Document:

Exhibit 10.21

 

CREDIT AGREEMENT

dated as of

November 29, 2016

among

PAR TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION,

as Borrower,

The Loan Parties Party Hereto,

and

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,

as Lender

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

	 	 	 	
Page

	 	 	 	 
	 	
ARTICLE I.  Definitions

	
1

	 	
SECTION 1.01.

	
Defined Terms

	
1

	 	
SECTION 1.02.

	
Classification of Loans and Borrowings.

	
23

	 	
SECTION 1.03.

	
Terms Generally.

	
23

	 	
SECTION 1.04.

	
Accounting Terms; GAAP

	
24

	 	
SECTION 1.05.

	
Pro Forma Adjustments for Acquisitions and Dispositions

	
24

	 	
ARTICLE II.  The Credits

	
24

	 	
SECTION 2.01.

	
Commitments

	
24

	 	
SECTION 2.02.

	
Loans and Borrowings

	
24

	 	
SECTION 2.03.

	
Requests for Borrowings

	
25

	 	
SECTION 2.04.

	
Letters of Credit

	
26

	 	
SECTION 2.05.

	
Funding of Borrowings.

	
29

	 	
SECTION 2.06.

	
Interest Elections.

	
29

	 	
SECTION 2.07.

	
Termination and Reduction of Commitment

	
30

	 	
SECTION 2.08.

	
Repayment and Amortization of Loans; Evidence of Debt.

	
30

	 	
SECTION 2.09.

	
Prepayment of Loans

	
31

	 	
SECTION 2.10.

	
Fees.

	
32

	 	
SECTION 2.11.

	
Interest

	
32

	 	
SECTION 2.12.

	
Alternate Rate of Interest.

	
33

	 	
SECTION 2.13.

	
Increased Costs.

	
33

	 	
SECTION 2.14.

	
Break Funding Payments.

	
34

	 	
SECTION 2.15.

	
Taxes

	
35

	 	
SECTION 2.16.

	
Payments Generally; Allocation of Proceeds

	
36

	 	
SECTION 2.17.

	
Indemnity for Returned Payments

	
37

	 	
ARTICLE III.  Representations and Warranties

	
37

	 	
SECTION 3.01.

	
Organization; Powers

	
37

	 	
SECTION 3.02.

	
Authorization; Enforceability

	
37

	 	
SECTION 3.03.

	
Governmental Approvals; No Conflicts.

	
38

	 	
SECTION 3.04.

	
Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change

	
38

	 	
SECTION 3.05.

	
Properties

	
38

	 	
SECTION 3.06.

	
Litigation and Environmental Matters.

	
38

	 	
SECTION 3.07.

	
Compliance with Laws and Agreements; No Default.

	
39

	 	
SECTION 3.08.

	
Investment Company Status.

	
39

	 	
SECTION 3.09.

	
Taxes.

	
39

	 	
SECTION 3.10.

	
ERISA

	
39

	 	
SECTION 3.11.

	
Disclosure.

	
39

	 	
SECTION 3.12.

	
Material Agreements

	
40

	 	
SECTION 3.13.

	
Solvency.

	
40

	 	
SECTION 3.14.

	
Insurance.

	
40

	 	
SECTION 3.15.

	
Capitalization and Subsidiaries.

	
40

	 	
SECTION 3.16.

	
Security Interest in Collateral

	
40

	 	
SECTION 3.17.

	
Employment Matters

	
41

 

i

	 	
SECTION 3.18.

	
Federal Reserve Regulations

	
41

	 	
SECTION 3.19.

	
Use of Proceeds

	
41

	 	
SECTION 3.20.

	
No Burdensome Restrictions

	
41

	 	
SECTION 3.21.

	
Anti-Corruption Laws and Sanctions

	
41

	 	
SECTION 3.22.

	
Affiliate Transactions.

	
41

	 	
SECTION 3.23.

	
Common Enterprise.

	
41

	 	
ARTICLE IV.  Conditions

	
42

	 	
SECTION 4.01.

	
Effective Date

	
42

	 	
SECTION 4.02.

	
Each Credit Event.

	
44

	 	
ARTICLE V.  Affirmative Covenants

	
44

	 	
SECTION 5.01.

	
Financial Statements; Borrowing Base and Other Information

	
44

	 	
SECTION 5.02.

	
Notices of Material Events.

	
47

	 	
SECTION 5.03.

	
Existence; Conduct of Business

	
47

	 	
SECTION 5.04.

	
Payment of Obligations.

	
48

	 	
SECTION 5.05.

	
Maintenance of Properties

	
48

	 	
SECTION 5.06.

	
Books and Records; Inspection Rights

	
48

	 	
SECTION 5.07.

	
Compliance with Laws and Material Contractual Obligations.

	
48

	 	
SECTION 5.08.

	
Use of Proceeds and Letters of Credit.

	
48

	 	
SECTION 5.09.

	
Accuracy of Information

	
49

	 	
SECTION 5.10.

	
Insurance

	
49

	 	
SECTION 5.11.

	
Casualty and Condemnation

	
49

	 	
SECTION 5.12.

	
Depository Banks

	
49

	 	
SECTION 5.13.

	
Additional Collateral; Further Assurances

	
49

	 	
SECTION 5.14.

	
Additional Subsidiaries

	
50

	 	
ARTICLE VI.  Negative Covenants

	
50

	 	
SECTION 6.01.

	
Indebtedness.

	
50

	 	
SECTION 6.02.

	
Liens.

	
52

	 	
SECTION 6.03.

	
Fundamental Changes.

	
53

	 	
SECTION 6.04.

	
Investments, Loans, Advances, Guarantees and Acquisitions

	
53

	 	
SECTION 6.05.

	
Asset Sales

	
55

	 	
SECTION 6.06.

	
Sale and Leaseback Transactions

	
55

	 	
SECTION 6.07.

	
Swap Agreements

	
56

	 	
SECTION 6.08.

	
Restricted Payments; Certain Payments of Indebtedness.

	
56

	 	
SECTION 6.09.

	
Transactions with Affiliates.

	
56

	 	
SECTION 6.10.

	
Restrictive Agreements.

	
57

	 	
SECTION 6.11.

	
Amendment of Material Documents

	
57

	 	
SECTION 6.12.

	
Financial Covenants

	
57

	 	
ARTICLE VII.  Events of Default

	
58

	 	
ARTICLE VIII.  Miscellaneous

	
60

	 	
SECTION 8.01.

	
Notices

	
60

	 	
SECTION 8.02.

	
Waivers; Amendments.

	
62

	 	
SECTION 8.03.

	
Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver.

	
62

	 	
SECTION 8.04.

	
Successors and Assigns

	
64

	 	
SECTION 8.05.

	
Survival

	
65

	 	
SECTION 8.06.

	
Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness; Electronic Execution.

	
65

	 	
SECTION 8.07.

	
Severability

	
66

	 	
SECTION 8.08.

	
Right of Setoff.

	
66

	 	
SECTION 8.09.

	
Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process.

	
66

	 	
SECTION 8.10.

	
WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL.

	
67

 

ii

	 	
SECTION 8.11.

	
Headings.

	
67

	 	
SECTION 8.12.

	
Confidentiality.

	
67

	 	
SECTION 8.13.

	
Nonreliance; Violation of Law

	
68

	 	
SECTION 8.14.

	
USA PATRIOT Act

	
68

	 	
SECTION 8.15.

	
Disclosure

	
68

	 	
SECTION 8.16.

	
Interest Rate Limitation

	
68

	 	
SECTION 8.17.

	
Marketing Consent

	
68

	 	
ARTICLE IX.  Loan Guaranty

	
68

	 	
SECTION 9.01.

	
Guaranty.

	
68

	 	
SECTION 9.02.

	
Guaranty of Payment

	
69

	 	
SECTION 9.03.

	
No Discharge or Diminishment of Loan Guaranty

	
69

	 	
SECTION 9.04.

	
Defenses Waived.

	
70

	 	
SECTION 9.05.

	
Rights of Subrogation

	
70

	 	
SECTION 9.06.

	
Reinstatement; Stay of Acceleration.

	
70

	 	
SECTION 9.07.

	
Information

	
70

	 	
SECTION 9.08.

	
Termination

	
70

	 	
SECTION 9.09.

	
Taxes.

	
71

	 	
SECTION 9.10.

	
Maximum Liability

	
71

	 	
SECTION 9.11.

	
Contribution

	
71

	 	
SECTION 9.12.

	
Liability Cumulative

	
72

	 	
SECTION 9.13.

	
Keepwell

	
72

 

	
SCHEDULES:

	 
	
Schedule 3.05 – Properties, etc.

	
Schedule 3.06 – Disclosed Matters

	
Schedule 3.14 – Insurance

	
Schedule 3.15 – Capitalization and Subsidiaries

	
Schedule 3.22 – Affiliate Transactions

	
Schedule 6.01 – Existing Indebtedness

	
Schedule 6.02 – Existing Liens

	
Schedule 6.04 – Existing Investments

	
Schedule 6.10 – Existing Restrictions

	 
	
EXHIBITS:

	 
	
Exhibit A - Opinion of Counsel for the Loan Parties

	
Exhibit B - Form of Borrowing Request/Funding Notice

	
Exhibit C - Borrowing Base Certificate

	
Exhibit D - Compliance Certificate

	
Exhibit E - Joinder Agreement

 

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CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of November 29, 2016 (as it may be amended or modified from time to time, this “Agreement”), among PAR TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, as Borrower, the Loan Parties party hereto, and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as Lender.

The parties hereto agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

Definitions

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

“Account” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Security Agreement.

“Account Debtor” means any Person obligated on an Account.

“Acquisition” means any transaction, or any series of related transactions, consummated on or after the Effective Date, by which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (a) acquires any going business or all or substantially all of the assets of any Person, whether through purchase of assets, merger or otherwise, (b) directly or indirectly acquires (in one transaction or as the most recent transaction in a series of transactions) at least a majority (in number of votes) of the Equity Interests of a Person which has ordinary voting power for the election of directors or other similar management personnel of a Person (other than Equity Interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency), or (c) directly or indirectly acquires (in one transaction or as the most recent in a series of transactions) a majority of the outstanding Equity Interests of a Person.

“Adjusted LIBO Rate” means, with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing for any Interest Period or for any CBFR Borrowing, an interest rate per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/16 of 1%) equal to (a) the LIBO Rate for such Interest Period multiplied by (b) the Statutory Reserve Rate.

“Adjusted One Month LIBOR Rate” means, for any day, an interest rate per annum equal to the sum of (i) 2.50% per annum plus (ii) the Adjusted LIBO Rate for a one-month interest period on such day (or if such day is not a Business Day, the immediately preceding Business Day); provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, the Adjusted LIBO Rate for any day shall be based on the LIBO Screen Rate at approximately 11:00 a.m. London time on such day.

“Affiliate” means, with respect to a specified Person, another Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with the specified Person.

“Anti-Corruption Laws” means all laws, rules, and regulations of any jurisdiction applicable to the Borrower or any of its Affiliates from time to time concerning or relating to bribery or corruption.

“Applicable Rate” means, for any day, with respect to any Loan, or with respect to the commitment fees payable hereunder, as the case may be, the applicable rate per annum set forth below under the caption “CBFR Spread”, “Eurodollar Spread” or “Commitment Fee Rate”, as the case may be, based upon the Borrower’s Consolidated Indebtedness Ratio as of the most recent determination date, provided that until the delivery to the Lender, pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or Section 5.01(b), as applicable, of the Borrower’s consolidated financial information for the Borrower’s first fiscal quarter ending after the Effective Date, the “Applicable Rate” shall be based upon the Consolidated Indebtedness Ratio determined from the most recent quarterly consolidated financial statements delivered to the Lender prior to the Effective Date:

 

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Consolidated 

Indebtedness Ratio

 

	
CBFR Spread

	
Eurodollar

Spread

	
Commitment Fee Rate

	
Category 1

≤ 1.0 to 1.0

	
0%

	
1.70%

	
0.30%

	
Category 2

>1.0 to 1.0  but

≤ 2.0 to 1.0

	
0%

	
2.20%

	
0.35%

	
Category 3

> 2 to 1.0

	
0.25%

	
2.70%

	
0.65%

For purposes of the foregoing, (i) the Applicable Rate shall be determined as of the end of each fiscal quarter of the Borrower based upon the Borrower’s annual or quarterly consolidated financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or Section 5.01(b), as applicable, and (ii) each change in the Applicable Rate resulting from a change in the Consolidated Indebtedness Ratio shall be effective during the period commencing on and including the date of delivery to the Lender of such consolidated financial statements indicating such change and ending on the date immediately preceding the effective date of the next such change, provided that the Consolidated Indebtedness Ratio shall be deemed to be in Category 3 (A) at any time that an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or (B) at the option of the Lender if the Borrower fails to deliver the annual or quarterly consolidated financial statements required to be delivered by it pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or Section 5.01(b), during the period from the expiration of the time for delivery thereof until such consolidated financial statements are delivered.

If at any time the Lender reasonably determines that the financial statements upon which the Applicable Rate was determined were incorrect (whether based on a restatement, fraud or otherwise), the Borrower shall be required to retroactively pay any additional amount that the Borrower would have been required to pay if such financial statements had been accurate at the time they were delivered.

“Approved Fund” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.04(b).

“Availability” means, at any time, an amount equal to (a) the lesser of the Commitment and the Borrowing Base minus (b) the Exposure.

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

“Banking Services” means each and any of the following bank services provided to any Loan Party or its Subsidiaries by the Lender or any of its Affiliates: (a) credit cards for commercial customers (including, without limitation, “commercial credit cards” and purchasing cards), (b) stored value cards, (c) merchant processing services, and (d) treasury management services (including, without limitation, controlled disbursement, automated clearinghouse transactions, return items, overdrafts and interstate depository network services).

“Banking Services Obligations” means any and all obligations of the Loan Parties or their Subsidiaries, whether absolute or contingent and howsoever and whensoever created, arising, evidenced or acquired (including all renewals, extensions and modifications thereof and substitutions therefor) in connection with Banking Services.

 

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

“Borrower” means PAR Technology Corporation, a Delaware corporation.

“Borrowing” means Loans of the same Type, made, converted or continued on the same date and, in the case of Eurodollar Loans, as to which a single Interest Period is in effect.

“Borrowing Base” means, at any time, the sum of (a) 80% of the Borrower’s Eligible Accounts at such time, plus (b) 50% of the Borrower’s Eligible Inventory consisting of raw materials, valued at the lower of cost or market value, determined on a first-in-first-out basis, at such time, plus (c) 35% of Borrower’s Eligible Inventory consisting of finished goods, valued at the lower of cost or market value, determined on a first-in-first-out basis, at such time.  The maximum amount of Eligible Inventory which may be included as part of the Borrowing Base shall not exceed 50% of the total Borrowing Base.  The Lender may, in its Permitted Discretion, reduce the advance rates set forth above, adjust Reserves (including the Equipment Repurchase Reserve) or reduce one or more of the other elements used in computing the Borrowing Base.

“Borrowing Base Certificate” means a certificate, signed and certified as accurate and complete by a Financial Officer of the Borrower, in substantially the form of Exhibit C attached hereto.

“Borrowing Request” means a request by the Borrower for a Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.03.

“Burdensome Restrictions” means any consensual encumbrance or restriction of the type described in clause (a) or (b) of Section 6.10.

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

“Capital Expenditures” means, without duplication, any expenditure or commitment to expend money for any purchase or other acquisition of any asset which would be classified as a fixed or capital asset on a consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries prepared in accordance with GAAP.

“Capital Lease Obligations” of any Person means the obligations of such Person to pay rent or other amounts under any lease of (or other arrangement conveying the right to use) real or personal property, or a combination thereof, which obligations are required to be classified and accounted for as capital leases on a balance sheet of such Person under GAAP, and the amount of such obligations shall be the capitalized amount thereof determined in accordance with GAAP.

“CB Floating Rate” means the Prime Rate; provided that the CB Floating Rate shall never be less than the Adjusted One Month LIBOR Rate on such day (or if such day is not a Business Day, the immediately preceding Business Day).  Any change in the CB Floating Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate or the Adjusted One Month LIBOR Rate shall be effective from and including the effective date of such change in the Prime Rate or the Adjusted One Month LIBOR Rate, respectively.

“CBFR”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, bear interest at a rate determined by reference to the CB Floating Rate.

 

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“Change in Control” means (a) the acquisition of ownership, directly or indirectly, beneficially or of record, by any Person or group (within the meaning of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules of the SEC thereunder as in effect on the date hereof) of Equity Interests representing more than 20% of the aggregate ordinary voting power represented by the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of the Borrower; (b) occupation of a majority of the seats (other than vacant seats) on the board of directors of the Borrower by Persons who were neither (i) directors of the Borrower on the date of this Agreement nor (ii) nominated or appointed by the board of  directors of the Borrower; or (c) the acquisition of direct or indirect Control of the Borrower by any Person or group other than the executive management of the Borrower; provided, that, no Change of Control shall be deemed to have occurred if Dr. John W. Sammon transfers all or a portion of the Equity Interests of the Company held directly or indirectly by him to (i) an immediate family member or (ii) a trust for the benefit of Dr. John W. Sammon or an immediate family member and, prior to such transfer the Lender shall have received all documentation and other information required by bank regulatory authorities under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including USA PATRIOT Act, and a properly completed and signed IRS Form W-8 or W-9, as applicable.

“Change in Law” means the occurrence after the date of this Agreement of any of the following: (a) the adoption of or taking effect of any law, rule, regulation or treaty, (b) any change in any law, rule, regulation or treaty or in the administration, interpretation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority or (c) compliance by the Lender (or, for purposes of Section 2.13(b), by any lending office of the Lender or by the Lender’s holding company, if any) with any request, guideline, requirement or directive (whether or not having the force of law) of any Governmental Authority made or issued after the date of this Agreement; provided that, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (x) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines, requirements or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith or in the implementation thereof, and (y) all requests, rules, guidelines, requirements or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the U.S. or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case be deemed to be a “Change in Law”, regardless of the date enacted, adopted, issued or implemented.

“Charges” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.16.

“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.

“Collateral” means any and all property owned, leased or operated by a Person covered by the Collateral Documents and any and all other property of any Loan Party, now existing or hereafter acquired, that may at any time be or become subject to a security interest or Lien in favor of the Lender, on behalf of the Secured Parties, to secure the Secured Obligations; provided, however, that in no event shall Collateral include (i) the Equity Interests of any Foreign Subsidiary to the extent not required to be pledged to secure the Obligations pursuant to Section 5.13(b) or (ii) any property owned, leased or operated by any Foreign Subsidiary.

“Collateral Access Agreement” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Security Agreement.

“Collection Account” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Security Agreement.

“Collateral Documents” means, collectively, the Security Agreement and any other agreements, instruments and documents executed in connection with this Agreement that are intended to create, perfect or evidence Liens to secure the Secured Obligations, including, without limitation, all other security agreements, pledge agreements, mortgages, deeds of trust, loan agreements, notes, guarantees, subordination agreements, pledges, powers of attorney, consents, assignments, contracts, fee letters, notices, leases, financing statements and all other written matter whether theretofore, now or hereafter executed by any Loan Party and delivered to the Lender.

 

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“Commercial LC Exposure” means, at any time, the sum of (a) the aggregate undrawn amount of all outstanding commercial Letters of Credit plus (b) the aggregate amount of all LC Disbursements relating to commercial Letters of Credit that have not yet been reimbursed by or on behalf of the Borrower.

“Commitment” means the commitment of the Lender to make Loans and issue Letters of Credit hereunder, as such commitment may be reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.07.  The initial amount of the Lender’s Commitment is $15,000,000.

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

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

“Consolidated EBITDA” means, for any period, Net Income for such period plus (a) without duplication and to the extent deducted in determining Net Income, the sum of (i) Interest Expense, (ii) income tax expense, (iii) all amounts attributable to depreciation and amortization expense, (iv) any extraordinary non-cash charges, (v) any non-cash equity-based compensation, (vi) loss from discontinued operations arising from the 2015 sale of Par Springer-Miller Systems, Inc., (vii) investment write-off of $776,000 in the fourth quarter of 2015, net of any insurance proceeds received as  result of such investment loss, and (viii) legal and investigation expenses of $766,000 incurred in the first quarter of 2016 and $304,000 incurred in the second quarter of 2016, minus (b) without duplication and to the extent included in Net Income, (i) any amounts attributable to the reappraisal or write-up of assets, (ii) any extraordinary gains and any non-cash items of income, all calculated for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

“Consolidated Indebtedness” means, at any date, the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis at such date in accordance with GAAP.

“Consolidated Indebtedness Ratio” means, on any date, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Indebtedness on such date to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters ended on such date (or, if such date is not the last day of a fiscal quarter, ended on the last day of the fiscal quarter most recently ended prior to such date).

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

“Default” means any event or condition which constitutes an Event of Default or which upon notice, lapse of time or both would, unless cured or waived, become an Event of Default.

  

“Disclosed Matters” means the actions, suits, proceedings and environmental matters disclosed in Schedule 3.06.

“Document” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Security Agreement.

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

 

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“Domestic Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is organized under the laws of any state of the United States or the District of Columbia (other than any such Subsidiary of a Foreign Subsidiary).

“ECP” means an “eligible contract participant” as defined in Section 1(a)(18) of the Commodity Exchange Act or any regulations promulgated thereunder and the applicable rules issued by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and/or the SEC.

“Effective Date” means the date on which the conditions specified in Section 4.01 are satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 8.02).

“Electronic Signature” means an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to, or associated with, a contract or other record and adopted by a Person with the intent to sign, authenticate or accept such contract or record.

 

“Electronic System” means any electronic system, including e-mail, e-fax, web portal access for the Borrower, Intralinks®, ClearPar®, Debt Domain, Syndtrak and any other Internet or extranet-based site, whether such electronic system is owned, operated or hosted by the Lender and any of its respective Related Parties or any other Person, providing for access to data protected by passcodes or other security system.

 

“Eligible Accounts” means, at any time, the Accounts of the Borrower which the Lender determines in its Permitted Discretion are eligible as the basis for the extension of Loans and the issuance of Letters of Credit.  Without limiting the Lender’s discretion provided herein, Eligible Accounts shall not include any Account:

(a)           which is not subject to a first priority perfected security interest in favor of the Lender;

(b)           which is subject to any Lien other than (i) a Lien in favor of the Lender and (ii) a Permitted Encumbrance which does not have priority over the Lien in favor of the Lender;

(c)           (i) with respect to which is unpaid more than 90 days after the date of the original invoice therefor, (ii) which is unpaid more than 60 days after the original due date, or (iii) which has been written off the books of the Borrower or otherwise designated as uncollectible; provided that Accounts unpaid more than 90 days but less than 120 days from the date of original invoice which are not more than 60 days past due may be included in Eligible Accounts in an amount not exceeding $1,000,000 in the aggregate;

(d)          which is owing by an Account Debtor for which more than 50% of the Accounts owing from such Account Debtor and its Affiliates are ineligible pursuant to clause (c) above;

(e)           which is owing by an Account Debtor (other than McDonald’s Corporation or a consolidating subsidiary thereof) to the extent the aggregate amount of Accounts owing from such Account Debtor and its Affiliates to the Borrower exceeds 20% of the aggregate amount of Eligible Accounts;

(f)            with respect to which any covenant, representation, or warranty contained in this Agreement or in the Security Agreement has been breached or is not true;

(g)           which (i) does not arise from the sale of goods or performance of services in the ordinary course of business, (ii) is not evidenced by an invoice or other documentation satisfactory to the Lender which has been sent to the Account Debtor, (iii) represents a progress billing, (iv) is contingent upon the Borrower’s completion of any further performance, (v) represents a sale on a bill-and-hold, guaranteed sale, sale-and-return, sale on approval, consignment, cash-on-delivery or any other repurchase or return basis or (vi) relates to payments of interest;

 

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(h)           for which the goods giving rise to such Account have not been shipped to the Account Debtor or for which the services giving rise to such Account have not been performed by the Borrower or if such Account was invoiced more than once;

(i)            with respect to which any check or other instrument of payment has been returned uncollected for any reason;

(j)            which is owed by an Account Debtor which has (i) applied for, suffered, or consented to the appointment of any receiver, custodian, trustee, or liquidator of its assets, (ii) had possession of all or a material part of its property taken by any receiver, custodian, trustee or liquidator, (iii) filed, or had filed against it, any request or petition for liquidation, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment of debts, adjudication as bankrupt, winding-up, or voluntary or involuntary case under any state or federal bankruptcy laws, (iv) admitted in writing its inability, or is generally unable to, pay its debts as they become due, (v) become insolvent, or (vi) ceased operation of its business;

(k)           which is owed by any Account Debtor which has sold all or substantially all of its assets;

(l)            which is owed by an Account Debtor which (i) does not maintain its chief executive office in the U.S. or (ii) is not organized under applicable law of the U.S. or any state of the U.S. or the District of Columbia unless, in either case, such Account is backed by a letter of credit acceptable to the Lender which is in the possession of, has been assigned to and is directly drawable by the Lender;

(m)          which is owed in any currency other than U.S. dollars;

(n)           which is owed by (i) any Governmental Authority of any country other than the U.S., unless such Account is backed by a letter of credit acceptable to the Lender which is in the possession of, and is directly drawable by,  the Lender, or (ii) any Governmental Authority of the U.S., or any department, agency, public corporation, or instrumentality thereof, unless the Federal Assignment of Claims Act of 1940, as amended (31 U.S.C. § 3727 et seq. and 41 U.S.C. § 15 et seq.), and any other steps necessary to perfect the Lien of the Lender in such Account have been complied with to the Lender’s satisfaction;

(o)          which is owed by any Affiliate of any Loan Party or any, employee, officer, director, agent or stockholder of any Loan Party or any of its Affiliates;

(p)          which is owed by an Account Debtor or any Affiliate of such Account Debtor to which any Loan Party is indebted, but only to the extent of such indebtedness or is subject to any security, deposit, progress payment, retainage or other similar advance made by or for the benefit of an Account Debtor, in each case to the extent thereof;

(q)          which is subject to any counterclaim, deduction, defense, setoff or dispute, but only to the extent that such Account is subject to any such counterclaim, deduction, defense, setoff or dispute;

 

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(r)           which is evidenced by any promissory note, chattel paper or instrument;

(s)          which is owed by an Account Debtor (i) located in any jurisdiction which requires filing of a “Notice of Business Activities Report” or other similar report in order to permit the Borrower to seek judicial enforcement in such jurisdiction of payment of such Account, unless the Borrower has filed such report or qualified to do business in such jurisdiction or (ii) which is a Sanctioned Person;

(t)           with respect to which the Borrower has made any agreement with the Account Debtor for any reduction thereof, other than discounts and adjustments given in the ordinary course of business, to the extent of the agreed upon reduction, or any Account which was partially paid and the Borrower created a new receivable for the unpaid portion of such Account;

(u)          which does not comply in all material respects with the requirements of all applicable laws and regulations, whether federal, state or local, including without limitation the Federal Consumer Credit Protection Act, the Federal Truth in Lending Act and Regulation Z of the Board;

(v)          which is for goods that have been sold under a purchase order or pursuant to the terms of a contract or other agreement or understanding (written or oral) that indicates or purports that any Person other than the Borrower has or has had an ownership interest in such goods, or which indicates any party other than the Borrower as payee or remittance party;

(w)          which was created on cash on delivery terms; or

(x)           which the Lender reasonably determines may not be paid by reason of the Account Debtor’s inability to pay or which the Lender otherwise reasonably determines is unacceptable for any reason whatsoever.

In the event that an Account which was previously an Eligible Account ceases to be an Eligible Account hereunder, the Borrower shall notify the Lender thereof on and at the time of submission to the Lender of the next Borrowing Base Certificate.  In determining the amount of an Eligible Account, the face amount of an Account may, in the Lender’s Permitted Discretion, be reduced by, without duplication, to the extent not reflected in such face amount, (i) the amount of all accrued and actual discounts, claims, credits or credits pending, promotional program allowances, price adjustments, finance charges or other allowances (including any amount that the Borrower may be obligated to rebate to an Account Debtor pursuant to the terms of any agreement or understanding (written or oral)) and (ii) the aggregate amount of all cash received in respect of such Account but not yet applied by the Borrower to reduce the amount of such Account.

“Eligible Inventory” means, at any time, raw material and finished goods Inventory of the Borrower which the Lender determines in its Permitted Discretion is eligible as the basis for the extension of Loans and the issuance of Letters of Credit.  Without limiting the Lender’s discretion provided herein, Eligible Inventory shall not include any Inventory:

(a)          which is not subject to a first priority perfected Lien in favor of the Lender;

(b)          which is subject to any Lien other than (i) a Lien in favor of the Lender and (ii) a Permitted Encumbrance which does not have priority over the Lien in favor of the Lender;

 

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(c)          which is, in the Lender’s Permitted Discretion, slow moving, obsolete, unmerchantable, defective, used, unfit for sale, not salable at prices approximating at least the cost of such Inventory in the ordinary course of business or unacceptable due to age, type, category and/or quantity;

(d)          with respect to which any covenant, representation, or warranty contained in this Agreement or the Security Agreement has been breached or is not true and which does not conform to all standards imposed by any Governmental Authority;

(e)           in which any Person other than the Borrower shall (i) have any direct or indirect ownership, interest or title to such Inventory or (ii) be indicated on any purchase order or invoice with respect to such Inventory as having or purporting to have an interest therein;

(f)           which is not finished goods or which constitutes work-in-process, spare or replacement parts, subassemblies, packaging and shipping material, manufacturing supplies, samples, prototypes, displays or display items, bill-and-hold or ship-in-place goods, goods that are returned or marked for return, repossessed goods, defective or damaged goods, goods held on consignment, or goods which are not of a type held for sale in the ordinary course of business;

(g)          which is not located in the U.S. or is in transit with a common carrier from vendors and suppliers;

(h)          which is located in any location leased by the Borrower unless (i) the lessor has delivered to the Lender a Collateral Access Agreement or (ii) a reserve for rent, charges and other amounts due or to become due with respect to such facility has been established by the Lender in its Permitted Discretion;

(i)            which is located in any third party warehouse or is in the possession of a bailee (other than a third party processor) where, in each instance, more than $75,000 is located and is not evidenced by a Document, unless (i) such warehouseman or bailee has delivered to the Lender a Collateral Access Agreement and such other documentation as the Lender may require or (ii) an appropriate reserve has been established by the Lender in its sole discretion;

(j)            which is being processed offsite at a third party location or outside processor, or is in transit to or from such third party location or outside processor;

(k)           which is a discontinued product or component thereof;

(l)            which is the subject of a consignment by the Borrower as consignor;

(m)          which is perishable;

(n)          which contains or bears any intellectual property rights licensed to the Borrower unless the Lender is satisfied in Lender’s Permitted Discretion that it may sell or otherwise dispose of such Inventory without (i) infringing the rights of such licensor, (ii) violating any contract with such licensor, or (iii) incurring any liability with respect to payment of royalties, other than royalties incurred pursuant to sale of such Inventory under the current licensing agreement;

(o)          which is not reflected in a current perpetual inventory report of the Borrower;

 

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(p)          for which reclamation rights have been asserted by the seller;

(q)          which has been acquired from a Sanctioned Person; or

(r)           which the Lender otherwise reasonably determines is unacceptable for any reason whatsoever.

In the event that Inventory which was previously Eligible Inventory ceases to be Eligible Inventory hereunder, the Borrower shall notify the Lender thereof on and at the time of submission to the Lender of the next Borrowing Base Certificate.

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

“Environmental Liability” means any liability, contingent or otherwise (including any liability for damages, costs of environmental remediation, fines, penalties or indemnities), of the Borrower or any Subsidiary directly or indirectly resulting from or based upon (a) any violation of any Environmental Law, (b) the generation, use, handling, transportation, storage, treatment or disposal of any Hazardous Materials, (c) any exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the Release or threatened Release of any Hazardous Materials into the environment or (e) any contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement pursuant to which liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the foregoing.

“Equipment” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Security Agreement.

“Equipment Finance Agreements” means the two existing equipment finance agreements with Wels Fargo Financial Leasing, Inc. guaranteed by ParTech, Inc..

“Equipment Finance Obligor” means the main obligor under the Equipment Finance Agreements.

“Equipment Repurchase Reserve” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.01(b).

“Equity Interests” means shares of capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests in a limited liability company, beneficial interests in a trust or other equity ownership interests in a Person, and any warrants, options or other rights entitling the holder thereof to purchase or acquire any of the foregoing.

“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time.

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

 

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

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

“Event of Default” has the meaning assigned to such term in Article VII.

“Excluded Domestic Subsidiary” means a Domestic Subsidiary that is not engaged in any business or other commercial activities and has total assets with a fair market value of less than $250,000.00.

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

 

“Excluded Taxes” means any of the following Taxes imposed on or with respect to the Lender or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to the Lender: (a) Taxes imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated), franchise Taxes, and branch profits Taxes, in each case, (i) imposed as a result of the Lender being organized under the laws of, or having its principal office or its applicable lending office located in, the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (or any political subdivision thereof) or (ii) that are Other Connection Taxes, (b) U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed on amounts payable to or for the account of the Lender with respect to an applicable interest in a Loan, Letter of Credit or Commitment pursuant to a law in effect on the date on which (i) the Lender acquires such interest in the Loan, Letter of Credit or Commitment or (ii) the Lender changes its lending office, except in each case to the extent that, pursuant to Section 2.15, amounts with respect to such Taxes were payable either to the Lender’s assignor immediately before the Lender acquired the applicable interest in such Loan, Letter of Credit or Commitment or to the Lender immediately before it changed its lending office and (c) any U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA.

 

“Exposure” means, at any time, the sum of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Lender’s Loans and its LC Exposure at such time.

 

“FATCA” means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code as of the date of this Agreement (or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof and any agreement entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code.

 

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“Federal Funds Effective Rate” means, for any day, the rate calculated by the NYFRB based on such day’s federal funds transactions by depositary institutions (as determined in such manner as the NYFRB shall set forth on its public website from time to time) and published on the next succeeding Business Day by the NYFRB as the federal funds effective rate.

“Financial Officer” means the chief financial officer, principal accounting officer, treasurer or controller of the Borrower.

“Financial Statements” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 5.01.

“Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio” means the ratio, determined as of the end of each fiscal quarter of the Borrower for the most recently ended four fiscal quarters, of (i) Consolidated EBITDA less unfunded Capital Expenditures (exclusive of ERP upgrade expenses in an amount not to exceed $1,830,000 in 2016 and $2,350,000 in 20171) and less capitalized software costs to (ii) cash Interest Expense and required principal payments of long-term Consolidated Indebtedness (including Consolidated Indebtedness incurred in connection with the acquisition of Brink Software, Inc.) plus dividends and distributions paid in cash and plus taxes paid in cash.

“Fixtures” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Security Agreement.

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

“Funding Account” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.01(g).

“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America.

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

“Guarantee” of or by any Person (the “guarantor”) means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of the guarantor guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other obligation of any other Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of the guarantor, direct or indirect, (a) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other obligation or to purchase (or to advance or supply funds for the purchase of) any security for the payment thereof, (b) to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the owner of such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment thereof, (c) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other obligation or (d) as an account party in respect of any letter of credit or letter of guaranty issued to support such Indebtedness or obligation; provided that the term Guarantee shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business.

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“Hazardous Materials” means:  (a) any substance, material, or waste that is included within the definitions of “hazardous substances,” “hazardous materials,” “hazardous waste,” “toxic substances,” “toxic materials,” “toxic waste,” or words of similar import in any Environmental Law; (b) those substances listed as hazardous substances by the United States Department of Transportation (or any successor agency) (49 C.F.R. 172.101 and amendments thereto) or by the Environmental Protection Agency (or any successor agency) (40 C.F.R. Part 302 and amendments thereto); and (c) any substance, material, or waste that is petroleum, petroleum-related, or a petroleum by-product, asbestos or asbestos-containing material, polychlorinated biphenyls, flammable, explosive, radioactive, freon gas, radon, or a pesticide, herbicide, or any other agricultural chemical.

“Impacted Interest Period” has the meaning assigned to such term in the definition of “LIBO Rate”.

“Indebtedness” of any Person means, without duplication, (a) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money or with respect to deposits or advances of any kind, (b) all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments, (c) all obligations of such Person upon which interest charges are customarily paid, (d) all obligations of such Person under conditional sale or other title retention agreements relating to property acquired by such Person, (e) all obligations of such Person in respect of the deferred purchase price of property or services (including earn-out payments and other contingent payments of purchase price but excluding current accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of business), (f) all Indebtedness of others secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on property owned or acquired by such Person, whether or not the Indebtedness secured thereby has been assumed, (g) all Guarantees by such Person of Indebtedness of others, (h) all Capital Lease Obligations of such Person, (i) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such Person as an account party in respect of letters of credit and letters of guaranty, and (j) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such Person in respect of bankers' acceptances.  The Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any other entity (including any partnership in which such Person is a general partner) to the extent such Person is liable therefor as a result of such Person’s ownership interest in or other relationship with such entity, except to the extent the terms of such Indebtedness provide that such Person is not liable therefor.

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

“Indemnitee” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.03(b).

“Information” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.12.

“Interest Election Request” means a request by the Borrower to convert or continue a Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.06.

“Interest Expense” means, with reference to any period, total interest expense (including that attributable to Capital Lease Obligations) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such period with respect to all outstanding Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (including all commissions, discounts and other fees and charges owed with respect to letters of credit and bankers’ acceptance financing and net costs under Swap Agreements in respect of interest rates to the extent such net costs are allocable to such period in accordance with GAAP), calculated on a consolidated basis for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such period in accordance with GAAP.

 

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“Interest Payment Date” means (a) with respect to any CBFR Loan, the first day of each calendar month for the interest accrued through the last day of the prior calendar month, and the Maturity Date, and (b) with respect to any Eurodollar Loan, the last day of the Interest Period applicable to the Borrowing of which such Loan is a part and, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing with an Interest Period of more than three months’ duration, each day prior to the last day of such Interest Period that occurs at intervals of three months’ duration after the first day of such Interest Period and the Maturity Date.

“Interest Period” means with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Eurodollar Borrowing and ending on the numerically corresponding day in the calendar month that is one, two or three months thereafter, as the Borrower may elect; 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 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 that commences on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the last calendar month of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the last calendar month of such Interest Period.  For purposes hereof, the date of a Borrowing initially shall be the date on which such Borrowing is made and thereafter shall be the effective date of the most recent conversion or continuation of such Borrowing.

“Interpolated Rate” means, at any time, for any Interest Period, the rate per annum (rounded to the same number of decimal places as the LIBO Screen Rate) determined by the Lender (which determination shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error) to be equal to the rate that results from interpolating on a linear basis between: (a) the LIBO Screen Rate for the longest period (for which the LIBO Screen Rate is available) that is shorter than the Impacted Interest Period and (b) the LIBO Screen Rate for the shortest period (for which the LIBO Screen Rate is available) that exceeds the Impacted Interest Period, in each case, at such time.

“Inventory” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Security Agreement.

“IRS” means the United States Internal Revenue Service.

“Joinder Agreement” means a Joinder Agreement in substantially the form of Exhibit E.

“LC Collateral Account” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.04(h).

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

“LC Exposure” means, at any time, the sum of the Commercial LC Exposure and the Standby LC Exposure at such time.

 

“Lender” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., its successors and assigns.

 

“Letters of Credit” means the letters of credit issued pursuant to this Agreement, and the term “Letter of Credit” means any one of them or each of them singularly, as the context may require.

“LIBO Rate” means, with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing for any applicable Interest Period or for any CBFR Borrowing, the LIBO Screen Rate at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two (2) Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period; provided that, if the LIBO Screen Rate shall not be available at such time for a period equal in length to such Interest Period (an “Impacted Interest Period”), then the LIBO Rate shall be the Interpolated Rate at such time.

 

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“LIBO Screen Rate” means, for any day and time, with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing for any Interest Period or for any CBFR Borrowing, the London interbank offered rate as administered by ICE Benchmark Administration (or any other Person that takes over the administration of such rate for Dollars) for a period equal in length to such Interest Period as displayed on such day and time on pages LIBOR01 or LIBOR02 of the Reuters screen that displays such rate (or, in the event such rate does not appear on a Reuters page or screen, on any successor or substitute page on such screen that displays such rate, or on the appropriate page of such other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Lender in its reasonable discretion); provided that if the LIBO Screen Rate shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for the purposes of this Agreement.

 

“Lien” means, with respect to any asset, (a) any mortgage, deed of trust, lien, pledge, hypothecation, encumbrance, charge or security interest in, on or of such asset, (b) the interest of a vendor or a lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or title retention agreement (or any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing) relating to such asset and (c) in the case of securities, any purchase option, call or similar right of a third party with respect to such securities.

“Loan Documents” means, collectively, this Agreement, each promissory note issued pursuant to this Agreement, any Letter of Credit application, each Collateral Document, the Loan Guaranty, and each other agreement, instrument, document and certificate identified in Section 4.01 executed and delivered to, or in favor of, the Lender and including each other pledge, power of attorney, consent, assignment, contract, notice, letter of credit agreement, letter of credit application and each other written matter whether heretofore, now or hereafter executed by or on behalf of any Loan Party, or any employee of any Loan Party, and delivered to the Lender in connection with this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.  Any reference in this Agreement or any other Loan Document to a Loan Document shall include all appendices, exhibits or schedules thereto, and all amendments, restatements, supplements or other modifications thereto, and shall refer to this Agreement or such Loan Document as the same may be in effect at any and all times such reference becomes operative.

“Loan Guarantor” means each Loan Party (other than the Borrower).

“Loan Guaranty” means Article IX of this Agreement.

“Loan Parties” means, collectively, the Borrower, each Domestic Subsidiary identified on the signature page to this Agreement and any other Domestic Subsidiary who becomes a party to this Agreement pursuant to a Joinder Agreement in the future, and their successors and assigns, and the term “Loan Party” shall mean any one of them or all of them individually, as the context may require.  Excluded Domestic Subsidiaries are not Loan Parties except pursuant to Section 5.13(a).

“Loans” means the loans and advances made by the Lender pursuant to this Agreement.

“Material Adverse Effect” means a material adverse effect on (a) the business, assets, properties, liabilities, operations or financial condition of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole, (b) a material impairment of the ability of any Loan Party to perform any of its obligations under the Loan Documents to which it is a party, (c) the Collateral, or the Lender’s Liens (on behalf of itself and the other Secured Parties) on the Collateral or the priority of such Liens, or (d) the rights of or benefits available to the Lender under any of the Loan Documents.

“Material Indebtedness” means Indebtedness (other than the Loans and Letters of Credit), or obligations in respect of one or more Swap Agreements, of any one or more of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount exceeding $500,000.  For purposes of determining Material Indebtedness, the “principal amount” of the obligations of the Borrower or any Subsidiary in respect of any Swap Agreement at any time shall be the maximum aggregate amount (giving effect to any netting agreements) that the Borrower or such Subsidiary would be required to pay if such Swap Agreement were terminated at such time.

 

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“Maturity Date” means three years from the date of this Agreement (if the same is a Business Day, or if not then the immediately next succeeding Business Day), or any earlier date on which the Commitment is reduced to zero or otherwise terminated pursuant to the terms hereof.

“Maximum Rate” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.16.

“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc.

“Multiemployer Plan” means a multiemployer plan as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA.

“Net Income” means, for any period, the consolidated net income (or loss) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP; provided that there shall be excluded (a) the income (or deficit) of any Person accrued prior to the date it becomes a Subsidiary or is merged into or consolidated with the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, (b) the income (or deficit) of any Person (other than a Subsidiary) in which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries has an ownership interest, except to the extent that any such income is actually received by the Borrower or such Subsidiary in the form of dividends or similar distributions and (c) the undistributed earnings of any Subsidiary to the extent that the declaration or payment of dividends or similar distributions by such Subsidiary is not at the time permitted by the terms of any contractual obligation (other than under any Loan Document) or Requirement of Law applicable to such Subsidiary.

“Net Proceeds” means, with respect to any event, (a) the cash proceeds received in respect of such event including (i) any cash received in respect of any non-cash proceeds (including any cash payments received by way of deferred payment of principal pursuant to a note or installment receivable or purchase price adjustment receivable or otherwise, but excluding any interest payments), but only as and when received, (ii) in the case of a casualty, insurance proceeds and (iii) in the case of a condemnation or similar event, condemnation awards and similar payments, minus (b) the sum of (i) all reasonable fees and out-of-pocket expenses paid to third parties (other than Affiliates) in connection with such event, (ii) in the case of a sale, transfer or other disposition of an asset (including pursuant to a Sale and Leaseback Transaction or a casualty or a condemnation or similar proceeding), the amount of all payments required to be made as a result of such event to repay Indebtedness (other than Loans) secured by such asset or otherwise subject to mandatory prepayment as a result of such event and (iii) the amount of all taxes paid (or reasonably estimated to be payable) and the amount of any reserves established to fund contingent liabilities reasonably estimated to be payable, in each case during the year that such event occurred or the next succeeding year and that are directly attributable to such event (as determined reasonably and in good faith by a Financial Officer).

“NYFRB” means the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

“NYFRB Rate” means, for any day, the greater of (a) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day and (b) the Overnight Bank Funding Rate in effect on such day(or for any day that is not a Banking Day, for the immediately preceding Banking Day); provided that if none of such rates are published for any day that is a Business Day, the term “NYFRB Rate” means the rate for a federal funds transaction quoted at 11:00 a.m. on such day received to the Lender from a Federal funds broker of recognized standing selected by it; provided, further, that if any of the aforesaid rates shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for purposes of this Agreement.

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“Obligations” means all unpaid principal of and accrued and unpaid interest on the Loans, all LC Exposure, all accrued and unpaid fees and all expenses, reimbursements, indemnities and other obligations and indebtedness (including interest and fees accruing during the pendency of any bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other similar proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding), obligations and liabilities of any of the Loan Parties to the Lender or any indemnified party, individually or collectively, existing on the Effective Date or arising thereafter, direct or indirect, joint or several, absolute or contingent, matured or unmatured, liquidated or unliquidated, secured or unsecured, arising by contract, operation of law or otherwise, arising or incurred under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents or in respect of any of the Loans made or reimbursement or other obligations incurred or any of the Letters of Credit or other instruments at any time evidencing any thereof.

“OFAC” means the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of the Treasury.

 

“Original Indebtedness” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.01(g).

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

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

“Overnight Bank Funding Rate” means, for any day, the rate comprised of both overnight federal funds and overnight Eurodollar borrowings by U.S.-managed banking offices of depository institutions (as such composite rate shall be determined by the NYFRB as set forth on its public website from time to time) and published on the next succeeding Business Day by the NYFRB as an overnight bank funding rate (from and after such date as the NYFRB shall commence to publish such composite rate).

“Participant” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.04(c).

“Participant Register” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.04(c).

“PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation referred to and defined in ERISA and any successor entity performing similar functions.

“Permitted Acquisition” means any Acquisition by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries in a transaction that satisfies each of the following requirements:

(a)           such Acquisition is not a hostile or contested acquisition;

(b)           the business acquired in connection with such Acquisition is (i) located in the U.S., (ii) organized under U.S. and applicable state laws, and (iii) not engaged, directly or indirectly, in any line of business other than the businesses in which the Borrower or its Subsidiary are engaged on the Effective Date or any business activities that are substantially similar, related, or incidental thereto;

 

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(c)            both before and after giving effect to such Acquisition, each of the representations and warranties herein is true and correct (except (i) any such representation or warranty which relates to a specified prior date and (ii) to the extent the Lender has been notified in writing by the Borrower that any representation or warranty is not correct and the Lender has explicitly waived in writing compliance with such representation or warranty) and no Default exists, will exist, or would result therefrom;

(d)           as soon as available, but not less than thirty days prior to such Acquisition, the Borrower has provided the Lender (i) notice of such Acquisition and (ii) a copy of all business and financial information reasonably requested by the Lender including pro forma financial statements and statements of cash flow;

(e)            if such Acquisition is an acquisition of the Equity Interests of a Person, the Acquisition is structured so that the acquired Person shall become a wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Borrower and, a Loan Guarantor, on terms and conditions satisfactory to the Bank;

(f)            if such Acquisition is an acquisition of assets, the Acquisition is structured so that the Borrower or a Subsidiary who is or shall become, on terms and conditions satisfactory to the Lender, a Loan Guarantor shall acquire such assets;

(g)           if such Acquisition is an acquisition of Equity Interests, such Acquisition will not result in any violation of Regulation U;

(h)           neither Borrower nor its Subsidiary shall, as a result of or in connection with any such Acquisition, assume or incur any direct or contingent liabilities (whether relating to environmental, tax, litigation, or other matters) that could have a Material Adverse Effect or any Indebtedness that is not permitted by this Agreement;

(i)            in connection with an Acquisition of the Equity Interests of any Person, all Liens (other than Permitted Encumbrances) on property of such Person shall be terminated, and in connection with an Acquisition of the assets of any Person, all Liens (other than Permitted Encumbrances) on such assets shall be terminated;

(j)            the Borrower shall certify to the Lender (and provide the Lender with a pro forma calculation in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Lender) that, after giving effect to the completion of such Acquisition, the Consolidated Indebtedness Ratio on a Pro Forma Basis shall be less than or equal to 2.5 to 1.0; and

(k)           the Borrower shall certify to the Lender (and provide the Lender with a pro forma calculation in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Lender) that, after giving effect to the completion of such Acquisition, the then total aggregate outstanding principal balance of Indebtedness incurred in connection with all Permitted Acquisitions occurring during the term of this Agreement does not exceed $7,500,000.

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

“Permitted Encumbrances” means:

(a)   Liens imposed by law for Taxes that are not yet due or are being contested in compliance with Section 5.04;

(b)  carriers’, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, materialmen’s, repairmen’s and other like Liens imposed by law, arising in the ordinary course of business and securing obligations that are not overdue by more than thirty (30) days or are being contested in compliance with Section 5.04;

 

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(c)   pledges and deposits made in the ordinary course of business in compliance with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security laws or regulations;

(d)  deposits to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts, leases, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature, in each case in the ordinary course of business;

(e)   judgment Liens in respect of judgments that do not constitute an Event of Default under clause (k) of Article VII; and

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

provided that the term “Permitted Encumbrances” shall not include any Lien securing Indebtedness, except with respect to clause (e) above.

“Permitted Investments” means:

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

(b)  investments in commercial paper maturing within 270 days from the date of acquisition thereof and having, at such date of acquisition, the highest credit rating obtainable from S&P or from Moody’s;

(c)   investments in certificates of deposit, banker’s acceptances and time deposits maturing within 180 days from the date of acquisition thereof issued or guaranteed by or placed with, and money market deposit accounts issued or offered by, any domestic office of any commercial bank organized under the laws of the United States of America or any State thereof which has a combined capital and surplus and undivided profits of not less than $500,000,000;

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

(e)  money market funds that (i) comply with the criteria set forth in Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, (ii) are rated AAA by S&P and Aaa by Moody’s and (iii) have portfolio assets of at least $5,000,000,000.

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

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

 

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“Prepayment Event” means:

(a)  any sale, transfer or other disposition (including pursuant to a sale and leaseback transaction) of any property or asset of any Loan Party constituting Collateral, other than dispositions described in Section 6.05; or

(b)  any casualty or other insured damage to, or any taking under power of eminent domain or by condemnation or similar proceeding of, any property or asset of any Loan Party constituting Collateral.

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

“Pro Forma Basis” means, with respect to any event, that the Borrower is in compliance on a pro forma basis with the applicable covenant, calculation or requirement herein recomputed as if the event with respect to which compliance on a Pro Forma Basis is being tested, or Indebtedness incurred in connection therewith, had occurred or been incurred, as the case may be, on the first day of the four fiscal quarter period most recently ended on or prior to such date for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or (b), and, to the extent applicable, giving effect to the historical earnings and cash flows associated with the assets acquired or disposed of (but without giving effect to any synergies or cost savings other than in accordance with Article 11 of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act) and any related incurrence or reduction of Indebtedness, all in accordance with Article 11 of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act.

“Projections” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 5.01(e).

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

“Refinance Indebtedness” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.01(g).

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

“Release” means any releasing, spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, migrating, disposing, or dumping of any substance into the environment.

“Report” means reports prepared by the Lender or another Person showing the results of appraisals, field examinations or audits pertaining to the Borrower’s assets from information furnished by or on behalf of the Borrower, after the Lender has exercised its rights of inspection pursuant to this Agreement.

“Repurchase Agreement” means the Contract Repurchase Agreement between ParTech, Inc. and Wells Fargo Financial Leasing, Inc. dated December 31, 2014.

 

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“Requirement of Law” means, with respect to any Person, (a) the charter, articles or certificate of organization or incorporation and bylaws or operating, management or partnership agreement, or other organizational or governing documents of such Person and (b) any statute, law (including common law), treaty, rule, regulation, code, ordinance, order, decree, writ, judgment, injunction or determination of any arbitrator or court or other Governmental Authority (including Environmental Laws), 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.

“Restricted Payment” means any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) with respect to any Equity Interests in the Borrower or any Subsidiary, or any payment (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any such Equity Interests or any option, warrant or other right to acquire any such Equity Interests.

“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC business.

“Sale and Leaseback Transaction” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.06.

“Sanctioned Country” means, at any time, a country, region or territory which is the subject or target of any Sanctions ( at the time of this Agreement, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria).

 

“Sanctioned Person” means, at any time, (a) any Person listed in any Sanctions-related list of designated Persons maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury , the U.S. Department of State, or by the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, any European Union member state, Her Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom or other relevant sanctions authority, (b) any Person operating, organized or resident in a Sanctioned Country or (c) any Person owned or controlled by any such Person or Persons described in the foregoing clauses (a) or (b).

 

“Sanctions” means all economic or financial sanctions or trade embargoes imposed, administered or enforced from time to time by (a) the U.S. government, including those administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury or the U.S. Department of State, or (b) the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, any European Union member state or Her Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom or other relevant sanctions authority.

 

“SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission of the U.S.

 

“Secured Obligations” means all Obligations, together with all (i) Banking Services Obligations,  and (ii) Swap Agreement Obligations owing to the Lender or its Affiliates; provided that the definition of “Secured Obligations” shall not create any guarantee by any Loan Guarantor of (or grant of security interest by any Loan Guarantor to support, as applicable) any Excluded Swap Obligations of such Loan Guarantor for purposes of determining any obligations of any Loan Guarantor.

“Secured Parties” means (a) the Lender, (b) each provider of Banking Services, to the extent the Banking Services Obligations in respect thereof constitute Secured Obligations, (c) each counterparty to any Swap Agreement, to the extent the obligations thereunder constitute Secured Obligations, (d) the beneficiaries of each indemnification obligation undertaken by any Loan Party under any Loan Document and (e) the successors and assigns of each of the foregoing.

 

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“Security Agreement” means that certain  Pledge and Security Agreement (including any and all supplements thereto), dated as of September 9, 2014, as amended by Omnibus Amendment dated as of the date hereof, among the Loan Parties and the Lender, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and any other pledge or security agreement entered into, after the date of this Agreement by any other Loan Party (as required by this Agreement or any other Loan Document) or any other Person for the benefit of the Lender, on behalf of the Secured Parties, as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

“Standby LC Exposure” means, at any time, the sum of (a) the aggregate undrawn amount of all standby Letters of Credit outstanding at such time plus (b) the aggregate amount of all LC Disbursements relating to standby Letters of Credit that have not yet been reimbursed by or on behalf of the Borrower at such time.

“Statement” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.16(d).

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

“Subordinated Indebtedness” of a Person means any Indebtedness of such Person, the payment of which is subordinated to payment of the Secured Obligations to the written satisfaction of the Lender.

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

“Subsidiary” means any direct or indirect subsidiary of the Borrower or a Loan Party, as applicable.

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

“Swap Agreement Obligations” means any and all obligations of the Loan Parties or their Subsidiaries, whether absolute or contingent and howsoever and whensoever created, arising, evidenced or acquired (including all renewals, extensions and modifications thereof and substitutions therefor), under (a) any Swap Agreement permitted hereunder with the Lender or an Affiliate of the Lender, and (b) any cancellations, buy backs, reversals, terminations or assignments of any Swap Agreement transaction permitted hereunder with the Lender or an Affiliate of the Lender.

 

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“Swap Obligation” means, with respect to a Person, any obligation to pay or perform under any agreement, contract or transaction that constitutes a “swap” within the meaning of Section 1a(47) of the Commodity Exchange Act or any rules or regulations promulgated thereunder.

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

“Transactions” means the execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, the borrowing of Loans and other credit extensions, the use of the proceeds thereof and the issuance of Letters of Credit hereunder.

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

“UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in the State of New York or in any other state, the laws of which are required to be applied in connection with the issue of perfection of security interests.

“Unliquidated Obligations” means, at any time, any Secured Obligations (or portion thereof) that are contingent in nature or unliquidated at such time, including any Secured Obligation that is: (i) an obligation to reimburse a bank for drawings not yet made under a letter of credit issued by it; (ii) any other obligation (including any guarantee) that is contingent in nature at such time; or (iii) an obligation to provide collateral to secure any of the foregoing types of obligations.

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

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

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

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

 

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SECTION 1.04.     Accounting Terms; GAAP.  Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all terms of an accounting or financial nature shall be construed in accordance with GAAP, as in effect from time to time; provided that, if after the date hereof there occurs any change in GAAP or in the application thereof on the operation of any provision hereof and the Borrower notifies the Lender that the Borrower requests an amendment to any provision hereof to eliminate the effect of such change in GAAP or in the application thereof (or if the Lender notifies the Borrower that the Lender requests an amendment to any provision hereof for such purpose), regardless of whether any such notice is given before or after such  change in GAAP or in the application thereof, then such provision shall be interpreted on the basis of GAAP as in effect and applied immediately before such change shall have become effective until such notice shall have been withdrawn or such provision amended in accordance herewith.

SECTION 1.05.     Pro Forma Adjustments for Acquisitions and Dispositions.  To the extent the Borrower or any Subsidiary makes any Permitted Acquisition or disposition of assets outside the ordinary course of business permitted by Section 6.05 during the period of four fiscal quarters of the Borrower most recently ended, the Consolidated Indebtedness Ratio shall be calculated after giving pro forma effect thereto (including pro forma adjustments arising out of events which are directly attributable to the acquisition or the disposition of assets, are factually supportable and are expected to have a continuing impact, in each case as determined on a basis consistent with Article 11 of Regulation S-X of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, as interpreted by the SEC, and as certified by a Financial Officer), as if such acquisition or such disposition (and any related incurrence, repayment or assumption of Indebtedness) had occurred in the first day of such four-quarter period.

ARTICLE II

The Credits

SECTION 2.01.     Commitment.  Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Lender agrees to make Loans in dollars to the Borrower from time to time during the Availability Period in an aggregate principal amount that will not result in (i) the Exposure exceeding the lesser of (x) the Commitment or (y) the Borrowing Base.  Within the foregoing limits and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may borrow, prepay and reborrow Loans.

SECTION 2.02.     Loans and Borrowings.

(a)   Each Loan shall be made as part of a Borrowing consisting of Loans of the same Type.

 

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(b)  Subject to Section 2.12, each Borrowing shall be comprised entirely of CBFR Loans or Eurodollar Loans as the Borrower may request in accordance herewith, provided that all Borrowings made on the Effective Date must be made as CBFR Borrowings but may be converted into Eurodollar Borrowings in accordance with Section 2.06.  The Lender at its option may make any Eurodollar Loan by causing any domestic or foreign branch or Affiliate of the Lender to make such Loan (and in the case of an Affiliate, the provisions of Sections 2.12, 2.13, 2.14 and 2.15 shall apply to such Affiliate to the same extent as to the Lender); provided that any exercise of such option shall not affect the obligation of the Borrower to repay such Loan in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

(c)  At the commencement of each Interest Period for any Eurodollar Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of $100,000 and not less than $500,000.  CBFR Borrowings shall be in an aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of $50,000 and not less than $50,000; provided that a CBFR Borrowing may be in an aggregate amount that is equal to the entire unused balance of the total Commitment or that is required to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as contemplated by Section 2.04(d).  Borrowings of more than one Type may be outstanding at the same time; provided that there shall not at any time be more than a total of fourteen Eurodollar Borrowings outstanding.

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

SECTION 2.03.     Requests for Borrowings.   To request a Borrowing, the Borrower shall notify the Lender of such request either in writing (delivered by hand or fax) in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B and signed by the Borrower or by telephone or through Electronic System, if arrangements for doing so have been approved by the Lender, (a) in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, not later than 10:00 a.m., New York time, three (3) Business Days before the date of the proposed Borrowing or (b) in the case of a CBFR Borrowing, not later than noon, New York time, one Business Day before the date of the proposed Borrowing; provided that any such notice of a CBFR Borrowing to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as contemplated by Section 2.04(d) may be given not later than 9:00 a.m., New York time, on the date of the proposed Borrowing.  Each such telephonic Borrowing Request shall be irrevocable and shall be confirmed promptly by hand delivery, fax or a communication through Electronic System to the Lender of a written Borrowing Request in a form approved by the Lender and signed by the Borrower.  Each such telephonic and written Borrowing Request shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 2.01:

		(i)	
the aggregate amount of the requested Borrowing, and a breakdown of the separate wires comprising such Borrowing;

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

		(iii)	
whether such Borrowing is to be a CBFR Borrowing or a Eurodollar Borrowing; and

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

If no election as to the Type of Borrowing is specified, then the requested Borrowing shall be a CBFR Borrowing.  If no Interest Period is specified with respect to any requested Eurodollar Borrowing, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration.

 

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SECTION 2.04.     Letters of Credit.

(a)           General.  Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may request the issuance of Letters of Credit denominated in dollars as the applicant thereof for the support of its or its Subsidiaries’ obligations, in a form reasonably acceptable to the Lender, at any time and from time to time during the Availability Period.  In the event of any inconsistency between the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the terms and conditions of any form of letter of credit application or other agreement submitted by the Borrower to, or entered into by the Borrower with, the Lender relating to any Letter of Credit, the terms and conditions of this Agreement shall control. The Borrower unconditionally and irrevocably agrees that, in connection with any Letter of Credit issued for the support of any Subsidiary’s obligations as provided in the first sentence of this paragraph, the Borrower will be fully responsible for the reimbursement of LC Disbursements in accordance with the terms hereof, the payment of interest thereon and the payment of fees due under Section 2.10(b) to the same extent as if it were the sole account party in respect of such Letter of Credit (the Borrower hereby irrevocably waiving any defenses that might otherwise be available to it as a guarantor or surety of the obligations of such Subsidiary that is an account party in respect of any such Letter of Credit).  Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Lender shall have no obligation hereunder to issue, and shall not issue, any Letter of Credit (i) the proceeds of which would be made available to any Person (A) to fund any activity or business of or with any Sanctioned Person, or in any country or territory that, at the time of such funding, is the subject of any Sanctions or (B) in any manner that would result in a violation of any Sanctions by any party to this Agreement, (ii) if any order, judgment or decree of any Governmental Authority or arbitrator shall by its terms purport to enjoin or restrain the Lender from issuing such Letter of Credit, or any Requirement of Law relating to the Lender or any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) from any Governmental Authority with jurisdiction over the Lender shall prohibit, or request that the Lender refrain from, the issuance of letters of credit generally or such Letter of Credit in particular or shall impose upon the Lender with respect to such Letter of Credit any restriction, reserve or capital requirement (for which the Lender is not otherwise compensated hereunder) not in effect on the Effective Date, or shall impose upon the Lender any unreimbursed loss, cost or expense which was not applicable on the Effective Date and which the Lender in good faith deems material to it, or (iii) if the issuance of such Letter of Credit would violate one or more policies of the Lender applicable to letters of credit generally; provided that, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (x) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines, requirements or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith or in the implementation thereof, and (y) all requests, rules, guidelines, requirements or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case be deemed not to be in effect on the Effective Date for purposes of clause (ii) above, regardless of the date enacted, adopted, issued or implemented.

(b)           Notice of Issuance, Amendment, Renewal, Extension; Certain Conditions.  To request the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or the amendment, renewal or extension of an outstanding Letter of Credit), the Borrower shall hand deliver or fax (or transmit through Electronic System, if arrangements for doing so have been approved by the Lender) to the Lender (reasonably in advance of the requested date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension, but in any event no less than three (3) Business Days) a notice requesting the issuance of a Letter of Credit, or identifying the Letter of Credit to be amended, renewed or extended, and specifying the date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension (which shall be a Business Day), the date on which such Letter of Credit is to expire (which shall comply with paragraph (c) of this Section), the amount of such Letter of Credit, the name and address of the beneficiary thereof and such other information as shall be necessary to prepare, amend, renew or extend such Letter of Credit.  If requested by the Lender, the Borrower also shall submit a letter of credit application on the Lender’s standard form in connection with any request for a Letter of Credit.  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 effect to such issuance, amendment, renewal or extension (i) the LC Exposure shall not exceed $2,500,000, (ii) the Standby LC Exposure shall not exceed $500,000, (iii) the Commercial LC Exposure shall not exceed $2,000,000 and (iv) the Exposure shall not exceed the lesser of the Commitment and the Borrowing Base.

 

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(c)           Expiration Date.  Each Letter of Credit shall expire (or be subject to termination or non-renewal by notice from the Lender to the beneficiary thereof) at or prior to the close of business on the earlier of (i) the date one year after the date of the issuance of such Letter of Credit (or, in the case of any renewal or extension thereof, including, without limitation, any automatic renewal provision), one year after such renewal or extension, and (ii) the date that is five Business Days prior to the Maturity Date.

(d)           Reimbursement.  If the Lender shall make any LC Disbursement in respect of a Letter of Credit, the Borrower shall reimburse such LC Disbursement by paying to the Lender an amount equal to such LC Disbursement not later than 11:00 a.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 9:00 a.m., New York time, on the day of receipt, or (ii) the Business Day immediately following the day that the Borrower receives such notice, if such notice is received after 9:00 a.m., New York time, on the day of receipt; provided that, if such LC Disbursement is greater than or equal to $50,000, the Borrower may, subject to the conditions to borrowing set forth herein, request in accordance with Section 2.03 that such payment be financed with a CBFR Borrowing in an equivalent amount and, to the extent so financed, the Borrower’s obligation to make such payment shall be discharged and replaced by the resulting CBFR Borrowing.

(e)           Obligations Absolute.  The Borrower’s obligation to reimburse LC Disbursements as provided in paragraph (d) of this Section 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 this Agreement, or any term or provision therein or herein, (ii) any draft or other document presented under a Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent or invalid in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect, (iii) payment by the Lender under a Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft or other document that does not comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit, (iv) the fact that the Letter of Credit may have been issued for the account of one of Borrower’s Subsidiaries, or (v) 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, or provide a right of setoff against, the Borrower’s obligations hereunder.  Neither the Lender nor any of its Related Parties, shall have any liability or responsibility by reason of or in connection with the issuance or transfer of any Letter of Credit, any payment or failure to make any payment thereunder (irrespective of any of the circumstances referred to in the preceding sentence), 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 Lender; provided that the foregoing shall not be construed to excuse the Lender from liability to the Borrower to the extent of any direct damages (as opposed to special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages, claims in respect of which are hereby waived by the Borrower to the extent permitted by applicable law) suffered by the Borrower that are caused by the Lender’s failure to exercise care when determining whether drafts and other documents presented under a Letter of Credit comply with the terms thereof.  The parties hereto expressly agree that, in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the Lender (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction), the Lender shall be deemed to have exercised care in each such determination.  In furtherance of the foregoing and without limiting the generality thereof, the parties agree that, with respect to documents presented which appear on their face to be in substantial compliance with the terms of a Letter of Credit, the Lender may, in its sole discretion, either accept and make payment upon such documents without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any notice or information to the contrary, or refuse to accept and make payment upon such documents if such documents are not in strict compliance with the terms of such Letter of Credit.

 

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(f)            Disbursement Procedures.  The Lender shall, promptly following its receipt thereof, examine all documents purporting to represent a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit.  The Lender shall promptly notify the Borrower by telephone (confirmed by fax) of such demand for payment and whether the 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 Lender with respect to any such LC Disbursement.

(g)           Interim Interest.  If the Lender shall make any LC Disbursement, then, unless the Borrower shall reimburse such LC Disbursement in full on the date such LC Disbursement is made, the unpaid amount thereof shall bear interest, for each day from and including the date such LC Disbursement is made to but excluding the date that the Borrower reimburses such LC Disbursement, at the rate per annum then applicable to CBFR Loans and such interest shall be due and payable on the date when such reimbursement is due; provided that, if the Borrower fails to reimburse such LC Disbursement when due pursuant to paragraph (d) of this Section, then Section 2.11(c) shall apply.  Interest accrued pursuant to this paragraph shall be for the account of the Lender.

(h)           Cash Collateralization.   If any Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, on the Business Day that the Borrower receives notice from the Lender demanding the deposit of cash collateral pursuant to this paragraph, the Borrower shall deposit in an account with the Lender, in the name and for the benefit of the Lender (the “LC Collateral Account”), an amount in cash equal to 105% of the amount of the LC Exposure as of such date plus any accrued and unpaid interest thereon; provided that the obligation to deposit such cash collateral shall become effective immediately, and such deposit shall become immediately due and payable, without demand or other notice of any kind, upon the occurrence of any Event of Default with respect to the Borrower described in clause (h) or (i) of Article VII.  The Borrower also shall deposit cash collateral in accordance with this paragraph as and to the extent required by Section 2.09(b). Each such deposit shall be held by the Lender as collateral for the payment and performance of the Secured Obligations.  The Lender shall have exclusive dominion and control, including the exclusive right of withdrawal, over the LC Collateral Account and the Borrower hereby grants the Lender a security interest in the LC Collateral Account and all moneys or other assets on deposit therein or credited thereto.  Other than any interest earned on the investment of such deposits, which investments shall be made at the option and sole discretion of the Lender and at the Borrower’s risk and expense, such deposits shall not bear interest.  Interest or profits, if any, on such investments shall accumulate in such account.  Moneys in such account shall be applied by the Lender for LC Disbursements for which it has not been reimbursed and, to the extent not so applied, shall be held for the satisfaction of the reimbursement obligations of the Borrower for the LC Exposure at such time or, if the maturity of the Loans has been accelerated, be applied to satisfy other Secured Obligations.  If the Borrower is required to provide an amount of cash collateral hereunder as a result of the occurrence of an Event of Default, such amount (to the extent not applied as aforesaid) shall be returned to the Borrower within three (3) Business Days after all such Events of Default have been cured or waived as confirmed in writing by the Lender.

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

 

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SECTION 2.05.  Funding of Borrowings.  The Lender shall make each Loan to be made by it hereunder on the proposed date thereof available to the Borrower by promptly crediting the amounts in immediately available funds, to the Funding Account; provided that CBFR Loans made to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as provided in Section 2.04(d) shall be remitted to the Lender.

SECTION 2.06.  Interest Elections.

(a)   Each Borrowing initially shall be of the Type specified in the applicable Borrowing Request and, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, shall have an initial Interest Period as specified in such Borrowing Request.  Thereafter, the Borrower may elect to convert such Borrowing to a different Type or to continue such Borrowing and, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, may elect Interest Periods therefor, all as provided in this Section.  The Borrower may elect different options with respect to different portions of the affected Borrowing, and the Loans comprising each such portion shall be considered a separate Borrowing.

(b)   To make an election pursuant to this Section, the Borrower shall notify the Lender of such election by telephone or through Electronic System, if arrangements for doing so have been approved by the Lender, by the time that a Borrowing Request would be required under Section 2.03 if the Borrower were requesting a Borrowing of the Type resulting from such election to be made on the effective date of such election.  Each such telephonic Interest Election Request shall be irrevocable and shall be confirmed promptly by hand delivery, fax or Electronic System to the Lender of a written Interest Election Request in a form approved by the Lender and signed by the Borrower.

(c)   Each telephonic and written Interest Election Request (including requests submitted through Electronic System) shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 2.03:

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

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

(iii)  whether the resulting Borrowing is to be a CBFR Borrowing or a Eurodollar Borrowing; and

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

If any such Interest Election Request requests a Eurodollar 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.

(d)  If the Borrower fails to deliver a timely Interest Election Request with respect to a Eurodollar 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 CBFR Borrowing.  Notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Lender so notifies the Borrower, then, so long as an Event of Default is continuing (i) no outstanding Borrowing may be converted to or continued as a Eurodollar Borrowing and (ii) unless repaid, each Eurodollar Borrowing shall be converted to a CBFR Borrowing at the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto.

 

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SECTION 2.07.  Termination and Reduction of Commitment.

(a)   Unless previously terminated, the Commitment shall terminate on the Maturity Date.

(b)   The Borrower may at any time terminate the Commitment upon (i) the payment in full of all outstanding Loans and LC Disbursements, together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon, (ii) the cancellation and return of all outstanding Letters of Credit (or alternatively, with respect to each such Letter of Credit, the furnishing to the Lender of a cash deposit (or at the discretion of the Lender a backup standby letter of credit satisfactory to the Lender) in an amount equal to 105% of the LC Exposure as of such date), (iii) the payment in full of the accrued and unpaid fees, including applicable Prepayment Fee (if any), and (iv) the payment in full of all reimbursable expenses and other Obligations together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon.

(c)   The Borrower may from time to time reduce the Commitment; provided that (i) each reduction of the Commitment shall be in an amount that is an integral multiple of $500,000 and not less than $500,000 and (ii) the Borrower shall not terminate or reduce the Commitment if, after giving effect to any concurrent prepayment of the Loans in accordance with Section 2.09, the Exposure would exceed the Commitment.

(d)   The Borrower shall notify the Lender of any election to terminate or reduce the Commitment under paragraph (b) or (c) of this Section at least three (3) Business Days prior to the effective date of such termination or reduction, specifying such election and the effective date thereof.  Each notice delivered by the Borrower pursuant to this Section shall be irrevocable; provided that a notice of termination of the Commitment 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 Lender on or prior to the specified effective date) if such condition is not satisfied.  Any termination or reduction of the Commitment shall be permanent.

SECTION 2.08.  Repayment and Amortization of Loans; Evidence of Debt.

(a)   The Borrower hereby unconditionally promises to pay the Lender the then unpaid principal amount of each Loan on the Maturity Date.

(b)   On each Business Day, the Lender may, in its Permitted Discretion, apply all funds credited to the Collection Account on such Business Day or the immediately preceding Business Day (in the Permitted Discretion of the Lender, whether or not immediately available) first to prepay the Loans and to cash collateralize outstanding LC Exposure.

(c)   The Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice an account or accounts evidencing the Indebtedness of the Borrower to the Lender resulting from each Loan made by the Lender, including the amounts of principal and interest payable and paid to the Lender from time to time hereunder.

(d)   The Lender shall maintain accounts in which it shall record (i) the amount of each Loan made hereunder, the Type thereof and the Interest Period applicable thereto, if any, (ii) the amount of any principal or interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the Borrower to the Lender hereunder and (iii) the amount of any sum received by the Lender hereunder.

 

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(e)   The entries made in the accounts maintained pursuant to paragraph (b) or (c) of this Section shall be prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts of the obligations recorded therein; provided that the failure of the Lender 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.

(f)    The Lender may request that Loans made by it be evidenced by a promissory note.  In such event, the Borrower shall prepare, execute and deliver to the Lender a promissory note payable to the order of the Lender (or, if requested by the Lender, to the Lender and its registered assigns) and in a form approved by the Lender.  Thereafter, the Loans evidenced by such promissory note and interest thereon shall at all times (including after assignment pursuant to Section 8.04) be represented by one or more promissory notes in such form.

SECTION 2.09.  Prepayment of Loans.

(a)   The Borrower shall have the right at any time and from time to time to prepay any Borrowing in whole or in part, subject to prior notice in accordance with paragraph (e) of this Section and, if applicable, payment of any break funding expenses under Section 2.14.

(b)   In the event and on such occasion that the Exposure exceeds the lesser of (A) the Commitment and (B) the Borrowing Base, the Borrower shall prepay the Loans and/or LC Exposure (or, if no such Borrowings are outstanding, deposit cash collateral in the LC Collateral Account in an aggregate amount equal to such excess, in accordance with Section 2.04(h)).

 

(c)   In the event and on each occasion that any Net Proceeds are received by or on behalf of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary in respect of any Prepayment Event, the Borrower shall, immediately after such Net Proceeds are received by any Loan Party or Subsidiary, prepay the Obligations and cash collateralize the LC Exposure as set forth in Section 2.09(d) below in an aggregate amount equal to 100% of such Net Proceeds, provided that, in the case of any event described in clause (a) or (b) of the definition of the term “Prepayment Event”, if the Borrower shall deliver to the Lender a certificate of a Financial Officer to the effect that the Loan Parties intend to apply the Net Proceeds from such event (or a portion thereof specified in such certificate), within 90 days after receipt of such Net Proceeds, to acquire (or replace or rebuild) real property, equipment or other tangible assets (excluding inventory) to be used in the business of the Loan Parties, and certifying that no Default has occurred and is continuing, then no prepayment shall be required pursuant to this paragraph in respect of the Net Proceeds specified in such certificate; provided that to the extent of any such Net Proceeds that have not been so applied by the end of such 90‐day period, a prepayment shall be required at such time in an amount equal to such Net Proceeds that have not been so applied.

 

(d)   All prepayments required to be made pursuant to Section 2.09(c) shall be applied, first to prepay the Loans with a corresponding reduction in the Commitment and second to cash collateralize the outstanding LC Exposure; provided that all prepayments required to be made pursuant to Section 2.09(c) with respect to Net Proceeds arising from any casualty or other insured damage to, or any taking under power of eminent domain or by condemnation or similar proceeding, to the extent they arise from casualties or losses to cash or Inventory (a Prepayment Event described in clause (b) of the definition thereof), shall be applied, first, to prepay the Loans without a corresponding reduction in the Commitment and second, to cash collateralize outstanding LC Exposure.

 

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(e)   The Borrower shall notify the Lender by telephone (confirmed by fax) or through Electronic System, if arrangements for doing so have been approved by the Lender, of any prepayment under this Section:  (i) in the case of prepayment of a Eurodollar Borrowing, not later than 10:00 a.m., New York time, three (3) Business Days before the date of prepayment, or (ii) in the case of prepayment of a CBFR Borrowing, not later than 10:00 a.m., New York time, one (1) Business Day before the date of prepayment.  Each such notice shall be irrevocable and shall specify the prepayment date and the principal amount of each Borrowing or portion thereof to be prepaid; provided that if a notice of prepayment is given in connection with a conditional notice of termination of the Commitment as contemplated by Section 2.07, then such notice of prepayment may be revoked if such notice of termination is revoked in accordance with Section 2.07.  Each partial prepayment of any Borrowing shall be in an amount that would be permitted in the case of an advance of a Borrowing of the same Type as provided in Section 2.02.  Each prepayment of a Borrowing shall be applied ratably to the Loans included in the prepaid Borrowing.  Prepayments shall be accompanied by (i) accrued interest to the extent required by Section 2.11 and (ii) break funding payments pursuant to Section 2.14.

SECTION 2.10.  Fees.

(a)   The Borrower agrees to pay to the Lender a commitment fee, which shall accrue at the Applicable Rate on the daily amount of the undrawn portion of the Commitment of the Lender during the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the date on which the Lender’s Commitment terminates; it being understood that the LC Exposure shall be included in the drawn portion of the Commitment for purposes of calculating the commitment fee.  Accrued commitment fees shall be payable in arrears on the last day of each March, June, September and December of each year and on the date on which the Commitment terminates, commencing on the first such date to occur after the date hereof.  All commitment fees shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days and shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day).

(b)   The Borrower agrees to pay (i) to the Lender a letter of credit fee with respect to Letters of Credit, which shall accrue at the same Applicable Rate used to determine the interest rate applicable to Eurodollar Loans on the daily amount of the Lender’s LC Exposure (excluding any portion thereof attributable to unreimbursed LC Disbursements) during the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the later of the date on which the Lender’s Commitment terminates and the date on which the Lender ceases to have any LC Exposure, and (ii) the Lender’s standard fees and commissions with respect to the issuance, amendment, cancellation, negotiation, transfer, presentment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or processing of drawings thereunder.  Letter of credit fees accrued through and including the last day of March, June, September and December of each year shall be payable on the third Business Day following such last day, commencing on the first such date to occur after the Effective Date; provided that all such fees shall be payable on the date on which the Commitment terminates and any such fees accruing after the date on which the Commitment terminates shall be payable on demand.  Any other fees payable to the Lender pursuant to this paragraph shall be payable within ten (10) days after demand.  All letter of credit fees shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days and shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day).

(c)   All fees payable hereunder shall be paid on the dates due, in immediately available funds, to the Lender.  Fees paid shall not be refundable under any circumstances.

SECTION 2.11.  Interest.

(a)   The Loans comprising each CBFR Borrowing shall bear interest at the CB Floating Rate plus the Applicable Rate.

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

 

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(c)   Notwithstanding the foregoing, during the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default, the Lender may, at its option, by notice to the Borrower, declare that (i) all Loans shall bear interest at 2% plus the rate otherwise applicable to such Loans as provided in the preceding paragraphs of this Section or (ii) in the case of any other amount outstanding hereunder, such amount shall accrue at 2% plus the rate applicable to such fee or other obligation as provided hereunder.

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

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

SECTION 2.12.  Alternate Rate of Interest.  If prior to the commencement of any Interest Period for a Eurodollar Borrowing:

(a)   the Lender determines (which determination shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error) that adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining (including, without limitation, by means of an Interpolated Rate) the Adjusted LIBO Rate or the LIBO Rate, as applicable, for such Interest Period; or

(b)   the Lender determines the Adjusted LIBO Rate or the LIBO Rate, as applicable, for such Interest Period will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to the Lender of making or maintaining its Loan included in such Borrowing for such Interest Period;

then the Lender shall give notice thereof to the Borrower by telephone, fax or through Electronic System as provided in Section 8.01 as promptly as practicable thereafter and, until the Lender notifies the Borrower that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer exist, (i) any Interest Election Request that requests the conversion of any Borrowing to, or continuation of any Borrowing as, a Eurodollar Borrowing shall be ineffective and any such Eurodollar Borrowing shall be repaid on the last day of the then current Interest Period applicable thereto, and (ii) if any Borrowing Request requests a Eurodollar Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be made as a CBFR Borrowing.

SECTION 2.13.  Increased Costs.  (a) If any Change in Law shall:

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

 

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

 

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

 

and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to the Lender of making, continuing, converting into or maintaining any Loan (or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan) or to increase the cost to the Lender of issuing or maintaining any Letter of Credit or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by the Lender hereunder (whether of principal, interest or otherwise), then the Borrower will pay to the Lender such additional amount or amounts as will compensate the Lender for such additional costs incurred or reduction suffered.

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

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

(d)  Failure or delay on the part of the Lender to demand compensation pursuant to this Section shall not constitute a waiver of the Lender’s right to demand such compensation; provided that the Borrower shall not be required to compensate the Lender pursuant to this Section for any increased costs or reductions incurred more than 270 days prior to the date that the Lender notifies the Borrower of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of the Lender’s intention to claim compensation therefor; provided further that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then the 270-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof.

SECTION 2.14.  Break Funding Payments.  In the event of (a) the payment of any principal of any Eurodollar Loan other than on the last day of an Interest Period applicable thereto (including as a result of an Event of Default or as a result of any prepayment pursuant to Section 2.09), (b) the conversion of any Eurodollar Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, or (c) the failure to borrow, convert, continue or prepay any Eurodollar Loan on the date specified in any notice delivered pursuant hereto (regardless of whether such notice may be revoked under Section 2.07(d) and is revoked in accordance therewith), then, in any such event, the Borrower shall compensate the Lender for the loss, cost and expense attributable to such event.  In the case of a Eurodollar Loan, such loss, cost or expense to the Lender shall be deemed to include an amount determined by the Lender to be the excess, if any, of (i) the amount of interest which would have accrued on the principal amount of such Eurodollar Loan had such event not occurred, at the Adjusted LIBO Rate that would have been applicable to such Eurodollar Loan, for the period from the date of such event to the last day of the then current Interest Period therefor (or, in the case of a failure to borrow, convert or continue, for the period that would have been the Interest Period for such Eurodollar Loan), over (ii) the amount of interest which would accrue on such principal amount for such period at the interest rate which the Lender would bid were it to bid, at the commencement of such period, for dollar deposits of a comparable amount and period from other banks in the eurodollar market.  A certificate of the Lender setting forth any amount or amounts that the 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 the Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate within ten (10) days after receipt thereof.

 

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SECTION 2.15.  Taxes.

 

(a)   Withholding Taxes; Gross-Up; Payments Free of Taxes.  Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower under any Loan Document shall be made without deduction or withholding for any Taxes, except as required by applicable law.  If any applicable law (as determined in the good faith discretion of an applicable withholding agent) requires the deduction or withholding of any Tax from any such payment by a withholding agent, then the applicable withholding agent shall be entitled to make such deduction or withholding and shall timely pay the full amount deducted or withheld to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law and, if such Tax is an Indemnified Tax, then the sum payable by the Borrower shall be increased as necessary so that after such deduction or withholding has been made (including such deductions and withholdings applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 2.15), the Lender receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deduction or withholding been made.

 

(b)   Payment of Other Taxes by the Borrower.  The Borrower shall timely pay to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law, or at the option of the Lender, timely reimburse it for, Other Taxes.

 

(c)   Evidence of Payment.  As soon as practicable after any payment of Taxes by the Borrower to a Governmental Authority pursuant to this Section 2.15, the Borrower shall deliver to the Lender 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 Lender.

 

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

 

(e)   Treatment of Certain Refunds.  If the Lender determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, that it has received a refund of any Taxes as to which it has been indemnified pursuant to this Section 2.15 (including by the payment of additional amounts pursuant to this Section 2.15), it shall pay to the indemnifying party an amount equal to such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made under this Section 2.15 with respect to the Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses (including Taxes) of the Lender and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund).  Such indemnifying party, upon the request of the Lender, shall repay to the Lender the amount paid to the Lender (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) in the event the Lender is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this paragraph (e), in no event will the Lender be required to pay any amount to any indemnifying party pursuant to this paragraph (e), the payment of which would place the Lender in a less favorable net after-Tax position than the Lender would have been in if the Tax subject to indemnification and giving rise to such refund had not been deducted, withheld or otherwise imposed and the indemnification payments or additional amounts giving rise to such refund had never been paid.  This paragraph (e) shall not be construed to require the Lender to make available its Tax returns (or any other information relating to its Taxes that it deems confidential) to the indemnifying party or any other Person.

 

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(f)    Survival.  Each party’s obligations under this Section 2.15 shall survive the resignation or replacement of the Lender or any assignment of rights by, or the replacement of, the Lender, the termination of the Commitment and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all obligations under any Loan Document.

 

(g)   Defined Terms.  For purposes of this Section 2.15, the term “applicable law” includes FATCA.

 

SECTION 2.16.  Payments Generally; Allocation of Proceeds.

(a)           The Borrower shall make each payment required to be made by it hereunder (whether of principal, interest, fees or reimbursement of LC Disbursements, or of amounts payable under Sections 2.13, 2.14 or 2.15, or otherwise) prior to 2:00 p.m., New York time, on the date when due, in immediately available funds, without set‐off or counterclaim.  Any amounts received after such time on any date may, in the discretion of the Lender, be deemed to have been received on the next succeeding Business Day for purposes of calculating interest thereon.  All such payments shall be made to the Lender at its offices at 500 Plum Street, Syracuse, New York or to such other location as the Lender may direct in writing.  Unless otherwise provided for herein, 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 shall be made in dollars.

(b)           Any proceeds of Collateral received by the Lender (i) not constituting either (A) a specific payment of principal, interest, fees or other sum payable under the Loan Documents (which shall be applied as specified by the Borrower), or (B) a mandatory prepayment (which shall be applied in accordance with Section 2.09) or (ii) after an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Lender so elects, such funds shall be applied ratably first, to pay any fees, indemnities, or expense reimbursements including amounts then due to the Lender from the Borrower, second, to pay interest then due and payable on the Loans ratably, third, to prepay principal on the Loans and unreimbursed LC Disbursements and to pay any amounts owing with respect to Swap Agreement Obligations, ratably, fourth, to pay an amount to the Lender equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the aggregate LC Exposure, to be held as cash collateral for such Obligations, fifth, to the payment of any amounts owing with respect to Banking Services Obligations, and sixth, to the payment of any other Secured Obligation due to the Lender from the Borrower or any other Loan Party. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, unless so directed by the Borrower, or unless a Default is in existence, the Lender shall not apply any payment which it receives to any Eurodollar Loan, except (i) on the expiration date of the Interest Period applicable thereto, or (ii) in the event, and only to the extent, that there are no outstanding CBFR Loans of the same Class and, in any such event, the Borrower shall pay the break funding payment required in accordance with Section 2.14. The Lender shall have the continuing and exclusive right to apply and reverse and reapply any and all such proceeds and payments to any portion of the Secured Obligations.

(c)           At the election of the Lender, all payments of principal, interest, LC Disbursements, fees, premiums, reimbursable expenses (including, without limitation, all reimbursement for fees, costs and expenses pursuant to Section 8.03), and other sums payable under the Loan Documents, may be paid from the proceeds of Borrowings made hereunder, whether made following a request by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.03 or a deemed request as provided in this Section or may be deducted from any deposit account of the Borrower maintained with the Lender.  The Borrower hereby irrevocably authorizes (i) the Lender to make a Borrowing for the purpose of paying each payment of principal, interest and fees as it becomes due hereunder or any other amount due under the Loan Documents and agrees that all such amounts charged shall constitute Loans, and that all such Borrowings shall be deemed to have been requested pursuant to Sections 2.03 and (ii) the Lender to charge any deposit account of the Borrower maintained with the Lender for each payment of principal, interest and fees as it becomes due hereunder or any other amount due under the Loan Documents.

 

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(d)           The Lender may from time to time provide the Borrower with account statements or invoices with respect to any of the Secured Obligations (the “Statements”).  The Lender is under no duty or obligation to provide Statements, which, if provided, will be solely for the Borrower’s convenience.  Statements may contain estimates of the amounts owed during the relevant billing period, whether of principal, interest, fees or other Secured Obligations.  If the Borrower pays the full amount indicated on a Statement on or before the due date indicated on such Statement, the Borrower shall not be in default of payment with respect to the billing period indicated on such Statement; provided, that acceptance by the Lender of any payment that is less than the total amount actually due at that time (including but not limited to any past due amounts) shall not constitute a waiver of the Lender’s right to receive payment in full at another time.

SECTION 2.17.  Indemnity for Returned Payments.  If after receipt of any payment which is applied to the payment of all or any part of the Obligations (including a payment effected through exercise of a right of setoff), the Lender is for any reason compelled to surrender such payment or proceeds to any Person because such payment or application of proceeds is invalidated, declared fraudulent, set aside, determined to be void or voidable as a preference, impermissible setoff, or a diversion of trust funds, or for any other reason (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the Lender in its discretion), then the Obligations or part thereof intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued and this Agreement shall continue in full force as if such payment or proceeds had not been received by the Lender.  The provisions of this Section 2.17 shall be and remain effective notwithstanding any contrary action which may have been taken by the Lender in reliance upon such payment or application of proceeds.  The provisions of this Section 2.17 shall survive the termination of this Agreement.

ARTICLE III

Representations and Warranties

Each Loan Party represents and warrants to the Lender that (and where applicable, agrees):

SECTION 3.01.  Organization; Powers.  Each Loan Party and each Subsidiary is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, has all requisite power and authority to carry on its business as now conducted and, except where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, is qualified to do business in, and is in good standing in, every jurisdiction where such qualification is required.

SECTION 3.02.  Authorization; Enforceability.  The Transactions to which a Loan Party is a party to or a participant therein are within each Loan Party’s organizational powers and have been duly authorized by all necessary organizational actions and, if required, actions by equity holders.  Each Loan Document to which a Loan Party is a party has been duly executed and delivered by such Loan Party and constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of such Loan Party, enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and subject to general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.

 

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SECTION 3.03.  Governmental Approvals; No Conflicts.  The Transactions (a) do not require any consent or approval of, registration or filing with, or any other action by, any Governmental Authority, except such as have been obtained or made and are in full force and effect and except for filings necessary to perfect Liens created pursuant to the Loan Documents, (b) will not violate any Requirement of Law applicable to any Loan Party or any Subsidiary, (c) will not violate or result in a default under any indenture, agreement or other instrument binding upon any Loan Party or any Subsidiary or the assets of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary, or give rise to a right thereunder to require any payment to be made by any Loan Party or any Subsidiary, and (d) will not result in the creation or imposition of any Lien on any asset of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary, except Liens created pursuant to the Loan Documents.

SECTION 3.04.  Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change.

(a)   The Borrower has heretofore furnished to the Lender its consolidated balance sheet and statements of income, stockholders equity and cash flows (i) as of and for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2015, reported on by BDO USA, LLP, independent public accountants, and (ii) as of and for the fiscal quarter and the portion of the fiscal year ended September 30, 2016, certified by a Financial Officer.  Such financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations and cash flows of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of such dates and for such periods in accordance with GAAP, subject to normal year‐end audit adjustments all of which, when taken as a whole, would not be materially adverse and the absence of footnotes in the case of the statements referred to in clause (ii) above.

(b)   No event, change or condition has occurred that has had, or could reasonably be expected to have, a Material Adverse Effect, since December 31, 2015.

SECTION 3.05.  Properties.

(a)   As of the date of this Agreement, Schedule 3.05 sets forth the address of each parcel of real property located in the United States that is owned or leased by any Loan Party containing Collateral having a value in excess of $75,000.  Each of such leases and subleases is valid and enforceable in accordance with its terms and is in full force and effect and, to the knowledge of the Loan Party which is the counterparty to such lease or sublease, no default by any party to any such lease or sublease exists.  Each of the Loan Parties and each Subsidiary has good and indefeasible title to, or valid leasehold interests in, all of its real and personal property, free of all Liens other than those permitted by Section 6.02.

(b)   Each Loan Party and each Subsidiary owns, or is licensed to use, all trademarks, tradenames, copyrights, patents and other intellectual property that are reasonably necessary to its business as currently conducted, a correct and complete list of which, as of the date of this Agreement, is set forth on Schedule 3.05 and, to the knowledge of the Loan Parties, the use thereof by each Loan Party and each Subsidiary does not infringe upon the rights held by any other Person, and each Loan Party’s and each Subsidiary’s rights thereto are not subject to any licensing agreement or similar arrangement.

SECTION 3.06.  Litigation and Environmental Matters.

(a)   There are no actions, suits or proceedings by or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority pending against or, to the knowledge of any Loan Party, threatened against or affecting any Loan Party or any Subsidiary (i) as to which there is a reasonable possibility of an adverse determination and that, if adversely determined, could reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect (other than the Disclosed Matters set forth on Schedule 3.06) or (ii) that involve any Loan Document or the Transactions.

 

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(b)  Except for the Disclosed Matters, (i) no Loan Party or any Subsidiary has received notice of any claim with respect to any Environmental Liability or knows of any basis for any Environmental Liability and (ii) and except with respect to any other matters that, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, no Loan Party or any  Subsidiary (A) has failed to comply with any Environmental Law or to obtain, maintain or comply with any permit, license or other approval required under any Environmental Law (B) has become subject to any Environmental Liability, (C) has received notice of any claim with respect to any Environmental Liability or (D) knows of any basis for any Environmental Liability.

(c)   Since the date of this Agreement, there has been no change in the status of the Disclosed Matters that, individually or in the aggregate, has resulted in, or materially increased the likelihood of, a Material Adverse Effect.

SECTION 3.07.  Compliance with Laws and Agreements; No Default.  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 Loan Party and each Subsidiary is in compliance with (i) all Requirements of Law applicable to it or its property and (ii) all indentures, agreements and other instruments binding upon it or its property.  No Default has occurred and is continuing.

SECTION 3.08.  Investment Company Status.  No Loan Party or any Subsidiary is an “investment company” as defined in, or subject to regulation under, the Investment Company Act of 1940.

SECTION 3.09.  Taxes.  Each Loan Party and each Subsidiary has timely filed or caused to be filed all Tax returns and reports required to be filed and has paid or caused to be paid all Taxes required to be paid by it, except (a) Taxes that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which such Loan Party or such Subsidiary, as applicable, has set aside on its books adequate reserves or (b) to the extent that the failure to do so could not be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.  No tax liens have been filed and no claims are being asserted with respect to any such taxes.

SECTION 3.10   ERISA.  No ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur that, when taken together with all other such ERISA Events for which liability is reasonably expected to occur, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.  The present value of all accumulated benefit obligations under each Plan (based on the assumptions used for purposes of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 87) did not, as of the date of the most recent financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 5.01 (a) or Section 5.01(b) reflecting such amounts, exceed by more than $1,000,000 the fair market value of the assets of such Plan, and the present value of all accumulated benefit obligations of all underfunded Plans (based on the assumptions used for purposes of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 87) did not, as of the date of the most recent financial statements reflecting such amounts, exceed by more than $1,000,000  the fair market value of the assets of all such underfunded Plans.

SECTION 3.11.  Disclosure.  The Loan Parties have disclosed to the Lender all agreements, instruments and corporate or other restrictions to which any Loan Party or any Subsidiary is subject, and all other matters known to it, that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.  None of the reports, financial statements, certificates or other information furnished by or on behalf of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary to the Lender in connection with the negotiation of this Agreement or any other Loan Document (as modified or supplemented by other information so furnished) contains any material misstatement of fact or omits to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided that, with respect to projected financial information, the Loan Parties represent only that such information was prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable at the time delivered and, if such projected financial information was delivered prior to the Effective Date, as of the Effective Date.

 

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SECTION 3.12.  Material Agreements.  No Loan Party or any Subsidiary is in default in the performance, observance or fulfillment of any of the obligations, covenants or conditions contained in (i) any material agreement to which it is a party, other than defaults which could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, or (ii) any agreement or instrument evidencing or governing Indebtedness.

SECTION 3.13.  Solvency.  Immediately after the consummation of the Transactions to occur on the Effective Date, (i) the fair value of the assets of each Loan Party, at a fair valuation, will exceed its debts and liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise; (ii) the present fair saleable value of the property of each Loan Party will be greater than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of its debts and other liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as such debts and other liabilities become absolute and matured; (iii) each Loan Party will be able to pay its debts and liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as such debts and liabilities become absolute and matured; and (iv) no Loan Party will have unreasonably small capital with which to conduct the business in which it is engaged as such business is now conducted and is proposed to be conducted after the Effective Date.

SECTION 3.14.  Insurance.  Schedule 3.14 sets forth a description of all property and liability insurance maintained by or on behalf of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries as of the Effective Date.  As of the Effective Date, all premiums in respect of such insurance have been paid.  The Loan Parties believe that the insurance maintained by or on behalf of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries is adequate and is customary for companies engaged in the same or similar businesses operating in the same or similar locations.

SECTION 3.15. Capitalization and Subsidiaries.  Schedule 3.15 sets forth (a) a correct and complete list of the name and relationship to the Borrower of each Subsidiary, (b) a true and complete listing of each class of each of the Borrower’s authorized Equity Interests, of which all of such issued Equity Interests are validly issued, outstanding, fully paid and non-assessable, and owned beneficially and of record by the Persons identified on Schedule 3.15, and (c) the type of entity of the Borrower and each Subsidiary.  All of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests owned by any Loan Party have been (to the extent such concepts are relevant with respect to such ownership interests) duly authorized and issued and are fully paid and non‐assessable.

SECTION 3.16. Security Interest in Collateral.  The provisions of this Agreement and, subject to any filings, stampings and registrations necessary to create and/or perfect the Lien granted by the other Loan Documents, the other Loan Documents create legal and valid Liens on all the Collateral in favor of the Lender, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and such Liens constitute perfected and continuing Liens on the Collateral, securing the Secured Obligations, enforceable against the applicable Loan Party and all third parties, and having priority over all other Liens on the Collateral except in the case of (a) Permitted Encumbrances, to the extent any such Permitted Encumbrances would have priority over the Liens in favor of the Lender pursuant to any applicable law or agreement and (b) Liens perfected only by possession (including possession of any certificate of title), to the extent the Lender has not obtained or does not maintain possession of such Collateral.

 

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SECTION 3.17. Employment Matters.  As of the Effective Date, there are no strikes, lockouts or slowdowns against any Loan Party or any Subsidiary pending or, to the knowledge of any Loan Party, threatened.  The hours worked by and payments made to employees of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries have not been in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act or any other applicable federal, state, local or foreign law dealing with such matters.  All payments due from any Loan Party or any Subsidiary, or for which any claim may be made against any Loan Party or any Subsidiary, on account of wages and employee health and welfare insurance and other benefits, have been paid or accrued as a liability on the books of such Loan Party or such Subsidiary.

SECTION 3.18.  Federal Reserve Regulations.  No part of the proceeds of any Loan or Letter of Credit has been used or will be used, whether directly or indirectly, for any purpose that entails a violation of any of the Regulations of the Board, including Regulations T, U and X.

SECTION 3.19.  Use of Proceeds.  The proceeds of the Loans have been used and will be used, whether directly or indirectly as set forth in Section 5.08.

SECTION 3.20.  No Burdensome Restrictions.  No Loan Party is subject to any Burdensome Restrictions except Burdensome Restrictions permitted under Section 6.10.

SECTION 3.21.  Anti-Corruption Laws and Sanctions.  Each Loan Party has implemented and maintains in effect policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance by such Loan Party, its Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents with Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions, and such Loan Party, its Subsidiaries and their respective officers and employees and to the knowledge of such Loan Party its directors and agents, are in compliance with Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions in all material respects.  None of (a) any Loan Party, any Subsidiary or, to the knowledge of any such Loan Party or Subsidiary, any of their respective directors, officers or employees, or (b) to the knowledge of any such Loan Party or Subsidiary, any agent of such Loan Party or any Subsidiary that will act in any capacity in connection with or benefit from the credit facility established hereby, is a Sanctioned Person.   No Borrowing or Letter of Credit, use of proceeds, Transaction or other transaction contemplated by this Agreement or the other Loan Documents will violate Anti-Corruption Laws or applicable Sanctions.

SECTION 3.22.  Affiliate Transactions.  Except as set forth on Schedule 3.22, as of the date of this Agreement, there are no existing or proposed agreements, arrangements, understandings, or transactions between any Loan Party and any of the officers, members, managers, directors, stockholders, parents, holders of other Equity Interests, employees, or Affiliates (other than Subsidiaries) of any Loan Party or any members of their respective immediate families, and none of the foregoing Persons are directly or indirectly indebted to or have any direct or indirect ownership, partnership, or voting interest in any Affiliate of any Loan Party or any Person with which any Loan Party has a business relationship or which competes with any Loan Party.

SECTION 3.23.  Common Enterprise..  The successful operation and condition of each of the Loan Parties is dependent on the continued successful performance of the functions of the group of the Loan Parties as a whole and the successful operation of each of the Loan Parties is dependent on the successful performance and operation of each other Loan Party.  Each Loan Party expects to derive benefit (and its board of directors or other governing body has determined that it may reasonably be expected to derive benefit), directly and indirectly, from (i) successful operations of each of the other Loan Parties and (ii) the credit extended by the Lender to the Borrower hereunder, both in their separate capacities and as members of the group of companies.  Each Loan Party has determined that execution, delivery, and performance of this Agreement and any other Loan Documents to be executed by such Loan Party is within its purpose, will be of direct and indirect benefit to such Loan Party, and is in its best interest.

 

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ARTICLE IV

Conditions

SECTION 4.01.  Effective Date.  The obligations of the Lender to make Loans and to issue Letters of Credit hereunder shall not become effective until the date on which each of the following conditions is satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 8.02):

(a)   Credit Agreement and Loan Documents.  The Lender (or its counsel) shall have received (i) from each party hereto either (A) a counterpart of this Agreement signed on behalf of such party or (B) written evidence satisfactory to the Lender (which may include fax or other electronic transmission of a signed signature page of this Agreement) that such party has signed a counterpart of this Agreement and (ii) duly executed copies of the Loan Documents and such other certificates, documents, instruments and agreements as the Lender shall reasonably request in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, including a written opinion of the Loan Parties’ counsel, addressed to the Lender in substantially the form of Exhibit A.

(b)   Closing Certificates; Certified Certificate of Incorporation; Good Standing Certificates.  The Lender shall have received (i) a certificate of each Loan Party, dated the Effective Date and executed by its Secretary or Assistant Secretary, which shall (A) certify the resolutions of its Board of Directors, members or other body authorizing the execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents to which it is a party, (B) identify by name and title and bear the signatures of the officers of such Loan Party authorized to sign the Loan Documents to which it is a party and, in the case of the Borrower, its Financial Officers, and (C) contain appropriate attachments, including the charter, articles or certificate of organization or incorporation of each Loan Party certified as true and correct by the Secretary or Assistant Secretary,  and a true and correct copy of its by-laws or operating, management or partnership agreement, or other organizational or governing documents, or a certification that there have been no changes to the foregoing since the last date copies were furnished to the Lender, and (ii) a long form good standing certificate for each Loan Party from its jurisdiction of organization.

(c)   No Default Certificate.  The Lender shall have received a certificate, signed by a Financial Officer of the Borrower, dated as of the Effective Date (i) stating that no Default has occurred and is continuing, (ii) stating that the representations and warranties contained in the Loan Documents are true and correct as of such date (it being understood and agreed that any representation or warranty which by its terms is made as of a specified date shall be required to be true and correct only as of such specified date), and (iii) certifying as to any other factual matters as may be reasonably requested by the Lender.

(d)  Fees.  The Lender shall have received all fees required to be paid, and all expenses required to be reimbursed for which invoices have been presented (including the reasonable fees and expenses of legal counsel), on or before the Effective Date.  All such amounts will be paid with proceeds of Loans made on the Effective Date and will be reflected in the funding instructions given by the Borrower to the Lender on or before the Effective Date.

(e)   Lien Searches.  The Lender shall have received the results of a recent lien search in the jurisdiction of organization of each Loan Party and each jurisdiction where assets of the Loan Parties are located, and such search shall reveal no Liens on any of the assets of the Loan Parties except for liens permitted by Section 6.02 or discharged on or prior to the Effective Date pursuant to a pay-off letter or other documentation satisfactory to the Lender.

 

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(f)   Pay-off Letters.  The Lender shall have received satisfactory pay-off letters for all existing Indebtedness required to be repaid and which confirms that all Liens upon any of the property of the Loan Parties constituting Collateral will be terminated concurrently with such payment and all letters of credit issued or guaranteed as part of such Indebtedness shall have been cash collateralized or supported by a Letter of Credit.

 

(g)   Funding Account.  The Lender shall have received a notice setting forth the deposit account of the Borrower (the “Funding Account”) to which the Lender is authorized by the Borrower to transfer the proceeds of any Borrowings requested or authorized pursuant to this Agreement.

(h)   Collateral Access and Control Agreements.  The Lender shall have received each of (i) a Collateral Access Agreement required to be provided pursuant to the Security Agreement and (ii) a deposit account control agreement required to be provided pursuant to the Security Agreement.

(i)    Borrowing Base Certificate.  The Lender shall have received a Borrowing Base Certificate which calculates the Borrowing Base as of the end of the month immediately preceding the Effective Date.

 

(j)    Pledged Equity Interests; Stock Powers; Notes.  The Lender shall have received (i) the certificates representing the Equity Interests pledged pursuant to the Security Agreement, together with an undated stock power for each such certificate executed in blank by a duly authorized officer of the pledgor thereof and (ii) each promissory note (if any) pledged to the Lender pursuant to the Security Agreement endorsed (without recourse) in blank (or accompanied by an executed transfer form in blank) by the pledgor thereof.

(k)   Filings, Registrations and Recordings.  Each document (including any Uniform Commercial Code financing statement) required by the Collateral Documents or under law or reasonably requested by the Lender to be filed, registered or recorded in order to create in favor of the Lender, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a perfected Lien on the Collateral described therein, prior and superior in right to any other Person (other than with respect to Liens expressly permitted by Section 6.02), shall be in proper form for filing, registration or recordation.

 

(l)    Insurance.  The Lender shall have received evidence of insurance coverage in form, scope, and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Lender and otherwise in compliance with the terms of Section 5.10 of this Agreement and the Security Agreement.

(m)  USA PATRIOT Act, Etc.  The Lender shall have received all documentation and other information required by bank regulatory authorities under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including USA PATRIOT Act, and a properly completed and signed IRS Form W-8 or W-9, as applicable, for each Loan Party.

(n)   Other Documents.  The Lender shall have received such other documents as the Lender or its counsel may have reasonably requested.

The Lender shall notify the Borrower of the Effective Date, and such notice shall be conclusive and binding.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the obligations of the Lender to make Loans and to issue Letters of Credit hereunder shall not become effective unless each of the foregoing conditions is satisfied (or waived pursuant to Section 8.02).

 

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SECTION 4.02.  Each Credit Event.  The obligation of the Lender to make a Loan on the occasion of any Borrowing, and to issue, amend, renew or extend any Letter of Credit, is subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions:

(a)   The representations and warranties of the Borrower set forth in this Agreement shall be true and correct in all material respects with the same effect as though made on and as of the date of such Borrowing or the date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of such Letter of Credit, as applicable (it being understood and agreed that any representation or warranty which by its terms is made as of a specified date shall be required to be true and correct in all material respects only as of such specified date).

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

(c)   After giving effect to any Borrowing or the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit, Availability shall not be less than zero.

(d)   No event shall have occurred and no condition shall exist which has or could be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Each Borrowing and each issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of a 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 paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and(d) of this Section.

ARTICLE V

Affirmative Covenants

Until the Commitment shall have expired or been terminated and the principal of and interest on each Loan and all fees payable hereunder shall have been paid in full and all Letters of Credit shall have expired or terminated, in each case without any pending draw, and all LC Disbursements shall have been reimbursed, each Loan Party executing this Agreement covenants and agrees, jointly and severally with all of the other Loan Parties, with the Lender that:

SECTION 5.01.  Financial Statements; Borrowing Base and Other Information.  The Borrower will furnish to the Lender:

(a)   within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower, its audited consolidated balance sheet and related statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows as of the end of and for such year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year, all reported on by BDO USA, LLP or other independent public accountants of recognized national standing (without a “going concern” or like qualification, commentary or exception, and without any qualification or exception as to the scope of such audit) to the effect that such consolidated financial statements present fairly in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP consistently applied;

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

 

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(c)   concurrently with any delivery of financial statements under clause (a) or (b) above (collectively or individually, as the context requires, the “Financial Statements”), a certificate of a Financial Officer in substantially the form of Exhibit D (i) certifying, in the case of the Financial Statements delivered under clause (b) above, as presenting fairly in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP consistently applied, subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes, (ii) certifying as to whether a Default has occurred and, if a Default has occurred, specifying the details thereof and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto, (iii) setting forth reasonably detailed calculations demonstrating compliance with Section 6.12 and, concurrently with the delivery of Financial Statements under clause (a) above, Sections 6.04(c)(ii), 6.04(d)(ii) and 6.04(e)(ii),  and (iv) stating whether any change in GAAP or in the application thereof has occurred since the date of the audited financial statements referred to in Section 3.04 and, if any such change has occurred, specifying the effect of such change on the Financial Statements accompanying such certificate;

 

(d)   concurrently with any delivery of Financial Statements under clause (a) above, a certificate of the accounting firm that reported on such Financial Statements stating whether they obtained knowledge during the course of their examination of such Financial Statements of any Default (which certificate may be limited to the extent required by accounting rules or guidelines);

 

(e)   as soon as available, but in any event no later than 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower, a copy of the plan and forecast (including a projected consolidated and consolidating balance sheet, income statement and cash flow statement) of the Borrower for the upcoming fiscal year (the “Projections”) in form reasonably satisfactory to the Lender;

 

(f)    as soon as available but in any event within 20 days of the end of each calendar month, and at such other times as may be requested by the Lender, as of the period then ended, a Borrowing Base Certificate and supporting information in connection therewith, together with any additional reports with respect to the Borrowing Base as the Lender may reasonably request;

 

(g)   as soon as available but in any event within 20 days of the end of each calendar month, and at such other time or times as may be requested by the Lender, as of the period then ended, all delivered in a format acceptable to the Lender:

(i)         a detailed aging of the Borrower's Accounts (1) including all invoices aged by invoice date and due date (with an explanation of the terms offered) and (2) reconciled to the Borrowing Base Certificate delivered as of such date prepared in a manner reasonably acceptable to the Lender, together with a summary specifying the name, address, and balance due for each Account Debtor;

(ii)        a schedule detailing the Borrower's Inventory, in form satisfactory to the Lender, (1) by location (showing Inventory in transit, any Inventory located with a third party under any consignment, bailee arrangement, or warehouse agreement), by class (raw material, work-in-process and finished goods), by product type, and by volume on hand, which Inventory shall be valued at the lower of cost (determined on a first-in, first-out basis) or market, (2) including a report of any variances or other results of Inventory counts performed by the Borrower since the last Inventory schedule (including information regarding sales or other reductions, additions, returns, credits issued by Borrower and complaints and claims made against the Borrower), and (3) reconciled to the Borrowing Base Certificate delivered as of such date;

 

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(iii)       a worksheet of calculations prepared by the Borrower to determine Eligible Accounts and Eligible Inventory, such worksheets detailing the Accounts and Inventory excluded from Eligible Accounts and Eligible Inventory and the reason for such exclusion; and

(iv)       a reconciliation of the Borrower's Accounts and Inventory between the amounts shown in the Borrower's general ledger and financial statements and the reports delivered pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) above;

(h)   at such time or times as may be reasonably requested by the Lender, as of the period so requested, a schedule and aging of the Borrower’s accounts payable, delivered in a format acceptable to the Lender;

(i)    promptly upon the Lender’s request:

(i)         copies of invoices in connection with the invoices issued by the Borrower in connection with any Accounts, credit memos, shipping and delivery documents, and other information related thereto;

(ii)        copies of purchase orders, invoices, and shipping and delivery documents in connection with any Inventory or Equipment purchased by any Loan Party; and

(iii)       a schedule detailing the balance of all intercompany accounts of the Loan Parties;

(j)    at such time or times as may be reasonably requested by the Lender, the Borrower’s sales journal, cash receipts journal (identifying trade and non-trade cash receipts) and debit memo/credit memo journal;

(k)   promptly upon the Lender’s reasonable request, copies of all tax returns filed by any Loan Party with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service;

(l)    at such time or times as may be requested by the Lender, a current customer list for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, which list shall state the customer’s name, mailing address and phone number and shall be certified as true and correct by a Financial Officer of the Borrower;

(m)  promptly after the same become publicly available, copies of all periodic and other reports, proxy statements and other materials filed by any Loan Party or any Subsidiary with the SEC, or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any or all of the functions of the SEC, or with any national securities exchange, as the case may be; and

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

 

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Information or financial statements required to be delivered pursuant to clauses (a), (b) or (m) of this Section 5.01 shall be deemed to have been delivered if such information or financial statements are available on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov and the Borrower has notified Lender of the posting of such document.

SECTION 5.02.  Notices of Material Events.  The Borrower will furnish to the Lender prompt (but in any event within any time period that may be specified below) written notice of the following:

(a)   the occurrence of any Default;

(b)   receipt of any notice of any investigation by a Governmental Authority or any litigation or proceeding commenced or threatened against any Loan Party or any Subsidiary  that, if adversely determined, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;

(c)   any Lien (other than Permitted Encumbrances) or claim made or asserted against any of the Collateral;

(d)   any loss, damage, or destruction to the Collateral in the amount of $1,000,000 or more if not fully covered by insurance;

(e)   the occurrence of any ERISA Event that, alone or together with any other ERISA Events that have occurred, could reasonably be expected to result in liability of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount exceeding $1,000,000; and

(f)    any other development that results in, or could reasonably be expected to result in, a Material Adverse Effect.

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

SECTION 5.03.  Existence; Conduct of Business.  Each Loan Party will, and will cause each Subsidiary to, (a) do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect its legal existence, (b) take all reasonable action to maintain all the rights, qualifications, licenses, permits, franchises, governmental authorizations, intellectual property rights, licenses and permits material to the conduct of its business, except to the extent that the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and (c) maintain all requisite authority to conduct its business in each jurisdiction in which its business is conducted, except to the extent that the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; provided that the foregoing shall not prohibit any merger, consolidation, liquidation or dissolution permitted under Section 6.03 and (d) carry on and conduct its business in substantially the same manner and in substantially the same fields of enterprise as it is presently conducted.

 

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SECTION 5.04.  Payment of Obligations.  Each Loan Party will, and will cause each Subsidiary to, pay or discharge all Material Indebtedness and all other material liabilities and obligations, including Taxes, before the same shall become delinquent or in default, except where (a) the validity or amount thereof is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings, (b) such Loan Party or such Subsidiary has set aside on its books adequate reserves with respect thereto in accordance with GAAP and (c) the failure to make payment pending such contest could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; provided, however, that each Loan Party will, and will cause each Subsidiary to,  remit withholding taxes and other payroll taxes to appropriate Governmental Authorities as and when claimed to be due, notwithstanding the foregoing exceptions.

SECTION 5.05.  Maintenance of Properties.  Each Loan Party will, and will cause each Subsidiary to, keep and maintain all property material to the conduct of its business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted.

SECTION 5.06.  Books and Records; Inspection Rights.  Each Loan Party will, and will cause each Subsidiary to, (a) keep proper books of record and account in which true and correct entries in conformity with GAAP consistently applied shall be made of all financial dealings and transactions in relation to its business and activities and (b) permit any representatives designated by the Lender (including employees of the Lender or any consultants, accountants, lawyers, agents and appraisers retained by the Lender), upon reasonable prior notice, to visit and inspect its properties, conduct at the Loan Party’s premises field examinations of the Loan Party’s assets, liabilities, books and records, including examining and making extracts from its books and records, and to discuss its affairs, finances and condition with its officers and independent accountants, all at such reasonable times and as often as reasonably requested.  The Loan Parties acknowledge that the Lender, after exercising its rights of inspection, may prepare certain Reports pertaining to the Loan Parties’ assets for internal use by the Lender.

SECTION 5.07.  Compliance with Laws and Material Contractual Obligations.  Each Loan Party will, and will cause each Subsidiary to, (i) comply with each Requirement of Law applicable to it or its property (including, without limitation, Environmental Laws) and (ii) perform in all material respects its obligations under material agreements to which it is a party, except, in each case, where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. Each Loan Party will maintain in effect and enforce policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance by such Loan Party, its Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents with Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions.

SECTION 5.08.  Use of Proceeds and Letters of Credit.

(a)           The proceeds of the Loans will be used only for working capital and Permitted Acquisitions.  No part of the proceeds of any Loan and no Letter of Credit will be used, whether directly or indirectly, to finance an acquisition other than a Permitted Acquisition or for any purpose that entails a violation of any of the Regulations of the Board, including Regulations T, U and X.  Letters of Credit will be issued only for general corporate purposes.

(b)           The Borrower will not request any Borrowing or Letter of Credit, and the Borrower shall not use, and shall procure that its Subsidiaries and its or their respective directors, officers, employees and agents shall not use, the proceeds of any Borrowing or Letter of Credit (a) in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment or giving of money, or anything else of value, to any Person in violation of any Anti-Corruption Laws, (b) for the purpose of funding, financing or facilitating any activities, business or transaction of or with any Sanctioned Person, or in any Sanctioned Country, to the extent such activities, businesses or transaction would be prohibited by Sanctions if conducted by a corporation incorporated in the United States or the European Union, or (c) in any manner that would result in the violation of any Sanctions applicable to any party hereto.

 

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SECTION 5.09.  Accuracy of Information.  The Loan Parties will ensure that any information, including financial statements or other documents, furnished to the Lender in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document or any amendment or modification hereof or thereof or waiver hereunder or thereunder contains no material misstatement of fact or omits to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and the furnishing of such information shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty by the Borrower on the date thereof as to the matters specified in this Section 5.09; provided that, with respect to the Projections, the Loan Parties will cause the Projections to be prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable at the time.

SECTION 5.10.  Insurance. Each Loan Party will, and will cause each Subsidiary to, maintain with financially sound and reputable carriers having a financial strength rating of at least A- by A.M. Best Company (a) insurance in such amounts (with no greater risk retention) and against such risks (including, without limitation, loss or damage by fire and loss in transit; theft, burglary, pilferage, larceny, embezzlement, and other criminal activities; business interruption; and general liability) and such other hazards, as is customarily maintained by companies of established repute engaged in the same or similar businesses operating in the same or similar locations and (b) all insurance required pursuant to the Collateral Documents.  The Borrower will furnish to the Lender information in reasonable detail as to the insurance so maintained.

SECTION 5.11.  Casualty and Condemnation.  The Borrower (a) will furnish to the Lender prompt written notice of any casualty or other insured damage to any material portion of the Collateral or the commencement of any action or proceeding for the taking of any material portion of the Collateral or interest therein under power of eminent domain or by condemnation or similar proceeding and (b) will ensure that the Net Proceeds of any such event (whether in the form of insurance proceeds, condemnation awards or otherwise) are collected and applied in accordance with the applicable provisions of this Agreement and the Collateral Documents

SECTION 5.12.  Depository Banks.  The Borrower and each Subsidiary will maintain the Lender as its principal depository bank in the United States, including for the maintenance of operating, administrative, cash management, collection activity, and other domestic deposit accounts for the conduct of its business.

SECTION 5.13.  Additional Collateral; Further Assurances.

(a)   Subject to applicable Requirements of Law, each Loan Party will cause each of its Domestic Subsidiaries formed or acquired after the date of this Agreement to become a Loan Party by executing a Joinder Agreement. Upon execution and delivery thereof, each such Person (i) shall automatically become a Loan Guarantor hereunder and thereupon shall have all of the rights, benefits, duties, and obligations in such capacity under the Loan Documents and (ii) will grant Liens to the Lender, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, in any property of such Loan Party which constitutes Collateral.  If, at any time, an Excluded Domestic Subsidiary, which is not a Loan Party solely because it does not meet the fair market value threshold, commences business operations and has total assets with a fair market value in excess of $250,000.00, the Borrower shall notify the Lender in writing, and such Excluded Domestic Subsidiary shall be designated a Loan Party and comply with the provisions of this Section 5.13.

 

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(b)   Each Loan Party will cause (i) 100% of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of each Domestic Subsidiary and (ii) 65% of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests entitled to vote (within the meaning of Treas. Reg. Section 1.956-2(c)(2)) and 100% of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests not entitled to vote (within the meaning of Treas. Reg. Section 1.956-2(c)(2)) in each Foreign Subsidiary directly owned by the Borrower or any Domestic Subsidiary to be subject at all times to a first priority, perfected Lien in favor of the Lender, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Loan Documents or other security documents as the Lender shall reasonably request.

 

(c)   Without limiting the foregoing, each Loan Party will, and will cause each Domestic Subsidiary to, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to the Lender such documents, agreements and instruments, and will take or cause to be taken such further actions (including the filing and recording of financing statements and other documents and such other actions or deliveries of the type required by Section 4.01, as applicable), which may be required by any Requirement of Law or which the Lender may, from time to time, reasonably request to carry out the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and to ensure perfection and priority of the Liens created or intended to be created by the Collateral Documents, all at the expense of the Loan Parties.

 

(d)   If any material assets of the same type or nature as those comprising Collateral are acquired by the Borrower or any Domestic Subsidiary that is a Loan Party after the Effective Date (other than assets constituting Collateral under the Security Agreement that become subject to the Lien in favor of the Lender under the Security Agreement upon acquisition thereof), the Borrower will (i) notify the Lender and, if requested by the Lender, cause such assets to be subjected to a Lien securing the Secured Obligations and (ii) take, and cause each applicable Loan Party to take, such actions as shall be necessary or reasonably requested by the Lender to grant and perfect such Liens, including actions described in paragraph (c) of this Section, all at the expense of the Loan Parties.

SECTION 5.14   Additional Subsidiaries..  No later than thirty days after the end of each fiscal year, Borrower shall furnish the Lender an updated Schedule 3.15 to reflect the formation of any Subsidiaries during such fiscal year permitted by this Agreement, which updated Schedule 3.15 shall contain the information required under Section 3.15 of this Agreement.

ARTICLE VI

Negative Covenants

Until the Commitment shall have expired or been terminated and the principal of and interest on each Loan and all fees, expenses and other amounts payable under any Loan Document shall have been paid in full and all Letters of Credit shall have expired or been terminated, in each case without any pending draw, and all LC Disbursements shall have been reimbursed, each Loan Party executing this Agreement covenants and agrees, jointly and severally with all of the other Loan Parties, with the Lender that:

SECTION 6.01.  Indebtedness.  No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Indebtedness, except:

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(b)   Indebtedness existing on the date hereof and set forth in Schedule 6.01 and any extensions, renewals, refinancings and replacements of any such Indebtedness in accordance with clause (f) hereof.  With regard to Borrower’s obligations under the Repurchase Agreement (including, without limitation, contingent obligations such as late charges, indemnification obligations, costs and/or expenses), there shall be a reserve in the current amount of $775,000 against the Borrowing Base for the repurchase Obligations of Partech, Inc., as guarantor, to Wells Fargo Financial Leasing, Inc. under the Equipment Finance Agreements (“Equipment Repurchase Reserve”), which reserve amount shall decrease by $50,000 each quarter commencing January 1, 2017 (i.e. so that the amount of the reserve for the first quarter of 2017 shall be $725,000).  Until ParTech, Inc.’s obligations under the Repurchase Agreement are terminated, Accounts owing by the Equipment Finance Obligor (including affiliates of the Equipment Finance Obligor) shall not be deemed an Eligible Account, and (c) Borrower shall provide Lender with prompt notice of any Repurchase Event (as defined in the Repurchase Agreement) or any act by Wells Fargo to enforce (in any manner) the Repurchase Agreement against ParTech, Inc.  The consent by Lender to the Repurchase Agreement is provided as a one-time accommodation to the Loan Parties, and Lender is not, by virtue of this consent, waiving, and has no present intention of waiving, any other provisions of this Agreement, except with respect to those matters expressly identified herein.

(c)   Indebtedness of the Borrower to any Subsidiary and of any Subsidiary to the Borrower or any other Subsidiary, provided that (i) Indebtedness of any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party to the Borrower or to any Subsidiary that is a Loan Party shall be subject to Section 6.04 and (ii) Indebtedness of the Borrower to any Subsidiary and Indebtedness of any Subsidiary that is a  Loan Party to any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party shall be subordinated to the Secured Obligations on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Lender;

 

(d)  Guarantees by the Borrower of Indebtedness of any Subsidiary and by any Subsidiary of Indebtedness of the Borrower or any other Subsidiary, provided that (i) the Indebtedness so Guaranteed is permitted by this Section 6.01, (ii) Guarantees by the Borrower or any Subsidiary that is a Loan Party of Indebtedness of any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party shall be subject to Section 6.04 and (iii) Guarantees permitted under this clause (d) shall be subordinated to the Secured Obligations of the applicable Subsidiary on the same terms as the Indebtedness so Guaranteed is subordinated to the Secured Obligations;

(e)   Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Subsidiary incurred to finance the acquisition, construction or improvement of any fixed or capital assets (whether or not constituting purchase money Indebtedness), including Capital Lease Obligations and any Indebtedness assumed in connection with the acquisition of any such assets or secured by a Lien on any such assets prior to the acquisition thereof, and extensions, renewals and replacements of any such Indebtedness in accordance with clause (f) below; provided that (i) such Indebtedness is incurred prior to or within 90 days after such acquisition or the completion of such construction or improvement and (ii) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness permitted by this clause (e) together with any Refinance Indebtedness in respect thereof permitted by clause (g) below, shall not exceed $1,000,000 at any time outstanding;

(f)    Indebtedness of the Borrower incurred in connection with a Permitted Acquisition, provided that, at any point in time the then total aggregate outstanding principal balance of Indebtedness incurred in connection with all Permitted Acquisitions does not exceed $7,500,000 for the term of this Agreement;

(g)   Indebtedness which represents extensions, renewals, refinancing or replacements (such Indebtedness being so extended, renewed, refinanced or replaced being referred to herein as the “Refinance Indebtedness”) of any of the Indebtedness described in clauses (b) and (e) hereof (such Indebtedness being referred to herein as the “Original Indebtedness”); provided that (i) such Refinance Indebtedness does not increase the principal amount or interest rate of the Original Indebtedness, (ii) any Liens securing such Refinance Indebtedness are not extended to any additional property of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary, (iii) no Loan Party or any Subsidiary that is not originally obligated with respect to repayment of such Original Indebtedness is required to become obligated with respect to such Refinance Indebtedness, (iv) such Refinance Indebtedness does not result in a shortening of the average weighted maturity of such Original Indebtedness, (v) the terms of such Refinance Indebtedness other than fees and interests are not less favorable to the obligor thereunder than the original terms of such Original Indebtedness and (vi) if such Original Indebtedness was subordinated in right of payment to the Secured Obligations, then the terms and conditions of such Refinance Indebtedness must include subordination terms and conditions that are at least as favorable to the Lender as those that were applicable to such Original Indebtedness;

 

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(h)   Indebtedness owed to any Person providing workers’ compensation, health, disability or other employee benefits or property, casualty or liability insurance, pursuant to reimbursement or indemnification obligations to such Person, in each case incurred in the ordinary course of business;

 

(i)    Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Subsidiary in respect of performance bonds, bid bonds, appeal bonds, surety bonds and similar obligations, in each case provided in the ordinary course of business;

(j)    Subordinated Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $1,000,000 at any time outstanding; and

(k)   Other unsecured Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $500,000 at any time outstanding.

SECTION 6.02.  Liens.  No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Lien on any property or asset now owned or hereafter acquired by it, or assign or sell any income or revenues (including Accounts) or rights in respect of any thereof, except:

(a)   Liens created pursuant to any Loan Document;

(b)   Permitted Encumbrances;

(c)   any Lien on any property or asset of the Borrower or any Subsidiary existing on the date hereof and set forth in Schedule 6.02; provided that (i) such Lien shall not apply to any other property or asset of the Borrower or any Subsidiary and (ii) such Lien shall secure only those obligations which it secures on the date hereof and extensions, renewals and replacements thereof that do not increase the outstanding principal amount thereof;

(d)   Liens on fixed or capital assets acquired, constructed or improved by the Borrower or any Subsidiary; provided that (i) such Liens secure Indebtedness permitted by clause (e) of Section 6.01, (ii) such Liens and the Indebtedness secured thereby are incurred prior to or within 90 days after such acquisition or the completion of such construction or improvement, (iii) the Indebtedness secured thereby does not exceed 100% of the cost of acquiring, constructing or improving such fixed or capital assets and (iv) such Liens shall not apply to any other property or assets of the Borrower or any Subsidiary;

(e)   any Lien existing on any property or asset (other than Accounts and Inventory) prior to the acquisition thereof by the Borrower or any Subsidiary or existing on any property or asset (other than Accounts and Inventory) of any Person that becomes a Loan Party after the date hereof prior to the time such Person becomes a Loan Party; provided that (i) such Lien is not created in contemplation of or in connection with such acquisition or such Person becoming a Loan Party, as the case may be, (ii) such Lien shall not apply to any other property or assets of the Loan Party and (iii) such Lien shall secure only those obligations which it secures on the date of such acquisition or the date such Person becomes a Loan Party, as the case may be, and extensions, renewals and replacements thereof that do not increase the outstanding principal amount thereof;

 

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(f)   any Lien relating to, or in the nature of, a consignment of raw materials to the Borrower or any Subsidiary, provided (i) the Lien does not continue in existence once the raw materials are used or acquired by the Borrower or any Subsidiary and (ii) the consigned materials subject to the Lien are not included in the Borrowing Base;

 

(g)   Liens of a collecting bank arising in the ordinary course of business under Section 4 208 of the UCC in effect in the relevant jurisdiction covering only the items being collected upon;

(h)   Liens arising out of Sale and Leaseback Transactions permitted by Section 6.06; and

(i)    Liens granted by a Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party in favor of the Borrower or another Loan Party in respect of Indebtedness owed by such Subsidiary.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of the Liens permitted pursuant to this Section 6.02 may at any time attach to any Loan Party’s (1) Accounts, other than those permitted under clause (a) of the definition of Permitted Encumbrances and clause (a) above and (2) Inventory, other than those permitted under clauses (a) and (b) of the definition of Permitted Encumbrances and clause (a) above.

 

SECTION 6.03.  Fundamental Changes.

(a)   No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, merge into or consolidate with any other Person, or permit any other Person to merge into or consolidate with it, or liquidate or dissolve, except that, if at the time thereof and immediately after giving effect thereto no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (i) any Subsidiary of the Borrower may merge into the Borrower in a transaction in which the Borrower is the surviving entity, (ii) any Loan Party (other than the Borrower) may merge into any other Loan Party in a transaction in which the surviving entity is a Loan Party, (iii) any Loan Party (other than the Borrower) may sell, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of its assets to another Loan Party, and (iv) any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party may liquidate or dissolve if the Borrower determines in good faith that such liquidation or dissolution is in the best interests of the Borrower and is not materially disadvantageous to the Lender; provided that any such merger involving a Person that is not a wholly owned Subsidiary immediately prior to such merger shall not be permitted unless also permitted by Section 6.04.

(b)   No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, engage to any material extent in any business other than businesses of the type conducted by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on the date hereof and businesses reasonably related thereto.

(c)   Subject to the provisions of Excluded Domestic Subsidiary definition, including, as applicable, the provisions of Section 5.13(a), no Excluded Domestic Subsidiary shall (i) engage in any business or other commercial activities, (ii) own total assets with a fair market value of more than $250,000

 

(d)   , (iii) incur any Indebtedness or (iv) grant any Liens over any of its assets; provided, that, notwithstanding the foregoing, each Excluded Domestic Subsidiary may maintain its company’s corporate existence.

SECTION 6.04.  Investments, Loans, Advances, Guarantees and Acquisitions.  No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, form any subsidiary after the Effective Date, or purchase, hold or acquire (including pursuant to any merger with any Person that was not a Loan Party and a wholly owned Subsidiary prior to such merger) any capital stock, evidences of indebtedness or other securities (including any option, warrant or other right to acquire any of the foregoing) of, make or permit to exist any loans or advances to, Guarantee any obligations of, or make or permit to exist any investment or any other interest in, any other Person, or purchase or otherwise acquire (in one transaction or a series of transactions) any assets of any other Person constituting a business unit (whether through purchase of assets, merger or otherwise), except:

 

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(a)   Permitted Investments, subject to control agreements in favor of the Lender or otherwise subject to a perfected security interest in favor of the Lender;

(b)   loans and investments in existence on the date hereof and described in Schedule 6.04;

(c)   investments by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries in Equity Interests in their respective Subsidiaries, provided that (i) any such Equity Interests held by a Loan Party shall be pledged pursuant to the Security Agreement (subject to the limitations applicable to Equity Interests of a Foreign Subsidiary referred to in Section 5.13) and (ii) the aggregate amount of investments by Loan Parties in Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties (together with outstanding intercompany loans permitted under Section 6.04(d) and outstanding Guarantees permitted under Section 6.04(e)) shall not exceed $1,000,000 at any time outstanding (in each case determined without regard to any write-downs or write-offs);

(d)   loans or advances made by any Loan Party to any Subsidiary and made by any Subsidiary to a Loan Party or any other Subsidiary, provided that (i) any such loans and advances made by a Loan Party to a Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party (other than loans and advances made to PAR Canada, ULC and ParTech (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.) shall be evidenced by a promissory note pledged pursuant to the Security Agreement and (ii)(A) the amount of such loans and advances made by Loan Parties to Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties, other than PAR Canada, ULC and ParTech (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (together with outstanding investments permitted under Section 6.04(c) and outstanding Guarantees permitted under Section 6.04(e)) shall not exceed $1,000,000 at any time outstanding (in each case determined without regard to any write-downs or write-offs) and (B) the amount of such loans and advances made by the Loan Parties to PAR Canada, ULC and ParTech (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate in any calendar year;

(e)   Guarantees constituting Indebtedness permitted by Section 6.01, provided that the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness of Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties that is Guaranteed by any Loan Party (together with outstanding investments permitted under clause (ii) to the proviso to Section 6.04(c) and outstanding intercompany loans permitted under clause (ii) to the proviso to Section 6.04(d)) shall not exceed $1,000,000 at any time outstanding (in each case determined without regard to any write-downs or write-offs);

(f)    loans or advances made by a Loan Party to its employees on an arms-length basis in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practices for travel and entertainment expenses, relocation costs and similar purposes up to a maximum of $250,000.00 in the aggregate at any one time outstanding;

(g)   notes payable, or stock or other securities issued by Account Debtors to a Loan Party pursuant to negotiated agreements with respect to settlement of such Account Debtor’s Accounts in the ordinary course of business, consistent with past practices;

(h)   investments in the form of Swap Agreements permitted by Section 6.07;

 

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(i)    investments of any Person existing at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary of the Borrower or consolidates or merges with the Borrower or any Subsidiary (including in connection with a Permitted Acquisition), so long as such investments were not made in contemplation of such Person becoming a Subsidiary or of such merger;

(j)    investments received in connection with the disposition of assets permitted by Section 6.05;

(k)   investments constituting deposits described in clauses (c) and (d) of the definition of the term “Permitted Encumbrances”; and

(l)    Permitted Acquisitions provided that the total amount paid (via Indebtedness, cash or other means) in connection with Permitted Acquisitions shall not exceed $7,500,000.

SECTION 6.05.  Asset Sales.  No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, sell, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of any asset, including any Equity Interest owned by it, nor will the Borrower permit any Subsidiary to issue any additional Equity Interest in such Subsidiary (other than to the Borrower or another Subsidiary in compliance with Section 6.04), except:

 

(a)   sales, transfers and dispositions of (i) Inventory in the ordinary course of business and (ii) obsolete, worn out or surplus Equipment or property in the ordinary course of business;

 

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

 

(c)   sales, transfers and dispositions of Accounts (excluding sales or dispositions in a factoring arrangement) in connection with the compromise, settlement or collection thereof;

 

(d)   sales, transfers and dispositions of Permitted Investments and other investments permitted by clauses (i) and (k) of Section 6.04

 

(e)   Sale and Leaseback Transactions permitted by Section 6.06;

 

(f)   dispositions resulting from any casualty or other insured damage to, or any taking under power of eminent domain or by condemnation or similar proceeding of, any property or asset of the Borrower or any Subsidiary; and

(g)   sales, transfers and other dispositions of assets (other than Equity Interests in a Subsidiary unless all Equity Interests in such Subsidiary are sold) that are not permitted by any other clause of this Section, provided that the aggregate fair market value of all assets sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of in reliance upon this paragraph (g) shall not exceed $100,000 during any fiscal year of the Borrower;

provided that all sales, transfers, leases and other dispositions permitted under this Section 6.05 (other than those permitted by paragraphs (b), (d) and (f) above) shall be made for fair value and for cash consideration.

 

SECTION 6.06.  Sale and Leaseback Transactions.  No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, enter into any arrangement, directly or indirectly, whereby it shall sell or transfer any property, real or personal, used or useful in its business, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, and thereafter rent or lease such property or other property that it intends to use for substantially the same purpose or purposes as the property sold or transferred (a “Sale and Leaseback Transaction”), except for any such sale of any fixed or capital assets by the Borrower or any Subsidiary that is made for cash consideration in an amount not less than the fair value of such fixed or capital asset and is consummated within 90 days after the Borrower or such Subsidiary acquires or completes the construction of such fixed or capital asset.

 

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SECTION 6.07.  Swap Agreements.  No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, enter into any Swap Agreement, except (a) Swap Agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business to hedge or mitigate risks to which the Borrower or any Subsidiary has actual exposure (other than those in respect of Equity Interests of the Borrower or any Subsidiary), and (b) Swap Agreements entered into in order to effectively cap, collar or exchange interest rates (from floating to fixed rates, from one floating rate to another floating rate or otherwise) with respect to any interest-bearing liability or investment of the Borrower or any Subsidiary.

 

SECTION 6.08.  Restricted Payments; Certain Payments of Indebtedness.

 

(a)   No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, declare or make, or agree to pay or make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment, or incur any obligation (contingent or otherwise) to do so, except (i) the Borrower may declare and pay dividends with respect to its common stock payable solely in additional shares of its common stock, (ii) Subsidiaries may declare and pay dividends ratably with respect to their Equity Interests, (iii) the Borrower may make Restricted Payments pursuant to and in accordance with stock option plans or other benefit plans for management or employees of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, and (iv) the Borrower may make payments of cash dividends with respect to its common stock, so long as (A) as of the date of any such payment and after giving effect thereto, no Default or Event of Default shall exist and (B) both before and after giving effect to any such payment, on a pro forma basis, Availability shall not be less than 17.5% of the Commitment.

(b)   No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, make or agree to pay or make, directly or indirectly, any payment or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) of or in respect of principal of or interest on any Indebtedness, or any payment or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any Indebtedness, except:

 

(i)    payment of Indebtedness created under the Loan Documents;

 

(ii)   payment of regularly scheduled interest and principal payments as and when due in respect of any Indebtedness permitted under Section 6.01, other than payments in respect of the Subordinated Indebtedness prohibited by the subordination provisions thereof;

 

(iii)  refinancing’s of Indebtedness to the extent permitted by Section 6.01; and

 

(iv)  payment of secured Indebtedness that becomes due as a result of the voluntary sale or transfer of the property or assets securing such Indebtedness to the extent such sale or transfer is permitted by the terms of Section 6.05.

 

SECTION 6.09.  Transactions with Affiliates.  No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, sell, lease or otherwise transfer any property or assets to, or purchase, lease or otherwise acquire any property or assets from, or otherwise engage in any other transactions with, any of its Affiliates, except (a) transactions that (i) are in the ordinary course of business and (ii) are at prices and on terms and conditions not less favorable to such Loan Party or such Subsidiary than could be obtained on an arm’s-length basis from unrelated third parties, (b) transactions between or among the Loan Parties not involving any other Affiliate, (c) any investment permitted by Sections 6.04(b), 6.04(c) or 6.04(d), (d) any Indebtedness permitted under Section 6.01(c), (e) any Restricted Payment permitted by Section 6.08, (f) loans or advances to employees permitted under Section 6.04(f), (g) the payment of reasonable fees to directors of the Borrower or any Subsidiary who are not employees of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, and compensation and employee benefit arrangements paid to, and indemnities provided for the benefit of, directors, officers or employees of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business and (h) any issuances of securities or other payments, awards or grants in cash, securities or otherwise pursuant to, or the funding of, employment agreements, stock options and stock ownership plans approved by the Borrower’s board of directors.

 

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SECTION 6.10.  Restrictive Agreements.  No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, enter into, incur or permit to exist any agreement or other arrangement that prohibits, restricts or imposes any condition upon (a) the ability of such Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries to create, incur or permit to exist any Lien upon any of its property or assets, or (b) the ability of any Subsidiary to pay dividends or other distributions with respect to any Equity Interests or to make or repay loans or advances to the Borrower or any other Subsidiary or to Guarantee Indebtedness of the Borrower or any other Subsidiary; provided that (i) the foregoing shall not apply to restrictions and conditions imposed by any Requirement of Law or by any Loan Document, (ii) the foregoing shall not apply to restrictions and conditions existing on the date hereof identified on Schedule 6.10 (but shall apply to any extension or renewal of, or any amendment or modification expanding the scope of, any such restriction or condition), (iii) the foregoing shall not apply to customary restrictions and conditions contained in agreements relating to the sale of a Subsidiary pending such sale, provided such restrictions and conditions apply only to the Subsidiary that is to be sold and such sale is permitted hereunder, (iv) clause (a) of the foregoing shall not apply to restrictions or conditions imposed by any agreement relating to secured Indebtedness permitted by this Agreement if such restrictions or conditions apply only to the property or assets securing such Indebtedness and (v) clause (a) of the foregoing shall not apply to customary provisions in leases and other contracts restricting the assignment thereof.

SECTION 6.11. Amendment of Material Documents.  No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, amend, modify or waive any of its rights under (a)  any agreement relating to any Subordinated Indebtedness, or (b) its charter, articles or certificate of organization or incorporation, bylaws, operating, management or partnership agreement or other organizational or governing documents, to the extent any such amendment, modification or waiver could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

SECTION 6.12. Financial Covenants.

(a)           Consolidated Indebtedness Ratio.  The Borrower will not permit the Consolidated Indebtedness Ratio, measured at the end of each fiscal quarter for the period of the four fiscal quarters most recently ended, to be greater than 3.0 to 1.0.

(b)           Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio.  The Borrower will not permit the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio, determined for any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters ending at the end of each fiscal quarter, to be less than (i) 1.15 to 1.0 for the quarter ending December 31, 2016 (to be tested at the end of such fiscal quarter only in the event Borrower’s total Consolidated Indebtedness equals or exceeds $5,000,000 at such time) or (ii) 1.25 to 1.0 for the quarter ending March 31, 2017 and each quarter thereafter (to be tested without regard to the level of Borrower’s Consolidated Indebtedness).

 

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ARTICLE VII

Events of Default

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

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

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

(c)  any representation or warranty made or deemed made by or on behalf of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary in or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document or any amendment or modification hereof or thereof or waiver hereunder or thereunder, or in any report, certificate, financial statement or other document furnished pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document or any amendment or modification hereof or thereof or waiver hereunder or thereunder, shall prove to have been materially incorrect when made or deemed made;

(d)  any Loan Party shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement contained in Section 5.02(a), 5.03 (with respect to a Loan Party’s existence) or 5.08 or in Article VI;

(e)  any Loan Party shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement contained in this Agreement (other than those specified in clause (a), (b) or (d)), and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of (i) 5 days after the earlier of any Loan Party’s knowledge of such breach or notice thereof from the Lender if such breach relates to terms or provisions of Section 5.01, 5.02 (other than Section 5.02(a)), (ii) 15 days after the earlier of any Loan Party’s knowledge of such breach or notice thereof from the Lender if such breach relates to terms or provisions of Section 5.03,  5.07, 5.11 and 5.13 of this Agreement or (ii) 30 days after the earlier of any Loan Party’s knowledge of such breach or notice thereof from the Lender if such breach relates to terms or provisions of any other Section of this Agreement;

(f)   any Loan Party or any Subsidiary shall fail to make any payment (whether of principal or interest and regardless of amount) in respect of any Material Indebtedness, when and as the same shall become due and payable after giving effect to applicable grace periods;

(g)  any event or condition occurs that results in any Material Indebtedness becoming due prior to its scheduled maturity or that enables or permits (with or without the giving of notice, the lapse of time or both) the holder or holders of any Material Indebtedness or any trustee or agent on its or their behalf to cause any Material Indebtedness to become due, or to require the prepayment, repurchase, redemption or defeasance thereof, prior to its scheduled maturity; provided that this clause (g) shall not apply to secured Indebtedness that becomes due as a result of the voluntary sale or transfer of the property or assets securing such Indebtedness to the extent such sale or transfer is permitted by the terms of Section 6.05;

 

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

(i)   any Loan Party or any Subsidiary of any Loan Party shall (i) voluntarily commence any proceeding or file any petition seeking liquidation, reorganization or other similar relief under any federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law now or hereafter in effect, (ii) consent to the institution of, or fail to contest in a timely and appropriate manner, any proceeding or petition described in clause (h) of this Article, (iii) apply for or consent to the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar official for such Loan Party or Subsidiary of any Loan Party or for a material part of its assets, (iv) file an answer  admitting the material allegations of a petition filed against it in any such proceeding, (v) make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors or (vi) take any action for the purpose of effecting any of the foregoing;

(j)   any Loan Party or any Subsidiary of any Loan Party shall become unable, admit in writing its inability, or publicly declare its intention not to, or fail generally, to pay its debts as they become due;

(k)  one or more judgments for the payment of money in an aggregate amount in excess of $1,000,000 shall be entered against any Loan Party, any Subsidiary of any Loan Party or any combination thereof and the same shall remain undischarged for a period of 30 consecutive days during which execution shall not be effectively stayed, or any action shall be legally taken by a judgment creditor to attach or levy upon any assets of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary of any Loan Party to enforce any such judgment or any Loan Party or any Subsidiary of any Loan Party shall fail within 30 days to discharge one or more non-monetary judgments or orders which, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, which judgments or orders, in any such case, are not stayed on appeal or otherwise being appropriately contested in good faith by proper proceedings diligently pursued;

(l)   an ERISA Event shall have occurred that, in the opinion of the Lender, when taken together with all other ERISA Events that have occurred, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;

(m)  a Change in Control shall occur;

(n)  the occurrence of any “default”, as defined in any Loan Document (other than this Agreement), or the breach of any of the terms or provisions of any Loan Document (other than this Agreement), which default or breach continues beyond any period of grace therein provided;

(o)  the Loan Guaranty shall fail to remain in full force or effect or any action shall be taken to discontinue or to assert the invalidity or unenforceability of the Loan Guaranty, or any Loan Guarantor shall fail to comply with any of the terms or provisions of the Loan Guaranty to which it is a party, or any Loan Guarantor shall deny that it has any further liability under the Loan Guaranty to which it is a party, or shall give notice to such effect, including, but not limited to notice of termination delivered pursuant to Section 9.08;

 

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(p)  except as permitted by the terms of any Collateral Document (and as set forth herein), (i) any Collateral Document shall for any reason fail to create a valid and perfected first priority security interest in any Collateral purported to be covered thereby, or (ii) any Lien securing any Secured Obligation shall cease to be a valid and perfected first priority Lien, except to the extent that the loss of any such perfection or priority results from the failure of the Lender to maintain possession of certificates actually delivered to it representing securities pledged under the Collateral Documents or to file Uniform Commercial Code financing statements or continuation statements or other equivalent filings;

(q)  any Collateral Document shall fail to remain in full force or effect or any action shall be taken to discontinue or to assert the invalidity or unenforceability of any Collateral Document, or any Loan Party shall fail to comply with any of the terms or provisions of any Collateral Document; or

(r)   any material provision of any Loan Document for any reason ceases to be valid, binding and enforceable in accordance with its terms (or any Loan Party shall challenge the enforceability of any Loan Document or shall assert in writing, or engage in any action or inaction that evidences its assertion, that any provision of any of the Loan Documents has ceased to be or otherwise is not valid, binding and enforceable in accordance with its terms); then, and in every such event (other than an event with respect to the Borrower described in clause (h) or (i) of this Article), and at any time thereafter during the continuance of such event, the Lender may, by notice to the Borrower, take either or both of the following actions, at the same or different times:  (i) terminate the Commitment, whereupon the Commitment shall terminate immediately, and (ii) declare the Loans then outstanding to be due and payable in whole or in part, whereupon the principal of the Loans so declared to be due and payable, together with accrued interest thereon and all fees (including Prepayment Fees) and other obligations of the Borrower accrued hereunder, shall become due and payable immediately, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by the Borrower; and in the case of any event with respect to the Borrower described in clause (h) or (i) of this Article, the Commitment shall automatically terminate and the principal of the Loans then outstanding, together with accrued interest thereon and all fees (including Prepayment Fees) and other obligations of the Borrower accrued hereunder, shall automatically become due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by the Borrower.  The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that the Prepayment Fee referred to in this Article VII (i) is additional consideration for providing the Commitment, (ii) constitutes reasonable liquidated damages to compensate the Lender for (and is a proportionate quantification of) the actual loss of the commitment fees upon a termination of the Commitment (such damages being otherwise impossible to ascertain or even estimate for various reasons, including, without limitation, because such damages would depend on, among other things, future changes in interest rates which are not readily ascertainable on the Closing Date), and (iii) is not a penalty to punish the Borrower for its termination of the Commitment or for the occurrence of any Event of Default or acceleration.  Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, the Lender may increase the rate of interest applicable to the Loans and other Obligations as set forth in this Agreement and exercise any rights and remedies provided to the Lender under the Loan Documents or at law or equity, including all remedies provided under the UCC.

 

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ARTICLE VIII

Miscellaneous

SECTION 8.01.  Notices.

(a)   Except in the case of notices and other communications expressly permitted to be given by telephone (and subject to paragraph (b) 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 fax, as follows:

	 	
(i) if to any Loan Party, to it in care of the Borrower at:

	 	 	
Par Technology Corporation

	 	 	
8383 Seneca Turnpike

	 	 	
New Hartford, New York  13413-4991

	 	 	
Attention: Principal Financial Officer

	 	 	
Fax No: (315) 735-4191

	 	
(ii) if to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. at:

	 	 	 
	 	 	
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

	 	 	
Middle Market Servicing

	 	 	
10 South Dearborn, Floor L2S

	 	 	
Chicago, IL  60603-2300

	 	 	
Attention: Muoy Lim

	 	 	
Fax No: (888) 303-9732

	 	
With a copy to:

	 	 
	 	
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

	 	
Bridgewater Place

	 	
500 Plum Street, Floor 7

	 	
Syracuse, New York 13204

	 	
Attention: Jean Lamardo

	 	
Facsimile No: (315) 424-1898

All such notices and other communications (i) sent by hand or overnight courier service, or mailed by certified or registered mail, shall be deemed to have been given when received, (ii) sent by fax shall be deemed to have been given when sent, provided that if not given during normal business hours of the recipient, such notice or communication shall be deemed to have been given at the opening of business on the next Business Day for the recipient, or (iii) delivered through electronic communication to the extent provided in paragraph (b) below shall be effective as provided in such paragraph.

(b)  Notices and other communications to the Lender hereunder may be delivered or furnished by electronic communications (including e-mail and internet or intranet websites) pursuant to procedures approved by the Lender; provided that the foregoing shall not apply to notices pursuant to Article II or to compliance and no Default certificates delivered pursuant to Sections 5.01(c) unless otherwise agreed by the Lender.  Each of the Lender or the Borrower (on behalf of the Loan Parties) 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.  All such notices and other communications (i) 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), provided that if not given during the normal business hours of the recipient, such notice or communication shall be deemed to have been given at the opening of business on the next Business Day for the recipient, and (ii) 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 website address therefor; provided that, for both clauses (i) and (ii) above, if such notice, e-mail 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 of the recipient.

 

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

SECTION 8.02.  Waivers; Amendments.

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

(b)  Neither this Agreement nor any other Loan Document nor any provision hereof or thereof may be waived, amended or modified except (i) in the case of this Agreement, pursuant to an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by the Borrower and the Lender or (ii) in the case of any other Loan Document, pursuant to an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by the Lender and the Loan Party or Loan Parties that are parties thereto.

SECTION 8.03.  Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver.

(a)  The Loan Parties, jointly and severally, shall pay all (i) reasonable out‐of‐pocket expenses incurred by the Lender and its Affiliates, including the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of counsel for the Lender (whether outside counsel or the allocated costs of its internal legal department), in connection with the credit facilities provided for herein, the preparation and administration of the Loan Documents and any amendments, modifications or waivers of the provisions of the Loan Documents (whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby shall be consummated), (ii) reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Lender in connection with the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or any demand for payment thereunder and (iii) within ten (10) Business Days of receipt of invoice, reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Lender, including the fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for the Lender (whether outside counsel or the allocated costs of its internal legal department), in connection with the enforcement, collection or protection of its rights in connection with the Loan Documents, including its rights under this Section, or in connection with the Loans made or Letters of Credit issued hereunder, including all such reasonable out-of‐pocket expenses incurred during any workout, restructuring or negotiations in respect of such Loans or Letters of Credit.  All of such costs and expenses may be charged to the Borrower as Loans or to any deposit account maintained by a Loan Party with the Lender, all as described in Section 2.16(c).  Expenses being reimbursed by the Loan Parties under this Section include, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, fees, costs and expenses incurred in connection with:

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(B)          field examinations and the preparation of Reports based on the fees charged by a third party retained by the Lender or the internally allocated fees for each Person employed by the Lender with respect to each field examination;

(C)          background checks regarding senior management and/or key investors, as deemed necessary or appropriate in the sole discretion of the Lender;

(D)         Taxes, fees and other charges for (i) lien and title searches and title insurance and (ii) recording the Mortgages, filing financing statements and continuations, and other actions to perfect, protect, and continue the Lender’s Liens;

(E)          sums paid or incurred to take any action required of any Loan Party under the Loan Documents that such Loan Party fails to pay or take; and

(F)          forwarding loan proceeds, collecting checks and other items of payment, and establishing and maintaining the accounts and lock boxes, and costs and expenses of preserving and protecting the Collateral.

All of the foregoing fees, costs and expenses may be charged to the Borrower as Loans or to another deposit account, all as described in Section 2.16(c).

(b)  The Loan Parties, jointly and severally, shall indemnify the Lender, and each Related Party of the Lender (each such Person being called an “Indemnitee”) against, and hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any and all losses, claims, damages, penalties, incremental taxes, liabilities and related expenses, including the fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for any Indemnitee, incurred by or asserted against any Indemnitee arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of (i) the execution or delivery of the Loan Documents or any agreement or instrument contemplated thereby, the performance by the parties hereto of their respective obligations thereunder or the consummation of the Transactions or any other transactions contemplated hereby, (ii) any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use of the proceeds therefrom (including any refusal by the 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), (iii) any actual or alleged presence or Release of Hazardous Materials on or from any property owned or operated by a Loan Party or a Subsidiary, or any Environmental Liability related in any way to a Loan Party or Subsidiary, (iv) the failure of a Loan Party to deliver to the Lender the required receipts or other required documentary evidence with respect to a payment made by such Loan Party for Taxes pursuant to Section 2.15(c), or (v) any actual or prospective claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, whether or not such claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding is brought by any Loan Party or their respective equity holders, Affiliates, creditors or any other third Person and whether based on contract, tort or any other theory and regardless of whether any Indemnitee is a party thereto; provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, penalties, liabilities or related expenses are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from (x) the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee or (y) a claim brought by any Loan Party against an Indemnitee for breach in bad faith of such Indemnitee’s obligations under this Agreement or under any other Loan Document . This Section 8.03(b) shall not apply with respect to Taxes other than any Taxes that represent losses or damages arising from any non-Tax claim.

(c)  To the extent permitted by applicable law, no Loan Party shall assert, and each Loan Party hereby waives, any claim against any Indemnitee, (i) for any damages arising from the use by others of information or other materials obtained through telecommunications, electronic or other information transmission systems (including the Internet), or (ii) on any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of, this Agreement, any other Loan Document, or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby, the Transactions, any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use of the proceeds thereof; provided that, nothing in this paragraph (c) shall relieve any Loan Party of any obligation it may have to indemnify an Indemnitee against special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages asserted against such Indemnitee by a third party.

 

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(d)  Except as otherwise expressly provided for in this Section 8.03, all amounts due under this Section shall be payable promptly after written demand therefor.

SECTION 8.04.  Successors and Assigns.

(a)  The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby (including any Affiliate of the Lender that issues any Letter of Credit), except that the Borrower may not assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of the Lender (and any attempted assignment or transfer by the Borrower without such consent shall be null and void).  Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto, their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby (including any Affiliate of the Lender that issues any Letter of Credit), Participants (to the extent provided in paragraph (c) of this Section) and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Related Parties of the Lender) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.

(b)(i)  The Lender may assign to one or more assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and the Loans at the time owing to it) with the prior written consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld) of:

the Borrower, provided that the Borrower shall be deemed to have consented to any such assignment unless it shall object thereto by written notice to the Lender within 5 Business Days after having received notice thereof, and provided further that no consent of the Borrower shall be required for an assignment to an Affiliate of the Lender, an Approved Fund or, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, any other assignee;

For the purposes of this Section 8.04(b), the term “Approved Fund” has the following meaning:

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

(c)  The Lender may, without the consent of the Borrower, sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (a “Participant”) in all or a portion of the Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and Letters of Credit and the Loans owing to it); provided that (i) the Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged; (ii) the Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations; and (iii) the Borrower shall continue to deal solely and directly with the Lender in connection with the Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement.  The Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.13, 2.14 and 2.15 (subject to the requirements and limitations therein) to the same extent as if it were the Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to paragraph (b) of this Section; provided that such Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 2.13 or 2.15, with respect to any participation, than its participating Lender would have been entitled to receive, except to the extent such entitlement to receive a greater payment results from a Change in Law that occurs after the Participant acquired the applicable participation.2

 

 

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To the extent permitted by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 8.08 as though it were the Lender. If the Lender shall sell a participation, it shall, acting solely for this purpose as an agent of the Borrower, maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of each Participant and the principal amounts (and stated interest) of each Participant’s interest in the Loans or other obligations under this Agreement or any other Loan Document (the “Participant Register”); provided that the Lender shall have no obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register (including the identity of any Participant or any information relating to a Participant’s interest in any Commitment, Loans, Letters of Credit or its other obligations under any Loan Document) to any Person except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish that such Commitment, Loan, Letter of Credit or other obligation is in registered form under Section 5f.103-1(c) of the U.S. Treasury Regulations.  The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and the Lender shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of such participation for all purposes of this Agreement notwithstanding any notice to the contrary.

(d)  The Lender may at any time pledge or assign a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement to secure obligations of the Lender, including without limitation any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank, and this Section shall not apply to any such pledge or assignment of a security interest; provided that no such pledge or assignment of a security interest shall release the Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for the Lender as a party hereto.

SECTION 8.05.  Survival.  All covenants, agreements, representations and warranties made by the Loan Parties in the Loan Documents and in the certificates or other instruments delivered in connection with or pursuant to this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall be considered to have been relied upon by the other parties hereto and shall survive the execution and delivery of the Loan Documents and the making of any Loans and issuance of any Letters of Credit, regardless of any investigation made by any such other party or on its behalf and notwithstanding that the Lender may have had notice or knowledge of any Default or incorrect representation or warranty at the time any credit is extended hereunder, and shall continue in full force and effect as long as the principal of or any accrued interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount payable under this Agreement is outstanding and unpaid or any Letter of Credit is outstanding and so long as the Commitment has not expired or terminated.  The provisions of Sections 2.13, 2.14, 2.15 and Section 8.03 shall survive and remain in full force and effect regardless of the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, the repayment of the Loans, the expiration or termination of the Letters of Credit and the Commitment or the termination of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or any provision hereof or thereof.

SECTION 8.06.  Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness; Electronic Execution.

(a)   This Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto on different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract.  This Agreement, the other Loan Documents and any separate letter agreements with respect to fees payable to the Lender constitute the entire contract among the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersede any and all previous agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof.  Except as provided in Section 4.01, this Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the Lender and when the Lender shall have received counterparts hereof which, when taken together, bear the signatures of each of the other parties hereto, and thereafter shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns.

 

 

	
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(b)  Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Agreement by fax, emailed pdf. or any other electronic means that reproduces an image of the actual executed signature page shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement.  The words “execution,” “signed,” “signature,” “delivery,” and words of like import in or relating to any  document to be signed in connection with this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby shall be deemed to include Electronic Signatures, deliveries or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature, physical delivery thereof or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, to the extent and as provided for in any applicable law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act, or any other similar state laws based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act.

SECTION 8.07.  Severability.  Any provision of any Loan Document held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability without affecting the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions thereof; and the invalidity of a particular provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate such provision in any other jurisdiction.

SECTION 8.08.  Right of Setoff.  If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Lender and each of its Affiliates is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final) at any time held and other obligations at any time owing by the Lender or any Affiliate to or for the credit or the account of the Borrower or such Loan Guarantor against any of and all the Secured Obligations, irrespective of whether or not the Lender shall have made any demand under the Loan Documents and although such obligations may be unmatured.  The rights of the Lender under this Section are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) which the Lender may have.

SECTION 8.09.  Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process.

(a)   The Loan Documents (other than those containing a contrary express choice of law provision) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, but giving effect to federal laws applicable to national banks.

(b)  Each Loan Party hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for itself and its property, to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of any U.S. federal or New York State court sitting in New York State in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to any Loan Documents, or for recognition or enforcement of any judgment, and each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that all claims in respect of any such action or proceeding may be heard and determined in such New York State court or, to the extent permitted by law, in such federal court.  Each of the parties hereto agrees that a final judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law.  Nothing in this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall affect any right that the Lender may otherwise have to bring any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document against any Loan Party or its proper-ties in the courts of any jurisdiction.

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

 

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(d)   Each party to this Agreement irrevocably consents to service of process in the manner provided for notices in Section 8.01.  Nothing in this Agreement or any other Loan Document will affect the right of any party to this Agreement to serve process in any other manner permitted by applicable law.

SECTION 8.10.  WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL.  EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY).  EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE OR OTHER AGENT (INCLUDING ANY ATTORNEY) OF ANY OTHER PARTY HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION.

SECTION 8.11.  Headings.  Article and Section headings and the Table of Contents used herein are for convenience of reference only, are not part of this Agreement and shall not affect the construction of, or be taken into consideration in interpreting, this Agreement.

 

SECTION 8.12.  Confidentiality.  The Lender agrees to maintain the confidentiality of the Information (as defined below), except that Information may be disclosed (a) to its and its Affiliates’ directors, officers, employees and agents, including accountants, legal counsel and other advisors (it being understood that (i) the Persons to whom such disclosure is made will be informed of the confidential nature of such Information and instructed to keep such Information confidential) and (ii) the Lender shall be responsible for a breach of this Section 8.12 by any such Person to whom such disclosure is made),, (b) to the extent requested by any Governmental Authority (including any self-regulatory authority, such as the National Association of Insurance Commissioners), (c) to the extent required by any Requirement of Law or by any subpoena or similar legal process, (d) to any other party to this Agreement, (e) in connection with the exercise of any remedies hereunder or under any other Loan Document or any suit, action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the enforcement of rights hereunder or thereunder, (f) subject to an agreement containing provisions substantially the same as those of this Section, to (x) any assignee of or Participant in, or any prospective assignee of or Participant in, any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement or (y) any actual or prospective counterparty (or its advisors) to any swap or derivative transaction relating to the Loan Parties and their obligations, (g) with the consent of the Borrower, or (h) to the extent such Information (x) becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this Section or (y) becomes available to the Lender on a non-confidential basis from a source other than the Borrower or any Subsidiary or Affiliate of the Borrower.   For the purposes of this Section, “Information” means all information received from the Borrower or any Subsidiary or Affiliate of the Borrower relating to the Borrower or its Subsidiaries’ or their respective businesses, other than any such information that is (1) available to the Lender on a non-confidential basis prior to disclosure by the Borrower or (2) that is publicly disclosed by the Borrower or any Subsidiary or Affiliate of the Borrower.  Any Person required to maintain the confidentiality of Information as provided in this Section shall be considered to have complied with its obligation to do so if such Person has exercised the same degree of care to maintain the confidentiality of such Information as such Person would accord to its own confidential information.

 

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SECTION 8.13.  Nonreliance; Violation of Law.  The Lender hereby represents that it is not relying on or looking to any margin stock (as defined in Regulation U of the Board) for the repayment of the Borrowings provided for herein.  Anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, the Lender shall not be obligated to extend credit to the Borrower in violation of any Requirement of Law.

SECTION 8.14.  USA PATRIOT Act.  The Lender is subject to the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act and hereby notifies each Loan Party that pursuant to the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act, it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies such Loan Party, which information includes the name and address of such Loan Party and other information that will allow the Lender to identify such Loan Party in accordance with the USA PATRIOT Act.

SECTION 8.15.  Disclosure. Each Loan Party hereby acknowledges and agrees that the Lender and/or its Affiliates from time to time may hold investments in, make other loans to or have other relationships with any of the Loan Parties and their respective Affiliates.

SECTION 8.16.  Interest Rate Limitation.  Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if at any time the interest rate applicable to any Loan, together with all fees, charges and other amounts which are treated as interest on such Loan under applicable law (collectively the “Charges”), shall exceed the maximum lawful rate (the “Maximum Rate”) which may be contracted for, charged, taken, received or reserved by the Lender holding such Loan in accordance with applicable law, the rate of interest payable in respect of such Loan hereunder, together with all Charges payable in respect thereof, shall be limited to the Maximum Rate and, to the extent lawful, the interest and Charges that would have been payable in respect of such Loan but were not payable as a result of the operation of this Section shall be cumulated and the interest and Charges payable to the Lender in respect of other Loans or periods shall be increased (but not above the Maximum Rate therefor) until such cumulated amount, together with interest thereon at the Federal Funds Effective Rate to the date of repayment, shall have been received by the Lender.

SECTION 8.17.  Marketing Consent.   The Borrower hereby authorizes the Lender, at its sole expense, but without any prior approval by the Borrower, to publish such tombstones and give such other publicity to this Agreement as it may from time to time determine in its sole discretion.  The foregoing authorization shall remain in effect unless the Borrower notifies the Lender in writing that such authorization is revoked.

ARTICLE IX

Loan Guaranty

SECTION 9.01.  Guaranty.  Each Loan Guarantor (other than those that have delivered a separate Guaranty) hereby agrees that it is jointly and severally liable for, and, as primary obligor and not merely as surety, absolutely and unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees to the Secured Parties, the prompt payment when due, whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise, and at all times thereafter, of the Secured Obligations and all costs and expenses including, without limitation, all court costs and reasonable attorneys’ and paralegals’ fees (including allocated costs of in-house counsel and paralegals) and expenses paid or incurred by the Lender in endeavoring to collect all or any part of the Secured Obligations from, or in prosecuting any action against, the Borrower, any Loan Guarantor or any other guarantor of all or any part of the Secured Obligations (such costs and expenses, together with the Secured Obligations, collectively the “Guaranteed Obligations”); provided, however, that the definition of “Guaranteed Obligations” shall not create any guarantee by any Loan Guarantor of (or grant of security interest by any Loan Guarantor to support, as applicable, any Excluded Swap Obligations of such Loan Guarantor for purposes of determining any obligations of any Loan Guarantor). Each Loan Guarantor further agrees that the Guaranteed Obligations may be extended or renewed in whole or in part without notice to or further assent from it, and that it remains bound upon its guarantee notwithstanding any such extension or renewal. All terms of this Loan Guaranty apply to and may be enforced by or on behalf of any domestic or foreign branch or Affiliate of the Lender that extended any portion of the Guaranteed Obligations.

 

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SECTION 9.02.  Guaranty of Payment.  This Loan Guaranty is a guaranty of payment and not of collection. Each Loan Guarantor waives any right to require the Lender to sue the Borrower, any Loan Guarantor, any other guarantor, or any other Person obligated for all or any part of the Guaranteed Obligations (each, an “Obligated Party”), or otherwise to enforce its payment against any collateral securing all or any part of the Guaranteed Obligations.

SECTION 9.03.  No Discharge or Diminishment of Loan Guaranty.

(a)   Except as otherwise provided for herein, the obligations of each Loan Guarantor hereunder are unconditional and absolute and not subject to any reduction, limitation, impairment or termination for any reason (other than the indefeasible payment in full in cash of the Guaranteed Obligations), including:  (i) any claim of waiver, release, extension, renewal, settlement, surrender, alteration, or compromise of any of the Guaranteed Obligations, by operation of law or otherwise; (ii) any change in the corporate existence, structure or ownership of the Borrower or any other Obligated Party liable for any of the Guaranteed Obligations; (iii) any insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization or other similar proceeding affecting any Obligated Party, or their assets or any resulting release or discharge of any obligation of any Obligated Party; or (iv) the existence of any claim, setoff or other rights which any Loan Guarantor may have at any time against any Obligated Party, the Lender or any other Person, whether in connection herewith or in any unrelated transactions.

(b)  The obligations of each Loan Guarantor hereunder are not subject to any defense or setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, or termination whatsoever by reason of the invalidity, illegality, or unenforceability of any of the Guaranteed Obligations or otherwise, or any provision of applicable law or regulation purporting to prohibit payment by any Obligated Party, of the Guaranteed Obligations or any part thereof.

 

(c)   Further, the obligations of any Loan Guarantor hereunder are not discharged or impaired or otherwise affected by: (i) the failure of the Lender to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any remedy with respect to all or any part of the Guaranteed Obligations; (ii) any waiver or modification of or supplement to any provision of any agreement relating to the Guaranteed Obligations; (iii) any release, non-perfection, or invalidity of any indirect or direct security for the obligations of the Borrower for all or any part of the Guaranteed Obligations or any obligations of any other Obligated Party liable for any of the Guaranteed Obligations; (iv) any action or failure to act by the Lender with respect to any collateral securing any part of the Guaranteed Obligations; or (v) any default, failure or delay, willful or otherwise, in the payment or performance of any of the Guaranteed Obligations, or any other circumstance, act, omission or delay that might in any manner or to any extent vary the risk of such Loan Guarantor or that would otherwise operate as a discharge of any Loan Guarantor as a matter of law or equity (other than the indefeasible payment in full in cash of the Guaranteed Obligations).

 

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SECTION 9.04.  Defenses Waived.  To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, each Loan Guarantor hereby waives any defense based on or arising out of any defense of the Borrower or any Loan Guarantor or the unenforceability of all or any part of the Guaranteed Obligations from any cause, or the cessation from any cause of the liability of the Borrower, any Loan Guarantor or any other Obligated Party, other than the indefeasible payment in full in cash of the Guaranteed Obligations. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Loan Guarantor irrevocably waives acceptance hereof, presentment, demand, protest and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any notice not provided for herein, as well as any requirement that at any time any action be taken by any Person against any Obligated Party, or any other Person.  Each Loan Guarantor confirms that it is not a surety under any state law and shall not raise any such law as a defense to its obligations hereunder.  The Lender may, at its election, foreclose on any Collateral held by it by one or more judicial or nonjudicial sales, accept an assignment of any such Collateral in lieu of foreclosure or otherwise act or fail to act with respect to any collateral securing all or a part of the Guaranteed Obligations, compromise or adjust any part of the Guaranteed Obligations, make any other accommodation with any Obligated Party or exercise any other right or remedy available to it against any Obligated Party, without affecting or impairing in any way the liability of such Loan Guarantor under this Loan Guaranty, except to the extent the Guaranteed Obligations have been fully and indefeasibly paid in cash.  To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, each Loan Guarantor waives any defense arising out of any such election even though that election may operate, pursuant to applicable law, to impair or extinguish any right of reimbursement or subrogation or other right or remedy of any Loan Guarantor against any Obligated Party or any security.

SECTION 9.05.  Rights of Subrogation.  No Loan Guarantor will assert any right, claim or cause of action, including, without limitation, a claim of subrogation, contribution or indemnification that it has against any Obligated Party, or any collateral, until the Loan Parties and the Loan Guarantors have fully performed all their obligations to the Lender.

SECTION 9.06.  Reinstatement; Stay of Acceleration.  If at any time any payment of any portion of the Guaranteed Obligations (including a payment effected through exercise of a right of setoff) is rescinded or must otherwise be restored or returned upon the insolvency, bankruptcy, or reorganization of the Borrower or otherwise (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by a Secured Party in its discretion), each Loan Guarantor’s obligations under this Loan Guaranty with respect to that payment shall be reinstated at such time as though the payment had not been made and whether or not the Lender is in possession of this Loan Guaranty. If acceleration of the time for payment of any of the Guaranteed Obligations is stayed upon the insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of the Borrower, all such amounts otherwise subject to acceleration under the terms of any agreement relating to the Guaranteed Obligations shall nonetheless be payable by the Loan Guarantors forthwith on demand by the Lender.

SECTION 9.07.  Information.  Each Loan Guarantor assumes all responsibility for being and keeping itself informed of the Borrower’s financial condition and assets, and of all other circumstances bearing upon the risk of nonpayment of the Guaranteed Obligations and the nature, scope and extent of the risks that each Loan Guarantor assumes and incurs under this Loan Guaranty, and agrees that the Lender shall not have any duty to advise any Loan Guarantor of information known to it regarding those circumstances or risks.

SECTION 9.08.  Termination.  The Lender may continue to make loans or extend credit to the Borrower based on this Loan Guaranty until five (5) days after it receives written notice of termination from any Loan Guarantor.  Notwithstanding receipt of any such notice, each Loan Guarantor will continue to be liable to the Lender for any Guaranteed Obligations created, assumed or committed to prior to the fifth day after receipt of the notice, and all subsequent renewals, extensions, modifications and amendments with respect to, or substitutions for, all or any part of such Guaranteed Obligations.  Nothing in this Section 9.08 shall be deemed to constitute a waiver of, or eliminate, limit, reduce or otherwise impair any rights or remedies the Lender may have in respect of, any Default or Event of Default that shall exist under Article VII hereof as a result of any such notice of termination.

 

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SECTION 9.09.  Taxes.  Each payment of the Guaranteed Obligations will be made by each Loan Guarantor without withholding for any Taxes, unless such withholding is required by law.  If any Loan Guarantor determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, that it is so required to withhold Taxes, then such Loan Guarantor may so withhold and shall timely pay the full amount of withheld Taxes to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law.  If such Taxes are Indemnified Taxes, then the amount payable by such Loan Guarantor shall be increased as necessary so that, net of such withholding (including such withholding applicable to additional amounts payable under this Section), the Lender receives the amount it would have received had no such withholding been made.

SECTION 9.10.  Maximum Liability.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Loan Guaranty, the amount guaranteed by each Loan Guarantor hereunder shall be limited to the extent, if any, required so that its obligations hereunder shall not be subject to avoidance under Section 548 of the Bankruptcy Code or under any applicable state Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act, Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act or similar statute or common law.  In determining the limitations, if any, on the amount of any Loan Guarantor’s obligations hereunder pursuant to the preceding sentence, it is the intention of the parties hereto that any rights of subrogation, indemnification or contribution which such Loan Guarantor may have under this Loan Guaranty, any other agreement or applicable law shall be taken into account.

SECTION 9.11.  Contribution.

(a)   To the extent that any Loan Guarantor shall make a payment under this Loan Guaranty (a “Guarantor Payment”) which, taking into account all other Guarantor Payments then previously or concurrently made by any other Loan Guarantor, exceeds the amount which otherwise would have been paid by or attributable to such Loan Guarantor if each Loan Guarantor had paid the aggregate Guaranteed Obligations satisfied by such Guarantor Payment in the same proportion as such Loan Guarantor’s “Allocable Amount” (as defined below) (as determined immediately prior to such Guarantor Payment) bore to the aggregate Allocable Amounts of each of the Loan Guarantors as determined immediately prior to the making of such Guarantor Payment, then, following indefeasible payment in full in cash of the Guarantor Payment and the Guaranteed Obligations (other than Unliquidated Obligations that have not yet arisen), and the Commitment and all Letters of Credit have terminated or expired or, in the case of all Letters of Credit, are fully collateralized on terms reasonably acceptable to the Lender, and this Agreement, the Swap Agreement Obligations and the Banking Services Obligations have terminated, such Loan Guarantor shall be entitled to receive contribution and indemnification payments from, and be reimbursed by, each other Loan Guarantor for the amount of such excess, pro rata based upon their respective Allocable Amounts in effect immediately prior to such Guarantor Payment.

(b)   As of any date of determination, the “Allocable Amount” of any Loan Guarantor shall be equal to the excess of the fair saleable value of the property of such Loan Guarantor over the total liabilities of such Loan Guarantor (including the maximum amount reasonably expected to become due in respect of contingent liabilities, calculated, without duplication, assuming each other Loan Guarantor that is also liable for such contingent liability pays its ratable share thereof), giving effect to all payments made by other Loan Guarantors as of such date in a manner to maximize the amount of such contributions.

(c)   This Section 9.11 is intended only to define the relative rights of the Loan Guarantors, and nothing set forth in this Section 9.11 is intended to or shall impair the obligations of the Loan Guarantors, jointly and severally, to pay any amounts as and when the same shall become due and payable in accordance with the terms of this Loan Guaranty.

(d)   The parties hereto acknowledge that the rights of contribution and indemnification hereunder shall constitute assets of the Loan Guarantor or Loan Guarantors to which such contribution and indemnification is owing.

 

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(e)  The rights of the indemnifying Loan Guarantors against other Loan Guarantors under this Section 9.11 shall be exercisable upon the full and indefeasible payment of the Guaranteed Obligations in cash (other than Unliquidated Obligations that have not yet arisen) and the termination or expiry (or, in the case of all Letters of Credit, full cash collateralization), on terms reasonably acceptable to the Lender, of the Commitment and all Letters of Credit issued hereunder and the termination of this Agreement, the Swap Agreement Obligations and the Banking Services Obligations.

SECTION 9.12.  Liability Cumulative.  The liability of each Loan Party as a Loan Guarantor under this Article IX is in addition to and shall be cumulative with all liabilities of each Loan Party to the Lender under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which such Loan Party is a party or in respect of any obligations or liabilities of the other Loan Parties, without any limitation as to amount, unless the instrument or agreement evidencing or creating such other liability specifically provides to the contrary.

SECTION 9.13.  Keepwell.   Each Qualified ECP Guarantor hereby jointly and severally absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably undertakes to provide such funds or other support as may be needed from time to time by each other Guarantor to honor all of its obligations under this Guarantee in respect of a Swap Obligation (provided, however, that each Qualified ECP Guarantor shall only be liable under this Section 9.13 for the maximum amount of such liability that can be hereby incurred without rendering its obligations under this Section 9.13 or otherwise under this Loan Guaranty voidable under applicable law relating to fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer, and not for any greater amount).  Except as otherwise provided herein, the obligations of each Qualified ECP Guarantor under this Section 9.13 shall remain in full force and effect until the termination of all Swap Obligations.  Each Qualified ECP Guarantor intends that this Section 9.13 constitute, and this Section 9.13 shall be deemed to constitute, a “keepwell, support, or other agreement” for the benefit of each other Loan Party for all purposes of Section 1a(18)(A)(v)(II) of the Commodity Exchange Act.

[Signature Page Follows]

 

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

	 	
PAR TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION

	 	 	 
	 	
By:

	
/s/ Karen E. Sammon

	 	
Name:

	
 Karen E. Sammon

	 	
Title:

	
President & CEO

	 	 	 
	 	
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.

	 	 	 
	 	
By:

	
 /s/ Jean M. Lamardo

	 	
Name:

	
 Jean M. Lamardo

	 	
Title:

	
 Senior Underwriter

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The following Persons are signatories to this Agreement in their capacities as Loan Parties and Loan Guarantors:

	 	
PARTECH, INC.

	 	 	 
	 	
By:

	
/s/ Karen E. Sammon

	 	
Name:

	
Karen E. Sammon

	 	
Title:

	
President

	 	 	 
	 	
PAR SPRINGER-MILLER SYSTEMS, INC.

	 	 	 
	 	
By:

	
/s/ Karen E. Sammon

	 	
Name:

	
Karen E. Sammon

	 	
Title:

	
President

	 	 	 
	 	
PAR GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS CORPORATION

	 	 	 
	 	
By:

	
/s/ Matthew J. Trinkaus

	 	
Name:

	
Matthew J. Trinkaus

	 	
Title:

	
Treasurer

	 	 	 
	 	
ROME RESEARCH CORPORATION

	 	 	 
	 	
By:

	
/s/ Matthew J. Trinkaus

	 	
Name:

	
Matthew J. Trinkaus

	 	
Title:

	
Treasurer

	 	 	 
	 	
AUSABLE SOLUTIONS, INC.

	 	 	 
	 	
By:

	
/s/ Karen E. Sammon

	 	
Name:

	
Karen E. Sammon

	 	
Title:

	
President

	 	 	 
	 	
SPRINGER-MILLER INTERNATIONAL, LLC

	 	 	 
	 	
By:

	
/s/ Karen E. Sammon

	 	
Name:

	
Karen E. Sammon

	 	
Title:

	
President

	 	 	 
	 	
BRINK SOFTWARE, INC.

	 	 	 
	 	
By:

	
/s/ Karen E. Sammon

	 	
Name:

	
Karen E. Sammon

	 	
Title:

	
President

 

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SCHEDULE 3.05

Properties, etc.

Schedule 3.05

Properties

(a)           Address of real property located in the United States that is owned/leased by a Loan Party containing Collateral having a value in excess of $75,000.

Attached

(b)           List of all owned or licensed trademarks, tradenames, copyrights, patents and other intellectual property that are reasonably necessary for PAR Technology Corporation and its subsidiaries to operate their respective businesses.

Attached

Capitalized terms used in this Schedule (including attached hereto) and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Credit Agreement, to which this Schedule is attached, between PAR Technology Corporation, together with certain of its affiliated entities, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

 

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Locations of Real Property (1)

	
PAR Entity

	
Location of Real Property

	
Owned

/Leased

	
Use and Landlord Name &

Address

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
8383 Seneca Turnpike, New Hartford, New York 13413

	
Owned

	
Corporate Offices

	
ParTech, Inc.

	
11545 W. Bernardo Court

San Diego, California  92127

	
Leased

	
Brink Offices in CA

 

Omninet San Diego WP, LLP

d/b/a Bernardo Regency Center

9420 Wilshire Blvd., 4th Floor

Beverly Hills, CA 90212

	
ParTech, Inc.

	
951 Broken Sound Parkway,

Suite 200

Boca Raton, Florida 33487

	
Leased

	
ParTech Offices in Florida

 

WPT Land 2L

c/o Workspace Property Trust

700 Dresher Road, Suite 150

Horsham, PA 19044

	
ParTech, Inc.

	
2511 55th Street

Boulder, Colorado 80301

	
Leased

	
ParTech Offices in Colorado

 

Reef Flatiron, LLC

c/o Central Management

1801 Lawrence Street

Denver, CO 80202

	
PAR Government Systems Corporation

	
421 Ridge Street

Rome, New York 13440

	
Leased

	
PAR Government Systems Corporation Offices

 

421 Ridge Street, LLC

14875 N.E. Tangen Road

Newberg, Oregon 97132

 

(1)  Each parcel of real property located in the United States that is owned/leased by any Loan Party containing Collateral having a value in excess of $75,000.

 

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	(i)	
Patents Owned:

	
Patent Description

	
Country

	
Patent Number

	
Issue Date

	
Owner

	
Managing Assets with Active Electronic Tags

	
USA

	
5,774,876

	
06/30/98

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Communicating with Electronic Tags

	
USA

	
5,804,810

	
09/08/98

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Simulating Corneal Laser Surgery

	
USA

	
5,843,070

	
12/01/98

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Sensing With Active Electronic Tags

	
USA

	
5,892,441

	
04/06/99

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Measuring Distance

	
USA

	
5,959,568

	
09/28/99

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Communicating with Electronic Tags

	
Canada

	
2,259,000

	
08/16/05

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Sensing With Active Electronic Tags

	
Canada

	
2,258,925

	
10/11/05

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Point of Sale Unit Having Integral Customer and Operator Interfaces

	
USA

	
D525,282

	
07/18/06

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Point of Sale Unit Having Integral Customer and Operator Interfaces

	
China

(Peoples Republic)

	
30123401.8

	
02/14/07

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Tunable Imaging Sensor

	
USA

	
7,460,167

	
12/02/08

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Measuring Distance

	
Canada

	
2,258,278

	
03/17/09

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Base for Point of Sale Monitor

	
USA

	
D620519

	
07/27/10

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Point of Sale Monitor

	
US

	
D625,355

	
10/12/10

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
System and Method for Employee Incentive Game

	
USA

	
8,287,340

	
10/16/12

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Handheld Temperature Monitoring Device

	
EU

	
001350227-0001

	
11/05/12

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Point of Sale Display

	
EU

	
001360051-0001

	
02/06/13

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Point of Sale Display

	
EU

	
001360051-0002

	
02/06/13

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Point of Sale Display

	
EU

	
001360051-0003

	
02/06/13

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Point of Sale Display

	
EU

	
001360051-0004

	
02/06/13

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Handheld Temperature Monitoring Device

	
China

(Peoples Republic)

	
ZL 201230556844.6

	
05/15/13

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Handheld Temperature Monitoring Device

	
USA

	
D689381

	
09/10/13

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Point of Sale Display

	
USA

	
D689921

	
09/17/13

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Point of Sale Display

	
China

(Peoples Republic)

	
ZL 201330038826.3

	
11/20/13

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Point of Sale Display

	
China

(Peoples Republic)

	
ZL 201330037846.9

	
11/27/13

	
PAR Technology Corporation

 

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Patent Description

	
Country

	
Patent Number

	
Issue Date

	
Owner

	
Point of Sale Display

	
Canada

	
14610

	
01/03/14

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Point of Sale Display

	
Canada

	
149608

	
01/03/14

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Point of Sale Display

	
Canada

	
149609

	
01/03/14

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Point of Sale Display

	
Canada

	
149607

	
01/03/14

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Handheld Temperature Monitoring Device

	
Canada

	
150134

	
01/21/14

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Point of Sale Terminal

	
USA

	
D706864

	
06/10/14

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Point of Sale Terminal

	
USA

	
D706863

	
06/10/14

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Point of Sale Display

	
USA

	
D707288

	
06/17/14

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Temperature Monitoring Device for Workflow Monitoring System

	
USA

	
8,931,952

	
01/13/15

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Temperature Monitoring Device for Workflow Monitoring System

	
USA

	
9,304,045

	
04/05/16

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Software Development Kit for LIDAR Data

	
USA

	
9,354,825

	
05/31/16

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Software Development Kit for LIDAR Data

	
USA

	
9,407,285

	
08/02/16

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	(ii)	
Patents Licensed (for the benefit of all operating companies):

	
Patent

Description

	
Regist’n

No.

	
Registration

Date          

	
Expiration

Date          

	
Owner/

Licensor

	
Information management and synchronous communications system with menu generation

	
6,384,850

	
05-07-2002

	
09-21-2019

	
Ameranth Wireless Inc.

	
Information management and synchronous communications system with menu generation

	
6,871,325

	
03-22-2005

	
11-01-2021

	
Ameranth Wireless Inc.

	
Information management and synchronous communications system with menu generation and handwriting and voice modification of orders

	
6,982,733

	
01-03- 2006

	
11-01-2021

	
Ameranth Wireless Inc.

	
Information management and synchronous communications system with menu generation and handwriting and voice modification of orders

	
8,146,077

	
03-27-2012

	
04-22-2025

	
Ameranth Wireless Inc.

In addition to the above, PAR Technology Corporation holds various patent licenses as a result of a settlement agreement in an action relating to its former operating subsidiary, PAR Logistics Management Systems Corporation.

 

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	(iii)	
Patent Applications:

	
 Patent Application

	
Country

	
Application Filing or 

Publication Date

	
Application or 

Publication 

Number

	
Applicant/Owner

	
Simulating Corneal Laser Surgery

	
UK

	
05/13/97

	
97924686.5 - Pending

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Point of Sale Terminal Having Integrated Customer and Operator Interfaces

	
China – Peoples Republic

	
03/21/14

	
10090972.5 - Published

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Point of Sale Terminal Having Integrated Customer and Operator Interfaces

	
Hong Kong

	
03/30/07

	
1094368 - Published

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Temperature Monitoring Device for Workflow Monitoring System

	
PCT

	
03/21/14

	
PCT/US13/36274 – Published

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
GvTetherTM is a connectivity solution comprised of rugged, man-portable hardware device with customer tethering software

	
USA

	
03/21/14

	
13/947830 – Published

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Software Development Kit for Imaging Data

	
PCT

	
03/21/14

	
PCT/US14/15949 - Published

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Point of Sale Terminal

	
IB

	
09/27/15

	
35001089 – Pending

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Temperature Monitoring Device for Workflow Monitoring System

	
China

	
05/06/15

	
201380034786.X – Published

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Temperature Monitoring Device for Workflow Monitoring System

	
EP

	
03/09/15

	
13782152.6 - Published

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Temperature Monitoring Device for Workflow Monitoring System

	
USA

	
05/13/15

	
14/593698 - Published

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Software Development Kit for Imaging Data

	
USA

	
08/24/15

	
14/625587 - Published

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Monitor Tilt Mechanism for Point of Sale Terminal

	
USA

	
10/07/16

	
15/279750 – Pending

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Monitor Tilt Mechanism for Point of Sale Terminal

	
PCT

	
10/07/16

	
PCT/US16/54359 - Pending

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Monitor Tilt Mechanism for Point of Sale Terminal

	
USA

	
10/07/16

	
15/279750 – Pending

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Monitor Tilt Mechanism for Point of Sale Terminal

	
PCT

	
10/07/16

	
PCT/US16/54359 - Pending

	
PAR Technology Corporation

 

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	(iv)	
Trademarks Owned:

	
Trademark

	
Registration Number

	
Registration Date

	
Owner

	
CARGO*MATE (Canada)

	
693,742

	
08/08/07

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
pAR

	
3,686,108

	
09/22/09

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
PAR EVERSERV

(EU)

	
007435456

	
09/24/09

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
PAR EVERSERV

(China – Peoples Republic)

	
7196207

	
10/28/10

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
PAR EVERSERV (USA)

	
3,880,595

	
11/23/10

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
PAR (with pineapple top logo) (USA)

	
3,941,798

	
04/05/11

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
ePAR EVERSERV Logo (USA)

	
3,941,799

	
04/05/11

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
ePAR EVERSERV Logo (Mexico)

	
1483675

	
09/24/13

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
ePAR EVERSERV Logo (Mexico)

	
1434961

	
02/18/14

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
ePAR EVERSERV Logo (Mexico)

	
1437564

	
02/26/14

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
BOUNDLESS RETAILING BY PAR Logo (USA)

	
3,941,800

	
04/05/11

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
BOUNDLESS RETAILING BY PAR Logo (USA)

	
3,941,801

	
04/05/11

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
PIXELPOINT (USA)

	
4,022,394

	
09/06/11

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Gv2F (stylized)

	
011015245

	
12/12/12

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
SURECHECK (Int’l – Madrid Protocol; CTM; Japan; New Zealand; Australia)

	
1,156,524

	
03/06/13

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Gv2F (stylized)

	
4,362,144

	
07/02/13

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
SURECHECK (USA)

	
4,385,335

	
08/13/13

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
SURECHECK (Canada)

	
TMA898628

	
03/12/15

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
GV (& globe) logo (USA)

	
4668134

	
01/06/15

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
GV (& globe) logo (EU)

	
011760899

	
09/16/13

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Gv2F Logo (globe design) (EU)

	
011015401

	
10/04/13

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
SURECHECK logo

(mobile app icon; notepad with pineapple + 2 checkmarks) (Int’l – Madrid Protocol; Australia; CTM; Japan; New Zealand)

	
1,190,936

	
12/17/13

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
SURECHECK logo

(mobile app icon; notepad with pineapple + 2 checkmarks) (USA)

	
4,642,168

	
11/18/14

	
PAR Technology Corporation

 

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POWERING BETTER GUEST EXPERIENCES (USA)

	
4,495,760

	
03/11/14

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
BRINK POS (US)

	
4,803,900

	
09/01/15

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
BRINK POS (Australia)

	
1709873

	
07/27/15

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
PAR Government

	
4,955,545

	
05/10/16

	
PAR Technology Corporation

 

	(v)	
Trademark Applications:

 

	
Trademark Application

	
Application Filing Date

	
Application Serial 

Number

	
Applicant

	
SURECHECK logo

(mobile app icon; notepad with pineapple + 2 checkmarks) (Canada)

	
07/01/15 – Published

	
1658733

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	 (vi)	
Copyrights Owned:

	
Copyright

	
Registration No.

	
Registration Date

	
Owner

	
PixelPoint Software

	
TX6-967-101

	
08-19-09

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
A-Line FS-10 network manager 1.8

	
TX0003347084

	
07/16/92

	
PAR Microsystems, Inc. (nka ParTech, Inc.)

	
A-Line FS-10 network manager 3.0

	
TX0003347085

	
07/16/92

	
PAR Microsystems, Inc. (nka ParTech, Inc.)

 

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SCHEDULE 3.06

Disclosed Matters

Schedule 3.06

Litigation and Environmental Matters

(Disclosed Matters)

(a)           Actions, suits or proceedings pending or threatened against any Loan Party or any Subsidiary, which could reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

None

(b)           Failure to comply, become the subject of or known basis for any Environmental Liability, which could reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

None

Capitalized terms used in this Schedule (including attached hereto) and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Credit Agreement, to which this Schedule is attached, between PAR Technology Corporation, together with certain of its affiliated entities, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

 

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SCHEDULE 3.14

Insurance

 

Schedule 3.14

Insurance

Description of all property and liability insurance maintained by or on behalf of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries.

Domestic:

General Liability

Automobile

Umbrella

Workers’ Compensation

Property (Includes flood/earth movement/wind/business income)

Ocean Cargo

Cyber Liability (Professional Liability and Security & Privacy Liability)

Foreign/Overseas Coverage (Singapore/China/France/England/United Arab Emirate):

General Liability

Automobile

Workers’ Compensation

Property

Canada:

Automobile

Property

Australia:

General Liability

Property

Capitalized terms used in this Schedule (including attached hereto) and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Credit Agreement, to which this Schedule is attached, between PAR Technology Corporation, together with certain of its affiliated entities, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

 

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SCHEDULE 3.15

Capitalization and Subsidiaries

Schedule 3.15

Capitalization and Subsidiaries

Attached

Capitalized terms used in this Schedule (including attached hereto) and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Credit Agreement, to which this Schedule is attached, between PAR Technology Corporation, together with certain of its affiliated entities, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

 

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PAR Technology Corporation

and its Subsidiaries

	
PAR Technology

 Corporation and its 

Subsidiaries

	
Jurisdiction

of

Incorporation/Formation

 

	
Equity Authorized/

Issued and Outstanding

	
Ownership Percentage

(including relationship 

of each Subsidiary to

 PAR Technology 

Corporation)1

	
 

PAR Technology Corporation

	
 

Delaware

	
 

29,000,000 shares of common stock and 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock are authorized

 

17,485,622 shares of common stock and 0 shares of preferred stock are issued and outstanding as of 9/30/16

 

	
 

Publicly Traded, NYSE

 

Greater than 10% beneficial owners: 2

Dr. John W. Sammon, Deanna D. Sammon

J.W. Sammon Corp

Sammon Family Limited Partnership

	
 

ParTech, Inc.

	
 

New York

	
 

2,000,000 shares of common stock and 0 shares of preferred stock are authorized

 

20,000 shares of common stock and 0 shares of preferred stock are issued and outstanding

	
 

Direct Subsidiary

PAR Technology Corporation owns 100% of the equity interests of ParTech, Inc.

	
 

PAR Government Systems Corporation

	
 

New York

	
 

1,000,000 shares of common stock and 0 shares of preferred stock are authorized

 

1,000 shares of common stock and 0 shares of preferred stock are issued and outstanding

	
 

Direct Subsidiary

PAR Technology Corporation owns 100% of the equity interests of PAR Government Systems Corporation

 

 

	
1

	
Direct or Indirect Subsidiary of PAR Technology Corporation

	
2

	
Based on a review of Schedule 13G fillings as of the date of the Credit Agreement

 

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Ausable Solutions, Inc.

	
 

Delaware

	
 

10,000 shares of common stock and 0 shares of preferred stock are authorized

 

10,000 shares of common stock and 0 shares of preferred stock are issued and outstanding

	
 

Direct Subsidiary

PAR Technology Corporation owns 100% of the equity interests of Ausable Solutions, Inc.

	
 

PAR Canada, ULC

	
 

Alberta, Canada

	
 

Unlimited shares of common and preferred stock are authorized

 

1,000,000 common shares and 7,450,000 preferred shares are issued and outstanding

	
 

Direct Subsidiary

 Ausable Solutions, Inc. owns 100% of the equity interests of PAR Canada, ULC

	
 

Brink Software, Inc.

	
 

California

	
 

5,000,000 shares of common stock and 0 shares of preferred stock are authorized

 

1,057,194 shares of common stock and 0 shares of preferred stock are issued and outstanding

	
 

Indirect Subsidiary

ParTech, Inc. owns 100% of the equity interests of Brink Software, Inc.

	
 

Rome Research Corporation

	
 

New York

	
 

200 shares of common stock and 0 shares of preferred stock are authorized

 

100 shares of common stock and 0 shares of preferred stock are issued and outstanding

	
 

Indirect Subsidiary

PAR Government Systems Corporation owns 100% of the equity interests of Rome Research Corporation

	
 

PAR Technology Australia Pty Ltd

	
 

Australia

	
 

100 shares of ordinary stock and 0 shares of preferred stock are authorized

 

100 shares of ordinary stock and 0 shares of preferred stock are issued and outstanding

	
 

Indirect Subsidiary

Rome Research Corporation owns 100% of the equity interests of PAR Technology Australia Pty Ltd

	
 

ParTech (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.

	
 

China

	
 

$390,000 registered capital

	
 

Indirect Subsidiary

ParTech, Inc. owns 100% of the equity interests of ParTech (Shanghai) Co., Ltd

  

 

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PAR Springer-Miller Systems, Inc.

	
 

Delaware

	
 

3,000 shares of common stock and 0 shares of preferred stock are authorized

 

1 share of common stock and 0 shares of preferred stock are issued and outstanding

	
 

Indirect Subsidiary

ParTech, Inc. owns 100% of the equity interests of PAR Springer-Miller Systems, Inc.

	
 

Springer-Miller International, LLC

	
 

Delaware

	
 

Limited liability company interests

	
 

Indirect Subsidiary

PAR Springer-Miller Systems, Inc. owns 100% of the equity interests of Springer-Miller International, LLC

	
 

Springer-Miller Canada, ULC

	
 

Nova Scotia, Canada

	
 

40,000 shares of common stock and 0 shares of preferred stock are authorized

 

1 share of common stock and 0 shares of preferred stock are issued and outstanding

	
 

Indirect Subsidiary

Springer-Miller International, LLC owns 100% of the equity interests of Springer-Miller Canada, ULC

	
 

Par-Siva Corporation

	
 

New York

	
 

100 shares of common stock and 0 shares of preferred stock are authorized

 

10 shares of common stock and 0 shares of preferred stock are issued and outstanding

	
 

Direct Subsidiary

PAR Technology Corporation owns 100% of the equity interests of Par-Siva Corporation

	
 

PAR Logistics Management Systems Corporation

	
 

New York

	
 

100 shares of common stock and 0 shares of preferred stock are authorized

 

10 shares of common stock and 0 shares of preferred stock are issued and outstanding

	
 

Direct Subsidiary

PAR Technology Corporation owns 100% of the equity interests of PAR Logistics Management Systems Corporation

	
 

PAR Springer-Miller Systems Private Ltd.

	
 

India

	
 

$100,000 of authorized capital

	
Indirect Subsidiary

ParTech, Inc. owns 100% of the equity interests of PAR Springer-Miller Systems Private Ltd.

 

 

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PAR Microsystems Domestic International Sales Corporation

	
 

New York

	
 

200 shares of common stock and 0 shares of preferred stock are authorized

 

	
 

Direct Subsidiary

PAR Technology Corporation owns 100% of the equity interests of PAR Microsystems Domestic International Sales Corporation

	
 

PAR Microsystems, S.A. (Proprietary) Limited

	
 

South Africa

	
 

4,000 shares of common stock and 0 shares of preferred stock are authorized

 

30 shares of common stock and 0 shares of preferred stock are issued and outstanding

	
 

Indirect Subsidiary

ParTech, Inc. owns 100% of the equity interests of Par Microsystems, S.A. (Proprietary Limited)

 

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SCHEDULE 3.22

Affiliate Transactions

Schedule 3.22

Affiliate Transactions

	

Effective January 1, 2016, Karen E. Sammon became President and Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) of PAR Technology Corporation (the “Company”).  Ms. Sammon is an immediate family member (daughter) of Dr. John W. Sammon, a Director and beneficial owner of more than 5% of the Company’s outstanding common stock.  Prior to becoming President and CEO of the Company, Ms. Sammon served as President of ParTech, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company and the principal business unit in the Company’s Hospitality business segment. 

 

John W. Sammon, III, an immediate family member (son) of Dr. John Sammon and Karen E. Sammon (brother), became an employee of ParTech, Inc. on October 13, 2014.

 

Karen E. Sammon and John W. Sammon, III are principals in Sammon and Sammon, LLC, a New York limited liability company doing business as Paragon Racquet Club. Paragon Racquet Club leases a portion of the Company’s facilities located at 8383 Seneca Parkway, New Hartford, New York, on a month-to-month basis at the base rate of $9,775.  In addition, Paragon Racquet Club provides memberships to the Company’s local employees. Both Ms. Sammon and Mr. Sammon are members of the immediate family of Dr. Sammon a Director and beneficial owner of more than 5% of the Company’s outstanding common stock.

 

Capitalized terms used in this Schedule (including attached hereto) and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Credit Agreement, to which this Schedule is attached, between PAR Technology Corporation, together with certain of its affiliated entities, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

 

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SCHEDULE 6.01

Existing Indebtedness

Schedule 6.01

Existing Indebtedness

1.             PAR Technology Corporation is indebted to NBT Bank, N.A. pursuant to a loan, secured by a mortgage on real property situated at 8387 Seneca Turnpike, New Hartford, New York 13413. At September 30, 2016, the principal balance was $598,000. The loan matures on November 1, 2019 and bears interest at 4.0% (fixed) through maturity. The annual loan payment including interest through November 1, 2019 totals $206,000.

 

2.             Potential earn-out payments under the stock purchase agreement among Brink Software, Inc. and its shareholders and PAR Technology Corporation and ParTech, Inc., in the aggregate amount of up to $7,000,000.

3.             In the normal course of business, PAR Technology Corporation may guarantee the obligations of one or more of its Subsidiaries under their respective facility/office lease(s).

4.             Indebtedness disclosed in PAR Technology Corporation’s unaudited interim consolidated financial statements for its fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2016 and the accompanying notes.

5.             ParTech, Inc. is guarantor under two Equipment Finance Agreements, one dated as of December 17, 2014 and the other December 19, 2014, through a Contract Repurchase Agreement with Wells Fargo Financial Leasing, Inc. dated December 31, 2014.

 

Capitalized terms used in this Schedule (including attached hereto) and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Credit Agreement, to which this Schedule is attached, between PAR Technology Corporation, together with certain of its affiliated entities, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

 

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SCHEDULE 6.02

Existing Liens

Schedule 6.02

Existing Liens

	
Loan Party/Debtor

	
Secured Party

	
Collateral

	
Filing Type

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
NBT Bank, N.A.

	
Mortgage & Assignment of Leases and Rents Lien/Fixture Filing

	
Mortgage Recorded on April 11, 2000 in Book 3329 of Mortgages @ 343 & Assignment of Leases and Rents

Recorded on April 11, 2000 in Book 2913 of Deeds at page 56

 

UCC –Fixture Filing Oneida County Clerk

Filing Date: 4/11/2000

File#001686

 

	
PAR Technology Corporation

	
Xerox Financial Services

	
Specified Equipment together with all parts, attachments, additions, replacements and repairs incorporated in or affixed thereto

	
UCC

Office of NY Secretary of State

Filing Date:1/13/2016

File#201601135045483

 

Filing Date: 6/72012

File#201206075658809

	
ParTech, Inc.

	
Suppliers of Consigned Inventory

	
Consigned Inventory

 

	 
	
ParTech, Inc.

	
Mitel Leasing Inc.

(Rental Arrangement)

	
Specific Equipment, together with all substitutions, modifications and replacements

	
UCC – Rental Arrangement

Office of NY Secretary of State

Filing Date:4/3/2012

File#201204030187346

 

Filing Date:4/16/2012

File#201204160214568

	
ParTech, Inc.

	
LEAF Capital Funding, LLC

	
See Mitel Equipment

	
UCC

Office of NY Secretary of State

Filing Date:3/30/2012

File#201203305368592

	
ParTech, Inc.

	
Freight Forwarders/Custom Brokers

	
Inventory (in transit)

 

	
Possession(1)

	
(1)

	
Security Interest in Inventory in possession to secure any unpaid fees

 

Capitalized terms used in this Schedule (including attached hereto) and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Credit Agreement, to which this Schedule is attached, between PAR Technology Corporation, together with certain of its affiliated entities, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

 

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SCHEDULE 6.04

Existing Investments

Schedule 6.04

Existing Investments

Partech, Inc. invested an aggregate amount of approximately $390,000 in ParTech (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.

Investments disclosed in PAR Technology Corporation’s unaudited interim consolidated financial statements for its fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2016 and the accompanying notes.

 

Capitalized terms used in this Schedule (including attached hereto) and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Credit Agreement, to which this Schedule is attached, between PAR Technology Corporation, together with certain of its affiliated entities, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

 

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SCHEDULE 6.10

Existing Restrictions

Schedule 6.10

Restrictive Agreements

None

 

Capitalized terms used in this Schedule (including attached hereto) and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Credit Agreement, to which this Schedule is attached, between PAR Technology Corporation, together with certain of its affiliated entities, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

 

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EXHIBIT A

OPINION OF COUNSEL FOR THE LOAN PARTIES

[Effective Date]

JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

Bridgewater Place

500 Plum Street, Floor 7

Syracuse, New York 10017

Ladies and Gentlemen:

[I/We] have acted as counsel for Par Technology Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Borrower”), and the other Loan Parties (as defined in the Credit Agreement referred to below) in connection with the Credit Agreement dated as of ________________, 2016 (the “Credit Agreement”), among the Borrower, the other Loan Parties party thereto, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.  Except as otherwise indicated, terms defined in the Credit Agreement are used herein with the same meanings.

In connection with this opinion [I/we] have reviewed the Credit Agreement, Revolving Promissory Note issued pursuant to the Credit Agreement,  ______________________ and all other agreements, instruments, documents and certificates executed and delivered to, or in favor of, the Lender (collectively “Loan Documents”).

[I/We] have also examined the original or copies, certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of the certificates of incorporation or certificate of formation and what has been presented to us as true copies of the by-laws or operating agreements of the Loan Parties (collectively the “Organizational Documents”) and such other records, certificates, documents and instruments as we have deemed necessary or advisable for the purpose of this opinion.  As to various questions of fact material to this opinion, we have relied upon certificates and written statements of the officers and other duly authorized representatives of the Loan Parties.

We express no opinion with respect to (i) the title to or rights of any of the Loan Parties in any property thereof, (ii) the adequacy of the description thereof or (iii) the creation, attachment, perfection or priority of any liens thereon and/or security interest therein.

We have assumed that the Lender has complied with all state and/or federal laws and regulations applicable thereto arising out of the Loan or its status as Lender.

Upon the basis of the foregoing, we are of the opinion that:

1.    Each Loan Party (a) is a corporation, partnership or limited liability company duly and properly incorporated or organized, as the case may be, validly existing and (to the extent such concept applies to such entity) in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation or organization, (b) has all requisite power and authority to carry on its business as now conducted and (c) except where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, is qualified to do business in, and is in good standing in, every jurisdiction where such qualification is required.

 

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2.    The Transactions are within each Loan Party’s corporate powers and have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate and, if required, stockholder action.  The Loan Documents have been duly executed and delivered by the Loan Parties and constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of the Loan Parties, enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and subject to general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.

3.    The Transactions (a) do not require any consent or approval of, registration or filing with, or any other action by, any Governmental Authority, except such as have been obtained or made and are in full force and effect, (b) will not violate any applicable law or regulation or the charter, by-laws or other organizational documents of any Loan Party or any order of any Governmental Authority, (c) will not violate or result in a default under any indenture, agreement or other instrument binding upon any Loan Party or its assets, or give rise to a right thereunder to require any payment to be made by such Loan Party, and (d) will not result in the creation or imposition of any Lien on any asset of any Loan Party.

4.    There are no actions, suits or proceedings by or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority pending against or, to [my/our] knowledge, threatened against or affecting any Loan Party (a) as to which there is a reasonable possibility of an adverse determination and that, if adversely determined, could reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect (other than the Disclosed Matters) or (b) that involve the Loan Documents or the Transactions.

5.    None of the Loan Parties is an “investment company” as defined in, or subject to regulation under, the Investment Company Act of 1940.

6.    The making of the Loans and the application of proceeds thereof as provided in the Agreement do not violate Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

 

7.    The provisions of the Collateral Documents are sufficient to create in favor of the Lender a security interest in all right, title and interest of each Loan Party in those items and types of collateral described in the Collateral Documents in which a security interest may be created under Article 9 of the UCC as in effect on the date hereof in the State of New York.  Financing statements on Form UCC-1 have been duly authorized by each Loan Party and have been duly filed in each filing office indicated on Exhibit A hereto under the UCC in effect in each state in which said filing offices are located.  The description of the collateral set forth in said financing statements is sufficient to perfect a security interest in the items and types of collateral described therein in which a security interest may be perfected by the filing of a financing statement under the UCC as in effect in such states.  Such filings are in proper form for filing and are sufficient to perfect the security interest created by the Collateral Documents in all right, title and interest of the Loan Parties in those items and types of collateral described in the Collateral Documents in which a security interest may be perfected by the filing of a financing statement under the UCC in such states.

8.    Assuming that the Lender has taken and is retaining possession of the stock certificates evidencing any Equity Interests described in the Security Agreement (the “Pledged Stock”), together with properly completed stock powers endorsing the Pledged Stock and executed by the “Grantors” named in the Security Agreement in blank, and that the Lender has taken such Pledged Stock in good faith without notice of any adverse claim within the meaning of the UCC, there has been created under the Security Agreement, and there has been granted to the Lender, a valid and perfected first priority security interest in the Pledged Stock, with the consequence of perfection by control accorded by the UCC.

 

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9.    Assuming that funds are maintained on deposit in Deposit Accounts with [insert names of applicable banks], the deposit account control agreements with such banks are sufficient to create, in favor of the Lender, a perfected security interest in such Deposit Accounts and the funds deposited therein, with the consequences of perfection by control accorded by the UCC.

[I am a member/We are members] of the bar of the State of New York and the foregoing opinion is limited to the laws of the State of New York, the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware and the federal laws of the United States of America.  This opinion is rendered solely to you in connection with the above matter.  This opinion may not be relied upon by you for any other purpose or relied upon by any other Person (other than your successors and assigns as Lender and Persons that acquire participations in your Loans) without our prior written consent.

 

	
 

	
 

	
Very truly yours,

 

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EXHIBIT B

FORM OF BORROWING REQUEST/FUNDING NOTICE

[Date]

JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

10 South Dearborn, Floor L2S

Chicago, IL, 60603-2300

Attention: Muoy Lim

JPM.AGENCY.SERVICING.1@JPMCHASE.COM

		Re:	
Credit Agreement dated as of November 29, 2016 (as amended, modified, renewed or extended from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”) among Par Technology Corporation (the “Borrower”), the other Loan Parties and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (“Lender”)

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

    Reference is hereby made to the above-captioned Credit Agreement.  Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Credit Agreement.

 

    The undersigned Borrower hereby gives you notice pursuant to Section 2.03 of the Credit Agreement that it requests a Borrowing under the Credit Agreement, and in that regard the undersigned Borrower specifies the following information with respect to such Borrowing requested hereby:

 

1.             Aggregate principal amount of Borrowing:31  __________

 

2.             Date of Borrowing (which shall be a Business Day):  __________

 

3.             Type of Borrowing (CBFR or Eurodollar):  __________

 

4.             Interest Period and the last day thereof (if a Eurodollar Borrowing):32  __________

 

5.             Account Number of account to which proceeds of Borrowing are to be deposited:  __________

 

    The undersigned hereby represents and warrants that the conditions to lending specified in Section 4.02 of the Credit Agreement are satisfied as of the date of the requested Borrowing.

	 	
PAR TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION

	 	 
	 	
By:

	 	 
	 	
Name:

	 	
Title:

 

 

	
31

	
Not less than applicable amounts specified in Section 2.02(c).

	
32

	
Which must comply with the definition of “Interest Period” and end not later than the Maturity Date.

 

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EXHIBIT C

BORROWING BASE CERTIFICATE

See attached

 

 

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EXHIBIT D

COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE

	To:	
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

This Compliance Certificate (“Certificate”), for the period ended _______ __, 201_,  is furnished pursuant to that certain Credit Agreement dated as of ____________, 2016 (as amended, restated, modified, renewed or extended from time to time, the “Agreement”) among Par Technology Corporation (the “Borrower”), the other Loan Parties, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Lender.  Unless otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms used in this Certificate have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Agreement.

THE UNDERSIGNED HEREBY CERTIFIES THAT:

1.     I am the                      of the Borrower and I am authorized to deliver this Certificate on behalf of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries;

2.     I have reviewed the terms of the Agreement and I have made, or have caused to be made under my supervision, a detailed review of the compliance of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries under the Agreement during the accounting period covered by the attached financial statements (the “Relevant Period”) ;

3.     The attached financial statements of the Borrower and, as applicable, its Subsidiaries and/or Affiliates for the Relevant Period: (a) have been prepared on an accounting basis (the “Accounting Method”) consistent with the requirements of the Agreement and, except as may have been otherwise expressly agreed to in the Agreement, in accordance with GAAP consistently applied, and (b) to the extent that the attached are not the Borrower’s annual fiscal year end statements, are subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes;

4.     The examinations described in paragraph 2 did not disclose and I have no knowledge of, except as set forth below, (a) the existence of any condition or event which constitutes a Default or an Event of Default under the Agreement or any other Loan Document during or at the end of the Relevant Period or as of the date of this Certificate or (b) any change in the Accounting Method or in the application thereof that has occurred since the date of the annual financial statements delivered to the Lender in connection with the closing of the Agreement or subsequently delivered as required in the Agreement;

5.     I hereby certify that, except as set forth below, no Loan Party has changed (i) its name, (ii) its chief executive office, (iii) its principal place of business, (iv) the type of entity it is or (v) its state of incorporation or organization without having given the Lender the notice required by Section 4.15 of the Security Agreement;

6.     The representations and warranties of the Loan Parties set forth in the Loan Documents are true and correct as of the date hereof except to the extent that any such representation or warranty specifically refers to an earlier date, in which case it is true and correct only as of such earlier date;

7.    Schedule Iattached hereto sets forth financial data and computations evidencing the Borrower’s compliance with certain covenants of the Agreement, all of which data and computations are true, complete and correct; and

 

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8.     Schedule II hereto sets forth the computations necessary to determine the Applicable Rate commencing on the Business Day this Certificate is delivered.

Described below are the exceptions, if any, referred to in paragraph 4 hereof by listing, in detail, the (i) nature of the condition or event, the period during which it has existed and the action which the Borrower has taken, is taking, or proposes to take with respect to each such condition or event or (ii) change in the Accounting Method or the application thereof and the effect of such change on the attached financial statements:

	 	
 

	 	
 

	 	
 

 

The foregoing certifications, together with the computations set forth in Schedule I and Schedule II hereto and the financial statements delivered with this Certificate in support hereof, are made and delivered this     day of               ,        .

	 	
PAR TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION

	 	 	 	 
	 	
By:

	 	   	 
	 	 	
Name:

	 	 
	 	 	
Title:

	 	 

 

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Schedule I to Compliance Certificate

Compliance as of _________, ____ with

Provisions of Sections 6.04(c)(ii), 6.04 (d)(ii), 6.04(e)(ii) and 6.12 of the Agreement

 

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Schedule II to Compliance Certificate

Borrower’s Applicable Rate Calculation

 

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EXHIBIT E

JOINDER AGREEMENT

THIS JOINDER AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of [    ], is entered into between ________________________________, a _________________ (the “New Subsidiary”) and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. (the “Lender”) under that certain Credit Agreement dated as of _____________, 2016 (as the same may be amended, modified, extended or restated from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”) among Par Technology Corporation (the “Borrower”), the other Loan Parties party thereto, and the Lender. All capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in the Credit Agreement.

The New Subsidiary and the Lender, hereby agree as follows:

1.     The New Subsidiary hereby acknowledges, agrees and confirms that, by its execution of this Agreement, the New Subsidiary will be deemed to be a Loan Party under the Credit Agreement and a “Loan Guarantor” for all purposes of the Credit Agreement and shall have all of the obligations of a Loan Party and a Loan Guarantor thereunder as if it had executed the Credit Agreement.  The New Subsidiary hereby ratifies, as of the date hereof, and agrees to be bound by, all of the terms, provisions and conditions contained in the Credit Agreement, including without limitation (a) all of the representations and warranties of the Loan Parties set forth in Article III of the Credit Agreement, (b) all of the covenants set forth in Articles V and VI of the Credit Agreement and (c) all of the guaranty obligations set forth in Article IX of the Credit Agreement.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing terms of this paragraph 1, the New Subsidiary, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 9.10 and 9.13 of the Credit Agreement, hereby guarantees, jointly and severally with the other Loan Guarantors, to the Lender, as provided in Article IX of the Credit Agreement, the prompt payment and performance of the Guaranteed Obligations in full when due (whether at stated maturity, as a mandatory prepayment, by acceleration or otherwise) strictly in accordance with the terms thereof and agrees that if any of the Guaranteed Obligations are not paid or performed in full when due (whether at stated maturity, as a mandatory prepayment, by acceleration or otherwise), the New Subsidiary will, jointly and severally together with the other Loan Guarantors, promptly pay and perform the same, without any demand or notice whatsoever, and that in the case of any extension of time of payment or renewal of any of the Guaranteed Obligations, the same will be promptly paid in full when due (whether at extended maturity, as a mandatory prepayment, by acceleration or otherwise) in accordance with the terms of such extension or renewal.

2.     If required, the New Subsidiary is, simultaneously with the execution of this Agreement, executing and delivering such Collateral Documents (and such other documents and instruments) as requested by the Lender in accordance with the Credit Agreement.

3.     The address of the New Subsidiary for purposes of Section 8.01 of the Credit Agreement is as follows:

 

	
 

	
 

	
 

 

4.     The New Subsidiary hereby waives acceptance by the Lender of the guaranty by the New Subsidiary upon the execution of this Agreement by the New Subsidiary.

 

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5.     This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.

6.     THIS AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the New Subsidiary has caused this Agreement to be duly executed by its authorized officer, and the Lender, has caused the same to be accepted by its authorized officer, as of the day and year first above written.

	 	
[NEW SUBSIDIARY]

	 	 	 
	 	
By:

	 	 
	 	 	
Name:

	 	 	
Title:

	 	 	 
	 	
Acknowledged and accepted:

	 	 	 
	 	
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.

	 	 	 
	 	
By:

	 	 
	 	 	
Name:

	 	 	
Title:

 

 

104Exhibit 10.22

 

 

November 14, 2016

 

Mr. Bryan Menar

4531 Pauli Drive

Manlius, NY 13104

 

Dear Bryan;

 

On behalf of myself and the Board of Directors of PAR Technology Corporation (“PAR” or “Company”), I am pleased to offer you to the position of Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of PAR Technology Corporation. Upon execution by you, this letter will constitute your employment offer from PAR regarding your service beginning January 3, 2017, the date at which your employment will be effective (the “Start Date”). This offer and your employment relationship are subject to the terms and conditions of this letter set forth below.

Position

You will join the Company as the Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of  PAR Technology Corporation, reporting to the President and Chief Executive Officer. Your position will be located at PAR’s corporate headquarters in New Hartford, New York.  You will be expected to devote your full working time and attention exclusively to the business and interests of PAR and to comply with and be bound by PAR’s operating policies, procedures and practices. You may not render services to any other business without prior approval of the Board of Directors, nor engage or participate, directly or indirectly, in any business that is competitive in any manner with the businesses of PAR.

Annual Base Salary

As of the Start Date, you will be compensated at an annualized salary of $250,000 (“Annual Base Salary”), subject to applicable payroll deductions and such federal, state and local taxes and other withholdings as are required by law. PAR will also offer you a signing bonus in the amount of $50,000.00 to be paid within thirty days of you joining the organization. The Annual Base Salary and Signing Bonus shall be paid in accordance with PAR’s standard payroll practices.

Annual Cash Bonus

While employed hereunder, you will be eligible to receive an “Annual Cash Bonus” in accordance with the terms of PAR’s Incentive Compensation Plan (“ICP”) and shall be based upon performance against financial targets associated with the Annual Operating Plan (“AOP”) and specific business objectives determined by the Board of Directors on an annual basis. You will be eligible for the Annual Cash Bonus starting in the 2017 calendar year.  Your participation level for on target performance for 2017 ICP will be up to 30% of your Annual Base Salary.

New Hire Option Award

Subject to any trading black out periods that may be imposed from time to time by the Company, you will be granted 40,000 non-qualified stock options (“New Hire Options”) at the Board’s next scheduled date for option grants.Such options will be granted at the fair market value of the stock as of the market close on the date of grant and will vest in equal installments over four years (i.e., 10,000 shares of the grant will vest each year), with the first 10,000 shares vesting on the first anniversary of the date of grant.  The grant will be subject to the terms of the applicable Equity Incentive Plan and the standard terms of equity grants as have been approved by the Board.

 

8383 Seneca Turnpike- New Hartford, NY 13413- PAR Technology Corporation

 

Severance

Should your employment be terminated before the three year anniversary of the Start Date by PAR for any reason other than for Cause,as defined herein, or if you terminate your employment for Good Reason, as defined herein, PAR will pay you a severance amount equal to six months of your then current Annual Base Salary in  exchange for a duly executed standard  release of claims.

For purposes of this Agreement “Cause” shall be defined as your:

	 	1.	
refusal or willful failure  to substantially  perform  your material job duties  and responsibilities;

	 	
2.

	
failure or refusal to comply in any material respect with (a) Company policies and (b) lawful directives of the Chief Executive Officer and Board of Directors;

		3.	
material breach of any contract or agreement between  you and the Company (including but not limited to this Agreement and any equity incentive or restrictive covenant agreements);

		4.	
material breach of any statutory duty, fiduciary duty or any other obligation that you owe to the Company;

		5.	
commission of an act of fraud, theft, embezzlement and other unlawful act against the Company or involving its property or assets (including, without limitation, its products and services);

		6.	
engaging in unprofessional,unethical or other acts that materially discredit the Company or are materially detrimental to the reputation, character or standing of the Company, its property or assets (including, without limitation, its products  and services); and

		7.	
you indictment or conviction or plea of nolo contendere or guilty plea with respect to any felony or crime of moral turpitude.

For purposes of this Agreement, Good Reason shall be defined as any of the following, which is not cured by the Company within 30 days following written notification from you to the Company as required below:  (i) directing or otherwise requiring you to take any action that would constitute a felony or other crime, moral turpitude,  misappropriation, dishonesty, unethical business conduct, including bribery or similar conduct, fraud or breach of fiduciary duty; (ii) without your consent, a significant reduction by the Company in your Annual Base Salary; or (iii) the Company’s material breach of the Company’s material obligations under this Agreement. You  shall  provide  the Company with  written  notice  detailing the specific circumstances alleged to constitute Good Reason within 30 days after you first know of such circumstances, or with the exercise of reasonable diligence would know, of the occurrence of such circumstances, and must actually terminate employment within 30 days following the expiration of the Company’s cure period if the Company has failed to cure such circumstances within such period. Otherwise, any claim of such circumstances as “Good Reason” shall be deemed irrevocably waived by you.

 

8383 Seneca Turnpike- New Hartford, NY 13413- PAR Technology Corporation

 

Benefits

You will be eligible to participate in all standard employee benefit plans as may be in effect and as amended from time to time for PAR employees generally. Your participation shall be subject to the terms of the applicable plan documents, as well as generally applicable policies associated with such benefits, as such plan documents and policies may be amended from time to time.

PAR’s current benefit package includes an Employee Choice Plan with options as follows:

	 	
•

	
Health, Dental and Vision Insurance

	 	
•

	
Supplemental Short-Term Disability Insurance

	 	
•

	
Long-Term Disability Insurance

	 	
•

	
Supplemental Life Insurance

	 	
•

	
Spouse and child/children life insurance

	 	
•

	
Flexible Spending Accounts for Unreimbursable Medical Expenses and Dependent Care

 

Please be aware that employee-elected benefits  are not available to you until the first calendar day of the month following your Start Date.

All full-time   employees are eligible  for the benefits  below effective  on the first day of their employment. They are as follows:

		
•

	
New York State Disability Insurance

	 	
•

	
Life Insurance (2x Annual Base Salary to a maximum of $500K)

	 	•	
PAR Technology Corporation Retirement Plan including: a 401(k) - matched by Company at 10% of employee contribution, with automatic enrollment at 3% level, and profit sharing with 100% contribution by Company at the sole discretion of the Board based on financial results.

	 	
•

	
Paid Holidays (7)

Annual Leave and Personal Time Off- Annual Leave (i.e., vacation) will be accrued at the rate of 10 hours per month, yielding three weeks Annual Leave per fiscal year . In addition, you will receive four (4) Personal Time Off days per fiscal year. Unused Personal Time Off and Annual Leave may not be carried over to succeeding years.

Your employment with PAR will be “at-will.” This means your employment is not for any specific period of time and can be terminated by you at any time for any reason.  Likewise, PAR may terminate the employment relationship at any time, with or without cause or advance notice. In addition, PAR reserves the right to modify your position or duties to meet business needs and to use discretion in imposing appropriate discipline should such action be deemed necessary.

 

Contingencies. This offer is contingent upon the following:

		
•

	
Signing Company’s Employment Agreement  (See enclosed).

		•	
Compliance with federal Form  1-9 requirements (please bring suitable documentation with you within your first three days of work verifying your identity and legal authorization to work in the United States).

		•	
Verification of the information contained in your employment application, including satisfactory references.

		
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Successfully passing a pre-employment drug-screening and favorable results from a criminal background check, work history, education verification and credit check.

 

8383 Seneca Turnpike- New Hartford, NY 13413- PAR Technology Corporation

 

This offer will remain open for seven (7) days from the date of this letter.  To indicate your acceptance of PAR’s offer on the terms and conditions set forth in this letter, please sign and date this letter in the space provided below and return it to me no later than seven days from the date of this letter.

 

We look forward to having you join us as part of the executive management team at PAR Technology Corporation.

 

Sincerely,

 

/s/ Karen E. Sammon

Karen E. Sammon

President & CEO

PAR Technology Corporation

I have read this offer letter in its entirety and agree to the terms and conditions of employment. understand and agree that my employment with the Company is at-will.

 

	
/s/ Bryan Menar

	

	
11/14/2016

	  
	
Bryan Menar

	
 

	
Date

	
 

 

8383 Seneca Turnpike- New Hartford, NY 13413- PAR Technology Corporation

 

EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

 

THIS AGREEMENT is made and entered into this 14th  day of  November  2016  by and between  PAR Technology Corporation (hereinafter referred to as the “Company”), and Bryan Menar  hereinafter referred to as “Employee”).             

 

WHEREAS, the Company is a New York corporation engaged in the design, development and implementation of advanced technology computer software system solutions; and

WHEREAS, the parties hereto acknowledge that confidential and proprietary information pertaining to the Company’s business may be made available by the Company to the Employee in the course of his or her duties, and

WHEREAS, the Employee may develop in the course of his or her duties, confidential and proprietary information pertaining to the Company’s overall business which involved the expenditure of substantial effort and monies by the Company, and

WHEREAS, said confidential and/or proprietary information is valuable to the Company and gives the Company an advantage over competition who do not know or use it.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises aforesaid, and the mutual covenants and agreements contained herein, and for other good and valuable consideration, including continued employment, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties covenant and agree as follows:

	 	
1.

	
The Company does hereby employ Employee in the position of VP, Chief Financial Officer and Employee does hereby accept such employment and agrees to perform the duties of such position in an efficient, trustworthy, and businesslike manner and upon the terms and conditions expressly set forth in this Agreement. Employee’s duties will include all of those generally associated with said position and such other duties as the Company’s Board of Directors, Officers and management personnel may assign from time to time, all subject to the directives of the Board and the corporate policies of the Company as they are in effect from time to time throughout the period of employment. Employee will at all times during Employee’s employment hereunder to give Employee’s full attention and best efforts for the benefit and advantage of the Company and will execute and perform such duties assigned to Employee.

		
2.

	
This Agreement shall be effective as of November 14, 2016.The parties agree and understand that the employment relationship is “AT WILL” and may be terminated by the Company at any time, with or without notice, for any lawful reason, including, but not limited to, for the reasons specified in Paragraphs 5, 6 and 7 herein. The Employee must provide the Company with at least two (2) weeks’ notice of termination.

		3.	
During the period of employment, the Company shall pay to Employee the agreed upon Annual Base Salary as set forth in Employee’s Offer Letter, which shall be paid in accordance with the Company’s regular payroll practices in effect from time to time and in accordance with applicable law.

		
4.

	
During the period of employment, the Employee shall be entitled to participate in all retirement and welfare benefit plans and programs, and fringe benefit plans and programs, made available by the Company to the Company’s employees generally in accordance with the eligibility and participation provisions of such plans and as such plans or programs may be in effect from time to time.

		
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Employee agrees that during the period of employment, Employee will devote Employee’s time and best efforts to the Company. Without the prior written authorization of the Company, Employee shall not, directly or indirectly during the period of employment:

	 	a.	
Enter into any business, professional or commercial activity which interferes with or impairs Employee’s productivity for the Company; or

		
b.

	
Engage in any activity competitive with or adverse to the Company’s business interests or welfare, whether alone, as a partner, or as an officer, director, employee. or more than ten percent (10%) shareholder of any other corporation.

 

	
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Volunteering for charitable organizations or working with non-profit organizations is acceptable per this Agreement, so long as it doesn’t unduly interfere with Employee’s ability to effectively perform the Employee’s duties with the Company.

	 	
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Employee covenants and agrees, that for a period of one (1) year, running consecutively from the beginning of the Employee’s last date of employment with the Company (whether the Employee is terminated for any reason or no reason and whether employment is terminated at the option of the Employee or the Company), not to directly or indirectly, for the Employee’s own business or for any other business. solicit, hire, recruit, attempt to hire or recruit •or induce the termination of employment of any employee of the Company or solicit, hire, recruit, attempt to hire or recruit any person who has been an employee of the Company within the immediately preceding six (6) months prior to the Employee’s last date of employment.

	 	
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Employee agrees that during the period of Employee’s employment by the Company or thereafter, Employee will not disclose or use at any time any Confidential Information (as defined below) of which the Employee is or becomes aware, except to the extent such disclosure or use is directly related to and required by Employee’s job duties for the Company or as authorized in writing by the Company.   Employee will take all reasonably appropriate steps to safeguard Confidential Information in his or her possession and to protect it against disclosure, misuse, espionage, loss, and theft.  The Employee shall deliver to the Company at the termination of the period of employment, or at any time the Company may request, all memoranda, notes, plans, records. reports, computer tapes and software and other documents and data (and copies thereof) relating to the Confidential Information or the Work Product (as hereinafter defined) of the business of the Company, which the Employee may then possess or have under his or her control. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Employee may truthfully respond to a lawful and valid subpoena or other legal process. but shall give the Company the earliest possible notice thereof, shall make available to the Company and its counsel the documents and other information sought as much in advance of the return date as possible, and shall assist the Company and such counsel in responding to such process.

	 	a.	
As used in this Agreement, the term “Confidential Information” means information that is not generally known to the public and that is used, developed or obtained by the Company in connection with its business, including, but not limited to, information, observations, and data obtained by the Employee while employed by the Company concerning (i) the business or affairs of the Company, (ii) products or services, (iii) fees, costs, compensation, and pricing structures, (iv) designs, (v) analyses, (vi) drawings, photographs and reports,(viii)  computer software,  including operating systems, applications and program listings, (viii) flow charts, manuals and documentation, (ix) databases, (x) accounting and business methods,  (xi) inventions,  devices,new developments, methods and processes,whether patentable or unpatentable and whether or not reduced to practice, (xii) customers and clients and customer or client lists, (xiii) other copyrightable works, (xiv) all production methods, processes, technology and trade  secrets,and (xv) all similar and related  information in whatever form. Confidential Information will not include any information that has been published (other than a disclosure by the Employee in breach of this Agreement) in a form generally available to the public prior to the date the Employee proposes to disclose or use such information. Confidential Information will not be deemed to have been published merely because individual portions of the information have been separately published, but only if all material  features compromising such information have  been published in combination.

		b.	
As used in this Agreement, the term “Work Product” means all inventions, innovations, improvements,technical information,systems,software developments,methods, designs, analyses. drawings, reports, service marks, trademarks, trade names, logos, and all similar or related information (whether patentable or unpatentable, copyrightable, registered as a trademark, reduced to writing, or otherwise) that relates to the Company’s actual or anticipated business, research and development, or existing or future products or services and which are conceived, developed or made by Employee (whether or not during usual business hours, whether or not by the use of the facilities of the Company, and whether or not alone or in conjunction with any other person) while employed by the Company (including those conceived, developed or made prior to the effective date of this Agreement) together with all patent applications, letters patent. trademark, trade name and service mark applications or registrations, copyrights and reissues thereof that may be granted for or upon any of the foregoing. All Work Product that the Employee may have discovered, invented, or originated during his or her employment with the Company prior to the effective date of this Agreement or that he or she may discover. invent or originate during the period of employment shall be the exclusive property of the Company, and Employee hereby assigns all of Employee’s  right, title and interest in and to such Work Product to the Company, including all intellectual property rights therein. Employee shall promptly disclose all Work Product to the Company, shall execute at the request of the Company any assignments or other documents the Company may deem necessary to protect or perfect its rights therein, and shall assist the Company, at the Company’s expense, in obtaining, defending, and enforcing the Company’s rights therein. Employee hereby appoints the Company as his or her attorney-in-fact to execute on his or her behalf any assignments or other documents deemed necessary by the Company to protect or perfect the Company’s rights to any Work Product.

 

	
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In the event of a breach or threat of breach by Employee of the provisions of this paragraph, the Company shall have, in addition to any other remedies available to it, the right to injunctive relief enjoining such actions. The Employee hereby acknowledges that other remedies are inadequate. In addition. Company shall be reimbursed by Employee for all legal costs incurred by the Company in enforcing the provisions of this paragraph.

		
9.

	
It is further agreed that should Employee breach this Agreement, the Company may immediately terminate employee, anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding.

		
10.

	
In addition to the rights of termination set forth above, the Company may terminate this Agreement and immediately cancel it by giving written notice to Employee if the Company believes, in its own and sole judgment, that, the Employee has been involved at any level in industrial sabotage, theft or other acts detrimental to the Company; or the security clearance for the U.S. Government or any agency thereof, at whatever clearance level desired by the Company for the Employee, will never be granted or will not be granted within a reasonable time to allow for Employee to participate in work assigned by the Company.

		
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This Agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflicting provision or rule (whether of the State of New York or any other jurisdiction) that would cause the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of New York to be applied.In furtherance of the foregoing, the internal law of the State of New York will control the interpretation and construction of this Agreement, even if under such jurisdiction’s choice of law or conflict of law analysis, the substantive law of some other jurisdiction would ordinarily apply.

		
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Except for violations of  paragraph 6, any dispute arising under, or alleged violation of, this Agreement. and any claim, charge, or cause of action by Employee relating to his employment, including but not limited to, claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title 42 of the United States Code§§ 1981, 1982, 1983 and 1985, the Fair Labor Standards Act. the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, the Sarbanes- Oxley Act of 2002, the New York Human Rights Law, the New York Labor Law, and any other statute prohibiting employment discrimination or dealing with employment rights and any contract or tort claim including any claims pursuant to this Agreement, shall be submitted exclusively to arbitration under the Employment Dispute Arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association. The arbitration shall be held in the County of Oneida, State of New York.The arbitrator shall be chosen by the Employment Dispute Arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association. The decision of the arbitrator shall be final and binding. In construing or applying this Agreement, the arbitrator’s jurisdiction shall be limited to interpretation or application of this Agreement, and the arbitrator shall not have the power to add to, to delete, or modify any provision of this Agreement. Each party shall bear his/her or its own expenses in arbitration, except that the parties shall share the costs of the arbitrator equally. The arbitrator is hereby authorized to award attorneys’ fees to the prevailing party to the same extent the prevailing party would be entitled to an award of attorneys’ fees pursuant to the above enumerated statutes and/or any enforcement provisions contained in those statutes.

		
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Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably waives all right to trial by jury in any action, proceeding or counterclaim regarding any dispute arising under, or alleged violation of, this Agreement and any claim, charge, or cause of action by Employee relating to his employment with the Company.

		
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Any notice required to be given pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement shall be in writing and delivered to the parties at the following addresses, or at such other addresses as the parties may notify each other thereof at any time by certified mail, return receipt requested or overnight courier:

 

	
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TO: 

	
PAR Tech Inc.

	
 

	TO	
Bryan Menar

	
 

	
Attention: Human Resources Dept.

	
 

	 	
4531 Pauli Drive

	
 

	
8383 Seneca Turnpike

	
 

	 	
Manlius, NY 13104

	
 

	
New Hartford, N.Y. 13413-4991

	
 

	 	
 

 

 

 

 

 

	 	
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The parties desire that the provisions of this Agreement be enforced to the  fullest extent permissible under the laws and public policies applied in each jurisdiction in which enforcement is sought. Accordingly, if any particular provision of this Agreement is found to be invalid, prohibited, or unenforceable under any present or future law, and if the rights and obligations of any party under this Agreement will not be materially and adversely affected thereby, such provisions shall be ineffective, without invalidating the remaining provisions of this Agreement or affecting the validity or enforceability of such provision in any other jurisdiction. To this end, the provisions of this Agreement are declared to be severable.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, if such provision could be more narrowly drawn so as not to be invalid, prohibited or unenforceable in such jurisdiction, it shall, as to such jurisdiction, be so narrowly drawn, without invalidating the remaining provisions of this Agreement or affecting the validity or enforceability of such provision in any other jurisdiction. The parties further agree that: (a) any arbitrator construing or applying this Agreement is expressly authorized to modify any such unenforceable provision of this Agreement in lieu of severing such unenforceable provision from this Agreement in its entirety, whether by rewriting the offending provision, deleting any or all of the offending provision, adding additional language to this Agreement or by making such other modifications as the arbitrator deems warranted to carry out the intent and agreement as embodied herein to the maximum extent permitted by law; and (b) that this Agreement as so modified by the arbitrator shall be bindif1g upon and enforceable upon the parties. 14.  Employee’s offer letter dated November 14, 2016, and this Agreement embodies the entire agreement of the parties hereto respecting the matters within its scope and supersede all prior and contemporaneous agreements of the parties hereto that directly or indirectly bear upon the subject matter hereof.

	 	
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No waiver shall be effective unless it is in writing and is signed by the party asserted to have granted such waiver. Failure or delay on the part of a party to exercise fully any right, remedy, power or privilege under this Agreement shall not operate as a waiver thereof.  Any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power, or privilege shall not preclude any other or further exercise of the same or of any right, remedy, power or privilege.  Waiver of any right. remedy, power or privilege with respect to any occurrence shall not be construed as a waiver of such right, remedy, power or privilege with respect to any other occurrence.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the date set forth above.

EMPLOYEE ACKNOWLEDGES THAT EMPLOYEE HAS CAREFULLY READ AND FULLY UNDERSTANDS THE PROVISIONS OF THE EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT AND HAS RECEIVED A COPY OF SAME.

PAR Technology Corp.

 

	BY:	
/s/ Brian Lewis

	
 

		
 

	
		
Brian Lewis

	
 

		
 

	
		VP, Human Resources				
						
				
BY:

	
/s/ Bryan Menar

	
					
Bryan Menar

	

 

 

	
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