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries and (ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries shall otherwise be in compliance with Section 6.04.

  

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SECTION 6.06. Sale/Leaseback Transactions. None of the Borrower or any Subsidiary will enter into any Sale/Leaseback Transaction unless (a) the sale or transfer of the property thereunder is permitted under Section 6.05, (b) any Capital Lease Obligations arising in connection therewith are permitted under Section 6.01 and (c) any Liens arising in connection therewith (including Liens deemed to arise in connection with any such Capital Lease Obligations) are permitted under Section 6.02.

SECTION 6.07. Hedging Agreements. None of the Borrower or any Subsidiary will enter into any Hedging Agreement, except (a) Hedging Agreements entered into to hedge or mitigate risks to which the Borrower or any Subsidiary has actual exposure and (b) Hedging Agreements entered into in order to effectively cap, collar or exchange interest rates (from fixed to floating rates, from one floating rate to another floating rate or otherwise) with respect to any interest-bearing liability or investment of the Borrower or any Subsidiary.

SECTION 6.08. Restricted Payments; Payments of Certain Indebtedness. (a) None of the Borrower or any Subsidiary will declare or make, or agree to pay or make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment, or incur any obligation (contingent or otherwise) to do so, except that (i) the Borrower may declare and pay dividends with respect to its Equity Interests payable solely in additional Equity Interests permitted hereunder; (ii) any Subsidiary may declare and pay dividends or make other distributions with respect to its capital stock, partnership or membership interests or other similar Equity Interests, or make other Restricted Payments in respect of its Equity Interests, in each case ratably to the holders of such Equity Interests (or, if not ratably, on a basis more favorable to the Borrower and the Subsidiaries); (iii) the Borrower may repurchase Equity Interests upon the exercise of stock options if such Equity Interests represent a portion of the exercise price of such options; (iv) the Borrower may make cash payments in lieu of the issuance of fractional shares representing insignificant interests in the Borrower in connection with the exercise of warrants, options or other securities convertible into or exchangeable for capital stock in the Borrower; (v) the Borrower may make Restricted Payments, not exceeding $2,000,000 in the aggregate for any fiscal year, pursuant to and in accordance with stock option plans or other benefit plans or agreements for directors, officers or employees of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries; (vi) the Borrower may make Restricted Payments with the proceeds of substantially concurrent issuance of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests); (vii) the Borrower may effect stock repurchases for cash, declare and pay additional cash dividends or make other Restricted Payments in cash; provided that (A) at the time of and immediately after giving effect to any such repurchase, dividend or Restricted Payment, and any related incurrence of Indebtedness, (1) no Default shall have occurred and be continuing and (2) after giving effect to such repurchase, dividend or Restricted Payment, and any related incurrence of Indebtedness, on a pro forma basis in accordance with Section 1.04(b), the Borrower shall be in compliance with the covenants set forth in Sections 6.11 and 6.12 (assuming, for purposes of Section 6.11, that the maximum Leverage Ratio then permitted under such Section is 2.00 to 1.00) and (B) the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent a certificate of a Financial Officer of the Borrower, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, certifying that all the requirements set forth in this clause (vii) have been satisfied with respect to such dividend or Restricted Payment, together with reasonably detailed calculations demonstrating satisfaction of the requirements set forth in clause (A)(2) above; and (viii) so long as no Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Borrower may make other Restricted Payments; provided that the aggregate amount of Restricted Payments made during the term of this Agreement pursuant to this clause (viii) shall not exceed $20,000,000 minus the aggregate amount of payments of or in respect of Indebtedness made pursuant to Section 6.08(b)(vi).

  

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(b) None of the Borrower or any Subsidiary will make or agree to pay or make, directly or indirectly, any payment or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) of or in respect of principal of or interest on any unsecured Indebtedness or Indebtedness secured by a Lien junior (by reason of time of creation or perfection or otherwise) to any Lien created by the Security Documents, or any payment or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, acquisition, defeasance, cancelation or termination of any such Indebtedness, except:

(i) regularly scheduled or mandatory interest and principal payments as and when due in respect of any Indebtedness, other than payments in respect of Subordinated Indebtedness prohibited by the subordination provisions thereof;

(ii) refinancings of Indebtedness with the proceeds of other Indebtedness permitted under Section 6.01;

(iii) payments of or in respect of Indebtedness made solely with Equity Interests in the Borrower (other than Disqualified Equity Interests);

(iv) payments of or in respect of Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Section 6.01(v) with the proceeds of the sale of any fixed or capital assets acquired, constructed or improved with the proceeds of such Indebtedness;

(v) prepayments of Indebtedness of any Person (not previously a Subsidiary) that is acquired by and becomes a Subsidiary of the Borrower, or that is merged or consolidated with or into the Borrower or a Subsidiary in a transaction permitted hereunder, and prepayments of Indebtedness of any Person (other than the Borrower or a Subsidiary) that is assumed by the Borrower or a Subsidiary in connection with an acquisition of assets from such Person in a transaction permitted hereunder; provided that such prepayments shall be made within 120 days after the closing of any such acquisition, merger, consolidation or assumption.

(vi) other payments of or in respect of such Indebtedness; provided that (A) at the time of and immediately after giving effect to any such payment, and any related incurrence of Indebtedness, (1) no Default shall have occurred and be continuing and (2) on a pro forma basis in accordance with Section 1.04(b), the Borrower shall be in compliance with the covenants set forth in Sections 6.11 and 6.12 (assuming, for purposes of Section 6.11, that the maximum Leverage Ratio then permitted under such Section is 2.00 to 1.00) and (B) the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent a certificate of a Financial Officer of the Borrower, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, certifying that all the requirements set forth in this clause (v) have been satisfied with respect to such payment, together with reasonably detailed calculations demonstrating satisfaction of the requirements set forth in clause (A)(2) above; and

  

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(vii) so long as no Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Borrower may make other payments of or in respect of Indebtedness; provided that the aggregate amount of payments of or in respect of Indebtedness made during the term of this Agreement pursuant to this clause (vi) shall not exceed $20,000,000 minus the aggregate amount of Restricted Payments made pursuant to 6.08(a)(viii).

SECTION 6.09. Transactions with Affiliates. None of the Borrower or any Subsidiary will sell, lease, license or otherwise transfer any assets to, or purchase, lease, license or otherwise acquire any assets from, or otherwise engage in any other transactions with, any of its Affiliates, except (a) transactions in the ordinary course of business that are at prices and on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Borrower or such Subsidiary than those that would prevail in arm’s-length transactions with unrelated third parties, (b) transactions between or among the Loan Parties not involving any other Affiliate, (c) transactions between or among Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties, (d) any Restricted Payment permitted under Section 6.08, (e) issuances by the Borrower of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests), and receipt by the Borrower of capital contributions, (f) compensation and indemnification of, and other employment and severance arrangements with, directors, officers and employees of the Borrower or any Subsidiary and (g) loans and advances permitted under Section 6.04(j) and 6.04(k).

SECTION 6.10. Restrictive Agreements. None of the Borrower or any Subsidiary will, directly or indirectly, enter into, incur or permit to exist any agreement or other arrangement that restricts or imposes any condition upon (a) the ability of the Borrower or any Subsidiary to create, incur or permit to exist any Lien upon any of its assets to secure any Secured Obligations or (b) the ability of any Subsidiary to pay dividends or other distributions with respect to its Equity Interests or to make or repay loans or advances to the Borrower or any Subsidiary or to Guarantee Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Subsidiary; provided that (i) the foregoing shall not apply to (A) restrictions and conditions imposed by law or by any Loan Document, (B) restrictions and conditions existing on the date hereof identified on Schedule 6.10 (but shall apply to any amendment or modification expanding the scope of any such restriction or condition), (C) in the case of any Subsidiary that is not a wholly-owned Subsidiary, restrictions and conditions imposed by its organizational documents or any related joint venture or similar agreement, provided that such restrictions and conditions apply only to such Subsidiary and to any Equity Interests in such Subsidiary; (D) customary restrictions and conditions contained in agreements relating to the sale of a Subsidiary, or a business unit, division, product line or line of business, that are applicable solely pending such sale, provided that such restrictions and conditions apply only to the Subsidiary, or the business unit, division, product line or line of business, that is to be sold and such sale is permitted hereunder and (E) restrictions and conditions imposed by agreements relating to Indebtedness of any Subsidiary in existence at the time such Subsidiary became a Subsidiary and otherwise permitted by Section 6.01(a)(vi) (but shall apply to any amendment or modification expanding the scope of, any such restriction or condition), provided that such restrictions and conditions apply only to such Subsidiary, and (ii) clause (a) of the foregoing shall not apply to restrictions or conditions imposed by any agreement relating to secured Indebtedness permitted by Section 6.01(a)(v), 6.01(a)(vi) or Section 6.01(a)(xi) if such restrictions or conditions apply only to the assets securing such Indebtedness or (B) customary provisions in leases and other agreements restricting the assignment thereof. Nothing in this paragraph shall be deemed to modify the requirements set forth in the definition of the term “Guarantee and Collateral Requirement” or the obligations of the Loan Parties under Sections 5.03, 5.04 or 5.12 or under the Security Documents.

  

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SECTION 6.11. Leverage Ratio. The Borrower will not permit the Leverage Ratio at any time to exceed 2.75 to 1.00.

SECTION 6.12. Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio. The Borrower will not permit the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters to be less than 2.50 to 1.00.

SECTION 6.13. Fiscal Year. The Borrower will not, and the Borrower will not permit any other Loan Party to, change its fiscal year to end on a date other than December 31.

ARTICLE VII

Events of Default

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

(a) the Borrower shall fail to pay any principal of any Loan or any reimbursement obligation in respect of any LC Disbursement when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at the due date thereof or at a date fixed for prepayment thereof or otherwise;

(b) the Borrower shall fail to pay any interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount (other than an amount referred to in clause (a) of this Article) payable under this Agreement or any other Loan Document, when and as the same shall become due and payable, and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of three Business Days;

(c) any representation, warranty or statement made or deemed made by or on behalf of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, in any Loan Document or in any report, certificate, financial statement or other information provided pursuant to or in connection with any Loan Document or any amendment or modification thereof or waiver thereunder shall prove to have been incorrect when made or deemed made;

  

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(d) the Borrower shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement contained in Section 5.02, 5.05 (with respect to the existence of the Borrower) or 5.11 or in Article VI;

(e) any Loan Party shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement contained in any Loan Document (other than those specified in clause (a), (b) or (d) of this Article), and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of 30 days after notice thereof from the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders to the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent in the case of any such notice from a Lender);

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

(g) any event or condition occurs that results in any Material Indebtedness becoming due or being terminated or required to be prepaid, repurchased, redeemed or defeased prior to its scheduled maturity, or that enables or permits (following any cure, grace or notice period) the holder or holders of any Material Indebtedness (or, in the case of any Hedging Agreement, the counterparties thereto) or any trustee or agent on its or their behalf to cause (or give notice causing) any Material Indebtedness to become due, or to terminate or require the prepayment, repurchase, redemption or defeasance thereof, prior to its scheduled maturity; provided that this clause (g) shall not apply to secured Indebtedness that becomes due as a result of the voluntary sale or transfer of property or assets;

(h) an involuntary proceeding shall be commenced or an involuntary petition shall be filed seeking (i) liquidation, reorganization or other relief in respect of the Borrower or any Subsidiary or its debts, or of a substantial part of its assets, under any Federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law now or hereafter in effect or (ii) the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar official for the Borrower or any Subsidiary or for a substantial part of its assets, and, in any such case, such proceeding or petition shall continue undismissed for 60 days or an order or decree approving or ordering any of the foregoing shall be entered;

(i) the Borrower or any Subsidiary shall (i) voluntarily commence any proceeding or file any petition seeking liquidation (other than any liquidation permitted by Section 6.03(a)(iv)), reorganization or other relief under any Federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law now or hereafter in effect, (ii) consent to the institution of, or fail to contest in a timely and appropriate manner, any proceeding or petition described in clause (i) of this Article, (iii) apply for or consent to the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar official for the Borrower or any Subsidiary or for a substantial part of its assets, (iv) file an answer admitting the material allegations of a petition filed against it in any such proceeding or (v) make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the board of directors (or similar governing body) of the Borrower or any Subsidiary (or any committee thereof) shall adopt any resolution or otherwise authorize any action to approve any of the actions referred to above in this clause (i) or clause (h) of this Article;

  

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(j) the Borrower or any Subsidiary shall become unable, admit in writing its inability or fail generally to pay its debts as they become due;

(k) one or more judgments for the payment of money in an aggregate amount in excess of $10,000,000 (other than any such judgment covered by insurance (other than under a self-insurance program) to the extent a claim therefor has been made in writing and liability therefor has not been denied by the insurer, so long as such insurer is generally recognized as financially sound), shall be rendered against the Borrower, any Subsidiary or any combination thereof and the same shall remain undischarged for a period of 30 consecutive days during which execution shall not be effectively stayed, or any enforcement proceeding shall be legally commenced by a judgment creditor to attach or levy upon any assets of the Borrower or any Subsidiary to enforce any such judgment;

(l) one or more judgments for injunctive relief shall be rendered against the Borrower, any Subsidiary or any combination thereof that would, individually or in the aggregate, be materially likely to result in a Material Adverse Effect;

(m) one or more ERISA Events shall have occurred that would, individually or in the aggregate, be materially likely to result in a Material Adverse Effect;

(n) any Lien purported to be created under any Security Document shall cease to be, or shall be asserted by any Loan Party not to be, a valid and perfected Lien on any material Collateral, with the priority required by the applicable Security Document, except as a result of (i) a sale or transfer of the applicable Collateral in a transaction permitted under the Loan Documents or (ii) the Administrative Agent’s failure to maintain possession of any stock certificate, promissory note or other instrument delivered to it under the Collateral Agreement;

(o) any Guarantee purported to be created under any Loan Document shall cease to be, or shall be asserted by any Loan Party not to be, in full force and effect, except upon the termination of such Loan Document in accordance with its terms; or

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

ARTICLE VIII

The Administrative Agent

Each of the Lenders and the Issuing Bank hereby irrevocably appoints the entity named as Administrative Agent in the heading of this Agreement and its successors to serve as administrative agent and collateral agent under the Loan Documents, and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such actions and to exercise such powers as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms of the Loan Documents, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. In addition, to the extent required under the laws of any jurisdiction other than the United States of America, each of the Lenders and the Issuing Bank hereby grants to the Administrative Agent any required powers of attorney to execute any Security Document governed by the laws of such jurisdiction on such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s behalf.

The Person serving as the Administrative Agent hereunder shall have the same rights and powers in its capacity as a Lender or the Issuing Bank as any other Lender or institution serving as Issuing Bank and may exercise the same as though it were not the Administrative Agent, and such Person and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to, act as the financial advisor or in any other advisory capacity for and generally engage in any kind of business with the Borrower or any Subsidiary or other Affiliate thereof as if such Person were not the Administrative Agent hereunder and without any duty to account therefor to the Lenders or the Issuing Bank.

  

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The Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or obligations except those expressly set forth in the Loan Documents. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (a) the Administrative Agent shall not be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of whether a Default has occurred and is continuing, (b) the Administrative Agent shall not have any duty to take any discretionary action or to exercise any discretionary power, except discretionary rights and powers expressly contemplated by the Loan Documents that the Administrative Agent is required to exercise as directed in writing by the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary, or as the Administrative Agent shall believe in good faith to be necessary, under the circumstances as provided in the Loan Documents); provided that the Administrative Agent shall not be required to take any action that, in its opinion, could expose the Administrative Agent to liability or be contrary to any Loan Document or applicable law, and (c) except as expressly set forth in the Loan Documents, the Administrative Agent shall not have any duty to disclose, and shall not be liable for the failure to disclose, any information relating to the Borrower, any Subsidiary or any other Affiliate of any of the foregoing that is communicated to or obtained by the Person serving as Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity. The Administrative Agent shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it with the consent or at the request of the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary, or as the Administrative Agent shall believe in good faith to be necessary, under the circumstances as provided in the Loan Documents) or in the absence of its own gross negligence or wilful misconduct (such absence to be presumed unless otherwise determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by a final and non-appealable judgment). The Administrative Agent shall be deemed not to have knowledge of any Default unless and until written notice thereof is given to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower, a Lender or the Issuing Bank, and the Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into (i) any statement, warranty or representation made in or in connection with any Loan Document, (ii) the contents of any certificate, report or other document delivered thereunder or in connection therewith, (iii) the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth in any Loan Document or the occurrence of any Default, (iv) the sufficiency, validity, enforceability, effectiveness or genuineness of any Loan Document or any other agreement, instrument or document, or (v) the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Article IV or elsewhere in any Loan Document, other than to confirm receipt of items expressly required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent or satisfaction of any condition that expressly refers to the matters described therein being acceptable or satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Administrative Agent shall not have any liability arising from any confirmation of the Revolving Exposure or the component amounts thereof.

The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely, and shall not incur any liability for relying, upon any notice, request, certificate, consent, statement, instrument, document or other writing (including any electronic message, Internet or intranet website posting or other distribution) believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed, sent or otherwise authenticated by the proper Person (whether or not such Person in fact meets the requirements set forth in the Loan Documents for being the signatory, sender or authenticator thereof). The Administrative Agent also shall be entitled to rely, and shall not incur any liability for relying, upon any statement made to it orally or by telephone and believed by it to be made by the proper Person (whether or not such Person in fact meets the requirements set forth in the Loan Documents for being the signatory, sender or authenticator thereof), and may act upon any such statement prior to receipt of written confirmation thereof. The Administrative Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be counsel for the Borrower), independent accountants and other experts selected by it, and shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it in accordance with the advice of any such counsel, accountants or experts.

  

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The Administrative Agent may perform any of and all its duties and exercise its rights and powers hereunder or under any other Loan Document by or through any one or more sub-agents appointed by the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent may perform any of and all their duties and exercise their rights and powers through their respective Related Parties. The exculpatory provisions of this Article shall apply to any such sub-agent and to the Related Parties of the Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent, and shall apply to their respective activities in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein as well as activities as Administrative Agent.

Subject to the terms of this paragraph, the Administrative Agent may resign at any time from its capacity as such. In connection with such resignation, the Administrative Agent shall give notice of its intent to resign to the Lenders, the Issuing Bank and the Borrower. Upon receipt of any such notice of resignation, the Required Lenders shall have the right, in consultation with the Borrower, to appoint a successor. If no successor shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the retiring Administrative Agent gives notice of its intent to resign, then the retiring Administrative Agent may, on behalf of the Lenders and the Issuing Bank, appoint a successor Administrative Agent, which shall be a bank with an office in New York, New York, or an Affiliate of any such bank. Upon the acceptance of its appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder by a successor, such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Administrative Agent, and the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents. The fees payable by the Borrower to a successor Administrative Agent shall be the same as those payable to its predecessor unless otherwise agreed by the Borrower and such successor. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event no successor Administrative Agent shall have been so appointed and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the retiring Administrative Agent gives notice of its intent to resign, the retiring Administrative Agent may give notice of the effectiveness of its resignation to the Lenders, the Issuing Bank and the Borrower, whereupon, on the date of effectiveness of such resignation stated in such notice, (a) the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, provided that, solely for purposes of maintaining any security interest granted to the Administrative Agent under any Security Document for the benefit of the Secured Parties, the retiring Administrative Agent shall continue to be vested with such security interest as collateral agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties and, in the case of any Collateral in the possession of the Administrative Agent, shall continue to hold such Collateral, in each case until such time as a successor Administrative Agent is appointed and accepts such appointment in accordance with this paragraph (it being understood and agreed that the retiring Administrative Agent shall have no duty or obligation to take any further action under any Security Document, including any action required to maintain the perfection of any such security interest), and (b) the Required Lenders shall succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Administrative Agent, provided that (i) all payments required to be made hereunder or under any other Loan Document to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Person other than the Administrative Agent shall be made directly to such Person and (ii) all notices and other communications required or contemplated to be given or made to the Administrative Agent shall also directly be given or made to each Lender and the Issuing Bank. Following the effectiveness of the Administrative Agent’s resignation from its capacity as such, the provisions of this Article and Section 9.03, as well as any exculpatory, reimbursement and indemnification provisions set forth in any other Loan Document, shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring Administrative Agent, its sub-agents and their respective Related Parties in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while it was acting as Administrative Agent and in respect of the matters referred to in the proviso under clause (a) above.

  

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Each Lender and the Issuing Bank acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, the Arrangers or any other Lender or the Issuing Bank, or any of the Related Parties of any of the foregoing, and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement. Each Lender and the Issuing Bank also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, the Arrangers or any other Lender or the Issuing Bank, or any of the Related Parties of any of the foregoing, and based on such documents and information as it shall from time to time deem appropriate, continue to make its own decisions in taking or not taking action under or based upon this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any related agreement or any document furnished hereunder or thereunder.

Each Lender, by delivering its signature page to this Agreement and funding its Loans on the Effective Date, or delivering its signature page to an Assignment and Assumption or any other Loan Document pursuant to which it shall become a Lender hereunder, shall be deemed to have acknowledged receipt of, and consented to and approved, each Loan Document and each other document required to be delivered to, or be approved by or satisfactory to, the Administrative Agent or the Lenders on the Effective Date.

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

  

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In furtherance of the foregoing and not in limitation thereof, no Hedging Agreement the obligations under which constitute Secured Obligations will create (or be deemed to create) in favor of any Secured Party that is a party thereto any rights in connection with the management or release of any Collateral or of the obligations of any Loan Party under any Loan Document. By accepting the benefits of the Collateral, each Secured Party that is a party to any such Hedging Agreement shall be deemed to have appointed the Administrative Agent to serve as administrative agent and collateral agent under the Loan Documents and agreed to be bound by the Loan Documents as a Secured Party thereunder, subject to the limitations set forth in this paragraph.

Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, neither the Arrangers nor any Person named on the cover page of this Agreement as a Syndication Agent or a Documentation Agent shall have any duties or obligations under this Agreement or any other Loan Document (except in its capacity, as applicable, as a Lender), but all such Persons shall have the benefit of the indemnities provided for hereunder.

The provisions of this Article are solely for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Issuing Bank, and none of the Borrower or any other Loan Party shall have any rights as a third party beneficiary of any such provisions.

ARTICLE IX

Miscellaneous

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

(i) if to the Borrower, to Shutterfly, Inc., 2800 Bridge Parkway, Redwood City, California 94065, Attention of Charlotte Falla, General Counsel (Fax No. (650) 953-3574), with a copy to Fenwick & West LLP, 555 California Street, 12th Floor, San Francisco, California 94104, Attention of David Michaels (Fax No. (415) 281-1350);

  

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(ii) if to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or the Swingline Lender, to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Loan and Agency Services Group, 10 South Dearborn, Chicago, Illinois 60603, Attention of Nanette Wilson (Fax No. (888) 292-9533), with a copy to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 560 Mission Street, 19th Floor, San Francisco, California 94105, Attention of Alex Rogin (Fax No. (415) 315-5722); and

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

Notices sent by hand or overnight courier service, or mailed by certified or registered mail, shall be deemed to have been given when received; notices sent by fax shall be deemed to have been given when sent (or, if not given during normal business hours for the recipient, at the opening of business on the next business day for the recipient); and notices delivered through electronic communications to the extent provided in paragraph (b) of this Section shall be effective as provided in such paragraph.

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

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

SECTION 9.02. Waivers; Amendments. (a) No failure or delay by the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender in exercising any right or power hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right or power, or any abandonment or discontinuance of steps to enforce such a right or power, preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right or power. The rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Documents are cumulative and are not exclusive of any rights or remedies that they would otherwise have. No waiver of any provision of any Loan Document or consent to any departure by any Loan Party therefrom shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be permitted by paragraph (b) of this Section, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the making of a Loan or the issuance of a Letter of Credit shall not be construed as a waiver of any Default, regardless of whether the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the Issuing Bank may have had notice or knowledge of such Default at the time.

  

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(b) Except as provided in Sections 2.20, 2.21 and 9.02(c), none of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any provision hereof or thereof may be waived, amended or modified except, in the case of this Agreement, pursuant to an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders and, in the case of any other Loan Document, pursuant to an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by the Administrative Agent and the Loan Party or Loan Parties that are parties thereto, in each case with the consent of the Required Lenders; provided that (i) any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document may be amended by an agreement in writing entered into by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent to cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency so long as, in each case, (A) such amendment does not adversely affect the rights of any Lender or (B) the Lenders shall have received at least five Business Days’ prior written notice thereof and the Administrative Agent shall not have received, within five Business Days of the date of such notice to the Lenders, a written notice from the Required Lenders stating that the Required Lenders object to such amendment and (ii) no such agreement shall (A) increase the Commitment of any Lender without the written consent of such Lender, (B) reduce the principal amount of any Loan or LC Disbursement or reduce the rate of interest thereon (other than as a result of any change in the definition, or in any components thereof, of the term “Leverage Ratio”), or reduce any fees payable hereunder, without the written consent of each Lender affected thereby, (C) postpone the scheduled maturity date of any Loan, or the required date of reimbursement of any LC Disbursement, or any date for the payment of any interest or fees payable hereunder, or reduce the amount of, waive or excuse any such payment, or postpone the scheduled date of expiration of any Commitment, without the written consent of each Lender affected thereby, (D) change Section 2.17(b) or (c) in a manner that would alter the pro rata sharing of payments required thereby without the written consent of each Lender, (E) change any of the provisions of this Section or the percentage set forth in the definition of the term “Required Lenders” or any other provision of any Loan Document specifying the number or percentage of Lenders required to waive, amend or modify any rights thereunder or make any determination or grant any consent thereunder, without the written consent of each Lender; provided that, with the consent of the Required Lenders, the provisions of this Section and the definition of the term “Required Lenders” may be amended to include references to any new Class of Commitments and Loans created under this Agreement (or to Lenders extending such loans) on substantially the same basis as the corresponding references relating to the existing Loans or Lenders and to add customary “class voting” provisions, (F) release substantially all of the value of the Guarantees (including by limiting liability in respect thereof) created under the Collateral Agreement without the written consent of each Lender (except as expressly provided in Section 9.14 or the Collateral Agreement) and (G) release all or substantially all the Collateral from the Liens of the Security Documents without the written consent of each Lender (except as expressly provided in Section 9.14 or the applicable Security Document, it being understood that an amendment or other modification of the type of obligations secured by the Security Documents shall not be deemed to be a release of the Collateral from the Liens of the Security Documents); provided further that no such agreement shall amend, modify, extend or otherwise affect the rights or obligations of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or the Swingline Lender without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or the Swingline Lender, as the case may be. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no consent with respect to any amendment, waiver or other modification of this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall be required of (x) any Defaulting Lender, except with respect to any amendment, waiver or other modification referred to in clause (A), (B) or (C) of clause (ii) of the first proviso of this paragraph and then only in the event such Defaulting Lender shall be affected by such amendment, waiver or other modification, (y) in the case of any amendment, waiver or other modification referred to in clause (ii) of the first proviso of this paragraph and approved by the Required Lenders, any Lender that receives payment in full of the principal of and interest accrued on each Loan made by, and all other amounts owing to or accrued for the account of, such Lender under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents at the time such amendment, waiver or other modification becomes effective and whose Commitment terminates by the terms and upon the effectiveness of such amendment, waiver or other modification or (z) any Lender with respect to any amendment to this Agreement (including the provisions of this Section) or any other Loan Document that is authorized by Section 2.20 or 2.21, including amendments to add references to any new Class of Commitments and Loans created under such Sections (or to Lenders extending such loans) or to add customary “class voting” provisions.

  

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(c) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Administrative Agent may, without the consent of any Secured Party, consent to a departure by any Loan Party from any covenant of such Loan Party set forth in this Agreement, the Collateral Agreement or in any other Security Document to the extent such departure is consistent with the authority of the Administrative Agent set forth in the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement”.

(d) The Administrative Agent may, but shall have no obligation to, with the concurrence of any Lender, execute amendments, waivers or other modifications on behalf of such Lender. Any amendment, waiver or other modification effected in accordance with this Section 9.02 shall be binding upon each Person that is at the time thereof a Lender and each Person that subsequently becomes a Lender.

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

  

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(b) The Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agent (and any sub-agent thereof), the Arrangers, the Syndication Agent, the Documentation Agent, each Lender and the Issuing Bank, and each Related Party of any of the foregoing Persons (each such Person being called an “Indemnitee”), against, and hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any and all losses, claims, damages, penalties, liabilities and related expenses, including the fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for any Indemnitee, incurred by or asserted against any Indemnitee arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of (i) the structuring, arrangement and the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein, the preparation, execution, delivery and administration of the Commitment Letter, the Fee Letter, this Agreement, the other Loan Documents or any other agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby, the performance by the parties to the Commitment Letter, the Fee Letter, this Agreement or the other Loan Documents of their obligations thereunder or the consummation of the Transactions or any other transactions contemplated thereby, (ii) any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use of the proceeds therefrom (including any refusal by the Issuing Bank to honor a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit if the documents presented in connection with such demand do not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit), (iii) any actual or alleged presence or Release of Hazardous Materials on or from any Mortgaged Property or any other property currently or formerly owned or operated by the Borrower or any Subsidiary, or any Environmental Liability related in any way to the Borrower or any Subsidiary, or (iv) any actual or prospective claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, whether based on contract, tort or any other theory and whether initiated against or by any the Borrower, any of its Affiliates or any third party (and regardless of whether any Indemnitee is a party thereto); provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or related expenses are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence or wilful misconduct of such Indemnitee. This paragraph shall not apply with respect to Taxes other than any Taxes that represent losses, claims or damages arising from any non-Tax claim.

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

  

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(d) To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Borrower shall not assert, or permit any of its Affiliates or Related Parties to assert, and each hereby waives, any claim against any Indemnitee (i) for any damages arising from the use by others of information or other materials obtained through telecommunications, electronic or other information transmission systems (including the Internet) except to the extent the same are found by a final, nonappealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from the gross negligence or wilful misconduct of such Indemnitee, or (ii) on any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) arising out of, in connection with or as a result of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby, the Transactions, any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use of the proceeds thereof.

(e) All amounts due under this Section shall be payable promptly after written demand therefor.

SECTION 9.04. Successors and Assigns. (a) The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby (including any Affiliate of the Issuing Bank that issues any Letter of Credit), except that (i) the Borrower may not assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent and each Lender (and any attempted assignment or transfer by the Borrower without such consent shall be null and void) and (ii) no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer its rights or obligations hereunder except in accordance with this Section. Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto, their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby (including any Affiliate of the Issuing Bank that issues any Letter of Credit), Participants (to the extent provided in paragraph (c) of this Section), the Arrangers, the Syndication Agent, the Documentation Agent and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the sub-agents of the Administrative Agent and the Related Parties of any of the Administrative Agent, the Arrangers, the Syndication Agent, the Documentation Agent, the Issuing Bank and any Lender) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.

  

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(b) (i) Subject to the conditions set forth in paragraph (b)(ii) below, any Lender may assign to one or more Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and the Loans at the time owing to it) with the prior written consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld) of:

(A) the Borrower; provided that no consent of the Borrower shall be required (1) for an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund, and (2) if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, for any other assignment; provided further that the Borrower shall be deemed to have consented to any such assignment unless it shall object thereto by written notice to the Administrative Agent within five Business Days after having received notice thereof;

(B) the Administrative Agent;

(C) the Issuing Bank, in the case of any assignment of all or a portion of a Commitment or any Lender’s obligations in respect of its LC Exposure; and

(D) the Swingline Lender, in the case of any assignment of all or a portion of a Commitment or any Lender’s obligations in respect of its Swingline Exposure.

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

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

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

(C) the parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption, together with a processing and recordation fee of $3,500; provided that only one such processing and recordation fee shall be payable in the event of simultaneous assignments from any Lender or its Approved Funds to one or more other Approved Funds of such Lender; and

  

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

(iii) Subject to acceptance and recording thereof pursuant to paragraph (b)(v) of this Section, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.14, 2.15, 2.16 and 9.03).

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

(v) Upon receipt by the Administrative Agent of an Assignment and Assumption executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee, the assignee’s completed Administrative Questionnaire (unless the assignee shall already be a Lender hereunder) and the processing and recordation fee referred to in this Section, the Administrative Agent shall accept such Assignment and Assumption and record the information contained therein in the Register; provided that the Administrative Agent shall not be required to accept such Assignment and Assumption or so record the information contained therein if the Administrative Agent reasonably believes that such Assignment and Assumption lacks any written consent required by this Section or is otherwise not in proper form, it being acknowledged that the Administrative Agent shall have no duty or obligation (and shall incur no liability) with respect to obtaining (or confirming the receipt) of any such written consent or with respect to the form of (or any defect in) such Assignment and Assumption, any such duty and obligation being solely with the assigning Lender and the assignee. No assignment shall be effective for purposes of this Agreement unless it has been recorded in the Register as provided in this paragraph, and following such recording, unless otherwise determined by the Administrative Agent (such determination to be made in the sole discretion of the Administrative Agent, which determination may be conditioned on the consent of the assigning Lender and the assignee), shall be effective notwithstanding any defect in the Assignment and Assumption relating thereto. Each assigning Lender and the assignee, by its execution and delivery of an Assignment and Assumption, shall be deemed to have represented to the Administrative Agent that all written consents required by this Section with respect thereto (other than the consent of the Administrative Agent) have been obtained and that such Assignment and Assumption is otherwise duly completed and in proper form, and each assignee, by its execution and delivery of an Assignment and Assumption, shall be deemed to have represented to the assigning Lender and the Administrative Agent that such assignee is an Eligible Assignee.

  

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(c) Any Lender may, without the consent of the Borrower, the Administrative Agent or the Issuing Bank, sell participations to one or more Eligible Assignees (“Participants”) in all or a portion of such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitments and Loans of any Class); provided that (A) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (B) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations and (C) the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement. Any agreement or instrument pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce this Agreement and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document; provided that such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, modification or waiver described in the first proviso to Section 9.02(b) that affects such Participant or requires the approval of all the Lenders. The Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.14, 2.15 and 2.16 (subject to the requirements and limitations therein, including the requirements under Section 2.16(f) (it being understood that the documentation required under Section 2.16(f) shall be delivered to the participating Lender)) to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to paragraph (b) of this Section; provided that such Participant (x) agrees to be subject to the provisions of Section 2.18 as if it were an assignee under paragraph (b) of this Section and (y) shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 2.14 or 2.16, with respect to any participation, than its participating Lender would have been entitled to receive, except to the extent such entitlement to receive a greater payment results from a Change in Law that occurs after the Participant acquired the applicable participation. Each Lender that sells a participation agrees, at the Borrower’s request and expense, to use reasonable efforts to cooperate with the Borrower to effectuate the provisions of Section 2.18(b) with respect to any Participant. To the extent permitted by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 9.08 as though it were a Lender; provided that such Participant agrees to be subject to Section 2.17(c) as though it were a Lender. Each Lender that sells a participation shall, acting solely for this purpose as an agent of the Borrower, maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of each Participant and the principal amounts (and stated interest) of each Participant’s interest in the Loans or other obligations under the Loan Documents (the “Participant Register”); provided that no Lender shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register (including the identity of any Participant or any information relating to a Participant’s interest in any Commitments, Loans, Letters of Credit or its other obligations under any Loan Document) to any Person except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish that such Commitment, Loan, Letter of Credit or other right or obligation is in registered form under Section 5f.103-1(c) of the United States Treasury Regulations. The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and such Lender shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of such participation for all purposes of this Agreement notwithstanding any notice to the contrary. For the avoidance of doubt, the Administrative Agent (in its capacity as Administrative Agent) shall have no responsibility for maintaining a Participant Register.

  

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(d) Any Lender may at any time pledge or assign a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement to secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank, and this Section shall not apply to any such pledge or assignment of a security interest; provided that no such pledge or assignment of a security interest shall release a Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.

SECTION 9.05. Survival. All covenants, agreements, representations and warranties made by the Loan Parties in the Loan Documents and in the certificates or other instruments delivered in connection with or pursuant to this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall be considered to have been relied upon by the other parties hereto and shall survive the execution and delivery of the Loan Documents and the making of any Loans and issuance of any Letters of Credit, regardless of any investigation made by any such other party or on its behalf and notwithstanding that the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank, any Lender or their Affiliates may have had notice or knowledge of any Default or incorrect representation or warranty at the time any Loan Document is executed and delivered or any credit is extended hereunder, and shall continue in full force and effect as long as the principal of or any accrued interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount payable under this Agreement is outstanding and unpaid or any LC Exposure is outstanding and so long as the Commitments have not expired or terminated. Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything else to the contrary set forth in this Agreement or any other Loan Document, in the event that, in connection with the refinancing or repayment in full of the credit facilities provided for herein, the Issuing Bank shall have provided to the Administrative Agent a written consent to the release of the Lenders from their obligations hereunder with respect to any Letter of Credit issued by the Issuing Bank (whether as a result of the obligations of the Borrower (and any other account party) in respect of such Letter of Credit having been collateralized in full by a deposit of cash with the Issuing Bank, or being supported by a letter of credit that names the Issuing Bank as the beneficiary thereunder, or otherwise), then from and after such time such Letter of Credit shall cease to be a “Letter of Credit” outstanding hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and the Lenders shall be deemed to have no participations in such Letter of Credit, and no obligations with respect thereto, under Section 2.05(d) or 2.05(f). The provisions of Sections 2.14, 2.15, 2.16, 2.17(e) and 9.03 and Article VIII shall survive and remain in full force and effect regardless of the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, the repayment of the Loans, the expiration or termination of the Letters of Credit and the Commitments or the termination of this Agreement or any provision hereof.

  

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SECTION 9.06. Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto on different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents constitute the entire contract among the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersede any and all previous agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof, including the commitments of the Lenders and, if applicable, their Affiliates under the Commitment Letter and any commitment advices submitted by them (but do not supersede any other provisions of the Commitment Letter or the Fee Letter (or any separate letter agreements with respect to fees payable to the Administrative Agent or the Issuing Bank) that do not by the terms of such documents terminate upon the effectiveness of this Agreement, all of which provisions shall remain in full force and effect). Except as provided in Section 4.01, this Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall have received counterparts hereof that, when taken together, bear the signatures of each of the other parties hereto, and thereafter shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Agreement by facsimile or other electronic imaging shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement.

SECTION 9.07. Severability. Any provision of this Agreement held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability without affecting the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions hereof; and the invalidity of a particular provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate such provision in any other jurisdiction.

SECTION 9.08. Right of Setoff. If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, each Lender and the Issuing Bank, and each Affiliate of any of the foregoing, is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final, in whatever currency) or other amounts at any time held and other obligations (in whatever currency) at any time owing by such Lender or the Issuing Bank, or by such an Affiliate, to or for the credit or the account of the Borrower against any of and all the obligations then due of the Borrower now or hereafter existing under this Agreement held by such Lender or the Issuing Bank, irrespective of whether or not such Lender or the Issuing Bank shall have made any demand under this Agreement. The rights of each Lender and the Issuing Bank, and each Affiliate of any of the foregoing, under this Section are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) that such Lender, the Issuing Bank or Affiliate may have.

  

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

(b) Each party hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for itself and its property, to the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the State of New York sitting in New York County and of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York, and any appellate court from any thereof, in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or for recognition or enforcement of any judgment, and the Borrower hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that all claims arising out of or relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document brought by it or any of its Affiliates shall be brought, and shall be heard and determined, exclusively in such New York State or, to the extent permitted by law, in such Federal court. Each party 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 the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender may otherwise have to bring any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document against any Loan Party or any of its properties in the courts of any jurisdiction.

(c) The Borrower hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any objection that it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document in any court referred to in paragraph (b) of this Section. Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding in any such court.

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

SECTION 9.10. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY). EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PARTY HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION.

  

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SECTION 9.11. Headings. Article and Section headings and the Table of Contents used herein are for convenience of reference only, are not part of this Agreement and shall not affect the construction of, or be taken into consideration in interpreting, this Agreement.

SECTION 9.12. Confidentiality. Each of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Issuing Bank agrees to maintain the confidentiality of the Information (as defined below), except that Information may be disclosed (a) to its Related Parties, including accountants, legal counsel and other agents and advisors, it being understood that the Persons to whom such disclosure is made will be informed of the confidential nature of such Information and instructed to keep such Information confidential, (b) to the extent requested by any regulatory authority purporting to have jurisdiction over it (including any self-regulatory authority, such as the National Association of Insurance Commissioners), (c) to the extent required by applicable law or by any subpoena or similar legal process, (d) to any other party to this Agreement, (e) in connection with the exercise of any remedies under this Agreement or any other Loan Document or any suit, action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the enforcement of rights hereunder or thereunder, (f) subject to an agreement containing confidentiality undertakings substantially similar to those of this Section, to (i) any assignee of or Participant in, or any prospective assignee of or Participant in, any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement or (ii) any actual or prospective counterparty (or its Related Parties) to any swap or derivative transaction relating to the Borrower or any Subsidiary and its obligations, (g) with the consent of the Borrower or (h) to the extent such Information (i) becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this Section or (ii) becomes available to the Administrative Agent, any Lender, the Issuing Bank or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing on a nonconfidential basis from a source other than the Borrower. For purposes of this Section, “Information” means all information received from the Borrower relating to the Borrower or any Subsidiary or their businesses, other than any such information that is available to the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the Issuing Bank on a nonconfidential basis prior to disclosure by the Borrower; provided that, in the case of information received from the Borrower after the date hereof, such information is clearly identified at the time of delivery as confidential. Any Person required to maintain the confidentiality of Information as provided in this Section shall be considered to have complied with its obligation to do so if such Person has exercised the same degree of care to maintain the confidentiality of such Information as such Person would accord to its own confidential information.

SECTION 9.13. Interest Rate Limitation. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if at any time the interest rate applicable to any Loan, together with all fees, charges and other amounts that are treated as interest on such Loan under applicable law (collectively the “Charges”), shall exceed the maximum lawful rate (the “Maximum Rate”) that may be contracted for, charged, taken, received or reserved by the Lender holding such Loan in accordance with applicable law, the rate of interest payable in respect of such Loan hereunder, together with all Charges payable in respect thereof, shall be limited to the Maximum Rate and, to the extent lawful, the interest and Charges that would have been payable in respect of such Loan but were not payable as a result of the operation of this Section shall be cumulated and the interest and Charges payable to such Lender in respect of other Loans or periods shall be increased (but not above the Maximum Rate therefor) until such cumulated amount, together with interest thereon at the Federal Funds Effective Rate to the date of repayment, shall have been received by such Lender.

  

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SECTION 9.14. Release of Liens and Guarantees. (a) A Subsidiary Loan Party shall automatically be released from its obligations under the Loan Documents, and all security interests created by the Security Documents in Collateral owned by such Subsidiary Loan Party shall be automatically released, upon the consummation of any transaction permitted by this Agreement as a result of which such Subsidiary Loan Party ceases to be a Subsidiary; provided that, if so required by this Agreement, the Required Lenders shall have consented to such transaction and the terms of such consent shall not have provided otherwise. Upon any sale or other transfer by any Loan Party (other than to the Borrower or any Subsidiary) of any Collateral in a transaction permitted under this Agreement, or upon the effectiveness of any written consent to the release of the security interest created under any Security Document in any Collateral pursuant to Section 9.02, the security interests in such Collateral created by the Security Documents shall be automatically released. In connection with any termination or release pursuant to this Section, the Administrative Agent shall execute and deliver to any Loan Party, at such Loan Party’s expense, all documents that such Loan Party shall reasonably request to evidence such termination or release. Any execution and delivery of documents pursuant to this Section shall be without recourse to or warranty by the Administrative Agent.

SECTION 9.15. USA PATRIOT Act Notice. Each Lender and the Administrative Agent (for itself and not on behalf of any Lender) hereby notifies each Loan Party that pursuant to the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies such Loan Party, which information includes the name and address of such Loan Party and other information that will allow such Lender or the Administrative Agent, as applicable, to identify such Loan Party in accordance with such Act.

SECTION 9.16. No Fiduciary Relationship. The Borrower, on behalf of itself and its subsidiaries, agrees that in connection with all aspects of the transactions contemplated hereby and any communications in connection therewith, the Borrower, the Subsidiaries and their Affiliates, on the one hand, and the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the Issuing Bank and their Affiliates, on the other hand, will have a business relationship that does not create, by implication or otherwise, any fiduciary duty on the part of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the Issuing Bank or their Affiliates, and no such duty will be deemed to have arisen in connection with any such transactions or communications.

SECTION 9.17. Non-Public Information. (a) Each Lender acknowledges that all information, including requests for waivers and amendments, furnished by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent pursuant to or in connection with, or in the course of administering, this Agreement will be syndicate-level information, which may contain MNPI. Each Lender represents to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent that (i) it has developed compliance procedures regarding the use of MNPI and that it will handle MNPI in accordance with such procedures and applicable law, including Federal, state and foreign securities laws, and (ii) it has identified in its Administrative Questionnaire a credit contact who may receive information that may contain MNPI in accordance with its compliance procedures and applicable law, including Federal, state and foreign securities laws.

  

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(b) The Borrower and each Lender acknowledge that, if information furnished by the Borrower pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement is being distributed by the Administrative Agent through IntraLinks/IntraAgency, SyndTrak or another website or other information platform (the “Platform”), (i) the Administrative Agent may post any information that the Borrower has indicated as containing MNPI solely on that portion of the Platform as is designated for Private Side Lender Representatives and (ii) if the Borrower has not indicated whether any information furnished by it pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement contains MNPI, the Administrative Agent reserves the right to post such information solely on that portion of the Platform as is designated for Private Side Lender Representatives. The Borrower agrees to clearly designate all information provided to the Administrative Agent by or on behalf of the Borrower that is suitable to be made available to Public Side Lender Representatives, and the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely on any such designation by the Borrower without liability or responsibility for the independent verification thereof.

[Signature pages follow]

  

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

	  	
SHUTTERFLY, INC.,

	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	
by

	  	  
	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	
Name:

	  
	  	  	  	
Title:

	  
	  	  	  	  	  
	  	
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,

	  	
individually and as Administrative Agent,

	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	
by

	  	  
	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	
Name:

	  
	  	  	  	
Title:

	  

  

 

  

SIGNATURE PAGE TO

THE CREDIT AGREEMENT

OF SHUTTERFLY, INC.

	  	
Name of Institution:

	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	
by

	  	  
	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	
Name:

	  
	  	  	  	
Title:

	  
	  	  	  	  	  
	  	
For any Lender requiring a second signature block:

	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	
by

	  	  
	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	
Name:

	  
	  	  	  	
Title:

	  

 

  

 

  

EXHIBIT A

[FORM OF]

ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION

This Assignment and Assumption (the “Assignment and Assumption”) is dated as of the Effective Date set forth below and is entered into by and between the Assignor (as defined below) and the Assignee (as defined below). Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement identified below, receipt of a copy of which is hereby acknowledged by the Assignee. The Standard Terms and Conditions set forth in Annex 1 attached hereto are hereby agreed to and incorporated herein by reference and made a part of this Assignment and Assumption as if set forth herein in full.

For an agreed consideration, the Assignor hereby irrevocably sells and assigns to the Assignee, and the Assignee hereby irrevocably purchases and assumes from the Assignor, subject to and in accordance with the Standard Terms and Conditions referred to below and the Credit Agreement, as of the Effective Date inserted by the Administrative Agent as contemplated below, (a) all the Assignor’s rights and obligations in its capacity as a Lender under the Credit Agreement and any other documents or instruments delivered pursuant thereto to the extent related to the amount and percentage interest identified below of all of such outstanding rights and obligations of the Assignor under the credit facility provided for under the Credit Agreement (including any Letters of Credit, Guarantees, and Swingline Loans included in such credit facility) and (b) to the extent permitted to be assigned under applicable law, all claims, suits, causes of action and any other right of the Assignor (in its capacity as a Lender) against any Person, whether known or unknown, arising under or in connection with the Credit Agreement, any other documents or instruments delivered pursuant thereto or the loan transactions governed thereby or in any way based on or related to any of the foregoing, including contract claims, tort claims, malpractice claims, statutory claims and all other claims at law or in equity, related to the rights and obligations sold and assigned pursuant to clause (a) above (the rights and obligations sold and assigned pursuant to clauses (a) and (b) above being referred to herein collectively as the “Assigned Interest”). Such sale and assignment is without recourse to the Assignor and, except as expressly provided in this Assignment and Assumption, without representation or warranty by the Assignor.

	
1. Assignor:

	  	  
	  	  	  
	
2. Assignee:

	  	  

[and is an Affiliate/Approved Fund of [Identify Lender]]1

	
  

	
3.

	
Borrower: Shutterfly, Inc.

	
  

	
4.

	
Administrative Agent: JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

_________________________

1     Select as applicable.

  

  

  

	
  

	
5.

	
Credit Agreement: the Credit Agreement dated as of November 22, 2011, among Shutterfly, Inc., the Lenders parties thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent

	
  

	
6.

	
Assigned Interest:

	
Aggregate Amount of Commitments/Loans of all Lenders

	  	
Principal Amount of the Commitment Assigned2

	  	
Principal Amount of Outstanding Revolving Loans Assigned3

	  	
Commitment Assigned as a Percentage of Aggregate Commitments4

	
$

	  	
$

	  	
$

	  	
%

Effective Date:  , 20___ [TO BE INSERTED BY THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND WHICH SHALL BE THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF RECORDATION OF TRANSFER IN THE REGISTER THEREFOR].

The Assignee, if not already a Lender, agrees to deliver to the Administrative Agent a completed Administrative Questionnaire in which the Assignee designates one or more credit contacts to whom all syndicate-level information (which may contain MNPI about the Borrower, the Subsidiaries and their securities) will be made available and who may receive such information in accordance with the Assignee’s compliance procedures and applicable laws, including Federal and state securities laws.

_________________________

2 Must comply with the minimum assignment amounts set forth in Section 9.04(b)(ii)(A) of the Credit Agreement.

 

3 Must comply with the minimum assignment amounts set forth in Section 9.04(b)(ii)(A)  of the Credit Agreement.

 

4 Set forth, to at least 9 decimals, as a percentage of the aggregate Commitments of all Lenders.

  

  

  

	
The terms set forth above are hereby agreed to:

	  	
[Consented to and]5 Accepted:

	  
	 	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  	
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as

	  
	
________________, as Assignor,

	  	
Administrative Agent,

	  
	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  
	  	
by

	  	  	  	
by

	  	  
	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	
Name:

	  	  	  	
Name:

	  
	  	  	
Title:

	  	  	  	
Title:

	  
	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  
	
________________, as Assignee,6

	  	
Consented to:

	  
	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  
	  	
by

	  	  	
[SHUTTERFLY, INC.,

	  
	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	
Name:

	  	  	
by

	  	  
	  	  	
Title:

	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  	  	  	
Name:

	  
	  	  	  	  	  	  	
Title:]7

	  
	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  	
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as an

	  
	  	  	  	  	
Issuing Bank and the Swingline Lender,

	  
	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  	  	
by

	  	  
	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  	  	  	
Name:

	  
	  	  	  	  	  	  	
Title:

	  
	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  	
[NAME OF EACH ISSUING BANK],

	  
	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  	  	
by

	  	  
	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  	  	  	
Name:

	  
	  	  	  	  	  	  	
Title:

	  

_________________________

5 No consent of the Administrative Agent is required for an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund.

 

6 The Assignee must deliver to the Company all applicable Tax forms required to be delivered by it under Section 2.16(f) of the Credit Agreement.

 

7 No consent of the Company is required for an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund or, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, for any other assignment.  Borrower is deemed to have consented to any such assignment unless it shall object thereto by written notice of the Administrative Agent within five Business Days after having received notice thereof.

  

  

  

ANNEX 1 TO

ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION

STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR

ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION

1.            Representations and Warranties.

1.1.         Assignor. The Assignor (a) represents and warrants that (i) it is the legal and beneficial owner of the Assigned Interest, (ii) the Assigned Interest is free and clear of any lien, encumbrance or other adverse claim and (iii) it has full power and authority, and has taken all action necessary, to execute and deliver this Assignment and Assumption and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby; and (b) assumes no responsibility with respect to (i) any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document, other than statements made by it herein, (ii) the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document, (iii) the financial condition of the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or other Affiliates or any other Person obligated in respect of the Credit Agreement or (iv) the performance or observance by the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or other Affiliates or any other Person of any of their respective obligations under the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document.

1.2.         Assignee. The Assignee (a) represents and warrants that (i) it has full power and authority, and has taken all action necessary, to execute and deliver this Assignment and Assumption, to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and to become a Lender under the Credit Agreement, (ii) it meets all requirements of an eligible assignee under the Credit Agreement (subject to receipt of such consents as may be required under the Credit Agreement), (iii) from and after the Assignment Effective Date, it shall be bound by the provisions of the Credit Agreement as a Lender thereunder and, to the extent of the Assigned Interest, shall have the obligations of a Lender thereunder, (iv) it has received a copy of the Credit Agreement, together with copies of the most recent financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 5.01 thereof and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Assignment and Assumption and to purchase the Assigned Interest independently and without reliance on the Administrative Agent or any other Lender, (v) if it is a Lender that is a U.S. Person, attached hereto is an executed original of IRS Form W-9 certifying that such Lender is exempt from U.S. Federal backup withholding tax and (vi) if it is a Foreign Lender, attached hereto is any documentation required to be delivered by it pursuant to the terms of the Credit Agreement, duly completed and executed by the Assignee; and (b) agrees that (i) it will, independently and without reliance on the Administrative Agent, the Assignor 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 the Credit Agreement, and (ii) it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations which by the terms of the Credit Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender.

2.            Payments. From and after the Effective Date, the Agents shall make all payments in respect of the Assigned Interest (including payments of principal, interest, fees and other amounts) to the Assignee whether such amounts have accrued prior to or on or after the Effective Date. The Assignor and the Assignee shall make all appropriate adjustments inpayments by the Administrative Agent for periods prior to the Effective Date or with respect to the making of this assignment directly between themselves.

  

  

  

3.            General Provisions. This Assignment and Assumption shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of, the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns. This Assignment and Assumption may be executed in any number of counterparts (and by different parties hereto on different counterparts), which together shall constitute one instrument. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Assignment and Assumption by facsimile or other electronic image scan transmission shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Assignment and Assumption. This Assignment and Assumption shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

  

  

  

EXHIBIT B

[FORM OF]

BORROWING REQUEST

JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

as Administrative Agent

Loan and Agency Services Group

10 South Dearborn

Chicago, IL 60603

Attention: [ ]

Fax: [ ]

Copy to:

JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

as Administrative Agent

277 Park Avenue, Floor 23

New York, NY 10172

Attention: [ ]

Fax: [ ]

[Date]

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Reference is made to the Credit Agreement dated as of November 22, 2011 (the “Credit Agreement”), among Shutterfly, Inc. (the “Borrower”), the Lenders party thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as the Administrative Agent. Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings specified in the Credit Agreement. This notice constitutes a Borrowing Request and the Borrower hereby gives you notice, pursuant to Section [2.03] [2.04] of the Credit Agreement, that it requests a Borrowing under the Credit Agreement, and in connection therewith specifies the following information with respect to such Borrowing:

	
  

	
(A)

	
Aggregate principal amount of Borrowing :1 $__________________

	
  

	
(C)

	
Date of Borrowing (which is a Business Day): __________________

	
  

	
(D)

	
Type of Borrowing:2 _____________________________________

	
  

	
(E)

	
Interest Period and the last day thereof:3 _____________________

_________________________

1     Must comply with Section 2.02(c) and 2.04(a) of the Credit Agreement.

 

 

2     Specify ABR Borrowing or Eurocurrency Borrowing.  If no election as to the Type of Borrowing is specified, then the requested Borrowing shall be an ABR Borrowing.

 

 

3    Applicable to Eurocurrency Borrowings only.  Shall be subject to the definition of “Interest Period” and can be a period of one, two, three or six months (or, if agreed to by each Lender participating in the requested Borrowing, nine or twelve months).  If an Interest Period is not specified, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration.

  

  

  

	
  

	
(F)

	
Location and number of the Borrower’s account to which proceeds of the requested Borrowing are to be disbursed: [Name of Bank] (Account

No.:_________________________________________)

[Issuing Bank to which proceeds of the requested Borrowing are to be disbursed:__________________________________________]1

The Borrower hereby certifies that the conditions specified in paragraphs (a) and (b) of Section 4.02 of the Credit Agreement have been satisfied and that, after giving effect to the Borrowing requested hereby, the Aggregate Revolving Exposure (or any component thereof) shall not exceed the maximum amount thereof (or the maximum amount of any such component) specified in Section 2.01, 2.04(a) or 2.05(b) of the Credit Agreement.

	  	
Very truly yours,

	  
	  	  	  	  
	  	
SHUTTERFLY, INC.,

	  
	  	  	  	  
	  	
By:

	  	  
	  	  	
Name:

	  
	  	  	
Title:

	  

_________________________

1                Specify only in the case of an ABR Revolving Borrowing requested to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as provided in Section 2.05(f) of the Credit Agreement.

  

  

  

EXHIBIT C

[FORM OF GUARANTEE AND COLLATERAL AGREEMENT]

  

  

  

EXHIBIT D

[FORM OF]

COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE

[The form of this Compliance Certificate has been prepared for convenience only, and is not to affect, or to be taken into consideration in interpreting, the terms of the Credit Agreement referred to below. The obligations of the Borrower under the Credit Agreement are as set forth in the Credit Agreement, and nothing in this Compliance Certificate, or the form hereof, shall modify such obligations or constitute a waiver of compliance therewith in accordance with the terms of the Credit Agreement. In the event of any conflict between the terms of this Compliance Certificate and the terms of the Credit Agreement, the terms of the Credit Agreement shall govern and control, and the terms of this Compliance Certificate are to be modified accordingly.]

Reference is made to the Credit Agreement dated as of November 22, 2011 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among Shutterfly, Inc. (the “Borrower”), the Lenders from time to time party thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent. Each capitalized term used but not defined herein shall have the meaning specified in the Credit Agreement

The undersigned hereby certifies, in his capacity as a [ ] of the Borrower and not in a personal capacity, as follows:

1. I am a Financial Officer of the Borrower.

2. [[Attached as Schedule I hereto are] [The Borrower has delivered to the Administrative Agent as provided in the Credit Agreement] the consolidated financial statements required to be delivered under Section 5.01(a) of the Credit Agreement as of the end of and for the fiscal year ended [ ], setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the prior fiscal year, together with an audit opinion thereon of [PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP] required by Section 5.01(a), and a certificate of [PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP], as required by Section 5.01(d) of the Credit Agreement, stating whether it obtained knowledge during the course of its examination of such financial statements of any Default, and, in the case it shall have obtained knowledge of any Default, specifying the details thereof (which certificate may be limited to the extent required by accounting rules or guidelines)1.]

[or]

[[Attached as Schedule I hereto are] [The Borrower has delivered to the Administrative Agent as provided in the Credit Agreement] the consolidated financial statements required to be delivered under Section 5.01(b) of the Credit Agreement as of the end of and for the fiscal quarter ended [ ] and the then elapsed portion of the fiscal year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the prior fiscal year. Such financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position, results of operations and cash flows of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis as of the end of and for such fiscal quarter and the then elapsed portion of the fiscal year in accordance with GAAP, subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of certain footnotes.]

_________________________

1 The certificate of [PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP] shall not be required to be delivered if the Borrower has used commercially reasonable efforts to cause such certificate to be delivered by such accounting firm and such accounting firm has informed the Borrower that it is not able or willing to provide such certificate.

 

Exhibit D to Credit Agreement

  

  

  

3. All notices required under Sections 5.03 and 5.04 of the Credit Agreement have been provided.

4. I have reviewed the terms of the Credit Agreement and I have made, or have caused to be made under my supervision, a review in reasonable detail of the transactions and condition of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries during the accounting period covered by the attached financial statements. The foregoing examination did not disclose, and I have no knowledge of, (a) the existence of any condition or event that constitutes a Default or an Event of Default during or at the end of the accounting period covered by the attached financial statements or as of the date of this Certificate, except as set forth in a separate attachment, if any, to this Certificate, specifying the details thereof and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto, or (b) any change in GAAP or in the application thereof since the date of the consolidated balance sheet most recently theretofore delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or 5.01(b) of the Credit Agreement (or prior to the first such delivery, referred to in Section 3.04 of the Credit Agreement), that has had, or could have, a significant effect on the calculations of the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio or the Leverage Ratio, except as set forth in a separate attachment, if any, to this Certificate, specifying the nature of such change and the effect thereof on such calculations.

5. The financial covenant computations and other information set forth on Annex A hereto are true and accurate on and as of the date of this Certificate.

The foregoing certifications are made and delivered on [ ], pursuant to Section 5.01(c) of the Credit Agreement.

	  	
SHUTTERFLY, INC.,

	  
	  	  	  	  
	  	
By:

	  	  
	  	
Name:

	  
	  	
Title:

	  

  

  

  

ANNEX A TO

COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE

FOR THE FISCAL [QUARTER] [YEAR] ENDED [mm/dd/yy].

Leverage Ratio

	
Consolidated Total Indebtedness=

	
[      ]

	
Consolidated EBITDA=

	
[      ]

	
Actual Ratio=

	
[      ] to 1.0

Supporting detail showing the calculation of Consolidated Total Indebtedness is attached hereto as Schedule 1. Supporting detail showing the calculation of Consolidated EBITDA is attached hereto as Schedule 2.

Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio

	
Consolidated EBITDA=

	
[      ]

	
Consolidated Fixed Charges =

	
[      ]

	
Actual Ratio=

	
[      ] to 1.00

Supporting detail showing the calculation of Consolidated Fixed Charges is attached hereto as Schedule 3.

  

  

  

EXHIBIT E

[FORM OF]

INTEREST ELECTION REQUEST

JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

as Administrative Agent

Loan and Agency Services Group

10 South Dearborn

Chicago, IL 60603

Attention: [ ]

Fax: [ ]

Copy to:

JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

as Administrative Agent

277 Park Avenue, Floor 23

New York, NY 10172

Attention: [ ]

Fax: [ ]

[Date]

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Reference is made to the Credit Agreement dated as of November 22, 2011 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), Shutterfly, Inc. (the “Borrower”), the Lenders party thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent. Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings specified in the Credit Agreement. This notice constitutes an Interest Election Request and the Borrower hereby gives you notice, pursuant to Section 2.07 of the Credit Agreement, that it requests the conversion or continuation of a Borrowing under the Credit Agreement, and in that connection the Borrower specifies the following information with respect to such Borrowing and each resulting Borrowing:

	
1.

	
Borrowing to which this request applies:

	
_______________________________

	  	
Principal Amount:

	
_______________________________

	  	
Type:

	
_______________________________

	  	
Interest Period1:

	
_______________________________

	  	  	  
	
2.

	
Effective date of this election2:

	
_______________________________

	  	  	  

_________________________

1     In the case of a Eurocurrency Borrowing, specify the last day of the current Interest Period therefor.

 

2     Must be a Business Day.

  

  

  

	
3.

	
Resulting Borrowing[s]3

	  
	  	
Principal Amount4:

	
_______________________________

	  	
Type5

	
_______________________________

	  	
Interest Period6

	
_______________________________

	  	
Very truly yours,

	  	  	  	  
	  	
SHUTTERFLY, INC.,

	  	  	  	  
	  	  	
By:

	  
	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	
Name:

	  	  	  	
Title:

_________________________

3    If different options are being elected with respect to different portions of the Borrowing, provide the information required by this item 3 for each resulting Borrowing.  Each resulting Borrowings shall be in an aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of, and not less than, the amount specified for a Borrowing of such Class and Type in Section 2.02(c) of the Credit Agreement.

 

4    Indicate the principal amount of the resulting Borrowing and the percentage of the Borrowing in item 1 above.

 

5 Specify whether the resulting Borrowing is to be a ABR Borrowing or a Eurocurrency Borrowing.

 

6 Applicable only if the resulting Borrowing is to be a Eurocurrency Borrowing.  Shall be subject to the definition of “Interest Period” and can be a period of one, two, three or six months (or, if agreed to by each Lender, any number of months not more than twelve months).  Cannot extend beyond the Maturity Date.

  

  

  

EXHIBIT F

[FORM OF]

PERFECTION CERTIFICATE

Reference is made to the Credit Agreement dated as of November 22, 2011 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among Shutterfly, Inc. (the “Borrower”), the lenders from time to time party thereto (the “Lenders”) and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent for the Lenders (in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”). Capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the meanings assigned in the Credit Agreement or the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement referred to therein, as applicable.

The undersigned, a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, hereby certifies to the Administrative Agent and each other Secured Party on behalf of the Loan Parties as follows:

1. Legal Names.

(a) Set forth on Schedule 1 is (i) the exact legal name of each Loan Party, as such name appears in its certificate of organization, and (ii) each other legal name such Loan Party has had in the past five years, including the date of the relevant name change.

(b) Except as set forth on Schedule 1, no Loan Party has changed its identity or corporate structure in any manner within the past five years. Changes in identity or corporate structure include mergers, consolidations and acquisitions, as well as any change in form or jurisdiction of organization. With respect to any such change that has occurred within the past five years, Schedules 1, 2A and 2B set forth the information required by Sections 1 and 2 of this Perfection Certificate as to each acquiree or constituent party to such merger, consolidation or acquisition.

2. Jurisdictions and Locations.

(a) Set forth on Schedule 2A is (i) the jurisdiction of organization and the form of organization of each Loan Party, (ii) the organizational identification number, if any, assigned to such Loan Party by such jurisdiction and the federal taxpayer identification number, if any, of such Loan Party and (iii) the address (including the county) of the chief executive office of such Loan Party.

(b) Set forth on Schedule 2B are, with respect to each Loan Party, (i) all locations where such Loan Party maintains any books or records relating to any Accounts, (ii) all locations where such Loan Party maintains a place of business or any Collateral not otherwise identified on any Schedule herein and (iii) the name and address of any Person other than a Loan Party that has possession of any Collateral (including any books or records relating thereto and any computers and equipment containing such books and records), indicating whether such Person holds such Collateral subject to a Lien (including warehousemen’s, mechanics’ and other statutory liens).

  

  

  

3. Unusual Transactions.

All Accounts have been originated by the Loan Parties and all Inventory has been acquired by the Loan Parties in the ordinary course of business.

4. File Search Reports.

File search reports have been obtained from each Uniform Commercial Code filing office identified with respect to such Loan Party in Section 2 hereof, and such search reports reflect no liens against any of the Collateral other than those permitted under the Credit Agreement.

5. UCC Filings.

UCC financing statements have been prepared for filing in the proper UCC filing office in the jurisdiction in which each Loan Party is located and, to the extent any of the Collateral is comprised of fixtures, in the proper local jurisdiction, in each case as set forth with respect to such Loan Party in Section 2 above. Set forth on Schedule 5 is a complete and correct list of each such filing and the UCC filing office or county recorder’s office in which such filing is to be made.

6. Stock Ownership and other Equity Interests.

Attached hereto as Schedule 6 is a true and correct list of all the issued and outstanding stock, partnership interests, limited liability company membership interests or other equity interest of the Borrower and each Subsidiary and the record and beneficial owners of such stock, partnership interests, membership interests or other equity interests. Also set forth on Schedule 6 is each equity investment of the Borrower or any Subsidiary that represents 50% or more of the equity of the entity in which such investment was made.

7. Debt Instruments.

Attached hereto as Schedule 7 is a true and correct list of all promissory notes and other evidence of indebtedness held by the Borrower and each Subsidiary that are required to be pledged under the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, specifying the creditor and debtor thereunder and the type and outstanding principal amount thereof. Schedule 7 includes all intercompany notes.

8. Advances.

Attached hereto as Schedule 8 is (a) a true and correct list of all advances made by the Borrower to any Subsidiary of the Borrower or made by any Subsidiary of the Borrower to the Borrower or to any other Subsidiary of the Borrower (other than those identified on Schedule 7), which advances will be on and after the date hereof evidenced by one or more intercompany notes pledged to the Administrative Agent under the Collateral and Guarantee Agreement and (b) a true and correct list of all unpaid intercompany transfers of goods sold and delivered by or to the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower.

  

  

  

9. Mortgage Filings.

Attached hereto as Schedule 9 is a schedule setting forth, with respect to each Mortgaged Property, (a) the exact name of the Person that owns such property as such name appears in its certificate of incorporation or other organizational document, (b) if different from the name identified pursuant to clause (a), the exact name of the current record owner of such property reflected in the records of the filing office for such property identified pursuant to the following clause and (c) the filing office in which a Mortgage with respect to such property must be filed or recorded in order for the Administrative Agent to obtain a perfected security interest therein.

10. Intellectual Property.

Attached hereto as Schedule 10A in proper form for filing with the United States Patent and Trademark Office is a schedule setting forth all of each Loan Party’s Patents and Patent Applications, including the name of the registered owner, type, registration or application number and the expiration date (if already registered) of each Patent and Patent Application owned by any Loan Party.

Attached hereto as Schedule 10B in proper form for filing with the United States Patent and Trademark Office is a schedule setting forth all of each Loan Party’s Trademarks and Trademark Applications, including the name of the registered owner, the registration or application number and the expiration date (if already registered) of each Trademark and Trademark application owned by any Loan Party.

Attached hereto as Schedule 10C in proper form for filing with the United States Copyright Office is a schedule setting forth all of each Loan Party’s Copyrights (including the name of the registered owner, title and the registration number) and Copyright Applications (including the name of the registered owner and title) of each Copyright or Copyright Application owned by any Loan Party.

11. Commercial Tort Claims.

Attached hereto as Schedule 11 is a true and correct list of commercial tort claims in excess of $500,000 held by any Loan Party, including a brief description thereof.

12. Deposit Accounts.

Attached hereto as Schedule 12 is a true and correct list of deposit accounts maintained by each Loan Party, including the name and address of the depositary institution, the type of account and the account number.

13. Securities Accounts.

Attached hereto as Schedule 13 is a true and correct list of securities accounts maintained by each Loan Party, including the name and address of the intermediary institution, the type of account and the account number.

  

  

  

[Signature page follows]

  

  

  

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have duly executed this certificate on this _____ day of November, 2011.

	  	
SHUTTERFLY, INC.,

	  
	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	
by

	  	  
	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	
Name:

	  
	  	  	  	
Title:

	  

  

  

  

Schedule 1

Legal Names

	
Loan Party’s Exact Legal Name

	
Other Legal Names

(including date of change)

	  	  
	  	  
	  	  
	  	  
	  	  

  

  

  

Schedule 2A

Jurisdictions and Locations

	
Loan Party

	
Jurisdiction of Organization

	
Form of Organization

	
Organizational Identification Number (if any)

	
Federal Taxpayer Identification Number (if any)

	
Chief Executive Office Address (including county)

	  	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  	  	  

  

  

  

Schedule 2B

Other Addresses

	
Loan Party

	
Locations where Books or Records Relating to Accounts Receivable are Maintained

(including county)

	
Other Locations where a Place of Business or any Collateral is Maintained

(including county)1

	
Name and Address of Other Persons that have possession of any Collateral

(including county)2

	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  

1 Indicate locations where chattel paper is kept with an asterisk (“*”).

2 Indicate each Person that holds any Lien (including warehousemen’s, mechanics’ and other statutory liens) on any Collateral in its possession with a double asterisk (“**”).

  

  

  

Schedule 5

UCC Filings

	
Loan Party[/Mortgaged Property]

	
UCC Filing Office[/County Recorder’s Office]

	  	  
	  	  
	  	  
	  	  
	  	  

  

  

  

Schedule 6

Equity Interests

	
Loan Party

	
Issuer

	
Certificate Number

	
Number of Equity Interests

	
Percentage of Ownership

	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  	  

  

  

  

Schedule 7

Debt Instruments

	
Loan Party

	
Creditor

	
Debtor

	
Type

	
Amount

	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  	  

  

  

  

Schedule 8

Advances and Intercompany Transfers

  

  

  

Schedule 9

Mortgaged Property

	
I.

	
Owned Real Property

	
Loan Party

	
Name of Owner

	
Name of Record Owner (if different)

	
Address

	
County Recorder’s Office

	
Fair Market Value

	  	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  	  	  

	
II.

	
Leased Real Property

	
Loan Party

	
Name of Lessor

	
Name of Record Owner (if different)

	
Address

	
County Recorder’s Office

	
Fair Market Value

	  	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  	  	  

  

  

  

Schedule 10A

Patents and Patent Applications

  

  

  

Schedule 10B

Trademarks and Trademark Applications

  

  

  

Schedule 10C

Copyrights and Copyright Applications

  

  

  

Schedule 11

Commercial Tort Claims

	
Loan Party/Plaintiff

	
Defendant

	
Description

	  	  	  
	  	  	  
	  	  	  
	  	  	  
	  	  	  

  

  

  

Schedule 12

Deposit Accounts

	
Loan Party

	
Depositary Institution (including address)

	
Type of Account

	
Account Number

	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  

  

  

  

Schedule 13

Securities Accounts

	
Loan Party

	
Financial Institution (including address)

	
Type of Account

	
Account Number

	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  

  

  

  

EXHIBIT G-1

[FORM OF]

U.S. TAX COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE

(For Foreign Lenders That Are Not Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)

Reference is hereby made to the Credit Agreement dated as of November 22, 2011 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among Shutterfly, Inc., JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent, and each lender from time to time party thereto.

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 2.16 of the Credit Agreement, the undersigned hereby certifies that (i) it is the sole record and beneficial owner of the Loan(s) (as well as any Note(s) evidencing such Loan(s)) in respect of which it is providing this certificate, (ii) it is not a bank within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (iii) it is not a ten percent shareholder of the Borrower within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code and (iv) it is not a controlled foreign corporation related to the Borrower as described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code.

The undersigned has furnished the Administrative Agent and the Borrower with a certificate of its non-U.S. Person status on IRS Form W-8BEN. By executing this certificate, the undersigned agrees that (1) if the information provided on this certificate changes, the undersigned shall promptly so inform the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, and (2) the undersigned shall have at all times furnished the Borrower and the Administrative Agent with a properly completed and currently effective certificate in either the calendar year in which each payment is to be made to the undersigned, or in either of the two calendar years preceding such payments.

Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.

	
[NAME OF LENDER]

	  
	  	  	  
	
By:

	  	  
	  	
Name:

	  
	  	
Title:

	  

Date: ________ __, 20[ ]

  

  

  

EXHIBIT G-2

[FORM OF]

U.S. TAX COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE

(For Foreign Participants That Are Not Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)

Reference is hereby made to the Credit Agreement dated as of November 22, 2011 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among Shutterfly, Inc., JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent, and each lender from time to time party thereto.

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 2.16 of the Credit Agreement, the undersigned hereby certifies that (i) it is the sole record and beneficial owner of the participation in respect of which it is providing this certificate, (ii) it is not a bank within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (iii) it is not a ten percent shareholder of the Borrower within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code, and (iv) it is not a controlled foreign corporation related to the Borrower as described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code.

The undersigned has furnished its participating Lender with a certificate of its non-U.S. Person status on IRS Form W-8BEN. By executing this certificate, the undersigned agrees that (1) if the information provided on this certificate changes, the undersigned shall promptly so inform such Lender in writing, and (2) the undersigned shall have at all times furnished such Lender with a properly completed and currently effective certificate in either the calendar year in which each payment is to be made to the undersigned, or in either of the two calendar years preceding such payments.

Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.

	
[NAME OF PARTICIPANT]

	  
	  	  	  
	
By:

	  	  
	  	
Name:

	  
	  	
Title:

	  

Date: ________ __, 20[ ]

  

  

  

EXHIBIT G-3

[FORM OF]

U.S. TAX COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE

(For Foreign Participants That Are Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)

Reference is hereby made to the Credit Agreement dated as of November 22, 2011 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among Shutterfly, Inc., JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent, and each lender from time to time party thereto.

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 2.16 of the Credit Agreement, the undersigned hereby certifies that (i) it is the sole record owner of the participation in respect of which it is providing this certificate, (ii) its direct or indirect partners/members are the sole beneficial owners of such participation, (iii) with respect such participation, neither the undersigned nor any of its direct or indirect partners/members is a bank extending credit pursuant to a loan agreement entered into in the ordinary course of its trade or business within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (iv) none of its direct or indirect partners/members is a ten percent shareholder of the Borrower within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code and (v) none of its direct or indirect partners/members is a controlled foreign corporation related to the Borrower as described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code.

The undersigned has furnished its participating Lender with IRS Form W-8IMY accompanied by one of the following forms from each of its partners/members that is claiming the portfolio interest exemption: (i) an IRS Form W-8BEN or (ii) an IRS Form W-8IMY accompanied by an IRS Form W-8BEN from each of such partner's/member's beneficial owners that is claiming the portfolio interest exemption. By executing this certificate, the undersigned agrees that (1) if the information provided on this certificate changes, the undersigned shall promptly so inform such Lender and (2) the undersigned shall have at all times furnished such Lender with a properly completed and currently effective certificate in either the calendar year in which each payment is to be made to the undersigned, or in either of the two calendar years preceding such payments.

Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.

	
[NAME OF PARTICIPANT]

	  	  
	
By:

	  
	  	
Name:

	  	
Title:

Date: ________ __, 20[ ]

  

  

  

EXHIBIT G-4

[FORM OF]

U.S. TAX COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE

(For Foreign Lenders That Are Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)

Reference is hereby made to the Credit Agreement dated as of November 22, 2011 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among Shutterfly, Inc., JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent, and each lender from time to time party thereto.

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 2.16 of the Credit Agreement, the undersigned hereby certifies that (i) it is the sole record owner of the Loan(s) (as well as any Note(s) evidencing such Loan(s)) in respect of which it is providing this certificate, (ii) its direct or indirect partners/members are the sole beneficial owners of such Loan(s) (as well as any Note(s) evidencing such Loan(s)), (iii) with respect to the extension of credit pursuant to this Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document, neither the undersigned nor any of its direct or indirect partners/members is a bank extending credit pursuant to a loan agreement entered into in the ordinary course of its trade or business within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (iv) none of its direct or indirect partners/members is a ten percent shareholder of the Borrower within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code and (v) none of its direct or indirect partners/members is a controlled foreign corporation related to the Borrower as described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code.

The undersigned has furnished the Administrative Agent and the Borrower with IRS Form W-8IMY accompanied by one of the following forms from each of its partners/members that is claiming the portfolio interest exemption: (i) an IRS Form W-8BEN or (ii) an IRS Form W-8IMY accompanied by an IRS Form W-8BEN from each of such partner's/member's beneficial owners that is claiming the portfolio interest exemption. By executing this certificate, the undersigned agrees that (1) if the information provided on this certificate changes, the undersigned shall promptly so inform the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, and (2) the undersigned shall have at all times furnished the Borrower and the Administrative Agent with a properly completed and currently effective certificate in either the calendar year in which each payment is to be made to the undersigned, or in either of the two calendar years preceding such payments.

Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.

	
[NAME OF LENDER]

	  	  
	
By:

	  
	  	
Name:

	  	
Title:

Date: ________ __, 20[ ]FORM OF SUBSCRIPTION ESCROW AGREEMENT

 

THIS SUBSCRIPTION ESCROW AGREEMENT,
dated as of ________, 2012 (this “Agreement”), is entered into among Allied Beacon Partners, Inc. (the “Dealer
Manager”), United Realty Trust Incorporated (the “Company”) and UMB Bank, N.A., a national banking
association, as escrow agent (the “Escrow Agent”).

 

WHEREAS, the Company intends to raise
cash funds from Investors (as defined below) pursuant to a public primary offering (the “Offering”) of not less
than 200,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Common Shares”), for an aggregate offering
amount of $2,090,000 (the “Minimum Amount”), and not more than 100,000,000 Common Shares, pursuant to the registration
statement on Form S-11 of the Company (No. 333-178651) (as amended, the “Offering Document”).

 

WHEREAS, the Escrow Agent is willing
to accept appointment as escrow agent only for the express duties set forth herein.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the
foregoing and of the mutual covenants and agreements contained herein, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound, hereby
agree as follows:

 

1.            Proceeds
to be Escrowed. On or before the date the Offering Document is initially declared effective by the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the “SEC”), the Company shall establish an interest-bearing escrow account with the Escrow Agent
to be invested in accordance with Section 7 titled “ESCROW ACCOUNT FOR THE BENEFIT OF INVESTORS IN COMMON SHARES OF
UNITED REALTY TRUST INCORPORATED” (including such abbreviations as are required for the Escrow Agent’s systems) (the
“Escrow Account”). All checks, wire transfers and other funds received from subscribers of Common Shares (“Investors”)
in payment for the Common Shares (“Investor Funds”) will be delivered to the Escrow Agent within two (2) business
days following the day upon which such Investor Funds are received by the Company or its agents, and shall, upon receipt by the
Escrow Agent, be retained in escrow by the Escrow Agent. Until the Termination Date (as defined in Section 4), the Company
or its agents shall cause all checks received for payment for the Common Shares to be payable to the Escrow Agent in accordance
with Section 2 and delivered to the Escrow Agent for deposit in the Escrow Account.

 

The initial escrow period shall commence upon
the effectiveness of this Agreement and shall continue until the earliest to occur of: (a) the close of business on ____________,
2013; (b) the date upon which the Escrow Agent receives confirmation from the Company that the Company has raised the Minimum Amount
of at least $2,090,000 of gross offering proceeds (such date, the “Break Escrow Date”); (c) the date the Escrow
Agent receives written notice from the Company that it is abandoning the sale of the Common Shares pursuant to the Offering; and
(d) the date the Escrow Agent receives notice from the SEC or any other federal or state regulatory authority that a stop or similar
order has been issued with respect to the Offering Document and that such stop or similar order has remained in effect for at least
twenty (20) days.

 

    	 

    	 

    

 

The Escrow Agent shall have no duty to make
any disbursement, investment or other use of Investor Funds until and unless it has good and collected funds. If any checks deposited
in the Escrow Account are returned or prove uncollectible after the funds represented thereby have been released by the Escrow
Agent, then the Company shall promptly reimburse the Escrow Agent for any and all costs reasonably incurred for such, upon request,
and the Escrow Agent shall deliver the returned checks to the Company. The Escrow Agent shall be under no duty or responsibility
to enforce collection of any check delivered to it hereunder.

 

2.            Investors.
Investors will be instructed by the Dealer Manager or any soliciting dealers retained by the Dealer Manager (the “Soliciting
Dealers”) to remit the purchase price in the form of checks (“instruments of payment”) payable to
the order of, or funds wired in favor of, “UMB BANK N.A., ESCROW AGENT FOR UNITED REALTY TRUST INCORPORATED”. Any checks
made payable to a party other than the Escrow Agent shall be returned to the Dealer Manager or Soliciting Dealer that submitted
the check.

 

If any subscription agreement for the purchase
of Common Shares solicited by a Soliciting Dealer is rejected by the Company, then the subscription agreement and the related check
for the purchase of Common Shares will be returned to the rejected subscriber within ten (10) business days from the date of rejection.

 

All Investor Funds deposited in the Escrow Account
shall not be subject to any liens or charges by the Company or the Escrow Agent, or judgments or creditors’ claims against
the Company, until and unless released to the Company as hereinafter provided. The Company understands and agrees that the Company
shall not be entitled to any Investor Funds on deposit in the Escrow Account and no such funds shall become the property of the
Company or any other entity except as released to the Company pursuant to Section 3.

 

The Escrow Agent will not use the information
provided to it by the Company for any purpose other than to fulfill its obligations as Escrow Agent hereunder. The Escrow Agent
will treat all Investor information as confidential.

 

3.            Disbursement
of Funds.

 

(a) Break Escrow – Initial Closing.
The Escrow Agent agrees that the Minimum Amount of $2,090,000 shall not be released from the Escrow Account to the Company until
and unless the Escrow Agent receives joint written instructions, in a form substantially similar to the Form of Escrow Release
Notice (the “Escrow Release Notice”) attached hereto as Exhibit C, to release the funds, from (i) the
Company’s Chief Executive Officer, President or Chief Financial Officer, and (ii) the Dealer Manager’s Chief Executive
Officer, Chief Operating Officer or Chief Compliance Officer.

 

If the Minimum Amount of $2,090,000 has not
been sold on or prior to the Termination Date, the Company shall notify the Escrow Agent in writing of such. If the Company notifies
the Escrow Agent in writing that the Minimum Amount has not been sold prior to the Termination Date, the Escrow Agent shall, promptly
following the Termination Date, but in no event more than 30 days after the Termination Date, refund to each Investor by check,
funds deposited in the Escrow Account, including interest or any other income earned thereon, or shall return the instruments of
payment delivered to Escrow Agent if such instruments have not been processed for collection prior to such time, directly to each
Investor at the address previously provided. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Escrow Agent shall not be required to remit any
payments until funds represented by such payments have been collected by the Escrow Agent. Additionally, at the end of the third
business day following the Termination Date, the Escrow Agent shall notify the Company of the amount of the Investor Funds received.
Further, once the Offering has closed, the Company shall notify the Escrow Agent of the same in writing.

 

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If the Escrow Agent receives written notice
from the Company that the Company intends to reject an Investor’s subscription, the Escrow Agent shall pay to the applicable
Investor, within a reasonable time not to exceed ten (10) business days after receiving notice of the rejection, by first class
United States mail at the address provided on such Investor’s subscription agreement, or at such other address as shall be
furnished to the Escrow Agent by the Investor in writing, all collected sums paid by the Investor for Common Shares and received
by the Escrow Agent (without interest thereon).

 

(b) Post Escrow Break Period. From
and after the Break Escrow Date until the Termination Date, the Escrow Agent, upon receipt of Escrow Release Notices, shall periodically
transfer any portion of the Investor Funds to the Company or such other parties as set forth in the applicable Escrow Release
Notice. The Escrow Agent shall effect such transfer by the close of business on the business day the Escrow Agent receives the
applicable Escrow Release Notice; provided, however, if the Escrow Agent receives the applicable Escrow Release Notice
after 2:00 p.m. Central Time, then the Escrow Agent shall effect such transfer by the close of business on the next succeeding
business day

 

4.            Term
of Escrow. The “Termination Date” shall be the earliest of: (a) the close of business on ____________, 2013;
(b) the date all funds held in the Escrow Account are distributed to the Company or to Investors pursuant to Section 3 and
the Company has informed the Escrow Agent in writing to close the Escrow Account; (c) the date the Escrow Agent receives written
notice from the Company that it is abandoning the sale of the Common Shares pursuant to the Offering; and (d) the date the Escrow
Agent receives notice from the SEC or any other federal or state regulatory authority that a stop or similar order has been issued
with respect to the Offering Document and that such stop or similar order has remained in effect for at least twenty (20) days.
After the Termination Date, the Company and its agents shall not deposit, and the Escrow Agent shall not accept, any additional
amounts representing payments by prospective Investors.

 

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5.            Duty
and Liability of the Escrow Agent. The sole duty of the Escrow Agent shall be to receive Investor Funds and subscription agreements
and hold them subject to release, in accordance herewith, and the Escrow Agent shall be under no duty to determine whether the
Company, the Dealer Manager or any Soliciting Dealer is complying with requirements of this Agreement, the Offering or applicable
securities or other laws in tendering the Investor Funds to the Escrow Agent. No other agreement entered into between the parties,
or any of them, shall be considered as adopted or binding, in whole or in part, upon the Escrow Agent, notwithstanding that any
such other agreement may be referred to herein or deposited with the Escrow Agent or that the Escrow Agent may have knowledge thereof,
including specifically but without limitation the Offering Document or any other document related to the Offering (including the
subscription agreement and exhibits thereto), and the Escrow Agent’s rights and responsibilities shall be governed solely
by this Agreement. The Escrow Agent shall not be responsible for or be required to enforce any of the terms or conditions of the
Offering Document or any other document related to the Offering (including the subscription agreement and exhibits thereto) or
other agreement between the Company and any other party. The Escrow Agent may conclusively rely upon and shall be protected in
acting upon any statement, certificate, notice, request, consent, order or other document believed by it to be genuine and to have
been signed or presented by the proper party or parties. The Escrow Agent shall have no duty or liability to verify any such statement,
certificate, notice, request, consent, order or other document, and its sole responsibility shall be to act only as expressly set
forth in this Agreement. Concurrent with the execution of this Agreement, the Company and the Dealer Manager shall each deliver
to the Escrow Agent an authorized signers form in the form of Exhibit A or Exhibit A-1 to this Agreement, as applicable.
The Escrow Agent shall be under no obligation to institute or defend any action, suit or proceeding in connection with this Agreement
unless first indemnified to its satisfaction. The Escrow Agent may consult counsel of its own choice with respect to any question
arising under this Agreement and the Escrow Agent shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted in good faith upon advice
of such counsel. The Escrow Agent shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted by it in good faith except to the extent
that a court of competent jurisdiction determines that the Escrow Agent’s gross negligence or willful misconduct was the
primary cause of loss. The Escrow Agent is acting solely as escrow agent hereunder and owes no duties, covenants or obligations,
fiduciary or otherwise, to any other person by reason of this Agreement, except as otherwise stated herein, and no implied duties,
covenants or obligations, fiduciary or otherwise, shall be read into this Agreement against the Escrow Agent. If any disagreement
between any of the parties to this Agreement, or between any of them and any other person, including any Investor, resulting in
adverse claims or demands being made in connection with the matters covered by this Agreement, or if the Escrow Agent is in doubt
as to what action it should take hereunder, the Escrow Agent may, at its option, refuse to comply with any claims or demands on
it, or refuse to take any other action hereunder, so long as such disagreement continues or such doubt exists, and in any such
event, the Escrow Agent shall not be or become liable in any way or to any person for its failure or refusal to act, and the Escrow
Agent shall be entitled to continue so to refrain from acting until (a) the rights of all interested parties shall have been fully
and finally adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction, or (b) all differences shall have been adjudged and all doubt resolved
by agreement among all of the interested persons, and the Escrow Agent shall have been notified thereof in writing signed by all
such persons. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Escrow Agent may in its discretion obey the order, judgment, decree or levy of
any court, whether with or without jurisdiction, and the Escrow Agent is hereby authorized in its sole discretion to comply with
and obey any such orders, judgments, decrees or levies. If any controversy should arise with respect to this Agreement, the Escrow
Agent shall have the right, at its option, to institute an interpleader action in any court of competent jurisdiction to determine
the rights of the parties. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE ESCROW AGENT BE LIABLE, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL
LOSSES OR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION LOST PROFITS), EVEN IF THE ESCROW AGENT HAS BEEN ADVISED
OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH LOSSES OR DAMAGES AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION. The parties hereto agree that the Escrow Agent
has no role in the preparation of the Offering Documents (including the subscription agreement and exhibits thereto) and makes
no representations or warranties with respect to the information contained therein or omitted therefrom. The Escrow Agent shall
have no obligation, duty or liability with respect to compliance with any federal or state securities, disclosure or tax laws concerning
the Offering Documents or any other document related to the Offering (including the subscription agreement and exhibits thereto)
or the issuance, offering or sale of the Common Shares. The Escrow Agent shall have no duty or obligation to monitor the application
and use of the Investor Funds once transferred to the Company, that being the sole obligation and responsibility of the Company.

 

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6.            Escrow
Agent’s Fee. The Escrow Agent shall be entitled to compensation for its services as stated in the fee schedule attached
hereto as Exhibit B, which compensation shall be paid by the Company. The fee agreed upon for the services rendered hereunder
is intended as full compensation for the Escrow Agent’s services as contemplated by this Agreement; provided, however,
that if (a) the conditions for the disbursement of funds under this Agreement are not fulfilled, (b) the Escrow Agent renders any
material service not contemplated in this Agreement, (c) there is any assignment of interest in the subject matter of this Agreement,
(d) there is any material modification hereof, (e) any material controversy arises hereunder, or (f) the Escrow Agent is made a
party to any litigation pertaining to this Agreement or the subject matter hereof, then the Escrow Agent shall be reasonably compensated
for such extraordinary services and reimbursed for all costs and expenses, including reasonable attorney’s fees, occasioned
by any delay, controversy, litigation or event, and the same shall be recoverable from the Company. The Company’s obligations
under this Section 6 shall survive the resignation or removal of the Escrow Agent and the assignment or termination of this
Agreement.

 

7.            Investment
of Investor Funds. Investor Funds shall be deposited in the Escrow Account in accordance with Section 1 and shall
at all times be placed in an interest-bearing account or as may otherwise be instructed by the Company. Interest and any other
income resulting from the investment of the funds in the Escrow Account shall be retained by the Escrow Agent and distributed according
to this Agreement. The Escrow Agent shall provide to the Company monthly statements (or more frequently as reasonably requested
by the Company) on the account balance in the Escrow Account and the activity in such accounts since the last report.

 

8.            Notices.
All notices, requests, demands, and other communications under this Agreement (each a “Notice”) shall be
in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given (a) on the date of service if served personally on the party to whom notice
is to be given, (b) on the day of transmission if sent by facsimile/email transmission bearing an authorized signature to the facsimile
number/email address given below, and written confirmation of receipt is obtained promptly after completion of transmission, (c)
on the day after delivery to Federal Express or similar overnight courier or the Express Mail service maintained by the United
States Postal Service, or (d) on the fifth day after mailing, if mailed to the party to whom Notice is to be given, by first class
mail, registered or certified, postage prepaid, and properly addressed, return receipt requested, to the party as follows:

 

If to the Company:

 

United Realty Trust Incorporated

44 Wall Street

Second Floor

New York, New York 10005

Fax: (212) 388-6801

Attention: Jacob Frydman, Chief Executive Officer and Secretary

 

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with a copy to:

 

Proskauer Rose LLP

Eleven Times Square

New York, New York 10036

Fax: (212) 969-2900

Attention: Peter M. Fass, Esq.

James P. Gerkis, Esq.

 

If to the Dealer Manager:

 

Allied Beacon Partners

1100 Boulders Parkway

Suite 600

Richmond, VA 23225

Fax: (407) 254-1500

Attention: [                                  ]

 

with a copy to:

 

Kunzman & Bollinger, Inc.

5100 N. Brookline, Suite 600

Oklahoma City, OK 73112

Fax: (405) 942-3527

Attention: Wallace W. Kunzman, Jr., Esq.

 

If to Escrow Agent:

 

UMB Bank, N.A.

1010 Grand Blvd., 4th Floor

Mail Stop: 1020409

Kansas City, Missouri 64106

Fax: (816) 860-3029

Attention: Lara Stevens, Corporate Trust

 

Any party may change its address for purposes of this Section by
giving the other parties Notice of the new address in the manner set forth above.

 

9.            Indemnification
of Escrow Agent. The Company and the Dealer Manager hereby agree to, jointly and severally, indemnify, defend and hold harmless
the Escrow Agent from and against any and all losses, liabilities, costs, damages and expenses, including, without limitation,
reasonable counsel fees and expenses, which the Escrow Agent may suffer or incur by reason of any action, claim or proceeding brought
against the Escrow Agent arising out of or relating in any way to this Agreement or any transaction to which this Agreement relates
unless such loss, liability, cost, damage or expense is finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to have been primarily
caused by the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Escrow Agent. The terms of this Section shall survive the termination
of this Agreement and the resignation or removal of the Escrow Agent.

 

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10.            Successors
and Assigns. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, no party hereto shall assign this Agreement or any rights or obligations
hereunder without the prior written consent of the other parties hereto and any such attempted assignment without such prior written
consent shall be void and of no force and effect. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and shall be binding upon the successors
and permitted assigns of the parties hereto. Any corporation or association into which the Escrow Agent may be converted or merged,
or with which it may be consolidated, or to which it may sell or transfer all or substantially all of its corporate trust business
and assets as a whole or substantially as a whole, or any corporation or association resulting from any such conversion, sale,
merger, consolidation or transfer to which the Escrow Agent is a party, shall be and become the successor Escrow Agent under this
Agreement and shall have and succeed to the rights, powers, duties, immunities and privileges as its predecessor, without the execution
or filing of any instrument or paper or the performance of any further act.

 

11.            Governing
Law; Jurisdiction. This Agreement shall be construed, performed, and enforced in accordance with, and governed by, the internal
laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to the principles of conflicts of laws thereof.

 

12.            Severability.
If any provision of this Agreement is declared by any court or other judicial or administrative body to be null, void, or unenforceable,
said provision shall survive to the extent it is not so declared, and all of the other provisions of this Agreement shall remain
in full force and effect.

 

13.            Amendments;
Waivers. This Agreement may be amended or modified, and any of the terms, covenants, representations, warranties, or conditions
hereof may be waived, only by a written instrument executed by the parties hereto, or in the case of a waiver, by the party waiving
compliance. Any waiver by any party of any condition, or of the breach of any provision, term, covenant, representation or warranty
contained in this Agreement, in any one or more instances, shall not be deemed to be nor construed as a further or continuing waiver
of any other condition, or of the breach of any other provision, term, covenant, representation or warranty contained in this Agreement.
The Company and the Dealer Manager agree that any requested waiver, modification or amendment of this Agreement shall be consistent
with the terms of the Offering.

 

14.            Entire
Agreement. This Agreement contains the entire agreement and understanding among the parties hereto with respect to the escrow
contemplated hereby and supersedes and replaces all prior and contemporaneous agreements and understandings, oral or written, with
regard to such escrow.

 

15.            Section
Headings. The section headings in this Agreement are for reference purposes only and shall not affect the meaning or interpretation
of this Agreement.

 

16.            Counterparts.
This Agreement may be executed (including by facsimile transmission) with counterpart signature pages or in counterparts, each
of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which shall constitute the same instrument.

 

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17.            Resignation.
The Escrow Agent may resign upon 30 days’ advance written notice to the parties hereto. If a successor escrow agent is
not appointed by the Company within the 30-day period following such notice, the Escrow Agent may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction to name a successor escrow agent, or may interplead the Investor Funds with such court, whereupon the Escrow Agent’s
duties hereunder shall terminate.

 

18.            References
to Escrow Agent. Other than the Offering Document, any of the other documents related to the Offering (including any prospectus,
prospectus supplement and the subscription agreement and exhibits thereto) and any amendments thereof or supplements thereto, no
printed or other matter in any language (including, without limitation, notices, reports and promotional material) which mentions
the Escrow Agent’s name or the rights, powers or duties of the Escrow Agent shall be issued by the Company or the Dealer
Manager, or on the Company’s or the Dealer Manager’s behalf, unless the Escrow Agent shall first have given its specific
written consent thereto. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any amendment or supplement to the Offering Document or any other document
related to the Offering (including any prospectus, prospectus supplement and the subscription agreement and exhibits thereto) that
revises, alters, modifies, changes or adds to the description of the Escrow Agent or its rights, powers or duties hereunder shall
not be issued by the Company or the Dealer Manager, or on the Company’s or the Dealer Manager’s behalf, unless the
Escrow Agent has first given specific written consent thereto.

 

19.            Patriot
Act Compliance. The Company shall provide to the Escrow Agent upon the execution of this Agreement any documentation requested
and any information reasonably requested by the Escrow Agent to comply with the USA Patriot Act of 2001, as amended from time to
time.

 

[Signature page follows.]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement
to be executed as of the date and year first set forth above.

 

UNITED REALTY TRUST INCORPORATED

 

	By:	 	 
	 	Name: 	Jacob Frydman	 
	 	Title:	Chief Executive Officer	 

 

ALLIED BEACON PARTNERS, INC.

 

	By:	 	 
	 	Name: 	 	 
	 	Title:	 	 

 

UMB BANK, N.A., as Escrow Agent

 

	By:	 	 
	 	Name: 	 Lara L.  Stevens	 
	 	Title:	 Vice President	 

 

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Exhibit A

 

Certificate
as to Authorized Signatures

 

		Account Name:	Escrow Account for the Benefit of Investors in Common Shares of United Realty Trust Incorporated

 

		Account Number:	138476

 

The specimen signatures shown below are the
specimen signatures of the individuals who have been designated as Authorized Representatives of United Realty Trust Incorporated
and are authorized to initiate and approve transactions of all types for the above-mentioned account on behalf of United
Realty Trust Incorporated.

 

	Name/Title	 	Specimen Signature	 
	 	 
	Jacob Frydman	 	 	 
	Chief Executive Officer	Signature
	 	 
	Eli Verschleiser	 	 	 
	President and Treasurer	Signature
	 	 
	Kenneth Kahn	 	 	 
	Chief Accounting Officer	Signature
	 	 
	Jeff Pollack	 	 	 
	Chief Financial Officer	Signature

 

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Exhibit A-1

 

Certificate
as to Authorized Signatures

 

		Account Name:	Escrow Account for the Benefit of Investors in Common Shares of United Realty Trust Incorporated

 

		Account Number:	138476

 

The specimen signatures shown below are the
specimen signatures of the individuals who have been designated as Authorized Representatives of Allied Beacon Partners, Inc.
and are authorized to initiate and approve transactions of all types for the above-mentioned account on behalf of Allied
Beacon Partners, Inc.

 

	Name/Title	 	Specimen Signature	 
	 	 
	[NAME]	 	 	 
	Chief Executive Officer	Signature
	 	 
	[NAME]	 	 	 
	Chief Operating Officer	Signature
	 	 
	[NAME]	 	 	 
	Chief Compliance Officer	Signature

 

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Exhibit B

 

ESCROW FEES AND EXPENSES

 

	Acceptance Fee	 	 	 	 
	Review document and establish account	 	$	3,000	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	Annual Fee	 	 	 	 
	Annual Escrow Agent	 	$	3,000	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	Transactional Fees	 	 	 	 
	Outgoing Wire Transfer	 	$	15 each	 
	Overnight Delivery/Mailings	 	$	16.50 each	 
	IRS Tax Reporting	 	$	10 per 1099	 

 

Acceptance fee will be payable at the initiation
of the escrow. Annual fee and transactional fees, if any, will be billed quarterly in arrears.

 

Fees specified are for the regular, routine
services contemplated by this Agreement, and any additional or extraordinary services, including, but not limited to disbursements
involving a dispute or arbitration, or administration while a dispute, controversy or adverse claim is in existence, will be charged
based upon time required at the then standard hourly rate.

 

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Exhibit C

 

FORM OF ESCROW RELEASE NOTICE

 

Date:

 

UMB Bank, N.A.

1010 Grand Blvd., 4th Floor

Mail Stop: 1020409

Kansas City, Missouri 64106

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

In accordance with the terms of Section 3(a)
of the Subscription Escrow Agreement dated as of ____________, 2012 (as the same may be amended from time to time, the “Escrow
Agreement”), among United Realty Trust Incorporated (the “Company”), Allied Beacon Partners, Inc.
(the “Dealer Manager”) and UMB Bank, N.A. (the “Escrow Agent”), the Company and the Dealer
Manager hereby notify the Escrow Agent that the ________ closing will be held on ___________ for gross proceeds of $_________.

 

PLEASE DISTRIBUTE FUNDS BY WIRE TRANSFER (or
as indicated) AS FOLLOWS

(wire instructions attached):

 

	 	$
	 	 
	 	$

 

	 	Very truly yours,
	 	 
	 	UNITED REALTY TRUST INCORPORATED,
	 	as the Company
	 	 
	 	By:	 
	 	 	Name:	 
	 	 	Title:	 
	 	 
	 	ALLIED BEACON PARTNERS, INC.,
	 	as the Dealer Manager
	 	 	 
	 	By:	 
	 	 	Name:	 
	 	 	Title:	 

 

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