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EX-10.2

 Exhibit 10.2 

EXECUTION VERSION 

REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT 

by and among  
 Mercer
International Inc., 
 and 

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC 

Dated as of November 26, 2014 

 REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT 

This Registration Rights Agreement (this “Agreement”) is made and entered into as of November 26, 2014, by and
among Mercer International Inc., a Washington corporation (the “Company”), and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, as representative of the several initial purchasers (collectively, the “Initial Purchasers”), each of which has
agreed to purchase the Company’s 7.750% Senior Notes due 2022 (the “Initial Notes”) on the Closing Date (as defined below), pursuant to the Purchase Agreement (as defined below). 

This Agreement is made pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, dated November 18, 2014 (the “Purchase Agreement”),
among the Company and the Initial Purchasers (i) for the benefit of the Initial Purchasers and (ii) for the benefit of the holders from time to time of the Initial Notes, including the Initial Purchasers. In order to induce the Initial
Purchasers to purchase the Initial Notes, the Company has agreed to provide the registration rights set forth in this Agreement. The execution and delivery of this Agreement is a condition to the obligations of the Initial Purchasers set forth in
Section 5(h) of the Purchase Agreement. 
 The parties hereby agree as follows: 

SECTION 1. Definitions. As used in this Agreement, the following capitalized terms shall have the
following meanings: 
 Additional Interest: As defined in Section 6 hereto. 

Additional Interest Payment Date: With respect to the Initial Notes, each Interest Payment Date. 

Advice: As defined in Section 7 hereto. 

Agreement: As defined in the preamble hereto. 

Broker-Dealer: Any broker or dealer registered under the Exchange Act. 

Business Day: Any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or U.S. federal holiday or a day on which banking institutions or
trust companies located in New York, New York are authorized or obligated to be closed. 
 Closing Date: The date of
this Agreement. 
 Commission: The Securities and Exchange Commission. 

Company: As defined in the preamble hereto. 

Consummate: A registered Exchange Offer shall be deemed “Consummated” for purposes of this Agreement upon the
occurrence of (i) the filing and effectiveness under the Securities Act of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement relating to the Exchange Notes to be issued in the Exchange Offer, (ii) the maintenance of such Registration Statement
continuously effective and the keeping of the Exchange Offer open for a period not less than the minimum period required pursuant to Section 4(b) hereof, and (iii) the delivery by the Company to the Registrar under the Indenture of
Exchange Notes in the same aggregate principal amount as the aggregate principal amount of Initial Notes that were tendered by Holders thereof pursuant to the Exchange Offer. 

 Effectiveness Period: As defined in Section 5(a) hereof. 

Effectiveness Target Date: As defined in Section 6 hereof. 

Entitled Securities: Each Note, until the earliest to occur of (a) the date on which such Initial Note has been
exchanged by a Person other than a Broker-Dealer for an Exchange Note in the Exchange Offer, (b) following the exchange by a Broker-Dealer in the Exchange Offer of such Initial Note for an Exchange Note, the date on which such Exchange Note is
sold to a purchaser who receives from such Broker-Dealer on or prior to the date of such sale a copy of the Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement, (c) the date on which such Initial Note has been effectively
registered under the Securities Act and disposed of in accordance with a Shelf Registration Statement, (d) the date on which such Initial Note is actually sold pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act. 

Exchange Act: The Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. 

Exchange Notes: The 7.750% Senior Notes due 2022, of the same series under the Indenture as the Initial Notes, to be
issued to Holders in exchange for Entitled Securities pursuant to this Agreement. 
 Exchange Offer: The registration
by the Company under the Securities Act of the Exchange Notes pursuant to a Registration Statement pursuant to which the Company offers the Holders of all outstanding Entitled Securities the opportunity to exchange all such outstanding Entitled
Securities held by such Holders for Exchange Notes in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of the Entitled Securities tendered in such exchange offer by such Holders. 

Exchange Offer Effectiveness Target Date: As defined in Section 4(a) hereof. 

Exchange Offer Registration Statement: The Registration Statement relating to the Exchange Offer, including the related
Prospectus. 
 Exempt Resales: The transactions in which the Initial Purchaser proposes to sell the Initial Notes to
certain “qualified institutional buyers,” as such term is defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act and to certain non-U.S. persons pursuant to Regulation S under the Securities Act. 

FINRA: Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. 

Holders: As defined in Section 2(b) hereof. 

  
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 Indemnified Holder: As defined in Section 9(a) hereof. 

Indenture: The Indenture, dated as of November 26, 2014, by and between the Company and Wells Fargo, National
Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), pursuant to which the Initial Notes are to be issued, as such Indenture is amended or supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof. 

Initial Notes: As defined in the preamble hereto. 

Initial Placement: The issuance and sale by the Company of the Initial Notes to the Initial Purchasers pursuant to the
terms of the Purchase Agreement. 
 Initial Purchasers: As defined in the preamble hereto. 

Interest Payment Date: June 1 and December 1, commencing June 1, 2015. 

Person: An individual, partnership, corporation, trust or unincorporated organization, or a government or agency or
political subdivision thereof. 
 Prospectus: The prospectus included in a Registration Statement, as amended or
supplemented by any prospectus supplement and by all other amendments thereto, including post-effective amendments, and all material incorporated by reference into such Prospectus. 

Registration Default: As defined in Section 6 hereof. 

Registration Statement: Any registration statement of the Company relating to (a) an offering of Exchange Notes
pursuant to an Exchange Offer or (b) the registration for resale of Entitled Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement, which is filed pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, in each case, including the Prospectus included
therein, all amendments and supplements thereto (including post-effective amendments) and all exhibits and material incorporated by reference therein. 

Securities Act: The Securities Act of 1933, as amended. 

Shelf Registration Statement: As defined in Section 5(a) hereof. 

Suspension Period: As defined in Section 5(a) hereof. 

Trust Indenture Act: The Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended. 

Underwritten Registration or Underwritten Offering: A registration in which securities of the Company are sold to an
underwriter for reoffering to the public. 
 SECTION 2. Securities Subject to this Agreement.

 (a) Entitled Securities. The securities entitled to the benefits of this Agreement are the Entitled Securities.

  
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 (b) Holders of Entitled Securities. A Person is deemed to be a holder of
Entitled Securities (each, a “Holder”) whenever such Person owns Entitled Securities. 

SECTION 3. Authorization of the Exchange Notes. The Company hereby represents, warrants and
covenants to each Initial Purchaser that the Exchange Notes have been duly and validly authorized for issuance by the Company, and when issued and authenticated in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, this Agreement and the Exchange Offer,
will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, except as the enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar
laws relating to or affecting the rights and remedies of creditors or by general equitable principles including limitations and other restrictions on a party’s rights to specific performance and indemnification and will be entitled to the
benefits of the Indenture. 
 SECTION 4. Registered Exchange Offer. 

(a) Unless the Exchange Offer shall not be permissible under applicable law or Commission policy (after the procedures set
forth in Section 7(a) hereof have been complied with), the Company shall (i) cause to be filed with the Commission the Exchange Offer Registration Statement under the Securities Act relating to the Exchange Notes and the Exchange Offer,
(ii) use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Exchange Offer Registration Statement to become effective at the earliest practicable time, but in no event later than 240 days after the Closing Date (or if such 240th day is not a
Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day) (the “Exchange Offer Effectiveness Target Date”), (iii) in connection with the foregoing, file (A) all pre-effective amendments to such Exchange Offer Registration Statement as may
be necessary in order to cause such Exchange Offer Registration Statement to become effective, (B) if applicable, a post-effective amendment to such Exchange Offer Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 430A under the Securities Act and (C),
subject to the proviso in Section 7(c)(x), cause all necessary filings in connection with the registration and qualification of the Exchange Notes to be made under the state securities or blue sky laws of such jurisdictions as are necessary to
permit Consummation of the Exchange Offer, (iv) upon the effectiveness of such Exchange Offer Registration Statement, commence the Exchange Offer and (v) issue Exchange Notes in exchange for all Initial Notes tendered prior to the
Consummation of the Exchange Offer. The Exchange Offer Registration Statement shall be on the appropriate form permitting registration of the Exchange Notes to be offered in exchange for the Entitled Securities and to permit resales of Initial Notes
held by Broker-Dealers as contemplated by Section 4(c) hereof. Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, the Company shall not be obligated to file a Prospectus with the securities commissions or similar regulatory authority in any of the
provinces or territories of Canada. 
 (b) The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Exchange
Offer Registration Statement to be effective continuously and shall keep the Exchange Offer open for a period of not less than the minimum period required under applicable federal and state securities laws to Consummate the Exchange Offer;
provided, however, that in no event shall such period be less than 20 Business Days from and including the date notice of the Exchange Offer is mailed to the Holders. The Company shall cause the Exchange Offer to comply in all material
respects with all applicable federal and state securities laws. No securities other than the Exchange Notes (and, at the Company’s option, the exchange notes in respect of the Company’s 7.000% Senior Notes due 2019) shall be included in
the Exchange Offer Registration Statement. The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Exchange Offer to be Consummated within 30 Business Days (or longer if required by applicable securities laws) of the Exchange Offer
Effectiveness Target Date. 

  
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 (c) The Company shall indicate in a “Plan of Distribution” section
contained in the Prospectus forming a part of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement that any Broker-Dealer which holds Initial Notes that are Entitled Securities and that were acquired for its own account as a result of market-making activities
or other trading activities (other than Entitled Securities acquired directly from the Company), may exchange such Initial Notes pursuant to the Exchange Offer; however, such Broker-Dealer may be deemed to be an “underwriter” within the
meaning of the Securities Act and must, therefore, deliver a prospectus meeting the requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resales of the Exchange Notes received by such Broker-Dealer in the Exchange Offer, which prospectus
delivery requirement may be satisfied by the delivery by such Broker-Dealer of the Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement. Such “Plan of Distribution” section shall also contain all other information with respect
to such resales by Broker-Dealers that the Commission may require in order to permit such resales pursuant thereto, but such “Plan of Distribution” shall not name any such Broker-Dealer or disclose the amount of Initial Notes held by any
such Broker-Dealer except to the extent required by the Commission as a result of a change in policy after the date of this Agreement. 

The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Exchange Offer Registration Statement continuously
effective, supplemented and amended as required by the provisions of Section 7(c) hereof to the extent necessary to ensure that it is available for resales of Initial Notes acquired by Broker-Dealers for their own accounts as a result of
market-making activities or other trading activities, and to ensure that it conforms with the requirements of this Agreement, the Securities Act and the policies, rules and regulations of the Commission as announced from time to time, for a period
ending on the earlier of (i) 90 days from the date on which the Exchange Offer Registration Statement is declared effective and (ii) the date on which a Broker-Dealer is no longer required to deliver a prospectus in connection with
market-making or other trading activities. 
 The Company shall provide sufficient copies of the latest version of such
Prospectus to Broker-Dealers promptly upon request at any time during such 90-day (or shorter as provided in the preceding paragraph) period in order to facilitate such resales. 

SECTION 5. Shelf Registration. 

(a) Shelf Registration. If (i) the Company is not permitted to file an Exchange Offer Registration Statement or to
Consummate the Exchange Offer because the Exchange Offer is not permitted by applicable law or Commission policy (after the procedures set forth in Section 7(a) hereof have been complied with), (ii) for any reason, the Exchange Offer is
not Consummated within 30 Business Days of the Exchange Offer Effectiveness Target Date, or (iii) any Holder of Entitled Securities notifies the Company in writing that (A) such Holder is prohibited by applicable law or Commission policy
from participating in the Exchange Offer, or (B) such Holder may not resell the Exchange Notes acquired by it in the Exchange Offer to the public without delivering a prospectus and the Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration
Statement is not appropriate or available for such resales by such Holder, or (C) such Holder is a Broker-Dealer and holds Initial Notes acquired directly from the Company or one of its affiliates, then, upon such Holder’s written request,
the Company shall: 
 (i) cause to be filed a shelf registration statement pursuant to Rule 415 under the
Securities Act, which may be an amendment to the Exchange Offer Registration Statement (in either event, the “Shelf Registration Statement”), which Shelf Registration Statement shall provide for resales of all Entitled Securities the
Holders of which shall have provided the information required pursuant to Section 5(b) hereof; and 

  
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 (ii) use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Shelf
Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission on or before the 240th day after so requested or required pursuant to this Section 5 and to keep it continuously effective until the earliest of (i) the date on which all
Entitled Securities entitled to the benefit of this Section 5(a) have been sold pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement, (ii) the date on which all Entitled Securities are no longer “restricted securities” within the meaning
of Rule 144 of the Securities Act and (iii) the date which is one year after the Closing Date, such shortest time period referred to as the “Effectiveness Period.” 

During the Effectiveness Period, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep such Shelf Registration
Statement continuously effective, supplemented and amended as required by the provisions of Sections 7(b) and (c) hereof to the extent necessary to ensure that it is available for resales of Initial Notes by the Holders of Entitled Securities
entitled to the benefit of this Section 5(a), and to ensure that it conforms in all material respects with the requirements of this Agreement, the Securities Act and the policies, rules and regulations of the Commission as announced from time
to time. 
 Notwithstanding the foregoing and any other provision hereof, the Company may suspend the availability of the
Shelf Registration Statement, without being required to pay any Additional Interest (as defined below), upon written notice to the Holders (which notice shall be accompanied by an instruction to suspend the use of the Prospectus), for one or more
periods not to exceed 60 consecutive days in any 90-day period, and not to exceed, in the aggregate, 95 days in any 365-day period (each such period, a “Suspension Period”) if: 

(i) an event occurs and is continuing that, in the Company’s good faith judgment, would require the
Company to make changes in the Shelf Registration Statement or the Prospectus in order that the Shelf Registration Statement or the Prospectus does not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be
stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of the prospectus, in light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading; and 

(ii) the Company reasonably determines that the disclosure of such event at such time would have a material
adverse effect on the business of the Company (and its subsidiaries, if any, taken as a whole). 

  
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 (b) Provision by Holders of Certain Information in Connection with the Shelf
Registration Statement. No Holder of Entitled Securities may include any of its Entitled Securities in any Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to this Agreement unless and until such Holder furnishes to the Company in writing, within 7
Business Days after receipt of a request therefor, such information as the Company may reasonably request for use in connection with any Shelf Registration Statement or Prospectus or preliminary Prospectus included therein. Each Holder as to which
any Shelf Registration Statement is being effected agrees to furnish promptly to the Company all information required to be disclosed in order to make the information previously furnished to the Company by such Holder not materially misleading. 

SECTION 6. Additional Interest. If (i) the Company fails to file any of the
Registration Statements required by this Agreement on or before the date specified for such filing, if any; (ii) any of the Registration Statements required by this Agreement has not been declared effective by the Commission on or prior to the
date specified for such effectiveness in this Agreement (the “Effectiveness Target Date”), (iii) the Exchange Offer has not been Consummated within 30 Business Days of the Exchange Offer Effectiveness Target Date or (iv) any
Registration Statement required by this Agreement is filed and declared effective but shall thereafter cease to be effective (other than for a Suspension Period) without being succeeded within five Business Days by a post-effective amendment to such
Registration Statement that is declared effective (each such event referred to in clauses (i) through (iv), a “Registration Default”), the Company hereby agrees that the interest rate borne by the Entitled Securities shall be
increased by 0.25% per annum during the 90-day period immediately following the occurrence of any Registration Default and shall increase by 0.25% per annum at the beginning of each subsequent 90-day period (such increase, “Additional
Interest”) until all Registration Defaults have been cured, but in no event shall such increase exceed 1.00% per annum. Following the cure of all Registration Defaults relating to any particular Entitled Securities, the interest rate borne
by the relevant Entitled Securities will be reduced to the original interest rate borne by such Entitled Securities; provided, however, that, if after any such reduction in interest rate, a different Registration Default occurs, the interest
rate borne by the relevant Entitled Securities shall again be increased pursuant to the foregoing provisions. The Company shall not be required to pay Additional Interest for more than one Registration Default at a time. The amount of Additional
Interest will be determined on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months and the actual number of days on which Additional Interest accrued during such period. 

In connection with a Registration Default in respect of a Shelf Registration Statement, notwithstanding anything to the
contrary herein, a Holder will not be entitled to any Additional Interest under this Article 6 if such Holder has not provided all registration information to the Company as required herein at least two Business Days prior to the Effective Date of
the Shelf Registration Statement or any subsequent amendment (with respect to any period subsequent to such amendment and prior to the next amendment in respect of which such information is so provided). 

All obligations of the Company set forth in the preceding paragraph to pay Additional Interest that are outstanding with
respect to any Entitled Security at the time such security ceases to be an Entitled Security shall survive until such time as all such obligations with respect to such security shall have been satisfied in full. 

  
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 SECTION 7. Registration Procedures. 

(a) Exchange Offer Registration Statement. In connection with the Exchange Offer, the Company shall comply with all of
the provisions of Section 7(c) hereof, shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect such exchange so that it permits the sale of Entitled Securities being sold in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution
thereof, and shall comply with all of the following provisions: 
 (i) As a condition to its participation in
the Exchange Offer pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, each Holder of Entitled Securities shall furnish, upon the request of the Company, prior to the Consummation thereof, a written representation to the Company (which may be contained in the
letter of transmittal contemplated by the Exchange Offer Registration Statement) to the effect that (A) it is not an affiliate of the Company (within the meaning of Rule 405 of the Securities Act), (B) it is not engaged in, and does not
intend to engage in, and has no arrangement or understanding with any Person to participate in, a distribution of the Exchange Notes to be issued in the Exchange Offer and (C) it is acquiring the Exchange Notes in its ordinary course of
business. In addition, all such Holders of Entitled Securities shall otherwise cooperate in the Company’s preparations for the Exchange Offer, including providing all information relating to the Holder required to be included in a Registration
Statement under applicable law. Each Holder hereby acknowledges and agrees that any Broker-Dealer and any such Holder using the Exchange Offer to participate in a distribution of the securities to be acquired in the Exchange Offer (1) could not
under Commission policy as in effect on the date of this Agreement rely on the position of the Commission enunciated in Morgan Stanley and Co., Inc. (available June 5, 1991) and Exxon Capital Holdings Corporation (available
May 13, 1988), as interpreted in the Commission’s letter to Shearman & Sterling dated July 2, 1993, and similar no-action letters (which may include any no-action letter obtained pursuant to clause (i) above), and
(2) must comply with the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act in connection with a secondary resale transaction and that such a secondary resale transaction should be covered by an effective registration
statement containing the selling security holder information required by Item 507 or 508, as applicable, of Regulation S-K if the resales are of Exchange Notes obtained by such Holder in exchange for
Initial Notes acquired by such Holder directly from the Company. 
 (b) Shelf Registration Statement. In connection
with the Shelf Registration Statement, the Company shall comply with all the provisions of Section 7(c) hereof and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect such registration so that it permits the sale of the Entitled Securities
being sold in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution thereof. 
 (c) General Provisions. In
connection with any Registration Statement and any Prospectus required by this Agreement to permit the sale or resale of Entitled Securities (including, without limitation, any Registration Statement and the related Prospectus required to permit
resales of Initial Notes by Broker-Dealers), the Company shall: 

  
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 (i) subject to the terms hereof, use its commercially reasonable
efforts to keep such Registration Statement continuously effective and provide all requisite financial statements (including, if required by the Securities Act or any regulation thereunder, its financial statements for the period specified in
Section 4 or 5 hereof, as applicable); upon the occurrence of any event that would cause any such Registration Statement or the Prospectus contained therein (A) to contain a material misstatement or omission or (B) not to be effective
and usable for resale of Entitled Securities during the period required by this Agreement, the Company shall file promptly an appropriate amendment to such Registration Statement, in the case of clause (A), correcting any such misstatement or
omission, and, in the case of either clause (A) or (B), use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause such amendment to be declared effective and such Registration Statement and the related Prospectus to become usable for their intended
purpose(s) as soon as practicable thereafter; 
 (ii) prepare and file with the Commission such amendments
and post-effective amendments to the applicable Registration Statement as may be necessary to keep the Registration Statement effective for the applicable period set forth in Section 4 or 5 hereof, as applicable, or such shorter period as will
terminate when all Entitled Securities covered by such Registration Statement have been sold or cease to be Entitled Securities; cause the Prospectus to be supplemented by any required Prospectus supplement, and as so supplemented to be filed
pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act, and to comply fully with the applicable provisions of Rules 424, 430A and 430B under the Securities Act in a timely manner; and comply with the provisions of the Securities Act with respect to the
disposition of all securities covered by such Registration Statement during the applicable period in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution by the sellers thereof set forth in such Registration Statement or supplement to the
Prospectus; 
 (iii) advise the underwriter(s), if any, and selling Holders within five Business Days and, if
requested by such Persons, to confirm such advice in writing, (A) when the Prospectus or any Prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment has been filed, and, with respect to any Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment
thereto, when the same has become effective, (B) of any request by the Commission for amendments to the Registration Statement or amendments or supplements to the Prospectus or for additional information relating thereto, (C) of the
issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement under the Securities Act or of the suspension by any state securities commission of the qualification of the Entitled Securities for offering or
sale in any jurisdiction, or the initiation of any proceeding for any of the preceding purposes, (D) of the existence of any fact or the happening of any event that makes any statement of a material fact made in the Registration Statement, the
Prospectus, any amendment or supplement thereto, or any document incorporated by reference therein untrue, or that requires the making of any additions to or changes in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus in order to make the statements
therein not misleading. If at any time the Commission shall issue any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, or any state securities commission or other regulatory authority shall issue an order suspending the
qualification or exemption from qualification of the Entitled Securities under state securities or blue sky laws, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the withdrawal or lifting of such order at the earliest possible
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 (iv) upon written request, furnish without charge to each of the
Initial Purchasers, each selling Holder named in any Registration Statement, and each of the underwriter(s), if any, before filing with the Commission, copies of any Registration Statement or any Prospectus included therein or any amendments or
supplements to any such Registration Statement or Prospectus, which documents will be subject to the review and comment of such Holders and underwriter(s) in connection with such sale, if any, for a period of at least two Business Days, and the
Company will not file any such Registration Statement or Prospectus or any amendment or supplement to any such Registration Statement or Prospectus to which an Initial Purchaser of Entitled Securities covered by such Registration Statement or the
underwriter(s), if any, shall reasonably object in writing within two Business Days after the receipt thereof (such objection to be deemed timely made upon confirmation of telecopy transmission within such period) provided, that this clause
(iv) shall not apply to any filing by the Company of any annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly report on Form 10-Q or current report on Form 8-K with respect to matters unrelated to the Entitled Securities and the offering or exchange thereof;

 (v) in the case of an Underwritten Registration, make available during normal business hours for
inspection by the Initial Purchasers, the managing underwriter(s), if any, participating in any disposition pursuant to such Registration Statement and any attorney or accountant retained by such Initial Purchasers or any of the underwriter(s), all
of its financial and other records, pertinent corporate documents and properties and cause its officers, directors and employees to supply all information reasonably requested by any such Initial Purchaser, underwriter, attorney or accountant in
connection with such Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto subsequent to the filing thereof and prior to its effectiveness and to participate in meetings with investors to the extent requested by the managing underwriter(s),
if any; 
 (vi) in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, if requested by any selling Holders or the
underwriter(s), if any, promptly incorporate in any Registration Statement or Prospectus, pursuant to a supplement or post-effective amendment if necessary, such information as such selling Holders and underwriter(s), if any, may reasonably request
to have included therein, information relating to the “Plan of Distribution” of the Entitled Securities, information with respect to the principal amount of Entitled Securities being sold to such underwriter(s), the purchase price being
paid therefor and any other terms of the offering of the Entitled Securities to be sold in such offering; and make all required filings of such Prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment as soon as practicable after it is notified of the
matters to be incorporated in such Prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment; 
 (vii) upon request,
furnish to each Initial Purchaser, each selling Holder and each of the underwriter(s), if any, without charge, at least one copy of the Registration Statement, as first filed with the Commission, and of each amendment thereto, including financial
statements and schedules, all documents incorporated by reference therein and all exhibits (including exhibits incorporated therein by reference); 

  
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 (viii) deliver to each selling Holder and each of the
underwriter(s), if any, who is required to deliver a Prospectus in connection with the sale of its Entitled Securities, without charge, as many copies of the Prospectus (including each preliminary prospectus) and any amendment or supplement thereto
as such Persons reasonably may request; the Company hereby consents to the use of the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto by each of the selling Holders and each of the underwriter(s), if any, in connection with the offering and the
sale of the Entitled Securities covered by the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto; 
 (ix)
enter into such agreements (including an underwriting agreement), and make such representations and warranties, and take all such other actions in connection therewith in order to expedite or facilitate the disposition of the Entitled Securities
pursuant to any Shelf Registration Statement contemplated by this Agreement, all to such extent as may reasonably be requested by any Initial Purchaser or by any Holder of Entitled Securities or underwriter and as are reasonably on terms customary
for transactions of such nature in connection with any sale or resale pursuant to any Registration Statement contemplated by this Agreement; and if an underwriting agreement is entered into and the registration is an Underwritten Registration, the
Company shall: 
 (A) furnish to each Initial Purchaser, each selling Holder and each underwriter, if any, in
such substance and scope as they may reasonably request and as are customarily made by issuers to underwriters in primary underwritten offerings, upon the date of the Consummation of the Exchange Offer or, if applicable, the effectiveness of the
Shelf Registration Statement: 
 (1) a certificate, dated the date of Consummation of the Exchange Offer or
the date of effectiveness of the Shelf Registration Statement, as the case may be, signed by (y) the President or any Vice President and (z) a principal financial or accounting officer of the Company, confirming, as of the date thereof,
the matters set forth in paragraphs (i) and (ii) of Section 5(d) of the Purchase Agreement and such other matters as such parties may reasonably request; 

(2) opinions, dated the date of Consummation of the Exchange Offer or the date of effectiveness of the Shelf
Registration Statement, covering such matters as are customarily covered in legal opinions to underwriters in connection with primary underwritten offerings of securities; and 

(3) a customary comfort letter, dated the date of effectiveness of the Shelf Registration Statement, from the
Company’s independent accountants for the three fiscal years ended December 31, 2013 and all subsequent financial reporting periods, if permitted by applicable accounting standards or pronouncements, in the customary form and covering
matters of the type customarily requested to be covered in comfort letters by underwriters in connection with primary underwritten offerings, and covering or affirming the matters set forth in the comfort letters delivered pursuant to
Section 5(h) of the Purchase Agreement; 

  
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 (B) set forth in full or incorporate by reference in the
underwriting agreement, if any, the indemnification provisions and procedures of Section 9 hereof with respect to all parties to be indemnified pursuant to said Section; and 

(C) deliver such other documents and certificates as may be reasonably requested by such parties to evidence
compliance with Section 7(c)(xi)(A) hereof and with any customary conditions contained in the underwriting agreement or other agreement entered into by the Company pursuant to this Section 7(c)(xi), if any. 

If at any time the representations and warranties contemplated in Section 7(c)(xi)(A)(1) hereof cease to
be true and correct, the Company shall so advise the Initial Purchasers and the underwriter(s), if any, and each selling Holder promptly and, if requested by such Persons, shall confirm such advice in writing; 

(x) prior to any public offering of Entitled Securities, cooperate with the selling Holders, the
underwriter(s), if any, and their respective counsel in connection with the registration and qualification of the Entitled Securities under the state securities or blue sky laws of such jurisdictions as the selling Holders or underwriter(s), if any,
may reasonably request and do any and all other acts or things necessary or advisable to enable the disposition in such jurisdictions of the Entitled Securities covered by the Shelf Registration Statement; provided, however, that the Company
shall not be required to register or qualify as a foreign corporation where it is not then so qualified or to take any action that would subject it to the service of process in suits or to taxation, in any jurisdiction where it is not then so
subject; 
 (xi) shall issue, upon the request of any Holder of Initial Notes covered by the Shelf
Registration Statement, Exchange Notes having an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Initial Notes surrendered to the Company by such Holder in exchange therefor or being sold by such Holder; such Exchange Notes, if
in certificated form, to be registered in the name of such Holder or in the name of the purchaser(s) of such Exchange Notes, as the case may be; in return, the Initial Notes held by such Holder, if in certificated form, shall be surrendered to the
Company for cancellation; 
 (xii) cooperate with the selling Holders and the underwriter(s), if any, to
facilitate the timely preparation and delivery of certificates representing Entitled Securities to be sold and not bearing any restrictive legends; and enable such Entitled Securities to be in such denominations and registered in such names as the
Holders or the underwriter(s), if any, may request at least two Business Days prior to any sale of Entitled Securities made by such Holders or underwriter(s); 

(xiii) use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Entitled Securities covered by the Registration
Statement to be registered with or approved by such other governmental agencies or authorities as may be necessary to enable the seller or sellers thereof or the underwriter(s), if any, to consummate the disposition of such Entitled Securities,
subject to the proviso contained in Section 7(c)(xii) hereof; 

  
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 (xiv) if any fact or event contemplated by
Section 7(c)(iii)(D) hereof shall exist or have occurred, prepare a supplement or post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement or related Prospectus or any document incorporated therein by reference or file any other required document
so that, as thereafter delivered to the purchasers of Entitled Securities, the Prospectus will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading;

 (xv) provide a CUSIP number for all Exchange Notes not later than the effective date of the Registration
Statement covering such Exchange Notes and provide the Trustee under the Indenture with printed certificates for such Exchange Notes which are in a form eligible for deposit with the Depository Trust Company and take all other action necessary to
ensure that all such Securities are eligible for deposit with the Depository Trust Company; 
 (xvi)
cooperate and assist in any filings required to be made with the FINRA and in the performance of any due diligence investigation by any underwriter that is required to be retained in accordance with the rules and regulations of the FINRA; 

(xvii) otherwise use its commercially reasonable efforts to comply in all material respects with all applicable
rules and regulations of the Commission, and make generally available to its security holders, as soon as practicable, a consolidated earnings statement meeting the requirements of Rule 158 under the Securities Act (which need not be audited) for
the twelve-month period (A) commencing at the end of any fiscal quarter in which Entitled Securities are sold to underwriters in a firm commitment or best efforts Underwritten Offering or (B) if not sold to underwriters in such an
offering, beginning with the first month of the Company’s first fiscal quarter commencing after the effective date of the Registration Statement; 

(xvii) cause the Indenture to be qualified under the Trust Indenture Act not later than the effective date of
the first Registration Statement required by this Agreement, and, in connection therewith, cooperate with the Trustee and the Holders of Exchange Notes to effect such changes to the Indenture as may be required for such Indenture to be so qualified
in accordance with the terms of the Trust Indenture Act; and to execute and use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Trustee to execute, all documents that may be required to effect such changes and all other forms and documents required
to be filed with the Commission to enable such Indenture to be so qualified in a timely manner; 
 (xviii)
cause all Exchange Notes covered by the Registration Statement to be listed on each securities exchange or automated quotation system on which similar securities issued by the Company are then listed if requested by the Holders of a majority in
aggregate principal amount of Initial Notes or the managing underwriter(s), if any; and 

  
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 Each Holder agrees by acquisition of a Entitled Security that, upon
receipt of any notice from the Company of a Suspension Period or the existence of any fact of the kind described in Section 7(c)(iii)(D) hereof, such Holder will forthwith discontinue disposition of Entitled Securities pursuant to the
applicable Registration Statement until such Holder’s receipt of the copies of the supplemented or amended Prospectus contemplated by Section 7(c)(xvi) hereof, or until it is advised in writing (the “Advice”) by the Company that
the use of the Prospectus may be resumed, and has received copies of any additional or supplemental filings that are incorporated by reference in the Prospectus. If so directed by the Company, each Holder will deliver to the Company (at the
Company’s expense) all copies, other than permanent file copies then in such Holder’s possession, of the Prospectus covering such Entitled Securities that was current at the time of receipt of such notice. In the event the Company shall
give any such notice, the time period regarding the effectiveness of such Registration Statement set forth in Section 4 or 5 hereof, as applicable, shall be extended by the number of days during the period from and including the date of the
giving of such notice pursuant to Section 7(c)(iii)(D) hereof to and including the date when each selling Holder covered by such Registration Statement shall have received the copies of the supplemented or amended Prospectus contemplated by
Section 7(c)(xvi) hereof or shall have received the Advice; provided, however, that no such extension shall be taken into account, except in connection with a Suspension Period, in determining whether Additional Interest is due pursuant
to Section 6 hereof or the amount of such Additional Interest, it being agreed that the Company’s option to suspend use of a Registration Statement pursuant to this paragraph shall be treated as a Registration Default for purposes of
Section 6 hereof. 
 SECTION 8. Registration Expenses. 

(a) All expenses incident to the Company’s performance of or compliance with this Agreement will be borne by the Company,
regardless of whether a Registration Statement becomes effective, including, without limitation: (i) all registration and filing fees and expenses (including filings made by any Initial Purchaser or Holder with the FINRA (and, if applicable,
the fees and expenses of any “qualified independent underwriter” and its counsel that may be required by the rules and regulations of the FINRA)); (ii) all fees and expenses of compliance with federal securities and state securities
or blue sky laws; (iii) all expenses of printing (including printing certificates for the Exchange Notes to be issued in the Exchange Offer and printing of Prospectuses), messenger and delivery services and telephone; (iv) all fees and
disbursements of the Company’s counsel and, subject to Section 8(b) hereof, the Holders of Entitled Securities; (v) all application and filing fees in connection with listing the Exchange Notes on a securities exchange or automated
quotation system pursuant to the requirements thereof; and (vi) all fees and disbursements of the Company’s independent certified public accountants (including the expenses of any special audit and comfort letters required by or incident
to such performance). 
 The Company will, in any event, bear its internal expenses (including, without limitation, all
salaries and expenses of its officers and employees performing legal or accounting duties), the expenses of any annual audit and the fees and expenses of any Person, including special experts, retained by it. 

  
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 (b) In connection with any Registration Statement required by this Agreement
(including, without limitation, the Exchange Offer Registration Statement and the Shelf Registration Statement), the Company will reimburse the Initial Purchasers and the Holders of Entitled Securities being tendered in the Exchange Offer and/or
resold pursuant to the “Plan of Distribution” contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement or registered pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement, as applicable, for the reasonable fees and disbursements of not more than one
counsel, who shall be such counsel as may be chosen by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Entitled Securities for whose benefit such Registration Statement is being prepared. 

SECTION 9. Indemnification. 

(a) The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless (i) each Holder and (ii) each Person, if any, who controls
(within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act) any Holder (any of the Persons referred to in this clause (ii) being hereinafter referred to as a “controlling person”) and
(iii) the respective officers, directors, partners, employees, representatives and agents of any Holder or any controlling person (any Person referred to in clause (i), (ii) or (iii) may hereinafter be referred to as an
“Indemnified Holder”), to the fullest extent lawful, from and against any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses (or actions in respect thereof) (including, without limitation, and as incurred, reimbursement of all
reasonable costs of investigating, or defending any claim or action, or any investigation or proceeding by any governmental agency or body, including the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel to any Indemnified Holder), joint or several, directly
or indirectly caused by, related to, based upon, arising out of or in connection with any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Registration Statement or Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto),
or any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, except insofar as such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses are caused by an
untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission that is made in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to any of the Holders furnished in writing to the Company by any of the Holders expressly for use therein.
This indemnity agreement shall be in addition to any liability which the Company may otherwise have. 
 In case any
action or proceeding (including any governmental or regulatory investigation or proceeding) shall be brought or asserted against any of the Indemnified Holders with respect to which indemnity may be sought against the Company, such Indemnified
Holder (or the Indemnified Holder controlled by such controlling person) shall promptly notify the Company in writing; provided, however, that the failure to give such notice shall not relieve any of the Company of its obligations pursuant to
this Agreement. Such Indemnified Holder shall have the right to employ its own counsel in any such action and the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be paid, as incurred, by the Company (regardless of whether it is ultimately determined that an
Indemnified Holder is not entitled to indemnification hereunder). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not, in connection with any one such action or proceeding or separate but substantially similar or related actions or proceedings in
the same jurisdiction arising out of the same general allegations or circumstances, be liable for the reasonable fees and expenses of more than one separate firm of attorneys (in addition to any local counsel) at any time for such Indemnified
Holders, which firm shall be designated by the Holders. The Company shall be liable for any settlement of any such action or proceeding effected with the Company’s prior written consent, which consent shall not be withheld unreasonably, and the
Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless any Indemnified Holder from and against any loss, claim, damage, liability or expense by reason of any settlement of any action effected with the Company’s written consent. The Company shall not,
without the prior written consent of each Indemnified Holder, settle or compromise or consent to the entry of judgment in or otherwise seek to terminate any pending or threatened action, claim, litigation or proceeding in respect of which
indemnification or contribution may be sought hereunder (whether or not any Indemnified Holder is a party thereto), unless such settlement, compromise, consent or termination includes an unconditional release of each Indemnified Holder from all
liability arising out of such action, claim, litigation or proceeding. 

  
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 (b) Each Holder of Entitled Securities agrees, severally and not jointly, to
indemnify and hold harmless the Company and its directors and officers who sign a Registration Statement, and any Person controlling (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act) the Company and
the officers, directors, partners, employees, representatives and agents of each such Person, to the same extent as the foregoing indemnity from the Company to each of the Indemnified Holders, but only with respect to claims and actions based on
information relating to such Holder furnished in writing by such Holder expressly for use in any Registration Statement or Prospectus. In case any action or proceeding shall be brought against the Company or its directors or officers or any such
controlling person in respect of which indemnity may be sought against a Holder of Entitled Securities, such Holder shall have the rights and duties given the Company, and the Company, its directors and officers and such controlling Person shall
have the rights and duties given to each Holder, in each case, by the preceding paragraph. 
 (c) If the indemnification
provided for in this Section 9 is unavailable to an indemnified party under Section 9(a) or (b) hereof (other than by reason of exceptions provided in those Sections) in respect of any losses, claims, damages, liabilities, judgments,
actions or expenses referred to therein, then each applicable indemnifying party, in lieu of indemnifying such indemnified party, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of such losses, claims, damages,
liabilities or expenses in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company, on the one hand, and the Holders, on the other hand, from the Initial Placement (which in the case of the Company shall be deemed
to be equal to its total gross proceeds from the Initial Placement), the amount of Additional Interest which did not become payable as a result of the filing of the Registration Statement resulting in such losses, claims, damages, liabilities,
judgments actions or expenses, and such Registration Statement, or if such allocation is not permitted by applicable law, the relative fault of the Company, on the one hand, and the Holders, on the other hand, in connection with the statements or
omissions which resulted in such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative fault of the Company, on the one hand, and of the Indemnified Holder, on the other hand, shall be
determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company, on the one hand, or the
Indemnified Holders, on the other hand, and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission. The amount paid or payable by a party as a result of the losses,
claims, damages, liabilities and expenses referred to above shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth in the second paragraph of Section 9(a) hereof, any legal or other fees or expenses reasonably incurred by such party
in connection with investigating or defending any action or claim. 

  
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 Each of the Company and the Holders of Entitled Securities agrees that it would
not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 9(c) were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Holders were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation which does not take account of
the equitable considerations referred to in the immediately preceding paragraph. The amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses referred to in the immediately preceding
paragraph shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth above, any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the
provisions of this Section 9, none of the Holders (and its related Indemnified Holders) shall be required to contribute, in the aggregate, any amount in excess of the amount by which the total discount received by such Holder with respect to
the Initial Notes exceeds the amount of any damages which such Holder has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No Person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within
the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any Person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The Holders’ obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 9(c) are
several in proportion to the respective principal amount of Initial Notes held by each of the Holders hereunder and not joint. 

SECTION 10. Rule 144A. The Company hereby agrees with each Holder, for so long as any Entitled
Securities remain outstanding, to make available to any Holder or beneficial owner of Entitled Securities in connection with any sale thereof and any prospective purchaser of such Entitled Securities from such Holder or beneficial owner, the
information required by Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act in order to permit resales of such Entitled Securities pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act. 

SECTION 11. Participation in Underwritten Registrations. No Holder may participate in any
Underwritten Registration hereunder unless such Holder (a) agrees to sell such Holder’s Entitled Securities on the basis provided in any underwriting arrangements approved by the Persons entitled hereunder to approve such arrangements and
(b) completes and executes all reasonable questionnaires, powers of attorney, indemnities, underwriting agreements, lock-up letters and other documents required under the terms of such underwriting arrangements. 

SECTION 12. Selection of Underwriters. The Holders of Entitled Securities covered by the
Shelf Registration Statement who desire to do so may sell such Entitled Securities in an Underwritten Offering. In any such Underwritten Offering, the investment banker(s) and managing underwriter(s) that will administer such offering will be
selected by the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Entitled Securities included in such offering; provided, however, that such investment banker(s) and managing underwriter(s) must be reasonably satisfactory to the
Company; provided further, that if the Company is conducting a primary issuance of securities in such Underwritten Offering, the Company shall have sole discretion in such selection. 

  
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 SECTION 13. Miscellaneous. 

(a) Remedies. The Company hereby agrees that monetary damages would not be adequate compensation for any loss
incurred by reason of a breach by it of the provisions of this Agreement and hereby agree to waive the defense in any action for specific performance that a remedy at law would be adequate. 

(b) No Inconsistent Agreements. The Company will not, on or after the date of this Agreement, enter into any
agreement with respect to its securities that is inconsistent with the rights granted to the Holders in this Agreement or otherwise conflicts with the provisions hereof. The Company has not previously entered into any agreement granting any
registration rights with respect to its securities to any Person. The rights granted to the Holders hereunder do not in any way conflict with and are not inconsistent with the rights granted to the holders of the Company’s securities under any
agreement in effect on the date hereof. 
 (c) Amendments and Waivers. The provisions of this Agreement
may not be amended, modified or supplemented, and waivers or consents to or departures from the provisions hereof may not be given unless the Company has (i) in the case of Section 6 hereof and this Section 13(c)(i), obtained the
written consent of Holders of all outstanding Entitled Securities and (ii) in the case of all other provisions hereof, obtained the written consent of Holders of a majority of the outstanding principal amount of Entitled Securities (excluding
any Entitled Securities held by the Company or its Affiliates). Notwithstanding the foregoing, a waiver or consent to departure from the provisions hereof that relates exclusively to the rights of Holders whose securities are being tendered pursuant
to the Exchange Offer and that does not affect directly or indirectly the rights of other Holders whose securities are not being tendered pursuant to such Exchange Offer may be given by the Holders of a majority of the outstanding principal amount
of Entitled Securities being tendered or registered; provided, however, that, with respect to any matter that directly or indirectly affects the rights of any Initial Purchaser hereunder, the Company shall obtain the written consent of such
Initial Purchaser with respect to which such amendment, qualification, supplement, waiver, consent or departure is to be effective. 

(d) Notices. All notices and other communications provided for or permitted hereunder shall be made in writing
by hand-delivery, first-class mail (registered or certified, return receipt requested), telex, facsimile, or air courier guaranteeing overnight delivery: 

(i) if to a Holder, at the address set forth on the records of the Registrar under the Indenture, with a copy
to the Registrar under the Indenture; and 
 (ii) if to the Company: 

Mercer International Inc. 

Suite 1120, 700 West Pender Street 

Vancouver, British Columbia 

Canada, V6C 1G8 

Facsimile: (604) 684-1094 

Attention: Chief Financial Officer 

  
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 With a copy to: 

Sangra Moller LLP 

Barristers & Solicitors 

1000 Cathedral Place 

925 West Georgia Street 

Vancouver, British Columbia 

Canada, V6B 3L2 

Facsimile: (604) 669-8803 

Attention: Harjit Sangra 

All such notices and communications shall be deemed to have been duly given: at the time delivered by hand, if personally
delivered; five Business Days after being deposited in the mail, postage prepaid, if mailed; when answered back, if telexed; when receipt acknowledged, if faxed; and on the next Business Day, if timely delivered to an air courier guaranteeing
overnight delivery. 
 Copies of all such notices, demands or other communications shall be concurrently delivered by the
Person giving the same to the Trustee at the address specified in the Indenture. 
 (f) Successors and Assigns.
This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the successors and assigns of each of the parties, including, without limitation, and without the need for an express assignment or assumption, subsequent Holders of Entitled
Securities; provided, however, that this Agreement shall not inure to the benefit of or be binding upon a successor or assign of a Holder unless and to the extent such successor or assign acquired Entitled Securities from such Holder.

 (g) Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by the parties
hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement. 

(h) Headings. The headings in this Agreement are for convenience of reference only and shall not limit or
otherwise affect the meaning hereof. 
 (i) Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND
CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. 
 (j) Severability. In the event that
any one or more of the provisions contained herein, or the application thereof in any circumstance, is held invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of any such provision in every other respect and of the
remaining provisions contained herein shall not be affected or impaired thereby. 
 (k) Entire Agreement.
This Agreement is intended by the parties as a final expression of their agreement and intended to be a complete and exclusive statement of the agreement and understanding of the parties hereto in respect of the subject matter contained herein.
There are no restrictions, promises, warranties or undertakings, other than those set forth or referred to herein with respect to the registration rights granted by the Company with respect to the Entitled Securities. This Agreement supersedes all
prior agreements and understandings between the parties with respect to such subject matter. 
 [Signature pages follow] 

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

			
	 Mercer International Inc.

		
	 By:
	 	 /s/ David M. Gandossi

	 Name:
	 	 David M. Gandossi

	 Title:
	 	 Secretary and Chief Financial Officer

  
 Registration Rights
Agreement - 2022 Notes 

 The foregoing Registration Rights Agreement is hereby confirmed and accepted as
of the date first above written: 
 Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC 
  

			
	 By:
	 	 /s/ Michael Speller

	 Name:
	 	 Michael Speller

	 Title:
	 	 Managing Director

 Acting for themselves and on behalf of the 

several Initial Purchasers 

  
 Registration Rights
Agreement - 2022 NotesEX-10.3

 Exhibit 10.3 
  

			
	 

	 	 CLIFFORD CHANCE

DEUTSCHLAND LLP

 Execution Copy 

ZELLSTOFF STENDAL GMBH 
 as
Borrower 
 UNICREDIT BANK AG 

as Bookrunner and Mandated Lead Arranger, Agent, Security Agent 

and an Original Lender 
 CREDIT
SUISSE AG, LONDON BRANCH 
 as an Original Lender 

ROYAL BANK OF CANADA 
 as an
Original Lender 
 BARCLAYS BANK PLC 

as an Original Lender 
  

 
 REVOLVING

 CREDIT FACILITY AGREEMENT 

IN THE AMOUNT OF 
 EUR
75,000,000 
  
  

CLIFFORD CHANCE DEUTSCHLAND LLP IS A LIMITED LIABILITY PARTNERSHIP WITH REGISTERED OFFICE AT 10 UPPER BANK STREET, LONDON E14 5JJ, REGISTERED
IN ENGLAND AND WALES UNDER OC393460. A BRANCH OFFICE OF THE PARTNERSHIP IS REGISTERED IN THE PARTNERSHIP REGISTER AT FRANKFURT AM MAIN LOCAL COURT UNDER PR 2189. 

 CONTENTS 
  

							
	Clause	  	Page	 
			
	 1.
	  	 Definitions and Interpretation
	  	 	3	 
			
	 2.
	  	 The Facility
	  	 	23	 
			
	 3.
	  	 Purpose
	  	 	23	 
			
	 4.
	  	 Conditions Precedent
	  	 	24	 
			
	 5.
	  	 Utilisation - Loans
	  	 	25	 
			
	 6.
	  	 Utilisation - Bank Guarantees
	  	 	26	 
			
	 7.
	  	 Bank Guarantees
	  	 	28	 
			
	 8.
	  	 Repayment
	  	 	31	 
			
	 9.
	  	 Prepayment and Cancellation
	  	 	31	 
			
	 10.
	  	 Interest
	  	 	34	 
			
	 11.
	  	 Interest Periods
	  	 	35	 
			
	 12.
	  	 Changes to the Calculation of Interest
	  	 	35	 
			
	 13.
	  	 Fees
	  	 	37	 
			
	 14.
	  	 Tax Gross Up and Indemnities
	  	 	38	 
			
	 15.
	  	 Increased Costs
	  	 	43	 
			
	 16.
	  	 Other Indemnities
	  	 	44	 
			
	 17.
	  	 Mitigation by the Lenders
	  	 	45	 
			
	 18.
	  	 Costs and Expenses
	  	 	45	 
			
	 19.
	  	 Representations
	  	 	47	 
			
	 20.
	  	 Information Undertakings
	  	 	50	 
			
	 21.
	  	 Financial Covenants
	  	 	55	 
			
	 22.
	  	 General Undertakings
	  	 	57	 
			
	 23.
	  	 Events of Default
	  	 	62	 
			
	 24.
	  	 Changes to the Lenders
	  	 	68	 
			
	 25.
	  	 Confidentiality
	  	 	72	 
			
	 26.
	  	 Changes to the Borrower
	  	 	72	 
			
	 27.
	  	 Role of the Agent, the Arranger, any Issuing Bank and others
	  	 	73	 
			
	 28.
	  	 Conduct of Business by the Finance Parties
	  	 	83	 
			
	 29.
	  	 Sharing among the Finance Parties
	  	 	84	 
			
	 30.
	  	 Payment Mechanics
	  	 	86	 
			
	 31.
	  	 Set-off
	  	 	88	 
			
	 32.
	  	 Notices
	  	 	88	 
			
	 33.
	  	 Calculations and Certificates
	  	 	90	 
			
	 34.
	  	 Partial Invalidity
	  	 	91	 

  
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	 35.
	  	 Remedies and Waivers
	  	 	91	 
			
	 36.
	  	 Amendments and Waivers
	  	 	91	 
			
	 37.
	  	 Conclusion of this Agreement (Vertragsschluss)
	  	 	92	 
			
	 38.
	  	 Statute of Limitations (Verjährung)
	  	 	93	 
			
	 39.
	  	 Governing law
	  	 	94	 
			
	 40.
	  	 Jurisdiction
	  	 	94	 
		
	 Schedule 1 The Original Lenders
	  	 	95	 
		
	 Schedule 2 Conditions Precedent
	  	 	96	 
		
	 Schedule 3 Utilisation Request
	  	 	99	 
		
	 Schedule 4 Form of Assignment and Assumption Certificate
	  	 	100	 
		
	 Schedule 5 Form of Compliance Certificate
	  	 	103	 
		
	 Schedule 6 Existing Security
	  	 	104	 
		
	 Schedule 7 Existing Indebtedness of ZSG Group
	  	 	105	 
		
	 Schedule 8 Timetables
	  	 	106	 
		
	 Schedule 9 Insurances
	  	 	107	 
		
	 Schedule 10 Form of Interest Payment Notice
	  	 	108	 
		
	 Schedule 11 Shareholder Loan Agreements
	  	 	109	 

  
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 THIS AGREEMENT is made on 25 November 2014 

BETWEEN: 
  

	(1)	 ZELLSTOFF STENDAL GMBH, a limited liability company (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung) incorporated, organised and validly
existing under the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, having its office at Goldbecker Strasse 1, 39596 Arneburg, Federal Republic of Germany and registered in the commercial register (Handelsregister) of the local court
(Amtsgericht) of Stendal, number HRB 2446 (the “Borrower”); 

  

	(2)	 UNICREDIT BANK AG, a stock corporation (Aktiengesellschaft) incorporated, organised and validly existing under the laws of the
Federal Republic of Germany, having its office at Arabellastrasse 14, 81925 Munich, Federal Republic of Germany and registered in the commercial register (Handelsregister) of the local court (Amtsgericht) of Munich, number HRB 42148 as
bookrunner and mandated lead arranger (the “Arranger”); 

  

	(3)	 UNICREDIT BANK AG (the “Agent” and “Security Agent”); 

 

	(4)	 UNICREDIT BANK AG (an “Original Lender”); 

 

	(5)	 CREDIT SUISSE AG, LONDON BRANCH, having its office at One Cabot Square, London E14 4QJ (an “Original Lender”);

  

	(6)	 ROYAL BANK OF CANADA, having its office at Riverbank House, 2 Swan Lane, London, EC4R 3BF (an “Original Lender”); and

  

	(7)	 BARCLAYS BANK PLC, having its office at 5 The North Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London E14 4BB, United Kingdom (an “Original
Lender”) 

 (the entities under (4) to (7) are collectively referred to as the “Original
Lenders” and together with the entities under (1) to (3) as the “Parties”). 
 WHEREAS 

 

	(A)	 The Borrower operates a 660,000 tonnes per annum bleached softwood kraft pulp mill located in Arneburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Federal Republic of Germany
(the “Project”). In order to finance the Project, the Borrower entered into a EUR 827,950,000 facility agreement dated 26 August 2002 (as amended) (the “Pulp Mill Facility Agreement”) and a EUR 17,000,000
facility agreement dated 19 January 2012 (as amended) (the “Blue Mill Facility Agreement” and together with the Pulp Mill Facility Agreement the “Existing Facility Agreements”). 

 

	(B)	 Mercer International Inc. the ultimate parent of the Borrower intends to issue and sell off two bonds: a high yield note of approximately USD
400,000,000 and a high yield note of approximately USD 250,000,000 (the “Note Issue”). Certain funds generated by the Note Issue shall be made available to the Borrower by way of various shareholder loans granted by Mercer
International Inc., directly or indirectly through its affiliates (the “Shareholder Contribution”). 

  
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	(C)	 The Borrower intends to repay the loans granted under the Existing Facility Agreements and to partly fund the required amount through (i) the
Shareholder Contribution, (ii) the cash available to the Borrower (the “Cash Contribution”) including any funds standing to the credit of its account denominated “Debt Service Reserve Account” (the “DSRA
Funds”) and (iii) a draw-down under the Facility (as defined below) of not more than EUR 37,500,000 (the “Refinancing”). 

  

	(D)	 The Parties agree that this Agreement shall be conditional and only become legally effective upon the transfer of the Cash Contribution and the
Shareholder Contribution to the Refinancing Account (as defined below) and confirmation from the Agent that all conditions precedent as set out in Schedule 2 (Conditions Precedent) have been satisfied. Nevertheless, the Borrower shall be
entitled to submit a Utilisation Request (as defined below) prior to the Effective Date (as defined below) in order to give the Original Lenders sufficient time to prepare a disbursement of the funds on the Effective Date. However, for the avoidance
of doubt, the Utilisation Request itself will only become legally effective on the Effective Date. 

 IT IS AGREED
as follows: 

  
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 SECTION 1 

INTERPRETATION 
  

	1.	 DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION 

  

	1.1	 Definitions 

In this Agreement: 

“Affiliate” means, in relation to any person, a Subsidiary of that person or a Holding Company of that person
or any other Subsidiary of that Holding Company. 
 “Assignment and Assumption Certificate” means a
certificate substantially in the form set out in Schedule 4 (Form of Assignment and Assumption Certificate) or any other form agreed between the Agent and the Borrower. 

“Authorisation” means an authorisation, consent, approval, resolution, licence, exemption, filing,
notarisation or registration. 
 “Availability Period” means the period from and including the Effective
Date and including the date falling one month before the Termination Date. 
 “Available Commitment” means a
Lender’s Commitment minus: 
  

	 	(a)	 the amount of its participation in any outstanding and not repaid Utilisations; and 

 

	 	(b)	 in relation to any proposed Utilisation, the amount of its participation in any Utilisation that are due to be made on or before the proposed
Utilisation Date, other than that Lender’s participation in any Utilisation that are due to be repaid or prepaid on or before the proposed Utilisation Date. 

“Available Facility” means the aggregate for the time being of each Lender’s Available Commitment. 

“Bank Guarantee” means a Bank Guarantee (selbstschuldnerische Bürgschaft) or any other form of
guarantee or letter of credit in a form agreed by any Issuing Bank, the Borrower and the Agent. 
 “Break
Costs” means the amount (if any) by which: 
  

	 	(a)	 the interest which a Lender should have received for the period from the date of receipt of all or any part of its participation in a Utilisation
or Unpaid Sum to the last day of the current Interest Period in respect of that Utilisation or Unpaid Sum, had the principal amount or Unpaid Sum received been paid on the last day of that Interest Period; 

exceeds: 
  

	 	(b)	 the amount which that Lender would be able to obtain by placing an amount equal to the principal amount or Unpaid Sum received by it on deposit
with a leading bank in the Relevant Interbank Market for a period starting on the Business Day following receipt or recovery and ending on the last day of the current Interest Period. 

  
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 “Business Day” means a day (other than a Saturday or Sunday) on
which banks are open for general business in London, Munich and in relation to any date for payment or purchase of euro any TARGET Day. 

“Calculation Date” has the meaning ascribed to it in Clause 21.1 (Financial definitions). 

“Change of Control” means if: 
  

	 	(a)	 the Ultimate Parent ceases (directly or indirectly) to Control the Borrower; 

 

	 	(b)	 any other person or group of persons acting in concert (other than the Ultimate Parent) gains direct or indirect Control of the Borrower.

 For the purposes of this definition, “acting in concert” means, a group of persons who,
pursuant to an agreement or understanding (whether formal or informal), actively co-operate, through the acquisition of shares or partnership interests in a person, either directly or indirectly, to obtain or consolidate Control of such person. 

“Code” means the US Internal Revenue Code of 1986. 

“Commitment” means: 
  

	 	(a)	 in relation to an Original Lender, the amount set opposite its name under the heading “Commitment” in Schedule 1 (The Original
Lenders) and the amount of any other Commitment transferred to it under this Agreement; and 

  

	 	(b)	 in relation to any other Lender, the amount of any Commitment transferred to it under this Agreement, 

to the extent not cancelled, reduced or transferred by it under this Agreement. 

“Compliance Certificate” means a certificate substantially in the form set out in Schedule 5 (Form of
Compliance Certificate). 
 “Control” means the direct or indirect power (whether by way of ownership of
shares, proxy, contract, agency or otherwise) to: 
  

	 	(a)	 cast, or control the casting of, more than 50 per cent. of the maximum number of votes that might be cast at a general meeting of such body
corporate or another entity; or 

  

	 	(b)	 appoint or remove all, or the majority, of the partners, directors, management board members, or other equivalent officers of such body corporate;
and 

 the holding of more than 50 per cent. of the issued share capital of such body corporate or
holding the post of managing partner of a limited partnership or legal partnership (excluding any part of that issued share capital that carries no right to participate beyond a specified amount in a distribution of either profits or capital) and
“Controlled” shall be construed accordingly. 

  
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 “Current Assets” has the meaning ascribed to it in Clause 21.1
(Financial definitions). 
 “Current Liabilities” has the meaning ascribed to it in Clause 21.1
(Financial definitions). 
 “Current Ratio” has the meaning ascribed to it in Clause 21.1
(Financial definitions). 
 “Default” means an Event of Default or any event or circumstance
specified in Clause 23 (Events of Default) which would (with the expiry of a grace period, the giving of notice, the making of any determination under the Finance Documents or any combination of any of the foregoing) be an Event of Default.

 “EBITDA” has the meaning ascribed to it in Clause 21.1 (Financial definitions). 

“Effective Date” means the date on which the conditions precedent as set out in Clause 4.1.1 have been
fulfilled. 
 “Environment” means all, or any of, the following media: the air (including the air within
buildings and the air within other natural or man-made structures above or below ground, such as soil-vapor), water (including ground and surface water, coastal or inland waters, acquifers, leachates, pipes, drains and sewers) and land (including
buildings and other structures in, on or under it and any surface and sub-surface soil). 
 “Environmental
Claim” means any claim by any person: 
  

	 	(a)	 in respect of any loss or liability suffered or incurred by that person as a result of or in connection with any violation of Environmental Law; or

  

	 	(b)	 that arises as a result of or in connection with Environmental Contamination and that could give rise to any remedy or penalty (whether interim or
final) that may be enforced or assessed by private or public legal action or administrative order or proceedings. 

“Environmental Contamination” means each of the following and their consequences: 

 

	 	(a)	 any release, discharge, emission, leakage or spillage of any dangerous substance at or from any site owned, leased, occupied or used by the
Borrower into any part of the Environment; or 

  

	 	(b)	 any accident, fire, explosion or sudden event at any site owned, leased, occupied or used by the Borrower which is directly or indirectly caused by
or attributable to any dangerous substance; or 

  

	 	(c)	 any other pollution of the Environment; 

other than those in compliance with Environmental Law or any Environmental Licence in effect at the time of occurrence or
incidence, as the case may be. 

  
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 “Environmental Law” means all regulations applicable in Germany,
agreements with the authorities and the like having legal effect in Germany concerning the protection of, or the prevention of damage to, human health, the Environment, the conditions of the work place or Environmental Contamination or the provision
of remedies in relation to harm or damage to the Environment. 
 “Environmental Licence” means any permit
and other Authorisation and the filing of any notification, report or assessment required under any Environmental Law for the operation of the business of the Borrower conducted on or from any site owned, leased, occupied or used by it. 

“EU Restricted Person” means a person that is (i) listed on, or owned or controlled (directly or
indirectly) by a person listed on any EU Sanctions List; (ii) located in, incorporated under the laws of, or owned or controlled (directly or indirectly) by, or acting on behalf of, a person located in or organised under the laws of a country
or territory that is the target of country-wide EU Sanctions; or (iii) otherwise a target of EU Sanctions. 

“EU Sanctions” means any economic sanctions laws, regulations, embargoes, local applicable sanctions or
restrictive measures administered, enacted or enforced by: (i) the United Nations; (ii) the European Union; or (iii) the respective governmental institutions and agencies of any of the European Union (together “EU Sanctions
Authorities”). 
 “EU Sanctions List” means any list of persons which are designated the target of
sanctions, issued or maintained or made public by any of the EU Sanctions Authorities. 
 “EURIBOR” means,
in relation to any Loan in euro: 
  

	 	(a)	 the applicable Screen Rate; 

  

	 	(b)	 (if no Screen Rate is available for the Interest Period of that Loan) the Interpolated Screen Rate for that Loan; or 

 

	 	(c)	 if: 

  

	 	(i)	 no Screen Rate is available for the Interest Period of that Loan; and 

 

	 	(ii)	 it is not possible to calculate an Interpolated Screen Rate for that Loan, 

the Reference Bank Rate, 

as of, in the case of paragraphs (a) and (c) above, the Specified Time on the Quotation Day for euro and for a period equal in
length to the Interest Period of that Loan and, if that rate is less than zero, EURIBOR shall be deemed to be zero. 

“Event of Default” means any event or circumstance specified as such in Clause 23 (Events of Default).

  
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 “Existing Bank Guarantees” means the two bank guarantees granted
to the Borrower by UniCredit Bank AG in the amount of (i) EUR 400,000, dated 21 February 2014 and (ii) EUR 2,092,860, dated 11 December 2012. 

“Existing Indebtedness” means the indebtedness of the Borrower pursuant to the Existing Facility Agreements as
well as any other indebtedness as listed in Schedule 7 (Existing Indebtedness). 
 “Existing
Security” means the Security of the Borrower for the Existing Indebtedness and as otherwise set out in Schedule 6 (Existing Security). 

“Expiry Date” means, in relation to any Bank Guarantee, the date on which the maximum aggregate liability
under that Bank Guarantee is to be reduced to zero. 
 “Facility” means the revolving loan facility made
available under this Agreement as described in Clause 2 (The Facility). 
 “Facility Office” means
the office or offices notified by a Lender to the Agent in writing on or before the date it becomes a Lender (or, following that date, by not less than five (5) Business Days’ written notice) as the office or offices through which it will
perform its obligations under this Agreement. 
 “FATCA” means: 

 

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

 

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

  

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

“FATCA Application Date” means: 
  

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

  

	 	(b)	 in relation to a “withholdable payment” described in section 1473(1)(A)(ii) of the Code (which relates to “gross proceeds” from
the disposition of property of a type that can produce interest from sources within the US), 1 January 2017; or 

  

	 	(c)	 in relation to a “passthru payment” described in section 1471(d)(7) of the Code not falling within paragraphs (a) or (b) above,
1 January 2017, 

  
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 or, in each case, such other date from which such payment may become subject to a
deduction or withholding required by FATCA as a result of any change in FATCA after the Effective Date. 
 “FATCA
Deduction” means a deduction or withholding from a payment under a Finance Document required by FATCA. 

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

“Fee Letter” means any letter dated on or about the date of this Agreement between the Arranger and the
Borrower or the Agent and the Borrower or any Issuing Bank and the Borrower setting out any of the fees referred to in Clause 13 (Fees). 

“Finance Document” means: 
  

	 	(a)	 this Agreement; 

  

	 	(b)	 an Assignment and Assumption Certificate; 

  

	 	(c)	 a Bank Guarantee; 

  

	 	(d)	 each Fee Letter; 

  

	 	(e)	 the Hedging Agreement; 

  

	 	(f)	 each Security Document; 

  

	 	(g)	 the Security Pooling Agreement; 

  

	 	(h)	 the Shareholders’ Undertaking Agreement; and 

  

	 	(i)	 any other document agreed to be a “Finance Document” by both the Agent and the Borrower. 

“Finance Party” means the Agent, the Arranger, the Security Agent, any Issuing Bank, the Hedging Bank or a
Lender. 
 “Financial Indebtedness” means (without duplication) any indebtedness (excluding accrued expenses
and trade payables) for or in respect of: 
  

	 	(a)	 moneys borrowed; 

  

	 	(b)	 any amount raised by acceptance under any acceptance credit facility; 

 

	 	(c)	 any amount raised pursuant to any note purchase facility or the issue of bonds, notes, debentures, loan stock or any similar instrument;

  

	 	(d)	 the amount of any liability in respect of any lease or hire purchase contract which would, in accordance with US-GAAP, be treated as a capital
lease; 

  

	 	(e)	 receivables sold or discounted (other than any receivables to the extent they are sold on a non-recourse basis); 

  
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	 	(f)	 any derivative transaction entered into in connection with protection against or benefit from fluctuation in any rate or price (and, when
calculating the value of any derivative transaction, only the marked to market value (or, if any actual amount is due as a result of the termination or close-out of that derivative transaction that amount) shall be taken into account);

  

	 	(g)	 any counter-indemnity obligation in respect of a guarantee, indemnity, bond, standby or documentary bank guarantee or any other instrument issued
by a bank or financial institution; and 

  

	 	(h)	 the amount of any liability in respect of any guarantee or indemnity for any of the items referred to in paragraphs (a) to (g) above.

 “Financial Model” means the financial model agreed between the Parties on or about the
date of this Agreement, as amended from time to time according to the provisions of this Agreement. 

“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the Federal Republic of Germany. 

“Hedging Agreement” means the interest rate swap dated 27 August 2002 as confirmed by the interest
rate swap confirmation dated 27 August 2002 entered into under the Hedging Master Agreement. 
 “Hedging
Bank” means UniCredit Bank AG. 
 “Hedging Master Agreement” means the Master Agreement for
Financial Derivatives Transactions (Rahmenvertrag für Finanztermingeschäfte) dated 26 August 2002 (as amended by an additional agreement (Ergänzungsvereinbarung) dated 20 October 2009) and entered
into between the Borrower and the Hedging Bank. 
 “Hedge Security Account” means the account with the
IBAN DE46700202700015528043. 
 “Holding Company” means, in relation to a person, any other person in
respect of which it is a Subsidiary. 
 “Insurances” means any and all of the contracts of insurance and
reinsurance that the Borrower is required to procure and maintain as set out in Schedule 9 (Insurances). 

“Interest Cover Ratio” has the meaning ascribed to it in Clause 21.1 (Financial definitions). 

“Interest Expense” has the meaning ascribed to it in Clause 21.1 (Financial definitions). 

“Interest Payment Notice” means the notice to the Agent substantially in the form set out in Schedule 10
(Form of Interest Payment Notice) to this Agreement. 
 “Interest Period” means, in relation to a
Loan, each period determined in accordance with Clause 11 (Interest Periods) and, in relation to an Unpaid Sum, each period determined in accordance with Clause 10.3 (Default interest). 

  
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 “Interest Receivable” has the meaning ascribed to it in Clause
21.1 (Financial definitions). 
 “Interpolated Screen Rate” means, in relation to EURIBOR for any
Loan, the rate (rounded to the same number of decimal places as the two relevant Screen Rates) which results from interpolating on a linear basis between: 
  

	 	(a)	 the applicable Screen Rate for the longest period (for which that Screen Rate is available) which is less than the Interest Period of that Loan;
and 

  

	 	(b)	 the applicable Screen Rate for the shortest period (for which that Screen Rate is available) which exceeds the Interest Period of that Loan,

 each as of the Specified Time on the Quotation Day for the currency of that Loan. 

“Issuing Bank” means each Lender who has accepted a Utilisation Request for a Utilisation by way of Bank
Guarantee. 
 “Joint Venture” means any joint venture entity, whether a company, unincorporated firm,
undertaking, association, joint venture or partnership (limited or otherwise) or any other entity. 

“Lender” means: 
  

	 	(a)	 any Original Lender; and 

  

	 	(b)	 any bank, financial institution, trust, fund or other entity which has become a Party in accordance with Clause 24 (Changes to the Lenders),

 which in each case has not ceased to be a Party in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. 

“Leverage Ratio” has the meaning ascribed to it in Clause 21.1 (Financial definitions). 

“Loan” means a loan made or to be made under the Facility or the principal amount outstanding for the time
being of that loan. 
 “Majority Lenders” means a Lender or Lenders whose Commitments aggregate more than
65% of the Total Commitments (or, if the Total Commitments have been reduced to zero, aggregated more than 65% of the Total Commitments immediately prior to the reduction). 

“Margin” means 3.50 per cent. per annum. 

  
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 “Material Adverse Effect” means an event, occurrence or
condition which has materially impaired or which will materially impair (as compared with the situation which would have prevailed but for such event, occurrence or condition): 

 

	 	(a)	 the business, operation, property and financial condition of the Borrower taken as a whole and as a result, the ability of the Borrower to perform
any of its obligations under the Finance Documents; or 

  

	 	(b)	 the validity or enforceability of the Finance Documents. 

“Minimum Liquidity” means the aggregate of the Available Facility and Unencumbered Cash being at least EUR
20,000,000. 
 “Month” means a period starting on one day in a calendar month and ending on the numerically
corresponding day in the next calendar month, except that: 
  

	 	(a)	 if the numerically corresponding day is not a Business Day, that period shall end on the next Business Day in that calendar month in which that
period is to end if there is one, or if there is not, on the immediately preceding Business Day; and 

  

	 	(b)	 if there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month in which that period is to end, that period shall end on the last Business Day
in that calendar month. 

 The above rules will only apply to the last Month of any period. 

“Net Debt” has the meaning ascribed to it in Clause 21.1 (Financial definitions). 

“New Lender” has the meaning given to that term in Clause 24 (Changes to the Lenders). 

“Non-EU Restricted Person” means a person that is (i) listed on, or owned or controlled (directly or
indirectly) by a person listed on any Non-EU Sanctions List; (ii) located in, incorporated under the laws of, or owned or controlled (directly or indirectly) by, or acting on behalf of, a person located in or organised under the laws of a
country or territory that is the target of country-wide Non-EU Sanctions; or (iii) otherwise a target of Non-EU Sanctions: 

“Non-EU Sanctions” means any economic sanctions laws, regulations, embargoes, local applicable sanctions or
restrictive measures administered, enacted or enforced by: (i) the United States government; (ii) the United Kingdom; or (iii) the respective governmental institutions and agencies of any of the foregoing, including without
limitations, OFAC, the United States Department of State, and Her Majesty’s Treasury (together “Non-EU Sanctions Authorities”). 

“Non-EU Sanctions List” means the “Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons” list issued
by OFAC, the Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets issued by Her Majesty’s Treasury, or any similar list issued or maintained or made public by any of the Non-EU Sanctions Authorities. 

“Obligations” has the meaning ascribed to it in Clause 21.1 (Financial definitions). 

  
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 “OFAC” means the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S.
Department of the Treasury. 
 “Original Financial Statements” means the audited financial statements in
respect of the Borrower, SP Holding and the Ultimate Parent for the period ended 31 December 2013. 

“Participating Member State” means any member state of the European Union that has the euro as its lawful
currency in accordance with legislation of the European Union relating to Economic and Monetary Union. 

“Party” means a party to this Agreement. 

“Permitted Encumbrances” means with respect to the ZSG Group: 

 

	 	(a)	 any Existing Security; 

  

	 	(b)	 any lien arising by operation of law or in the ordinary course of business; 

 

	 	(c)	 any Security arising out of conditional sale, any retention of title agreement or similar agreements entered into in the ordinary course of
business; 

  

	 	(d)	 any Security over assets in connection with lease agreements entered into in connection with a rail car financing replacing existing rail car
rental contracts having an aggregate contract value of EUR 23,000,000 at any time; 

  

	 	(e)	 any Security over assets in connection with any new lease agreements having an aggregate contract value of EUR 5,000,000 at any time;

  

	 	(f)	 any Security over assets in connection with capital lease agreements whether with existing and/or new lessors, institutions or lease providers,
replacing, amending or restating operating leases in effect at the date of this Agreement having an aggregate contract value of EUR 20,000,000 at any time; 

  

	 	(g)	 any Transaction Security; 

  

	 	(h)	 any Security securing the Hedging Agreement; 

  

	 	(i)	 any Security securing the Existing Bank Guarantees; 

  

	 	(j)	 any liens arising as a result of litigation or legal proceedings that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings;

  

	 	(k)	 any Security securing any Financial Indebtedness permitted in accordance with paragraph (f) of the definition of Permitted Indebtedness.

 “Permitted Indebtedness” means with respect to the ZSG Group any: 

 

	 	(a)	 Existing Indebtedness set out in Schedule 7 (Existing Indebtedness); 

 

	 	(b)	 Existing Bank Guarantees; 

  
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	 	(c)	 Financial Indebtedness incurred under, or as expressly permitted by, the Transaction Documents; 

 

	 	(d)	 Financial Indebtedness incurred under the hedging transactions contemplated by and documented by the Hedging Agreement; 

 

	 	(e)	 Financial Indebtedness incurred as Subordinated Liabilities by the Borrower, which is legally and structurally subordinated to any liabilities
(including contingent liabilities) of the Borrower under the Finance Documents in accordance with the Shareholders’ Undertaking Agreement; 

  

	 	(f)	 Financial Indebtedness and any other interest bearing indebtedness incurred by the ZSG Group in the ordinary course of business the principal
amount of which does in aggregate not exceed EUR 5,000,000 (or the equivalent in any other currency) at any time; 

  

	 	(g)	 Financial Indebtedness incurred under any new lease agreements having an aggregate contract value of EUR 5,000,000; 

 

	 	(h)	 Financial Indebtedness incurred under any lease agreements entered into in connection with a rail car financing replacing existing rail car rental
contracts having an aggregate contract value of EUR 23,000,000 at any time; 

  

	 	(i)	 Financial Indebtedness incurred in connection with capital lease agreements whether with existing and/or new lessors, institutions or lease
providers, replacing, amending or restating operating leases in effect at the date of this Agreement having an aggregate contract value of EUR 20,000,000 at any time; 

 

	 	(j)	 other Financial Indebtedness permitted by the Majority Lenders from time to time. 

“Permitted Transaction” means: 
  

	 	(a)	 the Refinancing; 

  

	 	(b)	 the incurrence of Permitted Indebtedness and the granting of Permitted Encumbrances; 

 

	 	(c)	 transactions (other than the granting or creation of Security or the incurring or permitting to subsist of Financial Indebtedness) conducted in the
ordinary course of business (including with respect to related parties or affiliates on arm’s-length basis); and 

  

	 	(d)	 any other disposal required, Financial Indebtedness incurred, guarantee, indemnity or Security given, or other transaction arising, under the
Finance Documents or as permitted by the Majority Lenders. 

 “Quotation Day” means, in
relation to any period for which an interest rate is to be determined two TARGET Days before the first day of that period unless market practice differs in the Relevant Interbank Market, in which case the Quotation Day will be determined by the
Agent in accordance with market practice in the Relevant Interbank Market (and if quotations would normally be given by leading banks in the Relevant Interbank Market on more than one day, the Quotation Day will be the last of those days). 

  
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 “Reduction Date” means any day on which a prepayment or
cancellation in accordance with Clause 9 (Prepayment and cancellation) is to occur. 
 “Reduction
Instalment” means the aggregate amount to be repaid or cancelled on any Reduction Date. 
 “Reference Bank
Rate” means the arithmetic mean of the rates (rounded upwards to four decimal places) as supplied to the Agent at its request by the Reference Banks in relation to EURIBOR, as the rate at which the relevant Reference Bank could borrow funds
in the European interbank market in the relevant currency and for the relevant period, were it to do so by asking for and then accepting interbank offers for deposits in reasonable market size in that currency and for that period. 

“Reference Banks” means, in relation to EURIBOR, the principal office in Munich of UniCredit Bank AG and of
the principal offices in Frankfurt am Main of Commerzbank AG and Deutsche Bank AG or such other banks as may be appointed by the Agent in consultation with the Borrower. 

“Refinancing Account” means the account with the IBAN DE94700202700010014281 held with UniCredit Bank AG.

 “Relevant Interbank Market” means in relation to euro, the European interbank market. 

“Renewal Request” means a written notice delivered to the Agent in accordance with Clause 6.5.4 (Renewal of
a Bank Guarantee). 
 “Repeating Representations” means each of the representations set out in
Clause 19.2 (Status), Clause 19.3 (Binding obligations), Clause 19.4 (Non-conflict with other obligations), Clause 19.5 (Power and authority), Clause 19.6 (Validity and admissibility in evidence),
Clause 19.8 (No default), Clause 19.9.3 (No misleading information), Clause 19.10 (Financial statements), Clause 19.11 (Pari passu ranking) and Clause 19.14 (Good title to assets). 

“Rollover Utilisation” means one or more Utilisations: 

 

	 	(a)	 made or to be made on the same day that (i) a maturing Loan is due to be repaid or (ii) the Borrower is obliged to pay to the Agent for
any Issuing Bank the amount of any claim under a Bank Guarantee; 

  

	 	(b)	 the aggregate amount of which is equal to or less than (i) the maturing Loan or (ii) the claim under the Bank Guarantee;

  

	 	(c)	 in the same currency as (i) the maturing Loan or (ii) the claim under the Bank Guarantee; and 

 

	 	(d)	 made or to be made to the Borrower for the purpose of (i) refinancing a maturing Loan or (ii) satisfying the obligations of the Borrower
to pay the amount of a claim under the Bank Guarantee to the Agent for any Issuing Bank. 

  
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 “Screen Rate” means in relation to EURIBOR, the euro interbank
offered rate administered by the Banking Federation of the European Union (or any other person which takes over the administration of that rate) for the relevant period displayed on page EURIBOR01 of the Reuters screen (or any replacement Reuters
page which displays that rate) or on the appropriate page of such other information service which publishes that rate from time to time in place of Reuters. If such page or service ceases to be available, the Agent may specify another page or
service displaying the relevant rate after consultation with the Borrower. 
 “Security” means a mortgage,
charge, pledge, lien, assignment by way of security, guarantee, parallel debt obligation or other security interest securing any obligation of any person or any other agreement or arrangement having a similar effect. 

“Security Documents” means: 
  

	 	(a)	 German law global assignment agreement (Globalzession); 

 

	 	(b)	 German law transfer of assets by way of security (Raumsicherungsübereignung); 

 

	 	(c)	 German law pledge of bank accounts (Kontenverpfändung), excluding the Shareholder Distribution Account; and 

 

	 	(d)	 any other document agreed to be a “Security Document” by both the Agent and the Borrower. 

“Security Pooling Agreement” means the security pooling agreement entered into on or about the date of this
Agreement between, inter alia, the Agent, the Security Agent, the Hedging Bank, the Original Lender and the Borrower. 

“Shareholder Distribution Account” means the account with the IBAN DE61700202700005753180. 

“Shareholder Loan Agreements” means each of the shareholder loan agreements listed in Schedule 11
(Shareholder Loan Agreements) and any document agreed to be a “Shareholder Loan Agreement” by both the Agent and the Borrower. 

“Shareholder Loan” means any debt incurred by the Borrower pursuant to a Shareholder Loan Agreement including
interest and accrued interest. 
 “Shareholders’ Undertaking Agreement” means the shareholders’
undertaking agreement entered into on or about the date of this Agreement between, inter alia, the Ultimate Parent, the Security Agent, SP Holding, and the Borrower. 

“Specified Time” means a time determined in accordance with Schedule 8 (Timetables). 

  
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 “SP Holding” means Stendal Pulp Holding GmbH, a limited
liability company (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung) incorporated, organised and validly existing under the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany having its office at Charlottenstr. 59, 10117 Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany
and registered in the commercial register (Handelsregister) of the local court (Amtsgericht) of Berlin (Charlottenburg), number HRB 99095. 

“Subordinated Creditor” means the Ultimate Parent, SP Holding, ZPR and any other Affiliate that provides
Shareholder Loans to the Borrower and that is from time to time party to the Shareholders’ Undertaking Agreement as a subordinated creditor. 

“Subordinated Liabilities” means any and all payment obligations whether present or future, actual or
contingent under any Shareholder Loan Agreement. 
 “Subsidiary” means companies which are dependent
enterprises of the relevant Holding Company, or any company in respect of which such term is used, within the meaning of Sec. 17 German Stock Corporation Act (Aktiengesetz) and subsidiaries within the meaning of Sec. 290 German Commercial
Code (Handelsgesetzbuch). 
 “Surviving Bank Guarantee” has the meaning given to it in Clause 7.2.5
(Claims under a Bank Guarantee). 
 “TARGET” means Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross
Settlement Express Transfer payment system. 
 “TARGET Day” means any day on which TARGET is open for the
settlement of payments in euro. 
 “Tax” means any tax, levy, impost, duty or other charge or withholding of
a similar nature (including any penalty or interest payable in connection with any failure to pay or any delay in paying any of the same). 

“Term” means, in relation to any Bank Guarantee, the period from its Utilisation Date until its Expiry Date.

 “Termination Date” means the earlier of 

 

	 	(a)	 31 October 2019 and 

  

	 	(b)	 the date falling one month prior to the final maturity date of such note issued in connection with the Note Issue which has the shorter duration.

 “Total Commitments” means the aggregate of the Commitments, being EUR 75,000,000
at the Effective Date. 
 “Transaction Documents” means the Finance Documents, the Shareholder Loan
Agreements and any other document agreed to be a “Transaction Document” by both the Agent and the Borrower. 

“Transaction Security” means the Security created or purported to be created under or pursuant to the Security
Documents or any other Finance Document. 

  
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 “Transfer Date” means, in relation to a transfer, the later of:

  

	 	(a)	 the proposed Transfer Date specified in the Assignment and Assumption Certificate; and 

 

	 	(b)	 the date on which the Agent executes the Assignment and Assumption Certificate. 

“Treasury Transactions” means any derivative transaction entered into in connection with protection against or
benefit from fluctuation in any rate or price. 
 “Ultimate Parent” means Mercer International Inc., a
corporation organised under the laws of the State of Washington, United States of America, having an office at Suite 1120, 700 West Pender Street, Vancouver, B.C. V6C 1G8, Canada. 

“Unencumbered Cash” has the meaning ascribed to it in Clause 21.1 (Financial definitions). 

“Unpaid Sum” means any sum due and payable but unpaid by the Borrower under the Finance Documents. 

“US” means the United States of America. 

“US-GAAP” means the generally accepted accounting principles in the US. 

“US Tax Obligor” means a Borrower: 
  

	 	(a)	 which is resident for tax purposes in the US; or 

  

	 	(b)	 some or all of whose payments under the Finance Documents are from sources within the US for US federal income tax purposes. 

“Utilisation” means a Loan or a Bank Guarantee. 

“Utilisation Date” means the date on which a Utilisation is made. 

“Utilisation Request” means a notice substantially in the form set out in Schedule 3 (Utilisation
Request). 
 “VAT” means: 
  

	 	(a)	 any tax imposed in compliance with the Council Directive of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax (EC Directive 2006/112);
and 

  

	 	(b)	 any other tax of a similar nature, whether imposed in a member state of the European Union in substitution for, or levied in addition to, such tax
referred to in paragraph (a) above, or imposed elsewhere. 

 “ZPR” means Zellstoff-
und Papierfabrik Rosenthal GmbHm, a limited liability company (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung) incorporated, organised and validly existing under the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, having its office at Hauptstraße
16, 07366 Blankenstein, Federal Republic of Germany and registered in the commercial register (Handelsregister) of the local court (Amtsgericht) of Jena, number HRB 209855. 

  
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 “ZSG Group” means the Borrower, ZSG Holz and ZSG Transport as
well as any further subsidiaries of the Borrower. 
 “ZSG Holz” means Zellstoff Stendal Holz GmbH, a limited
liability company (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung) incorporated, organised and validly existing under the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany having its office at Goldbecker Strasse 38, 39596 Arneburg, Federal Republic of
Germany and registered in the commercial register (Handelsregister) of the loacal court (Amtsgericht) of Stendal, number HRB 4089. 

“ZSG Transport” means Zellstoff Stendal Transport GmbH, a limited liability company (Gesellschaft mit
beschränkter Haftung) incorporated, organised and validly existing under the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany having its office at Goldbecker Strasse 38, 39596 Arneburg, Federal Republic of Germany and registered in the commercial
register (Handelsregister) of the local court (Amtsgericht) of Stendal, number HRB 4088. 
  

	1.2	 Construction 

  

	 	1.2.1	 Unless a contrary indication appears, any reference in this Agreement to: 

 

	 	(a)	 the “Agent”, the “Arranger”, the “Borrower”, any “Finance Party”, any
“Issuing Bank”, any “Lender” or any “Party” shall be construed so as to include its successors in title, permitted assigns and permitted transferees to, or of, its rights and/or obligations under
the Finance Documents; 

  

	 	(b)	 “assets” includes present and future properties, revenues and rights of every description; 

 

	 	(c)	 “assignment” means Abtretung; 

  

	 	(d)	 “authorised signatory” means Geschäftsführer or Prokurist insofar as any company incorporated or limited
partnership established in the Federal Republic of Germany is concerned; 

  

	 	(e)	 “board of directors” means Geschäftsführung insofar as any company incorporated or limited partnership
established in the Federal Republic of Germany is concerned; 

  

	 	(f)	 a reference to a “director” means Geschäftsführer insofar as any company incorporated or limited partnership
established in the Federal Republic of Germany is concerned; 

  

	 	(g)	 “disposal” or “dispose” means a sale, lease, licence, transfer or loan (but not including by way of loan of
money) or other disposal by a person of any asset, undertaking or business (whether by a voluntary or involuntary single transaction or series of transactions); 

 

	 	(h)	 the “equivalent” of an amount specified in a particular currency (the “specified currency amount”) shall be
construed as a reference to the amount of the other relevant currency which can be purchased with the specified currency amount Agent’s Spot Rate of Exchange; 

  
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	 	(i)	 a “Finance Document” or any other agreement or instrument is a reference to that Finance Document or other agreement or instrument
as amended or novated; 

  

	 	(j)	 “gross negligence” means grobe Fahrlässigkeit; 

 

	 	(k)	 a “group of Lenders” includes all the Lenders; 

 

	 	(l)	 “guarantee” means any guarantee, letter of credit, bond, indemnity or similar assurance against loss including a third party
security arrangement, or any obligation, direct or indirect, actual or contingent, to purchase or assume any indebtedness of any person or to make an investment in or loan to any person or to purchase assets of any person where, in each case, such
obligation is assumed in order to maintain or assist the ability of such person to meet its indebtedness; 

  

	 	(m)	 “including” means “including without limitation”; 

 

	 	(n)	 “indebtedness” includes any obligation (whether incurred as principal or as surety) for the payment or repayment of money;

  

	 	(o)	 a reference to a “limited partnership” means, insofar as it is established under the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, a
GmbH & Co. KG; 

  

	 	(p)	 “management” means Geschäftsführung insofar as any company incorporated or limited partnership established in the
Federal Republic of Germany is concerned; 

  

	 	(q)	 “pay”, “prepay” or “repay” in Clause 22 (General undertakings) includes by way of
set-off, combination of accounts or otherwise; 

  

	 	(r)	 a “person” includes any individual, firm, company, corporation, government, state or agency of a state or any association, trust,
joint venture, consortium, partnership or other entity (whether or not having separate legal personality); 

  

	 	(s)	 “promptly” means unverzüglich; 

 

	 	(t)	 a “regulation” includes any regulation, rule, official directive, request or guideline (whether or not having the force of law) of
any governmental, intergovernmental or supranational body, agency, department or regulatory, self-regulatory or other authority or organisation; 

  

	 	(u)	 “rights” include all rights, whether actual or contingent, present or future, arising under contract or law;

  
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	 	(v)	 the “share capital” of a company includes in the case of a partnership, partnership interests and in any case includes any equity
or other ownership interest; 

  

	 	(w)	 “trustee”, “fiduciary” and “fiduciary duty” has in each case the meaning given to such term
under applicable law; 

  

	 	(x)	 “wilful default” and “wilful misconduct” means Vorsatz; 

 

	 	(y)	 references (i) to the “winding up”, “dissolution”, or “administration” of a person or
(ii) to a “receiver” or “administrative receiver” in the context of insolvency proceedings or security enforcement actions in respect of a person shall be construed so as to include any equivalent or analogous
proceedings or any equivalent and analogous person or appointee (respectively) under the law of the jurisdiction in which such person is established or incorporated or any jurisdiction in which such person carries on business including (in respect
of proceedings) the seeking or occurrence of liquidation, winding up, reorganisation, dissolution, administration, arrangement, adjustment, protection or relief of debtors; 

 

	 	(z)	 the Borrower “repaying” or “prepaying” a Bank Guarantee means: 

 

	 	(i)	 the Borrower providing cash cover for that Bank Guarantee; 

 

	 	(ii)	 the maximum amount payable under the Bank Guarantee being reduced in accordance with its terms; or 

 

	 	(iii)	 the respective Issuing Bank being satisfied that it has no further liability under that Bank Guarantee, and the amount by which a Bank Guarantee is
repaid or prepaid under Clause 1.2.1(z)(i) and Clause 1.2.1(z)(ii) above is the amount of the relevant cash cover or reduction; 

  

	 	(aa)	 the Borrower providing “cash cover” for a Bank Guarantee means the Borrower paying an amount in the currency of the Bank Guarantee
to an interest-bearing account in the name of the Borrower and the following conditions are met: 

  

	 	(i)	 the account is with the respective Issuing Bank; 

  

	 	(ii)	 withdrawals from the account may only be made to pay the respective Issuing Bank amounts due and payable to it under this Agreement in respect of
that Bank Guarantee until no amount is or may be outstanding under that Bank Guarantee; and 

  

	 	(iii)	 the Borrower has executed a security document, in form and substance satisfactory to the respective Issuing Bank with which that account is held,
creating a first ranking security interest over that account; 

  
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	 	(bb)	 the Interest Period of a Bank Guarantee will be construed as a reference to the Term of that Bank Guarantee; 

 

	 	(cc)	 an amount borrowed includes any amount utilised by way of Bank Guarantee; 

 

	 	(dd)	 a Utilisation made or to be made to the Borrower includes a Bank Guarantee issued on its behalf; 

 

	 	(ee)	 amounts outstanding under this Agreement include amounts outstanding under or in respect of any Bank Guarantee; 

 

	 	(ff)	 an outstanding amount of a Bank Guarantee at any time is the maximum amount that is or may be payable by the Borrower in respect of that Bank
Guarantee at that time; 

  

	 	(gg)	 a provision of law is a reference to that provision as amended or re-enacted; and 

 

	 	(hh)	 a time of day is a reference to Central European time (CET) or, as the context requires, London time; and 

 

	 	(ii)	 words importing the plural shall include the singular and vice versa. 

 

	 	1.2.2	 Section, clause and Schedule headings are for ease of reference only. 

 

	 	1.2.3	 Unless a contrary indication appears, a term used in any other Finance Document or in any notice given under or in connection with any Finance
Document has the same meaning in that Finance Document or notice as in this Agreement. 

  

	 	1.2.4	 A Default or an Event of Default is “continuing” if it has not been remedied or waived. 

 

	 	1.2.5	 In any calculation or determination done for the purposes of a Finance Document, no amount shall be double-counted or duplicated.

  

	1.3	 Currency symbols and definitions 

“€”, “EUR” and “euro” denote the single currency of the Participating
Member States. 
  

	1.4	 Language 

This Agreement is made in the English language. The English language version of this Agreement shall prevail over any
translation of this Agreement, save for where a German translation of a word or phrase appears in the text of this Agreement, in which case the German translation of such word or phrase shall prevail. 

  
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	1.5	 Payment of Interest on Shareholder Loans 

Notwithstanding any provision of the Finance Documents to the contrary, the Borrower, the Agent and the Lenders agree that:

  

	 	1.5.1	 the Shareholder Distribution Account shall not be subject to any Security from, by or under any Finance Document; and 

 

	 	1.5.2	 nothing herein or in any Finance Document shall restrict, prohibit or otherwise limit the Borrower from paying, disbursing or transmitting all or
parts of any moneys or assets in the Shareholder Distribution Account in its sole discretion from time to time and at any time. 

  

	 	1.5.3	 The Borrower may transfer funds into the Shareholder Distribution Account or pay interest due under any Shareholder Loan Agreement up to an
aggregate amount of the Euro equivalent of USD 23,000,000 per annum, provided that whenever such payment is to be made: 

  

	 	(a)	 no breach of any financial covenants as set out in Clause 21 (Financial Covenants) has occurred as of the last Calculation Date prior to
such transfer; 

  

	 	(b)	 no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing; 

  

	 	(c)	 the Minimum Liquidity is available to the Borrower after any such transfer and payment of interest; and 

 

	 	(d)	 the Borrower submits five (5) Business Days prior to such transfer an Interest Payment Notice to the Agent. 

  
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 SECTION 2 

THE FACILITY 
  

	2.	 THE FACILITY 

  

	2.1	 The Facility 

Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Lenders make available to the Borrower a revolving credit facility in an aggregate
amount equal to the Total Commitments. 
  

	2.2	 Finance Parties’ rights and obligations 

  

	 	2.2.1	 The obligations of each Finance Party under the Finance Documents are several. Failure by a Finance Party to perform its obligations under the
Finance Documents does not affect the obligations of any other Party under the Finance Documents. No Finance Party is responsible for the obligations of any other Finance Party under the Finance Documents (Ausschluss der gesamtschuldnerischen
Haftung). 

  

	 	2.2.2	 The rights of each Finance Party under or in connection with the Finance Documents are separate and independent rights and any debt arising under
the Finance Documents to a Finance Party from the Borrower shall be a separate and independent debt. The formation of joint property (Gesamthandsvermögen) shall be excluded. 

 

	 	2.2.3	 A Finance Party may, except as otherwise stated in the Finance Documents, separately enforce its rights under the Finance Documents.

  

	3.	 PURPOSE 

  

	3.1	 Purpose 

The Borrower shall apply all amounts borrowed by it under the Facility: 

 

	 	3.1.1	 until and including the date of the Refinancing, up to a maximum aggregate amount of EUR 37,500,000 (including an amount of up to
EUR 8,500,000 determined to fund the Hedge Security Account) to finance the Refinancing; and 

  

	 	3.1.2	 thereafter towards the financing of its working capital and operational and business requirements, including payment of interest, any principal on
Shareholder Loan Agreements and dividends as permitted pursuant to the terms of the Finance Documents. 

  

	3.2	 Monitoring 

No Finance Party is bound to monitor or verify the application of any amount borrowed pursuant to this Agreement. 

  
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	4.	 CONDITIONS PRECEDENT 

  

	4.1	 Initial conditions precedent 

  

	 	4.1.1	 This Agreement and the rights and obligations thereunder shall only become legally valid and effective if 

 

	 	(a)	 each of the Cash Contribution and the Shareholder Contribution has been received in the Refinancing Account; and 

 

	 	(b)	 the Agent has received all of the documents and other evidence listed in Schedule 2 (Conditions precedent) in form and substance
satisfactory to the Agent 

 prior to 29 December 2014 and has promptly notified such receipt to the
Borrower and the Lenders. 
  

	 	4.1.2	 Without prejudice to Clause 4.1.1 above, the Borrower may deliver a Utilisation Request prior to the receipt of a respective notice by the
Agent. However, for the avoidance of doubt, this Utilisation Request shall only become effective on the Effective Date and the Lenders shall only be required to fulfil their obligations pursuant to Clause 5.5 (Lenders’ participation)
once the Effective Date has occurred. 

  

	4.2	 Further conditions precedent 

The Lenders will only be obliged to comply with Clause 5.5 (Lenders’ participation) if on the proposed Utilisation
Date: 
  

	 	4.2.1	 provided that this Agreement has become effective pursuant to Clause 4.1.1 above; 

 

	 	4.2.2	 in the case of a Rollover Utilisation, no Event of Default is continuing or would result from the proposed Loan and, in the case of any other Loan,
no Default is continuing or would result from the proposed Loan; and 

  

	 	4.2.3	 the Repeating Representations to be made by the Borrower are true in all material respects. 

 

	4.3	 Maximum number of Utilisation 

The Borrower may not deliver a Utilisation Request if as a result of the proposed Utilisation ten (10) or more Loans would
be outstanding. 

  
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 SECTION 3 

UTILISATION 
  

	5.	 UTILISATION - LOANS 

  

	5.1	 Delivery of a Utilisation Request for Loans 

The Borrower may utilise the Facility by delivery to the Agent of a duly completed Utilisation Request not later than the
Specified Time. 
  

	5.2	 Cancellation of undrawn Commitments 

Any Commitment not drawn within the Availability Period will be cancelled. 

 

	5.3	 Completion of a Utilisation Request for Loans 

Each Utilisation Request is irrevocable and will not be regarded as having been duly completed unless: 

 

	 	5.3.1	 the proposed Utilisation Date is a Business Day within the Availability Period; 

 

	 	5.3.2	 the currency and amount of the Utilisation comply with Clause 5.4 (Currency and amount); and 

 

	 	5.3.3	 the proposed Interest Period complies with Clause 11 (Interest Periods). 

 

	5.4	 Currency and amount 

  

	 	5.4.1	 The currency specified in an Utilisation Request must be euro. 

 

	 	5.4.2	 The amount of the proposed Loan must be: 

  

	 	(a)	 a minimum of EUR 1,000,000 (or its equivalent) (and an integral multiple of EUR 250,000) (or its equivalent); or 

 

	 	(b)	 in any event such that its amount is less than or equal to the Available Facility. 

 

	5.5	 Lenders’ participation 

  

	 	5.5.1	 If the conditions set out in this Agreement have been met, each Lender shall make its participation in each Loan available by the Utilisation Date
through its Facility Office. 

  

	 	5.5.2	 The amount of each Lender’s participation in each Loan will be equal to the proportion borne by its Available Commitment to the Available
Facility immediately prior to making the Loan. However, if the Loan is to be disbursed for repayment of a Bank Guarantee pursuant to Clause 7.2.2 (Claims under a Bank Guarantee), the respective Available Commitments of the Lender which is at
the same time the Issuing Bank of that Bank Guarantee, shall for, the purpose of this Clause 5.5.2, be deemed increased by an amount equal to the amount of the relevant Bank Guarantee to be repaid by the requested Loan. 

  
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	 	5.5.3	 The Agent shall determine the amount of each Loan and shall notify each Lender of the amount of each Loan and the amount of its participation in
that Loan, in each case by the Specified Time. 

  

	 	5.5.4	 The Borrower irrevocably authorises (bevollmächtigt) and directs the Agent to remit the proceeds of each Loan as follows:

  

	 	(a)	 in the case of a Loan to be used to repay Existing Indebtedness, to the Refinancing Account; 

 

	 	(b)	 in the case of all other Loans, to the account specified in the relevant Utilisation Requests. 

 

	 	5.5.5	 For the purposes of this Clause 5.5 each Party, which is incorporated or established under the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, hereby
releases the Agent from the restrictions of section 181 of the German Civil Code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch) and similar restrictions applicable to it pursuant to any other applicable law, in each case to the extent legally possible to
such Party. A Party which is barred by its constitutional documents or by-laws from granting such exemption shall notify the Agent accordingly. 

  

	6.	 UTILISATION - BANK GUARANTEES 

  

	6.1	 Bank Guarantees 

  

	 	6.1.1	 With the exception of the first Utilisation the Facility may be utilised by way of Bank Guarantees up to an aggregate amount of EUR 5,000,000
and a maximum number of six (6) Utilisations. 

  

	 	6.1.2	 Clause 5 (Utilisation - Loans) does not apply to Utilisations by way of Bank Guarantees. 

 

	6.2	 Delivery of a Utilisation Request for Bank Guarantees 

Upon, and subject to, prior written confirmation by a Lender that it is prepared to become an Issuing Bank, taking into account
its respective Available Commitment at that point in time, the Borrower may request a Bank Guarantee to be issued by delivery to that Lender, with a copy to the Agent, a duly completed Utilisation Request not later than the Specified Time. 

 

	6.3	 Completion of a Utilisation Request for Bank Guarantees 

 

	 	6.3.1	 Each Utilisation Request for a Bank Guarantee is irrevocable and will not be regarded as having been duly completed unless: 

 

	 	(a)	 it specifies that it is for a Bank Guarantee; 

  

	 	(b)	 the proposed Utilisation Date is a Business Day within the Availability Period applicable to the Facility; 

 

	 	(c)	 the currency and amount of the Bank Guarantee comply with Clause 6.4 (Currency and amount); 

  
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	 	(d)	 the Expiry Date of the Bank Guarantee falls on or before the Termination Date; 

 

	 	(e)	 the delivery instructions for the Bank Guarantee are specified; and 

 

	 	(f)	 the identity of the beneficiary and purpose of the Bank Guarantee have been approved by the Agent and the respective Issuing Bank.

  

	 	6.3.2	 Only one Utilisation may be requested in each Utilisation Request. 

 

	6.4	 Currency and amount 

  

	 	6.4.1	 The currency specified in a Utilisation Request for a Bank Guarantee must be euro. 

 

	 	6.4.2	 The amount of the proposed Bank Guarantee must be such that it is equal to the lower of (i) the Issuing Bank’s respective Available
Commitment and (ii) the amount which is the difference between (A) EUR 5,000,000 and (B) the aggregate amount of all Bank Guarantees utilised. 

 

	6.5	 Issue of Bank Guarantees 

  

	 	6.5.1	 If the conditions set out in this Agreement have been met, the respective Issuing Bank shall issue the Bank Guarantee on the Utilisation Date.

  

	 	6.5.2	 The respective Issuing Bank will only be obliged to comply with Clause 6.5.1 above if on the date of the Utilisation Request or Renewal Request and
on the proposed Utilisation Date: 

  

	 	(a)	 in the case of a Bank Guarantee to be renewed in accordance with Clause 6.5.4 (Renewal of a Bank Guarantee), no action has been taken under
Clause 23.20 (Acceleration) and, in the case of any other Utilisation, no Default is continuing or would result from the proposed Utilisation; and 

  

	 	(b)	 the Repeating Representations to be made by the Borrower are true. 

 

	 	6.5.3	 The amount of each Bank Guarantee will reduce the Commitment of the respective Issuing Bank in its capacity as Original Lender until such Bank
Guarantee is repaid or discharged by the Borrower. 

  

	 	6.5.4	 The respective Issuing Bank shall notify the Agent who will notify each of the other Lenders of the details of the requested Bank Guarantee.

  

	6.6	 Renewal of a Bank Guarantee 

  

	 	6.6.1	 The Borrower may request that any Bank Guarantee issued on its behalf by an Issuing Bank be renewed by delivery to the respective Issuing Bank of a
Renewal Request in substantially similar form to a Utilisation Request for a Bank Guarantee by the Specified Time. 

  
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	 	6.6.2	 The respective Issuing Bank shall treat any Renewal Request in the same way as a Utilisation Request for a Bank Guarantee. 

 

	 	6.6.3	 The terms of each renewed Bank Guarantee shall be the same as those of the relevant Bank Guarantee immediately prior to its renewal, except that:

  

	 	(a)	 its amount may be less than the amount of the Bank Guarantee immediately prior to its renewal; and 

 

	 	(b)	 its Term shall start on the date which was the Expiry Date of the Bank Guarantee immediately prior to its renewal, and shall end on the proposed
Expiry Date specified in the Renewal Request. 

  

	 	6.6.4	 If the conditions set out in this Agreement have been met, the respective Issuing Bank shall amend and reissue any Bank Guarantee pursuant to a
Renewal Request. 

  

	7.	 BANK GUARANTEES 

  

	7.1	 Immediately payable 

If a Bank Guarantee or any amount outstanding under a Bank Guarantee is expressed to be immediately payable, the Borrower shall
repay or prepay that amount immediately. 
  

	7.2	 Claims under a Bank Guarantee 

  

	 	7.2.1	 The Borrower irrevocably and unconditionally authorises any Issuing Bank to pay any claim made or purported to be made under a Bank Guarantee
issued by that Issuing Bank as requested by the Borrower and which appears on its face to be in order (in this Clause 7.2, a “Claim”). 

  

	 	7.2.2	 The Borrower shall immediately on demand or, if such payment is being funded by a Loan, shall within five (5) Business Days of demand, pay to
the Agent for the respective Issuing Bank an amount equal to the amount of any Claim paid. 

  

	 	7.2.3	 The Borrower acknowledges that the respective Issuing Bank: 

 

	 	(a)	 is not obliged to carry out any investigation or seek any confirmation from any other person before paying a claim; and 

 

	 	(b)	 deals in documents only and will not be concerned with the legality of a claim or any underlying transaction or any available set off, counterclaim
or other defence of any person. 

  

	 	7.2.4	 The obligations of the Borrower under this clause will not be affected by: 

 

	 	(a)	 the sufficiency, accuracy or genuineness of any claim or any other document; or 

  
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	 	(b)	 any incapacity of, or limitation on the powers of, any person signing a claim or other document. 

 

	 	7.2.5	 If a Bank Guarantee remains outstanding after the Termination Date (a “Surviving Bank Guarantee”) but has on or before that date
been repaid by way of provision of cash cover as set out in Clause 1.2.1(z)(i) (Construction), that Bank Guarantee shall be treated as being outstanding under a bilateral guarantee facility provided by the respective Issuing Bank, the terms
of which (including the fee) are to be set out in a separate document between the respective Issuing Bank and the Borrower. 

  

	7.3	 Indemnities 

  

	 	7.3.1	 The Borrower shall immediately on demand indemnify any Issuing Bank against any cost, loss or liability incurred by such Issuing Bank (otherwise
than by reason of such Issuing Bank’s gross negligence (grobe Fahrlässigkeit) or wilful misconduct (Vorsatz)) in acting as Issuing Bank under any Bank Guarantee requested by (or on behalf of) the Borrower.

  

	 	7.3.2	 The obligations of the Borrower under this Clause 7.3 will not be affected by any act, omission, matter or thing which, but for this clause, would
reduce, release or prejudice any of its obligations under this Clause 7.3 (whether or not known to it or any other person) including: 

  

	 	(a)	 any time, waiver or consent granted to, or composition with, the Borrower, any beneficiary under a Bank Guarantee or any other person;

  

	 	(b)	 the release of the Borrower or any other person under the terms of any composition or arrangement with any creditor; 

 

	 	(c)	 the taking, variation, compromise, exchange, renewal or release of, or refusal or neglect to perfect, take up or enforce, any rights against, or
security over assets of the Borrower, any beneficiary under a Bank Guarantee or other person or any non presentation or non observance of any formality or other requirement in respect of any instrument or any failure to realise the full value of any
security; 

  

	 	(d)	 any incapacity or lack of power, authority or legal personality of or dissolution or change in the members or status of the Borrower or any
beneficiary under a Bank Guarantee or any other person; 

  

	 	(e)	 any amendment (however fundamental) or replacement of a Finance Document, any Bank Guarantee or any other document or security;

  

	 	(f)	 any unenforceability, illegality or invalidity of any obligation of any person under any Finance Document, any Bank Guarantee or any other document
or security; or 

  

	 	(g)	 to the extent legally possible, any insolvency or similar proceedings. 

  
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	7.4	 Rights of contribution 

The Borrower will not be entitled to any right of contribution or indemnity from any Finance Party in respect of any payment it
may make under this Clause 7. 
  

	7.5	 Exercise of rights 

No Issuing Bank shall be obliged before exercising any of the rights, powers or remedies conferred upon it by this Agreement or
by law: 
  

	 	7.5.1	 to take any action or obtain judgment in any court against the Borrower; 

 

	 	7.5.2	 to make or file any claim or proof in a winding up or dissolution of the Borrower; or 

 

	 	7.5.3	 to enforce or seek to enforce any other security taken in respect of any of the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement.

  
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 SECTION 4 

REPAYMENT, PREPAYMENT AND CANCELLATION 
  

	8.	 REPAYMENT 

  

	8.1	 Repayment of Loans 

The Borrower shall repay each Loan on the last day of its Interest Period and all Loans in full on the Termination Date. 

 

	8.2	 Repayment of Guarantees 

The Borrower shall repay each Bank Guarantee on its Expiry Date and all Bank Guarantees in full on the Termination Date. 

 

	9.	 PREPAYMENT AND CANCELLATION 

  

	9.1	 Illegality 

  

	 	9.1.1	 If it becomes unlawful in any applicable jurisdiction for any Lender or any Issuing Bank to perform any of its obligations as contemplated by this
Agreement or to fund or maintain its participation in any Utilisation or it becomes unlawful for any Affiliate of a Lender to do so, including by reason of: 

  

	 	(a)	 any member of the ZSG Group or any of its affiliates being or becoming an EU Restricted Person or a Non-EU Restricted Person or acting directly or
indirectly on behalf of an EU Restricted Person or a Non-EU Restricted Person or using any revenue or benefit derived from any activity or dealing with an EU Restricted Person or a Non-EU Restricted Person or any other unlawful activity in
discharging any obligation due or owing to a Lender; or 

  

	 	(b)	 any member of the ZSG Group or any of its affiliated permitting or authorising any person to, directly or indirectly, use, lend, make payments of,
contribute or otherwise make available, all or nay part of the proceeds of the Facility or other transaction contemplated by this Agreement to fund any trade, business or other activities or otherwise make any payments (i) involving or for the
benefit of any EU Restricted Person or a Non-EU Restricted Person or (ii) in any other manner that could result in the Borrower or a Lender being in breach of any EU Sanctions or Non-EU Sanctions or becoming an EU Restricted Person,

 that Lender or in the case of the event described in sub-paragraph (a) and (b) above, the
Borrower shall promptly notify the Agent upon becoming aware of that event. 
  

	 	9.1.2	 Upon the Agent notifying the Borrower or, if applicable, that Lender, the Commitment of that Lender will be immediately cancelled; and the Borrower
shall repay that Lender’s participation in the Utilisations made to it on the last day of the Interest Period for each Utilisation occurring after the Agent has notified the Borrower. 

  
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	9.2	 Change of Control 

Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control: 
  

	 	9.2.1	 the Borrower shall promptly notify the Agent upon becoming aware of that event; 

 

	 	9.2.2	 a Lender shall not be obliged to fund a Utilisation (except for a Rollover Utilisation); and 

 

	 	9.2.3	 if the Majority Lenders so require, the Agent shall, by not less than thirty (30) Business Days notice to the Borrower, cancel the Total
Commitments and declare all outstanding Utilisations, together with accrued interest, and all other amounts accrued under the Finance Documents immediately due and payable, whereupon the Total Commitments will be cancelled and all such outstanding
amounts will become immediately due and payable. 

  

	9.3	 Voluntary cancellation 

The Borrower may, if: 
  

	 	9.3.1	 in respect of the last day of any Interest Period, it gives the Agent not less than five (5) Business Days’ (or such shorter period as
the Majority Lenders may agree) prior notice; or 

  

	 	9.3.2	 at any other time, it gives the Agent not less than five (5) Business Days’ (or such shorter period as the Majority Lenders may agree)
prior notice, 

 cancel the whole or any part (being a minimum amount of EUR 1,000,000 (or its equivalent))
of the Available Facility. Any cancellation under this Clause 9.3 shall reduce the Commitments of the Lenders rateably. 
  

	9.4	 Voluntary prepayment of Loans 

The Borrower may, if it gives the Agent not less than thirty (30) Business Days’ (or such shorter period as the
Majority Lenders may agree) prior notice, prepay the whole or any part of a Loan (but if in part, being an amount that reduces the amount of the Loan by a minimum amount of EUR 1,000,000 (or its equivalent)). 

 

	9.5	 Applications of Prepayments 

Prepayments made under this Clause 9 shall be applied as follows: 

 

	 	9.5.1	 first, in prepayment of the Loans in order of maturity until repaid or prepaid in full; and 

 

	 	9.5.2	 second, in prepayment of the Bank Guarantees in accordance with the notice delivered under Clause 9.2 (Change of Control) or Clause
9.3 (Voluntary cancellation), as the case may be. 

  
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	9.6	 Right of repayment and cancellation in relation to a single Lender 

 

	 	9.6.1	 If: 

  

	 	(a)	 any sum payable to any Lender by the Borrower is required to be increased under Clause 14.2.3 (Tax gross-up); or 

 

	 	(b)	 any Lender claims indemnification from the Borrower under Clause 14.3 (Tax indemnity) or Clause 15.1 (Increased costs),

 the Borrower may, whilst the circumstance giving rise to the requirement for that increase or
indemnification continues, give the Agent notice of cancellation of the Commitment of that Lender and its intention to procure the repayment of that Lender’s participation in the Utilisations. 

 

	 	9.6.2	 On receipt of a notice referred to in Clause 9.6.1(a) above, the Commitment of that Lender shall immediately be reduced to zero.

  

	 	9.6.3	 On the last day of each Interest Period which ends after the Borrower has given notice under Clause 9.6.1(a) above (or, if earlier, the date
specified by the Borrower in that notice), the Borrower shall repay that Lender’s participation in that Utilisation. 

  

	9.7	 Restrictions 

  

	 	9.7.1	 Any notice of cancellation or prepayment given by any Party under this Clause 9 shall be irrevocable and, unless a contrary indication appears in
this Agreement, shall specify the date or dates upon which the relevant cancellation or prepayment is to be made and the amount of that cancellation or prepayment. Any such cancellation or prepayment shall oblige the Borrower to make the
cancellation or prepayment of the specified amount on the specified date. 

  

	 	9.7.2	 Any prepayment under this Agreement shall be made together with accrued interest on the amount prepaid and, subject to any Break Costs, without
premium or penalty. 

  

	 	9.7.3	 Unless a contrary indication appears in this Agreement, any part of the Facility which is prepaid may be reborrowed in accordance with the terms of
this Agreement. 

  

	 	9.7.4	 The Borrower shall not repay or prepay all or any part of the Utilisations or cancel all or any part of the Commitments except at the times and in
the manner expressly provided for in this Agreement. 

  

	 	9.7.5	 No amount of the Total Commitments cancelled under this Agreement may be subsequently reinstated. 

 

	 	9.7.6	 If the Agent receives a notice under this Clause 9 it shall promptly forward a copy of that notice to either the Borrower or the affected Lender,
as appropriate. 

  
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 SECTION 5 

COSTS OF UTILISATIONS 
  

	10.	 INTEREST 

  

	10.1	 Calculation of interest 

The rate of interest on each Loan for each Interest Period is the percentage rate per annum which is the aggregate of the
applicable: 
  

	 	10.1.1	 Margin; and 

  

	 	10.1.2	 EURIBOR. 

  

	10.2	 Payment of interest 

The Borrower to which a Loan has been made shall pay accrued interest on that Loan on the last day of each Interest Period.

  

	10.3	 Default interest 

  

	 	10.3.1	 If the Borrower fails to pay any amount (other than interest) payable by it under a Finance Document on its due date, interest shall accrue on the
overdue amount from the due date up to the date of actual payment (both before and after judgment) at a rate of which is 2.0 per cent. higher than the rate which would have been payable if the overdue amount had, during the period of
non-payment, constituted a Loan in the currency of the overdue amount for successive Interest Periods, each of a duration reasonably selected by the Agent. 

  

	 	10.3.2	 If the Borrower fails to pay any interest payable by it under a Finance Document, it shall make a liquidated damages payment (pauschalierter
Schadensersatz) for all amounts of interest overdue equal to the amount which is payable by applying the rate to be determined in accordance with this Clause 10.3 on the amount of interest overdue for the period from the due date of the relevant
interest payment up to the date of actual payment (both before and after judgment), provided that the Borrower shall be free to prove that no damage has arisen, or that damage has not arisen in the asserted amount. 

 

	 	10.3.3	 Any interest accruing or damages payable under this Clause 10.3 shall be immediately payable by the Borrower on demand by the Agent.

  

	 	10.3.4	 Any further damages and indemnities shall be dealt with in accordance with Clause 16 (Other indemnities). 

 

	10.4	 Notification of rates of interest 

The Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders and the relevant Borrower of the determination of a rate of interest under this
Agreement. 

  
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	11.	 INTEREST PERIODS 

  

	11.1	 Selection of Interest Periods 

  

	 	11.1.1	 Unless the Borrower has selected an Interest Period in accordance with Clause 11.1.2 and Clause 11.1.3 below and subject to this Clause 11, each
Interest Period shall be one (1) Month. 

  

	 	11.1.2	 The Borrower may select an Interest Period for a Loan in the Utilisation Request for that Loan. 

 

	 	11.1.3	 Subject to this Clause 11, the Borrower may select an Interest Period of one (1), three (3) or six (6) Months or any shorter period
agreed between the Borrower and the Agent (acting on the instructions of all the Lenders) which is required in order to align the interest period of such Loan with the interest period of any existing loan in order to ensure consolidation.

  

	 	11.1.4	 An Interest Period for a Loan shall not extend beyond the Termination Date. 

 

	 	11.1.5	 Each Interest Period for a Loan shall start on the Utilisation Date. 

 

	 	11.1.6	 A Loan has one Interest Period only. 

  

	11.2	 Consolidation of Loans 

If, prior to the expiry of the Availability Period, two or more Interest Periods end on the same date the Loans to which those
Interest Periods relate shall be consolidated into, and treated as, a single Loan on the last day of the relevant Interest Period. 
  

	11.3	 Changes to Interest Periods 

  

	 	11.3.1	 Prior to determining the interest rate for a Utilisation, the Agent may shorten the Interest Period for any Loan to ensure that, when aggregated
with the Available Facility, there are sufficient Loans (with an aggregate amount equal to or greater than the Reduction Instalment) which have an Interest Period ending on a Reduction Date for the scheduled reduction to occur.

  

	 	11.3.2	 If the Agent makes any of the changes to an Interest Period referred to in this Clause 11.3, it shall promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders.

  

	11.4	 Non-Business Days 

If an Interest Period would otherwise end on a day which is not a Business Day, that Interest Period will instead end on the
next Business Day in that calendar month (if there is one) or the preceding Business Day (if there is not). 
  

	12.	 CHANGES TO THE CALCULATION OF INTEREST 

  

	12.1	 Absence of quotations 

Subject to Clause 12.2 (Market disruption), if EURIBOR is to be determined by reference to the Reference Banks but a
Reference Bank does not supply a quotation by the Specified Time on the Quotation Day, the applicable EURIBOR shall be determined on the basis of the quotations of the remaining Reference Banks. 

  
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	12.2	 Market disruption 

  

	 	12.2.1	 If a Market Disruption Event occurs in relation to a Loan for any Interest Period, then the rate of interest on each Lender’s share of that
Loan for the Interest Period shall be the rate per annum which is the sum of: 

  

	 	(a)	 the Margin; and 

  

	 	(b)	 the rate notified to the Agent by that Lender as soon as practicable and in any event before interest is due to be paid in respect of that Interest
Period, to be that which expresses as a percentage rate per annum the cost to that Lender of funding its participation in that Loan from whatever source it may reasonably select. 

 

	 	12.2.2	 In this Agreement “Market Disruption Event” means: 

 

	 	(a)	 at or about noon on the Quotation Day for the relevant Interest Period EURIBOR is to be determined by reference to the Reference Bank and none or
only one of the Reference Banks supplies a rate to the Agent to determine EURIBOR for the relevant Interest Period; or 

  

	 	(b)	 before close of business in London on the Quotation Day for the relevant Interest Period, the Agent receives notifications from a Lender or Lenders
(whose participations in a Loan exceed forty (40) per cent. of that Loan) that the cost to it of obtaining matching deposits in the Relevant Interbank Market would be in excess of EURIBOR. 

 

	12.3	 Alternative basis of interest or funding 

  

	 	12.3.1	 If a Market Disruption Event occurs and the Agent or the Borrower so requires, the Agent and the Borrower shall enter into negotiations (for a
period of not more than thirty days) with a view to agreeing a substitute basis for determining the rate of interest. 

  

	 	12.3.2	 Any alternative basis agreed pursuant to Clause 12.3.1 above shall, with the prior consent of all the Lenders and the Borrower, be binding on all
Parties. 

  

	12.4	 Break Costs 

  

	 	12.4.1	 The Borrower shall, within five Business Days of demand by a Finance Party, pay to that Finance Party its Break Costs attributable to all or any
part of a Loan or Unpaid Sum being paid by it on a day other than the last day of an Interest Period for that Loan or Unpaid Sum. 

  

	 	12.4.2	 Each Lender shall, as soon as reasonably practicable after a demand by the Agent, provide a certificate confirming the amount of its Break Costs
for any Interest Period in which they accrue. 

  
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	13.	 FEES 

  

	13.1	 Commitment fee 

  

	 	13.1.1	 The Borrower shall pay to the Agent (for the account of each Lender) a fee computed at the rate of 1.10 per cent. per annum on that
Lender’s Available Commitment for the Availability Period. 

  

	 	13.1.2	 The accrued commitment fee is payable semi-annually in arrears on each 30 June and 31 December during the Availability Period, on the
last day of the Availability Period and, if cancelled in full, on the cancelled amount of the relevant Lender’s Commitment at the time the cancellation is effective. 

 

	13.2	 Arrangement fee 

The Borrower shall pay to the Arranger an arrangement fee in the amount and at the times agreed in the mandate letter between
the Borrower and the Arranger dated 27 October 2014. 
  

	13.3	 Agency fee 

The Borrower shall pay to the Agent (for its own account) an agency fee in the amount and at the times agreed in a Fee Letter.

  

	13.4	 Participation fee 

The Borrower shall pay to the Original Lenders a participation fee as agreed in a Fee Letter. 

 

	13.5	 Fees payable in respect of Bank Guarantees 

  

	 	13.5.1	 The Borrower shall pay to the Agent (for the account of each Issuing Bank) a Bank Guarantee fee at an annual rate of 2.25 per cent. on the
outstanding amount of each Bank Guarantee requested by it for the period from the issue of that Bank Guarantee until such Bank Guarantee is repaid or prepaid in full. This fee shall be distributed to the Issuing Banks according to the principal
amount of Bank Guarantees that each Issuing Bank has issued. 

  

	 	13.5.2	 The accrued Bank Guarantee fee on a Bank Guarantee shall be payable on the first day of each successive period of three (3) Months (or such
shorter period as shall end on the Expiry Date for that Bank Guarantee) starting on the date of issue of that Bank Guarantee. The accrued Bank Guarantee fee is also payable to the Agent on the cancelled amount of any Issuing Bank’s Commitment
in its capacity as Lender at the time the cancellation is effective if that Commitment is cancelled in full and the Bank Guarantee is prepaid or repaid in full. 

  
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 SECTION 6 

ADDITIONAL PAYMENT OBLIGATIONS 
  

	14.	 TAX GROSS UP AND INDEMNITIES 

  

	14.1	 Definitions 

  

	 	14.1.1	 In this Clause 14: 

“Protected Party” means a Finance Party that is or will be subject to any liability, or required to
make any payment, for or on account of Tax in relation to a sum received or receivable (or any sum deemed for the purposes of Tax to be received or receivable) under a Finance Document. 

“Tax Credit” means a credit against, relief or remission for, or repayment of, any Tax. 

“Tax Deduction” means a deduction or withholding for or on account of Tax from a payment under a
Finance Document, other than a FATCA Deduction. 
 “Tax Payment” means an increased payment made by
the Borrower to a Finance Party under Clause 14.2 (Tax gross-up) or a payment under Clause 14.3 (Tax indemnity). 
  

	 	14.1.2	 In this Clause 14 a reference to “determines” or “determined” means a determination made in the absolute
discretion of the person making the determination. 

  

	14.2	 Tax gross-up 

  

	 	14.2.1	 The Borrower shall make all payments to be made by it without any Tax Deduction, unless a Tax Deduction is required by law. 

 

	 	14.2.2	 The Borrower shall promptly upon becoming aware that it must make a Tax Deduction (or that there is any change in the rate or the basis of a Tax
Deduction) notify the Agent accordingly. Similarly, a Lender shall notify the Agent on becoming so aware in respect of a payment payable to that Lender. If the Agent receives such notification from a Lender it shall notify the Borrower.

  

	 	14.2.3	 If a Tax Deduction is required by law to be made by the Borrower, the amount of the payment due shall be increased to an amount which (after making
any Tax Deduction) leaves an amount equal to the payment which would have been due if no Tax Deduction had been required. 

  

	 	14.2.4	 The Borrower is not required to make an increased payment to a Lender under Clause 14.2.3 above for a Tax Deduction in respect of tax imposed on a
payment of interest on a Loan, if on the date on which the payment falls due, the Borrower is able to demonstrate that the payment: 

  

	 	(a)	 relates to a Tax referred to in Clause 14.3.2 (Tax indemnity); or 

  
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	 	(b)	 could have been made to the Lender without the Tax Deduction had that Lender complied with its obligations under Clause 14.2.7 below.

  

	 	14.2.5	 If the Borrower is required to make a Tax Deduction, it shall make that Tax Deduction and any payment required in connection with that Tax
Deduction within the time allowed and in the minimum amount required by law. 

  

	 	14.2.6	 Within thirty (30) days of making either a Tax Deduction or any payment required in connection with that Tax Deduction, the Borrower shall
deliver to the Agent for the Finance Party entitled to the payment evidence reasonably satisfactory to that Finance Party that the Tax Deduction has been made or (as applicable) any appropriate payment paid to the relevant taxing authority.

  

	 	14.2.7	 The respective Finance Party and the Borrower shall, to the extent practicable, co-operate in completing any procedural formalities necessary for
the Borrower to obtain authorisation to make that payment without a Tax Deduction. 

  

	14.3	 Tax indemnity 

  

	 	14.3.1	 The Borrower shall (within five (5) Business Days of demand by the Agent) pay to a Protected Party an amount equal to the loss, liability or
cost that that Protected Party determines will be or has been (directly or indirectly) suffered for or on account of Tax by that Protected Party in respect of a Finance Document. 

 

	 	14.3.2	 Clause 14.3.1 above shall not apply 

  

	 	(a)	 with respect to any Tax assessed on a Finance Party: 

  

	 	(i)	 under the law of the jurisdiction in which that Finance Party is incorporated or, if different, the jurisdiction (or jurisdictions) in which that
Finance Party is treated as resident for tax purposes; or 

  

	 	(ii)	 under the law of the jurisdiction in which that Finance Party’s Facility Office is located in respect of amounts received or receivable in
that jurisdiction, 

 if in either case that Tax is imposed on or calculated by reference to the net
income or profit (or similar calculation) received or receivable (but not any sum deemed to be received or receivable) by that Finance Party; or 
  

	 	(b)	 to the extent a loss, liability or cost relates to a FATCA Deduction required to be made by a Party. 

 

	 	14.3.3	 A Protected Party making, or intending to make, a claim pursuant to Clause 14.3.1 shall promptly notify the Agent of the event which will
give, or has given, rise to the claim following, which the Agent shall notify the Borrower. 

  
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	 	14.3.4	 A Protected Party shall, on receiving a payment from the Borrower under this Clause 14.3, notify the Agent. 

 

	14.4	 Tax Credit 

  

	 	14.4.1	 If the Borrower makes a Tax Payment and the relevant Finance Party determines that: 

 

	 	(a)	 a Tax Credit is attributable to that Tax Payment; and 

  

	 	(b)	 that Finance Party has obtained, utilised and retained that Tax Credit, 

the Finance Party shall pay an amount to the Borrower which that Finance Party determines will leave it (after that payment)
in the same after-Tax position as it would have been in had the Tax Payment not been made by the Borrower. 
  

	 	14.4.2	 If such a Tax Credit by reference to which a Finance Party has made a payment to the Borrower under Clause 14.4.1(a) above is subsequently
disallowed or cancelled, the Borrower must reimburse any payment made under Clause 14.4.1(a) above to the relevant Finance Party. 

  

	 	14.4.3	 If the Borrower makes a Tax Payment, a Finance Party will be under no obligation whatsoever to claim a Tax Credit if in the opinion of that Finance
Party the making of such claim might have an adverse effect on its business, operations, property, condition or prospects (financial or otherwise). The Borrower shall bear any out of pocket costs reasonably incurred by a Finance Party in making such
a claim. 

  

	14.5	 Stamp taxes 

The Borrower shall pay and, within five Business Days of demand, indemnify each Finance Party against any cost, loss or
liability that Finance Party incurs in relation to all stamp duty, registration and other similar Taxes payable in respect of any Finance Document. 
  

	14.6	 Value added tax 

  

	 	14.6.1	 All consideration payable under a Finance Document by the Borrower to a Finance Party shall be deemed to be exclusive of any VAT. If VAT is
chargeable, the Borrower shall pay to the Finance Party (in addition to and at the same time as paying the consideration) an amount equal to the amount of the VAT. 

 

	 	14.6.2	 Where a Finance Document requires the Borrower to reimburse a Finance Party for any costs or expenses, the Borrower shall also at the same time pay
and indemnify that Finance Party against all VAT incurred by that Finance Party in respect of the costs or expenses save to the extent that that Finance Party is entitled to repayment or credit in respect of the VAT. 

  
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	14.7	 FATCA Information 

  

	 	14.7.1	 Subject to Clause 14.7.3 below, each Party shall, within ten (10) Business Days of a reasonable request by another Party:

  

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

  

	 	(i)	 a FATCA Exempt Party; or 

  

	 	(ii)	 not a FATCA Exempt Party; 

  

	 	(b)	 supply to that other Party such forms, documentation and other information relating to its status under FATCA as that other Party reasonably
requests for the purposes of that other Party’s compliance with FATCA; 

  

	 	(c)	 supply to that other Party such forms, documentation and other information relating to its status as that other Party reasonably requests for the
purposes of that other Party’s compliance with any other law, regulation, or exchange of information regime. 

  

	 	14.7.2	 If a Party confirms to another Party pursuant to Clause 14.7.1(a) above that it is a FATCA Exempt Party and it subsequently becomes aware that it
is not or has ceased to be a FATCA Exempt Party, that Party shall notify that other Party reasonably promptly. 

  

	 	14.7.3	 Clause 14.7.1(a) above shall not oblige any Finance Party to do anything, and Clause 14.7.1(c) above shall not oblige any other Party to do
anything, which would or might in its reasonable opinion constitute a breach of: 

  

	 	(a)	 any law or regulation; 

  

	 	(b)	 any fiduciary duty; or 

  

	 	(c)	 any duty of confidentiality. 

  

	 	14.7.4	 If a Party fails to confirm whether or not it is a FATCA Exempt Party or to supply forms, documentation or other information requested in
accordance with paragraph (a)(i) or (ii) above (including, for the avoidance of doubt, where paragraph (c) above applies), then such Party shall be treated for the purposes of the Finance Documents (and payments under them) as if it is not a FATCA
Exempt Party until such time as the Party in question provides the requested confirmation, forms, documentation or other information. 

  

	 	14.7.5	 If a Borrower is a US Tax Obligor or the Agent reasonably believes that its obligations under FATCA or any other applicable law or regulation
require it, each Lender shall, within ten (10) Business Days of: 

  

	 	(a)	 where a Borrower is a US Tax Obligor on a Transfer Date and the relevant Lender is a New Lender, the relevant Transfer Date; 

 

	 	(b)	 the date a new US Tax Obligor accedes as a Borrower; or 

  
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	 	(c)	 where a Borrower is not a US Tax Obligor, the date of a request from the Agent, 

supply to the Agent: 
  

	 	(i)	 a withholding certificate on Form W-8, Form W-9 or any other relevant form; or 

 

	 	(ii)	 any withholding statement or other document, authorisation or waiver as the Agent may require to certify or establish the status of such Lender
under FATCA or that other law or regulation. 

  

	 	14.7.6	 The Agent shall provide any withholding certificate, withholding statement, document, authorisation or waiver it receives from a Lender pursuant to
Clause 14.7.5 above to the relevant Borrower. 

  

	 	14.7.7	 If any withholding certificate, withholding statement, document, authorisation or waiver provided to the Agent by a Lender pursuant to Clause
14.7.5 above is or becomes materially inaccurate or incomplete, that Lender shall promptly update it and provide such updated withholding certificate, withholding statement, document, authorisation or waiver to the Agent unless it is unlawful for
the Lender to do so (in which case the Lender shall promptly notify the Agent). The Agent shall provide any such updated withholding certificate, withholding statement, document, authorisation or waiver to the relevant Borrower.

  

	 	14.7.8	 The Agent may rely on any withholding certificate, withholding statement, document, authorisation or waiver it receives from a Lender pursuant to
Clause 14.7.5 or 14.7.7 above without further verification. The Agent shall not be liable for any action taken by it under or in connection with Clauses 14.7.5, 14.7.6 or 14.7.7 above. 

 

	14.8	 FATCA Deduction 

  

	 	14.8.1	 Each Party may make any FATCA Deduction it is required to make by FATCA, and any payment required in connection with that FATCA Deduction, and no
Party shall be required to increase any payment in respect of which it makes such a FATCA Deduction or otherwise compensate the recipient of the payment for that FATCA Deduction. 

 

	 	14.8.2	 Each Party shall promptly, upon becoming aware that it must make a FATCA Deduction (or that there is any change in the rate or the basis of such
FATCA Deduction), notify the Party to whom it is making the payment and, in addition, shall notify the Borrower and the Agent and the Agent shall notify the other Finance Parties. 

  
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	15.	 INCREASED COSTS 

  

	15.1	 Increased costs 

  

	 	15.1.1	 Subject to Clause 15.3 (Exceptions) the Borrower shall, within five (5) Business Days of a demand by the Agent, pay for the account of
a Finance Party the amount of any substantiated Increased Costs incurred by that Finance Party or any of its Affiliates as a result of (i) the introduction of or any change in (or in the interpretation, administration or application of) any law
or regulation or (ii) compliance with any law or regulation made after the Effective Date. 

  

	 	15.1.2	 In this Agreement “Increased Costs” means: 

 

	 	(a)	 a reduction in the rate of return from the Facility or on a Finance Party’s (or its Affiliate’s) overall capital; 

 

	 	(b)	 an additional or increased cost; or 

  

	 	(c)	 a reduction of any amount due and payable under any Finance Document, 

which is incurred or suffered by a Finance Party or any of its Affiliates to the extent that it is attributable to that
Finance Party having entered into its Commitment or funding or performing its obligations under any Finance Document. 
  

	 	15.1.3	 “Basel III” means: 

  

	 	(a)	 the agreements on capital requirements, a leverage ratio and liquidity standards contained in “Basel III: A global regulatory framework for
more resilient banks and banking systems”, “Basel III: International framework for liquidity risk measurement, standards and monitoring” and “Guidance for national authorities operating the countercyclical capital buffer”
published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in December 2010, each as amended, supplemented or restated; 

  

	 	(b)	 the rules for global systemically important banks contained in “Global systemically important banks: assessment methodology and the additional
loss absorbency requirement – Rules text” published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in November 2011, as amended, supplemented or restated; and 

 

	 	(c)	 any further guidance or standards published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision relating to “Basel III”. 

 

	15.2	 Increased cost claims 

  

	 	15.2.1	 A Finance Party intending to make a claim pursuant to Clause 15.1 (Increased costs) shall notify the Agent of the event giving rise to the
claim, following which the Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower. 

  
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	 	15.2.2	 Each Finance Party shall, as soon as practicable after a demand by the Agent, provide a certificate confirming the amount of its Increased Costs.

  

	15.3	 Exceptions 

  

	 	15.3.1	 Clause 15.1 (Increased costs) does not apply to the extent any Increased Cost is: 

 

	 	(a)	 attributable to a Tax Deduction required by law to be made by the Borrower; 

 

	 	(b)	 attributable to a FATCA Deduction required to be made by a Party; 

 

	 	(c)	 compensated for by Clause 14.3 (Tax indemnity) (or would have been compensated for under Clause 14.3 (Tax indemnity) but was not so
compensated solely because any of the exclusions in 14.3.2 (Tax indemnity) applied); 

  

	 	(d)	 attributable to the wilful breach by the relevant Finance Party or its Affiliates of any law or regulation; or 

 

	 	(e)	 attributable to the implementation or application of or compliance with the “International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital
Standards, a Revised Framework” published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in June 2004 in the form existing on the Effective Date (but excluding any amendment arising out of Basel III) (“Basel II”) or any other
law or regulation which implements Basel II (whether such implementation, application or compliance is by a government, regulator, Finance Party or any of its Affiliates). 

 

	 	15.3.2	 In this Clause 15.3, a reference to a “Tax Deduction” has the same meaning given to the term in Clause 14.1
(Definitions). 

  

	16.	 OTHER INDEMNITIES 

  

	16.1	 Indemnities to the Finance Parties 

The Borrower shall, within five (5) Business Days of demand, indemnify each Finance Party against any cost, loss or
liability incurred by that Finance Party as a result of: 
  

	 	16.1.1	 the occurrence of any Event of Default; 

  

	 	16.1.2	 a failure by the Borrower to pay any amount due under a Finance Document on its due date, including any cost, loss or liability arising as a result
of Clause 29 (Sharing among the Finance Parties); 

  

	 	16.1.3	 funding, or making arrangements to fund, its participation in a Utilisation requested by a Borrower in a Utilisation Request but not made by reason
of the operation of any one or more of the provisions of this Agreement (other than by reason of default or negligence by that Finance Party alone); or 

  
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	 	16.1.4	 a Utilisation (or part of a Utilisation) not being prepaid in accordance with a notice of prepayment given by a Borrower. 

 

	16.2	 Indemnity to the Agent 

The Borrower shall promptly indemnify the Agent against any cost, loss or liability incurred by the Agent (acting reasonably)
as a result of: 
  

	 	16.2.1	 investigating any event which it reasonably believes is a Default; 

 

	 	16.2.2	 acting or relying on any notice, request or instruction which it reasonably believes to be genuine, correct and appropriately authorised; or

  

	 	16.2.3	 instructing lawyers, accountants, tax advisers, surveyors or other professional advisers or experts as permitted under this Agreement.

  

	17.	 MITIGATION BY THE LENDERS 

  

	17.1	 Mitigation 

  

	 	17.1.1	 Each Finance Party shall, in consultation with and the agreement of the Borrower, take all reasonable steps to mitigate any circumstances which
arise and which would result in any amount becoming payable under or pursuant to, or cancelled pursuant to, any of Clause 9.1 (Illegality), Clause 14 (Tax gross-up and indemnities), Clause 15.1 (Increased costs) including
transferring its rights and obligations under the Finance Documents to another Affiliate or Facility Office. 

  

	 	17.1.2	 Clause 17.1.1 above does not in any way limit the obligations of the Borrower under the Finance Documents. 

 

	17.2	 Limitation of liability 

  

	 	17.2.1	 The Borrower shall indemnify each Finance Party for all costs and expenses reasonably incurred by that Finance Party as a result of steps taken by
it under Clause 17.1 (Mitigation). 

  

	 	17.2.2	 A Finance Party is not obliged to take any steps under Clause 17.1 (Mitigation) if, in the opinion of that Finance Party (acting
reasonably), to do so might be prejudicial to it. 

  

	18.	 COSTS AND EXPENSES 

  

	18.1	 Transaction expenses 

The Borrower shall, following satisfaction of all conditions of Utilisation, promptly on demand pay the Agent and the Arranger
the amount of all costs and expenses (including legal fees) reasonably incurred by any of them in connection with the negotiation, preparation, printing, execution and syndication of: 

 

	 	18.1.1	 this Agreement and any other documents referred to in this Agreement; and 

  
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	 	18.1.2	 any other Finance Documents executed after the Effective Date. 

 

	18.2	 Amendment costs 

If the Borrower requests an amendment, waiver or consent the Borrower shall, within five (5) Business Days of demand,
reimburse the Agent for the amount of all costs and expenses (including legal fees) reasonably incurred by the Agent in responding to, evaluating, negotiating or complying with that request or requirement. 

 

	18.3	 Enforcement costs 

The Borrower shall, within five (5) Business Days of demand, pay to each Finance Party the amount of all costs and
expenses (including legal fees) incurred by that Finance Party in connection with the enforcement of, or the preservation of any rights under, any Finance Document. 

  
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 SECTION 7 

REPRESENTATIONS, UNDERTAKINGS AND EVENTS OF DEFAULT 
  

	19.	 REPRESENTATIONS 

  

	19.1	 General 

  

	 	19.1.1	 The Borrower makes the representations and warranties set out in this Clause 19 to each Finance Party on the Effective Date.

  

	 	19.1.2	 The Borrower acknowledges that the Finance Parties have entered into this Agreement in reliance on those representations and warranties.

  

	19.2	 Status 

  

	 	19.2.1	 The Borrower: 

  

	 	(a)	 is duly incorporated and validly existing under the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany as limited liability company; and

  

	 	(b)	 the place from which it is administered and where all managerial decisions are taken (tatsächlicher Verwaltungssitz) is located within
the Federal Republic of Germany. 

  

	 	19.2.2	 The Borrower has the power to own its assets. 

  

	 	19.2.3	 The Borrower has all material Authorisations necessary to carry on its business as it is being conducted, except as would not have a Material
Adverse Effect. 

  

	19.3	 Binding obligations 

The obligations expressed to be assumed by it in each Finance Document are legal, valid, binding and enforceable obligations
subject to and limited by the provisions of any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, liquidation, reorganisation, moratorium or other laws of general application from time to time in effect relating to or affecting the creditors’ rights and
remedies generally. 
  

	19.4	 Non-conflict with other obligations 

The entry into and performance by it of, and the transactions contemplated by, the Finance Documents do not and will not
conflict with: 
  

	 	19.4.1	 any law or regulation applicable to it; 

  

	 	19.4.2	 its or any of its Subsidiaries’ constitutional documents; or 

 

	 	19.4.3	 any material agreement or material instrument binding upon it or any of its Subsidiaries or any of its or any of its Subsidiaries’ assets
(other than any such agreements, instruments or assets that form part of or are related to the facilities agreements being paid out and discharged by virtue of the Refinancing); 

  
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 where, in respect of Clause 19.4.1 above or Clause 19.4.2 above, such
non-performance or conflict might reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. 
  

	19.5	 Power and authority 

It has the corporate power to enter into, perform and deliver, and has taken all necessary action to authorise its entry into,
performance and delivery of, the Finance Documents to which it is a party and the transactions contemplated by those Finance Documents. 
  

	19.6	 Validity and admissibility in evidence 

All Authorisations required to enable it lawfully to enter into, exercise its rights and comply with its obligations in the
Finance Documents to which it is a party have been obtained or effected and are in full force and effect. 
  

	19.7	 Deduction of Tax 

As at the date hereof, it is not required under the law of its jurisdiction of incorporation or establishment, any jurisdiction
in which it carries on business or any jurisdiction in which it is tax resident to make any deduction for or on account of Tax from any payment it may make under any Finance Document. 

 

	19.8	 No default 

  

	 	19.8.1	 No Event of Default is continuing or would be expected to result from the making of any Utilisation. 

 

	 	19.8.2	 No other event or circumstance is outstanding which constitutes a default (howsoever defined) under any other agreement or instrument which is
binding on it or any of its Subsidiaries or to which its (or any of its Subsidiaries’) assets are subject would have a Material Adverse Effect. 

  

	19.9	 No misleading information 

  

	 	19.9.1	 Any factual information provided by the Borrower for the purposes of any Permitted Transaction was true and accurate in all material respects as at
the date it was provided or as at the date (if any) at which it is stated. 

  

	 	19.9.2	 All financial projections contained in the Financial Model were prepared or made in good faith and on the basis of assumptions believed by the
Borrower to be reasonable. 

  

	 	19.9.3	 So far as it is aware after reasonable enquiries, all other written information provided by the Borrower to a Finance Party was true, complete and
accurate in all material respects as at the date it was provided and, in light of the circumstances at the time or as at the date (if any) at which it is stated, except as may be superseded by subsequent written information provided to such Finance
Party, is not misleading in any material respect. 

  
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	19.10	 Financial statements 

Its most recent financial statements (delivered in accordance with Clause 20.1 (Financial statements) fairly and
truly represent its financial condition and operations during the relevant financial year in all material respects. 
  

	19.11	 Pari passu ranking 

Its payment obligations under the Finance Documents rank at least pari passu with the claims of all its other unsecured
and unsubordinated creditors, except for obligations mandatorily preferred by law applying to companies generally. 
  

	19.12	 No proceedings pending 

No litigation, arbitration or administrative proceedings of or before any court, arbitral body or agency which, if adversely
determined, would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect have (to the best of its knowledge and belief) been started against it or any of its Subsidiaries. 
  

	19.13	 Insurances 

It maintains the Insurances on and in relation to its business and assets with reputable underwriters or insurance companies
and such insurance is in full effect. 
  

	19.14	 Good title to assets 

It and each of its Subsidiaries has good and valid title to, or valid leases or licences of, the assets reasonably necessary to
carry on its business in all material respects as presently conducted. 
  

	19.15	 Environmental compliance 

  

	 	19.15.1	 It and each of its Subsidiaries has obtained all requisite Environmental Licences required for the carrying on of its business as currently
conducted and has at all times complied with: 

  

	 	(a)	 all applicable Environmental Laws; and 

  

	 	(b)	 the terms and conditions of such Environmental Licences, 

where failure to do so might reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. 

 

	19.16	 Environmental Claims 

No Environmental Claim which, if determined against it or any of its Subsidiaries, would reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect has (to the best of its knowledge and belief) been started against it or any of its Subsidiaries. 

  
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	19.17	 Taxation 

  

	 	19.17.1	 It and each of its Subsidiaries has duly and punctually paid and discharged all Taxes imposed upon it or its assets or, as the case may be, upon
such Subsidiary or the assets of such Subsidiary within the time period allowed without incurring penalties (save to the extent that (i) payment is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which adequate reserves have
been provided in accordance with GAAP and (ii) payment can be lawfully withheld) and to the extent that any Taxes are not due and payable, the Borrower has provided adequate reserves for the payment of those Taxes in accordance with GAAP.

  

	 	19.17.2	 It and each of its Subsidiaries is not materially overdue in the filing of any Tax returns. 

 

	 	19.17.3	 No claims are being or are reasonably likely to be asserted against it or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to Taxes which might reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. 

  

	19.18	 Indebtedness 

The Borrower has no any Financial Indebtedness other than Permitted Indebtedness. 

 

	19.19	 No Security 

Save for any Permitted Encumbrances, no Security exists over any of the assets of the ZSG Group. 

 

	19.20	 Consents etc. relating to any Permitted Transaction 

All material Authorisations which are required to be obtained under any applicable law or regulation for the consummation of
each Permitted Transaction (including approval from shareholders, third parties and all applicable competition and anti-trust regulations authorities) have been obtained and are in full force and effect and all conditions of any such Authorisation
have been complied with or will be complied with in all material respects. 
  

	19.21	 Repetition 

  

	 	19.21.1	 The Repeating Representations are deemed to be made by the Borrower by reference to the facts and circumstances then existing on the date of each
Compliance Certificate and the date of each Utilisation Request. 

  

	 	19.21.2	 Each Repeating Representations to be made after the Effective Date shall be made or deemed to be made by reference to the facts and circumstances
existing at the date the Repeating Representations is made. 

  

	20.	 INFORMATION UNDERTAKINGS 

The undertakings in this Clause 20 remain in force from the Effective Date for so long as any amount is outstanding under the
Finance Documents or any Commitment is in force. 

  
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	20.1	 Financial statements 

The Borrower shall supply to the Agent in sufficient copies for all the Lenders: 

 

	 	20.1.1	 as soon as they become available, but in any event within ninety (90) days of the end of its financial years Mercer’s audited
consolidated financial statements (including balance sheet, profit and loss statement, cash flow statement and related auditors’ report), according to US-GAAP; 

 

	 	20.1.2	 as soon as they become available, but in any event within ninety (90) days of the end of its financial years the balance sheet, profit and
loss statement, cash flow statement with respect to each of the members of the ZSG Group and SP Holding and, with respect to each of the members of the ZSG Group, the related auditors’ report for such financial year by a recognised firm of
independent auditors licensed to practise in the Federal Republic of Germany, according to GAAP; 

  

	 	20.1.3	 as soon as they become available, but in any event within ninety (90) days of the end of its financial years the audited consolidated balance
sheet, consolidated profit and loss statement, consolidated cash flow statement and related auditors’ report for the ZSG Group for such financial year audited by a recognised firm of independent auditors licensed to practise in the Federal
Republic of Germany, according to GAAP and reconciled to US GAAP; 

  

	 	20.1.4	 as soon as they become available, but no later than forty-five (45) days after the end of each financial quarter year, the consolidated
balance sheet, consolidated profit and loss statement and consolidated cash flow statement for the ZSG Group for such period, which will be in a form reasonably acceptable to the Lenders, according to US-GAAP; 

 

	 	20.1.5	 thirty (30) days prior to the beginning of the relevant financial year, the budgeted consolidated balance sheet, the budgeted consolidated
profit and loss statement and the budgeted consolidated cash flow statement including budgeted consolidated capital expenditure for the next following financial year for the ZSG Group according to US GAAP and supported by the updated Financial
Model; and 

  

	 	20.1.6	 any financial statements delivered in accordance with Clause 20.1.4 above and Clause 20.1.3 above shall be accompanied by the production report for
the respective period, including, inter alia, actual production figures, operating cost figures, sales and sales price figures and the budgeted figures thereof. 

 

	20.2	 Compliance Certificate 

  

	 	20.2.1	 The Borrower shall supply to the Agent semi-annually beginning on 30 June 2015, with the set of financial statements then delivered
pursuant to Clause 20.1.3 (Financial statements) and Clause 20.1.4 (Financial statements), a Compliance Certificate setting out (in reasonable detail) computations as to compliance with Clause 21 (Financial covenants) as at the
date as at which those financial statements were drawn up. 

  
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	 	20.2.2	 Each Compliance Certificate shall be signed by one director of the Borrower. 

 

	 	20.2.3	 In case of a dispute between the Agent and the Borrower in respect to the data or computations set out in the Compliance Certificate the Agent may
request an independent auditor to certify such data and calculations. 

  

	20.3	 Requirements as to financial statements 

  

	 	20.3.1	 Each set of financial statements delivered pursuant to Clause 20.1 (Financial statements) shall be certified by a director of the relevant
company as fairly representing its financial condition in all material respects as at the date as at which those financial statements were drawn up. 

  

	 	20.3.2	 The Borrower will at the request of the Agent require and authorise its auditors to discuss with the Lenders matters reasonably related to or
arising out of the annual audit of the Borrower by such auditors. 

  

	20.4	 Information: miscellaneous 

The Borrower shall supply to the Agent (in sufficient copies for all the Lenders, if the Agent so requests): 

 

	 	20.4.1	 promptly, the details of any newly created Permitted Encumbrances of ZSG Group (save for the creation of any Security in accordance with paragraph
(b) of the definition of Permitted Encumbrances); 

  

	 	20.4.2	 promptly, upon the request of the Agent, a certified copy of any agreement with any other Subsidiary of the Ultimate Parent; 

 

	 	20.4.3	 promptly, the details of any newly created Permitted Indebtedness of ZSG Group; 

 

	 	20.4.4	 promptly upon becoming aware of it, the details of any tax field audit (Betriebsprüfung) which is current, threatened or pending
against it which would, if adversely determined, have a Material Adverse Effect; 

  

	 	20.4.5	 promptly upon becoming aware of them, the details of any litigation, arbitration or administrative proceedings which are current, threatened or
pending against it, and which would, if adversely determined, have a Material Adverse Effect; and 

  

	 	20.4.6	 promptly, the details of any change of its constitutional documents or any Transaction Document. 

  
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	20.5	 Notification of default 

The Borrower shall notify the Agent of any Default (and the steps, if any, being taken to remedy it) promptly upon becoming
aware of its occurrence. 
  

	20.6	 Use of websites 

  

	 	20.6.1	 The Borrower may satisfy its obligation under this Agreement to deliver any information in relation to those Lenders (the “Website
Lenders”) who accept this method of communication by posting this information onto an electronic website designated by the Borrower and the Agent (the “Designated Website”) if: 

 

	 	(a)	 the Agent expressly agrees (after consultation with each of the Lenders) that it will accept communication of the information by this method;

  

	 	(b)	 both the Borrower and the Agent are aware of the address of and any relevant password specifications for the Designated Website; and

  

	 	(c)	 the information is in a format previously agreed between the Borrower and the Agent. 

If any Lender (a “Paper Form Lender”) does not agree to the delivery of information electronically then the
Agent shall notify the Borrower accordingly and the Borrower shall supply the information to the Agent (in sufficient copies for each Paper Form Lender) in paper form. In any event SP Holding and the Borrower shall supply the Agent with at least one
copy in paper form of any information required to be provided by them. 
  

	 	20.6.2	 The Agent shall supply each Website Lender with the address of and any relevant password specifications for the Designated Website following
designation of that website by the Borrower and the Agent. 

  

	 	20.6.3	 The Borrower shall promptly upon becoming aware of its occurrence notify the Agent if: 

 

	 	(a)	 the Designated Website cannot be accessed due to technical failure; 

 

	 	(b)	 the password specifications for the Designated Website change; 

 

	 	(c)	 any new information which is required to be provided under this Agreement is posted onto the Designated Website; 

 

	 	(d)	 any existing information which has been provided under this Agreement and posted onto the Designated Website is amended; or 

 

	 	(e)	 the Designated Website or any information posted onto the Designated Website is or has been infected by any electronic virus or similar software.

 If the Borrower notifies the Agent under Clause 20.6.3(a) above or Clause 20.6.3(e) above, all
information to be provided by SP Holding and/or the Borrower under this Agreement after the date of that notice shall be supplied in paper form. 

  
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	 	20.6.4	 Any Website Lender may request, through the Agent, one paper copy of any information required to be provided under this Agreement which is posted
onto the Designated Website. The Borrower shall comply with any such request within ten (10) Business Days. 

  

	20.7	 “Know your customer” checks 

  

	 	20.7.1	 If: 

  

	 	(a)	 the introduction of or any change in (or in the interpretation, administration or application of) any law or regulation made after the Effective
Date; 

  

	 	(b)	 any change in the status of the Borrower after the Effective Date; or 

 

	 	(c)	 a proposed assignment or assignment and transfer by assumption of contract (Vertragsübernahme) by a Lender of any of its rights and
obligations under this Agreement to a party that is not a Lender prior to such assignment or assignment and transfer by assumption of contract (Vertragsübernahme), 

obliges the Agent or any Lender (or, in the case of Clause 20.7.1(c) above, any prospective New Lender) to comply with
“know your customer” or similar identification procedures in circumstances where the necessary information is not already available to it, the Borrower shall promptly upon the request of the Agent or any Lender supply, or procure the
supply of, such documentation and other evidence as is reasonably requested by the Agent (for itself or on behalf of any Lender) or any Lender (for itself or, in the case of the event described in Clause 20.7.1(c) above, on behalf of any prospective
New Lender) in order for the Agent, such Lender or, in the case of the event described in Clause 20.7.1(c) above, any prospective New Lender to carry out and be satisfied it has complied with all necessary “know your customer” or other
similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations pursuant to the transactions contemplated in the Finance Documents. 
  

	 	20.7.2	 Each Lender shall promptly upon the request of the Agent supply, or procure the supply of, such documentation and other evidence as is reasonably
requested by the Agent (for itself) in order for the Agent to carry out and be satisfied it has complied with all necessary “know your customer” or other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations pursuant to the transactions
contemplated in the Finance Documents. 

  

	20.8	 German Banking Act (Kreditwesengesetz) 

Upon request of the Agent, the Borrower shall provide the Agent with all such further information about its financial and
business affairs, as well as the financial and business affairs of any of its Subsidiaries, in each case to the extent necessary for any Lender to comply with its duties under section 18 of the German Banking Act (Kreditwesengesetz). 

  
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	21.	 FINANCIAL COVENANTS 

  

	21.1	 Financial definitions 

  

	 	21.1.1	 In this Clause 21: 

“Calculation Date” means each 30 June and 31 December in each calendar year commencing with
30 June 2015; 
 “Current Assets” means, on any date, the aggregate of the current assets of the
Borrower at such date; 
 “Current Liabilities” means, on any date, the aggregate of the current
liabilities of the Borrower at such date; 
 “Current Ratio” means, on any date, the ratio, expressed as a
percentage, of: 
  

	 	(a)	 Current Assets 

to 
  

	 	(b)	 Current Liabilities. 

“EBITDA” means the net profit of ZSG Group before deducting any negative or adding any positive extraordinary
or unusual items according to US-GAAP, 
  

	 	(a)	 plus the amount of taxes set against the net profits of ZSG Group in its relevant consolidated financial statements and (without double counting)
any provision by ZSG Group for taxes, 

  

	 	(b)	 plus any amortisation and depreciation stated in the relevant consolidated financial statements, 

 

	 	(c)	 plus any interest expense as recorded in the profit and loss statement for the respective period, 

 

	 	(d)	 plus any other non-cash charges set against the net profits of the Borrower in the relevant financial statements (including but not limited to
non-cash exchange rate gains or losses, non-cash effluent charges). 

 “Interest Cover
Ratio” means, for any period on any Calculation Date, the ratio, expressed as a percentage, of: 
  

	 	(a)	 EBITDA for such period, 

to 
  

	 	(b)	 Interest Expense for such period; 

  
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 “Interest Expense” means, for any period, the consolidated
amount in EUR which will be necessary in order to pay in full all interest, premium and similar amounts (howsoever characterised and including (a) the interest element of capital leases, (b) interest on Subordinated Liabilities to the
extent transferred to the Shareholder Distribution Account, (c) repayment and prepayment of Subordinated Liabilities to the extent transferred to the Shareholder Distribution Account minus all amounts retransferred from the Shareholder
Distribution Account back to those operating accounts of the Borrower which are not restricted (d) discount and acceptance fees payable (or deducted), (e) fees payable in connection with the issue or maintenance of any bank guarantee,
(f) periodical payments under the Hedging Agreement (but excluding non-cash interest attributable to the movement in its mark to market valuation in accordance with US-GAAP) and (g) commitment, utilisation and non-utilisation fees payable
or incurred in respect of Financial Indebtedness) accruing in respect of, this agreement and all other Financial Indebtedness of ZSG Group which have become due and payable during such period but excluding amortisation and write-offs of debt issue
costs; 
 “Leverage Ratio” means the ratio of Net Debt to EBITDA; 

“Net Debt” means, on any date, the excess of: 

the sum of (without duplication): 

the principal amount of Utilisations outstanding on such date; 

the principal amount of other Financial Indebtedness (except exposure under the Hedging Agreement and liabilities from
operating lease) of the ZSG Group outstanding on such date; 
 less 

Unencumbered Cash at such date. For the avoidance of doubt, Subordinated Liabilities shall be excluded from Net Debt; 

“Unencumbered Cash” means, at any date, the principal amount of freely available cash balances maintained by
the ZSG Group in bank accounts maintained with financial institutions located in approved locations on such date (and, for the avoidance of doubt, a cash balance shall not be freely available if it is subject to any lien in favour of any third party
(excluding, however, any such lien arising by way of set-off rights under mandatory principles of applicable law) and except for an amount standing to the credit of the Shareholder Distribution Account. 

 

	21.2	 Leverage Ratio 

The Borrower shall ensure that the Leverage Ratio in respect of any twelve (12) months period on any Calculation Date
shall not exceed 2.50:1. 

  
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	21.3	 Interest Cover Ratio 

The Borrower shall ensure that the Interest Cover Ratio in respect of each twelve (12) months period on any Calculation
Date shall equal or exceed 1.20:1. 
  

	21.4	 Current Ratio 

The Borrower shall ensure that the Current Ratio on any Calculation Date shall equal or exceed 110 per cent. 

 

	21.5	 Calculations 

It is agreed that all Financial Covenants have to be calculated on the basis of consolidated financial figures according to
US-GAAP and on the basis of consolidated Financial Statements supplied in accordance with Clause 21.1 and on a rolling 12 months basis. 
  

	22.	 GENERAL UNDERTAKINGS 

The undertakings in this Clause 22 remain in force from the Effective Date for so long as any amount is outstanding under the
Finance Documents or any Commitment is in force. 
  

	22.1	 Authorisations 

The Borrower shall promptly: 
  

	 	22.1.1	 obtain, comply with and do all that is necessary to maintain in full force and effect; and 

 

	 	22.1.2	 supply certified copies to the Agent of, 

any Authorisation required under any law or regulation of its jurisdiction of incorporation to enable it to perform its
obligations under the Finance Documents and to ensure the legality, validity, enforceability or admissibility in evidence in its jurisdiction of incorporation of any Finance Document. 

 

	22.2	 Compliance with laws 

The Borrower shall comply in all respects with all laws to which it may be subject, if failure so to comply would materially
impair its ability to perform its obligations under the Finance Documents. 
  

	22.3	 Insurance 

  

	 	22.3.1	 The Borrower shall at all times effect and maintain the Insurances on and in relation to its business and assets with reputable underwriters or
insurance companies. 

  

	 	22.3.2	 The Borrower shall pay all premiums and do all other things necessary to keep on foot the insurances required to be effected and maintained by it
pursuant to Clause 22.3.1 above. 

  
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	22.4	 Transactions with third parties 

The Borrower shall and shall ensure that each member of the ZSG Group will conclude any transaction with a third party,
irrespective of whether or not it is a Subsidiary of the Ultimate Parent, only on terms reasonably no less favourable to it than those that could reasonably be obtainable by it on an arm’s length basis. It will further waive any Financial
Indebtedness owed by any person to it only for valuable market consideration. 
  

	22.5	 Pari passu ranking 

The Borrower shall ensure that its payment obligations under the Finance Documents will rank at least pari passu with
the claims of all its unsecured and unsubordinated creditors, except for obligations mandatorily preferred by law applying to companies generally. 
  

	22.6	 Environmental compliance 

The Borrower shall and shall procure that each member of the ZSG Group will obtain and maintain all requisite Environmental
Licences and comply with: 
  

	 	(a)	 all applicable Environmental Laws; or 

  

	 	(b)	 the terms and conditions of all Environmental Licences applicable to it, 

and take all reasonable steps in anticipation of known or expected future changes to or obligations under the same, in each
case where failure to do so might reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. 
  

	22.7	 Environmental Claims 

The Borrower shall inform the Agent in writing as soon as reasonably practicable upon its becoming aware of: 

 

	 	22.7.1	 any Environmental Claim which has been commenced or threatened against a member of ZSG Group; or 

 

	 	22.7.2	 any facts or circumstances which will or are reasonably likely to result in any Environmental Claim being commenced or threatened against a member
of ZSG Group, 

 where the claim, if determined against a member of ZSG Group, would be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect. 
  

	22.8	 Taxation 

  

	 	22.8.1	 The Borrower shall (and shall procure that each member of the ZSG Group will) duly and punctually pay and discharge all Taxes imposed upon it or
its assets within the time period allowed without incurring penalties (save to the extent that (i) payment is being contested in good faith, (ii) adequate reserves are being maintained for those Taxes and (iii) payment can be lawfully
withheld). 

  
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	 	22.8.2	 The Borrower shall not be materially overdue in the filing of any Tax returns. 

 

	22.9	 Refinancing 

The Borrower will procure that all acts and things (including the execution of powers of attorney, assignments or other
instruments) as are reasonably required to give effect to the purposes of the Refinancing are, or will promptly be, done (and do nothing to jeopardise the same). 
  

	22.10	 Capitalisation 

The Borrower shall ensure that, at all times after the Effective Date, it and each of its Subsidiaries have sufficient equity
to be and remain in compliance with all thin capitalisation rules applicable to it and them. 
  

	22.11	 Negative pledge 

The Borrower shall not (and shall procure that no other member of the ZSG Group will) create or permit to subsist any Security
over all or any of its assets other than Permitted Encumbrances. 
  

	22.12	 Disposals 

  

	 	22.12.1	 Except as permitted under Clause 22.12.2, the Borrower shall not (and shall procure that no other member of the ZSG Group will), enter into a
single transaction or a series of transactions (whether related or not) and whether voluntary or involuntary to sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any asset, including any material investment (Beteiligungen) or divisions
(Betriebsteile). 

  

	 	22.12.2	 Clause 22.12.1 above does not apply to any sale, lease, transfer or other disposal: 

 

	 	(a)	 made in the ordinary course of business of the disposing entity; 

 

	 	(b)	 of assets in exchange for other assets comparable or superior as to type, value and quality; 

 

	 	(c)	 of assets that are worn out, obsolete or redundant; 

  

	 	(d)	 which is a Permitted Transaction; 

  

	 	(e)	 to which the Majority Lenders have given their prior written consent; or 

 

	 	(f)	 where the higher of the market value or consideration receivable (when aggregated with the higher of the market value or consideration receivable
for any other sale, lease, transfer or other disposal, other than any permitted under Clause 22.12.2(a), Clause 22.12.2(b) and Clause 22.12.2(c) above) does not exceed EUR 15,000,000 (or its equivalent in another currency or currencies) in
any financial year. 

  
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	22.13	 Financial Indebtedness 

The Borrower shall not (and shall procure that no other member of the ZSG Group will) incur, create or permit to subsist or
have outstanding, and any Financial Indebtedness or enters into any agreement or arrangement whereby it is entitled to incur, create or permit to subsist any Financial Indebtedness other than, in each case, Permitted Indebtedness. 

 

	22.14	 Treasury Transactions 

  

	 	22.14.1	 The Borrower shall not (and shall procure that no other member of the ZSG Group will) enter into any Treasury Transaction, other than the hedging
transaction and documented by the Hedging Agreement. 

  

	 	22.14.2	 The Borrower shall ensure that the Hedging Agreement is not terminated, varied or cancelled without the prior consent of the Agent (acting on the
instructions of the Majority Lenders), save (in the case of arrangements documented by the Hedging Agreement) as permitted by the Security Pooling Agreement. 

 

	22.15	 Merger; agreement on profit 

The Borrower shall not enter into: 
  

	 	22.15.1	 any amalgamation, demerger, merger, consolidation or corporate reconstruction or any transaction with the commercial effect of the foregoing; or

  

	 	22.15.2	 any profit and loss transfer agreement (Ergebnisabführungsvertrag) (other than the existing profit and loss agreements between the
Borrower and ZSG Holz and ZSG Transport, respectively), any partnership agreements (stille Beteiligungen), any other intercompany agreement (Unternehmensvertrag) or any similar arrangement having as a consequence that a third party
shares in the Borrower’s profits, 

 in each case other than: 

 

	 	(a)	 a Permitted Transaction; 

  

	 	(b)	 with the prior written consent of the Majority Lenders. 

 

	22.16	 Major investment 

The Borrower shall not (and shall procure that no other member of the ZSG Group will) without the prior written consent of the
Agent acquire any assets (separately or in a series of related acquisitions): 
  

	 	22.16.1	 the aggregate value of which exceeds EUR 20,000,000; and 

 

	 	22.16.2	 that the funding of which is fully or partially provided for by the proceeds of a Loan. 

  
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	22.17	 Joint Ventures 

  

	 	22.17.1	 Except as permitted under Clause 22.17.2 below, the Borrower shall not (and shall procure that no other member of the ZSG Group will):

  

	 	(a)	 enter into, invest in or acquire (or agree to acquire) any shares, stocks, securities or other interest in any Joint Venture having a value in
excess of EUR 1,000,000; or 

  

	 	(b)	 transfer any assets or lend to or guarantee or give an indemnity for or give Security for the obligations of a Joint Venture or maintain the
solvency of or provide working capital to any Joint Venture (or agree to do any of the foregoing). 

  

	 	22.17.2	 Clause 22.17.1 above does not apply to any acquisition (or agreement to acquire) any interest in a Joint Venture or transfer of assets (or
agreement to transfer assets) to a Joint Venture or loan made to or guarantee given in respect of the obligations of a Joint Venture if such transaction is a Permitted Transaction. 

 

	22.18	 Change of business 

The Borrower shall not (and shall procure that no other member of the ZSG Group will), make any substantial change to the
general nature of its business from that carried on at the Effective Date. 
  

	22.19	 Share capital 

The Borrower shall not (and shall procure that no other member of the ZSG Group will) without the prior consent of the Majority
Lenders: 
  

	 	22.19.1	 redeem, purchase, return or make any repayment in respect of any of its share capital or make any capital distribution or enter into any agreement
to do so; or 

  

	 	22.19.2	 issue any shares or grant any person any right (whether conditional or unconditional) to call for the issue or allotment of any of its shares
(including an option or a right of pre-emption or conversion) or enter into any agreement to do any of the foregoing, 

in each case, other than in accordance with the terms hereof (including Clause 22.18 (Subordinated Liabilities)) and the
terms of the Shareholders’ Undertaking Agreement. 
  

	22.20	 Dividends and withdrawals 

The Borrower shall not pay dividends and any other returns to any of its investors (including in relation to any debt
instruments) other than in accordance with the terms hereof and the terms of the Shareholders’ Undertaking Agreement. 

  
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	22.21	 Subordinated Liabilities 

The Borrower shall not pay any funds into the Shareholder Distribution Account on account of interest on Shareholder Loans,
except in compliance with Section 1.5.3 hereof. 
  

	23.	 EVENTS OF DEFAULT 

Each of the events or circumstances set out in Clause 23 is an Event of Default. 

 

	23.1	 Non-payment 

The Borrower does not pay on the due date any amount payable pursuant to a Finance Document at the place at and in the currency
in which it is expressed to be payable unless: 
  

	 	23.1.1	 its failure to pay is caused by administrative or technical error; and 

 

	 	23.1.2	 payment is made within ten (10) Business Days of its due date. 

 

	23.2	 Financial covenants 

Any requirement of Clause 21 (Financial covenants) is not satisfied. 

 

	23.3	 Provision of Security 

The Condition Precedent for the legal validity and effectiveness of and as defined in each of the Security Documents has not
been fulfilled within five (5) Business Days of the Effective Date. 
  

	23.4	 Other obligations 

  

	 	23.4.1	 The Borrower does not comply with any provision of the Finance Documents (other than those referred to in Clause 23.1 (Non-payment) and
Clause 23.2 (Financial covenants)). 

  

	 	23.4.2	 The Borrower does not comply with any provision of any Security Document. 

 

	 	23.4.3	 No Event of Default under Clause 23.4.1 above and Clause 23.4.2 above will occur if: 

 

	 	(a)	 the Agent considers that the relevant non-compliance is capable of remedy; and 

 

	 	(b)	 the relevant non-compliance is remedied within twenty (20) Business Days of the earlier of (i) the Agent giving notice to the Borrower
and (ii) the date on which the Borrower became aware or ought reasonably to have become aware of such non-compliance. 

  

	23.5	 Misrepresentation 

Any representation or statement made or deemed to be made by the Borrower in the Finance Documents or any other document
delivered by or on behalf of the Borrower under or in connection with any Finance Document is or proves to have been incorrect or misleading in any material respect when made or deemed to be made. 

  
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	23.6	 Cross default 

  

	 	23.6.1	 Any Financial Indebtedness of the Borrower is not paid when due nor within any originally applicable grace period. 

 

	 	23.6.2	 Any Financial Indebtedness of the Borrower is declared to be or otherwise becomes due and payable prior to its specified maturity as a result of an
event of default (however described). 

  

	 	23.6.3	 Any commitment for any Financial Indebtedness of the Borrower is cancelled or suspended by a creditor of the Borrower as a result of an event of
default (however described). 

  

	 	23.6.4	 Any creditor of the Borrower becomes entitled to declare any Financial Indebtedness of the Borrower due and payable prior to its specified maturity
as a result of an event of default (however described). 

  

	 	23.6.5	 No Event of Default will occur under this Clause 23.6 if: (i) the aggregate amount of Financial Indebtedness or commitment for Financial
Indebtedness falling within Clause 23.6.1 above to Clause 23.6.4 above is less than EUR 10,000,000 (or its equivalent in any other currency or currencies) at any one time; or (ii) any event or circumstance that would otherwise give rise
to, or cause an Event of Default to occur, under Clause 23.6.1 to 23.6.4 above is disputed in good faith by the Borrower affected thereby by way of appropriate proceedings. 

 

	23.7	 Insolvency 

If the Borrower: 
  

	 	23.7.1	 is unable to pay its debts as they fall due (Zahlungsunfähigkeit); 

 

	 	23.7.2	 commences negotiations with any one or more of its creditors with a view to the general readjustment or rescheduling of its indebtedness or, for
any of the reasons set out in sections 17 to 19 of the German Insolvency Act (InsO); 

  

	 	23.7.3	 files for insolvency (Antrag auf Eröffnung eines Insolvenzverfahrens) or the board of directors or management of the Borrower is
required by law to file for insolvency; or 

  

	 	23.7.4	 the competent court takes any of the actions set out in section 21 of the German Insolvency Act (InsO) or the competent court institutes
insolvency proceedings against the Borrower (Eröffnung des Insolvenzverfahrens). 

  
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	23.8	 Insolvency and similar proceedings 

Any corporate action, legal proceedings or other procedure or step is taken in relation to: 

 

	 	23.8.1	 the suspension of payments, a moratorium of any indebtedness, winding-up, dissolution, administration or reorganisation (by way of voluntary
arrangement, scheme of arrangement or otherwise) of the Borrower; 

  

	 	23.8.2	 the appointment of a liquidator, receiver, administrator, administrative receiver, compulsory manager or other similar officer in respect of the
Borrower or any of its assets (including the directors of the Borrower requesting a person to appoint any such officer in relation to it or any of its assets); or 

 

	 	23.8.3	 enforcement of any Security over any assets of the Borrower which is not discharged within thirty (30) days, 

or any analogous procedure or step is taken in any jurisdiction. 

 

	23.9	 Execution or distress 

Any execution (Zwangsvollstreckung) or distress (Beschlagnahme) (or any event which under the laws of any other
jurisdiction that has a similar effect) is levied against, or an encumbrancer takes possession of the whole, or any material part, of the assets of the Borrower is not discharged within thirty (30) days. 

 

	23.10	 Shareholders’ Undertaking Agreement 

  

	 	23.10.1	 The Ultimate Parent or SP Holding fails to comply with the provisions of, or does not perform its respective obligations under, the
Shareholders’ Undertaking Agreement. 

  

	 	23.10.2	 No Event of Default will occur under this Clause 23.10 if 

 

	 	(a)	 the Agent considers that the relevant non-compliance or non-performance is capable of remedy; and 

 

	 	(b)	 the relevant non-compliance or non-performance is remedied within twenty (20) Business Days of the earlier of (i) the Agent giving notice
to the Ultimate Parent or SP Holding, as the case may be, and (ii) the date on which the Ultimate Parent or SP Holding, as the case may be, became aware or ought reasonably to have become aware of such non-compliance or non-performance.

  

	 	23.10.3	 A representation or warranty given by the Ultimate Parent or SP Holding in the Shareholders’ Undertaking Agreement is incorrect in any
material respect and, if the non-compliance or circumstances giving rise to such misrepresentation are capable of remedy, it is not remedied within thirty (30) days of the earlier of the Agent giving notice to the Ultimate Parent or the
Ultimate Parent becoming aware of the non-compliance or misrepresentation. 

  
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	23.11	 Cessation of business 

The Ultimate Parent suspends or ceases to carry on all or a material part of its business except as a result of a disposal
which is a Permitted Transaction. 
  

	23.12	 Audit qualification 

Any of the auditors qualify their opinion with respect to any of the financial statements audited by them and delivered under
Clause 20.1 (Financial statements). 
  

	23.13	 Expropriation 

The authority or ability of the Borrower to conduct its business is wholly or substantially curtailed by any seizure,
expropriation, nationalisation, intervention, restriction or other action by or on behalf of any governmental, regulatory or other authority or other person in relation to the Borrower. 

 

	23.14	 Repudiation and rescission of agreements 

  

	 	23.14.1	 the Borrower (or any other relevant party) rescinds or purports to rescind or repudiates or purports to repudiate a Finance Document or any of the
Transaction Security or evidences an intention to rescind or repudiate a Finance Document or any Transaction Security. 

  

	 	23.14.2	 Any party to the Transaction Documents (other than a Finance Party) rescinds or purports to rescind or repudiates or purports to repudiate any of
those agreements or instruments in whole or in part where to do so has or is, in the reasonable opinion of the Majority Lenders, likely to have a Material Adverse Effect. 

 

	23.15	 Litigation 

Any litigation, alternative dispute resolution, arbitration, administrative, governmental, regulatory or other investigations,
proceedings or disputes are commenced in relation to the Transaction Documents or the transactions contemplated in the Transaction Documents or against a member of the ZSG Group which has or would have a Material Adverse Effect. 

 

	23.16	 Change of Control 

A Change of Control occurs. 
  

	23.17	 Unlawfulness 

It is or becomes unlawful for the Borrower to perform any of its obligations under the Transaction Documents. 

 

	23.18	 Environmental matters 

  

	 	23.18.1	 Any Environmental Contamination is discovered on any site owned, leased, occupied or used by a member of the ZSG Group which might reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. 

  
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	 	23.18.2	 A member of the ZSG Group fails to comply with any Environmental Law or any Environmental Licence or an Environmental Claim is made against a
member of the ZSG Group and as a result a Material Adverse Effect occurs. 

  

	23.19	 Material Adverse Effect 

Any situation or event occurs or series of events occur which has a Material Adverse Effect. 

 

	23.20	 Acceleration 

At any time after the occurrence of (i) an Event of Default set out in Clause 23.1 (Non-payment), Clause 23.2
(Financial covenants), Clause 23.7 (Insolvency), Clause 23.8 (Insolvency and similar proceedings), Clause 23.9 (Execution or distress) in relation to the Borrower and Clause 23.17 (Unlawfulness) or
(ii) any other Event of Default and at any time thereafter while such Event of Default is continuing and either the Agent, or as the case may be, the Majority Lenders has or have determined in its or their reasonable opinion taking into account
the enforcement value of any guarantee and Security, that due to said Event of Default the ability of the Borrower to perform any of its obligations under the Finance Documents has been materially impaired and/or the Agent or the Majority Lenders
have given consideration to the reasonable concerns of the Borrower and to avoid such notice, the Agent may, and will if so directed by the Majority Lenders, by written notice to the Borrower do all or any of the following in addition and without
prejudice to any other rights or remedies which it or any other Finance Party may have under this Agreement or any of the other Finance Documents: 
  

	 	23.20.1	 cancel the Total Commitments whereupon they shall immediately be cancelled; 

 

	 	23.20.2	 declare that all or part of the Utilisations, together with accrued interest, and all other amounts accrued under the Finance Documents be
immediately due and payable, whereupon they shall become immediately due and payable; 

  

	 	23.20.3	 declare that all or part of the Utilisations be payable on demand, whereupon they shall immediately become payable on demand by the Agent on the
instructions of the Majority Lenders; 

  

	 	23.20.4	 require the Borrower to: 

  

	 	(a)	 procure that the liabilities of each of the Lenders and any Issuing Bank under or in connection with each Bank Guarantee are promptly reduced to
zero; or 

  

	 	(b)	 provide cash collateral for each Bank Guarantee in an amount specified by the Agent and in the currency of that Bank Guarantee, whereupon the
Borrower will do so; and/or 

  

	 	(c)	 exercise all or any of its rights, remedies, powers or discretions under any of the Finance Documents. 

  
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	23.21	 Demand basis 

If all or part of the Loans and/or the Bank Guarantees have become due and payable on demand pursuant to Clause 23.20
(Acceleration), the Agent, if so instructed by the Majority Lenders, shall by notice to the Borrower call for repayment and discharge of all or such part of the Loans and/or the Bank Guarantees on such date as may be specified in such notice
whereupon all or such part of the Loans and/or the Bank Guarantees shall become due and payable and/or, as appropriate, due for discharge on the date so specified together with all interest, ancillary and other fees and commitment commission accrued
and all other sums payable under the Finance Documents. 

  
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 SECTION 8 

CHANGES TO PARTIES 
  

	24.	 CHANGES TO THE LENDERS 

  

	24.1	 Assignments and assignments and transfers by assumption of contract (Vertragsübernahme) by the Lenders

  

	 	24.1.1	 Subject to this Clause 24, a Lender (the “Existing Lender”) may: 

 

	 	(a)	 assign any of its rights; or 

  

	 	(b)	 assign and transfer by assumption of contract (Vertragsübernahme) any of its rights and obligations under any Finance Document,

 to another bank or financial institution or to a trust, fund or other entity which is regularly engaged
in or established for the purpose of making, purchasing or investing in loans, securities or other financial assets (the “New Lender”), provided that no such assignment or assignment and transfer by assumption of contract
(Vertragsübernahme) shall be permitted to any person that competes with or operates in a business reasonably similar to that of the Borrower. 
  

	 	24.1.2	 Subject to Clause 24.2 (Conditions of assignment and assignment and transfer by assumption of contract (Vertragsübernahme)), each Party
hereby gives its consent in advance to any assignment and assignment and transfer by assumption of contract (Vertragsübernahme) as referred to in Clause 24.1.1 above. Receipt of an Assignment and Assumption Certificate by the Agent shall
constitute notice of the assignment and assignment and transfer by assumption of contract (Vertragsübernahme) and each Party irrevocably authorises (bevollmächtigt) and instructs the Agent to receive each such notice on its
behalf and irrevocably agrees that each such notice to be given to such party may be given to the Agent. 

  

	 	24.1.3	 For the purposes of this Clause 24.1 each Finance Party, which is incorporated or established under the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany
hereby releases the Agent from the restrictions of section 181 of the German Civil Code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch) and similar restrictions applicable to it pursuant to any other applicable law, in each case to the extent legally possible
to such Finance Party. A Finance Party which is barred by its constitutional documents or by-laws from granting such exemption shall notify the Agent accordingly. 

 

	24.2	 Conditions of assignment or assignment and transfer by assumption of contract (Vertragsübernahme)

 The consultation with the Borrower is required for an assignment or assignment and transfer by
assumption of contract (Vertragsübernahme) by an Existing Lender, unless the assignment or assignment and transfer by assumption of contract (Vertragsübernahme) is to another Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender. 

  
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	 	24.2.1	 An assignment will only be effective on: 

  

	 	(a)	 receipt by the Agent of written confirmation from the New Lender (in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent) that the New Lender will assume
the same obligations to the other Finance Parties as it would have been under if it was an Existing Lender; and 

  

	 	(b)	 performance by the Agent of all “know your customer” or other checks relating to any person that it is required to carry out in relation
to such assignment to a New Lender, the completion of which the Agent shall promptly notify to the Existing Lender and the New Lender. 

  

	 	24.2.2	 An assignment and transfer by assumption of contract (Vertragsübernahme) will only be effective if the procedure set out in Clause 24.5
(Procedure for assignment and transfer by assumption of contract (Vertragsübernahme)) is complied with. 

  

	 	24.2.3	 If: 

  

	 	(a)	 a Lender assigns or assigns and transfers by assumption of contract (Vertragsübernahme) any of its rights or obligations under the
Finance Documents or changes its Facility Office; and 

  

	 	(b)	 as a result of circumstances existing at the date the assignment, assignment and transfer by assumption of contract (Vertragsübernahme)
or change occurs, the Borrower would be obliged to make a payment to the New Lender or Lender acting through its new Facility Office under Clause 14 (Tax gross-up and indemnities) or Clause 15 (Increased costs), 

then the New Lender or Lender acting through its new Facility Office is only entitled to receive payment under those clauses
to the same extent as the Existing Lender or Lender acting through its previous Facility Office would have been if the assignment, assignment and transfer by assumption of contract (Vertragsübernahme) or change had not occurred. 

 

	24.3	 Assignment or assignment and transfer by assumption of contract (Vertragsübernahme) fee 

The New Lender shall, on the date upon which an assignment or assignment and transfer by assumption of contract
(Vertragsübernahme) takes effect, pay to the Agent (for its own account) a fee of EUR 2,000. 
  

	24.4	 Limitation of responsibility of Existing Lenders 

  

	 	24.4.1	 Unless expressly agreed to the contrary, an Existing Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility to a New Lender for:

  

	 	(a)	 the legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy or enforceability of the Finance Documents or any other documents; 

 

	 	(b)	 the financial condition of the Borrower; 

  
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	 	(c)	 the performance and observance by the Borrower of its obligations under the Finance Documents or any other documents; or 

 

	 	(d)	 the accuracy of any statements (whether written or oral) made in or in connection with any Finance Document or any other document,

 and any representations or warranties implied by law are excluded. 

 

	 	24.4.2	 Each New Lender confirms to the Existing Lender and the other Finance Parties that it: 

 

	 	(a)	 has made (and shall continue to make) its own independent investigation and assessment of the financial condition and affairs of the Borrower and
its related entities in connection with its participation in this Agreement and has not relied exclusively on any information provided to it by the Existing Lender in connection with any Finance Document; and 

 

	 	(b)	 will continue to make its own independent appraisal of the creditworthiness of the Borrower and its related entities whilst any amount is or may be
outstanding under the Finance Documents or any Commitment is in force. 

  

	 	24.4.3	 Nothing in any Finance Document obliges an Existing Lender to: 

 

	 	(a)	 accept a re-transfer from a New Lender of any of the rights and obligations assigned or assigned and transferred by assumption of contract
(Vertragsübernahme) under this Clause 24; or 

  

	 	(b)	 support any losses directly or indirectly incurred by the New Lender by reason of the nonperformance by the Borrower of its obligations under the
Finance Documents or otherwise. 

  

	24.5	 Procedure for assignment and transfer by assumption of contract (Vertragsübernahme) 

 

	 	24.5.1	 Subject to the conditions set out in Clause 24.2 (Conditions of assignment or assignment and transfer by assumption of contract
(Vertragsübernahme)) a assignment and transfer by assumption of contract (Vertragsübernahme) is effected in accordance with Clause 24.5.3 below when the Agent executes an otherwise duly completed Assignment and Assumption
Certificate delivered to it by the Existing Lender and the New Lender. The Agent shall, subject to Clause 24.5.2 below, as soon as reasonably practicable after receipt by it of a duly completed Assignment and Assumption Certificate appearing on its
face to comply with the terms of this Agreement and delivered in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, execute that Assignment and Assumption Certificate. 

 

	 	24.5.2	 Each Party (other than the Existing Lender and the New Lender) irrevocably authorises (bevollmächtigt) the Agent to execute and thereby
ratify on its behalf any duly completed Assignment and Assumption Certificate. 

  
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	 	24.5.3	 The Agent shall only be obliged to execute an Assignment and Assumption Certificate delivered to it by the Existing Lender and the New Lender once
it is satisfied it has complied with all necessary “know your customer” or other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations in relation to the assignment and transfer by assumption of contract (Vertragsübernahme)
to such New Lender. 

  

	 	24.5.4	 On the Transfer Date: 

  

	 	(a)	 to the extent that in the Assignment and Assumption Certificate the Existing Lender seeks to assign and transfer by assumption of contract
(Vertragsübernahme) its rights and obligations under the Finance Documents the Borrower and the Existing Lender shall be released from further obligations towards one another under the Finance Documents and their respective rights
against one another under the Finance Documents shall be cancelled (being the “Discharged Rights and Obligations”); 

  

	 	(b)	 the Borrower and the New Lender shall assume obligations towards one another and/or acquire rights against one another which differ from the
Discharged Rights and Obligations only insofar as the Borrower and the New Lender have assumed and/or acquired the same in place of the Borrower and the Existing Lender; 

 

	 	(c)	 the Agent, the Arranger, the New Lender and other Lenders shall acquire the same rights and assume the same obligations between themselves as they
would have acquired and assumed had the New Lender been an Original Lender with the rights and/or obligations acquired or assumed by it as a result of the assignment and transfer by assumption of contract (Vertragsübernahme) and to that
extent the Agent, the Arranger and the Existing Lender shall each be released from further obligations to each other under the Finance Documents; and 

  

	 	(d)	 the New Lender shall become a Party as a “Lender”. 

 

	 	24.5.5	 For the purposes of this Clause 24.5 each Party which is incorporated or established under the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany hereby
releases the Agent from the restrictions of section 181 of the German Civil Code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch) and similar restrictions applicable to it pursuant to any other applicable law, in each case to the extent legally possible to
such Party. A Party which is barred by its constitutional documents or by-laws from granting such exemption shall notify the Agent accordingly. 

  

	24.6	 Copy of Assignment and Assumption Certificate to the Borrower 

The Agent shall, as soon as reasonably practicable after it has executed an Assignment and Assumption Certificate, send to the
Borrower a copy of that Assignment and Assumption Certificate. 

  
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	25.	 CONFIDENTIALITY 

Any Lender may disclose to (i) any of its Affiliates and (ii) any other person, provided that it first obtains a
customary non-disclosure agreement (a copy of which shall be provided to the Borrower) (and in each case to any of its or their officers, directors, employees, professional advisers, auditors, partners and representatives): 

 

	 	25.1.1	 to (or through) whom that Lender assigns or assigns and transfers by assumption of contract (Vertragsübernahme) (or may potentially
assign or assign and transfer by assumption of contract (Vertragsübernahme)) all or any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement; 

  

	 	25.1.2	 with (or through) whom that Lender enters into (or may potentially enter into) any sub-participation in relation to, or any other transaction under
which payments are to be made by reference to, this Agreement or the Borrower; 

  

	 	25.1.3	 appointed by any Finance Party or by a person to whom Clause 25.1.1 or 25.1.2 above applies to receive communications, notices, information or
documents delivered pursuant to the Finance Documents on its behalf (including, without limitation, any person appointed under Clause 27.13.3 (Relationship with the Lenders)); 

 

	 	25.1.4	 who invests in or otherwise finances (or may potentially invest in or otherwise finance), directly or indirectly, any transaction referred to in
Clause 25.1.1 or 25.1.2 above; 

  

	 	25.1.5	 to whom information is required or requested to be disclosed by any court of competent jurisdiction or any governmental, banking, taxation or other
regulatory authority or similar body, the rules of any relevant stock exchange or pursuant to any applicable law or regulation; 

  

	 	25.1.6	 to whom information is required to be disclosed in connection with, and for the purposes of, any litigation, arbitration, administrative or other
investigations, proceedings or disputes; 

  

	 	25.1.7	 who is a Party; or 

  

	 	25.1.8	 with the consent of the Borrower, any information about the Borrower and the Transaction Documents as that Lender shall consider appropriate.

  

	26.	 CHANGES TO THE BORROWER 

The Borrower may not assign any of its rights or assign and transfer by assumption of contract (Vertragsübernahme)
any of its rights or obligations under the Finance Documents. 

  
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 SECTION 9 

THE FINANCE PARTIES 
  

	27.	 ROLE OF THE AGENT, THE ARRANGER, ANY ISSUING BANK AND OTHERS 

 

	27.1	 Appointment of the Agent 

  

	 	27.1.1	 Each of the Arranger, the Lenders and any Issuing Bank appoints the Agent to act as its agent and attorney (Stellvertreter) under and in
connection with the Finance Documents. 

  

	 	27.1.2	 Each of the Arranger, the Lenders and any Issuing Bank authorises the Agent to perform the duties, obligations and responsibilities and to exercise
the rights, powers, authorities and discretions specifically given to the Agent under or in connection with the Finance Documents together with any other incidental rights, powers, authorities and discretions. 

 

	 	27.1.3	 Each of the Arranger, the Lenders and any Issuing Bank hereby relieves the Agent from the restrictions pursuant to section 181 German Civil Code
(Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch) and similar restrictions applicable to it pursuant to any other applicable law, in each case to the extent legally possible to such Finance Party. A Finance Party which is barred by its constitutional documents
or by-laws from granting such exemption shall notify the Agent accordingly. 

  

	27.2	 Duties of the Agent 

  

	 	27.2.1	 The Agent shall promptly forward to a Party the original or a copy of any document which is delivered to the Agent for that Party by any other
Party. 

  

	 	27.2.2	 Subject to Clause 27.2.3 below, the Agent shall promptly forward to a Party the original or a copy of any document which is delivered to the Agent
for that Party by any other Party. 

  

	 	27.2.3	 Without prejudice to Clause 24.6 (Copy of Assignment and Assumption Certificate to the Borrower), Clause 27.2.2 above shall not apply to any
Assignment and Assumption Certificate. 

  

	 	27.2.4	 Except where a Finance Document specifically provides otherwise, the Agent is not obliged to review or check the adequacy, accuracy or completeness
of any document it forwards to another Party. 

  

	 	27.2.5	 If the Agent receives notice from a Party referring to this Agreement, describing a Default and stating that the circumstance described is a
Default, it shall promptly notify the other Finance Parties. 

  

	 	27.2.6	 If the Agent is aware of the non payment of any principal, interest, commitment fee or other fee payable to a Finance Party (other than the Agent,
the Arranger or the Security Agent) under this Agreement it shall promptly notify the other Finance Parties. 

  
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	 	27.2.7	 The Agent’s duties under the Finance Documents are solely mechanical and administrative in nature. 

 

	 	27.2.8	 The Agent shall have only those duties, obligations and responsibilities expressly specified in the Finance Documents to which it is expressed to
be a party (and no others shall be implied). 

  

	27.3	 Role of the Arranger 

Except as specifically provided in the Finance Documents, the Arranger has no obligations of any kind to any other Party under
or in connection with any Finance Document. 
  

	27.4	 No fiduciary duties 

  

	 	27.4.1	 Nothing in any Finance Document constitutes the Agent, the Arranger and/or any Issuing Bank as a trustee (Treuhänder) of any other
person. Neither the Agent nor the Arranger has any financial or commercial duty of care (Vermögensfürsorgepflicht) for any person. 

  

	 	27.4.2	 None of the Agent, the Arranger or any Issuing Bank shall be bound to account to any Lender for any sum or the profit element of any sum received
by it for its own account. 

  

	27.5	 Rights and discretions 

  

	 	27.5.1	 The Agent and any Issuing Bank may rely on: 

  

	 	(a)	 any representation, communication, notice or document believed by it to be genuine, correct and appropriately authorised; 

 

	 	(b)	 any statement made by a director, authorised signatory or employee of any person regarding any matters which may reasonably be assumed to be within
his knowledge or within his power to verify; and 

  

	 	(c)	 a certificate from any person: 

  

	 	(i)	 as to any matter of fact or circumstance which might reasonably be expected to be within the knowledge of that person; or 

 

	 	(ii)	 to the effect that such person approves of any particular dealing, transaction, step, action or thing. 

as sufficient evidence that that is the case and, in the case of paragraph (i) above, may assume the truth and accuracy of
that certificate. 

  
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	 	27.5.2	 The Agent may assume that: 

  

	 	(i)	 any instructions received by it from the Majority Lenders, any Lenders or any group of Lenders are duly given in accordance with the terms of the
Finance Documents; and 

  

	 	(ii)	 unless it has received notice of revocation, that those instructions have not been revoked. 

 

	 	27.5.3	 The Agent may assume (unless it has received notice to the contrary in its capacity as agent for the Lenders) that: 

 

	 	(a)	 no Default has occurred (unless it has actual knowledge of a Default arising under Clause 23.1 (Non payment)); 

 

	 	(b)	 any right, power, authority or discretion vested in any Party or the Majority Lenders has not been exercised; and 

 

	 	(c)	 any notice or request made by SP Holding (other than a Utilisation Request) is made on behalf of and with the consent and knowledge of the
Borrower. 

  

	 	27.5.4	 The Agent may engage, pay for the advice or services of any lawyers, accountants, tax advisers, surveyors or other professional advisers or
experts. 

  

	 	27.5.5	 Without prejudice to the generality of Clause 27.5.3 above or Clause 27.5.5 below, the Agent may at any time engage and pay for the services of any
lawyers to act as independent counsel to the Agent (and so separate from any lawyers instructed by the Lenders) if the Agent in its reasonable opinion deems this to be necessary. 

 

	 	27.5.6	 The Agent may rely on the advice or services of any lawyers, accountants, tax advisers, surveyors or other professional advisers or experts
(whether obtained by the Agent or by any other Party) and shall not be liable for any damages, costs or losses to any person, any diminution in value or any liability whatsoever arising as a result of its so relying. 

 

	 	27.5.7	 The Agent may act in relation to the Finance Documents through its officers, employees and agents. 

 

	 	27.5.8	 Unless a Finance Document expressly provides otherwise the Agent may disclose to any other Party any information it reasonably believes it has
received as agent under this Agreement. 

  

	 	27.5.9	 Notwithstanding any other provision of any Finance Document to the contrary, none of the Agent, the Arranger or any Issuing Bank is obliged to do
or omit to do anything if it would or might in its reasonable opinion constitute a breach of any law or regulation or a breach of a fiduciary duty or duty of confidentiality. 

 

	 	27.5.10	 Notwithstanding any provision of any Finance Document to the contrary, the Agent is not obliged to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur
any financial liability in the performance of its duties, obligations or responsibilities or the exercise of any right, power, authority or discretion if it has grounds for believing the repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against, or
security for, such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it. 

  
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	27.6	 Majority Lenders’ instructions 

  

	 	27.6.1	 Unless a contrary indication appears in a Finance Document, the Agent shall (i) exercise any right, power, authority or discretion vested in
it as Agent in accordance with any instructions given to it by the Majority Lenders (or, if so instructed by the Majority Lenders, refrain from exercising any right, power, authority or discretion vested in it as Agent) and (ii) not be liable
for any act (or omission) if it acts (or refrains from acting) in accordance with an instruction of the Majority Lenders. 

  

	 	27.6.2	 The Agent shall be entitled to request instructions, or clarification of any instruction, from the Majority Lenders (or, if the relevant Finance
Document stipulates the matter is a decision for any other Lender or group of Lenders, from that Lender or group of Lenders) as to whether, and in what manner, it should exercise or refrain from exercising any right, power, authority or discretion.
The Agent may refrain from acting unless and until it receives any such instructions or clarification that it has requested. 

  

	 	27.6.3	 Save in the case of decisions stipulated to be a matter for any other Lender or the Majority Lender under the relevant Finance Document and unless
a contrary indication appears in a Finance Document, any instructions given to the Agent by the Majority Lenders shall override any conflicting instructions given by any other Parties and will be binding on all the Finance Parties other than the
Security Agent. 

  

	 	27.6.4	 The Agent may refrain from acting in accordance with any instructions of the Majority Lenders (or, if appropriate, the Lenders) until it has
received any indemnification and/or security that it may in its discretion require (which may be greater in extent than that contained in the Finance Documents and which may include payment in advance) for any cost, loss or liability which it may
incur in complying with those instructions. 

  

	 	27.6.5	 In the absence of instructions from the Majority Lenders, (or, if appropriate, the Lenders) the Agent may act (or refrain from acting) as it
considers to be in the best interest of the Lenders. 

  

	 	27.6.6	 The Agent is not authorised to act on behalf of a Lender (without first obtaining that Lender’s consent) in any legal or arbitration
proceedings relating to any Finance Document. This Clause 27.6.6 shall not apply to any legal or arbitration proceeding relating to the perfection, preservation or protection of rights under the Security Documents or enforcement of Transaction
Security or the Security Documents. 

  
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	27.7	 Responsibility for documentation 

None of the Agent, the Arranger or any Issuing Bank is responsible for: 

 

	 	27.7.1	 the adequacy, accuracy and/or completeness of any information (whether oral or written) supplied by the Agent, the Arranger, any Issuing Bank, the
Borrower or any other person in or in connection with any Transaction Document or information memorandum or the transactions contemplated in the Transaction Documents or any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in
anticipation of, under or in connection with any Transaction Document; 

  

	 	27.7.2	 the legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy or enforceability of any Transaction Document, any Transaction Security or any other agreement,
arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with any Transaction Document; or 

  

	 	27.7.3	 any determination as to whether any information provided or to be provided to any Finance Party is non-public information the use of which may be
regulated or prohibited by applicable law or regulation relating to insider dealing or otherwise. 

  

	27.8	 No duty to monitor 

The Agent shall not be bound to enquire: 
  

	 	27.8.1	 whether or not any Default has occurred; 

  

	 	27.8.2	 as to the performance, default or any breach by any Party of its obligations under any Finance Document; or 

 

	 	27.8.3	 whether any other event specified in any Finance Document has occurred. 

 

	27.9	 Exclusion of liability 

  

	 	27.9.1	 Without limiting Clause 27.9.2 below (and without prejudice to any other provision of any Transaction Document excluding or limiting the liability
of the Agent), none of the Agent, the Arranger or any Issuing Bank will be liable for: 

  

	 	(a)	 any damages, costs or losses to any person, any diminution in value, or any liability whatsoever arising as a result of taking or not taking any
action under or in connection with any Transaction Document, unless directly caused by its gross negligence or wilful misconduct; 

  

	 	(b)	 exercising, or not exercising, any right, power, authority or discretion given to it by, or in connection with, any Transaction Document or any
other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with, any Transaction Document, other than by reason of its gross negligence or wilful misconduct; or 

  
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	 	(c)	 without prejudice to the generality of paragraphs (a) and (b) above, any damages, costs or losses to any person, any diminution in value
or any liability whatsoever (but not including any claim based on the fraud of the Agent) arising as a result of: 

  

	 	(i)	 any act, event or circumstance not reasonably within its control; or 

 

	 	(ii)	 the general risks of investment in, or the holding of assets in, any jurisdiction, 

including (in each case and without limitation) such damages, costs, losses, diminution in value or liability arising as a
result of: nationalisation, expropriation or other governmental actions; any regulation, currency restriction, devaluation or fluctuation; market conditions affecting the execution or settlement of transactions or the value of assets; breakdown,
failure or malfunction of any third party transport, telecommunications, computer services or systems; natural disasters or acts of God; war, terrorism, insurrection or revolution; or strikes or industrial action. 

 

	 	27.9.2	 No Party (other than the Agent, the Arranger or any Issuing Bank (as applicable)) may take any proceedings against any officer, employee or agent
of the Agent, the Arranger or any Issuing Bank, in respect of any claim it might have against the Agent, the Arranger or any Issuing Bank or in respect of any act or omission of any kind by that officer, employee or agent in relation to any
Transaction Document and any officer, employee or agent of the Agent, the Arranger or any Issuing Bank may rely on this Clause pursuant to section 328 para. 1 German Civil Code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch) (echter berechtigender Vertrag
zugunsten Dritter). 

  

	 	27.9.3	 The Agent will not be liable for any delay (or any related consequences) in crediting an account with an amount required under the Finance
Documents to be paid by the Agent if the Agent has taken all necessary steps as soon as reasonably practicable to comply with the regulations or operating procedures of any recognised clearing or settlement system used by the Agent for that purpose.

  

	 	27.9.4	 Nothing in this Agreement shall oblige the Agent or the Arranger to carry out: 

 

	 	(a)	 any “know your customer” or other checks in relation to any person; or 

 

	 	(b)	 any check on the extent to which any transaction contemplated by this Agreement might be unlawful for any Lender, 

on behalf of any Lender and each Lender confirms to the Agent and the Arranger that it is solely responsible for any such
checks it is required to carry out and that it may not rely on any statement in relation to such checks made by the Agent or the Arranger. 

  
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	 	27.9.5	 Without prejudice to any provision of any Finance Document excluding or limiting the Agent’s liability, any liability of the Agent arising
under or in connection with any Finance Document shall be limited to the amount of actual loss which has been suffered (as determined by reference to the date of default of the Agent or, if later, the date on which the loss arises as a result of
such default) but without reference to any special conditions or circumstances known to the Agent at any time which increase the amount of that loss. In no event shall the Agent be liable for any loss of profits, goodwill, reputation, business
opportunity or anticipated saving, or for special, punitive, indirect or consequential damages, whether or not the Agent has been advised of the possibility of such loss or damages. 

 

	27.10	 Lenders’ indemnity to the Agent 

Each Lender shall (in proportion to its share of the Total Commitments or, if the Total Commitments are then zero, to its share
of the Total Commitments immediately prior to their reduction to zero) indemnify the Agent, within five (5) Business Days of demand, against any cost, loss or liability incurred by the Agent (otherwise than by reason of the Agent’s gross
negligence or wilful misconduct) in acting as Agent under the Finance Documents (unless the Agent has been reimbursed by the Borrower pursuant to a Finance Document). 
  

	27.11	 Resignation of the Agent 

  

	 	27.11.1	 The Agent may resign and appoint one of its Affiliates as successor by giving notice to the Lenders and the Borrower. 

 

	 	27.11.2	 Alternatively the Agent may resign by giving thirty (30) days’ notice to the Lenders and the Borrower, in which case the Majority Lenders
(after consultation with the Borrower) may appoint a successor Agent. 

  

	 	27.11.3	 If the Majority Lenders have not appointed a successor Agent in accordance with Clause 27.11.2 above within twenty (20) days after notice of
resignation was given, the retiring Agent (after consultation with the Borrower) may appoint a successor Agent. 

  

	 	27.11.4	 If the Agent wishes to resign because (acting reasonably) it has concluded that it is no longer appropriate for it to remain as agent and the Agent
is entitled to appoint a successor Agent under Clause 27.11.3 above, the Agent may (if it concludes (acting reasonably) that it is necessary to do so in order to persuade the proposed successor Agent to become a party to this Agreement as Agent)
agree with the proposed successor Agent amendments to this Clause 27.11.4 and any other term of this Agreement dealing with the rights or obligations of the Agent consistent with then current market practice for the appointment and protection of
corporate trustees together with any reasonable amendments to the agency fee payable under this Agreement which are consistent with the successor Agent’s normal fee rates and those amendments will bind the Parties. 

 

	 	27.11.5	 The retiring Agent shall, at its own cost, make available to the successor Agent such documents and records and provide such assistance as the
successor Agent may reasonably request for the purposes of performing its functions as Agent under the Finance Documents. The Borrower shall, within five Business Days of demand, reimburse the retiring Agent for the amount of all costs and expenses
(including legal fees) properly incurred by it in making available such documents and records and providing such assistance. 

  
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	 	27.11.6	 The Agent’s resignation notice shall only take effect upon the appointment of a successor. 

 

	 	27.11.7	 Upon the appointment of a successor, the retiring Agent shall be discharged from any further obligation in respect of the Finance Documents (other
than its obligations under 27.11.5 above) but shall remain entitled to the benefit of Clause 16.2 (Indemnity to the Agent) and this Clause 27.11 (and any agency fees for the account of the retiring Agent shall cease to accrue from (and shall
be payable on) that date). Any successor and each of the other Parties shall have the same rights and obligations amongst themselves as they would have had if such successor had been an original Party. 

 

	 	27.11.8	 After consultation with the Borrower, the Majority Lenders may, by notice to the Agent, require it to resign in accordance with Clause 27.11.2
above. In this event, the Agent shall resign in accordance with Clause 27.11.2 above. 

  

	 	27.11.9	 The Agent shall resign in accordance with Clause 27.11.2 above (and, to the extent applicable, shall use reasonable endeavours to appoint a
successor Agent pursuant to Clause 27.11.3 above) if on or after the date which is three (3) months before the earliest FATCA Application Date relating to any payment to the Agent under the Finance Documents, either: 

 

	 	(a)	 the Agent fails to respond to a request under Clause 14.7 (FATCA Information) and a Lender reasonably believes that the Agent will not be
(or will have ceased to be) a FATCA Exempt Party on or after that FATCA Application Date; 

  

	 	(b)	 the information supplied by the Agent pursuant to Clause 14.7 (FATCA Information) indicates that the Agent will not be (or will have ceased
to be) a FATCA Exempt Party on or after that FATCA Application Date; or 

  

	 	(c)	 the Agent notifies the Lenders that the Agent will not be (or will have ceased to be) a FATCA Exempt Party on or after that FATCA Application Date;

 and (in each case) a Lender reasonably believes that a Party will be required to make a FATCA Deduction
that would not be required if the Agent were a FATCA Exempt Party, and that Lender, by notice to the Agent, requires it to resign. 
  

	27.12	 Confidentiality 

  

	 	27.12.1	 In acting as agent for the Finance Parties, the Agent shall be regarded as acting through its agency division which shall be treated as a separate
entity from any other of its divisions or departments. 

  
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	 	27.12.2	 If information is received by another division or department of the Agent, it may be treated as confidential to that division or department and the
Agent shall not be deemed to have notice of it. 

  

	 	27.12.3	 Notwithstanding any other provision of any Finance Document to the contrary, none of the Agent and the Arranger are obliged to disclose to any
other person (i) any confidential information or (ii) any other information if the disclosure would or might in its reasonable opinion constitute a breach of any law or a breach of a fiduciary duty. 

 

	27.13	 Relationship with the Lenders 

  

	 	27.13.1	 The Agent may treat the person shown in its records as Lender at the opening of business (in the place of the Agent’s principal office as
notified to the Finance Parties from time to time) as the Lender acting through its Facility Office: 

  

	 	(a)	 entitled to or liable for any payment due under any Finance Document on that day; and 

 

	 	(b)	 entitled to receive and act upon any notice, request, document or communication or make any decision or determination under any Finance Document
made or delivered on that day, 

 unless it has received not less than five (5) Business Days’
prior notice from that Lender to the contrary in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. 
  

	 	27.13.2	 Each Lender shall supply the Security Agent with any information that the Security Agent may reasonably specify (through the Agent) as being
necessary or desirable to enable the Security Agent to perform its functions as Security Agent. Each Lender shall deal with the Security Agent exclusively through the Agent and shall not deal directly with the Security Agent. 

 

	 	27.13.3	 Any Lender may by notice to the Agent appoint a person to receive on its behalf all notices, communications, information and documents to be made
or despatched to that Lender under the Finance Documents. Such notice shall contain the address, fax number and (where communication by electronic mail or other electronic means is permitted under Clause 32.5 (Electronic communication))
electronic mail address and/or any other information required to enable the sending and receipt of information by that means (and, in each case, the department or officer, if any, for whose attention communication is to be made) and be treated as a
notification of a substitute address, fax number, electronic mail address, department and officer by that Lender for the purposes of Clause 32.2 (Addresses) and paragraph (a)(ii) of Clause 32.5 (Electronic communication) and
the Agent shall be entitled to treat such person as the person entitled to receive all such notices, communications, information and documents as though that person were that Lender. 

  
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	27.14	 Credit appraisal by the Lenders and an Issuing Bank 

Without affecting the responsibility of the Borrower for information supplied by it or on its behalf in connection with any
Transaction Document, each Lender and any Issuing Bank confirms to the Agent, the Arranger or the respective Issuing Bank that it has been, and will continue to be, solely responsible for making its own independent appraisal and investigation of all
risks arising under or in connection with any Transaction Document including but not limited to: 
  

	 	27.14.1	 the financial condition, status and nature of the Borrower; 

 

	 	27.14.2	 the legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy or enforceability of any Transaction Document, any Transaction Security and any other agreement,
arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with any Transaction Document; 

  

	 	27.14.3	 whether that Finance Party has recourse, and the nature and extent of that recourse, against any Party or any of its respective assets under or in
connection with any Transaction Document or the transactions contemplated by any Transaction Document, any Transaction Security or any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection
with any Transaction Document; and 

  

	 	27.14.4	 the adequacy, accuracy and/or completeness of any information memorandum, and any other information provided by the Agent any Party or by any other
person under or in connection with any Transaction Document, the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents or any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with
any Transaction Document. 

  

	27.15	 Reference Banks 

If a Reference Bank (or, if a Reference Bank is not a Lender, the Lender of which it is an Affiliate) ceases to be a Lender,
the Agent shall (in consultation with the Borrower) appoint another Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender to replace that Reference Bank. 
  

	27.16	 Agent’s management time 

Any amount payable to the Agent under Clause 16.2.1 (Indemnity to the Agent) (provided that it is evidenced that
a Event of Default pursuant to Clause 23.1 (Non-payment) has occured) and Clause 18.3 (Costs and expenses) and Clause 27.10 (Lenders’ indemnity to the Agent) shall include the cost of utilising the Agent’s management
time or other resources and will be calculated on the basis of such reasonable daily or hourly rates as the Agent may notify to the Borrower and the Lenders, and is in addition to any fee paid or payable to the Agent under Clause 13 (Fees).

  

	27.17	 Deduction from amounts payable by the Agent 

If any Party owes an amount to the Agent under the Finance Documents the Agent may, after giving notice to that Party, deduct
an amount not exceeding that amount from any payment to that Party which the Agent would otherwise be obliged to make under the Finance Documents and apply the amount deducted in or towards satisfaction of the amount owed. For the purposes of the
Finance Documents that Party shall be regarded as having received any amount so deducted. 

  
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	27.18	 Security Agent as creditor - parallel debt 

  

	 	27.18.1	 Each of the Parties agrees, and the Borrower acknowledges by way of an abstract acknowledgement of debt (abstraktes Schuldanerkenntnis) (the
“Acknowledgement”), that each and every obligation of the Borrower (and any of its successors pursuant to this Agreement) under this Agreement and the other Finance Documents shall also be owing in full to the Security Agent (and
each of the latter’s successors under this Agreement), and that accordingly the Security Agent will have its own independent right to demand performance by the Borrower of those obligations. The Security Agent undertakes towards the Borrower
that in case of any discharge of any such obligation owing to one of the Security Agent or a Finance Party, it will, to the same extent, not make a claim against the Borrower under the Acknowledgement at any time, provided that any such
claims can be made against the Borrower if such discharge is made by virtue of any set off, counterclaim or similar defence invoked by the Borrower vis-à-vis the Security Agent. 

 

	 	27.18.2	 Without limiting or affecting the Security Agent’s rights against the Borrower (whether under this Clause 27.18 or under any other provision
of the Finance Documents), the Security Agent agrees with each other Finance Party (on a several and divided basis) that, subject as set out in the next sentence, it will not exercise its rights under the Acknowledgement with a Finance Party except
with the consent of the relevant Finance Party. However, for the avoidance of doubt, nothing in the previous sentence shall in any way limit the Security Agent’s right to act in the protection or preservation of rights under or to enforce any
Security Document as contemplated by this Agreement, the relevant Security Document or any other Finance Document (or to do any act reasonably incidental to the foregoing). 

 

	28.	 CONDUCT OF BUSINESS BY THE FINANCE PARTIES 

No provision of this Agreement will: 
  

	28.1	 interfere with the right of any Finance Party to arrange its affairs (tax or otherwise) in whatever manner it thinks fit; 

 

	28.2	 oblige any Finance Party to investigate or claim any credit, relief, remission or repayment available to it or the extent, order and manner of any
claim; or 

  

	28.3	 oblige any Finance Party to disclose any information relating to its affairs (tax or otherwise) or any computations in respect of Tax.

  
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	29.	 SHARING AMONG THE FINANCE PARTIES 

  

	29.1	 Payments to Finance Parties 

If a Finance Party (a “Recovering Finance Party”) receives or recovers any amount from the Borrower other than
in accordance with Clause 30 (Payment mechanics) and applies that amount to a payment due under the Finance Documents then: 
  

	 	29.1.1	 the Recovering Finance Party shall, within five (5) Business Days, notify details of the receipt or recovery to the Agent;

  

	 	29.1.2	 the Agent shall determine whether the receipt or recovery is in excess of the amount the Recovering Finance Party would have been paid had the
receipt or recovery been received or made by the Agent and distributed in accordance with Clause 30 (Payment mechanics), without taking account of any Tax which would be imposed on the Agent in relation to the receipt, recovery or
distribution; and 

  

	 	29.1.3	 the Recovering Finance Party shall, within five (5) Business Days of demand by the Agent, pay to the Agent an amount (the
“Redistribution”) equal to such receipt or recovery less any amount which the Agent determines may be retained by the Recovering Finance Party as its share of any payment to be made, in accordance with Clause 30.5 (Partial
payments). 

  

	29.2	 Redistribution of payments 

The Agent shall treat the Redistribution as if it were a payment by the Borrower concerned under Clause 30 (Payment
mechanics) and shall pay the Redistribution to the Finance Parties (other than the Recovering Finance Party) in accordance with Clause 30.5 (Partial payments). 
  

	29.3	 Recovering Finance Party’s rights 

After payment of the full Redistribution, the Recovering Finance Party will be subrogated to the portion of the claims paid
under Clause 29.2 (Redistribution of payments) by each Finance Party (other than the Recovering Finance Party) assigning (abtreten) to the Recovering Finance Party that part of its own corresponding claim hereunder which is
allocable to its portion of the Redistribution, and subsequently to such assignments being effected the Borrower will owe the Recovering Finance Party a debt which is equal to the Redistribution, immediately payable and of the type originally
discharged. 
  

	29.4	 Reversal of redistribution 

If under Clause 29.2 (Redistribution of payments): 

 

	 	29.4.1	 a Recovering Finance Party must subsequently return a Recovery, or an amount measured by reference to a Recovery, to the Borrower; and

  

	 	29.4.2	 the Recovering Finance Party has paid a Redistribution in relation to that Recovery, 

  
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 each Finance Party shall, within three (3) Business Days of demand by the
Recovering Finance Party through the Agent, reimburse the Recovering Finance Party all or the appropriate portion of the Redistribution paid to that Finance Party. Thereupon the subrogation in Clause 29.2 (Redistribution of payments) will
operate in reverse to the extent of the reimbursement (including the reversals of the assignments contemplated therein). 
  

	29.5	 Exceptions 

  

	 	29.5.1	 This Clause 29 shall not apply to the extent that the Recovering Finance Party would not, after making any payment pursuant to this clause, have a
valid and enforceable claim against the Borrower. 

  

	 	29.5.2	 A Recovering Finance Party is not obliged to share with any other Finance Party any amount which the Recovering Finance Party has received or
recovered as a result of taking legal or arbitration proceedings, if: 

  

	 	(a)	 it notified that other Finance Party of the legal or arbitration proceedings; and 

 

	 	(b)	 that other Finance Party had an opportunity to participate in those legal or arbitration proceedings but did not do so as soon as reasonably
practicable having received notice and did not take separate legal or arbitration proceedings. 

  
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 SECTION 10 

ADMINISTRATION 
  

	30.	 PAYMENT MECHANICS 

  

	30.1	 Payments to the Agent 

  

	 	30.1.1	 On each date on which the Borrower or a Lender is required to make a payment under a Finance Document, the Borrower or that Lender shall make the
same available to the Agent (unless a contrary indication appears in a Finance Document) for value on the due date at the time and in such funds specified by the Agent as being customary at the time for settlement of transactions in the relevant
currency in the place of payment. 

  

	 	30.1.2	 Payment shall be made to such account in the principal financial centre of the country of that currency (or, in relation to euro, in a principal
financial centre in a Participating Member State or London) with such bank as the Agent specifies. 

  

	30.2	 Distributions by the Agent 

Each payment received by the Agent under the Finance Documents for another Party shall, subject to Clause 30.3
(Distributions to the Borrower) and Clause 30.4 (Clawback) be made available by the Agent as soon as practicable after receipt to the Party entitled to receive payment in accordance with this Agreement (in the case of a Lender, for the
account of its Facility Office), to such account as that Party may notify to the Agent by not less than five (5) Business Days’ notice with a bank in the principal financial centre of the country of that currency (or, in relation to euro,
in the principal financial centre of a Participating Member State or London, as specified by that Party). 
  

	30.3	 Distributions to the Borrower 

The Agent may (with the consent of the Borrower or in accordance with Clause 31 (Set-off)) apply any amount received by
it for the Borrower in or towards payment (on the date and in the currency and funds of receipt) of any amount due from the Borrower under the Finance Documents or in or towards purchase of any amount of any currency to be so applied. 

 

	30.4	 Clawback and pre-funding 

  

	 	30.4.1	 Where a sum is to be paid to the Agent under the Finance Documents for another Party, the Agent is not obliged to pay that sum to that other Party
(or to enter into or perform any related exchange contract) until it has been able to establish to its satisfaction that it has actually received that sum. 

  

	 	30.4.2	 Unless 30.4.3 applies, if the Agent pays an amount to another Party and it proves to be the case that the Agent had not actually received that
amount, then the Party to whom that amount (or the proceeds of any related exchange contract) was paid by the Agent shall on demand refund the same to the Agent together with interest on that amount from the date of payment to the date of receipt by
the Agent, calculated by the Agent to reflect its cost of funds. 

  
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	 	30.4.3	 If the Agent is willing to make available amounts for the account of a Borrower before receiving funds from the Lenders then if and to the extent
that the Agent does so but it proves to be the case that it does not then receive funds from a Lender in respect of a sum which it paid to a Borrower: 

  

	 	(a)	 the Borrower to whom that sum was made available shall on demand refund it to the Agent; and 

 

	 	(b)	 the Lender by whom those funds should have been made available or, if that Lender fails to do so, the Borrower to whom that sum was made available,
shall on demand pay to the Agent the amount (as certified by the Agent) which will indemnify the Agent against any funding cost incurred by it as a result of paying out that sum before receiving those funds from that Lender. 

 

	30.5	 Partial payments 

  

	 	30.5.1	 If the Agent receives a payment that is insufficient to discharge all the amounts then due and payable by the Borrower under the Finance Documents,
the Agent shall apply that payment towards the obligations of the Borrower under the Finance Documents in the following order: 

  

	 	(a)	 first, in or towards payment pro rata of any unpaid amount owing to the Agent under the Finance Documents; 

 

	 	(b)	 secondly, in or towards payment pro rata of any accrued interest, fee or commission due but unpaid under this Agreement;

  

	 	(c)	 thirdly, in or towards payment pro rata of any principal due but unpaid under this Agreement; and 

 

	 	(d)	 fourthly, in or towards payment pro rata of any other sum due but unpaid under the Finance Documents. 

 

	 	30.5.2	 The Agent shall, if so directed by the Majority Lenders, vary the order set out in Clause 30.5.1(b) above to Clause 30.5.1(d) above.

  

	 	30.5.3	 Clause 30.5.1 above and Clause 30.5.2 above will override any appropriation made by the Borrower. 

 

	30.6	 No set-off by Borrower 

All payments to be made by the Borrower under the Finance Documents shall be calculated and be made without (and free and clear
of any deduction for) set-off or counterclaim unless the counterclaim is undisputed or has been confirmed in a final non-appealable judgement. 
  

	30.7	 Business Days 

  

	 	30.7.1	 Any payment which is due to be made on a day that is not a Business Day shall be made on the next Business Day in the same calendar month (if there
is one) or the preceding Business Day (if there is not). 

  
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	 	30.7.2	 During any extension of the due date for payment of any principal or Unpaid Sum under this Agreement interest is payable on the principal or Unpaid
Sum at the rate payable on the original due date. 

  

	30.8	 Currency of account 

  

	 	30.8.1	 Subject to Clause 30.8.2 below and to Clause 30.8.5 below, euro is the currency of account and payment for any sum due from the Borrower under any
Finance Document. 

  

	 	30.8.2	 A repayment of a Utilisation or Unpaid Sum or a part of a Utilisation or Unpaid Sum shall be made in the currency in which that Utilisation or
Unpaid Sum is denominated on its due date. 

  

	 	30.8.3	 Each payment of interest shall be made in the currency in which the sum in respect of which the interest is payable was denominated when that
interest accrued. 

  

	 	30.8.4	 Each payment in respect of costs, expenses or Taxes shall be made in the currency in which the costs, expenses or Taxes are incurred.

  

	 	30.8.5	 Any amount expressed to be payable in a currency other than euro shall be paid in that other currency. 

 

	31.	 SET-OFF 

A Finance Party may set off any matured obligation due from the Borrower under the Finance Documents against any satisfiable
(erfüllbar) obligation (within the meaning of section 387 German Civil Code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch)) owed by that Finance Party to the Borrower, regardless of the place of payment, booking branch or currency of either
obligation. If the obligations are in different currencies, the Finance Party may convert either obligation at a market rate of exchange in its usual course of business for the purpose of the set-off. 

 

	32.	 NOTICES 

  

	32.1	 Communications in writing 

Any communication to be made under or in connection with the Finance Documents shall be made in writing and, unless otherwise
stated, may be made by fax, letter or unencrypted email. 
  

	32.2	 Addresses 

The address and fax number (and the department or officer, if any, for whose attention the communication is to be made) of each
Party for any communication or document to be made or delivered under or in connection with the Finance Documents is: 
  

	 	32.2.1	 in the case of the Borrower, that identified with its name below; 

 

	 	32.2.2	 in the case of each Lender, that notified in writing to the Agent on or prior to the date on which it becomes a Party; and 

  
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	 	32.2.3	 in the case of the Agent, that identified with its name below, 

or any substitute address or fax number or department or officer as the Party may notify to the Agent (or the Agent may notify
to the other Parties, if a change is made by the Agent) by not less than five (5) Business Days’ notice. 
  

	32.3	 Delivery 

  

	 	32.3.1	 Unless otherwise specifically provided, any communication or document made or delivered by one person to another under or in connection with the
Finance Documents will only be effective: 

  

	 	(a)	 if by way of fax, when received in legible form; or 

  

	 	(b)	 if by way of letter, when it has been left at the relevant address or five (5) Business Days after being deposited in the post postage prepaid
in an envelope addressed to it at that address; 

 and, if a particular department or officer is specified
as part of its address details provided under Clause 32.2 (Addresses), if addressed to that department or officer. 
  

	 	32.3.2	 Any communication or document to be made or delivered to the Agent will be effective only when actually received by the Agent and then only if it
is expressly marked for the attention of the department or officer identified with the Agent’s signature below (or any substitute department or officer as the Agent shall specify for this purpose). 

 

	 	32.3.3	 All notices from or to the Borrower shall be sent through the Agent. 

 

	32.4	 Notification of address and fax number 

Promptly upon receipt of notification of an address or fax number or change of address or fax number pursuant to
Clause 32.2 (Addresses) or changing its own address or fax number, the Agent shall notify the other Parties. 
  

	32.5	 Electronic communication 

  

	 	32.5.1	 Unless otherwise specifically provided, any communication to be made between any two Parties under or in connection with the Finance Documents may
be made by electronic mail or other electronic means to the extent that those two Parties agree that, unless and until notified to the contrary, this is to be an accepted form of communication and if those two Parties: 

 

	 	(a)	 agree that, unless and until notified to the contrary, this is to be an accepted form of communication; 

 

	 	(b)	 notify each other in writing of their electronic mail address and/or any other information required to enable the sending and receipt of
information by that means; and 

  
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	 	(c)	 notify each other of any change to their address or any other such information supplied by them. 

 

	 	32.5.2	 Any electronic communication made between those two Parties will be effective only when actually received in readable form and in the case of any
electronic communication made by a Party to the Agent only if it is addressed in such a manner as the Agent shall specify for this purpose. 

  

	32.6	 English language 

  

	 	32.6.1	 Any notice given under or in connection with any Finance Document must be in English. 

 

	 	32.6.2	 All other documents provided under or in connection with any Finance Document must be: 

 

	 	(a)	 in English; or 

  

	 	(b)	 if not in English, accompanied by a certified English translation and, in this case, the English translation will prevail in all events unless the
document is a constitutional, statutory or other official document. 

  

	33.	 CALCULATIONS AND CERTIFICATES 

  

	33.1	 Accounts 

In any litigation or arbitration proceedings arising out of or in connection with a Finance Document, the entries made in the
accounts maintained by a Finance Party are prima facie evidence (Beweis des ersten Anscheins) of the matters to which they relate. 
  

	33.2	 Certificates and Determinations 

  

	 	33.2.1	 Any certification or determination by a Finance Party of a rate or amount under any Finance Document is, in the absence of manifest error,
conclusive evidence of the matters to which it relates. 

  

	 	33.2.2	 The Finance Parties make the certifications or determinations of a rate or amount under any Finance Document in the exercise of their unilateral
right to specify performance (einseitiges Leistungsbestimmungsrecht) which they will exercise with reasonable discretion (billiges Ermessen). 

  

	 	33.2.3	 The Parties agree not to dispute in any legal proceeding the correctness of the determinations and certifications of a rate or amount made by a
Finance Party under any Finance Document unless the determinations or certifications are inaccurate on their face or gross negligence or fraud can be shown. 

  

	33.3	 Day count convention 

Any interest, commission or fee accruing under a Finance Document will accrue from day to day and is calculated on the basis of
the actual number of days elapsed and a year of 360 days or, in any case where the practice in the Relevant Interbank Market differs, in accordance with that market practice. 

  
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	34.	 PARTIAL INVALIDITY 

The Parties agree that should at any time, any provisions of this Agreement be or become void (nichtig), invalid or due
to any reason ineffective (unwirksam) this will indisputably (unwiderlegbar) not affect the validity or effectiveness of the remaining provisions and this Agreement will remain valid and effective, save for the void, invalid or
ineffective provisions, without any Party having to argue (darlegen) and prove (beweisen) the Parties intent to uphold this Agreement even without the void, invalid or ineffective provisions. 

The void, invalid or ineffective provision shall be deemed replaced by such valid and effective provision that in legal and
economic terms comes closest to what the Parties intended or would have intended in accordance with the purpose of this Agreement if they had considered the point at the time of conclusion of this Agreement. 

 

	35.	 REMEDIES AND WAIVERS 

No failure to exercise, nor any delay in exercising, on the part of any Finance Party, any right or remedy under a Finance
Document shall operate as a waiver of any such right or remedy or constitute an election to affirm any of the Finance Documents. No election to affirm any Finance Document on the part of any Finance Party shall be effective unless it is in writing.
No single or partial exercise of any right or remedy shall prevent any further or other exercise or the exercise of any other right or remedy. The rights and remedies provided in each Finance Document are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights
or remedies provided by law. 
  

	36.	 AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS 

  

	36.1	 Written form 

Changes to and amendments of this Agreement including this Clause 36.1 must be made in writing. 

 

	36.2	 Required consents 

  

	 	36.2.1	 Subject to Clause 36.3 (Exceptions), any term of the Finance Documents may be amended or waived only with the consent of the Majority
Lenders and the Borrower and any such amendment or waiver will be binding on all Parties. 

  

	 	36.2.2	 The Agent may effect, on behalf of any Finance Party, any amendment or waiver permitted by this Clause 36. 

 

	36.3	 Exceptions 

  

	 	36.3.1	 An amendment or waiver that has the effect of changing or which relates to: 

 

	 	(a)	 the definition of “Majority Lenders” in Clause 1.1 (Definitions); 

  
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	 	(b)	 an extension to the date of payment of any amount under the Finance Documents; 

 

	 	(c)	 a reduction in the Margin or a reduction in the amount of any payment of principal, interest, fees or commission payable; 

 

	 	(d)	 an increase in or an extension of any Commitment, an extension of any Availability Period or any requirement that a cancellation of Commitments
reduces the Commitments of the Lenders rateably under the relevant Facility; 

  

	 	(e)	 the release of any Security; 

  

	 	(f)	 any provision which expressly requires the consent of all the Lenders; or 

 

	 	(g)	 Clause 2.2 (Finance Parties’ rights and obligations), Clause 24 (Changes to the Lenders) or this Clause 36;

 shall not be made without the prior consent of all the Lenders. 

 

	 	36.3.2	 An amendment or waiver which relates to the rights or obligations of the Agent, the Arranger or any Issuing Bank may not be effected without the
consent of the Agent, the Arranger or the respective Issuing Bank. 

  

	 	36.3.3	 Notwithstanding Clause 36.3.1 above and Clause 36.3.2 above, the Agent may make technical amendments to the Finance Documents arising out of
manifest errors on the face of the Finance Documents, where such amendments would not prejudice or otherwise be adverse to the interests of any Finance Party without any reference or consent of the Finance Parties. 

 

	 	36.3.4	 For the purposes of this Clause 36.3 each Party, which is incorporated or established under the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, hereby
releases the Agent from the restrictions of section 181 of the German Civil Code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch) and similar restrictions applicable to it pursuant to any other applicable law, in each case to the extent legally possible to
such Party. A Party which is barred by its constitutional documents or by-laws from granting such exemption shall notify the Agent accordingly. 

  

	37.	 CONCLUSION OF THIS AGREEMENT (VERTRAGSSCHLUSS) 

 

	37.1	 The Parties to this Agreement may choose to conclude this Agreement by an exchange of signed signature page(s), transmitted by any means of
telecommunication (telekommunikative Übermittlung) such as by way of fax or electronic photocopy. 

  

	37.2	 If the Parties to this Agreement choose to conclude this Agreement pursuant to Clause 37.1 above, they will transmit the signed signature page(s)
of this Agreement to Clifford Chance Deutschland LLP, Mainzer Landstrasse 46, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany attention to Julia Krystofiak or Tobias Spahn (each a “Recipient”). The Agreement will be considered concluded once
(i) one Recipient has actually received the signed signature page(s) (Zugang der Unterschriftsseite(n)) from all Parties to this Agreement (whether by way of fax, electronic photocopy or other means of telecommunication) (ii) the
respective Party has confirmed by email to the Recipients that its signature page shall be released to the other Parties and (iii) at the time of the receipt of the last outstanding signature page(s) and the respective release confirmation by
such one Recipient. 

  
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	37.3	 For the purposes of this Clause 37 only, the Parties to this Agreement appoint each Recipient as their attorney (Empfangsvertreter) and
expressly allow (gestatten) each Recipient to collect the signed signature page(s) from all and for all Parties to this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, each Recipient will have no further duties connected with its position as
Recipient. In particular, each Recipient may assume the conformity to the authentic original(s) of the signature page(s) transmitted to it by means of telecommunication, the genuineness of all signatures on the original signature page(s) and the
signing authority of the signatories. 

  

	38.	 STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS (VERJÄHRUNG) 

Any claim for payment arising under this Agreement shall become time barred (verjährt) five (5) years after
its coming into existence. 

  
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 SECTION 11 

GOVERNING LAW AND ENFORCEMENT 
  

	39.	 GOVERNING LAW 

This Agreement and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with it are governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany. 
  

	40.	 JURISDICTION 

  

	40.1	 The courts of Munich, Federal Republic of Germany, have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute arising out of, or in connection with, any
Finance Document (including a dispute regarding the existence, validity or termination of any Finance Document or any non-contractual obligation arising out of or in connection with any Finance Document) (a “Dispute”).

  

	40.2	 The Parties agree that the courts of Munich, Federal Republic of Germany, are the most appropriate and convenient courts to settle Disputes and
accordingly no Party will dispute to the contrary. 

  

	40.3	 This Clause 40.3 is for the benefit of the Finance Parties only. As a result, no Finance Party shall be prevented from taking proceedings relating
to a Dispute in any other courts with jurisdiction. To the extent allowed by law, the Finance Parties may take concurrent proceedings in any number of jurisdictions. 

THIS AGREEMENT has been entered into on the date stated at the beginning of this Agreement. 

  
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 SCHEDULE 2 

CONDITIONS PRECEDENT 
  

	1.	 Borrower 

  

	1.1	 A copy of the constitutional documents of the Borrower in the form required by the Agent, including an up-to-date officially certified or
electronic commercial register extract (beglaubigter oder elektronischer Handelsregisterauszug) and the articles of association (Satzung). 

  

	1.2	 A copy of a resolution of the shareholders of the Borrower: 

 

	 	1.2.1	 approving the terms of, and the transactions contemplated by, the Finance Documents to which it is a party and resolving that it execute the
Finance Documents to which it is a party; 

  

	 	1.2.2	 authorising a specified person or persons to execute the Finance Documents to which it is a party on its behalf; and 

 

	 	1.2.3	 authorising a specified person or persons, on its behalf, to sign and/or despatch all documents and notices (including, if relevant, any
Utilisation Request) to be signed and/or despatched by it under or in connection with the Finance Documents to which it is a party. 

  

	2.	 Finance Documents 

  

	2.1	 Each of the following documents duly executed by all the parties thereto: 

 

	 	2.1.1	 this Agreement; 

  

	 	2.1.2	 each Fee Letter; 

  

	 	2.1.3	 each Security Document; 

  

	 	2.1.4	 the Security Pooling Agreement; 

  

	 	2.1.5	 the Shareholders’ Undertaking Agreement; and 

  

	 	2.1.6	 any other document agreed to be a “Finance Document” by both the Agent and the Borrower. 

 

	3.	 Transaction Documents 

Each of the Shareholder Loan Agreements duly executed by all the parties thereto certified to be a true copy by a director of
the Borrower. The maturity date of each Shareholder Loan Agreement is not earlier than the Termination Date. 
  

	4.	 Accounts 

Delivery of the annual audited accounts in respect of the Borrower, SP Holding and the Ultimate Parent for the period ending
31 December 2013. 

  
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	5.	 Refinancing 

  

	5.1	 The maturity date of the notes issued in connection with Note Issue is not earlier than the Termination Date. 

 

	5.2	 Delivery of a copy of each Refinancing Document. 

  

	6.	 Legal opinions 

Legal opinions addressed to the Original Lenders: 
  

	6.1	 from Sangra Moller LLP in respect of the Ultimate Parent: 

 

	 	6.1.1	 its due incorporation, its valid existence, its ability to assume rights and liabilities and be sued in its own name and the power to own its
assets and carry on its business as it is being conducted; 

  

	 	6.1.2	 the due capacity of (including the power to enter into, perform and take all necessary action to authorise its entry into and performance of, the
Shareholder Loan Agreement to which it is a party and the Shareholders’ Undertaking Agreement and the transactions contemplated by those Transaction Documents) and the due execution by the Ultimate Parent in relation to each of the Shareholder
Loan Agreement to which it is a party and the Shareholders’ Undertaking Agreement; 

  

	 	6.1.3	 the choice of the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany to govern the Shareholder Loan Agreement to which it is a party and the
Shareholders’ Undertaking Agreement being upheld by the relevant state and federal courts; and 

  

	 	6.1.4	 recognition and acceptance of final and conclusive judgment against it from any court in the Federal Republic of Germany by the relevant state and
federal courts without re-trial or examination of the merits of the case; 

  

	6.2	 from the Borrowers’ legal adviser in respect of the Borrower: 

 

	 	6.2.1	 its due incorporation, its valid existence, its ability to assume rights and liabilities and be sued in its own name and the power to own its
assets and carry on its business as it is being conducted; and 

  

	 	6.2.2	 the due capacity of (including the power to enter into, perform and take all necessary action to authorise its entry into and performance of the
Transaction Documents to which it is a party and the transactions contemplated by those Transaction Documents; 

  

	6.3	 from Clifford Chance Deutschland LLP in respect of the legality, validity and binding effect of the Finance Documents. 

 

	7.	 Other documents and evidence 

  

	7.1	 A copy of any other Authorisation or other document, opinion or assurance which the Agent reasonably considers to be necessary or desirable (if it
has notified the Borrower accordingly) in connection with the entry into and performance of the transactions contemplated by any Finance Document or for the validity and enforceability of any Finance Document. 

  
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	7.2	 Evidence that the fees, costs and expenses then due from the Borrower pursuant to Clause 13 (Fees) and Clause 18 (Costs and expenses)
have been paid or will be paid by the first Utilisation Date. 

  

	7.3	 A solvency certificate given by the directors of the Borrower. 

 

	7.4	 A certificate from the Borrower, signed by two of its directors: 

 

	 	7.4.1	 evidencing that there has been no material adverse change in the financial condition of the Borrower since 30 June 2014;

  

	 	7.4.2	 confirming compliance with all representations and warranties to be given by the Borrower; and 

 

	 	7.4.3	 confirming that no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing. 

 

	7.5	 Provision by the Borrower of all information necessary to comply with any money laundering regulations. 

  
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 SCHEDULE 3 

UTILISATION REQUEST 
  

	From:	 [Borrower] 

  

	To:	 [Agent] 

  

	Dated:	 

 Dear Sirs 

Zellstoff Stendal GmbH – EUR 75,000,000 Revolving Credit Facility Agreement dated
[—] (the “Agreement”) 
  

	1.	 We refer to the Agreement. This is a Utilisation Request. Terms defined in the Agreement have the same meaning in this Utilisation Request unless
given a different meaning in this Utilisation Request. 

  

	2.	 We wish to [borrow a Loan]/[request the issue of a Bank Guarantee] on the following terms: 

 

			
	Proposed Utilisation Date:	  	[—] (or, if that is not a Business Day, the next Business Day)
		
	Amount:	  	[—] or, if less, the Available Facility
		
	Interest Period:	  	[—]

  

	3.	 We confirm that each condition specified in Clause 4.2 (Further conditions precedent) is satisfied on the date of this Utilisation Request.

  

	4.	 The proceeds of this Loan should be credited to [account]. 

 

	5.	 This Utilisation Request is irrevocable. 

Yours faithfully 
  

					
	  
	 		 	  

	 authorised signatory for
	 		 	 authorised signatory for

	 [name of Borrower]
	 		 	 [name of Borrower]

  
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 SCHEDULE 4 

FORM OF ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION CERTIFICATE 
  

	To:	 UniCredit Bank AG as Agent 

  

	From:	 [The Existing Lender] (the “Existing Lender”) and [The New Lender] (the “New Lender”)

  

	Dated:	 

 Zellstoff
Stendal GmbH – EUR 75,000,000 Revolving Credit Facility Agreement dated [—] (the “Agreement”) 

 

	1.	 We refer to the Agreement. This is an Assignment and Assumption Certificate. Terms defined in the Agreement have the same meaning in this
Assignment and Assumption Certificate unless given a different meaning in this Assignment and Assumption Certificate. 

  

	2.	 We refer to Clause 24.5 (Procedure for assignment and transfer by assumption of contract (Vertragsübernahme)): 

 

	 	(a)	 the Existing Lender assigns to the New Lender all the rights of the Existing Lender under the Finance Documents (including the Security Pooling
Agreement and the Shareholders Undertaking Agreement) which correspond to that portion of the Existing Lender’s Commitments under the Agreement specified in the Schedule; 

 

	 	(b)	 the New Lender assumes all the obligations of the Existing Lender which correspond to the rights assigned under paragraph (a) above;

  

	 	(c)	 the Existing Lender is released from those obligations; and 

 

	 	(d)	 on the Transfer Date, the New Lender shall become a Party as a Lender. 

 

	3.	 The Facility Office and address, fax number and attention details for notices of the New Lender for the purposes of Clause 32.2 (Addresses)
are set out in the Schedule. 

  

	4.	 The proposed Transfer Date is [—]. 

 

	5.	 The New Lender expressly acknowledges the limitations on the Existing Lender’s obligations set out in Clause 24.4.3 (Limitation of
responsibility of Existing Lenders). 

  

	6.	 The New Lender confirms (i) that it becomes a party to the Security Pooling Agreement and the Shareholders Undertaking Agreement by virtue of
the assignment and assumption hereunder and (ii) that it is bound by, and entitled to all benefits arising from, the provisions of such agreements as if it had been an original party to such agreements. 

  
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	7.	 This Assignment and Assumption Certificate may be executed in any number of counterparts and this has the same effect as if the signatures on the
counterparts were on a single copy of this Assignment and Assumption Certificate. 

  

	8.	 This Assignment and Assumption Certificate is governed by German law. 

  
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 THE SCHEDULE 

Commitment/rights and obligations to be transferred 

[insert relevant details] 

[Facility Office address, fax number and attention details for notices and account details for payments,] 

 

									
	 [Existing Lender]
	 		 	 [New Lender]

					
	 By:
	 	  
	 		 	By:	 	  

 This Assignment and Assumption Certificate is accepted by the Agent and the Transfer Date is confirmed as [—]. 
 [Agent] 

 

			
	By:	 	 

  
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 SCHEDULE 5 

FORM OF COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE 
  

	To:	 UniCredit Bank AG as Agent 

  

	From:	 [The Borrower] 

 Dated: 

Dear Sirs 
 Zellstoff Stendal GmbH – EUR
75,000,000 Revolving Credit Facility Agreement dated [—] (the “Agreement”) 
  

	1.	 We refer to the Agreement. This is a Compliance Certificate. Terms defined in the Agreement have the same meaning when used in this Compliance
Certificate unless given a different meaning in this Compliance Certificate. 

  

	2.	 We confirm that each financial covenant referred to in Clause 21 (Financial covenants) is as set out in the table below:

  

					
	 Financial covenant
	  	Actual ratio	 
	 Leverage ratio
	  	 	[—]	  
	 Interest Cover Ratio
	  	 	[—]	  
	 Current Ratio
	  	 	[—]	  

  

	3.	 We confirm that each condition specified in Clause 4.2 (Further conditions precedent) is satisfied on the date of this Compliance
Certificate. 

  

	4.	 [We confirm that no Default is continuing.]* 

 

							
	 Signed:
	 	  
	 		    	  

		 	 Director of [Borrower]
	 		    	 Director of [Borrower]

 in its capacity as Borrower 

 

	*	 If this statement cannot be made, the certificate should identify any Default that is continuing and the steps, if any, being taken to remedy it.

  
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 SCHEDULE 8 

TIMETABLES 
  

					
	 	  	First Utilisation in
EUR	  	Any subsequent
Utilisations in EUR
	 Delivery of a duly completed Utilisation Request (Clause 5.1 (Delivery of a Utilisation Request for Loans)
	  	U – 2
 12 a.m.
	  	U – 5
 9.30 a.m.

			
	 Delivery of a duly completed Utilisation Request (Clause 6.2 (Delivery of a Utilisation Request for Bank Guarantees)
	  	N.A.	  	U – 5
 9.30 a.m.

			
	 Agent determines (in relation to a Utilisation) the amount of the Loan, if required under Clause 5.5 (Lenders’
participation) and notifies the Lenders of the Loan in accordance with Clause 5.5 (Lender’s participation)
	  	U -2
 [—]
	  	U – 3
 Noon

			
	 Agent notifies any Issuing Bank and each Lender of the details of the requested Bank Guarantee and its participation in that Bank
Guarantee in accordance with Clause 6.5.3 (Issue of Bank Guarantees)
	  	N.A.	  	U – 3
 Noon

			
	 Delivery of a duly completed Renewal Request (Clause 6.6.1 (Renewal of a Bank Guarantee)
	  	N.A.	  	U – 3
 9.30 a.m.

			
	 EURIBOR is fixed
	  	Q as of [—]	  	Q as of 11:00 a.m.

 U = date of Utilisation 

Q = Quotation Date 
 U - X = X Business
Days prior to the Utilisation Date 

  
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 SCHEDULE 10 

FORM OF INTEREST PAYMENT NOTICE 
  

			
	 To:
	 	 UniCredit Bank AG as Agent

		
	 From:
	 	 [The Borrower]

		
	Dated:	 	

 Dear Sirs 
 Zellstoff Stendal
GmbH – EUR 75,000,000 Revolving Credit Facility Agreement dated [—] (the “Agreement”) 

1. We refer to the Agreement. This is a Payment Notice. Terms defined in the Agreement have the same meaning when used in this Payment Notice
unless given a different meaning in this Payment Notice. 
 2. We hereby inform you that we intend to make a transfer of funds to the
Shareholder Distribution Account in the amount of EUR [—]. 
 3. The amount of
interest due under Shareholder Loan Agreements for the current fiscal year ending [—] is EUR [—]. 

4. We have made the following previous transfers to the Shareholder Distribution Account during the current fiscal year [—]. Together with the transfer to be made, the total amount transferred to the Shareholder Distribution Account during this fiscal year will be [—].

 5. We hereby confirm that each financial covenant referred to in Clause 21 (Financial covenants) is as set out in the table below
as of the latest Calculation Date: 
  

					
	 Financial covenant
	  	Actual ratio	 
	 Leverage ratio
	  	 	[—]	  
	 Interest Cover Ratio
	  	 	[—]	  
	 Current Ratio
	  	 	[—]	  

 6. We confirm that the Minimum Liquidity is currently EUR
[—]. 
 7. We confirm that no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.* 

 

							
	 Signed:
	 	  
	 		 	  

		 	 Director of [Borrower]
	 		 	 Director of [Borrower]

 in its capacity as Borrower 

  
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 SIGNATURES 
  

									
	THE BORROWER  
 ZELLSTOFF STENDAL GMBH
	  		  		  	
	 By:
	  	 /s/ André Listemann
	  		  		  	 /s/ Adolf Koppensteiner

		  	 André Listemann
	  		  		  	 Adolf Koppensteiner

					
	 Address:
	  	 Goldbecker Strasse 1
 39596 Arneburg
	  		  		  	
					
	 Fax:
	  	+49-(0)39321-55129	  		  		  	
					
	 Attention:
	  	André Listemann / Adolf Koppensteiner	  		  		  	
					
	 Email:
	  	andre.listemann@zellstoff-stendal.de adolf.koppensteiner@zellstoff-stendal.de	  		  		  	
				
	THE ARRANGER	  		  		  	
				
	UNICREDIT BANK AG	  		  		  	
					
	 By:
	  	 /s/ Marc Thümecke
	  		  		  	 /s/ Hansjörg Gonser

		  	 Marc Thümecke
	  		  		  	 Hansjörg Gonser

					
	 Address:
	  	UniCredit Bank AG	  		  		  	
		  	Arabellastrasse 14	  		  		  	
		  	81925 Munich	  		  		  	
		  	Federal Republic of Germany	  		  		  	
					
	Fax:	  	+49 89 378 – 33 200 46	  		  		  	
					
	Department:	  	MFN1AB	  		  		  	
					
	Attention:	  	Ms. Ricarda Grünter /Mr. Felix Metz	  		  		  	
					
	Email:	  	ricarda.gruenter@unicredit.de / felix.metz@unicredit.de	  		  		  	

  
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	 THE AGENT
  

UNICREDIT BANK AG
  
	  		  		  	
	 By:
	  	 /s/ Philipp Sager
	  		  		  	 /s/ Manuela Schöttner

		  	Philipp Sager	  		  		  	Manuela Schöttner
					
	 Address:
	  	 UniCredit Bank AG
 Arabellastrasse 14

81925 Munich
 Federal Republic of Germany
	  		  		  	
					
	 Fax:
	  	+49 89 378 – 41517	  		  		  	
					
	 Department:
	  	MFL 3LA	  		  		  	
					
	 Attention:
	  	Mrs. Manuela Schöttner / Mr. Philipp Sager	  		  		  	
					
	 Email:
	  	manuela.schoettner@unicredit.de / philipp.sager@unicredit.de	  		  		  	
				
	 THE SECURITY AGENT
	  		  		  	
				
	 UNICREDIT BANK AG
	  		  		  	
					
	 By:
	  	 /s/ Philipp Sager
	  		  		  	 /s/ Manuela Schöttner

		  	Philipp Sager	  		  		  	Manuela Schöttner
					
	 Address:
	  	UniCredit Bank AG	  		  		  	
		  	Arabellastrasse 14	  		  		  	
		  	81925 Munich	  		  		  	
		  	Federal Republic of Germany	  		  		  	
					
	 Fax:
	  	+49 89 378 – 41517	  		  		  	
					
	 Department:
	  	MFL 3LA	  		  		  	
					
	 Attention:
	  	Mrs. Manuela Schöttner / Mr. Philipp Sager	  		  		  	
					
	 Email:
	  	manuela.schoettner@unicredit.de / philipp.sager@unicredit.de	  		  		  	

  
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	THE LENDERS  
 UNICREDIT BANK AG

 
	  		  		  	
	 By:
	  	 /s/ Marc Thümecke
	  		  		  	 /s/ Hansjörg Gonser

		  	 Marc Thümecke
	  		  		  	Hansjörg Gonser
					
	 Address:
	  	 UniCredit Bank AG
	  		  		  	
		  	 Arabellastrasse 14
	  		  		  	
		  	 81925 Munich
	  		  		  	
		  	 Federal Republic of Germany
	  		  		  	
					
	 Fax:
	  	 +49 89 378 – 33 200 46
	  		  		  	
					
	 Department:
	  	 MFN1AB
	  		  		  	
					
	 Attention:
	  	 Ms. Ricarda Grünter / Mr. Felix Metz
	  		  		  	
		
	 Email:
	  	 ricarda.gruenter@unicredit.de / felix.metz@unicredit.de

				
	 CREDIT SUISSE AG, LONDON BRANCH
	  		  		  	
					
	 By:
	  	 /s/ Garett Lynskey
	  		  		  	 /s/ Brian Fitzgerald

		  	 Garett Lynskey
	  		  		  	Brian Fitzgerald
					
	 Address:
	  	 One Cabot Square

London E14 4QJ
 United
Kingdom
	  		  		  	
					
	 Attention::
	  	Operational matters – Ms. Claire Perkins	  		  		  	
					
	 Email:
	  	list.csfbi-loans-grp@credit-suisse.com	  		  		  	
		
	 Attention:
	  	Credit matters – Mr. Clemens Kramer / Ms. Manuela Sommer
		
	 Email:
	  	clemens.kramer@credit-suisse.com / manuela.u.sommer@credit-suisse.com

  
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 ROYAL BANK OF CANADA 
  

					
	 By:
	  	 /s/ Eduardo Pinto
	  	
		  	 Eduardo Pinto
	  	
			
	 Address:
	  	 Riverbank House
 2 Swan Lane

London, EC4R 3BF
 United Kingdom
	  	
			
	 Fax:
	  	+44 20 7653 4000	  	
			
	 Department:
	  	Global Corporate Banking	  	
			
	 Attention:
	  	Antonios Themistokleous	  	
			
	 Email:
	  	antonios.themistokleous@rbccm.com	  	
		
	 BARCLAYS
	  	
			
	 By:
	  	 /s/ Christina Park
	  	
		  	Christina Park	  	
			
	 Address:
	  	 Barclays Bank PLC
 5 The North Colonnade

Canary Wharf
 London E14 4BB

United Kingdom
	  	
			
	 Fax:
	  	+44 20 7773 1843	  	
			
	 Attention:
	  	Gary Brine / Odilon Du Bouetiez	  	
		
	 Email:
	  	gary.brine@barclays.com / odilon.dubouetiez@barclays.com

  
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