Document:

Exhibit 10.21.2

 

JOINDER AGREEMENT

 

This JOINDER AGREEMENT, dated as of December 8, 2011 (this “Agreement”), by and among Wells Fargo Bank, National Association (the “New Lender” or the “New Term Loan Lender”), The Macerich Partnership, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“Borrower”), the Guarantors party hereto, and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as administrative agent for the Lenders (the “Administrative Agent”) and as collateral agent for the Secured Parties (the “Collateral Agent”).

 

RECITALS

 

A.                                   Reference is made to that certain $1,500,000,000 Revolving Loan Facility Credit Agreement dated as of May 2, 2011 (as Modified by the First Amendment (as defined below), the “Original Credit Agreement”) by and among the Borrower, The Macerich Company, a Maryland corporation, and the other Guarantors from time to time party thereto, as Guarantors (collectively, the “Guarantors”), the Lenders from time to time party thereto (the “Lenders”), Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent.  Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Amended Credit Agreement (as defined below).

 

B.                                     Subject to the terms and conditions of the Original Credit Agreement, Borrower may obtain New Term Loan Commitments by entering into one or more Joinder Agreements with Administrative Agent and New Term Loan Lenders.

 

C.                                     Borrower is entering into this Agreement in order to exercise its rights under the Original Credit Agreement to obtain $125,000,000 of New Term Loan Commitments (the “Series A Term Loan Commitments”) from the New Term Loan Lender party hereto (the “Initial Incremental Facility”).

 

D.                                    In connection with the Initial Incremental Facility, the Borrower Parties, Lenders constituting the Required Lenders (as defined in the Original Credit Agreement) and Administrative Agent have entered into that certain First Amendment to Credit Agreement dated as of the date hereof (the “First Amendment”).

 

E.                                      Pursuant to Section 3.4(5) of the Original Credit Agreement, the Administrative Agent may, without the consent of any other Lenders, effect such amendments to the Original Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in the good faith judgment of Administrative Agent, to effect the provisions of Article 3 of the Original Credit Agreement in connection with this Agreement (such amendments, hereinafter referred to as the “Incremental Implementation Amendments”).

 

F.                                      Pursuant to Section 11.2(1)(i) of the Original Credit Agreement, the Administrative Agent may, with the consent of the Borrower, Modify the Original Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document to cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency, so long as such amendment, modification or supplement does not adversely affect the rights of any Lender, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender (such amendments, hereinafter referred to as the “Additional Amendments”).

 

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G.                                     Attached hereto as Exhibit 1 is a conformed copy of the Original Credit Agreement as Modified by the Incremental Implementation Amendments and the Additional Amendments (as so Modified, and as reflected in Exhibit 1 hereto together with all annexes and exhibits thereto, the “Amended Credit Agreement”).  The Amended Credit Agreement is incorporated herein by this reference as if set forth in full herein, and is a part of this Agreement.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and agreements, provisions and covenants herein contained, the parties hereto agree as follows:

 

AGREEMENT

 

A.                                   Pursuant to Section 3.4(5) of the Original Credit Agreement, the Administrative Agent, in its good faith judgment (without the consent of any other Lenders), hereby effects the Incremental Implementation Amendments as reflected in the Amended Credit Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit 1 in connection with the effectiveness of this Agreement.  Pursuant to Section 11.2(1)(i) of the Original Credit Agreement, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower hereby effect the Additional Amendments as reflected in the Amended Credit Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit 1.  Any provision of the Original Credit Agreement that is different from that set forth in the Amended Credit Agreement from and after the effectiveness of this Agreement shall be superseded in all respects by the provisions of the Amended Credit Agreement.

 

B.                                     Wells Fargo Securities, LLC shall be the sole arranger and syndication agent with respect to the Initial Incremental Facility.

 

C.                                     The New Lender party hereto hereby commits to provide its New Term Loan Commitment as set forth on Schedule A annexed hereto, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth below and in the Amended Credit Agreement:

 

1.                                       The New Lender (i) confirms that it has received a copy of the Original Credit Agreement, including the First Amendment, the Amended Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents, together with copies of the financial statements referred to therein and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement; (ii) agrees that it will, independently and without reliance upon Administrative Agent or any other Agent or any Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under the Amended Credit Agreement; (iii) appoints and authorizes Administrative Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under the Amended Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents as are delegated to Administrative Agent by the terms thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto; (iv) appoints and authorizes Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under the Amended Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents as are delegated to Collateral Agent by the terms thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (v) agrees that it will perform in 

 

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accordance with their terms all of the obligations which by the terms of the Amended Credit Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender.

 

2.                                       The New Lender hereby agrees to provide its Series A Term Loan Commitment, and Borrower agrees to borrow the New Term Loan funded by such New Lender under its Series A Term Loan Commitment (such New Term Loan being referred to as a “Series A Term Loan”), on the following terms and conditions:

 

a.                                       Amended Credit Agreement.  The terms and conditions applicable to the Term Loans in general and the Series A Term Loans in particular set forth in the Amended Credit Agreement shall apply to the Series A Term Loans.

 

b.                                      Purpose of Proposed Borrowing.  Borrower shall use the proceeds of the Series A Term Loans for general corporate purposes, including the financing of working capital needs.

 

c.                                       Proposed Borrowing.  This Agreement represents Borrower’s request to borrow the Series A Term Loans from the New Lender as follows (the “Proposed Borrowing”):

 

	
(i)
    	
Business   Day of Proposed Borrowing:  December 8, 2011
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
(ii)
    	
Amount   of Proposed Borrowing:  $125,000,000
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
(iii)
    	
Interest   rate option:
    	
o
    	
a.    Base Rate Loan(s)
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
x
    	
b.    LIBO Rate Loans with an initial   Interest Period of 1 month
    

 

d.                                      Weighted Average Yield.  The Weighted Average Yield of the Series A Term Loans is 2.59%.

 

3.                                       New Lender.  The New Lender acknowledges and agrees that, upon its execution of this Agreement, such New Lender shall become a “Term Lender” , a “Series A Term Lender” and a “Lender” under, and for all purposes of, the Amended Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and shall be subject to and bound by the terms thereof, and shall perform all the obligations of and shall have all rights of a Lender thereunder.

 

4.                                       Amended Credit Agreement Governs.  Except as set forth in this Agreement, the Series A Term Loans shall otherwise be governed by and subject to the provisions of the Amended Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents.

 

5.                                       Borrower’s Certifications.  By its execution of this Agreement, the undersigned officer (in such capacity and not individually) and Borrower each hereby certify that:

 

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a.                                       The representations and warranties of the Borrower set forth in the Amended Credit Agreement and in the other Loan Documents are true and correct in all material respects (after taking into account non-material updates to disclosure schedules or exceptions provided to Administrative Agent in connection with such representations and warranties which have been approved by the Administrative Agent in its good faith judgment in accordance with Section 5.2(1) of the Amended Credit Agreement or in connection with this Agreement or the First Amendment) on and as of the date hereof (or, if such representation and warranty is expressly stated to have been made as of a specific date, as of such specific date);

 

b.                                      As of the date hereof, no Potential Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing; and

 

c.                                       As of the date hereof, the Borrower Parties are in pro forma compliance with the covenants and financial ratios set forth in Section 8.12 of the Amended Credit Agreement as of the last day of the most recently ended Fiscal Quarter after giving effect to the Series A Term Loan Commitments (assuming the Series A Term Loans have been fully funded).

 

6.                                       Conditions Precedent.  The commitment of the New Lender shall become effective upon the satisfaction of each of the following conditions precedent:

 

a.                                       the Administrative Agent shall have received (i) a counterpart signature page of this Agreement duly executed by each of the Borrower Parties, (ii) a counterpart signature page of this Agreement duly executed by the Administrative Agent and (iii) a counterpart of this Agreement duly executed by the New Lender;

 

b.                                      to the extent requested by the New Lender prior to the date hereof, the Administrative Agent shall have received an original Note duly made by Borrower to the order of such New Lender in the stated principal amount of such New Lender’s Series A Term Loan Commitment;

 

c.                                       each of the conditions set forth in Section 3.3 of the Amended Credit Agreement shall have been satisfied with respect to the Initial Incremental Facility;

 

d.                                      the Administrative Agent shall have received a copy of the First Amendment that has been duly executed by the Borrower Parties, the Administrative Agent and lenders constituting the Required Lenders (as defined in the Original Credit Agreement), and the conditions set forth in Section II thereof shall have been satisfied;

 

e.                                       the Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate of the Secretary or Assistant Secretary of the limited liability company or general partner, managing member or other managing Person or Persons, as applicable, of those Borrower Parties which are partnerships or limited liability companies that

 

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do not have officers attaching copies of resolutions duly adopted by the Board of Directors of such general partner, managing member or other managing Person or Persons, as applicable, approving the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and, in the case of the Borrower, any Term Loan Notes on behalf of such Borrower Parties and certifying the names and true signatures of the officers of such limited liability company or, for partnerships or limited liability companies that do not have officers, such general partner, managing member or other managing Person or Persons, as applicable, authorized to sign this Agreement and, in the case of the Borrower, any Term Loan Notes;

 

f.                                         the Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate or certificates of the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of those Borrower Parties which are corporations attaching copies of resolutions duly adopted by the Board of Directors of such Borrower Parties approving the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and any Term Loan Notes to which such Borrower Parties are party and certifying the names and true signatures of the officers of each of such Borrower Parties authorized to sign this Agreement and, in the case of the Borrower, any Term Loan Notes on behalf of such Borrower Parties;

 

g.                                      the Administrative Agent shall have received either (i) copies of the Certificate of Incorporation, Certificate of Formation, or Certificate of Limited Partnership of each of the Borrower Parties, certified by the Secretary of State of the state of formation of such Person (other than in the case of Macerich Bristol Associates, a California general partnership, which shall not be required to have been so certified) or (ii) a certificate or certificates of the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of such Borrower Party (or if such Person is a limited partnership or limited liability company, an authorized representative of its general partner or manager) confirming that there have been no changes to the Certificate of Incorporation, Certificate of Formation, or Certificate of Limited Partnership, as applicable, of such Borrower Party from the one delivered to the Administrative Agent on the Closing Date;

 

h.                                      the Administrative Agent shall have received either (i) copies of the Organizational Documents of each of the Borrower Parties (unless delivered pursuant to clause g. above), certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of such Person (or if such Person is a limited partnership or limited liability company, an authorized representative of its general partner or manager) as being accurate and complete or (ii) a certificate or certificates of the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of such Borrower Party (or if such Person is a limited partnership or limited liability company, an authorized representative of its general partner or manager) confirming that there have been no changes to the Organizational Documents of such Borrower Party from the Organizational Documents delivered to the Administrative Agent on the Closing Date;

 

i.                                          the Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate of authority and good standing or analogous documentation as of a recent date for each of the 

 

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Borrower Parties for the state in which such Person is organized, formed or incorporated, as applicable;

 

j.                                          the New Lender shall have complied with the requirements set forth in Section 2.10(5) and Section 2.10(7) of the Amended Credit Agreement, to the extent applicable;

 

k.                                       the Borrower shall have made any payments required pursuant to Section 2.9 of the Amended Credit Agreement in connection with the New Term Loan Commitments;

 

l.                                          the Borrower shall have delivered or caused to have been delivered an opinion of counsel for the Borrower Parties as of the date of the Proposed Borrowing, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the New Lender;

 

m.                                    the Borrower shall have paid all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent in connection with this Agreement; and

 

n.                                      the Borrower shall have paid to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, the fees and other amounts owing under the fee letter dated as of September 13, 2011, from Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC to Borrower, and all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by Wells Fargo Bank, National Association and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC in connection with this Agreement.  All such payments are fully earned upon payment and nonrefundable under any circumstances.

 

7.                                       Reaffirmation.  In order to induce Administrative Agent and the New Lender to enter into this Agreement:

 

a.                                       each Borrower Party hereby acknowledges that it has reviewed the terms and provisions of the Amended Credit Agreement and this Agreement and consents to all the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement and to the modification and waiver of the Original Credit Agreement as provided herein. Each Borrower Party hereby confirms that each Loan Document to which it is a party or otherwise bound and all Collateral encumbered thereby will continue to guarantee or secure, as the case may be, to the fullest extent possible in accordance with the Loan Documents, the payment and performance of all “Obligations” under each of the Loan Documents to which is a party, including, without limitation, the Obligations under the Amended Credit Agreement in connection with the Series A Term Loan Commitments and Series A Term Loans;

 

b.                                      each Borrower Party acknowledges and agrees that any of the Loan Documents to which it is a party or otherwise bound shall continue in full force and effect and that all of its obligations thereunder shall be valid and enforceable and shall not be impaired or limited by the execution or effectiveness of this Agreement; and

 

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c.                                       each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that (x) notwithstanding the conditions to effectiveness set forth in this Agreement, such Guarantor is not required by the terms of the Amended Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document to consent to the modifications to or waivers of the Original Credit Agreement effected pursuant to this Agreement and (y) nothing in the Amended Credit Agreement, this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall be deemed to require the consent of such Guarantor to any future modifications or waivers with respect to the Amended Credit Agreement.

 

8.                                       Eligible Assignee.  By its execution of this Agreement, the New Lender represents and warrants that it is an Eligible Assignee.

 

9.                                       Notice.  For purposes of the Amended Credit Agreement, the initial notice address of the New Lender shall be as set forth below its signature below.

 

10.                                 Recordation of the New Loans.  Upon execution and delivery hereof, Administrative Agent will record the Series A New Term Loans made by the New Lender in the Register.

 

11.                                 Amendment, Modification and Waiver.  This Agreement may not be amended, modified or waived except by an instrument or instruments in writing signed and delivered on behalf of each of the parties hereto.

 

12.                                 Entire Agreement.  This Agreement and any Notes executed in connection herewith constitute Loan Documents.  This Agreement, the Amended Credit Agreement, the Notes and the other Loan Documents constitute the entire agreement among the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof and supersede all other prior agreements and understandings, both written and verbal, among the parties or any of them with respect to the subject matter hereof.

 

13.                                 Governing Law.  This Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York without giving effect to its choice of law rules.

 

14.                                 Severability.  Any term or provision of this Agreement which is invalid or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to that jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such invalidity or unenforceability without rendering invalid or unenforceable the remaining terms and provisions of this Agreement or affecting the validity or enforceability of any of the terms or provisions of this Agreement in any other jurisdiction.  If any provision of this Agreement is so broad as to be unenforceable, the provision shall be interpreted to be only so broad as would be enforceable.

 

15.                                 Counterparts.  This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all of which shall constitute one and the same agreement.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the undersigned has caused its duly authorized officer to execute and deliver this Joinder Agreement as of December       , 2011.

 

	
NEW   LENDER:
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
WELLS   FARGO BANK, NATIONAL 
    
	
 
    	
ASSOCIATION
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   Mark R. Loewen
    
	
 
    	
Name:   Mark R. Loewen
    
	
 
    	
Title:   Senior Vice President and Team Leader
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
Notice   Address:
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
Wells   Fargo Bank, N.A.
    
	
 
    	
1800   Century Park East,
    
	
 
    	
12th   Floor (MAC E2186-125)
    
	
 
    	
Los   Angeles, CA 90067
    
	
 
    	
Attention:   Mark L. Loewen
    
	
 
    	
Telephone:   310-789-3095
    
	
 
    	
Facsimile:   310-789-8999
    

 

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BORROWER:
    	
THE   MACERICH PARTNERSHIP, L.P., a 
    
	
 
    	
Delaware   limited partnership
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
The   Macerich Company,
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
a   Maryland corporation,
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Its   general partner
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   Richard A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Richard   A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior   Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Secretary
    

 

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GUARANTORS:
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
THE   MACERICH COMPANY,
    
	
 
    	
a   Maryland corporation
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   Richard A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Richard   A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior   Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Secretary
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
MACERICH   TWC II CORP.,
    
	
 
    	
a   Delaware corporation
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   Richard A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Richard   A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior   Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Secretary
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
MACERICH   TWC II LLC,
    
	
 
    	
a   Delaware limited liability company
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   Richard A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Richard   A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior   Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Secretary
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
MACERICH   WRLP CORP.,
    
	
 
    	
a   Delaware corporation
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   Richard A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Richard   A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior   Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Secretary
    

 

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MACERICH   WRLP LLC,
    
	
 
    	
a   Delaware limited liability company
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   Richard A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Richard   A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior   Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Secretary
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
MACERICH   WRLP II CORP.,
    
	
 
    	
a   Delaware corporation
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   Richard A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Richard   A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior   Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Secretary
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
MACERICH   WRLP II L.P.,
    
	
 
    	
a   Delaware limited partnership
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
Macerich   WRLP II Corp.,
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
a   Delaware corporation,
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
its   general partner
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   Richard A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Richard   A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior   Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Secretary
    
					

 

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WALLEYE   LLC,
    
	
 
    	
a   Delaware limited liability company
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   Richard A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Richard   A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior   Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Secretary
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
WALLEYE   RETAIL INVESTMENTS LLC,
    
	
 
    	
a   Delaware limited liability company
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
By:
    	
Walleye   LLC,
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
a   Delaware limited liability company,
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
its   member
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   Richard A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Richard   A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior   Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Secretary
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
By:
    	
Macerich   Walleye LLC,
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
a   Delaware limited liability company,
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
its   member
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   Richard A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Richard   A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior   Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Secretary
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
MACERICH   WALLEYE LLC,
    
	
 
    	
a   Delaware limited liability company
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   Richard A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Richard   A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior   Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Secretary
    
					

 

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MACERICH   SANTA MONICA ADJACENT LLC,
    
	
 
    	
a   Delaware limited liability company
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   Richard A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Richard   A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior   Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Secretary
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
NORTHRIDGE   FASHION CENTER LLC,
    
	
 
    	
a   California limited liability company
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   Richard A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Richard   A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior   Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Secretary
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
ROTTERDAM   SQUARE, LLC,
    
	
 
    	
a   Delaware limited liability company
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   Richard A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Richard   A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior   Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Secretary
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
DESERT   SKY MALL LLC,
    
	
 
    	
a   Delaware limited liability company
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   Richard A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Richard   A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior   Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Secretary
    

 

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MACERICH   PANORAMA SPE LLC,
    
	
 
    	
a   Delaware limited liability company
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   Richard A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Richard   A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior   Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Secretary
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
MACERICH   HOLDINGS LLC,
    
	
 
    	
a   Delaware limited liability company
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   Richard A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Richard   A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior   Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Secretary
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
MACERICH   CARMEL LIMITED PARTNERSHIP,
    
	
 
    	
a   California limited partnership
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
Macerich   Carmel GP Corp.,
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
a   Delaware corporation
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
its   general partner
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   Richard A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Richard   A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior   Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Secretary
    
						

 

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MACERICH   SCG LIMITED PARTNERSHIP,
    
	
 
    	
a   California limited partnership
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
Macerich   SCG GP LLC,
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
a   Delaware limited liability company
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
its   general partner
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   Richard A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Richard   A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior   Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Secretary
    

 

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MACERICH   SANTA MONICA LLC,
    
	
 
    	
a   Delaware limited liability company
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
Macerich   Santa Monica Place Corp.,
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
a   Delaware corporation
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
its   manager
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   Richard A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Richard   A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior   Executive Vice President, Secretary and Chief Legal Officer
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
MACERICH   BRISTOL ASSOCIATES
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
The   Macerich Company,
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
a   Maryland corporation
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
its   general partner
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   Richard A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Richard   A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior   Executive Vice President, Secretary and Chief Legal Officer
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
The   Macerich Partnership, L.P.,
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
a   Delaware limited partnership
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
its   general partner
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
By:
    	
The   Macerich Company,
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
a   Maryland Corporation
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
its   general partner
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   Richard A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Richard   A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior   Executive Vice President, Secretary and Chief Legal Officer
    
						

 

[Signature Page to Joinder Agreement - Macerich]

 

 

	
AGENT:
    	
DEUTSCHE   BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   James Rolison
    
	
 
    	
Name:
    	
James   Rolison
    
	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Managing   Director
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   George R. Reynolds 
    
	
 
    	
Name:
    	
George   R. Reynolds
    
	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Director
    

 

[Signature Page to Joinder Agreement - Macerich]

 

 

SCHEDULE A

TO JOINDER AGREEMENT

 

	
Name of New Lender
    	
 
    	
Type of Commitment
    	
 
    	
Amount
    	
 
    
	
Wells   Fargo Bank, National Association
    	
 
    	
New   Term Loan Commitment (Series A Term Loan Commitment)
    	
 
    	
$
    	
125,000,000
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Total: 
    	
 
    	
$
    	
125,000,000
    	
 
    

 

 

EXHIBIT 1

TO JOINDER AGREEMENT

 

AMENDED CREDIT AGREEMENT

 

[see attached]

 

 

$1,500,000,000 REVOLVING LOAN FACILITY AND

$125,000,000 TERM LOAN FACILITY
 CREDIT AGREEMENT

 

by and among

 

THE MACERICH PARTNERSHIP, L.P.,

as the Borrower

 

THE MACERICH COMPANY,
 MACERICH WRLP CORP.,
 MACERICH WRLP LLC,
 MACERICH WRLP II CORP.,
 MACERICH WRLP II L.P.,
 MACERICH TWC II CORP.,

MACERICH TWC II LLC,

MACERICH WALLEYE LLC,

WALLEYE LLC,

and

WALLEYE RETAIL INVESTMENTS LLC,

as Guarantors

 

DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS
 and
 THE INSTITUTIONS FROM TIME TO TIME PARTY HERETO

as Lenders

 

DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS,
 as the Administrative Agent for the Lenders and
 as the Collateral Agent for the Secured Parties

 

DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC. and
  J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC,
 as the Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunning Managers

 

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
 as the Syndication Agent

 

WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, THE ROYAL BANK OF
 SCOTLAND PLC and BARCLAYS BANK PLC,  
 as Co-Documentation Agents

 

GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA, CITIBANK, N.A., ROYAL BANK OF CANADA, ING
 REAL ESTATE FINANCE (USA) LLC and U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
 as Senior Managing Agents

 

Dated as of May 2, 2011,

as amended as of December 8, 2011

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

	
 
    	
 
    	
Page
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE 1.
    	
The Credits
    	
2
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
1.1.
    	
The Commitments
    	
2
    
	
1.2.
    	
Loans and Borrowings
    	
2
    
	
1.3.
    	
Requests for Revolving Borrowings
    	
3
    
	
1.4.
    	
Letters of Credit
    	
4
    
	
1.5.
    	
Funding of Borrowings
    	
13
    
	
1.6.
    	
Interest Elections
    	
14
    
	
1.7.
    	
Termination, Reduction and Extension of the Revolving   Commitments
    	
15
    
	
1.8.
    	
Manner of Payment of Loans; Evidence of Debt
    	
17
    
	
1.9.
    	
Prepayment of Loans
    	
18
    
	
1.10.
    	
Interest
    	
19
    
	
1.11.
    	
Presumptions of Payment
    	
20
    
	
1.12.
    	
Defaulting Lender Adjustments; Removal; Termination
    	
20
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE 2.
    	
General Provisions Regarding Payments
    	
23
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
2.1.
    	
Payments by the Borrower
    	
23
    
	
2.2.
    	
Pro Rata Treatment
    	
24
    
	
2.3.
    	
RESERVED
    	
24
    
	
2.4.
    	
Inability to Determine Rates
    	
24
    
	
2.5.
    	
Illegality
    	
25
    
	
2.6.
    	
Funding
    	
25
    
	
2.7.
    	
Increased Costs
    	
25
    
	
2.8.
    	
Obligation of Lenders to Mitigate; Replacement of Lenders
    	
27
    
	
2.9.
    	
Funding Indemnification
    	
27
    
	
2.10.
    	
Taxes
    	
28
    
	
2.11.
    	
Fees
    	
31
    
	
2.12.
    	
Default Interest
    	
32
    
	
2.13.
    	
Computation
    	
32
    
	
2.14.
    	
Application of Insufficient Payments
    	
32
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE 3.
    	
Incremental Facility
    	
32
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
3.1.
    	
Incremental Facility Request
    	
32
    
	
3.2.
    	
Facility Increase Arrangers
    	
33
    
	
3.3.
    	
Conditions to Effectiveness of Facility Increase
    	
34
    
	
3.4.
    	
Additional Facility Increase Matters
    	
34
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE 4.
    	
Credit Support
    	
36
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
4.1.
    	
REIT Guaranty
    	
36
    
	
4.2.
    	
Guaranties
    	
36
    

 

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4.3.
    	
Pledge Agreements
    	
36
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE 5.
    	
Conditions Precedent
    	
37
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
5.1.
    	
Conditions to Effectiveness
    	
37
    
	
5.2.
    	
Each Credit Event
    	
39
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE 6.
    	
Representations and Warranties
    	
39
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
6.1.
    	
Financial Condition
    	
40
    
	
6.2.
    	
No Material Adverse Effect
    	
40
    
	
6.3.
    	
Compliance with Laws and Agreements
    	
40
    
	
6.4.
    	
Organization, Powers; Authorization; Enforceability
    	
40
    
	
6.5.
    	
No Conflict
    	
41
    
	
6.6.
    	
No Material Litigation
    	
41
    
	
6.7.
    	
Taxes
    	
42
    
	
6.8.
    	
Investment Company Act
    	
42
    
	
6.9.
    	
Subsidiary Entities
    	
42
    
	
6.10.
    	
Federal Reserve Board Regulations
    	
42
    
	
6.11.
    	
ERISA Compliance
    	
43
    
	
6.12.
    	
Assets and Liens
    	
43
    
	
6.13.
    	
Securities Acts
    	
44
    
	
6.14.
    	
Consents, Etc.
    	
44
    
	
6.15.
    	
Hazardous Materials
    	
44
    
	
6.16.
    	
Regulated Entities
    	
45
    
	
6.17.
    	
Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks and Licenses, etc.
    	
45
    
	
6.18.
    	
REIT Status
    	
45
    
	
6.19.
    	
Insurance
    	
45
    
	
6.20.
    	
Full Disclosure
    	
45
    
	
6.21.
    	
Indebtedness
    	
46
    
	
6.22.
    	
Real Property
    	
46
    
	
6.23.
    	
Brokers
    	
46
    
	
6.24.
    	
No Default
    	
46
    
	
6.25.
    	
Solvency
    	
46
    
	
6.26.
    	
Foreign Assets Control Regulations, etc.
    	
46
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE 7.
    	
Affirmative Covenants
    	
46
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
7.1.
    	
Financial Statements
    	
47
    
	
7.2.
    	
Certificates; Reports; Other Information
    	
48
    
	
7.3.
    	
Maintenance of Existence and Properties
    	
49
    
	
7.4.
    	
Inspection of Property; Books and Records; Discussions
    	
49
    
	
7.5.
    	
Notices
    	
49
    
	
7.6.
    	
Expenses
    	
50
    
	
7.7.
    	
Payment of Indemnified Taxes and Other Taxes and Charges
    	
51
    
	
7.8.
    	
Insurance
    	
51
    
	
7.9.
    	
Hazardous Materials
    	
51
    

 

 

	
7.10.
    	
Compliance with Laws and Contractual Obligations; Payment   of Taxes
    	
52
    
	
7.11.
    	
Further Assurances
    	
52
    
	
7.12.
    	
Single Purpose Entities
    	
52
    
	
7.13.
    	
REIT Status
    	
52
    
	
7.14.
    	
Use of Proceeds
    	
53
    
	
7.15.
    	
Management of Projects
    	
53
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE 8.
    	
Negative Covenants
    	
53
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
8.1.
    	
Liens
    	
53
    
	
8.2.
    	
Indebtedness
    	
54
    
	
8.3.
    	
Fundamental Change
    	
54
    
	
8.4.
    	
Dispositions
    	
54
    
	
8.5.
    	
Investments
    	
55
    
	
8.6.
    	
Transactions with Partners and Affiliates
    	
57
    
	
8.7.
    	
Margin Regulations; Securities Laws
    	
57
    
	
8.8.
    	
Organizational Documents
    	
57
    
	
8.9.
    	
Fiscal Year
    	
58
    
	
8.10.
    	
[RESERVED]
    	
58
    
	
8.11.
    	
Distributions
    	
58
    
	
8.12.
    	
Financial Covenants of Borrower Parties
    	
58
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE 9.
    	
Events of Default
    	
59
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE 10.
    	
The Agents
    	
62
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
10.1.
    	
Appointment
    	
62
    
	
10.2.
    	
Delegation of Duties
    	
63
    
	
10.3.
    	
Exculpatory Provisions
    	
63
    
	
10.4.
    	
Reliance by the Agents
    	
63
    
	
10.5.
    	
Notice of Default
    	
64
    
	
10.6.
    	
Non-Reliance on Agents and Other Lenders
    	
64
    
	
10.7.
    	
Indemnification; Reimbursement
    	
64
    
	
10.8.
    	
Agents in Their Individual Capacity
    	
66
    
	
10.9.
    	
Successor Administrative Agent
    	
66
    
	
10.10.
    	
Successor Collateral Agent
    	
66
    
	
10.11
    	
Limitations on Agents’ Liability
    	
67
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE 11.
    	
Miscellaneous Provisions
    	
67
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
11.1.
    	
No Assignment by the Borrower
    	
67
    
	
11.2.
    	
Modification
    	
67
    
	
11.3.
    	
Cumulative Rights; No Waiver
    	
69
    
	
11.4.
    	
Entire Agreement
    	
69
    
	
11.5.
    	
Survival
    	
69
    
	
11.6.
    	
Notices
    	
69
    
	
11.7.
    	
Governing Law
    	
70
    

 

 

	
11.8.
    	
Assignments, Participations, Etc.
    	
70
    
	
11.9.
    	
Counterparts; Electronic Execution
    	
73
    
	
11.10.
    	
Sharing of Payments
    	
73
    
	
11.11.
    	
Confidentiality
    	
73
    
	
11.12.
    	
Consent to Jurisdiction
    	
74
    
	
11.13.
    	
Waiver of Jury Trial
    	
74
    
	
11.14.
    	
Indemnity
    	
75
    
	
11.15.
    	
Telephonic Instruction
    	
75
    
	
11.16.
    	
Marshalling; Payments Set Aside
    	
76
    
	
11.17.
    	
Set-off
    	
76
    
	
11.18.
    	
Severability
    	
77
    
	
11.19.
    	
No Third Parties Benefited
    	
77
    
	
11.20.
    	
No Fiduciary Duty
    	
77
    
	
11.21.
    	
PATRIOT Act
    	
77
    
	
11.22.
    	
Time
    	
78
    
	
11.23.
    	
Effectiveness of Agreement
    	
78
    

 

SCHEDULE OF ANNEXES, SCHEDULES AND EXHIBITS

 

ANNEXES:

 

Annex 1         Glossary

 

	
SCHEDULES:
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
Schedule   1.4
    	
 
    	
Existing   Letters of Credit
    
	
Schedule   5.1(2)
    	
 
    	
Additional   Closing Conditions
    
	
Schedule   6.6
    	
 
    	
Material   Litigation
    
	
Schedule   6.9
    	
 
    	
Subsidiary   Entities
    
	
Schedule   6.11
    	
 
    	
ERISA
    
	
Schedule   6.14
    	
 
    	
Consents
    
	
Schedule   6.15
    	
 
    	
Hazardous   Materials
    
	
Schedule   6.19
    	
 
    	
Insurance
    
	
Schedule   6.21
    	
 
    	
Indebtedness
    
	
Schedule   6.22
    	
 
    	
Schedule   of Properties
    
	
Schedule   7.15
    	
 
    	
Wholly-Owned   Projects with Non-Standard Management Agreement
    
	
Schedule   8.1
    	
 
    	
Additional   Permitted Liens
    
	
Schedule   8.5
    	
 
    	
Capital   Stock of Joint Ventures
    
	
Schedule   8.6
    	
 
    	
Transactions   with Affiliates
    
	
Schedule   11.6
    	
 
    	
Addresses   for Notices, Etc.
    
	
Schedule   G-1
    	
 
    	
Initial   Revolving Commitments and Term Loan Commitments
    
	
Schedule   G-2
    	
 
    	
Description   of Guaranties
    

 

 

	
EXHIBITS:
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
Exhibit A
    	
 
    	
Form of   Borrowing Request
    
	
Exhibit B
    	
 
    	
Form of   Letter of Credit Request
    
	
Exhibit C
    	
 
    	
Form of   Rate Request
    
	
Exhibit D
    	
 
    	
Form of   Term Loan Note
    
	
Exhibit E
    	
 
    	
Form of   Assignment and Acceptance Agreement
    
	
Exhibit F
    	
 
    	
Form of   Closing Certificate
    
	
Exhibit G
    	
 
    	
Form of   Compliance Certificate
    
	
Exhibit H
    	
 
    	
Form of   Master Management Agreement
    
	
Exhibit I
    	
 
    	
Form of   Revolving Loan Note
    
	
Exhibit J
    	
 
    	
Form of   Pledge Agreement
    
	
Exhibit K
    	
 
    	
Form of   Joinder Agreement
    
	
Exhibit L
    	
 
    	
Form of   Swing Line Note
    

 

 

CREDIT AGREEMENT

 

THIS CREDIT AGREEMENT (the “Agreement”) is made and dated as of May 2, 2011, as amended by the First Amendment and the First Amendment Joinder Agreement, by and among THE MACERICH PARTNERSHIP, L.P., a limited partnership organized under the laws of the state of Delaware (“Macerich Partnership”), AS BORROWER; THE MACERICH COMPANY, a Maryland corporation (“MAC”); MACERICH WRLP II CORP., a Delaware corporation (“Macerich WRLP II Corp.”); MACERICH WRLP II L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“Macerich WRLP II LP”); MACERICH WRLP CORP., a Delaware corporation (“Macerich WRLP Corp.”); MACERICH WRLP LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Macerich WRLP LLC”); MACERICH TWC II CORP., a Delaware corporation (“Macerich TWC II Corp.”); MACERICH TWC II LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Macerich TWC II LLC”); MACERICH WALLEYE LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Macerich Walleye LLC”); WALLEYE LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Walleye LLC”); and WALLEYE RETAIL INVESTMENTS LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Walleye Investments LLC”), jointly and severally as “GUARANTORS”; THE LENDERS FROM TIME TO TIME PARTY HERETO (collectively and severally, the “Lenders”); DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, a New York banking corporation, as administrative agent for the Lenders (in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”) and  as collateral agent for the Secured Parties; DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC. and J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC, as joint lead arrangers (in such capacity, the “Joint Lead Arrangers”) and joint bookrunning managers; JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as syndication agent; WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND PLC and BARCLAYS BANK PLC, as co-documentation agents; and GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA, CITIBANK, N.A., ROYAL BANK OF CANADA, ING REAL ESTATE FINANCE (USA) LLC and U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as senior managing agents.

 

RECITALS

 

A.                                   Capitalized terms used in these Recitals shall have the respective meanings set forth for such terms in the Glossary attached hereto as Annex I.

 

B.                                     The Borrower has requested, and Revolving Lenders have agreed to make available to the Borrower, a revolving credit facility consisting of up to $1,500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Revolving Commitments (as such aggregate amount of Revolving Commitments may be increased pursuant to and in accordance with the terms hereof).

 

C.                                     DBTCA has agreed to act as administrative agent on behalf of the Lenders and as Collateral Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents.

 

D.                                    Borrower has agreed to secure all of its Obligations by granting to Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a Lien on all of its direct and indirect ownership interest in certain of the Guarantors (or general partners thereof, as the case may be) as further specified in the applicable Pledge Agreement.

 

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E.                                      Guarantors have agreed to guarantee the Obligations of Borrower hereunder and certain Guarantors have agreed to secure their respective Obligations by granting to Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a Lien on certain of their Subsidiaries as further specified in the applicable Pledge Agreement.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the above Recitals and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:

 

AGREEMENT

 

ARTICLE 1.                                The Credits.

 

1.1.                              The Commitments.

 

(1)                                  Revolving Commitments.  Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Revolving Lender with a Revolving Commitment severally agrees to make one or more Revolving Loans to the Borrower during the Availability Period in an aggregate principal amount that will not result in, after giving effect thereto, (a) such Revolving Lender’s Revolving Credit Exposure exceeding such Revolving Lender’s Revolving Commitment or (b) the sum of the total Revolving Credit Exposures exceeding the total Revolving Commitments.  Within the foregoing limits and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may borrow, prepay and re-borrow Revolving Loans.

 

(2)                                  Term Loan Commitments.  Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each New Term Loan Lender with a Series A Term Loan Commitment severally agrees to lend, on the First Amendment Effective Date, to the Borrower the amount set forth opposite such New Term Loan Lender’s name in Schedule A to the First Amendment Joinder Agreement (such commitment being referred to herein as such New Term Loan Lender’s “Series A Term Loan Commitment”).  From time to time, subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, in accordance with Article 3 hereof, New Term Loan Lenders with New Term Loan Commitments may agree to lend to the Borrower additional amounts as additional Series of New Term Loans on the terms set forth in the applicable Joinder Agreement.  Amounts borrowed under this Section 1.1(2), which shall include any Series of New Term Loans (including those borrowed on the First Amendment Effective Date, which shall be referred to herein collectively as the “Series A Term Loans”), are referred to collectively as the “Term Loans” and the Series A Term Loan Commitments together with any additional New Term Loan Commitments incurred after the First Amendment Effective Date in accordance with Article 3 are referred to collectively as the “Term Loan Commitments”.  Principal amounts of any Term Loans that are repaid or prepaid may not be re-borrowed.

 

1.2.                              Loans and Borrowings.

 

(1)                                  Obligations of Lenders.  Each Loan shall be made as part of a Borrowing consisting of Loans or portions of a Loan of the same Type made by the Revolving Lenders or Term Lenders of a given Series of Term Loans ratably in accordance with their respective Revolving Commitments or respective Term Loan Commitments for such Series of Term Loans, as the case may be.  The failure of any Lender to make any Loan or portion of a

 

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Loan required to be made by it shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligations hereunder; provided that the Revolving Commitments and the Term Loan Commitments of the Lenders are several and no Lender shall be responsible for any other Lender’s failure to make any Loan or portion of a Loan as required.

 

(2)                                  Types of Loans.  Subject to Section 2.4, each Borrowing shall be constituted entirely of Base Rate Loans or LIBO Rate Loans as the Borrower may request in accordance herewith.

 

(3)                                  Minimum Amounts; Limitation on Number of Borrowings.  At the commencement of each Interest Period for any LIBO Rate Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount of $1,000,000 or a larger multiple of $1,000,000.  At the time that each Base Rate Borrowing is made, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount equal to $1,000,000 or a larger multiple of $1,000,000; provided that a Base Rate Borrowing may be in an aggregate amount that is equal to the entire unused balance of the total Revolving Commitments or in an amount that is required to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as contemplated by Section 1.4(6).  Borrowings of more than one Type may be outstanding at the same time; provided that there shall not at any time be LIBO Rate Loans outstanding having more than twelve (12) different Interest Periods.

 

(4)                                  Limitations on Lengths of Interest Periods.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Borrower shall not be entitled to request, or to elect to convert to or continue as a LIBO Rate Borrowing, any Borrowing if the Interest Period requested therefore would end after the Revolving Commitment Termination Date, in the case of any Revolving Loans, or the applicable Term Loan Maturity Date, in the case of any Series of the Term Loans.

 

1.3.                              Requests for Revolving Borrowings.  To request a Revolving Borrowing, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent in writing (which notice may be by facsimile) (a) in the case of a LIBO Rate Borrowing, not later than 2:00 p.m. (New York time), three Business Days before the date of the proposed Revolving Borrowing or (b) in the case of a Base Rate Borrowing, not later than 2:00 p.m. (New York time) one Business Day before the date of the proposed Revolving Borrowing.  Each such Borrowing Request shall be irrevocable, shall be signed by a Responsible Officer and shall be in the form of Exhibit A hereto.  Each such Borrowing Request shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 1.2:

 

(i)                                     the aggregate amount of the requested Revolving Borrowing;

 

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

 

(iii)                               whether such Revolving Borrowing is to be a Base Rate Borrowing or a LIBO Rate Borrowing;

 

(iv)                              in the case of a LIBO Rate Borrowing, the Interest Period therefor, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term “Interest Period” as it relates to LIBO Rate Loans; and

 

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(v)                                 the location and number of the Borrower’s account to which funds are to be disbursed, which shall comply with the requirements of Section 1.5.

 

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

 

1.4.                              Letters of Credit.

 

(1)                                  General.  Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, in addition to the Loans provided for in Section 1.1, the Borrower may request the Issuing Lender to issue Letters of Credit for its own account or the account of any Macerich Entity in such form as is acceptable to the Issuing Lender in its reasonable determination at any time prior to the earlier of (i) the date that is thirty (30) days prior to the Revolving Commitment Termination Date and (ii) the date of termination of the Revolving Commitments.  Letters of Credit issued hereunder shall constitute utilization of the Revolving Commitments.  All Letters of Credit issued pursuant to this Agreement must be denominated in U.S. Dollars and must be standby letters of credit.  The only drawings permitted on the Letters of Credit issued pursuant to this Agreement shall be sight drawings.  It is hereby acknowledged and agreed that each of the letters of credit listed on Schedule 1.4 hereto shall constitute a “Letter of Credit” for all purposes under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.

 

(2)                                  Notice of Issuance, Amendment, Renewal or Extension.  Whenever it requires that a Letter of Credit be issued, the Borrower shall give the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Lender written notice thereof at least three (3) Business Days (or such shorter period acceptable to the Issuing Lender) in advance of the proposed date of issuance (which shall be a Business Day), which notice shall be in the form of Exhibit B (each such notice being a “Letter of Credit Request”).  Whenever the Borrower requires an amendment, renewal or extension of any outstanding Letter of Credit, the Borrower shall, on its letter head, give the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Lender written notice thereof at least three (3) Business Days (or such shorter period acceptable to the Issuing Lender) in advance of the proposed date of the amendment (which shall be a Business Day).  Letter of Credit Requests and amendment requests may be delivered by facsimile.  Promptly after the issuance or amendment (including a renewal or extension) of a Letter of Credit, the Issuing Lender shall notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, in writing, of such issuance or amendment and such notice will be accompanied by a copy of such issuance or amendment.  Upon receipt of such notice, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Revolving Lender of such issuance or amendment and if requested to do so by any Revolving Lender, the Administrative Agent shall provide such Revolving Lender with a copy of such issuance or amendment.

 

(3)                                  Limitations on Amounts.  A Letter of Credit shall be issued, amended, renewed or extended only if (and upon issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of each Letter of Credit the Borrower shall be deemed to represent and warrant that), after giving

 

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effect to such issuance, amendment, renewal or extension (i) the aggregate LC Exposure of the Issuing Lender (determined for these purposes without giving effect to the participations therein of the Revolving Lenders pursuant to Section 1.4(5) below) shall not exceed $75,000,000 and (ii) the sum of the total Revolving Credit Exposures shall not exceed the total Revolving Commitments.  Each Letter of Credit shall be in an amount of $100,000 or larger.

 

(4)                                  Expiration Date.  Each Letter of Credit shall expire at or prior to the close of business on the earlier of (i) the date twelve months after the date of the issuance of such Letter of Credit or, in the case of any renewal or extension thereof (which renewals or extensions, subject to clause (ii) hereof, may be automatic pursuant to the terms of such Letter of Credit), twelve months after the then-current expiration date of such Letter of Credit and (ii) the Outside L/C Maturity Date; provided that, if one or more Letters of Credit shall have an expiry date that is later than the Revolving Commitment Termination Date, (x) the Borrower shall provide cash collateral pursuant to and in accordance with Section 1.4(11) with respect to such Letters of Credit on or prior to five days before the Revolving Commitment Termination Date, (y) the obligations of the Borrower under this Section 1.4 in respect of such Letters of Credit shall survive the Revolving Commitment Termination Date and shall remain in effect until no such Letters of Credit remain outstanding and (z) each Revolving Lender shall be reinstated hereunder, to the extent any such cash collateral, the application thereof or reimbursement in respect thereof is required to be returned to the Borrower by the Issuing Lender after the Revolving Commitment Termination Date until no such Letters of Credit remain outstanding.

 

(5)                                  Participations.  By the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or an amendment to a Letter of Credit increasing the amount thereof) by the Issuing Lender, and without any further action on the part of the Issuing Lender or the Revolving Lenders, the Issuing Lender hereby grants to each Revolving Lender, and each Revolving Lender hereby acquires from the Issuing Lender, an undivided interest and participation in such Letter of Credit equal to such Revolving Lender’s Applicable Revolving Percentage of the aggregate amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit.  Each Revolving Lender acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to acquire participations pursuant to this section in respect of Letters of Credit is absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance whatsoever, including any amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or the occurrence and continuance of a Potential Default or Event of Default or reduction or termination of the Revolving Commitments, and that each such payment shall be made without any offset, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever.

 

In consideration and in furtherance of the foregoing, each Revolving Lender hereby absolutely and unconditionally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for account of the Issuing Lender, such Revolving Lender’s Applicable Revolving Percentage of each LC Disbursement made by the Issuing Lender promptly upon the request of the Issuing Lender at any time from the time of such LC Disbursement until such LC Disbursement is reimbursed by the Borrower or at any time after any reimbursement payment is required to be refunded to the Borrower for any reason.  Each such payment shall be made in the same manner as provided in Section 1.5 with respect to Revolving Loans made by such Revolving Lender (and Section 1.5 shall apply, mutatis  mutandis, to the payment obligations of the Revolving Lenders), and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to the Issuing Lender the amounts so received by it from the Revolving Lenders.  Promptly following receipt by the Administrative Agent of any

 

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payment from the Borrower pursuant to the next following paragraph, the Administrative Agent shall distribute such payment to the Issuing Lender or, to the extent that the Revolving Lenders have made payments pursuant to this paragraph to reimburse the Issuing Lender, then to such Revolving Lenders and the Issuing Lender as their interests may appear.  Any payment made by a Revolving Lender pursuant to this paragraph to reimburse the Issuing Lender for any LC Disbursement shall not constitute a Revolving Loan and shall not relieve the Borrower of its obligation to reimburse such LC Disbursement.

 

(6)                                 Reimbursement.  If the Issuing Lender shall make any LC Disbursement in respect of a Letter of Credit, the Borrower shall reimburse the Issuing Lender in respect of such LC Disbursement by paying to the Administrative Agent an amount equal to such LC Disbursement not later than 1:00 p.m. (New York time) on (i) the Business Day that the Borrower receives notice of such LC Disbursement, if such notice is received prior to 11:00 a.m. (New York time) or (ii) the Business Day immediately following the day that the Borrower receives such notice, if such notice is not received prior to such time; provided that, anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, (A) unless the Borrower shall have notified Administrative Agent and such Issuing Lender prior to 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the date on which the Borrower is obligated to reimburse such Issuing Lender in respect of such LC Disbursement (the “Reimbursement Date”) that the Borrower intends to reimburse such Issuing Lender for the amount of such payment with funds other than the proceeds of a Base Rate Borrowing, the Borrower shall be deemed to have delivered an irrevocable Borrowing Request to Administrative Agent containing all of the representations set forth in Exhibit A requesting Revolving Lenders to make Base Rate Loans on the Business Day following the Reimbursement Date in an amount equal to the amount of the payment and (B) subject to satisfaction or written waiver of the conditions specified in Section 1.1 and 5.3 in accordance with the terms thereof, Revolving Lenders shall, on the Reimbursement Date, make Base Rate Loans in the amount of such payment, the proceeds of which shall be applied directly by Administrative Agent to reimburse such Issuing Lender for the amount of such payment; provided, further, that no Potential Default or Event of Default shall be deemed to exist by reason of a failure of the Borrower to reimburse such Issuing Lender pending the making of such Revolving Loans in accordance with the terms hereof, including the prior satisfaction or written waiver of the conditions specified in Section 1.1 and 5.3 in accordance with the terms thereof; and provided, further that, if for any reason proceeds of Revolving Loans are not received by such Issuing Lender on the Reimbursement Date in an amount equal to the amount of such payment, the Borrower shall immediately reimburse such Issuing Lender, on demand, in an amount in same day funds equal to the excess of the amount of such payment over the aggregate amount of such Revolving Loans, if any, which are so received.  If the Borrower fails to make such payment when due, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Revolving Lender of the applicable LC Disbursement, the payment then due from the Borrower in respect thereof and such Revolving Lender’s Applicable Revolving Percentage thereof.  The Issuing Lender shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent upon the making of each LC Disbursement.

 

(7)                                 Obligations Absolute.  The Borrower’s obligation to reimburse LC Disbursements as provided in Section 1.4(6) shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be performed strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement under any and all circumstances whatsoever and irrespective of (i) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Letter of Credit, or any term or provision therein, (ii) any draft or other document presented

 

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under a Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent or invalid in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect, (iii) payment by the Issuing Lender under a Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft or other document that does not comply strictly with the terms of such Letter of Credit, and (iv) any other event or circumstance whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing, that might, but for the provisions of this Section, constitute a legal or equitable discharge of the Borrower’s obligations hereunder.

 

Neither the Administrative Agent, the Revolving Lenders nor the Issuing Lender, nor any of their Related Parties, shall have any liability or responsibility by reason of or in connection with the issuance or amendment of any Letter of Credit by the Issuing Lender or any payment or failure to make any payment thereunder (irrespective of any of the circumstances referred to in the preceding sentence), or any error, omission, interruption, loss or delay in transmission or delivery of any draft, notice or other communication under or relating to any Letter of Credit (including any document required to make a drawing thereunder), any error in interpretation of technical terms or any consequence arising from causes beyond the control of the Issuing Lender; provided that the foregoing shall not be construed to excuse the Issuing Lender from liability to the Borrower to the extent of any direct damages (as opposed to consequential damages, claims in respect of which are hereby waived by the Borrower to the extent permitted by applicable law) suffered by the Borrower that are caused by the Issuing Lender’s gross negligence or willful misconduct (as determined by a final and non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction) when determining whether drafts and other documents presented under a Letter of Credit comply with the terms thereof.  The parties hereto expressly agree that:  (i) the Issuing Lender may accept documents that appear on their face to be in substantial compliance with the terms of a Letter of Credit without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any notice or information to the contrary, and may make payment upon presentation of documents that appear on their face to be in substantial compliance with the terms of such Letter of Credit; (ii) the Issuing Lender shall have the right, in its sole discretion, to decline to accept such documents and to make such payment if such documents are not in strict compliance with the terms of such Letter of Credit; and (iii) this sentence shall establish the standard of care to be exercised by the Issuing Lender when determining whether drafts and other documents presented under a Letter of Credit comply with the terms thereof (and the parties hereto hereby waive, to the extent permitted by applicable law, any standard of care inconsistent with the foregoing).

 

(8)                                 Disbursement Procedures.  The Issuing Lender shall, within a reasonable time following its receipt thereof, examine all documents purporting to represent a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit.  The Issuing Lender shall promptly after such examination notify the Administrative Agent and the Borrower by telephone (confirmed by facsimile) of such demand for payment and whether the Issuing Lender has made or will make an LC Disbursement thereunder; provided that any failure to give or delay in giving such notice shall not relieve the Borrower of its obligation to reimburse the Issuing Lender and the Revolving Lenders with respect to any such LC Disbursement.

 

(9)                                 Interim Interest.  If the Issuing Lender shall make any LC Disbursement, then, unless the Borrower shall reimburse such LC Disbursement in full on the date Borrower receives notice that such LC Disbursement was made, the unpaid amount thereof shall bear interest, for each day from and including the date such LC Disbursement is

 

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made to but excluding the date that the Borrower reimburses such LC Disbursement, at the rate per annum then applicable to Base Rate Loans; provided that, if the Borrower fails to reimburse such LC Disbursement within three (3) days when due pursuant to Section 1.4(6), then Section 9.1 shall apply.  Interest accrued pursuant to this section shall be for account of the Issuing Lender, except that a pro rata portion of the interest accrued on and after the date of payment by any Revolving Lender pursuant to Section 1.4(5) of this Section to reimburse the Issuing Lender shall be for account of such Revolving Lender to the extent of such payment.

 

(10)                          Replacement of the Issuing Lender.  The Issuing Lender may be replaced at any time by written agreement between the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the replaced Issuing Lender and the successor Issuing Lender.  The Administrative Agent shall notify the Revolving Lenders of any such replacement of the Issuing Lender.  From and after the effective date of any such replacement, (i) the successor Issuing Lender shall have all the rights and obligations of the replaced Issuing Lender under this Agreement with respect to Letters of Credit to be issued thereafter and (ii) references herein to the term “Issuing Lender” shall be deemed to refer to such successor or to any previous Issuing Lender, or to such successor and all previous Issuing Lenders, as the context shall require.  After the replacement of an Issuing Lender hereunder, the replaced Issuing Lender shall remain a party hereto and shall continue to have all the rights and obligations of an Issuing Lender under this Agreement with respect to Letters of Credit issued by it prior to such replacement, but shall not be required to issue additional Letters of Credit.

 

(11)                          Cash Collateralization.

 

(A)                               On or prior to the Revolving Commitment Termination Date, the Borrower shall deposit into an account (the “LC Collateral Account”) established by the Administrative Agent an amount in cash equal to the LC Exposure with respect to the Borrower as of such date plus any accrued and unpaid interest thereon (the “Revolving Commitment Termination LC Exposure Deposit”).  In addition:

 

(i)                                     if an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing and the Borrower receives notice from the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders (or, if the maturity of the Revolving Loans has been accelerated, Revolving Lenders with LC Exposure representing more than 50% of the total LC Exposure) demanding the deposit of cash collateral pursuant to this paragraph the Borrower shall immediately deposit into the LC Collateral Account an amount in cash equal to the LC Exposure with respect to the Borrower as of such date plus any accrued and unpaid interest thereon; provided that the obligation to deposit such cash collateral shall become effective immediately, and such deposit shall become immediately due and payable, without demand or other notice of any kind, upon the occurrence of any Event of Default with respect to the Borrower or any Consolidated Entities described in Section 9.7; and

 

(ii)                                  if at any time that there shall exist a Defaulting Lender, within one Business Day following the written request of the Administrative Agent or the Issuing Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) the Borrower shall cash collateralize the Issuing Lender’s LC Exposure with respect to such Defaulting Lender (only to the extent necessary as determined after giving effect to Section 1.12(a)(4) and any cash

 

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collateral provided by such Defaulting Lender) in an amount in cash equal to the LC Exposure with respect to such Defaulting Lender as of such date plus any accrued and unpaid interest thereon.

 

Such deposits shall be held by the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Revolving Lenders, the Issuing Lender and the Agents, in the LC Collateral Account as collateral in the first instance for the LC Exposure with respect to the Borrower under this Agreement and thereafter for the payment of the other Obligations of the Borrower owing to Revolving Lenders, the Issuing Lender and the Agents.

 

(B)                               The LC Collateral Account shall be maintained in the name of the Administrative Agent (on behalf of the Lenders, the Issuing Lender and the Agents) and under its sole dominion and control at such place as shall be designated by the Administrative Agent.  Interest shall accrue on the LC Collateral Account at a rate equal to the Federal Funds Rate minus .15%.

 

(C)                               The Borrower hereby pledges, assigns and grants to the Administrative Agent, as administrative agent for its benefit and the ratable benefit of the Lenders a lien on and a security interest in, the following collateral (the “Letter of Credit Collateral”):

 

(i)                                     the LC Collateral Account, all cash deposited therein and all certificates and instruments, if any, from time to time representing or evidencing the LC Collateral Account;

 

(ii)                                  all notes, certificates of deposit and other cash-equivalent instruments from time to time hereafter delivered to or otherwise possessed by the Administrative Agent for or on behalf of the Borrower in substitution for or in respect of any or all of the then existing Letter of Credit Collateral;

 

(iii)                               all interest, dividends, cash, instruments and other property from time to time received, receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of or in exchange for any or all of the then existing Letter of Credit Collateral; and

 

(iv)                              to the extent not covered by the above clauses, all proceeds of any or all of the foregoing Letter of Credit Collateral.

 

The lien and security interest granted hereby secures the payment of all obligations of the Borrower now or hereafter existing hereunder and under any other Loan Document.

 

(D)                               Neither the Borrower nor any Person claiming or acting on behalf of or through the Borrower shall have any right to withdraw any of the funds held in the LC Collateral Account, except as provided in Section 1.4(11)(G).

 

(E)                                The Borrower agrees that it will not (i) sell or otherwise dispose of any interest in the Letter of Credit Collateral or (ii) create or permit to exist any lien,

 

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security interest or other charge or encumbrance upon or with respect to any of the Letter of Credit Collateral, except for the security interest created by this Section 1.4(11).

 

(F)                                 At any time an Event of Default shall be continuing:

 

(i)                                     The Administrative Agent may, in its sole discretion, without notice to the Borrower except as required by law and at any time from time to time, charge, set off or otherwise apply all or any part of the LC Collateral Account to first, the aggregate amount of LC Disbursements that have not been reimbursed by the Borrower and second, any other unpaid Obligations then due and payable, in such order as the Administrative Agent shall elect.  The rights of the Administrative Agent under this Section 1.4(11) are in addition to any rights and remedies which any Lender may have.

 

(ii)                                  The Administrative Agent may also exercise, in its sole discretion, in respect of the LC Collateral Account, in addition to the other rights and remedies provided herein or otherwise available to it, all the rights and remedies of a secured party upon default under the UCC in effect in the State of New York at that time.

 

(G)                               At such time prior to the Revolving Commitment Termination Date as all Events of Default have been cured or waived in writing and there are no unreimbursed LC Disbursements outstanding or, in the case of any cash collateral provided as a result of the classification of a Lender as a Defaulting Lender, the termination of the Defaulting Lender status of the applicable Lender, all amounts remaining in the L/C Collateral Account shall be promptly returned to the Borrower.  For avoidance of doubt, the preceding sentence shall not affect Borrower’s obligation to make the Revolving Commitment Termination LC Exposure Deposit on the Revolving Commitment Termination Date as otherwise provided in Section 1.4(11)(A).  Any surplus of the funds held in the LC Collateral Account remaining after payment in full of all of the Obligations, the termination of the Revolving Commitments and the return of all outstanding Letters of Credit shall be paid to the Borrower or to whomsoever may be lawfully entitled to receive such surplus.

 

1.4-(A)          Swing Line Loans.

 

(1)                                 Swing Line Loans Commitments.  During the Availability Period, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, Swing Line Lender shall, from time to time make Swing Line Loans to Borrower in the aggregate amount up to but not exceeding the Swing Line Sublimit; provided, that after giving effect to the making of any Swing Line Loan, in no event shall the Revolving Credit Exposures exceed the total Revolving Commitments then in effect.  Amounts borrowed pursuant to this Section 1.4-(A) may be repaid and reborrowed during the Availability Period.  Swing Line Lender’s Revolving Commitment shall expire on the Revolving Commitment Termination Date and all Swing Line Loans and all other amounts owed hereunder with respect to the Swing Line Loans and the Revolving Commitments shall be paid in full no later than such date.

 

(2)                                 Borrowing Mechanics for Swing Line Loans.

 

(A)                               Swing Line Loans shall be made in an aggregate minimum amount of $500,000 and integral multiples of $100,000 in excess of that amount.

 

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(B)                               Whenever Borrower desires that Swing Line Lender make a Swing Line Loan, Borrower shall deliver to Administrative Agent a Borrowing Request no later than 2:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the proposed date of the New Borrowing.

 

(C)                               Swing Line Lender shall make the amount of its Swing Line Loan available to Administrative Agent not later than 4:00 p.m.(New York time) on the applicable date of the New Borrowing by wire transfer of same day funds in Dollars, at Administrative Agent’s Contact Office.  Except as provided herein, upon satisfaction or waiver of the conditions precedent specified herein, Administrative Agent shall make the proceeds of such Swing Line Loans available to Borrower on the applicable date of the New Borrowing by causing an amount of same day funds in Dollars equal to the proceeds of all such Swing Line Loans received by Administrative Agent from Swing Line Lender to be credited to the account of Borrower at Administrative Agent’s Contact Office, or to such other account as may be designated in writing to Administrative Agent by Borrower.

 

(D)                               With respect to any Swing Line Loans which have not been voluntarily prepaid by Borrower pursuant to Section 1.9, Swing Line Lender may at any time in its sole and absolute discretion, deliver to Administrative Agent (with a copy to Borrower), no later than 11:00 a.m. (New York time) at least one Business Day in advance of the proposed date of the New Borrowing, a notice (which shall be deemed to be a Borrowing Request given by Borrower) requesting that each Revolving Lender holding a Revolving Commitment make Revolving Loans that are Base Rate Loans to Borrower on such date of the New Borrowing in an amount equal to the amount of such Swing Line Loans (the “Refunded Swing Line Loans”) outstanding on the date such notice is given which Swing Line Lender requests Revolving Lenders to prepay.  Anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, (x) the proceeds of such Revolving Loans made by the Revolving Lenders other than Swing Line Lender shall be immediately delivered by Administrative Agent to Swing Line Lender (and not to Borrower) and applied to repay a corresponding portion of the Refunded Swing Line Loans and (y) on the day such Revolving Loans are made, Swing Line Lender’s pro rata share of the Refunded Swing Line Loans shall be deemed to be paid with the proceeds of a Revolving Loan made by Swing Line Lender to Borrower, and such portion of the Swing Line Loans deemed to be so paid shall no longer be outstanding as Swing Line Loans and shall no longer be due under the Swing Line Note of Swing Line Lender but shall instead constitute part of Swing Line Lender’s outstanding Revolving Loans to Borrower and shall be due under the Revolving Loan Note evidencing such Revolving Loans issued by Borrower to Swing Line Lender in its capacity as a Revolving Lender.  Borrower hereby authorizes Administrative Agent and Swing Line Lender to charge Borrower’s accounts with Administrative Agent and Swing Line Lender (up to the amount available in each such account) in order to immediately pay Swing Line Lender the amount of the Refunded Swing Line Loans to the extent the proceeds of such Revolving Loans made by Revolving Lenders, including the Revolving Loans deemed to be made by Swing Line Lender, are not sufficient to repay in full the Refunded Swing Line Loans.  If any portion of any such amount paid (or deemed to be paid) to Swing Line Lender should be recovered by or on behalf of Borrower from Swing Line Lender in bankruptcy, by assignment for the benefit of creditors or otherwise, the loss of the amount so recovered shall be ratably shared among all Revolving Lenders in the manner contemplated by Section 2.2.

 

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(E)                                If for any reason Revolving Loans are not made pursuant to Section 1.4-(A)(2)(D) in an amount sufficient to repay any amounts owed to Swing Line Lender in respect of any outstanding Swing Line Loans on or before the third Business Day after demand for payment thereof by Swing Line Lender, each Revolving Lender holding a Revolving Commitment shall be deemed to, and hereby agrees to, have purchased a participation in such outstanding Swing Line Loans, and in an amount equal to its pro rata share of the applicable unpaid amount together with accrued interest thereon.  Upon one Business Day’s notice from Swing Line Lender, each Revolving Lender holding a Revolving Commitment shall deliver to Swing Line Lender an amount equal to its respective participation in the applicable unpaid amount in same day funds at the Contact Office of Swing Line Lender. In order to evidence such participation each Revolving Lender holding a Revolving Commitment agrees to enter into a participation agreement at the request of Swing Line Lender in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Swing Line Lender.  In the event any Revolving Lender holding a Revolving Commitment fails to make available to Swing Line Lender the amount of such Revolving Lender’s participation as provided in this paragraph, Swing Line Lender shall be entitled to recover such amount on demand from such Revolving Lender together with interest thereon for three Business Days at the rate customarily used by Swing Line Lender for the correction of errors among banks and thereafter at the Base Rate, as applicable.

 

(F)                                 Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, (1) each Revolving Lender’s obligation to make Revolving Loans for the purpose of repaying any Refunded Swing Line Loans pursuant to the second preceding paragraph and each Revolving Lender’s obligation to purchase a participation in any unpaid Swing Line Loans pursuant to the immediately preceding paragraph shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including (v) any set off, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right which such Revolving Lender may have against Swing Line Lender, any Borrower Party or any other Person for any reason whatsoever; (w) the occurrence or continuation of a Potential Default or Event of Default; (x) any adverse change in the business, operations, properties, assets, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of any Borrower Party; (y) any breach of this Agreement or any other Loan Document by any party thereto; or (z) any other circumstance, happening or event whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing; provided that such obligations of each Revolving Lender are subject to the condition that Swing Line Lender had not received prior notice from the Borrower or the Required Lenders that any of the conditions under Section 5.2 to the making of the applicable Refunded Swing Line Loans or other unpaid Swing Line Loans, were not satisfied at the time such Refunded Swing Line Loans or unpaid Swing Line Loans were made; and (2) Swing Line Lender shall not be obligated to make any Swing Line Loans (x) if it has elected not to do so after the occurrence and during the continuation of a Potential Default or Event of Default, (y) it does not in good faith believe that all conditions under Section 5.2 to the making of such Swing Line Loan have been satisfied or waived by the Required Lenders or (z) at a time when any Revolving Lender is a Defaulting Lender unless either the Revolving Commitments of such Defaulting Lender have been reallocated to other Revolving Lenders as contemplated by Section 1.12(a)(4) or Swing Line Lender has entered into arrangements satisfactory to it and Borrower to eliminate Swing Line Lender’s risk with respect to the Defaulting Lender’s participation in such Swing Ling Loan, including by cash collateralizing such Defaulting Lender’s pro rata share of the outstanding Swing Line Loans.

 

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(3)                                 Resignation and Removal of Swing Line Lender.  Swing Line Lender may resign as Swing Line Lender upon 30 days prior written notice to Administrative Agent, Revolving Lenders and Borrower.  Swing Line Lender may be replaced at any time by written agreement among the Borrower, Administrative Agent, the replaced Swing Line Lender (provided that no consent will be required if the replaced Swing Line Lender has no Swing Line Loans outstanding) and the successor Swing Line Lender.  Administrative Agent shall notify the Revolving Lenders of any such replacement of Swing Line Lender.  At the time any such replacement or resignation shall become effective, (i) Borrower shall prepay any outstanding Swing Line Loans made by the resigning or removed Swing Line Lender, (ii) upon such prepayment, the resigning or removed Swing Line Lender shall surrender any Swing Line Note held by it to Borrower for cancellation, and (iii) Borrower shall issue, if so requested by the successor Swing Line Lender, a new Swing Line Note to the successor Swing Line Lender, in the principal amount of the Swing Line Loan Sublimit then in effect and with other appropriate insertions. From and after the effective date of any such replacement or resignation, (x) any successor Swing Line Lender shall have all the rights and obligations of a Swing Line Lender under this Agreement with respect to Swing Line Loans made thereafter and (y) references herein to the term “Swing Line Lender” shall be deemed to refer to such successor or to any previous Swing Line Lender, or to such successor and all previous Swing Line Lenders, as the context shall require.

 

1.5.                            Funding of Borrowings.

 

(1)                                 Funding by Lenders.  Each Lender shall make each Loan to be made by it hereunder on the proposed date thereof by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the Administrative Agent at the Contact Office, ABA 021-001-033 for the Administrative Agent’s Account No. 99-401-268, Ref:  Macerich Partnership, no later than 12:00 p.m. (New York time).  The Administrative Agent will make such Loans available to the Borrower pursuant to the terms and conditions hereof by promptly crediting the amounts so received, in like funds, to an account of the Borrower maintained with the Administrative Agent in New York City and designated by the Borrower in the applicable Borrowing Request; provided that Base Rate Borrowings that are Revolving Borrowings (x) made to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as provided in Section 1.4(6) shall be remitted by the Administrative Agent to the Issuing Lender and (y) made to repay Refunded Swing Line Loans as provided in Section 1.4-(A)(2)(d) shall be remitted by the Administrative Agent to the Swing Line Lender.

 

(2)                                 Presumption by the Administrative Agent.  Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the proposed date of any Borrowing that such Lender will not make available to the Administrative Agent such Lender’s share of such Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such share available on such date in accordance with Section 1.5(1) and may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower a corresponding amount.  In such event, if a Lender has not in fact made its share of the applicable Borrowing available to the Administrative Agent, then the applicable Lender and the Borrower severally agree to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is made available to the Borrower to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at (i) in the case of such Lender, the Federal Funds Rate or

 

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(ii) in the case of the Borrower, the interest rate applicable to Base Rate Loans (it being intended that such interest payment shall be the only interest payment payable by the Borrower with respect to any amount repaid by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent in accordance with this paragraph, except that Section 2.12 shall apply if the Borrower fails to make such repayment within three (3) days after the date of such payment as required hereunder).  If such Lender pays such amount to the Administrative Agent, then such amount shall constitute such Lender’s Loan included in such Borrowing.

 

1.6.                            Interest Elections.

 

(1)                                 Elections by the Borrower for Borrowings.  Each Borrowing initially shall be of the Type specified in the applicable Borrowing Request or, in the case of any Term Loan Borrowing, the applicable Joinder Agreement, and, in the case of a LIBO Rate Borrowing, shall have an initial Interest Period as specified in such Borrowing Request or Joinder Agreement, as applicable (which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term “Interest Period”).  Thereafter, the Borrower may elect to convert such Borrowing to a different Type or to continue such Borrowing and, in the case of a LIBO Rate Borrowing, may elect Interest Periods therefor, all as provided in this Section; provided, however, any conversion or continuation of LIBO Rate Loans shall be subject to the provisions of Sections 1.2(3) and (4) and provided further that each Borrowing shall consist of only Revolving Loans (or portions thereof) or Term Loans of the same Series (or portions thereof), as the case may be.  The Borrower may elect different options with respect to different portions of the affected Borrowing, in which case each such portion shall be allocated ratably among the Revolving Lenders or Term Lenders holding the Revolving Loans or Series of Term Loans comprising such Borrowing in accordance with such Lender’s Applicable Revolving Percentage or Applicable Term Percentage with respect to such Series of Term Loans, as applicable, thereof and the Loans comprising each such portion shall be considered a separate Borrowing.

 

(2)                                 Notice of Elections.  To make an election pursuant to this Section, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent in writing of such election (which notice may be by facsimile) by the time that a Borrowing Request would be required under Section 1.3 if the Borrower was requesting a Borrowing of the Type resulting from such election to be made on the effective date of such election.  Each such Rate Request shall be irrevocable, shall be signed by a Responsible Officer and shall be in the form of Exhibit C hereto.

 

(3)                                 Information in Interest Election Requests.  Each Rate Request shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 1.2:

 

(i)                                     the Borrowing to which such Rate Request  applies (and whether such Borrowing consists of Revolving Loans or a Series of Term Loans) and, if different options are being elected with respect to different portions thereof, the portions thereof to be allocated to each resulting Borrowing (in which case the information to be specified pursuant to clauses (iii) and (iv) of this section shall be specified for each resulting Borrowing);

 

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

 

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(iii)                               whether the resulting Borrowing is to be a Base Rate Borrowing or a LIBO Rate Borrowing; and

 

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

 

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

 

(4)                                 Notice by the Administrative Agent to Lenders.  Promptly following receipt of a Rate Request, the Administrative Agent shall advise each applicable Lender of the details thereof and of such Lender’s portion of each resulting Borrowing.

 

(5)                                 Failure to Elect; Potential Default and Events of Default.  If the Borrower fails to deliver a timely Rate Request with respect to a LIBO Rate Borrowing prior to the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto, then, unless such Borrowing is repaid as provided herein, at the end of such Interest Period such Borrowing shall be converted to a LIBO Rate Borrowing with a one month Interest Period so long as no Potential Default or Event of Default is continuing and otherwise to a Base Rate Borrowing.  Notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof, if a Potential Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing on the day occurring three Eurodollar Business Days prior to the date of, or on the date of, the requested funding, continuation or conversion, then, so long as a Potential Default or an Event of Default is continuing (i) no outstanding Borrowing may be converted to or continued as a LIBO Rate Borrowing and (ii) unless repaid, each LIBO Rate Borrowing shall be converted to a Base Rate Borrowing at the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto.

 

1.7.                            Termination, Reduction and Extension of the Revolving Commitments.

 

(1)                                 Scheduled Termination.  Unless previously terminated, or extended pursuant to Section 1.7(5) below, the Revolving Commitments shall terminate at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Revolving Commitment Termination Date.

 

(2)                                 Voluntary Termination or Reduction.  The Borrower may at any time terminate, or from time to time reduce, the Revolving Commitments; provided that (i) each reduction of the Revolving Commitments shall be in an amount that is $5,000,000 or a larger multiple of $1,000,000 and (ii) the Borrower shall not terminate or reduce the Revolving Commitments if, after giving effect to any concurrent prepayment of the Revolving Loans in accordance with Section 1.9, the total Revolving Credit Exposures would exceed the total Revolving Commitments.

 

(3)                                 Notice of Voluntary Termination or Reduction.  The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of any election to terminate or reduce the Revolving Commitments under Section 1.7(2) above at least three Business Days prior to the effective date of such termination or reduction, specifying such election and the effective date thereof. Promptly following receipt of any notice, the Administrative Agent shall advise the Revolving Lenders of the contents thereof.  Each notice delivered by the Borrower pursuant to this Section

 

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shall be irrevocable; provided that a notice of termination of the Revolving Commitments delivered by the Borrower may state that such notice is conditioned upon the effectiveness of other credit facilities, in which case such notice may be revoked by the Borrower (by notice to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the specified effective date) if such condition is not satisfied.

 

(4)                                 Effect of Termination or Reduction.  Any termination or reduction of the Revolving Commitments shall be permanent; provided that any such termination or reduction shall not reduce the Maximum Increase Amount.  Each reduction of the Revolving Commitments shall be made ratably among the Revolving Lenders in accordance with their respective Revolving Commitments.

 

(5)                                 Extension of Revolving Commitment Termination Date.

 

(A)                               Provided that no Potential Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Borrower shall have the option, to be exercised by giving written notice to the Administrative Agent at least thirty (30) days (but no more than ninety (90) days) prior to the Original Revolving Commitment Termination Date, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, to extend the Original Revolving Commitment Termination Date by twelve (12) months to May 2, 2016 (the “Extended Revolving Commitment Termination Date”).  The request by the Borrower for the extension of the Original Revolving Commitment Termination Date shall constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrower Parties that no Potential Default or Event of Default then exists and that all of the conditions set forth in Section 1.7(5)(B) below shall have been satisfied on the Original Revolving Commitment Termination Date.

 

(B)                               The obligations of the Administrative Agent and the Revolving Lenders to extend the Original Revolving Commitment Termination Date as provided in Section 1.7(5)(A) shall be subject to the prior satisfaction of each of the following conditions precedent as determined by the Administrative Agent in its good faith judgment:  (A) on the Original Revolving Commitment Termination Date there shall exist no Potential Default or Event of Default; (B) the Borrower shall have paid to the Administrative Agent for the ratable benefit of the Revolving Lenders an extension fee (the “Extension Fee”) equal to one-quarter of one percent (0. 25%) of the total Revolving Commitments then outstanding (which fee the Borrower hereby agrees shall be fully earned and nonrefundable under any circumstances when paid); (C) the representations and warranties made by the Borrower Parties in the Loan Documents shall have been true and correct in all material respects when made and shall also be true and correct in all material respects on the Original Revolving Commitment Termination Date (provided, however, that any factual matters disclosed in the Schedules referenced in Article 6 shall be subject to update in accordance with clause (D) below); (D) the Borrower Parties shall have delivered updates to the Administrative Agent of all the Schedules set forth in Article 6 hereof and such updated Schedules shall be acceptable to Administrative Agent in its reasonable judgment; (E) the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent a Compliance Certificate demonstrating that MAC and the Borrower are in compliance with the covenants set forth in Article 8; (F) the Borrower shall have paid all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent and all reasonable fees and expenses paid to third party consultants (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) by

 

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Administrative Agent in connection with such extension; and (G) the Guarantors shall have acknowledged and ratified that their obligations under the Guaranties and Pledge Agreements remain in full force and effect, and continue to guaranty and secure, as applicable, the Obligations under the Loan Documents, as extended.

 

(C)                               The Administrative Agent shall notify each of the Revolving Lenders in the event that the Borrower requests that the Original Revolving Commitment Termination Date be extended as provided in this Section 1.7(5) and upon any such extension.

 

1.8.                            Manner of Payment of Loans; Evidence of Debt.

 

(1)                                 Repayment.

 

(A)                               Subject to any earlier acceleration of the Revolving Loans following an Event of Default, the Borrower hereby unconditionally promises to pay to the Administrative Agent for account of the Revolving Lenders the outstanding principal amount of the Revolving Loans on the Revolving Commitment Termination Date.

 

(B)                               Subject to any earlier acceleration of the Term Loans following an Event of Default, the Borrower hereby unconditionally promises to pay to the Administrative Agent for account of the applicable Term Lenders the outstanding principal amount of each Series of Term Loans on the applicable Term Loan Maturity Date for such Series.

 

(2)                                 Manner of Payment.  The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent in writing (which notice may be by facsimile) of any repayment or prepayment hereunder (i) in the case of repayment or prepayment of a LIBO Rate Borrowing with an Interest Period not expiring on the date of payment, not later than 2:00 p.m. (New York time) one Business Day before the date of repayment or prepayment, or (ii) in the case of repayment or prepayment of a LIBO Rate Borrowing with Interest Periods expiring on the date of repayment or prepayment or a Base Rate Borrowing, not later than 1:00 p.m. (New York time) one Business Day before the date of repayment or prepayment.  Each such notice shall be irrevocable and shall specify the repayment or prepayment date and the principal amount of each Borrowing or portion thereof to be repaid or prepaid; provided that, if a notice of repayment or prepayment is given in connection with a conditional notice of termination of the Revolving Commitments as contemplated by Section 1.7, then such notice of repayment or prepayment may be revoked if such notice of termination is revoked in accordance with Section 1.7.  Promptly following receipt of any such notice relating to a Borrowing, the Administrative Agent shall advise the Lenders of the Loans included in such Borrowing of the contents thereof.  Each repayment or prepayment of a Borrowing shall be applied ratably to the Loans included in the repaid or prepaid Borrowing.  Repayments and prepayments shall be accompanied by (A) accrued interest to the extent required by Section 1.10 and (B) any payments due pursuant to Section 2.9.  If the Borrower fails to make a timely selection of the Borrowing or Borrowings to be repaid or prepaid, such payment shall be applied, first, to pay any outstanding Base Rate Borrowings and, second, to other Borrowings in the order of the remaining duration of their respective Interest Periods (the Borrowing with the shortest remaining Interest Period to be repaid first).

 

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(3)                                 Maintenance of Loan Accounts by Lenders.  Each Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice an account or accounts evidencing the indebtedness of the Borrower to such Lender resulting from each Loan made by such Lender, including the amounts of principal and interest payable and paid to such Lender from time to time hereunder.

 

(4)                                 Maintenance of Register by the Administrative Agent.  The Administrative Agent shall maintain a register in which it shall record the names and addresses of Lenders and the Commitments and Loans of each Lender from time to time (the “Register”).  The Register shall be available for inspection by Borrower or any Lender (with respect to any entry relating to such Lender’s Loans) at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.  Administrative Agent shall record, or shall cause to be recorded, in the Register the Commitments and the Loans in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.6, and each repayment or prepayment in respect of the principal amount of the Loans, and any such recordation shall be conclusive and binding on Borrower and each Lender, absent manifest error; provided, failure to make any such recordation, or any error in such recordation, shall not affect any Lender’s Commitments or Loans or Borrower’s Obligations in respect of any Loan.  Borrower hereby designates Administrative Agent to serve as Borrower’s agent solely for purposes of maintaining the Register as provided in this Section 1.8(4), and Borrower hereby agrees that, to the extent Administrative Agent serves in such capacity, Administrative Agent and its officers, directors, employees, agents, sub-agents and affiliates shall constitute “Indemnified Persons.”

 

(5)                                 Effect of Entries.  The entries made in the accounts maintained pursuant to Sections 1.8 (3) and (4) above shall be prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts of the obligations recorded therein; provided that the failure of any Lender or the Administrative Agent to maintain such accounts or any error therein shall not in any manner affect the obligation of the Borrower to repay the Loans in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

 

(6)                                 Promissory Notes.  Upon the request of a Revolving Lender, the Borrower shall promptly execute and deliver to such Revolving Lender a Revolving Loan Note evidencing such Revolving Lender’s Revolving Commitment.  Upon the request of a Term Lender, the Borrower shall promptly execute and deliver to such Term Lender a Term Loan Note, evidencing such Term Lender’s Term Loan under each Series of Term Loans.  Upon the request of the Swing Line Lender, the Borrower shall promptly execute and deliver to the Swing Line Lender a Swing Line Note evidencing such Swing Line Lender’s Swing Line Loans.

 

1.9.                            Prepayment of Loans.

 

(1)                                 Optional Prepayment.  The Borrower shall have the right at any time and from time to time to prepay any Borrowing in whole or in part, subject to the requirements of this Section; provided, however, that voluntary prepayments (other than a prepayment in whole) shall be in the minimum amount of $1,000,000 and integral multiples of $100,000 in excess thereof (or, in the case of Swing Line Loans, in the minimum amount of $500,000); provided, further, however, that any voluntary prepayments of the Series A Term Loan made pursuant to this Section 1.9(1) shall be accompanied by the applicable premium

 

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payable pursuant to Section 1.9(2), if any, and any voluntary prepayments of any other Series of Term Loans shall be accompanied by any applicable premium set forth in the Joinder Agreement for such Series of Term Loans, if any.  Any prepayments of any Term Loans pursuant to this Section 1.9 shall be applied in the manner as directed by the Borrower, subject to Section 2.2.  Any other prepayments pursuant to this Section 1.9 shall be applied first to prepay outstanding Swing Line Loans and second to prepay outstanding Revolving Loans (other than Swing Line Loans) without a permanent reduction of the aggregate Revolving Commitments.

 

(2)                                 Series A Term Loan Prepayment Premium.  Upon any prepayment of the Series A Term Loans in whole or in part including following the acceleration of the Series A Term Loans after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, (i) at any time prior to the first anniversary of the First Amendment Effective Date, the Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the ratable account of the Series A Term Lenders a premium equal to 2.00% of the aggregate principal amount of the Series A Term Loans so prepaid or paid, (ii) at any time from and after the first anniversary of the First Amendment Effective Date and prior to the second anniversary of the First Amendment Effective Date, Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the ratable account of the Series A Term Lenders a premium equal to 1.00% of the aggregate principal amount of the Series A Term Loans so prepaid or paid and (iii) at any time from and after the second anniversary of the First Amendment Effective Date and prior to the third anniversary of the First Amendment Effective Date, Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the ratable account of the Series A Term Lenders a premium equal to 0.50% of the aggregate principal amount of the Series A Term Loans so prepaid or paid.  Such prepayment premiums shall be in addition to, and not in lieu of, any other Obligation, including, without limitation, any obligation to make a payment under Section 2.9.

 

1.10.                     Interest.

 

(1)                                 Base Rate Loans.  Swing Line Loans and the Loans comprising each Base Rate Borrowing shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the Applicable Base Rate.

 

(2)                                 LIBO Rate Loans.  The Loans (other than Swing Line Loans) constituting each LIBO Rate Borrowing shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the Applicable LIBO Rate for the Interest Period for such Borrowing.

 

(3)                                 Payment of Interest.

 

(A)                               The Borrower shall pay interest on Base Rate Borrowings monthly, in arrears, on the last Business Day of each calendar month, as set forth on an interest billing delivered by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower (which delivery may be by facsimile transmission) no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York time) on a date at least one Business Day prior to the date such interest is due.

 

(B)                               The Borrower shall pay interest on the LIBO Rate Borrowings on the last day of the applicable Interest Period or, in the case of LIBO Rate Borrowings with an Interest Period ending later than three months after the date funded, converted or continued, at the end of each three month period from the date funded, converted or

 

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continued and on the last day of the applicable Interest Period, as set forth on an interest billing delivered by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower (which delivery may be by facsimile transmission) no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York time) on a date at least one Business Day prior to the date such interest is due.

 

1.11.                     Presumptions of Payment.  Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Borrower prior to the date on which any payment is due to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders, the Revolving Lenders, the Term Lenders of any Series, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender hereunder that the Borrower will not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower has made such payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such assumption, distribute to the applicable Lenders, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender, as the case may be, the amount due.  In such event, if the Borrower has not in fact made such payment, then each of the applicable Lenders, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender, as the case may be, severally agrees to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the amount so distributed to such Lender, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is distributed to it to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at the Federal Funds Rate.

 

1.12.                     Defaulting Lender Adjustments; Removal; Termination.

 

(a)                                 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, if any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then, until such time as such Lender is no longer a Defaulting Lender, to the extent permitted by applicable law:

 

(1)                                 Waivers and Amendments.  Such Defaulting Lender shall be deemed not to be a “Lender” for purposes of any amendment, waiver or consent with respect to any provision of the Loan Documents that requires the approval of Required Lenders.

 

(2)                                 Defaulting Lender Waterfall. Any payment of principal, interest, fees or other amounts received by the Administrative Agent for the account of such Defaulting Lender (whether voluntary or mandatory, at maturity, pursuant to Article 9 or otherwise) or received by the Administrative Agent from a Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 11.17 shall be applied at such time or times as may be determined by the Administrative Agent as follows: first, to the payment of any amounts owing by such Defaulting Lender to the Administrative Agent hereunder; second, to the payment on a pro rata basis of any amounts owing by such Defaulting Lender to the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender hereunder; third, to cash collateralize the Issuing Lender’s LC Exposure with respect to such Defaulting Lender in accordance with Section 1.4(11); fourth, as the Borrower may request (so long as no Default or Event of Default exists), to the funding of any Loan in respect of which such Defaulting Lender has failed to fund its portion thereof as required by this Agreement, as determined by the Administrative Agent; fifth, if so determined by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, to be held in a deposit account and released pro rata in order to (x) satisfy such Defaulting Lender’s potential future funding obligations with respect to Loans under this Agreement and (y) cash collateralize the Issuing Lender’s future LC Exposure with respect to such Defaulting Lender with respect to future Letters of Credit issued under this Agreement, in accordance with Section 1.4(11); sixth, to the payment of any amounts owing to the Lenders, the Issuing Lender or the

 

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Swing Line Lender as a result of any judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by any Lender, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender against such Defaulting Lender as a result of such Defaulting Lender’s breach of its obligations under this Agreement; seventh, so long as no Default or Event of Default exists, to the payment of any amounts owing to the Borrower as a result of any judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by the Borrower against such Defaulting Lender as a result of such Defaulting Lender’s breach of its obligations under this Agreement; and eighth, to such Defaulting Lender or as otherwise directed by a court of competent jurisdiction; provided that if (x) such payment is a payment of the principal amount of any Loans or LC Disbursements in respect of which such Defaulting Lender has not fully funded its appropriate share, and (y) such Loans were made or the related Letters of Credit were issued at a time when the conditions set forth in Section 5.2 were satisfied or waived, such payment shall be applied solely to pay the Loans of, and LC Disbursements owed to, all Non-Defaulting Lenders on a pro rata basis prior to being applied to the payment of any Loans of, or LC Disbursements owed to, such Defaulting Lender until such time as all Revolving Loans and funded and unfunded participations in LC Disbursements and Swing Line Loans are held by the Revolving Lenders pro rata in accordance with the Revolving Commitments without giving effect to Section 1.12(a)(4), and/or the Term Loans for each Series are held pro rata by the Term Lenders in accordance with the Term Loan Commitments for such Series, as the case may be. Any payments, prepayments or other amounts paid or payable to a Defaulting Lender that are applied (or held) to pay amounts owed by a Defaulting Lender or to post cash collateral pursuant to this Section 1.12(a)(2) shall be deemed paid to and redirected by such Defaulting Lender, and each Lender irrevocably consents hereto.

 

(3)                                 Certain Fees.

 

(A)                               No Defaulting Lender shall be entitled to receive any Unused Line Fee for any period during which that Lender is a Defaulting Lender (and the Borrower shall not be required to pay any such fee that otherwise would have been required to have been paid to that Defaulting Lender).

 

(B)                               Each Defaulting Lender shall be entitled to receive Letter of Credit Fees for any period during which that Revolving Lender is a Defaulting Lender only to the extent allocable to its Applicable Revolving Percentage of the stated amount of Letters of Credit for which it has provided cash collateral pursuant to Section 1.4(11).

 

(C)                               With respect to any Unused Line Fee or Letter of Credit Fee not required to be paid to any Defaulting Lender pursuant to clause (A) or (B) above, the Borrower shall (x) pay to each Non-Defaulting Lender that portion of any such fee otherwise payable to such Defaulting Lender with respect to such Defaulting Lender’s participation in LC Disbursements or Swing Line Loans that has been reallocated to such Non-Defaulting Lender pursuant to clause (4) below, (y) pay to each Issuing Lender and Swing Line Lender, as applicable, the amount of any such fee otherwise payable to such Defaulting Lender to the extent allocable to such Issuing Lender’s LC Exposure to such Defaulting Lender or such Swing Line Lender’s Applicable Revolving Percentage of outstanding Swing Line Loans made by such Swing Line Lender other than Swing Line Loans as to which such Defaulting Lender’s participation obligation has been reallocated to other Revolving Lenders, and (z) not be required to pay the remaining amount of any such fee.

 

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(4)                                 Reallocation of Participations to Reduce LC Exposure.  All or any part of such Defaulting Lender’s participation in LC Disbursements and Swing Line Loans shall be reallocated among the Non-Defaulting Lenders which are Revolving Lenders in accordance with their respective Applicable Revolving Percentages (calculated without regard to such Defaulting Lender’s Revolving Commitment) but only to the extent that (x) the conditions set forth in Section 5.2 are satisfied at the time of such reallocation (and, unless the Borrower shall have otherwise notified the Administrative Agent at such time, the Borrower shall be deemed to have represented and warranted that such conditions are satisfied at such time), and (y) such reallocation does not cause the aggregate Revolving Credit Exposure of any Non-Defaulting Lender to exceed such Non-Defaulting Lender’s Revolving Commitment.  No reallocation hereunder shall constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder against a Defaulting Lender arising from that Lender having become a Defaulting Lender, including any claim of a Non-Defaulting Lender as a result of such Non-Defaulting Lender’s increased exposure following such reallocation.

 

(5)                                 Cash Collateral; Repayment of Swing Line Loans.  If the reallocation described in clause (4) above cannot, or can only partially, be effected, the Borrower shall, without prejudice to any right or remedy available to it hereunder or under law, (x) first, prepay Swing Line Loans in an amount equal to the Swing Line Lenders Applicable Revolving Percentage of outstanding Swing Line Loans made by such Swing Line Lender other than Swing Line Loans as to which such Defaulting Lender’s participation obligation has been reallocated to other Revolving Lenders and (y) second, cash collateralize the Issuing Lender’s LC Exposure in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 1.4(11).

 

(b)                                 Defaulting Lender Cure.  If the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (and, in the case of any Revolving Lender that is a Defaulting Lender, each Issuing Lender and Swing Line Lender) agree in writing that a Lender is no longer a Defaulting Lender, the Administrative Agent will so notify the parties hereto, whereupon as of the effective date specified in such notice and subject to any conditions set forth therein (which may include arrangements with respect to any cash collateral), that Lender will, to the extent applicable, purchase at par that portion of outstanding Loans of other Lenders or take such other actions as the Administrative Agent may determine to be necessary to cause the Revolving Loans and funded and unfunded participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans to be held pro rata by the Revolving Lenders in accordance with the Revolving Commitments (without giving effect to Section 1.12(a)(4)) and the Term Loans for each Series to be held pro rata by the Term Lenders in accordance with the Term Loan Commitments for such Series, whereupon such Lender will cease to be a Defaulting Lender; provided that no adjustments will be made retroactively with respect to fees accrued or payments made by or on behalf of the Borrower while that Lender was a Defaulting Lender; and provided, further, that except to the extent otherwise expressly agreed by the affected parties, no change hereunder from Defaulting Lender to Lender will constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder arising from that Lender’s having been a Defaulting Lender.

 

(c)                                  New Swing Line Loans/Letters of Credit.  So long as any Revolving Lender is a Defaulting Lender, (i) the Swing Line Lender shall not be required to fund any Swing Line Loans unless it is satisfied that it will have no fronting exposure after giving effect to such Swing Line Loans and (ii) no Issuing Lender shall be required to issue, extend, renew or increase

 

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any Letter of Credit unless it is satisfied that it will have no LC Exposure after giving effect thereto.

 

(d)                                 Removal of Defaulting Lender.  At the Borrower’s request, the Administrative Agent or an Eligible Assignee reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent shall have the right (but not the obligation) to purchase from any Defaulting Lender, and each Defaulting Lender shall, upon such request, sell and assign to the Administrative Agent or such Eligible Assignee, all of the Defaulting Lender’s outstanding Commitments and Loans hereunder.  Such sale shall be consummated promptly after the Administrative Agent has arranged for a purchase by the Administrative Agent or an Eligible Assignee pursuant to an Assignment and Acceptance, and at a price equal to the outstanding principal balance of the Defaulting Lender’s Loans, plus accrued interest, without premium or discount.

 

ARTICLE 2.                           General Provisions Regarding Payments.

 

2.1.                            Payments by the Borrower.  The Borrower shall make each payment required to be made by it hereunder (whether of principal, interest or fees or reimbursement of LC Disbursements, or under Section 2.7, 2.9 or 2.10, or otherwise) or under any other Loan Document (except to the extent otherwise provided therein) prior to 2:00 p.m. (New York time) (unless otherwise specified in this Agreement), on the date when due, in immediately available funds, without set-off or counterclaim; provided that if a new Loan is to be made by any Lender on a date the Borrower is to repay any principal of an outstanding Loan of such Lender, such Lender shall apply the proceeds of such new Loan to the payment of the principal to be repaid and only an amount equal to the difference between the principal to be borrowed and the principal to be repaid shall be made available by such Lender to the Administrative Agent as provided in Section 1.5 or paid by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent pursuant to this paragraph, as the case may be.  Any amounts received after such time on any date may, in the discretion of the Administrative Agent, be deemed to have been received on the next succeeding Business Day for purposes of calculating interest thereon.  All such payments shall be wired to the Administrative Agent at the Contact Office, ABA 021-001-033 for the Administrative Agent’s Account No. 99-401-268, Ref:  Macerich Partnership, except as otherwise expressly provided in the relevant Loan Document, and except payments to be made directly to the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender as expressly provided herein and except that payments pursuant to Sections 2.7, 2.9, 2.10 and 11.14 shall be made directly to the Persons entitled thereto.  The Administrative Agent shall distribute any such payments received by it for the account of any other Person to the appropriate recipient promptly following receipt thereof.  If any payment hereunder shall be due on a day that is not a Business Day, the date for payment shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day and, in the case of any payment accruing interest, interest thereon shall be payable for the period of such extension.  All payments hereunder or under any other Loan Document (except to the extent otherwise provided therein) shall be made in Dollars.

 

2.2.                            Pro Rata Treatment.  Except to the extent otherwise provided herein:  (i) each Revolving Borrowing shall be made from the Revolving Lenders, each payment of the Unused Line Fee under Section 2.11 shall be made for account of the Revolving Lenders, and each termination or reduction of the amount of the Revolving Commitments under Section 1.7 shall be applied to the respective Revolving Commitments of the Revolving Lenders, pro rata

 

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according to the amounts of their respective Revolving Commitments; (ii) each Revolving Borrowing shall be allocated pro rata among the Revolving Lenders according to the amounts of their respective Revolving Commitments (in the case of the making of Revolving Loans) or their respective Revolving Loans (in the case of conversions and continuations of Loans); (iii) each payment or prepayment of principal of Revolving Loans by the Borrower shall be made for account of the Revolving Lenders pro rata in accordance with the respective unpaid principal amounts of the Revolving Loans held by them; (iv) each payment of interest on Revolving Loans by the Borrower shall be made for account of the Revolving Lenders pro rata in accordance with the amounts of interest on such Revolving Loans then due and payable to the respective Revolving Lenders; (v) each Term Loan Borrowing of a Series shall be made from the applicable Term Lenders, pro rata according to the amounts of their respective Term Loan Commitments for such Series; (vi) each Term Loan Borrowing of a Series shall be allocated pro rata among the applicable Term Lenders according to the amounts of their respective Term Loan Commitments for such Series (in the case of the making of the Term Loans of such Series) or their respective portions of the Term Loans of such Series (in the case of conversions and continuations of the Term Loans of such Series); (vii) each payment or prepayment of principal of the Term Loans of a Series by the Borrower shall be made for account of the applicable Term Lenders pro rata in accordance with the respective unpaid principal amounts of the Term Loans of such Series held by them; and (viii) each payment of interest on the Term Loans of a Series by the Borrower shall be made for account of the applicable Term Lenders pro rata in accordance with the amounts of interest on the Term Loans of such Series then due and payable to the respective Term Lenders.  For the avoidance of doubt, (x) the obligations to repay the New Term Loans and pay and perform the other obligations of Borrower or any other Borrower Party under the Loan Documents (including, without limitation, any Joinder Agreement, any Notes evidencing the New Term Loans and any other documents and instruments executed in connection with any of the foregoing) constitute Obligations under this Agreement that are pari passu with the other Obligations in accordance with the respective Credit Exposures of the Lenders, (y) all of the Obligations of Borrower are guarantied by the Guarantors under Loan Documents pari passu in accordance with the respective Credit Exposures of the Lenders, and (z) all of the Obligations are secured by all Collateral (and all other collateral for the Obligations) pari passu in accordance with the respective Credit Exposures of the Lenders.

 

2.3.                            RESERVED

 

2.4.                            Inability to Determine Rates.  In the event that the Administrative Agent shall have reasonably determined (which determination shall be conclusive and binding upon the Borrower) that by reason of circumstances affecting the interbank market adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the LIBO Rate for any Interest Period, the Administrative Agent shall forthwith give telephonic notice of such determination to each Lender and to the Borrower.  If such notice is given:  (1) no portion of the Loans may be funded as a LIBO Rate Borrowing, (2) any Base Rate Borrowing that was to have been converted to a LIBO Rate Borrowing shall, subject to the provisions hereof, be continued as a Base Rate Borrowing, and (3) any outstanding LIBO Rate Borrowing shall be converted, on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, to a Base Rate Borrowing.  Until such notice has been withdrawn by the Administrative Agent, the Borrower shall not have the right to convert any Base Rate Borrowing to a LIBO Rate Borrowing or to continue a LIBO Rate Borrowing as such.  The Administrative Agent shall withdraw such notice in the event that the circumstances giving

 

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rise thereto no longer pertain and that adequate and reasonable means exist for ascertaining the LIBO Rate for the Interest Period requested by the Borrower, and, following withdrawal of such notice by the Administrative Agent, the Borrower shall have the right to convert any Base Rate Borrowing to a LIBO Rate Borrowing and to continue any LIBO Rate Borrowing as such in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

 

2.5.                            Illegality.  Notwithstanding any other provisions herein, if any law, regulation, treaty or directive issued by any Governmental Authority or any change therein or in the interpretation or application thereof, shall make it unlawful for any Lender to maintain LIBO Rate Loans as contemplated by this Agreement:  (1) the commitment of such Lender hereunder to continue LIBO Rate Loans or to convert Base Rate Loans to LIBO Rate Loans shall forthwith be cancelled, and (2) LIBO Rate Loans held by such Lender then outstanding, if any, shall be converted automatically to Base Rate Loans at the end of their respective Interest Periods or within such earlier period as may be required by law.  In the event of a conversion of any LIBO Rate Loan prior to the end of its applicable Interest Period, the Borrower hereby agrees promptly to pay any Lender affected thereby, upon demand, the amounts required pursuant to Section 2.9 below, it being agreed and understood that such conversion shall constitute a prepayment for all purposes of this Section 2.5.  The provisions hereof shall survive the termination of this Agreement and payment of all other Obligations.

 

2.6.                            Funding.  Each Lender shall be entitled to fund all or any portion of its Commitment to make Loans in any manner it may determine in its sole discretion, including, without limitation, in the Grand Cayman inter-bank market, the London inter-bank market and within the United States, but all calculations and transactions hereunder shall be conducted as though all Lenders actually fund all LIBO Rate Loans through the purchase of offshore dollar deposits in the amount of such Lender’s Applicable Term Percentage or Applicable Revolving Percentage, as the case may be, of the relevant LIBO Rate Loan with a maturity corresponding to the applicable Interest Period.

 

2.7.                            Increased Costs.

 

(1)                                 Subject to the provisions of Section 2.10 (which shall be controlling with respect to the matters covered thereby), in the event that any Change in Law:

 

(A)                               Does or shall subject any Lender, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender to any Taxes of any kind whatsoever with respect to this Agreement or any Loan, or change the basis of determining the Taxes imposed on payments to such Lender, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender of principal, fee, interest or any other amount payable hereunder (except for Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes, which shall be governed by Section 2.10, or the imposition of, or changes in the rate of, Excluded Taxes);

 

(B)                               Does or shall impose, modify or hold applicable any reserve, capital requirement, special deposit, compulsory loan or similar requirements against assets held by, or deposits or other liabilities in or for the account of, advances or loans by, or other credit extended by, or any other acquisition of funds by, any office of such Lender, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender which are not otherwise included in the determination of interest payable on the Obligations;

 

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(C)                               Does or shall impose on any Lender, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender any other condition; or

 

(D)                               Does or shall impose on any Lender, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender or the London interbank market any other condition, cost or expense affecting this Agreement or LIBO Rate Loans made by such Lender or any Letter of Credit or participation therein;

 

and the result of any of the foregoing is to increase the cost to such Lender, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender of making, renewing or maintaining its Revolving Commitment or its Credit Exposure or to increase the cost of such Lender, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender of participating in, issuing or maintaining any Letter of Credit or Swing Line Loan or to reduce any amount receivable in respect thereof or the rate of return on the capital of such Lender, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender or any corporation controlling such Lender, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender, then, in any such case, the Borrower shall, without duplication of amounts payable pursuant to Section 2.10, promptly (and in any event no later than 10 Business Days after receipt by the Borrower of notice from the applicable Lender, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender pursuant to Section 2.7(2) below claiming additional amounts pursuant to this Section 2.7) pay to such Lender, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender, upon its written demand made through the Administrative Agent, any additional amounts necessary to compensate such Lender, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender for such additional cost or reduced amounts receivable or rate of return as determined by such Lender, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender with respect to this Agreement or such Lender’s, the Issuing Lender’s or the Swing Line Lender’s Revolving Commitment, Credit Exposure or Letter of Credit obligations.

 

(2)                                 If a Lender, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender become entitled to claim any additional amounts pursuant to this Section 2.7, it shall promptly notify the Borrower of the event by reason of which it has become so entitled.  A certificate as to any additional amounts so claimed payable containing the calculation thereof in reasonable detail submitted by a Lender, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender to the Borrower, accompanied by a certification that such Lender, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender has required substantially all obligors under other commitments of this type made available by such Lender, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender to similarly so compensate such Lender, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender, shall constitute prima facie evidence thereof; provided that the Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender pursuant to this Section 2.7 for any increased cost or reduction in respect of a period occurring more than six months prior to the date that such Lender, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender notifies the Borrower of such Lender’s intention to claim compensation therefor unless the circumstances giving rise to such increased cost or reduction became applicable retroactively, in which case no such time limitation shall apply so long as such Lender requests compensation within six months from the date such circumstances become applicable.

 

(3)                                 Other than as set forth in this Section 2.7, the failure or delay on the part of any Lender, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender to demand compensation pursuant to this Section 2.7 shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s, the Issuing Lender’s

 

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or the Swing Line Lender’s right to demand such compensation.  The provisions of this Section 2.7 shall survive the termination of this Agreement and payment of the Loans and all other Obligations.

 

2.8.                            Obligation of Lenders to Mitigate; Replacement of Lenders.  Each Lender agrees that:

 

(1)                                 As promptly as reasonably practicable after the officer of such Lender responsible for administering such Lender’s Revolving Commitment and Credit Exposure becomes aware of any event or condition that would entitle such Lender to receive payments under Section 2.7 above or Section 2.10 below or to cease maintaining LIBO Rate Loans under Section 2.5 above, such Lender will use reasonable efforts:  (i) to maintain its Revolving Commitment and Credit Exposure through another lending office of such Lender or (ii) take such other measures as such Lender may deem reasonable, if as a result thereof the additional amounts which would otherwise be required to be paid to such Lender pursuant to Section 2.7 above or pursuant to Section 2.10 below would be materially reduced or eliminated or the conditions rendering such Lender incapable of maintaining LIBO Rate Loans under Section 2.5 above no longer would be applicable, and if, as determined by such Lender in its sole discretion, the maintaining of such LIBO Rate Loans through such other lending office or in accordance with such other measures, as the case may be, would not otherwise materially adversely affect such LIBO Rate Loans or the interests of such Lender.

 

(2)                                 If the Borrower receives a notice pursuant to Section 2.7 above or pursuant to Section 2.10 below or a notice pursuant to Section 2.5 above stating that a Lender is unable to maintain LIBO Rate Loans (for reasons not generally applicable to the Required Lenders), so long as (i) no Potential Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (ii) the Borrower has obtained a commitment from another Lender or an Eligible Assignee to purchase at par such Lender’s Revolving Commitment, its Credit Exposure at such time and accrued interest and fees and to assume all obligations of the Lender to be replaced under the Loan Documents and (iii) such Lender to be replaced is unwilling to withdraw the notice delivered to the Borrower, upon thirty (30) days’ prior written notice to such Lender and the Administrative Agent, the Borrower may require, at the Borrower’s expense, the Lender giving such notice to assign, without recourse, all of its Revolving Commitment, Credit Exposure and accrued interest and fees to such other Lender or Eligible Assignee pursuant to the provisions of Section 11.8 below.

 

2.9.                            Funding Indemnification.  In the event of (a) the payment of any principal of any LIBO Rate Loan other than on the last day of an Interest Period applicable thereto (including as a result of an Event of Default), (b) the conversion of any LIBO Rate Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, (c) the failure to borrow, convert, continue or prepay any Loan on the date specified in any notice delivered pursuant hereto (regardless of whether such notice is permitted to be revocable under Section 1.8(2) and is revoked in accordance herewith), or (d) the assignment of any LIBO Rate Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto as a result of a request by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.8(2), then, in any such event, the Borrower shall compensate each Lender for the loss, cost and expense attributable to such event.  In the case of a LIBO Rate Loan, the loss to any Lender attributable to any such event shall be deemed to include an amount determined by

 

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such Lender to be equal to the excess, if any, of (i) the amount of interest that such Lender would have accrued on the principal amount of such Loan for the period from the date of such payment, conversion, failure or assignment to the last day of the then current Interest Period for such Loan (or, in the case of a failure to borrow, convert or continue, the duration of the Interest Period that would have resulted from such borrowing, conversion or continuation) if the interest rate payable on such deposit were equal to the Reserve Adjusted LIBO Rate for such Interest Period, over (ii) the amount of interest that such Lender would earn on such principal amount for such period if such Lender were to invest such principal amount for such period at the interest rate that would be bid by such Lender (or an affiliate of such Lender) for dollar deposits from other banks in the eurodollar market at the commencement of such period.  A certificate of any Lender setting forth any amount or amounts that such Lender is entitled to receive pursuant to this Section shall be delivered to the Borrower and shall be conclusive absent manifest error.  The Borrower shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 10 days after receipt thereof.

 

2.10.                     Taxes.

 

(1)                                 Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall be made free and clear of and without deduction for any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes; provided that if the Borrower shall be required to deduct any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes from such payments, then (i) the sum payable shall be increased as necessary so that after making all required deductions (including deductions applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 2.10) the Administrative Agent, Lender, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender (as the case may be) receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deductions been made, (ii) the Borrower shall make such deductions and (iii) the Borrower shall pay the full amount deducted to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law.

 

(2)                                 In addition, the Borrower shall pay any Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law.

 

(3)                                 The Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agent, each Lender, the Issuing Lender and the Swing Line Lender, within ten (10) Business Days after written demand therefore, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section 2.10) paid by the Administrative Agent, such Lender, such Issuing Lender or such Swing Line Lender, as the case may be, and any penalties, interest (except to the extent such penalties and/or interest arise as a result of a Lender’s, Issuing Lender’s or the Swing Line Lender’s delay in dealing with any such Indemnified Tax) and reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority.  A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrower by a Lender, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

 

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(4)                                 As soon as practicable after any payment of Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes by the Borrower to a Governmental Authority, the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

 

(5)                                 Each Foreign Lender shall deliver to the Borrower (with copies to the Administrative Agent) on or before the date hereof (or in the case of a Foreign Lender who became a Lender by way of an assignment, on or before the date of the assignment) or at least five (5) Business Days prior to the first date for any payment herewith to such Lender, and from time to time as required for renewal under applicable law, such certificates, documents or other evidence, as required by the Code or Treasury Regulations issued pursuant thereto, including, without limitation, Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN or W-ECI, as appropriate, and any other certificate or statement of exemption required by Section 871(h) or Section 881(c) of the Code or any subsequent version thereof, properly completed and duly executed by such Lender establishing that payments to such Lender hereunder are not subject to withholding under the Code (“Evidence of No Withholding”).  Each Foreign Lender shall promptly notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent of any change in its applicable lending office and upon written request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent shall, prior to the immediately following due date of any payment by the Borrower hereunder or under any other Loan Document, deliver Evidence of No Withholding to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.  The Borrower shall be entitled to rely on such forms in their possession until receipt of any revised or successor form pursuant to this Section 2.10(5).  If a Lender fails to provide Evidence of No Withholding as required pursuant to this Section 2.10(5), then (i) the Borrower (or the Administrative Agent) shall be entitled to deduct or withhold from payments to Administrative Agent or such Lender as a result of such failure, as required by law, and (ii) the Borrower shall not be required to make payments of additional amounts with respect to such withheld Taxes pursuant to Section 2.10(1) to the extent such withholding is required solely by reason of the failure of such Lender to provide the necessary Evidence of No Withholding.

 

(6)                                 Any Foreign Lender that does not act or ceases to act for its own account with respect to any portion of any sums paid or payable to such Lender under any of the Loan Documents (for example, in the case of a typical participation by such Lender) shall deliver to the Borrower (with copies to the Administrative Agent and in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient), on or prior to the date such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender, or on such later date when such Foreign Lender ceases to act for its own account with respect to any portion of any such sums paid or payable, and from time to time thereafter, required for renewal under applicable law:

 

(A)                               duly executed and properly completed copies of the forms and statements required to be provided by such Foreign Lender under Section 2.10(5), to establish the portion of any such sums paid or payable with respect to which such Lender acts for its own account and is providing Evidence of No Withholding, and

 

(B)                               copies of the Internal Revenue Service Form W 8IMY (or any successor forms) properly completed and duly executed by such Foreign Lender, together with any information, if any, such Foreign Lender chooses to transmit with such form, and any

 

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other certificate or statement of exemption required under the Internal Revenue Code or the regulations thereunder, to establish that such Foreign Lender is not acting for its own account with respect to a portion of any such sums payable to such Foreign Lender.

 

(7)                                 Any Lender, Issuing Lender or Swing Line Lender that is not a Foreign Lender and has not otherwise established to the reasonable satisfaction of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent that it is an exempt recipient (as defined in section 6049(b)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code and the United States Treasury Regulations thereunder) shall deliver to the Borrower (with copies to the Administrative Agent and in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Lender, Issuing Lender or Swing Line Lender becomes a Lender, Issuing Lender or Swing Line Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter as prescribed by applicable law or upon the request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), duly executed and properly completed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W 9.

 

(8)                                 If the Administrative Agent or any Lender, Issuing Lender or Swing Line Lender determines, in its sole discretion, that it has received a refund of any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes as to which it has been indemnified by the Borrower or with respect to which the Borrower has paid additional amounts pursuant to this Section 2.10, it shall pay to the Borrower an amount equal to such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by the Borrower under this Section 2.10 with respect to the Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses of the Administrative Agent or such Lender, Issuing Lender or Swing Line Lender and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund), provided that the Borrower, upon the request of the Administrative Agent or such Lender, Issuing Lender or Swing Line Lender, as the case may be, agrees to repay the amount paid over to the Borrower (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) to the Administrative Agent or such Lender, Issuing Lender or Swing Line Lender, in the event the Administrative Agent or such Lender, Issuing Lender or Swing Line Lender, as applicable, is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority.  This paragraph shall not be construed to require the Administrative Agent or any Lender, Issuing Lender or Swing Line Lender to make available its tax returns (or any other information relating to its taxes that it deems confidential) to the Borrower or any other Person.

 

(9)                                 If a payment made to or on behalf of a Lender, Issuing Lender or Swing Line Lender hereunder or under any other Loan Document would be subject to United States withholding Tax imposed by FATCA if such Lender, Issuing Lender or Swing Line Lender fails to comply with the applicable reporting and other requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Lender, Issuing Lender or Swing Line Lender, as the case may be, shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent at the time or times prescribed by law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent such documentation prescribed by applicable law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent sufficient for the Borrower and Administrative Agent (i) to comply with their obligations under FATCA and (ii) to determine that such Lender, Issuing Lender or Swing Line Lender, as

 

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applicable, has complied with such applicable reporting and other requirements of FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment.

 

2.11.                     Fees.

 

(1)                                 Unused Line Fee.  Until the Obligations have been paid in full and the Agreement terminated, the Borrower agrees to pay, on the first day of each month and on the Revolving Commitment Termination Date, to the Administrative Agent, for the ratable account of the Revolving Lenders, an unused line fee (the “Unused Line Fee”) equal to 0.35% per annum on the average daily amount by which, during the immediately preceding month or shorter period if calculated on the Revolving Commitment Termination Date, the aggregate amount of the Revolving Lenders’ Revolving Commitments during such period exceeded the sum of (i) the average daily outstanding amount of Revolving Loans (excluding Swing Line Loans) and (ii) the undrawn face amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit.  The unused line fee shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year for the actual number of days elapsed.

 

(2)                                 Letter of Credit Fees and Costs.

 

(A)                               The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for distribution to each Non-Defaulting Lender (based on their respective Applicable Revolving Percentage) in U.S. Dollars, a fee in respect of each Letter of Credit issued for the account of any Macerich Entity (the “Letter of Credit Fee”), in each case for the period from and including the date of issuance of the respective Letter of Credit to and including the date of termination of such Letter of Credit, computed at a rate per annum equal to the applicable “LIBO Spread” as listed in the definition of Applicable LIBO Rate on the daily Stated Amount of such Letter of Credit.  Accrued Letter of Credit Fees shall be due and payable on the first Business Day of each August, November, February and May commencing with August of 2011, and on the Revolving Commitment Termination Date or such earlier date upon which the Revolving Commitments are terminated.

 

(B)                               The Borrower agrees to pay the Issuing Lender, for its own account, in U.S. Dollars, a facing fee in respect of each Letter of Credit issued for the account of any Macerich Entity by such Issuing Lender (the “Facing Fee”), for the period from and including the date of issuance of such Letter of Credit to and including the date of the termination of such Letter of Credit, computed at a rate equal to one-eighth of one percent (.125%) per annum of the daily Stated Amount of such Letter of Credit; provided that in no event shall the annual Facing Fee with respect to any Letter of Credit be less than $500.  Accrued Facing Fees shall be due and payable in arrears on the first Business Day of each August, November, February and May commencing with August of 2011, and on the Revolving Commitment Termination Date or such earlier date upon which the Revolving Commitments are terminated.

 

(C)                               The Borrower shall pay, upon each payment under, issuance of, or amendment to, any Letter of Credit, such amount as shall at the time of such event be the administrative charge and the reasonable expenses which the applicable Issuing Lender is generally imposing for payment under, issuance of, or amendment to, Letters of Credit issued by it, not to exceed $500 per issuance or amendment.

 

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(3)                                 Administrative Agent Fee.  The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for its own account, fees payable in the amounts and at the times separately agreed upon between the Borrower and the Administrative Agent in that certain Fee Letter dated as of the date hereof.

 

(4)                                 Payment of Fees.  All fees payable hereunder shall be paid on the dates due, in immediately available funds, to the Administrative Agent (except the Facing Fee which shall be paid to the Issuing Lender) for distribution, in the case of the Unused Line Fee and the Letter of Credit Fee, to the Revolving Lenders entitled thereto.  Fees paid shall not be refundable under any circumstances.

 

2.12.                     Default Interest.  During such time as there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default, all Obligations (including any accrued and unpaid interest) outstanding, shall, at the election of the Administrative Agent, bear interest at a per annum rate equal to two percent (2%) above the applicable rate of interest in effect during the applicable calculation period.

 

2.13.                     Computation.  All computations of interest and fees payable hereunder shall be based upon a year of 360 days for the actual number of days elapsed (which results in more interest being paid than if computed on the basis of a 365-day year).

 

2.14.                     Application of Insufficient Payments.  If at any time insufficient funds are received by and available to the Administrative Agent to pay fully all amounts of principal, unreimbursed LC Disbursements, interest, fees and prepayment premiums then due under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, such funds shall be applied (i) first, to pay interest, fees and prepayment premiums then due under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of interest, fees and prepayment premiums then due to such parties, and (ii) second, to pay principal and unreimbursed LC Disbursements then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of principal and unreimbursed LC Disbursements then due to such parties.

 

ARTICLE 3.                           Incremental Facility.

 

3.1.                            Incremental Facility Request.  Borrower may, by written notice to the Administrative Agent on one or more occasions prior to the Revolving Commitment Termination Date, elect to request (A) an increase to the existing Revolving Commitments (any such increase, the “New Revolving Loan Commitments”) and/or (B) the establishment of one or more new term loan commitments (the “New Term Loan Commitments”), by an amount that would result in the sum of all Revolving Commitments (both existing and New Revolving Loan Commitments) plus all New Term Loan Commitments (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the Series A Term Loan Commitments), if any, not exceeding $2,000,000,000 in the aggregate (each such amount in addition to the Revolving Commitments as of the Closing Date, a “Facility Increase” and the maximum aggregate increase, the “Maximum Increase Amount”) and not less than $25,000,000 per request (or such lesser amount which shall be approved by Administrative Agent or such lesser amount that shall constitute the difference between the Maximum Increase Amount and the sum of all such New Revolving Loan Commitments plus New Term Loan Commitments

 

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obtained prior to such date), and integral multiples of 5,000,000 in excess of that amount.  Each such notice shall specify (A) the date (each, an “Increased Amount Date”) on which the Borrower proposes that the New Revolving Loan Commitments or New Term Loan Commitments, as applicable, shall be effective, which shall be a date not less than 10 Business Days, nor more than 30 Business Days after the date on which such notice is delivered to the Administrative Agent (or such shorter or longer period as the Administrative Agent may agree in its sole discretion) and (B) the identity of each Lender or other Person that is an Eligible Assignee (each Lender or other Eligible Assignee who agrees to provide all or a portion of the New Revolving Loan Commitments being referred to herein as a “New Revolving Loan Lender” and each Lender or other Eligible Assignee who agrees to provide all or a portion of the New Term Loan Commitments being referred to herein as a “New Term Loan Lender”, as applicable) to whom the Borrower proposes any portion of such New Revolving Loan Commitments or New Term Loan Commitments, as applicable, be allocated and the amounts of such allocations; provided that any Lender or other Eligible Assignee approached to provide all or a portion of the New Revolving Loan Commitments or New Term Loan Commitments, as applicable, may elect or decline, in its sole discretion, to provide a New Revolving Loan Commitment or New Term Loan Commitment, as applicable.

 

3.2.                            Facility Increase Arrangers.  Except as provided in Section 3.1 above, the Administrative Agent and the Joint Lead Arrangers (in such capacity, the “Facility Increase Arrangers”), unless any of them separately waives such right, will manage all aspects of the syndication of the proposed New Revolving Loan Commitments and New Term Loan Commitments in consultation with the Borrower, including identifying each New Revolving Loan Lender or New Term Loan Lender, as applicable, to whom any portion of any Facility Increase shall be allocated, the timing of all offers to Lenders and other Eligible Assignees and the acceptance of commitments, the amounts offered and the compensation provided; provided, that (i) the Facility Increase Arrangers will consult with the Borrower with respect to the syndication of the proposed Facility Increase, (ii) any allocation to any Eligible Assignee that is not a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender shall be subject to the consent of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (in each case, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) and (iii) in the event the Facility Increase Arrangers are unable to fully syndicate the proposed Facility Increase by the date which is 10 Business Days prior to the applicable Increased Amount Date, the Borrower may identify Persons who are Eligible Assignees to whom the Facility Increase Arrangers shall allocate any unsyndicated portion of the Facility Increase, subject to the Administrative Agent’s consent right as set forth in subclause (ii) above.  Subject to the immediately preceding sentence, the Facility Increase Arrangers and each Lender shall have the ongoing right to sell, assign, syndicate, participate, or transfer all or a portion of its Commitments or Loans or other Obligations owing to it to one or more investors as otherwise provided in Section 11.8.  Without limitation on the Facility Increase Arrangers’ rights as set forth herein, in the event there are Lenders and Eligible Assignees that have committed to New Revolving Loan Commitments or New Term Loan Commitments, as applicable, in excess of the maximum amount requested (or permitted), then the Facility Increase Arrangers shall have the right to allocate such commitments, first to Lenders and then to Eligible Assignees, on whatever basis the Facility Increase Arrangers determine is appropriate (except that no such allocation to any Eligible Assignee that is not a Lender or an Affiliate of any Lender shall be in an amount less than $20,000,000 and the Facility Increase Arrangers will consult with the Borrower with respect to such allocations).

 

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3.3.                            Conditions to Effectiveness of Facility Increase.  Such New Revolving Loan Commitments or New Term Loan Commitments, as applicable, shall become effective as of such Increased Amount Date, subject to the satisfaction of each of the following conditions precedent, as determined by the Administrative Agent in its good faith judgment:

 

(i)   no Potential Default or Event of Default shall exist on such Increased Amount Date before or after giving effect to such Facility Increase;

 

(ii)   the Borrower Parties shall be in pro forma compliance with each of the covenants set forth in Section 8.12 as of the last day of the most recently ended Fiscal Quarter after giving effect to such Facility Increase;

 

(iii)   the New Revolving Loan Commitments and/or New Term Loan Commitments, as applicable, shall be effected pursuant to one or more Joinder Agreements executed and delivered by the Borrower, the New Revolving Loan Lender and/or the New Term Loan Lender, as applicable, and the Administrative Agent, each of which shall be recorded in the Register, and each New Revolving Loan Lender and New Term Loan Lender, as applicable, shall be subject to the requirements set forth in Section 2.10(5) and Section 2.10(7), as applicable, and any New Revolving Loan Lender and/or New Term Loan Lender who is not already a Lender shall become a Lender hereunder;

 

(iv)   the Borrower shall make any payments required pursuant to Section 2.9 in connection with the New Revolving Loan Commitments or New Term Loan Commitments, as applicable;

 

(v)   the Borrower shall deliver or cause to be delivered any legal opinions or other documents reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent in connection with any such transaction;

 

(vi)   as requested by the Administrative Agent, the Borrower Parties shall have acknowledged and ratified that their obligations under the applicable Loan Documents remain in full force and effect, and continue to guaranty and secure, as applicable, the Obligations under the Loan Documents, as modified by the applicable Facility Increase and the implementation thereof; and

 

(vii)   the Borrower shall have paid all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent in connection with the applicable Facility Increase.

 

3.4.                            Additional Facility Increase Matters.

 

(1)                                 On any Increased Amount Date on which New Revolving Loan Commitments are effected, subject to the satisfaction of the foregoing terms and conditions, (a) each of the Revolving Lenders shall assign to each of the New Revolving Loan Lenders, and each of the New Revolving Loan Lenders shall purchase from each of the Revolving Lenders, at the principal amount thereof (together with accrued interest), such interests in the Revolving Loans outstanding on such Increased Amount Date as shall be necessary in order that, after giving effect to all such assignments and purchases, such Revolving Loans will be held by existing Revolving Lenders and New Revolving Loan Lenders ratably in accordance with their

 

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Revolving Commitments after giving effect to the addition of such New Revolving Loan Commitments to the Revolving Commitments, (b) each Revolving Lender shall automatically and without further act be deemed to have assigned to each of the New Revolving Loan Lenders, and each such New Revolving Loan Lender will automatically and without further act be deemed to have assumed, a portion of such Revolving Lender’s participations hereunder in outstanding Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans such that, after giving effect to each such deemed assignment and assumption of participations, the aggregate outstanding (i) participations hereunder in Letters of Credit and (ii) participations hereunder in Swing Line Loans will be held by existing Revolving Lenders and New Revolving Loan Lenders ratably in accordance with their Revolving Commitments after giving effect to the addition of such New Revolving Loan Commitments to the Revolving Commitments, (c) each New Revolving Loan Commitment shall be deemed for all purposes a Revolving Commitment and each loan made thereunder (a “New Revolving Loan”) shall be deemed, for all purposes, a Revolving Loan and (d) each New Revolving Loan Lender shall become a Revolving Lender with respect to the New Revolving Loan Commitment and all matters relating thereto.  The Administrative Agent and the Revolving Lenders hereby agree that the minimum borrowing, pro rata borrowing and pro rata payment requirements contained elsewhere in this Agreement shall not apply to any of the transactions effected pursuant to this Article 3.

 

(2)                                 On any Increased Amount Date on which any New Term Loan Commitments of any Series are effective, subject to the satisfaction of the foregoing terms and conditions, (i) each New Term Loan Lender of any Series shall make a Loan to Borrower (a “New Term Loan”) in an amount equal to its New Term Loan Commitment of such Series, and (ii) each New Term Loan Lender of any Series shall become a Lender hereunder with respect to the New Term Loan Commitment of such Series and the New Term Loans of such Series made pursuant thereto.  Any New Term Loans made on an Increased Amount Date shall be designated a separate series (a “Series”) of New Term Loans for all purposes of this Agreement.

 

(3)                                 The Administrative Agent shall notify Lenders promptly upon receipt of the Borrower’s notice of each Increased Amount Date and in respect thereof (y) the New Revolving Loan Commitments and the New Revolving Loan Lenders or the Series of New Term Loan Commitments and the New Term Loan Lenders of such Series, as applicable, and (z) in the case of each notice to any Lender with a Revolving Commitment, the respective interests in such Lender’s Revolving Loans, in each case subject to the assignments contemplated by this Section.

 

(4)                                 The terms and provisions of the New Revolving Loans shall be identical to the existing Revolving Loans.  Furthermore, (a) the terms of any such New Term Loans of any Series shall not provide for any amortization payments on or prior to the Revolving Commitment Termination Date of the existing Revolving Loans, (b) the applicable New Term Loan Maturity Date of each Series shall be no earlier than the latest Revolving Commitment Termination Date of the existing Revolving Loans, (c) the Liens on and security interests in the collateral securing such New Term Loans of any Series shall be held by the Collateral Agent for the ratable benefit of all Secured Parties, (d) any guarantees provided in respect of the New Term Loans shall also guarantee the other Obligations and (e) the Weighted Average Yield applicable to the New Term Loans of each Series shall be determined by Borrower and the applicable new Lenders and shall be set forth in each applicable Joinder Agreement.

 

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(5)                                 Each Joinder Agreement may, without the consent of any other Lenders, effect such amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in the good faith judgment of Administrative Agent, to effect the provisions of this Article 3; provided however, that any amendments to Articles 4 through 10, inclusive, that adversely affect a Lender shall be subject to the provisions of Section 11.2.  All such amendments entered into with the applicable Borrower Parties by the Agents shall be binding and conclusive on all Lenders.

 

ARTICLE 4.                           Credit Support.

 

4.1.                            REIT Guaranty.  As credit support for the Obligations, on or before the Closing Date, MAC shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, the REIT Guaranty.

 

4.2.                            Guaranties.  As credit support for the Obligations, on or before the Closing Date, the Westcor Guarantors, the Wilmorite Guarantors and the Affiliate Guarantors shall each execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, a Subsidiary Guaranty.  Upon the acquisition of any Project after the Closing Date by any Borrower Party or Wholly-Owned Subsidiary thereof, in the event that, at the time of acquisition (i) the principal Property comprising such Project is unencumbered by any Lien in respect of Borrowed Indebtedness (an “Unencumbered Property”), (ii) there is no Financing with respect to such Unencumbered Property within ninety (90) days of its acquisition and (iii) the Supplemental Guaranty GAV Threshold with respect to such Unencumbered Property has been exceeded, such Person, if such Person is not already a Guarantor (each a “Supplemental Guarantor”), shall: (a) execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, Issuing Lender, Swing Line Lender and Agents, a joinder to the Subsidiary Guaranty in the form of Annex A thereto pursuant to which such Supplemental Guarantor will become a party to the Subsidiary Guaranty and thereby unconditionally guarantee the Obligations from time to time owing to the Lenders, Swing Line Lender, Issuing Lender and Agents and (b) deliver copies of its Organizational Documents, certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of such Supplemental Guarantor (or if such Person is a limited partnership or limited liability company, an authorized representative of its general partner or manager) as of the date delivered as being accurate and complete.  Upon (i) the Disposition of any Affiliate Guarantor or Supplemental Guarantor or (ii) the Disposition or Financing of all Unencumbered Property owned by such Affiliate Guarantor or Supplemental Guarantor, the Administrative Agent shall release the guaranty executed by such Person pursuant to this Section 4.2.

 

4.3.                            Pledge Agreements.  As credit support for the Obligations, on or before the Closing Date, Macerich Partnership, MAC, and the other Pledgors shall each execute and deliver to the Collateral Agent, a Pledge Agreement, pursuant to which each of them shall pledge to the Collateral Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties, all of its direct and indirect ownership interest in the Subsidiary Entities identified therein.  Upon the Disposition of the pledged equity of any Affiliate Guarantor or Supplemental Guarantor by any Pledgor in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and the applicable Pledge Agreement or if such Person ceases to be an Affiliate Guarantor or Supplemental Guarantor, the Collateral Agent shall release the pledged equity of the Person subject to such disposition.

 

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ARTICLE 5.                           Conditions Precedent.

 

5.1.                            Conditions to Effectiveness.  As conditions precedent to the effectiveness of this Agreement:

 

(1)                                 The Borrower shall have delivered or shall have caused to be delivered to the Administrative Agent, in form and substance satisfactory to the Lenders and their counsel and duly executed by the appropriate Persons (with sufficient copies for each of the Lenders), each of the following:

 

(A)                               This Agreement;

 

(B)                               To the extent requested by any Lender pursuant to Section 1.8(6) above and not previously delivered, a Revolving Loan Note payable to such Lender;

 

(C)                               The REIT Guaranty and the Subsidiary Guaranty;

 

(D)                               The Pledge Agreements;

 

(E)                                A certificate of the Secretary or Assistant Secretary of the limited liability company or general partner, managing member or other managing Person or Persons, as applicable, of those Borrower Parties which are partnerships or limited liability companies that do not have officers attaching copies of resolutions duly adopted by the Board of Directors of such general partner, managing member or other managing Person or Persons, as applicable, approving the execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents on behalf of such Borrower Parties and certifying the names and true signatures of the officers of such limited liability company or, for partnerships or limited liability companies that do not have officers, such general partner, managing member or other managing Person or Persons, as applicable, authorized to sign the Loan Documents to which such Borrower Parties are party;

 

(F)                                 A certificate or certificates of the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of those Borrower Parties which are corporations attaching copies of resolutions duly adopted by the Board of Directors of such Borrower Parties approving the execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents to which such Borrower Parties are party and certifying the names and true signatures of the officers of each of such Borrower Parties authorized to sign the Loan Documents on behalf of such Borrower Parties;

 

(G)                               An opinion of counsel for the Borrower Parties as of the Closing Date, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders;

 

(H)                              Copies of the Certificate of Incorporation, Certificate of Formation, or Certificate of Limited Partnership of each of the Borrower Parties, certified by the Secretary of State of the state of formation of such Person;

 

(I)                                   Copies of the Organizational Documents of each of the Borrower Parties (unless delivered pursuant to clause (H) above) certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of such Person (or if such Person is a limited partnership or limited liability

 

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company, an authorized representative of its general partner or manager) as of the date of this Agreement as being accurate and complete;

 

(J)                                   A certificate of authority and good standing or analogous documentation as of a recent date for each of the Borrower Parties for the state in which such Person is organized, formed or incorporated, as applicable;

 

(K)                              From a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, a Closing Certificate dated as of the Closing Date;

 

(L)                                Confirmation from the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent (which may be oral) that all fees required to be paid by the Borrower on or before the Closing Date have been, or will upon the initial funding of the Revolving Loans be, paid in full;

 

(M)                            Evidence satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent that all reasonable costs and expenses of the Administrative Agent, including, without limitation, fees of outside counsel and fees of third party consultants and appraisers, required to be paid by the Borrower on or prior to the Closing Date have been, or will upon the funding of the Revolving Loans be, paid in full;

 

(N)                               From a Responsible Financial Officer of MAC, a Compliance Certificate in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, evidencing, as applicable, MAC’s compliance with the financial covenants set forth under Section 8.12 below at and as of December 31, 2010; and

 

(O)                               Evidence satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent that all amounts outstanding under the Existing Credit Agreement shall have been paid in full, all commitments in respect thereof terminated and all guarantees thereof and security therefor shall have been discharged.

 

(2)                                 Each of the requirements set forth on Schedule 5.1(2) attached hereto shall have been met to the satisfaction of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders.

 

(3)                                 All representations and warranties of the Borrower Parties set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents shall be accurate and complete in all material respects as if made on and as of the Closing Date (unless any such representation and warranty speaks as of a particular date, in which case it shall be accurate and complete in all material respects as of such date).

 

(4)                                 There shall not have occurred and be continuing as of the Closing Date any Event of Default or Potential Default.

 

(5)                                 All acts and conditions (including, without limitation, the obtaining of any third party consents and necessary regulatory approvals and the making of any required filings, recordings or registrations) required to be done and performed and to have happened precedent to the execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents by each of the Borrower Parties shall have been done and performed.

 

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(6)                                 There shall not have occurred any change, occurrence or development that could reasonably be expected, in the good faith opinion of the Lenders, to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(7)                                 All documentation, including, without limitation, documentation for corporate and legal proceedings in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents shall be satisfactory in form and substance to the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and their counsel.

 

5.2.                            Each Credit Event.  The obligation of each Lender to make a Loan on the occasion of any New Borrowing (and with respect to subsection (2) below, any LIBO Rate Borrowing), and of the Issuing Lender to issue, amend, renew or extend any Letter of Credit, is subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions:

 

(1)                                 The representations and warranties of the Borrower set forth in this Agreement and in the other Loan Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects (and in the event any exception or disclosure schedule provided to Administrative Agent in connection with such representations and warranties is proposed by Borrower to be updated, any such updates shall be non-material and shall be approved by the Administrative Agent in its good faith judgment) on and as of the date of such New Borrowing or the date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of such Letter of Credit, as applicable (or, if any such representation or warranty is expressly stated to have been made as of a specific date, as of such specific date);

 

(2)                                 At the time of the Borrower’s request for, and immediately after giving effect to, a New Borrowing or any LIBO Rate Borrowing or the date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of such Letter of Credit, as applicable, no Potential Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing; and

 

(3)                                 At the time of each New Borrowing or the date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of such Letter of Credit, as applicable, a Responsible Officer shall certify that (i) no Potential Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and (ii) after giving effect to such New Borrowing or issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of such Letter of Credit, as applicable, the Borrower Parties remain in compliance with the covenants set forth in Article 8 after giving effect to such New Borrowing or issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of such Letter of Credit, as applicable, including supporting documentation reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

 

(4)                                 Each New Borrowing and each issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of such Letter of Credit shall be deemed to constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrower on the date thereof as to the matters specified in the preceding sentence.

 

ARTICLE 6.                           Representations and Warranties.  As an inducement to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender and each Lender to enter into this Agreement, each of the Borrower and MAC, collectively and severally, represent and warrant as of the Closing Date (or such later date as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement), to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender and each Lender:

 

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6.1.                            Financial Condition.  Complete and accurate copies of the following financial statements and materials have been delivered to the Administrative Agent: (i) audited financial statements of MAC for 2009 and 2010 and (ii) unaudited financial statements of MAC for each fiscal quarter ending after December 31, 2010 and more than 45 days prior to the Closing Date (the materials described in clauses (i) and (ii) are referred to as the “Initial Financial Statements”).  All financial statements included in the Initial Financial Statements were prepared in all material respects in conformity with GAAP, except as otherwise noted therein, and fairly present in all material respects the respective consolidated financial positions, and the consolidated results of operations and cash flows for each of the periods covered thereby of MAC and its consolidated Subsidiaries as at the respective dates thereof.  None of the Borrower Parties or any of their Subsidiaries has any Contingent Obligation, contingent liability or liability for any taxes, long-term leases or commitments, not reflected in its audited financial statements delivered to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the Closing Date or otherwise disclosed to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders in writing, which will have or is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

6.2.                            No Material Adverse Effect.  Since the Statement Date no event has occurred which has resulted in, or is reasonably likely to have, a Material Adverse Effect.

 

6.3.                            Compliance with Laws and Agreements.  Each of the Borrower Parties and the Macerich Core Entities is in compliance with all Requirements of Law and Contractual Obligations, except where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

6.4.                            Organization, Powers; Authorization; Enforceability.

 

(1)                                 Macerich Partnership (A) is a limited partnership duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, (B) is duly qualified to do business and is in good standing under the laws of each jurisdiction in which failure to be so qualified and in good standing will have or is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect, (C) has all requisite partnership power and authority to own, operate and encumber its Property and to conduct its business as presently conducted and as proposed to be conducted in connection with and following the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and (D) is a partnership for purposes of federal income taxation and for purposes of the tax laws of any state or locality in which Macerich Partnership is subject to taxation based on its income.

 

(2)                                 MAC (A) is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Maryland, (B) is duly authorized and qualified to do business and is in good standing under the laws of each jurisdiction in which failure to be so qualified and in good standing will have or is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect, and (C) has all requisite corporate power and authority to own, operate and encumber its Property and to conduct its business as presently conducted.

 

(3)                                 Each Westcor Guarantor, Wilmorite Guarantor and Affiliate Guarantor (A) is either a corporation, a limited partnership or a limited liability company duly incorporated, formed or organized, validly existing, and in good standing under the laws of the

 

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State of its incorporation, organization and/or formation, (B) is duly qualified to do business and is in good standing under the laws of each jurisdiction in which failure to be so qualified and in good standing will have or is reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and (C) has all requisite corporate, partnership or limited liability company power and authority to own, operate and encumber its Property and to conduct its business as presently conducted and as proposed to be conducted in connection with and following the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

 

(4)                                 True, correct and complete copies of the Organizational Documents described in Section 5.1(1)(I) have been delivered to the Administrative Agent, each of which is in full force and effect, has not been Modified except to the extent indicated therein and, to the best knowledge of each of the Borrower Parties party to this Agreement, there are no defaults under such Organizational Documents and no events which, with the passage of time or giving of notice or both, would constitute a default under such Organizational Documents.

 

(5)                                 The Borrower Parties have the requisite partnership, company or corporate power and authority to execute, deliver and perform this Agreement and each of the other Loan Documents which are required to be executed on their behalf.  The execution, delivery and performance of each of the Loan Documents which must be executed in connection with this Agreement by the Borrower Parties and to which the Borrower Parties are a party and the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby are within their partnership, company, or corporate powers, have been duly authorized by all necessary partnership, company, or corporate action and such authorization has not been rescinded. No other partnership, company, or corporate action or proceedings on the part of the Borrower Parties is necessary to consummate such transactions.

 

(6)                                 Each of the Loan Documents to which each Borrower Party is a party has been duly executed and delivered on behalf of such Borrower Party and constitutes its legal, valid and binding obligation, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms (subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, or other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and to principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law), is in full force and effect and all the terms, provisions, agreements and conditions set forth therein and required to be performed or complied with by such Borrower Party on or before the Closing Date have been performed or complied with, and no Potential Default or Event of Default exists thereunder.

 

6.5.                            No Conflict.  The execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents, the borrowing hereunder and the use of the proceeds thereof, will not violate any material Requirement of Law or any Organizational Document or any material Contractual Obligation of any of the Borrower Parties or the Macerich Core Entities; or, except as contemplated by the Pledge Agreements, create or result in the creation of any Lien on any material assets of any of the Borrower Parties.

 

6.6.                            No Material Litigation.  Except as disclosed on Schedule 6.6 hereto, no litigation, investigation or proceeding of or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority is pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower Parties party to this Agreement, threatened by or

 

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against the Borrower Parties or the Macerich Core Entities or against any of such Persons’ Properties or revenues which, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

6.7.                            Taxes.  All federal and other material tax returns, reports and similar statements or filings of the Borrower Parties and the Macerich Core Entities have been timely filed.  Except for Permitted Encumbrances, all taxes, assessments, fees and other charges of Governmental Authorities upon such Persons and upon or relating to their respective Properties, assets, receipts, sales, use, payroll, employment, income, licenses and franchises which are shown in such returns or reports to be due and payable have been paid, except to the extent (i) such taxes, assessments, fees and other charges of Governmental Authorities are subject to a Good Faith Contest; or (ii) the non-payment of such taxes, assessments, fees and other charges of Governmental Authorities would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect.  The Borrower Parties party to this Agreement have no knowledge of any proposed tax assessment against the Borrower Parties or the Macerich Core Entities that will have or is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

6.8.                            Investment Company Act.  Neither the Borrower nor any Borrower Party, nor any Person controlling such entities is an “investment company” or a company “controlled” by an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (as amended from time to time).

 

6.9.                            Subsidiary Entities.  Schedule 6.9 (A) contains charts and diagrams reflecting the corporate structure of the Borrower Parties and their respective Subsidiary Entities indicating the nature of the corporate, partnership, limited liability company or other equity interest in each Person included in such chart or diagram; and (B) accurately sets forth (1) the correct legal name of such Person, the type of organization, and the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization, and (2) the percentage thereof owned by the Borrower Parties and their Subsidiaries, in each case, as of the Closing Date.  None of such issued and outstanding Capital Stock or Securities owned by any Borrower Entity is subject to any vesting, redemption, or repurchase agreement, and there are no warrants or options outstanding with respect to such Securities, in each case, as of the Closing Date, except as noted on Schedule 6.9. The outstanding Capital Stock of each Subsidiary Entity shown on Schedule 6.9 as being owned by a Borrower Party or its Subsidiary is duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.  Except where failure may not have a Material Adverse Effect, each Subsidiary Entity of the Borrower Parties:  (A) is a corporation, limited liability company, or partnership, as indicated on Schedule 6.9, duly organized, validly existing and, if applicable, in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, (B) is duly qualified to do business and, if applicable, is in good standing under the laws of each jurisdiction in which failure to be so qualified and in good standing would limit its ability to use the courts of such jurisdiction to enforce Contractual Obligations to which it is a party, and (C) has all requisite partnership, company or corporate power and authority to own, operate and encumber its Property and to conduct its business as presently conducted and as proposed to be conducted hereafter.

 

6.10.                     Federal Reserve Board Regulations.  Neither the Borrower nor any other Borrower Party is engaged or will engage, principally or as one of its important activities, in the business of extending credit for the purpose of “purchasing” or “carrying” any “Margin Stock” within the respective meanings of such terms under Regulations U, T and X.  No part of the

 

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proceeds of the Loans will be used for “purchasing” or “carrying” “Margin Stock” as so defined for any purpose which violates, or which would be inconsistent with, the provisions of, any Requirement of Law (including, without limitation, the Regulations of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System).

 

6.11.                     ERISA Compliance.  Except as disclosed on Schedule 6.11:

 

(1)                                 Each Plan is in compliance with the applicable provisions of ERISA, the Code and other federal or state law, except where the failure to do so individually or in the aggregate could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.  Each Plan which is intended to qualify under Section 401(a) of the Code has received a favorable determination letter from the IRS and to the best knowledge of the Borrower Parties party to this Agreement, nothing has occurred which would cause the loss of such qualification.

 

(2)                                 There are no pending or, to the best knowledge of Borrower Parties party to this Agreement, threatened claims, actions or lawsuits, or action by any Governmental Authority, with respect to any Plan which has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.  There has been no prohibited transaction or violation of the fiduciary responsibility rules with respect to any Plan which has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(3)                                 No ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur with respect to any Pension Plan or, to the best knowledge of the Borrower Parties party to this Agreement, any Multiemployer Plan, which has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(4)                                 No Pension Plan has any Unfunded Pension Liability, which has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(5)                                 None of the Borrower Parties or their respective Subsidiaries, nor any ERISA Affiliate has incurred, nor reasonably expects to incur, any liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to any Pension Plan (other than premiums due and not delinquent under Section 4007 of ERISA), which has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(6)                                 None of the Borrower Parties or their respective Subsidiaries, nor any ERISA Affiliate has incurred nor reasonably expects to incur any liability (and no event has occurred which, with the giving of notice under Section 4219 of ERISA, would result in such liability) under Section 4201 or 4243 of ERISA with respect to a Multiemployer Plan, which has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(7)                                 None of the Borrower Parties or their respective Subsidiaries, nor any ERISA Affiliate has transferred any Unfunded Pension Liability to any person or otherwise engaged in a transaction that is subject to Section 4069 or 4212(c) of ERISA, which has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

6.12.                     Assets and Liens.  Each of the Borrower Parties and their respective Subsidiary Entities has good and marketable fee or leasehold title to all Property and assets

 

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reflected in the financial statements referred to in Section 6.1 above in all material respects, except Property and assets sold or otherwise disposed of in the ordinary course of business subsequent to the respective dates thereof.  None of the Borrower Parties, nor their respective Subsidiary Entities, has outstanding Liens on any of its Properties or assets nor are there any security agreements to which it is a party, except for Liens permitted in accordance with Section 8.1.

 

6.13.                     Securities Acts.  None of the Borrower Parties or their respective Subsidiary Entities has issued any unregistered securities in violation of the registration requirements of Section 5 of the Securities Act of 1933, (as amended from time to time, the “Act”) or any other law, nor are they in violation of any rule, regulation or requirement under the Act, or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, (as amended from time to time) other than violations which could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.  None of the Borrower Parties is required to qualify an indenture under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, (as amended from time to time) in connection with its execution and delivery of this Agreement or the incurrence of Indebtedness hereunder.

 

6.14.                     Consents, Etc.  Except as disclosed in Schedule 6.14, no consent, approval or authorization of, or registration, declaration or filing with any Governmental Authority or any other Person is required on the part of the Borrower Parties or the Macerich Core Entities in connection with the execution and delivery of the Loan Documents by the Borrower Parties, or the performance of or compliance with the terms, provisions and conditions thereof by such Persons, other than those that have been obtained or will be obtained by the legally required time.

 

6.15.                     Hazardous Materials.  The Borrower Parties and the Macerich Core Entities have caused Phase I and the other environmental assessments as set forth in Schedule 6.15 to be conducted or have taken other steps to investigate the past and present environmental condition and use of their Retail Properties (as used in this Section 6.15 and Section 7.9, the “Designated Environmental Properties”).  Based on such investigation, except as otherwise disclosed in the reports listed on Schedule 6.15, to the best knowledge of the Borrower and MAC:  (1) no Hazardous Materials have been discharged, disposed of, or otherwise released on, under, or from the Designated Environmental Properties so as to be reasonably expected to result in a violation of Hazardous Materials Laws and a material adverse effect to such Designated Environmental Property or the owner thereof; (2) the owners of the Designated Environmental Properties have obtained all material environmental, health and safety permits and licenses necessary for their respective operations, and all such permits are in good standing and the holder of each such permit is currently in compliance with all terms and conditions of such permits, except to the extent the failure to obtain such permits or comply therewith is not reasonably expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or in a material adverse effect to such Designated Environmental Property or the owner thereof; (3) none of the Designated Environmental Properties is listed or proposed for listing on the National Priorities List (“NPL”) pursuant to CERCLA or on the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation Liability Information System List (“CERCLIS”) or any similar applicable state list of sites requiring remedial action under any Hazardous Materials Laws; (4) none of the owners of the Designated Environmental Properties has sent or directly arranged for the transport of any hazardous waste to any site listed or proposed for listing on the NPL, CERCLIS or any similar state list; (5) there

 

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is not now on or in any Designated Environmental Property:  (a) any landfill or surface impoundment; (b) any underground storage tanks; (c) any asbestos-containing material; or (d) any polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB), which in the case of any of clauses (a) through (d) could reasonably result in a violation of any Hazardous Materials Laws and a material adverse effect to such Designated Environmental Property or the owner thereof; (6) no environmental Lien has attached to any Designated Environmental Properties; and (7) no other event has occurred with respect to the presence of Hazardous Materials on or under any of the Properties of the Borrower Parties or the Macerich Core Entities, which would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, on the Closing Date all of the representations set forth above shall be true and correct with respect to all Properties of the Borrower Parties and the Macerich Core Entities (and not only the Designated Environmental Properties).

 

6.16.                     Regulated Entities.  None of the Borrower Parties or the Macerich Core Entities:  (1) is subject to regulation under the Federal Power Act, the Interstate Commerce Act, any state public utilities code, or any other Federal or state statute or regulation limiting its ability to incur Indebtedness, or (2) is a “foreign person” within the meaning of Section 1445 of the Code.

 

6.17.                     Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks and Licenses, etc.  To the best knowledge of the Borrower Parties party to this Agreement, the Borrower Parties and the Macerich Core Entities own or are licensed or otherwise have the right to use all of the patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights, contractual franchises, authorizations and other rights that are necessary for the operation of their respective businesses, without conflict with the rights of any other Person, except to the extent that individually or in the aggregate, would not result, or be expected to result, in a Material Adverse Effect.  To the best knowledge of the Borrower Parties party to this Agreement, no slogan or other advertising device, product, process, method, substance, part or other material now employed, or now contemplated to be employed, by the Borrower Parties or the Macerich Core Entities infringes upon any rights held by any other Person, except for any infringements, individually or in the aggregate, which would not result, or be expected to result, in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

6.18.                     REIT Status.  MAC:  (1) is a REIT, (2) has not revoked its election to be a REIT, (3) has not engaged in any “prohibited transactions” as defined in Section 856(b)(6)(iii) of the Code (or any successor provision thereto), and (4) for its current “tax year” as defined in the Code is and for all prior tax years subsequent to its election to be a REIT has been entitled to a dividends paid deduction which meets the requirements of Section 857 of the Code.

 

6.19.                     Insurance.  Schedule 6.19 accurately sets forth as of the Closing Date all insurance policies currently in effect with respect to the respective Property and assets and business of the Borrower Parties and the Macerich Core Entities, specifying for each such policy, (i) the amount thereof, (ii) the general risks insured against thereby, (iii) the name of the insurer and each insured party thereunder, (iv) the policy or other identification number thereof, and (v) the expiration date thereof.  Such insurance policies are in full force and effect as of the Closing Date, in compliance with the requirements of Section 7.8 hereof.

 

6.20.                     Full Disclosure.  None of the representations or warranties made by the Borrower Parties in the Loan Documents as of the date such representations and warranties are

 

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made or deemed made contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made therein, in light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading.

 

6.21.                     Indebtedness.  Schedule 6.21 sets forth, as of December 31, 2010, all Indebtedness for borrowed money of each of the Borrower Parties and the Macerich Core Entities, and, except as set forth on such Schedule 6.21, as of the Closing Date, there are no defaults in the payment of principal or interest on any such Indebtedness, and no payments thereunder have been deferred or extended beyond their stated maturity, and there has been no material change in the type or amount of such Indebtedness since December 31, 2010.

 

6.22.                     Real Property.  Set forth on Schedule 6.22 is a list, as of the date of this Agreement, of all of the Projects of the Borrower Parties and the Macerich Core Entities, indicating in each case whether the respective property is owned or ground leased by such Persons, the identity of the owner or lessee and the location of the respective property.

 

6.23.                     Brokers.  The Borrower Parties have not dealt with any broker or finder with respect to the transactions embodied in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.

 

6.24.                     No Default.  No Default or Potential Default has occurred and is continuing.

 

6.25.                     Solvency.  On the Closing Date and after giving effect to all loans made on the Closing Date, each Borrowing and each issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit, each Borrower Party is and shall be Solvent.

 

6.26.                     Foreign Assets Control Regulations, etc.  None of the Macerich Entities or their Affiliates:  (i) is or will be in violation of any Laws relating to terrorism or money laundering (“Anti-Terrorism Laws”), including Executive Order 13224 of September 23, 2001 Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten to Commit, or Support Terrorism (66 Fed.  Reg.  49079 (2001)) (the “Executive Order”), the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Public Law 107-56 (“Patriot Act”), or any other applicable requirements contained in the rules and regulations of the Office of Foreign Assets Control, Department of the Treasury (“OFAC”); (ii) is or will become a “blocked” person listed in or subject to the Annex to the Executive Order; (iii) has been or will be designated as a Specially Designated National on any publicly available lists maintained by OFAC or any other publicly available list of terrorists or terrorist organizations maintained pursuant to the Patriot Act (any person regulated pursuant to clauses (ii) and (iii), a “Prohibited Person”); or (iv) conducts or will conduct any business or engages or will engage in any transactions or dealings with any Prohibited Person, including the making or receiving of any contribution of funds, goods or services to or for the benefit of any Prohibited Person; or any transactions involving any property or interests in property blocked pursuant to the Executive Order.

 

ARTICLE 7.                           Affirmative Covenants.  As an inducement to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender and each Lender to enter into this Agreement, each of the Borrower and MAC, collectively and severally, hereby covenants and agrees with the

 

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Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender and each Lender that, as long as any Obligations (excluding indemnification or similar contingent Obligations for which no claim has been made) remain unpaid:

 

7.1.                            Financial Statements.  The Borrower Parties shall maintain, for themselves, and shall cause each of the Macerich Core Entities to maintain a system of accounting established and administered in accordance with sound business practices to permit preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP.  Each of the financial statements and reports described below shall be prepared from such system and records and in form reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, and shall be provided to Administrative Agent (and Administrative Agent shall provide a copy to each requesting Lender):

 

(1)                                 As soon as practicable, and in any event within ninety (90) days after the close of each fiscal year of MAC, the consolidated balance sheet of MAC and its Subsidiaries as of the end of such fiscal year and the related consolidated statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash flow of MAC and its Subsidiaries for such fiscal year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the consolidated or combined figures, as the case may be, for the previous fiscal year, all in reasonable detail and accompanied by a report thereon of KPMG LLP or other independent certified public accountants of recognized national standing selected by the Borrower and reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, which report shall be unqualified (except for qualifications that the Required Lenders do not, in their discretion, consider material) and shall state that such consolidated financial statements fairly present in all material respects the financial position of MAC and its Subsidiaries as at the date indicated and the results of their operations and cash flow for the periods indicated in conformity with GAAP (except as otherwise stated therein) and that the examination by such accountants in connection with such consolidated financial statements has been made in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards;

 

(2)                                 As soon as practicable, and in any event within fifty (50) days after the close of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year of MAC, for MAC and its Subsidiaries, unaudited balance sheets as at the close of each such period and the related combined statements of income and cash flow of MAC and its Subsidiaries for such quarter and the portion of the fiscal year ended at the end of such quarter, setting forth in each case in comparative form the consolidated or combined figures, as the case may be, for the corresponding periods of the prior fiscal year, all in reasonable detail and in conformity with GAAP (except as otherwise stated therein), together with a representation by a Responsible Financial Officer, as of the date of such financial statements, that such financial statements have been prepared in accordance with GAAP (provided, however, that such financial statements may not include all of the information and footnotes required by GAAP for complete financial information) and reflect all adjustments that are, in the opinion of management, necessary for a fair presentation in all material respects of the financial information contained therein;

 

(3)                                 Together with each delivery of any quarterly or annual report pursuant to paragraphs (1) through (2) of this Section 7.1, MAC shall deliver a Compliance Certificate signed by MAC’s Responsible Financial Officer representing and certifying (1) that the Responsible Financial Officer signatory thereto has reviewed the terms of the Loan

 

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Documents, and has made, or caused to be made under his/her supervision, a review in reasonable detail of the transactions and consolidated financial condition of MAC and its Subsidiaries, during the fiscal quarter covered by such reports, that such review has not disclosed the existence during or at the end of such fiscal quarter, and that such officer does not have knowledge of the existence as at the date of such Compliance Certificate, of any condition or event which constitutes an Event of Default or Potential Default, or, if any such condition or event existed or exists, specifying the nature and period of existence thereof and what action the Borrower, MAC or their Subsidiaries have taken, are taking and propose to take with respect thereto, (2) the calculations (with such specificity as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request) for the period then ended which demonstrate compliance with the covenants and financial ratios set forth in Article 8, (3) a schedule of Total Liabilities in respect of borrowed money in the level of detail disclosed in MAC’s Form 10-Q filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as such other information regarding such Indebtedness as may be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, and (4) a schedule of EBITDA.

 

(4)                                 To the extent not otherwise delivered pursuant to this Section 7.1, copies of all financial statements and financial information delivered by the Borrower and MAC (or, upon Administrative Agent’s request, any Subsidiaries of such Persons) from time to time to the holders of any Indebtedness for borrowed money of such Persons; and

 

(5)                                 Copies of all proxy statements, financial statements, and reports which the Borrower or MAC send to their respective stockholders or limited partners, and copies of all regular, periodic and special reports, and all registration statements under the Act which the Borrower or MAC file with the Securities and Exchange Commission or any Governmental Authority which may be substituted therefore, or with any national securities exchange; provided, however, that there shall not be required to be delivered hereunder such copies for any Lender of prospectuses relating to future series of offerings under registration statements filed under Rule 415 under the Act or other items which such Lender has indicated in writing to the Borrower or MAC from time to time need not be delivered to such Lender.

 

(6)                                 Notwithstanding the foregoing, it is understood and agreed that to the extent MAC files documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission and such documents contain the same information as required by subsections (1), (2), (3) (only with respect to subclause (3)), (4) and (5) above, the Borrower may deliver copies, which copies may be delivered electronically, of such forms with respect to the relevant time periods in lieu of the deliveries specified in such clauses.

 

7.2.                            Certificates; Reports; Other Information.  The Borrower Parties shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender and each of the Lenders directly:

 

(1)                                 From time to time upon reasonable request by the Administrative Agent, a rent roll, tenant sales report and income statement with respect to any Project;

 

(2)                                 As soon as practicable and in any event by January 1st of each calendar year, (i) a report in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent outlining all insurance coverage maintained as of the date of such report by the Borrower

 

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Parties and the Macerich Core Entities and the duration of such coverage and (ii) evidence that all premiums with respect to such coverage have been paid when due.

 

(3)                                 Promptly, such additional financial and other information, including, without limitation, information regarding the Borrower Parties, the Macerich Core Entities, any of such entities’ assets and Properties as Administrative Agent or any Lender may from time to time reasonably request, including, without limitation, such information as is necessary for any Lender to participate out any of its interests in the Obligations.

 

7.3.                            Maintenance of Existence and Properties. The Borrower and MAC shall, and shall cause each of the Macerich Core Entities to, and the other Borrower Parties shall at all times: (1) maintain its corporate existence or existence as a limited partnership or limited liability company, as applicable; provided that a Macerich Core Entity (other than the Borrower, MAC, the Westcor Principal Entities or the Wilmorite Principal Entity) (A) may change its form of organization from one type of legal entity to another to the extent otherwise permitted in this Agreement; (B) may effect a dissolution if such actions are taken subsequent to a Disposition of substantially all of its assets as otherwise permitted under this Agreement (including Section 8.4); and (C) may merge or consolidate with any Person as otherwise not prohibited by this Agreement (including Section 8.3); (2) maintain in full force and effect all rights, privileges, licenses, approvals, franchises, Properties and assets material to the conduct of its business; (3) remain qualified to do business and maintain its good standing in each jurisdiction in which failure to be so qualified and in good standing will have a Material Adverse Effect; and (4) not permit, commit or suffer any waste or abandonment of any Project that will have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

7.4.                            Inspection of Property; Books and Records; Discussions. The Borrower and MAC shall, and shall cause each of the Macerich Core Entities to, and the other Borrower Parties shall keep proper books of record and account in which full, true and correct entries in conformity with GAAP and all material Requirements of Law shall be made of all dealings and transactions in relation to its business and activities, and shall permit representatives of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender or any Lender to visit and inspect any of its properties and examine and make copies or abstracts from any of its books and records at any reasonable time during normal business hours and as often as may reasonably be desired by the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender or any Lender, and to discuss the business, operations, properties and financial and other condition of Borrower Parties and the Macerich Core Entities with officers and employees of such Persons, and with their independent certified public accountants (provided that representatives of such Persons may be present at and participate in any such discussion).

 

7.5.                            Notices. The Borrower shall promptly, but in any event within five Business Days after a Responsible Officer of Borrower obtains knowledge thereof, give written notice to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender and each Lender directly of:

 

(1)                                 The occurrence of any Potential Default or Event of Default and what action the Borrower has taken, is taking, or is proposing to take in response thereto;

 

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(2)                                 The institution of, or written threat of, any action, suit, proceeding, governmental investigation or arbitration against or affecting the Borrower Parties or the Macerich Core Entities and not previously disclosed, which action, suit, proceeding, governmental investigation or arbitration (i) exposes, or in the case of multiple actions, suits, proceedings, governmental investigations or arbitrations arising out of the same general allegations or circumstances expose, such Persons, in the Borrower’s reasonable judgment, to liability in an amount aggregating $25,000,000 or more and is or are not covered by insurance, or (ii) seeks injunctive or other relief which, if obtained, may have a Material Adverse Effect providing such other information as may be reasonably available to enable Administrative Agent and its counsel to evaluate such matters.  The Borrower, upon request of the Administrative Agent, shall promptly give written notice of the status of any action, suit, proceeding, governmental investigation or arbitration;

 

(3)                                 Any labor dispute to which the Borrower Parties or any of the Macerich Core Entities may become a party (including, without limitation, any strikes, lockouts or other disputes relating to any Property of such Persons’ and other facilities) which could result in a Material Adverse Effect;

 

(4)                                 The bankruptcy or cessation of operations of any tenant to which greater than 5% of either the Macerich Partnership’s or MAC’s share of consolidated minimum rent is attributable;

 

(5)                                 The occurrence of any ERISA Event, specifying the nature thereof, what action any Consolidated Entity or any ERISA Affiliate has taken, is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto and, when known, any action taken or threatened by the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Labor or the PBGC with respect thereto; or

 

(6)                                 Any event not disclosed pursuant to paragraphs (1) through (5) above which could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

7.6.                            Expenses.  The Borrower shall pay all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses (including reasonable fees and disbursements of outside counsel):  (1) of the Administrative Agent incident to the preparation, negotiation and administration of the Loan Documents, including any proposed Modifications or waivers with respect thereto, the syndication of the Revolving Commitments (but such expenses shall not include any fees paid to the syndicate members), and the preservation and protection of the rights of the Lenders, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent under the Loan Documents, and (2) of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender and each of the Lenders incident to the enforcement of payment of the Obligations, whether by judicial proceedings or otherwise, including, without limitation, in connection with bankruptcy, insolvency, liquidation, reorganization, moratorium or other similar proceedings involving any Borrower Party or a “workout” of the Obligations; provided that only one property inspection or site visit performed pursuant to Section 7.4 shall be paid for by the Borrower each year, unless a Potential Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, in which case there shall be no limit to property inspections or site visits performed pursuant to Section 7.4, and the Borrower shall pay the costs associated with each such inspection and visit performed during such periods.  The obligations of the Borrower under this Section 7.6 shall survive payment of all other Obligations.

 

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7.7.                            Payment of Indemnified Taxes and Other Taxes and Charges.  The Borrower Parties shall, and shall cause each of the Macerich Core Entities to, file all federal and other material tax returns required to be filed in any jurisdiction and, if applicable, with respect to such federal and other material tax returns, except with respect to taxes subject to any Good Faith Contest, pay and discharge all Indemnified Taxes and Other Taxes imposed upon it or any of its Properties or in respect of any of its franchises, business, income or property before any material penalty shall be incurred with respect to such Indemnified Taxes and Other Taxes.

 

7.8.                            Insurance.  The Borrower Parties shall, and shall cause each of the Macerich Core Entities, to maintain, to the extent commercially available, insurance with responsible and reputable insurance companies or associations in such amounts and covering such risks (including, without limitation, fire, extended coverage, vandalism, malicious mischief, flood, earthquake, public liability, product liability, business interruption and terrorism) as is usually carried by companies engaged in similar businesses and owning similar properties in the same general areas in which the Borrower Parties or the Macerich Core Entities engage in business or own properties.

 

7.9.                            Hazardous Materials. The Borrower Parties shall, and shall cause each of the Macerich Core Entities to, do the following:

 

(1)                                 Keep and maintain all Designated Environmental Properties in material compliance with any Hazardous Materials Laws unless the failure to so comply would not be reasonably expected to result in a material adverse effect to such Designated Environmental Property or the owner thereof.

 

(2)                                 Promptly cause the removal of any Hazardous Materials discharged, disposed of, or otherwise released in, on or under any Designated Environmental Properties that are in violation of any Hazardous Materials Laws and which would be reasonably expected to result in a material adverse effect to such Designated Environmental Property or the owner thereof, and cause any remediation required by any Hazardous Material Laws or Governmental Authority to be performed, though no such action shall be required if any action is subject to a good faith contest.  In the course of carrying out such actions, the Borrower shall provide the Administrative Agent with such periodic information and notices regarding the status of investigation, removal, and remediation, as the Administrative Agent may reasonably require.

 

(3)                                 Promptly advise the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender and each Lender in writing of any of the following:  (i) any Hazardous Material Claims known to the Borrower which would be reasonably expected to result in a material adverse effect to an Environmental Property or the owner thereof; (ii) the receipt of any notice of any alleged violation of Hazardous Materials Laws with respect to an Environmental Property (and the Borrower shall promptly provide the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender and Lenders with a copy of such notice of violation), provided that such alleged violation, if true (and if any release of the Hazardous Materials alleged therein were not promptly remediated), would result in a breach of subsections (1) or (2) above; and (iii) the discovery of any occurrence or condition on any Designated Environmental Properties that could reasonably be expected to cause such Designated Environmental Properties or any part thereof to be in violation of clauses (1) or, if not promptly remediated, (2) above.  If the Administrative

 

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Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender and/or any Lender shall be joined in any legal proceedings or actions initiated in connection with any Hazardous Materials Claims, each Borrower Party shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless such Person with respect to any liabilities and out-of-pocket expenses arising with respect thereto, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and disbursements.

 

(4)                                 Comply with each of the covenants set forth in subsections (1), (2) and (3) of this Section 7.9 with respect to all other Properties of the Borrower and Macerich Core Entities unless the failure to so comply would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

7.10.                     Compliance with Laws and Contractual Obligations; Payment of Taxes.  The Borrower Parties shall, and shall cause each of the Macerich Core Entities to:  (1) comply, in all material respects, with all material Requirements of Law of any Governmental Authority having jurisdiction over it or its business, and (2) comply, in all material respects, with all material Contractual Obligations.

 

7.11.                     Further Assurances.  The Borrower Parties shall, and shall cause each of their respective Subsidiaries to, promptly upon request by the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender or any Lender, do any acts or, execute, acknowledge, deliver, record, re-record, file, re-file, register and re-register, any and all such further deeds, conveyances, security agreements, mortgages, assignments, estoppel certificates, financing statements and continuations thereof, termination statements, notices of assignment, transfers, certificates, assurances and other instruments the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender or such Lender, as the case may be, may reasonably require from time to time in order (i) to carry out more effectively the purposes of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, and (ii) to assure, convey, grant, assign, transfer, preserve, protect and confirm to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender and Lenders the rights granted or now or hereafter intended to be granted to the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender or Lenders under any Loan Document or under any other document executed in connection therewith.

 

7.12.                     Single Purpose Entities.  The Westcor Guarantors shall maintain themselves as Single Purpose Entities.  The Wilmorite Guarantors shall maintain themselves as Single Purpose Entities.

 

7.13.                     REIT Status.  MAC shall maintain its status as a REIT and (i) all of the representations and warranties set forth in clauses (1), (2) and (4) of Section 6.18 shall remain true and correct at all times and (ii) all of the representations and warranties set forth in clause (3) of Section 6.18 shall remain true and correct in all material respects.  MAC will do or cause to be done all things necessary to maintain the listing of its Capital Stock on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange or the Nasdaq National Market System (or any successor thereof), and the Macerich Partnership will do or cause to be done all things necessary to cause it to be treated as a partnership for purposes of federal income taxation and the tax laws of any state or locality in which the Macerich Partnership is subject to taxation based on its income.

 

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7.14.                     Use of Proceeds.  The proceeds of the Revolving Loans will be used to re-finance sums outstanding under the Existing Credit Agreement, and for general corporate purposes, including the financing of working capital needs.  The proceeds of the Series A Term Loans will be used for general corporate purposes, including the financing of working capital needs.

 

7.15.                     Management of Projects.  Except as set forth on Schedule 7.15, all Wholly-Owned Projects shall be managed by Subsidiaries of MAC pursuant to Master Management Agreements or, with respect to Wholly-Owned Projects of Westcor or Wilmorite, pursuant to agreements in place on the date hereof.

 

ARTICLE 8.                           Negative Covenants.  As an inducement to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender and each Lender to enter into this Agreement, each of the Borrower and MAC, jointly and severally, hereby covenants and agrees with the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender and each Lender that, as long as any Obligations (excluding indemnification or similar contingent Obligations for which no claim has been made) remain unpaid:

 

8.1.                            Liens.

 

(1)                                 The Borrower Parties shall not, and shall not permit any of the Macerich Core Entities to, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist, any Lien upon any of its Property except:

 

(A) Liens that secure Secured Indebtedness otherwise permitted under this Agreement;

 

(B) Permitted Encumbrances;

 

(C) Other Liens which are the subject of a Good Faith Contest;

 

(D) Liens created pursuant to the Pledge Agreements; and

 

(E) Liens listed on Schedule 8.1.

 

(2)                                 No Liens on the Capital Stock held by MAC or any other Pledgor in any of the Borrower Parties shall be created or suffered to exist (other than Liens pursuant to the Pledge Agreements).  If any of the Borrower Parties or any of the Macerich Core Entities creates or suffers to exist any Lien upon the Capital Stock of any other Subsidiary Entity (other than Liens pursuant to the Pledge Agreements or in the case of a Macerich Core Entity that is not a Borrower Party, Liens securing Property Indebtedness), as a condition to creating or permitting such Lien, the Borrower shall:  (i) cause the Obligations to be secured by a Lien that is equal and ratable with any and all other Indebtedness thereby secured, (ii) enter into valid and binding security agreements and execute and deliver such other documents (including UCC-1 financing statements) and instruments as the Administrative Agent deems appropriate in its sole good faith judgment to effect the rights set forth in subpart (i) above, and (iii) cause the holder of such Indebtedness secured by such Lien to enter into intercreditor arrangements with the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, in a form satisfactory to the Administrative

 

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Agent in its sole good faith judgment, to effect the rights set forth in subpart (i) above; provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, this covenant shall not be construed as a consent by the Administrative Agent or any Lender to any creation or assumption of any such Lien not permitted by the provisions of Section 8.1(1) above.

 

8.2.                            Indebtedness.  The Borrower Parties may only incur, and permit the Macerich Core Entities to incur Indebtedness to the extent such Borrower Parties maintain compliance with the financial covenants set forth in Sections 8.12 below.  Without limiting the foregoing, the Borrower Parties shall not incur Secured Recourse Indebtedness in excess of 10% of Gross Asset Value at any time; provided, however that the Property at Queens Center shall be excluded from such calculation.  The terms and conditions of any unsecured Indebtedness that is recourse to any Borrower Party may not be more restrictive in any material respect than the terms and conditions under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.

 

8.3.                            Fundamental Change.

 

(1)                                 None of MAC, the Borrower, the Westcor Principal Entities or the Wilmorite Principal Entity shall do any or all of the following: merge or consolidate with any Person, or sell, assign, lease or otherwise effect a Disposition, whether in one transaction or in a series of transactions, of all or substantially all of its Properties and assets, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, or enter into any agreement to do any of the foregoing, unless, in the case of (i) a Westcor Principal Entity or the Wilmorite Principal Entity, a Macerich Core Entity is the surviving entity or the acquirer in any such merger, consolidation or sale of assets, and (ii) MAC or the Borrower, MAC or the Borrower, as applicable, is the surviving Person in any such merger or consolidation.

 

(2)                                 None of the Borrower Parties shall, nor shall they permit any Macerich Core Entities to, engage to any material extent in any business other than such Person’s business as conducted on the date hereof and businesses which are substantially similar, related or incidental thereto or other additional businesses that would not have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

8.4.                            Dispositions.  The Borrower Parties shall not permit any of the following to occur:

 

(1)                                 Any Disposition by MAC of any of the Capital Stock of Macerich Partnership or any of the Westcor Guarantors or a Wilmorite Guarantor; provided that the forgoing shall not prohibit Macerich Partnership from issuing (i) partnership units as consideration for the acquisition of a Project otherwise permitted under this Agreement or (ii) profit participation units in connection with an employee ownership or similar plan;

 

(2)                                 Any Disposition by Macerich Partnership of any of the Capital Stock of any Westcor Guarantor or the Wilmorite Guarantor;

 

(3)                                 Any Disposition by any Westcor Guarantor of any of the Capital Stock of any Westcor Principal Entity; and

 

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(4)                                 Any Disposition by any Wilmorite Guarantor of any of the Capital Stock of the Wilmorite Principal Entity; provided that, so long as no Potential Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, MACWH may make cash distributions in accordance with Article 8 of the MACWH Partnership Agreement, provided that the Borrower Parties would be in compliance with the covenants in Section 8.12, calculated as of the last day of the most recent fiscal quarter for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 7.1(1) or 7.1(2) and on a pro forma basis as if such cash distribution had occurred, and any Indebtedness incurred in connection therewith had been incurred, on the last day of such fiscal quarter (any such distribution, a “Permitted MACWH Cash Distribution”);

 

(5)                                 Any Disposition by any Borrower Party or its Subsidiary Entities of any of its respective Properties if such Disposition would cause the Borrower Parties to be in violation of any of (a) the covenants set forth in Section 8.12 or (b) the limitations on Investments set forth in Section 8.5.

 

8.5.                            Investments.  The Borrower Parties shall not, and shall not permit any of the Macerich Core Entities to, directly or indirectly make any Investment, except that such Persons may make an Investment in the following, subject to the limitations set forth below:

 

	
Permitted Investment
    	
 
    	
Limitations
    
	
Wholly-Owned   Raw Land
    	
 
    	
No   Wholly-Owned Raw Land shall be acquired if the Aggregate Investment Value of   such Wholly-Owned Raw Land, together with all Wholly-Owned Raw Land then   owned by the Borrower Parties and their Subsidiary Entities, exceeds 5% of   the Gross Asset Value
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
Individual   Projects
    	
 
    	
No   individual Project or Capital Stock in a Person owning an individual Project   shall be acquired without the consent of the Administrative Agent and the   Required Lenders if the Aggregate Investment Value of such Project exceeds   10% of the Gross Asset Value
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
Portfolio   of Projects
    	
 
    	
Multiple   Projects or Capital Stock in Persons owning multiple Projects shall not be   acquired in a single transaction or series of related transactions without   the consent of the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders if the   Aggregate Investment Value of such Projects
    

 

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Permitted Investment
    	
 
    	
Limitations
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
exceeds   25% of the Gross Asset Value
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
Capital   Stock of Joint Ventures in which the Macerich Partnership, MAC or any   Wholly-Owned Subsidiary is not a general partner or a managing member
    	
 
    	
All   such Capital Stock owned as of the Closing Date and set forth on Schedule   8.5 hereto shall be permitted. No such Capital Stock shall be acquired   without the consent of the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders if   the Aggregate Investment Value of such Capital Stock and all other such   Capital Stock then owned by the Borrower Parties and their Subsidiary   Entities and acquired after the Closing Date exceeds 5% of the Gross Asset   Value
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
Capital   Stock of Joint Ventures in which the Macerich Partnership, MAC or any Wholly-Owned   Subsidiary is a general partner or a managing member
    	
 
    	
No   such Capital Stock shall be acquired without the consent of the   Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders if the Aggregate Investment   Value of such Capital Stock and all other such Capital Stock then owned by   the Borrower Parties and their Subsidiary Entities exceeds 55% of Gross Asset   Value
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
Real   Property Under Construction
    	
 
    	
The   Aggregate Investment Value of all Real Property Under Construction shall not   exceed 15% of the Gross Asset Value
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
MAC’s   redemption of partnership units in Macerich Partnership in accordance with   its Organizational Documents
    	
 
    	
Unlimited,   so long as (solely with respect to redemptions that are not required to be   made under the applicable Organizational Documents or other contractual   obligations of such entity), no Potential Default or Event of Default has   occurred and is continuing
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
First   lien priority Mortgage Loans acquired by Macerich Partnership, MAC 
    	
 
    	
The   Aggregate Investment Value of all such Mortgage Loans shall not
    

 

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Permitted Investment
    	
 
    	
Limitations
    
	
or   any Wholly-Owned Subsidiary
    	
 
    	
exceed   10% of the Gross Asset Value
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
Capital   Stock of Management Companies
    	
 
    	
The   Aggregate Investment Value of such Capital Stock shall not exceed 5% of Gross   Asset Value
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
Cash   and Cash Equivalents
    	
 
    	
Unlimited
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
Other   Investments (exclusive of the other permitted Investment categories set forth   in this Section 8.5)
    	
 
    	
The   Aggregate Investment Value of such other Investments shall not exceed 3% of   Gross Asset Value
    

 

8.6.                            Transactions with Partners and Affiliates.  The Borrower Parties shall not, and shall not permit any of the Macerich Core Entities to directly or indirectly enter into or permit to exist any transaction (including, without limitation, the purchase, sale, lease or exchange of any property or the rendering of any service) with a holder or holders of more than five percent (5%) of any class of equity Securities of MAC, or with any Affiliate of MAC which is not its Subsidiary (a “Transactional Affiliate”), except as set forth on Schedule 8.6 or except, as reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent, upon fair and reasonable terms no less favorable to the Borrower Parties than would be obtained in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person not a Transactional Affiliate; provided that any management agreement substantially in the form of the Master Management Agreements shall be deemed to satisfy the criteria set forth in this Section 8.6.

 

8.7.                            Margin Regulations; Securities Laws.  Neither the Borrower nor any Macerich Core Entities shall use all or any portion of the proceeds of any credit extended under this Agreement to purchase or carry Margin Stock for any purpose which violates, or which would be inconsistent with, any Requirements of Law (including, without limitation, the provisions of the regulations of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System).

 

8.8.                            Organizational Documents.  Without the prior written consent of Administrative Agent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld, MAC and the Borrower shall not, and shall not permit the Westcor Principal Entities or the Wilmorite Principal Entity to, Modify any of the terms or provisions in any of their respective Organizational Documents as in effect as of the Closing Date which would change in any material manner the rights and obligations of the parties to such Organizational Documents, except (a) any Modifications necessary for Macerich Partnership or MAC to issue more Capital Stock (provided such issuance does not otherwise violate the terms of this Agreement); (b) any Modifications which would not have an adverse effect on the Borrower Parties or their Subsidiaries or (c) Modifications which would have no adverse, substantive effect on the rights or interests of the Lenders in conjunction with the Loans or under the Loan Documents.

 

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8.9.                              Fiscal Year.  None of the Borrower Parties shall change its Fiscal Year for accounting or tax purposes from a period consisting of the 12-month period ending on December 31 of each calendar year.

 

8.10.                        [RESERVED].

 

8.11.                        Distributions.

 

(1)                                  MAC and Macerich Partnership shall not make (i) Distributions in any Fiscal Year in excess of the sum of (x) 95% of FFO plus (y) any realized gain resulting from Dispositions in such Fiscal Year; (ii) Distributions to acquire the Capital Stock of MAC during any period while a Potential Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing; (iii) Distributions during any period while an Event of Default under Section 9.1 has occurred and is continuing as a result of the Borrower’s failure to pay any principal or interest due under this Agreement; or (iv) Distributions during any period that any other material non-monetary Event of Default, has occurred and is continuing, unless after taking into account all available funds of MAC from all other sources, such Distributions are required in order to enable MAC to continue to qualify as a REIT.

 

(2)                                  MACWH shall not make Distributions in any Fiscal Year other than distributions of Available Cash (as defined in the MACWH Partnership Agreement) under and in accordance with the provisions of the MACWH Partnership Agreement except for any Permitted MACWH Cash Distribution.

 

8.12.                        Financial Covenants of Borrower Parties.

 

(1)                                  Minimum Net Worth.  As of the last day of any Fiscal Quarter occurring after the Closing Date, Net Worth shall not be less than $4,500,000,000.

 

(2)                                  Maximum Total Liabilities to Gross Asset Value.  The ratio of Total Liabilities to Gross Asset Value (expressed as a percentage) shall not at any time be more than 65%.

 

(3)                                  Minimum Interest Coverage Ratio.  As of the last day of any Fiscal Quarter occurring after the Closing Date, the Interest Coverage Ratio shall not be less than 1.75 to 1.

 

(4)                                  Minimum Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio.  As of the last day of any Fiscal Quarter occurring after the Closing Date, the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio shall not be less than 1.50 to 1.

 

(5)                                  Secured Debt to Gross Asset Value.  At any time from and after the Closing Date, the Secured Indebtedness Ratio (expressed as a percentage) shall not exceed 52.5%.

 

(6)                                  Maximum Floating Rate Debt.  The Borrower Parties shall maintain Hedging Obligations on a notional amount of Total Liabilities in respect of Borrowed Indebtedness so that such notional amount, when added to the aggregate principal amount of

 

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such Total Liabilities which bears interest at a fixed rate, equals or exceeds 65% of the aggregate principal amount of all Total Liabilities in respect of Borrowed Indebtedness.

 

ARTICLE 9.                                Events of Default.  Upon the occurrence of any of the following events (an “Event of Default”):

 

9.1.                              The Borrower shall fail to make any payment of principal or interest on the Loans or pay any reimbursement obligation in respect of any LC Disbursement on the date when due or shall fail to pay any other Obligation within three days of the date when due; or

 

9.2.                              Any representation or warranty made by the Borrower Parties in any Loan Document or in connection with any Loan Document shall be inaccurate or incomplete in any material respect on or as of the date made or deemed made; or

 

9.3.                              Any of the Borrower Parties shall default in the observance or performance of any covenant or agreement contained in Section 1.4(11), Article 8 or Sections  7.3(1) (with respect only to the Borrower Parties), 7.5(1), 7.13, and 7.14; or

 

9.4.                              Any of the Borrower Parties shall fail to observe or perform any other term or provision contained in the Loan Documents and such failure shall continue for thirty (30) days following the date a Responsible Officer of such Borrower Party knew of such failure or Borrower Party received notice thereof from Administrative Agent; or

 

9.5.                              Any of the Borrower Parties, or any Macerich Core Entities, shall default in any payment of principal of or interest on any recourse Indebtedness (other than the Obligations) in an aggregate unpaid amount for all such Persons in excess of $50,000,000, and, prior to the election of the Lenders to accelerate the Obligations hereunder, such recourse Indebtedness is not paid or the payment thereof waived or cured in accordance with the terms of the documents, instruments and agreements evidencing the same; or

 

9.6.                              [RESERVED]; or

 

9.7.                              (1) Any of the Borrower Parties or any Consolidated Entities (other than a De Minimis Subsidiary), shall commence any case, proceeding or other action (i) under any existing or future law of any jurisdiction, domestic or foreign, relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or relief of debtors, seeking to have an order for relief entered with respect to it, or seeking to adjudicate it a bankrupt or insolvent, or seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, winding-up, liquidation, dissolution, composition or other relief with respect to it or its debts, or (ii) seeking appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian or other similar official for it or for all or any substantial part of its assets, or making a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors; or (2) there shall be commenced against any of the Borrower Parties or any Consolidated Entities (other than a De Minimis Subsidiary) any case, proceeding or other action of a nature referred to in clause (1) above which (i) results in the entry of an order for relief or any such adjudication or appointment, or (ii) remains undismissed, undischarged or unbonded for a period of ninety (90) days; or (3) there shall be commenced against any of the Borrower Parties or any Consolidated Entities (other than a De Minimis Subsidiary)  any case, proceeding or other action seeking issuance of a warrant of attachment, execution, distraint or similar process against all or substantially all of its assets which results in the entry of an order for any such relief which

 

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shall not have been vacated, discharged, stayed, satisfied or bonded pending appeal within ninety (90) days from the entry thereof; or (4) any of the Borrower Parties or any Consolidated Entities (other than a De Minimis Subsidiary) shall take any action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of, or acquiescence in (other than in connection with a final settlement), any of the acts set forth in clause (1), (2) or (3) above; or (5) any of the Borrower Parties or any Consolidated Entities (other than a De Minimis Subsidiary) shall generally not, or shall be unable to, or shall admit in writing its inability to pay its debts as they become due; or

 

9.8.                              (1) An ERISA Event shall occur with respect to a Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan which has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in liability of any of the Borrower Parties in an aggregate amount in excess of $20,000,000, (2) the commencement or increase of contributions to, or the adoption of or the amendment of a Pension Plan by any of the Borrower Parties or an ERISA Affiliate which has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in an increase in Unfunded Pension Liability among all Pension Plans in an aggregate amount in excess of $50,000,000 or (3) any of the Borrower Parties or an ERISA Affiliate shall fail to pay when due, after the expiration of any applicable grace period, any installment payment with respect to its withdrawal liability under Section 4201 of ERISA under a Multiemployer Plan, which has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; or

 

9.9.                              One or more judgments or decrees in an aggregate amount in excess of $50,000,000 (excluding judgments and decrees covered by insurance, without giving effect to self-insurance or deductibles) shall be entered and be outstanding at any date against any of the Borrower Parties or any Consolidated Entities (other than a De Minimis Subsidiary) and all such judgments or decrees shall not have been vacated, discharged, stayed, satisfied or bonded pending appeal (or otherwise secured in a manner satisfactory to Administrative Agent in its reasonable judgment) within sixty (60) days from the entry thereof or in any event later than five days prior to the date of any proposed sale thereunder; or

 

9.10.                        Any Guarantor shall attempt to rescind or revoke its Guaranty, with respect to future transactions or otherwise, or shall fail to observe or perform any term or provision of the Guaranties; or

 

9.11.                        MAC shall fail to maintain its status as a REIT; or

 

9.12.                        The Capital Stock of MAC is no longer listed on the NYSE, American Stock Exchange or Nasdaq National Market System; or

 

9.13.                        Any Event of Default shall occur under any of the other Loan Documents; or

 

9.14.                        There shall occur a Change of Control;

 

THEN,

 

automatically upon the occurrence of an Event of Default under Section 9.7 above, and in all other cases at the option of the Administrative Agent or at the request or with the consent of the Required Lenders:  (i) the Commitments shall terminate; (ii) the Administrative Agent may

 

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exercise, on behalf of the Lenders, all rights and remedies under the Guaranties and any other collateral documents entered into with respect to the Loans; (iii) the outstanding principal balance of the Loans and interest accrued but unpaid thereon and all other Obligations shall become immediately due and payable, without demand upon or presentment to any of the Borrower Parties, which are expressly waived by the Borrower Parties, and (iv) the Administrative Agent and the Lenders may immediately exercise all rights, powers and remedies available to them at law, in equity or otherwise, including, without limitation, under the other Loan Documents, all of which rights, powers and remedies are cumulative and not exclusive.

 

Following the occurrence of an Event of Default and acceleration of the Obligations, all amounts received by the Administrative Agent and/or the Collateral Agent (including any amounts received by any other Secured Party that have been delivered to the Collateral Agent pursuant to Section 7.3 of any Pledge Agreement) on account of the Obligations, shall be promptly disbursed by the Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent, as applicable, as follows:

 

(1)                                  first, to the payment of (x) any and all sums advanced by the Collateral Agent in order to preserve the Collateral (or any other security or collateral for the Obligations) or preserve its security interest in the Collateral (or any other security or collateral for the Obligations); and (y) the reasonable expenses incurred by the Collateral Agent in connection with the retaking, holding, preparing for sale or lease, selling or otherwise disposing or realizing on the Collateral or any other collateral or security for the Obligations, or in connection with the exercise by the Collateral Agent of any of its rights or remedies hereunder or under any other Loan Document, together with attorneys’ fees and court costs;

 

(2)                                  second, to the extent proceeds remain after the application pursuant to the preceding clause (1), to the payment of (x) any and all sums advanced by the Administrative Agent in order to preserve the Collateral (or any other security or collateral for the Obligations) or preserve its security interest in the Collateral (or any other security or collateral for the Obligations) and (ii) the reasonable expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent in connection with the retaking, holding, preparing for sale or lease, selling or otherwise disposing or realizing on the Collateral or any other collateral or security for the Obligations, or in connection with the exercise by the Administrative Agent of any of its rights or remedies hereunder or under any other Loan Document, together with attorneys’ fees and court costs;

 

(3)                                  third, to the extent proceeds remain after the application pursuant to the preceding clauses (1) and (2), to the payment of out-of-pocket third party expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent in the performance of its duties and the enforcement of the rights of the Lenders under the Loan Documents, including, without limitation, all costs and expenses of collection, “workout”, attorneys’ fees, court costs and other amounts payable as provided in Section 10.7;

 

(4)                                  fourth, to the extent proceeds remain after the application pursuant to the preceding clauses (1), (2) and (3), to the payment of any other fees payable to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender and the Swing Line Lender in accordance with this Agreement or under any other Loan Document;

 

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(5)                                  fifth, to the extent proceeds remain after the application pursuant to the preceding clauses (1) through (4) inclusive, to the Lenders, Issuing Lender and Swing Line Lender in payment of all outstanding accrued and unpaid interest and fees with respect to the Loans, Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans pro rata in accordance with their respective Credit Exposure, until such interest and fees have been paid in full;

 

(6)                                  sixth, to the extent proceeds remain after the application pursuant to the preceding clauses (1) through (5) inclusive, to the Lenders, Issuing Lender and Swing Line Lender in payment of the outstanding principal amount of all Loans, Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans (or, in the case of undrawn Letters of Credit, the amount that would be owing if such Letter of Credit were drawn, which amount shall be held in accordance with the immediately following paragraph of this Article 9) pro rata in accordance with their respective Credit Exposure, until such principal amount has been paid in full; and

 

(7)                                  seventh, to the extent proceeds remain after the application pursuant to the preceding clauses (1) through (6) inclusive, to the Term Lenders of any applicable Series of Term Loans in payment of prepayment premiums owing under this Agreement or any Joinder Agreement pro rata in accordance with their respective Term Loan Credit Exposures with respect to such Series of Term Loans, until such prepayment premiums have been paid in full.

 

If the Issuing Lender is to receive a distribution in accordance with the procedures set forth above in the immediately preceding paragraph on account of undrawn amounts with respect to Letters of Credit issued hereunder, such amounts shall be paid to the Collateral Agent as cash collateral, for the equal and ratable benefit of the Secured Parties.

 

The order of priority set forth in Article 9 and the related provisions of this Agreement are set forth solely to determine the rights and priorities of the Agents, the Lenders, Swing Line Lender and the Issuing Lender as among themselves.  The order of priority set forth in clauses (5) and (6) of this Article 9 may at any time and from time to time be changed by the Required Lenders without necessity of notice to or consent of or approval by the Borrower or any other Person.

 

ARTICLE 10.                          The Agents.

 

10.1.                        Appointment.  Each of the Lenders, the Issuing Lender and the Swing Line Lender hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent as the agents of such Lender under the Loan Documents and each such Lender hereby irrevocably authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent, as the agents for such Lender, to take such action on its behalf under the provisions of the Loan Documents and to exercise such powers and perform such duties as are expressly delegated to each such Agent by the terms of the Loan Documents, together with such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto.  Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary elsewhere in the Loan Documents, neither the Administrative Agent nor the Collateral Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or therein, or any fiduciary relationship with any Lender, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties, obligations or liabilities shall be read into the Loan Documents or otherwise exist against any of the Agents.

 

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Each Lender acknowledges and agrees that it shall be bound by all terms and conditions of the Pledge Agreements and the Guaranties.  No modifications of any provision of the Loan Documents relating to the Collateral Agent shall be effective without the written consent of the Collateral Agent.

 

10.2.                        Delegation of Duties.  The Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent may execute any of their respective duties under the Loan Documents by or through agents or attorneys-in-fact and shall be entitled to advice of counsel concerning all matters pertaining to such duties.  Neither the Administrative Agent nor the Collateral Agent shall be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any agents or attorneys-in-fact selected by it with reasonable care.

 

10.3.                        Exculpatory Provisions.  None of the Administrative Agent, the other Agents, nor any of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, attorneys-in-fact or affiliates shall be (1) liable for any action lawfully taken or omitted to be taken by it or such Person under or in connection with the Loan Documents (except for its or such Person’s own gross negligence or willful misconduct), or (2) responsible in any manner to any of the Lenders, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender for any recitals, statements, representations or warranties made by the Borrower Parties or any officer thereof contained in the Loan Documents or in any certificate, report, statement or other document referred to or provided for in, or received by the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent under or in connection with the Loan Documents or for the value, validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability or sufficiency of the Loan Documents or for any failure of the Borrower Parties to perform their obligations hereunder.  The Administrative Agent and all other Agents shall not be under any obligation to any Lender, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender to ascertain or to inquire as to the observance or performance of any of the agreements contained in, or conditions of, the Loan Documents or to inspect the properties, books or records of the Borrower Parties.

 

10.4.                        Reliance by the Agents.  Each of the Agents shall be entitled to rely, and shall be fully protected in relying, upon any note, writing, resolution, notice, consent, certification, affidavit, letter, cablegram, telegram, telecopy, telex or teletype message, statement, order or other document or conversation reasonably believed by it to be genuine and correct and to have been signed, sent or made by the proper Person or Persons and upon advice and statements of legal counsel (including, without limitation, counsel to the Borrower), independent accountants and other experts selected by such Agent.  As to the Lenders, the Issuing Lender and the Swing Line Lender:  (1) the Administrative Agent shall be fully justified in failing or refusing to take any action under the Loan Documents unless it shall first receive such advice or concurrence of one hundred percent (100%) of the Lenders, the Issuing Lender and the Swing Line Lender (or, if a provision of this Agreement expressly provides that a lesser number of the Lenders may direct the action of the Administrative Agent, such lesser number of Lenders) or it shall first be indemnified to its satisfaction by the Lenders, the Issuing Lender and the Swing Line Lender ratably in accordance with their respective Applicable Percentages against any and all liability and expense which may be incurred by it by reason of taking or continuing to take any action (except for liabilities and expenses resulting from the Administrative Agent’s gross negligence or willful misconduct); (2) the Administrative Agent shall in all cases be fully protected in acting, or in refraining from acting, under the Loan Documents in accordance with a request of one hundred percent (100%) of the Lenders (or, if a provision of this Agreement

 

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expressly provides that the Administrative Agent shall be required to act or refrain from acting at the request of a lesser number of the Lenders, such lesser number of Lenders), and such request and any action taken or failure to act pursuant thereto shall be binding upon all the Lenders; (3) the Collateral Agent shall be fully justified in failing or refusing to take any action under the Loan Documents unless it shall first receive such advice or concurrence of the Required Lenders (or, if a provision of any Loan Document expressly provides that a greater percentage of Lenders are required to direct the action of the Collateral Agent, such greater number of Lenders) or it shall first be indemnified to its satisfaction by the Lenders against any and all liability and expense which may be incurred by it by reason of taking or continuing to take any action (except for liabilities and expenses resulting from the Collateral Agent’s gross negligence or willful misconduct), and (4) the Collateral Agent shall in all cases be fully protected in acting, or in refraining from acting, under the Loan Documents in accordance with a request of the Required Lenders (or, if a provision of any Loan Document expressly provides that a greater percentage of Lenders are required to direct the action of the Collateral Agent, such greater number of Lenders), and such request and any action taken or failure to act pursuant thereto shall be binding upon all Lenders.

 

10.5.                        Notice of Default.  Neither the Administrative Agent nor the Collateral Agent shall be deemed to have knowledge or notice of the occurrence of any Potential Default or Event of Default hereunder unless the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, as the case may be, has received notice from a Lender or the Borrower referring to the Loan Documents, describing such Potential Default or Event of Default and stating that such notice is a “notice of default.”  In the event that the Administrative Agent receives such a notice and a Potential Default has occurred, the Administrative Agent shall promptly give notice thereof to the Collateral Agent and the Lenders.  The Administrative Agent shall take such action with respect to such Potential Default or Event of Default as shall be reasonably directed by the Required Lenders; provided that, unless and until the Administrative Agent shall have received such directions, the Administrative Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) take such action, or refrain from taking such action, with respect to such Potential Default or Event of Default as it shall deem advisable in the best interest of the Lenders (except to the extent that this Agreement, the Pledge Agreements or the Guaranties expressly require that such action be taken or not taken by the Administrative Agent with the consent or upon the authorization of the Required Lenders or such other group of Lenders, in which case such action will be taken or not taken as directed by the Required Lenders or such other group of Lenders).  The Collateral Agent shall take such action with respect to such Potential Default or Event of Default as shall be reasonably directed by the Required Lenders; provided that, unless and until the Collateral Agent shall have received such directions, the Collateral Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) take such action, or refrain from taking such action, with respect to such Potential Default or Event of Default as it shall deem advisable in the best interest of the Lenders (except to the extent that this Agreement, the Pledge Agreements or the Guaranties expressly require that such action be taken or not taken by the Collateral Agent with the consent or upon the authorization of the Required Lenders, in which case such action will be taken or not taken as directed by the Required Lenders).

 

10.6.                        Non-Reliance on Agents and Other Lenders.  Each of the Lenders, the Issuing Lender and the Swing Line Lender expressly acknowledges that none of the Administrative Agent, the other Agents nor any of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, attorneys-in-fact or affiliates has made any representations or warranties to it and that no

 

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act by the Administrative Agent or the other Agents hereinafter taken, including any review of the affairs of the Borrower Parties, shall be deemed to constitute any representation or warranty by the Administrative Agent or the other Agents to any Lender, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender.  Each of the Lenders, the Issuing Lender and the Swing Line Lender represents to the Administrative Agent and the other Agents that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, the other Agents or any other Lender, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender, and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own appraisal of and investigation into the business, operations, property, financial and other condition and creditworthiness of the Borrower Parties and made its own decision to make its loans hereunder and enter into this Agreement.  Each Lender, the Issuing Lender and the Swing Line Lender also represents that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, the other Agents or any other Lender, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender, and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit analysis, appraisals and decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement, and to make such investigation as it deems necessary to inform itself as to the business, operations, property, financial and other condition and creditworthiness of the Borrower Parties.  Except for notices, reports and other documents expressly required to be furnished to the Lenders, the Issuing Lender and the Swing Line Lender by the Administrative Agent hereunder, the Administrative Agent, the other Agents shall not have any duty or responsibility to provide any Lender, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender with any credit or other information concerning the business, operations, property, financial and other condition or creditworthiness of the Borrower or other Borrower Parties which may come into the possession of the Administrative Agent or any of its officers, directors, employees, agents, attorneys-in-fact or affiliates.

 

10.7.                        Indemnification; Reimbursement.

 

(1)                                  The Lenders, the Issuing Lender and the Swing Line Lender agree to indemnify the Administrative Agent and the other Agents in their respective capacity as such (to the extent not reimbursed by the Borrower and without limiting the obligation of the Borrower to do so), ratably according to their respective Applicable Percentages, from and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind whatsoever which may at any time (including without limitation at any time following the payment of the Obligations) be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against the Administrative Agent or the other Agents in any way relating to or arising out of the Loan Documents or any documents contemplated by or referred to herein or the transactions contemplated hereby or any action taken or omitted by the Administrative Agent or the other Agents under or in connection with any of the foregoing; provided that no Lender, nor the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender, shall be liable for the payment of any portion of such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements resulting from the Administrative Agent’s or any other Agent’s gross negligence or willful misconduct, respectively.  The provisions of this Section 10.7 shall survive the indefeasible payment of the Obligations, the Revolving Commitment Termination Date, the Final Term Loan Maturity Date and the termination of this Agreement.

 

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respect to any actual or proposed Modification or waiver of any term of the Loan Documents or restructuring or refinancing thereof or with any effort to enforce or protect Lenders’, Issuing Lender’s or Swing Line Lender’s rights or interests with respect thereto (including any protective advances made in accordance with any Loan Document), or otherwise with respect to the performance of its role as Administrative Agent under this Agreement, each in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, then, if such costs are not reimbursed by or on behalf of Borrower, Lenders shall reimburse Administrative Agent for their respective Applicable Percentages of such costs promptly after request therefor.  If Administrative Agent recovers any amounts for which Administrative Agent has previously been reimbursed by Lenders hereunder, Administrative Agent shall promptly distribute to Lenders their respective Applicable Percentages thereof.

 

10.8.                        Agents in Their Individual Capacity.  The Administrative Agent, the other Agents and their affiliates may make loans to, accept deposits from and generally engage in any kind of business with any of the Borrower Parties or any of their respective Subsidiary Entities and Affiliates as though the Administrative Agent and the other Agents were not, respectively, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, a Syndication Agent or an Agent hereunder.  With respect to such loans made or renewed by them and any Note issued to them, the Administrative Agent and the other Agents shall have the same rights and powers under the Loan Documents as any Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, a Syndication Agent or an Agent, respectively, and the terms “Lender” and “Lenders” shall include the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, each Syndication Agent and each other Agent in its individual capacity.

 

10.9.                        Successor Administrative Agent.  The Administrative Agent may resign as Administrative Agent under the Loan Documents upon thirty (30) days’ notice to the Lenders.  If the Administrative Agent shall resign, then the Lenders, the Issuing Lender and Swing Line Lender (other than the Lender resigning as Administrative Agent) shall (with, so long as there shall not exist and be continuing an Event of Default, the consent of the Borrower, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) appoint from among the Lenders a successor agent or, if the Lenders, the Issuing Lender and the Swing Line Lender are unable to agree on the appointment of a successor agent, the Administrative Agent shall appoint a successor agent for the Lenders, the Issuing Lender and the Swing Line Lender whereupon such successor agent shall succeed to the rights, powers and duties of the Administrative Agent, and the term “Administrative Agent” shall mean such successor agent effective upon its appointment, and the former Administrative Agent’s rights, powers and duties as Administrative Agent shall be terminated, without any other or further act or deed on the part of such former Administrative Agent or any of the parties to this Agreement or any of the Loan Documents or successors thereto.  After any retiring Administrative Agent’s resignation hereunder as Administrative Agent, the provisions of the Loan Documents shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was Administrative Agent under the Loan Documents.

 

10.10.                  Successor Collateral Agent.  The Collateral Agent may resign as Collateral Agent under the Loan Documents upon thirty (30) days’ notice to the Lenders.  If the Collateral Agent shall resign, then the Required Lenders (as determined by excluding the Lender resigning as the Collateral Agent) shall (with, so long as there shall not exist and be continuing an Event of Default, the consent of the Borrower, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld

 

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or delayed) appoint a successor agent or, if such Required Lenders are unable to agree on the appointment of a successor agent, the Collateral Agent shall appoint a successor agent for the Lenders whereupon such successor agent shall succeed to the rights, powers and duties of the Collateral Agent, and the term “Collateral Agent” shall mean such successor agent effective upon its appointment, and the former Collateral Agent’s rights, powers and duties as Collateral Agent shall be terminated, without any other or further act or deed on the part of such former Collateral Agent or any of the parties to this Agreement or any of the Loan Documents or successors thereto.  After any retiring Collateral Agent’s resignation hereunder as Collateral Agent, the provisions of the Loan Documents shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was Collateral Agent under the Loan Documents.

 

10.11                     Limitations on Agents’ Liability.  None of the Co-Syndication Agents, the Co-Documentation Agents, the Senior Managing Agents, or the Co-Lead Arrangers, in such capacities, shall have any right, power, obligation, liability, responsibility or duty under this Agreement.

 

ARTICLE 11.                          Miscellaneous Provisions.

 

11.1.                        No Assignment by the Borrower.  None of the Borrower Parties may assign its rights or obligations under this Agreement or the other Loan Documents without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent and one hundred percent (100%) of the Lenders, the Issuing Lender and the Swing Line Lender.  Subject to the foregoing, all provisions contained in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and in any document or agreement referred to herein or therein or relating hereto or thereto shall inure to the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender and each Lender, their respective successors and assigns, and shall be binding upon each of the Borrower Parties and such Person’s successors and assigns.

 

11.2.                        Modification.

 

(1)                                  Subject to the additional requirements of Section 11.2(2) and 11.2(3), neither this Agreement nor any other Loan Document may be Modified or waived unless such Modification or waiver is in writing and signed by the Administrative Agent, the Guarantors, the Borrower and the Required Lenders; provided that Administrative Agent may, with the consent of the Borrower only, (i) Modify this Agreement or any other Loan Document to cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency, so long as such amendment, modification or supplement does not adversely affect the rights of any Lender, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender and (ii) Modify this Agreement or any other Loan Document to permit additional affiliates of the Borrower to guarantee the Obligations and/or provide collateral therefor; provided further that this Agreement may be amended by any Joinder Agreements as contemplated by Article 3 hereof.

 

(2)                                  Notwithstanding the foregoing, no such Modification or waiver shall, without the prior written consent of each Lender that would be directly and adversely affected thereby:  (i) reduce the principal of, or rate of interest on, any Loan or any LC Disbursement or fees payable hereunder, (except (x) in connection with the waiver or applicability of any post-default increase in interest rates (which waiver shall be effective with

 

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the consent of the Required Lenders) and (y) that any amendment or modification of defined terms used in the financial covenants in this Agreement shall not constitute a reduction in the rate of interest or fees for purposes of this clause (i)), (ii) except as expressly contemplated by this Section 11.2 and Section 11.8 below, modify the Commitment of any Lender over the amount thereof then in effect without the consent of such Lender; provided, no amendment, modification or waiver of any condition precedent, covenant, Potential Default or Event of Default shall constitute an increase in any Commitment of any Lender, (iii) Modify the definition of “Required Lenders” (provided that, with the consent of Required Lenders, additional extensions of credit pursuant hereto may be included in the determination of “Required Lenders” on substantially the same basis as the Commitments and the revolving Loans are included on the Closing Date), (iv) extend or waive any scheduled payment date for any principal, interest or fees, (v) release MAC from its obligations under the REIT Guaranty, release the Macerich Partnership from its obligation to repay the Loans and LC Disbursements hereunder or release all or substantially all of the Collateral, (vi) Modify this Section 11.2, or (vii) Modify any provision of the Loan Documents which by its terms requires the consent or approval of all affected Lenders; provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, all Lenders shall be deemed directly and adversely affected thereby with respect to any amendment described in clauses (iii), (v), and (vi).

 

(3)                                  No Modification of any provision of the Loan Documents, or consent to any departure by any Borrower Party therefrom, shall: (i) Modify any provision of the Loan Documents relating to the Administrative Agent without the written consent of the Administrative Agent; or (ii) Modify or waive any provision hereof relating to the Swing Line Sublimit or the Swing Line Loans without the consent of Swing Line Lender; or (iii) Modify any obligation of Lenders relating to the purchase of participations in Letters of Credit as provided in Section 1.4 without the written consent of Administrative Agent and the Issuing Lender.

 

(4)                                  Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement or any other Loan Document to the contrary, the Borrower may enter into Joinder Agreements in accordance with Article 3 and such Joinder Agreements shall be effective to amend the terms of this Agreement and the other applicable Loan Documents, in each case, without any further action or consent of any other party to any Loan Document.

 

Further, it is expressly agreed and understood that the failure by the Required Lenders to elect to accelerate amounts outstanding hereunder and/or to terminate the Commitments of the Lenders, the Swing Line Lender and the Issuing Lender hereunder shall not constitute a Modification or waiver of any term or provision of this Agreement.

 

11.3.                        Cumulative Rights; No Waiver.  The rights, powers and remedies of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender and the Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Documents are cumulative and in addition to all rights, power and remedies provided under any and all agreements among the Borrower Parties, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender and the Lenders relating hereto, at law, in equity or otherwise.  Any delay or failure by Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender and the Lenders to exercise any right, power or remedy shall not constitute a waiver thereof by the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender or the Lenders, and no single or partial exercise by the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line

 

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Lender or the Lenders of any right, power or remedy shall preclude other or further exercise thereof or any exercise of any other rights, powers or remedies.

 

11.4.                        Entire Agreement.  This Agreement, the other Loan Documents and the schedules, appendices, documents and agreements referred to herein and therein embody the entire agreement and understanding between the parties hereto and supersede all prior agreements and understandings relating to the subject matter hereof and thereof.

 

11.5.                        Survival.  All representations, warranties, covenants and agreements contained in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents on the part of the Borrower Parties shall survive the termination of this Agreement and shall be effective until the Obligations are paid and performed in full or longer as expressly provided herein.

 

11.6.                        Notices.

 

(1)                                  Notices Generally.  Except in the case of notices and other communications expressly permitted to be given by telephone (and except as provided in paragraph (2) below), all notices and other communications provided for herein shall be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or overnight courier service, mailed by certified or registered mail or sent by facsimile, in each case, addressed to the party at the address set forth on Schedule 11.6 attached hereto.  Notices sent by hand or overnight courier service, or mailed by certified or registered mail, shall be deemed to have been given when received; notices sent by facsimile shall be deemed to have been given when sent (except that, if not given during normal business hours for the recipient, shall be deemed to have been given at the opening of business on the next business day for the recipient).  Notices delivered through electronic communications, to the extent provided in paragraph (2) below, shall be effective as provided in said paragraph (2).

 

(2)                                  Electronic Communications.  Notices and other communications to the Lenders, the Issuing Lender and the Swing Line Lender hereunder may be delivered or furnished by electronic communication (including e-mail and Internet or intranet websites) pursuant to procedures approved by the Administrative Agent, provided that the foregoing shall not apply to notices to any Lender, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender pursuant to Section 1.5 if such Lender, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender, as applicable, has notified the Administrative Agent that it is incapable of receiving notices under such Section by electronic communication.  The Administrative Agent or the Borrower may, in its discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to it hereunder by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by it; provided that approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or communications.

 

Unless the Administrative Agent otherwise prescribes, (i) notices and other communications sent to an e-mail address shall be deemed received upon the sender’s receipt of an acknowledgement from the intended recipient (such as by the “return receipt requested” function, as available, return e-mail or other written acknowledgement), and (ii) notices or communications posted to an Internet or intranet website shall be deemed received upon the deemed receipt by the intended recipient, at its e-mail address as described in the foregoing clause (i), of notification that such notice or communication is available and identifying the

 

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website address therefore; provided that, for both clauses (i) and (ii) of this paragraph, if such notice, email or other communication is not sent during the normal business hours of the recipient, such notice or communication shall be deemed to have been sent at the opening of business on the next business day for the recipient.

 

(3)                                  Change of Address, etc.  Any party hereto may change its address or facsimile number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the other parties hereto.

 

(4)                                  Platform.

 

(i)                                     Each Borrower Party agrees that the Administrative Agent may, but shall not be obligated to, make the Communications (as defined below) available to the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender and the other Lenders by posting the Communications on Debt Domain, Intralinks, Syndtrak or a substantially similar electronic transmission system (the “Platform”).

 

(ii)                                  The Platform is provided “as is” and “as available.”  The Agent Parties (as defined below) do not warrant the adequacy of the Platform and expressly disclaim liability for errors or omissions in the Communications.  No warranty of any kind, express, implied or statutory, including, without limitation, any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement of third-party rights or freedom from viruses or other code defects, is made by any Agent Party in connection with the Communications or the Platform.  In no event shall the Administrative Agent or any of its Related Parties (collectively, the “Agent Parties”) have any liability to the Borrower or the other Borrower Parties, any Lender or any other Person or entity for damages of any kind, including, without limitation, direct or indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages, losses or expenses (whether in tort, contract or otherwise) arising out of the Borrower’s , any Borrower Party’s or the Administrative Agent’s transmission of Communications through the Platform.  “Communications” means, collectively, any notice, demand, communication, information, document or other material that any Borrower Party provides to the Administrative Agent pursuant to any Loan Document or the transactions contemplated therein which is distributed to the Administrative Agent, any Lender, the Swing Line Lender or the Issuing Lender by means of electronic communications pursuant to this Section, including through the Platform.

 

11.7.                        Governing Law.  This Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York without regard to conflict of laws of principles thereof that would result in the application of any law other than the law of the State of New York..

 

11.8.                        Assignments, Participations, Etc.

 

(1)                                  With the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent and, but only if there has not occurred and is continuing an Event of Default or Potential Default, MAC, in each case such consents not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed, any Lender may at any time assign and delegate to one or more Eligible Assignees (provided that no written consent of MAC or the Administrative Agent shall be required in connection with any assignment and

 

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delegation by a Lender to an Affiliate of such Lender or to another Lender or its Affiliate) (each an “Assignee”) all or any part of such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and the Loans at the time owing to it) and the other Obligations held by such Lender hereunder, in a minimum amount of $5 million (or (A) if such Assignee is another Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender, $1 million, or such lesser amount as agreed by the Administrative Agent; and (B) if such Lender’s Commitment (or Revolving Commitment and Term Loan Credit Exposure) is less than $5 million, one hundred percent (100%) thereof); provided, however, that MAC, the Borrower, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent may continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with the interest so assigned to an Assignee until (i) written notice of such assignment, together with payment instructions, addresses and related information with respect to the Assignee, shall have been given to the Borrower, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent by such Lender and the Assignee and such assignment shall have been recorded in the Register in accordance with Section 11.8(1)(B); (ii) such Lender and its Assignee shall have delivered to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Acceptance Agreement and (iii) the Assignee has paid to the Administrative Agent a processing fee in the amount of $3,500.

 

(A)                              From and after the date that the Administrative Agent notifies the assignor Lender and the Borrower that it has received an executed Assignment and Acceptance Agreement and payment of the above-referenced processing fee:  (i) the Assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance Agreement, shall have the rights and obligations of a Lender under the Loan Documents, (ii) the assignor Lender shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance Agreement, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under the Loan Documents (but shall be entitled to indemnification as otherwise provided in this Agreement with respect to any events occurring prior to the assignment) and (iii) this Agreement shall be deemed to be amended to the extent, but only to the extent, necessary to reflect the addition of the Assignee and the resulting adjustment of the Commitments resulting therefrom.

 

(B)                                Borrower, Administrative Agent and Lenders shall deem and treat the Persons listed as Lenders in the Register as the holders and owners of the corresponding Commitments and Loans listed therein for all purposes hereof, and no assignment or transfer of any such Commitment or Loan shall be effective, in each case, unless and until receipt by Administrative Agent of a fully executed Assignment and Acceptance Agreement effecting the assignment or transfer thereof, together with the required forms and certificates regarding tax matters and any fees payable in connection with such assignment, in each case, as provided in Section 11.8(1).  Each assignment shall be recorded in the Register promptly following receipt by the Administrative Agent of the fully executed Assignment Agreement and all other necessary documents and approvals, prompt notice thereof shall be provided to Borrower and a copy of such Assignment and Acceptance Agreement shall be maintained, as applicable.  Any request, authority or consent of any Person who, at the time of making such request or giving such authority or consent, is listed in the Register as a Lender shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error on any subsequent holder, assignee or transferee of the corresponding Commitments or Loans.

 

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(2)                                  Within five Business Days after its receipt of notice by the Administrative Agent that it has received an executed Assignment and Acceptance Agreement and payment of the processing fee (which notice shall also be sent by the Administrative Agent to each Lender), the Borrower shall, if requested by the Assignee, execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, a new Note evidencing such Assignee’s Revolving Commitment and/or new Note evidencing such Assignee’s portion of each Series of the Term Loans.

 

(3)                                  Any Lender may at any time, without notice to or the consent of any other Person, sell to one or more commercial banks or other Persons not Affiliates of the Borrower (a “Participant”) participating interests in all or any portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents (including all or a portion of its Commitments and the Loans owing to it) (the “Originating Lender”); provided, however, that (i) the Originating Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (ii) the Originating Lender shall remain solely responsible for the performance of such obligations, and (iii) the Borrower, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent shall continue to deal solely and directly with the Originating Lender in connection with the Originating Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.  In the case of any such participation, the Participant shall be entitled to the benefit of Sections 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7 (and subject to the burdens of Sections 2.8 and 11.8 above) as though it were also a Lender thereunder, and if amounts outstanding under this Agreement are due and unpaid, or shall have been declared or shall have become due and payable upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, each Participant shall be deemed to have the right of set-off in respect of its participating interest in amounts owing under this Agreement to the same extent as if the amount of its participating interest were owing directly to it as a Lender under this Agreement, and Section 11.10 of this Agreement shall apply to such Participant as if it were a Lender party hereto.

 

(4)                                  Notwithstanding any other provision contained in this Agreement or any other Loan Document to the contrary, any Lender may assign all or any portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents (including all or a portion of its Commitments and the Loans owing to it) to any Federal Reserve Bank or the United States Treasury as collateral security pursuant to Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and any Operating Circular issued by such Federal Reserve Bank, provided that any payment in respect of such assigned interests made by the Borrower to or for the account of the assigning and/or pledging Lender in accordance with the terms of this Agreement shall satisfy the Borrower’s obligations hereunder in respect to such assigned interests to the extent of such payment.  No such assignment shall release the assigning Lender from its obligations hereunder.

 

(5)                                  Each Lender that sells a participation shall, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrower, maintain at one of its offices a register on which it enters the names and addresses of each Participant and the principal amounts (and stated interest) of each Participant’s interest in the Loans or other obligations under this Agreement (the “Participant Register”); provided that no Lender shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register to any Person (including the identity of any Participant or any information relating to a Participant’s interest in any Commitments, Loans or its other obligations under any Loan Document) except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish that

 

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such Commitment, Loan or other obligation is in registered form under Section 5f.103-1(c) of the United States Treasury Regulations.  The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and such Lender shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register pursuant to the terms hereof as the owner of such participation for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the contrary.

 

11.9.                        Counterparts; Electronic Execution.  This Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto in different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract.  Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Agreement by facsimile or in electronic (i.e., “pdf” or “tif”) format shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement.

 

11.10.                  Sharing of Payments.  If any Lender, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender shall receive and retain any payment, whether by setoff, application of deposit balance or security, or otherwise, in respect of the Obligations in excess of such Lender’s, the Swing Line Lender’s or the Issuing Lender’s Applicable Revolving Percentage or Applicable Term Percentage with respect to a Series of Term Loans, as the case may be, then such Lender, Swing Line Lender or Issuing Lender shall purchase from the other Revolving Lenders or applicable Term Lenders, as the case may be, for cash and at face value and without recourse, such participation in the Obligations held by them as shall be necessary to cause such excess payment to be shared ratably as aforesaid with each of them; provided, that if such excess payment or part thereof is thereafter recovered from such purchasing Lender, Swing Line Lender or Issuing Lender, the related purchases from the other Lenders shall be rescinded ratably and the purchase price restored as to the portion of such excess payment so recovered, but without interest.  Each Lender, the Swing Line Lender and the Issuing Lender are hereby authorized by the Borrower Parties to exercise any and all rights of setoff, counterclaim or bankers’ lien against the full amount of the Obligations, whether or not held by such Lender, the Swing Line Lender or the Issuing Lender.  Each of the Lenders, the Swing Line Lender and the Issuing Lender hereby agree to exercise any such rights first against the Obligations and only then to any other Indebtedness of the Borrower to such Lender, the Swing Line Lender or Issuing Lender.

 

11.11.                  Confidentiality.  Each Lender, the Swing Line Lender and the Issuing Lender agree to take normal and reasonable precautions and exercise due care to maintain the confidentiality of all information provided to it by any of the Borrower Parties or by the Administrative Agent on the Borrower Parties’ behalf, in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document, and neither it nor any of its Affiliates shall use any such information for any purpose or in any manner other than pursuant to the terms contemplated by this Agreement, except to the extent such information:  (1) was or becomes generally available to the public other than as a result of a disclosure by any Lender, the Swing Line Lender or the Issuing Lender or any prospective Lender, or (2) was or becomes available from a source other than the Borrower Parties not known to the Lenders, the Swing Line Lender or the Issuing Lender to be in breach of an obligation of confidentiality to the Borrower Parties in the disclosure of such information.  Nothing contained herein shall restrict any Lender, the Swing Line Lender or the Issuing Lender from disclosing such information (i) at the request or pursuant to any requirement of any Governmental Authority; (ii) pursuant to subpoena or other court process; (iii) when required to do so in accordance with the provisions of any applicable Requirement of Law; (iv) to the extent

 

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reasonably required in connection with any litigation or proceeding to which the Administrative Agent, the Swing Line Lender, the Issuing Lender, any Lender or their respective Affiliates may be party; (v) to the extent reasonably required in connection with the exercise of any remedy hereunder or under any other Loan Document; (vi) to such Lender’s, Swing Line Lender’s or Issuing Lender’s independent auditors and other professional advisors; and (vii) to any Participant or Assignee and to any prospective Participant or Assignee, provided that each Participant and Assignee or prospective Participant or Assignee first agrees to be bound by the provisions of this Section 11.11 or to confidentiality provisions that are at least as restrictive as this Section 11.11.

 

11.12.                  Consent to Jurisdiction.  SUBJECT TO CLAUSE (E) OF THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE, ALL JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS BROUGHT AGAINST ANY PARTY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING HERETO OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS, OR ANY OF THE OBLIGATIONS, SHALL BE BROUGHT IN ANY STATE OR FEDERAL COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION IN THE STATE, COUNTY AND CITY OF NEW YORK.  BY EXECUTING AND DELIVERING THIS AGREEMENT, EACH CREDIT PARTY, FOR ITSELF AND IN CONNECTION WITH ITS PROPERTIES, IRREVOCABLY (A) ACCEPTS GENERALLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY THE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION AND VENUE OF SUCH COURTS (OTHER THAN WITH RESPECT TO ACTIONS BY ANY AGENT IN RESPECT OF RIGHTS UNDER ANY SECURITY AGREEMENT GOVERNED BY A LAW OTHER THAN THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK OR WITH RESPECT TO ANY COLLATERAL SUBJECT THERETO); (B) WAIVES ANY DEFENSE OF FORUM NON CONVENIENS; (C) AGREES THAT SERVICE OF ALL PROCESS IN ANY SUCH PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT MAY BE MADE BY REGISTERED OR CERTIFIED MAIL, RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED, TO THE APPLICABLE BORROWER PARTY AT ITS ADDRESS PROVIDED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 11.6; (D) AGREES THAT SERVICE AS PROVIDED IN CLAUSE (C) ABOVE IS SUFFICIENT TO CONFER PERSONAL JURISDICTION OVER THE APPLICABLE BORROWER PARTY IN ANY SUCH PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT, AND OTHERWISE CONSTITUTES EFFECTIVE AND BINDING SERVICE IN EVERY RESPECT; AND (E) AGREES THAT AGENTS AND LENDERS RETAIN THE RIGHT TO SERVE PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY LAW OR TO BRING PROCEEDINGS AGAINST ANY BORROWER PARTY IN THE COURTS OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION IN CONNECTION WITH THE EXERCISE OF ANY RIGHTS UNDER ANY LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE ENFORCEMENT OF ANY JUDGMENT.

 

11.13.                  Waiver of Jury Trial.  EACH OF THE BORROWER, MAC, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, THE ISSUING LENDER, THE SWING LINE LENDER AND THE LENDERS EACH WAIVE THEIR RESPECTIVE RIGHTS TO A TRIAL BY JURY OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION BASED UPON OR ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT, THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS, OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY, IN ANY ACTION, PROCEEDING OR OTHER LITIGATION OF ANY TYPE BROUGHT BY ANY OF THE PARTIES AGAINST ANY OTHER PARTY OR ANY PARTICIPANT OR ASSIGNEE, WHETHER WITH RESPECT TO CONTRACT CLAIMS, TORT CLAIMS, OR OTHERWISE.  EACH OF THE BORROWER, MAC, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, THE ISSUING

 

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LENDER, THE SWING LINE LENDER AND THE LENDERS EACH AGREE THAT ANY SUCH CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION SHALL BE TRIED BY A COURT TRIAL WITHOUT A JURY.  WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, EACH OF SUCH PARTIES FURTHER AGREES THAT ITS RESPECTIVE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY IS WAIVED BY OPERATION OF THIS SECTION AS TO ANY ACTION, COUNTERCLAIM OR OTHER PROCEEDING WHICH SEEKS, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, TO CHALLENGE THE VALIDITY OR ENFORCEABILITY OF THIS AGREEMENT OR THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS OR ANY PROVISION HEREOF OR THEREOF.  THIS WAIVER SHALL APPLY TO ANY SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS, RENEWALS, SUPPLEMENTS OR MODIFICATIONS TO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS.

 

11.14.                  Indemnity.  Whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby are consummated, each of the Borrower Parties shall, jointly and severally, indemnify and hold the Administrative Agent, the other Agents, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender and each Lender and each of their respective officers, directors, employees, counsel, agents and attorneys-in-fact (each, an “Indemnified Person”) harmless from and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, charges, expenses and disbursements (including reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses) of any kind or nature whatsoever which may at any time (including at any time following the Revolving Commitment Termination Date, the Final Term Loan Maturity Date and the termination, resignation or replacement of the Administrative Agent, the Swing Line Lender, the Issuing Lender or replacement of any Lender) be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against any such Person in any way relating to or arising out of this Agreement or any document contemplated by or referred to herein, or the transactions contemplated hereby, or any action taken or omitted by any such Person under or in connection with any of the foregoing, including with respect to any investigation, litigation or proceeding (including any insolvency proceeding or appellate proceeding) related to or arising out of this Agreement or the Loans or Letters of Credit (including any refusal by the Issuing Lender to honor a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit if the documents presented in connection with such demand do not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit) or the use of the proceeds thereof, whether or not any Indemnified Person is a party thereto (all the foregoing, collectively, the “Indemnified Liabilities”); provided, however, that the Borrower Parties shall have no obligation hereunder to any Indemnified Person with respect to Indemnified Liabilities resulting solely from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnified Person.  To the extent permitted by applicable law, no Borrower Party or, subject to the proviso at the end of this sentence, no Indemnified Person shall assert, and each Borrower Party hereby waives, any claim against each Indemnified Person, and each Indemnified Person hereby waives, any claim against each Borrower Party, in each case, in respect of any Punitive Damages and each Borrower Party and each Indemnified Person hereby waives, releases and agrees not to sue upon any such claim or any such Punitive Damages, whether or not accrued and whether or not known or suspected to exist in its favor; provided, however, that the foregoing is not in any way intended to affect the rights of the Indemnified Persons with respect to Punitive Damages awarded to a third party that are otherwise subject to indemnification pursuant to this Section 11.14.  The agreements in this Section 11.14 shall survive payment of all other Obligations.

 

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telephone is solely for the convenience and at the request of the Borrower.  The Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender and the Lenders shall be entitled to rely on the authority of any Person purporting to be a Person authorized by the Borrower to give such notice and the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender and the Lenders shall not have any liability to the Borrower or other Person on account of any action taken or not taken by the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender or the Lenders in reliance upon such telephonic notice.  The obligation of the Borrower to repay the Loans and the LC Disbursements shall not be affected in any way or to any extent by any failure by the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender and the Lenders to receive written confirmation of any telephonic notice or the receipt by the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender and the Lenders of a confirmation which is at variance with the terms understood by the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender and the Lenders to be contained in the telephonic notice.

 

11.16.                  Marshalling; Payments Set Aside.  Neither the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender nor the Lenders shall be under any obligation to marshal any assets in favor of any of the Borrower Parties or any other Person or against or in payment of any or all of the Obligations.  To the extent that any of the Borrower Parties makes a payment or payments to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender or the Lenders, or the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender or the Lenders enforce their Liens or exercise their rights of set-off, and such payment or payments or the proceeds of such enforcement or set-off or any part thereof are subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the Administrative Agent in its discretion) to be repaid to a trustee, receiver or any other party in connection with any insolvency proceeding, or otherwise, then (1) to the extent of such recovery the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or such enforcement or set-off had not occurred, and (2) each Lender, the Swing Line Lender and the Issuing Lender severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent upon demand its ratable share of the total amount so recovered from or repaid by the Administrative Agent.

 

11.17.                  Set-off.  In addition to any rights and remedies of the Lenders, the Swing Line Lender and the Issuing Lender provided by law, if an Event of Default exists, each Lender, the Swing Line Lender and the Issuing Lender is authorized at any time and from time to time, without prior notice to the Borrower Parties, any such notice being waived by the Borrower Parties to the fullest extent permitted by law, to set off and apply in favor of the Secured Parties any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final) at any time held by, and other indebtedness at any time owing to, such Lender, the Swing Line Lender or the Issuing Lender to or for the credit or the account of the Borrower Parties against any and all Obligations owing to the Secured Parties, now or hereafter existing, irrespective of whether or not the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or such Lender, the Swing Line Lender or Issuing Lender shall have made demand under this Agreement or any Loan Document and although such Obligations may be contingent or unmatured.  Each Lender, Swing Line Lender and Issuing Lender agrees promptly to (i) notify the Borrower Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent after any such set-off and application made by such Lender, Swing Line Lender or Issuing Lender; provided, however, that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the

 

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validity of such set-off and application and (ii) pay such amounts that are set-off to the Collateral Agent for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties.

 

11.18.                  Severability.  The illegality or unenforceability of any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or any instrument or agreement required hereunder or thereunder shall not in any way affect or impair the legality or enforceability of the remaining provisions hereof or thereof.

 

11.19.                  No Third Parties Benefited.  This Agreement and the other Loan Documents are made and entered into for the sole protection and legal benefit of the Borrower Parties, the Lenders, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender and the Agents, and their permitted successors and assigns, and no other Person shall be a direct or indirect legal beneficiary of, or have any direct or indirect cause of action or claim in connection with, this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents.

 

11.20.                  No Fiduciary Duty.  Each Agent, each Lender and their Affiliates (collectively, solely for purposes of this paragraph, the “Lender Parties”), may have economic interests that conflict with those of the Borrower Parties, their stockholders and/or their affiliates.  Each Borrower Party agrees that nothing in the Loan Documents or otherwise will be deemed to create an advisory, fiduciary or agency relationship or fiduciary or other implied duty between any Lender Party, on the one hand, and such Borrower Party, its stockholders or its affiliates, on the other.  The Borrower Parties acknowledge and agree that (i) the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents (including the exercise of rights and remedies hereunder and thereunder) are arm’s-length commercial transactions between the Lender Parties, on the one hand, and the Borrower Parties, on the other, and (ii) in connection therewith and with the process leading thereto, (x) no Lender Party has assumed an advisory or fiduciary responsibility in favor of any Borrower Party, its stockholders or its affiliates with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby (or the exercise of rights or remedies with respect thereto) or the process leading thereto (irrespective of whether any Lender Party has advised, is currently advising or will advise any Borrower Party, its stockholders or its Affiliates on other matters) or any other obligation to any Borrower Party except the obligations expressly set forth in the Loan Documents and (y) each Lender Party is acting solely as principal and not as the agent or fiduciary of any Borrower Party, its management, stockholders, creditors or any other Person.  Each Borrower Party acknowledges and agrees that it has consulted its own legal and financial advisors to the extent it deemed appropriate and that it is responsible for making its own independent judgment with respect to such transactions and the process leading thereto.  Each Borrower Party agrees that it will not claim that any Lender Party has rendered advisory services of any nature or respect, or owes a fiduciary or similar duty to such Borrower Party, in connection with such transaction or the process leading thereto.

 

11.21.                  PATRIOT Act.  Each Lender, Swing Line Lender, Issuing Lender and Administrative Agent (for itself and not on behalf of any Lender) hereby notifies each Borrower Party that pursuant to the requirements of the Patriot Act, it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies each Borrower Party, which information includes the name and address of each Borrower Party and other information that will allow such Lender, Swing Line Lender, Issuing Lender or Administrative Agent, as applicable, to identify such Borrower Party in accordance with the Patriot Act.  Additionally, the Patriot Act and federal regulations issued

 

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with respect thereto require all financial institutions to obtain, verify and record certain information that identifies individuals or business entities which open an “account” with such financial institution.  Consequently, a Lender, Swing Line Lender, Issuing Lender or Administrative Agent may from time-to-time request, and the Borrower Parties shall provide to such Lender, Swing Line Lender, Issuing Lender or Administrative Agent, as applicable, such Borrower Party’s name, address, tax identification number and/or such other identification information as shall be necessary for such Lender, Swing Line Lender, Issuing Lender or Administrative Agent, as applicable, to comply with federal law.  An “account” for this purpose may include, without limitation, a deposit account, cash management service, a transaction or asset account, a credit account, a loan or other extension of credit, and/or other financial services product.

 

11.22.                  Time.  Time is of the essence as to each term or provision of this Agreement and each of the other Loan Documents.

 

11.23.                  Effectiveness of Agreement.  This Agreement shall become effective upon satisfaction of all of the conditions set forth in Section 5.1 of this Agreement.

 

[Signature Pages Follow]

 

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

 

 

	
BORROWER:
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
THE   MACERICH PARTNERSHIP, L.P.,
    
	
 
    	
a   Delaware limited partnership
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
The   Macerich Company,
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
a   Maryland corporation,
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
its   general partner
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
By:
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Richard   A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior   Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Secretary
    
	
 
    	
 
    

 

 

GUARANTORS:

 

	
 
    	
THE   MACERICH COMPANY,
    
	
 
    	
a   Maryland corporation
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Richard   A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior   Executive Vice President, Chief Legal
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Officer &   Secretary
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
MACERICH   TWC II CORP.,
    
	
 
    	
a   Delaware corporation
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Richard   A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior   Executive Vice President, Chief Legal 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Officer &   Secretary
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
MACERICH   TWC II LLC,
    
	
 
    	
a   Delaware limited liability company
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Richard   A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior   Executive Vice President, Chief Legal 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Officer &   Secretary
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
MACERICH   WRLP CORP.,
    
	
 
    	
a   Delaware corporation
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Richard   A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior   Executive Vice President, Chief Legal
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Officer &   Secretary
    

 

 

	
 
    	
MACERICH   WRLP LLC,
    
	
 
    	
a   Delaware limited liability company
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Richard   A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior   Executive Vice President, Chief Legal
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Officer &   Secretary
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
MACERICH   WRLP II CORP.,
    
	
 
    	
a   Delaware corporation
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Richard   A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior   Executive Vice President, Chief Legal
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Officer &   Secretary
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
MACERICH   WRLP II L.P.,
    
	
 
    	
a   Delaware limited partnership
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
Macerich   WRLP II Corp.,
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
a   Delaware corporation,
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
its   general partner
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
By:
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Richard   A. Bayer 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior   Executive Vice President, Chief 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Legal   Officer & Secretary
    
					

 

 

	
 
    	
WALLEYE   LLC,
    
	
 
    	
a   Delaware limited liability company
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Richard   A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior   Executive Vice President, Chief Legal
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Officer &   Secretary
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
WALLEYE   RETAIL INVESTMENTS LLC,
    
	
 
    	
a   Delaware limited liability company
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
Walleye   LLC,
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
a   Delaware limited liability company,
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
its   member
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
By:
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Richard   A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior   Executive Vice President, Chief
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Legal   Officer & Secretary
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
Macerich   Walleye LLC,
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
a   Delaware limited liability company,
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
its   member
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
By:
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Richard   A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior   Executive Vice President, Chief
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Legal   Officer & Secretary
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
MACERICH   WALLEYE LLC,
    
	
 
    	
a   Delaware limited liability company
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Richard   A. Bayer
    
	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior   Executive Vice President, Chief Legal
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Officer &   Secretary
    
						

 

 

LENDERS AND AGENTS:

 

	
 
    	
DEUTSCHE   BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS,
    
	
 
    	
as   Administrative Agent and a Lender
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
Name:
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
Title:
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
Name:
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
Title:
    	
 
    

 

 

	
 
    	
JPMORGAN   CHASE BANK, N.A.
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
Name:
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
Title:
    	
 
    

 

 

ANNEX I:  GLOSSARY

 

 

ANNEX I:  GLOSSARY

 

THIS GLOSSARY is attached to and made a part of that certain Credit Agreement (as Modified, the “Credit Agreement”) made and dated as of May 2, 2011, by and among THE MACERICH PARTNERSHIP, L.P., a limited partnership organized under the laws of the state of Delaware (“Macerich Partnership”), AS BORROWER; THE MACERICH COMPANY, a Maryland corporation (“MAC”); MACERICH WRLP II CORP., a Delaware corporation (“Macerich WRLP II Corp.”); MACERICH WRLP II L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“Macerich WRLP II LP”); MACERICH WRLP CORP., a Delaware corporation (“Macerich WRLP Corp.”); MACERICH WRLP LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Macerich WRLP LLC”); MACERICH TWC II CORP., a Delaware corporation (“Macerich TWC II Corp.”); MACERICH TWC II LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Macerich TWC II LLC”); MACERICH WALLEYE LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Macerich Walleye LLC”); WALLEYE LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Walleye LLC”); and WALLEYE RETAIL INVESTMENTS LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Walleye Investments LLC”), jointly and severally as “GUARANTORS”; THE LENDERS FROM TIME TO TIME PARTY HERETO (collectively and severally, the “Lenders”) and DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, a New York banking corporation, as administrative agent for the Lenders (in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”) and  as collateral agent for the Secured Parties.  For purposes of the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents, the terms set forth below shall have the following meanings:

 

“Act” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 6.13 of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Administrative Agent” shall have the meaning given such term in the introductory paragraph of the Credit Agreement and shall include any successor to DBTCA as the initial “Administrative Agent” thereunder.

 

“Affiliate” shall mean, as to any Person, any other Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with, such Person.  “Control” as used herein means the power to direct the management and policies of such Person.  In the case of a Lender which is a fund that invests in loans, any other fund that invests in loans which is managed by the same investment advisor as such Lender, or by another Affiliate of such Lender or such investment advisor, shall be deemed an Affiliate of such Lender.

 

“Affiliate Guarantors” shall mean, jointly and severally, Macerich Holdings LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Desert Sky Mall LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Macerich SCG Limited Partnership, a California limited partnership, Macerich Panorama SPE LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Macerich Santa Monica Adjacent LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Macerich Santa Monica LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Northridge Fashion Center LLC, a California limited liability company, Rotterdam Square, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company,

 

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Macerich Bristol Associates, a California general partnership, Macerich Carmel Limited Partnership, a California limited partnership, and any other guarantors executing Supplemental Guaranties in accordance with Section 4.2 of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Agents” shall mean the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Joint Lead Arrangers, the Syndication Agent, the Co-Documentation Agents, the Senior Managing Agents and any other Persons acting in the capacity of an agent for the Lenders or the Secured Parties under the Credit Agreement, together with their permitted successors and assigns.

 

“Aggregate Investment Value” shall mean for each permitted Investment identified in Section 8.5 of the Credit Agreement (and any related Property referred to in such Section), the greater of (i) the purchase price of such Investment (and related Property); or (ii) that portion of the Gross Asset Value represented by the relevant Investment (and related Property) as calculated in the most recent Measuring Period; provided, however, that all Real Property Under Construction shall be valued at the out-of-pocket costs incurred by the applicable Borrower Parties or their Subsidiary Entities in respect of such Real Property Under Construction.

 

“Anti-Terrorism Laws” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 6.26 of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Applicable Base Rate” shall mean, with respect to any Base Rate Loan for the Interest Period applicable to such Base Rate Loan, the floating rate per annum equal to the daily average Base Rate in effect during the applicable calculation period plus the percentage (per annum) set forth below which corresponds to the applicable ratio of Total Liabilities to Gross Asset Value  (expressed as a percentage) as measured at the end of each Fiscal Quarter:

 

	
Ratio of Total Liabilities to Gross
   Asset Value
    	
 
    	
Base Rate Spread
   for Revolving Loans
    	
 
    	
Base Rate Spread
   for the Series A
   Term Loans
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
Less than 45%
    	
 
    	
0.75
    	
%
    	
0.95
    	
%
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
Greater than or equal to 45% but less than 50%
    	
 
    	
1.00
    	
%
    	
1.20
    	
%
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
Greater than or equal to 50% but less than 55%
    	
 
    	
1.25
    	
%
    	
1.45
    	
%
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
Greater than or equal to 55% but less than 60%
    	
 
    	
1.50
    	
%
    	
1.70
    	
%
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
Greater than or equal to 60% 
    	
 
    	
2.00
    	
%
    	
2.20
    	
%
    

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Compliance Certificate is not delivered pursuant to the Credit Agreement for purposes of calculating the ratio of Total Liabilities to Gross

 

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Asset Value (or if such calculation cannot be made for any other reason), then the “Base Spread” above shall be 2.00% for Revolving Loans and 2.20% for the Series A Term Loans, in each case, until such Compliance Certificate is delivered and the calculations can be made, at which time the “Base Rate Spread” shall be based on the ratio of Total Liabilities to Gross Asset Value as set forth above.  Any change in the Applicable Base Rate resulting from a change in the ratio of Total Liabilities to Gross Asset Value shall not take effect until the fifth Business Day after the Compliance Certificate with respect to a Fiscal Quarter is (or is required to be) delivered.

 

“Applicable LIBO Rate” shall mean, with respect to any LIBO Rate Loan for the Interest Period applicable to such LIBO Rate Loan, the per annum rate equal to the Reserve Adjusted LIBO Rate plus the percentage (per annum) set forth below which corresponds to the applicable ratio of Total Liabilities to Gross Asset Value (expressed as a percentage) as measured at the end of each Fiscal Quarter:

 

	
Ratio of Total Liabilities to Gross
   Asset Value
    	
 
    	
LIBO Spread for
   Revolving Loans
    	
 
    	
LIBO Spread for
   the Series A Term
   Loans
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
Less than 45%
    	
 
    	
1.75
    	
%
    	
1.95
    	
%
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
Greater than or equal to 45% but less than 50%
    	
 
    	
2.00
    	
%
    	
2.20
    	
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Compliance Certificate is not delivered pursuant to the Credit Agreement for purposes of calculating the ratio of Total Liabilities to Gross Asset Value (or if such calculation cannot be made for any other reason), then the “LIBO Spread” above shall be 3.00% for Revolving Loans and 3.20% for the Series A Term Loans, in each case, until such Compliance Certificate is delivered and the calculations can be made, at which time the “LIBO Spread” shall be based on the ratio of Total Liabilities to Gross Asset Value as set forth above.  Any change in the Applicable LIBO Rate resulting from a change in the ratio of Total Liabilities to Gross Asset Value shall not take effect until the fifth Business Day after the Compliance Certificate with respect to a Fiscal Quarter is (or is required to be) delivered.

 

“Applicable Percentage” shall mean, with respect to any Lender, the percentage obtained by dividing (x) the sum of the Revolving Commitment (or, after termination of the Revolving Commitments, Revolving Credit Exposure) and Term Loan Credit Exposure of such Lender, by (y) the aggregate Revolving Commitments (or, after

 

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termination of the Revolving Commitments, Revolving Credit Exposures) and Term Loan Credit Exposures of all Lenders.

 

“Applicable Revolving Percentage” shall mean, with respect to any Revolving Lender, (i) prior to the termination of the Revolving Commitments in accordance with the Credit Agreement, the percentage obtained by dividing (x) the Revolving Commitment of that Revolving Lender by (y) the aggregate Revolving Commitments of all Revolving Lenders and (ii) after the termination of Revolving Commitments in accordance with the Credit Agreement, the percentage obtained by dividing (x) the Revolving Credit Exposure of that Revolving Lender by (y) the aggregate Revolving Credit Exposures of all Revolving Lenders.

 

“Applicable Term Percentage” shall mean, with respect to any Term Lender of a Series, the percentage obtained by dividing (x) the Term Loan Credit Exposure of that Term Lender with respect to such Series by (y) the aggregate Term Loan Credit Exposure of all Term Lenders with respect to such Series.

 

“Assignee” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 11.8 of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Assignment and Acceptance Agreement” shall mean an agreement in the form of that attached to the Credit Agreement as Exhibit E.

 

“Availability Period” shall mean the period from and including the Closing Date to but excluding the earlier of the Revolving Commitment Termination Date and the date of termination of the Revolving Commitments.

 

“Base Rate” shall mean on any day the higher of:  (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day, (b) the sum of the Federal Funds Rate in effect on such day plus one half of one percent (0.50%) and (c) the LIBO Rate calculated for each such day based on an Interest Period of one month determined two (2) Business Days prior to such day.

 

“Base Rate Borrowing”, when used in reference to any Borrowing, refers to whether the Loans comprising such Borrowing are bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Applicable Base Rate.

 

“Base Rate Loan”, when used in reference to any Loan, refers to whether the Loans comprising such Borrowing are bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Applicable Base Rate.

 

“Board of Directors” shall mean, with respect to any person, (i) in the case of any corporation, the board of directors of such person, (ii) in the case of any limited liability company, the board of managers of such person, (iii) in the case of any partnership, the Board of Directors of the general partner of such person and (iv) in any other case, the functional equivalent of the foregoing.

 

“Book Value” shall mean the book value of such asset or property, without regard to any related Indebtedness.

 

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“Borrowed Indebtedness”  of any Person means, without duplication, (A) all obligations for borrowed money of such Person, (B) all liabilities and obligations, contingent or otherwise, evidenced by a letter of credit or a reimbursement obligation of such Person with respect to any letter of credit, (C) all obligations payable in cash (excluding obligations payable in cash or Capital Stock, at the option of a Borrower Party) for the deferred purchase price of real property acquired by such Person (excluding obligations arising in the ordinary course of business but including all obligations of such Person created or arising under any conditional sale or other title retention agreement with respect to any real property acquired by such Person), (D) all obligations for borrowed money secured by any Lien upon or in any real property owned by such Person whether or not such Person has assumed or become liable for the payment of such obligations for borrowed money and (E) all obligations of the type described in any of clauses (A) through (D) above which are guaranteed, directly or indirectly, or endorsed (otherwise than for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business) or discounted with recourse by such Person.  Borrowed Indebtedness shall not include (i) Indebtedness incurred for the purpose of acquiring one or more items of personal property, or (ii) guaranties or indemnities executed by the Borrower Parties in respect of Indebtedness secured by a Permitted Mortgage to the extent either: (A) such guaranty or indemnity has been incurred in respect of customary exclusions from the non-recourse provisions of the applicable Permitted Mortgage (including any customary exclusion in respect of environmental liabilities); or (B) such Indebtedness has been incurred for the purpose of financing the construction or development of Real Property owned by any Subsidiary of the Borrower Parties.

 

“Borrower” shall mean the Macerich Partnership.

 

“Borrower Parties” shall mean, jointly and severally, each of the Borrower and the Guarantors.

 

“Borrowing” shall mean (a) all Base Rate Loans made, converted or continued on the same date, or (b) all LIBO Rate Loans of the same Interest Period, provided that each Borrowing shall consist of only Revolving Loans (or portions thereof) or Term Loans of the same Series (or portions thereof), as the case may be.  For purposes hereof, the date of a Borrowing comprising one or more Loans that have been converted or continued shall be the effective date of the most recent conversion or continuation of such Loan or Loans.

 

“Borrowing Request” shall mean a request by the Borrower for a Borrowing in accordance with Section 1.3 of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Broadway Plaza Property” shall mean Real Property and improvements located at 1275 Broadway Plaza, Walnut Creek, CA 94596, commonly referred to as “Broadway Plaza” and owned by Macerich Northwestern Associates, a California general partnership.

 

“Bullet Payment” shall mean any payment of the entire unpaid balance of any Indebtedness at its final maturity other than the final payment with respect to a loan that is fully amortized over its term.

 

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“Business Day” shall mean any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which banks in Los Angeles, California or New York, New York are authorized or obligated to close their regular banking business; provided that the term “Business Day” as used with respect to the Letter of Credit provisions of the Credit Agreement (including, without limitation, Section 1.4 of the Credit Agreement) shall be defined as otherwise set forth above but shall not include the reference to “Los Angeles, California”; provided, further, when the term “Business Day” is used in connection with a LIBO Rate Loan or LIBO Rate Borrowing (including the definition of “Interest Period” as it relates to LIBO Rate Loans), the term “Business Day” shall also exclude any day on which commercial banks in London, England and Frankfurt, Germany are not open for domestic and international business.

 

“Capitalized Lease” of a Person means any lease of property by such Person as lessee which would be capitalized on a balance sheet of such Person prepared in accordance with GAAP.

 

“Capitalized Lease Obligations” of a Person means the amount of the obligations of such Person under Capitalized Leases which would be shown as a liability on a balance sheet of such Person prepared in accordance with GAAP.

 

“Capitalized Loan Fees” shall mean, with respect to the Macerich Entities, and with respect to any period, any upfront, closing or similar fees paid by such Person in connection with the incurrence or refinancing of Indebtedness during such period that are capitalized on the balance sheet of such Person.

 

“Capital Stock” means (i) with respect to any Person that is a corporation, any and all shares, interests, participations or other equivalents (however designated and whether or not voting) of corporate stock, including, without limitation, each class or series of common stock and preferred stock of such Person and (ii) with respect to any Person that is not a corporation, any and all investment units, partnership, membership or other equity interests of such Person.

 

“Carry Over Basis Transaction”  shall mean any transaction in which the acquired assets have a carry over basis and are not marked to market at the time of such acquisition.

 

“Cash Equivalents” shall mean, with respect to any Person:  (a) securities issued, guaranteed or insured by the United States of America or any of its agencies with maturities of not more than one year from the date acquired; (b) certificates of deposit with maturities of not more than one year from the date acquired by a United States federal or state chartered commercial bank of recognized standing, which has capital and unimpaired surplus in excess of $500,000,000 and which bank or its holding company has a short-term commercial paper rating of at least A-2 or the equivalent by S&P or at least P-2 or equivalent by Moody’s; (c) reverse repurchase agreements with terms of not more than seven days from the date acquired, for securities of the type described in clause (a) above and entered into only with commercial banks having the qualifications described in clause (b) above; (d) commercial paper issued by any Person incorporated

 

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under the laws of the United States of America or any State thereof and rated at least A-2 or the equivalent thereof by S&P or at least P-2 or the equivalent thereof of Moody’s, in each case with maturities of not more than one year from the date acquired; and (e) investments in money market funds registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, which have net assets of at least $500,000,000 and at least 85% of whose assets consist of securities and other obligations of the type described in clauses (a) through (d) above.

 

“CERCLIS” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 6.15 of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Change in Law” shall mean (a) the adoption of any law, rule or regulation after the date of the Credit Agreement, (b) any change in any law, rule or regulation or in the interpretation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority after the date of the Credit Agreement or (c) compliance by any Lender, the Swing Line Lender or the Issuing Lender (or by any lending office of such Lender, the Swing Line Lender or Issuing Lender or by such Lender’s, Swing Line Lender’s or Issuing Lender’s holding company, if any) with any guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) of any Governmental Authority made or issued after the date of the Credit Agreement; provided, however, that (i) no Change in Law shall be deemed to have occurred with respect to any Assignee or Participant until after the date on which such Assignee or Participant acquired its interest as an Assignee or Participant under this Agreement and (ii) clause (i) of this proviso shall not apply to any Change in Law with respect to (x) any Assignee to the extent such Change in Law was applicable to the assignor Lender on the effective date of the Assignment and Assumption Agreement pursuant to which such Assignee became a Lender or (y) any Participant to the extent such Change in Law was applicable to the Originating Lender on the effective date of the agreement pursuant to which such Participant became a Participant; provided, further, however that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith, shall be deemed to be a “Change in Law”, regardless of the date enacted, adopted or issued.

 

“Change of Control” shall mean, with respect to MAC, the occurrence of either of the following:  (i) a change in the beneficial ownership within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 of the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 of more than twenty-five percent (25%) of the Capital Stock of MAC having general voting rights so that such Capital Stock is held by a Person, or two (2) or more Persons acting in concert, unless the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders have approved in advance in writing the identity of such Person or Persons or (ii) the resignation or removal from the Board of Directors of fifty percent (50%) or more of the members of MAC’s Board of Directors during any twelve (12) month period for any reason other than death, disability or voluntary retirement or personal reasons, unless otherwise approved in advance in writing by the Required Lenders.

 

“Closing Certificate” shall mean a certificate in the form of that attached to the Credit Agreement as Exhibit F.

 

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“Closing Date” shall mean the date as of which all conditions set forth in Section 5.1 of the Credit Agreement shall have been satisfied or waived.

 

“Code” shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, as from time to time in effect.

 

“Co-Documentation Agents” shall mean Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, The Royal Bank of Scotland plc and Barclays Bank plc,  in their respective capacities as co-documentation agents for the credit facility evidenced by the Credit Agreement, together with their permitted successors and assigns.

 

“Collateral” shall have the meaning given such term in the Pledge Agreements.

 

“Collateral Agent” shall mean DBTCA in its capacity as collateral agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, together with its permitted successors and assigns.

 

“Commencement of Construction” shall mean with respect to any Real Property, the commencement of material on-site work (including grading) or the commencement of a work of improvement of such property.

 

“Commitment” shall mean, for each Lender, the sum of its Revolving Commitment and its Term Loan Commitment.

 

“Compliance Certificate” shall mean a certificate in the form of that attached to the Credit Agreement as Exhibit G.

 

“Construction-in-Process” means, with respect to any Real Property Under Construction, the aggregate amount of expenditures classified as “construction-in-process” on the balance sheet of the Consolidated Entities, with respect thereto.

 

“Consolidated Entities” means, collectively, (i) the Borrower Parties, (ii) MAC’s Subsidiaries and (iii) any other Person the accounts of which are consolidated with those of MAC in the consolidated financial statements of MAC in accordance with GAAP.

 

“Contact Office” shall mean (i) in the case of the Administrative Agent, the office of DBTCA located at Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, 90 Hudson Street Mail Stop:  JCY05-0511 Jersey City, NJ 07302, Attn:  Pam Wedenfeller, Facsimile: 904-494-6811, or such other offices in New York, New York as the Administrative Agent may notify the Borrower, the Lenders and the Issuing Lender from time to time in writing and (ii) in the case of the Swing Line Lender, the office of DBTCA located at Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, 90 Hudson Street Mail Stop:  JCY05-0511 Jersey City, NJ 07302, Attn:  Pam Wedenfeller, Facsimile: 904-494-6811, or such other offices in New York, New York as the Swing Line Lender may notify the Borrower and the Lenders from time to time in writing.

 

“Contingent Obligation” as to any Person shall mean, without duplication, (i) any contingent obligation of such Person required to be shown on such Person’s balance sheet in accordance with GAAP, and (ii) any obligation required to be disclosed in the

 

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footnotes to such Person’s financial statements in accordance with GAAP, guaranteeing partially or in whole any non-recourse Indebtedness, lease, dividend or other obligation, exclusive of contractual indemnities (including, without limitation, any indemnity or price-adjustment provision relating to the purchase or sale of securities or other assets), of such Person or of any other Person.  The amount of any Contingent Obligation described in clause (ii) shall be deemed to be (a) with respect to a guaranty of interest or interest and principal, or operating income guaranty, the sum of all payments required to be made thereunder (which in the case of an operating income guaranty shall be deemed to be equal to the debt service for the note secured thereby), calculated at the interest rate applicable to such Indebtedness, through (1) in the case of an interest or interest and principal guaranty, the stated date of maturity of the obligation (and commencing on the date interest could first be payable thereunder), or (2) in the case of an operating income guaranty, the date through which such guaranty will remain in effect, and (b) with respect to all guarantees not covered by the preceding clause (a) an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the primary obligation in respect of which such guaranty is made or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof (assuming such Person is required to perform thereunder) as recorded on the balance sheet and on the footnotes to the most recent financial statements of the applicable Person required to be delivered pursuant hereto.  Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, guarantees of completion and non-recourse carve outs in secured loans shall not be deemed to be Contingent Obligations unless and until a claim for payment has been made thereunder, at which time any such guaranty of completion shall be deemed to be a Contingent Obligation in an amount equal to any such claim.  Subject to the preceding sentence, (i) in the case of a joint and several guaranty given by such Person and another Person (but only to the extent such guaranty is recourse, directly or indirectly to the applicable Borrower Party or their respective Subsidiaries), the amount of the guaranty shall be deemed to be 100% thereof unless and only to the extent that (X) such other Person has delivered cash or Cash Equivalents to secure all or any part of such Person’s guaranteed obligations or (Y) such other Person holds an Investment Grade Credit Rating from either Moody’s or S&P, and (ii) in the case of a guaranty (whether or not joint and several) of an obligation otherwise constituting Indebtedness of such Person, the amount of such guaranty shall be deemed to be only that amount in excess of the amount of the obligation constituting Indebtedness of such Person.  Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, “Contingent Obligations” shall not be deemed to include guarantees of loan commitments or of construction loans to the extent the same have not been drawn and shall not be deemed to include a Co-Obligor’s Allocated Portion of any of the following: (i) the existing guaranties of Indebtedness secured by the Queens Center, the Promenade at Casa Grande Project and the Market at Estrella Falls Project, (ii) any guaranties by a Borrower Party of Tysons Corner Indebtedness so long as the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation is the Unaffiliated Partner jointly and severally liable (whether pursuant to a guaranty, an indemnification, or otherwise) with respect to such Indebtedness; and (iii) any other guaranties by a Borrower Party of Indebtedness of a Consolidated Entity that is not Wholly-Owned or of a Joint Venture, in each case, secured by Real Property in an aggregate principal amount (with respect to such other guaranties) not to exceed $100,000,000.

 

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“Contractual Obligation” as to any Person shall mean any provision of any security issued by such Person or of any agreement, instrument or undertaking to which such Person is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound.

 

“Co-Obligor’s Allocated Portion” means, in the event a Borrower Party and an Unaffiliated Partner have guarantied or are otherwise obligated to pay, on a joint and several basis (whether pursuant to a guaranty, an indemnification, or otherwise), certain Indebtedness of a Consolidated Entity that is not Wholly-Owned or of a Joint Venture, and such Unaffiliated Partner is obligated under the applicable Organizational Documents of such Person or under other contractual arrangements to contribute to such Borrower Party, reimburse such Borrower Party or otherwise pay such Unaffiliated Partner’s pro rata share of such Indebtedness, the amount of such Unaffiliated Partner’s pro rata share of such Indebtedness, measured as a percentage of the total outstanding Capital Stock held by such Person in the applicable Consolidated Entity or Joint Venture.

 

“Credit Agreement” shall mean the Credit Agreement defined in the introductory paragraph of this Glossary, as the same may be Modified, extended or replaced from time to time.

 

“Credit Exposure” shall mean, with respect to any Lender at any time, the sum of such Lender’s Revolving Credit Exposure plus such Lender’s Term Loan Credit Exposure.

 

“Credit Facility” shall mean this revolving credit facility which provides for the extension of credit and the issuance of letters of credit from time to time in an aggregate amount not to exceed $1,500,000,000 (as such aggregate amount of commitments may be increased pursuant to and in accordance with Article 3 of the Credit Agreement including, without limitation, to provide for term loan commitments), as set forth, and subject to the terms of, the Credit Agreement.

 

“DBTCA” shall mean Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas.

 

“Defaulting Lender” means, subject to Section 1.12(b) of the Credit Agreement, any Lender that (a) has failed to (i) fund all or any portion of its Loans within two Business Days of the date such Loans were required to be funded hereunder unless such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Borrower in writing that such failure is the result of such Lender’s determination that one or more conditions precedent to funding (each of which conditions precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing) has not been satisfied, or (ii) pay to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender or any other Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder (including in respect of its participation in Letters of Credit) within two Business Days of the date when due, (b) has notified the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Swing Line Lender or the Issuing Lender in writing that it does not intend to comply with its funding obligations hereunder, or has made a public statement to that effect (unless such writing or public statement relates to such Lender’s obligation to fund a Loan hereunder and states that such position

 

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is based on such Lender’s determination that a condition precedent to funding (which condition precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing or public statement) cannot be satisfied), (c) has failed, within three Business Days after written request by the Administrative Agent or the Borrower, to confirm in writing to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower that it will comply with its prospective funding obligations hereunder (provided that such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender pursuant to this clause (c) upon receipt of such written confirmation by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower), or (d) has, or has a direct or indirect parent company that has, (i) become the subject of a proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code of the United States of America, any  other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect, or (ii) had appointed for it a receiver, custodian, conservator, trustee, administrator, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with reorganization or liquidation of its business or assets, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other state or federal regulatory authority acting in such a capacity; provided that a Lender shall not be a Defaulting Lender solely by virtue of the ownership or acquisition of any equity interest in that Lender or any direct or indirect parent company thereof by a Governmental Authority so long as such ownership interest does not result in or provide such Lender with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permit such Lender (or such Governmental Authority) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made with such Lender.  Any determination by the Administrative Agent that a Lender is a Defaulting Lender under clauses (a) through (d) above shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error, and such Lender shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender (subject to Section 1.12(b)) upon delivery of written notice of such determination to the Borrower, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender and each Lender.

 

“De Minimis Subsidiary” shall mean any Subsidiary or Subsidiaries which in the aggregate represents less than one and one-half percent of Gross Asset Value of the Consolidated Entities.

 

“Depreciation and Amortization Expense” shall mean (without duplication), for any period, the sum for such period of (i) total depreciation and amortization expense, whether paid or accrued, of the Consolidated Entities, plus (ii) any Consolidated Entity’s pro rata share of depreciation and amortization expenses of Joint Ventures. For purposes of this definition, MAC’s pro rata share of depreciation and amortization expense of any Joint Venture shall be deemed equal to the product of (i) the depreciation and amortization expense of such Joint Venture, multiplied by (ii) the percentage of the total outstanding Capital Stock of such Person held by any Consolidated Entity, expressed as a decimal.

 

“Designated Environmental Properties” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 6.15 of the Credit Agreement.

 

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“Disposition” shall mean the sale, conveyance, pledge, hypothecation, encumbrance, creation of a security interest with respect to, or other transfer, whether voluntary or involuntary, direct or indirect, of any legal or beneficial interest in a Property, including any sale, conveyance, pledge, hypothecation, encumbrance, creation of a security interest with respect to, or other transfer, at any tier, of any ownership interest in any Macerich Entity; provided, however, that Disposition shall not include any Permitted Encumbrances or any Distributions to another Macerich Entity; provided further that such exclusion of Permitted Encumbrances shall not apply to the Dispositions described in Sections 8.3, 8.4(1), 8.4(2), and 8.4(3) of the Credit Agreement.  “Disposition” shall not include the sale of any ancillary building pad site within a Project provided that the consideration received for such transaction does not exceed $1,000,000 for any Project and $5,000,000 in the aggregate for all Projects and shall not include any ground lease.

 

“Disqualified Capital Stock” shall mean with respect to any Person any Capital Stock of such Person (other than preferred stock of MAC issued and outstanding on the Closing Date) that by its terms (or by the terms of any security into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable), or otherwise (including upon the occurrence of any event), is required to be redeemed or is redeemable for cash at the option of the holder thereof, in whole or in part (including by operation of a sinking fund), or is exchangeable for Indebtedness (other than at the option of such Person), in whole or in part, at any time.

 

“Distribution” shall mean with respect to MAC, Macerich Partnership or MACWH: (i) any distribution of cash or Cash Equivalent, directly or indirectly, to the partners or holders of Capital Stock of such Persons, or any other distribution on or in respect of any partnership, company or equity interests of such Persons; and (ii) the declaration or payment of any dividend on or in respect of any shares of any class of Capital Stock of such Persons, other than: (1) dividends payable solely in shares of common stock by MAC; or (2) the purchase, redemption, exchange, or other retirement of any shares of any class of Capital Stock of such Persons, directly or indirectly through a Subsidiary of MAC or otherwise, (A) to the extent such purchase, redemption, exchange, or other retirement occurs in exchange for the issuance of Capital Stock of MAC or Macerich Partnership or (B) with respect to MACWH, to the extent such purchase, redemption, or other retirement occurs in exchange for the issuance of Capital Stock of MACWH, MAC or Macerich Partnership in accordance with the provisions of the MACWH Partnership Agreement.

 

“Dollar” shall mean lawful currency of the United States of America.

 

“EBITDA” shall mean, for the twelve months then most recently ended, solely with respect to the Consolidated Entities, Net Income, plus (without duplication) (A) Interest Expense, (B) Tax Expense, (C) Depreciation and Amortization Expense and (D) noncash compensation charges, including any such charges arising from stock options, restricted stock grants and other equity incentive programs, in each case for such period.

 

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“Eligible Assignee” shall mean any Person other than a natural Person that is:

 

(a)           a commercial bank organized under the laws of the United States, or any state thereof, and having a combined capital and surplus of at least $100,000,000;

 

(b)           a commercial bank organized under the laws of any other country which is a member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (the “OECD”), or a political subdivision of any such country, and having a combined capital and surplus of at least $100,000,000 (provided that such bank is acting through a branch or agency located in the country in which it is organized or another country which is also a member of the OECD);

 

(c)           a Person that is engaged in the business of commercial banking and that is:  (1) an Affiliate of a Lender or the Issuing Lender or Swing Line Lender, (2) an Affiliate of a Person of which a Lender, the Swing Line Lender or the Issuing Lender is an Affiliate, or (3) a Person of which a Lender, the Swing Line Lender or the Issuing Lender is a Subsidiary;

 

(d)           an insurance company, mutual fund or other financial institution organized under the laws of the United States, any state thereof, any other country which is a member of the OECD or a political subdivision of any such country which in vests in bank loans and has a net worth of $500,000,000; or

 

(e)           a fund (other than a mutual fund) which invests in bank loans and whose assets exceed $100,000,000;

 

provided, however, that (i) no Person shall be an “Eligible Assignee” unless at the time of the proposed assignment to such Person:  (x) in the case of an assignment of Revolving Commitments and Revolving Loans, such Person is able to make its Applicable Revolving Percentage of the Revolving Commitments in U.S. dollars, and (y) such Person is exempt from withholding of tax on interest and is able to deliver the documents related thereto pursuant to Section 2.10(5) of the Credit Agreement and (ii) no Borrower Party nor any Affiliate of any Borrower Party shall be an “Eligible Assignee”; provided, further, however, that no Defaulting Lender shall be an “Eligible Assignee” so long as such Lender remains a Defaulting Lender.

 

“ERISA” shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as Modified, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder as from time to time in effect.

 

“ERISA Affiliate” shall mean any entity, trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that, together with any Consolidated Entity, would be deemed a “single employer” within the meaning of Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code (and Sections 414(m) and (o) of the Code for purposes of provisions relating to Section 412 of the Code).

 

“ERISA Event” shall mean (a) a Reportable Event with respect to a Pension Plan; (b) a withdrawal by any Consolidated Entity or any ERISA Affiliate from a Pension Plan subject to Section 4063 of ERISA during a plan year in which it was a “substantial

 

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employer” (as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA) or a cessation of operations which is treated as such a withdrawal under Section 4062(e) of ERISA; (c) a complete or partial withdrawal (within the meanings of Sections 4203 and 4205 of ERISA) by any Consolidated Entity or any ERISA Affiliate from a Multiemployer Plan or receipt by any Consolidated Entity or any ERISA Affiliate of notice from any Multiemployer Plan that it is in “reorganization” (within the meaning of Section 4241 of ERISA), “insolvency” (within the meaning of Section 4245 of ERISA), or “endangered or critical status” (within the meaning of Section 305 of ERISA); (d) the filing of a notice of intent to terminate, the treatment of a plan amendment as a termination under Section 4041 or 4041A of ERISA or the commencement of proceedings by the PBGC to terminate a Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (e) a failure by any Consolidated Entity or any ERISA Affiliate to meet the funding requirements of Sections 412 and 430 of the Code or Sections 302 and 303 of ERISA with respect to any Pension Plan, whether or not waived, or the failure to make by its due date a required installment under Section 430(j) of the Code or Section 303(j) of ERISA with respect to any Pension Plan or the failure to make any required contribution to a Multiemployer Plan; (f) an event or condition which could reasonably be expected to constitute grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (g) the imposition of any liability under Title IV of ERISA, other than for PBGC premiums due but not delinquent under Section 4007 of ERISA, upon any Consolidated Entity or any ERISA Affiliate; or (h) the filing of an application for a waiver of the minimum funding standard pursuant to Section 412(c) of the Code or Section 303(c) of ERISA with respect to any Pension Plan.

 

“Eurodollar Business Day” shall mean a Business Day on which commercial banks in London, England and Frankfurt, Germany are open for domestic and international business.

 

“Event of Default” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 9 of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Evidence of No Withholding” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 2.10(5) of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Excluded Taxes” shall mean, with respect to the Administrative Agent, any Lender, or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower hereunder, (a) income or franchise taxes imposed on (or measured by) its net income by the United States of America, or by any state, locality or foreign jurisdiction under the laws of which such recipient is organized or in which it maintains an office or permanent establishment, (b) any branch profits taxes imposed by the United States of America or any similar tax imposed by any other jurisdiction in which the Borrower is located, (c) any United States withholding Tax imposed under FATCA, and (d) any withholding tax (in the case of a Foreign Lender) or backup withholding tax (in the case of any Lender), that is imposed on amounts payable to such Lender at the time such Lender becomes a party to the Credit Agreement (or designates a new lending office) or is attributable to such Lender’s failure to comply with Section 2.10(5) or Section 2.10(6) of the Credit Agreement, except to the extent any such

 

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withholding taxes were imposed on the Lender’s predecessor in interest (or former lending office); provided, however, Excluded Taxes shall not include any withholding tax resulting from any inability to comply with Section 2.10(5) or Section 2.10(6) of the Credit Agreement solely by reason of there having occurred a Change in Law.

 

“Executive Order” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 6.26 of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Existing Credit Agreement” shall mean that certain Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of July 20, 2006, as amended or otherwise modified to date, by and among the Borrower, MAC, the lenders from time to time party thereto and DBTCA, as administrative agent.

 

“Extended Revolving Commitment Termination Date” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 1.7(5) of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Extension Fee” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 1.7(5)(B) of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Facility Increase” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 3.1 of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Facility Increase Arrangers” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 3.2 of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Facing Fee” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 2.11(2)(B) of the Credit Agreement.

 

“FATCA” means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code as of the date hereof (and any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable, but only if the requirements in such amended or successor version for avoiding the withholding are not materially more onerous than the requirements in the current version), and any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof).

 

“Federal Funds Rate” shall mean for any day, an interest rate per annum equal to the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers on such day, as published for such day (or, if such day is not a Business Day, for the immediately preceding Business Day) by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not so published for any day which is a Business Day, the average of the quotations at approximately 1:00 p.m. (New York time) on such day on such transactions received by the Administrative Agent from three Federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion.

 

“Fee Letter” shall mean that certain Fee Letter dated as of the Closing Date entered into by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.

 

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“FFO” shall mean net income (loss) (computed in accordance with GAAP) excluding gains (or losses) from debt restructurings and sales of property, plus real estate related depreciation and amortization and after adjustments for unconsolidated partnerships and joint ventures, as set forth in more detail under the definitions and interpretations thereof promulgated by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts or its successor as of the Closing Date, but in any case excluding any write down due to impairment of assets.

 

“Final Term Loan Maturity Date” shall mean the latest Term Loan Maturity Date.

 

“Financing” shall mean any transaction pursuant to which new Indebtedness is incurred and secured by a Property.

 

“First Amendment” shall mean that certain First Amendment to Credit Agreement dated as of the First Amendment Effective Date by and among the Borrower Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders signatory thereto.

 

“First Amendment Effective Date” shall mean December 8, 2011.

 

“First Amendment Joinder Agreement” shall mean that certain Joinder Agreement dated as of December 8, 2011 among the Borrower Parties, the Administrative Agent and the New Term Loan Lenders signatory thereto (including all attachments to such Joinder Agreement).

 

“Fiscal Quarter” or “fiscal quarter” means any three-month period ending on March 31, June 30, September 30 or December 31 of any Fiscal Year.

 

“Fiscal Year” or “fiscal year” shall mean the 12-month period ending on December 31 in each year or such other period as MAC may designate and the Administrative Agent may approve in writing.

 

“Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio” shall mean, at any time, the ratio of (i) EBITDA for the twelve months then most recently ended (except that, with respect to any Project that has not achieved Stabilization, EBITDA for such Project shall be calculated for the most recent fiscal quarter and annualized), to (ii) Fixed Charges for such period (except that, with respect to any Project that has not achieved Stabilization, Fixed Charges for such Project shall be calculated for the most recent fiscal quarter and annualized).

 

“Fixed Charges” shall mean, for any period, solely with respect to the Consolidated Entities, the sum of the amounts for such period of (i) scheduled payments of principal of Indebtedness of the Consolidated Entities (other than any Bullet Payment), (ii) the Consolidated Entities’ pro rata share of scheduled payments of principal of Indebtedness of Joint Ventures (other than any Bullet Payment) that does not otherwise constitute Indebtedness of and is not otherwise recourse to the Consolidated Entities or their assets, (iii) Interest Expense, (iv) payments of dividends in respect of Disqualified Capital Stock; and (v) to the extent not otherwise included in Interest Expense, dividends and other distributions paid during such period by the Borrower or MAC with respect to preferred stock or preferred operating units (excluding distributions on convertible

 

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preferred units of MACWH in accordance with the MACWH Partnership Agreement).  For purposes of clauses (ii) and (v), the Consolidated Entities’ pro rata share of payments by any Joint Venture shall be deemed equal to the product of (a) the payments made by such Joint Venture, multiplied by (b) the percentage of the total outstanding Capital Stock of such Person held by any Consolidated Entity, expressed as a decimal.

 

“Foreign Lender” shall mean any Lender, Issuing Lender or Swing Line Lender that is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than that in which the Borrower is located.  For purposes of this definition, the United States of America, each State thereof and the District of Columbia shall be deemed to constitute a single jurisdiction.

 

“GAAP” shall mean generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America in effect from time to time; provided that for purposes of calculating the covenants set forth in Section 8.12 of the Credit Agreement, GAAP shall mean generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America in effect as of the Closing Date.

 

“Good Faith Contest” means the contest of an item if (1) the item is diligently contested in good faith, and, if appropriate, by proceedings timely instituted, (2) adequate reserves are established if required by, and in accordance with, GAAP with respect to the contested item, (3) during the period of such contest, the enforcement of any contested item is effectively stayed and (4) the failure to pay or comply with the contested item during the period of the contest is not likely to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

“Governmental Authority” shall mean any nation or government, any state or other political subdivision thereof, any central bank (or similar monetary or regulatory authority) thereof, any court or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to government.

 

“Gross Asset Value” shall mean, at any time, solely with respect to the Consolidated Entities, the sum of (without duplication):

 

(i) for Retail/Other Properties that are Wholly-Owned the sum of, for each such property, (a) such property’s Property NOI for the Measuring Period, divided by (b) 6.75% (expressed as a decimal); plus

 

(ii) for Retail/Other Properties that are not Wholly-Owned, the sum of, for each such property, (a) the Gross Asset Value of each such Retail/Other Property at such time, as calculated pursuant to the foregoing clause (i), multiplied by (b) the percentage of the total outstanding Capital Stock held by Consolidated Entities in the owner of the subject Retail/Other Property, expressed as a decimal; provided, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this definition, so long as 100% of the Indebtedness and other liabilities of the owner of the Broadway Plaza Property reflected in the financial statements of such owner or disclosed in the notes thereto (to the extent the same would constitute a Contingent Obligation) is counted in the calculation of Total Liabilities pursuant to subsection (ii) of the definition of “Total Liabilities”, the Broadway Plaza Property, and the cash and Cash Equivalents and “Other GAV Assets” (as defined below) with respect thereto, shall be

 

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deemed to be Wholly-Owned and the Gross Asset Value with respect to the Broadway Plaza Property shall be calculated in accordance with clause (i) of this definition; plus

 

(iii) all cash and Cash Equivalents (other than, in either case, Restricted Cash) held by the Consolidated Entity at such time, and, in the case of cash and Cash Equivalents not Wholly-Owned, multiplied by a percentage (expressed as a decimal) equal to the percentage of the total outstanding Capital Stock held by the Consolidated Entity holding title to such cash and Cash Equivalents; plus

 

(iv) all Mortgage Loans acquired for the purpose of acquiring the underlying real property (as demonstrated by Borrower and confirmed in good faith by Administrative Agent), valued by the Book Value of each such Mortgage Loan when measured; plus

 

(v)(a) 100% of the Book Value of Construction-in-Process with respect to Retail/Other Properties Under Construction that are Wholly-Owned and (b) the product of (1) 100% of the Book Value of Construction-in-Process with respect to Retail/Other Properties Under Construction that are not Wholly-Owned multiplied by (2) a percentage (expressed as a decimal) equal to the percentage of the total outstanding Capital Stock held by the Consolidated Entity holding title to such Retail/Other Properties Under Construction; for avoidance of doubt, whenever a Retail/Other Property has achieved Stabilization, the Gross Asset Value shall be as determined pursuant to subsections (i) or (ii) of this definition; plus

 

(vi) to the extent not otherwise included in the foregoing clauses, (a) the Book Value of tenant receivables, deferred charges and other assets with respect to Real Properties that are Wholly-Owned, and (b) the product of (1) the Book Value of tenant receivables, deferred charges and other assets with respect to Real Properties that are not Wholly-Owned multiplied by (2) a percentage (expressed as a decimal) equal to the percentage of the total outstanding Capital Stock held by a Consolidated Entity holding title to such Real Property (collectively, “Other GAV Assets”), provided that the aggregate value of Other GAV Assets shall not exceed five percent (5%) of the aggregate Gross Asset Value of all the assets of the Consolidated Entities; plus

 

(vii) to the extent not otherwise included in the foregoing clauses, the Book Value of land and other Properties not constituting Retail/Other Properties; plus

 

(viii) the Book Value of the Investment in Northpark Mall; plus

 

(ix) the Book Value of up to three (3) Transitional Properties until Transitional Stabilization; provided, however, that (x) if a Transitional Property achieves Transitional Stabilization such Real Property shall be valued as otherwise provided in subsections (i) or (ii) of this definition and (y) the aggregate value of Transitional Properties for purposes of this clause (ix) shall not exceed seven and one half percent (7.5%) of the aggregate Gross Asset Value of all assets of the Consolidated Entities.

 

Provided further, however, that (A)(x) the determination of Gross Asset Value for any period shall not include any Retail/Other Property (or any Property NOI relating to any

 

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Retail/Other Property) that has been sold or otherwise disposed of or is the subject of a Specified Change of Control Event at any time prior to or during such period; and (y) any Retail/Other Property (whether acquired before or after the Closing Date) shall be valued at Book Value for 24 months after acquisition thereof and thereafter as otherwise provided in subsections (i) or (ii) of this definition); (B) upon the sale, conveyance, or transfer of all of a Real Property to a Person other than a Macerich Entity, the Gross Asset Value with respect to such Real Property shall no longer be considered; and (C) the determination of the NOI for any Retail/Other Property Under Construction which is no longer classified as “construction-in-process” under GAAP shall be calculated using an adjusted Measuring Period determined by annualizing the most recent fiscal quarter until such Retail/Other Property Under Construction has achieved Stabilization.

 

“Gross Leasable Area” shall mean the total leasable square footage of buildings situated on Real Properties, excluding the square footage of any department stores.

 

“Guarantors” shall mean, jointly and severally (i) any Initial Guarantor and (ii) any Supplemental Guarantor.

 

“Guaranty” shall mean any unconditional guaranty executed by any Person in favor of DBTCA (or a successor) in its capacity as Administrative Agent for the Lenders pursuant to the terms of the Credit Agreement, in a form approved by the Administrative Agent.  “Guaranty” shall include the Subsidiary Guaranty and the REIT Guaranty.

 

“Hazardous Materials” shall mean any flammable materials, explosives, radioactive materials, hazardous wastes, toxic substances or related materials, including, without limitation, any substances defined as or included in the definitions of “hazardous substances,” “hazardous wastes,” “hazardous materials,” or “toxic substances” under any applicable federal, state, or local laws or regulations.

 

“Hazardous Materials Claims” shall mean any enforcement, cleanup, removal or other governmental or regulatory action or order with respect to the Property, pursuant to any Hazardous Materials Laws, and/or any claim asserted in writing by any third party relating to damage, contribution, cost recovery compensation, loss or injury resulting from any Hazardous Materials.

 

“Hazardous Materials Laws” shall mean any applicable federal, state or local laws, ordinances or regulations relating to Hazardous Materials.

 

“Hedging Obligations” of a Person means any and all obligations of such Person or any of its Subsidiaries, whether absolute or contingent and howsoever and whenever created, arising, evidenced or acquired (including all renewals, extensions and modifications thereof and substitutions therefor), under (a) any and all agreements, devices or arrangements designed to protect at least one of the parties thereto from the fluctuations of interest rates, commodity prices, exchange rates or forward rates applicable to such party’s assets, liabilities or exchange transactions, including, but not limited to, dollar-denominated or cross-currency interest rate exchange agreements, forward currency exchange agreements, interest rate cap or collar protection agreements,

 

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forward rate currency or interest rate options, puts and warrants, and (b) any and all cancellations, buy backs, reversals, terminations or assignments of any of the foregoing.

 

“Increased Amount Date” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 3.1 of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Indebtedness” of any Person shall mean without duplication, (a) all liabilities and obligations of such Person, whether consolidated or representing the proportionate interest in any other Person, (i) in respect of borrowed money (whether or not the recourse of the lender is to the whole of the assets of such Person or only to a portion thereof, and including construction loans), (ii) evidenced by bonds, notes, debentures or similar instruments, (iii) representing the balance deferred and unpaid of the purchase price of any property or services, except those incurred in the ordinary course of its business that would constitute a trade payable to trade creditors (but specifically excluding from such exception the deferred purchase price of real property), (iv) evidenced by bankers’ acceptances, (v) consisting of obligations, whether or not assumed, secured by Liens or payable out of the proceeds or production from property now or hereafter owned or acquired by such Person (in an amount equal to the lesser  of the obligation so secured and the fair market value of such property), (vi) consisting of Capitalized Lease Obligations (including any Capitalized Leases entered into as a part of a sale/leaseback transaction), (vii) consisting of liabilities and obligations under any receivable sales transactions, (viii) consisting of a letter of credit or a reimbursement obligation of such Person with respect to any letter of credit, or (ix) consisting of Net Hedging Obligations; or (b) all Contingent Obligations and liabilities and obligations of others of the kind described in the preceding clause (a) that such Person has guaranteed or that is otherwise its legal liability and all obligations to purchase, redeem or acquire for cash or non-cash consideration any Capital Stock or other equity interests and (c) obligations of such Person to purchase for cash or non-cash consideration Securities or other property arising out of or in connection with the sale of the same or substantially similar securities or property.  For the avoidance of doubt, Indebtedness of any water, sewer, or other improvement district that is payable from assessments or taxes on property located within such district shall not be deemed to be Indebtedness of any Person owning property located within such district; provided  that such Person has not otherwise obligated itself in respect of the repayment of such Indebtedness.

 

“Indemnified Liabilities” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 11.14 of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Indemnified Person” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 11.14 of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Indemnified Taxes” means Taxes other than Excluded Taxes.

 

“Initial Financial Statements” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 6.1 of the Credit Agreement.

 

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“Initial Guarantors” shall mean MAC, the Westcor Guarantors, the Wilmorite Guarantors and the Affiliate Guarantors who enter into Guaranties on or as of the date hereof.

 

“Interest Coverage Ratio” shall mean, at any time, the ratio of (i) EBITDA for the twelve months then most recently ended (except that, with respect to any Project that has not achieved Stabilization, EBITDA for such Project shall be calculated for the most recent fiscal quarter and annualized), to (ii) Interest Expense for such period (except that, with respect to any Project that has not achieved Stabilization, Interest Expense for such Project shall be calculated for the most recent fiscal quarter and annualized).

 

“Interest Expense” shall mean, for any period, solely with respect to the Consolidated Entities, the sum (without duplication) for such period of:  (i) total interest expense, whether paid or accrued, of the Consolidated Entities, including fees payable in connection with the Credit Agreement, charges in respect of letters of credit and the portion of any Capitalized Lease Obligations allocable to interest expense, including the Consolidated Entities’ share of interest expenses in Joint Ventures but excluding amortization or write-off of debt discount and expense (except as provided in clause (ii) below), (ii) amortization of costs related to interest rate protection contracts and rate buydowns (other than the costs associated with the interest rate buydowns completed in connection with the initial public offering of MAC), (iii) capitalized interest, provided that capitalized interest may be excluded from this clause (iii) to the extent (A) such interest is paid or reserved out of any interest reserve established under a loan facility; or (B) consists of interest imputed under GAAP in respect of ongoing construction activities, but only to the extent such interest has not actually been paid, and the amount thereof does not exceed $40,000,000, (iv) for purposes of determining Interest Expense as used in the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio (both numerator and denominator) only, amortization of Capitalized Loan Fees, (v) to the extent not included in clauses (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv), any Consolidated Entities’ pro rata share of interest expense and other amounts of the type referred to in such clauses of the Joint Ventures, and (vi) interest incurred on any liability or obligation that constitutes a Contingent Obligation of any Consolidated Entity; provided that during any period that a Retail/Other Property is subject to a Specified Change of Control Event and thereby excluded from the calculation of Gross Asset Value, the accrued and unpaid interest with respect to Indebtedness incurred in respect of such Retail/Other Property shall also be excluded from Interest Expense.  For purposes of clause (v), any Consolidated Entities’ pro rata share of interest expense or other amount of any Joint Venture shall be deemed equal to the product of (a) the interest expense or other relevant amount of such Joint Venture, multiplied by (b) the percentage of the total outstanding Capital Stock of such Person held by any Consolidated Entity, expressed as a decimal.

 

“Interest Period” shall mean:

 

(a)  for any Base Rate Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such borrowing and ending on the last day of the calendar month in which made; provided, that if any Base Rate Borrowing is converted to a LIBO Rate Borrowing, the applicable Base Rate Interest Period shall end on such date; and

 

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(b)  for any LIBO Rate Loan, the period commencing on the date of such Loan and ending on the numerically corresponding day in the calendar month that is one, two, three or six months (or if all applicable Lenders agree, twelve months) thereafter, as specified in the applicable Borrowing Request or Rate Request;

 

provided, that (i) if any Interest Period would end on a day other than a Business Day, such Interest Period shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless, in the case of a LIBO Rate Borrowing only, such next succeeding Business Day would fall in the next calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day and (ii) any Interest Period pertaining to a LIBO Rate Borrowing that commences on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the last calendar month of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the last calendar month of such Interest Period.  For purposes hereof, the date of a Loan initially shall be the date on which such Loan is made and thereafter shall be the effective date of the most recent conversion or continuation of such Loan.

 

“Investment” shall mean, with respect to any Person, (i) any purchase or other acquisition by that Person of Securities, or of a beneficial interest in Securities, issued by any other Person, (ii) any purchase by that Person of a Property or the assets of a business conducted by another Person, and (iii) any loan (other than loans to employees), advance (other than deposits with financial institutions available for withdrawal on demand, prepaid expenses, accounts receivable, advances to employees and similar items made or incurred in the ordinary course of business) or capital contribution by that Person to any other Person, including, without limitation, all Indebtedness to such Person arising from a sale of property by such Person other than in the ordinary course of its business.  “Investment” shall not include (a) any promissory notes or other consideration paid to it or by a tenant in connection with Project leasing activities or (b) any purchase or other acquisition of Securities of, or a loan, advance or capital contribution to, MAC or any Subsidiary of MAC by MAC or any other Subsidiary of MAC.  The amount of any Investment shall be the original cost of such Investment, plus the cost of all additions thereto less the amount of any return of capital or principal to the extent such return is in cash with respect to such Investment without any adjustments for increases or decreases in value or write-ups, write-downs or write-offs with respect to such Investment.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, Investments shall not include any promissory notes received by a Person in connection with a Disposition.

 

“IRS” shall mean the Internal Revenue Service or any entity succeeding to any of its principal functions under the Code.

 

“Issuing Lender” shall mean DBTCA, in its capacity as the issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder, and its successors in such capacity as provided in Section 1.4(10) of the Credit Agreement.

 

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“Joinder Agreement” shall mean a Joinder Agreement in the form of that attached to the Credit Agreement as Exhibit K.

 

“Joint Lead Arrangers” shall mean Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC,  in their respective capacities as joint lead arrangers and joint book runners for the credit facility evidenced by the Credit Agreement, together with its permitted successors and assigns.

 

“Joint Venture” shall mean, as to any Person:  (i) any corporation fifty percent (50%) or less of the outstanding securities having ordinary voting power of which shall at the time be owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or by one or more of its Subsidiaries or by such Person and one or more of its Subsidiaries, or (ii) any partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture or similar business organization fifty percent (50%) or less of the ownership interests having ordinary voting power of which shall at the time be so owned or controlled.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Joint Venture of MAC shall include each Person, other than a Subsidiary, in which MAC owns a direct or indirect equity interest.  Unless otherwise expressly provided, all references in the Loan Documents to a “Joint Venture” shall mean a Joint Venture of MAC.

 

“LC Collateral Account” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 1.4(11) of the Credit Agreement.

 

“LC Disbursement” shall mean a payment made by the Issuing Lender pursuant to a Letter of Credit.

 

“LC Exposure” shall mean, at any time, the sum of (a) the aggregate undrawn amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit at such time plus (b) the aggregate amount of all LC Disbursements that have not yet been reimbursed by or on behalf of the Borrower at such time.  The LC Exposure of any Revolving Lender at any time shall be its Applicable Revolving Percentage of the total LC Exposure at such time.

 

“Lenders” shall mean each of the lenders from time to time party to the Credit Agreement (whether as a direct signatory thereto or as a signatory to a Joinder Agreement), including any Assignee permitted pursuant to Section 11.8 of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Letter of Credit” shall mean any standby letter of credit issued pursuant to the Credit Agreement.

 

“Letter of Credit Collateral” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 1.4(11) of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Letter of Credit Fee” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 2.11(2)(A) of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Letter of Credit Request” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 1.4(2) of the Credit Agreement.

 

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“LIBO Rate” shall mean, with respect to any LIBO Rate Loan for the Interest Period applicable to such LIBO Rate Loan, the per annum rate for such Interest Period and for an amount equal to the amount of such LIBO Rate Loan shown on Dow Jones Telerate Page 3750 (or any equivalent successor page) at approximately 11:00 (London time) two Eurodollar Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period or if such rate is not quoted, the arithmetic average as determined by the Administrative Agent of the rates at which deposits in immediately available U.S. dollars in an amount equal to the amount of such LIBO Rate Loan having a maturity approximately equal to such Interest Period are offered to four (4) reference banks to be selected by the Administrative Agent in the London interbank market, at approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) two Eurodollar Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period.

 

“LIBO Rate Borrowing”, when used in reference to any Borrowing, refers to whether the Loans comprising such Borrowing are bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Applicable LIBO Rate.

 

“LIBO Rate Loan”, when used in reference to any Loan, refers to whether the Loans comprising such Borrowing are bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Applicable LIBO Rate.

 

“LIBO Reserve Percentage” shall mean with respect to an Interest Period for a LIBO Rate Loan, the maximum aggregate reserve requirement (including all basic, supplemental, marginal and other reserves and taking into account any transitional adjustments) which is imposed under Regulation D on eurocurrency liabilities.

 

“Lien” shall mean any security interest, mortgage, pledge, lien, claim on property, charge or encumbrance (including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement), any lease in the nature thereof, and any agreement to give any security interest.

 

“Loans” shall mean the loans made by the Lenders to the Borrower pursuant to Section 1.1 of the Credit Agreement and a Swing Line Loan.

 

“Loan Documents” shall mean the Credit Agreement, the First Amendment Joinder Agreement, each other Joinder Agreement, if any, the Notes and each of the following (but only to the extent evidencing, guaranteeing, supporting or securing the obligations under the foregoing instruments and agreements), the REIT Guaranty, each of the Subsidiary Guaranty, any Guaranty executed by any other Guarantor, the Pledge Agreements, and each other instrument, certificate or agreement executed by the Borrower, MAC or the other Borrower Parties in connection herewith, as any of the same may be Modified from time to time.

 

“Loan Month” shall mean any full calendar month during the term of the Credit Facility, with the first Loan Month being May, 2011, which first Loan Month shall be deemed to include the partial month commencing on the Closing Date.

 

“MAC” shall have the meaning given such term in the preamble to the Credit Agreement.

 

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“Macerich Core Entities” shall mean collectively, (i) the Consolidated Entities, and (ii) any Joint Venture in which any Consolidated Entity is a general partner or in which any Consolidated Entity owns more than 50% of the Capital Stock.

 

“Macerich Entities” shall mean the Borrower Parties, and all Subsidiary Entities of the Borrower Parties.  “Macerich Entity” shall mean any one of the Macerich Entities.

 

“Macerich Partnership” shall have the meaning given such term in the preamble to the Credit Agreement.

 

“Macerich TWC II Corp.” shall mean Macerich TWC II Corp., a Delaware corporation.

 

“Macerich TWC II LLC” shall mean Macerich TWC II LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

 

“Macerich Walleye LLC” shall mean Macerich Walleye LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

 

“Macerich WRLP Corp.” shall mean Macerich WRLP Corp., a Delaware corporation.

 

“Macerich WRLP LLC” shall mean Macerich WRLP LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

 

“Macerich WRLP II Corp.” shall mean Macerich WRLP II Corp., a Delaware corporation.

 

“Macerich WRLP II LP” shall mean Macerich WRLP II LP, a Delaware limited partnership.

 

“MACWH” shall mean MACWH, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership.

 

“MACWH Partnership Agreement” shall mean the 2005 Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of MACWH, between MACWH and the Borrower.

 

“Management Companies” shall mean Macerich Property Management Company, LLC a Delaware limited liability company, Macerich Management Company, a California corporation, Westcor Partners, L.L.C., an Arizona limited liability company, Westcor Partners of Colorado LLC, a Colorado limited liability company, Macerich Westcor Management LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, MACW Property Management, LLC, a New York limited liability company, and MACW Mall Management, Inc., a New York corporation, and includes their respective successors.

 

“Management Contracts” shall mean any contract between any Management Company, on the one hand, and any other Macerich Entity, on the other hand, relating to the management of any Macerich Entity or any Joint Venture or any of the properties of such Person, as the same may be amended from time to time.

 

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“Margin Stock” shall mean “margin stock” as defined in Regulation U.

 

“Master Management Agreements” shall mean Management Contracts between a Macerich Entity, as owner of a Project, and a Wholly Owned Subsidiary in the form of Exhibit H attached hereto (or with respect to Subsidiaries of Westcor or Subsidiaries of Wilmorite, in the form that exists as of the Closing Date) with such Modifications to such form as may be made by the Macerich Entities in their reasonable judgment so long as such Modifications are fair, reasonable, and no less favorable to the owner than would be obtained in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person not a Transactional Affiliate.

 

“Material Adverse Effect” shall mean with respect to (a) MAC and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis taken as a whole or (b) the Macerich Partnership and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis taken as a whole, any of the following (1) a material adverse change in, or a material adverse effect upon, the operations, business, properties, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of any of such Persons from and after the Statement Date, (2) a material impairment of the ability of any of such Persons to otherwise perform under any Loan Document; or (3) a material adverse effect upon the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability against any of such Persons of any Loan Document.

 

“Maximum Increase Amount” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 3.1 of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Measuring Period” shall mean the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters ended on the last day of the Fiscal Quarter most recently ended as to which operating statements with respect to a Real Property have been delivered to the Lenders.

 

“Minority Interest” shall mean all of the partnership units (as defined under the Macerich Partnership’s partnership agreement) of the Macerich Partnership held by any Person other than MAC.

 

“Modifications” shall mean any amendments, supplements, modifications, renewals, replacements, consolidations, severances, substitutions and extensions of any document or instrument from time to time; “Modify”, “Modified,” or related words shall have meanings correlative thereto.

 

“Moody’s” shall mean Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., or any successor thereto.

 

“Mortgage Loans” shall mean all loans owned or held by any of the Macerich Entities secured by mortgages or deeds of trust on Retail/Other Properties.

 

“Multiemployer Plan” shall mean a “multiemployer plan” (within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA) to which any Consolidated Entity or any ERISA Affiliate makes, is making, or is obligated to make contributions or, during the preceding five (5) plan years, has made, or been obligated to make, contributions.

 

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“Net Hedging Obligations” shall mean, as of any date of determination, the excess (if any) of all “unrealized losses” over all “unrealized profits” of such Person arising from Hedging Obligations as substantiated in writing by the Borrower and approved by the Administrative Agent.  “Unrealized losses” means the fair market value of the cost to such Person of replacing such Hedging Obligation as of the date of determination (assuming the Hedging Obligation were to be terminated as of that date), and “unrealized profits” means the fair market value of the gain to such Person of replacing such Hedging Obligation as of the date of determination (assuming such Hedging Obligation were to be terminated as of that date).

 

“Net Income” shall mean, for any period, the net income (or loss), after provision for taxes, of the Consolidated Entities determined on a consolidated basis for such period taken as a single accounting period as determined in accordance with GAAP, and including the Consolidated Entities’ pro rata share of the net income (or loss) of any Joint Venture for such period, but excluding (i) any recorded losses and gains and other extraordinary items for such period and any losses or gains in connection with the early extinguishment of debt or the impairment of assets; (ii) other non-cash charges and expenses (including non-cash charges resulting from accounting changes), (iii) any gains or losses arising outside of the ordinary course of business, and (iv) any charges for minority interests in the Macerich Partnership held by Unaffiliated Partners.  For purposes hereof the Consolidated Entities’ pro rata share of the net income (or loss) of any Joint Venture shall be deemed equal to the product of (i) the income (or loss) of such Joint Venture, multiplied by (ii) the percentage of the total outstanding Capital Stock of such Person held by any Consolidated Entity, expressed as a decimal.

 

“Net Worth” means, at any date, the sum of (i) the aggregate Gross Asset Value; minus (2) the Total Liabilities.

 

“New Borrowing” shall mean any new advance of funds by the applicable Lenders to the Borrower constituting either a Base Rate Loan or a LIBO Rate Loan.

 

“New Revolving Loan” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 3.4(1) of the Credit Agreement.

 

“New Revolving Loan Commitments” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 3.1 of the Credit Agreement.

 

“New Revolving Loan Lender” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 3.1 of the Credit Agreement.

 

“New Term Loan” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 3.4(2) of the Credit Agreement.

 

“New Term Loan Commitments” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 3.1 of the Credit Agreement.

 

“New Term Loan Lender” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 3.1 of the Credit Agreement.

 

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

 

“Northpark Mall” shall mean Northpark Mall, a Retail/Other Property located in Dallas, Texas.

 

“Note” shall mean a Revolving Loan Note or a Term Loan Note, as the context may require.

 

“NPL” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 6.15 of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Obligations” shall mean any and all debts, obligations and liabilities of the Borrower or the other Borrower Parties to the Administrative Agent, the Swing Line Lender, the Issuing Lender, the other Agents or any of the Lenders (whether now existing or hereafter arising, voluntary or involuntary, whether or not jointly owed with others, direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, liquidated or unliquidated, and whether or not from time to time decreased or extinguished and later increased, created or incurred), arising out of or related to the Loan Documents.

 

“OFAC” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 6.26 of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Organizational Documents” shall mean:  (a) for any corporation, the certificate or articles of incorporation, the bylaws, any certificate of determination or instrument relating to the rights of preferred shareholders of such corporation, and all applicable resolutions of the Board of Directors (or any committee thereof) of such corporation, (b) for any partnership, the partnership agreement, any certificate of formation, and any other instrument or agreement relating to the rights between the partners or pursuant to which such partnership is formed, (c) for any limited liability company, the operating agreement, any articles of organization or formation, and any other instrument or agreement relating to the rights between the members, pertaining to the manager, or pursuant to which such limited liability company is formed, and (d) for any trust, the trust agreement and any other instrument or agreement relating to the rights between the trustors, trustees and beneficiaries, or pursuant to which such trust is formed.

 

“Original Revolving Commitment Termination Date” shall mean May 2, 2015.

 

“Originating Lender” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 11.8 of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Other Taxes” means any and all present or future stamp or documentary taxes or any other excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies of a Governmental Authority with respect to any payment made under any Loan Document or from the execution, delivery or enforcement of any Loan Document.

 

“Outside L/C Maturity Date” means the date six calendar months after the Revolving Commitment Termination Date; provided that at any time prior to the

 

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extension of the Original Revolving Commitment Termination Date in accordance with the terms and conditions of Section 1.7(5) of the Credit Agreement, if the Borrower has notified the Administrative Agent in writing that it will exercise the option to extend the Original Revolving Commitment Termination Date, until the Extended Revolving Commitment Termination Date, such date shall be extended to twelve calendar months after the Original Revolving Commitment Termination Date.

 

“Participant” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 11.8 of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Participant Register” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 11.8(5) of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Patriot Act” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 6.26 of the Credit Agreement.

 

“PBGC” shall mean the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or any entity succeeding to any of its principal functions under ERISA.

 

“Pension Plan” shall mean a “pension plan” (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA) that is subject to Title IV of ERISA which any Consolidated Entity or any ERISA Affiliate sponsors, maintains, or to which any Consolidated Entity or any ERISA Affiliate makes, is making, or is obligated to make contributions, or in the case of a multiple employer or other plan described in Section 4064(a) of ERISA, has made contributions at any time during the immediately preceding five (5) plan years, but excluding any Multiemployer Plan.

 

“Permitted Encumbrances” shall mean any Liens with respect to the assets of the Borrower Parties and Macerich Core Entities consisting of the following:

 

(a)           Liens (other than environmental Liens and Liens in favor of the PBGC) with respect to the payment of taxes, assessments or governmental charges in all cases which are not yet due or which are being contested in good faith and with respect to which adequate reserves or other appropriate provisions are being maintained in accordance with GAAP;

 

(b)           Statutory liens of carriers, warehousemen, mechanics, materialmen, landlords, repairmen or other like Liens arising by operation of law in the ordinary course of business for amounts which, if not resolved in favor of the Borrower Parties or the Macerich Core Entities, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;

 

(c)           Liens securing the performance of bids, trade contracts (other than borrowed money), leases, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature incurred in the ordinary course of business;

 

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(d)           Other Liens, incidental to the conduct of the business of the Borrower Parties or the Macerich Core Entities, including Liens arising with respect to zoning restrictions, easements, licenses, reservations, covenants, rights-of-way, easements, encroachments, building restrictions, minor defects, irregularities in title and other similar charges or encumbrances on the use of the assets of the Borrower Parties or the Macerich Core Entities which do not interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of the Borrower Parties or the Macerich Core Entities and that are not incurred (i) in violation of any terms and conditions of the Credit Agreement; (ii) in connection with the borrowing of money or the obtaining of advances or credit, or (iii) in a manner which could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;

 

(e)                                  Liens incurred or deposits made in the ordinary course of business in connection with worker’s compensation, unemployment insurance and other types of social security;

 

(f)                                   Any attachment or judgment Lien not constituting an Event of Default;

 

(g)                                  Licenses (with respect to intellectual property and other property), leases or subleases granted to third parties;

 

(h)                                 any (i) interest or title of a lessor or sublessor under any lease not prohibited by the Credit Agreement, (ii) Lien or restriction that the interest or title of such lessor or sublessor may be subject to, or (iii) subordination of the interest of the lessee or sublessee under such lease to any Lien or restriction referred to in the preceding clause (ii), so long as the holder of such Lien or restriction agrees to recognize the rights of such lessee or sublessee under such lease;

 

(i)                                     Liens arising from filing UCC financing statements relating solely to leases not prohibited by the Credit Agreement;

 

(j)                                    Liens in favor of customs and revenue authorities arising as a matter of law to secure payment of customs duties in connection with the importation of goods; and

 

(k)                                 Liens on personal property.

 

“Permitted MACWH Cash Distribution” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 8.4(4) of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Permitted Mortgages” shall mean those certain mortgages and/or deeds of trust entered into by Subsidiaries of the Borrower Parties with respect to Real Property directly owned by such Subsidiaries of the Borrower Parties to the extent such mortgages and deeds of trust are otherwise permitted under the Credit Agreement (including Section 8.1(1) of the Credit Agreement).

 

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“Person” shall mean any corporation, natural person, firm, joint venture, partnership, trust, unincorporated organization, government or any department or agency of any government.

 

“Plan” shall mean any “employee benefit plan” (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) which any Consolidated Entity or any ERISA Affiliate establishes, sponsors or maintains or to which any Consolidated Entity or any ERISA Affiliate makes, is making, or is obligated to make contributions, or with respect to which any Consolidated Entity or any ERISA Affiliate may have any liability (whether actual or contingent), but excluding any Multiemployer Plan.

 

“Platform” as defined in Section 11.6(4).

 

“Pledge Agreements” shall mean, individually or collectively, each of the Pledge Agreements dated as of even date herewith from Macerich Partnership, MAC and the other Pledgors, each in substantially the form attached to the Credit Agreement as Exhibit J, pursuant to which each of Macerich Partnership, MAC and the other Pledgors shall pledge to the Collateral Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties, all of its direct and indirect ownership interest in certain Guarantors (or general partners thereof, as the case may be) as further specified therein.

 

“Pledgors” shall mean Macerich Partnership, MAC and Macerich WRLP II Corp.

 

“Potential Default” shall mean an event which but for the lapse of time or the giving of notice, or both, would constitute an Event of Default.

 

“Prime Rate” shall mean the fluctuating per annum rate announced from time to time by DBTCA or any successor Administrative Agent at its principal office in New York, New York as its “prime rate”.  The Prime Rate is a rate set by DBTCA as one of its base rates and serves as the basis upon which effective rates of interest are calculated for those loans making reference thereto, and is evidenced by the recording thereof after its announcement in such internal publication or publications as DBTCA may designate.  The Prime Rate is not tied to any external index and does not necessarily represent the lowest or best rate of interest actually charged to any class or category of customers.  Each change in the Prime Rate will be effective on the day the change is announced within DBTCA.

 

“Prohibited Person” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 6.26 of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Project” shall mean any shopping center, retail property, office building, mixed use property or other income producing project owned or controlled, directly or indirectly by a Macerich Entity.  “Project” shall include the redevelopment, or reconstruction of any existing Project.

 

“Property” shall mean, collectively and severally, any and all Real Property and all personal property owned or occupied by the subject Person.  “Property” shall include all Capital Stock owned by the subject Person in a Subsidiary Entity.

 

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“Property Expense” shall mean, for any Retail/Other Property, all operating expenses relating to such Retail/Other Property, including the following items (provided, however, that Property Expenses shall not include debt service, tenant improvement costs, leasing commissions, capital improvements, Depreciation and Amortization Expenses and any extraordinary items not considered operating expenses under GAAP):  (i) all expenses for the operation of such Retail/Other Property, including any management fees payable under the Management Contracts and all insurance expenses, but not including any expenses incurred in connection with a sale or other capital or interim capital transaction; (ii) water charges, property taxes, sewer rents and other impositions, other than fines, penalties, interest or such impositions (or portions thereof) that are payable by reason of the failure to pay an imposition timely; and (iii) the cost of routine maintenance, repairs and minor alterations, to the extent they can be expensed under GAAP.

 

“Property Income” shall mean, for any Retail/Other Property, all gross revenue from the ownership and/or operation of such Retail/Other Property (but excluding income from a sale or other capital item transaction), service fees and charges and all tenant expense reimbursement income payable with respect to such Retail/Other Property.

 

“Property Indebtedness” shall mean so called “mezzanine indebtedness” incurred by a Macerich Core Entity (in such capacity, a “Mezzanine Borrower”), other than a Borrower Party, where (i) the Mezzanine Borrower’s only material asset is the Capital Stock it owns in a Macerich Core Entity that owns a Retail/Other Property encumbered by a mortgage Lien, (ii) such Indebtedness is non-recourse to any other Borrower Party and Macerich Core Entity (other than the Macerich Core Entity that owns such Retail/Other Property and customary carveouts for bankruptcy and other so called “bad acts”) and (iii) the only material collateral for such Indebtedness is a pledge of the Capital Stock described in clause (i) of this definition.

 

“Property NOI” shall mean, for any Retail/Other Property for any period, (i) all Property Income for such period, minus (ii) all Property Expenses for such period.

 

“Punitive Damages” shall mean special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) on any theory of liability (whether or not the claim therefor is based on contract, tort or duty imposed by any applicable legal requirement) arising out of, in connection with, as a result of, or in any way related to, the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby or referred to therein, the transactions contemplated thereby, any Loan or the use of the proceeds thereof or any act or omission or event occurring in connection therewith.

 

“Queens Center” shall mean the Real Property and improvements located at or adjacent to 90-15 Queen’s Blvd., Elmhurst, New York, commonly referred to as “Queens Center” and owned by Macerich Queens Limited Partnership and/or Macerich Queens Expansion, LLC.

 

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“Rate Request” shall mean a request for the conversion or continuation of a Base Rate Loan or LIBO Rate Loan as set forth in Section 1.6(2) of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Real Property” means each of those parcels (or portions thereof) of real property, improvements and fixtures thereon and appurtenances thereto now or hereafter owned or leased by the Macerich Entities.

 

“Real Property Under Construction” shall mean Real Property for which Commencement of Construction has occurred but construction of such Real Property is not substantially complete or has not yet reached Stabilization.

 

“Refunded Swing Line Loans” as defined in Section 1.4-(A).

 

“Register” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 1.8(4) of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Regulation D” shall mean Regulation D of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from time to time in effect and shall include any successor or other regulation of said Board of Governors relating to reserve requirements applicable to member banks of the Federal Reserve System.

 

“Regulation U” shall mean Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (12 C.F.R. § 221), as the same may from time to time be amended, supplemented or superseded.

 

“REIT” shall mean a domestic trust or corporation that qualifies as a real estate investment trust under the provisions of Sections 856, et seq. of the Code.

 

“REIT Guaranty” shall mean the credit guaranty executed by MAC in favor of DBTCA (or a successor Administrative Agent), in its capacity as Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Lenders, as the same may be Modified from time to time.

 

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

 

“Reportable Event” shall mean any of the events set forth in Section 4043(c) of ERISA or the regulations thereunder, other than any such event for which the thirty (30)-day notice requirement under ERISA has been waived in regulations issued by the PBGC.

 

“Required Lenders” means, at any time, Lenders having Credit Exposures and Unused Commitments representing an amount not less than 50% of the sum of the total Credit Exposures and Unused Commitments at such time; provided that, solely for purposes of waiver of any and all conditions to the funding of Revolving Loans set forth in Section 5.2, “Required Lenders” shall mean, at any time, Lenders having Revolving Credit Exposures and Unused Commitments representing an amount not less than 50% of the sum of the total Revolving Credit Exposures and Unused Commitments at such time.

 

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The Credit Exposure and Unused Commitments of any Defaulting Lender shall be disregarded in determining Required Lenders at any time.

 

“Requirements of Law” shall mean, as to any Person, the Organizational Documents of such Person, and any law, treaty, rule or regulation, or a final and binding determination of an arbitrator or a determination of a court or other Governmental Authority, in each case applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its property or to which such Person or any of its property is subject.

 

“Reserve Adjusted LIBO Rate” shall mean, with respect to any LIBO Rate Loan, the rate per annum calculated as of the first day of such Interest Period in accordance with the following formula:

 

	
 
    	
Reserve   Adjusted LIBO Rate =
    	
LR
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
1-LRP
    	
 
    

 

where

	
LR
    	
=
    	
LIBO   Rate
    
	
LRP
    	
=
    	
LIBO   Reserve Percentage (expressed as a decimal)
    

 

“Responsible Financial Officer” shall mean, with respect to any Person, the chief financial officer or treasurer of such Person or any other officer, partner or member having substantially the same authority and responsibility.

 

“Responsible Officer” shall mean, with respect to any Person, the president, chief executive officer, vice president, Responsible Financial Officer, general partner or managing member of such Person or any other officer, partner or member having substantially the same authority and responsibility.

 

“Restricted Cash” shall mean any cash or cash equivalents held by any Person with respect to which such Person does not have unrestricted access and unrestricted right to expend such cash or expend or liquidate such permitted Investments.

 

“Retail/Other Property” or “Retail/Other Properties” means any Real Property that is (i) a neighborhood, community or regional shopping center or mall, office building, multi-family project or warehouse or (ii) a hotel in which a Macerich Core Entity or one of its Joint Ventures holds the fee interest and other ground lessor’s interest under a ground lease.

 

“Retail/Other Property Under Construction” shall mean Retail/Other Property for which Commencement of Construction has occurred but construction of such Retail/Other Property is not substantially complete or has not yet reached Stabilization.

 

“Revolving Borrowing” shall mean a Borrowing consisting of one or more Revolving Loans.

 

“Revolving Commitment” shall mean, with respect to each Revolving Lender, the commitment, if any, of such Revolving Lender to make Revolving Loans and to acquire participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans hereunder, expressed as an 

 

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amount representing the maximum aggregate amount that such Revolving Lender’s Revolving Credit Exposure could be at any time hereunder, as such commitment may be (a) reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 1.7 of the Credit Agreement;  (b) reduced or increased from time to time pursuant to assignments by or to such Revolving Lender pursuant to Section 11.8 of the Credit Agreement; or (c) increased from time to time pursuant to a Joinder Agreement delivered pursuant to Article 3 of the Credit Agreement.  The initial amount of each Revolving Lender’s Revolving Commitment is set forth on Schedule G-1, or in the Assignment and Acceptance Agreement or Joinder Agreement pursuant to which such Revolving Lender shall have assumed its Revolving Commitment, as applicable.  The initial aggregate amount of the Revolving Lenders’ Revolving Commitments is $1,500,000,000.

 

“Revolving Commitment Termination Date” shall mean initially the Original Revolving Commitment Termination Date; provided that the “Revolving Commitment Termination Date” shall mean the Extended Revolving Commitment Termination Date if the Borrower extends the Original Revolving Commitment Termination Date in accordance with the terms and conditions of Section 1.7(5) of the Credit Agreement.  The Revolving Commitment Termination Date shall be subject to acceleration upon an Event of Default as otherwise provided in the Credit Agreement.

 

“Revolving Commitment Termination LC Exposure Deposit” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 1.4(11)(A) of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Revolving Credit Exposure” shall mean, with respect to any Revolving Lender at any time, (i) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of such Revolving Lender’s Revolving Loans and LC Exposure, at such time and (ii) in the case of Swing Line Lender, the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all Swing Line Loans (net of any participations therein by other Revolving Lenders).

 

“Revolving Lender” shall mean any Lender with a Revolving Commitment and/or Revolving Credit Exposure.

 

“Revolving Loan Note” shall mean a promissory note in the form of that attached to the Credit Agreement as Exhibit I issued by the Borrower at the request of a Revolving Lender pursuant to Section 1.8(6) of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Revolving Loans” shall mean the loans made by the Revolving Lenders to the Borrower pursuant to Section 1.1(1) of the Credit Agreement.

 

“S&P” shall mean Standard & Poor’s Rating Services, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., or any successor thereto.

 

“Secured Indebtedness” shall mean that portion of the Total Liabilities that is, without duplication: (i) secured by a Lien (excluding, however, the Indebtedness under the Credit Agreement, including, without limitation, Indebtedness incurred as permitted under Article 3 of the Credit Agreement); or (ii) any unsecured Indebtedness of any Subsidiary of a Borrower Party if such Subsidiary is not a Guarantor.

 

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“Secured Indebtedness Ratio” shall mean, at any time, the ratio of (i) Secured Indebtedness to (ii) Gross Asset Value for such period.

 

“Secured Parties” shall have the meaning given such term in the Pledge Agreements.

 

“Secured Recourse Indebtedness” shall mean Secured Indebtedness to the extent the principal amount thereof has been guaranteed by (or is otherwise recourse to) any Borrower Party (other than a Borrower Party whose sole assets are (i) collateral for such Secured Indebtedness; or (ii) Capital Stock in another Borrower Party whose sole assets are such collateral and who otherwise meets the criteria set forth in clauses (D) through (T) in the definition of Single Purpose Entity).

 

“Securities” means any stock, shares, partnership interests, voting trust certificates, certificates of interest or participation in any profit sharing agreement or arrangement, bonds, debentures, options, warrants, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness, secured or unsecured, convertible, subordinated or otherwise, or in general any instruments commonly known as “securities” or any certificates of interest, shares or participations in temporary or interim certificates for the purchase or acquisition of, or any right to subscribe to, purchase or acquire, any of the foregoing.

 

“Senior Managing Agents” shall mean Goldman Sachs Bank USA, Citibank, N.A., Royal Bank of Canada, ING Real Estate Finance (USA) LLC and U.S. Bank National Association, in their respective capacities as senior managing agents for the credit facility evidenced by the Credit Agreement, together with their permitted successors and assigns.

 

“Series” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 3.4(2) of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Series A Term Lender” shall mean a Lender with any Series A Term Loan Credit Exposure.

 

“Series A Term Loan” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 1.1(2) of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Series A Term Loan Commitment” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 1.1(2) of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Series A Term Loan Credit Exposure” shall mean, with respect to any Term Lender at any time, the aggregate outstanding principal amount of such Term Lender’s portion of the Series A Term Loans at such time.

 

“Series A Term Loan Maturity Date” shall mean December 8, 2018.  Borrower has no option or other right to extend the Series A Term Loan Maturity Date.  The Series A Term Loan Maturity Date shall be subject to acceleration as otherwise provided in the Credit Agreement.

 

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“Single Purpose Entity” shall mean shall mean a Person, other than an individual, which (A) is formed or organized solely for the purpose of holding, directly or indirectly, an ownership interest in the Westcor Principal Entities or the Wilmorite Principal Entity, (B) does not engage in any business unrelated to clause (A) above, (C) has not and will not have any assets other than those related to its activities in accordance with clauses (A) and (B) above, (D) maintains its own separate books and records and its own accounts, in each case which are separate and apart from the books and records and accounts of any other Person, (E) holds itself out as being a Person, separate and apart from any other Person, (F) does not and will not commingle its funds or assets with those of any other Person, (G) conducts its own business in its own name, (H) maintains to the extent necessary separate financial statements and files its own tax returns (or if its tax returns are consolidated with those of MAC, such returns shall clearly identify such Person as a separate legal entity), (I) pays its own debts and liabilities when they become due out of its own funds, (J) observes all partnership, corporate, limited liability company or trust formalities, as applicable, and does all things necessary to preserve its existence, in each case, in all material respects, (K) except as expressly permitted by the Loan Documents, maintains an arm’s length relationship with its Transactional Affiliates and shall not enter into any Contractual Obligations with any Affiliates except as permitted under the Credit Agreement, (L) pays the salaries of its own employees, if any, (M) does not guarantee or otherwise obligate itself with respect to the debts of any other Person, or hold out its credit as being available to satisfy the obligations of any other Person, except with respect to the Obligations or as otherwise permitted under the Loan Documents, (N) allocates fairly and reasonably shared expenses, including any overhead for shared office space, (O) uses separate stationery, invoices, and checks, (P) does not and will not pledge its assets for the benefit of any other Person (except as permitted under the Loan Documents) or make any loans or advances to any other Person (except with respect to the Obligations or as permitted under the Loan Documents), (Q) does and will correct any known misunderstanding regarding its separate identity, (R) maintains adequate capital in light of its contemplated business operations, and (S) has and will have a partnership or operating agreement, certificate of incorporation or other organizational document which complies with the requirements set forth in this definition.

 

“Solvent” shall mean, when used with respect to any Person, that at the time of determination:  (i) the fair saleable value of its assets is in excess of the total amount of its liabilities (including, without limitation, contingent liabilities); (ii) the present fair saleable value of its assets is greater than its probable liability on its existing debts as such debts become absolute and matured; (iii) it is then able and expects to be able to pay its debts (including, without limitation, contingent debts and other commitments) as they mature; and (iv) it has capital sufficient to carry on its business as conducted and as proposed to be conducted.

 

“Specified Change of Control Event” shall mean (i) any Retail/Other Property or other Real Property, as applicable, is subject to an insolvency, receivership or other similar proceeding described in Section 9.7 of the Credit Agreement applicable to such Real Property; (ii) in anticipation of a full transfer of legal title to the subject Real Property upon foreclosure, deed in lieu of foreclosure or otherwise under non-recourse Indebtedness (other than with respect to the Macerich Core Entity that owns such Real 

 

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Property), all Control (as defined in the definition of Affiliate and including direct, indirect and beneficial control or otherwise) over such Real Property has been transferred in an arms length transaction to a third party not affiliated with any Borrower Party or Macerich Core Entity; (iii) none of the Management Companies are continuing to manage such Real Property, directly or indirectly; and (iv) following the transfer of control and management rights as provided in clauses (ii) and (iii) above, no Borrower Party or Macerich Core Entity (other than with respect to the Macerich Core Entity that owns such Real Property) shall have any further operating liability, including any obligation to make additional capital contributions, in any form with respect to such Real Property.  Nothing contained in this definition is intended to permit any Borrower Party or Macerich Core Entity to commence any insolvency, receivership, bankruptcy or similar proceedings otherwise restricted under the Credit Agreement, including pursuant to Section 9.7, and all such provisions shall continue to apply with full force and effect.

 

“Stabilization” shall mean, with respect to any Real Property, the earlier of (i) the date on which ninety percent (90%) or more of the Gross Leasable Area of such Real Property has been subject to binding leases for a period of twelve (12) months or longer, or (ii) the date twenty-four (24) months after the date that substantially all portions of such Real Property are open to the public and operating in the ordinary course of business.

 

“Stated Amount” shall mean, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the maximum amount available to be drawn thereunder, without regard to whether any conditions to drawing could be met.

 

“Statement Date” shall mean December 31, 2010.

 

“Subsidiary” shall mean, with respect to any Person:  (a) any corporation more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding securities having ordinary voting power of which shall at the time be owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or by one or more of its Subsidiaries or by such Person and one or more of its Subsidiaries, (b) any partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture or similar business organization more than fifty percent (50%) of the ownership interests having ordinary voting power of which shall at the time be so owned or controlled, (c) with respect to MAC, any other Person in which MAC owns, directly or indirectly, any Capital Stock and which would be combined with MAC in the consolidated financial statements of MAC in accordance with GAAP; (d) with respect to the Westcor Guarantors and the Westcor Principal Entities, any other Person in which they own, directly or indirectly, any Capital Stock and which would be combined with them in consolidated financial statements in accordance with GAAP; or (e) with respect to the Wilmorite Guarantors and the Wilmorite Principal Entity, any other Person in which they own, directly or indirectly, any Capital Stock and which would be combined with them in consolidated financial statements in accordance with GAAP.

 

“Subsidiary Entities” shall mean a Subsidiary or Joint Venture of a Person.  Unless otherwise expressly provided, all references in the Loan Documents to a “Subsidiary Entity” shall mean a Subsidiary Entity of MAC.

 

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“Subsidiary Guaranty” shall mean that certain Unconditional Guaranty dated as of the Closing Date executed by each of the Westcor Guarantors, the Wilmorite Guarantors, the Affiliate Guarantors and each of the Supplemental Guarantors from time to time party thereto in favor of DBTCA (or a successor Administrative Agent), in its capacity as Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Lenders, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender and the Agents, as the same may be Modified from time to time.

 

“Supplemental Guarantor” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4.2 of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Supplemental Guaranties” shall mean a Guaranty executed by a Supplemental Guarantor pursuant to Section 4.2 of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Supplemental Guaranty GAV Threshold” shall mean with respect to any Unencumbered Property, the Gross Asset Value attributable to such Unencumbered Property exceeds $40,000,000.

 

“Swing Line Lender” means DBTCA in its capacity as Swing Line Lender hereunder, together with its permitted successors and assigns in such capacity.

 

“Swing Line Loan” means a Loan made by Swing Line Lender to Borrower pursuant to Section 1.4-(A).

 

“Swing Line Note” means a promissory note in the form of Exhibit L, as it may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

 

“Swing Line Sublimit” means the lesser of (i) $50,000,000, and (ii) the aggregate unused amount of Revolving Commitments then in effect.

 

“Syndication Agent” shall mean JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., in its capacity as syndication agent for the credit facility evidenced by the Credit Agreement, together with its permitted successors and assigns.

 

“Taxes” shall mean any and all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, charges or withholdings imposed by any Governmental Authority.

 

“Tax Expense” shall mean (without duplication), for any period, total tax expense (if any) attributable to income and franchise taxes based on or measured by income, whether paid or accrued, of the Consolidated Entities, including the Consolidated Entity’s pro rata share of tax expenses in any Joint Venture.  For purposes of this definition, the Consolidated Entities’ pro rata share of any such tax expense of any Joint Venture shall be deemed equal to the product of (i) such tax expense of such Joint Venture, multiplied by (ii) the percentage of the total outstanding Capital Stock of such Person held by the Consolidated Entity, expressed as a decimal.

 

“Term Lender” shall mean a Lender with any Term Loan Credit Exposure.

 

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“Term Loan” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 1.1(2) of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Term Loan Borrowing” shall mean a Borrowing of any Term Loan or Term Loans (or portions thereof), as the case may be.

 

“Term Loan Commitment” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 1.1(2) of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Term Loan Credit Exposure” shall mean, with respect to any Term Lender at any time, the aggregate outstanding principal amount of such Term Lender’s portion of the Term Loans (including all outstanding Series of Term Loans) or, of a given Series of Term Loans, as applicable, at such time.  For the avoidance of doubt, unless otherwise specified in the applicable Loan Document, “Term Loan Credit Exposure” shall include all outstanding Series of Term Loans.

 

“Term Loan Maturity Date” shall mean, with respect to the Series A Term Loan, the Series A Term Loan Maturity Date and, with respect to any other Series of Term Loans, the Term Loan Maturity Date applicable thereto as set forth in the applicable Joinder Agreement.  Each Term Loan Maturity Date shall be subject to acceleration upon an Event of Default as otherwise provided in the Credit Agreement.

 

“Term Loan Note” shall mean a promissory note in the form of that attached to the Credit Agreement as Exhibit D issued by the Borrower at the request of a Term Lender pursuant to Section 1.8(6) of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Total Liabilities” shall mean, at any time, without duplication, the aggregate amount of (i) all Indebtedness and other liabilities of the Borrower Parties and other Consolidated Entities that are Wholly-Owned reflected in the financial statements of MAC or disclosed in the notes thereto (to the extent the same would constitute a Contingent Obligation), plus (ii) for all Consolidated Entities that are not Wholly-Owned, such Borrower Parties’ pro rata share of all Indebtedness and other liabilities reflected in the financial statements of MAC or disclosed in the notes thereto (to the extent the same would constitute a Contingent Obligation), plus (iii) the Borrower Parties’ pro rata share of all Indebtedness and other liabilities reflected in the financial statements of any Joint Venture or disclosed in the notes thereto (to the extent the same would constitute a Contingent Obligation), plus (iv) the Borrower Parties’ pro rata share of all liabilities of the Consolidated Entities with respect to purchase and repurchase obligations, provided that any obligations to acquire fully-constructed Real Property shall not be included in Total Liabilities prior to the transfer of title of such Real Property; provided that, notwithstanding clause (i), those certain guarantees described on Schedule G-2 to the Credit Agreement, which liabilities thereunder are recourse, directly or indirectly, to any of the Westcor Principal Entities or their Subsidiaries or the Wilmorite Principal Entity or its Subsidiaries, shall be considered an obligation governed by clauses (ii) or (iii) above, as the case may be.  With respect to any Real Property Under Construction as to which any Consolidated Entity has provided an outstanding and undrawn letter of credit relating to the performance and/or completion of construction at such property, the amount of 

 

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Indebtedness evidenced by such letter of credit shall be included in Total Liabilities if: (a) such Indebtedness does not duplicate Indebtedness incurred in respect of such Real Property Under Construction (including any off-site improvements associated therewith); (b) such Indebtedness is required by GAAP to be reflected on the liability side of any Consolidated Entities’ balance sheet; and (c) to the extent such Indebtedness is not required by GAAP to be reflected on the liability side of any Consolidated Entities’ balance sheet, then such Indebtedness shall only be included to the extent the amount of such Indebtedness exceeds $40,000,000.  For purposes of clauses (ii), (iii) and (iv), the Borrower Parties’ pro rata share of all Indebtedness and other liabilities of a Consolidated Entity that is not a Borrower Party and is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary or of a Joint Venture shall be deemed equal to the product of (a) such Indebtedness or other liabilities, multiplied by (b) the percentage of the total outstanding Capital Stock of such Person held directly or indirectly by the Borrower Parties, expressed as a decimal.  To the extent that Indebtedness in respect of any guaranty or other liability is expressly excluded from the definition of Contingent Obligation, it shall not constitute a Total Liability.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, during any period that a Retail/Other Property is subject to a Specified Change of Control Event and thereby excluded from the calculation of Gross Asset Value, the Indebtedness and other liabilities of such Retail/Other Property shall be excluded from Total Liabilities.

 

“Transactional Affiliates” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 8.6 of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Transitional Properties” shall mean such Retail/Other Properties for which (i) the Borrower has delivered a repositioning or redevelopment plan to the Administrative Agent and (ii) such plan demonstrates that at least 50% of the square footage of the applicable Retail/Other Property will be under active redevelopment for some period and will not produce stabile revenue during such redevelopment period.

 

“Transitional Stabilization” shall mean the earlier of (a) the date on which ninety percent (90%) or more of the Gross Leasable Area of such Real Property has been subject to binding leases for a period of twelve (12) months or longer; or (b) the date forty-eight (48) months after the date a repositioning plan has been commenced.

 

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

 

“Tysons Corner Indebtedness” means the Borrowed Indebtedness secured by a Lien on any portion of Tysons Corner Center.

 

“UCC” shall mean the Uniform Commercial Code.

 

“Unaffiliated Partners” shall mean Persons who own, directly or indirectly at any tier, a beneficial interest in the Capital Stock of a Subsidiary Entity, but such Persons shall exclude:  (i) the Macerich Entities; (ii) Affiliates of Macerich Entities; (iii) Persons 

 

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whose Capital Stock or beneficial interest therein is owned, directly or indirectly at any tier, by the Macerich Entities or their Affiliates.

 

“Unencumbered Property” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4.2 of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Unfunded Pension Liability” shall mean the excess of a Pension Plan’s benefit liabilities under Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA, over the current value of that Plan’s assets, determined in accordance with the assumptions used for funding the Pension Plan pursuant to Section 412 of the Code for the applicable plan year.

 

“Unused Commitments” shall mean, with respect to any Revolving Lender at any time, the difference of (i) the total amount of such Revolving Lender’s Revolving Commitment and (ii) such Revolving Lender’s Revolving Credit Exposure.

 

“Unused Line Fee” shall have the meaning as set forth in Section 2.11 of the Credit Agreement.

 

“Usage Percentage” shall mean the ratio, expressed as a percentage, of (i) the sum of (x) the average daily outstanding amount of Revolving Loans (other than Swing Line Loans) and (y) the undrawn face amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit, to (ii) the aggregate amount of the Revolving Lenders’ Revolving Commitments during such period.

 

“Walleye Investment LLC” shall mean Walleye Retail Investments LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

 

“Walleye LLC” shall mean Walleye LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

 

“Weighted Average Yield” means with respect to any Loan, on any date of determination, the weighted average yield to maturity, in each case, based on the interest rate applicable to such Loan on such date and giving effect to all upfront or similar fees or original issue discount payable with respect to such Loan.

 

“Westcor” shall mean (i) the Westcor Principal Entities, (ii) the Westcor Guarantors, (iii) the Subsidiaries of the Westcor Guarantors; and (iv) any other Person the accounts of which would be consolidated with those of the Westcor Guarantors in consolidated financial statements in accordance with GAAP.  When the context so requires, “Westcor” shall mean any of the Persons described above.

 

“Westcor Guarantors” shall mean Macerich WRLP Corp., Macerich WRLP LLC, Macerich WRLP II Corp., Macerich WRLP II L.P., Macerich TWC II Corp. and Macerich TWC II LLC.

 

“Westcor Principal Entities” shall mean, jointly and severally, Westcor Realty Limited Partnership and The Westcor Company II Limited Partnership.

 

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“Wholly-Owned” shall mean, with respect to any Real Property, Capital Stock, or other Property owned or leased, that (i) title to such Property is held directly by, or such Property is leased by, the Macerich Partnership, or (ii) in the case of Real Property or Capital Stock, title to such property is held by, or (in the case of Real Property) such Property is leased by, a Consolidated Entity at least 99% of the Capital Stock of which is held of record and beneficially by the Macerich Partnership (or a Person whose Capital Stock is owned 100% by Macerich Partnership) and the balance of the Capital Stock of which (if any) is held of record and beneficially by MAC (or a Person whose Capital Stock is owned 100% by MAC).  References to Property Wholly-Owned by Westcor or a Macerich Entity shall mean property 100% owned by such Person.

 

“Wholly-Owned Raw Land” shall mean Wholly-Owned land that is not under development and for which no development is planned to commence within twelve (12) months after the date on which it was acquired.

 

“Wilmorite” shall mean (i) the Wilmorite Principal Entity, (ii) the Wilmorite Guarantors, (iii) the Subsidiaries of the Wilmorite Guarantors and (iv) any other Person the accounts of which would be consolidated with those of the Wilmorite Guarantors in consolidated financial statements in accordance with GAAP.  When the context so requires, “Wilmorite” shall mean any of the Persons described above.

 

“Wilmorite Guarantors” shall mean Macerich Walleye LLC, Walleye LLC and Walleye Investments LLC.

 

“Wilmorite Principal Entity” shall mean MACWH.

 

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Other Interpretive Provisions.

 

(1)                                 The meanings of defined terms are equally applicable to the singular and plural forms of the defined terms.  Terms (including uncapitalized terms) not otherwise defined herein and that are defined in the UCC shall have the meanings therein described.

 

(2)                                 The words “hereof”, “herein”, “hereunder” and similar words refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement; and Section, subsection, Schedule and Exhibit references are to this Agreement unless otherwise specified.

 

(3)                                 (i)                                     The term “documents” includes any and all instruments, documents, agreements, certificates, indentures, notices and other writings, however evidenced;

 

(ii)                                  The term “including” is not limiting and means “including without limitation;”

 

(iii)                               In the computation of periods of time from a specified date to a later specified date, the word “from” means “from and including,” the words “to” and “until” each mean “to but excluding,” and the word “through” means “to and including;”

 

(iv)                              The term “property” includes any kind of property or asset, real, personal or mixed, tangible or intangible; and

 

(v)                                 The verb “exists” and its correlative noun forms, with reference to a Potential Default or an Event of Default, means that such Potential Default or Event of Default has occurred and continues uncured and unwaived.

 

(4)                                 Unless otherwise expressly provided herein, (i) references to agreements (including this Agreement) and other contractual instruments shall be deemed to include all subsequent Modifications thereto, but only to the extent such Modifications are not prohibited by the terms of any Loan Document, (ii) references to any statute or regulation are to be construed as including all statutory and regulatory provisions consolidating, amending, replacing, supplementing or interpreting the statute or regulation, and (iii) references to any Person include its permitted successors and assigns.

 

(5)                                 This Agreement and the other Loan Documents may use several different limitations, tests or measurements to regulate the same or similar matters.  All such limitations, tests and measurements are cumulative and shall each be performed in accordance with their terms.

 

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EXHIBIT C

 

FORM OF

 

RATE CONVERSION/CONTINUATION REQUEST

 

	
TO:
    	
Deutsche   Bank Trust Company Americas,
    
	
 
    	
as   Administrative Agent for
    
	
 
    	
the   Lenders from time to time a party to the
    
	
 
    	
Credit   Agreement described below
    
	
 
    	
90   Hudson Street Mail Stop: JCY05-0511
    
	
 
    	
Jersey   City, NJ 07302
    
	
 
    	
Attention:   [ ]
    
	
 
    	
Facsimile:
    
	
 
    	
Phone:
    

 

Pursuant to that certain $1,500,000,000 Revolving Loan Facility and $125,000,000 Term Loan Credit Agreement dated as of May 2, 2011 (as Modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement,” and with capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein used with the meanings given such terms in the Credit Agreement), by and among The Macerich Partnership, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the “Borrower”), The Macerich Company, a Maryland corporation, and the other guarantors party thereto, as guarantors, the Lenders from time to time party thereto and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Administrative Agent for said Lenders and as Collateral Agent for the Secured Parties, Borrower hereby makes the following requests.

 

I.   [    ]   CONVERSION TO A LIBO RATE LOAN:

 

	
Type of Loan(1)
    	
 
    	
Maturity Date of
   Existing Base Rate
   Loan to Be
   Converted
    	
 
    	
Dollar Amount(2)
    	
 
    	
Interest Period(3)
    	
 
    	
Conversion Date
    	
 
    	
Maturity Date
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
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$
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
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$
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
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$
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
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(1)  Identify whether such Loan is a Revolving Loan or a Term Loan (and if a Term Loan, the applicable Series of such Term Loan).

(2)  Each LIBO Rate Loan shall be in the principal amount of $1,000,000 or whole multiples of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, except as otherwise provided in Section 2.4 of the Credit Agreement.

(3)  Must elect one, two, three, six or twelve months.

(4)  Identify whether such Loan is a Revolving Loan or a Term Loan (and if a Term Loan, the applicable Series of such Term Loan).

 

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II.   [    ]   CONVERSION TO A BASE RATE LOAN:

 

	
Type of Loan(4)
    	
 
    	
Maturity Date of Existing LIBO
   Rate Loan to Be Converted
    	
 
    	
Dollar Amount(5)
    	
 
    	
Conversion Date
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
   /   /   
    	
 
    	
$
    	
 
    	
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$
    	
 
    	
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$
    	
 
    	
   /   /   
    

 

III.   [    ]   CONTINUATION OF A LIBO RATE LOAN:

 

	
Type of Loan(6)
    	
 
    	
Maturity Date of
   Existing LIBO
   Rate Loan to Be
   Continued
    	
 
    	
Dollar Amount(7)
    	
 
    	
Interest Period(8)
    	
 
    	
Continuation Date(9)
    	
 
    	
Maturity Date
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
   /   /   
    	
 
    	
$
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
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$
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
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$
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
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Borrower hereby confirms that on and as of the date of the foregoing requests no Event of Default or Potential Default has occurred and is continuing.(10)

 

Borrower is delivering this request on behalf of itself.

 

[Signature on Next Page]

 

(5)  Each Base Rate Loan shall be in the principal amount of $1,000,000 or whole multiples of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, except as otherwise provided in Section 1.2(3) or Section 2.4 of the Credit Agreement.

(6)  Identify whether such Loan is a Revolving Loan or a Term Loan (and if a Term Loan, the applicable Series of such Term Loan).

(7)  Each LIBO Rate Loan shall be in the principal amount of $1,000,000 or whole multiples of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, except as otherwise provided in Section 2.4 of the Credit Agreement.

(8)  Must elect one, two, three, six or twelve months.

(9)  Must be the last day of an Interest Period.

(10)  Applicable to conversion to, or continuation of, any LIBO Rate Loan.

 

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DATE:
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 

	
 
    	
 
    	
 

	
BORROWER:
    	
 
    	
 

	
 
    	
 
    	
 

	
 
    	
 
    	
 

	
 
    	
THE   MACERICH PARTNERSHIP, L.P.,
    	
 

	
 
    	
a   Delaware limited partnership
    	
 

	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 

	
 
    	
By:
    	
The   Macerich Company,
    	
 

	
 
    	
 
    	
a   Maryland corporation,
    	
 

	
 
    	
 
    	
Its   general partner
    	
 

	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 

	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 

	
 
    	
 
    	
By:
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:
    
						

 

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EXHIBIT D

 

FORM OF

 

SERIES [ ] TERM LOAN NOTE

 

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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, The Macerich Partnership, L.P., a limited partnership organized under the laws of the state of Delaware (the “Borrower”), hereby promises to pay to                                              (“Lender”) or its assignee (as permitted pursuant to the Credit Agreement) at the Contact Office, in lawful money of the United States and in immediately available funds, on the dates required under that certain $1,500,000,000 Revolving Loan Facility and $125,000,000 Term Loan Credit Agreement dated as of May 2, 2011 (as Modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement,” and with capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein used with the meanings given such terms in the Credit Agreement), by and among the Borrower, the Guarantors party thereto, the Lenders from time to time party thereto and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Administrative Agent for said Lenders (in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”) and as Collateral Agent for the Secured Parties thereunder, the aggregate principal amount of such Lender’s portion of the Series [ ] Term Loan outstanding from time to time.

 

The Borrower agrees to pay interest in like money and funds at the office of the Administrative Agent referred to above on the unpaid principal balance hereof from the date advanced until paid in full on the dates and at the applicable rates set forth in the Credit Agreement.  The holder of this Note is hereby authorized to record the date and amount of its portion of the Series [ ] Term Loan, the date and amount of each payment of principal and interest, and the applicable interest rates and other information with respect thereto, on the schedules annexed to and constituting a part of this Note and any such recordation shall constitute prima  facie evidence of the accuracy of the information so recorded absent manifest error; provided, however, that the failure to make a notation or the inaccuracy of any notation shall not affect in any manner or to any extent the obligations of the Borrower under the Loan Documents.

 

This Note is a “Term Loan Note” within the meaning of, and is entitled to all the benefits of, the Loan Documents.  Reference is hereby made to the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents for, among other things, rights and obligations of payment and prepayment, Events of Default and the rights of acceleration of the maturity hereof upon the occurrence of an Event of Default.

 

This Note shall  be  governed  by, and shall be construed and enforced in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York, including Section 5-1401 of the General Obligations Law, but otherwise without regard to choice of law rules.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Borrower has caused this Note to be duly executed as of the date first written above.

 

 

	
BORROWER:
    
	
 
    
	
 
    	
THE   MACERICH PARTNERSHIP, L.P.,
    
	
 
    	
a   Delaware limited partnership
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
The   Macerich Company,
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
a   Maryland corporation,
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Its   general partner
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
By:
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:
    

 

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EXHIBIT E

 

FORM OF

 

ASSIGNMENT AND ACCEPTANCE AGREEMENT

 

THIS ASSIGNMENT AND ACCEPTANCE AGREEMENT (the “Assignment Agreement”) is made and dated as of                           , 201   between                                          (the “Assignor”) and                                              (the “Assignee”).  The parties hereto agree as follows:

 

1.                                       The Assignor is a Lender under that certain $1,500,000,000 Revolving Loan Facility and $125,000,000 Term Loan Credit Agreement dated as of May 2, 2011 (as Modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”, and with capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein used with the same meanings attributed to them in the Credit Agreement), by and among The Macerich Partnership, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“Borrower”), the Macerich Company, a Maryland corporation (“MAC”), and the other guarantors party thereto, as guarantors, the Lenders from time to time party thereto and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Administrative Agent for said Lenders and as Collateral Agent for the Secured Parties.

 

2.                                       Effective as of as of                                    , 201   (the “Effective Date”), the Assignor hereby sells and assigns to the Assignee, and the Assignee hereby purchases and assumes from the Assignor, a portion of the Credit Exposure held by the Assignor and/or a portion of the Assignor’s Commitment as more fully set forth on Schedule 1 attached hereto.

 

3.                                       By executing this Assignment Agreement in the space provided below, the Administrative Agent and, to the extent MAC’s consent is required under the Credit Agreement, MAC approves the inclusion of the Assignee as a Lender under the Credit Agreement effective as of the Effective Date.

 

4.                                       On and after the Effective Date: (a) the Assignee shall be a party to the Credit Agreement and shall have the rights and obligations of a Lender under the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents with respect to the rights and obligations assigned to the Assignee hereunder arising on and after such Effective Date, and (b) the Assignor shall relinquish its rights and be released from its corresponding obligations under the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents with respect to the rights and obligations assigned to Assignee hereunder arising prior to such Effective Date.

 

5.                                       The Assignee shall be entitled to receive from the Administrative Agent all payments of principal, interest and fees with respect to the interest assigned hereby accruing on and after the Effective Date.  In the event that either the Assignee or the Assignor receives any payment to which the other party hereto is entitled under this Assignment Agreement, then the party receiving such amount shall promptly remit it to the other party hereto.

 

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6.                                       The Assignor represents and warrants that it is the legal and beneficial owner of the interest being assigned by it hereunder and that such interest is free and clear of any adverse claim.  It is understood and agreed that the assignment and assumption hereunder are made without recourse to the Assignor and that the Assignor makes no other representation or warranty of any kind to the Assignee.  Neither the Assignor nor any of its officers, directors, employees, agents or attorneys shall be responsible for: (a) the due execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or collectability of any the Loan Documents or the Obligations, (b) any representation, warranty or statement made in or in connection with any of the Loan Documents, (c) the financial condition or creditworthiness of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries, (d) the performance of or compliance with any of the terms or provisions of any of the Loan Documents, (e) inspecting any of the property, books or records of the Borrower Parties or their respective Subsidiaries, (f) the validity, enforceability, perfection, priority, condition, value or sufficiency of any collateral securing or purporting to secure the Obligations or (g) any mistake, error of judgment, or action taken or omitted to be taken in connection with the Loan Documents.

 

7.                                       The Assignee: (a) confirms that it has received a copy of the Loan Documents, together with copies of any financial statements requested by the Assignee and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Assignment Agreement, (b) agrees that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, the Assignor or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under the Loan Documents, (c) appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such actions as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under the Loan Documents as are delegated to such agent by the terms thereof on the terms set forth therein, including, without limitation, the terms set forth in Article 10 of the Credit Agreement entitled “The Administrative Agent,” (d) agrees that on and after the Effective Date it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations which by the terms of the Loan Documents are required to be performed by it as a Lender[,] [and] (e) agrees that its payment instructions and notice instructions are as set forth in Schedule 2 attached hereto[, and (f) represents and warrants to Assignor and Administrative Agent that it is an Eligible Assignee.](1)

 

8.                                       The Assignee agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Assignor against any and all losses, costs and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees) and liabilities incurred by the Assignor in connection with or arising in any manner from the Assignee’s non-performance of the obligations assumed under this Assignment Agreement.

 

9.                                       The Assignor and the Assignee each hereby agrees to execute and deliver such other instruments, and take such other action, as either party may reasonably request in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Assignment Agreement, including the delivery of any notices or other documents or instruments to Borrower 

 

(1)   Applicable only to the extent Assignee is not an Affiliate of an Existing Lender.

 

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Parties or Administrative Agent, which may be required in connection with the assignment and assumption contemplated hereby.

 

10.                                 This Assignment Agreement embodies the entire agreement and understanding between the parties hereto and supersedes all prior agreements and understandings between the parties hereto relating to the subject matter hereof.  Any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Assignment Agreement shall be in writing and signed by the parties hereto.  No failure or delay by either party hereto in exercising any right, power or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof and any waiver of any breach of the provisions of this Assignment Agreement shall be without prejudice to any rights with respect to any other or further breach thereof.

 

11.                                 This Assignment Agreement shall  be  governed  by, and shall be construed and enforced in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York, including Section 5-1401 of the General Obligations Law, but otherwise without regard to choice of law rules.

 

12.                                 Notices shall be given under this Assignment Agreement in the manner set forth in the Credit Agreement.  For the purpose hereof and of the Loan Documents, the address of the Assignee (until notice of a change is delivered pursuant to the provisions of the Credit Agreement) shall be the address set forth on Schedule 2 attached hereto.

 

13.                                 As provided in Section 11.8(1) of the Credit Agreement, on or before the Effective Date the Assignee shall pay to the Administrative Agent a processing fee in the amount of $3,500.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Assignment Agreement by their duly authorized officers as of the date first above written.

 

	
 
    	
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ACKNOWLEDGED AND AGREED TO THIS      DAY OF                           ,         :

 

	
 
    	
AGENT:
    	
DEUTSCHE   BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, as the Administrative Agent
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
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(2)  To the extent MAC’s consent is required under the Credit Agreement.

 

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ASSIGNED INTEREST(3)

 

(3)  Subject to Paragraph 11.8(1) of the Credit Agreement

 

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PAYMENT AND NOTICE INSTRUCTIONS

 

[To be supplied by the Assignee in format acceptable to the Administrative Agent]

 

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EXHIBIT I

 

FORM OF

 

REVOLVING LOAN NOTE

 

, 201[ ]

 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, The Macerich Partnership, L.P., a limited partnership organized under the laws of the state of Delaware (the “Borrower”), hereby promises to pay to                                              (“Lender”) or its assignee (as permitted pursuant to the Credit Agreement) at the Contact Office, in lawful money of the United States and in immediately available funds, on the dates required under that certain $1,500,000,000 Revolving Loan Facility and $125,000,000 Term Loan Credit Agreement dated as of May 2, 2011 (as Modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement,” and with capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein used with the meanings given such terms in the Credit Agreement), by and among the Borrower, the Guarantors party thereto, the Lenders from time to time party thereto and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Administrative Agent for said Lenders (in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”) and as Collateral Agent for the Secured Parties thereunder, the aggregate principal amount of such Lender’s Revolving Loans outstanding from time to time and the aggregate amount of such Lender’s Applicable Revolving Percentage of all LC Disbursements that have not yet been reimbursed by or on behalf of the Borrower from time to time.

 

The Borrower agrees to pay interest in like money and funds at the office of the Administrative Agent referred to above on the unpaid principal balance hereof from the date advanced until paid in full on the dates and at the applicable rates set forth in the Credit Agreement.  The holder of this Note is hereby authorized to record the date and amount of its Revolving Loans and Revolving Credit Exposure, the date and amount of each payment of principal and interest, and the applicable interest rates and other information with respect thereto, on the schedules annexed to and constituting a part of this Note and any such recordation shall constitute prima  facie evidence of the accuracy of the information so recorded absent manifest error; provided, however, that the failure to make a notation or the inaccuracy of any notation shall not affect in any manner or to any extent the obligations of the Borrower under the Loan Documents.

 

This Note is a “Revolving Loan Note” within the meaning of, and is entitled to all the benefits of, the Loan Documents.  Reference is hereby made to the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents for, among other things, rights and obligations of payment and prepayment, Events of Default and the rights of acceleration of the maturity hereof upon the occurrence of an Event of Default.

 

This Note shall  be  governed  by, and shall be construed and enforced in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York, including Section 5-1401 of the General Obligations Law, but otherwise without regard to choice of law rules.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Borrower has caused this Note to be duly executed as of the date first written above.

 

	
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a   Delaware limited partnership
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
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2Exhibit 10.29

 

THE MACERICH COMPANY

 

STOCK UNIT AWARD AGREEMENT
 2003 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN

 

	
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Vesting   Schedule:
    	
 
    	
33   1/3% of the Stock Units (as defined below) on each of   March     ,           , March     ,           , and   March     ,           . [Three year vesting]
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
Award   Date:
    	
 
    	
March     ,
    

 

THIS AGREEMENT is among THE MACERICH COMPANY, a Maryland corporation (the “Corporation”), THE MACERICH PARTNERSHIP L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the “Operating Partnership”), and the employee named above (the “Participant”), and is delivered under The Macerich Company 2003 Equity Incentive Plan, as it may be amended from time to time, which includes any applicable programs under the Plan (the “Plan”).

 

W  I  T  N  E  S  S  E  T  H

 

WHEREAS, pursuant to the Plan, the Corporation has granted to the Participant with reference to services rendered and to be rendered to the Company, effective as of the Award Date, a stock unit award (the “Stock Unit Award” or “Award”), upon the terms and conditions set forth herein and in the Plan.

 

NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of services rendered and to be rendered by the Participant and the mutual promises made herein and the mutual benefits to be derived therefrom, the parties agree as follows:

 

1.             Defined Terms.  Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning assigned to such terms in the Plan.

 

2.             Grant.  Subject to the terms of this Agreement and the Plan, the Corporation grants to the Participant a Stock Unit Award with respect to an aggregate number of Stock Units (the “Stock Units”) set forth above.  The consideration for the shares issuable with respect to the Stock Units on the terms set forth in this Agreement includes services and the rights hereunder in an amount not less than the minimum lawful consideration under Maryland law.

 

3.             Vesting.  The Award shall vest and become nonforfeitable (subject to Section 6.4 of the Plan), with respect to the portion of the total number of Stock Units comprising the Award (subject to adjustment under Section 6.2 of the Plan) on the dates specified in the Vesting Schedule above, subject to earlier termination or acceleration as provided herein or in the Plan.  

 

(1) Subject to adjustment under Section 6.2 of the Plan and the terms of this Agreement.

 

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The vesting of the Stock Units shall at all times be treated as a series of separate payments (on the respective vesting dates) for purposes of Section 409A of the Code.

 

4.             Continuance of Employment Required.  Except as otherwise provided in Sections 8(c) or 9 or pursuant to the Plan, the Vesting Schedule requires continued service through each applicable vesting date as a condition to the vesting of the applicable installment and rights and benefits under this Agreement.  Partial service, even if substantial, during any vesting period will not entitle the Participant to any proportionate vesting or avoid or mitigate a termination of rights and benefits upon or following a termination of employment or service as herein provided in Section 8 below or under the Plan.

 

5.             Dividend and Voting Rights.

 

(a)           Limitations on Rights Associated with Units.  The Participant shall have no rights as a stockholder of the Corporation, no dividend rights (except as expressly provided in Section 5(b) with respect to Dividend Equivalent Rights) and no voting rights, with respect to the Stock Units and any shares of Common Stock underlying or issuable in respect of such Stock Units until such shares of Common Stock are actually issued to and held of record by the Participant.  No adjustments will be made for dividends or other rights of a holder for which the record date is prior to the date of issuance of the stock certificate.

 

(b)           Dividend Equivalent Rights Distributions.  As of any applicable dividend or distribution payment date, the Participant shall, except as otherwise provided below in this Section 5(b), receive a payment of cash, shares of Common Stock or other property, as determined by the Committee, on the dividend payment date in an amount equal to or, if applicable, of equivalent value as the full amount of the dividend or distribution then made with respect to each share of Common Stock (a “Dividend Equivalent Right”) multiplied by the number of Stock Units in the Participant’s Stock Unit Account as of the applicable dividend record date.  Any cash, shares or other property paid on account of Dividend Equivalent Rights with respect to this Award shall be fully vested and nonforfeitable when paid.  Dividend Equivalent Rights shall be paid only with respect to cash dividends and distributions, and dividends in connection with which holders of shares of Common Stock have the right to elect to receive cash, shares of Common Stock of equivalent value, or a combination thereof (dividends referred to in this sentence are referred to as “Cash or Combination Dividends”).  Cash or Combination Dividends do not include any dividend declared by the Company solely in shares of Common Stock or other non-cash property (a “Stock Dividend”).  Regardless of the form in which the applicable dividend or distribution is paid to holders of Common Stock, the Committee shall have the authority, in its sole discretion, in connection with each dividend to determine whether Dividend Equivalent Rights are satisfied through the payment of cash, the delivery of shares of Common Stock of equivalent value, other property, or any combination thereof, including without limitation such combination as (i) is determined on the basis of elections made by holders of shares of Common Stock (subject to any applicable limitation on the aggregate amount of cash available to be included in the dividend or distribution) or (ii) is applicable to those holders of Common Stock who fail to make a valid election.  The Committee shall also have the authority to determine the measure of equivalent value per share through such valuation methodologies as it deems reasonable, including without limitation a formula based on (I) such combination of cash and shares of Common Stock as reflects the relative percentages of 

 

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the aggregate dividend or distribution paid by the Corporation after giving effect to all valid elections received by the Corporation from holders of Common Stock (subject to any applicable limitation on the aggregate amount of cash available to be included in the dividend or distribution) and (II) the value per share of Common Stock used to calculate the number of shares of Common Stock to be issued on the applicable dividend or distribution payment date on account of such dividend or distribution to holders of Common Stock.

 

6.             Restrictions on Transfer.  Prior to the time they vest, neither the Stock Units comprising the Award nor any other rights of the Participant under this Agreement or the Plan may be transferred, except as expressly provided in Section 1.8 and 4.1 of the Plan.  No other exceptions have been authorized by the Committee.

 

7.             Timing and Manner of Distribution with Respect to Stock Units. Any Stock Unit credited to a Participant’s Stock Unit Account will be distributed in shares of Common Stock as it vests.  The Participant or other person entitled under the Plan to receive the shares shall deliver to the Company any representations or other documents or assurances required pursuant to Section 6.4 of the Plan.  Pursuant to Section 1.7 of the Plan, fractional share interests shall be disregarded, but may be accumulated.  The Committee, however, may determine that cash, securities or other property will be paid or transferred in lieu of fractional share interests.

 

8.             Effect of Termination of Employment.

 

(a)           Forfeiture after Certain Events.  Except as provided in Sections 8(c) and 9 hereof, the Participant’s Stock Units shall be extinguished to the extent such Stock Units have not become vested upon the date the Participant is no longer employed by the Company for any reason, whether with or without cause, voluntarily or involuntarily.  Whether the Participant is no longer employed by the Company shall be determined in a manner that is consistent with the definition of “separation from service” under Section 409A of the Code and the Treasury Regulations thereunder, based on whether the facts and circumstances indicate that the Company and the Participant reasonably anticipate that no further services will be performed after a specified date or that the level of bona fide services the Participant would perform after such date would permanently decrease to no more than twenty percent (20%) of the average level of bona fide services performed over the immediately preceding 36 months (or the full period of service if less than 36 months).  If an entity ceases to be a Subsidiary that is considered to be a single employer or service recipient with the Corporation (as defined in Treasury Regulations Section 1.409A-1(h)(3)), such action shall be deemed to be a termination of employment of all employees of that entity, but the Committee, in its sole and absolute discretion, may make provision in such circumstances for accelerated vesting of some or all of the remaining Stock Units held by such employees, effective immediately upon such event.

 

(b)           Termination of Stock Units.  If any Stock Units are extinguished hereunder, such unvested, extinguished Stock Units, without payment of any consideration by the Company, shall automatically terminate and the related Stock Unit Account shall be cancelled, without any other action by the Participant, or the Participant’s Beneficiary or Personal Representative, as the case may be.

 

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(c)           Qualified Termination Upon or Following Change in Control Event.  [Subject to Section 18,] if the Participant upon or not later than 12 months following a Change in Control Event has a Qualified Termination (as defined in Section 7.1(hh) of the Plan) or terminates his or her employment for Good Reason, then any portion of the Award that has not previously vested shall thereupon vest, subject to the provisions of Sections 6.2(a), 6.2(e), 6.4 and 6.5 of the Plan and Sections 11 and 12 of this Agreement.  As used in this Agreement, the term “Good Reason” means a termination of employment by the Participant for any one or more of the following reasons, to the extent not remedied by the Company within a reasonable period of time of not less than 30 days (the “Cure Period”) after receipt by the Company of written notice from the Participant provided within 90 days of the initial existence of the condition and specifying in reasonable detail such condition, without the Participant’s written consent thereto: (1)  an adverse and significant change in the Participant’s authority, duties or responsibilities with the Company;  (2)  a change in the Participant’s principal office location to a location farther away from the Participant’s home which is more than 30 miles from the Participant’s principal office;  (3)  the taking of any action by the Company to eliminate benefit plans in which the Participant participated or was eligible to participate immediately prior to the Change in Control Event without providing substitutes therefor, to materially reduce benefits thereunder or to substantially diminish the aggregate value of the incentive awards or other fringe benefits; provided that if neither a surviving entity nor its parent following a Change in Control Event is a publicly-held company, the failure to provide stock-based benefits shall not be deemed Good Reason if benefits of comparable value using recognized valuation methodology are substituted therefor; and provided further that a reduction or elimination in the aggregate of not more than 10% in aggregate benefits in connection with across the board reductions or modifications affecting persons similarly situated of comparable rank in the Company or a combined organization shall not constitute Good Reason;  (4)  any one or more reductions in the Participant’s Base Salary that, individually or in the aggregate, exceed 10% of the Participant’s Base Salary; or (5)  any material breach by the Company of any written employment or management continuity agreement with the Participant.  For purposes of the definition of “Good Reason,” the term “Base Salary” means the annual base rate of compensation payable as salary to the Participant by the Company as of the Participant’s date of termination, before deductions or voluntary deferrals authorized by the Participant or required by law to be withheld from the Participant by the Company, and salary excludes all other extra pay such as overtime, pensions, severance payments, bonuses, stock incentives, living or other allowances, and other benefits and perquisites.  In the event that the Company fails to remedy a condition constituting Good Reason during the applicable Cure Period, the Participant’s termination of employment for Good Reason must occur, if at all, within two years following the occurrence of such condition in order for such termination as a result of such condition to constitute a termination for Good Reason.

 

(c)           [For Participants who will be over age 55 with 10 or more years of service on or before December 31, [      ], this alternate Section 8(c) will apply in place of the above Section 8(c).]  Change in Control Event.  [Subject to Section 18,] immediately upon a Change in Control Event, any portion of the Award that has not previously vested shall thereupon vest, subject to the provisions of Sections 6.2(a), 6.2(e), 6.4 and 6.5 of the Plan and Sections 11 and 12 of this Agreement.

 

(d)           Delayed Payment.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, solely to the extent that a delay in payment is required in order to avoid the imposition of any tax under Section 

 

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409A of the Code, if a payment obligation under this Agreement arises on account of the Participant’s “separation from service” (within the meaning of Section 409A of the Code) while the Participant is a “specified employee” (as determined for purposes of Section 409A(a)(2)(B) of the Code in good faith by the compensation committee of the Board), then payment of any amount or benefit provided under this Agreement that is considered to be non-qualified deferred compensation for purposes of Section 409A of the Code and that is scheduled to be paid within six (6) months after such separation from service shall be paid without interest on the first business day after the date that is six months following the Participant’s separation from service.

 

9.                                      Effect of Total Disability, Death or Retirement.  If the Participant incurs a Total Disability that is also a “disability” as defined in Section 409A of the Code and Treasury Regulations thereunder or dies, in either case while employed by the Company, then any portion of his or her Award that has not previously vested shall thereupon vest, subject to the provisions of Sections 6.4 and 6.5 of the Plan.  If the Participant’s employment with the Company terminates as a result of his or her Retirement, the Committee may, on a case-by-case basis and in its sole and absolute discretion, provide for partial or complete vesting immediately upon Retirement of that portion of his or her Award that has not previously vested.  [For Participants who will be over age 55 with 10 or more years of service on or before December 31,       , the following bracketed provision is to be included in place of the preceding sentence.] [If the Participant’s employment with the Company terminates as a result of his or her Retirement on or after attaining age 55 with 10 or more years of service with the Company, then any portion of his or her Award that has not then vested (including as a result of Committee action pursuant to the immediately preceding sentence) shall continue to vest in accordance with the Vesting Schedule above, subject to the provisions of Sections 6.4 and 6.5 of the Plan, provided that such continued vesting shall immediately cease and any remaining unvested Stock Units shall be extinguished in the event that the Participant is employed, directly or indirectly, by a competitor of the Company, as determined by the Company in its sole and absolute discretion].

 

10.          Adjustments Upon Specified Events.  Upon the occurrence of certain events relating to the Corporation’s stock contemplated by Section 6.2 of the Plan, the Committee shall make adjustments as it deems appropriate in the number and kind of securities or other consideration that may become payable with respect to the Award; provided, however, that the Committee shall not make any such adjustment to the Award with respect to any Cash or Combination Dividend, but it shall make an adjustment to the Award pursuant to Section 6.2 of the Plan with respect to any Stock Dividend.  If any adjustment shall be made under Section 6.2 of the Plan or a Change in Control Event shall occur and the Stock Unit Award is not fully vested upon such Event or prior thereto, the amount payable in respect of the Stock Unit Award may be made payable in the securities or other consideration (the “Restricted Property”) payable in respect of the Common Stock.  Such Restricted Property shall become payable at such times and in such proportion as the Stock Unit Award vests.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent that the Restricted Property includes any cash, the commitment hereunder shall become an unsecured promise to pay an amount equal to such cash (with earnings attributable thereto as if such amount had been invested, pursuant to policies established by the Committee, in interest bearing, FDIC insured (subject to applicable insurance limits) deposits of a depository institution selected by the Committee) at such times and in such proportions as the Stock Unit Award vests.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Stock Unit Award and any Common Stock payable in respect of the Stock Unit Award shall continue to be subject to such proportionate and equitable 

 

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adjustments (if any) under Section 6.2 of the Plan consistent with the effect of such event on stockholders generally, as the Committee determines to be necessary or appropriate, in the number, kind and/or character of shares of Common Stock or other securities, property and/or rights payable in respect of Stock Units and Stock Unit Accounts credited under the Plan.  All rights of the Participant hereunder are subject to those adjustments.

 

11.          Possible Early Termination of Award.  As permitted by Section 6.2(b) of the Plan, and without limiting the authority of the Committee under other provisions of Section 6.2 of the Plan or Section 8 of this Agreement, the Committee retains the right to terminate the Award, to the extent it has not vested, upon a dissolution of the Corporation or a reorganization event or transaction which the Corporation does not survive (or does not survive as a public company in respect of its outstanding common stock).  This Section 11 is not intended to prevent future vesting of the Award if it (or a substituted award) remains outstanding following a Change in Control Event.

 

12.          Limitations on Acceleration and Reduction in Benefits in Event of Tax Limitations.

 

(a)           Limitation on Acceleration.  Notwithstanding anything contained herein [(except as otherwise provided in Section 18 hereof)] or in the Plan or any other agreement to the contrary, in no event shall the vesting of any Stock Unit be accelerated pursuant to Section 6.2 of the Plan or Section 8(c) hereof to the extent that the Company would be denied a federal income tax deduction for such vesting or the distribution of shares of Common Stock in respect of the Award because of Section 280G of the Code and, in such circumstances, the Stock Units not subject to acceleration will continue to vest in accordance with and subject to the other provisions hereof.

 

(b)           Reduction in Benefits.  If the Participant would be entitled to benefits, payments or coverage hereunder and under any other plan, program or agreement which would constitute “parachute payments,” then notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or of any such other plan, program or agreement, such “parachute payments” shall be reduced or modified in such manner, if any, as may be specified in [the MCA referenced in Section 18 hereof, in which case the provisions of Section 12(a) hereof shall not apply, and, to the extent permitted by the MCA, thereafter, as specified in] this Agreement prior to any reduction or modification being made under any other then-existing agreement between the Company and the Participant (other than any Stock Unit Award Agreement under the Plan).  If any “parachute payment” reduction provisions become applicable under this Agreement and one or more other Stock Unit Award Agreements under the Plan, then the “parachute payments” under this Agreement and such other Stock Unit Award Agreement(s) shall be reduced or modified in reverse chronological order of the scheduled vesting dates of the “parachute payments” under all such agreements (the Stock Units with the latest scheduled vesting date reduced or modified first) so that the Company is not denied federal income tax deductions for any “parachute payments” because of Section 280G of the Code.

 

(c)           Determination of Limitations.  The term “parachute payments” shall have the meaning set forth in and be determined in accordance with Section 280G of the Code and regulations issued thereunder.  All determinations required by this Section 12, including 

 

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without limitation the determination of whether any benefit, payment or coverage would constitute a parachute payment, the calculation of the value of any parachute payment and the determination of the extent to which any parachute payment would be nondeductible for federal income tax purposes because of Section 280G of the Code, shall be made by an independent accounting firm (other than the Corporation’s outside auditing firm) having nationally recognized expertise in such matters selected by the Committee.  Any such determination by such accounting firm shall be binding on the Corporation, its Subsidiaries and the Participant.

 

13.          Tax Withholding.  Upon payment of Dividend Equivalent Rights and/or the distribution of shares of Common Stock in respect of a Participant’s Stock Unit Account, the entity within the Company last employing the Participant shall have the right at its option to (a) require the Participant (or the Participant’s Personal Representative or Beneficiary, as the case may be) to pay or provide for payment in cash of the amount of any taxes which the Company may be required to withhold with respect to such payment or distribution or (b) deduct from any amount or property payable to the Participant the amount of any taxes which the Company may be required to withhold with respect to such payment or distribution.  In any case where a tax is required to be withheld in connection with the delivery of shares of Common Stock under this Agreement, the Committee may permit the Participant to elect, pursuant to such rules and subject to such conditions as the Committee may establish, to have the Company reduce the number of shares to be delivered by (or otherwise reacquire) the appropriate number of shares valued at their then Fair Market Value, to satisfy such withholding obligation.

 

14.          Notices.  Any notice to be given under the terms of this Agreement shall be in writing and addressed to the Corporation at its principal office located at 401 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 700, Santa Monica, California 90401, to the attention of the Corporate Secretary and to the Participant at the address given beneath the Participant’s signature hereto, or at such other address as either party may hereafter designate in writing to the other.

 

15.          Plan.  The Award and all rights of the Participant with respect thereto are subject to, and the Participant agrees to be bound by, all of the terms and conditions of the provisions of the Plan, incorporated herein by reference, to the extent such provisions are applicable to Awards granted to Eligible Persons.  The Participant acknowledges receipt of a copy of the Plan which is made a part hereof by this reference, and agrees to be bound by the terms thereof.  Unless otherwise expressly provided in other Sections of this Agreement, provisions of the Plan that confer discretionary authority on the Committee do not (and shall not be deemed to) create any rights in the Participant unless such rights are otherwise in the sole discretion of the Committee specifically so conferred by appropriate action of the Committee under the Plan after the date hereof.

 

16.          No Service Commitment by Company.  Nothing contained in this Agreement or the Plan constitutes an employment or service commitment by the Company, affects the Participant’s status as an employee at will who is subject to termination without cause, confers upon the Participant any right to remain employed by the Company, interferes in any way with the right of the Company at any time to terminate such employment, or affects the right of the Company to increase or decrease the Participant’s other compensation or benefits.  Nothing in this Section, however, is intended to adversely affect any independent contractual right of the Participant without his or her consent thereto.  Employment for any period of time (including a 

 

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substantial period of time) after the Award Date will not entitle the Participant to any proportionate vesting or avoid or mitigate a termination of rights and benefits upon or following a termination of employment as provided in Section 3 or 8 above if the express conditions to vesting set forth in such Sections have not been satisfied.

 

17.          Limitation on Participant’s Rights.  Participation in this Plan  confers no  rights or interests other than as herein provided.  This Agreement creates only a contractual obligation on the part of the Company as to amounts payable and shall not be construed as creating a trust.  Neither the Plan nor any underlying program, in and of itself, has any assets.  The Participant shall have only the rights of a general unsecured creditor of the Company (or applicable Subsidiary) with respect to amounts credited and benefits payable in cash, if any, on Stock Unit Account(s), and rights no greater than the right to receive the Common Stock (or equivalent value) as a general unsecured creditor with respect to Stock Units, as and when payable thereunder.

 

[18.       Other Agreements.  If any provision of this Agreement is inconsistent with any provision of the Management Continuity Agreement between the Corporation and Participant and as it may be amended from time-to-time (the “MCA”), the provisions of the MCA shall control and shall be deemed incorporated herein by reference.]  [This provision and the language in brackets regarding this Section 18 in Sections 8(c), 12(a) and 12(b) are to be included only in agreements with Participants subject to the MCA.]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.  By the Participant’s execution of this Agreement, the Participant agrees to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and of the Plan.

 

	
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Senior   Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Secretary
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
THE   MACERICH PARTNERSHIP, L.P.
    	
 
    
	
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Richard   A. Bayer
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Senior   Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Secretary
    
					

 

 

	
 
    	
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