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EX-10.1

 EXHIBIT 10.1 
  

			
	 CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC.
390 Greenwich Street

New York, New York 10013
	  	 JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.

270 Park Avenue
 New York, New York
10017
  
 J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC

383 Madison Avenue
 New York, New
York 10179

 October 9, 2014 

Kindred Healthcare, Inc. 
 680 South Fourth Street 

Louisville, Kentucky 40202 
 Attention: Stephen Farber 

Project Falcon 

Commitment Letter 
 Ladies and Gentlemen:

 You (the “Borrower” or “you”) have advised each of Citi (as defined below), JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
(“JPMCB”) and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (“J.P. Morgan” and, collectively with Citi and JPMCB, the “Commitment Parties,” “we” or “us”) that you, one of your direct
or indirect wholly owned subsidiaries (“Merger Sub”) and Gentiva Health Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Target”), intend to enter into a merger agreement dated as of the date hereof (together with all
exhibits, schedules, annexes and disclosure schedules thereto, collectively, the “Transaction Agreement”) pursuant to which Merger Sub will merge with and into the Target, with the Target continuing as the surviving corporation (the
“Acquisition”). You have further advised us that, in connection with the foregoing, you intend to consummate the other transactions described in the Transaction Description attached hereto as Exhibit A (the “Transaction
Description”). Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Transaction Description and in the Summaries of Principal Terms and Conditions attached hereto as Exhibits B and C (the
“Term Sheets”; together with this commitment letter, the Transaction Description and the Summary of Additional Conditions attached hereto as Exhibit D, collectively, the “Commitment Letter”). 

For purposes of this Commitment Letter, “Citi” shall mean Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Citibank, N.A., Citigroup USA, Inc.,
Citigroup North America, Inc. and/or any of their affiliates as Citi shall determine to be appropriate to provide the services contemplated herein. 

In connection with the Transactions, each of Citi and JPMCB (each, an “Initial Lender” and collectively, the “Initial
Lenders”) is pleased to advise you of its several, but not joint, commitment to provide to you 50% of the Facilities (the date of the initial funding of the applicable Facilities and the closing of the Acquisition, the “Closing
Date”). In addition, in connection with the Transactions, we are pleased to advise you of our agreement to use commercially reasonable efforts to arrange the Acquisition Amendments and the necessary consents for the effectiveness thereof.

 It is agreed that (i) each of Citi and J.P. Morgan will act as a joint lead arranger and
joint bookrunner for each of the Facilities and for each of the Acquisition Amendments (in such capacity, each, a “Lead Arranger and, collectively, the “Lead Arrangers”), (ii) JPMCB will act as administrative agent
and collateral agent for the Bank Facilities and (iii) Citi will act as administrative agent for the Bridge Facility. It is further agreed that (x) Citi will have “left” placement in any marketing materials or other documentation
used in connection with the Bridge Facility and J.P. Morgan will have placement to the immediate “right” of Citi in such materials and (y) J.P. Morgan will have “left” placement in any marketing materials or other
documentation used in connection with the Bank Facilities and Citi will have placement to the immediate “right” of J.P. Morgan in any such materials. 

You agree that, as a condition to the commitments and agreements hereunder, no other agents, co-agents or arrangers will be appointed, no
other titles will be awarded and no compensation (other than that expressly contemplated by this Commitment Letter and the Fee Letter referred to below) will be paid to any Lender in order to obtain its commitment to participate in the Facilities
unless you and we shall so agree; provided that prior to the date that is 14 days after the date hereof, you may appoint additional joint lead arrangers, joint bookrunners, agents, co-agents or co-managers (any such arranger, bookrunner,
agent, co-agent or co-manager so appointed, an “Additional Commitment Party”) or confer other titles in respect of any Facility in a manner (provided that such appointments are made ratably among the Facilities) and with
economics determined by you (provided that the Initial Lenders on the date hereof shall not have less than 70% of the total economics for the Facilities on the Closing Date and no Additional Commitment Party shall receive economics in excess
of those received by the Initial Lenders on the date hereof) (it being understood that, to the extent you appoint Additional Commitment Parties or confer other titles in respect of the Facilities, the economics allocated to, and the amount of the
commitments of, the Commitment Parties in respect of the Facilities will be reduced ratably by the economics allocated to and the amount of the commitments of such appointed entities upon the execution by such financial institution of customary
joinder documentation and, thereafter, each such financial institution shall constitute a “Commitment Party” and “Lead Arranger” hereunder and under the Fee Letter and it or its relevant affiliate providing such commitment shall
constitute an “Initial Lender” hereunder). 
 We intend to syndicate the Facilities to a group of lenders (together with the
Initial Lenders, the “Lenders”) identified by us in consultation with you, it being understood that we will not syndicate to those persons identified by you in writing to the Lead Arrangers (or to their affiliates) prior to the date
hereof (or, if after the date hereof, only if the addition of such persons is reasonably acceptable to the Lead Arrangers) (such persons, collectively (including their affiliates that are clearly identifiable on the basis of such affiliate’s
name or identified in writing to the Lead Arrangers from time to time), the “Disqualified Institutions”). Notwithstanding any other provision of this Commitment Letter to the contrary, unless you and we so agree (a) no
Commitment Party shall be relieved or novated from its obligations hereunder in connection with any syndication or assignment until after the Closing Date, (b) no such assignment or novation shall become effective with respect to any portion of
any Commitment Party’s commitment in respect of the Facilities until the initial funding of the Facilities on the Closing Date, and (c) unless the Borrower agrees in writing, each Commitment Party shall retain exclusive control over all
rights and obligations with respect to its commitments, including all rights with respect to consents, modifications and amendments, until the Closing Date has occurred. 

We intend to commence syndication efforts promptly, and you agree, from the date of this Commitment Letter to the earlier of 60 days after the
Closing Date and a Successful Syndication (as defined in the Fee Letter) (such date, the “Syndication Date”) actively to assist us in completing a syndication reasonably satisfactory to us. Such assistance shall include
(a) your using commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that the syndication efforts benefit materially from your existing banking relationships and those of the Target, (b) direct contact between senior management of the Borrower and the
proposed Lenders (and your using commercially reasonable efforts to ensure such contact between senior management 

  
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and non-legal advisors of the Target and the proposed Lenders), (c) as set forth in the next paragraph, assistance from the Borrower and its subsidiaries (and your using commercially
reasonable efforts to cause Target and its subsidiaries to assist) in the preparation of materials to be used in connection with the syndication (collectively, with the Term Sheets, the “Information Materials”), and (d) the
hosting, with us and senior management of the Borrower and the use of commercially reasonable efforts to arrange the hosting, with us and senior management of the Target, of one or more meetings of prospective Lenders. Prior to Syndication Date,
there shall be no competing offering, placement or arrangement of any debt securities (including convertible debt securities) or bank financing by or on behalf of the Borrower, the Target or any of their respective subsidiaries (other than
(i) the Senior Notes or any other debt securities contemplated by the Fee Letter (as defined below) or (ii) any other indebtedness of the Target and its subsidiaries permitted to be incurred pursuant to the Transaction Agreement). Such
assistance shall also include you using commercially reasonable efforts to obtain, at your expense, corporate credit or family ratings of the Borrower after giving effect to the Transactions and monitored public ratings of the Bank Facilities and
the Senior Notes from Moody’s Investors Service (“Moody’s”) and Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group (“S&P”) at least 15 business days prior to the Closing Date. Notwithstanding anything to
the contrary contained in this Commitment Letter or the Fee Letter, none of the compliance with any of the provisions of this Commitment Letter (other than the applicable conditions set forth in Exhibit D hereto), the obtaining of the ratings
described above or the commencement or completion of the syndication of the Facilities shall constitute a condition precedent to the funding of any Facility on the Closing Date. 

You will assist us in preparing Information Materials, including confidential information memoranda, for distribution to prospective Lenders
by posting on IntraLinks, SyndTrak Online or another similar electronic system (the “Platform”) (with (x) Citi’s name appearing on the left hand side of any Information Materials and other documentation used in connection
with the Bridge Facility and Citi holding the leading role and responsibilities associated with such left placement including maintaining physical books in respect of the Bridge Facility and (y) J.P. Morgan’s name appearing on the left
hand side of any Information Materials and other documentation used in connection with the Bank Facilities and J.P. Morgan holding the leading role and responsibilities associated with such left placement including maintaining physical books in
respect of the Bank Facilities ). You also will assist us in preparing an additional version of the Information Materials (the “Public-Side Version”) to be used by prospective Lenders’ public-side employees and representatives
(“Public-Siders”) who do not wish to receive material non-public information (within the meaning of United States federal securities laws) with respect to the Borrower, the Target, their respective affiliates and any of their
respective securities (“MNPI”) and who may be engaged in investment and other market related activities with respect to any such entity’s securities or loans. Before distribution of any Information Materials, you agree to
execute and deliver to us (i) a letter in which you authorize distribution of the Information Materials to a prospective Lender’s employees willing to receive MNPI (“Private-Siders”) and (ii) a separate letter in
which you authorize distribution of the Public-Side Version to Public-Siders and represent that no MNPI is contained therein (which letter, in each case, shall include a customary “10b-5” representation). Each confidential information
memorandum shall exculpate us with respect to any liability related to the use of the content of such confidential information memorandum or any related marketing material by the recipients thereof. You also acknowledge that Public-Siders employed
by the Lead Arrangers or their respective affiliates, consisting of publishing debt analysts, may participate in any public side meetings or telephone conference calls held pursuant to clause (d) of the immediately previous paragraph;
provided that such analysts shall not publish any information obtained from such meetings or calls until the syndication of the Facilities has been completed upon making of allocations by the Lead Arrangers and the Lead Arrangers freeing the
Facilities to trade. 
 The Borrower agrees that the following documents may be distributed to both Private-Siders and Public-Siders,
including through a Platform designated “Public-Siders”, unless the Borrower advises the Lead Arrangers in writing (including by email) within a reasonable time prior to their intended 

  
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distribution that such materials should only be distributed to Private-Siders: (a) administrative materials prepared by the Lead Arrangers for prospective Lenders (such as a lender meeting
invitation, lender allocation, if any, and funding and closing memoranda), (b) term sheets and notification of changes in the Facilities’ terms and conditions and (c) other materials intended for prospective Lenders after the initial
distribution of Information Materials. If you advise us that any of the foregoing should be distributed only to Private-Siders, then Public-Siders will not receive such materials without further discussions with you. 

The Borrower hereby authorizes the Commitment Parties to distribute drafts of definitive documentation with respect to the Facilities to
Private-Siders and Public-Siders. 
 The Lead Arrangers will manage, in consultation with you, all aspects of the syndication, including
decisions as to the selection of institutions to be approached and when they will be approached, when their commitments will be accepted, which institutions will participate, the allocation of the commitments among the Lenders and the amount and
distribution of fees among the Lenders. The Lead Arrangers will have no responsibility in such capacity other than to arrange the syndication as set forth herein and in no event shall be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties. The Borrower
agrees that it will not assert any claim against any Lead Arranger based on an alleged breach of fiduciary duty by such Lead Arranger in connection with this Commitment Letter or the transactions contemplated hereby. Additionally, the Borrower
acknowledges and agrees that none of the Lead Arrangers is advising the Borrower as to any legal, tax, investment, accounting or regulatory matters in any jurisdiction. The Borrower shall consult with its own advisors concerning such matters and
shall be responsible for making its own independent investigation and appraisal of the transactions contemplated hereby, and the Lead Arrangers shall not have any responsibility or liability to the Borrower with respect thereto. 

In addition, you acknowledge that Citi has been retained by you as a financial advisor in connection with the Acquisition (in such capacity,
the “Financial Advisor”). You agree to such retention, and further agree not to assert any claim you might allege based on any actual or potential conflicts of interest that might be asserted to arise or result from, on the one
hand, the engagement of the Financial Advisor and/or its affiliates’ arranging or providing or contemplating arranging or providing financing for a competing bidder and, on the other hand, our and our affiliates’ relationships with you as
described and referred to herein. 
 To assist us in our syndication efforts, you agree promptly to prepare and provide to us (and use
commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Target to provide to us) all information with respect to the Borrower and its subsidiaries, the Target and the Transactions, including all customary and reasonably available financial information and
projections (the “Projections”), as we may reasonably request in connection with the arrangement and syndication of the Facilities. You hereby represent and covenant that (a) all written information concerning the Borrower and
its subsidiaries and, to the best of your knowledge, the Target and its subsidiaries (including the Information Materials), other than the Projections and other forward looking information and information of a general economic or industry-specific
nature, that has been or will be made available by you or any of your representatives pursuant to the immediately preceding sentence (the “Information”), taken as a whole, does not or will not, when furnished, after giving effect to
all supplements and updates provided thereto, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements contained therein not materially misleading in light of the circumstances under
which such statements are made and (b) the Projections that have been or will be made available to us by you or any of your representatives have been or will be prepared in good faith based upon assumptions you believed to be reasonable at the
time made; it being recognized by the Lenders that such Projections are as to future events and are not to be viewed as facts and are subject to significant uncertainties and contingencies many of which are beyond your control, and that actual
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from the projected results and such differences may be material. You agree that if prior to the later of the Closing Date and the Syndication Date you become aware that any of the representations
and warranties in the preceding sentence would be incorrect if the Information and the Projections were then being furnished, and such representations were then being made, then you will promptly supplement the Information and the Projections such
that (with respect to the Information relating to the Borrower and its subsidiaries and, to the best of your knowledge, the Target and its subsidiaries) such representations and warranties are correct under those circumstances. You understand that
in arranging and syndicating the Facilities we may use and rely on the Information and Projections without independent verification thereof. 

As consideration for the commitments and agreements of the Commitment Parties hereunder, you agree to cause to be paid, on the terms and
subject to the conditions set forth therein, the nonrefundable fees set forth in the Term Sheets and in that certain Fee Letter between you and the Commitment Parties, dated as of the date hereof and delivered herewith (the “Fee
Letter”). 
 Each Commitment Party’s commitments and agreements hereunder are subject solely to the applicable conditions set
forth in Exhibit D hereto, and upon satisfaction (or waiver by the Commitment Parties) of such conditions, the initial funding of the applicable Facilities shall occur. Those matters that are not covered by the provisions thereof are subject to the
approval and agreement of the Commitment Parties and the Borrower. 
 Notwithstanding anything in this Commitment Letter, the Fee Letter,
the definitive documentation with respect to the Facilities (the “Credit Documentation”) or any other letter agreement or other undertaking concerning the financing of the Transactions to the contrary, (i) the only
representations relating to the Borrower, the Target, its and their respective subsidiaries and its and their respective businesses the accuracy of which shall be a condition to the availability of the Facilities on the Closing Date shall be
(A) such of the representations made by the Target in the Transaction Agreement as are material to the interests of the Lenders, but only to the extent that the Borrower or one of its subsidiaries has the right to terminate its obligations
under the Transaction Agreement as a result of a breach of such representations in the Transaction Agreement (to such extent, the “Specified Transaction Agreement Representations”) and (B) the Specified Representations (as
defined below) made by the Borrower and the Guarantors (as defined in the Term Sheets) in the Credit Documentation, and (ii) the terms of the Credit Documentation shall be in a form such that they do not impair the availability of the
Facilities on the Closing Date if the applicable conditions set forth in Exhibit D hereto are satisfied (it being understood that, to the extent any security interest in any Collateral (as defined in the Term Sheets) is not or cannot be provided
and/or perfected on the Closing Date (other than the pledge and perfection of the security interests (1) in the equity securities of the Target or any subsidiaries of the Target (to the extent required by the Term Sheets and provided that stock
certificates of the Target’s subsidiaries shall only be required to be delivered on the Closing Date to the extent received from the Target after your use of commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the same) and (2) in other assets with
respect to which a lien may be perfected by the filing of a financing statement under the Uniform Commercial Code) after your use of commercially reasonable efforts to do so without undue burden or expense, then the provision and/or perfection of a
security interest in such Collateral shall not constitute a condition precedent to the availability of the Facilities on the Closing Date, but instead shall be required to be delivered after the Closing Date pursuant to arrangements and timing to be
mutually agreed by the Lead Arrangers and the Borrower acting reasonably (and in any event within 90 days after the Closing Date or such longer period as may be reasonably agreed by the Lead Arrangers). For purposes hereof, “Specified
Representations” means the representations and warranties of the Borrower and the Guarantors set forth in the Credit Documentation relating to requisite power and authority, due authorization, execution, delivery and enforceability, in each
case, related to, the entering into and performance of the Credit Documentation; solvency as of the Closing Date (after giving effect to the Transactions) of the Borrower and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis; that

  
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the entering into and performance of the Facilities will not conflict with organizational documents of the Borrowers or the Guarantors; Federal Reserve margin regulations; the Investment Company
Act; PATRIOT Act; OFAC; FCPA; subject to the provisions of this paragraph, creation, validity and perfection of security interests in the Collateral; and the status of the Bank Facilities and the guarantees thereof as senior debt. This paragraph,
and the provisions herein, shall be referred to as the “Closing Date Conditions Provisions”. 
 You agree (a) to
indemnify and hold harmless each Commitment Party and its affiliates, and their respective directors, officers, employees, advisors, and agents (each, an “indemnified person”) from and against any and all losses, claims, damages and
liabilities to which any such indemnified person may become subject arising out of or in connection with this Commitment Letter, the Facilities, the use of the proceeds thereof, the Transactions or any related transaction or any claim, litigation,
investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, regardless of whether any indemnified person is a party thereto, and to reimburse each indemnified person upon demand for any legal or other expenses incurred in connection with
investigating or defending any of the foregoing; provided that the foregoing indemnity will not, as to any indemnified person, apply to losses, claims, damages, liabilities or related expenses to the extent they are found by a final,
non-appealable judgment of a court to arise from the willful misconduct, bad faith or gross negligence of such indemnified person, and (b) whether or not the Transactions are consummated, to reimburse each Commitment Party and its affiliates on
demand for all reasonable and invoiced out-of-pocket expenses (including due diligence expenses, syndication expenses, consultant’s fees and expenses, travel expenses, and reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of counsel) incurred in
connection with the Facilities and any related documentation (including this Commitment Letter, the Fee Letter and the definitive financing documentation) or the administration, amendment, modification or waiver thereof (such reimbursed expenses of
the Commitment Parties and its affiliates, in the event the Transactions are not consummated, not to exceed $1,000,000 in the aggregate). You acknowledge that information and documents relating to the Facilities may be transmitted through SyndTrak,
Intralinks, the internet, e-mail, or similar electronic transmission systems, and, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, no indemnified person shall be liable for any damages arising from the use by others of Information or other
materials obtained through electronic, telecommunications or other information transmission systems (except to the extent arising from the willful misconduct, bad faith or gross negligence of such indemnified person or a material breach of the
obligations under this Commitment Letter or the Fee Letter by such indemnified person) or for any special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages in connection with the Facilities. 

Each Commitment Party and its affiliates shall use all non-public information provided to it or its affiliates by or on behalf of you
hereunder or in connection with the transactions contemplated hereunder solely for the purpose of providing the services that are the subject of this Commitment Letter and shall treat confidentially all such information, except in each case for
information that was or becomes publicly available other than by reason of disclosure by such Commitment Party or its affiliates or related parties in violation of any confidentiality obligations owing to you, the Target or any of your or their
respective affiliates (including those set forth in this paragraph) or was or becomes available to such Commitment Party or its affiliates from a source which is not known by such Commitment Party to be subject to a confidentiality obligation to
you, the Target or any of your or their respective affiliates, provided that nothing herein shall prevent such Commitment Party from disclosing any such information (i) to rating agencies in consultation and coordination with you,
(ii) to any Lenders, assignees or participants or prospective lenders, assignees or participants (other than, in the case of assignees or prospective assignees, Disqualified Institutions), (iii) pursuant to the order of any court or
administrative agency or in any pending legal or administrative proceeding (in which case such Commitment Party agrees (except with respect to any audit or examination conducted by bank accountants or any regulatory authority exercising examination
or regulatory authority) to promptly notify you to the extent practicable if it is lawfully permitted to do so), (iv) upon the request or demand of any regulatory authority having jurisdiction over

  
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such Commitment Party or any of its affiliates (in which case such Commitment Party agrees to promptly notify you to the extent lawfully permitted to do so), (v) to such Commitment
Party’s employees, legal counsel, independent auditors and other experts or agents who need to know such information and are informed of the confidential nature of such information, (vi) to any of its affiliates (with such Commitment Party
being responsible for such affiliate’s compliance with this paragraph), (vii) to any other Commitment Party, (viii) for purposes of establishing a “due diligence” defense, (ix) to the extent that such information
becomes publicly available other than by reason of improper disclosure by a Commitment Party or any of its affiliates in violation of any confidentiality obligations owing to you, the Target or any of your or their affiliates, (x) to the extent
that such information is received by a Commitment Party from a third party that is not, to such Commitment Party’s knowledge, subject to contractual or fiduciary confidentiality obligations owing to you, the Target or any of your or their
affiliates with respect to such information and (xi) to the extent that such information is independently developed by a Commitment Party or any of its affiliates, so long as not based on information obtained in a manner that would otherwise
violate this provision; provided, further, that the disclosure of any such information pursuant to clause (ii) above shall be made subject to the acknowledgment and acceptance by such person that such information is being disseminated on
a confidential basis (on substantially the terms set forth in this paragraph or as is otherwise reasonably acceptable to you and the Commitment Parties) in accordance with the standard syndication processes of the Commitment Parties or customary
market standards for dissemination of such type of information, which shall in any event require “click through” or other affirmative actions on the part of the recipient to access such information. This undertaking by each Commitment
Party shall automatically terminate on the earlier of (x) one year following the Closing Date or the termination of such Commitment Party’s commitments hereunder or (y) two years from the date hereof. The provisions contained in this
paragraph shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding the termination of this Commitment Letter. 
 In addition, you acknowledge
that the rights and obligations that you and your affiliates may have in respect of and to us or our respective affiliates under any credit facility, including under the Existing Term Loan Agreement and the Existing ABL Credit Agreement), or any
other agreement are separate from the rights and obligations of you and your affiliates under this Commitment Letter and will not be affected by our services hereunder. You acknowledge that each Commitment Party and its affiliates (the term
“Commitment Party” as used below in this paragraph being understood to include such affiliates) may currently or in the future participate in other debt or equity transactions on behalf of or render financial advisory services to
you or your subsidiaries or affiliates (including acting as a lender under the Existing Term Loan Credit Agreement and/or Existing ABL Credit Agreement), or other companies in respect of which you may have conflicting interests regarding the
transactions described herein and otherwise. No Commitment Party will use confidential information obtained from you by virtue of the transactions contemplated hereby or its other relationships with you in connection with the performance by such
Commitment Party of services for other companies, and no Commitment Party will furnish any such information to other companies. You also acknowledge that no Commitment Party has any obligation to use in connection with the transactions contemplated
hereby, or to furnish to you, confidential information obtained from other companies. You further acknowledge that each Commitment Party is a full service securities firm and may from time to time effect transactions, for its own or its
affiliates’ account or the account of customers, and hold positions in loans, securities or options on loans or securities of the Borrower and its affiliates and of other companies that may be the subject of the transactions contemplated by
this Commitment Letter. You further acknowledge and agree that (a) no fiduciary, advisory or agency relationship between you and the Commitment Parties is intended to be or has been created in respect of any of the transactions contemplated by
this Commitment Letter, irrespective of whether any Commitment Party has advised or is advising you on other matters, (b) the Commitment Parties on the one hand, and you, on the other hand, have an arm’s-length business relationship that
does not directly or indirectly give rise to, nor do you rely on, any fiduciary duty on the part of the Commitment Parties, (c) you are capable of evaluating and understanding, and you understand and accept, the terms, risks and

  
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conditions of the transactions contemplated by this Commitment Letter and (d) you have been advised that the Commitment Parties are engaged in a broad range of transactions that may involve
interests that differ from your interests and that no Commitment Party has an obligation to disclose such interests and transactions to you by virtue of any fiduciary, advisory or agency relationship. 

Each Commitment Party may employ the services of its affiliates in providing certain services hereunder and, in connection with the provision
of such services, may exchange with such affiliates information concerning you and the other companies that may be the subject of the transactions contemplated by this Commitment Letter, and, to the extent so employed, such affiliates shall be
entitled to the benefits afforded such Commitment Party hereunder. You also agree that each Commitment Party may at any time and from time to time assign all or any portion of its commitments hereunder to one or more of its affiliates;
provided that such Commitment Party will not be relieved of all or any portion of its commitments hereunder prior to the initial funding of the Facilities. 

This Commitment Letter shall not be assignable by you without the prior written consent of each Commitment Party (and any purported assignment
without such consent shall be null and void), is intended to be solely for the benefit of the parties hereto and is not intended to confer any benefits upon, or create any rights in favor of, any person other than the parties hereto and the
indemnified persons. This Commitment Letter may not be amended or waived except by an instrument in writing signed by you and each Commitment Party. This Commitment Letter may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an
original, and all of which, when taken together, shall constitute one agreement. Delivery of an executed signature page of this Commitment Letter by facsimile transmission or electronic “.pdf” file shall be effective as delivery of a
manually executed counterpart hereof. This Commitment Letter and the Fee Letter are the only agreements that have been entered into among us with respect to the Facilities and set forth the entire understanding of the parties with respect thereto.

 This Commitment Letter shall be governed by, and construed and interpreted in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York;
provided, however, that (a) the interpretation of the definition of “Material Adverse Effect” (as defined in Exhibit D hereto) and whether or not a Material Adverse Effect has occurred, (b) the accuracy of any
Specified Transaction Agreement Representations and whether as a result of any inaccuracy thereof you or your subsidiaries have the right to terminate your or its obligations under the Transaction Agreement and (c) whether the Acquisition has
been consummated in accordance with the terms of the Transaction Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Delaware, regardless of the laws that might otherwise govern under applicable principles of
conflicts of laws thereof. Each party hereto consents to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state or federal courts located in the Borough of Manhattan in the City of New York with respect to any action, suit or proceeding in connection
with this Commitment Letter and the Fee Letter, and agrees not to bring or support any such action, suit or proceeding in any other court. Each party hereto irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, (a) any
objection that it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any such legal proceeding in the state or federal courts located in the City of New York and the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding
in any such court, and (b) any right it may have to a trial by jury in any suit, action, proceeding, claim or counterclaim brought by or on behalf of any party related to or arising out of this Commitment Letter or the Fee Letter, the
transactions contemplated hereby or the performance of services hereunder. 
 This Commitment Letter is delivered to you on the
understanding that neither this Commitment Letter or the Fee Letter nor any of their terms or substance shall be disclosed, directly or indirectly, to any other person (including, without limitation, other potential providers or arrangers of
financing) except (a) to your officers, directors, agents, attorneys and advisors and, on a confidential basis, those of the Target, who are directly involved in the consideration of this matter (provided that any disclosure

  
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of the Fee Letter or its terms or substance to the Target shall be redacted in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Commitment Parties); (b) as may be compelled in a judicial or
administrative proceeding or as otherwise required by law (in which case you agree to inform us promptly thereof, to the extent permitted by law), (c) this Commitment Letter may be disclosed in any proxy or other public filing relating to the
Transactions and in any prospectus or offering memorandum relating to the Senior Notes or any other offering, (d) the fees contained in the Fee Letter may be disclosed as part of a generic disclosure of aggregate sources and uses related to fee
amounts to the extent required in marketing materials, any proxy or other public filing or any prospectus or other offering memorandum, (e) this Commitment Letter may be disclosed to rating agencies in connection with obtaining ratings for the
Borrower and the Facilities, (f) you may disclose this Commitment Letter and its contents (but not the Fee Letter) to the extent that such information becomes publicly available other than by reason of improper disclosure by you in
violation of any confidentiality obligations hereunder and (g) if the Commitment Parties consent in writing to such proposed disclosure. 

The compensation, reimbursement, indemnification, syndication, confidentiality, jurisdiction, governing law, venue and waiver of jury trial
provisions contained herein and in the Fee Letter and any other provision herein or therein which by its terms expressly survives the termination of this Commitment Letter shall remain in full force and effect regardless of whether definitive
financing documentation shall be executed and delivered and notwithstanding the termination of this Commitment Letter or the commitments hereunder; provided, however, that your obligations under this Commitment Letter (other than your
obligations with respect to (a) assistance to be provided in connection with the syndication thereof (including supplementing and/or correcting information and Projections) prior to the Syndication Date and (b) confidentiality of the Fee
Letter and the contents thereof) shall automatically terminate and be superseded by the provisions of the Credit Documentation upon the initial funding thereunder, and you shall automatically be released from all liability in connection therewith at
such time. You may terminate this Commitment Letter and the Initial Lenders’ commitments with respect to the Facilities (in full but not in part) at any time subject to the provisions of the prior sentence. 

We hereby notify you that pursuant to the requirements of the U.S.A. Patriot Act, Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law
October 26, 2001) (the “Patriot Act”), we are and each other Lender is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies the Borrower and its subsidiary guarantors, which information includes the name, address,
tax identification number and other information regarding the Borrower and its subsidiary guarantors that will allow any of us or such Lender to identify the Borrower and its subsidiary guarantors in accordance with the Patriot Act. This notice is
given in accordance with the requirements of the Patriot Act and is effective as to us and each Lender. 
 In the event that the initial
borrowings in respect of the Bank Facilities do not occur on or before the earliest of (i) March 31, 2015, (ii) the time at which the Transaction Agreement has been irrevocably terminated in accordance with its terms and
(iii) the consummation of the Acquisition and the payment of consideration therefor, then this Commitment Letter and the commitments and undertakings of each of the Commitment Parties hereunder shall automatically terminate unless each of them
shall, in their discretion, agree to an extension (such earlier date, the “End Date”). 
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 We are pleased to have been given the opportunity to assist you in connection with this important financing. 

 

			
	Very truly yours,
	
	CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC.
		
	By:	 	 /s/ Barbara R. Matas

		 	Name: Barbara R. Matas
		 	Title: Managing Director
	
	JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
		
	By:	 	 /s/ Dawn L. Lee Lum

		 	Name: Dawn L. Lee Lum
		 	Title: Executive Director
	
	J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC
		
	By:	 	 /s/ Andreas L. Pierroutsakos

		 	Name: Andreas L. Pierroutsakos
		 	Title: Executive Director

 [Signature Page to Commitment Letter] 

			
	Accepted and agreed to as of
	the date first above written:
	
	KINDRED HEALTHCARE, INC.
		
	By:	 	 /s/ Stephen D. Farber

		 	Name: Stephen D. Farber
		 	Title: Executive Vice President and
		 	          Chief Financial Officer

 [Signature Page to Commitment Letter] 

 EXHIBIT A 

Project Falcon 

Transaction Description1 

The Borrower intends to acquire, directly or indirectly, all of the outstanding equity interests of Gentiva Health Services, Inc., a Delaware
corporation (the “Target”), pursuant to the Transaction Agreement (as defined below). 
 In connection with the foregoing,
it is intended that: 
 (a) Pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger dated the date hereof among the Borrower, one of the
Borrower’s direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiaries (“Merger Sub”) and the Target (together with all exhibits, schedules, annexes and disclosure schedules thereto, collectively, the “Transaction
Agreement”), Merger Sub will merge with and into the Target, with the Target continuing as the surviving corporation. 
 (b) (i) The
Borrower will seek an amendment (the “Term Loan Amendment”) to that certain Term Loan Credit Agreement dated as of June 1, 2011, as amended as of October 4, 2012 and as further amended and restated as of May 30, 2013,
as of August 21, 2013 and as of April 9, 2014, among the Borrower, the lenders party thereto from time to time and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent (as previously amended, amended and restated or otherwise modified from
time to time, the “Existing Term Loan Credit Agreement” and as amended by the Term Loan Amendment, the “Amended Term Loan Credit Agreement”) to implement the Required Term Loan Amendments (as defined in Annex I to
this Exhibit A and which shall otherwise be in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Lead Arrangers and the Borrower (provided that that the conditions to the effectiveness of the Term Loan Amendment shall be no broader than the
conditions in Exhibit D to the Commitment Letter)). 
 (ii) If (x) the Required Term Loan Amendments (as defined in
Annex I hereto) are obtained or (y) the consent of the Required Lenders (as defined in the Existing Term Loan Credit Agreement) is obtained for the Required Term Loan Amendments to become effective upon satisfaction of conditions no more
extensive than those set forth in Exhibit D to the Commitment Letter (the “Required Term Loan Condition”), in each case, on or prior to the Closing Date, the commitments with respect to the Refinancing Term Loan Facility under the
Commitment Letter will automatically be reduced to $0. 
 (iii) If the Required Term Loan Condition is not satisfied on or
prior to the Closing Date, the Borrower will obtain senior secured term loans in an aggregate principal amount of $992.5 million (less the gross cash proceeds received by the Borrower from the Senior Notes and the Equity issued on or prior to the
Closing Date (other than 
  

	1 	 All capitalized terms used but not defined in the Exhibits to the Commitment Letter have the meanings given to them in the Commitment Letter to which
they are attached, including the Exhibits thereto and the Annexes to the Fee Letter referenced in the Exhibits. In the event any such capitalized term is subject to multiple and differing definitions, the appropriate meaning thereof in an Exhibit
shall be determined by reference to the context in which it is used. 

  
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Equity issued to fund an increase in the purchase price for the Acquisition)) after application of any such amounts to reduce the aggregate principal amount of the Bridge Facility to $0) (the
“Refinancing Term Loan Facility”) on terms described in Exhibit B to the Commitment Letter to refinance the Existing Term Loan Credit Agreement. 

(c) (i) The Borrower will seek an amendment (the “ABL Amendment” and together with the Term Loan Amendment, the
“Acquisition Amendments”) to that certain ABL Credit Agreement dated as of June 1, 2011, as amended as of October 4, 2012, and as further amended and restated as of August 21, 2013 and as of April 9, 2014, among
the Borrower, the lenders party thereto from time to time and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent (as previously amended, amended and restated or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Existing ABL Credit
Agreement” and the Existing ABL Credit Agreement, as amended by the ABL Amendment, hereinafter referred to as the “Amended ABL Credit Agreement”) to implement the Required ABL Amendments (as defined in on Annex I to this
Exhibit A) and which shall otherwise be in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Lead Arrangers and the Borrower (provided that that the conditions to the effectiveness of the Term Loan Amendment shall be no broader than the
conditions in Exhibit D to the Commitment Letter). 
 (ii) If (x) the Required ABL Amendments (as defined in Annex I
hereto) are obtained or (y) the consent of the Required Lenders (as defined in the Existing ABL Credit Agreement) is obtained for the Required ABL Amendments to become effective upon satisfaction of conditions no more extensive than those set
forth in Exhibit D to the Commitment Letter (the “Required ABL Condition”), in each case, on or prior to the Closing Date, the commitments with respect to the Refinancing ABL Facility under the Commitment Letter will automatically
be reduced to $0. 
 (iii) If the Required ABL Condition is not satisfied on or prior to the Closing Date, the Borrower will
obtain senior secured asset-based revolving credit commitments in the aggregate principal amount of $750.0 million (the “Refinancing ABL Facility” and together with the Refinancing Term Loan Facility the “Bank
Facilities”) on terms described in Exhibit B to the Commitment Letter to refinance the Existing ABL Credit Agreement. 
 (d)
(i) The Borrower will (x) issue senior unsecured notes in a public offering or a private placement under Rule 144A or other private placement (the “Senior Notes”) and/or (y) issue equity and equity units of the
Borrower in a public offering or a private placement under Rule 144A or other private placement and/or as consideration for the Acquisition (the “Equity”). 

(ii) To the extent that the issuance of the Senior Notes and the issuance of the Equity yields less than $1,700 million in gross cash proceeds
on or prior to the Closing Date, the Borrower will obtain senior unsecured bridge loans in an aggregate principal amount of up to $1,700 million (less the gross cash proceeds received by the Borrower from the Senior Notes and the Equity
issued on or prior to the Closing Date (other than Equity issued to fund an increase in the purchase price for the Acquisition)) (the “Bridge Facility” and, together with the Bank Facilities, the “Facilities”)
pursuant to a bridge loan credit agreement on terms described in Exhibit C to the Commitment Letter. 

  
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 (e) All existing indebtedness for borrowed money under (i) the Existing Term
Loan Credit Agreement (solely if the Borrower incurs the Refinancing Term Loan Facility), (ii) the Existing ABL Credit Agreement (solely if the Borrower incurs the Refinancing ABL Facility) and (iii) that certain Credit Agreement dated as
of October 18, 2013 among the Target, the lenders from time to time party thereto and Barclays Bank PLC, as administrative agent, swing line lender and L/C issuer, will be refinanced or repaid, and arrangements for the concurrent release of all
related liens shall be made. 
 (f) either (A) all of the Target’s 11.50% Senior Notes due 2018 (the
“Target Notes”) will be redeemed in full or (B) irrevocable notice for the redemption or repayment of all of the Target Notes shall have been given and proceeds sufficient to redeem or repay in full the Target Notes shall have
been deposited into an escrow arrangement reasonably satisfactory to the Lead Arrangers (the transactions contemplated by clauses (e) and (f) above, the “Refinancing”); 

(g) The proceeds of the applicable Facilities (to the extent borrowed on the Closing Date), the Senior Notes and the Equity,
shall be applied (i) to pay the purchase price in connection with the Acquisition, (ii) to pay the fees, costs and expenses incurred in connection with the Transactions and (iii) to consummate the Refinancing (the amounts set forth in
clauses (i) through (iii) above, collectively, the “Transaction Costs”). Any excess proceeds from the Facilities, the Senior Notes and the Equity shall be available to the Borrower and its subsidiaries for general
corporate purposes. 
 The transactions described above (including the payment of any fees and expenses incurred in connection therewith) are collectively
referred to herein as the “Transactions”. 

  
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 ANNEX I 

to EXHIBIT A 
 Project Falcon

 Summary of Required Amendments 
  

	1.	The Term Loan Amendment shall contain, and the Lead Arrangers shall seek to obtain the requisite consents for, the following amendments (with any changes as mutually agreed to by the Lead Arrangers and the Borrower) to
the Existing Term Loan Agreement (such amendments, the “Required Term Loan Amendments”): 

  

	 	a)	Section 1.01 shall be amended by adding the following defined terms: 

“Additional Escrow Amount” means an amount equal to (a) all interest that could accrue on any Escrow
Notes from and including the date of issuance thereof to and including the date of any potential mandatory redemption to occur if the proceeds of such Escrow Notes are not released from the applicable Escrow Account, plus (b) the amount
of any original issue discount on such Escrow Notes, plus (c) all fees and expenses that are incurred in connection with the issuance of such Escrow Notes and all fees, expenses or other amounts payable in connection with any redemption
of such Escrow Notes. 
 “Escrow Account” means a deposit or securities account at a financial institution
reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (any such institution, an “Escrow Agent”) into which any Escrow Funds are deposited. 

“Escrow Account Documents” means the agreement(s) governing an Escrow Account and any other documents entered
into in order to provide the applicable Escrow Agent (or its designee) Liens on the related Escrow Funds. 
 “Escrow
Agent” has the meaning set forth in the definition of the term “Escrow Account”. 
 “Escrow
Funds” means the sum of (a) the net proceeds of any Escrow Notes, plus (b) the related Additional Escrow Amount, plus (c) so long as they are retained in an Escrow Account, any income, proceeds or products of
the foregoing. 
 “Escrow Notes” means debt securities of an Escrow Subsidiary issued after the Second
Amendment and Restatement Date (which may not be guaranteed or receive credit support from any Person other than an Escrow Subsidiary); provided that the net proceeds of such debt securities are deposited into an Escrow Account upon the
issuance thereof. 
 “Escrow Notes Documents” mean the Escrow Notes Indentures, the Escrow Account
Documents and any other documents entered into by an Escrow Subsidiary in connection with any Escrow Notes. 

“Escrow Notes Indentures” means the indenture(s) pursuant to which any Escrow Notes shall be issued. 

  
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 “Escrow Subsidiary” means a Subsidiary of the Borrower that
(a) shall have been identified to the Administrative Agent promptly following its formation, (b) at no time shall contain any assets or liabilities other than any Escrow Notes, any Escrow Funds, any Escrow Accounts and such
Subsidiary’s rights and obligations under any Escrow Notes Documents and (c) shall be an Unrestricted Subsidiary for all purposes of the Financing Documents (it being understood that no Escrow Subsidiary shall, notwithstanding anything to
the contrary contained in any Financing Document, in any event be designated a Restricted Subsidiary). 

“Gentiva” means Gentiva Health Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation. 

“Gentiva Merger” means the merger of the Merger Subsidiary with and into Gentiva, pursuant to the Gentiva
Merger Agreement. 
 “Gentiva Merger Agreement” means that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger dated as of
October 9, 2014, by and among the Borrower, Gentiva and Merger Subsidiary. 
 “Merger Subsidiary”
means Kindred Healthcare Development 2, Inc., a Delaware corporation and wholly owned Subsidiary of the Borrower. 
  

	 	b)	A new Section 1.05 shall be added as follows: 

 Escrow Notes. Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary in any Financing Document, nothing contained in any Financing Document shall restrict or prohibit (a) the formation and designation of an Escrow Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, (b) the holding of the
Escrow Funds in any Escrow Account and the granting or existence of any Liens on any Escrow Account, the Escrow Funds or any Escrow Notes Document or pursuant to any Escrow Account Document, in each case, in favor of the applicable Escrow Agent (or
its designee), (c) any transactions otherwise restricted by Section 7.04 by and among the Borrower or one or more Restricted Subsidiaries, on the one hand, and the Escrow Subsidiary, on the other hand, in connection with the transactions
contemplated by any Escrow Notes Documents and (d) any Investment in an Escrow Subsidiary in an aggregate amount not greater than the applicable Additional Escrow Amount (it being understood, for the avoidance of doubt, that any such
Investments and other transactions shall be deemed made exclusively in reliance upon this Section 1.05 and not any other exception or basket under any other provision of any Financing Document); provided that this Section 1.05 shall
not operate to permit the Gentiva Merger to the extent it would not otherwise be permitted absent this Section 1.05. 
  

	 	c)	Section 2.18(a) shall be amended to add to the end of the first sentence the following: 

; provided that (i) any amounts incurred under Section 2.18(a)(ii) concurrently with any amounts incurred under
Section 2.18(a)(i) will not count as Consolidated Senior Secured Indebtedness for purposes of calculating the Senior Secured Leverage Ratio for purposes of Section 2.18(a)(i) and (ii) with respect to any Incremental Term Loans the
primary purpose of which is to finance an acquisition permitted by this Agreement, the amount available under Section 2.18(a)(i) shall be calculated, at the Borrower’s option, either at the time (1) of the effectiveness of such
Incremental Term Loans or (2) a definitive agreement is entered into with respect to the transaction to be financed by such Incremental Term Loans giving pro forma effect to such acquisition and the incurrence of such Indebtedness as if each
occurred on such date. 

  
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	 	d)	Section 2.18(b) shall be amended to add after “(iii) at the time of and immediately after giving effect to the incurrence of such Incremental Term Loans, no Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing” the following: 

 (provided that, with respect to any Incremental Term Loans the primary purpose of
which is to finance an acquisition permitted by this Agreement, the requirement under this clause (iii) shall be that no Event of Default under Section 8.01(a) or (m) shall have occurred and be continuing) 

 

	 	e)	Section 2.18(b) shall be amended to add after “(iv) the representations and warranties of each Credit Party set forth in the Financing Documents . . . on and as of the date of such Borrowing of Incremental
Term Loans” the following: 

 ; provided that notwithstanding the foregoing, the only representations and
warranties of each Credit Party that shall be required to be true and correct with respect to any Incremental Term Loans the primary purpose of which is to finance an acquisition permitted by this Agreement shall be the Specified Representations
(conformed as necessary for such acquisition) 
  

	 	f)	A new Section 5.06(f) shall be added as follows: 

 Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary in this Section 5.06, (i) the Borrower may designate an Escrow Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary and (ii) each Escrow Subsidiary shall be excluded from any calculations made, or any conditions specified, in paragraphs
(a) and (b). 
  

	 	g)	Section 6.01(b) shall be replaced in its entirety with the following: 

 Maximum Total
Leverage Ratio. At each Quarterly Measurement Date on or after the Third Amendment and Restatement Effective Date, the Borrower’s Total Leverage Ratio will not exceed the ratio indicated in the table below opposite such Quarterly
Measurement Date: 
  

			
	 Quarterly Measurement Date
	  	 Maximum Total Leverage Ratio

	December 31, 2014	  	6.25:1.00
	March 31, 2015	  	6.25:1.00
	June 30, 2015	  	6.25:1.00
	September 30, 2015	  	6.25:1.00
	December 31, 2015	  	6.00:1.00
	Each Quarterly Measurement Date thereafter	  	5.75:1.00

  

	 	h)	Section 7.01(a)(xii) shall be replaced in its entirety with the following: 

 other
Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding $50,000,000 at any time outstanding; 
  

	 	i)	Section 7.01(a)(xiv) shall be amended by replacing “as in effect on the Third Amendment and Restatement Date” with a reference to the effective date of the Required Term Loan Amendments.

  
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	 	j)	Section 7.01(a)(xvii) shall be amended by replacing “provided that (1) (A) no Default shall exist or result therefrom, (B) the Borrower shall be in compliance with the financial covenants
set forth in Section 6.01 on a Pro Forma Basis, (C) the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent a certificate of a Financial Officer to the effect set forth in clauses (A) and (B) above setting forth reasonably
detailed calculations demonstrating compliance with subclauses (A) and (B) above, (2) such Indebtedness does not mature or have scheduled amortization or payments of principal and is not subject to mandatory redemption or prepayment
(except customary asset sale or change of control provisions), in each case prior to the date that is 91 days after the Latest Maturity Date at the time such Indebtedness is incurred,” with the following: 

provided that (1) (A) no Event of Default under Section 8.01(a) or (m) shall have occurred and be continuing,
(B) the Borrower shall be in compliance with the financial covenants set forth in Section 6.01 on a Pro Forma Basis (if the Borrower so elects, as of the date the definitive agreement is entered into with respect to the transaction to be
financed by such Indebtedness after giving pro forma effect to such acquisition and the incurrence of such Indebtedness as if each occurred on such date), (C) the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent a certificate of a
Financial Officer to the effect set forth in clauses (A) and (B) above setting forth reasonably detailed calculations demonstrating compliance with subclauses (A) and (B) above, (2) such Indebtedness, taken together with all
other outstanding Indebtedness incurred under this Section 7.01(a)(xvii), shall not have a Weighted Average Life to Maturity shorter than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Term Loans outstanding on the date of the incurrence of such
Indebtedness; provided that in any event, any Indebtedness incurred pursuant to this Section 7.01(a)(xvii) to finance, in whole or in part, the acquisition of Gentiva shall have a Weighted Average Life to Maturity no shorter than than
the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Term Loans outstanding on the date of the incurrence of such Indebtedness 
  

	 	k)	Section 7.03(a)(ii) shall be amended by adding after “no Default shall have occurred and be continuing” the following: 

(provided that, with respect to any such transaction to consummate an Investment permitted under Section 7.08, the requirement
under this clause (ii) shall be that no Event of Default under Section 8.01(a) or (m) shall have occurred and be continuing) 
  

	 	l)	Section 7.04(c) shall be replaced in its entirety with the following: 

 transactions
(i) involving payments or consideration that do not exceed $5.0 million or (ii) not materially less favorable to the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, when taken as a whole, than those that would have been
obtained in a comparable transaction at the time of such transaction on an arm’s length basis with a Person who is not an Affiliate; provided that in the event such transaction involves an aggregate consideration in excess of
$25,000,000, the terms of such transaction have been approved by a majority of the disinterested members of the board of directors of the Borrower and the board of directors of the Borrower shall have determined in good faith that such transaction
satisfies the criteria in this clause (ii); 

  
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	 	m)	Section 7.08(b) shall be amended by replacing the words “(A)(i) no Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom and (ii) the Borrower shall be in compliance with the financial
covenants set forth in Section 6.01 hereof on a Pro Forma Basis” with the following: 

 (A) (i) no Event of
Default under Section 8.01(a) or (m) shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom and (ii) the Borrower shall be in compliance with the financial covenants set forth in Section 6.01 on a Pro Forma Basis (if the
Borrower so elects, as of the date the definitive agreement is entered into with respect to the transaction to be financed by such Indebtedness after giving pro forma effect to such acquisition and the incurrence of such Indebtedness as if each
occurred on such date) 
  

	2.	The ABL Amendment shall contain, and the Lead Arrangers shall seek to obtain the requisite consents for, the following amendments to the Existing ABL Credit Agreement (such amendments, the “Required ABL
Amendments” and together with the Required Term Loan Amendments, the “Required Amendments”): 

  

	 	a)	Section 1.01 shall be amended by adding the following defined terms: 

“Additional Escrow Amount” means an amount equal to (a) all interest that could accrue on any Escrow
Notes from and including the date of issuance thereof to and including the date of any potential mandatory redemption to occur if the proceeds of such Escrow Notes are not released from the applicable Escrow Account, plus (b) the amount
of any original issue discount on such Escrow Notes, plus (c) all fees and expenses that are incurred in connection with the issuance of such Escrow Notes and all fees, expenses or other amounts payable in connection with any redemption
of such Escrow Notes. 
 “Escrow Account” means a deposit or securities account at a financial institution
reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (any such institution, an “Escrow Agent”) into which any Escrow Funds are deposited. 

“Escrow Account Documents” means the agreement(s) governing an Escrow Account and any other documents entered
into in order to provide the applicable Escrow Agent (or its designee) Liens on the related Escrow Funds. 
 “Escrow
Agent” has the meaning set forth in the definition of the term “Escrow Account”. 
 “Escrow
Funds” means the sum of (a) the net proceeds of any Escrow Notes, plus (b) the related Additional Escrow Amount, plus (c) so long as they are retained in an Escrow Account, any income, proceeds or products of
the foregoing. 
 “Escrow Notes” means debt securities of an Escrow Subsidiary issued after the Second
Amendment and Restatement Date (which may not be guaranteed or receive credit support from any Person other than an Escrow Subsidiary); provided that the net proceeds of such debt securities are deposited into an Escrow Account upon the
issuance thereof. 
 “Escrow Notes Documents” mean the Escrow Notes Indentures, the Escrow Account
Documents and any other documents entered into by an Escrow Subsidiary in connection with any Escrow Notes. 

  
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 “Escrow Notes Indentures” means the indenture(s) pursuant to
which any Escrow Notes shall be issued. 
 “Escrow Subsidiary” means a Subsidiary of the Borrower that
(a) shall have been identified to the Administrative Agent promptly following its formation, (b) at no time shall contain any assets or liabilities other than any Escrow Notes, any Escrow Funds, any Escrow Accounts and such
Subsidiary’s rights and obligations under any Escrow Notes Documents and (c) shall be an Unrestricted Subsidiary for all purposes of the Financing Documents (it being understood that no Escrow Subsidiary shall, notwithstanding anything to
the contrary contained in any Financing Document, in any event be designated a Restricted Subsidiary). 

“Gentiva” means Gentiva Health Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation. 

“Gentiva Merger” means the merger of the Merger Subsidiary with and into Gentiva, pursuant to the Gentiva
Merger Agreement. 
 “Gentiva Merger Agreement” means that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger dated as of
October 9, 2014, by and among the Borrower, Gentiva and Merger Subsidiary. 
 “Merger Subsidiary”
means Kindred Healthcare Development 2, Inc., a Delaware corporation and wholly owned Subsidiary of the Borrower. 
  

	 	b)	A new Section 1.05 shall be added as follows: 

 Escrow Notes. Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary in any Financing Document, nothing contained in any Financing Document shall restrict or prohibit (a) the formation and designation of an Escrow Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, (b) the holding of the
Escrow Funds in any Escrow Account and the granting or existence of any Liens on any Escrow Account, the Escrow Funds or any Escrow Notes Document or pursuant to any Escrow Account Document, in each case, in favor of the applicable Escrow Agent (or
its designee), (c) any transactions otherwise restricted by Section 7.04 by and among the Borrower or one or more Restricted Subsidiaries, on the one hand, and the Escrow Subsidiary, on the other hand, in connection with the transactions
contemplated by any Escrow Notes Documents and (d) any Investment in an Escrow Subsidiary in an aggregate amount not greater than the applicable Additional Escrow Amount (it being understood, for the avoidance of doubt, that any such
Investments and other transactions shall be deemed made exclusively in reliance upon this Section 1.05 and not any other exception or basket under any other provision of any Financing Document); provided that this Section 1.05 shall
not operate to permit the Gentiva Merger to the extent it would not otherwise be permitted absent this Section 1.05. 
  

	 	c)	Section 4.02(a) shall be replaced in its entirety with the following: 

 The
representations and warranties of each Credit Party set forth in the Financing Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects (it being understood that any representation and warranty that is qualified as to “materiality,”
“material adverse effect” or similar language shall be true and correct in all respects (after giving effect to any such qualification therein) 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; provided that 

  
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those representations and warranties that speak only of a specific date shall only speak as of such date; provided further that notwithstanding the foregoing, the only representations and
warranties of each Credit Party that shall be required to be true and correct with respect to any Borrowing the primary purpose of which is to finance the acquisition of Gentiva shall be those set forth in Sections 3.01, 3.02, 3.03, 3.04, 3.10,
3.15, 3.18, 3.22 and 3.23 (conformed as necessary for such acquisition). 
  

	 	d)	Section 4.02(b) shall be replaced in its entirety with the following: 

 Following the
Closing Date, 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 (provided that, with
respect to any Borrowing the primary purpose of which is to finance the acquisition of Gentiva, the requirement under this clause (b) shall be that no Event of Default under Section 8.01(a) or (m) shall have occurred and be
continuing). 
  

	 	e)	A new Section 5.06(f) shall be added as follows: 

 Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary in this Section 5.06, (i) the Borrower may designate an Escrow Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary and (ii) each Escrow Subsidiary shall be excluded from any calculations made, or any conditions specified, in paragraphs
(a) and (b). 
  

	 	f)	Section 7.01(a)(xii) shall be replaced in its entirety with the following: 

 other
Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding $50,000,000 at any time outstanding; 
  

	 	g)	Section 7.01(a)(xiv) shall be amended by replacing “as in effect on the Second Amendment and Restatement Date” with a reference to the effective date of the Required ABL Amendments. 

 

	 	h)	Section 7.01(a)(xvii) shall be amended by replacing “provided that (1) (A) no Default shall exist or result therefrom, (B) the Borrower shall be in compliance with the financial covenants
set forth in Section 6.01 on a Pro Forma Basis, (C) the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent a certificate of a Financial Officer to the effect set forth in clauses (A) and (B) above setting forth reasonably
detailed calculations demonstrating compliance with subclauses (A) and (B) above, (2) such Indebtedness does not mature or have scheduled amortization or payments of principal and is not subject to mandatory redemption or prepayment
(except customary asset sale or change of control provisions), in each case prior to the date that is 91 days after the Latest Maturity Date at the time such Indebtedness is incurred,” with the following: 

provided that (1) (A) no Default shall exist or result therefrom (or, in the case of Indebtedness incurred to finance the
acquisition of Gentiva, no Event of Default under Section 8.01(a) or (m) shall have occurred and be continuing), (B) the Borrower shall be in compliance with the financial covenants set forth in Section 6.01 on a Pro Forma Basis
(or, in the case of Indebtedness incurred to finance the acquisition of Gentiva, if the Borrower so elects, as of the date of the Gentiva Merger Agreement after giving pro forma effect to such acquisition and the incurrence of such Indebtedness as
if each occurred on such date), (C) the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent a certificate of a 

  
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Financial Officer to the effect set forth in clauses (A) and (B) above setting forth reasonably detailed calculations demonstrating compliance with subclauses (A) and
(B) above, (2) such Indebtedness, taken together with all other outstanding Indebtedness incurred under this Section 7.01(a)(xvii), shall not have a Weighted Average Life to Maturity shorter than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity
of the Indebtedness outstanding under the Term Loan Facility on the date of the incurrence of such Indebtedness; provided that in any event, any Indebtedness incurred pursuant to this Section 7.01(a)(xvii) to finance, in whole or in
part, the acquisition of Gentiva shall have a Weighted Average Life to Maturity no shorter than that of the Term Loan Facility on the date of the incurrence of such indebtedness 

 

	 	i)	Section 7.03(a)(ii) shall be amended by adding after “no Default shall have occurred and be continuing” the following: 

(provided that, with respect to any such transaction to consummate an Investment in connection with the acquisition of Gentiva, the
requirement under this clause (ii) shall be that no Event of Default under Section 8.01(a) or (m) shall have occurred and be continuing) 
  

	 	j)	Section 7.04(c) shall be replaced in its entirety with the following: 

 transactions
(i) involving payments or consideration that do not exceed $5.0 million or (ii) not materially less favorable to the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, when taken as a whole, than those that would have been
obtained in a comparable transaction at the time of such transaction on an arm’s length basis with a Person who is not an Affiliate; provided that in the event such transaction involves an aggregate consideration in excess of
$25,000,000, the terms of such transaction have been approved by a majority of the disinterested members of the board of directors of the Borrower and the board of directors of the Borrower shall have determined in good faith that such transaction
satisfies the criteria in this clause (ii); 
  

	 	k)	Section 7.08(b) shall be amended by replacing the words “(A)(i) no Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom and (ii) the Borrower shall be in compliance with the financial
covenants set forth in Section 6.01 hereof on a Pro Forma Basis” with the following: 

 (A) (i) no Default
shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom (or, in the case of any Investment in connection with the acquisition of Gentiva, no Event of Default under Section 8.01(a) or (m) shall have occurred and be continuing or
would result therefrom) and (ii) the Borrower shall be in compliance with the financial covenants set forth in Section 6.01 on a Pro Forma Basis (or, in the case of any Investment in connection with the acquisition of Gentiva, if the
Borrower so elects, as of the date of the Gentiva Merger Agreement after giving pro forma effect to such acquisition and the incurrence of such Indebtedness as if each occurred on such date) 

  
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 EXHIBIT B 

Project Falcon 
 Bank
Facilities 
 Summary of Principal Terms and Conditions 

 
  

Set forth below is a statement of the terms and conditions for the Bank Facilities (as defined below): 

 

			
	 Borrower:
	  	Kindred Healthcare, Inc. (the “Borrower”).
		
	 Guarantees and Collateral:
	  	Guarantees and collateral with respect to (i) the Refinancing Term Loan Facility will be consistent with the Existing Term Loan Credit Agreement and (ii) the Refinancing ABL Facility, if applicable, will be consistent with the
Existing ABL Credit Agreement and, in each case, will include (a) joinders to the existing guarantees under the respective Bank Facilities by the Target and its subsidiaries required to become guarantors pursuant to the Amended Term Loan Credit
Agreement and the Amended ABL Credit Agreement, as applicable and (b) a perfected lien on all of the equity interests in the Target and the assets of the Target and its subsidiaries required to be pledged as collateral under the Amended Term Loan
Credit Agreement and Amended ABL Credit Agreement, respectively. The guarantors of the Refinancing Term Loan Facility and the Refinancing ABL Facility are referred to as the “Bank Guarantors”.
		
	 Lead Arrangers and Bookrunners:
	  	Citi, J.P. Morgan and any other lead arrangers appointed pursuant to the Commitment Letter will act as lead arrangers and bookrunners for the Bank Facilities and will perform the duties customarily associated with such roles (the
“Bank Arrangers”).
		
	 Administrative Agents:
	  	JPMCB will act as administrative agent and collateral agent for the Refinancing Term Loan Facility (in such capacity, the “Term Administrative Agent”) and as administrative agent and collateral agent for the
Refinancing ABL Facility (in such capacity, the “ABL Administrative Agent” and together with the Existing Agent and the Term Administrative Agent, the “Bank Administrative Agents”), and each will perform the duties
customarily associated with such roles.
		
	 Lenders:
	  	A syndicate of banks, financial institutions and other entities arranged by the Bank Arranger (collectively, the “Bank Lenders”).

  
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	 Term Loan Facilities:
	  	If the Required Term Loan Condition is not satisfied on or prior to the Closing Date, a senior secured term loan facility in an aggregate principal amount equal to $992.5 million (less the gross cash proceeds received by the
Borrower from the Senior Notes and the Equity issued on or prior to the Closing Date after application of any such amounts to reduce the aggregate principal amount of the Bridge Facility to $0) (the “Refinancing Term Loan
Facility”). The Refinancing Term Loan Facility shall be repayable in equal quarterly installments of 1.00% of the original principal amount per year with the balance thereof payable on April 9, 2021.
		
	 Refinancing ABL Facility:
	  	If the Required ABL Condition is not satisfied on or prior to the Closing Date, a senior secured asset-based revolving credit facility in the aggregate principal amount of $750.0 million (the “Refinancing ABL
Facility” and together with the Refinancing Term Loan Facility, the “Bank Facilities”). The Refinancing ABL Facility will mature on April 9, 2019 and all outstanding amounts shall be due and payable on such date.
		
	 Availability:
	  	The Term Loan Facilities, as applicable, will be available in a single drawing on the Closing Date.
		
		  	The Refinancing ABL Facility, if applicable, will be made available on and after the Closing Date on terms substantially similar to those set forth in the Amended ABL Credit Agreement.
		
	 Purpose:
	  	The proceeds of the borrowings under the Refinancing Term Loan Facility, if applicable, will be used to refinance the indebtedness outstanding under the Existing Term Loan Credit Agreement and to pay the other Transaction Costs
on the Closing Date.
		
		  	The proceeds of the borrowings under the Refinancing ABL Facility, if applicable, will be used to refinance the indebtedness outstanding under the Existing ABL Credit Agreement and to pay the other Transaction Costs on the
Closing Date, and otherwise for general corporate purposes.
		
	 Documentation Considerations:
	  	The documentation for the Refinancing Term Loan Facility shall reflect the terms set forth in this Term Sheet and shall otherwise be consistent with the Amended Term Loan Credit Agreement.
		
		  	The documentation for the Refinancing ABL Facility shall reflect the terms set forth in this Term Sheet and shall otherwise be consistent with the Amended ABL Credit
Agreement.

  
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	 Fees and Interest Rates:
	  	With respect to the Refinancing Term Loan Facility, as set forth on Annex I to the Fee Letter.
		
		  	With respect to the Refinancing ABL Facility, as set forth on Annex II to the Fee Letter.
		
	Optional Prepayments and Commitment Reductions:	  	As provided under the Existing Term Loan Credit Agreement and the Existing ABL Credit Agreement, as applicable; provided that the Term Loan Facilities shall be subject to soft call protection at a prepayment premium of
1.00% until the six month anniversary of the Closing Date.
		
	 Mandatory Prepayments:
	  	As provided under the Existing Term Loan Credit Agreement and the Existing ABL Credit Agreement, as applicable.
		
	 Certain Conditions:
	  	Subject to the Closing Date Conditions Provisions, the availability of the initial borrowing and other extensions of credit under the Bank Facilities, as applicable, will be subject solely to the applicable conditions set forth
in Exhibit D to the Commitment Letter.
		
	 Representations and Warranties:
	  	As provided under the Existing Term Loan Credit Agreement and the Existing ABL Credit Agreement, as applicable; provided that the Bank Facilities shall contain customary representations with respect to OFAC and
FCPA.
		
	 Affirmative Covenants:
	  	As provided under the Existing Term Loan Credit Agreement and the Existing ABL Credit Agreement, as applicable.
		
	 Financial Covenants:
	  	As provided under the Existing Term Loan Credit Agreement and the Existing ABL Credit Agreement, as applicable, with the Required Amendments set forth on Annex I to Exhibit A.
		
	 Negative Covenants:
	  	As provided under the Existing Term Loan Credit Agreement and the Existing ABL Credit Agreement, as applicable, with the Required Amendments set forth on Annex I to Exhibit A.
		
	 Unrestricted Subsidiaries:
	  	As provided under the Existing Term Loan Credit Agreement and the Existing ABL Credit Agreement, as applicable.

  
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	 Events of Default:
	  	As provided under the Existing Term Loan Credit Agreement and the Existing ABL Credit Agreement, as applicable.
		
	 Voting:
	  	As provided under the Existing Term Loan Credit Agreement and the Existing ABL Credit Agreement, as applicable.
		
	 Assignments and Participations:
	  	As provided under the Existing Term Loan Credit Agreement and the Existing ABL Credit Agreement, as applicable.
		
	 Yield Protection:
	  	As provided under the Existing Term Loan Credit Agreement and the Existing ABL Credit Agreement, as applicable.
		
	 Expenses and Indemnification:
	  	As provided under the Existing Term Loan Credit Agreement and the Existing ABL Credit Agreement, as applicable.
		
	 Governing Law and Forum:
	  	State of New York.
		
	 Counsel to the Bank Administrative

Agents and the Bank Arranger:
	  	Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP.

  
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 EXHIBIT C 

Project Falcon 
 Senior Unsecured
Bridge Facility 
 Summary of Principal Terms and Conditions 

 
  

Set forth below is a statement of the terms and conditions for the Bridge Facility (as defined below) to be used to finance a portion of the
Transactions: 
  

			
	 Initial Bridge Loans:
	  	The Bridge Lenders (as defined below) will make senior unsecured loans (the “Initial Loans”) to the Borrower on the Closing Date (as defined below) in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $1,700 million
less the gross cash proceeds received by the Borrower from the Senior Notes and the Equity issued on or prior to the Closing Date (other than Equity issued to fund an increase in the purchase price for the Acquisition) (the “Bridge
Facility”).
		
	 Borrower:
	  	Kindred Healthcare, Inc. (the “Borrower”).
		
	 Guarantors:
	  	The Bridge Facility Debt (as defined below) shall be jointly and severally guaranteed by all guarantors of the Bank Facilities on a senior basis (the “Bridge Guarantors” and together with the Bank Guarantors, the
“Guarantors”).
		
	 Administrative Agent:
	  	Citi (in such capacity, the “Bridge Administrative Agent” and, together with the Bank Administrative Agents, the “Administrative Agents”) will act as administrative agent for the Bridge Lenders
holding the Initial Loans from time to time.
		
	 Lead Arrangers and Bookrunners:
	  	Citi, J.P. Morgan and any other lead arrangers appointed pursuant to the Commitment Letter will act as lead arrangers and bookrunners for the Bridge Facility and will perform the duties customarily associated with such roles (in
such capacities, the “Bridge Arrangers” and, together with the Bank Arrangers, the “Lead Arrangers”).
		
	 Lenders:
	  	Citi, JPMCB and any other holder of any portion of the Initial Loans or of any commitment to make the Initial Loans are collectively referred to as the “Bridge Lenders” (and, such Bridge Lenders and the Bank
Lenders, the “Lenders”).
		
	 Use of Proceeds:
	  	The proceeds of the Initial Loans will be used to pay the Transaction Costs and otherwise for general corporate purposes.
		
	 Funding:
	  	The Bridge Lenders will make the Initial Loans available on the Closing Date.

  
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	 Maturity/Exchange:
	  	The Initial Loans will initially mature on the date that is 12 months following the Closing Date (the “Initial Loan Maturity Date”), which shall be extended as provided below. If any Initial Loan has not
been previously repaid in full on or prior to the Initial Loan Maturity Date, the Bridge Lender in respect of such Initial Loan will have the option at any time or from time to time on or after the Initial Loan Maturity Date to receive exchange
notes in exchange for such Initial Loan having the terms set forth in the term sheet attached hereto as Annex I (the “Exchange Notes”; together with the Initial Loans, the “Bridge Facility Debt”). Subject only
to the absence of a payment or bankruptcy default, the maturity of any Initial Loans that are not exchanged for Exchange Notes on the Initial Loan Maturity Date shall automatically be extended to the eighth anniversary of the Closing Date.
		
		  	The Initial Loans and the Exchange Notes shall be pari passu for all purposes.
		
	 Interest Rates:
	  	As set forth on Annex III to the Fee Letter.
		
	 Mandatory Redemption:
	  	The Borrower will be required to prepay Initial Loans (and, if issued, redeem Exchange Notes, to the extent required by the terms of such Exchange Notes) on a pro rata basis, at par plus accrued and unpaid
interest from the net cash proceeds of debt incurrences, issuances of equity and, after deduction of, among other things, amounts required, if any, to repay the Bank Facilities or other senior secured indebtedness, the sale of any assets outside the
ordinary course of business, subject in each case to exceptions and baskets to be agreed. In addition, upon the occurrence of a change of control, the Borrower will be required to redeem the Initial Loans at 100% of the principal amount of such
Initial Loans, plus accrued and unpaid interest.
		
	 Optional Prepayment:
	  	The Initial Loans may be prepaid, in whole or in part, at the option of the Borrower, at any time upon two business days’ prior notice, at par plus accrued and unpaid interest and, if applicable, breakage
costs.
		
	 Documentation Considerations:
	  	The documentation for the Bridge Facility (the “Bridge Facility Documentation”) shall contain the terms set forth in this Term Sheet and other terms customary for facilities and transactions of this type, as may
be reasonably agreed by the Bridge Arranger, the Bridge Lenders and the Borrower, subject to materiality thresholds, baskets and exceptions to be agreed. This paragraph will be referred to as the “Documentation
Considerations”.
		
	 Conditions Precedent:
	  	Subject to the Closing Date Conditions Provisions, the availability of the Bridge Facility shall be conditioned solely upon the conditions set forth in Exhibit D.

  
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	 Representations and Warranties:
	  	Substantially similar to the representations and warranties set forth in the Existing Term Loan Credit Agreement.
		
	 Covenants:
	  	Substantially consistent with the Documentation Considerations (including, without limitation, incurrence-based negative covenants customary for high-yield transactions, no financial maintenance covenants, and a covenant to
refinance Initial Loans, including in connection with any Securities Demand). Prior to the Initial Loan Maturity Date, the debt, lien and restricted payment covenants will be more restrictive than those in the Exchange Notes. Following the Initial
Loan Maturity Date, the covenants relevant to the Initial Loans will automatically be modified so as to be consistent with the Exchange Notes.
		
	 Events of Default:
	  	Substantially similar to the events of default set forth in the Existing Term Loan Credit Agreement, subject to certain adjustments (including, without limitation, a cross-acceleration but no cross-default event of default)
customary for facilities of this type to be agreed and others as may be reasonably required by the Bridge Arrangers (with customary notice and grace periods to be agreed). Following the Initial Loan Maturity Date, the events of default relevant to
the Initial Loans will automatically be modified so as to be consistent with the Exchange Notes.
		
	 Cost and Yield Protection:
	  	Substantially the same as the cost and yield protection provisions of the Existing Term Loan Credit Agreement.
		
	 Assignment and Participation:
	  	Subject to the prior approval of the Bridge Administrative Agent (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld), the Bridge Lenders will have the right to assign Initial Loans (other than to Disqualified Institutions) without
the consent of the Borrower; provided, that, unless an event of default has occurred prior to the Initial Loan Maturity Date and is at such time continuing, the Bridge Lenders may not assign more than 50% of the principal amount the Initial
Loans without the consent of the Borrower (it being understood that Bridge Lenders may participate their Initial Loans as provided in the next paragraph) prior to the Initial Loan Maturity Date. Assignments will be by novation.
		
		  	The Bridge Lenders will have the right to participate their Initial Loans to other financial institutions without restriction, other than customary voting limitations. Participants will have the same benefits as the selling
Bridge Lenders would have (and will be limited to the amount of such benefits) with regard to yield protection and increased costs, subject to customary limitations and restrictions.
		
	 Voting:
	  	Amendments and waivers of the Bridge Facility Documentation will require the approval of Bridge Lenders holding more than 50% of the outstanding Initial Loans, except that (i) the consent of each adversely affected Bridge
Lender will be required for (a)

  
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		  	reductions of principal, interest rates or spread, (b) except as provided under “Maturity/Exchange” above, extensions of the Initial Loan Maturity Date and (c) additional restrictions on the right to exchange
Initial Loans for Exchange Notes or any amendment of the rate of such exchange and (ii) the consent of 100% of the Bridge Lenders shall be required with respect to (a) reductions to any of the voting percentages and pro rata provisions, (b)
modifications to the redemption provisions of the Exchange Notes, (c) releases of all or substantially all of the Bridge Guarantors and (d) changes to the ranking.
		
	 Expenses and Indemnification:
	  	The Bridge Facility Documentation shall provide that the Borrower shall pay (a) all invoiced reasonable out-of-pocket expenses of the Bridge Administrative Agent and the Bridge Arrangers associated with the syndication of
the Bridge Facility and the preparation, execution, delivery and administration of the Bridge Facility Documentation and any amendment, waiver or modification with respect thereto (including the reasonable fees, disbursements and other charges of
counsel) and (b) all out-of-pocket expenses of the Bridge Administrative Agent and the Bridge Lenders (including the fees, disbursements and other charges of counsel) in connection with the enforcement of the Bridge Facility
Documentation.
		
		  	The Bridge Administrative Agent, the Bridge Arrangers and the Bridge Lenders (and their affiliates and their respective officers, directors, employees, advisors and agents) will have no liability for, and will be indemnified and
held harmless against, any losses, claims, damages, liabilities and reasonable and invoiced out-of-pocket expenses (including the reasonable fees, disbursements and other charges of counsel) incurred in respect of the financing contemplated hereby
or the use or the proposed use of proceeds thereof, except to the extent they are found by a final, non-appealable judgment of a court to arise from the gross negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith of the relevant indemnified person.
		
	 Governing Law and Forum:
	  	New York.
		
	Counsel to the Bridge Administrative Agent and the Bridge Arrangers:	  	Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP.

  
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 Annex I to Exhibit C 

Summary of Terms and Conditions 

of Exchange Notes 

Capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the meanings given in the Summary of Terms and Conditions of the Bridge Facility to which
this Annex I is attached. 
  

			
	 Issuer:
	  	The Borrower will issue senior unsecured Exchange Notes under an indenture (the “Indenture”). The Borrower in its capacity as issuer of the Exchange Notes is referred to as the
“Issuer.”
		
	 Guarantors:
	  	Same as the Initial Loans.
		
	 Principal Amount:
	  	The Exchange Notes will be available only in exchange for the Initial Loans on or after the Initial Loan Maturity Date. The principal amount of any Exchange Note will equal 100% of the aggregate principal amount (including any
accrued interest not required to be paid in cash) of the Initial Loan for which it is exchanged. In the case of the initial exchange by Bridge Lenders, the minimum amount of Initial Loans to be exchanged for Exchange Notes shall equal $100
million.
		
	 Maturity:
	  	The Exchange Notes will mature on the eighth anniversary of the Closing Date.
		
	 Interest Rate:
	  	The Exchange Notes will bear interest at the Total Cap (as defined in the Fee Letter).
		
		  	Interest will be payable in arrears at the end of each semi-annual fiscal period.
		
	 Mandatory Redemption:
	  	The Issuer will be required to make an offer to redeem the Exchange Notes (and, if outstanding, prepay the Initial Loans) on a pro rata basis, at par plus accrued and unpaid interest plus any
applicable premiums), from the net cash proceeds (in each case, after deduction of, among other things, amounts required, if any, to repay the Bank Facilities or other senior secured indebtedness) of the sale of any assets outside the ordinary
course of business (in each case, subject to exceptions and baskets to be agreed, including, but not limited to, exceptions and baskets comparable to those applicable to the Bank Facilities). In addition, the Issuer will be required to offer to
redeem the Exchange Notes upon the occurrence of a change of control, which offer shall be at 101% (or 100% in the case of Exchange Notes held by the Commitment Parties or their affiliates (other than those held by an asset management affiliate of a
Commitment Party purchasing debt securities in the ordinary course of their business as part of a regular distribution of such debt securities or any Exchange Notes acquired pursuant to bona fide open market purchases from third parties in
connection with market making activities (“Repurchased Exchange Notes”)) of the principal amount of such Exchange Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest.

  
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	 Optional Redemption:
	  	The Exchange Notes will be (a) non-callable for the first three years from the Initial Loan Maturity Date and (b) thereafter, callable at par plus accrued interest plus a premium equal to 75% of the coupon in
effect on such Exchange Note, which premium shall decline ratably on each yearly anniversary of the date of such sale to zero 2 years prior to the maturity of the Exchange Notes; provided that if any Exchange Notes are held by any Commitment
Party or its affiliates (other than those held by an asset management affiliate of a Commitment Party purchasing debt securities in the ordinary course of their business as part of a regular distribution of such debt securities or any Repurchased
Exchange Notes) shall be callable at any time on a non-pro rata basis at par plus accrued interest (for as long as such Exchange Notes are so held).
		
		  	Notwithstanding the above, (i) prior to the third anniversary of the Initial Loan Maturity Date, the Borrower may redeem the Exchange Notes at a make-whole price based on the yield to maturity of U.S. Treasury notes with a
maturity closest to the third anniversary of the Initial Loan Maturity Date plus 50 basis points and (ii) prior to the third anniversary of the Closing Date, the Borrower may redeem up to 35% of the Exchange Notes with proceeds from certain of the
Borrower’s equity offerings at a price equal to par plus a premium equal to the coupon on such Exchange Notes.
		
	 Registration Rights:
	  	The Issuer will use commercially reasonable efforts to file after the first issuance of the Exchange Notes, and will use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause to become effective as soon thereafter as practicable, a shelf
registration statement with respect to the Exchange Notes (a “Shelf Registration Statement”) and/or a registration statement relating to a Registered Exchange Offer (as described below). If a Shelf Registration Statement is filed,
the Issuer will keep such registration statement effective and available (subject to customary exceptions) until it is no longer needed to permit unrestricted resales of Exchange Notes but in no event longer than one year from the first issuance of
any Exchange Note. If within 365 days from the first issuance of any Exchange Note, a Shelf Registration Statement for the Exchange Notes has not been declared effective or the Issuer has not effected an exchange offer (a “Registered
Exchange Offer”) whereby the Issuer has offered registered notes having terms identical to the Exchange Notes (the “Substitute Notes”) in exchange for all outstanding Exchange Notes, then the Issuer will pay additional
interest of 0.25% per annum on the principal amount of the Exchange Notes to holders thereof who are, or would be, unable freely to transfer Exchange Notes from and

  
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		  	including the 366th day after the date of the first issuance of any Exchange Notes (which rate of additional interest shall increase to 0.50% per annum 90 days thereafter) to but excluding the earlier of the effective date of
such Shelf Registration Statement or the date of consummation of such Registered Exchange Offer. The Issuer will also pay such additional interest for any period of time (subject to customary exceptions) following the effectiveness of a Shelf
Registration Statement that such Shelf Registration Statement is not available for resales thereunder. In addition, unless and until the Issuer has consummated the Registered Exchange Offer and, if required, caused the Shelf Registration Statement
to become effective, the holders of the Exchange Notes will have the right to “piggy-back” the Exchange Notes in the registration of any debt securities (subject to customary scale-back provisions) that are registered by the Issuer (other
than on a Form S-4) unless all the Exchange Notes and Initial Loans will be redeemed or repaid from the proceeds of such securities.
		
	 Right to Transfer Exchange Notes:
	  	The holders of the Exchange Notes shall have the absolute and unconditional right to transfer such Exchange Notes in compliance with applicable law to any third parties.
		
	 Covenants:
	  	Similar to those in an indenture governing a high-yield senior note issue.
		
	 Events of Default:
	  	Similar to those in an indenture governing a high-yield senior note issue.
		
	 Governing Law and Forum:
	  	New York.

  
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 EXHIBIT D 

Project Falcon 
 Summary of
Additional Conditions 
 Subject to the Closing Date Conditions Provisions, the availability of each of the Facilities on the Closing
Date shall be subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions. 
 (a) (i) Except as set forth in the correspondingly
numbered section of the disclosure letter, dated as of the date hereof and delivered by the Target to the Borrower prior to the execution of the Transaction Agreement (the “Company Disclosure Letter”), or in another section of
the Company Disclosure Letter to the extent that it is reasonably apparent on the face of such disclosure that such disclosure is applicable to such section, and except as set forth in the reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents
filed by the Target with, or furnished by the Target to, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) pursuant to sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act from January 1, 2014 until the date
hereof to the extent that it is reasonably apparent on the face of such disclosure that such disclosure is applicable to the condition set forth in this clause (a)(i), but excluding any disclosure contained in any such reports, schedules, forms,
statements and other documents under the heading “Risk Factors” or “Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” or similar heading and any other disclosures contained or
referenced therein of information, factors or risks to the extent they are predictive, cautionary or forward looking, since December 31, 2013 until the date hereof, there has not been or occurred any Company Material Adverse Effect or any
event, occurrence, fact, condition or change that has had or would reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Company Material Adverse Effect and (ii) since the date hereof, there shall not have been any Company
Material Adverse Effect or any event, occurrence, fact, condition, change or effect that would reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate with all other events, occurrences, facts, conditions, changes and effects, a Company
Material Adverse Effect. For purposes hereof, “Company Material Adverse Effect” means any event, occurrence, fact, condition, change or effect, taken as a whole, that is materially adverse to (i) the business, assets,
liabilities, operations or financial condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (ii) the ability of the Company to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby; provided, however, that, with regard to clause (i),
Company Material Adverse Effect shall not include the impact of any event, occurrence, fact, condition, change or effect arising out of, relating to or resulting from: (a) general economic, business, political, or regulatory conditions;
(b) any changes or developments in financial, banking or securities markets in general, including any disruption thereof and any decline in the price of any security or any market index or any change in prevailing interest rates; (c) the
negotiation, execution, delivery, performance, announcement, pendency or completion of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including any litigation, action, proceeding, claim, investigation or challenge related thereto or any losses or
threatened losses of employees, customers, suppliers, distributors or others having relationships with the Company resulting from (other than when used in Section 3.03 and Section 6.02(a) (in so far as it refers to Section 3.03) of
the Transaction Agreement); (d) the identity of Parent or any of its affiliates as the acquirer of the Company or any facts or circumstances concerning Parent or any of its affiliates; (e) any acts of war (whether or not declared), armed
hostilities or terrorism, or the escalation or worsening thereof; (f) any changes or conditions generally affecting the industries in which the Company and its Subsidiaries operate; (g) any matter disclosed on the Company Disclosure
Letter; (h) any changes in applicable Laws or accounting rules or principles (including GAAP) or the enforcement, implementation or interpretation thereof; (i) any failure by the Company to meet any internal or published projections,
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statistics or revenue or earnings predictions for any period or a decline in the price or trading volume of the Company Common Stock (provided, that the underlying causes of such failures or
decline (subject to the other provisions of this definition) shall not be excluded); (j) any action taken (or omitted to be taken) with the written consent of or at the written request of Parent; or (k) any natural or man-made disasters or
acts of God, except in the case of clauses (a), (b), (e), (f), (h), or (k), to the extent that any such event, occurrence, fact, condition, change or effect has a material and disproportionate effect on the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a
whole, relative to others operating in the industries in which the Company and any of its Subsidiaries operate. Capitalized terms in the preceding definition are used as defined in the Transaction Agreement. 

(b) Each party thereto shall have executed and delivered definitive documentation for the Bank Facilities, the Acquisition
Amendments and the Bridge Facility, as applicable, reflecting the terms and conditions hereof and customary for such Facilities. 

(c) The Acquisition shall have been consummated or substantially simultaneously with the initial borrowing under the
Facilities, shall be consummated, in all material respects in accordance with the Transaction Agreement as in effect on the date hereof without giving effect to any waivers, consents, amendments, supplements or modifications that are in any respect
materially adverse to the Lenders or the Lead Arrangers without approval of the Lead Arrangers (not to be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned). For purposes of the foregoing condition, it is hereby understood and agreed that any increase
or reduction in the purchase price in connection with the Acquisition shall not be deemed to be material and adverse to the interests of the Lead Arrangers; provided that (i) any increase in the purchase price shall be funded with equity
and (ii) an amount equal to 100% of any reduction of the purchase price shall be allocated to a reduction in any amounts to be funded under the Bridge Facility. 

(d) The Refinancing shall have been consummated or will be consummated substantially simultaneously with the Closing Date;
provided that the refinancing contemplated pursuant to clause (e)(i) and (e)(ii) of Exhibit A to the Commitment Letter shall only be required to be consummated to the extent that the Refinancing Term Loan Facility and the Refinancing ABL
Facility are incurred, as applicable. 
 (e) The Lenders, the Administrative Agents and the Lead Arrangers shall have
received all fees required to be paid, and all out-of-pocket expenses required to be paid for which invoices have been presented, at least two (2) business days before the Closing Date. 

(f) The Lenders shall have received (i) audited financial statements of the Borrower and the Target for the three most
recent fiscal years ended at least 90 days before the Closing Date and (ii) unaudited interim consolidated financial statements of the Borrower and the Target for each quarterly period ended after the latest fiscal year referred to in
clause (i) above and ended at least 45 days prior to the Closing Date. 
 (g) The Lenders shall have received a pro
forma consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its subsidiaries as at the date of the most recent consolidated balance sheet delivered pursuant to the preceding paragraph and a pro forma statement of income for the four fiscal quarters most
recently ended for which financial statements were delivered to the Lenders pursuant to the preceding paragraph, in each case adjusted to give effect to the consummation of the Transactions and the financings contemplated hereby as if such
transactions, with respect to the pro forma balance sheet, had occurred on such date or with respect to the pro forma statements of income, had occurred on the first day of such period, prepared in accordance with Regulation S-X of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (“Regulation S-X”) (subject to exceptions customary for an offering under Rule 144A, unless the Senior Notes are proposed to be offered and sold in a registered offering). 

  
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 (h) Subject to the Closing Date Conditions Provisions, all documents and
instruments required to create and perfect the Bank Administrative Agents’ respective security interests in the collateral (as described in Exhibit B to the Commitment Letter) to be granted by the Target and its subsidiaries and in the equity
interests of the Target under the Bank Facilities shall have been executed and delivered and, if applicable, be in proper form for filing. 

(i) The Initial Lenders shall have received a customary solvency certificate from the chief financial officer of the Borrower
that shall document the solvency of the Borrower and its subsidiaries (on a consolidated basis) after giving effect to the Transactions. 

(j) The Initial Lenders shall have received such legal opinions (including opinions (a) from counsel to the Borrower and
its subsidiaries, and (b) from such special and local counsel as may be reasonably required by the Initial Lenders), documents, closing certificates and other instruments as are customary for transactions of this type or as they may reasonably
request, in customary form for transactions of this type. 
 (k) As a condition to the availability of the Bank Facilities,
(a) the Lead Arrangers shall have received, not later than 15 consecutive business days prior to the Closing Date, information customarily delivered by a borrower and necessary for the preparation of a customary confidential information
memorandum for senior secured revolving and term loan financings (which shall include forecasts of the financial performance of the Borrower and its subsidiaries (x) on an annual basis through 2019 and (y) on a quarterly basis through
2016, but shall exclude any information customarily provided by an investment bank in the preparation of such a confidential information memorandum) (the “Required Bank Information”), and (b) the Lead Arrangers shall have been
afforded a period of at least 15 consecutive business days (provided that such 15 consecutive business day period shall either end prior to December 20, 2014 or commence on or after January 5, 2015 and shall exclude
November 28, 2014) upon receipt of the Required Bank Information to attempt to syndicate the Bank Facilities (the “Bank Marketing Period”). It is hereby agreed that the Borrower may notify the Lead Arrangers in writing that the
Borrower reasonably believes that it has delivered the Required Bank Information for the commencement of the Bank Marketing Period and that such Bank Marketing Period has therefore commenced, and any such delivery of written notice shall be deemed
to be conclusive evidence of the commencement of the Bank Marketing Period unless the Lead Arrangers object in writing within three (3) business days of receipt of such notice. 

(l) As a condition to the availability of the Bridge Facility, (a) the Borrower shall have delivered (i) customary
preliminary offering memoranda or preliminary prospectuses and other marketing materials containing all customary information (including a discussion of Borrower and its subsidiaries and a discussion of Target and its subsidiaries) (other than the
“description of the notes” and any information customarily provided by the investment bank (the “Investment Bank”) or its counsel; provided that the Borrower shall use commercially reasonable efforts to negotiate a
“description of the notes” reasonably satisfactory to the Borrower and the Commitment Parties), including, without limitation, financial statements, pro forma financial statements, business and other financial data that would be required
in a registered offering under the rules and regulations of the Securities Act, as amended (other than Rule 3-09, Rule 3-10 or Rule 3-16 of Regulation S-X, Item 402(b) of Regulation S-K and other exceptions customary for a Rule 144A offering
unless the Senior Notes are proposed to be offered and sold in a registered offering) and other data that would be necessary for the Investment Bank to receive customary 

  
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“comfort” (including negative assurance comfort) from auditors of the Target and the Borrower, and (ii) drafts of customary comfort letters by auditors of the Target and the
Borrower which such auditors are prepared to issue upon completion of customary procedures, each in form and substance customary for high yield debt securities offerings (the “Required Bond Information”), and (b) the Investment
Bank shall have been afforded a period of at least 15 consecutive business days (provided that such 15 consecutive business day period shall either end prior to December 20, 2014 or commence on or after January 5, 2015 and shall
exclude November 28, 2014) following the receipt of the Required Bond Information to attempt to place the Senior Notes with qualified purchasers thereof (it being understood that, if any of the Required Offering Information becomes
“stale” under the applicable provisions of Regulation S-X during any such 15 consecutive business day period, then such period shall be deemed not to have occurred and a new 15 consecutive business day period shall only commence upon
delivery of Required Offering Information that complies with the applicable provisions of Regulation S-X for each day of such period) (the “Bond Marketing Period”). It is hereby agreed that the Borrower may notify the Lead Arrangers
in writing that the Borrower reasonably believes that it has delivered the Required Bond Information required for the commencement of the Bond Marketing Period and that such Bond Marketing Period has therefore commenced, and any such delivery of
written notice shall be deemed to be conclusive evidence of the commencement of the Bond Marketing Period unless the Lead Arrangers object in writing within three (3) business days of receipt of such notice. 

(m) The Initial Lenders shall have received, at least three (3) days prior to the Closing Date, all documentation and
other information required by regulatory authorities under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the PATRIOT Act, to the extent reasonably requested by the Lenders at least ten
(10) days prior to the Closing Date. 
 (n) The Specified Transaction Agreement Representations and Specified
Representations shall be true and correct in all material respects. 

  
 D-4EX-10.1

 Exhibit 10.1 

Execution Version 
 Published Deal
CUSIP: 01881DAG8 
 Published Term Loan Facility CUSIP: 01881DAH6 
  

 
  

$250,000,000 
 TERM LOAN

 CREDIT AGREEMENT 

Dated as of October 7, 2014 

Among 
 ALLIANT ENERGY
CORPORATION 
 as Borrower 

THE BANKS NAMED HEREIN 

as Banks 
 and 

WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION 

as Administrative Agent 
  

 
 WELLS FARGO
SECURITIES, LLC 
 Sole Lead Arranger and Bookrunner 
  

 
  

 TABLE OF CONTENTS 
  

							
	 	 	 	  	Page	 
	
	ARTICLE I	  
	
	DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS	  
	Section 1.1	 	 Certain Defined Terms
	  	 	1	  
	Section 1.2	 	 Computation of Time Periods
	  	 	16	  
	Section 1.3	 	 Computations of Outstandings
	  	 	16	  
	Section 1.4	 	 Accounting Terms
	  	 	16	  
	Section 1.5	 	 Terms Generally
	  	 	16	  
	
	ARTICLE II	  
	
	AMOUNTS AND TERMS OF THE ADVANCES	  
	Section 2.1	 	 The Advances
	  	 	17	  
	Section 2.2	 	 Making the Advances
	  	 	17	  
	Section 2.3	 	 Funding Reliance
	  	 	18	  
	Section 2.4	 	 [Reserved]
	  	 	18	  
	Section 2.5	 	 [Reserved]
	  	 	18	  
	Section 2.6	 	 Changes in the Commitments
	  	 	18	  
	Section 2.7	 	 Repayment of Advances
	  	 	19	  
	Section 2.8	 	 Interest on Advances
	  	 	19	  
	Section 2.9	 	 Additional Interest on Eurodollar Rate Advances
	  	 	19	  
	Section 2.10	 	 Interest Rate Determination
	  	 	20	  
	Section 2.11	 	 Voluntary Conversion of Advances
	  	 	21	  
	Section 2.12	 	 Optional Prepayments of Advances
	  	 	21	  
	Section 2.13	 	 Increased Costs
	  	 	22	  
	Section 2.14	 	 Illegality
	  	 	23	  
	Section 2.15	 	 Payments and Computations
	  	 	23	  
	Section 2.16	 	 Noteless Agreement; Evidence of Indebtedness
	  	 	25	  
	Section 2.17	 	 Taxes
	  	 	25	  
	Section 2.18	 	 Sharing of Payments, Etc
	  	 	27	  
	Section 2.19	 	 [Reserved]
	  	 	28	  
	Section 2.20	 	 Replacement of Lenders
	  	 	28	  
	Section 2.21	 	 Defaulting Lenders
	  	 	29	  
	
	ARTICLE III	  
	
	CONDITIONS TO ADVANCES	  
	Section 3.1	 	 Conditions Precedent to Closing Date
	  	 	30	  
	Section 3.2	 	 Conditions Precedent to Borrowing on the Funding Date
	  	 	32	  
	Section 3.3	 	 Reliance on Certificates
	  	 	32	  

  
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	ARTICLE IV	  
	
	REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES	  
	Section 4.1	 	 Representations and Warranties of the Borrower
	  	 	33	  
	
	ARTICLE V	  
	
	COVENANTS OF THE BORROWER	  
	Section 5.1	 	 Affirmative Covenants
	  	 	35	  
	Section 5.2	 	 Negative Covenants
	  	 	39	  
	
	ARTICLE VI	  
	
	EVENTS OF DEFAULT	  
	Section 6.1	 	 Events of Default
	  	 	43	  
	
	ARTICLE VII	  
	
	THE AGENT	  
	Section 7.1	 	 Authorization and Action
	  	 	45	  
	Section 7.2	 	 Exculpatory Provisions
	  	 	46	  
	Section 7.3	 	 Reliance by Agent
	  	 	46	  
	Section 7.4	 	 Wells Fargo and Affiliates
	  	 	47	  
	Section 7.5	 	 Lender Credit Decision
	  	 	47	  
	Section 7.6	 	 Indemnification
	  	 	47	  
	Section 7.7	 	 Successor Agent
	  	 	47	  
	Section 7.8	 	 Delegation of Duties
	  	 	48	  
	Section 7.9	 	 No Other Duties, Etc
	  	 	48	  
	Section 7.10	 	 Agent May File Proofs of Claim
	  	 	48	  
	
	ARTICLE VIII	  
	
	MISCELLANEOUS	  
	Section 8.1	 	 Amendments, Etc
	  	 	49	  
	Section 8.2	 	 Notices, Etc
	  	 	50	  
	Section 8.3	 	 No Waiver; Remedies
	  	 	50	  
	Section 8.4	 	 Costs, Expenses, Taxes and Indemnification
	  	 	50	  
	Section 8.5	 	 Right of Set-off
	  	 	53	  
	Section 8.6	 	 Binding Effect
	  	 	54	  
	Section 8.7	 	 Assignments and Participations
	  	 	54	  
	Section 8.8	 	 Confidentiality
	  	 	58	  
	Section 8.9	 	 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL
	  	 	59	  
	Section 8.10	 	 Governing Law
	  	 	59	  

  
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	Section 8.11	 	 Jurisdiction
	  	 	59	  
	Section 8.12	 	 Waiver of Venue
	  	 	59	  
	Section 8.13	 	 Relation of the Parties; No Beneficiary
	  	 	59	  
	Section 8.14	 	 Execution in Counterparts
	  	 	60	  
	Section 8.15	 	 Severability
	  	 	60	  
	Section 8.16	 	 Disclosure of Information
	  	 	60	  
	Section 8.17	 	 USA Patriot Act Notice
	  	 	60	  
	Section 8.18	 	 Entire Agreement
	  	 	60	  

 EXHIBITS AND SCHEDULES 
  

			
	Exhibit 1.1	  	-   Form of Note
	Exhibit 2.2(b)	  	-   Form of Notice of Borrowing
	Exhibit 2.11	  	-   Form of Notice of Conversion
	Exhibit3.1(a)(vii)	  	-   Form of Opinion of Chapman and Cutler LLP
	Exhibit 8.7	  	-   Form of Lender Assignment
	Schedule I	  	-   Commitment Schedule
	Schedule II	  	-   Existing Synthetic Leases
	Schedule III	  	-   Existing Liens
	Schedule IV	  	-   List of Indentures

  
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 TERM LOAN CREDIT AGREEMENT 

Dated as of October 7, 2014 

THIS TERM LOAN CREDIT AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is made by and among: 

 

	 	(i)	ALLIANT ENERGY CORPORATION, a Wisconsin corporation (the “Borrower”), 

  

	 	(ii)	the banks (the “Banks”) listed on the signature pages hereof and the other Lenders (as hereinafter defined) from time to time party hereto, and 

 

	 	(iii)	WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION (“Wells Fargo”), as administrative agent (the “Agent”) for the Lenders hereunder. 

PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS 

(1) The Borrower has requested that the Lenders make available to the Borrower a term facility in the aggregate original principal amount of
$250,000,000. 
 (2) The Lenders are willing to make available to the Borrower the term loan facility described herein subject to and on the
terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement. 
 NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual covenants herein
contained, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows: 
 ARTICLE I 

DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS 

Section 1.1 Certain Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings
(such meanings to be equally applicable to both the singular and plural forms of the terms defined): 
 “Administrative
Questionnaire” means an Administrative Questionnaire in substantially the form approved by the Agent. 

“Advances” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 2.1. 

“AER” means Alliant Energy Resources, LLC, a Wisconsin limited liability company. 

“Affected Lender” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 2.14. 

“Affected Lender Advance” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 2.14. 

“Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, any other Person directly or indirectly controlling (including but not
limited to all directors and officers of such Person), controlled by, 

 
or under direct or indirect common control with such Person. A Person shall be deemed to control another entity if such Person possesses, directly or indirectly, the power to direct or cause the
direction of the management and policies of such entity, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract, or otherwise. 

“Agent” has the meaning assigned to that term in the Preamble to this Agreement. 

“Aggregate Commitment” means the total of all of the Lenders’ Commitment hereunder. 

“Alternate Base Rate” means a fluctuating interest rate per annum as shall be in effect from time to time, which rate
per annum shall at all times be equal to the highest of: 
  

	 	(i)	the Prime Rate; 

  

	 	(ii)	1/2 of one percent per annum above the Federal Funds Rate; and 

  

	 	(iii)	the Eurodollar Rate for an Interest Period of 1 month plus 1.00%. 

 Each change in the Alternate Base Rate shall
take effect concurrently with any change in such Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Rate or the Eurodollar Rate. 
 “Applicable Lending
Office” means, with respect to each Lender, such Lender’s Domestic Lending Office in the case of a Base Rate Advance and such Lender’s Eurodollar Lending Office in the case of a Eurodollar Rate Advance. 

“Applicable Margin” means, for any Eurodollar Rate Advance or Base Rate Advance, the rate per annum set forth
below in the columns identified as Level 1, Level 2, Level 3 or Level 4, opposite Eurodollar Rate Advances or Base Rate Advances, as applicable: 
  

																	
	 Rating
	  	A/A2/A or
higher	 	 	A-/A3/A-	 	 	BBB+/Baa1/
BBB+	 	 	BBB/Baa2/
BBB or lower	 
	 Pricing Level
	  	LEVEL 1	 	 	LEVEL 2	 	 	LEVEL 3	 	 	LEVEL 4	 
	 Applicable Margin for Eurodollar Rate Advances
	  	 	0.550	% 	 	 	0.600	% 	 	 	0.725	% 	 	 	1.000	% 
	 Applicable Margin for Base Rate Advances
	  	 	0.000	% 	 	 	0.000	% 	 	 	0.000	% 	 	 	0.000	% 

 The Applicable Margin shall be based upon the ratings assigned by S&P, Moody’s and/or Fitch to the
senior unsecured non-credit enhanced long-term debt of the Borrower (collectively, the “Ratings”), or, in the event that no such debt is outstanding, the rating assigned by Moody’s to the issuer debt rating of the Borrower.

 If at any time there is a split among Ratings by S&P, Moody’s and Fitch such that (i) all three Ratings fall in different
Pricing Levels, the applicable Pricing Level shall be determined by the Rating that is neither the highest nor the lowest of the three ratings, or (ii) two Ratings are in one Pricing Level (the “Majority Level”) and the third
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applicable Pricing Level shall be at the Majority Level. In the event that the Borrower shall maintain Ratings from only two of S&P, Moody’s and Fitch and there is a split in such
Ratings (i) of one Pricing Level, the applicable Pricing Level shall be determined by the higher of the two Ratings, and (ii) of two or more Pricing Levels, the applicable Pricing Level shall be the Pricing Level that is exactly between
the Pricing Level of the higher Rating and the Pricing Level of the lower Rating (the “Midpoint”), or if there is no Midpoint, the Pricing Level that is one Pricing Level above a notional Pricing Level that falls at
the midpoint between the actual Ratings. In the event that the Borrower shall maintain Ratings from only one of S&P, Moody’s and Fitch, the applicable Pricing Level shall be determined by reference to that one Rating. If at any time the
Borrower’s senior unsecured non-credit enhanced long-term debt does not have a Rating from at least one of S&P, Moody’s or Fitch or the Borrower does not have an issuer debt rating from Moody’s, the applicable Pricing Level shall
be set at Pricing Level 4. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if at any time the Borrower’s senior unsecured non-credit enhanced long-term debt has any Rating that corresponds to Level 4, the applicable Pricing Level shall be Pricing Level 4. The
Pricing Level shall be redetermined on and as of the date of announcement of a change in the Rating of S&P, Moody’s or Fitch. 

“Applicable Rate” means: 

(i) in the case of each Base Rate Advance, a rate per annum equal at all times to the sum of the Alternate Base Rate in effect from time
to time plus the Applicable Margin in effect from time to time; and 
 (ii) in the case of each Eurodollar Rate Advance comprising
part of the same Borrowing, a rate per annum during each Interest Period equal at all times to the sum of the Eurodollar Rate for such Interest Period plus the Applicable Margin in effect from time to time during such Interest Period.

 “Approved Fund” means any Fund that is administered or managed by (i) a Lender, (ii) an Affiliate of a
Lender, or (iii) a Person (or an Affiliate of a Person) that administers or manages a Lender. 
 “Arranger”
means Wells Fargo Securities, LLC. 
 “Bankruptcy Event” means the occurrence of any actual or deemed entry of an
order for relief with respect to the Borrower under the Federal Bankruptcy Code. 
 “Banks” has the meaning assigned
to that term in the Preamble to this Agreement. 
 “Base Rate Advance” means an Advance that bears interest as
provided in Section 2.8(a). 
 “Borrower” has the meaning assigned to that term in the Preamble to this
Agreement. 
 “Borrowing” means the incurrence by the Borrower (including as a result of Conversions of outstanding
Advances pursuant to Section 2.11) on a single date of a group of Advances of a single Type and, in the case of Eurodollar Rate Advances, as to which a single Interest Period is in effect. 

  
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 “Business Day” means a day of the year on which banks are not required or
authorized to close in New York City, Charlotte, North Carolina or Madison, Wisconsin and, if the applicable Business Day relates to any Eurodollar Rate Advance, on which dealings are carried on in the London interbank market. 

“Capitalized Lease Obligations” means obligations to pay rent or other amounts under any lease of (or other arrangement
conveying the right to use) real and/or personal property which obligation is required to be classified and accounted for as a capital lease on a balance sheet prepared in accordance with GAAP, and for purposes hereof the amount of such obligations
shall be the capitalized amount determined in accordance with such principles. 
 “Cash and Cash Equivalents” means,
with respect to any Person, the aggregate amount of the following, to the extent owned by such Person free and clear of all Liens, encumbrances and rights of others and not subject to any judicial, regulatory or other legal constraint: (i) cash
on hand; (ii) Dollar demand deposits maintained in the United States with any commercial bank and Dollar time deposits maintained in the United States with, or certificates of deposit having a maturity of one year or less issued by, any
commercial bank which has an office in the United States and which has a combined capital and surplus of at least $100,000,000; (iii) eurodollar time deposits maintained in the United States with, or eurodollar certificates of deposit having a
maturity of one year or less issued by, any commercial bank having outstanding unsecured indebtedness that is rated (on the date of acquisition thereof) A- or better by S&P or Fitch or A3 or better by Moody’s (or an equivalent rating by
another nationally-recognized credit rating agency of similar standing if none of such corporations is then in the business of rating unsecured bank indebtedness); (iv) direct obligations of, or unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States
and having a maturity of one year or less; (v) commercial paper rated (on the date of acquisition thereof) A-1 or better by S&P or Fitch or P-1 or better by Moody’s (or an equivalent rating by another nationally-recognized credit
rating agency of similar standing if none of such corporations is then in the business of rating commercial paper), and having a maturity of one year or less; (vi) obligations with any Lender or any other commercial bank in respect of the
repurchase of obligations of the type described in clause (iv) above, provided that such repurchase obligations shall be fully secured by obligations of the type described in said clause (iv) and the possession of such obligations
shall be transferred to, and segregated from other obligations owned by, such Lender or such other commercial bank; and (vii) preferred stock of any Person that is rated A- or better by S&P or Fitch or A3 or better by Moody’s (or an
equivalent rating by another nationally-recognized credit rating agency of similar standing if none of such corporations is then in the business of rating preferred stock of entities engaged in such businesses). 

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

  
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 “Closing Date” means the day upon which each of the applicable conditions
precedent enumerated in Section 3.1 shall be fulfilled to the satisfaction of, or waived with the consent of, the Lenders, the Agent and the Borrower. 

“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the regulations promulgated and rulings issued thereunder. 

“Commitment” means, for each Lender, the obligation of such Lender to make Advances to the Borrower in an amount no
greater than the amount set forth on Schedule I hereto or, if such Lender has entered into one or more Lender Assignments, set forth for such Lender in the Register maintained by the Agent pursuant to Section 8.7(b), in each such
case as such amount may be reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.6. 
 “Commitment Termination
Date” means the earlier to occur of (i) the date that is 45 days after the Closing Date (provided, however, that, if such date is not a Business Day, the Commitment Termination Date shall be the immediately preceding
Business Day), (ii) the date on which Advances are made in accordance with Section 2.1 and (iii) the date of termination or reduction in whole of the Commitments pursuant to Section 2.6 or
Section 6.1. 
 “Confidential Information” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section
8.8. 
 “Consolidated Capital” means, with respect to any Person, without duplication, at any date of
determination, the sum of (i) Consolidated Debt of such Person, (ii) consolidated equity of the common stockholders of such Person and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, (iii) consolidated equity of the preference stockholders of such
Person and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, (iv) the aggregate outstanding amount of Hybrid Securities, and (v) consolidated equity of the preferred stockholders of such Person and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, in each case determined at
such date in accordance with GAAP, excluding, however, from such calculation, amounts identified as “Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)” in the consolidated financial statements of the Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries
set forth in the Borrower’s Report on Form 10-K or 10-Q, as the case may be, filed most recently with the Securities and Exchange Commission prior to the date of such determination. 

“Consolidated Debt” means, with respect to any Person, without duplication, at any date of determination, the aggregate
Debt of such Person and its Consolidated Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, but shall not include (i) Nonrecourse Debt of any Subsidiary of the Borrower or (ii) the aggregate outstanding Debt evidenced
by Hybrid Securities to the extent that the total book value of such securities does not exceed 15% of Consolidated Capital as of the date of determination. 

“Consolidated Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any Subsidiary of such Person whose accounts are or are
required to be consolidated with the accounts of such Person in accordance with GAAP. 

  
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 “Continuing Directors” means the members of the Board of Directors of the
Borrower on the date hereof and each other director of the Borrower, if such other director’s nomination for election to the Board of Directors of the Borrower is recommended by a majority of the then Continuing Directors. 

“Convert”, “Conversion” and “Converted” each refers to a conversion of
Advances of one Type into Advances of another Type, or to the selection of a new, or the renewal of the same, Interest Period for Advances, as the case may be, pursuant to Section 2.10 or Section 2.11. 

“Debt” means, for any Person, any and all indebtedness, liabilities and other monetary obligations of such Person
(without duplication), (i) for borrowed money or evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments, (ii) to pay the deferred purchase price of property or services (except trade accounts payable arising and repaid in the
ordinary course of business), (iii) Capitalized Lease Obligations, (iv) under reimbursement or similar agreements with respect to letters of credit (other than trade letters of credit) issued to support indebtedness or obligations of such
Person or of others of the kinds referred to in clauses (i) through (iii) above and clause (v) below, (v) reasonably quantifiable obligations under direct guaranties or indemnities, or under support agreements, in respect of, and
reasonably quantifiable obligations (contingent or otherwise) to purchase or otherwise acquire, or otherwise to assure a creditor against loss in respect of, or to assure an obligee against failure to make payment in respect of, indebtedness or
obligations of others of the kinds referred to in clauses (i) through (iv) above, and (vi) incurred in connection with any synthetic lease, tax retention operating lease or similar off-balance sheet financing product treated as an
operating lease for financial accounting purposes and a capital lease for federal income tax purposes, in each case under this clause (vi) that is entered into after December 14, 2011, but excluding the obligations under the Existing
Synthetic Leases, including any extension, renewal, amendment or refinancing thereof; provided that if the aggregate amount owing in respect of all such Existing Synthetic Leases, after giving effect to any such extension, renewal, amendment
or refinancing, exceeds the aggregate amount owed as of the December 14, 2011, such excess shall be included as Debt. 

“Default Rate” means (a)(i) with respect to the unpaid principal of or interest on any Base Rate Advance,
2% per annum above the Applicable Rate in effect from time to time for such Base Rate Advance and (ii) with respect to the unpaid principal of or interest on any Eurodollar Rate Advance, the greater of (A) 2% per annum
above the Applicable Rate in effect from time to time for such Eurodollar Rate Advance and (B) 2% per annum above the Applicable Rate in effect from time to time for Base Rate Advances and (b) with respect to any other unpaid amount
hereunder, 2% per annum above the Applicable Rate in effect from time to time for Base Rate Advances. 
 “Defaulting
Lender” means, subject to Section 2.21(b), any Lender, as reasonably determined by the Agent, that (i) has failed (which failure has not been cured within two Business Days) to fund any Advance required to be
made hereunder in accordance with the terms hereof (unless such Lender shall have notified the Agent and the Borrower in writing of its good faith determination that a condition under Section 3.2 to its obligation to fund any
Advance shall not have been satisfied), (ii) has notified the Borrower or the Agent in writing that it does not intend to comply with any of its funding obligations under this Agreement or has made a public statement to the effect that it does
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this Agreement or generally under other agreements in which it commits to extend credit, (iii) has failed, within three Business Days after receipt of a written request from the Agent or the
Borrower delivered in accordance with Section 8.2 to confirm that it will comply with the terms of this Agreement relating to its obligation to fund prospective Advances, and such request states that the requesting party has
reason to believe that the Lender receiving such request may fail to comply with such obligation, and states such reason, (iv) has failed to pay to the Agent or any other Lender when due an amount owed by such Lender to the Agent or any other
Lender pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, unless such amount is subject to a good faith dispute or such failure has been cured, or (v) (a) has become or is insolvent or (b) is the Subsidiary of a Person that has (x) become
or is insolvent, (y) become or is the subject of a proceeding under the Federal Bankruptcy Code or under any other applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law now or hereafter in effect, or (z) had appointed for it a receiver,
conservator, trustee, custodian or assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with reorganization or liquidation of its business or assets, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other state or federal
regulatory authority acting in such a capacity; provided that a Lender shall not be a Defaulting Lender solely by virtue of the ownership or acquisition of an Equity Interest in such Lender or a parent company thereof by a Governmental
Authority or an instrumentality thereof so long as such ownership interest does not result in or provide such Lender with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment
on its assets or permit such Lender (or such Governmental Authority) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made with such Lender. Any determination by the Agent that a Lender is a Defaulting Lender under any one or
more of clauses (i) through (v) above shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error, and such Lender shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender (subject to Section 2.21(b)) upon delivery of written notice of such
determination to the Borrower and each Lender. 
 “Designated Lender” means a Defaulting Lender or a Downgraded
Lender. 
 “Direct Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any Subsidiary directly owned by such Person. 

“Dollars” and the sign “$” each means lawful money of the United States. 

“Domestic Lending Office” means, with respect to any Lender, the office or affiliate of such Lender specified as its
“Domestic Lending Office” in its Administrative Questionnaire or in the Lender Assignment pursuant to which it became a Lender (copies of which shall be provided by each Lender to the Agent and the Borrower as of the date hereof, or, in
the case of a Lender Assignment, upon or prior to such Lender Assignment), or such other office or affiliate of such Lender as such Lender may from time to time specify in writing to the Borrower and the Agent. 

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

“Downgraded Lender” means any Lender that has a non-credit enhanced senior unsecured debt rating below investment grade
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 “Eligible Assignee” means (i) a commercial bank or trust company
organized under the laws of the United States, or any State thereof; (ii) a commercial bank organized under the laws of any other country that is a member of the OECD, or a political subdivision of any such country, provided that such
bank is acting through a branch or agency located in the United States; (iii) the central bank of any country that is a member of the OECD; and (iv) any other commercial bank or other financial institution engaged generally in the business
of extending credit or purchasing debt instruments; provided, however, that (A) any such Person shall also (1) have outstanding unsecured indebtedness that is rated A- or better by S&P or Fitch or A3 or better by
Moody’s (or an equivalent rating by another nationally-recognized credit rating agency of similar standing if none of such rating agencies is then in the business of rating unsecured indebtedness of entities engaged in such businesses) or
(2) have combined capital and surplus (as established in its most recent report of condition to its primary regulator) of not less than $250,000,000 (or its equivalent in foreign currency), and (B) any Person described in clause (ii),
(iii) or (iv) above shall, on the date on which it is to become a Lender hereunder, (x) be entitled to receive payments hereunder without deduction or withholding of any United States Federal income taxes (as contemplated by
Section 2.17) and (y) not be incurring any losses, costs or expenses of the type for which such Person could demand payment under Section 2.13. 

“Equity Interests” means, (i) with respect to a corporation, shares of common stock of such corporation or any
other interest convertible or exchangeable into any such interest, (ii) with respect to a limited liability company, a membership interest in such company, (iii) with respect to a partnership, a partnership interest in such partnership,
and (iv) with respect to any other Person, an interest in such Person analogous to interests described in clauses (i) through (iii). 

“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time, and the regulations
promulgated and rulings issued thereunder. 
 “ERISA Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, any trade or
business (whether or not incorporated) which is under “common control” with, or a member of the same “controlled group” as, such Person, within the meaning of Section 414 of the Code or Section 4001 of ERISA. 

“ERISA Event” means: (i) with respect to a Plan, the occurrence of a “reportable event,” within the
meaning of Section 4043 of ERISA for which the thirty day notice requirement has not been waived by the PBGC (including any failure to meet the minimum funding standard of, or timely make any required installment payment under, Section 412
of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA, regardless of the issuance of any waivers in accordance with Section 412(c) of the Code); (ii) the provision by the administrator of any Plan of notice of intent to terminate such Plan, pursuant to
Section 4041(a)(2) of ERISA; (iii) the cessation of operations at a facility in the circumstances described in Section 4062(e) of ERISA; (iv) the withdrawal by the Borrower or an ERISA Affiliate of the Borrower from a Multiple
Employer Plan or a Multiemployer Plan during a plan year for which it was a “substantial employer,” as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA; (v) the failure by the Borrower or an ERISA Affiliate of the Borrower to make a
payment to a Plan, which failure results in the imposition of a Lien; (vi) the incurrence of an obligation to provide a notice under Section 101(j) of ERISA; (vii) the adoption of an amendment to a Plan which may not take effect due
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Code or Section 206(g)(2)(A) of ERISA, or the payment of a contribution in order to satisfy the requirements of Section 436(c)(2) of the Code or Section 206(g)(2)(B) of ERISA; or
(viii) the institution by the PBGC of proceedings to terminate a Plan, pursuant to Section 4042 of ERISA, or the occurrence of any event or condition which might reasonably be expected to constitute grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA
for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, a Plan. 
 “Eurocurrency Liabilities” has the
meaning assigned to that term in Regulation D of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as in effect from time to time. 

“Eurodollar Lending Office” means, with respect to any Lender, the office or affiliate of such Lender specified as its
“Eurodollar Lending Office” in its Administrative Questionnaire or in the Lender Assignment pursuant to which it became a Lender (or, if no such office is specified, its Domestic Lending Office), or such other office or affiliate of such
Lender as such Lender may from time to time specify in writing to the Borrower and the Agent. 
 “Eurodollar Rate”
means, with respect to each Eurodollar Rate Advance comprising part of the same Borrowing for any Interest Period, an interest rate per annum equal to (i) the rate of interest appearing on Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page (or any successor page)
that represents the London interbank offered rate for deposits in Dollars or (ii) if no such rate is available, the rate of interest determined by the Agent to be the rate or the arithmetic mean of rates at which Dollar deposits in immediately
available funds are offered to first-tier banks in the London interbank Eurodollar market, in each case under (i) and (ii) above at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period for
a period substantially equal to such Interest Period and in an amount substantially equal to the amount of Wells Fargo’s Eurodollar Rate Advance comprising part of such Borrowing, all subject to Section 2.9 and
Section 2.10. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Eurodollar Rate shall never be less than zero. 
 “Eurodollar
Rate Advance” means an Advance that bears interest as provided in Section 2.8(b). 
 “Eurodollar
Reserve Percentage” of any Lender for each Interest Period for each Eurodollar Rate Advance means the reserve percentage applicable to such Lender during such Interest Period (or if more than one such percentage shall be so applicable,
the daily average of such percentages for those days in such Interest Period during which any such percentage shall be so applicable) under Regulation D or other regulations issued from time to time by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System (or any successor) for determining the maximum reserve requirement (including, without limitation, any emergency, supplemental or other marginal reserve requirement) then applicable to such Lender with respect to liabilities or assets
consisting of or including Eurocurrency Liabilities having a term equal to such Interest Period. 
 “Events of
Default” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 6.1. 
 “Existing Synthetic
Leases” means all synthetic leases existing on December 14, 2011 and set forth on Schedule II. 

“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 Bankruptcy Code” means 11 U.S.C. §§ 101 et
seq., as amended from time to time, and any successor statute, and all regulations from time to time promulgated thereunder. 

“Federal Funds Rate” means, for any period, a fluctuating interest rate per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to
the nearest 1/100 of one percentage point) equal for each day during such period to the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers, as published
for such day (or, if such day is not a Business Day, for the next preceding Business Day) by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not so published for any day which is a Business Day, the average of the quotations for such day
on such transactions received by the Agent from three Federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by it. 

“Fitch” means Fitch Ratings. 

“Foreign Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Borrower that is organized under the law of any jurisdiction other
than any state of the United States of America. 
 “Fund” means any Person (other than a natural person) that is (or
will be) engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans, bonds and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its activities. 

“Funding Date” means the date on which the conditions precedent set forth in Section 3.2 are satisfied and
the Borrowing has occurred. 
 “GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States as in
effect from time to time; provided that in the event that any “Accounting Change” (as defined below) shall occur and such change would otherwise result in a change in the method of calculation of financial covenants, standards or
terms in this Agreement, then unless and until the Borrower, the Agent and the Majority Lenders mutually agree to adjustments to the terms hereof to reflect any such Accounting Change, all financial covenants (including those contained in
Article V), standards and terms in this Agreement shall continue to be calculated or construed as if such Accounting Changes had not occurred. “Accounting Changes” refers to changes in accounting principles
required or permitted by the promulgation of any rule, regulation, pronouncement or opinion by the Financial Accounting Standards Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants or, if applicable, the Securities and Exchange
Commission, and shall include the adoption or implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards or changes in lease accounting. In the event of an Accounting Change the Agent, the Majority Lenders and the Borrower shall negotiate the
adjustments referred to in the proviso to the first sentence of this definition in good faith. 
 “Governmental
Approval” means any authorization, consent, approval, license, franchise, lease, ruling, tariff, rate, permit, certificate, exemption of, or filing or registration with, any Governmental Authority or other legal or regulatory body. 

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

“Hazardous Substance” means any waste, substance, or material identified as hazardous, dangerous or toxic by any
office, agency, department, commission, board, bureau, or instrumentality of the United States or of the State or locality in which the same is located having or exercising jurisdiction over such waste, substance or material. 

“Hostile Acquisition” means any acquisition involving a tender offer or proxy contest that has not been recommended or
approved by the board of directors (or similar governing body) of the Person that is the subject of such acquisition prior to the first public announcement or disclosure relating to such acquisition. 

“Hybrid Securities” means any hybrid securities consisting of trust preferred securities or deferrable interest
subordinated debt securities issued by the Borrower or any Subsidiary or financing vehicle of the Borrower that (i) has an original maturity of at least 20 years and (ii) requires no repayments or prepayments and no mandatory redemptions
or repurchases, in each case, prior to at least ninety-one days after the occurrence of the Maturity Date. 
 “Indemnified
Person” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 8.4(b). 
 “Interest Period”
means, for each Eurodollar Rate Advance made as part of the same Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Eurodollar Rate Advance or the date of the Conversion of any Advance into such a Eurodollar Rate Advance and ending on the last day
of the period selected by the Borrower pursuant to the provisions below and, thereafter, each subsequent period commencing on the last day of the immediately preceding Interest Period and ending on the last day of the period selected by the Borrower
pursuant to the provisions below. The duration of each such Interest Period shall be 1, 2, 3 or 6 months, as the Borrower may, upon notice received by the Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. on the third Business Day prior to the first day of such
Interest Period, select; provided, however, that: 
 (i) the Borrower may not select any Interest Period that ends after the
Maturity Date; 
 (ii) Interest Periods commencing on the same date for Advances comprising part of the same Borrowing shall be of the same
duration; and 
 (iii) whenever the last day of any Interest Period would otherwise occur on a day other than a Business Day, the last day of
such Interest Period shall be extended to occur on the next succeeding Business Day, provided, in the case of any Interest Period for a Eurodollar Rate Advance, that if such extension would cause the last day of such Interest Period to occur
in the next following calendar month, the last day of such Interest Period shall occur on the next preceding Business Day. 

“IPL” means Interstate Power and Light Company, an Iowa corporation. 

  
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 “Lender Assignment” means an assignment and acceptance agreement entered
into by a Lender and an Eligible Assignee, and accepted by the Agent, in substantially the form of Exhibit 8.7. 

“Lenders” means the Banks listed on the signature pages hereof and each Eligible Assignee that shall become a party
hereto pursuant to Section 8.7. 
 “Lien” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section
5.2(a). 
 “Loan Documents” means (i) this Agreement and any Notes issued pursuant to
Section 2.16 and (ii) all other agreements, instruments and documents now or hereafter executed and/or delivered pursuant hereto or thereto. 

“Majority Lenders” means, on any date of determination, Lenders that, collectively, on such date have Percentages in
the aggregate greater than 50%; provided that the Percentage of any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a determination of Majority Lenders and such Defaulting Lender’s Commitment or aggregate Advances, as
applicable, shall be excluded from the determination of the Aggregate Commitment or the aggregate principal amount of all Advances, as applicable, for purposes of calculating each non-Defaulting Lender’s Percentage. Any determination of those
Lenders constituting the Majority Lenders shall be made by the Agent and shall be conclusive and binding on all parties absent manifest error. 

“Margin Stock” has the meaning assigned to that term in Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System. 
 “Material Adverse Change” means (i) a material adverse change in, or a material adverse effect upon,
the operations, business, properties, liabilities (actual or contingent), or financial condition of the Borrower or the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole; (ii) a material impairment of the ability of the Borrower to perform its
obligations under any Loan Document to which it is a party; or (iii) a material adverse change upon the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability against the Borrower of any Loan Document to which it is a party. 

“Maturity Date” means the earlier to occur of (i) the second anniversary of the Closing Date (provided,
however, that, if such date is not a Business Day, the Maturity Date shall be the immediately preceding Business Day) and (ii) the date on which all outstanding Advances are declared due and payable pursuant to
Section 6.1. 
 “Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. or any successor
thereto. 
 “Mortgage Bond Indentures” means the indentures listed on Schedule IV hereto. 

“Multiemployer Plan” means a “multiemployer plan”, as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA, which is
subject to Title IV of ERISA and to which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of the Borrower is making or has an obligation to make contributions, or has within any of the preceding five plan years made or had an obligation to make contributions.

 “Multiple Employer Plan” means a “single employer plan”, as defined in Section 4001(a)(15) of
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employees of the Borrower or an ERISA Affiliate of the Borrower and at least one Person other than the Borrower and its ERISA Affiliates or (ii) was so maintained and in respect of which the
Borrower or an ERISA Affiliate of the Borrower could have liability under Section 4064 or 4069 of ERISA in the event such plan has been or were to be terminated. 

“Nonrecourse Debt” means Debt of any Subsidiary of the Borrower (i) as to which (A) the Borrower provides no
credit support of any kind (including any undertaking, agreement or instrument that would constitute Debt), (B) the Borrower is not directly or indirectly liable as a guarantor or otherwise, (C) the Borrower is not the lender or other type
of creditor, or (D) the relevant legal documents do not provide that the lenders or other type of creditors with respect thereto will have any recourse to the stock or assets of the Borrower and (ii) no default with respect to which would
permit, upon notice, lapse of time or both, any holder of any other Debt (other than the Advances, any Note, or any extension, renewal, refinancing or replacement thereof that does not increase the outstanding principal thereof) of the Borrower to
declare a default on such other Debt or cause the payment thereof to be accelerated or payable prior to its stated maturity. For the avoidance of doubt, if the Borrower provides credit support that is limited in its drawable amount for any portion
of Debt of any Subsidiary of the Borrower that would be considered Nonrecourse Debt but for the provision of such credit support, such Debt shall be considered Nonrecourse Debt to the extent that it is not so supported. 

“Note” means a promissory note issued at the request of a Lender pursuant to Section 2.16, in
substantially the form of Exhibit 1.1 hereto, evidencing the aggregate indebtedness of the Borrower to such Lender resulting from the Advances made by such Lender. 

“Notice of Borrowing” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 2.2(b). 

“Notice of Conversion” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 2.11. 

“OECD” means the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. 

“OFAC” means the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, and any successor thereto.

 “Other Taxes” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 2.17(b). 

“Outstanding Credits” means, on any date of determination, an amount equal to the sum of the aggregate principal amount
of all Advances outstanding on such date. 
 “Participant” has the meaning given to such term in Section
8.7(c). 
 “Participant Register” has the meaning given to such term in Section 8.7(c). 

“PATRIOT Act” means the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and
Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT Act, Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)), as amended from time to time, and any successor statute, and all rules and regulations from time to time promulgated thereunder. 

“PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (or any successor entity). 

  
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 “Percentage” means, for any Lender (i) on any date of determination
prior to the Commitment Termination Date, the percentage obtained by dividing such Lender’s Commitment on such day by the Aggregate Commitment on such date, or (ii) on any date of determination on or after the Commitment Termination Date,
the percentage obtained by dividing the aggregate principal amount of all Advances made by such Lender outstanding at such time by the Outstanding Credits at such time, and in each case multiplying the quotient so obtained by 100. 

“Person” means an individual, partnership, corporation (including a business trust), limited liability company, joint
stock company, trust, unincorporated association, joint venture or other entity, or a government or any political subdivision or agency thereof. 

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

“Prime Rate” means, at any time, the rate of interest per annum publicly announced from time to time by the Agent as
its prime rate. Each change in the Prime Rate shall be effective as of the opening of business on the day such change in such prime rate occurs. The parties hereto acknowledge that the rate announced publicly by the Agent as its prime rate is an
index or base rate and shall not necessarily be its lowest or best rate charged to its customers or other banks. 

“Recipient” means (i) the Agent and (ii) any Lender, as applicable. 

“Register” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 8.7(b). 

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

“Requirement of Law” means, with respect to any Person, the charter, articles or certificate of organization or
incorporation and bylaws or other organizational or governing documents of such Person, and any statute, law, treaty, rule, regulation, order, decree, writ, injunction or determination of any arbitrator or court or other Governmental Authority, in
each case applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its property or to which such Person or any of its property is subject or otherwise pertaining to any or all of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents. 
 “Resignation Effective Date” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 7.7. 

“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC, a subsidiary of McGraw Hill Financial Inc., or
any successor thereto. 
 “Sanctioned Country” means a country subject to a sanctions program identified on the list
maintained by OFAC as published from time to time and, at any time, any country whose government is at such time the subject of Sanctions. 

“Sanctioned Person” means (i) a Person named on the list of Specially Designated Nationals or Blocked Persons
maintained by OFAC as published from time to time, (ii) (A) an agency of the government of a Sanctioned Country, (B) an organization controlled by a Sanctioned Country, or (C) a Person resident in a Sanctioned Country, to the
extent subject to a sanctions program administered by OFAC or (iii) at any time, any Person that is at such time the subject of Sanctions. 

  
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 “Sanctions” means any international economic sanction administered or
enforced by the United States Government (including without limitation, OFAC), the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, Her Majesty’s Treasury or other relevant sanctions authority. 

“Senior Financial Officer” means the President, the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief
Accounting Officer or the Treasurer of the Borrower. 
 “Significant Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Borrower
that, on a consolidated basis with any of its Subsidiaries as of any date of determination, accounts for more than 20% of the consolidated assets (valued at book value) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries. 

“Single Employer Plan” means a “single employer plan”, as defined in Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA, which
is subject to Title IV of ERISA and which (i) is maintained for employees of the Borrower or an ERISA Affiliate of the Borrower and no Person other than the Borrower and its ERISA Affiliates, or (ii) was so maintained and in respect of
which the Borrower or an ERISA Affiliate of the Borrower could have liability under Section 4069 of ERISA in the event such plan has been or were to be terminated. 

“Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any corporation or unincorporated entity of which more than 50% of the
outstanding Equity Interests having ordinary voting power (irrespective of whether at the time Equity Interests of any other class or classes of such corporation or entity shall or might have voting power upon the occurrence of any contingency) is
at the time owned by said Person, either directly or through one or more other Subsidiaries. In the case of an unincorporated entity, a Person shall be deemed to have more than 50% of interests having ordinary voting power only if such Person’s
vote in respect of such interests comprises more than 50% of the total voting power of all such interests in the unincorporated entity. 

“Taxes” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 2.17(a). 

“Type” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 2.2(a). 

“Unmatured Default” means an event that, with the giving of notice or lapse of time, or both, would constitute an Event
of Default. 
 “Utilities” means, collectively, WPL and IPL. 

“Utility Facilities” means (i) the $300,000,000 Third Amended and Restated Five-Year Credit Agreement, dated
December 14, 2011, among IPL, the banks named therein and Wells Fargo, as administrative agent; and (ii) the $400,000,000 Third Amended and Restated Five-Year Credit Agreement, dated December 14, 2011, among WPL, the banks named
therein and Wells Fargo, as administrative agent. 
 “Wells Fargo” has the meaning assigned to that term in the
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 “WPL” means Wisconsin Power and Light Company, a Wisconsin corporation.

 Section 1.2 Computation of Time Periods. Unless otherwise indicated, each reference in this Agreement to a specific
time of day is a reference to Charlotte, North Carolina time. In the computation of periods of time under this Agreement, any period of a specified number of days or months shall be computed by including the first day or month occurring during such
period and excluding the last such day or month. In the case of a period of time “from” a specified date “to” or “until” a later specified date, the word “from” means “from and including” and the
words “to” and “until” each means “to but excluding”. 
 Section 1.3 Computations of
Outstandings. Whenever reference is made in this Agreement to the “principal amount outstanding” on any date under this Agreement, such reference shall refer to the aggregate principal amount of all Advances outstanding on such
date after giving effect to all Advances to be made on such date and the application of the proceeds thereof. 
 Section 1.4
Accounting Terms. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all accounting terms used herein shall be interpreted, and all financial statements and certificates and reports as to financial matters required to be delivered to the Lenders
hereunder shall be prepared, in accordance with GAAP applied on a consistent basis. With respect to (and only with respect to) determining compliance with this Agreement, all calculations shall (except as otherwise expressly provided herein) be made
by application of GAAP applied on a basis consistent with the most recent annual or quarterly financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 5.1(h) (or prior to the delivery of the first financial statements pursuant to
Section 5.1(h), consistent with the financial statements described in Section 4.1(f)); provided, however, if (i) the Borrower shall object to determining such compliance on such basis at the
time of delivery of such financial statements due to any change in GAAP or the rules promulgated with respect thereto or (ii) the Agent or the Majority Lenders shall so object in writing within thirty days after delivery of such financial
statements, then such calculations shall be made on a basis consistent with the most recent financial statements delivered by the Borrower to the Lenders as to which no such objection shall have been made. 

Section 1.5 Terms Generally. The definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the singular and plural forms of the
terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words “include”, “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the
phrase “without limitation”. The word “will” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall”. 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, supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, supplements or
modifications set forth herein), (b) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns, (c) 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, (d) all references herein to Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of,
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specified, refer to such law or regulation as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, and (f) 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. 

ARTICLE II 
 AMOUNTS AND
TERMS OF THE ADVANCES 
 Section 2.1 The Advances. Each Lender severally agrees, on the terms and
conditions hereinafter set forth, to make advances (each, an “Advance” and collectively, the “Advances”) on the Funding Date to the Borrower from time to time, during the period from and including the
Closing Date, to and including the Commitment Termination Date, in an outstanding amount not to exceed at any time such Lender’s Commitment. Each Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount not less than $5,000,000 (or, if lower, the amount of
the Aggregate Commitment) or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof and shall consist of Advances of the same Type made on the Funding Date by the Lenders ratably according to their respective Percentages. No Advance shall be made at
any time after the Commitment Termination Date. To the extent repaid, Advances may not be reborrowed. 
 Section 2.2 Making the
Advances. 
 (a) The Advances shall, at the option of the Borrower and subject to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement, be either a Base Rate Advance or Eurodollar Rate Advance (each, a “Type” of Advance). 
 (b) In order to
make the Borrowing (other than conversions of outstanding Advances made pursuant to Section 2.11) on the Funding Date, the Borrower will give the Agent written notice (i) not later than 11:00 a.m. on the third Business Day
prior to the date of the proposed Borrowing, in the case of a Borrowing comprised of Eurodollar Rate Advances and (ii) not later than 10:00 a.m. on the date of the proposed Borrowing, in the case of a Borrowing comprised of Base Rate Advances.
Such notice of a Borrowing (the “Notice of Borrowing”) shall be by facsimile or email (in accordance with procedures prescribed by the Agent), in substantially the form of Exhibit 2.2(b) hereto, specifying
therein the requested (A) date of the Borrowing, (B) Type of Advances comprising the Borrowing, (C) aggregate amount of the Borrowing and (D) in the case of a Borrowing comprised of Eurodollar Rate Advances, the initial Interest
Period for each such Advance. Each Lender shall, before (x) 12:00 noon on the date of such Borrowing, in the case of a Borrowing comprised of Eurodollar Rate Advances, and (y) 1:00 p.m. on the date of such Borrowing, in the case of a
Borrowing comprised of Base Rate Advances, make available for the account of its Applicable Lending Office to the Agent at its address referred to in Section 8.2, in same day funds, such Lender’s Percentage of such Borrowing.
After the Agent’s receipt of such funds and upon fulfillment of the applicable conditions set forth in Article III, the Agent will promptly make such funds available to the Borrower by means of a credit or wire transfer to the
account specified in writing by the Borrower. 
 (c) Each Notice of Borrowing shall be irrevocable and binding on the Borrower. In the case
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Eurodollar Rate Advances, the Borrower shall indemnify each Lender against any loss, cost or expense incurred by such Lender as a result of any failure to fulfill on or before the date specified
in such Notice of Borrowing the applicable conditions set forth in Article III, including, without limitation, any loss, cost or expense incurred by reason of the liquidation or reemployment of deposits or other funds acquired by
such Lender to fund the Eurodollar Rate Advance to be made by such Lender as part of such Borrowing when such Advance, as a result of such failure, is not made on such date. 

Section 2.3 Funding Reliance. 

(a) Unless the Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the time of any Borrowing that such Lender will not make available to
the Agent such Lender’s Advance as part of such Borrowing, the Agent may assume that such Lender has made such Advance available to the Agent on the time of such Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.2 and the Agent may, in
reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower on such time a corresponding amount. If and to the extent that such Lender shall not have so made such Advance available to the Agent, such Lender and the Borrower severally agree to
repay to the Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount, together with interest thereon, for each day from the time such amount is made available to the Borrower until the time such amount is repaid to the Agent, at (i) in the case of
the Borrower, the interest rate applicable at the time to Advances comprising such Borrowing and (ii) in the case of such Lender, the Federal Funds Rate. If such Lender shall repay to the Agent such corresponding amount, such amount so repaid
shall constitute such Lender’s Advance as part of such Borrowing for purposes of this Agreement. 
 (b) The failure of any Lender to
make the Advance to be made by it as part of any Borrowing shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligation, if any, hereunder to make its Advance on the date of such Borrowing, but no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other
Lender to make the Advance to be made by such other Lender on the date of any Borrowing. 
 Section 2.4 [Reserved]. 

Section 2.5 [Reserved]. 

Section 2.6 Changes in the Commitments. 

(a) The Borrower shall have the right, upon at least three Business Days’ notice to the Agent, to terminate in whole or reduce ratably in
part the unused portions of the Aggregate Commitment; provided that each partial reduction shall be in a minimum amount of $10,000,000 or any whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof. 

(b) On the Commitment Termination Date, the Aggregate Commitment shall be automatically reduced to zero. 

(c) Any termination or reduction of the Aggregate Commitment under this Section 2.6 shall be irrevocable, and the Aggregate
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 Section 2.7 Repayment of Advances. Except to the extent due or paid sooner
pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, the Borrower shall repay to the Lenders the aggregate outstanding principal amount of each Advance on the Maturity Date. 

Section 2.8 Interest on Advances. The Borrower shall pay interest on the unpaid principal amount of each Advance owing to
each Lender from the date of such Advance until such principal amount shall be paid in full, at the Applicable Rate for such Advance (except as otherwise provided in this Section 2.8), payable as follows: 

(a) If such Advance is a Base Rate Advance, interest thereon shall be payable quarterly in arrears on the last day of each March, June,
September and December, on the date of any Conversion of such Base Rate Advance and on the date such Base Rate Advance shall become due and payable or shall otherwise be paid in full; provided that at any time an Event of Default shall have
occurred and be continuing, each Base Rate Advance shall bear interest payable on demand, at a rate per annum equal at all times to the Default Rate. 

(b) If such Advance is a Eurodollar Rate Advance, interest thereon shall be payable on the last day of such Interest Period and, if the
Interest Period for such Advance has a duration of more than three months, on that day of each third month during such Interest Period that corresponds to the first day of such Interest Period (or, if any such month does not have a corresponding
day, then on the last day of such month); provided that at any time an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, each Eurodollar Rate Advance shall bear interest payable on demand, at a rate per annum equal at all times
to the Default Rate. 
 (c) In respect of any Advance, interest thereon shall be payable at the Applicable Rate at maturity (whether pursuant
to acceleration or otherwise) and, after maturity, on demand. 
 (d) Nothing contained in this Agreement or in any other Loan Document shall
be deemed to establish or require the payment of interest to any Lender at a rate in excess of the maximum rate permitted by applicable law. If the amount of interest payable for the account of any Lender on any interest payment date would exceed
the maximum amount permitted by applicable law to be charged by such Lender, the amount of interest payable for its account on such interest payment date shall be automatically reduced to such maximum permissible amount. In the event of any such
reduction affecting any Lender, if from time to time thereafter the amount of interest payable for the account of such Lender on any interest payment date would be less than the maximum amount permitted by applicable law to be charged by such
Lender, then the amount of interest payable for its account on such subsequent interest payment date shall be automatically increased to such maximum permissible amount, provided that at no time shall the aggregate amount by which interest
paid for the account of any Lender has been increased pursuant to this sentence exceed the aggregate amount by which interest paid for its account has theretofore been reduced pursuant to the previous sentence. 

Section 2.9 Additional Interest on Eurodollar Rate Advances. The Borrower shall pay to the Agent for the account of each
Lender any costs actually incurred by such Lender with respect to Eurodollar Rate Advances that are attributable to such Lender’s compliance with regulations of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System requiring the maintenance of
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Such costs shall be paid to the Agent for the account of such Lender in the form of additional interest on the unpaid principal amount of each Eurodollar Rate Advance of such Lender, from the
date of such Advance until such principal amount is paid in full, at an interest rate per annum equal at all times to the remainder obtained by subtracting (i) the Eurodollar Rate for the Interest Period for such Advance from (ii) the rate
obtained by dividing such Eurodollar Rate by a percentage equal to 100% minus the Eurodollar Reserve Percentage of such Lender for such Interest Period, payable on each date on which interest is payable on such Advance. Such additional interest
shall be determined by such Lender and notified to the Borrower through the Agent. A certificate as to the amount of such additional interest, submitted to the Borrower and the Agent by such Lender, shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes,
absent manifest error, provided that the determination thereof shall have been made by such Lender in good faith. 

Section 2.10 Interest Rate Determination. 

(a) The Agent shall give prompt notice to the Borrower and the Lenders of the applicable interest rate determined by the Agent for purposes of
Section 2.8(a) or Section 2.8(b). 
 (b) If, on or prior to the first day of any Interest Period,
(y) the Agent shall have determined that adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the applicable Eurodollar Rate for such Interest Period or (z) the Agent shall have received written notice from the Majority Lenders of
their determination that the rate of interest referred to in the definition of “Eurodollar Rate” will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of making or maintaining Eurodollar Rate Advances during such Interest Period,
the Agent will forthwith so notify the Borrower and the Lenders. Upon such notice, (i) each Eurodollar Rate Advance will automatically, on the last day of the then existing Interest Period therefor, Convert into a Base Rate Advance,
(ii) the obligation of the Lenders to make, to Convert Advances into, or to continue, Eurodollar Rate Advances shall be suspended (including pursuant to the Borrowing to which such Interest Period applies), and (iii) any Notice of
Borrowing or Notice of Conversion given at any time thereafter with respect to Eurodollar Rate Advances shall be deemed to be a request for Base Rate Advances, in each case until the Agent or the Majority Lenders, as the case may be, shall have
determined that the circumstances giving rise to such suspension no longer exist (and the Majority Lenders, if making such determination, shall have so notified the Agent), and the Agent shall have so notified the Borrower and the Lenders. 

(c) If the Borrower shall fail to (i) select the duration of any Interest Period for any Eurodollar Rate Advance in accordance with the
provisions contained in the definition of “Interest Period” in Section 1.1 or (ii) provide a Notice of Conversion with respect to any Eurodollar Rate Advance on or prior to 12:00 noon on the third
Business Day prior to the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, the Agent will forthwith so notify the Borrower and the Lenders and such Advance will automatically, on the last day of the then existing Interest Period therefor, Convert
into a Base Rate Advance. 
 (d) On the date on which the aggregate unpaid principal amount of Advances comprising any Borrowing shall be
reduced, by payment or prepayment or otherwise, to less than the product of (i) $1,000,000 and (ii) the number of Lenders on such date, such Advances shall, if they are Advances of a Type other than Base Rate Advances, automatically
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into Advances of a Type other than Base Rate Advances shall terminate; provided, however, that if and so long as each such Advance shall be of the same Type and have the same
Interest Period as Advances comprising another Borrowing or other Borrowings, and the aggregate unpaid principal amount of all such Advances shall equal or exceed the product of (i) $1,000,000 and (ii) the number of Lenders on such date,
the Borrower shall have the right to continue all such Advances as, or to Convert all such Advances into, Advances of such Type having such Interest Period. 

(e) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, each outstanding Eurodollar Rate Advance shall automatically
Convert into a Base Rate Advance at the end of the Interest Period then in effect for such Eurodollar Rate Advance. 

Section 2.11 Voluntary Conversion of Advances. Subject to the conditions set forth below, the Borrower may, on any Business
Day, by delivering a notice of Conversion (a “Notice of Conversion”) to the Agent not later than 12:00 noon (i) on the third Business Day prior to the date of the proposed Conversion, in the case of a Conversion to or in
respect of Eurodollar Rate Advances and (ii) on the date of the proposed Conversion, in the case of a Conversion to or in respect of Base Rate Advances, and subject to the provisions of Section 2.10 and
Section 2.15, Convert all Advances of one Type comprising the same Borrowing into Advances of another Type; provided, however, that, (x) any such Conversion shall involve an aggregate principal amount of not
less than $5,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof and (y) in the case of any Conversion of any Eurodollar Rate Advances into Base Rate Advances on a day other than the last day of an Interest Period for such
Eurodollar Rate Advances, the Borrower shall be obligated to reimburse the Lenders in respect thereof pursuant to Section 8.4(d). Each such Notice of Conversion shall be in substantially the form of Exhibit 2.11
and shall, within the restrictions specified above, specify (A) the date of such Conversion, (B) the Advances to be Converted, (C) if such Conversion is into Eurodollar Rate Advances, the duration of the Interest Period for each such
Advance, and (D) the aggregate amount of Advances proposed to be Converted. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrower may not Convert Base Rate Advances into Eurodollar Rate Advances and may not select a new Interest Period for Eurodollar
Rate Advances at any time an Unmatured Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing. 
 Section 2.12 Optional
Prepayments of Advances. The Borrower may, upon at least three Business Days’ notice to the Agent stating the proposed date and aggregate principal amount of the prepayment, and if such notice is given, the Borrower shall prepay for the
ratable account of the Lenders the outstanding principal amounts of the Advances comprising part of the same Borrowing in whole or ratably in part, without premium or penalty, together with accrued interest to the date of such prepayment on the
principal amount prepaid; provided, however, that each partial prepayment shall be in an aggregate principal amount not less than $5,000,000 (or, if lower, the entire principal amount outstanding hereunder on the date of such
prepayment) or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof. In the case of any such prepayment of a Eurodollar Rate Advance, the Borrower shall be obligated to reimburse the Lenders in respect thereof pursuant to
Section 8.4(d). Except as provided in this Section 2.12, the Borrower shall have no right to prepay any principal amount of any Advances. 

  
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 Section 2.13 Increased Costs. 

(a) If any Change in Law shall: 

(i) impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit, compulsory loan, insurance charge or similar requirement
against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit extended or participated in by, any Lender (except any Eurodollar Reserve Percentage); 

(ii) subject any Recipient to any Taxes (other than Taxes and Other Taxes for which the Borrower has agreed to indemnify such
Lender pursuant to Section 2.17(c) or Section 8.4) on its loans, loan principal, letters of credit, commitments, or other obligations, or its deposits, reserves, other liabilities or capital attributable
thereto; or 
 (iii) impose on any Lender or the London interbank market any other condition, cost or expense (other than
Taxes and any cost or expense for which the Borrower has agreed to indemnify such Lender pursuant to Section 8.4) affecting this Agreement or Advances made by such Lender; 

and, to the extent that a Lender or other Recipient reasonably determines that the direct result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such
Lender or such other Recipient of making, Converting to, continuing or maintaining any Advance or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Advance, or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender or other Recipient
hereunder (whether of principal, interest or any other amount) then, upon request of such Lender or other Recipient, the Borrower will pay to such Lender or other Recipient, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate
such Lender or other Recipient, as the case may be, for such additional costs incurred or reduction suffered. 
 (b) If any Lender determines
that any Change in Law affects or would affect the amount of capital or liquidity required or expected to be maintained by such Lender or any corporation controlling such Lender and that the amount of such capital or liquidity is increased as a
direct result of the existence of this Agreement, such Lender’s Commitment or Advances made by such Lender hereunder to a level below that which such Lender or any corporation controlling such Lender could have achieved but for such Change in
Law (taking into consideration such Lender’s policies and the policies of such Lender’s holding company with respect to capital adequacy), then, upon demand by such Lender (with a copy of such demand to the Agent), the Borrower shall
immediately pay to the Agent for the account of such Lender, from time to time as specified by such Lender, additional amounts sufficient to compensate such Lender or such corporation in the light of such circumstances, to the extent that such
Lender reasonably determines such increase in capital or liquidity to be allocable to the existence of such Lender’s Commitment or Advances hereunder. 

(c) A certificate of a Lender setting forth the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender or any corporation controlling such
Lender, as the case may be, as specified in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section 2.13 and delivered to the Borrower, shall certify in reasonable detail as to the increased cost for which it is seeking compensation
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shall be conclusive absent manifest error; provided that the determination thereof shall have been made by such Lender in good faith. The Borrower shall pay such Lender the amount shown as
due on any such certificate within 10 days after receipt thereof. 
 (d) Failure or delay on the part of any Lender to demand compensation
pursuant to this Section shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s right to demand such compensation; provided, no Lender shall be entitled to demand compensation or be compensated thereunder to the extent that such compensation
relates to any period of time more than ninety days prior to the date upon which such Lender first notified the Borrower of the occurrence of the event entitling such Lender to such compensation (unless, and to the extent, that any such compensation
so demanded shall relate to the retroactive application of any event so notified to the Borrower). 
 Section 2.14
Illegality. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, if at any time after the date hereof and from time to time, any Lender (the “Affected Lender”) shall notify the Agent and the Borrower
that any Change in Law makes it unlawful or any Governmental Authority asserts that it is unlawful, for the Affected Lender or its Eurodollar Lending Office to perform its obligations hereunder to make Eurodollar Rate Advances or to fund or maintain
Eurodollar Rate Advances hereunder, following such notice from the Affected Lender, (i) all Eurodollar Rate Advances of the Affected Lender shall, on the expiration date of the respective Interest Period applicable thereto (or, to the extent
any such Eurodollar Rate Advance may not lawfully be maintained as a Eurodollar Rate Advance until such expiration date, upon such notice) automatically be Converted into Base Rate Advances (each such Advance, as so Converted, being an
“Affected Lender Advance”), (ii) the obligation of the Affected Lender to make, maintain, or Convert Advances into Eurodollar Rate Advances shall thereupon be suspended, and (iii) any Notice of Borrowing or Notice
of Conversion given at any time thereafter with respect to Eurodollar Rate Advances shall, as to the Affected Lender, be deemed a request for Base Rate Advances, in each case until the Affected Lender shall have determined that the circumstances
causing such suspension no longer exist and shall have so notified the Agent, or the Affected Lender has been replaced pursuant to Section 2.20(a) and, in either case the Agent shall have notified the Borrower and the other
Lenders. For purposes of any prepayment under this Agreement, each Affected Lender Advance shall be deemed to continue to be part of the same Borrowing as the Eurodollar Rate Advances to which it corresponded at the time of the Conversion of such
Affected Lender Advance pursuant to this Section 2.14. 
 Section 2.15 Payments and Computations. 

(a) The Borrower shall make each payment hereunder not later than 1:00 p.m. on the day when due in Dollars to the Agent at its address referred
to in Section 8.2 in same day funds. The Agent will promptly thereafter cause to be distributed like funds relating to the payment of principal or interest or fees ratably (other than amounts payable pursuant to
Section 2.17 or Section 8.4(d)) to the Lenders for the account of their respective Applicable Lending Offices, and like funds relating to the payment of any other amount payable to any Lender to such Lender for
the account of its Applicable Lending Office, in each case to be applied in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Upon its acceptance of a Lender Assignment and recording of the information contained therein in the Register pursuant to
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hereunder in respect of the interest assigned thereby to the Lender assignee thereunder, and the parties to such Lender Assignment shall make all appropriate adjustments in such payments for
periods prior to such effective date directly between themselves. All payments to be made by the Borrower shall be made without condition or deduction for any counterclaim, defense, recoupment or setoff. 

(b) The Borrower hereby authorizes each Lender, if and to the extent payment owed to such Lender is not made when due hereunder, to charge from
time to time against any or all of the Borrower’s accounts with such Lender any amount so due. 
 (c) All computations of interest based
on the Prime Rate shall be made by the Agent on the basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may be, and all computations of interest based on the Eurodollar Rate and the Federal Funds Rate shall be made by the Agent, and all computations of
interest pursuant to Section 2.10 shall be made by a Lender, on the basis of a year of 360 days, in each case for the actual number of days (including the first day but excluding the last day) occurring in the period for which
such interest or fees are payable. Each determination by the Agent (or, in the case of Section 2.10, by a Lender) of an interest rate hereunder shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error,
provided that such determination shall have been made by the Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, in good faith. 
 (d) Whenever
any payment hereunder shall be stated to be due on a day other than a Business Day, such payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day, and such extension of time shall in such case be included in the computation of payment of interest
or fees, as the case may be; provided, however, that if such extension would cause payment of interest on or principal of Eurodollar Rate Advances to be made in the next following calendar month, such payment shall be made on the
immediately preceding Business Day. 
 (e) Unless the Agent shall have received notice from the Borrower prior to the date on which any
payment is due to the Lenders hereunder that the Borrower will not make such payment in full, the Agent may assume that the Borrower has made such payment in full to the Agent on such date and the Agent may, in reliance upon such assumption, cause
to be distributed to each Lender on such due date an amount equal to the amount then due such Lender. If and to the extent that the Borrower shall not have so made such payment in full to the Agent, each Lender shall repay to the Agent forthwith on
demand such amount distributed to such Lender together with interest thereon, for each day from the date such amount is distributed to such Lender until the date such Lender repays such amount to the Agent, at the Federal Funds Rate. 

(f) The Borrower shall be entitled to rely upon payment instructions and other information relating the amounts owed by it hereunder provided
by the Agent and believed by the Borrower to be genuine and to have been signed, sent or otherwise authenticated by the proper person acting for the Agent and shall have no liability solely with respect to such reliance, provided that no such
reliance by the Borrower shall in any way relieve or otherwise impair any obligation of the Borrower hereunder, including its obligations under Section 8.4. 

  
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 Section 2.16 Noteless Agreement; Evidence of Indebtedness. 

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

(b) The Agent shall also maintain accounts in which it will record (i) the amount of each Advance made hereunder, the Type thereof and the
Interest Period (if any) with respect thereto, (ii) the amount of any principal or interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the Borrower to each Lender hereunder, and (iii) the amount of any sum received by the Agent
hereunder from the Borrower and each Lender’s share thereof. 
 (c) The entries maintained in the accounts maintained pursuant to
Section 2.16(a) and Section 2.16(b) shall be prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts of the obligations therein recorded; provided, however, that the failure of the Agent or any Lender to
maintain such accounts or any error therein shall not in any manner affect the obligation of the Borrower to repay such obligations in accordance with their terms. 

(d) The Advances made by each Lender shall, if requested by the applicable Lender (which request shall be made to the Agent), be evidenced by a
Note, in each case appropriately completed and executed by the Borrower and payable to the order of such Lender. Each Note shall be entitled to all of the benefits of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and shall be subject to the provisions
hereof and thereof. 
 Section 2.17 Taxes. 

(a) Any and all payments by the Borrower hereunder and under the other Loan Documents shall be made, in accordance with
Section 2.15, free and clear of and without deduction for any and all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, deductions, charges or withholdings, and all liabilities with respect thereto, excluding, in the case of each
Recipient, (i) any U.S. federal withholding taxes imposed under FATCA, including, without limitation, any tax that would not have been imposed but for a failure by a Person (or any financial institution through which any payment is made to such
Person) (including a participant or any other recipient of any payment hereunder) to comply with the procedures, certifications, information, reporting, disclosure and other related requirements of FATCA, (ii) taxes imposed on its overall net
income and franchise taxes imposed on it by any jurisdiction, unless such Lender or the Agent (as the case may be) would not have had such taxes imposed on it by such jurisdiction but for such Lender’s or the Agent’s (as the case may be)
having entered into this Agreement, having consummated the transactions contemplated hereby or having received payments by the Borrower hereunder or under the other Loan Documents, and (iii) any similar taxes imposed as a result of a present or
former connection between such Recipient and the jurisdiction imposing such tax (other than connections arising from such Recipient having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received or
perfected a security interest under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to or enforced any Loan Document, or sold or assigned an interest in any Advance or Loan Document) (all such excluded taxes, levies, imposts, deductions, charges,
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to as “Excluded Taxes” and all such non-excluded taxes, levies, imposts, deductions, charges, withholdings and liabilities being hereinafter referred to as
“Taxes”). If the Borrower or the Agent shall be required by law to deduct or withhold any Taxes from or in respect of any sum payable by the Borrower hereunder or under any other Loan Document to any Lender or the Agent,
(i) the sum payable by the Borrower shall be increased as may be necessary so that after making all required deductions and withholdings (including deductions and withholdings applicable to additional sums payable under this
Section 2.17) such Lender or the Agent (as the case may be) receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deductions been made and (ii) the Borrower or the Agent, as the case may be, shall make such
deduction or withholding and shall pay the full amount deducted or withheld to the relevant taxation authority or other authority in accordance with applicable law. 

(b) In addition, the Borrower agrees to pay any present or future stamp or documentary taxes or any other excise or property taxes, charges or
similar levies which arise from any payment made hereunder or under any other Loan Document or from the execution, delivery or registration of, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document, except any such taxes, charges
or levies that are imposed with respect to an assignment that is not made pursuant to Section 2.20(a) (hereinafter referred to as “Other Taxes”). 

(c) The Borrower will indemnify each Lender and the Agent for the full amount of Taxes or Other Taxes (including, without limitation, any Taxes
or Other Taxes imposed by any jurisdiction on amounts payable under this Section 2.17) paid by such Lender or the Agent (as the case may be) and any liability (including penalties, interest and expenses) arising therefrom or with
respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes or Other Taxes were correctly or legally asserted. This indemnification shall be made within thirty days from the date such Lender or the Agent (as the case may be) makes written demand therefor. Nothing
herein shall preclude the right of the Borrower to contest any such Taxes or Other Taxes so paid, and the Lenders in question or the Agent (as the case may be) will, following notice from, and at the expense of, the Borrower, reasonably cooperate
with the Borrower to preserve the Borrower’s rights to contest such Taxes or Other Taxes. 
 (d) Within thirty days after the date of
any payment of Taxes, the Borrower will furnish to the Agent, at its address referred to in Section 8.2, the original or a certified copy of a receipt evidencing payment thereof. 

(e) Each Lender agrees that, on or prior to the date upon which it shall become a party hereto, and upon the reasonable request from time to
time of the Borrower or the Agent, such Lender will deliver to the Borrower and the Agent either (i) a statement that it is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction within the United States or (ii) duly completed copies of such form or
forms as may from time to time be prescribed by the United States Internal Revenue Service indicating that such Lender is entitled to receive payments without deduction or withholding of any United States federal income taxes, as permitted by the
Code. Each Lender that delivers to the Borrower and the Agent the form or forms referred to in the preceding sentence further undertakes to deliver to the Borrower and the Agent further copies of such form or forms, or successor applicable form or
forms, as the case may be, as and when any previous form filed by it hereunder shall expire or shall become incomplete or inaccurate in any respect. 

  
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Each Lender represents and warrants that each such form supplied by it to the Agent and the Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.17(e), and not superseded by another form
supplied by it, is or will be, as the case may be, complete and accurate. 
 (f) Any Lender claiming any additional amounts payable pursuant
to this Section 2.17 shall use reasonable efforts (consistent with its internal policy and legal and regulatory restrictions) to change the jurisdiction of its Applicable Lending Office if the making of such a change would avoid
the need for, or reduce the amount of, any such additional amounts that may thereafter accrue and would not, in the reasonable judgment of such Lender, be otherwise disadvantageous to such Lender. 

(g) Without prejudice to the survival of any other agreement of the Borrower hereunder, the agreements and obligations of the Borrower
contained in this Section 2.17 shall survive the payment in full of principal and interest hereunder. 
 (h) Each Lender
shall severally indemnify the Agent, within 10 days after demand therefor, for (i) any Taxes or Other Taxes attributable to such Lender (but only to the extent that the Borrower has not already indemnified the Agent for such Taxes or Other
Taxes and without limiting the obligation of the Borrower to do so), (ii) any Taxes attributable to such Lender’s failure to comply with the provisions of Section 8.7(c) relating to the maintenance of a Participant
Register and (iii) any taxes excluded in Section 2.17(a) attributable to such Lender, in each case, that are payable or paid by the Agent in connection with any Loan Documents, and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or
with respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to any Lender by the Agent shall be
conclusive absent manifest error. Each Lender hereby authorizes the Agent to set off and apply and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender under any Loan Document or otherwise payable by the Agent to the Lender from any other source against any
amount due to the Agent under this Section 2.17(h). 
 Section 2.18 Sharing of Payments, Etc. All
payments from or on behalf of the Borrower on account of any obligations shall be apportioned ratably among the Lenders based upon their respective share, if any, of the obligations with respect to which such payment was received. If any Lender
shall obtain any payment (whether voluntary, involuntary, through the exercise of any right of set off, or otherwise) on account of the Advances made by it (other than pursuant to Section 2.13, Section 2.17 or
Section 8.4(d)) in excess of its ratable share of payments obtained by all the Lenders on account of the Advances, such Lender shall forthwith purchase (for cash at face value) from the other Lenders such participations in the Advances
made by them as shall be necessary to cause such purchasing Lender to share the excess payment ratably with each of them; provided, however, that (a) if all or any portion of such excess payment is thereafter recovered from such
purchasing Lender, such purchase from each Lender shall be rescinded and such Lender shall repay to the purchasing Lender the purchase price to the extent of such recovery, together with an amount equal to such Lender’s ratable share (according
to the proportion of (i) the amount of such Lender’s required repayment to (ii) the total amount so recovered from the purchasing Lender) of any interest or other amount paid or payable by the purchasing Lender in respect of the total
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and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement (including the application of funds arising from the existence of a Defaulting Lender), or (y) any payment obtained by a Lender as
consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Advances to any assignee or participant, other than to the Borrower or any Subsidiary thereof (as to which the provisions of this paragraph shall apply). The Borrower
agrees that any Lender so purchasing a participation from another Lender pursuant to this Section 2.18 may, to the fullest extent permitted by law, exercise all its rights of payment (including the right of set off) with respect
to such participation as fully as if such Lender were the direct creditor of the Borrower in the amount of such participation. 

Section 2.19 [Reserved]. 

Section 2.20 Replacement of Lenders. 

(a) The Borrower may, at any time at its sole expense and effort, require any Lender that (x) requests compensation under
Section 2.9, Section 2.13 or Section 2.14, or requires the Borrower to pay any Taxes or additional amounts under Section 2.17, (y) does not approve a consent, waiver or
amendment to any Loan Document requested by the Borrower or the Agent and that requires the approval of all or all affected Lenders under Section 8.1 which is otherwise approved by the Majority Lenders, or (z) is a Defaulting
Lender, upon notice to such Lender and the Agent, to assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in, and consents required by, Section 8.7), all of its interests, rights and
obligations under this Agreement and the related Loan Documents to an Eligible Assignee that shall assume such obligations (which assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment); provided that: 

(i) no Unmatured Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at such time; 

(ii) the Agent shall have received the assignment fee specified in Section 8.7(a); 

(iii) such Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to the outstanding principal of its Advances, accrued interest
thereon, accrued fees (if any) and all other amounts payable to it hereunder and under the other Loan Documents (including any amounts under Section 8.4(d)) from the assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal and
accrued interest and fees) or the Borrower (in the case of all other amounts); 
 (iv) such assignee, if it is not an
existing Lender and/or Eligible Assignee, shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Agent; 
 (v) such assignment does not
conflict with any applicable Requirement of Law; and 
 (vi) in the case of assignment from a Lender as a result of
(y) above, the applicable assignee shall have consented to the applicable amendment, waiver or consent. 

  
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 A Lender shall not be required to make any assignment or delegation if, prior thereto, the circumstances
entitling the Borrower to require such assignment and delegation cease to apply. 
 (b) At any time a Lender is a Designated Lender, the
Borrower may terminate in full the Commitment of such Designated Lender by giving notice to such Designated Lender and the Agent, effective as of the date such notice has been received by both such Designated Lender and the Agent; provided
that (i) at the time of such termination, (x) no Event of Default or Unmatured Default exists (or the Majority Lenders consent to such termination) and (y) no Advances are outstanding; (ii) concurrently with such termination, the
Aggregate Commitments shall be reduced by the Commitment of such Designated Lender (it being understood that the Borrower may not terminate the Commitment of a Designated Lender if, after giving effect to such termination, the Outstanding Credits
would exceed the Aggregate Commitment); and (iii) concurrently with any subsequent payment of interest or fees (if any) to the Lenders with respect to any period before the termination of the Commitment of such Designated Lender, the Borrower
shall pay to such Designated Lender its ratable share (based upon the percentage of the Aggregate Commitments represented by such Defaulting Lender’s Commitment before giving effect to such termination) of such interest or fees, as applicable.
The termination of the Commitment of a Defaulting Lender pursuant to this Section 2.20(b) shall not be deemed to be a waiver of any right that the Borrower, the Agent or any other Lender may have against such Defaulting Lender.

 Section 2.21 Defaulting Lenders. 

(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, if any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then, until such time as
such Lender is no longer a Defaulting Lender (including as a result of termination of its Commitment pursuant to Section 2.20(b)), to the extent permitted by applicable law: 

(i) Such Defaulting Lender’s right to approve or disapprove any amendment, waiver or consent with respect to this
Agreement shall be restricted as set forth in the definition of Majority Lenders and in Section 8.1. 
 (ii)
Any payment of principal, interest, fees or other amounts received by the Agent hereunder for the account of such Defaulting Lender (whether voluntary or mandatory, at maturity, pursuant to Article VI or otherwise) or received by
the Agent from a Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 6.1 shall be applied at such time or times as may be determined by the Agent as follows: 

(A) first, to the payment of any amounts owing by such Defaulting Lender to the Agent hereunder; 

(B) second, as the Borrower may request (so long as no Unmatured Default or Event of Default exists), to the funding of
any Advance in respect of which such Defaulting Lender has failed to fund its portion thereof as required by this Agreement, as determined by the Agent; 

(C) third, to the payment of any amounts owing to the Lenders as a result of any judgment of a court of competent
jurisdiction obtained by any Lender against such Defaulting Lender as a result of such Defaulting Lender’s breach of its obligations under this Agreement; 

  
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 (D) fourth, so long as no Unmatured Default or Event of Default exists, to
the payment of any amounts owing to the Borrower as a result of any judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by the Borrower against such Defaulting Lender as a result of such Defaulting Lender’s breach of its obligations under
this Agreement; and 
 (E) fifth, to such Defaulting Lender or as otherwise directed by a court of competent
jurisdiction; 
 provided that if (x) such payment is a payment of the principal amount of any Advances in
respect of which such Defaulting Lender has not fully funded its appropriate share, and (y) such Advances were made at a time when the conditions set forth in Section 3.2 were satisfied or waived, such payment shall be
applied solely to pay the Advances of all non-Defaulting Lenders on a pro rata basis prior to being applied to the payment of any Advances of such Defaulting Lender. Any payments, prepayments or other amounts paid or payable to a Defaulting Lender
that are applied (or held) to pay amounts owed by a Defaulting Lender pursuant to this Section 2.21(a)(ii) shall be deemed paid to and redirected by such Defaulting Lender, and each Lender irrevocably consents hereto. 

(b) If the Borrower and the Agent agree in writing in their sole discretion that a Defaulting Lender should no longer be deemed to be a
Defaulting Lender, the Agent will so notify the parties hereto, whereupon as of the effective date specified in such notice and subject to any conditions set forth therein, such Lender will, to the extent applicable, purchase that portion of
outstanding Advances of the other Lenders or take such other actions as the Agent may determine to be necessary to cause the Advances to be held on a pro rata basis by the Lenders in accordance with their respective Percentages, whereupon such
Lender will cease to be a Defaulting Lender; provided that no adjustments will be made retroactively with respect to fees accrued or payments made by or on behalf of the Borrower while such Lender was a Defaulting Lender; provided
further that, except to the extent otherwise expressly agreed by the affected parties, no change hereunder from Defaulting Lender to Lender will constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder arising from such Lender’s
having been a Defaulting Lender. 
 ARTICLE III 

CONDITIONS TO ADVANCES 

Section 3.1 Conditions Precedent to Closing Date. The occurrence of the Closing Date is subject to satisfaction of the
following conditions precedent: 
 (a) The Agent shall have received the following, in form and substance satisfactory to the Lenders: 

  
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 (i) this Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date and duly executed by the
Borrower, each Lender and the Agent; 
 (ii) copies of (A) the resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Borrower
approving this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which it is, or is to be, a party, and (B) all documents evidencing other necessary corporate action on the part of the Borrower with respect to this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents, certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Borrower; 
 (iii) a certificate of the Secretary or
an Assistant Secretary of the Borrower certifying the names, true signatures and incumbency of the officers of the Borrower authorized to sign this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which it is, or is to be, a party; 

(iv) copies of the Restated Articles of Incorporation and by-laws of the Borrower, together with all amendments thereto,
certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Borrower; 
 (v) copies of all Governmental Approvals, if any,
required in connection with the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Borrower; 

(vi) copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.1(f); 

(vii) the favorable opinions, which permit reliance by permitted assigns of each of the Agent and the Lenders, of Chapman and
Cutler LLP, counsel for the Borrower, in substantially the form of Exhibit 3.1(a)(vii) and as to such other matters as the Majority Lenders, through the Agent, may reasonably request; and 

(viii) such other approvals, opinions and documents as any Lender, through the Agent, may reasonably request. 

(b) The following statements shall be true and correct, and the Agent shall have received a certificate of a duly authorized officer of the
Borrower, dated the date of the Closing Date and in sufficient copies for each Lender, stating that: 
 (i) the
representations and warranties set forth in Section 4.1 of this Agreement are true and correct on and as of the date of the Closing Date as though made on and as of such date; and 

(ii) no event has occurred and is continuing that constitutes an Unmatured Default or an Event of Default. 

(c) The Borrower shall have paid all costs and expenses of the Agent (including counsel fees and disbursements) incurred through (and for which
statements have been provided prior to) the Closing Date. 

  
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 (d) The Agent and each Lender shall have received all documentation and information required by
regulatory authorities under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including without limitation the PATRIOT Act, as requested by the Agent or such Lender. 

Section 3.2 Conditions Precedent to Borrowing on the Funding Date. The obligation of each Lender to make an Advance on the
Funding Date shall be subject to the conditions precedent that, on the date of such Borrowing: 
 (a) the Closing Date shall have occurred;

 (b) the following statements shall be true and correct (and each of the giving of the applicable Notice of Borrowing, and the acceptance
by the Borrower of the proceeds of such Borrowing shall constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrower that, on the date of such Borrowing, such statements are true and correct): 

(i) the representations and warranties contained in Section 4.1 (other than the representation and warranty
set forth in Section 4.1(e)) are true and correct in all material respects, or if such representation is qualified as to materiality, true and correct in all respects, on and as of the Funding Date, before and after giving effect
to the application of the proceeds of such Borrowing, as though made on and as of such date; 
 (ii) no event has occurred
and is continuing, or would result from such Borrowing or from the application of proceeds of such Borrowing, that constitutes an Event of Default or an Unmatured Default; and 

(iii) after giving effect to such Borrowing, the Outstanding Credits will not exceed its borrowing authority as allowed by
applicable governmental authorities; 
 (c) each Note requested by a Lender pursuant to Section 2.16 payable to the order
of each such Lender, dated as of the Funding Date and duly completed and executed by the Borrower; and 
 (d) the Agent shall have received
such other approvals, opinions, or documents as the Agent, or the Majority Lenders through the Agent, may reasonably request, and such approvals, opinions, and documents shall be satisfactory in form and substance to the Agent. 

Section 3.3 Reliance on Certificates. The Lenders and the Agent shall be entitled to rely conclusively upon the
certificates delivered from time to time by officers of the Borrower as to the names, incumbency, authority and signatures of the respective Persons named therein until such time as the Agent may receive a replacement certificate, in form acceptable
to the Agent, from an officer of such Person identified to the Agent as having authority to deliver such certificate, setting forth the names and true signatures of the officers and other representatives of such Person thereafter authorized to act
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 ARTICLE IV 

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES 

Section 4.1 Representations and Warranties of the Borrower. The Borrower represents and warrants as follows: 

(a) Each of the Borrower and its Significant Subsidiaries is a corporation duly organized and validly existing under the laws of the
jurisdiction of its incorporation and is duly qualified to do business in, and is in good standing in, all other jurisdictions where the nature of its business or the nature of property owned or used by it makes such qualification necessary (except
where the failure to so qualify would not constitute a Material Adverse Change). 
 (b) The execution, delivery and performance by the
Borrower of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which it is or will be a party, and the receipt by the Borrower of the proceeds of any Borrowing on the date of such Borrowing, are within the Borrower’s corporate powers, have been
duly authorized by all necessary corporate action, and do not and will not contravene (i) the Borrower’s charter or by-laws, (ii) any Requirement of Law, or (iii) any legal or contractual restriction binding on or affecting the
Borrower; and such execution, delivery and performance do not and will not result in or require the creation of any Lien (other than pursuant to the Loan Documents) upon or with respect to any of its properties. 

(c) No Governmental Approval is required in connection with the execution, delivery or performance by the Borrower of any Loan Document except
for certain filings as may be required by the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. 
 (d) This Agreement is, and each other Loan
Document to which the Borrower will be a party when executed and delivered hereunder will be, legal, valid and binding obligations of the Borrower enforceable against the Borrower in accordance with their respective terms, subject to the
qualifications, however, that the enforcement of the rights and remedies herein and therein is subject to bankruptcy and other similar laws of general application affecting rights and remedies of creditors and that the remedy of specific performance
or of injunctive relief is subject to the discretion of the court before which any proceedings therefor may be brought. 
 (e) Since
December 31, 2013, except as disclosed in the Borrower’s (i) Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013 and (ii) Reports on Form 10-Q for the periods ended March 31, 2014 and June 30, 2014 (but
excluding any risk factors, forward-looking disclosures and any other disclosures that are cautionary, predictive or forward-looking in nature), there has been no event or circumstance that has had or could be reasonably expected to have, either
individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Change. 
 (f) The audited consolidated balance sheets of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries as at December 31, 2013, and the related audited consolidated statements of income of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the fiscal year then ended, and the unaudited consolidated balance sheets of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries as at June 30, 2014 and the related unaudited consolidated statements of income for the six-month period then ended, copies of each of which have been furnished to each Bank, fairly present (subject, in the case of such balance
sheets and statements of income for the six-month period ended June 30, 2014, to year-end adjustments) the consolidated financial condition of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as at such dates and the consolidated results of operations of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the periods ended on such dates, all in accordance, in all material respects, with GAAP. 

  
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 (g) Except as disclosed in the Borrower’s (i) Report on Form 10-K for the year ended
December 31, 2013 and (ii) Reports on Form 10-Q for the periods ended March 31, 2014 and June 30, 2014 (but excluding any risk factors, forward-looking disclosures and any other disclosures that are cautionary, predictive or
forward-looking in nature), there is no pending or threatened action or proceeding affecting the Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries or properties before any court, governmental agency or arbitrator, that might reasonably be expected to
constitute a Material Adverse Change, and since December 31, 2013 there have been no material adverse developments in any action or proceeding so disclosed that might reasonably be expected to constitute a Material Adverse Change. 

(h) No ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur with respect to any Plan of the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates
which would result in a liability to the Borrower, no “prohibited transaction” has occurred with respect to any Plan of the Borrower that is reasonably expected to result in a liability to the Borrower and neither the Borrower nor any of
its ERISA Affiliates has incurred nor reasonably expects to incur any withdrawal liability under ERISA to any Multiemployer Plan, in each case that could reasonably be expected to constitute a Material Adverse Change. 

(i) The Borrower has filed all tax returns (Federal, state and local) required to be filed and paid all taxes shown thereon to be due,
including interest and penalties, or, to the extent the Borrower is contesting in good faith by appropriate proceedings an assertion of liability based on such returns and has provided adequate reserves for payment thereof in accordance with GAAP.

 (j) Neither the Borrower nor any Significant Subsidiary of the Borrower is engaged principally, or as one of its important activities, in
the business of purchasing or carrying Margin Stock, or extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying Margin Stock. After the making of each Borrowing, Margin Stock will constitute less than 25 percent of the assets (as determined by
any reasonable method) of the Borrower and its Significant Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis. 
 (k) The Borrower is not an
“investment company” or a company “controlled” by an “investment company”, within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. 

(l) Neither the Borrower or any Affiliate of the Borrower (i) is a Sanctioned Person, (ii) has more than 15% of its assets in
Sanctioned Countries, or (iii) derives more than 15% of its operating income from investments in, or transactions with, Sanctioned Persons or Sanctioned Countries. No part of the proceeds of any Advance hereunder will be used directly or
indirectly to fund any operations in, finance any investments or activities in or make any payments to, a Sanctioned Person or a Sanctioned Country. 

  
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 (m) Neither the incurrence of the Advances hereunder nor the use of the proceeds thereof will
violate the PATRIOT Act, the Trading with the Enemy Act, as amended, or any of the foreign assets control regulations of the United States Treasury Department (31 CFR, Subtitle B, Chapter V, as amended) or any enabling legislation or executive order
relating thereto. The Borrower and its Significant Subsidiaries are in compliance in all material respects with the PATRIOT Act. 
 (n) Each
of the Borrower and its Significant Subsidiaries has timely filed all material reports, documents and other materials required to be filed by it in order to comply with the requirements of all applicable laws, rules, regulations and orders of any
governmental authority, and is otherwise in compliance with the requirements of all applicable laws, rules, regulations and orders of any governmental authority in respect of the conduct of its business and the ownership and operation of its
properties, except in each case to the extent that the failure to comply therewith, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to constitute a Material Adverse Change. 

(o) None of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries is in violation, in any material respects, of any applicable law relating to
anti-corruption (including the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, the UK Bribery Act 2010 or other similar legislation in other jurisdictions.) 

ARTICLE V 
 COVENANTS OF
THE BORROWER 
 Section 5.1 Affirmative Covenants. So long as any amount in respect of this Agreement shall remain
unpaid or any Lender shall have any Commitment, the Borrower will, unless the Majority Lenders shall otherwise consent in writing: 
 (a)
Payment of Taxes, Etc. Pay and discharge, and cause each of its Domestic Subsidiaries to pay and discharge, before the same shall become delinquent, all taxes, assessments and governmental charges, royalties or levies imposed upon it or upon
its property except, in the case of taxes, to the extent the Borrower or such Domestic Subsidiary is contesting the same in good faith and by appropriate proceedings and has set aside adequate reserves for the payment thereof in accordance with
GAAP, unless the failure to do so would not constitute a Material Adverse Change. 
 (b) Maintenance of Insurance. Maintain, or cause
to be maintained, insurance or other risk management programs covering the Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries and their respective properties in effect at all times in such amounts and covering such risks and using such means as are usual and
customary for companies of a similar size (based on the aggregate book value of the Borrower’s assets, as determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP), engaged in similar businesses and owning similar properties, either with
reputable insurance companies or, in whole or in part, by establishing reserves of one or more insurance funds or other risk management mechanisms, either alone or with other corporations or associations, unless the failure to do so would not
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 (c) Preservation of Existence, Etc. Preserve and maintain, and cause each of the Utilities
to preserve and maintain, its corporate existence (except in a transaction permitted by Section 5.2(c)), material rights (statutory and otherwise) and franchises; provided, however, that neither the Borrower nor any of the
Utilities shall be required to preserve and maintain any such right or franchise, unless the failure to do so would constitute a Material Adverse Change. 

(d) Compliance with Laws, Etc. Comply, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to comply, with the requirements of all applicable laws,
rules, regulations and orders of any governmental authority, including without limitation any such laws, rules, regulations and orders relating to zoning, environmental protection, use and disposal of Hazardous Substances, land use, ERISA,
construction and building restrictions, and employee safety and health matters relating to business operations, the non-compliance with which would constitute a Material Adverse Change. 

(e) Inspection Rights. At any time and from time to time, upon reasonable notice, permit or arrange for the Agent, the Lenders and their
respective agents and representatives to examine and make copies of and abstracts from the records and books of account of, and the properties of, the Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries, and to discuss the affairs, finances and accounts of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries with the Borrower and its Subsidiaries and their respective officers, directors and accountants, which inspection shall be at the reasonable expense of the Borrower if an Unmatured Default or Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing. 
 (f) Keeping of Books. Keep, and cause its Subsidiaries to keep, proper records and books of account, in
which full and correct entries shall be made of all financial transactions of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries and the assets and business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, in accordance with GAAP. 

(g) Maintenance of Properties, Etc. Maintain, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to maintain, good and marketable title to, and
preserve, maintain, develop, and operate in substantial conformity with all laws and material contractual obligations, all of its properties which are used or useful in the conduct of its business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear
and tear excepted, except where the failure to do so would not constitute a Material Adverse Change. 
 (h) Reporting Requirements.
Furnish to each Lender in the manner prescribed in the last paragraph of this subsection (h): 
 (i) as soon as possible and
in any event within five Business Days after the occurrence of each Unmatured Default or Event of Default continuing on the date of such statement, a statement of a Senior Financial Officer setting forth details of such Unmatured Default or Event of
Default and the action that the Borrower proposes to take with respect thereto; 
 (ii) as soon as available and in any event
within sixty days after the end of each of the first three quarters of each fiscal year of the Borrower, a consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as at the end of such quarter and consolidated

  
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statements of income and cash flows of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the period commencing at the end of the previous fiscal year and ending with the end of such quarter, all in
reasonable detail and duly certified (subject to year end audit adjustments) by a Senior Financial Officer as having been prepared in accordance (in all material respects) with GAAP; provided that delivery by the Borrower to the Agent of
copies of the Borrower’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for any quarter shall satisfy the Borrower’s obligation under this Section 5.1(h)(ii) with respect to such quarter;

 (iii) as soon as available and in any event within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower, a copy of
the audited consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as at the end of such fiscal year and consolidated statements of income, retained earnings and cash flows of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such fiscal year, such
consolidated statements to be accompanied by a report and opinion of an independent certified public accountant of nationally recognized standing, which report and opinion shall be prepared in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards
and shall not be subject to any “going concern” or like qualification or exception or any qualification or exception as to the scope of such audit; provided that delivery by the Borrower to the Agent of copies of the Borrower’s
annual Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for any year shall satisfy the Borrower’s obligation under this Section 5.1(h)(iii) with respect to such year; 

(iv) concurrently with the delivery of the financial statements referred to in clauses (ii) and (iii) above, a
certificate signed by two Senior Financial Officers (i) stating whether an Unmatured Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing on the date of such certificate, and if an Unmatured Default or an Event of Default has then
occurred and is continuing, specifying the details thereof and the action that the Borrower has taken or proposes to take with respect thereto, (ii) setting forth in reasonable detail calculations demonstrating compliance with
Section 5.2(f) and (iii) stating whether any change in GAAP or the application thereof has occurred since the date of the audited financial statements referred to in Section 4.1 and, if any change has
occurred, specifying the effect of such change on the financial statements accompanying such certificate; 
 (v) as soon as
possible and in any event within 10 days after any ERISA Event with respect to any Plan of the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of the Borrower has occurred, a statement of a Senior Financial Officer describing such ERISA Event and the action, if
any, which the Borrower or such ERISA Affiliate proposes to take with respect thereto; 
 (vi) promptly after receipt thereof
by the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates from the PBGC copies of each notice received by the Borrower or such ERISA Affiliate of the PBGC’s intention to terminate any Plan of the Borrower or such ERISA Affiliate or to have a trustee
appointed to administer any such Plan; 
 (vii) promptly after receipt thereof by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of the
Borrower from a Multiemployer Plan sponsor, a copy of each notice received by the Borrower or such ERISA Affiliate concerning the imposition or amount of withdrawal liability in an aggregate principal amount of at least $5,000,000 pursuant to
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 (viii) promptly after requested, such documents or governmental reports or
filings relating to any Plan as the Agent or any Lender through the Agent may from time to time reasonably request; 
 (ix)
promptly after the Borrower becomes aware of the occurrence thereof, notice of all actions, suits, proceedings or other events (A) of the type described in Section 4.1(g) or (B) for which the Agent and the Lenders will
be entitled to indemnity under Section 8.4(b); 
 (x) promptly after the sending or filing thereof, copies
of all such proxy statements, financial statements, and reports which the Borrower sends to its public security holders (if any), and copies of all regular, periodic and special reports, and all registration statements and periodic or special
reports, if any, which the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower files with the Securities and Exchange Commission or any other governmental authority which may be substituted therefor, or with any national securities exchange; and 

(xi) promptly after requested, such other information respecting the business, properties, results of operations, prospects,
revenues, condition or operations, financial or otherwise, of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries as the Agent or any Lender through the Agent may from time to time reasonably request. 

Documents required to be delivered pursuant to Section 5.1(h)(ii) or Section 5.1(h)(iii) may be
delivered electronically and, if so delivered, shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date (i) on which the Borrower posts such documents, or provides a link thereto, on a website on the internet at a website address previously specified
to the Agent and the Lenders; or (ii) on which such documents are posted on the Borrower’s behalf on SyndTrak or another relevant website, if any, to which each of the Agent and each Lender has access; provided that (i) upon
the request of the Agent or any Lender, the Borrower shall deliver paper copies of such documents to the Agent or such Lender (until a written request to cease delivering paper copies is given by the Agent or such Lender) and (ii) the Borrower
shall notify (which may be by a facsimile or electronic mail) the Agent and each Lender of the posting of any documents. The Agent shall have no obligation to request the delivery of, or to maintain copies of, the documents referred to above or to
monitor compliance by any Borrower with any such request for delivery, and each Lender shall be solely responsible for requesting delivery to it or maintaining its copies of such documents. 

(i) Use of Proceeds. Use the proceeds of the Advances hereunder solely for the purpose of repaying the Borrower’s 4.00% senior
notes due October 2014, and paying fees and expenses in connection therewith, and not to (x) finance any Hostile Acquisition (y) purchase or carry any Margin Stock in violation of Federal Reserve Board Regulations T, U or X or
(z) directly or indirectly, use any the proceeds of any Advance to fund any activities of or business with any Sanctioned Person or in any Sanctioned Country, or in any other manner that will result in a violation by any Person participating in
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 (j) Further Assurances. At the expense of the Borrower, promptly execute and deliver, or
cause to be promptly executed and delivered, all further instruments and documents, and take and cause to be taken all further actions, that may be necessary or that the Majority Lenders through the Agent may reasonably request to enable the Lenders
and the Agent to enforce the terms and provisions of this Agreement and to exercise their rights and remedies hereunder or under any other Loan Document. In addition, the Borrower will use all reasonable efforts to duly obtain Governmental Approvals
required in connection with the Loan Documents from time to time on or prior to such date as the same may become legally required, and thereafter to maintain all such Governmental Approvals in full force and effect. 

(k) OFAC, PATRIOT Act Compliance. The Borrower will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, (i) refrain from doing business in
a Sanctioned Country or with a Sanctioned Person in violation of any Sanctions, and (ii) provide, to the extent commercially reasonable, such information and take such actions as are reasonably requested by the Agent or any Lender in order to
assist the Agent and the Lenders in maintaining compliance with the PATRIOT Act. 
 Section 5.2 Negative Covenants. So
long as any amount in respect of this Agreement shall remain unpaid or any Lender shall have any Commitment, the Borrower will not, without the written consent of the Majority Lenders: 

(a) Liens, Etc. Create, incur, assume, or suffer to exist, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to create, incur, assume, or suffer to
exist, any lien, security interest, or other charge or encumbrance (including the lien or retained security title of a conditional vendor) of any kind, or any other type of arrangement intended or having the effect of conferring upon a creditor a
preferential interest upon or with respect to any of its properties of any character (including, without limitation, accounts) (any of the foregoing being referred to herein as a “Lien”), excluding, however, from the
operation of the foregoing restrictions the Liens created under the Loan Documents and the following: 
 (i) Liens for taxes,
assessments or governmental charges or levies to the extent not past due; 
 (ii) Liens imposed by law, such as
materialmen’s, mechanics’, carriers’, workmen’s and repairmen’s liens and other similar Liens arising in the ordinary course of business securing obligations which are not overdue and which have been in existence less than
ninety days, or which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which adequate reserves have been established in accordance with GAAP (if so required); 

(iii) pledges or deposits to secure obligations under workmen’s compensation laws or similar legislation, to secure public
or statutory obligations of the Borrower or such Subsidiary, or to secure the utility obligations of any such Subsidiary incurred in the ordinary course of business; 

  
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 (iv) (A) purchase money Liens upon or in property now owned or hereafter acquired
by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business (consistent with present practices, it being understood that for purposes of this clause, the purchase, construction or maintenance of generating facilities by the
Utilities shall be deemed to be in the ordinary course of business and consistent with present practices) to secure (1) the purchase price of such property or (2) Debt incurred solely for the purpose of financing the acquisition,
construction or improvement of any such property to be subject to such Liens, or (B) Liens existing on any such property at the time of acquisition, or extensions, renewals or replacements of any of the foregoing for the same or a lesser
amount, provided that no such Lien shall extend to or cover any property other than the property being acquired, constructed or improved and replacements, modifications and proceeds of such property, and no such extension, renewal or
replacement shall extend to or cover any property not theretofore subject to the Lien being extended, renewed or replaced; 

(v) Liens on the capital stock of any of the Borrower’s single-purpose Subsidiaries or any such Subsidiary’s assets
to secure the repayment of project financing or Nonrecourse Debt for such Subsidiary; 
 (vi) attachment, judgment or other
similar Liens arising in connection with court proceedings, provided that the execution or other enforcement of such Liens is effectively stayed and the claims secured thereby are being actively contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings or the payment of which is covered in full (subject to customary deductible amounts) by insurance maintained with responsible insurance companies; 

(vii) Liens securing obligations under agreements entered into pursuant to the Iowa Industrial New Jobs Training Act or any
similar or successor legislation, provided that such obligations do not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate at any one time outstanding; 

(viii) Liens created pursuant to the Mortgage Bond Indentures; 

(ix) Liens on the ownership interests in, and the assets of, any Foreign Subsidiary to secure not more than $300,000,000
aggregate principal amount of Debt of any Foreign Subsidiary; provided that in the event any such Debt is not denominated in Dollars, the calculation of the Dollar equivalent amount of such Debt shall be made as of the date of the incurrence
of such Lien securing such Debt; 
 (x) Liens in favor of Wells Fargo (or any successor thereto), as agent under the Utility
Facilities to secure the obligations of the respective Utilities under such agreements; 
 (xi) Liens incurred in connection
with the sales of assets permitted in Section 5.2(d)(ix); 
 (xii) Liens incurred by the Borrower or any
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borrowed money, in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed (x) in the case of the Borrower and all its Subsidiaries other than the Utilities and their respective Subsidiaries,
$100,000,000 outstanding at any one time, and (y) in the case of each Utility and its Subsidiaries, $100,000,000 outstanding at any one time; 

(xiii) Liens on nuclear fuel granted in connection with any financing arrangement for the purpose of purchasing or leasing such
nuclear fuel; 
 (xiv) Liens constituting easements, restrictions and other similar encumbrances arising in the ordinary
course of business, which in the aggregate do not materially adversely affect the Borrower’s use of its properties; 

(xv) Liens set forth in Schedule III hereto, and any extensions, renewals, refinancing or replacements of any such Liens upon
or in the same property theretofore subject thereto; and 
 (xvi) other Liens securing obligations of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries not to exceed more than five percent (5%) of the consolidated assets (valued at book value) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries at any time. 

(b) Transactions with Affiliates. Enter into, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to enter into, any transaction with an Affiliate of the
Borrower, unless such transaction (i) is on terms no less favorable to the Borrower or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, than if the transaction had been negotiated in good faith on an arm’s length basis with a Person that was not an
Affiliate of the Borrower, (ii) is among wholly-owned Subsidiaries of the Borrower or between the Borrower and a wholly-owned Subsidiary or (iii) (A) is permitted by applicable utility or utility holding company regulations or
(B) has received all required Government Approvals from each governmental authority exercising jurisdiction over any party thereto, in each case under the foregoing clause (iii) only to the extent such transaction is not materially adverse
to the Lenders and the Agent. 
 (c) Mergers, Etc. 

(i) Merge with or into or consolidate with or into any other Person, except the Borrower may merge with or into or consolidate
with or into any of its Subsidiaries, provided that immediately after giving effect thereto, (A) no event shall occur and be continuing that constitutes an Unmatured Default or an Event of Default, (B) the Borrower is the surviving
corporation and (C) the Borrower shall not be liable with respect to any Debt or allow its property to be subject to any Lien which it could not become liable with respect to or allow its property to become subject to under this Agreement or
any other Loan Document on the date of such transaction; or 
 (ii) permit any of its Subsidiaries to merge with or into or
consolidate with or into any other Person, except that any such Subsidiary may merge with or into any other Person, provided that immediately after giving effect thereto, (A) the surviving corporation is a Subsidiary of the Borrower,
(B) no event shall occur and be continuing that constitutes an Unmatured Default or an Event of Default and (C) the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries shall not be liable with respect to any Debt or allow its property to be subject to any
Lien which it could not become liable with respect to or allow its property to become subject to under this Agreement or any other Loan Document on the date of such transaction. 

  
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 (d) Sales, Etc., of Assets. Sell, lease, transfer, assign or otherwise dispose of any of
its assets, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to sell, lease, transfer, assign or otherwise dispose of any of its assets, except (i) sales, leases, transfers and assignments from one Subsidiary of the Borrower to another such Subsidiary or to
the Borrower, (ii) in any transaction in which the net proceeds from such sale, lease, transfer, assignment or disposition are solely Cash and Cash Equivalents and such proceeds are (A) if such transaction is consummated prior the
Commitment Termination Date, applied solely as a permanent reduction of the Aggregate Commitment pursuant to Section 2.6, or (B) applied solely to pay or prepay Debt (together with a permanent reduction of any commitments
relating to such Debt) incurred by the Borrower or any such Subsidiary (x) in connection with the project comprising such assets or (y) under the Third Amended and Restated Five Year Credit Agreement, dated as of December 14, 2011,
among the Borrower, the banks named therein and Wells Fargo, as administrative agent, (iii) in connection with a sale and leaseback transaction entered into by any Subsidiary of the Borrower, (iv) sales, leases, transfers and assignments
of other assets representing not in excess of 20% of the consolidated assets (valued at book value) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in the aggregate from the Closing Date until the Maturity Date in any single or series of transactions, whether
or not related, (v) sales, leases, transfers and assignments of worn out or obsolete equipment no longer used and useful in the business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, (vi) sales, leases, transfers and assignments of other assets in
the ordinary course of business, (vii) disposition of the investment made by WPL Transco LLC in American Transmission Company LLC or the Equity Interests of WPL Transco LLC or any successor thereto, (viii) sales of contracts and accounts
receivable by the Utilities, Alliant Energy Corporate Services, Inc., and its Subsidiaries and (ix) dispositions of Equity Interests in or assets of any direct or indirect subsidiary of AER; provided that in each case under clauses
(i) through (ix) above, no Unmatured Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing after giving effect thereto; provided, further, that the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries may, pursuant to
Section 5.2(a)(ix), pledge its ownership interests in, and the assets of, any Foreign Subsidiary to secure not more than $300,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Debt incurred by any Foreign Subsidiary; provided that in
the event any such Debt is not denominated in Dollars, the calculation of the Dollar equivalent amount of such Debt shall be made as of the date of the pledge of assets or ownership interests, as the case may be, securing such Debt. 

(e) Maintenance of Ownership of Significant Subsidiaries. Sell, assign, transfer, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Equity Interests of
any of its Significant Subsidiaries or any warrants, rights or options to acquire such Equity Interests, or permit any of its Significant Subsidiaries to issue, sell or otherwise dispose of any shares of its Equity Interests or any warrants, rights
or options to acquire such capital stock, except (and only to the extent) as may be necessary to give effect to a transaction permitted by Section 5.2(c). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries may,
pursuant to Section 5.2(a)(ix), pledge its ownership interests in, and the assets of, any Foreign Subsidiary to secure not more than $300,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Debt incurred by any Foreign Subsidiary;
provided that in the event any such Debt is not denominated in Dollars, the calculation of the Dollar equivalent amount of such Debt shall be made as of the date of the pledge of assets or ownership interests, as the case may be, securing
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 (f) Capitalization Ratio. Permit the ratio of Consolidated Debt of the Borrower to
Consolidated Capital of the Borrower to exceed 0.65 to 1.00. 
 (g) Restrictive Agreements. Directly or indirectly, enter into, incur
or permit to exist, or permit the Utilities to enter into or permit to exist, any agreement or other arrangement that prohibits, restricts or imposes any condition upon the ability of any Utility to declare or pay dividends; provided that the
foregoing limitations do not apply to (i) financial covenants that require the maintenance of a minimum net worth or compliance with financial tests as conditions to the ability to pay dividends or make other distributions with respect to
capital stock or otherwise; (ii) restrictions that arise only if dividends on preferred stock have not been paid; and (iii) limitations or restrictions imposed by law or in regulatory proceedings. 

ARTICLE VI 
 EVENTS OF
DEFAULT 
 Section 6.1 Events of Default. If any of the following events (each an “Event of
Default”) shall occur and be continuing after the applicable grace period and notice requirement (if any): 
 (a) The Borrower
shall fail to pay any principal of any Borrowing when the same becomes due and payable; or 
 (b) The Borrower shall fail to pay any interest
on any Borrowing or any other amount due under this Agreement for two days after the same becomes due; or 
 (c) Any representation or
warranty made by or on behalf of the Borrower in any Loan Document or in any certificate or other writing delivered pursuant thereto shall prove to have been incorrect in any material respect when made or deemed made; or 

(d) The Borrower shall fail to perform or observe any term or covenant on its part to be performed or observed contained in
Section 5.1(c), Section 5.1(h)(i), Section 5.1(i) or Section 5.2 (other than Section5.2(b) thereof); or 

(e) The Borrower shall fail to perform or observe any other term or covenant on its part to be performed or observed contained in this
Agreement or in any other Loan Document, and any such failure shall remain unremedied for a period of thirty days after the earlier of (i) actual knowledge by the Borrower thereof and (ii) receipt of written notice thereof by the Borrower
from the Agent; or 
 (f) The Borrower or any of its Domestic Subsidiaries shall fail to make any payment in respect of any of its Debt other
than Nonrecourse Debt, including any interest or premium thereon (but excluding Debt hereunder) aggregating $50,000,000 or more when due under documents related to such Debt (whether by scheduled maturity, required prepayment, acceleration, demand
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period, if any, specified in any agreement or instrument relating to such Debt; or any other default under any agreement or instrument relating to such Debt, or any other event, shall occur and
shall continue after the applicable grace period, if any, specified in such agreement or instrument, if the effect of such default or event is to accelerate, or to permit the acceleration of, the maturity of such Debt; or any such Debt shall be
declared to be due and payable, or required to be prepaid (other than by a regularly scheduled required prepayment) prior to the stated maturity thereof as a result of a default or other similar adverse event; or 

(g) The Borrower or any of the Utilities shall generally not pay its debts as such debts become due, or shall admit in writing its inability to
pay its debts generally, or shall make an assignment for the benefit of creditors; or any proceeding shall be instituted by or against the Borrower or any of the Utilities seeking to adjudicate it a bankrupt or insolvent, or seeking liquidation,
winding up, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, protection, relief, or composition of its debts under any law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, or reorganization or relief of debtors, or seeking the entry of an order for relief or the
appointment of a receiver, trustee, or other similar official for it or for any substantial part of its property and, in the case of a proceeding instituted against the Borrower or any of the Utilities, either such proceeding shall remain
undismissed or unstayed for a period of sixty days or any of the actions sought in such proceeding (including without limitation the entry of an order for relief against the Borrower or such Utility or the appointment of a receiver, trustee,
custodian or other similar official for the Borrower or such Utility or any of its property) shall occur; or the Borrower or any of the Utilities shall take any corporate or other action to authorize any of the actions set forth above in this
Section 6.1(g); or 
 (h) Any judgment or order for the payment of money equal to or in excess of $50,000,000 shall be
rendered against the Borrower or any of its Direct Subsidiaries (including, without limitation, the Utilities) or their respective properties and either (i) enforcement proceedings shall have been commenced by any creditor upon such judgment or
order or (ii) there shall be any period of thirty consecutive days during which a stay of enforcement of such judgment or order, by reason of a pending appeal or otherwise, shall not be in effect; provided, however, that any such amount
shall be calculated after deducting from the sum so payable any amount of such judgment or order that is covered by a valid and binding policy of insurance in favor of the Borrower or such Direct Subsidiary from an insurer that is rated at least
“A” by A.M. Best Company, which policy covers full payment thereof and which insurer has been notified, and has not disputed the claim made for payment, of such amount of such judgment or order; or 

(i) Any material provision of any Loan Document to which the Borrower is a party shall for any reason cease to be valid and binding on the
Borrower or the Borrower shall so assert in writing; or 
 (j) Any Governmental Approval required in connection with the execution, delivery
and performance of the Loan Documents shall expire or be rescinded, revoked, otherwise terminated, or amended or modified in any manner that is materially adverse to the interests of the Lenders and the Agent; or 

  
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 (k) Any ERISA Event shall have occurred with respect to a Plan or Multiemployer Plan that could
reasonably be expected to result in a material liability to the Borrower, and, thirty days after notice thereof shall have been given to the Borrower by the Agent or any Lender, such ERISA Event shall still exist; or 

(l) (i) The Borrower shall cease to own 100% of the common equity interests of either of the Utilities; (ii) any Person or
“group” (within the meaning of Section 13(d) or 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) shall either (A) acquire beneficial ownership of more than 50% of any outstanding class of common stock of the Borrower
having ordinary voting power in the election of directors of the Borrower or (B) obtain the power (whether or not exercised) to elect a majority of the Borrower’s directors or (iii) the Board of Directors of the Borrower shall not
consist of a majority of Continuing Directors: 
 then, and in any such event, the Agent shall at the request, or may with the consent, of
the Majority Lenders, by notice to the Borrower, (i) declare the obligation of each Lender to make Advances to be terminated, whereupon the same shall forthwith terminate, (ii) declare the Advances (if any), all interest thereon and all
other amounts payable under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to be forthwith due and payable, whereupon the Advances, all such interest and all such amounts shall become and be forthwith due and payable, without presentment, demand,
protest or further notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the Borrower and (iii) exercise all rights and remedies available to it under this Agreement, the other Loan Documents and applicable law; provided,
however, that in the event of the occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event, (A) the Aggregate Commitment and the obligation of each Lender to make Advances shall automatically be terminated and (B) the Advances, all such interest and all
other amounts payable under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall automatically become and be due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or any notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the Borrower. 

ARTICLE VII 
 THE AGENT

 Section 7.1 Authorization and Action. Each of the Lenders hereby appoints and authorizes the Agent to take such
action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement as are delegated to the Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. Except as set forth in Section 7.7,
the provisions of this Article VII are solely for the benefit of the Agent and the Lenders, and the Borrower shall have no rights as a third-party beneficiary of any of such provisions. It is understood and agreed that the use of
the term “agent” (or any other similar term) herein or in any other Loan Document with reference to the Agent is not intended to connote any fiduciary or other implied (or express) obligations under agency doctrine of any applicable law.
Instead, such term is used as a matter of market custom, and is intended to create or reflect only an administrative relationship between contracting parties. 

  
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 Section 7.2 Exculpatory Provisions. 

(a) The Agent shall not have any duties or obligations except those expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents, and its duties
hereunder shall be administrative in nature. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Agent: 
 (i) shall not be
subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of whether a Unmatured Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing; 

(ii) shall not have any duty to take any discretionary action or exercise any discretionary powers, except discretionary rights
and powers expressly contemplated hereby or by the other Loan Documents that the Agent is required to exercise as directed in writing by the Majority Lenders; provided that the Agent shall not be required to take any action that, in its
opinion or the opinion of its counsel, may expose the Agent to liability or that is contrary to any Loan Document or applicable law, including, for the avoidance of doubt, any action that may be in violation of the automatic stay under the Federal
Bankruptcy Code or under any other applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law now or hereafter in effect or that may effect a forfeiture, modification or termination of property of a Defaulting Lender in violation of any such law; and 

(iii) shall not, except as expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents, have any duty to disclose, and shall not
be liable for the failure to disclose, any information relating to the Borrower or any of its Affiliates that is communicated to or obtained by the Person serving as the Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity. 

(b) The Agent shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it (i) with the consent or at the request of the Majority Lenders
(or as the Agent shall believe in good faith shall be necessary, under the circumstances as provided in Section 8.1 and Section 6.1), or (ii) in the absence of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct
as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment. The Agent shall be deemed not to have knowledge of any Unmatured Default or Default unless and until notice describing such Unmatured Default or Event of Default
is given to the Agent in writing by the Borrower or a Lender. 
 Section 7.3 Reliance by Agent. The Agent shall be
entitled to rely upon, and shall not incur any liability for relying upon, any notice, request, certificate, consent, statement, instrument, document or other writing (including any electronic message, internet or intranet website posting or other
distribution) believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed, sent or otherwise authenticated by the proper Person. The Agent also may rely upon any statement made to it orally or by telephone and believed by it to have been made by the proper
Person, and shall not incur any liability for relying thereon. In determining compliance with any condition hereunder to the making of an Advance that by its terms must be fulfilled to the satisfaction of a Lender, the Agent may presume that such
condition is satisfactory to such Lender unless the Agent shall have received notice to the contrary from such Lender prior to the making of such Advance. The Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be counsel for the Borrower), independent
accountants and other experts selected by it, and shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it in accordance with the advice of any such counsel, accountants or experts. 

  
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 Section 7.4 Wells Fargo and Affiliates. With respect to its Commitment and the
Advances made by it, Wells Fargo shall have the same rights and powers under this Agreement as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not the Agent; and the term “Bank” or “Banks” and “Lender” or
“Lenders” shall, unless otherwise expressly indicated, include Wells Fargo in its individual capacity. Wells Fargo and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to, act as the financial advisor or the trustee under indentures of,
and generally engage in any kind of business with, the Borrower or any Subsidiary or other Affiliate thereof and any Person who may do business with or own securities of the Borrower or any Subsidiary or other Affiliate thereof, all as if Wells
Fargo were not the Agent and without any duty to account therefor to the Lenders. 
 Section 7.5 Lender Credit Decision.
Each Lender acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Agent or any other Lender and based on the financial statements referred to in Section 4.1(f) and such other documents and information as it has
deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement. Each Lender also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Agent or any other Lender and based on such documents and information
as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement. 

Section 7.6 Indemnification. The Lenders agree to indemnify the Agent and any Related Party of the Agent participating in
the transaction (to the extent not reimbursed by the Borrower), ratably according to the respective Percentages of the Lenders, from and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs,
expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever which may be imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against the Agent in any way relating to or arising out of this Agreement or any action taken or omitted by the Agent under this Agreement;
provided that no Lender shall be liable for any portion of such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements resulting from the Agent’s gross negligence or willful
misconduct. Without limitation of the foregoing, each Lender agrees to reimburse the Agent promptly upon demand for its ratable share of any out of pocket expenses (including counsel fees) incurred by the Agent in connection with the preparation,
execution, delivery, administration, modification, amendment or enforcement (whether through negotiations, legal proceedings or otherwise) of, or legal advice in respect of rights or responsibilities under, this Agreement, to the extent that the
Agent is not reimbursed for such expenses by the Borrower. 
 Section 7.7 Successor Agent. The Agent may resign at any
time by giving written notice thereof to the Lenders and the Borrower. Upon any such resignation, the Majority Lenders shall have the right to appoint a successor Agent, which shall be a Lender or shall be another commercial bank or trust company
(and reasonably acceptable to the Borrower so long as no Unmatured Default or Event of Default exists) organized under the laws of the United States or of any State thereof. If no successor Agent shall have been so appointed by the Majority Lenders,
and shall have accepted such appointment, within thirty days after the retiring Agent’s giving of notice of resignation (the “Resignation Effective Date”), then the retiring

  
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Agent shall, on behalf of the Lenders, appoint a successor Agent, which shall be a Lender or shall be another commercial bank or trust company organized under the laws of the United States of any
State thereof reasonably acceptable to the Borrower. Regardless of whether a successor has been appointed or has accepted such appointment, such resignation of the retiring Agent shall become effective in accordance with such notice on the
Resignation Effective Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if either the Majority Lenders or the Borrower have not accepted the appointment of a successor Agent or no successor Agent has accepted appointment to act as the Agent hereunder as of the
Resignation Effective Date, then the Majority Lenders shall be deemed to have succeeded to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Agent as of the Resignation Effective Date. With effect from the
Resignation Effective Date, (i) the retiring Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents and (ii) except for any indemnity payments owed to the retiring Agent, all payments,
communications and determinations provided to be made by, to or through the Agent shall instead be made by or to each Lender directly, until such time, if any, as the Majority Lenders appoint a successor administrative agent as provided for in this
Section 7.7. Upon the acceptance of any appointment as Agent hereunder by a successor Agent, such successor Agent shall thereupon succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring
Agent, and the retiring Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations under this Agreement. After any retiring Agent’s resignation or removal hereunder as Agent, the provisions of this Article VII and
Section 8.4 shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was Agent under this Agreement. 

Section 7.8 Delegation of Duties. The Agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers
hereunder or under any other Loan Document by or through any one or more sub-agents appointed by the Agent; provided, however, that the Agent shall remain responsible for the performance of its duties under this Agreement and the Loan
Documents to the extent required under this Article VII. The Agent and any such sub-agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through their respective Related Parties. The exculpatory
provisions of this Article shall apply to any such sub-agent and to the Related Parties of the Agent and any such sub-agent, and shall apply to their respective activities in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for
herein as well as activities as the Agent. 
 Section 7.9 No Other Duties, Etc. Anything herein to the contrary
notwithstanding, the Arranger shall not have any powers, duties or responsibilities under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents. 

Section 7.10 Agent May File Proofs of Claim. In case of the pendency of any proceeding under the Federal Bankruptcy Code or
under any other applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law now or hereafter in effect or any other judicial proceeding relative to the Borrower, the Agent (irrespective of whether the principal of any Advance or other obligation shall then be
due and payable as herein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Agent shall have made any demand on the Borrower) shall be entitled and empowered (but not obligated) by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise
(i) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of the principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Advances and all other obligations that are owing and unpaid and to file such other

  
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documents as may be necessary advisable in order to have the claims of the Lenders and the Agent (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Lenders and the Agent and their respective agents, sub-agents and counsel and all other amounts due the Lenders and the Agent under Section 8.4) allowed in such judicial proceeding and (ii) to collect and receive any monies
or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same. Any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each
Lender to make such payments to the Agent and, in the event that the Agent shall consent to the making of such payments to the Lenders, to pay to the Agent any amount due for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Agent and its agents, sub-agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Agent under Section 8.4. 
 ARTICLE VIII

 MISCELLANEOUS 

Section 8.1 Amendments, Etc. No amendment or waiver of any provision of any Loan Document, nor consent to any departure by
the Borrower therefrom, shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the Majority Lenders and, in the case of any amendment, the Borrower, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific
instance and for the specific purpose for which given; provided, however, that no amendment, waiver or consent shall: (a) waive, modify or eliminate any of the conditions specified in Section 3.1 or
Section 3.2 without the written consent of each Lender; (b) increase or extend the Commitments of any Lender without the written consent of such Lender, (c) reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Advances, any
Applicable Margin or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder (other than fees payable to the Agent or the Arranger for their own account, or to any Lender pursuant to, Section 2.13 or Section 2.17) without
the written consent of each Lender directly affected thereby, (d) postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Advances or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder without the written consent of each Lender
directly affected thereby, (e) change the percentage of the Commitments or of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Advances, or the number of Lenders, which shall be required for the Lenders or any of them to take any action hereunder
without the written consent of each Lender, (f) amend this Section 8.1 without the written consent of each Lender, or (g) change or waive any provision of Section 2.18 or any other provision of this
Agreement or any other Loan Document requiring pro rata treatment of the Lenders in a manner that would alter the pro rata treatment of Lenders required thereby without the written consent of each Lender; and provided, further, that
(i) no amendment, waiver or consent shall affect the rights or duties of the Agent under this Agreement or any Note, unless such amendment, waiver or consent is in writing and signed by the Agent, in addition to the Lenders required above to
take such action, (ii) no amendment, waiver or consent shall change or waive any provision of Section 2.13 or Section 2.17, unless such amendment, waiver or consent is in writing and signed by each Lender
directly affected thereby, in addition to the Lenders required above to take such action and (iii) this Agreement may be amended and restated without the consent of any Lender or the Agent if, upon giving effect to such amendment and
restatement, such Lender or the Agent, as the case may be, shall no longer be a party to this Agreement (as so amended and restated) or have any Commitment or other obligation hereunder and shall have been paid in full all amounts payable hereunder
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the case may be. Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, no Defaulting Lender shall have any right to approve or disapprove any amendment, waiver or consent hereunder, except that in no
event shall any amendment, waiver or consent purport to (A) increase or extend the Commitments of such Defaulting Lender, (B) reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Advances made by such Defaulting Lender, or any Applicable Margin or
any fees or other amounts payable to such Defaulting Lender, (C) postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Advances made by such Defaulting Lender, or (D) amend this Section 8.1 in a
manner that affects such Defaulting Lender adversely, in each case without the affirmative consent of such Defaulting Lender, provided that if any such amendment, waiver or consent has been approved by all Lenders which are not Defaulting
Lenders, and such Defaulting Lender shall have failed to have furnished either its approval or disapproval of such amendment, waiver or consent within the period of ten Business Days after its receipt of a written request to do so, then such
Defaulting Lender shall be deemed to have given its affirmative consent. 
 Section 8.2 Notices, Etc. All notices and
other communications provided for hereunder and under the other Loan Documents shall be in writing (including facsimile communication) and mailed, facsimiled or delivered, if to the Borrower, at its address at 4902 North Biltmore Lane, Madison,
Wisconsin 53718-2132 Attn: Treasurer; if to any Bank, at its Domestic Lending Office specified in its Administrative Questionnaire; if to any other Lender, at its Domestic Lending Office specified in the Lender Assignment pursuant to which it became
a Lender; and if to the Agent, at its address at 1525 West W.T. Harris Blvd. Mail Code: D1109-019, Charlotte, North Carolina 28262, Attention: Syndication Agency Services; or, as to each party, at such other address as shall be designated by such
party in a written notice to the other parties. All such notices and communications shall, when mailed or facsimiled, be effective five days after being deposited in the mails, or when facsimiled, respectively, except that notices and communications
to the Agent pursuant to Articles II or VII shall not be effective until received by the Agent. 

Section 8.3 No Waiver; Remedies. No failure on the part of any Lender or the Agent to exercise, and no delay in exercising,
any right hereunder or under any Note shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right. The remedies herein provided are
cumulative and not exclusive of any remedies provided by law. 
 Section 8.4 Costs, Expenses, Taxes and Indemnification.

 (a) The Borrower agrees to pay on demand all reasonable and documented costs and expenses of the Agent and the Arranger in connection with
the preparation (including, without limitation, printing costs), syndication, negotiation, execution, delivery, modification and amendment of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and the other documents and instruments to be delivered
hereunder and thereunder, including, without limitation, the reasonable and documented fees and out of pocket expenses of counsel for the Agent and the Arranger with respect thereto and with respect to the administration of, and advising the Agent
as to its rights and responsibilities under, this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. The Borrower further agrees to pay on demand all reasonable and documented costs and expenses, if any (including, without limitation, reasonable and documented
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negotiations, legal proceedings or otherwise) of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and the other documents and instruments to be delivered hereunder and thereunder, including, without
limitation, reasonable and documented counsel fees and expenses in connection with the enforcement of rights under this Section 8.4. In addition, the Borrower shall pay any and all Other Taxes payable or determined to be payable
in connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and the other documents and instruments to be delivered hereunder and thereunder, and agrees to save the Agent and each Lender harmless from and against
any and all liabilities with respect to or resulting from any delay in paying or omission to pay such Other Taxes. This Section 8.4(a) shall not apply with respect to Taxes or Excluded Taxes other than any Taxes or Excluded Taxes
that represent liabilities arising from any non-Tax or non-Excluded Tax claim. 
 (b) The Borrower hereby agrees to indemnify and hold each
Lender, the Agent (and any sub-agent thereof), the Arranger and each Related Party of any of the foregoing Persons (each, an “Indemnified Person”) harmless from and against any and all claims, damages, losses, liabilities,
costs or expenses (including reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses, whether or not such Indemnified Person is named as a party to any proceeding or is otherwise subjected to judicial or legal process arising from any such proceeding) which
any of them may incur or which may be claimed against any of them by any Person including the Borrower (except for such claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs and expenses resulting from such Indemnified Person’s gross negligence or
willful misconduct): 
 (i) by reason of or resulting from the execution, delivery or performance of any of the Loan
Documents or any transaction contemplated thereby, or the use by the Borrower of the proceeds of any Advance; 
 (ii) in
connection with any documentary taxes, assessments or charges made by any Governmental Authority by reason of the execution and delivery of any of the Loan Documents; 

(iii) in connection with or resulting from the utilization, storage, disposal, treatment, generation, transportation, release
or ownership of any Hazardous Substance (A) at, upon, or under any property of the Borrower or any of its Affiliates or (B) by or on behalf of the Borrower or any of its Affiliates at any time and in any place; or 

(iv) in connection with or resulting from the use by unintended recipients of any information or other materials distributed by
it through the internet, SyndTrak or other similar transmission systems in connection with this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. 

In case any action or proceeding is instituted involving any Indemnified Person for which indemnification is to be sought hereunder by such
Indemnified Person, then such Indemnified Person will promptly notify the Borrower of the commencement of any action or proceeding; provided, however, that the failure so to notify the Borrower will not relieve the Borrower from any liability
that the Borrower may have to such Indemnified Person pursuant hereto or from any liability that it may have to such Indemnified Person other than pursuant hereto. Notwithstanding the above, following such notification, the Borrower may elect in
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assume the defense of such action or proceeding, and, upon such election, the Borrower will not, as long as it diligently conducts such defense, be liable for any legal costs subsequently
incurred by such Indemnified Person (other than reasonable costs of investigation and providing evidence) in connection therewith, unless (i) the Borrower has failed to provide counsel reasonably satisfactory to such Indemnified Person in a
timely manner, (ii) the Indemnified Person determines in good faith that joint representation would be inappropriate, including any actual or potential conflict of interest or (iii) the Indemnified Person reasonably determines that there
may be legal defenses available to it which are different from, or in addition to those available to the Borrower. If the Borrower assumes the defense of any such action or proceeding, (a) it will be conclusively established for purposes of
this Agreement that the claims made with respect thereto are subject to indemnification hereunder; (b) no compromise or settlement of such claims may be effected by the Borrower without the Indemnified Person’s consent and (c) the
Indemnified Person will have no liability with respect to any compromise or settlement of such claims effected without its consent. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Indemnified Person determines in good faith that there is a reasonable
probability that any action or proceeding may adversely affect it or its affiliates other than as a result of monetary damages for which it would be entitled to indemnification hereunder, such Indemnified Person may, by notice to the Borrower,
assume the exclusive right to defend, compromise, or settle such action or proceeding, but the Borrower will not be bound (but will retain its indemnification obligations hereunder) by any determination of an action or proceeding so defended or any
compromise or settlement effected without its consent (which may not be unreasonably withheld). In connection with any one action or proceeding, the Borrower will not be responsible for the fees and expenses of more than one separate law firm (in
addition to local counsel) for all Indemnified Persons. 
 (c) To the extent that the Borrower for any reason fails to indefeasibly pay any
amount required under paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section 8.4 to be paid by it to the Agent (or any sub-agent thereof) or any Related Party of any of the foregoing, each Lender severally agrees to pay to the Agent (or
any such sub-agent) or such Related Party, as the case may be, such Lender’s pro rata share (determined as of the time that the applicable unreimbursed expense or indemnity payment is sought based on each Lender’s Percentage at such time)
of such unpaid amount (including any such unpaid amount in respect of a claim asserted by such Lender); provided that the unreimbursed expense or indemnified loss, claim, damage, liability or related expense, as the case may be, was incurred
by or asserted against the Agent (or any such sub-agent) in its capacity as such, or against any Related Party thereof acting for the Agent (or any such sub-agent) in connection with such capacity. The obligations of the Lenders under this paragraph
(c) are subject to the provisions of Section 2.3(b). 
 (d) The Borrower will compensate each Lender upon demand for all
losses, reasonable and documented expenses and liabilities (including, without limitation, any loss, reasonable and documented expense or liability incurred by reason of the liquidation or reemployment of deposits or other funds required by such
Lender to fund or maintain Eurodollar Rate Advances) that such Lender may incur or sustain (i) if for any reason (other than a default by such Lender) a Borrowing or continuation of, or Conversion into, a Eurodollar Rate Advance does not occur
on a date specified therefor in a Notice of Borrowing or Notice of Conversion, (ii) if any repayment, prepayment or Conversion of any Eurodollar Rate Advance occurs on a date other than the last day of an Interest Period applicable thereto
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assignment made pursuant to Section 2.20 or any acceleration of the maturity of the Advances pursuant to Section 6.1), (iii) if any prepayment of any
Eurodollar Rate Advance is not made on any date specified in a notice of prepayment given by the Borrower or (iv) as a consequence of any other failure by the Borrower to make any payments with respect to any Eurodollar Rate Advance when due
hereunder. Calculation of all amounts payable to a Lender under this Section 8.4(d) shall be made as though such Lender had actually funded its relevant Eurodollar Rate Advance through the purchase of a Eurodollar deposit bearing
interest at the Eurodollar Rate Advance in an amount equal to the amount of such Eurodollar Rate Advance, having a maturity comparable to the relevant Interest Period; provided, however, that each Lender may fund its Eurodollar Rate
Advances in any manner it sees fit and the foregoing assumption shall be utilized only for the calculation of amounts payable under this Section 8.4(d). A certificate (which shall be in reasonable detail) showing the bases for the
determinations set forth in this Section 8.4(d) by any Lender as to any additional amounts payable pursuant to this Section 8.4(d) shall be submitted by such Lender to the Borrower either directly or through the
Agent. Determinations set forth in any such certificate made in good faith for purposes of this Section 8.4(d) of any such losses, reasonable and documented expenses or liabilities shall be conclusive absent manifest error. 

(e) The Borrower’s obligations under this Section 8.4 shall survive the repayment of all amounts owing to the Lenders
hereunder and the termination of the Commitments. If and to the extent that the obligations of the Borrower under this Section 8.4 are unenforceable for any reason, the Borrower agrees to make the maximum contribution to the
payment and satisfaction thereof which is permissible under applicable law. 
 Section 8.5 Right of Set-off. 

(a) Upon (i) the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default and (ii) the making of the request or the granting of
the consent by the Majority Lenders specified by Section 6.1 to authorize the Agent to declare all amounts owing hereunder due and payable pursuant to the provisions of Section 6.1, each Lender and each of its
Affiliates is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by 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 indebtedness
at any time owing by such Lender or Affiliate to or for the credit or the account of the Borrower against any and all of the obligations of the Borrower now or hereafter existing under any Loan Document, irrespective of whether or not such Lender or
Affiliate shall have made any demand under such Loan Document and although such obligations may be unmatured or contingent or are owed to a branch, office or Affiliate of such Lender different from the branch, office or Affiliate holding such
deposit or obligated on such indebtedness; provided that in the event that any Defaulting Lender shall exercise any such right of set-off, (x) all amounts so set off shall be paid over immediately to the Agent for further application in
accordance with the provisions of Section 2.21 and, pending such payment, shall be segregated by such Defaulting Lender from its other funds and deemed held in trust for the benefit of the Agent and the Lenders, and (y) the
Defaulting Lender shall provide promptly to the Agent a statement describing in reasonable detail the obligations owing to such Defaulting Lender as to which it exercised such right of set-off. Each Lender agrees promptly to notify the Borrower
after any such set-off and application made by such Lender, provided that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such set-off and application. The rights of each Lender under this Section 8.5 are
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 (b) The Borrower agrees that it shall have no right of set-off, deduction or counterclaim in
respect of its obligations hereunder, and that the obligations of the Lenders hereunder are several and not joint. Nothing contained herein shall constitute a relinquishment or waiver of the Borrower’s rights to any independent claim that the
Borrower may have against the Agent or any Lender for the Agent’s or such Lender’s, as the case may be, gross negligence or willful misconduct; provided that no Lender shall be liable for the conduct of the Agent or any other
Lender; provided, further, that the Agent shall not be liable for the conduct of any Lender; provided, however that none of the Agent or any Lender shall be liable to the Borrower for any amounts representing indirect, special,
consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) suffered by the Borrower. 
 Section 8.6 Binding
Effect. This Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the Borrower and the Agent and when the Agent shall have been notified in writing by each Bank that such Bank has executed it and thereafter shall be binding
upon and inure to the benefit of the Borrower, the Agent and each Lender and their respective successors and assigns, except that the Borrower shall not have the right to assign its rights hereunder or any interest herein without the prior written
consent of the Lenders. 
 Section 8.7 Assignments and Participations. 

(a) Assignment by Lenders. Each Lender may assign to one or more Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and
obligations under the Loan Documents (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it, and the Note or Notes (if any) held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall
be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all of the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under the Loan Documents, (ii) the amount of the Commitment (which for this purposes includes Advances outstanding thereunder) of the
assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Lender Assignment with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than the lesser of the amount of such Lender’s then remaining
Commitment and $5,000,000 or any whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof (except in the case of assignments between Lenders at the time already parties hereto and between a Lender and an Affiliate of such Lender or Approved Fund),
(iii) except as set forth in clause (ii) below, the Agent and, so long as no Unmatured Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Borrower, shall have consented to such assignment (in each case, which may not be
unreasonably withheld or delayed); provided that the Borrower shall be deemed to have consented to any such assignment unless it shall object thereto by written notice to the Agent within ten Business Days after having received notice
thereof, and (iv) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, a Lender Assignment, together with any Note or Notes (if any) subject to such assignment and a
processing and recordation fee of $3,500. Promptly following its receipt of such Lender Assignment, Note or Notes (if any) and fee, the Agent shall accept and record such Lender Assignment in the Register. 

  
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 (i) Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the
effective date specified in each Lender Assignment, (x) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Lender Assignment, have the rights and
obligations of a Lender hereunder and (y) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Lender Assignment, relinquish its rights and be released from its
obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of a Lender Assignment covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto, but shall
continue to be entitled to the benefits of Section 2.13, Section 2.17, and Section 8.4 with respect to facts and circumstances occurring prior to the effective date of such assignment);
provided, that except to the extent otherwise expressly agreed by the affected parties, no assignment by a Defaulting Lender will constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder arising from that Lender’s having been a
Defaulting Lender. 
 (ii) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time,
with notice to the Borrower and the Agent, assign all or any portion of its Commitment, and the Advances owing to any of the Banks listed on the signature pages hereof, any Lender that shall become a party hereto pursuant to
Section 8.7(a)(i), any Affiliate of such a Lender or any Approved Fund that is an Affiliate of a Lender. No such assignment, other than to any of the Banks listed on the signature pages hereof, any Lender that shall become a party
hereto pursuant to Section 8.7(a)(i), any Affiliate of such a Lender or any Approved Fund that is an Affiliate of a Lender shall release the assigning Lender from its obligations hereunder. 

(iii) By executing and delivering a Lender Assignment, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to
and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Lender Assignment, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements,
warranties or representations made in or in connection with any Loan Document or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of any Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant
thereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or the performance or observance by the Borrower of any of its obligations under any
Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant thereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of each Loan Document, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in
Section 4.1(f)) hereof and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Lender Assignment; (iv) such assignee will, independently and
without reliance upon the Agent, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under the Loan
Documents; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under the Loan Documents as are delegated to
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terms thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations which
by the terms of the Loan Documents are required to be performed by it as a Lender. 
 (iv) No such assignment shall be made
to (i) the Borrower or any of the Borrower’s Affiliates or Subsidiaries, (ii) to any Defaulting Lender or any of its Affiliates or Subsidiaries, or any Person who, upon becoming a Lender hereunder, would constitute any of the
foregoing Persons described in this clause (ii), or (iii) a natural Person (or a holding company, investment vehicle or trust for, or owned and operated for the primary benefit of, a natural Person). 

(v) In connection with any assignment of rights and obligations of any Defaulting Lender hereunder, no such assignment shall be
effective unless and until, in addition to the other conditions thereto set forth herein, the parties to the assignment shall make such additional payments to the Agent in an aggregate amount sufficient, upon distribution thereof as appropriate
(which may be outright payment, purchases by the assignee of participations or sub-participations, or other compensating actions, including funding, with the consent of the Borrower and the Agent, the applicable pro rata share of Advances previously
requested but not funded by the Defaulting Lender, to each of which the applicable assignee and assignor hereby irrevocably consent), to (i) pay and satisfy in full all payment liabilities then owed by such Defaulting Lender to the Agent and
each other Lender hereunder (and interest accrued thereon), and (ii) acquire (and fund as appropriate) its full pro rata share of all Advances. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any assignment of rights and obligations of any
Defaulting Lender hereunder shall become effective under applicable law without compliance with the provisions of this paragraph, then the assignee of such interest shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender for all purposes of this Agreement until
such compliance occurs. 
 (b) The Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.2 a copy of each Lender
Assignment delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the
“Register”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a
Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. In addition, the Agent shall maintain on the Register information regarding the designation, revocation of designation, of any Lender as a Designated Lender. The Register shall be available for
inspection by the Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. Upon its receipt of a Lender Assignment executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee,
together with any Note or Notes (if any) subject to such assignment, the Agent shall, if such Lender Assignment has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit 8.7 hereto, (i) accept such Lender Assignment,
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 (c) Participations. Each Lender may sell participations to any Person (other than a
natural Person, or a holding company, investment vehicle or trust for, or owned and operated for the primary benefit of, a natural Person, the Borrower or any of the Borrower’s Affiliates or Subsidiaries) (each, a
“Participant”) all or a portion of its rights and obligations under the Loan Documents (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it, and the Note or Notes (if any) held by it);
provided, however, that (i) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment to the Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely
responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Note (if any) for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the Borrower, the Agent and the other Lenders
shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) such participation will not result in a violation by the Borrower, the Agent or the other
Lenders of any Sanctions or any applicable law. 
 Any agreement or instrument pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall
provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce this Agreement and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement; provided that such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender
will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, modification or waiver that affects such Participant. The Borrower agrees that each Participant, solely pursuant to the terms of the relevant agreement or instrument between
such Participant and the participating Lender and not as a party or third party beneficiary to this Agreement, shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 2.13, Section 2.14, Section 8.4(d),
and Section 2.17 (subject to the requirements and limitations therein, including the requirements under Section 2.17(e) (it being understood that the documentation required under
Section 2.17(e) shall be delivered to the participating Lender)) to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to paragraph (b) of this Section 8.7(c);
provided that such Participant (A) agrees to be subject to the provisions of Section 2.20 as if it were an assignee under paragraph (b) of this Section 8.7(c); and (B) shall not be entitled
to receive any greater payment under Section 2.14 or Section 2.17 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. No Participant shall be deemed to be a party to or have standing under this Agreement, and shall only act through the
participating Lender pursuant to the terms of the relevant agreement or instrument between such Participant and the participating Lender. Each Lender that sells a participation agrees to cooperate with the Borrower to effectuate the provisions of
Section 2.20(a) with respect to any Participant. To the extent permitted by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 2.18 as though it were a Lender; provided that such
Participant agrees to be subject to Section 2.18 as though it were a Lender. Each Lender that sells a participation shall, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrower solely for purposes of complying
with Section 5f.103-1(c) of the United States Treasury Regulations, 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
Advances or other obligations under the Loan Documents (the “Participant Register”); provided that no Lender shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register (including the identity
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obligations under any Loan Document) to any Person except to the extent that such disclosure is (i) 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 United States Treasury Regulations, (ii) required by a regulatory agency with jurisdiction over the party requesting disclosure, (iii) required by applicable law or
(iv) requested by the Borrower in connection with the benefits provided to such Participant under this Agreement, including pursuant to Section 2.13, 2.14, 2.17 and Section 8.4.
The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and such Lender shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of such participation for all purposes of this Agreement
notwithstanding any notice to the contrary. For the avoidance of doubt, the Agent (in its capacity as Agent) shall have no responsibility for maintaining a Participant Register. 

(d) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this
Section 8.7, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant, any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided that, prior to any such
disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree, in accordance with the terms of Section 8.8, to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Borrower
received by it from such Lender. 
 (e) Anything in this Section 8.7 to the contrary notwithstanding, any Lender may
assign a security interest in or pledge all or any portion of its Commitment and the Advances owing to it to secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank. No such assignment
shall release the assigning Lender from its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledge or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto. 

Section 8.8 Confidentiality. In connection with the negotiation and administration of this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents, the Borrower has furnished and will from time to time furnish to a Recipient written information (such information, other than any such information which (i) was publicly available, or otherwise known to the Recipient, at the time of
disclosure, (ii) subsequently becomes publicly available other than through any act or omission by the Recipient or (iii) otherwise subsequently becomes known to the Recipient other than through a Person whom the Recipient knows to be
acting in violation of his or its obligations to the Borrower, being hereinafter referred to as “Confidential Information”). The Recipient will maintain the confidentiality of any Confidential Information in accordance with
such procedures as the Recipient applies generally to information of that nature. It is understood, however, that the foregoing will not restrict the Recipient’s ability to freely exchange such Confidential Information with its Affiliates or
with current or prospective participants in or assignees of, or any current or prospective counterparty (or its advisors) to any swap, securitization or derivative transaction relating to, the Recipient’s position herein, provided that
(i) the Recipient shall have properly informed any such Person of the confidential nature of the Confidential Information and (ii) the Recipient’s ability to so exchange Confidential Information shall be conditioned upon any such
Affiliate’s or prospective participant’s or assignee’s or counterparty’s entering into an understanding as to confidentiality similar to this provision. It is further understood that the foregoing will not prohibit the disclosure
of any or all Confidential Information if and to the extent that such disclosure may be required (i) by a regulatory agency or otherwise in connection 

  
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with an examination of the Recipient’s records by appropriate authorities, (ii) pursuant to court order, subpoena or other legal process or in connection with any pending or threatened
litigation, (iii) otherwise as required by law, or (iv) in order to protect its interests or its rights or remedies hereunder or under the other Loan Documents; in the event of any required disclosure under clause (ii) or
(iii) above, the Recipient agrees to use reasonable efforts to inform the Borrower as promptly as practicable to the extent legally permitted to do so. 

Section 8.9 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. THE AGENT, THE LENDERS AND THE BORROWER HEREBY KNOWINGLY, VOLUNTARILY AND INTENTIONALLY
WAIVE ANY RIGHTS THEY MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT OF ANY LITIGATION BASED HEREON, OR ARISING OUT OF, UNDER, OR IN CONNECTION WITH, THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT, OR ANY COURSE OF CONDUCT, COURSE OF DEALING, STATEMENTS (WHETHER
VERBAL OR WRITTEN), OR ACTIONS OF THE AGENT, SUCH LENDERS OR THE BORROWER. THIS PROVISION IS A MATERIAL INDUCEMENT FOR THE AGENT AND THE LENDERS ENTERING INTO THIS AGREEMENT. 

Section 8.10 Governing Law. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be governed by, and construed in accordance
with, the laws of the State of New York. 
 Section 8.11 Jurisdiction. The Borrower irrevocably and unconditionally
agrees that it will not commence any action, litigation or proceeding of any kind or description, whether in law or equity, whether in contract or in tort or otherwise, against the Agent, the Arranger, any Lender, or any Related Party of the
foregoing in any way relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the transactions relating hereto or thereto, in any forum other than the courts of the State of New York sitting in New York County, and of the United States District
Court of the Southern District of New York, and any appellate court from any thereof. The Borrower, each Lender, the Arranger and the Agent irrevocably and unconditionally submit to the jurisdiction of such courts and agree that all claims in
respect of any such action, litigation or proceeding may be heard and determined in such New York State court or, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, in such federal court. Each of the parties hereto agrees that a final judgment in
any such action, litigation 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 in any other Loan Document shall affect any right
that the Agent, the Arranger or any Lender may otherwise have to bring any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document against the Borrower or its properties in the courts of any jurisdiction. 

Section 8.12 Waiver of Venue. The Borrower irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent permitted by
applicable law, any objection that it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document in any court referred to in Section 8.11.
Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding in any such court. 

Section 8.13 Relation of the Parties; No Beneficiary. No term, provision or requirement, whether express or implied, of any
Loan Document, or actions taken or to be taken 

  
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by any party thereunder, shall be construed to create a partnership, association, or joint venture between such parties or any of them. No term or provision of the Loan Documents shall be
construed to confer a benefit upon, or grant a right or privilege to, any Person other than the parties thereto. 
 Section 8.14
Execution in Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken
together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Agreement by facsimile or other electronic transmission will be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart thereof.

 Section 8.15 Severability. To the extent any provision of this Agreement is prohibited by or invalid under the
applicable law of any jurisdiction, such provision shall be ineffective only to the extent of such prohibition or invalidity and only in such jurisdiction, without prohibiting or invalidating such provision in any other jurisdiction or the remaining
provisions of this Agreement in any jurisdiction. 
 Section 8.16 Disclosure of Information. The Borrower agrees and
consents to the Agent’s and the Arranger’s disclosure of information other than any Confidential Information relating to this transaction to Gold Sheets and other similar bank trade publications. Such information will consist of
deal terms and other information customarily found in such publications but in no event shall contain any Confidential Information. 

Section 8.17 USA Patriot Act Notice. Each Lender that is subject to the PATRIOT Act and the Agent (for itself and not on
behalf of any Lender) hereby notifies the Borrower that pursuant to the requirements of the PATRIOT Act, it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies the Borrower, which information includes the name and address of the
Borrower and other information that will allow such Lender or the Agent, as applicable, to identify the Borrower in accordance with the PATRIOT Act. 

Section 8.18 Entire Agreement. This Agreement, together with any Note and any other agreements, instruments and other
documents required to be executed and delivered in connection herewith, represents the entire agreement of the parties hereto and supersedes all prior agreements and understandings of the parties with respect to the subject matter covered hereby.

 [Signatures to Follow] 

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

			
	ALLIANT ENERGY CORPORATION
		
	By:	 	/s/ John E. Kratchmer
	Name:	 	John E. Kratchmer
	Title:	 	Vice President and Treasurer

  
 Signature Page to
Alliant Energy Corporation 
 Term Loan Credit Agreement 

 
			
	WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Agent and as Lender
		
	By:	 	/s/ Nick Brokke
	Name:	 	Nick Brokke
	Title:	 	Vice President

  
 Signature Page to
Alliant Energy Corporation 
 Term Loan Credit Agreement 

 
			
	THE BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI UFJ, LTD., as Lender
		
	By:	 	/s/ Chi-Cheng Chen
	Name:	 	Chi-Cheng Chen
	Title:	 	Director

  
 Signature Page to
Alliant Energy Corporation 
 Term Loan Credit Agreement 

 
			
	JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as Lender
		
	By:	 	/s/ Helen D. Davis
	Name:	 	Helen D. Davis
	Title:	 	Vice President

  
 Signature Page to
Alliant Energy Corporation 
 Term Loan Credit Agreement 

 
			
	MIZUHO BANK, LTD., as Lender
		
	By:	 	/s/ Leon Mo
	Name:	 	Leon Mo
	Title:	 	Authorized Signatory

  
 Signature Page to
Alliant Energy Corporation 
 Term Loan Credit Agreement 

 SCHEDULE I 

ALLIANT ENERGY CORPORATION 

Term Loan Credit Agreement, dated as of October 7, 2014, among Alliant Energy Corporation, as Borrower, the Banks named therein and Wells
Fargo, National Association, as Agent 
  

					
	 Name of Lender
	  	Commitment	 
	 Wells Fargo Bank, National Association
	  	$	75,000,000.00	  
	 The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.
	  	$	75,000,000.00	  
	 JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
	  	$	50,000,000.00	  
	 Mizuho Bank, Ltd.
	  	$	50,000,000.00	  
	 Total
	  	$	250,000,000.00	  

  
 Sch. I-1 

 SCHEDULE II 

EXISTING SYNTHETIC LEASES 
 Existing
Synthetic Leases for Wisconsin Power and Light Company: 
  

	1.	Equipment Leasing Agreement, dated November 1, 1993. Amount owed as of December 14, 2011 was $3,436,234.02. 

  

	2.	Equipment Leasing Agreement, dated March 15, 1995. Amount owed as of December 14, 2011 was $2,188,318.00. 

  

	3.	Equipment Leasing Agreement, dated November 2, 1993. Amount owed as of December 14, 2011 was $956,062.75. 

Existing Synthetic Leases for Interstate Power and Light Company: 

Existing Synthetic Leases for Alliant Energy Corporate Services, Inc.: 
  

	4.	Lease, dated April 19, 2000. Amount owed as of December 14, 2011 was $47,744,531.41. 

  
 Sch. I-1 

 SCHEDULE III 

EXISTING LIENS 
  

	1.	Liens in favor of wholly-owned Subsidiaries. 

  

	2.	Liens, if any, evidenced by existing synthetic leases listed in Schedule II. 

  

	3.	Liens securing payment on Sheboygan Power, LLC Senior Secured Notes due 2025. 

  

	4.	Property pledged as security for any of the following bond issues: 

  

	 	•	 	Pollution Control Facility Revenue Refunding Bonds (Interstate Power and Light Company Project) Series 2005, issued by the Iowa Finance Authority 

 

	 	•	 	Pollution Control Refunding Revenue Bonds, Series 2006A (Carlton), issued by the Town of Carlton, Wisconsin 

  

	 	•	 	Pollution Control Refunding Revenue Bonds, Series 2006B (Sheboygan), issued by the City of Sheboygan, Wisconsin 

  

	5.	Promissory Note and Mortgage dated July 16, 2010, between Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway Company (“Business”) and the Department of Transportation of the State of Iowa (“Department”).

  

	6.	Contingent liens and performance guaranties created in support of performance and payment bonds in favor of various contractors and vendors. 

  
 Sch. I-1 

 SCHEDULE IV 

LIST OF INDENTURES 
 The following
indentures, as amended and supplemented from time to time: 
  

	1.	Indenture, dated as of June 20, 1997, between Wisconsin Power and Light Company and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Successor Trustee, relating to debt securities. 

 

	2.	Indenture, dated as of September 30, 2009, between Alliant Energy Corporation and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee. 

  

	3.	Indenture (for Senior Unsecured Debt Securities), dated as of August 20, 2003, between Interstate Power and Light Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee. 

 

	4.	Collateral Trust Indenture, dated as of June 30, 2005, between Sheboygan Power, LLC, as Issuer, and LaSalle Bank National Association (d/b/a Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Custody and Agency Services), as
Collateral Trustee. 

  
 Sch. IV-1 

  

 
 EXHIBITS TO 

TERM LOAN 
 CREDIT
AGREEMENT 
 Dated as of October 7, 2014 

Among 
 ALLIANT ENERGY
CORPORATION 
 as Borrower 

THE BANKS NAMED HEREIN 

as Banks 
 and 

WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION 

as Administrative Agent 
  

 
 WELLS FARGO
SECURITIES, LLC 
 Sole Lead Arranger and Bookrunner 
  

 
  

 EXHIBIT 1.1 

FORM OF NOTE 
  

			
	
$                      
	  	                        , 2014

 FOR VALUE RECEIVED, ALLIANT ENERGY CORPORATION, a Wisconsin corporation (the
“Borrower”), hereby promises to pay to the order of                      (the
“Lender”), at the offices of Wells Fargo Bank, National Association (the “Agent”) located at One Wells Fargo Center, 301 South College Street, Charlotte, North Carolina (or at such other place or
places as the Agent may designate), at the times and in the manner provided in the Term Loan Credit Agreement, dated as of October 7, 2014 (as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”),
among the Borrower, the Lender and certain other lenders parties thereto, and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Administrative Agent for the Lender and such other lenders, the principal sum
of                     DOLLARS
($                    ), under the terms and conditions of this promissory note (this “Note”) and the Credit
Agreement. The defined terms in the Credit Agreement are used herein with the same meaning. The Borrower also promises to pay interest on the aggregate unpaid principal amount of this Note at the rates applicable thereto from time to time as
provided in the Credit Agreement. 
 This Note is referred to in the Credit Agreement and is issued to evidence the Advances made by the
Lender pursuant to the Credit Agreement. All of the terms, conditions and covenants of the Credit Agreement are expressly made a part of this Note by reference in the same manner and with the same effect as if set forth herein at length, and any
holder of this Note is entitled to the benefits of and remedies provided in the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents. Reference is made to the Credit Agreement for provisions relating to the interest rate, maturity, payment, prepayment and
acceleration of this Note. 
 In the event of an acceleration of the maturity of this Note, this Note shall become immediately due and
payable, without presentation, demand, protest or notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by the Borrower. 
 In the event this
Note is not paid when due at any stated or accelerated maturity, the Borrower agrees to pay, in addition to the principal and interest, all costs of collection, including reasonable and documented attorneys’ fees as set forth in the Credit
Agreement. 
 This Note shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws and of the State of New York. 

[Signature on the Following Page] 

 
			
	ALLIANT ENERGY CORPORATION
		
	By	 	 
		 	Name:
		 	Title:

 EXHIBIT 2.2(b) 

FORM OF NOTICE OF BORROWING 

[Date] 
 Wells Fargo Bank, National Association,
as Agent 
 1525 West W.T. Harris Blvd. 
 Mail
Code: D1109-019 
 Charlotte, NC 28262 
 Attention:
Syndication Agency Services 
 Ladies and Gentlemen: 

The undersigned, Alliant Energy Corporation, refers to the Term Loan Credit Agreement, dated as of October 7, 2014 (as amended, modified
or supplemented from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”, the terms defined therein being used herein as therein defined), among the undersigned, the Lenders named therein and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as
Administrative Agent, and hereby gives you notice, irrevocably, pursuant to Section 2.2(b) of the Credit Agreement that the undersigned hereby requests the Borrowing of Advances under the Credit Agreement, and in that connection sets forth
below the information relating to such Borrowing (the “Proposed Borrowing”) as required by Section 2.2(b) of the Credit Agreement: 

(A) The Business Day of the Proposed Borrowing is
                    . The Borrower requests that such day constitute the Funding Date under the Credit Agreement.1 
 (B) The Type of Advances comprising the Proposed Borrowing is [Base Rate Advances]
[Eurodollar Rate Advances]. 
 (C) The aggregate amount of the Proposed Borrowing is
$                    . 
 (D) [The
Interest Period for each Eurodollar Rate Advance made as part of the Proposed Borrowing is          month[s].]2 

 

	1 	Notice must be received by (i) in the case of Eurodollar Rate Advances, 11:00 a.m., Charlotte, time, three Business Days prior to the date of the Borrowing or (ii) in the case of Base Rate Advances, 10:00
a.m., Charlotte time, on the date of Borrowing. 

	2 	Delete for Base Rate Advances. 

 The undersigned hereby acknowledges that the delivery of this Notice of Borrowing shall
constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrower that, on the date of the Proposed Borrowing, the statements contained in Section 3.2(b) of the Credit Agreement are true. 

 

			
	Very truly yours,
	
	ALLIANT ENERGY CORPORATION
		
	By	 	 
		 	Name:
		 	Title:

 EXHIBIT 2.11 

FORM OF NOTICE OF CONVERSION 

[Date] 
 Wells Fargo Bank, National Association,
as Agent 
 1525 West W.T. Harris Blvd. 
 Mail
Code: D1109-019 
 Charlotte, NC 28262 
 Attention:
Syndication Agency Services 
 Ladies and Gentlemen: 

The undersigned, Alliant Energy Corporation, refers to the Term Loan Credit Agreement, dated as of October 7, 2014 (as amended, modified
or supplemented from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”, the terms defined therein being used herein as therein defined), among the undersigned, the Lenders named therein and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as
Administrative Agent, and hereby gives you notice, irrevocably, pursuant to Section 2.11 of the Credit Agreement, that the undersigned hereby requests a Conversion under the Credit Agreement, and in that connection sets forth below the
information relating to such Conversion (the “Proposed Conversion”) as required by Section 2.11 of the Credit Agreement: 

(A) The Business Day of the Proposed Conversion is
                    ,             .1 
 (B) The Type of Advances comprising the Proposed Conversion is [Base Rate Advances]
[Eurodollar Rate Advances]. 
 (C) The aggregate amount of the Proposed Conversion is
$                    . 
 (D) The
Type of Advances to which such Advances are proposed to be Converted is [Base Rate Advances] [Eurodollar Rate Advances]. 
 (E) The Interest
Period for each Eurodollar Rate Advance made as part of the Proposed Conversion is          month(s).2 

The undersigned hereby represents and warrants that the Borrower’s request for the Proposed Conversion is made in compliance with
Section 2.11 of the Credit Agreement. 
  

	1 	Notice must be received by (i) in the case of Conversion to or in respect of Eurodollar Rate Advances, 12:00 noon, Charlotte, time, three Business Days prior to the date of the Borrowing or (ii) in the case of
Conversion to or in respect of Base Rate Advances, 12:00 noon, Charlotte time, on the date of Borrowing. 

	2 	Delete for Base Rate Advances. 

 
			
	Very truly yours,
	
	ALLIANT ENERGY CORPORATION
		
	By	 	 
		 	Name:
		 	Title:

 EXHIBIT 3.l(a)(vii) 

FORM OF OPINION 

October     , 2014 

The Lenders party to the Credit Agreement defined below and 

Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Agent for such Lenders 

1525 West W.T. Harris Blvd. 
 Mail Code: D1109-019 

Charlotte, NC 28262 
 Attention: Syndication Agency Services 

 

	 	Re:	Alliant Energy Corporation 

 Ladies and Gentlemen: 

This opinion is furnished to you pursuant to Section 3.1(a)(vii) of the Term Loan Credit Agreement, dated as of
October     , 2014 (the “Credit Agreement”), among Alliant Energy Corporation (the “Borrower”), the Banks parties thereto and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as
Administrative Agent (collectively, the “Lenders”). Terms defined in the Credit Agreement and not otherwise defined herein are used herein as therein defined. 

We have acted as special counsel for the Borrower in connection with the preparation, execution and delivery of, and the closing on this date
(the “Closing”) under, the Credit Agreement. 
 In that capacity we have examined: 

(i) the Restated Articles of Incorporation of the Borrower and all amendments thereto (the “Borrower
Charter”); 
 (ii) the restated by-laws of the Borrower and all amendments thereto (the “Borrower
By-laws”); 
 (iii) resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors of the Borrower; and 

(iv) the Credit Agreement. 

In addition, we have examined the originals, or copies certified to our satisfaction, of such other corporate records of the Borrower,
certificates of public officials and of officers of the Borrower, and agreements, instruments and other documents, as we have deemed necessary as a basis for the opinions expressed below. As to questions of fact material to such opinions, we have,
when relevant facts were not independently established by us, relied upon certificates of the Borrower or its officers, or of public officials. 

 We have assumed (i) the due execution and delivery, pursuant to due authorization, of the
Credit Agreement by all parties to the Credit Agreement (other than the Borrower), (ii) the authenticity of all such documents submitted to us as originals, (iii) the genuineness of all signatures, (iv) the conformity to the originals
of all such documents submitted to us as copies and (v) the enforceability of all documents against parties thereto other than the Borrower. 

Our opinions expressed herein are limited to the laws of the State of New York, the laws of the State of Wisconsin and the Federal laws of the
United States of America in effect on the date hereof as they presently apply and we express no opinion as to the laws of any other jurisdiction. We authorize Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A., special counsel to the Agent, to rely on this
opinion. 
 Based upon the foregoing, but subject to the assumptions, qualifications and limitations set forth herein, we are of the opinion
that: 
 1. Based solely upon a certificate issued by the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions, the Borrower is a validly existing
corporation, has filed its most recent annual report required by the Wisconsin Statutes and has not filed Articles of Dissolution as of the date of such certificate. Based solely upon a certificate of an officer of the Borrower, the Borrower is duly
qualified to do business in, and is in good standing in, all other jurisdictions where the nature of its business or the nature of the property owned or leased by it makes such qualification necessary, except where the failure to so qualify would
not have a material adverse affect on the business, financial condition, results of operations or prospects of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole. 

2. The execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower of the Credit Agreement are within the Borrower’s corporate powers, have been
duly authorized by all necessary corporate action, and do not contravene (a) the Borrower Charter or the Borrower By-laws, (b) any law, rule or regulation of which we have knowledge applicable to the Borrower, (c) any contractual
restriction arising under any agreement or instrument evidencing indebtedness described in Schedule IV of the Credit Agreement or (d) to our knowledge, any other legal or contractual restriction binding on, or affecting the Borrower or its
properties; and such execution, delivery and performance do not result in or require the creation or imposition of any Lien upon or with respect to any of its properties under any agreement or instrument evidencing indebtedness described in Schedule
IV of the Credit Agreement or, to our knowledge, under any other agreement or instrument. The Credit Agreement has been duly executed and delivered on behalf of the Borrower. 

3. No Governmental Approval is required in connection with the execution, delivery or performance by the Borrower of the Credit Agreement, or
the enforcement thereof by the Agent and the Lenders. 

 4. The Credit Agreement is the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Borrower, enforceable
against the Borrower in accordance with its terms. 
 5. There is no pending or, to our knowledge, threatened action or proceeding affecting
the Borrower or its properties before any court, governmental agency or arbitrator, that would reasonably be expected, if adversely determined, to materially and adversely affect the legality, validity or enforceability of the Credit Agreement. 

6. The Borrower is not an “investment company” as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. 

Wherever we indicate that our opinion with respect to the existence or absence of facts is “to our knowledge” or the like, our
opinion is, with your permission, based solely on certificates of the Borrower and the current conscious awareness of facts or other information of the attorneys currently with this firm participating in the preparation of this opinion and
representing the Borrower in the transactions contemplated hereby (William M. Libit, Esq., Julia J. Singh, Esq. and Michael M. Reed, Esq.). 

The foregoing opinions are subject to the following comments and qualifications: 

 

	 	(a)	The enforceability of Section 8.4 of the Credit Agreement may be limited by laws limiting the enforceability of provisions exculpating or exempting a party, or requiring indemnification of a party for, liability
for its own action or inaction, to the extent the action or inaction involves gross negligence, recklessness, willful misconduct or unlawful conduct; 

  

	 	(b)	The enforceability of provisions in the Credit Agreement to the effect that terms may not be waived or modified except in writing may be limited under certain circumstances; 

 

	 	(c)	We express no opinion as to (i) the effect of the laws of any jurisdiction in which the Lenders are located (other than the States of New York and Wisconsin) that limit the interest, fees or other charges such
Lenders may impose; (ii) the first sentence of Section 8.11, insofar as such sentence relates to the subject matter jurisdiction of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York to adjudicate any controversy related
to the Credit Agreement; or (iii) the waiver of inconvenient forum set forth in Section 8.12 with respect to proceedings in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York; 

 

	 	(d)	We express no opinion as to the enforceability of any provision of the Credit Agreement to the extent that, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, it directly or indirectly provides for the payment of liquidated
damages or late charges or interest at an increased rate if such provision is determined to be a penalty; and 

	 	(e)	We express no opinion with respect to the following: (i) federal securities laws and regulations, state “Blue Sky” laws and regulations, and laws and regulations relating to commodity (and other) futures
and indices and other similar instruments, (ii) pension and employee benefit laws and regulations (e.g., ERISA), (iii) federal and state antitrust and unfair competition laws and regulations, (iv) federal and state
environmental and hazardous materials laws and regulations, (v) federal and state tax laws and regulations, (vi) federal and state racketeering laws and regulations (e.g., RICO), (vii) federal and state health and safety laws
and regulations (e.g., OSHA), (viii) federal and state labor laws and regulations, (ix) other federal and state statutes of general application to the extent they provide for criminal prosecution (e.g., mail fraud
and wire fraud statutes), (x) federal and state laws, regulations and policies concerning (A) national and local emergency, (B) possible judicial deference to acts of sovereign states and (C) criminal and civil forfeiture laws
and (xi) municipal or local laws. 

 Furthermore, our opinion set forth in paragraph 4 above is limited by: 

 

	 	(f)	Applicable bankruptcy, receivership, reorganization, insolvency, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or transfer, and other laws and judicially developed doctrines relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and
remedies generally; 

  

	 	(g)	General principles of equity, regardless of whether such enforcement is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law, and limitations on the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief and other equitable
remedies; 

  

	 	(h)	The possibility that certain rights, remedies, waivers, and other provisions of the Credit Agreement may not be enforceable; nevertheless, such unenforceability will not render any of the Credit Agreement invalid as a
whole or preclude (i) judicial enforcement of the obligation of Borrower to repay the principal, together with interest thereon (to the extent not deemed a penalty) as provided in the Credit Agreement; or (ii) acceleration of the
obligation of Borrower to repay such principal, together with such interest, upon a material default in a material provision of the Credit Agreement; and 

  

	 	(i)	The requirement that the enforcing party act in a commercially reasonable manner and in good faith in exercising its rights under the Credit Agreement. 

These opinions are given as of the date hereof, they are intended to apply only to those facts and circumstances that exist as of the date
hereof, and we assume no obligation or responsibility to update or supplement these opinions to reflect any facts or circumstances that may hereafter come to our attention or any changes in laws that may hereafter occur, or to inform the addressee
of any change in circumstances occurring after the date hereof that would alter the opinions rendered herein. 
 This opinion is limited to
the matters set forth herein, and no opinion may be inferred or implied beyond the matters expressly contained herein. Except as expressly set forth herein, this 

 
opinion is being provided solely for the purpose of complying with the requirements of the Agent and the Lenders in connection with the Credit Agreement, and is being rendered solely for the
benefit of the addressees hereof, their participants, assignees and transferees. This opinion may not be used or relied upon for any other purpose, relied upon by any other party, or filed with or disclosed to any governmental authority other than a
court in connection with the enforcement or protection of the rights or remedies of the Agent and/or the Lenders under the Credit Agreement or to a banking examiner or regulator in connection with an examination of the Agent and/or the Lenders by
such governmental authority, without our prior written consent. 
 In giving the opinions contained herein, this firm calls to your
attention that this firm is not general counsel to Borrower and has only been engaged by Borrower as special counsel in connection with the preparation, execution and delivery of, and Closing under, the Credit Agreement. In such capacity this firm
has participated in conferences with officers and other representatives of the Agent and Borrower at which the contents of the Credit Agreement and related matters were discussed. We have made no examination of, and we express no opinion with
respect to, any accounting matters or disclosure materials that may have been provided by Borrower to the Lenders. Our opinion represents our legal judgment based upon our review of the law and the facts that we deem relevant to render such opinion,
and is not a guarantee of a result. This opinion is given as of the date hereof, and we assume no obligation to revise or supplement this opinion to reflect any facts or circumstances that may hereafter come to our attention or any changes in law
that may hereafter occur. 
 Very truly yours, 

 EXHIBIT 8.7 

FORM OF LENDER ASSIGNMENT 

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

For an agreed consideration, the Assignor hereby irrevocably sells and assigns to the Assignee, and the Assignee hereby irrevocably purchases
and assumes from the Assignor, subject to and in accordance with the Standard Terms and Conditions and the Credit Agreement, as of the Effective Date inserted by the Agent as contemplated below (i) all of the Assignor’s rights and
obligations in its capacity as a Lender under the Credit Agreement and any other documents or instruments delivered pursuant thereto to the extent related to the amount and percentage interest identified below of all of such outstanding rights and
obligations of the Assignor under the respective facilities identified below (including any guarantees included in such facilities) and (ii) to the extent permitted to be assigned under applicable law, all claims, suits, causes of action and
any other right of the Assignor (in its capacity as a Lender) against any Person, whether known or unknown, arising under or in connection with the Credit Agreement, any other documents or instruments delivered pursuant thereto or the loan
transactions governed thereby or in any way based on or related to any of the foregoing, including, but not limited to, contract claims, tort claims, malpractice claims, statutory claims and all other claims at law or in equity related to the rights
and obligations sold and assigned pursuant to clause (i) above (the rights and obligations sold and assigned pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) above being referred to herein collectively as the “Assigned Interest”).
Such sale and assignment is without recourse to the Assignor and, except as expressly provided in this Assignment, without representation or warranty by the Assignor. 
  

							
	1.	  	Assignor:	  	  
	  	
				
	2.	  	Assignee:	  	  
	  	
			
		  		  	[and is an Affiliate/Approved Fund of [identify Lender]1]
			
	3.	  	Borrower:	  	Alliant Energy Corporation
			
	4.	  	Administrative Agent:	  	Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Administrative Agent under the Credit Agreement
			
	5.	  	Credit Agreement:	  	Term Loan Credit Agreement, dated as of October 7, 2014 (as amended, modified, restated or supplemented from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among the Borrower, certain lenders from time to
time parties thereto (the “Lenders”) and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Administrative Agent.

 

	1 	Select as applicable. 

							
	 6.
	  	Assigned Interest:	  		  	

  

											
	 Facility

Assigned2
	  	Aggregate Amount of
Commitment/Loans
for all Lenders3	  	Amount of
Commitment/Loans
Assigned3	  	Percentage Assigned of
Commitment/Loans4	 	  	 CUSIP

Number5

					
		  	$                    	  	$                    	  	 	%	  	  	
					
		  	$	  	$	  	 	%	  	  	
					
		  	$	  	$	  	 	%	  	  	

  

					
	[7.	  	Trade Date:	  	                    ]6
			
	8.	  	Effective Date:	  	                     [TO BE INSERTED BY THE AGENT AND WHICH SHALL BE THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF RECORDATION OF TRANSFER IN THE
REGISTER THEREFOR.]

  

	2 	Fill in the appropriate terminology for the types of facilities under the Credit Agreement that are being assigned under this Assignment (e.g. “Loans” or “Commitments”). 

	3 	Amount to be adjusted by the counterparties to take into account any payments or prepayments made between the Trade Date and the Effective Date. 

	4 	Set forth, to at least 9 decimals, as a percentage of the Commitment/Loans of all Lenders thereunder. 

	5 	Insert if applicable. 

	6 	To be completed if the Assignor and the Assignee intend that the minimum assignment amount is to be determined as of the Trade Date. 

  
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 The terms set forth in this Assignment are hereby agreed to: 

 

			
	ASSIGNOR:
	
	[NAME OF ASSIGNOR]
		
	By:	 	 
	Name:	 	 
	Title:	 	 
	
	ASSIGNEE:
	
	[NAME OF ASSIGNEE]
		
	By:	 	 
	Name:	 	 
	Title:	 	 

  

			
	[Consented to and]7 Accepted:
	
	WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

			
	as Agent
		
	By:	 	 
	Name:	 	 
	Title:	 	 
	
	[Consented to:]8
	
	[NAME OF RELEVANT PARTY]
		
	By:	 	 
	Name:	 	 
	Title:	 	 

  

	7 	To be added only if the consent of the Agent is required by the terms of the Credit Agreement. 

	8 	To be added only if the consent of the Borrower and/or other parties is required by the terms of the Credit Agreement. 

  
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 EXHIBIT 8.7 

ANNEX 1 to Lender Assignment 
 Term
Loan Credit Agreement, dated as of October 7, 2014, among Alliant Energy Corporation, 
 as the Borrower, certain Lenders from time to
time parties thereto and Wells Fargo Bank, 
 National Association, as Administrative Agent 

STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR 

LENDER ASSIGNMENT 
 1.
Representations and Warranties. 
 1.1 Assignor. The Assignor (i) represents and warrants that (A) it is the legal
and beneficial owner of the Assigned Interest, (B) the Assigned Interest is free and clear of any lien, encumbrance or other adverse claim and (C) it has full power and authority, and has taken all action necessary, to execute and deliver
this Assignment and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby; and (ii) assumes no responsibility with respect to (A) any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with the Credit Agreement or any other
Loan Document, (B) the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of the Loan Documents or any collateral thereunder, (C) the financial condition of the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates
or any other Person obligated in respect of any Loan Document or (D) the performance or observance by the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates or any other Person of any of their respective obligations under any Loan Document. 

1.2. Assignee. The Assignee (i) represents and warrants that (A) it has full power and authority, and has taken all action
necessary, to execute and deliver this Assignment and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and to become a Lender under the Credit Agreement, (B) it meets all requirements of an assignee of the Assigned Interest under the Credit
Agreement (subject to receipt of such consents as may be required under the Credit Agreement), (C) from and after the Effective Date, it shall be bound by the provisions of the Credit Agreement as a Lender thereunder and, to the extent of the
Assigned Interest, shall have the obligations of a Lender thereunder, (D) it has received a copy of the Credit Agreement, together with copies of the most recent financial statements referred to in Section 4.1(f) thereof or delivered
pursuant to Section 5.1(h) thereof, as applicable, and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Assignment and to purchase the Assigned Interest on the
basis of which it has made such analysis and decision independently and without reliance on the Agent, Assignor or any other Lender, and (E) attached to the Assignment is any documentation required to be delivered by it pursuant to the terms of
the Credit Agreement, duly completed and executed by the Assignee; and (ii) agrees that (A) it will, independently and without reliance on the Agent, the Assignor or any other Lender, and based on such documents and information as it shall
deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under the Loan Documents, and (B) it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that by the terms of the Loan
Documents are required to be performed by it as a Lender. 

 2. Payments. From and after the Effective Date, the Agent shall make all payments in
respect of the Assigned Interest (including payments of principal, interest, fees and other amounts) to the Assignor for amounts that have accrued to but excluding the Effective Date and to the Assignee for amounts that have accrued from and after
the Effective Date. 
 3. General Provisions. This Assignment shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of, the parties hereto
and their respective successors and assigns. This Assignment may be executed in any number of counterparts, which together shall constitute one instrument. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Assignment by facsimile or
other electronic means shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Assignment. This Assignment shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.

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