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Exhibit 10.1

Execution Version

FIFTH AMENDMENT TO 
THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT

This FIFTH AMENDMENT TO THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of March 10, 2022 (this “Amendment”) is made by and among NOVANTA CORPORATION, a Michigan corporation (the “Lead Borrower”), NOVANTA UK INVESTMENTS HOLDING LIMITED, a private limited company incorporated in England and Wales (the “U.K. Borrower”), Novanta Europe GmbH, a limited liability company (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung) formed and existing under the laws of Germany (the “German Borrower” and jointly and severally together with the Lead Borrower and the U.K. Borrower, collectively the “Existing Borrowers”), NOVANTA INC., a company continued and existing under the laws of the Province of New Brunswick, Canada (“Holdings” and, together with the Existing Borrowers, collectively, the “Borrowers”, and each individually a “Borrower”), each of the Subsidiaries of Holdings listed under the caption “GUARANTORS” on the signature pages hereto (each a “Guarantor” and collectively the “Guarantors”), each lender party hereto and BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as Administrative Agent (in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”), Swing Line Lenders and L/C Issuer.

WHEREAS, the Existing Borrowers, Holdings, the Guarantors, the existing Lenders and the Administrative Agent are parties to that certain Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of December 31, 2019, as amended by the First Amendment to Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of March 27, 2020, as amended by the Second Amendment to the Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of June 2, 2020, as amended by the Third Amendment to the Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of September 22, 2021 and as amended by the Fourth Amendment to the Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement and First Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Security Agreement dated as of October 5, 2021 (as further amended, restated, extended, supplemented or otherwise modified in writing prior to the date hereof, the “Existing Credit Agreement”), pursuant to which the existing Lenders have agreed to make certain financial accommodations to the Existing Borrowers; 

WHEREAS, the Existing Borrowers, Holdings, the Guarantors and the Administrative Agent wish to amend the Existing Credit Agreement in certain respects, including, among other things, to (i) extend the Maturity Date, (ii) provide for Holdings to become a Borrower, (iii) increase the maximum aggregate amount of any request for increase in the Revolving Credit Facility in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.15 or increase in the Term Facility in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.16 from $200,000,000 to $350,000,000, (iv) replace LIBOR with SOFR and add certain successor rate provisions and (v) amend certain other provisions of the Existing Credit Agreement as set forth herein, all on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth (the Existing Credit Agreement, as amended by this Amendment and as further amended, restated, extended, supplemented or otherwise modified in writing, the “Credit Agreement”); and

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the mutual covenants herein contained, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties signatory hereto agree as follows:

 

 

 

 

2.Definitions.  Except as otherwise defined in this Amendment, terms defined in the Credit Agreement are used herein as defined therein.

3.Amendments to Credit Agreement and Other Loan Documents.  Subject to the satisfaction of the conditions precedent specified in Section 4 below, the undersigned parties hereby agree that, effective as of the date hereof:

(a)the Existing Credit Agreement shall be amended to delete the stricken text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following example: stricken text), and to add the double-underlined text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following example: double-underlined text) as set forth in the pages attached as Exhibit A hereto; 

(b)Exhibits A, C-1 and C-2 to the Credit Agreement are hereby amended by deleting such exhibits in their entirety and replacing them with the corresponding exhibits set forth in Annex II attached hereto; 

(c)(i) Schedule 2.01 to the Credit Agreement is hereby amended by deleting such schedule in its entirety and replacing it with the corresponding schedule set forth in Annex I attached hereto, which the parties agree reflects the joinders and assignments which have occurred on or prior to the date hereof and Schedule 5.08(c) to the Credit Agreement is hereby amended by inserting the attached supplemental Schedule 5.08(c) set forth in Annex I attached hereto; and

(d)the other Loan Documents to which Holdings is a party shall be amended, to the extent necessary, to reflect that Holdings shall be a Borrower.  In furtherance of the foregoing:

(i)Holdings hereby agrees to become a “Borrower” for all purposes of the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents and to continue to be a “Grantor” or “Debtor”, as applicable, for all purposes of the Collateral Documents and other Loan Documents, in each case, with the same force and effect as if it had been a signatory to such Loan Documents as a Borrower on the execution dates of the Credit Agreement, Collateral Documents and other Loan Documents; and

(ii)without limiting the foregoing, Holdings hereby, jointly and severally with the Existing Borrowers, agrees to assume all of the Obligations under the Credit Agreement as a Borrower thereunder, and to perform and observe all Obligations, covenants and agreements to be performed by each Borrower thereunder, and that it is and will continue to be bound in all respects by all of the terms and conditions of, the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents.

4.Joinder.   By executing this Amendment, Capital One, National Association (the “New Lender”) shall become a “Lender”, “Term Lender”, and/or “Revolving Credit Lender” (as applicable) under the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents.  The New Lender hereby (a) represents and warrants that (i) it has full power and authority, and has taken all action necessary, to execute and deliver this Amendment and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and to become a Lender, a Term Lender and/or Revolving Credit Lender (as applicable) under the Credit Agreement, (ii) from and after the Fifth Amendment Effective Date, it shall be bound by the provisions of the Credit Agreement as a Lender, a Term Lender and/or 

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Revolving Credit Lender (as applicable) thereunder, (iii) it has received or has been accorded the opportunity to receive copies of the most recent financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 6.01 of the Credit Agreement and such other documents and information as it deems appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Amendment, (vi) it has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Amendment and (b) agrees that (i) it will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative 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 the Loan Documents, and (ii) 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, Term Lender and Revolving Credit Lender.

5.Conditions Precedent.  The amendments set forth in Section 2 hereof shall become effective, as of the date hereof, upon satisfaction of the following conditions precedent:

(a)the Lead Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent a counterpart of (i) this Amendment executed by each Loan Party and (ii) the Fee Letter dated as of February 3, 2022 executed by the Lead Borrower;

(b)the existing Lenders (for the avoidance of doubt, other than any Lender that ceases to be a Lender on the date hereof as a result of assignments which have occurred on the date hereof), the New Lenders and the Administrative Agent shall, in each case, have indicated their consent and agreement by executing this Amendment;

(c)Holdings shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent an allonge to each existing Note issued by the Borrowers prior to the Fifth Amendment Effective Date, to the extent such Note is not replaced or amended and restated on the Fifth Amendment Effective Date (an “Existing Note”), to the extent requested by any existing Lender holding an Existing Note;

(d)the Borrowers shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent a Note executed by the Borrowers in favor of each New Lender requesting a Note; 

(e)the Borrowers shall have paid all fees and other amounts due and payable by them under the Credit Agreement, including to the extent invoiced the reasonable fees, costs and expenses owing to Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP, and the fees provided for under the Fee Letter dated as of February 3, 2022;

(f)the Loan Parties shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent a certificate of each Loan Party dated as of the Fifth Amendment Effective Date signed by a Responsible Officer of such Loan Party (i) certifying and attaching the resolutions adopted by such Loan Party approving or consenting to such increase and (ii) in the case of the Lead Borrower, certifying that, before and after giving effect to the Amendment, (A) the representations and warranties contained in Article V of the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents are true and correct in all material respects on and as of the Fifth Amendment Effective Date, except (I) to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, in which case they shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date, (II) in the case of any representation and 

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warranty qualified by materiality, they shall be  true and correct in all respects on and as of the Fifth Amendment Effective Date, and the representations and warranties contained in subsections (a) and (b) of Section 5.05 of the Credit Agreement shall be deemed to refer to the most recent statements furnished pursuant to clauses (a) and (b), respectively, of Section 6.01 of the Credit Agreement and (B) no Event of Default exists;

(g)the Administrative Agent shall have received duly executed opinions of (a) counsel to the Domestic Loan Parties, (b) counsel to the U.K. Borrower and Novanta Technologies UK Limited, and (c) counsel to Holdings, in each case, addressed to the Administrative Agent and each Lender (including each New Lender) addressing such matters as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably request;

(h)the Administrative Agent shall have received a fully executed second supplemental debenture dated as of the Fifth Amendment Effective Date by and among Novanta Technologies UK Limited (previously known as GSI Group Limited), as charger and the Administrative Agent, in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;

(i)the representations and warranties made by each Loan Party in Section 5 hereof are true and correct as of the date hereof; 

(j)no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing; and

(k)the Loan Parties shall have provided to each Lender so requesting, and such Lender shall be reasonably satisfied with, (A) the documentation and other information so requested in connection with applicable “know your customer” and anti-money-laundering rules and regulations, including, without limitation, the PATRIOT Act, and (B) with respect to any Loan Party that qualifies as a “legal entity customer” under the Beneficial Ownership Regulation, a Beneficial Ownership Certification in relation to such Loan Party.

6.Representations and Warranties.  The Lead Borrower and the other Loan Parties each represents and warrants to the Lenders that the representations and warranties of the Loan Parties contained in Article V of the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document, or which are contained in any document furnished at any time under or in connection herewith or therewith, are true and correct in all material respects on the date hereof, except 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 on the date hereof; provided that (a) to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, in which case they shall be true and correct as of such earlier date, (b) the representations and warranties contained in Sections 5.05(a) and (b) of the Credit Agreement shall be deemed to refer to the most recent statements furnished pursuant to Sections 6.01(a) and (b) of the Credit Agreement, respectively and (c) each reference in the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document to “this Agreement”, or the “Credit Agreement” or the like shall include reference to this Amendment and the Credit Agreement or such other Loan Document (as applicable) as amended hereby.

7.Effect on Loan Documents.  The Existing Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents (each as amended hereby) shall be and remain in full force and effect in accordance with their terms and hereby are ratified and confirmed in all respects.  Except as expressly set forth herein 

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the execution, delivery, and performance of this Amendment shall not operate as a waiver or an amendment of any right, power, or remedy of the Administrative Agent or any Lender under the Existing Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document, as in effect prior to the date hereof.  Each of the Loan Parties hereby ratifies and confirms in all respects all of its obligations under the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents (each as amended hereby) to which it is a party.

8. No Novation; Entire Agreement.  This Amendment evidences solely the amendment of the terms and provisions of the obligations of the Lead Borrower and the other Loan Parties under the Loan Documents and is not a novation or discharge thereof.  There are no other understandings, express or implied, among the Lead Borrower, the other Loan Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders regarding the subject matter hereof or thereof.

9.Choice of Law.  This Amendment shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.

10.Electronic Signatures; Counterparts.  This Amendment and any document, amendment, approval, consent, information, notice, certificate, request, statement, disclosure or authorization related to this Amendment (each a “Communication”), including Communications required to be in writing, may be in the form of an Electronic Record and may be executed using Electronic Signatures.  Each of the Loan Parties agrees that any Electronic Signature on or associated with any Communication shall be valid and binding on each of the Loan Parties to the same extent as a manual, original signature, and that any Communication entered into by Electronic Signature, will constitute the legal, valid and binding obligation of each of the Loan Parties enforceable against such in accordance with the terms thereof to the same extent as if a manually executed original signature was delivered.   Any Communication may be executed in as many counterparts as necessary or convenient, including both paper and electronic counterparts, but all such counterparts are one and the same Communication.  For the avoidance of doubt, the authorization under this paragraph may include, without limitation, use or acceptance by the Administrative Agent and each of the Lenders of a manually signed paper Communication which has been converted into electronic form (such as scanned into PDF format), or an electronically signed Communication converted into another format, for transmission, delivery and/or retention. The Administrative Agent and each of the Lenders may, at its option, create one or more copies of any Communication in the form of an imaged Electronic Record (“Electronic Copy”), which shall be deemed created in the ordinary course of such Person’s business, and destroy the original paper document.  All Communications in the form of an Electronic Record, including an Electronic Copy, shall be considered an original for all purposes, and shall have the same legal effect, validity and enforceability as a paper record.  Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, the Administrative Agent is under no obligation to accept an Electronic Signature in any form or in any format unless expressly agreed to by the Administrative Agent pursuant to procedures approved by it; provided, further, without limiting the foregoing, (a) to the extent the Administrative Agent has agreed to accept such Electronic Signature, the Administrative Agent and each of the Lenders shall be entitled to rely on any such Electronic Signature purportedly given by or on behalf of any Loan Party without further verification and (b) upon the request of the Administrative Agent or any Lender, any Electronic Signature shall be promptly followed by such manually executed counterpart.  For purposes hereof, “Electronic Record” and “Electronic Signature” shall have the meanings assigned to them, respectively, by 15 USC §7006, as it may be amended from time to time.  For the avoidance of doubt, upon the request of the Administrative 

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Agent, each Loan Party and each Lender party hereto hereby agrees to deliver a manually signed original counterpart of each Communication to the Administrative Agent within a reasonable time after the effectiveness of this Amendment.

11.Construction.  This Amendment is a Loan Document.  This Amendment, the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be construed collectively and in the event that any term, provision or condition of any of such documents is inconsistent with or contradictory to any term, provision or condition of any other such document, the terms, provisions and conditions of this Amendment shall supersede and control the terms, provisions and conditions of the Existing Credit Agreement or such other Loan Document (as applicable).  Upon and after the effectiveness of this Amendment, each reference in the Existing Credit Agreement or such other Loan Document to “this Agreement”, “hereunder”, “herein”, “hereof” or words of like import referring to the Existing Credit Agreement or such other Loan Document (as applicable), and each reference in the other Loan Documents to “the Credit Agreement”, “thereunder”, “therein”, “thereof” or words of like import referring to the Existing Credit Agreement or such other Loan Document (as applicable), shall mean and be a reference to the Credit Agreement or such other Loan Document (as applicable) as modified and amended hereby. 

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

BORROWERS:

NOVANTA CORPORATION

 

 

By:  /s/ Robert J. Buckley

Name:  Robert Buckley

Title: Chief Financial Officer

 

NOVANTA UK INVESTMENTS HOLDING LIMITED 

 

 

By:  /s/ Robert J. Buckley

Name:  Robert Buckley

Title: Director

 

NOVANTA EUROPE GmbH

 

 

By:  /s/ Robert J. Buckley

Name:  Robert Buckley

Title:    Managing Director

 

NOVANTA INC.

 

 

By:  /s/ Robert J. Buckley

Name:  Robert Buckley

Title: Chief Financial Officer

 

 

[Fifth Amendment to Third A&R Credit Agreement]

 

 

 

GUARANTORS:

NOVANTA TECHNOLOGIES UK LIMITED

 

 

By:  /s/ Robert J. Buckley

Name:  Robert Buckley

Title: Director

 

 

 

NDS SURGICAL IMAGING LLC

 

 

By:  /s/ Robert J. Buckley

Name:  Robert Buckley

Title:    President

 

 

MED X CHANGE, LLC

 

 

By:  /s/ Robert J. Buckley

Name:  Robert Buckley

Title:    President

 

 

NOVANTA MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES CORP.

 

 

By:  /s/ Robert J. Buckley

Name:  Robert Buckley

Title:    President

 

 

W.O.M. WORLD OF MEDICINE USA, INC.

 

 

By:  /s/ Robert J. Buckley

Name:  Robert Buckley

Title:    President

 

 

[Fifth Amendment to Third A&R Credit Agreement]

 

 

ATI INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION, INC.

 

 

By:  /s/ Robert J. Buckley

Name:  Robert Buckley

Title:    President

 

 

MGC INDUSTRIAL, INC.

 

 

By:  /s/ Robert J. Buckley

Name:  Robert Buckley

Title:    President

 

 

ATI INDUSTRIAL MEXICO, LLC

 

 

By:  /s/ Robert J. Buckley

Name:  Robert Buckley

Title:    President

 

[Fifth Amendment to Third A&R Credit Agreement]

 

 

 

 

bank of america, n.a., as 
Administrative Agent

 

 

By:  /s/ Melissa Mullis

Name:  Melissa Mullis

Title:    Vice President

 

 

[Fifth Amendment to Third A&R Credit Agreement]

 

bank of america, n.a., as a Lender

 

 

By:  /s/ John F. Lynch

Name:  John F. Lynch

Title:  Senior Vice President

 

 

		
	
Name of Treaty Lender
	
Bank of America, N.A.

	
Double tax treaty passport scheme reference number
	
13/B/7418/DTTP

	
Jurisdiction of tax residence
	
United States of America

 

[Fifth Amendment to Third A&R Credit Agreement]

 

 

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as a Lender 

 

 

By:  /s/ David Tepper

Name:  David Tepper

Title:    Vice President

 

		
	
Name of Treaty Lender
	
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A, London Branch

 

	
Double tax treaty passport scheme reference number
	
13/M/0268710/DTTP

	
Jurisdiction of tax residence
	
US

 

[Fifth Amendment to Third A&R Credit Agreement]

 

WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as a Lender 

 

 

By:  /s/ Christopher Mandonas

Name:  Christopher Mandonas

Title:    Vice President

 

		
	
Name of Treaty Lender
	
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

	
Double tax treaty passport scheme reference number
	
13/W/61173/DTTP

	
Jurisdiction of tax residence
	
United States of America

 

 

[Fifth Amendment to Third A&R Credit Agreement]

 

 

SILICON VALLEY BANK, as a Lender 

 

 

By:  /s/ Francis Groccia

Name:  Francis Groccia

Title:  Director

 

 

		
	
Name of Treaty Lender
	
Silicon Valley Bank

	
Double tax treaty passport scheme reference number
	
13/S/0299723/DTTP

	
Jurisdiction of tax residence
	
United States of America

 

[Fifth Amendment to Third A&R Credit Agreement]

 

 

TD BANK, N.A., as a Lender 

 

 

By:  /s/ Leonid Batsevitsky

Name:  Leonid Batsevitsky

Title:  Vice President

 

 

		
	
Name of Treaty Lender
	
TD Bank, N.A.

	
Double tax treaty passport scheme reference number
	
13/T/358618/DTTP

	
Jurisdiction of tax residence
	
United States of America

 

[Fifth Amendment to Third A&R Credit Agreement]

 

 

PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as a Lender

 

 

By:  /s/ Eileen P. Murphy

Name:  Eileen P. Murphy

Title:    Senior Vice President

 

 

PNC BANK CANADA BRANCH, as a Lender

 

 

By:  /s/ Caroline Stade

Name:  Caroline Stade

Title:    Senior Vice President

 

 

		
	
Name of Treaty Lender
	
PNC Bank, National Association

	
Double tax treaty passport scheme reference number
	
13/P/63904/DTTP

	
Jurisdiction of tax residence
	
United States of America

 

 

[Fifth Amendment to Third A&R Credit Agreement]

 

 

 

CAPITAL ONE, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as a Lender

 

 

By:  /s/ Paul Isaac

Name:  Paul Isaac

Title:    Duly Authorized Signatory

 

		
	
Name of Treaty Lender
	
Capital One, National Association

	
Double tax treaty passport scheme reference number
	
13/C/365299/DTTP

	
Jurisdiction of tax residence
	
United States of America

 

 

 

[Fifth Amendment to Third A&R Credit Agreement]

EXECUTION VERSION

Exhibit A – 

CONFORMED COPY THROUGH FOURTHFIFTH AMENDMENT 

DATED OCTOBER 5MARCH 10, 20212022

 

 

 

Published CUSIP Number:  66989JAA2

Revolver:  66989JAB0

Term: 66989JAC8          

 

THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT

Dated as of December 31, 2019

among

Novanta Corporation,

as the Lead Borrower,

the other Borrowers party hereto from time to time,

Novanta Inc.,

as Holdings and a Borrower,

the other Guarantors party hereto from time to time,

BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender and
L/C Issuer,

and

The Other Lenders Party Hereto

 

BofA SECURITIES, INC., JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., and 

WELLS FARGO SECURITIES LLC

as Joint Lead Arrangers

 

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. and 

WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

as Co-Syndication Agents

 

SILICON VALLEY BANK, TD BANK, N.A. and BANK OF MONTREAL, 

as Co-Documentation Agents

 

 

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

SectionPage

ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS28

	
1.01
	
Defined Terms28
	
 

	
1.02
	
Other Interpretive Provisions4750
	
 

	
1.03
	
Accounting Terms4850
	
 

	
1.04
	
Rounding4951
	
 

	
1.05
	
Times of Day; Business Days4951
	
 

	
1.06
	
Letter of Credit Amounts4952
	
 

	
1.07
	
Exchange Rates; Currency Equivalents Generally4952
	
 

	
1.08
	
Interest Rates5052
	
 

	
1.09
	
Limited Condition Transactions5053
	
 

	
1.10
	
References to Alternative Currency Term Rate Loans.53
	
 

	
1.11
	
Replacement of Relevant Rate.54
	
 

ARTICLE II. THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS5156

	
2.01
	
The Loans5156
	
 

	
2.02
	
Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Loans5257
	
 

	
2.03
	
Letters of Credit5459
	
 

	
2.04
	
Swing Line Loans6568
	
 

	
2.05
	
Prepayments6870
	
 

	
2.06
	
Termination or Reduction of Commitments7173
	
 

	
2.07
	
Repayment of Loans7274
	
 

	
2.08
	
Interest7475
	
 

	
2.09
	
Fees7476
	
 

	
2.10
	
Computation of Interest and Fees; Retroactive Adjustments of Applicable Rate7577
	
 

	
2.11
	
Evidence of Debt7677
	
 

	
2.12
	
Payments Generally; Administrative Agent’s Clawback7678
	
 

	
2.13
	
Sharing of Payments by Lenders7880
	
 

	
2.14
	
Extension of Maturity Date in respect of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Facility7981
	
 

	
2.15
	
Increase in Revolving Credit Facility  81 82
	
 

	
2.16
	
Increase in Term Facility8384
	
 

	
2.17
	
Cash Collateral85
	
 

	
2.18
	
Defaulting Lenders86
	
 

	
2.19
	
Designated Lenders88
	
 

ARTICLE III. TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY88

	
3.01
	
Taxes88
	
 

	
3.02
	
(I) U.K. Taxes on Payments in respect of the U.K. Facility9392
	
 

	
3.02
	
(II) German Taxes on Payments in respect of the German Facility96
	
 

	
3.03
	
VAT9899
	
 

	
3.04
	
Illegality99100
	
 

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3.05
	
Inability to Determine Rates100101
	
 

	
3.06
	
Increased Costs103
	
 

	
3.07
	
Compensation for Losses105104
	
 

	
3.08
	
Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders105
	
 

	
3.09
	
Survival106105
	
 

	
3.10
	
Designation of Lead Borrower as Borrowers’ Agent106105
	
 

ARTICLE IV. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CREDIT EXTENSIONS107106

	
4.01
	
Conditions of Initial Credit Extension107106
	
 

	
4.02
	
Conditions to all Credit Extensions109108
	
 

ARTICLE V. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES110109

	
5.01
	
Existence, Qualification and Power110109
	
 

	
5.02
	
Authorization; No Contravention110109
	
 

	
5.03
	
Governmental Authorization; Other Consents111109
	
 

	
5.04
	
Binding Effect111109
	
 

	
5.05
	
Financial Statements; No Material Adverse Effect111110
	
 

	
5.06
	
Litigation112110
	
 

	
5.07
	
No Default112110
	
 

	
5.08
	
Ownership of Property; Investments112111
	
 

	
5.09
	
Environmental Compliance113111
	
 

	
5.10
	
Insurance114112
	
 

	
5.11
	
Taxes114112
	
 

	
5.12
	
ERISA Compliance114112
	
 

	
5.13
	
Subsidiaries; Equity Interests; Loan Parties116113
	
 

	
5.14
	
Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act116114
	
 

	
5.15
	
Disclosure117114
	
 

	
5.16
	
Compliance with Laws117114
	
 

	
5.17
	
Intellectual Property; Licenses, Etc.117114
	
 

	
5.18
	
Solvency118115
	
 

	
5.19
	
[Reserved]118115
	
 

	
5.20
	
Labor Matters118115
	
 

	
5.21
	
Collateral Documents118115
	
 

	
5.22
	
Subordination of Permitted Subordinated Debt118115
	
 

	
5.23
	
OFAC118115
	
 

	
5.24
	
Anti-Corruption Laws118115
	
 

	
5.25
	
Beneficial Ownership Certification119115
	
 

	
5.26
	
EEA Financial Institutions119116
	
 

	
5.27
	
Covered Entities119116
	
 

ARTICLE VI. AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS119116

	
6.01
	
Financial Statements119116
	
 

	
6.02
	
Certificates; Other Information120117
	
 

	
6.03
	
Notices123119
	
 

 

 

		

	
 

	
6.04
	
Payment of Taxes124120
	
 

	
6.05
	
Preservation of Existence, Etc.124120
	
 

	
6.06
	
Maintenance of Properties124120
	
 

	
6.07
	
Maintenance of Insurance124120
	
 

	
6.08
	
Compliance with Laws125120
	
 

	
6.09
	
Books and Records125121
	
 

	
6.10
	
Inspection Rights125121
	
 

	
6.11
	
Use of Proceeds125121
	
 

	
6.12
	
Covenant to Guarantee Obligations and Give Security  126 121
	
 

	
6.13
	
Compliance with Environmental Laws129123
	
 

	
6.14
	
Further Assurances130123
	
 

	
6.15
	
[Reserved]130Post-Closing Obligations 124
	
 

	
6.16
	
Anti-Corruption Laws124
	
 

ARTICLE VII. NEGATIVE COVENANTS130124

	
7.01
	
Liens130124
	
 

	
7.02
	
Indebtedness133127
	
 

	
7.03
	
Investments137129
	
 

	
7.04
	
Fundamental Changes139131
	
 

	
7.05
	
Dispositions139132
	
 

	
7.06
	
Restricted Payments142134
	
 

	
7.07
	
Change in Nature of Business143135
	
 

	
7.08
	
Transactions with Affiliates143135
	
 

	
7.09
	
Use of Proceeds144136
	
 

	
7.10
	
Financial Covenants144136
	
 

	
7.11
	
Amendments of Organization Documents144136
	
 

	
7.12
	
Accounting Changes145136
	
 

	
7.13
	
Prepayments, Amendments, Etc. of Permitted Subordinated Indebtedness145136
	
 

	
7.14
	
Sanctions145137
	
 

	
7.15
	
Anti-Corruption Laws145137
	
 

	
7.16
	
Holding Company145Captive Insurance Subsidiary 137
	
 

ARTICLE VIII. EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES146137

	
8.01
	
Events of Default146137
	
 

	
8.02
	
Remedies upon Event of Default148139
	
 

	
8.03
	
Application of Funds149140
	
 

ARTICLE IX. ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT150141

	
9.01
	
Appointment and Authority150141
	
 

	
9.02
	
Rights as a Lender151142
	
 

	
9.03
	
Exculpatory Provisions151142
	
 

	
9.04
	
Reliance by Administrative Agent152143
	
 

	
9.05
	
Delegation of Duties153143
	
 

	
9.06
	
Resignation of Administrative Agent153143
	
 

 

 

		

	
 

	
9.07
	
Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent and Other Lenders155145
	
 

	
9.08
	
No Other Duties, Etc.156146
	
 

	
9.09
	
Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim156146
	
 

	
9.10
	
Collateral and Guaranty Matters157147
	
 

	
9.11
	
Secured Cash Management Agreements and Secured Hedge Agreements158147
	
 

	
9.12
	
Certain ERISA Matters158148
	
 

	
9.13
	
Recovery of Erroneous Payments148
	
 

ARTICLE X. CONTINUING GUARANTY160149

	
10.01
	
Guaranty160149
	
 

	
10.02
	
Rights of Lenders160149
	
 

	
10.03
	
Certain Waivers161150
	
 

	
10.04
	
Obligations Independent161150
	
 

	
10.05
	
Subrogation161150
	
 

	
10.06
	
Termination; Reinstatement162150
	
 

	
10.07
	
Subordination162151
	
 

	
10.08
	
Stay of Acceleration162151
	
 

	
10.09
	
Condition of Borrowers162151
	
 

	
10.10
	
Rights of Contribution163151
	
 

	
10.11
	
Joint and Several Obligations163152
	
 

	
10.12
	
Keepwell.164152
	
 

ARTICLE XI. MISCELLANEOUS164153

	
11.01
	
Amendments, Etc.164153
	
 

	
11.02
	
Notices; Effectiveness; Electronic Communications168156
	
 

	
11.03
	
No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies; Enforcement170157
	
 

	
11.04
	
Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver171158
	
 

	
11.05
	
Payments Set Aside173160
	
 

	
11.06
	
Successors and Assigns174160
	
 

	
11.07
	
Treatment of Certain Information; Confidentiality180166
	
 

	
11.08
	
Right of Setoff181167
	
 

	
11.09
	
Interest Rate Limitation182167
	
 

	
11.10
	
Canadian Interest Act182168
	
 

	
11.11
	
Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness182168
	
 

	
11.12
	
Survival of Representations and Warranties183168
	
 

	
11.13
	
Severability183168
	
 

	
11.14
	
Replacement of Lenders183168
	
 

	
11.15
	
Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Etc.184169
	
 

	
11.16
	
Waiver of Jury Trial185170
	
 

	
11.17
	
No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility.185170
	
 

	
11.18
	
Electronic Execution of Assignments and Certain Other Documents186; Electronic Records; Counterparts. 170
	
 

	
11.19
	
USA PATRIOT Act186171
	
 

	
11.20
	
Judgment Currency186172
	
 

	
11.21
	
Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of EEAAffected Financial Institutions187172
	
 

 

 

		

	
 

	
11.22
	
Third Amended and Restated Agreement188173
	
 

	
11.23
	
[Reserved]188173
	
 

	
11.24
	
Acknowledgement Regarding Any Supported QFCs188173
	
 

	
11.25
	
German Parallel Debt.189 174
	
 

	
11.26
	
Administration of German Law Security.190174
	
 

SIGNATURESS-1

 

 

SCHEDULES

	
1.01
	
Existing Letters of Credit 

	
2.01
	
Commitments and Applicable Percentages 

	
5.05
	
Supplement to Interim Financial Statements

	
5.08(b)
	
Owned Real Property

	
5.08(c)
	
Leased Real Property (Lessee)

	
5.08(d)
	
Existing Investments

	
5.09
	
Environmental Matters

	
5.13
	
Subsidiaries and Other Equity Investments; Loan Parties

	
5.17
	
Intellectual Property Matters

	
6.12
	
Guarantors

	
6.15
	
Post-Closing Obligations

	
7.02
	
Existing Indebtedness

	
7.05
	
Certain Properties

	
11.02
	
Administrative Agent’s Office, Certain Addresses for Notices

 

EXHIBITS

Form of

 

	
A
	
Committed Loan Notice 

	
B
	
Swing Line Loan Notice

	
C-1
	
Revolving Credit Note

	
C-2
	
Term Note

	
D
	
Compliance Certificate

	
E-1
	
Assignment and Assumption

	
E-2
	
Administrative Questionnaire

	
F-1
	
Guaranty Supplement

	
F-2
	
[Reserved]

	
G-1
	
Security Agreement

	
G-2
	
[Reserved]

	
G-3
	
[Reserved]

	
H
	
[Reserved]

I[Reserved]

JForeign Lender Certificate
KResponsible Officer Certificate

LSolvency Certificate

MNotice of Loan Prepayment

NPermitted Acquisition Certificate

 

 

 

 

THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT

This THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT (“Agreement”) is entered into as of December 31, 2019, among NOVANTA CORPORATION, a Michigan corporation (the “Lead Borrower”), NOVANTA UK INVESTMENTS HOLDING LIMITED, a private limited company incorporated in England and Wales (the “U.K. Borrower”), Novanta Europe GmbH, a limited liability company (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung) formed and existing under the laws of Germany (the “German Borrower” and jointly and severally together with the Lead Borrower, the U.K. Borrower and each other Person to join as a Borrower (including Holdings), collectively the “Borrowers” and each a “Borrower”), NOVANTA INC., a company continued and existing under the laws of the Province of New Brunswick, Canada (“Holdings”), each of the Subsidiaries of Holdings listed under the caption “GUARANTORS” on the signature pages hereto and each Subsidiary of Holdings that becomes a Guarantor after the date hereof pursuant to Section 6.12 (each a “Guarantor” and collectively the “Guarantors”), each lender from time to time party hereto (collectively, the “Lenders” and individually, a “Lender”), BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender, L/C Issuer, BofA SECURITIES, INC., as joint lead arranger, JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as joint lead arranger and co-syndication agent, WELLS FARGO SECURITIES LLC, as joint lead arranger, WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as co-syndication agent, SILICON VALLEY BANK, as co-documentation agent, TD BANK, N.A., as co-documentation agent and BANK OF MONTREAL, as co-documentation agent.

PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS:

Prior to the date of this Agreement, the Borrowers and the Guarantors, on the one hand, and Bank of America, N.A., as the Administrative Agent, and the lenders party thereto, on the other hand, entered into that certain Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of May 19, 2016 (as amended pursuant to that certain First Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of December 22, 2016, that certain Joinder, Assumption and Amendment Agreement dated as of May 30, 2017, that certain Third Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of August 1, 2017, that certain Fourth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of February 26, 2018 and that certain Fifth Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of November 1, 2019, and as further amended from time to time and in effect immediately prior to the Third Restatement Date (as defined below), the “Existing2016 Credit Agreement”), pursuant to which the lenders party thereto provided the Borrowers and Guarantors with certain financial accommodations.

The Borrowers have requested that the Administrative Agent and the Lenders amend and restate the Existing2016 Credit Agreement to, among other things, increase the Revolving Credit Commitment to $350,000,000, increase the Term Commitment to the Dollar Equivalent of $100,000,000, denominated in Euros, to increase the potential aggregate incremental increase of the Revolving Credit Facility and the Term Facility under Sections 2.15 and 2.16 to $200,000,000, extend the Maturity Date, and effect the other changes set forth in this Credit Agreement, and the Administrative Agent and the Lenders have indicated their willingness to so amend the Existing2016 Credit Agreement and to lend and the L/C Issuer has indicated its willingness to issue letters of credit, in each case, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein.

In accordance with Section 11.01 of the Existing2016 Credit Agreement, the Borrowers, the Guarantors, the Lenders and the Administrative Agent desire to amend and restate the Existing2016 Credit Agreement as provided herein.

On the First Amendment Effective Date, certain Lenders made new or additional Revolving Credit Commitments in an amount equal to $145,000,000; and on the Fourth Amendment Effective Date, certain Lenders are makingmade new or additional Revolving Credit Commitments in an amount equal to $200,000,000.  On the Fifth Amendment Effective Date, the Maturity Date was extended, the maximum aggregate amount of requested increases to the Revolving Credit Facility and the Term Facility under Sections 2.15 and 2.16 was increased to $350,000,000, and Holdings became a Borrower.

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In consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, the parties hereto covenant and agree as follows:

ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS

1.01Defined Terms  

As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:

“2016 Credit Agreement” has the meaning specified in the recitals.

“2019 Corporate Restructuring Transactions” means, collectively, the following transactions:  (i) the creation of Novanta Medical Technologies Corp., a Delaware corporation, which shall be a wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower and shall serve as a holding company, (ii) the transfer of 100% of the shares of WOM World of Medicine USA Inc., a Florida corporation, to Novanta Medical Technologies Corp. on or around December 31, 2019 and (iii) the transfer of 100% of the shares of Laser Quantum Inc., a Delaware corporation, to the Lead Borrower on or around December 31, 2019 and the subsequent liquidation of Laser Quantum Inc. on or around December 31, 2019.

“Act” has the meaning specified in Section 11.19.

 “Administrative Agent” means Bank of America in its capacity as administrative agent under any of the Loan Documents, or any successor administrative agent.

“Administrative Agent’s Office” means, with respect to any currency, the Administrative Agent’s address and, as appropriate, account as set forth on Schedule 11.02, with respect to such currency, or such other address or account with respect to such currency as the Administrative Agent may from time to time notify the Lead Borrower and the Lenders.

“Administrative Questionnaire” means an Administrative Questionnaire in substantially the form of Exhibit E-2 or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent.

“Affected Financial Institution” means (a) any EEA Financial Institution or (b) any UK Financial Institution.

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

“Affiliated Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 11.06(b)(vii).

“Agent Parties” has the meaning specified in Section 11.02(c).

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

“Aggregate Credit Exposures” means, at any time, in respect of (a) the Term Facility, the aggregate amount of the Term Loans outstanding at such time and (b) in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility, the sum of (i) the unused portion of the Revolving Credit Facility at such time and (ii) the Total Revolving Credit Outstandings at such time.

“Agreement” means this Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement.

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“Agreement Currency” has the meaning specified in Section 11.20.

“Alternative Currency” means each of the following currencies: Euros and Sterling.

“Alternative Currency Conforming Changes” means, with respect to the use, administration of or any conventions associated with SONIA or any proposed Alternative Currency Successor Rate for Sterling, any conforming changes to the definitions of “SONIA”, “Interest Period”, timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest and other technical, administrative or operational matters (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the definition of “Business Day”, timing of borrowing requests or prepayment, conversion or continuation notices and length of lookback periods) as may be appropriate, in the discretion of the Administrative Agent, to reflect the adoption and implementation of such applicable rate(s) and to permit the administration thereof by the Administrative Agent in a manner substantially consistent with market practice for Sterling (or, if the Administrative Agent determines that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or that no market practice for the administration of such rate for Sterling exists, in such other manner of administration as the Administrative Agent determines is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement and any other Loan Document).

“Alternative Currency Daily Rate” means, for any day, with respect to any extension of credit under the Credit Agreement denominated in Sterling, the rate per annum equal to SONIA determined pursuant to the definition thereof plus the SONIA Adjustment; provided, that, if any Alternative Currency Daily Rate shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed zero for purposes of this Agreement.  Any change in an Alternative Currency Daily Rate shall be effective from and including the date of such change without further notice.

“Alternative Currency Daily Rate Loan” means a Loan that bears interest at a rate based on the definition of “Alternative Currency Daily Rate.”  All Alternative Currency Daily Rate Loans must be denominated in Sterling.

“Alternative Currency Loan” means an Alternative Currency Daily Rate Loan or a Loan that bears interest based on the EURIBOR Ratean Alternative Currency Term Rate Loan, as applicable.

“Alternative Currency Scheduled Unavailability Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 1.11.

“Alternative Currency Successor Rate” has the meaning set forth in Section 1.11.

“Alternative Currency Term Rate” means, for any Interest Period, with respect to any Credit Extension denominated in Euros, the rate per annum equal to the Euro Interbank Offered Rate (“EURIBOR”), as published on the applicable Reuters screen page (or such other commercially available source providing such quotations as may be designated by the Administrative Agent from time to time) on the day that is two TARGET Days preceding the first day of such Interest Period with a term equivalent to such Interest Period; provided, that, if any Alternative Currency Term Rate shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed zero for purposes of this Agreement.

“Alternative Currency Term Rate Loan” means a Loan that bears interest at a rate based on the definition of “Alternative Currency Term Rate.”  All Alternative Currency Term Rate Loans must be denominated in Euros.

“Alternative Extension Transaction” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(g).

“Ancillary Document Confirmations” means, collectively, the Third Confirmation and Amendment of Ancillary Loan Documents dated as of the Third Restatement Date by and among the Loan Parties and the Administrative Agent and the Canadian Confirmation and Amendment  of Ancillary Loan Documents dated as of the Third Restatement Date by and among Holdings and the Administrative Agent.

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“Applicable Authority” means, (a) with respect to SOFR, the SOFR Administrator or any Governmental Authority having jurisdiction over the Administrative Agent or the SOFR Administrator and (b) with respect to any Alternative Currency, the applicable administrator for the Relevant Rate for such Alternative Currency or any governmental authorityGovernmental Authority having jurisdiction over the Administrative Agent or such administrator.

“Applicable Fee Rate” means, at any time, in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility, the applicable percentage per annum set forth below determined by reference to the Consolidated Leverage Ratio as set forth in the most recent Compliance Certificate received by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.02(a):

			
	
Applicable Fee Rate

	
Pricing Level
	
Consolidated Leverage Ratio
	
Commitment Fee

	
1
	
< 1.0:1.0
	
0.20%

	
2
	
≥ 1.0:1.0 but < 1.5:1.0
	
0.25%‌0.225%

	
3
	
≥ 1.5:1.0 but < 2.0:1.0
	
0.30%‌0.25%

	
4
	
≥ 2.0:1.0 but < 2.5:1.0
	
0.35%‌0.275%

	
5
	
≥ 2.5:1.0
	
0.40%‌0.30%

Any increase or decrease in the Applicable Fee Rate resulting from a change in the Consolidated Leverage Ratio shall become effective as of the first Business Day immediately following the date a Compliance Certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(a); provided, however, that if a Compliance Certificate is not delivered when due in accordance with such Section, then, upon the request of the Required Revolving Lenders, Pricing Level 5 shall apply as of the first Business Day after the date on which such Compliance Certificate was required to have been delivered and shall remain in effect until the date on which such Compliance Certificate is delivered.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this definition, the determination of the Applicable Fee Rate for any period shall be subject to the provisions of Section 2.10(b).

“Applicable Percentage” means (a) in respect of the Term Facility, with respect to any Term Lender at any time, the percentage (carried out to the ninth decimal place) of the Term Facility represented by (i) prior to the Third Restatement Date, such Term Lender’s Term Commitment at such time and (ii) thereafter, the principal amount of such Term Lender’s Term Loans at such time, and (b) in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility, with respect to any Revolving Credit Lender at any time, the percentage (carried out to the ninth decimal place) of the Revolving Credit Facility represented by such Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment at such time.  If the commitment of each Revolving Credit Lender to make Revolving Credit Loans and the obligation of the L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions have been terminated pursuant to Section 8.02, or if the Revolving Credit Commitments have expired, then the Applicable Percentage of each Revolving Credit Lender in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility shall be determined based on the Applicable Percentage of such Revolving Credit Lender in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility most recently in effect, giving effect to any subsequent assignments.  The initial Applicable Percentage of each Lender in respect of each Facility is set forth opposite the name of such Lender on Schedule 2.01 or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable.

“Applicable Rate” means in respect of the Term Facility and the Revolving Credit Facility, the applicable percentage per annum set forth below determined by reference to the Consolidated Leverage Ratio as set forth in the most recent Compliance Certificate received by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.02(a):

				
	
Applicable Rate

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Pricing Level
	
Consolidated Leverage Ratio
	
Eurocurrency Rate‌Term SOFR Loans, Alternative Currency Loans and Letters of Credit
	
Base Rate

	
1
	
< 1.0:1.0
	
1.25 %‌0.75 %
	
0.25 %‌0.00 %

	
2
	
≥ 1.0:1.0 but < 1.5:1.0
	
1.50%‌1.00%
	
0.50%‌0.00%

	
3
	
≥ 1.5:1.0 but < 2.0:1.0
	
1.75%‌1.25%
	
0.75%‌0.25%

	
4
	
≥ 2.0:1.0 but < 2.5:1.0
	
2.00%‌1.50%
	
1.00%‌0.50%

	
5
	
≥ 2.5:1.0
	
2.25 %‌1.75 %
	
1.25%‌0.75%

Any increase or decrease in the Applicable Rate resulting from a change in the Consolidated Leverage Ratio shall become effective as of the first Business Day immediately following the date a Compliance Certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(a); provided, however, that if a Compliance Certificate is not delivered when due in accordance with such Section, then, upon the request of the Required Term Lenders or the Required Revolving Lenders, as applicable, Pricing Level 5 shall apply to the applicable Facility as of the first Business Day after the date on which such Compliance Certificate was required to have been delivered and in each case shall remain in effect until the date on which such Compliance Certificate is delivered.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this definition, the determination of the Applicable Rate for any period shall be subject to the provisions of Section 2.10(b).

“Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage” means with respect to any Revolving Credit Lender at any time, such Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Percentage in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility at such time.

“Applicable Time” means, with respect to any borrowings and payments in any Alternative Currency, the local time in the place of settlement for such Alternative Currency, as applicable, as may be determined by the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, to be necessary for timely settlement on the relevant date in accordance with normal banking procedures in the place of payment.

“Appropriate Lender” means, at any time, (a) with respect to either the Term Facility or the Revolving Credit Facility, a Lender that has a Commitment with respect to such Facility or holds a Term Loan or a Revolving Credit Loan, respectively, at such time, (b) with respect to the Letter of Credit Sublimit, (i) the L/C Issuer and (ii) if any Letters of Credit have been issued pursuant to Section 2.03(a), the Revolving Credit Lenders, (c) with respect to the Swing Line Sublimit, (i) the Swing Line Lender and (ii) if any Swing Line Loans are outstanding pursuant to Section 2.04(a), the Revolving Credit Lenders and (d) with respect to any Incremental Tranche that is a new tranche of Term Loans, or, prior to the funding thereof, any Incremental Tranche that is an increase to an existing tranche of Term Loans or Incremental Revolving Commitment, the Lenders and Eligible Assignees holding commitments of such Incremental Tranche or Incremental Revolving Commitment, as applicable.

“Approved Fund” means any Fund that is administered or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages a Lender.

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“ARGES Acquisition Agreement” means the Share Purchase Agreement between the German Borrower, Holdings, ARGES GmbH, a company registered with the commercial register at the local court of Amberg under HRB 1748 (“ARGES”), each Seller (as defined therein) and Mr. Markus Guggenmos, of Efeustraße 22, 92421 Schwandorf-Fronberg, Germany, dated as of June 21, 2019.

“Arrangers” means, collectively, BofA Securities, Inc., JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. and Wells Fargo Securities LLC in their capacities as joint lead arrangers.

“Assignee Group” means two or more Eligible Assignees that are Affiliates of one another or two or more Approved Funds managed by the same investment advisor.

“Assignment and Assumption” means an assignment and assumption entered into by a Lender and an Eligible Assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is required by Section 11.06(b)), and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in substantially the form of Exhibit E-1 or any other form (including electronic documentation generated by use of an electronic platform) approved by the Administrative Agent.

“Attributable Indebtedness” means, on any date, (a) in respect of any Capitalized Lease of any Person, the capitalized amount thereof that would appear on a balance sheet of such Person prepared as of such date in accordance with GAAP, (b) in respect of any Synthetic Lease Obligation, the capitalized amount of the remaining lease or similar payments under the relevant lease or other applicable agreement or instrument that would appear on a balance sheet of such Person prepared as of such date in accordance with GAAP if such lease or other agreement or instrument were accounted for as a Capitalized Lease, and (c) all Synthetic Debt of such Person.

“Audited Financial Statements” means the audited consolidated balance sheet of Holdings and its Subsidiaries for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2018, and the related consolidated statements of income or operations, shareholders’ equity and cash flows for such fiscal year of Holdings and its Subsidiaries, including the notes thereto.

“Availability Period” means in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility, the period from and including the Third Restatement Date to the Maturity Date for the Revolving Credit Facility.

“Available Tenor” means, as of any date of determination and with respect to the then-current Benchmark, as applicable, (x) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate, any tenor for such Benchmark that is or may be used for determining the length of an Interest Period or (y) otherwise, any payment period for interest calculated with reference to such Benchmark, as applicable, pursuant to this Agreement as of such date.

 “Bail-In Action” means the exercise of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable EEA Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an EEAAffected Financial Institution.

“Bail-In Legislation” means, (a) with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the implementing law, rule, regulation or requirement for such EEA Member Country from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule, and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, Part I of the United Kingdom Banking Act 2009 (as amended from time to time) and any other law, regulation or rule applicable in the United Kingdom relating to the resolution of unsound or failing banks, investment firms or other financial institutions or their affiliates (other than through liquidation, administration or other insolvency proceedings).

“Bank of America” means Bank of America, N.A. and its successors.

“Base Rate” means for any day a fluctuating rate of interest per annum equal to the highest of (a) the Federal Funds Rate plus 1/2 of 10.50%, (b) the rate of interest in effect for such day as publicly announced from 

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time to time by Bank of America as its “prime rate,” and (c) the Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR plus 1.00%, subject to the interest rate floors set forth therein; provided that if the Base Rate shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed zero for purposes of this Agreement.  The “prime rate” is a rate set by Bank of America based upon various factors including Bank of America’s costs and desired return, general economic conditions and other factors, and is used as a reference point for pricing some loans, which may be priced at, above, or below such announced rate.  Any change in such prime rate announced by Bank of America shall take effect at the opening of business on the day specified in the public announcement of such change.  Base Rate Loans shall only be issued in Dollars and are only available to Borrowers that are not Foreign Borrowers.   If the Base Rate is being used as an alternate rate of interest pursuant to Section 3.05 hereof, then the Base Rate shall be the greater of clauses (a) and (b) above and shall be determined without reference to clause (c) above.

“Base Rate Loan” means a Revolving Credit Loan or a Term Loan that bears interest based on the Base Rate.

“Benchmark” means, initially, LIBOR; provided that if a replacement of the Benchmark has occurred pursuant to Section 3.05(b) then “Benchmark” means the applicable Benchmark Replacement to the extent that such Benchmark Replacement has replaced such prior benchmark rate. Any reference to “Benchmark” shall include, as applicable, the published component used in the calculation thereof.

“Benchmark Replacement” means:

(1)For purposes of Section 3.05(b)(i), the first alternative set forth below that can be determined by the Administrative Agent:

(a)the sum of: (i) Term SOFR and (ii) 0.11448% (11.448 basis points) for an Available Tenor of one-month’s duration, 0.26161% (26.161 basis points) for an Available Tenor of three-months’ duration, 0.42826% (42.826 basis points) for an Available Tenor of six-months’ duration, and 0.71513% (71.513 basis points) for an Available Tenor of twelve-months’ duration , or

(b)the sum of: (i) Daily Simple SOFR and (ii) 0.26161% (26.161 basis points); 

provided  that, if initially LIBOR is replaced with the rate contained in clause (b) above (Daily Simple SOFR plus the applicable spread adjustment) and subsequent to such replacement, the Administrative Agent determines that Term SOFR has become available and is administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion, and the Administrative Agent notifies the Lead Borrower and each Lender of such availability, then from and after the beginning of the Interest Period, relevant interest payment date or payment period for interest calculated, in each case, commencing no less than thirty (30) days after the date of such notice, the Benchmark Replacement shall be as set forth in clause (a) above; andBase Rate Loans shall only be issued in Dollars and are only available to Borrowers that are not Foreign Borrowers.   

(2)For purposes of Section 3.05(b)(ii), the sum of (a) the alternate benchmark rate and (b) an adjustment (which may be a positive or negative value or zero), in each case, that has been selected by the Administrative Agent and the Lead Borrower as the replacement Benchmark giving due consideration to any evolving or then-prevailing market convention, including any applicable recommendations made by a Relevant Governmental Body, for U.S. dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities at such time; 

provided that, if the Benchmark Replacement as determined pursuant to clause (1) or (2) above would be less than 0%, the Benchmark Replacement will be deemed to be 0% for the purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. 

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Any Benchmark Replacement shall be applied in a manner consistent with market practice; provided that to the extent such market practice is not administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent, such Benchmark Replacement shall be applied in a manner as otherwise reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent.

“Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes” means, with respect to any Benchmark Replacement, any technical, administrative or operational changes (including changes to the definition of “Base Rate,” the definition of “Business Day,” the definition of “Interest Period,” timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest, timing of borrowing requests or prepayment, conversion or continuation notices, the applicability and length of lookback periods, the applicability of breakage provisions, and other technical, administrative or operational matters) that the Administrative Agent decides may be appropriate to reflect the adoption and implementation of such Benchmark Replacement and to permit the administration thereof by the Administrative Agent in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Administrative Agent decides that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or if the Administrative Agent determines that no market practice for the administration of such Benchmark Replacement exists, in such other manner of administration as the Administrative Agent decides is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents).

“Benchmark Transition Event” means, with respect to any then-current Benchmark other than LIBOR, the occurrence of a public statement or publication of information by or on behalf of the administrator of the then-current Benchmark or a Governmental Authority with jurisdiction over such administrator announcing or stating that all Available Tenors are or will no longer be representative, or made available, or used for determining the interest rate of loans, or shall or will otherwise cease, provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that is reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, that will continue to provide any representative tenors of such Benchmark after such specific date.

 “Beneficial Ownership Certification” means a certification regarding beneficial ownership required by the Beneficial Ownership Regulation.

“Beneficial Ownership Regulation” means 31 C.F.R. § 1010.230.

“BHC Act Affiliate” of a party means an “affiliate” (as such term is defined under, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. 1841(k)) of such party.

“Borrower” and “Borrowers” have the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph hereto.

“Borrower Materials” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.

“Borrowing” means a Revolving Credit Borrowing, a Swing Line Borrowing or a Term Borrowing, as the context may require.

“Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks are authorized to close under the Laws of, or are in fact closed in, the state where the Administrative Agent’s Office is located; provided that:  (a) 

(a)if such day relates to any interest rate settings as to a Eurocurrency Ratean Alternative Currency Loan denominated in Dollars, any fundings, disbursements, settlements and payments in Dollars in respect of any such Eurocurrency Rate Loan, or any other dealings in Dollars to be carried out pursuant to this Agreement in respect of any such Eurocurrency Rate Loan, means any such day that is also a London Banking Day; (b) if such day relates to any interest rate settings as to a Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in Euro, any fundings, disbursements, settlements and payments in Euro in respect of any such Eurocurrency RateAlternative Currency Loan, or any other dealings in Euro to be carried out 

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pursuant to this Agreement in respect of any such Eurocurrency RateAlternative Currency Loan, means a Business Day that is also a TARGET Day; (c) 

(b)if such day relates to any interest rate settings as to an Alternative Currency Loan denominated in Sterling, means a day other than a day banks are closed for general business in London because such day is a Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday under the laws of the United Kingdom, (d) if such day relates to any interest rate settings as to a Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in a currency other than Dollars, Sterling or Euro, means any such day on which dealings in deposits in the relevant currency are conducted by and between banks in the London or other applicable offshore interbank market for such currency; and (e) 

(c)if such day relates to any fundings, disbursements, settlements and payments in a currency other than Dollars, Sterling or Euro or Sterling in respect of a Eurocurrency Ratean Alternative Currency Loan denominated in a currency other than Dollars, Sterling or Euro or Sterling, or any other dealings in any currency other than Dollars, Sterling or Euro or Sterling to be carried out pursuant to this Agreement in respect of any such Eurocurrency RateAlternative Currency Loan (other than any interest rate settings), means any such day on which banks are open for foreign exchange business in the principal financial center of the country of such currency.

 “Canadian Security Agreement” means, collectively, a security agreement and a pledge agreement, each dated as of the Original Closing Date, governed by Canadian law and securing the assets of the Loan Parties organized under Canadian Law, each duly executed by each applicable Loan Party, as the same may be supplemented, modified, amended and/or restated or replaced from time to time.

“Capital Expenditures” means for any period, for Holdings and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, all capital expenditures, as determined in accordance with GAAP.  For purposes of this definition, the purchase price of equipment that is purchased simultaneously with the trade-in of existing equipment or with insurance proceeds or proceeds from Dispositions shall be included in Capital Expenditures only to the extent of the gross amount by which such purchase price exceeds the credit granted by the seller of such equipment for the equipment being traded in at such time or the amount of such insurance proceeds or proceeds from Dispositions, as the case may be.  Further, any expenditures that constitute all or a portion of a Permitted Acquisition or other Investment permitted hereunder or are financed with the proceeds of Indebtedness (other than Revolving Credit Loans), shall not be included for purposes of calculating Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio.  

“Capitalized Leases” means all leases that have been or should be, in accordance with GAAP, recorded as capitalized leases.

“Captive Insurance Subsidiary” means any direct or indirect Subsidiary of Holdings or its Subsidiaries which acts as captive insurer for Holdings and/or its Subsidiaries and which is designated as a “Captive Insurance Subsidiary” by the Lead Borrower to the Administrative Agent from time to time.

“Cash Collateralize” means to pledge and deposit with or deliver to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender (as applicable) and the Lenders, as collateral for L/C Obligations, Obligations in respect of Swing Line Loans, or obligations of Lenders to fund participations in respect of either thereof (as the context may require), cash or deposit account balances or, if the L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender benefitting from such collateral shall agree in its sole discretion, other credit support, in each case pursuant to documentation in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to (a) the Administrative Agent and (b) the L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender (as applicable). “Cash Collateral” shall have a meaning correlative to the foregoing and shall include the proceeds of such cash collateralCash Collateral and other credit support.

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“Cash Equivalents” means any of the following:

(a)readily marketable obligations issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof having maturities of not more than 360 days from the date of acquisition thereof; provided that the full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged in support thereof;

(b)time deposits with, or insured certificates of deposit or bankers’ acceptances of, any commercial bank that (i) (A) is a Lender or (B) is organized under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia or is the principal banking subsidiary of a bank holding company organized under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, and is a member of the Federal Reserve System, (ii) issues (or the parent of which issues) commercial paper rated as described in clause (c) of this definition and (iii) has combined capital and surplus of at least $1,000,000,000, in each case with maturities of not more than 180 days from the date of acquisition thereof; 

(c)commercial paper in an aggregate amount of no more than $10,000,000 per issuer outstanding at any time issued by any Person organized under the laws of any state of the United States of America and rated at least “Prime-1” (or the then equivalent grade) by Moody’s or at least “A-1” (or the then equivalent grade) by S&P, in each case with maturities of not more than 180 days from the date of acquisition thereof;

(d)Investments, classified in accordance with GAAP as current assets of any Borrower or any Subsidiary, in money market investment programs registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, which are administered by financial institutions that have the highest rating obtainable from either Moody’s or S&P, or the portfolios of which are limited solely to Investments of the character, quality and maturity described in clauses (a), (b) and (c) of this definition; 

(e)with respect to Holdings or any Foreign Subsidiary, any Investment in certificates of deposit or bankers’ acceptances of any bank organized under the laws of Canada, Japan or any country that is a member of the European Economic Community whose short-term commercial paper rating from S&P is at least A-1 or the equivalent thereof or from Moody’s is at least P-1 or the equivalent thereof; provided in each case that such Investment matures within one year from the date of acquisition thereof; 

(f)repurchase agreements with respect to investments described in the foregoing clause (a) with counterparties that are banks described in the foregoing clause (b); 

(g)investments of the type and maturity described in clauses (a) through (d) above, which Investments or obligors (or the parents of such obligors) have ratings described in such clauses or equivalent ratings from comparable foreign rating agencies; and

(h)investments of any Captive Insurance Subsidiary in accordance with any investment policy or any insurance statutes or regulations applicable to it.

“Cash Management Agreement” means any agreement to provide cash management services, including treasury, depository, overdraft, credit or debit card, electronic funds transfer and other cash management arrangements.

“Cash Management Bank” means any Person that, at the time it enters into a Cash Management Agreement (or, in the case of Cash Management Agreements existing on the Third Restatement Date, on the Third 

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Restatement Date), is a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender, in its capacity as a party to such Cash Management Agreement.

 “CERCLA” means the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980.

“CERCLIS” means the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Information System maintained by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

“CFC” means a Person that is a controlled foreign corporation under Section 957 of the Code.

“Change in Law” means the occurrence, after the date of this Agreement, of any of the following: (a) the adoption or taking effect of any law, rule, regulation or treaty, (b) any change in any law, rule, regulation or treaty or in the administration, interpretation, implementation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority or (c) the making or issuance of any request, rule, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) 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.

“Change of Control” means an event or series of events by which:

(a)any “person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, but excluding any employee benefit plan of such person or its subsidiaries, and any person or entity acting in its capacity as trustee, agent or other fiduciary or administrator of any such plan) becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, except that a person or group shall be deemed to have “beneficial ownership” of all securities that such person or group has the right to acquire, whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time (such right, an “option right”)), directly or indirectly, of 35% or more of the equity securities of Holdings entitled to vote for members of the board of directors or equivalent governing body of Holdings on a fully-diluted basis (and taking into account all such securities that such “person” or “group” has the right to acquire pursuant to any option right); 

(b)except to the extent permitted under Section 7.04, Holdings shall cease, directly or indirectly, to own and control legally and beneficially all of the Equity Interests in each Borrower (other than Holdings); or

(c)except to the extent permitted under Section 7.04 or Section 7.05, Holdings shall cease to have the power, directly or indirectly, to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of each Borrower (other than Holdings) or any Guarantor (other than Holdings), whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise.

 “CME” means CME Group Benchmark Administration Limited (CBA). 

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

“Collateral” means all of the “Collateral” and “Mortgaged Property” referred to in the Collateral Documents and all of the other property that is or is intended under the terms of the Collateral Documents to be subject to Liens in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.

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 “Collateral Documents” means, collectively, the Security Agreement, the U.K. Security Agreements, the Canadian Security Agreement, the German Security Agreements, each Intellectual Property Security Agreement (including IP Security Agreement Supplements), the Equity Interest Pledge Agreements, the Mortgages, each of the Security Agreement Supplements, the Ancillary Document Confirmations, any security agreements, pledge agreements or other similar agreements delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.12, and each of the other agreements, instruments or documents now existing or hereafter entered into by any of the Loan Parties that state that it is a Collateral Document or that creates or purports to create a Lien in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.

“Commitment” means a Term Commitment or a Revolving Credit Commitment, as the context may require.

“Committed Loan Notice” means a notice of (a) a Term Borrowing, (b) a Revolving Credit Borrowing, (c) a conversion of Loans from one Type to the other, or (d) a continuation of EurocurrencyAlternative Currency Term Rate Loans or Term SOFR Loans, pursuant to Section 2.02(a), which shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A or such other form as may be approved by the Administrative Agent (including any form on an electronic platform or electronic transmission system as shall be approved by the Administrative Agent), appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the applicable Borrower or the Lead Borrower, on its behalf or on behalf of any other Borrower.

“Communication” means this Agreement, any Loan Document and any document, any amendment, approval, consent, information, notice, certificate, request, statement, disclosure or authorization related to any Loan Document.

“Compliance Certificate” means a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit D.

“Conforming Changes” means, with respect to the use, administration of or any conventions associated with SOFR, SONIA or any proposed Successor Rate or Term SOFR, as applicable, any conforming changes to the definitions of “Base Rate”, “SOFR”, “SONIA”, “Term SOFR” and “Interest Period”, timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest and other technical, administrative or operational matters (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the definitions of “Business Day” and “U.S. Government Securities Business Day”, timing of borrowing requests or prepayment, conversion or continuation notices and length of lookback periods) as may be appropriate, in the discretion of the Administrative Agent, to reflect the adoption and implementation of such applicable rate(s) and to permit the administration thereof by the Administrative Agent in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Administrative Agent determines that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or that no market practice for the administration of such rate exists, in such other manner of administration as the Administrative Agent determines is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement and any other Loan Document).

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

“Consolidated EBITDA” means, for any period, for Holdings and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, an amount equal to Consolidated Net Income for any Measurement Period plus (a) the following to the extent deducted in calculating such Consolidated Net Income with respect to such period: (i) Consolidated Interest Charges and, to the extent not reflected in such Consolidated Interest Charges, (A) fees, expenses and charges incurred in respect of financing activities (including commissions, discounts and closing fees) during such period and (B) payments made in respect of Swap Contracts permitted hereunder entered into for the purpose of hedging interest rate or currency exchange rate risk during such period; (ii) the provision for federal, state, local and foreign income and other similar taxes for such period, including all taxes reported as “income taxes” on Holding’s consolidated financial statements for such period; (iii) depreciation and amortization expense for such 

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period; (iv) non-recurring expenses (such as consulting, legal, financial, or auditing expenses) in respect of acquisitions (whether or not consummated) in an amount not to exceed $15,000,000 in the aggregate during any Measurement Period (“Acquisition Expenses”), (v) other unusual or non-recurring charges, including restructuring charges from ongoing operations or Specified Transactions that are not prohibited hereunder (in each case, whether or not consummated) in any Measurement Period, in an amount not to exceed 25% of Consolidated EBITDA for such period, and (vi) following a Specified Transaction, the amount of run-rate cost savings and synergies (for the avoidance of doubt, synergies shall not include new revenues) projected by the Borrowers from action taken or expected to be taken during the 12-month period following the date of such Specified Transaction, net of the amount of actual benefits theretofore realized during such period from such actions; provided that (1) such amounts are reasonably identifiable, quantifiable and factually supportable in the good faith judgment of the Borrowers, (2) such run-rate cost savings and synergies are directly attributable to such Permitted Acquisition or Specified Transactions, (3) no amounts shall be added pursuant to this clause to the extent duplicative of any amounts that are otherwise added back in computing Consolidated EBITDA, whether through a pro forma adjustment or otherwise, with respect to such period and (4) the aggregate amount of run-rate cost savings and synergies added pursuant to this clause (vi) for any such Measurement Period shall not exceed $10,000,000; (vii) Non-Cash Charges minus (b) without duplication and to the extent included in determining Consolidated Net Income for such period, (i) non-cash income or gains, all as determined in accordance with GAAP and (ii) earnings from equity method investments less the aggregate amount of cash actually distributed by such Person during such Measurement Period to Holdings or a Subsidiary as dividend or other distribution.

“Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio” means, at any date of determination, the ratio of (a) (i) Consolidated EBITDA less (ii) the sum of (x) the aggregate amount of all cash Capital Expenditures plus (y) the aggregate amount of Federal, state, local and foreign income taxes paid in cash (net of cash tax refunds) to (b) the sum of (i) Consolidated Interest Charges paid in cash, (ii) the aggregate scheduled amortization payments under Section 2.07(a) (regardless of whether such scheduled amortization payments had been voluntarily or mandatorily prepaid), for so long as any amounts are outstanding under the Term Loan Facility, (iii) the aggregate principal amount of all other regularly scheduled principal payments or redemptions or similar contractually required acquisitions for value of outstanding debt for borrowed money (including regularly scheduled payments under any Capitalized Leases, except for the portion of rent expense under Capitalized Leases that is treated as interest in accordance with GAAP), but excluding any (x) voluntary repayments and redemptions to the extent refinanced through the incurrence of additional Indebtedness otherwise expressly permitted under Section 7.02 and (y) bullet repayment of long-term debt payable at the maturity of such debt, and (iv) the aggregate amount of all Restricted Payments made pursuant to Section 7.06(d) (excluding cashless exercise of options), in each case, of or by Holdings and its Subsidiaries for the most recently completed Measurement Period.

“Consolidated Funded Indebtedness” means, as of any date of determination, for Holdings and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, the sum of (a) the outstanding principal amount of all obligations, whether current or long-term, for borrowed money (including Obligations hereunder and any Permitted Subordinated Debt) and all obligations evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, loan agreements or other similar instruments, (b) all Purchase Money Indebtedness, (c) all unpaid reimbursement obligations arising under drawn letters of credit (including standby and commercial), bankers’ acceptances, bank guaranties, surety bonds and similar instruments, (d) all obligations in respect of the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than (i) trade accounts payable in the ordinary course of business and earn-outs or other similar forms of contingent purchase price; provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, any non-contingent seller debt shall be included in the calculation of Consolidated Funded Indebtedness and (ii) any obligation to pay deferred purchase price in respect of the purchase of shares in ARGES, under the ARGES Acquisition Agreement, in an amount not to exceed 24,800,000 Euros in the aggregate (the “ARGES Deferred Purchase Price”); provided, that if the ARGES Deferred Purchase Price is not paid within ten (10) Business Days after the date it is due, such ARGES Deferred Purchase Price shall be included as Consolidated Funded Indebtedness), (e) all Attributable Indebtedness other 

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than in respect of Capitalized Leases for real property (if capitalization of such leases arises under GAAP), (f) without duplication, all Guarantees with respect to outstanding Indebtedness of the types specified in clauses (a) through (e) above of Persons other than any Borrower or any Subsidiary, and (g) all Indebtedness of the types referred to in clauses (a) through (f) above of any partnership or joint venture (other than a joint venture that is itself a corporation or limited liability company) in which any Borrower or a Subsidiary is a general partner or joint venturer, unless such Indebtedness is expressly made non-recourse to such Borrower or such Subsidiary, in the cases of clauses (a), (b) and (d), to the extent any of such obligations would appear as a liability on the face of a balance sheet of Holdings prepared in accordance with GAAP.  

“Consolidated Interest Charges” means, for any Measurement Period, the sum of (a) all interest, premium payments, debt discount, fees, charges and related expenses in connection with borrowed money (including capitalized interest) or in connection with the deferred purchase price of assets, in each case to the extent treated as interest in accordance with GAAP and (b) the portion of rent expense under Capitalized Leases that is treated as interest in accordance with GAAP, in each case, of or by Holdings and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis for the most recently completed Measurement Period.

“Consolidated Leverage Ratio” means, as of any date of determination, the ratio of (a)(i) Consolidated Funded Indebtedness as of such date minus (ii) an amount equal to the lesser of (x) $25,000,000 and (y) the sum of the amount of (without duplication) (A) unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents of the Loan Parties as of such date, (B) unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents of Holdings and its Subsidiaries held at deposit or securities accounts with the Administrative Agent or any Lender as of such date and (C) cash and Cash Equivalents of the Loan Parties held at deposit or securities accounts with the Administrative Agent or any Lender and restricted solely in favor of the Secured Parties as collateral security for the Obligations as of such date, to (b) Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis for the most recently completed Measurement Period.

“Consolidated Net Income” means, at any date of determination, the net income (or loss) of Holdings and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis for the most recently completed Measurement Period.

“continuing” and “continuance of” and “existence of” mean, with respect to (a) any Default (other than an Event of Default), that such Default (other than an Event of Default) has not been remedied or waived and (b) any Event of Default, that such Event of Default has not been waived, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

 “Contractual Obligation” means, as to any Person, any agreement, instrument or other undertaking to which such Person is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound.

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

“Covered Entity” means any of the following:  (i) a “covered entity” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 252.82(b); (ii) a “covered bank” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 47.3(b); or (iii) a “covered FSI” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 382.2(b).

“Covered Party” has the meaning specified in Section 11.24.

“Credit Extension” means each of the following:  (a) a Borrowing and (b) an L/C Credit Extension.

“CTA” means  the United Kingdom Corporation Tax Act 2009.

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“Daily Simple SOFR” with respect to any applicable determination date means the secured overnight financing rate (“SOFR”) published on such date by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as the administrator of the benchmark (or a successor administrator) on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s website (or any successor source).

“Debtor Relief Laws” means the Bankruptcy Code of the United States, and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief Laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect and affecting the rights of creditors generally.

“Default” means any event or condition that constitutes an Event of Default or that, with the giving of any notice, the passage of time, or both, would be an Event of Default.

“Default Rate” means (a) when used with respect to Obligations other than Letter of Credit Fees, an interestany Obligation for which a rate is specified, a rate per annum equal to two percent (2%) in excess of the rate otherwise applicable thereto and (b) with respect to any Obligation for which a rate is not specified or available, a rate per annum equal to (i) the Base Rate plus (ii) the Applicable Rate, if any, applicable to for Revolving Loans that are Base Rate Loans plus (iii) 2% per annum; provided, however, that with respect to a Eurocurrency Rate Loan, the Default Rate shall be an interest rate equal to the interest rate (including any Applicable Rate) otherwise applicable to such Loan plus 2% per annum and (b) when used with respect to Letter of Credit Fees, a rate equaltwo percent (2%), in each case, to the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Rate plus 2% per annumLaw.

“Default Right” has the meaning assigned to that term in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. §§ 252.81, 47.2 or 382.1, as applicable.

“Defaulting Lender” means, subject to Section 2.18(b), any Lender that (a) has failed to (i) fund all or any portion of its Loans within two Business Days of the date such Loans were required to be funded hereunder unless such Lender in good faith notifies the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers in writing that such failure is the result of such Lender’s determination that one or more conditions precedent to funding (each of which conditions precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing) has not been satisfied, or (ii) pay to the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer, the Swing Line Lender or any other Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder (including in respect of its participation in Letters of Credit or Swing Line Loans) within two Business Days of the date when due, (b) has notified the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender in writing that it does not intend to comply with its funding obligations hereunder, or has made a public statement to that effect (unless such writing or public statement relates to such Lender’s obligation to fund a Loan hereunder and states in good faith that such position is based on such Lender’s determination that a condition precedent to funding (which condition precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing or public statement) cannot be satisfied), (c) has failed, within three Business Days after written request by the Administrative Agent or the Borrowers, to confirm in writing to the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers that it will comply with its prospective funding obligations hereunder (provided that such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender pursuant to this clause (c) upon receipt of such written confirmation by the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers), or (d) has, or has a direct or indirect parent company that has, (i) become the subject of a proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law or a Bail-In Action (or any comparable proceeding initiated by a regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such Lender or such Person), (ii) had appointed for it a receiver, custodian, conservator, trustee, administrator, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with reorganization or liquidation of its business or assets, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other state or federal regulatory authority acting in such a capacity, or (iii) become the subject of a Bail-In Action; provided that a Lender shall not be a Defaulting Lender solely by virtue of the ownership or acquisition of any Equity 

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Interest in that Lender or any direct or indirect parent company thereof by a Governmental Authority so long as such ownership interest does not result in or provide such Lender with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permit such Lender (or such Governmental Authority) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made with such Lender.  Any determination by the Administrative Agent that a Lender is a Defaulting Lender under any one or more of clauses (a) through (d) above, and of the effective date of such status, shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error, and such Lender shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender (subject to Section 2.17(b)) as of the date established therefor by the Administrative Agent in a written notice of such determination, which shall be delivered by the Administrative Agent to the Borrowers, the L/C Issuer, the Swing Line Lender and each other Lender promptly following such determination.

“Designated Acquisition” means a Permitted Acquisition with aggregate consideration greater than or equal to $50,000,000.

“Designated Jurisdiction” means any country, region or territory to the extent that such country, region or territory itself is the subject of any Sanction.

“Designated Lender” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.19.

“Designated Non-Cash Consideration” means the fair market value of non-cash consideration received by a Loan Party in connection with a Disposition that is so designated as Designated Non-Cash Consideration pursuant to a certificate of an authorized officer of the Lead Borrower, setting forth the basis of such valuation, executed by either a senior vice president or the principal financial officer of the Lead Borrower, less the amount of cash or Cash Equivalents received in connection with a subsequent sale of, or collection on, or other disposition of such Designated Non-Cash Consideration. A particular item of Designated Non-Cash Consideration will no longer be considered to be outstanding when and to the extent it has been paid, redeemed or otherwise retired or sold or otherwise disposed of in compliance with Section 7.05.

“Disposition” or “Dispose” means the sale, transfer, license, lease or other disposition (in one transaction or in a series of transactions and whether effected pursuant to a Division or otherwise) of any property by any Person (including any sale and leaseback transaction and any issuance of Equity Interests by a Subsidiary of such Person), including any sale, assignment, transfer or other disposal, with or without recourse, of any notes or accounts receivable or any rights and claims associated therewith.

“Disqualified Equity Interests” means any Equity Interest which, by its terms (or by the terms of any security or other Equity Interests into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable), or upon the happening of any event or condition (a) matures or is mandatorily redeemable (other than solely for Qualified Equity Interests), pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise (except as a result of a change of control or asset sale so long as any rights of the holders thereof upon the occurrence of a change of control or asset sale event shall be subject to the prior repayment in full of the Loans and all other Obligations that are accrued and payable and the termination of the Commitments), (b) is redeemable at the option of the holder thereof (other than solely for Qualified Equity Interests), in whole or in part, (c) provides for the scheduled payments of dividends in cash, or (d) is or becomes convertible into or exchangeable for Indebtedness or any other Equity Interests that would constitute Disqualified Equity Interests, in each case, prior to the date that is 91 days after the Maturity Date of the Term Loans at the time such Equity Interest is first issued. 

“Dividing Person” has the meaning assigned to it in the definition of “Division”.

“Division” means the division of the assets, liabilities and/or obligations of a Person (the “Dividing Person”) among two or more Persons (whether pursuant to a “plan of division” or similar arrangement), which may or may not include the Dividing Person and pursuant to which the Dividing Person may or may not survive.

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“Documentation Agent” means, collectively, Silicon Valley Bank, TD Bank, N.A. and Bank of Montreal in their capacities as co-documentation agents under this Agreement.

“Dollar” and “$” mean lawful money of the United States.

“Dollar Equivalent” means, for any amount, at anythe time of determination thereof, (a) with respect to anyif such amount denominatedis expressed in Dollars, such amount, and (b) with respect to any(b) if such amount is expressed in an Alternative Currency, the equivalent of such amount in Dollars determined by using the rate of exchange for the purchase of Dollars with the Alternative Currency last provided (either by publication or otherwise provided to the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, as applicable) by the applicable Bloomberg source (or such other publicly available source for displaying exchange rates) on date that is two (2) Business Days immediately preceding the date of determination (or if such service ceases to be available or ceases to provide such rate of exchange, the equivalent of such amount in Dollars as determined by the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, as applicable using any method of determination it deems appropriate in its sole discretion) and (c) if such amount is denominated in any Alternative Currencyother currency, the equivalent of such amount thereof in Dollars as determined by the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, at such time on the basis of the Spot Rate (determined in respect of the most recent Revaluation Date) for the purchase of Dollars with such Alternative Currency, as the case may beapplicable, using any method of determination it deems appropriate in its sole discretion. Any determination by the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer pursuant to clauses (b) or (c) above shall be conclusive absent manifest error. 

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

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

“Early Opt-in Effective Date” means, with respect to any Early Opt-in Election, the sixth (6th) Business Day after the date notice of such Early Opt-in Election is provided to the Lenders, so long as the Administrative Agent has not received, by 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the fifth (5th) Business Day after the date notice of such Early Opt-in Election is provided to the Lenders, written notice of objection to such Early Opt-in Election from Lenders comprising the Required Lenders.

“Early Opt-in Election” means the occurrence of:

(1)a determination by the Administrative Agent, or a notification by the Lead Borrower to the Administrative Agent that the Lead Borrower has made a determination, that U.S. dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities currently being executed, or that include language similar to that contained in Section 3.05(b), are being executed or amended (as applicable) to incorporate or adopt a new benchmark interest rate to replace LIBOR, and 

(2)the joint election by the Administrative Agent and the Lead Borrower to replace LIBOR with a Benchmark Replacement and the provision by the Administrative Agent of written notice of such election to the Lenders.

“EEA Financial Institution” means (a) any credit institution or investment firm established in any EEA Member Country which is subject to the supervision of an EEA Resolution Authority, (b) any entity established in an EEA Member Country which is a parent of an institution described in clause (a) of this definition, or (c) any financial institution established in an EEA Member Country which is a subsidiary of an institution described in clauses (a) or (b) of this definition and is subject to consolidated supervision with its parent.

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“EEA Member Country” means any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.

“EEA Resolution Authority” means any public administrative authority or any person entrusted with public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country (including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of any EEA Financial Institution.

“Electronic Record’ and “Electronic Signature” shall have the meanings assigned to them, respectively, by 15 USC §7006, as it may be amended from time to time.

“Eligible Assignee” means any Person that meets the requirements to be an assignee under Section 11.06(b)(iii), (v), (vi) and (vii) (subject to such consents, if any, as may be required under Section 11.06(b)(iii)).

“EMU” means the economic and monetary union in accordance with the Treaty of Rome 1957, as amended by the Single European Act 1986, the Maastricht Treaty of 1992, the Amsterdam Treaty of 1997, the Nice Treaty of 2001 and the Lisbon Treaty of 2007. 

“Environmental Laws” means any and all Federal, state, local, and foreign statutes, laws, regulations, ordinances, rules, judgments, orders, decrees, permits, concessions, grants, franchises, licenses, agreements or governmental restrictions relating to pollution and the protection of the environment or the release of any materials into the environment, including those related to hazardous substances or wastes, air emissions and discharges to waste or public systems.

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

“Environmental Permit” means any permit, approval, identification number, license or other authorization required under any Environmental Law.

“Equity Interest Pledge Agreements” means all debentures, share pledge agreements or other similar agreements among any Loan Party and the Administrative Agent, providing for a pledge of the shares of such Loan Party’s Subsidiaries (the “Foreign Pledgees”) to the Secured Parties as Collateral for the Obligations, along with any related parallel debt agreements that may be required under the law of the jurisdiction of formation of such Foreign Pledgees.

“Equity Interests” means, with respect to any Person, all of the shares of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person, all of the warrants, options or other rights for the purchase or acquisition from such Person of shares of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person, all of the securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person or warrants, rights or options for the purchase or acquisition from such Person of such shares (or such other interests), and all of the other ownership or profit interests in such Person (including partnership, member or trust interests therein), whether voting or nonvoting, and whether or not such shares, warrants, options, rights or other interests are outstanding on any date of determination.

“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

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“ERISA Affiliate” means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) under common control with any Borrower within the meaning of Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code (and Sections 414(m) and (o) of the Code for purposes of provisions relating to Section 412 of the Code).

“ERISA Event” means (a) a Reportable Event with respect to a Pension Plan; (b) a withdrawal by any Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate from a Pension Plan subject to Section 4063 of ERISA during a plan year in which such entity was a “substantial employer” (as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA) or a cessation of operations that is treated as such a withdrawal under Section 4062(e) of ERISA; (c) a complete or partial withdrawal by any Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate from a Multiemployer Plan or notification that a Multiemployer Plan is in reorganizationinsolvent; (d) the filing of a notice of intent to terminate a Pension Plan pursuant to Section 4041(c) of ERISA or the treatment of a Multiemployer Plan amendment as a termination under Section 4041 or 4041A of ERISA; (e) the commencement of proceedings by the PBGC to terminate a Pension Plan; (f) an event or condition which constitutes grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Pension Plan; (g) the determination that any Pension Plan is considered an at-risk plan or a plan in endangered or critical status within the meaning of Sections 430, 431 and 432 of the Code or Sections 303, 304 and 305 of ERISA; (h) the imposition of any liability under Title IV of ERISA, other than for PBGC premiums due but not delinquent under Section 4007 of ERISA, upon any Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate; or (i) a failure by any Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate to meet all applicable requirements under the Pension Funding Rules in respect of a Pension Plan, whether or not waived, or the failure by any Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate to make any required contribution to a Multiemployer Plan.

“EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule” means the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor person), as in effect from time to time.

“EURIBOR Rate” has the meaning specified in clause (a)(ii) of the definition of Eurocurrency Rate.

 “Euro” and “EUR” mean the lawful currency of the Participating Member States introduced in accordance with the EMU Legislation. 

“Euro Equivalent” means, at any time, with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, the equivalent amount thereof in Euros as determined by the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, at such time on the basis of the Spot Rate (determined in respect of the most recent Revaluation Date) for the purchase of Euros with Dollars.

“Eurocurrency Rate” means:

(a)for any Interest Period, with respect to any Credit Extension:

(i)denominated in Dollars (as long as there is a published LIBOR Rate with respect thereto), the rate per annum equal to the London Interbank Offered Rate as administered by ICE Benchmark Administration (or any other Person that takes over the administration of such rate) for the relevant currency and for a period equal in length to the Interest Period for that Loan (“LIBOR”), as published on the applicable Bloomberg screen page (or such other commercially available source providing such quotations as may be designated by the Administrative Agent from time to time) (in such case, the “LIBOR Rate”) at or about 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the Rate Determination Date, for deposits in the relevant currency, with a term equivalent to such Interest Period; 

(ii)denominated in Euros, the rate per annum equal to the Euro Interbank Offered Rate (“EURIBOR”), as published on the applicable Bloomberg screen page (or such other commercially available source providing such quotations as may be designated by the Administrative Agent from time 

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to time) (in such case, the “EURIBOR Rate”) at or about 11:00 a.m. (Brussels, Belgium time) on the Rate Determination Date with a term equivalent to such Interest Period; and

(b)for any interest calculation with respect to a Base Rate Loan on any date, the rate per annum equal to LIBOR, at or about 11:00 a.m., London time determined two London Banking Days prior to such date for U.S. Dollar deposits with a term of one month commencing that day; 

provided that if the Eurocurrency Rate shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed zero for purposes of this Agreement.

  “Eurocurrency Rate Loan” means a Revolving Credit Loan or a Term Loan that bears interest at a rate based on the clause (a) of the definition of “Eurocurrency Rate”.  Eurocurrency Rate Loans may be denominated in Dollars or in an Alternative Currency.  All Loans denominated in an Alternative Currency or made to a Foreign Borrower must be Eurocurrency Rate Loans.

“Euro Tranche” means that €116,000,000 tranche which forms part of the Existing Revolving Credit Loans.

 “Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 8.01. 

“Excluded Subsidiary” means (a) each Foreign Subsidiary (excluding any Foreign Subsidiary which is a Guarantor as of the Third Restatement Date), (b) each Domestic Subsidiary that is not a wholly owned Subsidiary for so long as such Subsidiary is not a wholly owned Subsidiary, (c) each Domestic Subsidiary that is a Subsidiary of a Foreign Subsidiary, (d) each Immaterial Subsidiary, (e) each Domestic Subsidiary acquired after the Third Restatement Date to the extent that such Domestic Subsidiary is prohibited by, or unable to obtain a required consent or approval after commercially reasonable efforts to do so under, any applicable contractual obligation (which contractual obligation was in effect prior to the acquisition of such Person and was not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition) or any applicable Laws from guaranteeing the Obligations, (f) each Foreign Subsidiary Holding Company, (g) any Subsidiary to the extent that a guarantee by the Subsidiary or a pledge of the stock or assets of the Subsidiary would result in a material adverse tax consequence to any direct or indirect parent of such Subsidiary, as reasonably determined by the Lead Borrower in consultation with the Administrative Agent, and (h) any Captive Insurance Subsidiary.

“Excluded Swap Obligation” means, with respect to any Loan Party, any Swap Obligation if, and to the extent that, all or a portion of the Guaranty of such Loan Party of, or the grant by such Loan Party of a Lien to secure, such Swap Obligation (or any Guarantee thereof) is or becomes illegal under the Commodity Exchange Act  or any rule, regulation or order of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (or the application or official interpretation thereof) by virtue of such Loan Party’s failure for any reason to constitute an “eligible contract participant” as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act (determined after giving effect to Section 10.12 and any other “keepwell, support or other agreement for the benefit of such Loan Party and any and all guarantees of such Loan Party’s Swap Obligations by other Loan Parties) at the time the Guaranty of such Loan Party, or grant by such Loan Party of a Lien, becomes effective with respect to such Swap Obligation.  If a Swap Obligation arises under a Master Agreement governing more than one Swap Contract, such exclusion shall apply only to the portion of such Swap Obligation that is attributable to Swap Contracts for which such Guaranty or Lien is or becomes excluded in accordance with the first sentence of this definition.

“Excluded Taxes” means any of the following Taxes imposed on or with respect to any Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to a Recipient, (a) Taxes imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated), franchise Taxes, and branch profits or similar Taxes, in each case, (i) imposed as a result of such Recipient being organized under the laws of, or having its principal office or, in the case of any Lender, its Lending Office located in, the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (or any political subdivision thereof) or 

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(ii) that are Other Connection Taxes, (b) any United States backup withholding tax, (c) in the case of a Lender, U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed on amounts payable to or for the account of such Lender with respect to an applicable interest in a Loan or Commitment pursuant to a law in effect on the date on which (i) such Lender acquires such interest in the Loan or Commitment (other than pursuant to an assignment request by any Borrower under Section 11.14) or (ii) such Lender changes its Lending Office, except in each case to the extent that, pursuant to Section 3.01(a)(ii), Section 3.01(a)(iii) or Section 3.01(c), (d) amounts with respect to such Taxes were payable either to such Lender’s assignor immediately before such Lender became a party hereto or to such Lender immediately before it changed its Lending Office, (e) Taxes attributable to such Recipient’s failure to comply with its obligations under Section 3.01(e) or Section 3.02 and (f) any Taxes imposed pursuant to FATCA.

 “Existing Credit Agreement” has the meaning specified in the recitals.

“Existing Letters of Credit” means the letters of credit issued under the Existing2016 Credit Agreement and described in Schedule 1.01.

“Existing Loan Documents” means the Loan Documents (as such term is defined in the Existing2016 Credit Agreement).

“Existing Maturity Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(a).

“Existing Revolving Credit Commitments” means the Revolving Credit Commitments (as such term is defined in the Existing2016 Credit Agreement) of the Existing Revolving Credit Lenders under the Existing2016 Credit Agreement.

“Existing Revolving Credit Lender” means a Revolving Credit Lender (as such term is defined in the Existing2016 Credit Agreement) under the Existing2016 Credit Agreement.

“Existing Revolving Credit Loans” means the Revolving Credit Loans (as such term is defined in the Existing2016 Credit Agreement) of the Existing Revolving Credit Lenders under the Existing2016 Credit Agreement.

“Existing Term Lender” means a Term Lender (as such term is defined in the Existing2016 Credit Agreement) under the Existing2016 Credit Agreement.

“Existing Term Loans” means the Term Loans (as such term is defined in the Existing2016 Credit Agreement) of the Existing Term Lenders under the Existing2016 Credit Agreement.

“Extension Amendment” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(h).

“Extraordinary Receipt” means any cash received by or paid to or for the account of any Person out of the proceeds of property or casualty insurance or condemnation awards (and payments in lieu thereof).

“Euro Tranche” means that €116,000,000 tranche which forms part of the Existing Revolving Credit Loans.

 “Facility” means the Term Facility or the Revolving Credit Facility, as the context may require.

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

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(and anyrelated fiscal or regulatory legislation, or related official rules or practices adopted pursuant to any such intergovernmental agreement and any other similar law, regulation, or exchange of information regime in any jurisdiction) implementing the foregoing.

“Federal Funds Rate” means, for any day, the rate per annum calculated by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York based on such day’s federal funds transactions by depository institutions (as determined in such manner as the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shall set forth on its public website from time to time) and published on the next succeeding Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as the federal funds effective rate; provided that if the Federal Funds Rate as so determined would be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for purposes of this Agreement.

“Fee Letter” means, collectively, (i) the letter agreement, dated as of November 14, 2019, among the Lead Borrower, BofA Securities, Inc. and the Administrative Agent, (ii) the letter agreement, dated as of March 16, 2020, among the Borrowers, BofA Securities, Inc. and the Administrative Agent and, (iii) the Incremental Amendment Fee Letter, dated as of September 15, 2021, among the Borrowers, BofA Securities, Inc. and the Administrative Agent and (iv) the letter agreement, dated as of February 3, 2022, among the Lead Borrower, BofA Securities, Inc. and the Administrative Agent.

“Fifth Amendment” means the Fifth Amendment to Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March 10, 2022, among the Borrowers, the other Loan Parties and the Administrative Agent.

“Fifth Amendment Effective Date” means March 10, 2022.

“First Amendment” means the First Amendment to Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of the First Amendment Effective Date, among the Borrowers, the other Loan Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders party thereto.

“First Amendment Effective Date” means March 27, 2020.

“First Restatement Date” means the date of the Existing Credit Agreement, December 27, 2012.

 “Foreign Borrower” means any Borrower that is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than the Unites States, a state thereof or the District of Columbia.

 “Foreign Government Scheme or Arrangement” has the meaning specified in Section 5.12(d).

“Foreign Lender” means any Lender that is organized under the Laws of a jurisdiction other than that in which any Borrower is organized or resident for tax purposes (including such a Lender when acting in the capacity of the L/C Issuer).  For purposes of this definition, the United States, each State thereof and the District of Columbia shall be deemed to constitute a single jurisdiction.

“Foreign Plan” has the meaning specified in Section 5.12(d).

“Foreign Pledgees” has the meaning specified in the definition of Equity Interest Pledge Agreements.

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

“Foreign Subsidiary Holding Company” means any Subsidiary substantially all of whose assets consist of Equity Interests or, if applicable, intercompany debt, of one or more direct or indirect subsidiaries that are CFCs or other Foreign Subsidiary Holding Companies. 

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“Fourth Amendment” means the Fourth Amendment to Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement and First Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Security Agreement, dated as of the Fourth Amendment Effective Date, among the Borrowers, the other Loan Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders party thereto.

“Fourth Amendment Effective Date” means October 5, 2021.

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

“Fronting Exposure” means, at any time there is a Defaulting Lender, (a) with respect to the L/C Issuer, such Defaulting Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the outstanding L/C Obligations other than L/C Obligations as to which such Defaulting Lender’s participation obligation has been reallocated to other Lenders or Cash Collateralized in accordance with the terms hereof, and (b) with respect to the Swing Line Lender, such Defaulting Lender’s Applicable Percentage of Swing Line Loans other than Swing Line Loans as to which such Defaulting Lender’s participation obligation has been reallocated to other Lenders or Cash Collateralized in accordance with the terms hereof.

“Fronting Insurance Company” means any insurance company providing insurance to Holdings or any one or more of its Subsidiaries that enters into a Reinsurance Contract with a Captive Insurance Subsidiary.

“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 and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its activities.

“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or such other principles as may be approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession in the United States, that are applicable to the circumstances as of the date of determination, consistently applied, subject to Section 1.03(b).

“German Borrower” as defined in the preamble. For the avoidance of doubt, the German Borrower may borrow in Euros, Dollars or Sterling, provided that (i) any Borrowing by the German Borrower in Euros shall be at the EURIBORAlternative Currency Term Rate, (ii) any Borrowing by the German Borrower in Dollars shall be at the then-current BenchmarkTerm SOFR; and (iii) any Borrowing by the German Borrower in Sterling shall be at the Alternative Currency Daily Rate.

“German Facility” means any Loan to a German Borrower.

“German Lender” means any lenders under a German Facility.

“German Parallel Debt” has the meaning specified in Section 11.25.

“German Qualifying Lender” means a German Lender which is beneficially entitled to interest payable to that Lender in respect of an advance in respect of the German Facility under any Loan Document and is a Lender which is solely tax resident in Germany or a German Treaty Lender.

“German Security Agreements” means, collectively, (i) the Global Security Assignment Agreement of Claims and Receivables dated as of May 30, 2017 between the German Borrower, as Assignor, and the Administrative Agent, as Assignee, (ii) the Security Transfer Agreement of Tangible Assets dated as of May 30, 2017 between the German Borrower, as Transferor, and the Administrative Agent, as Transferee, (iii) the Account Pledge Agreement dated as of May 30, 2017 between the German Borrower, as Pledgor, and the Administrative 

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Agent, as Agent and Pledgee, and the Lenders as Pledgees, (iv) the Share Pledge Agreement dated October 19, 2011 between the Lead Borrower as pledgor and the Administrative Agent as pledgee, as amended pursuant to that certain Share Purchase and Assignment Agreement between Excel Technology Inc. and Novanta UK Investments Holding Limited (f/k/a GSI Group UK Investments Holding Limited) dated July 24, 2015 relating to the shares in Novanta Europe GmbH (f/k/a GSI Group Europe GmbH), (v) the Share Pledge Agreement dated as of June 15, 2016 between the Lead Borrower as pledgor and the Administrative Agent, as pledgee relating to the shares of GSI Group GmbH, (vi)  the Share Pledge Agreement dated as of June 15, 2016 between the U.K. Borrower as pledgor and the Administrative Agent as pledgee, relating to the shares of the German Borrower, (vii) the Share Pledge Agreement dated as of June 15, 2016 between the German Borrower as pledgor and  the Administrative Agent as pledgee, relating to the shares of  Novanta Distribution (USD) GmbH (f/k/a GSI Group Distribution (USD) GmbH), (viii) the Share Pledge Agreement dated as of January 28, 2020 between the U.K. Borrower as pledgor and the Administrative Agent as pledgee, relating to the shares of the German Borrower, (ix) the Share Pledge Agreement dated as of January 28, 2020 between the German Borrower as pledgor and the Administrative Agent as pledgee, relating to the shares of Novanta Distribution (USD) GmbH, (x) the Security Confirmation Agreement dated January 28, 2020 between the German Borrower as company and the Administrative Agent as administrative agent, (xi) other security and pledge agreements reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, securing payment of all the Obligations of the German Borrower under the Loan Documents and constituting Liens on all such properties and (ixxii) any other existing security agreements governed by German law, in each case, as the same may be supplemented, modified, amended and/or restated or replaced from time to time.

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

“German Tax Payment” means a payment made by the German Borrower under Section 3.02(II)(b) or Section 3.02(II)(d).

“German Treaty” means a jurisdiction having a double taxation agreement (a “Treaty”) with Germany which makes provision for full exemption from tax imposed by Germany on interest.

“German Treaty Lender” means a German Lender which:

(a)is treated as a resident of a German Treaty State for purposes of the relevant Treaty; and

(b)does not carry on a business in Germany through a permanent establishment with which that Lender’s participation in any advance is effectively connected; and

(c)meets any other conditions in the relevant Treaty which must be fulfilled under the relevant Treaty for residents of that German Treaty State to obtain full exemption from German taxation on interest in relation to payments of interest by the German Borrower at the time of the relevant interest payment, subject to the completion of any necessary procedural formalities.

“German Treaty State” means a jurisdiction having a double taxation agreement (a “Treaty”) with Germany which makes provision for full exemption from tax imposed by Germany on interest.

“Governmental Authority” means the government of the United States 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 supra-national bodies such as the European Union or the European Central Bank).

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“Guarantee” means, as to any Person, (a) any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of such Person guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other obligation payable or performable by another Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of such Person, direct or indirect, (i) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other obligation, (ii) to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment or performance of such Indebtedness or other obligation, (iii) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity or level of income or cash flow of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other obligation, or (iv) entered into for the purpose of assuring in any other manner the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment or performance thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part), or (b) any Lien on any assets of such Person securing any Indebtedness or other obligation of any other Person, whether or not such Indebtedness or other obligation is assumed by such Person (or any right, contingent or otherwise, of any holder of such Indebtedness to obtain any such Lien).  The amount of any Guarantee shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the related primary obligation, or portion thereof, in respect of which such Guarantee is made or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by the guaranteeing Person in good faith.  The term “Guarantee” as a verb has a corresponding meaning.

“Guaranteed Obligations” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.01(a).

“Guarantors” means, collectively, Holdings, the Subsidiaries of Holdings listed on Schedule 6.12 and each other Subsidiary of Holdings that shall be required to execute and deliver a guaranty or guaranty supplement pursuant to Section 6.12.  For the avoidance of doubt, no Captive Insurance Subsidiary shall be a Guarantor if it would be prohibited from becoming a Guarantor by applicable Law.

“Guaranty” means, collectively, the Guaranty made by the Guarantors under Article X in favor of the Secured Parties, together with the Holdings Guaranty and each other guaranty and guaranty supplement, substantially in the form of Exhibit F-1, executed and delivered by a Subsidiary to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.12.

“Hazardous Materials” means all substances, pollutants or wastes that are defined, listed or regulated under Environmental Law as “hazardous” or “toxic” or “pollutants” (or terms of similar intent or meaning) including, but not limited to, explosive or radioactive substances, petroleum or petroleum distillates, asbestos or asbestos-containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas, and infectious or medical wastes.

“Hedge Bank” means any Person that, at the time it enters into a Swap Contract  permitted under Article VI or VII (or, in the case of Swap Contracts existing on the Third Restatement Date, on the Third Restatement Date), is a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender, in its capacity as a party to such Swap Contract.

“Holdings” has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph hereto.

“Holdings Guaranty” means the Guaranty made by Holdings, substantially in the form of Exhibit F-2 to the Original Credit Agreement, executed and delivered by Holdings on the Original Closing Date.

“Immaterial Subsidiary” means on any date, any Subsidiary that did not, as of the last day of the fiscal quarter of Holdings most recently ended for which financial statements are available, have, individually or collectively with all other Subsidiaries that are Immaterial Subsidiaries, either (i) assets with a value in excess of 5.0% of total assets of, or (ii) revenues in an amount in excess of 5.0% of the total revenues of, Holdings and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters ended on such day.

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“Incremental Revolving Commitment” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(a).

“Incremental Tranche” has the meaning specified in Section 2.16(a).

“Indebtedness” means, as to any Person at a particular time, without duplication, all of the following, whether or not included as indebtedness or liabilities in accordance with GAAP:

(a)all obligations of such Person for borrowed money and all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, loan agreements or other similar instruments;

(b)the maximum amount of all direct or contingent obligations of such Person arising under letters of credit (including standby and commercial), bankers’ acceptances, bank guaranties, surety bonds and similar instruments;

(c)net obligations of such Person under any Swap Contract;

(d)all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than trade accounts payable in the ordinary course of business and earn-outs or other similar forms of contingent purchase price; provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, any non-contingent seller debt shall be considered Indebtedness);

(e)indebtedness (excluding prepaid interest thereon) secured by a Lien on property owned or being purchased by such Person (including indebtedness arising under conditional sales or other title retention agreements), whether or not such indebtedness shall have been assumed by such Person or is limited in recourse;

(f)all Attributable Indebtedness in respect of Capitalized Leases and Synthetic Lease Obligations of such Person and all Synthetic Debt of such Person; 

(g)all obligations of such Person to purchase, redeem, retire, defease or otherwise make any payment in respect of any Disqualified Equity Interest in such Person or any other Person or any warrant, right or option to acquire such Equity Interest, valued, in the case of a redeemable preferred interest, at the greater of its voluntary or involuntary liquidation preference plus accrued and unpaid dividends; and

(h)all Guarantees of such Person in respect of any of the foregoing.

For all purposes hereof, the Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any partnership or joint venture (other than a joint venture that is itself a corporation or limited liability company) in which such Person is a general partner or a joint venturer, unless such Indebtedness is expressly made non-recourse to such Person.  The amount of any net obligation under any Swap Contract on any date shall be deemed to be the Swap Termination Value thereof as of such date.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the definitions of “Indebtedness” and “Synthetic Debt” will be deemed not to include obligations (“Escrowed Obligations”) incurred in connection with or otherwise outstanding in advance of, a transaction (including any repayment, prepayment or redemption as to which a notice thereof has been delivered to the applicable holders thereof), solely to the extent that the proceeds to satisfy such obligations are and continue to be held in an escrow, trust, collateral or similar account or arrangement (collectively, an “Escrow”) and are not otherwise made available for any other purpose (it being understood that in any event, any such proceeds held in such Escrow shall not be deemed to represent cash or Cash Equivalents for purposes of calculating the Consolidated Leverage Ratio); provided that upon the release of the proceeds of Escrowed 

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Obligations from such Escrow such obligations, to the extent outstanding after such release, may constitute Indebtedness or Synthetic Debt after such date.

“Indemnified Taxes” means Taxes imposed on or with respect to any payment made by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document, other than Excluded Taxes.

“Indemnitees” has the meaning specified in Section 11.04(b).

“Information” has the meaning specified in Section 11.07.

 “Initial Revolving Credit Loan” means each Revolving Credit Loan deemed made on the Third Restatement Date pursuant to Section 2.01(b).

“Intellectual Property Security Agreement” means, collectively, each Copyright Security Agreement, each Patent Security Agreement, and each Trademark Security Agreement (as each such term is defined in the Security Agreement), together with each IP Security Agreement Supplement, in each case as amended from time to time.

“Interest Payment Date” means, (a) as to any Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loan, the last dayBusiness Day of each Interest Period applicable to such Loan and the Maturity Date of the Facility under which such Loan was made; provided, however, that if any Interest Period for a Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loan exceeds three months, the respective dates that fall every three months after the beginning of such Interest Period shall also be Interest Payment Dates; and, (b) as to any Base Rate Loan, Alternative Currency Daily Rate Loan or (including a Swing Line Loan, the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December and the Maturity Date of the Facility under which such Loan was made (with Swing Line Loans being deemed made under the Revolving Credit Facility for purposes of this definition)), the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December and the Maturity Date, (c) as to any Alternative Currency Daily Rate Loan, the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December and the Maturity Date and (d) as to any Alternative Currency Term Rate Loan, the last day of each Interest Period applicable to such Loan; provided, however, that if any Interest Period for an Alternative Currency Term Rate Loan exceeds three months, the respective dates that fall every three months after the beginning of such Interest Period shall be Interest Payment Dates.

“Interest Period” means, as to each EurocurrencyTerm SOFR Loan or Alternative Currency Term Rate Loan, the period commencing on the date such EurocurrencyTerm SOFR Loan or Alternative Currency Term Rate Loan, as applicable, is disbursed or converted to or continued as a Eurocurrencyan Alternative Currency Term Rate Loan or Term SOFR Loan, as applicable, and ending on the date one, three or six months thereafter (in each case, subject to availability for the interest rate applicable to the relevant currency), as selected by the Lead Borrower in its Committed Loan Notice, or such other period that is twelve months or less requested by the Lead Borrower and consented to by all the Appropriate Lenders and the Administrative Agent (in the case of each requested Interest Period, subject to availability); provided that:

(a)any Interest Period that would otherwise end on a day that is not a Business Day shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless, in the case of a Term SOFR Loan or an Alternative Currency Term Rate Loan, such Business Day falls in another calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day;

(b)any Interest Period pertaining to a Term SOFR Loan or an Alternative Currency Term Rate Loan that begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period; and

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(c)no Interest Period shall extend beyond the Maturity Date of the Facility under which such Loan was made.

“Inventory” has the meaning specified in Section 1 of the Security Agreement.

“Investment” means, as to any Person, any direct or indirect acquisition or investment by such Person, whether by means of (a) the purchase or other acquisition of Equity Interests of another Person, (b) a loan, advance or capital contribution to, Guarantee or assumption of debt of, or purchase or other acquisition of any other debt or interest in, another Person, or (c) the purchase or other acquisition (in one transaction or a series of transactions) of assets of another Person that constitute a business unit or all or a substantial part of the business of, such Person.  For purposes of covenant compliance, the amount of any Investment shall be the amount actually invested, without adjustment for subsequent increases or decreases in the value of such Investment, but giving effect to any repayments of principal in the case of any Investment in the form of a loan or advance, any reduction in the amount of the relevant Guaranteed Obligations in the case of any Investment in the form of a Guarantee and any return of capital or return on Investment in the case of any equity investment (whether as a distribution, dividend, redemption or sale).  If any Borrower or any Subsidiary issues, sells or otherwise disposes of any Equity Interests of a Person that is a Subsidiary (in a Disposition permitted hereunder) such that, after giving effect thereto, such Person is no longer a Subsidiary, any Investment by such Borrower or such Subsidiary in such person remaining after giving effect thereto will not be deemed to be a new Investment at such time.

“IP Rights” has the meaning specified in Section 5.17.

“IP Security Agreement Supplement” any Copyright Security Agreement, Patent Security Agreement or Trademark Security Agreement (as each term is defined in the Security Agreement) executed after the Original Closing Date.

“IRS” means the United States Internal Revenue Service.

“ISP” means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the “International Standby Practices 1998” published by the Institute of International Banking Law & Practice, Inc. (or such later version thereof as may be in effect at the time of issuance).

“Issuer Documents” means with respect to any Letter of Credit, the Letter of Credit Application, and any other document, agreement and instrument entered into by the L/C Issuer and any Borrower (or any Subsidiary) or in favor of the L/C Issuer and relating to such Letter of Credit.

“Judgment Currency” has the meaning specified in Section 11.20.

“Laws” means, collectively, all international, foreign, Federal, state and local statutes, treaties, rules, guidelines, regulations, ordinances, codes and administrative or judicial precedents or authorities, including the interpretation or administration thereof by any Governmental Authority charged with the enforcement, interpretation or administration thereof, and all applicable administrative orders, directed duties, requests, licenses, authorizations and permits of, and agreements with, any Governmental Authority, in each case whether or not having the force of law.

“L/C Advance” means, with respect to each Revolving Credit Lender, such Lender’s funding of its participation in any L/C Borrowing in accordance with its Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage.  All L/C Advances shall be denominated in Dollars.

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“L/C Borrowing” means an extension of credit resulting from a drawing under any Letter of Credit which has not been reimbursed on the date when made or refinanced as a Revolving Credit Borrowing.  All L/C Borrowings shall be denominated in Dollars.

“L/C Credit Extension” means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the issuance thereof or extension of the expiry date thereof, or the increase of the amount thereof.

“L/C Issuer” means Bank of America in its capacity as issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder, or any successor issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder.

“L/C Obligations” means, as at any date of determination, the aggregate amount available to be drawn under all outstanding Letters of Credit plus the aggregate of all Unreimbursed Amounts, including all L/C Borrowings.  For purposes of computing the amount available to be drawn under any Letter of Credit, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be determined in accordance with Section 1.06.  For all purposes of this Agreement, if on any date of determination a Letter of Credit has expired by its terms but any amount may still be drawn thereunder by reason of the operation of Rule 3.14 of the ISP, such Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be “outstanding” in the amount so remaining available to be drawn.

“Lender” has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph hereto and, as the context requires, includes the Swing Line Lender.

“Lender Party” and “Lender Recipient Party” means collectively, the Lenders, the Swing Line Lender and the L/C Issuer.

“Lending Office” means, as to any Lender, the office or offices of such Lender described as such in such Lender’s Administrative Questionnaire, or such other office or offices as a Lender may from time to time notify the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent, which office may include any Affiliate of such Lender or any domestic or foreign branch of such Lender or such Affiliate. Unless the context otherwise requires each reference to a Lender shall include its applicable Lending Office.

“Letter of Credit” means any standby or commercial letter of credit issued hereunder and shall include the Existing Letters of Credit.  Letters of Credit may be issued in Dollars or in an Alternative Currency.

“Letter of Credit Application” means an application and agreement for the issuance or amendment of a Letter of Credit in the form from time to time in use by the L/C Issuer.

“Letter of Credit Expiration Date” means the day that is seven days prior to the Maturity Date then in effect for the Revolving Credit Facility (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next preceding Business Day).

“Letter of Credit Fee” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(h).

“Letter of Credit Sublimit” means an amount equal to $20,000,000.  The Letter of Credit Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Revolving Credit Facility.

“LIBOR” has the meaning specified in the definition of Eurocurrency Rate.

“LIBOR Rate” has the meaning specified in clause (a)(i) of the definition of Eurocurrency Rate.

“LIBOR Screen Rate” means the LIBOR quote on the applicable screen page the Administrative Agent designates to determine LIBOR (or such other commercially available source providing such quotations as may be designated by the Administrative Agent from time to time).

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 “Limited Condition Transaction” has the meaning specified in Section 1.09.

“Lien” means any mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or other), charge, or preference, priority or other security interest or preferential arrangement in the nature of a security interest of any kind or nature whatsoever (including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any easement, right of way or other encumbrance on title to real property, and any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing).

“Loan” means an extension of credit by a Lender to the Borrowers under Article II in the form of a Term Loan, a Revolving Credit Loan or a Swing Line Loan.

“Loan Documents” means, collectively, (a) this Agreement, (b) the Notes, (c) the Guaranty (including the Holdings Guaranty), (d) the Collateral Documents, (e) the Fee Letter, (f) each Issuer Document; (g) the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, the Third Amendment and, the Fourth Amendment, and the Fifth Amendment (h) after execution and delivery thereof, the Deed of Confirmation of Security entered into by Holdings, the U.K. Borrower, Novanta Technologies UK Limited and the Administrative Agent dated on or around the Fourth Amendment Effective Date, and (i) any agreement creating or perfecting rights in Cash Collateral pursuant to the provisions of Section 2.17 of this Agreement.

“Loan Parties” means, collectively, each Borrower and each Guarantor.

“London Banking Day” means any day on which dealings in Dollar deposits are conducted by and between banks in the London interbank eurodollar market.

 “Material Adverse Effect” means (a) a material adverse change in, or a material adverse effect upon, the operations, business, assets, properties, liabilities (actual or contingent), or financial condition of Holdings and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole; (b) a material impairment of the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, taken as a whole, under any Loan Document, or of the ability of the Loan Parties, taken as a whole, to perform their obligations under any Loan Document; or (c) a material adverse effect upon the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability against the Loan Parties of the Loan Documents.

 “Material Properties” means any real property owned by a Loan Party in fee and acquired after the Third Restatement Date with a fair market value as of the date of acquisition thereof (or, if later, as of the date the relevant owner thereof becomes a Loan Party) in excess of $20,000,000 and designated by the Administrative Agent as a “Material Property.”

“Maturity Date” means the earliest of (a) with respect to the Revolving Credit Facility, the earliest of (x) December 31March 10, 20242027 (or the previous Business Day if December 31March 10, 20242027 is not a Business Day) (or, if maturity is extended pursuant to Section 2.14, such extended maturity date as determined pursuant to such Section), (y) the date of termination of the Revolving Credit Commitments pursuant to Section 2.06, and (z) the date of termination of the commitment of each Revolving Credit Lender to make Revolving Credit Loans and of the obligation of the L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions pursuant to Section 8.02 and (b) with respect to the Term Facility, the earliest of (x) December 31March 10, 20242027 (or the previous Business Day if December 31March 10, 20242027  is not a Business Day) (or, if maturity is extended pursuant to Section 2.14, such extended maturity date as determined pursuant to such Section), (y) the date of prepayment of the Term Loans in full in cash pursuant to Section 2.05, and (z) the date of acceleration of the Loans pursuant to Section 8.02; provided, however, that, in each case, if such date is not a Business Day, the Maturity Date shall be the next preceding Business Day.

“Maximum Rate” has the meaning specified in Section 11.09.

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“Measurement Period” means, at any date of determination, the most recently completed four fiscal quarters of Holdings.

“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. and any successor thereto.

“Mortgage” means, collectively, each deed of trust, trust deed, deed to secure debt, or mortgage, executed by a Loan Party in favor of the Agent and covering the Material Properties, as the same may be amended, modified and/or replaced from time to time.

“Multiemployer Plan” means any employee benefit plan of the type described in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA, to which any Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate makes or is obligated to make contributions, or during the preceding five plan years, has made or been obligated to make contributions.

“Multiple Employer Plan” means a Plan which has two or more contributing sponsors (including any Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate) at least two of whom are not under common control, as such a plan is described in Section 4064 of ERISA.

“Net Cash Proceeds” means:

(a)with respect to any Disposition by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, or any Extraordinary Receipt received or paid to the account of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, the excess, if any, of (i) the sum of cash and Cash Equivalents received in connection with such transaction (including any cash or Cash Equivalents received by way of deferred payment pursuant to, or by monetization of, a note receivable or otherwise, but only as and when so received) over (ii) the sum of (A) the principal amount of any Indebtedness that is secured by the applicable asset and that is required to be repaid in connection with such transaction (other than Indebtedness under the Loan Documents), (B) the out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Loan Party or such Subsidiary in connection with such transaction, (C) income or gains taxes reasonably estimated to be actually payable within two years of the date of the relevant transaction as a result of any gain recognized in connection therewith; provided that, if the amount of any estimated taxes pursuant to subclause (C) exceeds the amount of taxes actually required to be paid in cash in respect of such Disposition, the aggregate amount of such excess shall constitute Net Cash Proceeds (D) taxes imposed on the distribution or repatriation of any such Net Cash Proceeds and (E) in the case of any Disposition, amounts required to be provided as a reserve, in accordance with GAAP, against any liabilities (contingent or otherwise) associated with such Disposition (including reserves required for indemnities); provided, that, immediately upon release of such reserve to any Loan Party or Subsidiary thereof, the amount released shall be considered Net Cash Proceeds; and

(b)with respect to the incurrence or issuance of any Indebtedness by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, the excess of (i) the sum of the cash and Cash Equivalents received in connection with such transaction over (ii) the underwriting discounts and commissions, and other reasonable and customary out-of-pocket expenses, incurred by such Loan Party or such Subsidiary in connection therewith.

 “Non-Cash Charges” means (a) any impairment charge or asset write-off or write-down related to intangible assets (including goodwill), long-lived assets, and Investments in debt and equity securities pursuant to GAAP, (b) all losses from Investments recorded using the equity method, (c) the non-cash impact of acquisition method accounting, (d) non-cash losses attributable to the mark to market movement in the valuation of hedging obligations (to the extent the cash impact resulting from such loss has not been realized) or other derivative instruments pursuant to Financial Accounting Standards Accounting Standards Codification No. 815—Derivatives and Hedging, (e) non-cash losses from Dispositions for such period and (f) other non-cash charges, expenses or charges, including expenses and costs that result from stock based awards, partnership interest based awards and similar incentive based awards or arrangements.

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“Non-Converting Euro Tranche” means that part of the Euro Tranche which is not converting to and becoming a Term Loan pursuant to Section 2.01(a)(i).

“Non-Extending Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(b).

“Non-Finance Lease” means any lease that is not required to be accounted for as a financing or capital lease on both the balance sheet and the income statement for financial reporting purposes in accordance with GAAP.  For the avoidance of doubt, an operating lease (including any lease that would not have been a capital lease under GAAP as of December 31, 2017) shall be considered a Non-Finance Lease.

“Note” means a Term Note or a Revolving Credit Note, as the context may require.

“Notice Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(b).

“Notice of Loan Prepayment” means a notice of prepayment with respect to a Loan, which shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit M or such other form as may be approved by the Administrative Agent (including any form on an electronic platform or electronic transmission system as shall be approved by the Administrative Agent), appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer.

“Not Otherwise Applied” means, with reference to any amount of net cash proceeds of any issuance or sales of any Borrower’s or Holdings’ Equity Interests or contributions to any Borrower’s or Holdings’ capital, that such amount was not previously applied in determining the permissibility of a transaction under the Loan Documents where such permissibility was (or may have been) contingent on receipt of such amount or utilization of such amount for a specified purpose. The Lead Borrower shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent of any application of such amount as contemplated above. 

“NPL” means the National Priorities List under CERCLA.

“Obligations” means all advances to, and debts, liabilities, obligations, covenants and duties of, any Loan Party arising under any Loan Document or otherwise with respect to any Loan, Letter of Credit, Secured Cash Management Agreement or Secured Hedge Agreement, in each case whether direct or indirect (including those acquired by assumption), absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now existing or hereafter arising and including interest and fees that accrue after the commencement by or against any Loan Party or any Affiliate thereof of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws naming such Person as the debtor in such proceeding, regardless of whether such interest and fees are allowed claims in such proceeding; provided that Obligations of a Loan Party shall exclude any Excluded Swap Obligations with respect to such Loan Party.

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

“Organization Documents” means, (a) with respect to any corporation, the certificate or articles of incorporation and the bylaws (or equivalent or comparable constitutive documents with respect to any non-U.S. jurisdiction); (b) with respect to any limited liability company, the certificate or articles of formation or organization and operating agreement or limited liability company agreement (or equivalent or comparable documents with respect to any non-U.S. jurisdiction); and (c) with respect to any partnership, joint venture, trust or other form of business entity, the partnership, joint venture or other applicable agreement of formation or organization and(or equivalent or comparable documents with respect to any non-U.S. jurisdiction) and (d) with respect to all entities, any agreement, instrument, filing or notice with respect thereto filed in connection with its formation or organization with the applicable Governmental Authority in the jurisdiction of its formation or organization and, if applicable, any certificate or articles of formation or organization of such entity(or equivalent or comparable documents with respect to any non-U.S. jurisdiction).

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“Original Closing Date” means the closing date of the Original Credit Agreement, October 19, 2011.

“Original Credit Agreement” means that certain Credit Agreement, dated as of October 19, 2011, as amended, among the Lead Borrower, Holdings, certain Guarantors, Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent and the lenders party thereto from time to time.

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

“Other Rate Early Opt-in” means the Administrative Agent and the Lead Borrower have elected to replace LIBOR with a Benchmark Replacement other than a SOFR-based rate pursuant to (1) an Early Opt-in Election and (2) Section 3.05(b)(ii) and paragraph (2) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement”.

 “Other Taxes” means all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing, property or any other similar Taxes arising from any payment made hereunder or under any other Loan Document or from the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or registration of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document, except any such Taxes that are Other Connection Taxes imposed with respect to an assignment (other than an assignment made pursuant to Section 11.14).

“Outstanding Amount” means (a) with respect to Term Loans, Revolving Credit Loans and Swing Line Loans on any date, the aggregate outstanding principal amount thereof after giving effect to any borrowings and prepayments or repayments of Term Loans, Revolving Credit Loans and Swing Line Loans, as the case may be, occurring on such date; and (b) with respect to any L/C Obligations on any date, the amount of such L/C Obligations on such date after giving effect to any L/C Credit Extension occurring on such date and any other changes in the aggregate amount of the L/C Obligations as of such date, including as a result of any reimbursements by the Borrowers of Unreimbursed Amounts.

“Overnight Rate” means, for any day, (a) with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, the greater of (i) the Federal Funds Rate and (ii) an overnight rate determined by the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender, as the case may be, in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation, and (b) with respect to any amount denominated in an Alternative Currency, an overnight rate determined by the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation. 

“Participant” has the meaning specified in Section 11.06(d).

“Participant Register” has the meaning specified in Section 11.06(d).

“PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.

“Pension Act” means the Pension Protection Act of 2006. 

“Pension Funding Rules” means the rules of the Code and ERISA regarding minimum funding standards with respect to Pension Plans and set forth in Sections 412, 430, 431, 432 and 436 of the Code and Sections 302, 303, 304 and 305 of ERISA.

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“Pension Plan” means any employee pension benefit plan (including a Multiple Employer Plan, but excluding a Multiemployer Plan) that is maintained or is contributed to by any Borrower and any ERISA Affiliate or with respect to which any Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate has any liability under ERISA and is either covered by Title IV of ERISA or is subject to the minimum funding standards under Section 412 of the Code, other than a Multiemployer Plan.

“Permitted Acquisition” has the meaning specified in Section 7.03(j).

“Permitted Subordinated Debt” means unsecured Indebtedness of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries; provided that 

(a)there shall be no scheduled payments of principal in respect of such Indebtedness prior to 91 days after the Maturity Date, as of the date such Indebtedness is initially incurred,

(b)the final maturity of such Indebtedness shall not be earlier than 91 days after the Maturity Date, and 

(c)such Indebtedness shall be subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations, and have payment blockage and standstill provisions with respect to exercise of remedies on terms that are reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent at the time of issuance thereof.

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

“Plan” means any employee benefit plan within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA (including a Pension Plan), maintained for employees of any Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate or any such Plan to which any Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate is required to contribute on behalf of any of its employees.

“Platform” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.

“Pledged Debt” has the meaning specified in Section 5(i) of the Security Agreement.

“Pledged Interests” has the meaning specified in Section 1 of the Security Agreement.

“Pro Forma Basis” and “Pro Forma Effect” means, for any Specified Transaction, whether actual or proposed, for purposes of determining compliance with the financial covenants set forth in Section 7.10, each such transaction or proposed transaction shall be deemed to have occurred on and as of the first day of the relevant Measurement Period, and the following pro forma adjustments shall be made:

(a)in the case of an actual or proposed Disposition or similar Specified Transaction, all income statement items (whether positive or negative) attributable to the line of business or the Person subject to such Disposition or similar Specified Transaction shall be excluded from the results of Holdings and its Subsidiaries for such Measurement Period;

(b)in the case of an actual or proposed Acquisition or similar Specified Transaction, income statement items (whether positive or negative) attributable to the property, line of business or the Person subject to such Acquisition or similar Specified Transaction shall be included in the results of Holdings and its Subsidiaries for such Measurement Period;

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Transaction shall be excluded from the results of Holdings and its Subsidiaries for such Measurement Period; and

(d)any Indebtedness (including any Credit Extension) actually or proposed to be incurred or assumed in connection with a Specified Transaction under Section 7.06(h) shall be deemed to have been incurred as of the first day of the applicable Measurement Period, and interest thereon shall be deemed to have accrued from such day on such Indebtedness at the applicable rates provided therefor (and in the case of interest that does or would accrue at a formula or floating rate, at the rate in effect at the time of determination) and shall be included in the results of Holdings and its Subsidiaries for such Measurement Period.

“Pro Forma Compliance” means, with respect to any transaction, that such transaction does not cause, create or result in a Default after giving Pro Forma Effect, based upon the results of operations for the most recently completed Measurement Period to (a) such transaction and (b) all other transactions which are contemplated or required to be given Pro Forma Effect hereunder that have occurred on or after the first day of the relevant Measurement Period.

“PTE” means a prohibited transaction class exemption issued by the U.S. Department of Labor, as any such exemption may be amended from time to time.

“Public Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.

“Purchase Money Indebtedness” means Indebtedness of any Person incurred for the purpose of financing all or any part of the purchase price or cost of acquisition, repair, construction or improvement of property or assets used or useful in the business of such Person.

 

“QFC” has the meaning assigned to the term “qualified financial contract” in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. 5390(c)(8)(D).

 

“QFC Credit Support” has the meaning specified in Section 11.24.

“Qualified ECP Guarantor” means, at any time, each Loan Party with total assets exceeding $10,000,000 or that qualifies at such time as an “eligible contract participant” under the Commodity Exchange Act and can cause another Person to qualify as an “eligible contract participant” at such time under Section 1a(18)(A)(v)(II) of the Commodity Exchange Act.

“Qualified Equity Interests” means any Equity Interests that are not Disqualified Equity Interests. 

“Rate Determination Date” means two (2) Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period (or such other day as is generally treated as the rate fixing day by market practice in such interbank market, as determined by the Administrative Agent; provided that to the extent such market practice is not administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent, then “Rate Determination Date” means such other day as otherwise reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent.

“Receivables” means “Accounts” as defined in Section 1 of the Security Agreement.

“Recipient” means the Administrative Agent, any Lender, the L/C Issuer of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party hereunder.

“Reduction Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(b)(viii).

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“Refinanced Term Loans” has the meaning specified in Section 11.01.

“Register” has the meaning specified in Section 11.06(c).

“Reinsurance Contract” means any agreement by and between a Captive Insurance Subsidiary and a Fronting Insurance Company with respect to the agreement of such Captive Insurance Subsidiary to reinsure, on terms that do not provide for recourse to the Loan Parties in respect of the obligations of the Captive Insurance Subsidiary thereunder, the insurance obligations of such Fronting Insurance Company.

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

 “Relevant Governmental Body” means (a) with respect to Loans denominated in Dollars, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and/or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and/or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or(b) with respect to Loans denominated in Sterling, the Bank of England, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the Bank of England or, in each case, any successor thereto and (c) with respect to Loans denominated in Euros, the European Central Bank, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the European Central Bank or, in each case, any successor thereto.

“Relevant Rate”  means, with respect to any LoanCredit Extension denominated in (a) Dollars, SOFR, (b) Sterling, SONIA, and with respect to any Loan denominated in(c) Euros, the EURIBOR Rate, as applicable.  

“Replacement Term Loans” has the meaning specified in Section 11.01.

“Reportable Event” means any of the events set forth in Section 4043(c) of ERISA, other than events for which the 30 day notice period has been waived.

“Request for Credit Extension” means (a) with respect to a Borrowing, conversion or continuation of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans, a Committed Loan Notice, (b) with respect to an L/C Credit Extension, a Letter of Credit Application, and (c) with respect to a Swing Line Loan, a Swing Line Loan Notice.

“Required Lenders” means, subject to Section 1.11, as of any date of determination, (a) if there is only one Lender that is not a Defaulting Lender, such Lender and (b) otherwise, two or more Lenders that are not Defaulting Lenders holding more than 50% of the sum of the (i) Total Outstandings (with the aggregate amount of each Revolving Credit Lender’s risk participation and funded participation in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans being deemed “held” by such Revolving Credit Lender for purposes of this definition) and (ii) aggregate unused Revolving Credit Commitments; provided that the unused Revolving Credit Commitment of, and the portion of the Total Outstandings held or deemed held by, any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a determination of Required Lenders and provided, further that a Lender and its Affiliates shall be deemed one Lender for purposes of making a determination of Required Lenders.

“Required Revolving Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, (a) if there is only one Revolving Credit Lender that is not a Defaulting Lender, such Revolving Credit Lender and (b) otherwise, two or more Revolving Credit Lenders that are not Defaulting Lenders holding more than 50% of the sum of the (i) Total Revolving Credit Outstandings (with the aggregate amount of each Revolving Credit Lender’s risk participation and funded participation in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans being deemed “held” by such Revolving Credit Lender for purposes of this definition) and (ii) aggregate unused Revolving Credit Commitments; provided that the unused Revolving Credit Commitment of, and the portion of the Total Revolving Credit Outstandings held or deemed held by, any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a determination of 

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Required Revolving Lenders, provided, further that a Lender and its Affiliates shall be deemed one Lender for purposes of making a determination of Required Revolving Lenders.

“Required Term Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, (a) if there is only one Term Lender that is not a Defaulting Lender, such Term Lender and (b) otherwise, two or more Term Lenders holding more than 50% of the Term Facility on such date; provided that the portion of the Term Facility held by any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a determination of Required Term Lenders and provided, further that a Lender and its Affiliates shall be deemed one Lender for purposes of making a determination of Required Term Lenders.

“Rescindable Amount” has the meaning as defined in Section 2.12(b)(ii).

“Resolution Authority” means an EEA Resolution Authority or, with respect to any UK Financial Institution, a UK Resolution Authority.

“Responsible Officer” means the chief executive officer, president, chief financial officer, treasurer, assistant treasurer or controller of such Loan Party and, solely for purposes of the delivery of incumbency certificates pursuant to Section 4.01, the secretary or any assistant secretary of a Loan Party (or other senior executive officer or director performing similar functions), and, solely for purposes of notices given pursuant to Article II, any other officer or employee (or other senior executive officer or director performing similar functions) of the applicable Loan Party so designated by any of the foregoing officers in a notice to the Administrative Agent or any other officer or employee of the applicable Loan Party designated in or pursuant to an agreement between the applicable Loan Party and the Administrative Agent.  Any document delivered hereunder that is signed by a Responsible Officer of a Loan Party shall be conclusively presumed to have been authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership and/or other action on the part of such Loan Party and such Responsible Officer shall be conclusively presumed to have acted on behalf of such Loan Party.  To the extent required by the Administrative Agent, each Responsible Officer will provide an incumbency certificate and to the extent requested by the Administrative Agent, appropriate authorization documentation, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

“Restricted Payment” means any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) with respect to any capital stock or other Equity Interest of any Person or any of its Subsidiaries, or any payment (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, defeasance, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any such capital stock or other Equity Interest, or on account of any return of capital to any Person’s stockholders, partners or members (or the equivalent of any thereof), or any option, warrant or other right to acquire any such dividend or other distribution or payment.  

“Revaluation Date” means (a) with respect to any Loan, each of the following:  (i) each date of a Borrowing of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan or Alternative Currency Daily Rate Loan denominated in an Alternative Currency Term Rate Loan, (ii) each date of a continuation of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in an Alternative Currency Term Rate Loan pursuant to Section 2.02 and each Interest Payment Date with respect to an Alternative Currency Daily Rate Loan, and (iii) such additional dates as the Administrative Agent shall determine or the Required Lenders shall require; and (b) with respect to any Letter of Credit, each of the following:  (i) each date of issuance, amendment and/or extension of a Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency, (ii) each date of any payment by the L/C Issuer under any Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency, and (iii) such additional dates as the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer shall determine or the Required Lenders shall require. 

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 “Revolving Credit Borrowing” means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous Revolving Credit Loans of the same Type and, in the case of Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loans, having the same Interest Period made by each of the Revolving Credit Lenders pursuant to Section 2.01(b).

“Revolving Credit Commitment” means, as to each Revolving Credit Lender, its obligation to (a) make Revolving Credit Loans to the Borrowers pursuant to Section 2.01(b), (b) purchase participations in L/C Obligations, and (c) purchase participations in Swing Line Loans, in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 2.01 (as amended on the FourthFifth Amendment Effective Date) under the caption “Revolving Credit Commitment” or opposite such caption in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with this Agreement.  Commencing as of the Fourth Amendment Effective Date, the aggregate amount of the Revolving Credit Commitments is $695,000,000.

“Revolving Credit Facility” means, at any time, the aggregate amount of the Revolving Credit Lenders’ Revolving Credit Commitments at such time.

“Revolving Credit Lender” means, at any time, any Lender that has a Revolving Credit Commitment at such time.

“Revolving Credit Loan” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(b).

“Revolving Credit Note” means a promissory note made by the Borrowers in favor of a Revolving Credit Lender evidencing Revolving Credit Loans or Swing Line Loans, as the case may be, made by such Revolving Credit Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit C-1.

“Revolving Increase Joinder” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(e).

“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC, a subsidiary of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., and any successor thereto.

“Sanction(s)” means any 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 (“HMT”) or other relevant sanctions authority.

“Scheduled Unavailability Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.05(b)(ii).

 “SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any of its principal functions.

“Second Amendment” means the Second Amendment to Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of June 2, 2020, among the Borrowers, the other Loan Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders party thereto.

 “Secured Cash Management Agreement” means any Cash Management Agreement that is entered into by and between any Loan Party and any Cash Management Bank.

“Secured Hedge Agreement” means any Swap Contract permitted under Article VI or VII that is entered into by and between any Loan Party and any Hedge Bank.

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time to time pursuant to Section 9.05, and the other Persons the Obligations owing to which are or are purported to be secured by the Collateral under the terms of the Collateral Documents.

“Security Agreement” means the second amended and restated security agreement executed as of the Third Restatement Date, in substantially the form of Exhibit G-1 to the Agreement (together with each other security agreement and security agreement supplement delivered pursuant to Section 6.12, in each case as amended).

“Security Agreement Supplement” means a “Joinder” under and as defined in the Security Agreement.

 

“SOFRSenior Indebtedness” has the meaning providedset forth in the definition of “Daily Simple SOFR”Section 11.01(k).

 

“SOFR-Based Rate” means SOFR or Term SOFR.

“SOFR Early Opt-in” means the Administrative Agent and the Lead Borrower have elected to replace LIBOR pursuant to (1) an Early Opt-in Election and (2) Section 3.05(b)(i) and paragraph (1) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement”.” means the Secured Overnight Financing Rate as administered by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or a successor administrator of the Secured Overnight Financing Rate). 

“SOFR Adjustment” means, with respect to Term SOFR, 0.10000% (10.000 basis points) for an interest period of one-month’s duration, 0.15000 % (15.000 basis points) for an interest period of three-month’s duration, and 0.25000% (25.000 basis points) for an interest period of six-months’ duration.

“SOFR Administrator” means the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as the administrator of SOFR, or any successor administrator of SOFR designated by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or other Person acting as the SOFR Administrator at such time.  

 “Solvent” and “Solvency” mean, with respect to any Person on any date of determination, that on such date (a) the fair value of the property of such Person and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis is greater than the total amount of liabilities, including contingent liabilities, of such Person and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, (b) the present fair salable value of the assets of such Person and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis is not less than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of such Person and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis on its debts as they become absolute and matured, (c) such Person and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis do not intend to, and do not believe that they will, incur debts or liabilities beyond the ability of such Person and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis to pay such debts and liabilities as they become absolute and matured, (d) such Person and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis are not engaged in business or a transaction, and are not about to engage in business or a transaction, for which such Person and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis’s property would constitute an unreasonably small capital, and (e) such Person and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis are able to pay their debts and liabilities, contingent obligations and other commitments as they become absolute and matured in the ordinary course of business.  The amount of contingent liabilities at any time shall be computed as the amount that, in the light of all the facts and circumstances existing at such time, represents the amount that can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability.

“SONIA” means, with respect to any applicable determination date, the Sterling Overnight Index Average Reference Rate published on the fifth Business Day preceding such date on the applicable Reuters screen page (or such other commercially available source providing such quotations as may be designated by the 

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Administrative Agent from time to time); provided however that if such determination date is not a Business Day,  SONIA means such rate that applied on the first Business Day immediately prior thereto.

“SONIA Adjustment” means, with respect to SONIA, 0.1193%0.0326% (3.26 basis points) per annum.

“Specified Loan Party” means any Loan Party that is not then an “eligible contract participant” under the Commodity Exchange Act (determined prior to giving effect to Section 10.12).

“Specified Transaction” means any cost savings initiative, business optimization initiative, acquisition, equity issuance, incurrence of indebtedness, investment, divestiture, discontinued operation or disposition.

“Spot Rate” for any currency means the rate determined by the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, as applicable, to be the rate quoted by the Person acting in such capacity as the spot rate for the purchase by such Person of such currency with another currency through its principal foreign exchange trading office at approximately 11:00 a.m. on the date two Business Days prior to the date as of which the foreign exchange computation is made; provided that the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer may obtain such spot rate from another financial institution designated by the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer if the Person acting in such capacity does not have as of the date of determination a spot buying rate for any such currency; and provided further that the L/C Issuer may use such spot rate quoted on the date as of which the foreign exchange computation is made in the case of any Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency. 

“Sterling” or “£” means the lawful currency of the United Kingdom.

“Sterling Equivalent” means, at any time, with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, the equivalent amount thereof in Sterling as determined by the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, at such time on the basis of the Spot Rate (determined in respect of the most recent Revaluation Date) for the purchase of Sterling with Dollars.

“Subsidiary” of a Person means a corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company or other business entity of which a majority of the shares of securities or other interests having ordinary voting power for the election of directors or other governing body (other than securities or interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) are at the time beneficially owned, or the management of which is otherwise controlled, directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such Person.  Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to a “Subsidiary” or to “Subsidiaries” shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of Holdings.

“Successor Rate” has the meaning specified in Section 3.05(b).

“Supported QFC” has the meaning specified in Section 11.24.

“Swap Contract” means (a) any and all rate swap transactions, basis swaps, credit derivative transactions, forward rate transactions, commodity swaps, commodity options, forward commodity contracts, equity or equity index swaps or options, bond or bond price or bond index swaps or options or forward bond or forward bond price or forward bond index transactions, interest rate options, forward foreign exchange transactions, cap transactions, floor transactions, collar transactions, currency swap transactions, cross-currency rate swap transactions, currency options, spot contracts, or any other similar transactions or any combination of any of the foregoing (including any options to enter into any of the foregoing), whether or not any such transaction is governed by or subject to any master agreement, and (b) any and all transactions of any kind, and the related confirmations, which are subject to the terms and conditions of, or governed by, any form of master agreement published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., any International Foreign Exchange 

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Master Agreement, or any other master agreement (any such master agreement, together with any related schedules, a “Master Agreement”), including any such obligations or liabilities under any Master Agreement.

“Swap Termination Value” means, in respect of any one or more Swap Contracts, after taking into account the effect of any legally enforceable netting agreement relating to such Swap Contracts, (a) for any date on or after the date such Swap Contracts have been closed out and termination value(s) determined in accordance therewith, such termination value(s), and (b) for any date prior to the date referenced in clause (a), the amount(s) determined as the mark-to-market value(s) for such Swap Contracts, as determined based upon one or more mid-market or other readily available quotations provided by any recognized dealer in such Swap Contracts (which may include a Lender or any Affiliate of a Lender).

“Swing Line Borrowing” means a borrowing of a Swing Line Loan pursuant to Section 2.04.

“Swing Line Lender” means Bank of America in its capacity as provider of Swing Line Loans, or any successor swing line lender hereunder.

“Swing Line Loan” has the meaning specified in Section 2.04(a).

“Swing Line Loan Notice” means a notice of a Swing Line Borrowing pursuant to Section 2.04(b), which shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit B or such other form as approved by the Administrative Agent (including any form on an electronic platform or electronic transmission system as shall be approved by the Administrative Agent), appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the Lead Borrower.  

“Swing Line Sublimit” means an amount equal to the lesser of (a) $10,000,000 and (b) the Revolving Credit Facility.  The Swing Line Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Revolving Credit Facility.

“Syndication Agent” means, collectively, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association in their capacities as co-syndication agents under this Agreement.

“Synthetic Debt” means, with respect to any Person as of any date of determination thereof, all obligations of such Person in respect of transactions entered into by such Person that are intended to function primarily as a borrowing of funds (including any minority interest transactions that function primarily as a borrowing) but are not otherwise included in the definition of “Indebtedness” or as a liability on the consolidated balance sheet of such Person and its Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the definitions of “Indebtedness” and “Synthetic Debt” will be deemed not to include obligations (“Escrowed Obligations”) incurred in connection with or otherwise outstanding in advance of, a transaction (including any repayment, prepayment or redemption as to which a notice thereof has been delivered to the applicable holders thereof), solely to the extent that the proceeds to satisfy such obligations are and continue to be held in an escrow, trust, collateral or similar account or arrangement (collectively, an “Escrow”) and are not otherwise made available for any other purpose (it being understood that in any event, any such proceeds held in such Escrow shall not be deemed to represent cash or Cash Equivalents for purposes of calculating the Consolidated Leverage Ratio); provided that upon the release of the proceeds of Escrowed Obligations from such Escrow such obligations, to the extent outstanding after such release, may constitute Indebtedness or Synthetic Debt after such date.

 “Synthetic Lease Obligation” means the monetary obligation of a Person under (a) a so-called synthetic, off-balance sheet or tax retention lease, or (b) an agreement for the use or possession of property (including sale and leaseback transactions), in each case, creating obligations that do not appear on the balance sheet of such Person but which, upon the application of any Debtor Relief Laws to such Person, would be characterized as the indebtedness of such Person (without regard to accounting treatment); provided that the amount of any obligation 

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in respect of any sale-leaseback transaction shall be the present value, discounted in accordance with GAAP (as in effect on the date hereof) at the interest rate implicit in the related lease, of the obligations of the lessee for net rental payments over the remaining term of such lease (including any period for which such lease has been extended or may, at the option of the lessor be extended). 

“TARGET2” means the Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross Settlement Express Transfer payment system which utilizes a single shared platform and which was launched on November 19, 2007.

“TARGET Day” means any day on which TARGET2 (or, if such payment system ceases to be operative, such other payment system, if any, determined by the Administrative Agent to be a suitable replacement) is open for the settlement of payments in Euro.

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

“Tax Deduction” means a deduction or withholding for or on account of Tax from a payment under a Finance Document, other than a deduction or withholding from a payment required by FATCA. 

“Tax Confirmation” means  a confirmation by a U.K. Lender that the person beneficially entitled to interest payable to that Lender in respect of an advance in respect of the U.K. Facility under a Loan Document is either:

(a)a company resident in the United Kingdom for United Kingdom tax purposes; or

(b)a partnership each member of which is:

(i)a company so resident in the United Kingdom; or

(ii)a company not so resident in the United Kingdom which carries on a trade in the United Kingdom through a permanent establishment and which brings into account in computing its chargeable profits (within the meaning of section 19 of the CTA) the whole of any share of interest payable in respect of that advance that falls to it by reason of Part 17 of the CTA; or

(c)a company not so resident in the United Kingdom which carries on a trade in the United Kingdom through a permanent establishment and which brings into account interest payable in respect of that advance in computing the chargeable profits (within the meaning of section 19 of the CTA) of that company. 

“Term Borrowing” means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous Term Loans of the same Type and, in the case of EurocurrencyAlternative Currency Term Rate Loans, having the same Interest Period made by each of the Term Lenders pursuant to Section 2.01(a).

“Term Commitment” means, as to each Term Lender, its obligation to make Term Loans to the Borrowers pursuant to Section 2.01(a) in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 2.01 (as in effect on the Third Restatement Date) under the caption “Term Commitment” or opposite such caption in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Term Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with this Agreement.  

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“Term Facility” means, at any time, (a) on or prior to the Third Restatement Date, the aggregate amount of the Term Commitments at such time and (b) thereafter, the aggregate principal amount of the Term Loans of all Term Lenders outstanding at such time.

“Term Increase Joinder” has the meaning specified in Section 2.16(e).

“Term Lender” means at any time, (a) on or prior to the Third Restatement Date, any Lender that has a Term Commitment at such time and (b) at any time after the Third Restatement Date, any Lender that holds Term Loans at such time.

“Term Loan” means an advance made by any Term Lender under the Term Facility.

“Term Note” means a promissory note made by the Borrowers in favor of a Term Lender, evidencing Term Loans made by such Term Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit C‐2.

 

“Term SOFR” means, for the applicable corresponding tenor (or if any Available Tenor of a Benchmark does not correspond to an Available Tenor for the applicable Benchmark Replacement, the closest corresponding Available Tenor and if such Available Tenor corresponds equally to two Available Tenors of the applicable Benchmark Replacement, the corresponding tenor of the shorter duration shall be applied), the forward-looking term rate based on SOFR that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body.

 (a) for any Interest Period with respect to a Term SOFR Loan, the rate per annum equal to the Term SOFR Screen Rate two U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period with a term equivalent to such Interest Period; provided that if the rate is not published prior to 11:00 a.m. on such determination date then Term SOFR means the Term SOFR Screen Rate on the first U.S. Government Securities Business Day immediately prior thereto, in each case, plus the SOFR Adjustment for such Interest Period; and (b) for any interest calculation with respect to a Base Rate Loan on any date, the rate per annum equal to the Term SOFR Screen Rate with a term of one month commencing that day; provided that if the Term SOFR determined in accordance with either of the foregoing provisions (a) or (b) of this definition would otherwise be less than zero percent (0.00%), the Term SOFR shall be deemed to be zero percent (0.00%) for purposes of this Agreement.

“Term SOFR Loan” means a Loan that bears interest at a rate based on clause (a) of the definition of Term SOFR.  Term SOFR Loans may only be denominated in Dollars. 

“Term SOFR Screen Rate” means the forward-looking SOFR term rate administered by CME (or any successor administrator satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) and published on the applicable Reuters screen page (or such other commercially available source providing such quotations as may be designated by the Administrative Agent from time to time).

 “Third Amendment” means the Third Amendment to Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of September 22, 2021, among the Borrowers, the other Loan Parties and the Administrative Agent.

“Third Amendment Effective Date” means September 29, 2021.

“Third Restatement Date” means the first date all the conditions precedent in Sections 4.01 and 4.02 are satisfied or waived in accordance with Section 11.01.

“Threshold Amount” means $7,500,000.

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“Total Revolving Credit Outstandings” means the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Revolving Credit Loans, Swing Line Loans and L/C Obligations.

“Total Outstandings” means the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Loans and all L/C Obligations.

“Transaction” means, collectively, (a) the entering into by the Loan Parties and their applicable Subsidiaries of the Loan Documents to which they are or are intended to be a party, (b) the refinancing of certain outstanding Indebtedness of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries and the termination of all commitments with respect thereto, and (c) the payment of the fees and expenses incurred in connection with the consummation of the foregoing.

“Treaty” as defined in the definition of “U.K. Treaty State” or in the definition of “German Treaty State”, as applicable.

“Type” means, with respect to a Loan, its character as a Base Rate Loan, a Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loan or, an Alternative Currency Daily Rate Loan or an Alternative Currency Term Rate Loan.

“UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of New York; provided that, if perfection or the effect of perfection or non-perfection or the priority of any security interest in any Collateral is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in a jurisdiction other than the State of New York, “UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in such other jurisdiction for purposes of the provisions hereof relating to such perfection, effect of perfection or non-perfection or priority.

“U.K. Bail-In Legislation” means (to the extent that the United Kingdom is not an EEA Member Country which has implemented, or implements Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU establishing a framework for the recovery and resolution of credit institutions and investment firms) Part I of the United Kingdom Banking Act 2009 and any other law or regulation applicable in the United Kingdom relating to the resolution of unsound or failing banks, investment firms or other financial institutions or their affiliates (otherwiseother than through liquidation, administration or other insolvency proceedings).

“U.K. Borrower” as defined in the preamble.  

“U.K. Facility” means any Loan to a U.K. Borrower.

“UK Financial Institution” means any BRRD Undertaking (as such term is defined under the PRA Rulebook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Prudential Regulation Authority) or any person subject to IFPRU 11.6 of the FCA Handbook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority, which includes certain credit institutions and investment firms, and certain affiliates of such credit institutions or investment firms.

“UK Resolution Authority” means the Bank of England or any other public administrative authority having responsibility for the resolution of any UK Financial Institution.

“U.K. Lenders” means lenders under a U.K. Facility. 

“U.K. Non-Bank Lender” means

(i)a U.K. Lender that falls within paragraph (a)(ii) of the definition of “U.K. Qualifying Lender” that is a party to this Agreement on the date of this Agreement (and has given a Tax Confirmation by entering into this Agreement on such date, pursuant to Section 5.8.6(b)(x)); and

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(ii)a U.K. Lender which becomes a Lender after the date of this Agreement that gives a Tax Confirmation in the Assignment and Assumption which it executes on becoming a U.K. Lender. 

“U.K. Qualifying Lender” means (a) a U.K. Lender which is beneficially entitled to interest payable to that Lender in respect of an advance in respect of the U.K. Facility under any Loan Document and is:

	
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a Lender:

	
(A)
	
that is a bank (as defined for the purpose of section 879 of the ITA) making an advance in respect of the U.K. Facility; or

	
(B)
	
in respect of an advance by a person that was a bank (as defined for the purpose of section 879 of the ITA) at the time that such advance was made,

and, in each case, which is (or, for the purposes of (B), was) within the charge to United Kingdom corporation tax with respect to any payments of interest made in respect of that advance (or, for the purposes of paragraph (A), above, would be within such charge as respects such payments apart from section 18A of the CTA); or

	
(ii)
	
a Lender which is:

	
(A)
	
a company resident in the United Kingdom for United Kingdom tax purposes;

	
(B)
	
a partnership, each member of which is (x) a company so resident in the United Kingdom; or (y) a company not so resident in the United Kingdom which carries on a trade in the United Kingdom through a permanent establishment and which brings into account in computing its chargeable profits (within the meaning of section 19 of the CTA) the whole of any share of interest payable in respect of that advance that falls to it by reason of Part 17 of the CTA;

	
(C)
	
a company not so resident in the United Kingdom which carries on a trade in the United Kingdom through a permanent establishment and which brings into account interest payable in respect of that advance in computing the chargeable profits (within the meaning of section 19 of the CTA) of that company; or

	
(D)
	
a U.K. Treaty Lender; or

	
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a building society (as defined for that purposes of section 880 of the ITA) making an advance in respect of the U.K. Facility.

“U.K. Treaty Lender” means  a U.K. Lender which:

(a)is treated as a resident of a U.K. Treaty State for purposes of the relevant Treaty; and

(b)does not carry on a business in the United Kingdom through a permanent establishment with which that Lender’s participation in any advance is effectively connected; and

(c)meets any other conditions in the relevant Treaty which must be fulfilled under the relevant Treaty for residents of that U.K. Treaty State to obtain full exemption from United Kingdom taxation on interest in relation to payments of interest by the U.K. Borrower at the time of the relevant interest payment, subject to the completion of any necessary procedural formalities.

 

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“U.K. Security Agreements” means, collectively, (i) the security agreement dated as of the Original Closing Date and governed by English law securing the assets of Novanta Inc. (previously known as GSI Group Inc.) and Novanta Technologies UK Limited (previously known as GSI Group Limited) organized under English Law, as chargors and Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent, and (ii) the security agreement dated as of July 8, 2015 by and among Novanta Inc. (previously known as GSI Group Inc.) and Novanta UK Investments Holding Limited (previously known as GSI Group UK Investments Holding Limited), as chargors and Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent, (iii) the supplemental debenture dated as of 7 January 2020 by and among Novanta Technologies UK Limited (previously known as GSI Group Limited), as chargor and Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent, (iv) the supplemental debenture dated as of 7 January 2020 by and among Novanta Inc. (previously known as GSI Group Inc.) and Novanta UK Investments Holding Limited (previously known as GSI Group UK Investments Holding Limited), as chargors and Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent, (v) the second supplemental debenture dated as of March 10, 2022 by and among Novanta Technologies UK Limited (previously known as GSI Group Limited), as chargor and Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent, (vi) the second supplemental debenture dated as of March 10, 2022 by and among Novanta Inc. (previously known as GSI Group Inc.) and Novanta UK Investments Holding Limited (previously known as GSI Group UK Investments Holding Limited), as chargors and Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent, (vii) other security and pledge agreements reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, securing payment of all the Obligations of the U.K. Borrower under the Loan Documents and constituting Liens on all such properties and (ivviii) any other existing security agreements governed by English law, in each case, as the same may be confirmed, supplemented, modified, amended and/or restated or replaced from time to time.

“U.K. Treaty Lender” means  a U.K. Lender which:

(a)is treated as a resident of a U.K. Treaty State for purposes of the relevant Treaty; and

(b)does not carry on a business in the United Kingdom through a permanent establishment with which that Lender’s participation in any advance is effectively connected; and

(c)meets any other conditions in the relevant Treaty which must be fulfilled under the relevant Treaty for residents of that U.K. Treaty State to obtain full exemption from United Kingdom taxation on interest in relation to payments of interest by the U.K. Borrower at the time of the relevant interest payment, subject to the completion of any necessary procedural formalities.

 “U.K. Treaty State” means a jurisdiction having a double taxation agreement (a “Treaty”) with the United Kingdom which makes provision for full exemption from tax imposed by the United Kingdom on interest.

“United States” and “U.S.” mean the United States of America.

“Unreimbursed Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(c)(i).

“U.S. Government Securities Business Day” means any Business Day, except any Business Day on which any of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, the New York Stock Exchange or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is not open for business because such day is a legal holiday under the federal laws of the United States or the laws of the State of New York, as applicable.

“U.S. Loan Party” means any Loan Party that is organized under the laws of one of the states of the United States of America and that is not a CFC.

“U.S. Special Resolution Regimes” has the meaning specified in Section 11.24.

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any value added tax imposed by the Value Added Tax Act 1994;

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

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

“Write-Down and Conversion Powers” means, (a) with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule and (b) in relation to any U.K. Bail-In Legislation:

(i)any powers of the applicable Resolution Authority under thatthe U.K. Bail-In Legislation to cancel, transfer or dilute shares issued by a person that is a bank or investment firm or other financial institution or affiliate of a bank, investment firm or other financial institution, to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a liability of such a person or any contract or instrument under which that liability arises, to convert all or part of that liability into shares, securities or obligations of that person or any other person, to provide that any such contract or instrument is to have effect as if a right had been exercised under it or to suspend any obligation in respect of that liability or an of the powers under that U.K. Bail-In Legislation that are related to or ancillary to any of those powers; and

(ii)any similar or analogous powers under that U.K. Bail-In Legislation.

1.02Other Interpretive Provisions  

With reference to this Agreement and each other Loan Document, unless otherwise specified herein or in such other Loan Document:

(a)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, (i) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document (including any Organization Document) 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 or in any other Loan Document), (ii) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns, (iii) the words “herein,” “hereof,” “hereto” and “hereunder,” and words of similar import when used in any Loan Document, shall be construed to refer to such Loan Document in its entirety and not to any particular provision thereof, (iv) all references in a Loan Document to Articles, Sections, Preliminary Statements, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and Preliminary Statements, Exhibits and Schedules to, the Loan Document in which such references appear, (v) any reference to any law shall include all statutory and regulatory provisions consolidating, amending, replacing or interpreting such law and any reference to any law or regulation shall, unless otherwise specified, refer to such law or regulation as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, and (vi) the words “asset” and “property” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights.

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(b)In the computation of periods of time from a specified date to a later specified date, the word “from” means “from and including;” the words “to” and “until” each mean “to but excluding;” and the word “through” means “to and including.”

(c)Section headings herein and in the other Loan Documents are included for convenience of reference only and shall not affect the interpretation of this Agreement or any other Loan Document.

(d)Any reference herein to a sale, disposition or transfer, or similar term, shall be deemed to apply to a division of or by a limited liability company, or an allocation of assets to a series of a limited liability company (or, in the case of any reference to a merger, consolidation or amalgamation, to an unwinding of such a division or allocation), as if it were a sale, disposition or transfer (or merger, consolidation or amalgamation as applicable), to, of or with a separate Person. Any division of a limited liability company shall constitute a separate Person hereunder (and each division of any limited liability company that is a Subsidiary, joint venture or any other like term shall also constitute such a Person or entity).

1.03Accounting Terms  

(a)Generally.  All accounting terms not specifically or completely defined herein shall be construed in conformity with, and all financial data (including financial ratios and other financial calculations) required to be submitted pursuant to this Agreement shall be prepared in conformity with, GAAP applied on a consistent basis, as in effect from time to time, applied in a manner consistent with that used in preparing the Audited Financial Statements, except as otherwise specifically prescribed herein.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, for purposes of determining compliance with any covenant (including the computation of any financial covenant) contained herein, Indebtedness of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries shall be deemed to be carried at 100% of the outstanding principal amount thereof, and the effects of FASB ASC 825 on financial liabilities shall be disregarded.

(b)Changes in GAAP.  If at any time any change in GAAP would affect the computation of any financial ratio or requirement set forth in any Loan Document, and either the Lead Borrower or the Required Lenders shall so request, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Borrowers shall negotiate in good faith to amend such ratio or requirement to preserve the original intent thereof in light of such change in GAAP (subject to the approval of the Required Lenders); provided that, until so amended, (i) such ratio or requirement shall continue to be computed in accordance with GAAP prior to such change therein and (ii) the Borrowers shall provide to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders financial statements and other documents required under this Agreement or as reasonably requested hereunder setting forth a reconciliation between calculations of such ratio or requirement made before and after giving effect to such change in GAAP.  Without limiting the foregoing, leases shall continue to be classified and accounted for on a basis consistent with that reflected on the Third Restatement Date in the Audited Financial Statements for all purposes of this Agreement (including, without limitation, for purposes of calculating “Attributable Indebtedness”), notwithstanding any change in GAAP relating thereto, unless the parties hereto shall enter into a mutually acceptable amendment addressing such changes, as provided for above (it being understood, for the avoidance of doubt, that until any such amendment is entered into, no Non-Finance Lease shall constitute a Capitalized Lease for purposes of this Agreement).

(c)Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities.  All references herein to consolidated financial statements of Holdings and its Subsidiaries or to the determination of any amount for Holdings and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis or any similar reference shall, in each case, be deemed to include each variable interest entity that Holdings is required to consolidate pursuant to FASB Interpretation No. 46 – Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities: an interpretation of ARB No. 51 (January 2003) as if such variable interest entity were a Subsidiary as defined herein.

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1.04Rounding  

Any financial ratios required to be maintained by the Borrowers pursuant to this Agreement shall be calculated by dividing the appropriate component by the other component, carrying the result to one place more than the number of places by which such ratio is expressed herein and rounding the result up or down to the nearest number (with a rounding-up if there is no nearest number).

1.05Times of Day; Business Days  

Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to times of day shall be references to Eastern time (daylight or standard, as applicable).  When payment of any obligation or the performance of any covenant, duty or obligation is stated to be due or required on a day which is not a Business Day, the date of such payment (other than as expressly set forth herein) or performance shall extend to the immediately succeeding Business Day and, in the case of any payment accruing interest, interest thereon shall be payable for the period of such extension.

1.06Letter of Credit Amounts  

Unless otherwise specified herein, the amount of a Letter of Credit at any time shall be deemed to be the Dollar Equivalent of the stated amount of such Letter of Credit in effect at such time; provided, however, that with respect to any Letter of Credit that, by its terms or the terms of any Issuer Document related thereto, provides for one or more automatic increases in the stated amount thereof, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be the Dollar Equivalent of the maximum stated amount of such Letter of Credit after giving effect to all such increases, whether or not such maximum stated amount is in effect at such time.

1.07Exchange Rates; Currency Equivalents Generally  

(a)Any amount specified in this Agreement (other than in Articles II, IX and X) or any of the other Loan Documents to be in Dollars shall also include the equivalent of such amount in any currency other than Dollars, such equivalent amount thereof in the applicable currency to be determined (except for purposes of financial statements delivered by Loan Parties hereunder or calculating financial covenants, negative covenant “baskets” or baskets under Article VIII hereof (which shall be determined by the Lead Borrower in a manner consistent with the financial statements delivered by the Loan Parties hereunder or otherwise in good faith by the Lead Borrower), or except as otherwise provided herein) by the Administrative Agent at such time on the basis of the Spot Rate for the purchase of such currency with Dollars.

(b)The Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, as applicable, shall determine the Spot Rates as of each Revaluation Date to be used for calculating Dollar Equivalent amounts of Credit Extensions and Outstanding Amounts denominated in Alternative Currencies.  Such Spot Rates shall become effective as of such Revaluation Date and shall be the Spot Rates employed in converting any amounts between the applicable currencies until the next Revaluation Date to occur.  Except for purposes of financial statements delivered by Loan Parties hereunder or calculating financial covenants or, negative covenant “baskets” hereunderor baskets under Article VIII hereof (which shall be determined by the Lead Borrower in a manner consistent with the financial statements delivered by the Loan Parties hereunder or otherwise in good faith by the Lead Borrower), or except as otherwise provided herein, the applicable amount of any currency (other than Dollars) for purposes of the Loan Documents shall be such Dollar Equivalent amount as so determined by the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, as applicable.

(c)Wherever in this Agreement in connection with a Borrowing, conversion, continuation or prepayment of a Eurocurrency Ratean Alternative Currency Loan or the issuance, amendment or extension of a Letter of Credit, an amount, such as a required minimum or multiple amount, is expressed in Dollars, but such Borrowing, Eurocurrency RateAlternative Currency Loan or Letter of Credit is denominated in an Alternative 

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Currency, such amount shall be the Euro Equivalent or Sterling Equivalent, as the case may be, of such Dollar amount (rounded to the nearest Euro or £, with 0.5 of a unit being rounded upward), as determined by the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be.

1.08Interest Rates  

The Administrative Agent does not warrant, nor accept responsibility, nor shall the Administrative Agent have any liability with respect to the administration, submission or any other matter related to the rates in the definition of “Eurocurrency Rate” orTerm SOFR”, “Alternative Currency Daily Rate” or with respect to any rate (including, for the avoidance of doubt“Alternative Currency Term Rate”, the selection of such rate andrates, any related spread or other adjustment) or with respect to any rate that is an alternative or replacement for or successor to any of such raterates (including, without limitation, any Benchmark Replacement or Alternative Currency Successor Rate) (or any component of any of the foregoing) or the effect of any of the foregoing, or of any Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes or Alternative Currency Conforming Changes.  The Administrative Agent and its affiliates or other related entities may engage in transactions or other activities that affect any reference rate referred to herein, or any alternative, successor or replacement rate (including, without limitation, any Successor Rate) (or any component of any of the foregoing) or any related spread or other adjustments thereto, in each case, in a manner adverse to the Borrower.  The Administrative Agent may select information sources or services in its reasonable discretion to ascertain any reference rate referred to herein or any alternative, successor or replacement rate (including, without limitation, any Successor Rate) (or any component of any of the foregoing), in each case pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, and shall have no liability to the Borrowers, any Lender or any other person or entity for damages of any kind, including direct or indirect, special, punitive, incidental or consequential damages, costs, losses or expenses (whether in tort, contract or otherwise and whether at law or in equity), for any error or other action or omission related to or affecting the selection, determination, or calculation of any rate (or component thereof) provided by any such information source or service.

1.09Limited Condition Transactions  

For purposes of determining pro forma compliance with the Consolidated Leverage Ratio and Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio or any other basket based on Consolidated EBITDA, or whether a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing (including in the case of the funding of an Incremental Tranche, but excluding in the case of the funding of an Incremental Revolving Commitment), in connection with the consummation of any acquisition or investment not prohibited hereunder that a Loan Party or a Subsidiary is contractually committed to consummate (it being understood that such commitment may be subject to conditions precedent, which conditions precedent may be amended or waived in accordance with the terms of the applicable agreement, so long as after giving effect thereto, such acquisition or investment would not be prohibited under the Loan Documents) and whose consummation is not conditioned on the availability of, or on obtaining, third party financing (or which cannot be terminated by such Loan Party or such Subsidiary without incurrence of a material payment or fee (any such acquisition or investment, a “Limited Condition Transaction”), the date of determination shall, at the option of the Lead Borrower, be the date the definitive agreements for such Limited Condition Transaction are entered into (the “LCT Test Date”), and such determination shall be made on the basis of financial information available as of the LCT Test Date and if, immediately after giving pro forma effect to such Limited Condition Transaction and the other transactions related thereto to be entered into in connection therewith (including any incurrence of indebtedness and the use of proceeds thereof) as if they occurred at the beginning of the applicable test period ending on the LCT Test Date, such Loan Party could have consummated such Limited Condition Transaction and such other transactions on the relevant LCT Test Date in compliance with such ratio, test or basket, then such ratio, test or basket shall be deemed to have been complied with.  For the avoidance of doubt, if any of such ratios or amounts are exceeded as a result of fluctuations in such ratio or amount (including due to fluctuations in Consolidated EBITDA of the Borrowers or the person subject to 

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such Limited Condition Transaction), at or prior to the consummation of the relevant transaction or action, such ratios will not be deemed to have been exceeded as a result of such fluctuations solely for purposes of determining whether the relevant transaction or action is permitted to be consummated or taken; provided that if a Borrower makes such election, then in connection with any calculation of any ratio, test or basket availability with respect to any transaction following the relevant LCT Test Date and prior to the earliest of the date on which such Limited Condition Transaction is consummated, the 120th day following the signing of the definitive agreement for such Limited Condition Transaction and the date that the definitive agreement or irrevocable notice for such Limited Condition Transaction is terminated or expires without consummation of such Limited Condition Transaction, for purposes of determining whether such subsequent transaction is permitted under this Agreement, any such ratio, test or basket shall be required to be satisfied on a Pro Forma Basis assuming such Limited Condition Transaction and other transactions in connection therewith (including any incurrence of indebtedness and the use of proceeds thereof) have been consummated.

1.10References to Eurocurrency Rate and EurocurrencyAlternative Currency Term Rate Loans.

(a)References to the Eurocurrency Rate and Eurocurrency Rate Loans in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents that are not specifically addressed in Sections 1.10 or 1.11 or elsewhere in this Agreement (other than the definitions of Base Rate, Base Rate Loan, Eurocurrency Rate and Eurocurrency Rate Loan) shall be deemed to include Alternative Currency Daily Rates and Alternative Currency Daily Rate Loans, as applicable.  [Reserved].

(b)On and after the ThirdFifth Amendment Effective Date, any request for a new Loan denominated in an Alternative Currency or to continue or convert an existing Loan denominated in an Alternative Currency, shall be deemed to be a request for a new Loan bearing interest at (x) in the case of Sterling, the Alternative Currency Daily Rate or (y) in the case of Euros, the Eurocurrency Rate; provided, that, to the extent any Loan bearing interest at the Eurocurrency Rate is outstanding on the Third Amendment Effective Date, such Loan shall continue to bear interest at the Eurocurrency Rate until the end of the current Interest Period or payment period applicable to such Loan unless, in the case of a Loan that bears interest at a daily floating rate, such daily floating rate is no longer representative or being made available, in which case such Loan shall bear interest at the Eurocurrency Rate or the Alternative Currency DailyTerm Rate immediately upon. All outstanding Term Loans shall be reallocated on a pro rata basis on the ThirdFifth Amendment Effective Date in accordance with Schedule 2.01.

1.11Replacement of Relevant Rate.

(a)Required Lenders. For purposes of this Section 1.11, those Lenders that either have not made, or do not have an obligation under the Credit Agreement to make, the relevant Loans in the relevant Alternative Currency shall be excluded from any determination of Required Lenders.

(b)Inability to Determine Rates.  Notwithstanding Section 3.05 of the Credit Agreement, if in connection with any request for an Alternative Currency Loan or a continuation of any of such Loans, as applicable, (A) the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) that (x) no Alternative Currency Successor Rate for the Relevant Rate for the applicable Alternative Currency has been determined in accordance with Section 1.11(c) and the circumstances under clause (A) of Section 1.11(c) or the Alternative Currency Scheduled Unavailability Date has occurred with respect to such Relevant Rate (as applicable), or (y) adequate and reasonable means do not otherwise exist for determining the Relevant Rate for the applicable Alternative Currency for any determination date(s) or requested Interest Period, as applicable, with respect to a proposed Alternative Currency Loan, or (B) the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders determine that the Relevant Rate with respect to a proposed Alternative Currency Loan for any requested Interest Period or  determination date(s) does not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such 

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Lenders (as certified by such Lenders, which certification shall be conclusive absent manifest error) of funding such Loan, the Administrative Agent will promptly so notify the Lead Borrower and each Lender.  Thereafter, the obligation of the Lenders to make or maintain Loans in the affected Alternative Currencies, as applicable, shall be suspended in each case to the extent of the affected Alternative Currency Loans or Interest Period or determination date(s), as applicable, in each case until the Administrative Agent (or, in the case of a determination by the Required Lenders described in clause (B) of this paragraph, until the Administrative Agent upon instruction of the Required Lenders) revokes such notice.

Upon receipt of such notice, (A) the Lead Borrower (on behalf of the Borrowers) may revoke any pending request for a Borrowing of, conversion to, or continuation of Alternative Currency Loans to the extent of the affected Alternative Currency Loans or Interest Period or determination date(s), as applicable or, failing that, will be deemed to have converted such request into a request for a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans denominated in Dollars in the Dollar Equivalent of the amount specified therein and (B) any outstanding affected Alternative Currency Loans, at the Lead Borrower’s election, shall either (1) be converted into a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans denominated in Dollars in the Dollar Equivalent of the amount of such outstanding Alternative Currency Loan immediately, in the case of an Alternative Currency Daily Rate Loan or at the end of the applicable Interest Period, in the case of an affected Eurocurrency Loan in an Alternative Currency or (2) be prepaid in full immediately, in the case of an Alternative Currency Daily Rate Loan, or at the end of the applicable Interest Period, in the case of an affected Eurocurrency Loan in an Alternative Currency; provided that if no election is made by the Lead Borrower (x) in the case of an Alternative Currency Daily Rate Loan, by the date that is three Business Days after receipt by the Lead Borrower of such notice or (y) in the case of an affected Eurocurrency Loan in an Alternative Currency, by the last day of the current Interest Period for the applicable affected Eurocurrency Loan in an Alternative Currency, the Lead Borrower shall be deemed to have elected clause (1) above.

(c)Replacement of Relevant Rate or Alternative Currency Successor Rate.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Documents, if the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error), or the Lead Borrower or Required Lenders notify the Administrative Agent (with, in the case of the Required Lenders, a copy to the Lead Borrower) that the Lead Borrower or Required Lenders (as applicable) have determined, that:

(i)adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the Relevant Rate for an Alternative Currency because none of the tenors of such Relevant Rate (including any forward-looking term rate thereof) is available or published on a current basis and such circumstances are unlikely to be temporary; or

(ii)the Applicable Authority has made a public statement identifying a specific date after which all tenors of the Relevant Rate for an Alternative Currency (including any forward-looking term rate thereof) shall or will no longer be representative or made available, or used for determining the interest rate of loans denominated in such Alternative Currency, or shall or will otherwise cease, provided that, in each case, at the time of such statement, there is no successor administrator that is satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that will continue to provide such representative tenor(s) of the Relevant Rate for such Alternative Currency (the latest date on which all tenors of the Relevant Rate for such Alternative Currency (including any forward-looking term rate thereof) are no longer representative or available permanently or indefinitely, the “Alternative Currency Scheduled Unavailability Date”);  or

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or if the events or circumstances of the type described in Section 1.11(c)(i), (ii) or (iii) have occurred with respect to the Alternative Currency Successor Rate then in effect, then, the Administrative Agent and the Lead Borrower may amend this Agreement or any other Loan Document solely for the purpose of replacing the Relevant Rate for such Alternative Currency or any then current Alternative Currency Successor Rate for such Alternative Currency in accordance with this Section 1.11(c) with an alternative benchmark rate giving due consideration to any evolving or then existing convention for similar credit facilities syndicated and agented in the United States and denominated in such Alternative Currency for such alternative benchmarks, and, in each case, including any mathematical or other adjustments to such benchmark giving due consideration to any evolving or then existing convention for similar credit facilities syndicated and agented in the United States and denominated in such Alternative Currency for such benchmarks, which adjustment or method for calculating such adjustment shall be published on an information service as selected by the Administrative Agent from time to time in its reasonable discretion and may be periodically updated (and any such proposed rate, including for the avoidance of doubt, any adjustment thereto, a “Alternative Currency Successor Rate”), and any such amendment shall become effective at 5:00 p.m. on the fifth Business Day after the Administrative Agent shall have posted such proposed amendment to all Lenders and the Lead Borrower unless, prior to such time, Lenders comprising the Required Lenders have delivered to the Administrative Agent written notice that such Required Lenders object to such amendment. 

(d)The Administrative Agent will promptly (in one or more notices) notify the Lead Borrower and each Lender of the implementation of any Alternative Currency Successor Rate.

(e)Any Alternative Currency Successor Rate shall be applied in a manner consistent with market practice; provided that to the extent such market practice is not administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent, such Alternative Currency Successor Rate shall be applied in a manner as otherwise reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent in consultation with the Lead Borrower.

(f)Notwithstanding anything else herein or in the Credit Agreement, if at any time any Alternative Currency Successor Rate as so determined would otherwise be less than zero percent, the Alternative Currency Successor Rate will be deemed to be zero percent for the purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.

(g)In connection with the implementation of aan Alternative Currency Successor Rate, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Alternative Currency Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Alternative Currency Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement; provided that, with respect to any such amendment effected, the Administrative Agent shall post each such amendment implementing such Alternative Currency Conforming Changes to the Lead Borrower and the Lenders reasonably promptly after such amendment becomes effective.

ARTICLE II.
THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS

2.01The Loans  

(a)The Term Borrowing.  

(i)On the Third Restatement Date, an amount equal to the Euro equivalent of $100,000,000 of the Euro Tranche of the Existing Revolving Credit Loans will be converted to and become the Term Loan referenced in Section 2.01(a)(ii) with no change to the existing Interest Periods applicable thereto 

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prior to such conversion, and the accrued but unpaid interest thereon prior to the Third Restatement Date shall be paid to the Administrative Agent on the Third Restatement Date.

(ii)Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Term Lender severally agrees to make a single loan to the Borrowers on the Third Restatement Date in an amount equal to (but not to exceed) such Term Lender’s Term Commitment.  The Term Borrowing shall consist of Term Loans made simultaneously by the Term Lenders in accordance with their respective Term Commitments.  Amounts borrowed under this Section 2.01(a) and repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed.  Term Loans shall be Eurocurrency Rate Loans as further provided hereinoutstanding on the Fifth Amendment Effective Date shall be converted to Alternative Currency Term Rate Loans, subject to Sections 1.10 and 3.07.  For the avoidance of doubt, any such conversion and the other transactions contemplated pursuant to the Fifth Amendment may be made without penalty, compensation or premium, and satisfaction or waiver of the conditions precedent set forth in the Fifth Amendment shall be deemed to satisfy any notice or procedural requirements that would otherwise be required hereunder.  The Term Loans shall be funded in Euros.

(iii)In connection with the foregoing, each Existing Term Lender and each Existing Revolving Lender shall return any notes issued to such Lender to the Administrative Agent for cancellation.  The Administrative Agent shall promptly return such notes to the Borrowers once cancelled.

(b)The Revolving Credit Borrowings.  

(i)On the Third Restatement Date, (A) the full outstanding principal balance of Existing Term Loans will be converted to and become part of the Revolving Credit Loans referenced in Section 2.01(b)(ii) with no change to the existing Interest Periods applicable thereto prior to such conversion and the accrued but unpaid interest thereon prior to the Third Restatement Date shall be paid to the Administrative Agent on the Third Restatement Date, and (B) any remaining Existing Revolving Credit Loans, after the conversion referenced in Section 2.01(a)(i) has been completed, shall be deemed to be Revolving Credit Loans referenced in Section 2.01(b)(ii) with no change to the existing Interest Periods applicable thereto prior to such deemed making of Revolving Credit Loans, and in respect of the Non-Converting Euro Tranche only, accrued but unpaid interest thereon prior to the Third Restatement Date shall be paid to the Administrative Agent on the Third Restatement Date.

(ii)Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Revolving Credit Lender severally agrees to make loans (each such loan, a “Revolving Credit Loan”) to the Borrowers from time to time, on any Business Day during the Availability Period, in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any time outstanding the amount of such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment; provided, however, that after giving effect to any Revolving Credit Borrowing, (i) the Total Revolving Credit Outstandings shall not exceed the Revolving Credit Facility, and (ii) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Revolving Credit Loans of any Lender, plus such Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations, plus such Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of all Swing Line Loans shall not exceed such Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment.  Within the limits of each Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment, and subject to the other terms and conditions hereof, the Borrowers may borrow under this Section 2.01(b), prepay under Section 2.05, and reborrow under this Section 2.01(b).  Revolving Credit Loans may be Base Rate Loans or Eurocurrency Rate, Alternative Currency Loans or Term SOFR Loans, as further provided herein, provided that Alternative Currency Loans will be Alternative Daily Rate Loans or Alternative Currency Term Rate Loans.  Revolving Credit Loans in Dollars outstanding on the Fifth Amendment Effective Date shall be converted to Term SOFR Loans (subject to Section 3.07) with an initial Interest Period ending March 28, 2022.  Revolving Credit 

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Loans in Euros outstanding on the Fifth Amendment Effective Date shall be deemed Alternative Currency Term Rate Loans and shall remain in their current Interest Periods.

2.02Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Loans  

(a)Each Term Borrowing, each Revolving Credit Borrowing, each conversion of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans from one Type to the other, and each continuation of Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loans shall be made upon irrevocable notice by the applicable Borrower or the Lead Borrower on its behalf or on behalf of any other Borrower to the Administrative Agent, which may be given by: (A) telephone or (B) a Committed Loan Notice; provided that any telephonic notice must be confirmed immediately by delivery to the Administrative Agent of a Committed Loan Notice.  Each such notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. (or such later time on such date acceptable to the Administrative Agent) (i) threetwo Business Days prior to the requested date of any Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loans denominated in Dollars or of any conversion of Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loans denominated in Dollars to Base Rate Loans, (ii) three (3) Business Days prior to the requested date of any Borrowing or continuation of Eurocurrency RateAlternative Currency Loans denominated in Alternative Currencies, and (iii) on the requested date of any Borrowing of Base Rate Loans and (iv) three (3) Business Days prior to the requested date of any Borrowing of Alternative Currency Daily Rate Loans; provided, however, that if the Borrower wishes to request Eurocurrency RateAlternative Currency Loans having an Interest Period other than one (1), three (3) or six (6) months in duration as provided in the definition of “Interest Period”, the applicable notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. (or such later time on such date acceptable to the Administrative Agent) (i) four (4) Business Days prior to the requested date of such Borrowing, conversion or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Dollars, or (ii) five (5) Business Days prior to the requested date of such Borrowing, conversion or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans or of Alternative Currency Daily Rate Loans denominated in Alternative Currencies, whereupon the Administrative Agent shall give prompt notice to the Appropriate Lenders of such request and determine whether the requested Interest Period is acceptable to all of them; provided further, that any notice in respect of the Borrowers to occur on the Third Restatement Date may be given on the Business Day prior to the Third Restatement Date.  Not later than 11:00 a.m., (i) threetwo (32) Business Days before the requested date of such Borrowing, conversion or continuation of Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loans denominated in Dollars, or (ii) fourthree (43) Business Days prior to the requested date of such Borrowing, conversion or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans or of Alternative Currency Daily Rate Loans denominated in Alternative Currencies, the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower (which notice may be by telephone) whether or not the requested Interest Period has been consented to by all the Lenders, to the extent such consent is required.  Each telephonic notice by the Lead Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.02(a) must be confirmed promptly by delivery to the Administrative Agent of a written Committed Loan Notice, appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the applicable Borrower or the Lead Borrower on its behalf or on behalf of any other Borrower.  Each Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loans or Alternative Currency Daily Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of the Dollar Equivalent of $500,000 or a whole multiple of the Dollar Equivalent of $100,000 in excess thereof.  Except as provided in Sections 2.03(c) and 2.04(c), each Borrowing of or conversion to Base Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of the Dollar Equivalent of $500,000 or a whole multiple of the Dollar Equivalent of $100,000 in excess thereof.  Each Committed Loan Notice (whether telephonic or written) shall specify (i) whether the Borrowers are requesting a Term Borrowing, a Revolving Credit Borrowing, a conversion of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans from one Type to the other, or a continuation of EurocurrencyTerm SOFR Loans or Alternative Currency Term Rate Loans, (ii) the requested date of the Borrowing, conversion or continuation, as the case may be (which shall be a Business Day), (iii) the principal amount of Loans to be borrowed, converted or continued, (iv) the Type of Loans to be borrowed or to which existing Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans are to be converted, (v) if applicable, the duration of the Interest Period with respect thereto, and (vi) the currency of the Loans to be Borrowed.  If the Borrowers fail to specify a Type of Loan in 

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a Committed Loan Notice or fail to give a timely notice requesting a conversion or continuation, then the applicable Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans shall be made as, or converted to, Base Rate Loans denominated in Dollars; provided, however, that in the case of a failure to timely request a continuation of EurocurrencyAlternative Currency Loans denominated in an Alternative Currency, such Loans shall be continued as Eurocurrency RateAlternative Currency Loans in their original currency with an Interest Period of one (1) month.  Any such automatic conversion to Base Rate Loans shall be effective as of the last day of the Interest Period then in effect with respect to the applicable Eurocurrency Rate Loans.  If the Borrowers request a Borrowing of, conversion to, or continuation of EurocurrencyAlternative Currency Term Rate Loans in any such Committed Loan Notice, but fail to specify an Interest Period, it will be deemed to have specified an Interest Period of one month.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, a Swing Line Loan may not be converted to a Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loan.  No Loan may be converted into or continued as a Loan denominated in a different currency, but instead must be repaid in the original currency of such Loan and reborrowed in the other currency.  For the avoidance of doubt, any communications with the German Borrower shall be made via electronic mail. Notwithstanding anything herein, an Alternative Currency Loan which is an Alternative Currency Daily Rate Loan may be continued or converted at any time.

(b)Following receipt of a Committed Loan Notice, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of the amount (and currency) of its Applicable Percentage under the Term Facility or Revolving Credit Facility, as the case may be, and if no timely notice of a conversion or continuation is provided by the applicable Borrower or the Lead Borrower on its behalf or on behalf of any other Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Lender of the details of any automatic conversion to Base Rate Loans or continuation of Loans denominated in a currency other than Dollars, in each case as described in Section 2.02(a).  In the case of a Term Borrowing or a Revolving Credit Borrowing, each Appropriate Lender shall make the amount of its Loan available to the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds at the Administrative Agent’s Office for the applicable currency not later than 1:00 p.m., in the case of any Loan denominated in Dollars, and not later than the Applicable Time specified by the Administrative Agent in the case of any Loan in an Alternative Currency, in each case on the Business Day specified in the applicable Committed Loan Notice.  Upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (and, if such Borrowing is the initial Credit Extension, Section 4.01), the Administrative Agent shall make all funds so received available to the Borrowers in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent either by (i) crediting the account of the Borrowers on the books of Bank of America with the amount of such funds or (ii) wire transfer of such funds, in each case in accordance with instructions provided to (and reasonably acceptable to) the Administrative Agent by the applicable Borrower or the Lead Borrower on its behalf or on behalf of any other Borrower; provided, however, that if, on the date a Committed Loan Notice with respect to a Revolving Credit Borrowing denominated in Dollars is given by the Lead Borrower, there are L/C Borrowings outstanding, then the proceeds of such Revolving Credit Borrowing, first, shall be applied to the payment in full of any such L/C Borrowings, and second, shall be made available to the Borrowers as provided above. 

(c)Except as otherwise provided herein, a Eurocurrencyan Alternative Currency Term Rate Loan may be continued or converted only on the last day of an Interest Period for such EurocurrencyAlternative Currency Term Rate Loan.  During the continuance of an Event of Default, or the written election of the Required Lenders, no Loans may be requested as, or converted to Alternative Currency Daily Rate Loans or requested as, converted to or continued as EurocurrencyAlternative Currency Term Rate Loans without the consent of the Required Lenders, and the Required Lenders may demand that and any or all of the then outstanding Alternative Currency Loans be redenominated into Dollars in the amount of the Dollar Equivalent thereof, on the last day of the then current Interest Period with respect thereto.

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Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrowers and the Lenders of any change in Bank of America’s prime rate used in determining the Base Rate promptly following the public announcement of such change.  

(e)After giving effect to all Term Borrowings, all conversions ofAlternative Currency Term Rate Loans from one Type to the other, and all continuations of Alternative Currency Term Rate Loans as the same Type, there shall not be more than six (6) Interest Periods in effect in respect of the Term Facility.  After giving effect to all Revolving Credit Borrowings, all conversions of Revolving Credit Loans from one Type to the other, and all continuations of Revolving Credit Loans as the same Type, there shall not be more than six (6) Interest Periods in effect in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility.

(f)Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, any Lender may exchange, continue or rollover all or the portion of its Loans in connection with any refinancing, extension, loan modification or similar transaction permitted by the terms of this Agreement, pursuant to a cashless settlement mechanism approved by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, and such Lender.

(g)With respect to any Alternative Currency Term Rate or Term SOFR, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document; provided that, with respect to any such amendment effected, the Administrative Agent shall post each such amendment implementing such Conforming Changes to the Borrower and the Lenders reasonably promptly after such amendment becomes effective.

2.03Letters of Credit  

(a)The Letter of Credit Commitment.  

(i)Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, (A) the L/C Issuer agrees, in reliance upon the agreements of the Revolving Credit Lenders set forth in this Section 2.03, (1) from time to time on any Business Day during the period from the Third Restatement Date until the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, to issue Letters of Credit denominated in Dollars or in one or more Alternative Currencies for the account of the Borrowers or their Subsidiaries that are Guarantors, and to amend or extend Letters of Credit previously issued by it, in accordance with Section 2.03(b), and (2) to honor drawings under the Letters of Credit; and (B) the Revolving Credit Lenders severally agree to participate in Letters of Credit issued for the account of the Borrowers or their Subsidiaries that are Guarantors and any drawings thereunder; provided that after giving effect to any L/C Credit Extension with respect to any Letter of Credit, (x) the Total Revolving Credit Outstandings shall not exceed the Revolving Credit Facility, (y) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Revolving Credit Loans of any Revolving Credit Lender, plus such Lender’s Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations, plus such Lender’s Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of all Swing Line Loans shall not exceed such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment, and (z) the Outstanding Amount of the L/C Obligations shall not exceed the Letter of Credit Sublimit.  Each request by the Borrowers for the issuance or amendment of a Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be a representation by the Borrowers that the L/C Credit Extension so requested complies with the conditions set forth in the proviso to the preceding sentence.  Within the foregoing limits, and subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Borrowers’ ability to obtain Letters of Credit shall be fully revolving, and accordingly the Borrowers may, during the foregoing period, obtain Letters of Credit to replace Letters of Credit that have expired or that have been drawn upon and reimbursed.  All Existing Letters of Credit shall be deemed to have been issued pursuant hereto, and from and after the Third Restatement Date shall be subject to and governed by the terms and conditions hereof.

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(ii)The L/C Issuer shall not issue any Letter of Credit if:

(A)subject to Section 2.03(b)(iii), the expiry date of such requested Letter of Credit would occur more than twelve months after the date of issuance or last extension, unless the Required Revolving Lenders have approved such expiry date; or

(B)the expiry date of such requested Letter of Credit would occur after the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, unless all the Revolving Credit Lenders have approved such expiry date.

(iii)The L/C Issuer shall not be under any obligation to issue any Letter of Credit if:

(A)any order, judgment or decree of any Governmental Authority or arbitrator shall by its terms purport to enjoin or restrain the L/C Issuer from issuing such Letter of Credit, or any Law applicable to the L/C Issuer or any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) from any Governmental Authority with jurisdiction over the L/C Issuer shall prohibit, or request that the L/C Issuer refrain from, the issuance of letters of credit generally or such Letter of Credit in particular or shall impose upon the L/C Issuer with respect to such Letter of Credit any restriction, reserve or capital requirement (for which the L/C Issuer is not otherwise compensated hereunder) not in effect on the Third Restatement Date, or shall impose upon the L/C Issuer any unreimbursed loss, cost or expense which was not applicable on the Third Restatement Date and which the L/C Issuer in good faith deems material to it;

(B)the issuance of such Letter of Credit would violate one or more policies of the L/C Issuer applicable to letters of credit generally; 

(C)except as otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer, such Letter of Credit is in an initial stated amount less than $500,000; 

(D)such Letter of Credit is to be denominated in a currency other than Dollars or an Alternative Currency;

(E)such Letter of Credit contains any provisions for automatic reinstatement of the stated amount after any drawing thereunder; 

(F)any Lender is at that time a Defaulting Lender, unless the L/C Issuer has entered into arrangements, including the delivery of Cash Collateral, satisfactory to the L/C Issuer (in its sole discretion) with the Borrowers or such Lender to eliminate the L/C Issuer’s actual or potential Fronting Exposure (after giving effect to Section 2.18(a)(iv)) with respect to the Defaulting Lender arising from either the Letter of Credit then proposed to be issued or that Letter of Credit and all other L/C Obligations as to which the L/C Issuer has actual or potential Fronting Exposure, as it may elect in its sole discretion; or

(G)the L/C Issuer does not as of the issuance date of the requested Letter of Credit issue Letters of Credit in the requested currency.

(iv)The L/C Issuer shall not amend any Letter of Credit if the L/C Issuer would not be permitted at such time to issue such Letter of Credit in its amended form under the terms hereof.

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terms hereof, or (B) the beneficiary of such Letter of Credit does not accept the proposed amendment to such Letter of Credit.

(vi)The L/C Issuer shall act on behalf of the Revolving Credit Lenders with respect to any Letters of Credit issued by it and the documents associated therewith, and the L/C Issuer shall have all of the benefits and immunities (A) provided to the Administrative Agent in Article IX with respect to any acts taken or omissions suffered by the L/C Issuer in connection with Letters of Credit issued by it or proposed to be issued by it and Issuer Documents pertaining to such Letters of Credit as fully as if the term “Administrative Agent” as used in Article IX included the L/C Issuer with respect to such acts or omissions, and (B) as additionally provided herein with respect to the L/C Issuer.

(b)Procedures for Issuance and Amendment of Letters of Credit; Auto-Extension Letters of Credit.

(i)Each Letter of Credit shall be issued or amended, as the case may be, upon the request of the Borrowers delivered to the L/C Issuer (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) in the form of a Letter of Credit Application, appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the applicable Borrower or the Lead Borrower on its behalf or on behalf of any other Borrower.  Such Letter of Credit Application may be sent by facsimile, United States mail, by overnight courier, by electronic transmission using the system provided by the L/C Issuer, by personal delivery or by any other means acceptance to the L/C Issuer.  Such Letter of Credit Application must be received by the L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. at least two Business Days (or such later date and time as the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer may agree in a particular instance in their sole discretion) prior to the proposed issuance date or date of amendment, as the case may be.  In the case of a request for an initial issuance of a Letter of Credit, such Letter of Credit Application shall specify in form and detail reasonably satisfactory to the L/C Issuer:  (A) the proposed issuance date of the requested Letter of Credit (which shall be a Business Day); (B) the amount and currency thereof and in the absence of specification of currency shall be deemed a request for a Letter of Credit denominated in Dollars; (C) the expiry date thereof; (D) the name and address of the beneficiary thereof; (E) the documents to be presented by such beneficiary in case of any drawing thereunder; (F) the full text of any certificate to be presented by such beneficiary in case of any drawing thereunder; (G) the purpose and nature of the requested Letter of Credit; and (H) such other matters as the L/C Issuer may require.  In the case of a request for an amendment of any outstanding Letter of Credit, such Letter of Credit Application shall specify in form and detail satisfactory to the L/C Issuer (1) the Letter of Credit to be amended; (2) the proposed date of amendment thereof (which shall be a Business Day); (3) the nature of the proposed amendment; and (4) such other matters as the L/C Issuer may require.  Additionally, the Borrowers shall furnish to the L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent such other documents and information pertaining to such requested Letter of Credit issuance or amendment, including any Issuer Documents, as the L/C Issuer or the Administrative Agent may require.

(ii)Promptly after receipt of any Letter of Credit Application, the L/C Issuer will confirm with the Administrative Agent (by telephone or in writing) that the Administrative Agent has received a copy of such Letter of Credit Application from the Lead Borrower and, if not, the L/C Issuer will provide the Administrative Agent with a copy thereof.  Unless the L/C Issuer has received written notice from any Revolving Credit Lender, the Administrative Agent or any Loan Party, at least one Business Day prior to the requested date of issuance or amendment of the applicable Letter of Credit, that one or more applicable conditions contained in Article IV shall not then be satisfied, then, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the L/C Issuer shall, on the requested date, issue a Letter of Credit for the account of the applicable Borrower (or the applicable Subsidiary) or enter into the applicable amendment, as the case may be, in each case in accordance with the L/C Issuer’s usual and customary business practices.  Immediately upon the issuance of each Letter of Credit, each Revolving Credit Lender shall be deemed to, and hereby 

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irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to, purchase from the L/C Issuer a risk participation in such Letter of Credit in an amount equal to the product of such Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage times the amount of such Letter of Credit.

(iii)If the Borrowers so request in any applicable Letter of Credit Application, the L/C Issuer may, in its sole and absolute discretion, agree to issue a Letter of Credit that has automatic extension provisions (each, an “Auto-Extension Letter of Credit”); provided that any such Auto-Extension Letter of Credit must permit the L/C Issuer to prevent any such extension at least once in each twelve-month period (commencing with the date of issuance of such Letter of Credit) by giving prior notice to the beneficiary thereof not later than a day (the “Non-Extension Notice Date”) in each such twelve-month period to be agreed upon at the time such Letter of Credit is issued.  Unless otherwise directed by the L/C Issuer, the Borrowers shall not be required to make a specific request to the L/C Issuer for any such extension.  Once an Auto-Extension Letter of Credit has been issued, the Revolving Credit Lenders shall be deemed to have authorized (but may not require) the L/C Issuer to permit the extension of such Letter of Credit at any time to an expiry date not later than the Letter of Credit Expiration Date; provided, however, that the L/C Issuer shall not permit any such extension if (A) the L/C Issuer has determined that it would not be permitted, or would have no obligation at such time to issue such Letter of Credit in its revised form (as extended) under the terms hereof (by reason of the provisions of clause (ii) or (iii) of Section 2.03(a) or otherwise), or (B) it has received notice (which may be by telephone or in writing) on or before the day that is seven Business Days before the Non-Extension Notice Date (1) from the Administrative Agent that the Required Revolving Lenders have elected not to permit such extension or (2) from the Administrative Agent, any Revolving Credit Lender or the Lead Borrower that one or more of the applicable conditions specified in Section 4.02 is not then satisfied, and in each such case directing the L/C Issuer not to permit such extension.

(iv)If the Borrowers so request in any applicable Letter of Credit Application, the L/C Issuer may, in its sole and absolute discretion, agree to issue a Letter of Credit that permits the automatic reinstatement of all or a portion of the stated amount thereof after any drawing thereunder (each, an “Auto-Reinstatement Letter of Credit”).  Unless otherwise directed by the L/C Issuer, the Borrowers shall not be required to make a specific request to the L/C Issuer to permit such reinstatement.  Once an Auto-Reinstatement Letter of Credit has been issued, except as provided in the following sentence, the Revolving Credit Lenders shall be deemed to have authorized (but may not require) the L/C Issuer to reinstate all or a portion of the stated amount thereof in accordance with the provisions of such Letter of Credit.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, if such Auto-Reinstatement Letter of Credit permits the L/C Issuer to decline to reinstate all or any portion of the stated amount thereof after a drawing thereunder by giving notice of such non-reinstatement within a specified number of days after such drawing (the “Non-Reinstatement Deadline”), the L/C Issuer shall not permit such reinstatement if it has received a notice (which may be by telephone or in writing) on or before the day that is seven Business Days before the Non-Reinstatement Deadline (A) from the Administrative Agent that the Required Revolving Lenders have elected not to permit such reinstatement or (B) from the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the Lead Borrower that one or more of the applicable conditions specified in Section 4.02 is not then satisfied (treating such reinstatement as an L/C Credit Extension for purposes of this clause) and, in each case, directing the L/C Issuer not to permit such reinstatement.

(v)Promptly after its delivery of any Letter of Credit or any amendment to a Letter of Credit to an advising bank with respect thereto or to the beneficiary thereof, the L/C Issuer will also deliver to the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent a true and complete copy of such Letter of Credit or amendment.

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(i)Upon receipt from the beneficiary of any Letter of Credit of any notice of a drawing under such Letter of Credit, the L/C Issuer shall notify the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent thereof.  In the case of a Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency, the Borrowers shall reimburse the L/C Issuer in such Alternative Currency, unless (A) the L/C Issuer (at its option) shall have specified in such notice that it will require reimbursement in Dollars, or (B) in the absence of any such requirement for reimbursement in Dollars, the Lead Borrower shall have notified the L/C Issuer promptly following receipt of the notice of drawing that the Borrowers will reimburse the L/C Issuer in Dollars.  In the case of any such reimbursement in Dollars of a drawing under a Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency, the L/C Issuer shall notify the Lead Borrower of the Dollar Equivalent of the amount of the drawing promptly following the determination.  Not later than 11:00 a.m. (or such later time on such date acceptable to the L/C Issuer) on the Business Day following the later of (x) the date of any payment by the L/C Issuer under a Letter of Credit to be reimbursed in Dollars, or the Applicable Time on the date of any payment by the L/C Issuer under a Letter of Credit to be reimbursed in an Alternative Currency and (y) the date the Lead Borrower is notified of such payment (each such date, an “Honor Date”), the Borrowers shall reimburse the L/C Issuer through the Administrative Agent in an amount equal to the amount of such drawing and in the applicable currency.  If the Borrowers fail to so reimburse the L/C Issuer by such time, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Revolving Credit Lender of the Honor Date, the amount of the unreimbursed drawing (expressed in Dollars in the amount of the Dollar Equivalent thereof in the case of a Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency) (the “Unreimbursed Amount”), and the amount of such Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage thereof.  In such event, the Borrowers shall be deemed to have requested a Revolving Credit Borrowing of Base Rate Loans to be disbursed on the Honor Date in an amount equal to the Unreimbursed Amount, without regard to the minimum and multiples specified in Section 2.02 for the principal amount of Base Rate Loans, but subject to the amount of the unutilized portion of the Revolving Credit Commitments and the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (other than the delivery of a Committed Loan Notice).  Any notice given by the L/C Issuer or the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 2.03(c)(i) may be given by telephone if immediately confirmed in writing; provided that the lack of such an immediate confirmation shall not affect the conclusiveness or binding effect of such notice.

(ii)Each Revolving Credit Lender shall upon any notice pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(i) make funds available (and the Administrative Agent may apply Cash Collateral provided for this purpose) to the Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C Issuer, in Dollars, at the Administrative Agent’s Office in an amount equal to its Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage of the Unreimbursed Amount not later than 1:00 p.m. on the Business Day specified in such notice by the Administrative Agent, whereupon, subject to the provisions of Section 2.03(c)(iii), each Revolving Credit Lender that so makes funds available shall be deemed to have made a Base Rate Loan to the Borrowers in such amount.  The Administrative Agent shall remit the funds so received to the L/C Issuer in Dollars.

(iii)With respect to any Unreimbursed Amount that is not fully refinanced by a Revolving Credit Borrowing of Base Rate Loans because the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 cannot be satisfied or for any other reason, the Borrowers shall be deemed to have incurred from the L/C Issuer an L/C Borrowing in the amount of the Unreimbursed Amount that is not so refinanced, which L/C Borrowing shall be due and payable on demand (together with interest) and shall bear interest at the Default Rate.  In such event, each Revolving Credit Lender’s payment to the Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(ii) shall be deemed payment in respect of its participation in such L/C Borrowing and shall constitute an L/C Advance from such Lender in satisfaction of its participation obligation under this Section 2.03.

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Credit, interest in respect of such Lender’s Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage of such amount shall be solely for the account of the L/C Issuer.

(v)Each Revolving Credit Lender’s obligation to make Revolving Credit Loans or L/C Advances to reimburse the L/C Issuer for amounts drawn under Letters of Credit, as contemplated by this Section 2.03(c), shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including (A) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right which such Lender may have against the L/C Issuer, any Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever; (B) the occurrence or continuance of a Default, or (C) any other occurrence, event or condition, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing; provided, however, that each Revolving Credit Lender’s obligation to make Revolving Credit Loans pursuant to this Section 2.03(c) is subject to the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (other than delivery by the Lead Borrower of a Committed Loan Notice ).  No such making of an L/C Advance shall relieve or otherwise impair the obligation of the Borrowers to reimburse the L/C Issuer for the amount of any payment made by the L/C Issuer under any Letter of Credit, together with interest as provided herein.

(vi)If any Revolving Credit Lender fails to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C Issuer any amount required to be paid by such Lender pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.03(c) by the time specified in Section 2.03(c)(ii), the L/C Issuer shall be entitled to recover from such Lender (acting through the Administrative Agent), on demand, such amount with interest thereon for the period from the date such payment is required to the date on which such payment is immediately available to the L/C Issuer at a rate per annum equal to the greater of the applicable Overnight Rate from time to time in effect and a rate determined by the L/C Issuer in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by the L/C Issuer in connection with the foregoing.  If such Lender pays such amount (with interest and fees as aforesaid), the amount so paid shall constitute such Lender’s Loan included in the relevant Borrowing or L/C Advance in respect of the relevant L/C Borrowing, as the case may be.  A certificate of the L/C Issuer submitted to any Revolving Credit Lender (through the Administrative Agent) with respect to any amounts owing under this Section 2.03(c)(vi) shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

(d)Repayment of Participations.

(i)At any time after the L/C Issuer has made a payment under any Letter of Credit and has received from any Revolving Credit Lender such Lender’s L/C Advance in respect of such payment in accordance with Section 2.03(c), if the Administrative Agent receives for the account of the L/C Issuer any payment in respect of the related Unreimbursed Amount or interest thereon (whether directly from the Borrowers or otherwise, including proceeds of Cash Collateral applied thereto by the Administrative Agent), the Administrative Agent will distribute to such Lender its Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage thereof in the same funds as those received by the Administrative Agent.

(ii)If any payment received by the Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(i) is required to be returned under any of the circumstances described in Section 11.05 (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the L/C Issuer in its discretion), each Revolving Credit Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C Issuer its Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage thereof on demand of the Administrative Agent, plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such amount is returned by such Lender, at a rate per annum equal to the applicable Overnight Rate from time to time in effect.  The obligations of the Lenders under this clause shall survive the payment in full of the Obligations and the termination of this Agreement.

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(e)Obligations Absolute.  The obligation of the Borrowers to reimburse the L/C Issuer for each drawing under each Letter of Credit and to repay each L/C Borrowing shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be paid strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement under all circumstances, including the following:

(i)any lack of validity or enforceability of such Letter of Credit, this Agreement, or any other Loan Document;

(ii)the existence of any claim, counterclaim, setoff, defense or other right that any Borrower or any Subsidiary may have at any time against any beneficiary or any transferee of such Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such beneficiary or any such transferee may be acting), the L/C Issuer or any other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, the transactions contemplated hereby or by such Letter of Credit or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, or any unrelated transaction;

(iii)any draft, demand, certificate or other document presented under such Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect; or any loss or delay in the transmission or otherwise of any document required in order to make a drawing under such Letter of Credit;

(iv)waiver by the L/C Issuer of any requirement that exists for the L/C Issuer’s protection and not the protection of the Borrowers or any waiver by the L/C Issuer which does not in fact materially prejudice the Borrowers;

(v)honor of a demand for payment presented electronically even if such Letter of Credit requires that demand be in the form of a draft;

(vi)any payment made by the L/C Issuer in respect of an otherwise complying item presented after the date specified as the expiration date of, or the date by which documents must be received under, such Letter of Credit if presentation after such date is authorized by the UCC, the ISP or the UCP, as applicable;

(vii)any payment by the L/C Issuer under such Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft or certificate that does not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit; or any payment made by the L/C Issuer under such Letter of Credit to any Person purporting to be a trustee in bankruptcy, debtor-in-possession, assignee for the benefit of creditors, liquidator, receiver or other representative of or successor to any beneficiary or any transferee of such Letter of Credit, including any arising in connection with any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law; 

(viii)any adverse change in the relevant exchange rates or in the availability of the Eurorelevant Alternative Currency to any Borrower or any Subsidiary or in the relevant currency markets generally; or

(ix)any other circumstance or happening whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing, including any other circumstance that might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, any Borrower or any of their Subsidiaries.

The Lead Borrower shall promptly examine a copy of each Letter of Credit and each amendment thereto that is delivered to it and, in the event of any claim of noncompliance with the Lead Borrower’s instructions or other irregularity, the Lead Borrower will immediately notify the L/C Issuer.  The Borrowers shall be conclusively deemed to have waived any such claim against the L/C Issuer and its correspondents unless such notice is given as aforesaid.

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(f)Role of L/C Issuer.  Each Lender and each Borrower agree that, in paying any drawing under a Letter of Credit, the L/C Issuer shall not have any responsibility to obtain any document (other than any sight draft, certificates and documents expressly required by the Letter of Credit) or to ascertain or inquire as to the validity or accuracy of any such document or the authority of the Person executing or delivering any such document.  None of the L/C Issuer, the Administrative Agent, any of their respective Related Parties nor any correspondent, participant or assignee of the L/C Issuer shall be liable to any Lender for (i) any action taken or omitted in connection herewith at the request or with the approval of the Revolving Credit Lenders or the Required Revolving Lenders, as applicable; (ii) any action taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct; or (iii) the due execution, effectiveness, validity or enforceability of any document or instrument related to any Letter of Credit or Issuer Document.  The Borrowers hereby assume all risks of the acts or omissions of any beneficiary or transferee with respect to its use of any Letter of Credit; provided, however, that this assumption is not intended to, and shall not, preclude the Borrowers’ pursuing such rights and remedies as it may have against the beneficiary or transferee at law or under any other agreement.  None of the L/C Issuer, the Administrative Agent, any of their respective Related Parties nor any correspondent, participant or assignee of the L/C Issuer shall be liable or responsible for any of the matters described in clauses (i) through (v) of Section 2.03(e); provided, however, that anything in such clauses to the contrary notwithstanding, the Borrowers may have a claim against the L/C Issuer, and the L/C Issuer may be liable to the Borrowers, to the extent, but only to the extent, of any direct, as opposed to consequential or exemplary, damages suffered by the Borrowers which the Borrowers prove were caused by the L/C Issuer’s willful misconduct or gross negligence or the L/C Issuer’s willful failure to pay under any Letter of Credit after the presentation to it by the beneficiary of a sight draft and certificate(s) strictly complying with the terms and conditions of a Letter of Credit.  In furtherance and not in limitation of the foregoing, the L/C Issuer may accept documents that appear on their face to be in order, without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any notice or information to the contrary, and the L/C Issuer shall not be responsible for the validity or sufficiency of any instrument transferring or assigning or purporting to transfer or assign a Letter of Credit or the rights or benefits thereunder or proceeds thereof, in whole or in part, which may prove to be invalid or ineffective for any reason.

(g)Applicability of ISP and UCP.  Unless otherwise expressly agreed by the L/C Issuer and the Borrowers when a Letter of Credit is issued (including any such agreement applicable to an Existing Letter of Credit), (i) the rules of the ISP shall apply to each standby Letter of Credit, and (ii) the rules of the UCP shall apply to each commercial Letter of Credit.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the L/C Issuer shall not be responsible to the Borrowers for, and the L/C Issuer’s rights and remedies against the Borrowers shall not be impaired by, any action or inaction of the L/C Issuer required or permitted under any law, order, or practice that is required or permitted to be applied to any Letter of Credit or this Agreement, including the Law or any order of a jurisdiction where the L/C Issuer or the beneficiary is located, the practice stated in the ISP or UCP, as applicable, or in the decisions, opinions, practice statements, or official commentary of the ICC Banking Commission, the Bankers Association for Finance and Trade – International Financial Services Association (BAFT-IFSA), or the Institute of International Banking Law & Practice, whether or not any Letter of Credit chooses such law or practice.

(h)Letter of Credit Fees.  The Borrowers shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Credit Lender in accordance with its Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage, in Dollars, a Letter of Credit fee (the “Letter of Credit Fee”) for each Letter of Credit equal to the Applicable Rate times the Dollar Equivalent of the daily amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit; provided, however, any Letter of Credit Fees otherwise payable for the account of a Defaulting Lender with respect to any Letter of Credit as to which such Defaulting Lender has not provided Cash Collateral satisfactory to the L/C Issuer pursuant to this Section 2.03 shall be payable, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable Law, to the other Lenders in accordance with the upward adjustments in their respective Applicable Percentages allocable to such Letter of Credit pursuant to Section 2.18(a)(iv), with the balance of such fee, if any, payable to the L/C Issuer 

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for its own account.  For purposes of computing the daily amount available to be drawn under any Letter of Credit, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be determined in accordance with Section 1.06.  Letter of Credit Fees shall be (i) due and payable on the first Business Day after the end of each March, June, September and December, commencing with the first such date to occur after the issuance of such Letter of Credit, on the Letter of Credit Expiration Date and thereafter on demand and (ii) computed on a quarterly basis in arrears.  If there is any change in the Applicable Rate during any quarter, the daily amount available to be drawn under each Letter of Credit shall be computed and multiplied by the Applicable Rate separately for each period during such quarter that such Applicable Rate was in effect.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, upon the request of the Required Revolving Lenders, while any Event of Default exists, all Letter of Credit Fees shall accrue at the Default Rate.

(i)Fronting Fee and Documentary and Processing Charges Payable to L/C Issuer.  The Borrowers shall pay directly to the L/C Issuer for its own account, in Dollars, a fronting fee with respect to each Letter of Credit, at the rate specified in the Fee Letter, computed on the Dollar Equivalent of the daily amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit on a quarterly basis in arrears.  Such fronting fee shall be due and payable on the tenth Business Day after the end of each March, June, September and December in respect of the most recently-ended quarterly period (or portion thereof, in the case of the first payment), commencing with the first such date to occur after the issuance of such Letter of Credit, on the Letter of Credit Expiration Date and thereafter on demand.  For purposes of computing the daily amount available to be drawn under any Letter of Credit, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be determined in accordance with Section 1.06.  In addition, the Borrowers shall pay directly to the L/C Issuer for its own account the customary issuance, presentation, amendment and other processing fees, and other standard costs and charges, of the L/C Issuer relating to letters of credit as from time to time in effect.  Such customary fees and standard costs and charges are due and payable on demand and are nonrefundable.

(j)Conflict with Issuer Documents.  In the event of any conflict between the terms hereof and the terms of any Issuer Document, the terms hereof shall control.

(k)Letters of Credit Issued for Subsidiaries.  Notwithstanding that a Letter of Credit issued or outstanding hereunder is in support of any obligations of, or is for the account of, a Subsidiary that is a Guarantor, the Borrowers shall be obligated to reimburse the L/C Issuer hereunder for any and all drawings under such Letter of Credit.  The Borrowers hereby acknowledge that the issuance of Letters of Credit for the account of any Guarantor inures to the benefit of the Borrowers, and that the Borrowers’ business derives substantial benefits from the businesses of the other Loan Parties.

2.04Swing Line Loans  

(a)The Swing Line.  Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Swing Line Lender agrees, in reliance upon the agreements of the other Lenders set forth in this Section 2.04, to make loans (each such loan, a “Swing Line Loan”) to the Lead Borrower from time to time on any Business Day during the Availability Period in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any time outstanding the amount of the Swing Line Sublimit, notwithstanding the fact that such Swing Line Loans, when aggregated with the Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of Revolving Credit Loans and L/C Obligations of the Lender acting as Swing Line Lender, may exceed the amount of such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment; provided, however, that (x) after giving effect to any Swing Line Loan, (i) the Total Revolving Credit Outstandings shall not exceed the Revolving Credit Facility at such time, and (ii) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Revolving Credit Loans of any Revolving Credit Lender at such time, plus such Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations at such time, plus such Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of all Swing Line Loans at such time shall not exceed such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment, 

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(y) the Borrowers shall not use the proceeds of any Swing Line Loan to refinance any outstanding Swing Line Loan, and (z) the Swing Line Lender shall not be under any obligation to make any Swing Line Loan if it shall determine (which determination shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error) that it has, or by such Credit Extension may have, Fronting Exposure.  Within the foregoing limits, and subject to the other terms and conditions hereof, the Borrowers may borrow under this Section 2.04, prepay under Section 2.05, and reborrow under this Section 2.04.  Each Swing Line Loan shall bear interest only at a rate based on the Base Rate.  Immediately upon the making of a Swing Line Loan, each Revolving Credit Lender shall be deemed to, and hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to, purchase from the Swing Line Lender a risk participation in such Swing Line Loan in an amount equal to the product of such Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage times the amount of such Swing Line Loan.  Neither the German Borrower nor the UK Borrower may borrow under the Swing Line Loan.

(b)Borrowing Procedures.  Each Swing Line Borrowing shall be made upon the Lead Borrower’s irrevocable notice to the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent, which may be given by:  (A) telephone or (B) a Swing Line Loan Notice; provided that any telephonic notice must be confirmed immediately by delivery to the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent of a Swing Line Loan Notice.  Each such notice must be received by the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent not later than 1:00 p.m. (or such later time on such date acceptable to the Swing Line Lender) on the requested borrowing date, and shall specify (i) the amount to be borrowed, which shall be a minimum of $500,000, and (ii) the requested borrowing date, which shall be a Business Day.  Each such telephonic notice must be confirmed promptly by delivery to the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent of a written Swing Line Loan Notice, appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the Lead Borrower.  Promptly after receipt by the Swing Line Lender of any telephonic Swing Line Loan Notice, the Swing Line Lender will confirm with the Administrative Agent (by telephone or in writing) that the Administrative Agent has also received such Swing Line Loan Notice and, if not, the Swing Line Lender will notify the Administrative Agent (by telephone or in writing) of the contents thereof.  Unless the Swing Line Lender has received notice (by telephone or in writing) from the Administrative Agent (including at the request of any Revolving Credit Lender) prior to 2:00 p.m. on the date of the proposed Swing Line Borrowing (A) directing the Swing Line Lender not to make such Swing Line Loan as a result of the limitations set forth in the first proviso to the first sentence of Section 2.04(a), or (B) that one or more of the applicable conditions specified in Article IV is not then satisfied, then, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Swing Line Lender will, not later than 3:00 p.m. on the borrowing date specified in such Swing Line Loan Notice, make the amount of its Swing Line Loan available to the Lead Borrower at its office by crediting the account of the Lead Borrower on the books of the Swing Line Lender in immediately available funds.

(c)Refinancing of Swing Line Loans.  (i)  The Swing Line Lender at any time in its sole and absolute discretion may request, on behalf of the Lead Borrower (which hereby irrevocably authorizes the Swing Line Lender to so request on its behalf), that each Revolving Credit Lender make a Base Rate Loan in an amount equal to such Lender’s Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage of the amount of Swing Line Loans then outstanding.  Such request shall be made in writing (which written request shall be deemed to be a Committed Loan Notice for purposes hereof) and in accordance with the requirements of Section 2.02, without regard to the minimum and multiples specified therein for the principal amount of Base Rate Loans, but subject to the unutilized portion of the Revolving Credit Facility and the conditions set forth in Section 4.02.  The Swing Line Lender shall furnish the Lead Borrower with a copy of the applicable Committed Loan Notice promptly after delivering such notice to the Administrative Agent.  Each Revolving Credit Lender shall make an amount equal to its Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage of the amount specified in such Committed Loan Notice available to the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds (and the Administrative Agent may apply Cash Collateral available with respect to the applicable Swing Line Loan) for the account of the Swing Line Lender at the Administrative Agent’s Office not later than 1:00 p.m. on the day specified in such Committed Loan Notice, whereupon, subject to Section 2.04(c)(ii), each Revolving Credit Lender that so makes funds available shall be 

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deemed to have made a Base Rate Loan to the Lead Borrower in such amount.  The Administrative Agent shall remit the funds so received to the Swing Line Lender.

(ii)If for any reason any Swing Line Loan cannot be refinanced by such a Revolving Credit Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.04(c)(i), the request for Base Rate Loans submitted by the Swing Line Lender as set forth herein shall be deemed to be a request by the Swing Line Lender that each of the Revolving Credit Lenders fund its risk participation in the relevant Swing Line Loan and each Revolving Credit Lender’s payment to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Swing Line Lender pursuant to Section 2.04(c)(i) shall be deemed payment in respect of such participation.

(iii)If any Revolving Credit Lender fails to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Swing Line Lender any amount required to be paid by such Lender pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.04(c) by the time specified in Section 2.04(c)(i), the Swing Line Lender shall be entitled to recover from such Lender (acting through the Administrative Agent), on demand, such amount with interest thereon for the period from the date such payment is required to the date on which such payment is immediately available to the Swing Line Lender at a rate per annum equal to the greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a rate determined by the Swing Line Lender in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by the Swing Line Lender in connection with the foregoing.  If such Lender pays such amount (with interest and fees as aforesaid), the amount so paid shall constitute such Lender’s Loan included in the relevant Borrowing or funded participation in the relevant Swing Line Loan, as the case may be.  A certificate of the Swing Line Lender submitted to any Lender (through the Administrative Agent) with respect to any amounts owing under this clause (iii) shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

(iv)Each Revolving Credit Lender’s obligation to make Revolving Credit Loans or to purchase and fund risk participations in Swing Line Loans pursuant to this Section 2.04(c) shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including (A) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right which such Lender may have against the Swing Line Lender, any Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever, (B) the occurrence or continuance of a Default, or (C) any other occurrence, event or condition, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing; provided, however, that each Revolving Credit Lender’s obligation to make Revolving Credit Loans pursuant to this Section 2.04(c) is subject to the conditions set forth in Section 4.02.  No such funding of risk participations shall relieve or otherwise impair the obligation of the Borrowers to repay Swing Line Loans, together with interest as provided herein.

(d)Repayment of Participations.  (i)  At any time after any Revolving Credit Lender has purchased and funded a risk participation in a Swing Line Loan, if the Swing Line Lender receives any payment on account of such Swing Line Loan, the Swing Line Lender will distribute to such Revolving Credit Lender its Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage thereof in the same funds as those received by the Swing Line Lender.

(ii) If any payment received by the Swing Line Lender in respect of principal or interest on any Swing Line Loan is required to be returned by the Swing Line Lender under any of the circumstances described in Section 11.05 (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the Swing Line Lender in its discretion), each Revolving Credit Lender shall pay to the Swing Line Lender its Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage thereof on demand of the Administrative Agent, plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such amount is returned, at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Rate.  The Administrative Agent will make such demand upon the request of the Swing Line Lender.  The obligations of the Lenders under this clause shall survive the payment in full of the Obligations and the termination of this Agreement.

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(e)Interest for Account of Swing Line Lender.  The Swing Line Lender shall be responsible for invoicing the Lead Borrower for interest on the Swing Line Loans.  Until each Revolving Credit Lender funds its Base Rate Loan or risk participation pursuant to this Section 2.04 to refinance such Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage of any Swing Line Loan, interest in respect of such Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage shall be solely for the account of the Swing Line Lender.

(f)Payments Directly to Swing Line Lender.  The Borrowers shall make all payments of principal and interest in respect of the Swing Line Loans directly to the Swing Line Lender.

2.05Prepayments  

(a)Optional.

(i)Subject to the last sentence of this Section 2.05(a)(i), the Borrowers may, pursuant to delivery to the Administrative Agent of a Notice of Loan Prepayment, at any time or from time to time voluntarily prepay Term Loans and Revolving Credit Loans in whole or in part without premium or penalty; provided that (A) such notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. (or such later time on such date acceptable to the Administrative Agent) (1) threetwo Business Days prior to any date of prepayment of Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loans denominated in Dollars, (2) three Business Days prior to any date of prepayment of any Alternative Currency Loan, and (23) on the date of prepayment of Base Rate Loans; (B) any prepayment of Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loans shall be in a principal amount of $500,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof; (C) any prepayment of Alternative Currency Loans shall be in a minimum principal amount of the Dollar Equivalent of $500,000 or a whole multiple of the Dollar Equivalent of $100,000 in excess thereof; and (CD) any prepayment of Base Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $500,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof or, in each case, if less, the entire principal amount thereof then outstanding.  Each such notice shall specify the date, the currency and amount of such prepayment and the Type(s) of Loans to be prepaid and, if EurocurrencyAlternative Currency Term Rate Loans or Term SOFR Loans are to be prepaid, the Interest Period(s) of such Loans.  The Administrative Agent will promptly notify each Lender of its receipt of each such notice, and of the amount of such Lender’s ratable portion of such prepayment (based on such Lender’s Applicable Percentage in respect of the relevant Facility).  If such notice is given by the Lead Borrower, the Borrowers shall make such prepayment and the payment amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein; provided that any notice of prepayment may be conditioned on the occurrence of a specified event, the proceeds of which are intended to be utilized to make such prepayment, and any such notice that is so conditioned may be revoked (or the prepayment date delayed) to the extent such condition is not satisfied.  Any prepayment of a Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loan and any Alternative Currency Loan shall be accompanied by all accrued interest on the amount prepaid, together with any additional amounts required pursuant to Section 3.07.  Each prepayment of the outstanding Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05(a) shall be applied to the Term Facility and any Incremental Tranche, as the Borrowers may elect and, within such tranche, in direct order of maturity to the principal repayment installments thereof, (unless otherwise directed by the Lead Borrower), each such prepayment shall be paid to the Lenders in accordance with their respective Applicable Percentages in respect of each of the relevant Facilities.  

(ii)The Borrowers may, upon notice to the Swing Line Lender pursuant to delivery to the Swing Line Lender of a Notice of Loan Prepayment (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), at any time or from time to time, voluntarily prepay Swing Line Loans in whole or in part without premium or penalty; provided that (A) such notice must be received by the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent not later than 1:00 p.m. (or such later time on such date acceptable to the Swing Line Lender) on the date of the prepayment, and (B) any such prepayment shall be in a minimum principal amount of 

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$500,000.  Each such notice shall specify the date and amount of such prepayment.  If such notice is given by the Lead Borrower, the Borrowers shall make such prepayment and the payment amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein; provided that any notice of prepayment may be conditioned on the occurrence of a specified event, the proceeds of which are intended to be utilized to make such prepayment, and any such notice that is so conditioned may be revoked (or the prepayment date delayed) to the extent such condition is not satisfied.

(b)Mandatory.

(i)If any Loan Party or any of its Domestic Subsidiaries Disposes of any property pursuant to Section 7.05(l) which results in the realization by such Person of Net Cash Proceeds, the Borrowers shall prepay an aggregate principal amount of Loans equal to 100% of such Net Cash Proceeds within three (3) Business Days of receipt thereof by such Person (such prepayments to be applied as set forth in clauses (v) and (viii) below); provided, however, that, at the election of the Borrowers (as notified by the Lead Borrower to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the date of such Disposition), and so long as no Default shall have occurred and be continuing, such Loan Party or such Subsidiary may reinvest all or any portion of such Net Cash Proceeds in assets used or useful in the business of the Loan Parties so long as within 365 days after the receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds, either (x) such purchase shall have been consummated or (y) a binding definitive agreement for such purchase shall have been entered into and such purchase shall have been consummated within 180 days after such binding definitive agreement, in each of cases (x) and (y) as certified by the Lead Borrower in writing to the Administrative Agent; and provided further, however, that any Net Cash Proceeds not subject to such definitive agreement or so reinvested shall be immediately applied to the prepayment of the Loans as set forth in this Section 2.05(b)(i).

(ii)[Intentionally Omitted].

(iii)Upon the incurrence or issuance by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries of any Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness expressly permitted to be incurred or issued pursuant to Section 7.02), the Borrowers shall prepay an aggregate principal amount of Loans equal to 100% of all Net Cash Proceeds received therefrom within three (3) Business Days of receipt thereof by Holdings or such Subsidiary (such prepayments to be applied as set forth in clauses (v) and (viii) below).

(iv)Upon any Extraordinary Receipt received by or paid to or for the account of any Loan Party or any of its Domestic Subsidiaries, and not otherwise included in clause (i)  of this Section 2.05(b), the Borrowers shall prepay an aggregate principal amount of Loans equal to 100% of such Net Cash Proceeds within three (3) Business Days of receipt thereof by such Loan Party or such Subsidiary (such prepayments to be applied as set forth in clauses (v) and (viii) below); provided, however, that with respect to any proceeds of insurance or condemnation awards (or payments in lieu thereof), at the election of the Borrowers (as notified by the Lead Borrower to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the date of receipt of such insurance proceeds or condemnation awards), and so long as no Default shall have occurred and be continuing, such Loan Party or such Subsidiary may apply within 365 days after the receipt of such cash proceeds either (x) to replace or repair the equipment, fixed assets or real property in respect of which such cash proceeds were received or to the acquisition of assets used or useful in the business of the Loan Parties or (y) enter into a binding definitive agreement for such replacement, repair or acquisition and such replacement, repair or acquisition shall have been completed within 180 days after such binding definitive agreement; and provided, further, however, that any cash proceeds not so applied shall be immediately applied to the prepayment of the Loans as set forth in this Section 2.05(b)(iv).

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(v)Each prepayment of Loans pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.05(b) shall be applied, first, to the Term Facility and any applicable Incremental Tranche and, in each case, to the principal repayment installments thereof first, in direct order of maturity for the first four installments, second, pro rata to the remaining installments (excluding the Maturity Date installment), third, to the Maturity Date installment and fourth, to the Revolving Credit Facility in the manner set forth in clause (viii) of this Section 2.05(b).

(vi)Notwithstanding any of the other provisions of clause (i), (iii) or (iv) of this Section 2.05(b), so long as no Default under Section 8.01(a) or Section 8.01(f), or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, if, on any date on which a prepayment would otherwise be required to be made pursuant to clause (i), (iii) or (iv) of this Section 2.05(b), the aggregate amount of Net Cash Proceeds received in any calendar year and required by such clause to be applied to prepay Loans on such date is less than or equal to $1,000,000, the Borrowers shall not be obligated to make such prepayment.

(vii)If for any reason the Total Revolving Credit Outstandings at any time exceed the Revolving Credit Facility at such time, in either such case, the Borrowers shall immediately prepay Revolving Credit Loans, Swing Line Loans and L/C Borrowings and/or Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations (other than the L/C Borrowings) in an aggregate amount equal to such excess.

(viii)Prepayments of the Revolving Credit Facility made pursuant to this Section 2.05(b), first, shall be applied ratably to the L/C Borrowings and the Swing Line Loans, second, shall be applied ratably to the outstanding Revolving Credit Loans, and, third, shall be used to Cash Collateralize the remaining L/C Obligations; and, in the case of prepayments of the Revolving Credit Facility required pursuant to clause (i), (iii) or (iv) of this Section 2.05(b), the amount remaining, if any, after the prepayment in full of all L/C Borrowings, Swing Line Loans and Revolving Credit Loans outstanding at such time and the Cash Collateralization of the remaining L/C Obligations in full (the sum of such prepayment amounts, cash collateralization amounts and remaining amount being, collectively, the “Reduction Amount”) may be retained by the Borrowers for use in the ordinary course of its business, and the Revolving Credit Facility shall be automatically and permanently reduced by the Reduction Amount as set forth in Section 2.06(b)(ii) and Section 2.06(b)(iii).  Upon the drawing of any Letter of Credit that has been Cash Collateralized, the funds held as Cash Collateral shall be applied (without any further action by or notice to or from the Borrowers or any other Loan Party) to reimburse the L/C Issuer or the Revolving Credit Lenders, as applicable.

(ix)Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section 2.05(b), to the extent that the repatriation of an amount of such Net Cash Proceeds would result in material adverse tax consequences to Holdings and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, an amount equal to the portion of such Net Cash Proceeds so affected will not be required to be applied to repay the Loans but only so long as the repatriation of such amount of Net Cash Proceeds would result in material adverse tax consequences to Holdings and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis.

Within the parameters of the applications set forth above, prepayments pursuant to this Section 2.05(b) shall be applied first to Base Rate Loans, then to Term SOFR Loans and then to Alternative Currency Loans. All prepayments under this Section 2.05(b) shall be subject to Section 3.07, but otherwise without premium or penalty, and shall be accompanied by interest on the principal amount prepaid through the date of prepayment.

2.06Termination or Reduction of Commitments  

(a)Optional.  The Borrowers may, upon notice provided by the Lead Borrower to the Administrative Agent, terminate the Revolving Credit Facility, the Letter of Credit Sublimit or the Swing Line Sublimit, or from time to time permanently reduce the Revolving Credit Facility, the Letter of Credit Sublimit or the Swing 

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Line Sublimit; provided that (i) any such notice shall be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. (or such later time on such date acceptable to the Administrative Agent) five (5) Business Days prior to the date of termination or reduction, (ii) any such partial reduction shall be in an aggregate amount of $500,000 or any whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof and (iii) the Borrowers shall not terminate or reduce (A) the Revolving Credit Facility if, after giving effect thereto and to any concurrent prepayments hereunder, the Total Revolving Credit Outstandings would exceed the Revolving Credit Facility, (B) the Letter of Credit Sublimit if, after giving effect thereto, the Outstanding Amount of L/C Obligations not fully Cash Collateralized hereunder would exceed the Letter of Credit Sublimit, or (C) the Swing Line Sublimit if, after giving effect thereto and to any concurrent prepayments hereunder, the Outstanding Amount of Swing Line Loans would exceed the Letter of Credit Sublimit; provided that any notice of reduction or termination may be conditioned on the occurrence of a specified event, the proceeds of which are intended to be utilized to refinance the commitments so reduced or terminated, and any such notice that is so conditioned may be revoked (or the reduction or termination date delayed) to the extent such condition is not satisfied.  

(b)Mandatory.  

(i)The aggregate Term Commitments shall be automatically and permanently reduced to zero on the date of the Term Borrowing.

(ii)The Revolving Credit Facility shall be automatically and permanently reduced on each date on which the prepayment of Revolving Credit Loans outstanding thereunder is required to be made pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(i), (iii) or (iv) by an amount equal to the applicable Reduction Amount.

(iii)If after giving effect to any reduction or termination of Revolving Credit Commitments under this Section 2.06, the Letter of Credit Sublimit or the Swing Line Sublimit exceeds the Revolving Credit Facility at such time, the Letter of Credit Sublimit or the Swing Line Sublimit, as the case may be, shall be automatically reduced by the amount of such excess.

(c)Application of Commitment Reductions; Payment of Fees.  The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Lenders of any termination or reduction of the Letter of Credit Sublimit, Swing Line Sublimit or the Revolving Credit Commitment under this Section 2.06.  Upon any reduction of the Revolving Credit Commitments, the Revolving Credit Commitment of each Revolving Credit Lender shall be reduced by such Lender’s Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage of such reduction amount.  All fees in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility accrued until the effective date of any termination of the Revolving Credit Facility shall be paid on the effective date of such termination.

2.07Repayment of Loans  

(a)Term Loans.  The Borrowers shall repay to the Term Lenders in Euros the aggregate principal amount of all Term Loans outstanding on the following dates in the respective amounts set forth opposite such dates (which amounts shall be reduced as a result of the application of prepayments in accordance with the order of priority set forth in Section 2.05):

 

		
	
DATE‌Date
	
Amount

	
March 18, 2020
	
€1,131,325.51

	
June 18, 2020
	
€1,130,000.00

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September 18, 2020
	
€1,130,000.00

	
December 18, 2020
	
€1,130,000.00

	
March 18, 2021
	
€1,130,000.00

	
June 18, 2021
	
€1,130,000.00

	
September 18, 2021
	
€1,130,000.00

	
December 18, 2021
	
€1,130,000.00

	
March 18, 2022
	
€1,130,000.00

	
June 18, 2022
	
€1,130,000.00

	
September 18, 2022
	
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 provided, however, that the final principal repayment installment of the Term Loans shall be repaid on the Maturity Date for the Term Facility and in any event shall be in an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of all Term Loans outstanding on such date.  For the avoidance of doubt, all repayments of the Term Loans shall be made in Euros.

(b)Revolving Credit Loans.  The Borrowers shall repay to the Revolving Credit Lenders on the Maturity Date for the Revolving Credit Facility the aggregate principal amount of all Revolving Credit Loans outstanding on such date.

(c)Swing Line Loans.  The Borrowers shall repay each Swing Line Loan on the earlier to occur of (i) the date ten Business Days after such Loan is made and (ii) the Maturity Date for the Revolving Credit Facility.

2.08Interest  

(a)Subject to the provisions of Section 2.08(b), (i) each Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loan under a Facility shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof for each Interest Period at a rate per annum equal to the Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR for such Interest Period plus the Applicable Rate for such Facility; (ii) each Base Rate Loan under a Facility shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof from the applicable borrowing date at a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate plus the Applicable Rate for such Facility; (iii) each Swing Line Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof from the applicable borrowing date at a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate plus the Applicable Rate for the Revolving Credit Facility and; (iv) each Alternative Currency Daily Rate Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof from the applicable borrowing date at a rate per annum equal to the Alternative Currency Daily Rate plus the Applicable Rate; and (v) each Alternative Currency Term Rate Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof for each Interest Period at a rate per annum equal to the Alternative Currency Term Rate for such Interest Period plus the Applicable Rate.  To the extent that any calculation of interest or any fee required to be paid under this Agreement shall be based on  (or result in) a calculation that is less than zero, such calculation shall be deemed zero for purposes of this Agreement.

(b)Default Rate.(b)

(i)If any amount of principal of any Loan is not paid when due (without regard to any applicable grace periods), whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, such amount shall thereafter bear interest at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.

(ii)If any amount (other than principal of any Loan) payable by the Borrowers under any Loan Document is not paid when due (without regard to any applicable grace periods), whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, then upon the request of the Required Lenders such amount shall thereafter bear interest at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.  

(iii)Upon the request of the Required Lenders, while any Event of Default is continuing, the Borrowers shall pay interest on the principal amount of all outstanding Obligations hereunder at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.  

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(iv)Accrued and unpaid interest on past due amounts (including interest on past due interest) shall be due and payable upon demand.

(c)Interest on each Loan shall be due and payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date applicable thereto and at such other times as may be specified herein.  Interest hereunder shall be due and payable in accordance with the terms hereof before and after judgment, and before and after the commencement of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law.

(d)Interest Act (Canada). For the purposes of the Interest Act (Canada), (i) whenever a rate of interest or fee rate hereunder is calculated on the basis of a year (the “deemed year”) that contains fewer days than the actual number of days in the calendar year of calculation, such rate of interest or fee rate shall be expressed as a yearly rate by multiplying such rate of interest or fee rate by the actual number of days in the calendar year of calculation and dividing it by the number of days in the deemed year, (ii) the principle of deemed reinvestment of interest shall not apply to any interest calculation hereunder and (iii) the rates of interest stipulated herein are intended to be nominal rates and not effective rates or yields.

2.09Fees  

In addition to certain fees described in Sections 2.03(h) and (i):

(a)Commitment Fee.  The Borrowers shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Credit Lender in accordance with its Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage, a commitment fee equal to the Applicable Fee Rate times the actual daily amount by which the Revolving Credit Facility exceeds the sum of (i) the Outstanding Amount of Revolving Credit Loans and (ii) the Outstanding Amount of L/C Obligations.  For the avoidance of doubt, the Outstanding Amount of Swing Line Loans shall not be counted towards or considered usage of the Revolving Credit Facility for purposes of determining the commitment fee.  The commitment fee shall accrue at all times during the Availability Period, including at any time during which one or more of the conditions in Article IV is not met, and shall be due and payable quarterly in arrears on the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December, commencing with the first such date to occur after the Third Restatement Date, and on the last day of the Availability Period for the Revolving Credit Facility.  The commitment fee shall be calculated quarterly in arrears, and if there is any change in the Applicable Fee Rate during any quarter, the actual daily amount shall be computed and multiplied by the Applicable Fee Rate separately for each period during such quarter that such Applicable Fee Rate was in effect.

(b)Other Fees.  

(i)The Borrowers shall pay to the Arrangers and the Administrative Agent for their own respective accounts fees in the amounts and at the times specified in the Fee Letter.  Such fees shall be fully earned when paid and shall not be refundable for any reason whatsoever.

(ii)The Borrowers shall pay to the Lenders such fees as shall have been separately agreed upon in writing in the amounts and at the times so specified.  Such fees shall be fully earned when paid and shall not be refundable for any reason whatsoever.

2.10Computation of Interest and Fees; Retroactive Adjustments of Applicable Rate  

(a)All computations of interest for Base Rate Loans shall be made on the basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may be, and actual days elapsed.  All other computations of fees and interest, including those with respect to Term SOFR Loans, shall be made on the basis of a 360-day year and actual days elapsed (which results in more fees or interest, as applicable, being paid than if computed on the basis of a 365-day year) or, in the case of interest in respect of Loans denominated in Alternative Currencies (x) on the basis of a 

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year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may be, and actual days elapsed, or (y) in the case of an Alternative Currency as to which market practice differs from the foregoing, in accordance with such market practice.  Interest shall accrue on each Loan for the day on which the Loan is made, and shall not accrue on a Loan, or any portion thereof, for the day on which the Loan or such portion is paid, provided that any Loan that is repaid on the same day on which it is made shall, subject to Section 2.12(a), bear interest for one day.  Each determination by the Administrative Agent of an interest rate or fee hereunder shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.

(b)If, as a result of any restatement of or other adjustment to the financial statements of Holdings or for any other reason, the Borrowers or the Lenders determine that (i) the Consolidated Leverage Ratio as calculated by Holdings as of any applicable date was inaccurate and (ii) a proper calculation of the Consolidated Leverage Ratio would have resulted in higher pricing for such period, the Borrowers shall immediately and retroactively be obligated to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the applicable Lenders or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, promptly on demand by the Administrative Agent (or, after the occurrence of an actual or deemed entry of an order for relief with respect to any Borrower under the Bankruptcy Code of the United States, automatically and without further action by the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the L/C Issuer), an amount equal to the excess of the amount of interest and fees that should have been paid for such period over the amount of interest and fees actually paid for such period.  This paragraph shall not limit the rights of the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, under Section 2.03(c)(iii), 2.03(h) or 2.08(b) or under Article VIII.

2.11Evidence of Debt  

(a)The Credit Extensions made by each Lender shall be evidenced by one or more accounts or records maintained by such Lender and by the Administrative Agent in the ordinary course of business.  The Administrative Agent shall maintain the Register in accordance with Section 11.06(c). Subject to the Register, the accounts or records maintained by the Administrative Agent and each Lender shall be conclusive absent manifest error of the amount of the Credit Extensions made by the Lenders to the Borrowers and the interest and payments thereon.  Any failure to so record or any error in doing so shall not, however, limit or otherwise affect the obligation of the Borrowers hereunder to pay any amount owing with respect to the Obligations.  In the event of any conflict between the accounts and records maintained by any Lender and the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent in respect of such matters, the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent shall control in the absence of manifest error.  Upon the request of any Lender made through the Administrative Agent, the Borrowers shall execute and deliver to such Lender (through the Administrative Agent) a Note, which shall evidence such Lender’s Loans in addition to such accounts or records.  Each Lender may attach schedules to its Note and endorse thereon the date, Type (if applicable), amount and maturity of its Loans and payments with respect thereto.

(b)In addition to the accounts and records referred to in Section 2.11(a), each Lender and the Administrative Agent shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice accounts or records evidencing the purchases and sales by such Lender of participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans.  In the event of any conflict between the accounts and records maintained by the Administrative Agent and the accounts and records of any Lender in respect of such matters, the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent shall control in the absence of manifest error.

2.12Payments Generally; Administrative Agent’s Clawback  

(a)General.  All payments to be made by the Borrowers shall be made free and clear of and without condition or deduction for any counterclaim, defense, recoupment or setoff.  Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all payments by the Borrowers hereunder shall be made to the Administrative Agent, for the 

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account of the respective Lenders to which such payment is owed, at the Administrative Agent’s Office in Dollars and in immediately available funds not later than 2:00 p.m. on the date specified herein.  The Administrative Agent will promptly distribute to each Lender its Applicable Percentage in respect of the relevant Facility (or other applicable share as provided herein) of such payment in like funds as received by wire transfer to such Lender’s Lending Office.  All payments received by the Administrative Agent after 2:00 p.m. shall be deemed received on the next succeeding Business Day and any applicable interest or fee shall continue to accrue.  

 

(i)Funding by Lenders; Presumption by Administrative Agent.  Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the proposed date of any Borrowing of Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loans or Alternative Currency Loans (or, in the case of any Borrowing of Base Rate Loans, prior to 12:00 noon on the date of such Borrowing) that such Lender will not make available to the Administrative Agent such Lender’s share of such Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such share available on such date in accordance with Section 2.02 (or, in the case of a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans, that such Lender has made such share available in accordance with and at the time required by Section 2.02) and may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrowers a corresponding amount.  In such event, if a Lender has not in fact made its share of the applicable Borrowing available to the Administrative Agent, then the applicable Lender and the Borrowers severally agree to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount in immediately available funds with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is made available to the Borrowers to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at (A) in the case of a payment to be made by such Lender, the greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by the Administrative Agent in connection with the foregoing, and (B) in the case of a payment to be made by the Borrowers in (x) Dollars, the interest rate applicable to Base Rate Loans or (y) Alternative Currencies, the interest rate applicable to Loans in such Alternative Currency (assuming, in the case of any Alternative Currency Term Rate Loan, a one-month Interest Period) (or, if none, in accordance with market practice), in each case, as applicable.  If the Borrowers and such Lender shall pay such interest to the Administrative Agent for the same or an overlapping period, the Administrative Agent shall promptly remit to the Borrowers the amount of such interest paid by the Borrowers for such period.  If such Lender pays its share of the applicable Borrowing to the Administrative Agent, then the amount so paid shall constitute such Lender’s Loan included in such Borrowing.  Any payment by the Borrowers shall be without prejudice to any claim the Borrowers may have against a Lender that shall have failed to make such payment to the Administrative Agent.

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

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With respect to any payment that the Administrative Agent makes for the account of the Lenders or the L/C Issuer hereunder as to which the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) that any of the following applies (such payment referred to as the “Rescindable Amount”) : (1) the Borrowers have not in fact made such payment; (2) the Administrative Agent has made a payment in excess of the amount so paid by the Borrowers (whether or not then owed); or (3) the Administrative Agent has for any reason otherwise erroneously made such payment; then each of the Lenders or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, severally agrees to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the Rescindable Amount so distributed to such Lender or the L/C Issuer, in immediately available funds with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is distributed to it to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at the greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation.  For the avoidance of doubt, (x) if a Loan Party has paid principal, interest or any other amounts owed pursuant to a Loan Document, nothing in Sections 2.12(b), 9.13 or 11.04 shall require any such Loan Party to pay additional amounts that are duplicative of such previously paid amounts as a result of any payment being a Rescindable Amount and (y) the Loan Parties shall have no obligations, liabilities or responsibilities for any actions, consequences or remediation under Sections 2.12(b), 9.13 or 11.04 as a result of any payment being a Rescindable Amount.

A notice of the Administrative Agent to any Lender or the Lead Borrower with respect to any amount owing under this subsection (b) shall be conclusive, absent manifest error.

(c)Failure to Satisfy Conditions Precedent.  If any Lender makes available to the Administrative Agent funds for any Loan to be made by such Lender as provided in the foregoing provisions of this Article II, and such funds are not made available to the Borrowers by the Administrative Agent because the conditions to the applicable Credit Extension set forth in Article IV are not satisfied or waived in accordance with the terms hereof, the Administrative Agent shall return such funds (in like funds as received from such Lender) to such Lender, without interest.

(d)Obligations of Lenders Several.  The obligations of the Lenders hereunder to make Term Loans and Revolving Credit Loans, to fund participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans and to make payments pursuant to Section 11.04(c) are several and not joint.  The failure of any Lender to make any Loan, to fund any such participation or to make any payment under Section 11.04(c) on any date required hereunder shall not relieve any other Lender of its corresponding obligation to do so on such date, and no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to so make its Loan, to purchase its participation or to make its payment under Section 11.04(c).

(e)Funding Source.  Nothing herein shall be deemed to obligate any Lender to obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner or to constitute a representation by any Lender that it has obtained or will obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner.

(f)Insufficient Funds.  If at any time insufficient funds are received by and available to the Administrative Agent to pay fully all amounts of principal, L/C Borrowings, interest and fees then due hereunder, such funds shall be applied (i) first, toward payment of interest and fees then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of interest and fees then due to such parties, and (ii) second, toward payment of principal and L/C Borrowings then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of principal and L/C Borrowings then due to such parties.

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2.13Sharing of Payments by Lenders  

If any Lender shall, by exercising any right of setoff or counterclaim or otherwise, obtain payment in respect of (a) Obligations in respect of any the Facilities due and payable to such Lender hereunder and under the other Loan Documents at such time in excess of its ratable share (according to the proportion of (i) the amount of such Obligations due and payable to such Lender at such time to (ii) the aggregate amount of the Obligations in respect of the Facilities due and payable to all Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Documents at such time) of payments on account of the Obligations in respect of the Facilities due and payable to all Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Documents at such time obtained by all the Lenders at such time or (b) Obligations in respect of any of the Facilities owing (but not due and payable) to such Lender hereunder and under the other Loan Documents at such time in excess of its ratable share (according to the proportion of (i) the amount of such Obligations owing (but not due and payable) to such Lender at such time to (ii) the aggregate amount of the Obligations in respect of the Facilities owing (but not due and payable) to all Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Parties at such time) of payment on account of the Obligations in respect of the Facilities owing (but not due and payable) to all Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Documents at such time obtained by all of the Lenders at such time then the Lender receiving such greater proportion shall (a) notify the Administrative Agent of such fact, and (b) purchase (for cash at face value) participations in the Loans and subparticipations in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans of the other Lenders, or make such other adjustments as shall be equitable, so that the benefit of all such payments shall be shared by the Lenders ratably in accordance with the aggregate amount of Obligations in respect of the Facilities then due and payable to the Lenders or owing (but not due and payable) to the Lenders, as the case may be, provided that:

(i)if any such participations or subparticipations are purchased and all or any portion of the payment giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations or subparticipations shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, without interest; and

(ii)the provisions of this Section 2.13 shall not be construed to apply to (A) any payment made by or on behalf of the Borrowers pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement (including the application of funds arising from the existence of a Defaulting Lender), (B) the application of Cash Collateral provided for in Section 2.17, or (C) any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans or subparticipations in L/C Obligations or Swing Line Loans to any assignee or participant in compliance with Section 11.06.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, no amount setoff from any Guarantor shall be applied to any Excluded Swap Obligation of such Guarantor.

Each Loan Party consents to the foregoing and agrees, to the extent it may effectively do so under applicable law, that any Lender acquiring a participation pursuant to the foregoing arrangements may exercise against such Loan Party rights of setoff and counterclaim with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were a direct creditor of such Loan Party in the amount of such participation.

2.14Extension of Maturity Date in respect of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Facility  

(a)Requests for Extension.  The Borrowers may, by notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall promptly notify the Lenders) not earlier than 45 days and not later than 15 Business Days prior to the Maturity Date then in effect hereunder in respect of any Facility (the “Existing Maturity Date”), request that each applicable Lender extend such Lender’s Maturity Date in respect of such Facility for an additional 364 days from the Existing Maturity Date.

(b)Lender Elections to Extend.  Each Lender under the applicable Facility, acting in its sole and individual discretion, shall, by notice to the Administrative Agent given not earlier than 30 days prior to the Existing Maturity Date and not later than the date (the “Notice Date”) that is 10 Business Days prior to the 

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Existing Maturity Date, advise the Administrative Agent whether or not such Lender agrees to such extension (and each Lender that determines not to so extend its Maturity Date (a “Non-Extending Lender”) shall notify the Administrative Agent of such fact promptly after such determination (but in any event no later than the Notice Date) and any Lender that does not so advise the Administrative Agent on or before the Notice Date shall be deemed to be a Non-Extending Lender.  The election of any Lender to agree to such extension shall not obligate any other Lender under the applicable Facility to so agree.

(c)Notification by Administrative Agent.  The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrowers of each Lender’s determination under this Section no later than the date 15 days prior to the Existing Maturity Date (or, if such date is not a Business Day, on the next preceding Business Day).

(d)Additional Commitment Lenders.  The Borrowers shall have the right to replace each Non-Extending Lender with, and add as Lenders under the applicable Facility under this Agreement in place thereof, one or more Eligible Assignees (each, an “Additional Commitment Lender”) as provided in Section 11.14; provided that each of such Additional Commitment Lenders shall enter into an Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Additional Commitment Lender shall, effective as of the Existing Maturity Date, undertake a Revolving Credit Commitment or a Term Loan (and, if any such Additional Commitment Lender in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility is already a Revolving Credit Lender, its Revolving Credit Commitment shall be in addition to any other Revolving Credit Commitment of such Lender hereunder on such date; if any such Additional Commitment Lender in respect of the Term Facility is already a Term Lender, its Term Loan shall be in addition to any other Term Loan of such Lender).

(e)Minimum Extension Requirement.  If (and only if) the total of the Revolving Credit Commitments of the Revolving Credit Lenders that have agreed so to extend their Maturity Date (each, an “Extending Lender”) and the additional Revolving Credit Commitments of the Additional Commitment Lenders shall be more than 50% of the aggregate amount of the Revolving Credit Commitments in effect immediately prior to the Existing Maturity Date, then, effective as of the Existing Maturity Date, the Maturity Date in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility of each Extending Lender and of each Additional Commitment Lender shall be extended to the date falling 364 days after the Existing Maturity Date (except that, if such date is not a Business Day, such Maturity Date as so extended shall be the next preceding Business Day) and each Additional Commitment Lender shall thereupon become a “Revolving Credit Lender” for all purposes of this Agreement.

(f)Conditions to Effectiveness of Extensions.  As a condition precedent to such extension, the Lead Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent a certificate of each Loan Party dated as of the Existing Maturity Date (in sufficient copies for each Extending Lender and each Additional Commitment Lender) signed by a Responsible Officer of such Loan Party (i) certifying and attaching the resolutions adopted by such Loan Party approving or consenting to such extension and (ii) in the case of the Lead Borrower, certifying that, before and after giving effect to such extension, (A) the representations and warranties contained in Article V and the other Loan Documents are true and correct in all material respects on and as of the Existing Maturity Date, except (i) to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, in which case they shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date, (ii) in the case of any representation and warranty qualified by materiality, they shall be true and correct in all respects, and except that for purposes of this Section 2.14, the representations and warranties contained in subsections (a) and (b) of Section 5.05 shall be deemed to refer to the most recent statements furnished pursuant to subsections (a) and (b), respectively, of Section 6.01, and (B) no Default or Event of Default exists.  In addition, on the Maturity Date of each Non-Extending Lender, the Borrowers shall prepay any Loans outstanding on such date (and pay any additional amounts required pursuant to Section 3.07) to the extent necessary to keep outstanding Committed Loans ratable with any revised Applicable Percentages of the respective Lenders effective as of such date.

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(g)Other Extension Transactions.  In addition to the foregoing, the Borrowers may consummate other transactions for the purpose of extending the maturity date of any Facility hereunder pursuant to procedures reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (an “Alternative Extension Transaction”); provided that each Lender under the applicable Facility shall be afforded the opportunity to participate in any such Alternative Extension Transaction.

(h)Extension Amendment.  Any extension consummated in accordance with the provisions above shall be effected by an amendment to this Agreement (the “Extension Amendment”) executed by the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent and each Lender participating in such transaction, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to each of them.  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 11.01, the Extension Amendment may, without the consent of any other Lenders, effect such amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent, to effect the provisions of this Section 2.15.  In addition, unless otherwise specifically provided herein, all references in Loan Documents to any Facility shall be deemed, unless the context otherwise requires, to include references to such extended Facility established pursuant to the Extension Amendment.

(i)Conflicting Provisions.  This Section shall supersede any provisions in Section 2.13 or 11.01 to the contrary.

2.15Increase in Revolving Credit Facility 

(a)Request for Increase.  Upon notice to the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly notify the Revolving Credit Lenders), the Borrowers may from time to time, request an increase in the Revolving Credit Facility (each, an “Incremental Revolving Commitment”) by an amount (for all such requests, when aggregated with any increases under Section 2.16) not exceeding $200,000,000350,000,000 after the FourthFifth Amendment Effective Date; provided, that any such request for an increase shall be in a minimum amount of $5,000,000.  The Limited Condition Transaction provisions set forth in Section 1.09 shall not apply in respect of the funding of an Incremental Revolving Commitment.  The Borrowers may make a maximum of three requests for an Incremental Revolving Commitment or Incremental Tranche prior to the Maturity Date.  At the time of sending such notice, the Lead Borrower, on behalf of the Borrowers (in consultation with the Administrative Agent) shall specify the time period within which each Revolving Credit Lender is requested to respond (which shall in no event be less than ten Business Days from the date of delivery of such notice to the Revolving Credit Lenders).

(b)Lender Elections to Increase.  Each Revolving Credit Lender shall notify the Administrative Agent within such time period whether or not it agrees to increase its Revolving Credit Commitment and, if so, whether by an amount equal to, greater than, or less than its Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage of such requested increase.  Any Revolving Credit Lender not responding within such time period shall be deemed to have declined to increase its Revolving Credit Commitment.  

(c)Notification by Administrative Agent; Additional Revolving Credit Lenders.  The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrowers and each Revolving Credit Lender of the Revolving Credit Lenders’ responses to each request made hereunder.  To achieve the full amount of a requested increase, and subject to the approval of the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer and the Swing Line Lender (which approvals shall not be unreasonably withheld), the Borrowers may also invite additional Eligible Assignees to become Revolving Credit Lenders pursuant to a joinder agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and its counsel.

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promptly notify the Borrowers and the Revolving Credit Lenders of the final allocation of such increase and the Revolving Credit Increase Effective Date.  

(e)The Incremental Revolving Commitments shall be effected by a joinder agreement (the “Revolving Increase Joinder”) executed by the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent and each Lender making such Incremental Revolving Commitment, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to each of them.  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 11.01, the Increase Joinder may, without the consent of any other Lenders, effect such amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent, to effect the provisions of this Section 2.15.  In addition, unless otherwise specifically provided herein, all references in Loan Documents to Revolving Credit Loans shall be deemed, unless the context otherwise requires, to include references to Revolving Credit Loans made pursuant to Incremental Revolving Commitments made pursuant to this Agreement.  

(f)Conditions to Effectiveness of Increase.  As a condition precedent to such increase, the Lead Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent a certificate of each Loan Party dated as of the Revolving Credit Increase Effective Date signed by a Responsible Officer of such Loan Party (i) certifying and attaching the resolutions adopted by such Loan Party approving or consenting to such increase, and (ii) in the case of the Lead Borrower, certifying that, before and after giving effect to such increase, (A) the representations and warranties contained in Article V and the other Loan Documents are true and correct in all material respects on and as of the Revolving Credit Increase Effective Date, except (i) to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, in which case they shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date, (ii) in the case of any representation and warranty qualified by materiality, they shall be true and correct in all respects, and except that for purposes of this Section 2.15, the representations and warranties contained in subsections (a) and (b) of Section 5.05 shall be deemed to refer to the most recent statements furnished pursuant to clauses (a) and (b), respectively, of Section 6.01, and (B) no Event of Default exists.  The Borrowers shall prepay any Revolving Credit Loans outstanding on the Revolving Credit Increase Effective Date (and pay any additional amounts required pursuant to Section 3.07) to the extent necessary to keep the outstanding Revolving Credit Loans ratable with any revised Applicable Revolving Credit Percentages arising from any nonratable increase in the Revolving Credit Commitments under this Section.

(g)Conflicting Provisions.  This Section shall supersede any provisions in Section 2.13 or 11.01 to the contrary.

2.16Increase in Term Facility  

(a)Request for Increase.  Upon notice to the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly notify the Term Lenders), the Borrowers may from time to time, request an increase in the Term Loans or a new tranche of Term Loans (an (“Incremental Tranche”) by an amount (for all such requests, when aggregated with any increases under Section 2.15) not exceeding $200,000,000350,000,000 after the FourthFifth Amendment Effective Date; provided that any such request for an increase shall be in a minimum amount of $5,000,000.  The Borrowers may make a maximum of three requests for an Incremental Revolving Commitment or Incremental Tranche prior to the Maturity Date.  At the time of sending such notice, the Lead Borrower, on behalf of the Borrowers (in consultation with the Administrative Agent) shall specify the time period within which each Term Lender is requested to respond (which shall in no event be less than ten Business Days from the date of delivery of such notice to the Term Lenders).

(b)Lender Elections to Increase.  Each Term Lender shall notify the Administrative Agent within such time period whether or not it agrees to increase its Term Loans or participate in the Incremental Tranche and, if so, whether by an amount equal to, greater than, or less than its ratable portion (based on such Term 

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Lender’s Applicable Percentage in respect of the Term Facility) of such requested increase.  Any Term Lender not responding within such time period shall be deemed to have declined to increase its Term Loans.

(c)Notification by Administrative Agent; Additional Term Lenders.  The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrowers and each Term Lender of the Term Lenders’ responses to each request made hereunder.  To achieve the full amount of a requested increase, and subject to the approval of the Administrative Agent (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld), the Borrowers may also invite additional Eligible Assignees to become Term Lenders pursuant to a joinder agreement in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and its counsel.

(d)Effective Date and Allocations.  If the Term Loans are increased or an Incremental Tranche is added in accordance with this Section, the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers shall determine the effective date (the “Term Increase Effective Date”) and the final allocation of such increase.  The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Borrowers and the Term Lenders of the final allocation of such increase or Incremental Tranche and the Term Increase Effective Date.  As of the Term Increase Effective Date, (a) for an increase in the Term Loans, the amortization schedule for the Term Loans set forth in Section 2.07(a) shall be amended to increase the then-remaining unpaid installments of principal by an aggregate amount equal to the additional Term Loans being made on such date, such aggregate amount to be applied to increase such installments ratably in accordance with the amounts in effect immediately prior to the Term Increase Effective Date, pursuant to the Term Increase Joinder or (b) such Incremental Tranche (i) shall rank pari passu in right of payment and of security with the Revolving Credit Loans and the Term Loans, (ii) shall not mature earlier than the Maturity Date and shall have a weighted average life to maturity no shorter than the weighted average life to maturity of the Term Loans (except by virtue of amortization of or prepayment of such Term Loans prior to such date of determination) and (iii) except as set forth above, shall be treated substantially the same as the Term Loans (in each case, including with respect to mandatory and voluntary prepayments), provided that the interest rates and amortization schedule (subject to clause (ii) above) applicable to the Incremental Tranche shall be determined by the Borrowers and the lenders thereof and set forth in the Term Increase Joinder; provided further that (i) if the Applicable Rate (which, for such purposes only, shall be deemed to include all upfront or similar fees or original issue discount that are paid to all Lenders (and not any one Lender) providing such Incremental Tranche, based on a deemed four-year maturity) relating to any Incremental Tranche exceeds the Applicable Rate relating to the existing Term Loans immediately prior to the effectiveness of the applicable Term Increase Joinder by more than 0.50%, the Applicable Rate relating to the existing Term Loans shall be adjusted to be equal to the Applicable Rate (which, for such purposes only, shall be deemed to include all upfront or similar fees or original issue discount that are paid to all Lenders (and not any one Lender) providing such Incremental Tranche) relating to such Incremental Tranche minus 0.50%.  

(e)The Incremental Tranche shall be effected by a joinder agreement (the “Term Increase Joinder”) executed by the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent and each Lender making such Incremental Tranche, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to each of them.  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 11.01, the Term Increase Joinder may, without the consent of any other Lenders, effect such amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent, to effect the provisions of this Section 2.16.  In addition, unless otherwise specifically provided herein, all references in Loan Documents to Term Loans shall be deemed, unless the context otherwise requires, to include references to an Incremental Tranche made pursuant to this Agreement.  

(f)Conditions to Effectiveness of Increase.  As a condition precedent to such increase, the Lead Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent a certificate of each Loan Party dated as of the Term Increase Effective Date signed by a Responsible Officer of such Loan Party (i) certifying and attaching the resolutions adopted by such Loan Party approving or consenting to such increase, and (ii) in the case of the Lead Borrower, certifying that, before and after giving effect to such increase, (A) the representations and warranties contained 

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in Article V and the other Loan Documents are true and correct in all material respects on and as of the Term Increase Effective Date, except (i) to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, in which case they shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date, (ii) in the case of any representation and warranty qualified by materiality, they shall be true and correct in all respects, and except that for purposes of this Section 2.16, the representations and warranties contained in subsections (a) and (b) of Section 5.05 shall be deemed to refer to the most recent statements furnished pursuant to clauses (a) and (b), respectively, of Section 6.01, (B) no Default or Event of Default exists (provided that to the extent the proceeds of an Incremental Tranche will be used to finance a Limited Condition Transaction, such condition may, at the Borrower’s election, be no Event of Default on the date of execution and effectiveness of the definitive purchase agreement and no payment or bankruptcy Event of Default in existence at the time of incurrence of such Incremental Tranche) on the Term Increase Effective Date.  The additional Term Loans shall be made by the Term Lenders participating therein pursuant to the procedures set forth in Section 2.02.

(g)Conflicting Provisions.  This Section shall supersede any provisions in Section 2.13 or 11.01 to the contrary.

2.17Cash Collateral  

(a)Certain Credit Support Events.  Upon the request of the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer (i) if the L/C Issuer has honored any full or partial drawing request under any Letter of Credit and such drawing has resulted in an L/C Borrowing, the Borrowers shall immediately Cash Collateralize the then Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations in an amount equal to 100% of such Outstanding Amount, or (ii) if, as of the Maturity Date, any L/C Obligation for any reason remains outstanding, the Borrowers shall immediately Cash Collateralize the then Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations in an amount equal to 105% of such Outstanding Amount.  At any time that there shall exist a Defaulting Lender, promptly following the request of the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender, the Borrowers shall deliver to the Administrative Agent Cash Collateral in an amount sufficient to cover all Fronting Exposure (after giving effect to Section 2.18(a)(iv) and any Cash Collateral provided by the Defaulting Lender).  

(b)Grant of Security Interest.  All Cash Collateral (other than credit support not constituting funds subject to deposit) shall be maintained in blocked deposit accounts at Bank of America.  The Borrowers, and to the extent provided by any Lender, such Lender, hereby grant to (and subjects to the control of) the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer and the Lenders (including the Swing Line Lender), and agree to maintain, a first priority security interest in all such cash, deposit accounts and all balances therein, and all other property so provided as collateral pursuant hereto, and in all proceeds of the foregoing, all as security for the obligations to which such Cash Collateral may be applied pursuant to Section 2.17(c).  If at any time the Administrative Agent determines that Cash Collateral is subject to any right or claim of any Person other than the Administrative Agent as herein provided, or that the total amount of such Cash Collateral is less than the applicable Fronting Exposure and other obligations secured thereby, the Borrowers or the relevant Defaulting Lender will, promptly upon demand by the Administrative Agent, pay or provide to the Administrative Agent additional Cash Collateral in an amount sufficient to eliminate such deficiency.

(c)Application.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, Cash Collateral provided under any of this Section 2.17 or Sections 2.03, 2.04, 2.05, 2.18 or 8.02 in respect of Letters of Credit or Swing Line Loans shall be held and applied to the satisfaction of the specific L/C Obligations, Swing Line Loans, obligations to fund participations therein (including, as to Cash Collateral provided by a Defaulting Lender, any interest accrued on such obligation) and other obligations for which the Cash Collateral was so provided, prior to any other application of such property as may be provided for herein. 

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(d)Release.  Cash Collateral (or the appropriate portion thereof) provided to reduce Fronting Exposure or other obligations shall be released promptly following (i) the elimination of the applicable Fronting Exposure or other obligations giving rise thereto (including by the termination of Defaulting Lender status of the applicable Lender (or, as appropriate, its assignee following compliance with Section 11.06(b)(vi))) or (ii) the Administrative Agent’s good faith determination that there exists excess Cash Collateral; provided, however, (x) that Cash Collateral furnished by or on behalf of a Loan Party shall not be released during the continuance of a Default or Event of Default (and following application as provided in this Section 2.17 may be otherwise applied in accordance with Section 8.03), and (y) the Person providing Cash Collateral and the L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender, as applicable, may agree that Cash Collateral shall not be released but instead held to support future anticipated Fronting Exposure or other obligations.

2.18Defaulting Lenders  

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

(i)Waivers and Amendments.  That 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 Section 11.01.

(ii)Reallocation of Payments.  Any payment of principal, interest, fees or other amounts received by the Administrative Agent for the account of that Defaulting Lender (whether voluntary or mandatory, at maturity, pursuant to Article VIII or otherwise, and including any amounts made available to the Administrative Agent by that Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 11.08), shall be applied at such time or times as may be determined by the Administrative Agent as follows: first, to the payment of any amounts owing by that Defaulting Lender to the Administrative Agent hereunder; second, to the payment on a pro rata basis of any amounts owing by that Defaulting Lender to the L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender hereunder; third, if so determined by the Administrative Agent or requested by the L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender, to be held as Cash Collateral for future funding obligations of that Defaulting Lender of any participation in any Swing Line Loan or Letter of Credit; fourth, to the funding of any Loan in respect of which that Defaulting Lender has failed to fund its portion thereof as required by this Agreement, as determined by the Administrative Agent; fifth, if so determined by the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers, to be held in a non-interest bearing deposit account and released in order to satisfy obligations of that Defaulting Lender to fund Loans under this Agreement; sixth, to the payment of any amounts owing to the Lenders, the L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender as a result of any judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by any Lender, the L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender against that Defaulting Lender as a result of that Defaulting Lender’s breach of its obligations under this Agreement; seventh, so long as no Default or Event of Default exists, to the payment of any amounts owing to the Borrowers as a result of any judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by the Borrowers against that Defaulting Lender as a result of that Defaulting Lender’s breach of its obligations under this Agreement; and eighth, to that Defaulting Lender or as otherwise directed by a court of competent jurisdiction; provided that if (x) such payment is a payment of the principal amount of any Loans or L/C Borrowings in respect of which that Defaulting Lender has not fully funded its appropriate share and (y) such Loans or L/C Borrowings were made at a time when the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 were satisfied or waived, such payment shall be applied solely to pay the Loans of, and L/C Borrowings owed to, all non-Defaulting Lenders on a pro rata basis prior to being applied to the payment of any Loans of, or L/C Borrowings owed to, that 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 or to post Cash 

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Collateral pursuant to this Section 2.18(a)(ii) shall be deemed paid to and redirected by that Defaulting Lender, and each Lender irrevocably consents hereto.  

(iii)Certain Fees.  That Defaulting Lender (x) shall not be entitled to receive any commitment fee pursuant to Section 2.09(a) for any period during which that Lender is a Defaulting Lender (and the Borrowers shall not be required to pay any such fee that otherwise would have been required to have been paid to that Defaulting Lender) and (y) shall be limited in its right to receive Letter of Credit Fees as provided in Section 2.03(h).

(iv)Reallocation of Applicable Percentages to Reduce Fronting Exposure.  During any period in which there is a Defaulting Lender, for purposes of computing the amount of the obligation of each non-Defaulting Lender to acquire, refinance or fund participations in Letters of Credit or Swing Line Loans pursuant to Sections 2.03 and 2.04, the “Applicable Percentage” of each non-Defaulting Lender shall be computed without giving effect to the Commitment of that Defaulting Lender; provided, that, (i) each such reallocation shall be given effect only if, at the date the applicable Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, no Default or Event of Default exists; and (ii) the aggregate obligation of each non-Defaulting Lender to acquire, refinance or fund participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans shall not exceed the positive difference, if any, of (1) the Commitment of that non-Defaulting Lender minus (2) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Committed Loans of that Lender.  Subject to Section 11.2411.21, no reallocation hereunder shall constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder against a Defaulting Lender arising from that Lender having become a Defaulting Lender, including any claim of a Non-Defaulting Lender as a result of such Non-Defaulting Lender’s increased exposure following such reallocation.

(b)Defaulting Lender Cure.  If the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender and the L/C Issuer agree in writing in their sole discretion that a Defaulting Lender should no longer be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender, the Administrative Agent will so notify the parties hereto, whereupon as of the effective date specified in such notice and subject to any conditions set forth therein (which may include arrangements with respect to any Cash Collateral), that Lender will, to the extent applicable, purchase that portion of outstanding Loans of the other Lenders or take such other actions as the Administrative Agent may determine to be necessary to cause the Committed Loans and funded and unfunded participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans to be held on a pro rata basis by the Lenders in accordance with their Applicable Percentages (without giving effect to Section 2.18(a)(iv)), whereupon that 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 Borrowers while that Lender was a Defaulting Lender; and provided, further, that except to the extent otherwise expressly agreed by the affected parties, no change hereunder from Defaulting Lender to Lender will constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder arising from that Lender’s having been a Defaulting Lender.

2.19Designated Lenders  

Each of the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer, the Swing Line Lender  and each Lender at its option may make any Credit Extension or otherwise perform its obligations hereunder through any Lending Office (each, a “Designated Lender”); provided that any exercise of such option shall not affect the obligation of such Borrower to repay any Credit Extension in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.  Any Designated Lender shall be considered a Lender; provided that in the case of an Affiliate or branch of a Lender, all provisions applicable to a Lender shall apply to such Affiliate or branch of such Lender to the same extent as such Lender; provided that for the purposes only of voting in connection with any Loan Document, any participation by any Designated Lender in any outstanding Credit Extension shall be deemed a participation of such Lender.   

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ARTICLE III.
TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY

3.01Taxes  

(a)Payments Free of Taxes; Obligation to Withhold; Payments on Account of Taxes.  

(i)Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of the Borrowers or any other Loan Party hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall to the extent permitted by applicable Laws be made free and clear of and without reduction or withholding for any Taxes.  If, however, applicable Laws require any Borrower, any other Loan Party or the Administrative Agent to withhold or deduct any Tax, such Tax shall be withheld or deducted in accordance with such Laws by such Borrower, such other Loan Party or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be, upon the basis of the information and documentation to be delivered pursuant to subsection (e) below.

(ii)If any Borrower, any other Loan Party or the Administrative Agent shall be required by the Code to withhold or deduct any Taxes, including both United States Federal backup withholding and withholding taxes, from any payment, then (A) the Administrative Agent shall withhold or make such deductions as are determined by the Administrative Agent to be required based upon the information and documentation it has received pursuant to subsection (e) below, (B) the Administrative Agent shall timely pay the full amount withheld or deducted to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with the Code, and (C) to the extent that the withholding or deduction is made on account of Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes, the sum payable by the applicable Borrower or such other Loan Party, as the case may be, shall be increased as necessary so that after any required withholding or the making of all required deductions (including deductions on account of Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes applicable to additional sums payable under this Section) the Administrative Agent, Lender or L/C Issuer, as the case may be, receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such withholding or deduction been made.

(iii)If any Borrower, any other Loan Party or the Administrative Agent shall be required by any applicable Laws other than the Code to withhold or deduct any Taxes from any payment, then (A) such Loan Party or the Administrative Agent, as required by such Laws, shall withhold or make such deductions as are determined by it to be required based upon the information and documentation it has received pursuant to subsection (e) below, (B) such Loan Party or the Administrative Agent, to the extent required by such Laws, shall timely pay the full amount withheld or deducted to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with such Laws, and (C) to the extent that the withholding or deduction is made on account of Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes, the sum payable by the applicable Loan Party shall be increased as necessary so that after any required withholding or the making of all required deductions (including deductions on account of Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 3.01) the Administrative Agent, Lender or L/C Issuer, as the case may be, receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such withholding or deduction been made.

(b)Payment of Other Taxes by the Borrowers and Other Loan Parties.  Without limiting or duplication of the provisions of subsection (a) above, each Borrower and each other Loan Party shall timely pay to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law, or at the option of the Administrative Agent timely reimburse it for the payment of, any Other Taxes.

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(i)Without limiting the provisions of subsection (a) or (b) above, each Borrower and each other Loan Party shall, and does hereby, jointly and severally, indemnify the Administrative Agent, each Lender and the L/C Issuer, and shall make payment in respect thereof within 20 days after demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section) withheld or deducted by any Borrower, any other Loan Party or the Administrative Agent or paid by the Administrative Agent, such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, and any penalties, interest and reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority.  A certificate as to the amount of any such payment or liability delivered to the Lead Borrower by a Lender or the L/C Issuer (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender or the L/C Issuer, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.  Each Borrower and each other Loan Party shall, and does hereby, jointly and severally indemnify the Administrative Agent, and shall make payment in respect thereof within 20 days after demand therefor, for any amount which any Lender or L/C Issuer for any reason fails to pay indefeasibly to the Administrative Agent as required pursuant to Section 3.01(c)(ii) below.

(ii)Each Lender and L/C Issuer shall, and does hereby, severally indemnify, and shall make payment in respect thereof within 20 days after demand therefor, (x) the Administrative Agent against any Indemnified Taxes attributable to such Lender or L/C Issuer (but only to the extent that any Borrower or any other Loan Party has not already indemnified the Administrative Agent for such Indemnified Taxes and without limiting the obligation of any Borrower or any other Loan Party to do so), (y) the Administrative Agent and any Borrower and any other Loan Party, as applicable, against any Taxes attributable to such Lender’s or L/C Issuer’s failure to comply with the provisions of Section 11.06(d) relating to the maintenance of a Participant Register and (z) the Administrative Agent and any Borrower and any other Loan Party, as applicable, against any Excluded Taxes attributable to such Lender or L/C Issuer, in each case, that are payable or paid by the Administrative Agent or any Borrower or any other Loan Party in connection with any Loan Document, and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority.  A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to any Lender or L/C Issuer by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error.  Each Lender and L/C Issuer hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender or L/C Issuer, as the case may be, under this Agreement or any other Loan Document against any amount due to the Administrative Agent under this clause (ii).

(d)Evidence of Payments.  As soon as practicable after any payment of Taxes by any Borrower, any other Loan Party or the Administrative Agent to a Governmental Authority as provided in this Section 3.01, such Borrower and such other Loan Party shall each deliver to the Administrative Agent or the Administrative Agent shall deliver to the Lead Borrower and Holdings, as the case may be, the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of any return required by Laws to report such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Lead Borrower or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be.

(e)Status of Lenders; Tax Documentation.  

(i)Each Lender shall deliver to the Lead Borrower and to the Administrative Agent, at the time or times prescribed by applicable Laws or when reasonably requested by the Lead Borrower or the Administrative Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation prescribed by applicable Laws or by the taxing authorities of any jurisdiction and such other reasonably requested information as will permit the applicable Borrower, the applicable other Loan Party or the Administrative Agent, as the 

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case may be, to determine (A) whether or not payments made hereunder or under any other Loan Document are subject to Taxes (including withholding under FATCA), (B) if applicable, the required rate of withholding or deduction, and (C) such Lender’s entitlement to any available exemption from, or reduction of, applicable Taxes in respect of all payments to be made to such Lender by the Borrowers or other Loan Party, as the case may be pursuant to this Agreement or otherwise to establish such Lender’s status for withholding tax purposes (including withholding under FATCA) in the applicable jurisdiction.

(ii)Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, if any Borrower or any other Loan Party, as the case may be is resident for tax purposes in the United States, or any payments made by or on account of any obligation of any Borrower or Loan Party hereunder or under any other Loan Document constitute income from sources within the United States for U.S. federal income tax purposes, 

(A)any Lender, the L/C Issuer or the Administrative Agent that is a “United States person” within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code shall deliver to the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent on or prior to the date on which such Person becomes a party to this Agreement executed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 or such other documentation or information prescribed by applicable Laws or reasonably requested by the Lead Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will enable the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be, to determine whether or not such Person is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements; and 

(B)each Foreign Lender that is entitled under the Code or any applicable treaty to an exemption from or reduction of withholding tax with respect to payments hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall deliver to the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the Recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the request of the Lead Borrower or the Administrative Agent, but only if such Foreign Lender is legally entitled to do so), whichever of the following is applicable:

(I)executed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN-E (or W-BEN, as applicable) claiming eligibility for benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party,

(II)executed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8ECI,

(III)executed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8IMY and all required supporting documentation,

(IV)in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a certificate in the form of Exhibit J and (y) executed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN-E (or W-8BEN, as applicable), or

(V)executed copies of any other form prescribed by applicable Laws as a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in United States Federal withholding tax together with such supplementary documentation as may be prescribed by applicable Laws to permit the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made;

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applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Lender shall deliver to the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent at the time or times prescribed by law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Lead Borrower or the Administrative Agent such documentation prescribed by applicable law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent as may be necessary for the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent to comply with their obligations under FATCA and to determine that such Lender has complied with such Lender’s obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment.  Solely for purposes of this clause Section 3.01(e)(ii)(C), “FATCA” shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the date of this Agreement.

(iii)Each Lender shall promptly (A) notify the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent of any change in circumstances which would modify or render invalid any claimed exemption or reduction, and (B) take such steps as shall not be materially disadvantageous to it, in the reasonable judgment of such Lender, and as may be reasonably necessary (including the re-designation of its Lending Office pursuant to Section 3.08(a)) to avoid any requirement of applicable Laws of any jurisdiction that any Borrower, any other Loan Party or the Administrative Agent make any withholding or deduction for taxes from amounts payable to such Lender.

(iv)For purposes of determining withholding Taxes imposed under the FATCA, from and after the Third Restatement Date, each Borrower, each other Loan Party and the Administrative Agent shall treat (and the Lenders the L/C Issuers hereby authorize the Administrative Agent to treat) the Agreement as not qualifying as a “grandfathered obligation” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-2(b)(2)(i).

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

(f)Treatment of Certain Refunds.  Unless required by applicable Laws, at no time shall the Administrative Agent have any obligation to file for or otherwise pursue on behalf of a Lender or the L/C Issuer, or have any obligation to pay to any Lender or the L/C Issuer, any refund of Taxes withheld or deducted from funds paid for the account of such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be.  If the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the L/C Issuer determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, that it has received a refund of any Taxes or Other Taxes as to which it has been indemnified by any Borrower or any other Loan Party, as the case may be or with respect to which any Borrower or any other Loan Party, as the case may be has paid additional amounts pursuant to this Section, it shall pay to such Borrower or such other Loan Party, as the case may be an amount equal to such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by such Borrower or such other Loan Party, as the case may be under this Section with respect to the Taxes or Other Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent, such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund), provided that such Borrower or such other Loan Party, as the case may be, upon the request of the Administrative Agent, such Lender or the L/C Issuer, agrees to repay the amount paid over to such Borrower or such other Loan Party, as the case may be (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) to the Administrative Agent, such Lender or the L/C Issuer in the event the Administrative Agent, such Lender or the L/C Issuer is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this subsection, in no event will the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any L/C Issuer be 

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required to pay any amount to any Borrower or any other Loan Party pursuant to this subsection the payment of which would place such Administrative Agent, Lender or L/C Issuer in a less favorable net after-Tax position than such Administrative Agent, Lender or L/C Issuer would have been in if the Tax subject to indemnification and giving rise to such refund had not been deducted, withheld or otherwise imposed and the indemnification payments or additional amounts with respect to such Tax had never been paid.  This subsection shall not be construed to require the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the L/C Issuer to make available its Tax returns (or any other information relating to its Taxes that it deems confidential) to any Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other Person.

(g)Survival.  Each party’s obligations under this Section 3.01 shall survive the resignation or replacement of the Administrative Agent or any assignment of rights by, or the replacement of, any Lender or L/C Issuer, the termination of the Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all other Obligations.

3.02(I) U.K. Taxes on Payments in respect of the U.K. Facility  

(a)The provisions of this Section 3.02(I) shall only apply in respect of Taxes imposed by any taxing authority on payments made in respect of the U.K. Facility.  For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of Section 3.01(a)-(d) and (f) shall not apply in respect of payments made in respect of the U.K. Facility.

(b)U.K. Tax Gross-Up.

(i)Each Borrower shall make all payments to be made by it in respect of the U.K. Facility under any Loan Document without any Tax Deduction, unless a Tax Deduction is required by Law.

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

(iii)If a Tax Deduction is required by Law to be made by a Borrower in respect of the U.K. Facility, the amount of the payment due from that Borrower shall be increased to an amount which (after making any Tax Deduction) leaves an amount equal to the payment which would have been due if no such Tax Deduction had been required.

(iv)A payment shall not be increased under clause (iii) above by reason of a Tax Deduction on account of Tax imposed by the United Kingdom, if on the date on which the payment falls due:

(A)the payment could have been made to the relevant U.K. Lender without a Tax Deduction if the U.K. Lender had been a U.K. Qualifying Lender, but on that date that U.K. Lender is not or has ceased to be a U.K. Qualifying Lender other than as a result of any change after the date it became a U.K. Lender under this Agreement in (or in the interpretation, administration, or application of) any law or Treaty or any published practice or published concession of any relevant taxing authority; or

(B)the relevant U.K. Lender is a U.K. Qualifying Lender solely by virtue of clause (a)(ii) of the definition of U.K. Qualifying Lender, and:

(1)an officer of H.M. Revenue & Customs has given (and not revoked) a direction (a “Direction”) under section 931 of the ITA which relates to the payment and 

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that U.K. Lender has received from the U.K. Borrower making the payment a certified copy of that Direction; and

(2)the payment could have been made to the U.K. Lender without any Tax Deduction if that Direction had not been made; or

(C)the relevant U.K. Lender is a U.K. Qualifying Lender solely by virtue of clause (a)(ii) of the definition of U.K. Qualifying Lender and:

(1)the relevant U.K. Lender has not given a Tax Confirmation to the U.K. Borrower; and

(2)the payment could have been made to the Lender without any Tax Deduction if the U.K. Lender had given a Tax Confirmation to the U.K. Borrower, on the basis that the Tax Confirmation would have enabled the applicable U.K. Borrower to have formed a reasonable belief that the payment was an “excepted payment” for the purpose of section 930 of the ITA; or

(D)the relevant Lender is a U.K. Treaty Lender and the payment could have been made to the Lender without the Tax Deduction had that U.K. Lender complied with its obligations under clause (vii) below.

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

(vi)Within thirty days of making either a Tax Deduction or any payment required in connection with that Tax Deduction, the Borrower making that Tax Deduction shall deliver to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the U.K. Lender entitled to the payment a statement under section 975 of the ITA or other evidence reasonably satisfactory to that U.K. Lender that the Tax Deduction has been made or (as applicable) any appropriate payment paid to the relevant U.K. taxing authority.

(vii)A U.K. Treaty Lender and each Borrower which makes a payment to which that U.K. Treaty Lender is entitled in respect of the U.K. Facility shall promptly complete any procedural formalities necessary for that Borrower to obtain authorization to make that payment without a Tax Deduction; provided that any U.K. Lender that has provided its scheme reference number and its jurisdiction of tax residence pursuant to Section 3.02(I)(b)(xii) or (d)(i) shall be under no obligation pursuant to this Section 3.02(I)(b)(vii).

(viii)If a U.K. Lender has provided its scheme reference number and its jurisdiction of tax residence pursuant to Section 3.02(I)(b)(xii) or (d)(i) (HMRC DT Treaty Passport scheme confirmation) and:

(A)a U.K. Borrower making a payment to that U.K. Lender has not filed a duly completed form DTTP2 in respect of such Lender with HM Revenue & Customs pursuant to Section 3.02(I)(b)(xiii) or (d)(ii); or

(B)a U.K. Borrower making a payment to that Lender has filed a duly completed form DTTP2 in respect of such Lender with HM Revenue & Customs pursuant to Section 3.02(I)(b)(xiii) or (d)(ii) but:

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HM Revenue & Customs has not given the Borrower authority to make payments to that Lender without a Tax Deduction within 45 days of the date of the filing of the form DTTP2,

and in each case, the U.K. Borrower has notified that U.K. Lender in writing, that U.K. Lender and the U.K. Borrower shall promptly complete any additional procedural formalities necessary for that U.K. Borrower to obtain authorisation to make that payment without a Tax Deduction.

(ix)Nothing in Section 3.02(I)(b)(vii) above or in Section 3.01(e) shall require a U.K. Treaty Lender to:

(A)register under the HMRC DT Treaty Passport scheme; or

(B)apply the HMRC DT Treaty Passport scheme to any advance if it has so registered.

(x)A U.K. Non-Bank Lender which becomes a U.K. Lender on the date of this Agreement is entered into gives a Tax Confirmation to the U.K. Borrower by entering into this Agreement.

(xi)A U.K. Non-Bank Lender shall promptly notify the U.K. Borrower and the Administrative Agent if there is any change in the position from that set out in the Tax Confirmation.

(xii)A U.K. Treaty Lender which becomes a U.K. Lender on the date of this Agreement, holds a passport under the HMRC DT Treaty Passport scheme, and wishes that scheme to apply to a Loan Document, confirms its scheme reference number and its jurisdiction of tax residence in its signature page hereto.

(xiii)Where a U.K. Lender notifies the U.K. Borrower or the Administrative Agent as described in Section 3.02(I)(b)(xi), the U.K. Borrower shall file a duly completed form DTTP2 in respect of such Lender with HM Revenue & Customs within 30 days of the date of this Agreement and shall promptly provide the Administrative Agent and the U.K. Lender with a copy of that filing.

(xiv)If a U.K. Lender has not included an indication to the effect that it wishes the HMRC DT Treaty Passport scheme to apply to the U.K. Facility in accordance with Section 3.02(I)(b)(xi) or (d)(i), the U.K. Borrower shall not file any form relating to the HMRC DT Treaty Passport scheme in respect of that Lender’s advance or its participation in any advance.

(c)U.K. Lender Status Confirmation.  Each U.K. Lender which becomes a U.K. Lender on the date of this Agreement confirms that, at the date of this Agreement, it is a U.K. Qualifying Lender.  Each U.K. Lender which becomes a U.K. Lender after the date of this Agreement shall indicate, in the Assignment and Assumption which it executes on becoming a party, which of the following categories it falls within:

(i)not a U.K. Qualifying Lender;

(ii)a U.K. Qualifying Lender (other than a U.K. Treaty Lender); or

(iii)a U.K. Treaty Lender.

If a U.K. Lender fails to indicate its status in accordance with this Section 3.02(I)(c), then such U.K. Lender shall be treated for the purposes of this Agreement (including by the U.K. Borrower) as if it is not a U.K. Qualifying Lender until such time as it notifies the Administrative Agent which category of U.K. Qualifying Lender applies 

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(and the Administrative Agent, upon receipt of such notification, shall inform the U.K. Borrower). For the avoidance of doubt, an Assignment and Assumption shall not be invalidated by any failure of a U.K. Lender to comply with this Section 3.02(I)(c). A U.K. Lender must promptly notify the Administrative Agent if its status changes (and the Administrative Agent on receipt of such notification shall promptly inform the U.K. Borrower).

(d)HMRC DT Treaty Passport Scheme Confirmation.

(i)A U.K. Lender which becomes a U.K. Lender after the date of this Agreement, is a U.K. Treaty Lender that holds a passport under the HMRC DT Treaty Passport scheme, and wishes that scheme to apply to the U.K. Facility, shall include an indication to that effect in the Assignment and Assumption which it executes by including its scheme reference number and its jurisdiction of tax residence in that Assignment and Assumption.

(i)Where an Assignment and Assumption includes the indication described in clause (d)(i) above, the U.K. Borrower which is a party to this Agreement as at the date that the relevant Assignment and Assumption is executed (the “Transfer Date”) shall file a duly completed form DTTP2 in respect of such Lender with HM Revenue & Customs within 30 days of that Transfer Date and shall promptly provide the Administrative Agent and the applicable U.K. Lender with a copy of that filing.

(e)U.K. Tax Indemnity.  The U.K. Borrower shall (within the later of (i) 10 days of demand therefor and (ii) three (3) Business Days before the relevant loss, liability or cost will be suffered) pay to a U.K. Lender or the Administrative Agent an amount equal to the loss, liability or cost that such U.K. Lender or the Administrative Agent (as applicable) determines in its reasonable discretion has been (directly or indirectly) suffered by such U.K. Lender or the Administrative Agent, as applicable, for or on account of any Tax  in respect of the U.K. Facility.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Section 3.02(I)(e) shall not apply:

(i)with respect to any Tax assessed on any Lender or the Administrative Agent:

(A)under the law of the jurisdiction in which such Lender or the Administrative Agent, as applicable, is incorporated or, if different, the jurisdiction (or jurisdictions) in which such Lender or Administrative Agent is treated as resident for Tax purposes or as having a permanent establishment to which its interest in a loan is attributable; or

(B)under the law of the jurisdiction in which such Lender’s lending office is located in respect of amounts received or receivable in that jurisdiction;

if that Tax is imposed on or calculated by reference to the net income received or receivable (but not any sum deemed to be received or receivable) by such Lender or Administrative Agent, as applicable;

(ii)to the extent a loss, liability or cost:

(A)is compensated for by an increased payment under Section 3.02(I)(b), above; or

(B)would have been compensated for by an increased payment under Section 3.02(I)(b), above, but was not so compensated solely because one of the exclusions in Section 3.02(I)(b)(iv) applied.

(iii)with respect to any Tax required to be withheld or deducted pursuant to FATCA.

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A U.K. Lender or Administrative Agent making, or intending to make, a claim under this Section 3.02(I)(e) shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent of the event which will give, or has given, rise to the claim, following which the Agent shall notify the U.K. Borrower.

3.02(II) German Taxes on Payments in respect of the German Facility

(a)The provisions of this Section 3.02(II) shall only apply in respect of Taxes imposed by any taxing authority on payments made in respect of the German Facility.  For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of Section 3.01(a)-(d) and (f) shall not apply in respect of payments made in respect of the German Facility.

(b)German Tax Gross-Up.

(i)The German Borrower shall make all payments to be made by it in respect of the German Facility under any Loan Document without any Tax Deduction, unless a Tax Deduction is required by Law. 

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

(iii)If a Tax Deduction is required by Law to be made by the German Borrower in respect of the German Facility, the amount of the payment due from the German Borrower shall be increased to an amount which (after making any Tax Deduction) leaves an amount equal to the payment which would have been due if no such Tax Deduction had been required.

(iv)A payment shall not be increased under clause (iii) above by reason of a Tax Deduction on account of Tax imposed by Germany, if on the date on which the payment falls due:

(A)the payment could have been made to the relevant Lender without a Tax Deduction if the Lender had been a German Qualifying Lender, but on that date that Lender is not or has ceased to be a German Qualifying Lender other than as a result of any change after the date it became a Lender under this Agreement in (or in the interpretation, administration, or application of) any law or German Treaty, or any published practice or published concession of any relevant taxing authority; or

(B)the relevant Lender is a German Treaty Lender and the German Borrower making the payment is able to demonstrate that the payment could have been made to the relevant Lender without the Tax Deduction had that relevant Lender complied with its obligations under paragraph (vii) below.

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

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

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(vii)A German Treaty Lender and the German Borrower which makes a payment to which that German Treaty Lender is entitled in respect of the German Facility shall co-operate in completing any procedural formalities necessary for the German Borrower to obtain authorization to make that payment without a Tax Deduction.

(c)German Lender Status Confirmation. Each German Lender which becomes a German Lender on the date of this Agreement confirms that, at the date of this Agreement, it is a German Qualifying Lender.  Each German Lender which becomes a German Lender after the date of this Agreement shall indicate, in the Assignment and Assumption which it executes on becoming a party, which of the following categories it falls within:

(i)not a German Qualifying Lender;

(ii)a German Qualifying Lender (other than a German. Treaty Lender); or

(iii)a German Treaty Lender.

If a German Lender fails to indicate its status in accordance with this Section3.02(I)(c), then such German Lender shall be treated for the purposes of this Agreement (including by the German Borrower) as if it is not a German Qualifying Lender until such time as it notifies the Administrative Agent which category of German Qualifying Lender applies (and the Administrative Agent, upon receipt of such notification, shall inform the German Borrower).  For the avoidance of doubt, an Assignment and Assumption shall not be invalidated by any failure of a German Lender to comply with this Section 3.02(I)(c).  A German Lender must promptly notify the Administrative Agent if its status changes (and the Administrative Agent on receipt of such notification shall promptly inform the German Borrower).

(d)German Tax Indemnity.  The German Borrower shall (within the later of (i) 10 days of demand therefor and (ii) three (3) Business Days before the relevant loss, liability or cost will be suffered) pay to a German Lender or the Administrative Agent an amount equal to the loss, liability or cost that such German Lender or the Administrative Agent (as applicable) determines in its reasonable discretion has been (directly or indirectly) suffered by such German Lender or the Administrative Agent, as applicable, for or on account of any Tax  in respect of the German Facility.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Section 3.02(II)(d) shall not apply: 

(i)with respect to any Tax assessed on any Lender or the Administrative Agent: 

(A)under the law of the jurisdiction in which such Lender or the Administrative Agent, as applicable, is incorporated or, if different, the jurisdiction (or jurisdictions) in which such Lender or Administrative Agent is treated as resident for Tax purposes or as having a permanent establishment to which its interest in a loan is attributable; or

(B)under the law of the jurisdiction in which such Lender’s lending office is located in respect of amounts received or receivable in that jurisdiction;

if that Tax is imposed on or calculated by reference to the net income received or receivable (but not any sum deemed to be received or receivable) by such Lender or Administrative Agent, as applicable;

(ii)to the extent a loss, liability or cost: 

(C)is compensated for by an increased payment under Section 3.02(II)(b), above; or

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(D)would have been compensated for by an increased payment under Section 3.02(II)(b), above, but was not so compensated solely because one of the exclusions in Section 3.02(II)(b)(iv) applied.

(iii)with respect to any Tax required to be withheld or deducted pursuant to FATCA. 

A German Lender or Administrative Agent making, or intending to make, a claim under this Section 3.02(II)(d) shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent of the event which will give, or has given, rise to the claim, following which the Agent shall notify the German Borrower.

(e)German Tax Credit. If the German Borrower makes a German Tax Payment and the relevant Lender determines that: 

(i)a German Tax Credit is attributable to an increased payment of which the German Tax Payment forms part, to that the German Tax Payment or to a Tax Deduction in consequence of which the payment under German Tax Payment was required; and 

(ii)the relevant Lender has obtained and utilized that German Tax Credit, 

the relevant Lender shall pay an amount to the German Borrower which will leave the relevant Lender (after that payment) in the same after-Tax position as it would have been in had the Tax Payment not been required to be made by the German Borrower.

3.03VAT  

(a)All amounts expressed to be payable under any Loan Document by any party to  any Agent or a Lender which (in whole or in part) constitute the consideration for any supply for VAT purposes are deemed to be exclusive of any VAT which is chargeable on that supply, and accordingly, subject to Section 3.03(b) below, if VAT is or becomes chargeable on any supply made by an Agent or a Lender to any party under any Loan Document and the such Agent or such Lender is required to account to the relevant tax authority for the VAT, that party must pay to such Agent or such Lender (in addition to and at the same time as paying any other consideration for such supply) an amount equal to the amount of the VAT (and an Agent or Lender concerned must promptly provide an appropriate VAT invoice to that party).

(b)If VAT is or becomes chargeable on any supply made by an Agent or a Lender (the “Supplier”) to any Agent or any other Lender (the “Receiver”) under any Loan Document, and any party other than the Receiver (the “Relevant Party”) is required by the terms of any Loan Document to pay an amount equal to the consideration for that supply to the Supplier (rather than being required to reimburse or indemnify the Receiver in respect of that consideration):

(i) where the Supplier is the person required to account to the relevant tax authority for the VAT, the Relevant Party must also pay to the Supplier (at the same time as paying that amount) an additional amount equal to the amount of the VAT. The Receiver must (where this Section 3.03(b)(i) applies) promptly pay to the Relevant Party an amount equal to any credit or repayment the Receiver receives from the relevant tax authority which the Receiver reasonably determines relates to the VAT chargeable on that supply; and

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determines that it is not entitled to credit or repayment from the relevant tax authority in respect of that VAT.

(c)Where any Loan Document requires any party to reimburse or indemnify any Agent or a Lender for any cost or expense, that party shall reimburse or indemnify (as the case may be) such Agent or such Lender for the full amount of such cost or expense, including such part thereof as represents VAT, save to the extent that such Agent or such Lender reasonably determines that it is entitled to credit or repayment in respect of such VAT from the relevant tax authority.

(d)Any reference in Sections 3.03(a)-(d) to any party shall, at any time when such party is treated as a member of a group or unity (or fiscal unity) for VAT purposes, include (where appropriate and unless the context otherwise requires) a reference to the person who is treated at that time as making the supply, or (as appropriate) receiving the supply, under the grouping rules (provided for in Article 11 of Council Directive 2006/112/EC (or as implemented by the relevant member state of the European Union) or any other similar provision in any jurisdiction which is not a member state of the European Union) so that a reference to a party shall be construed as a reference to that party or the relevant group or unity (or fiscal unity) of which that party is a member for VAT purposes at the relevant time or the relevant representative member (or head) of that group or unity (or fiscal unity) at the relevant time (as the case may be).

(e)In relation to any supply made by a party to any other party under any Loan Document, if reasonably requested by such party, that other party must promptly provide such party with details of that other party's VAT registration and such other information as is reasonably requested in connection with such party’s VAT reporting requirements in relation to such supply.

3.04Illegality  

(a)If any Lender determines that any Law has made it unlawful, or that any Governmental Authority has asserted that it is unlawful, for any Lender or its applicable Lending Office to make, maintain or fund Eurocurrency Rate Loansor charge interest with respect to any Credit Extension, or to determine or charge interest rates based upon the Eurocurrencya Relevant Rate, or any Governmental Authority has imposed material restrictions on the authority of such Lender to engage in reverse repurchase of U.S. Treasury securities transactions of the type included in the determination of SOFR, or to determine or charge interest rates based upon a Relevant Rate, or to purchase or sell, or to take deposits of, Dollars or any Alternative Currency in the Londonapplicable interbank market, then, on notice thereof by such Lender to the Lead Borrower through the Administrative Agent, (i) any obligation of such Lender to make or continue Eurocurrency RateAlternative Currency Loans in the affected currency or currencies or, in the case of Loans denominated in Dollars, any obligation of such Lender to make or continue Term SOFR Loans, Alternative Currency Loans or to convert Base Rate Loans to Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loans shall be suspended, and (ii) if such notice asserts the illegality of such Lender making or maintaining Base Rate Loans the interest rate on which is determined by reference to the Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR component of the Base Rate, the interest rate on which Base Rate Loans of such Lender shall, if necessary to avoid such illegality, be determined by the Administrative Agent without reference to the Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR component of the Base Rate, in each case until such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Lead Borrower that the circumstances giving rise to such determination no longer exist.  Upon receipt of such notice, (x) the Borrowers shall, upon demand from such Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), prepay all Term SOFR Loans or Alternative Currency Loans of such Lender, as applicable, in the affected currency or currencies or, if applicable, convert all Eurocurrency Rateor redenominate the affected Loans of such Lender to Base Rate Loans in the amount of the Dollar Equivalent of such affected Loans (the interest rate on which Base Rate Loans of such Lender shall, if necessary to avoid such illegality, be determined by the Administrative Agent without reference to the Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR component of the Base Rate), either on the last day of the Interest Period therefor, if such 

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Lender may lawfully continue to maintain such Eurocurrency Rate Loans to such day, or immediately, if such Lender may not lawfully continue to maintain such Eurocurrency Rate Loans and (y) if such notice asserts the illegality of such Lender determining or charging interest rates based upon the Eurocurrency RateSOFR, the Administrative Agent shall during the period of such suspension compute the Base Rate applicable to such Lender without reference to the Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR component thereof until the Administrative is advised in writing by such Lender that it is no longer illegal  for such Lender to determine or charge interest rates based upon the Eurocurrency RateSOFR.  Upon any such prepayment or conversion, the Borrowers shall also pay accrued interest on the amount so prepaid or converted. 

(b)If, in any applicable jurisdiction, the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or any Lender or any Designated Lender determines that any Law has made it unlawful, or that any Governmental Authority has asserted that it is unlawful, for the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or any Lender or its applicable Designated Lender to (i) perform any of its obligations hereunder or under any other Loan Document, (ii) to fund or maintain its participation in any Loan or (iii) issue, make, maintain, fund or charge interest or fees with respect to any Credit Extension to any Foreign Borrower, such Person shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent, then, upon the Administrative Agent notifying the Loan Party, and until such notice by such Person is revoked, any obligation of such Person to issue, make, maintain, fund or charge interest or fees with respect to any such Credit Extension shall be suspended, and to the extent required by applicable Law, cancelled.  Upon receipt of such notice, the Loan Parties shall, (A) repay that Person’s participation in the Loans or other applicable Obligations on the last day of the Interest Period for each Loan or other Obligation occurring after the Administrative Agent has notified the Loan Party or, if earlier, the date specified by such Person in the notice delivered to the Administrative Agent (being no earlier than the last day of any applicable grace period permitted by applicable Law) and (B) take all reasonable actions requested by such Person to mitigate or avoid such illegality. 

3.05Inability to Determine Rates  

(a)If in connection with any request for a Term SOFR Loan or an Alternative Currency Loan or a conversion of Base Rate Loans to Term SOFR Loans or an Alternative Currency Loan or a continuation of any of such Loans, as applicable, (i) the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error), or the Required Lenders notify the Administrative Agent that the Required Lenders have determined, that that (A) no Successor Rate for the Relevant Rate for the applicable Agreed Currency has been determined in accordance with Section 3.05(b), and the circumstances under clause (i) by reason of circumstances affecting the relevant market,Section 3.05(b) or the Scheduled Unavailability Date has occurred with respect to such Relevant Rate (as applicable), or (B) adequate and reasonable means do not otherwise exist for determining the Eurocurrency Rate for such Interest Period (and the circumstances described in Section 3.05(b) do not apply) or (ii) the EurocurrencyRelevant Rate for suchthe applicable Agreed Currency for any determination date(s) or the requested Interest Period, as applicable, with respect to a proposed Eurocurrency Rate LoanTerm SOFR Loan or an Alternative Currency Loan or in connection with an existing or proposed Base Rate Loan (with respect to the Term SOFR component in determining the Base Rate), or (ii) the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders determine that for any reason that Relevant Rate with respect to a proposed Loan denominated in an Agreed Currency for any requested Interest Period or determination date(s) does not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders (as certified by such Lenders, which certification shall be conclusive absent manifest error) of making or maintaining their affected Loans duringof funding such Interest PeriodLoan, then the Administrative Agent shall give telecopy or telephonic notice thereof towill promptly so notify the Lead Borrower and the relevant Lenders as soon as practicable thereaftereach Lender.  

Thereafter, (x) the obligation of the Lenders to make or maintain EurocurrencyTerm SOFR Loans or Loans in the affected currencies, as applicable, or to convert Base Rate Loans in the affected currency or currenciesto Term SOFR Loans shall be suspended in each case to the extent of the affected Term 

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SOFR Loans, Alternative Currency Loans or Interest Period or determination date(s), as applicable, and (y) in the event of a determination described in the preceding sentence with respect to the Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR component of the Base Rate, the Eurocurrency Rateutilization of the Term SOFR component in determining the Base Rate shall be suspended, in each case until the Administrative Agent (or, in the case of a determination by the Required Lenders described in clause (ii) of this Section 3.05(a), until the Administrative Agent upon the instruction of the Required Lenders) revokes such notice.  

Upon receipt of such notice, (i) the Lead Borrower (on behalf of the Borrowers) may revoke any pending request for a Borrowing of, or conversion to, Term SOFR Loans, or Borrowing of, or continuation of Eurocurrency RateAlternative Currency Loans (to the extent of the affected Eurocurrency RateAlternative Currency Loans or Interest Periods)Period or determination date(s), as applicable, or, failing that, (A) with respect to a pending request for Loans denominated in Dollars, the Lead Borrower will be deemed to have converted such request into a request for a Committed Borrowing of Base Rate Loans (subject to the foregoing clause (y)) in the amount specified therein and (Bii) with respect to Loans denominated in(A) any outstanding Term SOFR Loans shall be deemed to have been converted to Base Rate Loans immediately and (B) any outstanding affected Alternative Currency Loans, at the election of the Lead Borrower’s election, (1) such request shall either (1) be converted into a request for a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans denominated in Dollars (subject to the foregoing clause (y)) in the Dollar Equivalent of the amount specified therein (and, in the case of anysuch outstanding Eurocurrency Rate Loans, regardless of whether such request is made, such Loans will automatically be deemed to be converted to Base Rate Loans denominated in Dollars in the Dollar Equivalent of such Loans Alternative Currency Loan immediately, in the case of an Alternative Currency Daily Rate Loan or  at the end of the applicable Interest Period) or (2) the applicable Borrower shall repay such Eurocurrency Loans (to the extent outstanding) in full, in the case of an Alternative Currency Term Rate Loan or (2) be prepaid in full immediately, in the case of an Alternative Currency Daily Rate Loan, or at the end of the applicable Interest Period, in the case of an Alternative Currency Term Rate Loan; provided, however that if no such election is made by the Lead Borrower with(x) in the case of an Alternative Currency Daily Rate Loan, by the date that is three (3) daysBusiness Days after receipt by the Lead Borrower of such notice, or (y) in the Lead Borrowercase of an Alternative Currency Term Rate Loan, by the last day of the current Interest Period for the applicable Alternative Currency Term Rate Loan, the Company shall be deemed to have elected clause (1) above.

(b)

(b)Replacement of Relevant Rate or Successor Rate.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary hereinin this Agreement or in any other Loan DocumentDocuments, if the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error), or the Borrower or Required Lenders notify the Administrative Agent (with, in the case of the Required Lenders, a copy to the Borrower) that the Borrower or Required Lenders (as applicable) have determined, that:

(i)On March 5, 2021 the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”), the regulatory supervisor of LIBOR’s administrator (“IBA”), announced in a public statement the future cessation or loss of representativeness of overnight/Spot Next, 1-week, 1-month, 2-month, 3-month, 6-month and 12- month U.S. dollar LIBOR tenor settings. On the earliest of (A) the date that all Available Tenors of U.S dollar LIBOR have permanently or indefinitely ceased to be provided by IBA or have been announced by the FCA pursuant to public statement or publication of information to be no longer representative, (B) June 30, 2023 and (C) the Early Opt-in Effective Date in respect of a SOFR Early Opt-in, if the then-current Benchmark is LIBOR, the Benchmark Replacement will replace such Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in respect of any setting of such Benchmark on such day and all subsequent settings without any amendment to, or further action or consent of any other party to this 

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Agreement or any other Loan Document. If the Benchmark Replacement is Daily Simple SOFR, all interest payments will be payable on a quarterly basis.adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the Relevant Rate for an Agreed Currency, including, without limitation, because none of the tenors of such Relevant Rate (including any forward-looking term rate thereof) is not available or published on a current basis and such circumstances are unlikely to be temporary; or

(ii)(x)  Upon (A) the occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event or (B) a determination by the Administrative Agent that neither of the alternatives under clause (1) of the definition of Benchmark Replacement are available, the Benchmark Replacement will replace the then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in respect of any Benchmark setting at or after 5:00 p.m. on the fifth (5th) Business Day after the date notice of such Benchmark Replacement is provided to the Lenders without any amendment to, or further action or consent of any other party to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document so long as the Administrative Agent has not received, by such time, written notice of objection to such Benchmark Replacement from Lenders comprising the Required Lenders (and any such objection shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error); provided that solely in the event that the then-current Benchmark at the time of such Benchmark Transition Event is not a SOFR-Based Rate, the Benchmark Replacement therefor shall be determined in accordance with clause (1) of the definition of Benchmark Replacement unless the Administrative Agent determines that neither of such alternative rates is available.the Applicable Authority has made a public statement identifying a specific date after which all tenors of the Relevant Rate for an Agreed Currency (including any forward-looking term rate thereof) shall or will no longer be representative or made available, or used for determining the interest rate of loans denominated in such Agreed Currency, or shall or will otherwise cease, provided that, in each case, at the time of such statement, there is no successor administrator that is satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that will continue to provide such representative tenor(s) of the Relevant Rate for such Agreed Currency (the latest date on which all tenors of the Relevant Rate for such Agreed Currency (including any forward-looking term rate thereof) are no longer representative or available permanently or indefinitely, the “Scheduled Unavailability Date”); or

(y)  On the Early Opt-in Effective Date in respect of an Other Rate Early Opt-in, the Benchmark Replacement will replace LIBOR for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in respect of any setting of such Benchmark on such day and all subsequent settings without any amendment to, or further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.

(iii)At any time that the administrator of the then-current Benchmark has permanently or indefinitely ceased to provide such Benchmark or such Benchmark has been announced by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark pursuant to public statement or publication of information to be no longer representative of the underlying market and economic reality that such Benchmark is intended to measure and that representativeness will not be restored, the Lead Borrower may revoke any request for a borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Loans to be made, converted or continued that would bear interest by reference to such Benchmark until the Lead Borrower’s receipt of notice from the Administrative Agent that a Benchmark Replacement has replaced such Benchmark, and, failing that, the Lead Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a borrowing of or conversion to Base Rate Loans. During the period referenced in the foregoing sentence, the component of Base Rate based upon the Benchmark will not be used in any determination of Base Rate.syndicated loans currently being executed and agented in the U.S., are being executed or amended (as applicable) to incorporate or adopt a new benchmark interest rate to replace the Relevant Rate for an Agreed Currency;

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or if  the events or circumstances of the type described in Section 3.05(b)(i), (ii) or (iii) have occurred with respect to the Successor Rate then in effect, then, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower may amend this Agreement solely for the purpose of replacing the Relevant Rate for an Agreed Currency or any then current Successor Rate for an Agreed Currency in accordance with this Section 3.05 with an alternative benchmark rate giving due consideration to any evolving or then existing convention for similar credit facilities syndicated and agented in the U.S. and denominated in such Agreed Currency for such alternative benchmarks, and, in each case, including any mathematical or other adjustments to such benchmark giving due consideration to any evolving or then existing convention for similar credit facilities syndicated and agented in the U.S. and denominated in such Agreed Currency for such benchmarks, which adjustment or method for calculating such adjustment shall be published on an information service as selected by the Administrative Agent from time to time in its reasonable discretion and may be periodically updated (and any such proposed rate, including for the avoidance of doubt, any adjustment thereto, a “Successor Rate”), and any such amendment shall become effective at 5:00 p.m. on the fifth Business Day after the Administrative Agent shall have posted such proposed amendment to all Lenders and the Borrower unless, prior to such time, Lenders comprising the Required Lenders have delivered to the Administrative Agent written notice that such Required Lenders object to such amendment.

The Administrative Agent will promptly (in one or more notices) notify the Lead Borrower and each Lender of the implementation of any Successor Rate.

Any Successor Rate shall be applied in a manner consistent with market practice; provided that to the extent such market practice is not administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent, such Successor Rate shall be applied in a manner as otherwise reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent.

Notwithstanding anything else herein, if at any time any Successor Rate as so determined would otherwise be less than zero percent (0%), the Successor Rate will be deemed to be zero percent (0%) for the purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.

(iv) In connection with the implementation and administration of a Benchmark ReplacementSuccessor Rate, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement; provided that, with respect to any such amendment effected, the Administrative Agent shall post each such amendment implementing such Conforming Changes to the Borrower and the Lenders reasonably promptly after such amendment becomes effective.

(v)The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Lead Borrower and the Lenders of (A) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement and (B) the effectiveness of any Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes. Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 3.05(b), including any determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may be made in its  sole discretion and without consent from any other party hereto, except, in each case, as expressly required pursuant to this Section 3.05(b).

(vi)At any time (including in connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement), (A) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate (including Term SOFR or LIBOR), then the Administrative Agent may remove any tenor of such Benchmark that is unavailable or non-representative for Benchmark (including Benchmark Replacement) settings and (B) the Administrative 

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Agent may reinstate any such previously removed tenor for Benchmark (including Benchmark Replacement) settings

For purposes of this Section 3.05, those Lenders that either have not made, or do not have an obligation under this Agreement to make, the relevant Loans in the applicable Agreed Currency shall be excluded from any determination of Required Lenders.

3.06Increased Costs  

(a)Increased Costs Generally.  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 reserve requirement contemplated by Section 3.04(e)) or the L/C Issuer; 

(ii)subject any Lender or the L/C Issuer to any Tax with respect to this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, any participation in a Letter of Credit or any Eurocurrency Rate LoanTerm SOFR Loan or Alternative Currency Term Rate Loan (or any Loans accruing interest at any Successor Rate) made by it, or change the basis of taxation of payments to such Lender or the L/C Issuer in respect thereof (except for (A) any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes, which are covered by Section 3.01, (B) any taxes relating to the U.K. Facility or the German Facility covered by Section 3.02 (or which would have been covered by Section 3.02 but were not covered solely because any of the exclusions in paragraph (iv) of Section 3.02(I) or paragraph (iv) of Section 3.02(II)) (C) any Taxes described in clauses (b) through (f) of the definition of Excluded Taxes and (D) any Connection Income Taxes); or

(iii)impose on any Lender or the L/C Issuer or the Londonany applicable interbank market any other condition, cost or expense (other than with respect to Taxes) affecting this Agreement or Eurocurrency Rate LoansTerm SOFR Loans or Alternative Currency Term Rate Loans (or any Loans accruing interest at any Successor Rate) made by such Lender or any Letter of Credit or participation therein;

and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such Lender of making or maintaining any EurocurrencyTerm SOFR Loans or Alternative Currency Term Rate LoanLoans (or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan), or to increase the cost to such Lender or the L/C Issuer of participating in, issuing or maintaining any Letter of Credit (or of maintaining its obligation to participate in or to issue any Letter of Credit), or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender or the L/C Issuer hereunder (whether of principal, interest or any other amount) then, upon request of such Lender or the L/C Issuer, the Borrowers will pay to such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, for such additional costs incurred or reduction suffered in accordance with clause (c) below.

(b)Capital Requirements.  If any Lender or the L/C Issuer reasonably determines that any Change in Law affecting such Lender or the L/C Issuer or any Lending Office of such Lender or such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s holding company, if any, regarding capital or liquidity requirements has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s capital or on the capital of such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s holding company, if any, as a consequence of this Agreement, the Commitments of such Lender or the Loans made by, or participations in Letters of Credit held by, such Lender, or the Letters of Credit issued by the L/C Issuer, to a level below that which such Lender or the L/C Issuer or such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s holding company could have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s policies and the policies of such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s holding company with respect to 

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capital adequacy and liquidity), then from time to time the Borrowers will pay to such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or the L/C Issuer or such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s holding company for any such reduction suffered in accordance with clause (c) below.

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

(d)Delay in Requests.  Failure or delay on the part of any Lender or the L/C Issuer to demand compensation pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s right to demand such compensation, provided that the Borrowers shall not be required to compensate a Lender or the L/C Issuer pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section for any increased costs incurred or reductions suffered more than nine months prior to the date that such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, notifies the Lead Borrower of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s intention to claim compensation therefor (except that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then the nine-month period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof).

(e)Reserves on Eurocurrency Rate Loans.  The Borrowers shall pay to each Lender, as long as such Lender shall be required to maintain reserves with respect to liabilities or assets consisting of or including Eurocurrency funds or deposits (currently known as “Eurocurrency liabilities”), additional interest on the unpaid principal amount of each Eurocurrency Rate Loan equal to the actual costs of such reserves allocated to such Loan by such Lender (as determined by such Lender in good faith, which determination shall be conclusive), which shall be due and payable on each date on which interest is payable on such Loan, provided the Lead Borrower shall have received at least 10 days’ prior notice (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) of such additional interest from such Lender.  If a Lender fails to give notice 10 days prior to the relevant Interest Payment Date, such additional interest shall be due and payable 10 days from receipt of such notice.

3.07Compensation for Losses  

Upon demand of any Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) from time to time, the Borrowers shall promptly compensate such Lender for and hold such Lender harmless from any loss, cost or expense incurred by it as a result of:

(a)any continuation, conversion, payment or prepayment of any Loan other than a Base Rate Loan on a day other than the last day of the Interest Period for such Loan (whether voluntary, mandatory, automatic, by reason of acceleration, or otherwise) (for purposes hereof, references to the Interest Period shall be deemed to include any relevant interest payment date or payment period for an Alternative Currency Loan);

(b)any failure by the Borrowers (for a reason other than the failure of such Lender to make a Loan) to prepay, borrow, continue or convert any Loan other than a Base Rate Loan on the date or in the amount notified by the Lead Borrower; or

(c)any assignment of a Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loan on a day other than the last day of the Interest Period therefor as a result of a request by the Borrowers pursuant to Section 11.14;

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the deposits from which such funds were obtained.  The Borrowers shall also pay any customary administrative fees charged by such Lender in connection with the foregoing.

For purposes of calculating amounts payable by the Borrowers to the Lenders under this Section 3.07, each Lender shall be deemed to have funded each Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loan made by it at the EurocurrencyTerm SOFR Rate for such Loan by a matching deposit or other borrowing in the Londonoffshore interbank eurodollar market for such currency for a comparable amount and for a comparable period, whether or not such Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loan was in fact so funded.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, each Lender party hereto on the Third Restatement Date waives any compensation that would otherwise be due to such Lender as a result of this Section 3.07 from the transactions to occur on the Third Restatement DateFifth Amendment Effective Date, including the conversion of the Term Loans in accordance with Section 2.01(a)(ii) and the Revolving Credit Loans in accordance with Section 2.01(b)(ii).

3.08Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders  

(a)Designation of a Different Lending Office.  If any Lender requests compensation under Section 3.06, or the Borrowers are required to pay any additional amount to any Lender, the L/C Issuer, or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender or the L/C Issuer pursuant to Section 3.01 or Section 3.02, or if any Lender gives a notice pursuant to Section 3.04, then such Lender or the L/C Issuer shall, as applicable, use reasonable efforts to designate a different Lending Office for funding or booking its Loans hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches or affiliates, if, in the judgment of such Lender or the L/C Issuer, such designation or assignment (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to Section 3.01, 3.02 or 3.06, as the case may be, in the future, or eliminate the need for the notice pursuant to Section 3.04, as applicable, and (ii) in each case, would not subject such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be.  The Borrowers hereby agree to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender or the L/C Issuer in connection with any such designation or assignment.

(b)Replacement of Lenders.  If any Lender requests compensation under Section 3.06, or if the Borrowers are required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 3.01 or 3.02, the Borrowers may replace such Lender in accordance with Section 11.14. 

3.09Survival  

All of the Borrowers’ obligations under this Article III shall survive termination of the Aggregate Commitments, repayment of all other Obligations hereunder, and resignation of the Administrative Agent.

3.10Designation of Lead Borrower as Borrowers’ Agent  

(a)Each Borrower hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Lead Borrower as such Borrower’s agent and attorney-in-fact to (i) obtain Credit Extensions, the proceeds of which shall be available to each Borrower for such uses as are permitted under this Agreement, (ii) to provide Administrative Agent with all other notices with respect to Loans and Letters of Credit obtained for the benefit of any Borrower and all other notices and instructions under this Agreement and (iii) to take such action as the Lead Borrower deems appropriate on their behalf to obtain Loans and Letters of Credit and to exercise such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto to carry out the purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.  As the disclosed principal for its agent, each Borrower shall be obligated to each Secured Party on account of Credit Extensions so made to it as if made directly by the applicable Person to such Borrower, notwithstanding the manner by which such Credit Extensions are recorded on the books and records of the Lead Borrower and of 

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any other Borrower.  In addition, each Loan Party other than the Borrowers hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Lead Borrower as such Loan Party’s agent to represent such Loan Party in all respects under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.  Such appointment shall remain in full force and effect unless and until Administrative Agent shall have received prior written notice signed by each Borrower and each other Loan Party that such appointment has been revoked and that another Borrower has been appointed Lead Borrower.

(b)Each Borrower recognizes that credit available to it hereunder is in excess of and on better terms than it otherwise could obtain on and for its own account and that one of the reasons therefor is its joining in the credit facility contemplated herein with all other Borrowers.  Consequently, each Borrower hereby assumes and agrees to discharge all Obligations of each of the other Borrowers.

(c)The Lead Borrower shall act as a conduit for each Borrower (including itself, as a “Borrower”) on whose behalf the Lead Borrower has requested a Credit Extension.  Neither the Administrative Agent, nor any other Secured Party shall have any obligation to see to the application of such proceeds therefrom.

(d)Each Lender and Administrative Agent agree to provide all notices hereunder to the Lead Borrower, and each Borrower agrees that notices delivered to the Lead Borrower shall be deemed to have been delivered to all Borrowers simultaneously.

ARTICLE IV.
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CREDIT EXTENSIONS

4.01Conditions of Initial Credit Extension  

The obligation of the L/C Issuer and each Lender to make its initial Credit Extension hereunder is subject to satisfaction or waiver in accordance with Section 11.01 of the following conditions precedent:

(a)The Administrative Agent’s receipt of the following, each of which shall be originals or telecopies (followed promptly by originals) unless otherwise specified, each properly executed by a Responsible Officer of the signing Loan Party, each dated the Third Restatement Date (or, in the case of certificates of governmental officials, a recent date before the Third Restatement Date):

(i)executed counterparts of this Agreement, sufficient in number for distribution to the Administrative Agent, each Lender and the Borrowers, unless otherwise agreed;

(ii)a Note executed by the Borrowers in favor of Bank of America and each other Lender requesting a Note;

(iii)the Ancillary Document Confirmations;

(iv)completed requests for information, dated on or before the date of the initial Credit Extension, listing all other effective financing statements filed in all jurisdictions that the Administrative Agent may deem necessary in order to perfect the Liens created under the Security Agreement, covering the Collateral described in the Security Agreement that name any Loan Party as debtor, together with copies of such financing statements as have been filed since the Original Closing Date;

(v)[reserved];

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of State of the state of organization (or comparable official in the United Kingdom and Canada) of such Loan Party or (y) a certification by a Responsible Officer of such Loan Party that no changes have been made to such articles or certificate since they were last provided to the Administrative Agent, in either case, together with certificates of such official attesting to the valid existence, good standing and qualification to engage in business in such Loan Party’s jurisdiction of organization; (b) either (x) the bylaws or operating agreement (or equivalent such constitutional document), as applicable, of such Loan Party as in effect on the date of such certification or (y) a certification by a Responsible Officer of such Loan Party that no changes have been made to such bylaws or operating agreement since they were last provided to the Administrative Agent; and (c) such certificates of resolutions or other action, incumbency and/or other certificates of Responsible Officers of each Loan Party as the Administrative Agent may require evidencing the identity, authority and capacity of each Responsible Officer thereof authorized to act as a Responsible Officer in connection with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which such Loan Party is a party or is to be a party;

(vii)a favorable opinion of Ropes & Gray LLP, counsel to the Loan Parties, addressed to the Administrative Agent and each Lender, as to such matters concerning the Loan Parties and the Loan Documents as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;

(viii)a favorable opinion of local counsel to the Loan Parties in each jurisdiction of organization of any Loan Party requested by the Administrative Agent, addressed to the Administrative Agent and each Lender, as to such matters concerning the Loan Parties and the Loan Documents as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;

(ix)the Security Agreement, duly executed by each Loan Party;

(x)[reserved]; 

(xi)a certificate, substantially in the form of Exhibit K, signed by a Responsible Officer of the Lead Borrower certifying (A) that the conditions specified in Sections 4.02(a) and (b) have been satisfied, and (B) that there has been no event or circumstance since the date of the Audited Financial Statements that has had, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect that is continuing on the Closing Date;

(xii)a certificate, substantially in the form of Exhibit L, from Holdings attesting to the Solvency of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis before and after giving effect to the Transaction, from its chief financial officer or other Responsible Officer;

(xiii)such other assurances, certificates, documents, consents or opinions as the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer, the Swing Line Lender or any Lender reasonably may require.

(b) (i) All fees required to be paid to the Administrative Agent and the Arrangers on or before the Third Restatement Date shall have been paid and (ii) all fees required to be paid to the Lenders on or before the Third Restatement Date shall have been paid.

(c)Unless waived by the Administrative Agent, the Borrowers shall have paid all fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the Administrative Agent (directly to such counsel if requested by the Administrative Agent) to the extent required to be paid on the Third Restatement Date and invoiced  at least one (1) Business Day prior to or on the Third Restatement Date, plus such additional amounts of such fees, charges and disbursements as shall constitute its reasonable estimate of such fees, charges and disbursements 

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incurred or to be incurred by it through the closing proceedings (provided that such estimate shall not thereafter preclude a final settling of accounts between the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent).

(d) (i) Upon the reasonable request of any Lender made at least ten (10) days prior to the Third Restatement Date, the Borrowers shall have provided to such Lender, and such Lender shall be reasonably satisfied with, the documentation and other information so requested in connection with applicable “know your customer” and anti-money-laundering rules and regulations, including, without limitation, the Act, in each case at least three (3) days prior to the Third Restatement Date, and (ii) at least three (3) days prior to the Third Restatement Date, any Borrower that qualifies as a “legal entity customer” under the Beneficial Ownership Regulation shall deliver, to each Lender that so requests, a Beneficial Ownership Certification in relation to such Borrower.

(e)The Administrative Agent shall have received evidence in form and substance  reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that all action that the Administrative Agent may deem necessary or desirable in order to perfect the Liens created under the Security Agreement has been taken.

Without limiting the generality of the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 9.03, for purposes of determining compliance with the conditions specified in this Section 4.01, each Lender that has signed this Agreement shall be deemed to have consented to, approved or accepted or to be satisfied with, each document or other matter required thereunder to be consented to or approved by or acceptable or satisfactory to a Lender unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from such Lender prior to the proposed Third Restatement Date specifying its objection thereto.

4.02Conditions to all Credit Extensions  

Subject to the limitations applicable to Limited Condition Transactions, the obligation of each Lender to honor any Request for Credit Extension (other than a Committed Loan Notice requesting only a conversion of Loans to the other Type, or a continuation of EurocurrencyTerm SOFR Loans or Alternative Currency Term Rate Loans or any Loans accruing interest at any Successor Rate) is subject to the following conditions precedent:

(a)The representations and warranties of the Borrowers and each other Loan Party contained in Article V or any other Loan Document, or which are contained in any document furnished at any time under or in connection herewith or therewith, shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the date of such Credit Extension, except (i) to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, in which case they shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date, (ii) in the case of any representation and warranty qualified by materiality, they shall be true and correct in all respects, and except that for purposes of this Section 4.02, the representations and warranties contained in Sections 5.05(a) and (b) shall be deemed to refer to the most recent statements furnished pursuant to Sections 6.01(a) and (b), respectively; provided 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 on such respective dates.

(b)No Event of Default shall exist, or would result from such proposed Credit Extension or from the application of the proceeds thereof.

(c)The Administrative Agent and, if applicable, the L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender shall have received a Request for Credit Extension in accordance with the requirements hereof.

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Loans) submitted by the Lead Borrower shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty that the conditions specified in Sections 4.02(a) and (b) have been satisfied on and as of the date of the applicable Credit Extension.

ARTICLE V.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

Each Loan Party represents and warrants to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders that:

5.01Existence, Qualification and Power  

Each Loan Party and each of its Subsidiaries (a) is duly organized or formed, validly existing and, as applicable, in good standing under the Laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization, (b) has all requisite power and authority and all requisite governmental licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals to (i) own or lease its assets and carry on its business and (ii) execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the Loan Documents to which it is a party and consummate the Transaction, and (c) is duly qualified and is licensed and, as applicable, in good standing under the Laws of each jurisdiction where its ownership, lease or operation of properties or the conduct of its business requires such qualification or license; except in each case referred to in clause (a) (with respect to Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties), (b)(i) or (c), to the extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

5.02Authorization; No Contravention  

The execution, delivery and performance by each Loan Party of each Loan Document to which such Person is a party have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other organizational action, and do not and will not (a) contravene the terms of any of such Person’s Organization Documents; (b) conflict with or result in any breach or contravention of, or the creation of any Lien under, or require any payment to be made under (i) any Contractual Obligation to which such Person is a party or affecting such Person or the properties of such Person or any of its Subsidiaries; or (ii) any order, injunction, writ or decree of any Governmental Authority or any arbitral award to which such Person or its property is subject; or (c) violate any Law; except in each case referred to in clause (b) or (c), to the extent that such conflict, breach or violation could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

5.03Governmental Authorization; Other Consents  

No approval, consent, exemption, authorization, or other action by, or notice to, or filing with, any Governmental Authority or any other Person is necessary or required in connection with (a) the execution, delivery or performance by, or enforcement against, any Loan Party of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or for the consummation of the Transaction, (b) the grant by any Loan Party of the Liens granted by it pursuant to the Collateral Documents, (c) the perfection or maintenance of the Liens created under the Collateral Documents (including the first priority nature thereof) or (d) the exercise by the Administrative Agent or any Lender of its rights under the Loan Documents or the remedies in respect of the Collateral pursuant to the Collateral Documents, except for (i) those which have been duly obtained, taken, given or made and are in full force and effect, (ii) those required under agreements that a Loan Party is permitted to execute pursuant to this Agreement, (iii) those required by applicable law or regulation, and (iv) those the failure of which to be obtained would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.  

5.04Binding Effect  

This Agreement has been, and each other Loan Document, when delivered hereunder, will have been, duly executed and delivered by each Loan Party that is party thereto.  This Agreement constitutes, and each other Loan Document when so delivered will constitute, a legal, valid and binding obligation of such Loan Party, 

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enforceable against each Loan Party that is party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as may be limited by Debtor Relief Laws or by general principals of equity.

5.05Financial Statements; No Material Adverse Effect  

(a)The Audited Financial Statements (i) were prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the period covered thereby, except as otherwise expressly noted therein; (ii) fairly present in all material respects the financial condition of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries as of the date thereof and their results of operations for the period covered thereby in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the period covered thereby, except as otherwise expressly noted therein; and (iii) except as disclosed in Schedule 5.05, show all material indebtedness and other liabilities, direct or contingent, of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries as of the date thereof, including liabilities for taxes, material commitments and Indebtedness.

(b)The unaudited consolidated balance sheet of Holdings and its Subsidiaries dated September 27, 2019, and the related consolidated statements of income or operations, shareholders’ equity and cash flows for the fiscal quarter ended on that date (i) were prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the period covered thereby, except as otherwise expressly noted therein, and (ii) fairly present in all material respects the financial condition of Holdings and its Subsidiaries as of the date thereof and their results of operations for the period covered thereby, subject, in the case of clauses (i) and (ii), to the absence of footnotes and to normal year-end audit adjustments.  

(c)Since the date of the Audited Financial Statements, there has been no event or circumstance, either individually or in the aggregate, that has had a Material Adverse Effect that is continuing.

(d)The consolidated pro forma balance sheet of Holdings and its Subsidiaries as at September 27, 2019, and the related consolidated pro forma statements of income and cash flows of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries for the nine (9) months then ended, certified by the chief financial officer or treasurer of the Lead Borrower, copies of which have been furnished to each Lender, fairly present in all material respects the consolidated pro forma financial condition of Holdings and its Subsidiaries as at such date and the consolidated pro forma results of operations of Holdings and its Subsidiaries for the period ended on such date, in each case giving effect to the Transaction, all in accordance with GAAP.

(e)The consolidated forecasted balance sheet, and statements of income and cash flows of Holdings and its Subsidiaries delivered pursuant to Section 4.01 or Section 6.01(c) were prepared in good faith based upon assumptions that are believed by the Lead Borrower to be reasonable at the time such consolidated forecasted balance sheet, and statements of income and cash flows were delivered to the Administrative Agent, it being understood that (i) such forecasts are not to be viewed as facts, (ii) such forecasts are subject to significant uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are beyond the Lead Borrower’s control, (iii) no assurance can be given that any particular forecasts will be realized and (iv) actual results may differ and such differences may be material.

5.06Litigation  

There are no actions, suits, proceedings, claims or disputes pending or, to the knowledge of any Borrower, threatened in writing, at law, in equity, in arbitration or before any Governmental Authority, by or against any Borrower or any of their Subsidiaries or against any of their properties or revenues that either individually or in the aggregate could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

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5.07No Default  

No Default has occurred and is continuing or would result from the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any other Loan Document.

5.08Ownership of Property; Investments  

(a)Each Loan Party and each of its Subsidiaries has good record and marketable title in fee simple to, or valid leasehold interests in, all real property necessary or used in the ordinary conduct of its business, except for Liens permitted by the Loan Documents and such defects in title as could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.  

(b)Schedule 5.08(b) sets forth a complete and accurate list of all real property owned by each Loan Party and each of its Subsidiaries, showing as of the Third Restatement Date the street address, state, record owner and estimated fair value thereof.  Except as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, each Loan Party and each of its Subsidiaries has good, marketable and insurable fee simple title to the real property owned by such Loan Party or such Subsidiary, free and clear of all Liens, other than Liens created or permitted by the Loan Documents.

(c)Schedule 5.08(c) sets forth a complete and accurate list of all leases of real property under which any Loan Party is the lessee as of the Third Restatement Date, showing as of the Third Restatement Date, the street address, state and lessee.

(d)Schedule 5.08(d) sets forth a complete and accurate list of all Investments (other than Investments of the type permitted under Section 7.03 that are not subject to any “dollar” basket) held by any Loan Party or any Subsidiary of a Loan Party on the Third Restatement Date, showing as of the Third Restatement Date the amount, obligor or issuer and maturity, if any, thereof.

5.09Environmental Compliance  

(a)Except as otherwise set forth in Schedule 5.09 or as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries operate their respective businesses and properties in material compliance with Environmental Laws and Environmental Permits and none of the Borrowers or their Subsidiaries are subject to Environmental Liability that could, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(b)Except as otherwise set forth in Schedule 5.09 or as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (i) none of the properties currently or, to the knowledge of any Borrower, formerly owned or operated by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries is listed or proposed for listing on the NPL or on the CERCLIS or any analogous foreign, state or local list or is adjacent to any such property; (ii) to the knowledge of any Borrower, there are and never have been any underground or above-ground storage tanks or any surface impoundments, septic tanks, pits, sumps or lagoons in which Hazardous Materials are being or have been treated, stored or disposed on any property currently owned or operated by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of any Borrower, on any property formerly owned or operated by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries that, in either case would require any material reporting, investigation, assessment, remediation or response action; (iii) there is no friable asbestos or asbestos-containing material on any property currently owned or operated by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries that is not being maintained in material compliance with applicable Environmental Laws or requires abatement or removal; and (iv) Hazardous Materials have not been released, discharged or disposed of on any property currently or to the knowledge of any Borrower formerly owned or operated by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries in a 

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manner or quantity that would require any material reporting, investigation, assessment, remediation or response action.

(c)Except as otherwise set forth on Schedule 5.09 or as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, neither any Loan Party nor any of its Subsidiaries is undertaking, and has not completed, either individually or together with other potentially responsible parties, any material investigation or assessment or remedial or response action relating to any actual or threatened release, discharge or disposal of Hazardous Materials at any site, location or operation, either voluntarily or pursuant to the order of any Governmental Authority or the requirements of any Environmental Law; and all Hazardous Materials generated, used, treated, handled or stored at, or transported to or from, any property currently or formerly owned or operated by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries have been disposed of in a manner that could not reasonably be expected to result in material liability to any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries.

5.10Insurance  

The properties of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries are insured with financially sound and reputable insurance companies not Affiliates of any Borrower, in such amounts with such deductibles and covering such risks as are customarily carried by companies engaged in similar businesses and owning similar properties in localities where the applicable Borrower or the applicable Subsidiary operates.

5.11Taxes  

Holdings and its Subsidiaries have filed all foreign, Federal and state income tax returns and reports and other material tax returns and reports required to be filed, and have paid all foreign, Federal and state income taxes and other material taxes, assessments, fees and other governmental charges levied or imposed upon them or their properties, income or assets otherwise due and payable, except those which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted and for which adequate reserves have been provided in accordance with GAAP or as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

5.12ERISA Compliance  

(a)Except as could not reasonably be expected, either individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect, (i) each Plan (other than a Multiemployer Plan) is in compliance in all respects with the applicable provisions of ERISA, the Code and other Federal or state Laws and (ii) each Pension Plan that is intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code has received a favorable determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service to the effect that the form of such Plan is qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code and the trust related thereto has been determined by the Internal Revenue Service to be exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(a) of the Code (or, where there is no determination letter but the Pension Plan is based upon a master and prototype or volume submitter form, the sponsor of such form has received a current advisory opinion as to the form upon which any Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate is entitled rely under applicable Internal Revenue Service procedures), or an application for such a letter is currently being processed by the Internal Revenue Service.  To the best knowledge of any Borrower, nothing has occurred that would prevent, or cause the loss of, such tax-qualified status.

(b)There are no pending or, to the best knowledge of any Borrower, threatened claims, actions or lawsuits, or action by any Governmental Authority, with respect to any Plan (other than any Multiemployer Plan) that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.  To the best knowledge of any Borrower, there are no pending or threatened claims, actions, or lawsuits, or action by any Governmental Authority, with respect to any Multiemployer Plan that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.  To the best knowledge of any Borrower, there has been no prohibited transaction or violation of the 

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fiduciary responsibility rules with respect to any Plan that has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(c)(i) No ERISA Event has occurred with respect to any Pension Plan, (ii) to the best knowledge of any Borrower, no ERISA Event has occurred with respect to any Multiemployer Plan, (iii) no Borrower nor any ERISA Affiliate is aware of any fact, event or circumstance that could reasonably be expected to constitute or result in an ERISA Event with respect to any Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (iv) each Borrower and each ERISA Affiliate has met all applicable requirements under the Pension Funding Rules in respect of each Pension Plan, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards under the Pension Funding Rules has been applied for or obtained; (v) neither any Borrower nor any ERISA Affiliate has incurred any liability to the PBGC other than for the payment of premiums, and there are no premium payments which have become due that are unpaid; (vi) neither any Borrower nor any ERISA Affiliate has engaged in a transaction that could reasonably be expected to be subject to Section 4069 or Section 4212(c) of ERISA; and (vii) no Pension Plan has been terminated by the plan administrator thereof nor by the PBGC, and no event or circumstance has occurred or exists that could reasonably be expected to cause the PBGC to institute proceedings under Title IV of ERISA to terminate any Pension Plan, except with respect to each of the foregoing clauses of this Section 5.12(c), as could not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in liability in excess of the Threshold Amount. 

(d)With respect to each scheme or arrangement mandated by a government other than the United States (a “Foreign Government Scheme or Arrangement”) and with respect to each employee benefit plan maintained or contributed to by any Loan Party or any Subsidiary of any Loan Party that is not subject to United States law (a “Foreign Plan”), as of the later of (x) the date of the Audited Financial Statements and (y) the most recent audited financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a), except as could not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in liability in excess of the Threshold Amount:

any employer and employee contributions required by law or by the terms of any Foreign Government Scheme or Arrangement or any Foreign Plan have been made, or, if applicable, accrued, in accordance with normal accounting practices;

the fair market value of the assets of each funded Foreign Plan, the liability of each insurer for any Foreign Plan funded through insurance or the book reserve established for any Foreign Plan, together with any accrued contributions, is sufficient to procure or provide for the accrued benefit obligations, as of the date hereof, with respect to all current and former participants in such Foreign Plan according to the actuarial assumptions and valuations most recently used to account for such obligations in accordance with applicable generally accepted accounting principles; and

each Foreign Plan required to be registered has been registered and has been maintained in good standing with applicable regulatory authorities.

(e)as of the Third Restatement Date, the Borrowers are not and will not be using “plan assets” (within the meaning of Section 3(42) of ERISA) with respect to the Borrowers’ entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Letters of Credit, the Commitments or this Agreement. 

5.13Subsidiaries; Equity Interests; Loan Parties  

As of the Third Restatement Date (or the date of any supplements delivered pursuant to Section 6.12(a)(i)), no Loan Party has any Subsidiaries other than those specifically disclosed in Part (a) of Schedule 5.13, and all of the outstanding Equity Interests in such Subsidiaries have been validly issued, are fully paid and non-assessable (to the extent such concept is applicable) and are owned by a Loan Party or another Subsidiary in the amounts specified on Part (a) of Schedule 5.13 free and clear of all Liens except those created under the Collateral 

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Documents.  No Loan Party has any equity investments in any other corporation or entity as of the Third Restatement Date (or the date of any supplements delivered pursuant to Section 6.12(a)(i)) other than those specifically disclosed in Part (b) of Schedule 5.13.  All of the outstanding Equity Interests in each Borrower (other than Holdings) have been validly issued, are fully paid and non-assessable (to the extent such concept is applicable) and are owned by Holdings or another Loan Party free and clear of all Liens except those created under the Collateral Documents.  Set forth on Part (c) of Schedule 5.13 is a complete and accurate list of all Loan Parties, showing as of the Third Restatement Date (as to each Loan Party) the jurisdiction of its incorporation, the address of its principal place of business and its U.S. taxpayer identification number or, in the case of any non-U.S. Loan Party that does not have a U.S. taxpayer identification number, its unique identification number issued to it by the jurisdiction of its incorporation.  As of the Third Restatement Date, the copy of the charter of each Loan Party and each amendment thereto provided pursuant to Section 4.01(a) (or pursuant to Section 4.01(a) of the Existing2016 Credit Agreement, as applicable) is a true and correct copy of each such document, each of which is valid and in full force and effect.

5.14Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act  

(a)No Borrower is engaged nor will engage, principally or as one of its important activities, in the business of purchasing or carrying margin stock or any margin security (within the meanings of Regulation U and Regulation T, respectively, issued by the FRB), or extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stock.  

(b)No Loan Party or Person Controlling any Loan Party is or is required to be registered as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act of 1940.  

5.15Disclosure  

No material written information, other than forecasts which are the subject of Section 5.05(e), other information of a forward-looking nature and information of a general economic or industry specific nature, furnished  by or on behalf of any Loan Party to the Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby and the negotiation of this Agreement or delivered hereunder or under any other Loan Document (in each case as modified or supplemented by other information so furnished) when taken as a whole contains any material misstatement of fact or omits to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided that, with respect to forecasts which are the subject of Section 5.05(e), the Borrowers make only the representations set forth in Section 5.05(e).

5.16Compliance with Laws  

Each Loan Party and each Subsidiary thereof is in compliance in all material respects with the requirements of all Laws and all orders, writs, injunctions and decrees applicable to it or to its properties, except in such instances in which (a) such requirement of Law or order, writ, injunction or decree is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted or (b) the failure to comply therewith, either individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

5.17Intellectual Property; Licenses, Etc.  

Except as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, each Loan Party and each of its Subsidiaries own, or possess the right to use, all of the trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights, patents, patent rights and other intellectual property rights (such ownership or right to use, collectively, “IP Rights”) that are reasonably necessary for the operation of their respective businesses.  Set forth on Schedule 5.17 is a complete and accurate list of all such IP Rights registered or pending registration with the 

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United Stated Copyright Office or the United States Patent and Trademark Office and owned by each Loan Party as of the Third Restatement Date.  Except for such claims and infringements asserted or pending that could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, no claim has been asserted and is pending against any Loan Party by any Person challenging or questioning the use of any of such Loan Party’s IP Rights or the validity or enforceability of any of such Loan Party’s IP Rights, nor does any Loan Party know of any such claim, and, to the knowledge of any Borrower, the use of any IP Rights  (including the licensing of any such IP Rights) by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries does not infringe on the rights of any Person.  As of the Third Restatement Date, none of the material IP Rights of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries is subject to any licensing agreement or similar arrangement to which such Loan Party is party other than (i) non-exclusive licenses granted in the ordinary course of business and (ii) as set forth on Schedule 5.17.

5.18Solvency  

The Loan Parties, on a consolidated basis together with their Subsidiaries, are Solvent.

5.19[Reserved]

5.20Labor Matters  

There are no collective bargaining agreements or Multiemployer Plans covering the employees of any Borrower or any of their Subsidiaries as of the Third Restatement Date and neither any Borrower nor any Subsidiary is subject to any strikes, walkouts, work stoppages or other labor difficulty that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

5.21Collateral Documents  

The provisions of the Collateral Documents are effective to create in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties a legal, valid and enforceable first priority Lien (subject to Liens permitted by Section 7.01) on all right, title and interest of the respective Loan Parties in the Collateral described therein.  Except for filings and other actions completed on or prior to the Third Restatement Date and as contemplated hereby and by the Collateral Documents, no filing or other action will be necessary to perfect such Liens, to the extent the Collateral Documents require perfection thereof.

5.22Subordination of Permitted Subordinated Debt  

The Obligations are “Senior Debt,” “Senior Indebtedness,” “Guarantor Senior Debt” or “Senior Secured Financing” (or any comparable term) under, and as defined in, any documentation governing Permitted Subordinated Debt.

5.23OFAC  

None of the Loan Parties, nor any of their respective Subsidiaries, nor, to the knowledge of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries, any director, officer, employee, agent, affiliate or representative thereof, is an individual or entity that is, or is owned or controlled by any individual or entity that is (i) currently the subject or target of any Sanctions, (ii) included on OFAC’s List of Specially Designated Nationals, HMT’s Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets and the Investment Ban List, or any similar list enforced by any other relevant sanctions authority or (iii) operating, organized or resident in a Designated Jurisdiction.  

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5.24Anti-Corruption Laws  

The Loan Parties and their respective Subsidiaries have conducted their businesses in compliance with the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, the UK Bribery Act 2010, and other similar anti-corruption legislation in other jurisdictions in which the Loan Parties or their Subsidiaries are operating, organized or resident and applicable Sanctions, and have instituted and maintained policies and procedures designed to promote and achieve compliance with such laws and applicable Sanctions.

5.25Beneficial Ownership Certification  

As of the Third Restatement Date, the information included in the Beneficial Ownership Certification, if applicable, is true and correct in all respects.

5.26EEA Financial Institutions  

No Loan Party is an EEA Financial Institution.

5.27Covered Entities  

No Loan Party is a Covered Entity.

5.28German Borrower.

The German Borrower is a capital company (Kapitalgesellschaften).

ARTICLE VI.
AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS

So long as any Lender shall have any Commitment hereunder, any Loan or other Obligation (other than (A) in respect of indemnification, expense reimbursement, yield protection or tax gross-up and contingent obligations in each case with respect to which no claim has been made and (B) obligations and liabilities under Secured Cash Management Agreements and Secured Hedge Agreements) hereunder shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied, or any Letter of Credit shall remain outstanding under this Agreement (except to the extent Cash Collateralized), each Loan Party shall, and shall (except in the case of the covenants set forth in Sections 6.01, 6.02, 6.03 and 6.11) cause each Subsidiary to:

6.01Financial Statements  

 Deliver to the Administrative Agent:

(a)within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year of Holdings (commencing with the fiscal year ending December 31, 2019), a consolidated balance sheet of Holdings and its Subsidiaries as at the end of such fiscal year, and the related consolidated statements of income or operations, changes in shareholders’ equity, and cash flows for such fiscal year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year, all prepared in accordance with GAAP, such consolidated statements to be audited and accompanied by a report and opinion of Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP or another 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 (other than with respect to, or resulting from an upcoming maturity date with respect to any Indebtedness of any Loan Party (including Indebtedness under this Agreement) occurring within one year from the time such report and opinion are delivered);

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(b)within 45 days after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year of Holdings (commencing with the fiscal quarter ending April 3, 2020), a consolidated balance sheet of Holdings and its Subsidiaries as at the end of such fiscal quarter, and the related consolidated statements of income or operations, changes in shareholders’ equity, and cash flows for such fiscal quarter and for the portion of Holdings’ fiscal year then ended, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the corresponding fiscal quarter of the previous fiscal year and the corresponding portion of the previous fiscal year, all in reasonable detail, certified by a Responsible Officer of Holdings as fairly presenting in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations, shareholders’ equity and cash flows Holdings and its Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP, subject only to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes;

(c)within 60 days after the end of each fiscal year of Holdings (commencing with the fiscal year ending December 31, 2019, an annual business plan and budget of Holdings and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, including forecasts prepared by management of the Lead Borrower of consolidated balance sheets and statements of income or operations and cash flows of Holdings and its Subsidiaries on a quarterly basis for the immediately following fiscal year (including the fiscal year in which the Maturity Date for the Term Facility occurs), in the form prepared for the board of directors of the Lead Borrower.

The obligations in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section 6.01 may be satisfied with respect to financial information by furnishing Holdings’ Form 10-K or 10-Q, as applicable, filed with the SEC; provided that if Holdings is no longer filing such forms, the financial information delivered pursuant to paragraphs (a) and (b) must be in form and detail consistent with financial information previously delivered or otherwise reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders. 

As to any information contained in materials furnished pursuant to Section 6.02(c), the Borrowers shall not be separately required to furnish such information under Section 6.01(a) or (b) above, but the foregoing shall not be in derogation of the obligation of the Borrowers to furnish the information and materials described in Sections 6.01(a) and (b) above at the times specified therein.

6.02Certificates; Other Information  

Deliver to the Administrative Agent and each Lender:

(a)concurrently with the delivery of the financial statements referred to in Sections 6.01(a) and (b) (commencing with the delivery of the financial statements for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2019), a duly completed Compliance Certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of Holdings;

(b)promptly after any request by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, copies of any detailed audit reports, management letters or recommendations submitted to the board of directors (or the audit committee of the board of directors) of any Loan Party by independent accountants in connection with the accounts or books of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, or any audit of any of them;

(c)promptly after the same are available, copies of each annual report, proxy or financial statement or other report or communication sent to the stockholders of Holdings, and copies of all annual, regular, periodic and special reports and registration statements which Holdings may file or be required to file with the SEC under Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or with any national securities exchange, and in any case not otherwise required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant hereto; 

(d)promptly after the furnishing thereof, copies of any statement or report furnished to any holder of debt securities of any Loan Party or of any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to the terms of any indenture, loan or credit or similar agreement, in each case, with respect to Indebtedness for borrowed money in excess of the 

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Threshold Amount and not otherwise required to be furnished to the Lenders pursuant to Section 6.01 or any other clause of this Section 6.02;

(e)within 30 days after the end of each fiscal year of Holdings, current certificates of property and liability insurance, naming the Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Lenders, as an additional insured or loss payee, as the case may be, under all insurance policies maintained with respect to the assets and properties of the Loan Parties that constitutes Collateral;

(f)promptly, and in any event within five Business Days after receipt thereof by any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof, copies of each notice or other correspondence received from the SEC (or comparable agency in any applicable non-U.S. jurisdiction) concerning any investigation or possible investigation or other inquiry by such agency regarding financial or other operational results of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof;

(g)promptly after the assertion or occurrence thereof, notice of any action or proceeding against any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries of any liability under Environmental Law or of any noncompliance by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries with any Environmental Law or Environmental Permit that could (i) reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) cause any property described in the Mortgages to be subject to any material restrictions on ownership, occupancy, use or transferability under any Environmental Law;

(h)within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year of Holdings (commencing with the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020), (i) a report supplementing Schedules 5.08(b) and 5.08(c), including an identification of all owned and leased real property disposed of by any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof during such fiscal year, a list and description (including the street address, state, record owner, and, in the case of leases of property, lessee thereof) of all real property acquired or leased during such fiscal year and a description of such other changes in the information included in such Schedules as may be necessary for such Schedules to be accurate and complete; (ii) a report supplementing Schedule 5.17, setting forth (A) a list of registration numbers for all patents, trademarks, service marks and copyrights awarded by the United States Copyright Office or the United States Patent and Trademark Office to any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof during such fiscal year and (B) a list of all patent applications, trademark applications, service mark applications and copyright applications submitted by any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof to the United States Copyright Office or the United States Patent and Trademark Office during such fiscal year and the status of each such application; and (iii) a report supplementing Schedules 5.08(d) and 5.13 containing a description of all changes in the information included in such Schedules as may be necessary for such Schedules to be accurate and complete; and

(i)promptly, (A) to the extent permitted by (i) the confidentiality provisions of any agreement applicable to any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof, or (ii) any applicable attorney-client privilege, such additional information regarding the business, financial, legal or corporate affairs of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof, or compliance with the terms of the Loan Documents, as the Administrative Agent or any Lender may from time to time reasonably request and (B) information and documentation reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent or any Lender for purposes of compliance with applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the Act and the Beneficial Ownership Regulation.

Documents required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b) or Section 6.02(c) may be delivered electronically and if so delivered, shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date (i) on which the Lead Borrower posts such documents, or provides a link thereto on the Lead Borrower’s website on the Internet at the website address listed on Schedule 11.02; or (ii) on which such documents are posted on the Borrowers’ behalf on an Internet or intranet website, if any, to which each Lender and the Administrative Agent have access (whether 

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a commercial, third-party website or whether sponsored by the Administrative Agent); provided that:  (i) the Lead Borrower shall deliver paper copies of such documents to the Administrative Agent or any Lender that requests the Lead Borrower to deliver such paper copies until a written request to cease delivering paper copies is given by the Administrative Agent or such Lender and (ii) the Lead Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent and each Lender (by telecopier or electronic mail) of the posting of any such documents and provide to the Administrative Agent by electronic mail electronic versions (i.e., soft copies) of such documents.  The Administrative Agent shall have no obligation to request the delivery or to maintain copies of the documents referred to above, and in any event shall have no responsibility to monitor compliance by the Borrowers 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.

The Borrowers hereby acknowledge that (a) the Administrative Agent and/or the Arrangers will make available to the Lenders and the L/C Issuer materials and/or information provided by or on behalf of the Borrowers hereunder (collectively, “Borrower Materials”) by posting the Borrower Materials on IntraLinks or another similar electronic system (the “Platform”) and (b) certain of the Lenders (each, a “Public Lender”) may have personnel who do not wish to receive material non-public information with respect to the Borrowers or their Affiliates, or the respective securities of any of the foregoing, and who may be engaged in investment and other market-related activities with respect to such Persons’ securities.  The Borrowers hereby agree that so long as the Borrowers are the issuers of any outstanding debt or equity securities that are registered or is actively contemplating issuing any such securities it will use commercially reasonable efforts to identify that portion of the Borrower Materials that may be distributed to the Public Lenders and that (w) all such Borrower Materials shall be clearly and conspicuously marked “PUBLIC” which, at a minimum, shall mean that the word “PUBLIC” shall appear prominently on the first page thereof; (x) by marking Borrower Materials “PUBLIC,” the Borrowers shall be deemed to have authorized the Administrative Agent, the Arrangers, the L/C Issuer and the Lenders to treat such Borrower Materials as not containing any material non-public information (although it may be sensitive and proprietary) with respect to the Borrowers or their securities for purposes of United States Federal and state securities laws (provided, however, that to the extent such Borrower Materials constitute Information, they shall be treated as set forth in Section 11.07); (y) all Borrower Materials marked “PUBLIC” are permitted to be made available through a portion of the Platform designated “Public Side Information;” and (z) the Administrative Agent and the Arrangers shall be entitled to treat any Borrower Materials that are not marked “PUBLIC” as being suitable only for posting on a portion of the Platform not designated “Public Side Information.”  

6.03Notices  

(a)Promptly notify the Administrative Agent and each Lender of the occurrence of any Default;

(b)Promptly (and in any event, within five Business Days of any Borrower's knowledge thereof) notify the Administrative Agent and each Lender of any matter that has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, including to the extent it has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, the following: (i) breach or non-performance of, or any default under, a Contractual Obligation of any Borrower or any Subsidiary; (ii) any dispute, litigation, investigation, proceeding or suspension between any Borrower or any Subsidiary and any Governmental Authority; or (iii) the commencement of, or any material development in, any litigation or proceeding affecting any Borrower or any Subsidiary, including pursuant to any applicable Environmental Laws; 

(c)Promptly (and in any event, within five Business Days of any Borrower's knowledge thereof) notify the Administrative Agent and each Lender of (i) the occurrence of any ERISA Event, or (ii) if any Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate is notified that any Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan to which any Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate contributes, or for which any Borrower or ERISA Affiliate has any liability 

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or contingent liability, is considered to be an “at-risk” plan or a plan in “endangered’ or “critical” status within the meaning of Sections 430, 431, or 432 of the Code, or Sections 303, 304 or 305 of ERISA; and

(d)Promptly notify the Administrative Agent and each Lender of any material change in accounting policies or financial reporting practices by any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof, including any determination by the Lead Borrower referred to in Section 2.10(b); and

(e)Promptly notify the Administrative Agent and each Lender if the German Borrower is no longer a capital company (Kapitalgesellschaften).

Each notice pursuant to Section 6.03 shall be accompanied by a statement of a Responsible Officer of the Lead Borrower setting forth details of the occurrence referred to therein and stating what action the Lead Borrower has taken and proposes to take with respect thereto.  Each notice pursuant to Section 6.03(a) shall describe with particularity any and all provisions of this Agreement and any other Loan Document that have been breached.

6.04Payment of Taxes  

Pay and discharge as the same shall become due and payable all tax liabilities, assessments and governmental charges or levies upon it or its properties or assets, unless the same are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted and adequate reserves in accordance with GAAP are being maintained by such Borrower or such Subsidiary, except to the extent the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

6.05Preservation of Existence, Etc.  

(a) Preserve, renew and maintain in full force and effect its legal existence except in a transaction permitted by Section 7.04 or 7.05; (a) preserve, renew and maintain in full force and effect its good standing under the Laws of the jurisdiction of its, except to the extent the failure to do so by a Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; (c) take all reasonable action to maintain all rights, privileges, permits, licenses and franchises necessary or desirable in the normal conduct of its business, except to the extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and (c) preserve or renew all of its registered patents, trademarks, trade names and service marks, the non-preservation of which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

6.06Maintenance of Properties  

(a) Maintain, preserve and protect all of its material properties and equipment necessary in the operation of its business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted; and (b) make all necessary repairs thereto and renewals and replacements thereof, in each case of clause (a) or (b), except where the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

6.07Maintenance of Insurance  

Maintain with financially sound and reputable insurance companies not Affiliates of any Borrower, insurance with respect to its properties and business against loss or damage of the kinds customarily insured against by Persons engaged in the same or similar business, of such types and in such amounts as are customarily carried under similar circumstances by such other Persons and providing for not less than 30 days’ (or 10 days’ in the case of non-payment) prior notice to the Administrative Agent of termination, lapse or cancellation of such insurance, to the extent the Administrative Agent can be granted an insurable interest therein.

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6.08Compliance with Laws  

Comply in all material respects with the requirements of all Laws and all orders, writs, injunctions and decrees applicable to it or to its business or property, except in such instances in which (a) such requirement of Law or order, writ, injunction or decree is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted; or (b) the failure to comply therewith could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. 

6.09Books and Records  

Maintain proper books of record and account, in which full, true and correct entries in a manner sufficient to prepare financial statements in accordance with GAAP consistently applied shall be made of all financial transactions and matters involving the assets and business of such Loan Party or such Subsidiary, as the case may be.

6.10Inspection Rights  

Permit, to the extent permitted by (i) the confidentiality provisions of any agreement applicable to any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof, or (ii) any applicable attorney-client privilege, representatives and independent contractors of the Administrative Agent and each Lender to visit and inspect any of its properties, to examine its corporate, financial and operating records, and make copies thereof or abstracts therefrom and to discuss its affairs, finances and accounts with its directors, officers, and independent public accountants, all at the expense of the Borrowers and at such reasonable times during normal business hours and as often as may be reasonably desired, upon reasonable advance notice to the Lead Borrower; provided, that an officer of the Lead Borrower shall be provided reasonable opportunity to participate in any such discussion with the accountants; provided further such inspections shall be coordinated through the Administrative Agent so that in the absence of an Event of Default, not more than one such inspection shall occur in any calendar year.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, when an Event of Default exists the Administrative Agent or any Lender (or any of their respective representatives or independent contractors) may do any of the foregoing at the expense of the Borrowers at any time during normal business hours and without advance notice. 

6.11Use of Proceeds  

Use the proceeds of the Credit Extensions (i) for working capital, capital expenditures, Permitted Acquisitions and other transactions permitted under Section 7.03 and general corporate purposes not in contravention of any Law or of any Loan Document and (ii) to refinance indebtedness existing under the Existing2016 Credit Agreement.

6.12Covenant to Guarantee Obligations and Give Security 

(a)Upon the formation or acquisition of any new direct or indirect Subsidiary of Holdings (other than any Excluded Subsidiary) by any Loan Party, or any Subsidiary that was formerly an Excluded Subsidiary becoming a Subsidiary that is not an Excluded Subsidiary (including in connection with the 2019 Corporate Restructuring Transactions), then the Borrowers shall, at the Borrowers’ expense:

(i)within thirty (30) days after such formation or acquisition, cause such Subsidiary, along with all of its Subsidiaries that are not Excluded Subsidiaries, to duly execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent a guaranty or guaranty supplement in the form of Exhibit F-1, guaranteeing the other Loan Parties’ obligations under the Loan Documents; provided that if any such Subsidiary is a direct Subsidiary of Holdings (other than an Excluded Subsidiary), such Subsidiary shall become a Borrower 

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under this Agreement pursuant to an assumption agreement reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent,

(ii)within thirty (30) days after such formation or acquisition, furnish to the Administrative Agent a description of the real and personal properties of each such Subsidiary, in reasonable detail,

(iii)within thirty (30) days after such formation or acquisition, cause each such Subsidiary to (x) duly execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, Security Agreement Supplements, IP Security Agreement Supplements (only with respect to any U.S. registrations and applications for registration of IP Rights included in the Collateral and excluding any “intent to use” trademark or service mark applications) (including delivery of all Pledged Interests in and of each such Subsidiary, and other security and pledge agreements but not with respect to any Excluded Assets (as defined in the Security Agreement), securing payment of all the Obligations of each such Subsidiary under the Loan Documents and constituting Liens on all such real and personal properties and (y) take whatever action (including the filing of Uniform Commercial Code financing statements and the giving of notices) may be necessary or advisable in the opinion of, and requested by, the Administrative Agent to vest in the Administrative Agent (or in any representative of the Administrative Agent designated by it) valid and subsisting Liens on the properties purported to be subject to the Security Agreement Supplements, IP Security Agreement Supplements and security and pledge agreements delivered pursuant to this Section 6.12, enforceable against all third parties in accordance with their terms,

(iv)within sixty (60) days after such formation or acquisition, deliver to the Administrative Agent, upon the request of the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion, a signed copy of a favorable opinion, addressed to the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties, of counsel for the Loan Parties reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent as to such matters as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request,

(v)within ninety (90) days after such formation or acquisition, cause each such Subsidiary to (x) if any such Person owns any Material Properties, duly execute and deliver deeds of trust, trust deeds, deeds to secure debt, and mortgages, and (y) take whatever action (including the recording of mortgages, the filing of Uniform Commercial Code financing statements, the giving of notices and the endorsement of notices on title documents) may be necessary or advisable in the opinion of, and requested by, the Administrative Agent to vest in the Administrative Agent (or in any representative of the Administrative Agent designated by it) valid and subsisting Liens on the properties purported to be subject to the deeds of trust, trust deeds, deeds to secure debt, mortgages, Security Agreement Supplements, IP Security Agreement Supplements and security and pledge agreements delivered pursuant to this Section 6.12, enforceable against all third parties in accordance with their terms,

(vi)as promptly as practicable after such formation or acquisition, deliver, upon the request of the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion, to the Administrative Agent with respect to each Material Property owned by the entity that is the subject of such formation or acquisition title reports, surveys and engineering, soils and other reports, and environmental assessment reports, each in scope, form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, provided, however, that to the extent that any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries shall have otherwise received any of the foregoing items with respect to such Material Property, such items shall, promptly after the receipt thereof, be delivered to the Administrative Agent.

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Technologies Corp.. Laser Quantum Inc. and/or W.O.M. World of Medicine USA Inc. on or prior to the Third Restatement Date.

(b)Upon the acquisition of any Material Property by any Loan Party, if such property, in the judgment of the Administrative Agent, shall not already be subject to a perfected first priority security interest in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, then the Borrowers shall, at the Borrowers’ expense:

(i)within thirty (30) days after such acquisition, furnish to the Administrative Agent a description of the property so acquired in detail reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent,

(ii)within ninety (90) days after such acquisition, cause the applicable Loan Party to take whatever action (including the recording of mortgages, the filing of Uniform Commercial Code financing statements, the giving of notices and the endorsement of notices on title documents) may be necessary or advisable in the opinion of the Administrative Agent to vest in the Administrative Agent (or in any representative of the Administrative Agent designated by it) valid and subsisting Liens on such property, enforceable against all third parties,

(iii)within ninety (90) days after such acquisition, deliver to the Administrative Agent, upon the request of the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion, a signed copy of a favorable opinion, addressed to the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties, of counsel for the Loan Parties reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent as to such matters as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request, 

(iv)within ninety (90) days after such acquisition, cause the applicable Loan Party to duly execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent deeds of trust, trust deeds, deeds to secure debt, and mortgages in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, securing payment of all the Obligations of the applicable Loan Party under the Loan Documents and constituting Liens on all such properties, and

(v)as promptly as practicable after such acquisition, deliver to the Administrative Agent, upon the request of the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion, such real property title reports, environmental assessment reports, surveys, appraisals, flood zone certificates, evidence of compliance with zoning requirements and other reports and documents, each in scope, form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, provided, however, that to the extent that any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries shall have otherwise received any of the foregoing items with respect to such real property, such items shall, promptly after the receipt thereof, be delivered to the Administrative Agent.

(c)Promptly after delivering supplements to the Administrative Agent delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(h), where applicable, deliver deeds of trust, trust deeds, deeds to secure debt, mortgages, Security Agreement Supplements, or IP Security Agreement Supplements executed by the applicable Loan Party.

6.13Compliance with Environmental Laws  

Comply, and cause all lessees and other Persons operating or occupying its properties to comply, in all material respects, with all applicable Environmental Laws and Environmental Permits; obtain and renew all Environmental Permits necessary for its operations and properties; and conduct any investigation, study, sampling and testing, and undertake any cleanup, removal, remedial or other action necessary to remove and clean up all Hazardous Materials from any of its properties, in accordance with the requirements of all Environmental Laws; provided, however, that no Loan Party nor any of its Subsidiaries shall be required to undertake any such cleanup, removal, remedial or other action to the extent that (a) its obligation to do so is being contested in good faith and 

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by proper proceedings and appropriate reserves are being maintained with respect to such circumstances in accordance with GAAP or (b) failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

6.14Further Assurances  

Promptly upon request by the Administrative Agent, or any Lender through the Administrative Agent, (a) correct any material defect or error that may be discovered in any Loan Document or in the execution, acknowledgment, filing or recordation thereof, and (b) do, execute, acknowledge, deliver, record, re-record, file, re-file, register and re-register any and all such further acts, deeds, certificates, assurances and other instruments as the Administrative Agent, or any Lender through the Administrative Agent, may reasonably require from time to time in order to (i) carry out more effectively the purposes of the Loan Documents, (ii) to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, subject any Loan Party’s properties, assets, rights or interests (other than Excluded Assets (as defined in the Security Agreement)) to the Liens now or hereafter intended to be covered by any of the Collateral Documents, (iii) perfect and maintain the validity, effectiveness and priority of any of the Collateral Documents and any of the Liens intended to be created thereunder and (iv) assure, convey, grant, assign, transfer, preserve, protect and confirm more effectively unto the Secured Parties the rights granted or now or hereafter intended to be granted to the Secured Parties under any Loan Document or under any other instrument executed in connection with any Loan Document to which any Loan Party is or is to be a party.

6.15Post-Closing Obligations

Take the actions specified in Schedule 6.15 as promptly as reasonably practicable, and in any event within the periods after the Third Restatement Date specified in Schedule 6.15 (as such time periods may be extended by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion).  The provisions of Schedule 6.15 shall be deemed incorporated by reference herein as fully as if set forth herein in their entirety.

6.16Anti-Corruption Laws  

Conduct its businesses in compliance with the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, the UK Bribery Act 2010, other similar anti-corruption legislation in other jurisdictions in which the Loan Parties or their Subsidiaries are operating, organized or resident and applicable Sanctions and maintain policies and procedures designed to promote and achieve compliance with such laws and applicable Sanctions.

ARTICLE VII.
NEGATIVE COVENANTS

So long as any Lender shall have any Commitment hereunder, any Loan or other Obligation (other than (A) in respect of indemnification, expense reimbursement, yield protection or tax gross-up and contingent obligations in each case with respect to which no claim has been made and (B) obligations and liabilities under Secured Cash Management Agreements and Secured Hedge Agreements) hereunder shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied, or any Letter of Credit under this Agreement (except to the extent Cash Collateralized) shall remain outstanding, the Loan Parties shall not, nor shall they permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly:

7.01Liens  

Create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon any of its property, assets or revenues, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, other than the following:  

(a)Liens pursuant to any Loan Document;

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(b)Liens existing on the date hereof and listed on Schedule 5.08(b) and any replacement, renewals or extensions thereof and, to the extent any Indebtedness underlying such Liens is refinanced, Liens securing Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof, provided that (i) the property covered thereby is not changed and (ii) the amount secured or benefited thereby is not increased except as permitted by Section 7.02(d);

(c)inchoate Liens for taxes, assessments or governmental charges or levies not yet due and payable (other than under ERISA) or delinquent and Liens (other than Liens under ERISA) for taxes, assessments or governmental charges or levies which are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted, if adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of the applicable Person in accordance with GAAP;

(d)Liens created in the ordinary course of business and described in any of the following clauses:

(i)carriers’, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, materialmen’s, repairmen’s or other like Liens arising in the ordinary course of business;

(ii)pledges or deposits in connection with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security legislation, other than any Lien imposed by ERISA;

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

(iv)Liens on deposits to secure liability for premiums to insurance carriers or securing insurance premium financing arrangements entered into in the ordinary course of business;

(v)Liens arising out of conditional sale, title retention, consignment or similar arrangements for the sale of goods;

(vi)Liens in favor of Cash Management Banks securing Cash Management Agreements;

(vii)Liens of a collecting bank under Section 4-208 of the UCC covering only the items being collected upon; and

(viii)Liens that are licenses of IP Rights granted by any Loan Party in the ordinary course of business and not interfering in any material respect with the ordinary conduct of business of the Loan Parties;

provided that the Liens described in any such clause (A) do not materially detract from the value of the property of the Loan Parties, taken as a whole, and do not materially impair the use thereof in the operation of the business of the Loan Parties, taken as a whole and (B) if they secure obligations that are then due and unpaid by more than thirty (30) days, are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings for which adequate reserves have been established in accordance with GAAP;

(e)the filing of UCC financing statements in connection with operating leases or consignment of goods;

(f)easements, rights-of-way, restrictions and other similar encumbrances affecting real property which do not materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of the applicable Person;

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prohibited by this Agreement; provided that such Liens (i) attach only to such Investments and (ii) secure only obligations incurred in the ordinary course and in connection with the acquisition or disposition of such Investments and not any obligation in connection with margin financing or otherwise;

(h)Liens securing judgments for the payment of money not constituting an Event of Default under Section 8.01(h);

(i)Liens securing Indebtedness permitted under Section 7.02(f); provided that (i) such Liens do not at any time encumber any property other than the property financed by such Indebtedness and improvements thereon and accessions thereto and (ii) the Indebtedness secured thereby does not exceed the cost or fair market value, whichever is lower, of the property being acquired on the date of acquisition; provided however that individual financings of equipment provided by one lender may be cross collateralized to other financings of equipment provided by such lender or its Affiliates; 

(j)Liens securing Indebtedness permitted under Section 7.02(i); and

(k)the replacement, extension or renewal of any Lien permitted by clause (j) above or clause (l) below and, to the extent any Indebtedness underlying such Liens is refinanced, Liens securing Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof; provided that (i) the property covered thereby is not changed and (ii) the amount secured or benefitted thereby is not increased except as permitted by Section 7.02(d);

(l)Liens on property of a Person existing at the time such property is acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition or Investment permitted hereunder in each case after the Third Restatement Date; provided that such Liens (i) do not extend to property not subject to such Liens at the time of acquisition (other than improvements thereon and accessions thereto), (ii) are not created in anticipation or contemplation of such acquisition, merger or consolidation and (iii) the Indebtedness secured thereby is permitted under Section 7.02;

(m)Liens on any cash earnest money deposits made by a Loan Party in connection with any letter of intent or purchase agreement entered into with respect to a Permitted Acquisition or other Investment not otherwise prohibited by this Agreement or otherwise in connection with any escrow arrangements with respect to any Permitted Acquisition, Investment or Disposition not prohibited hereunder, or consisting of an agreement to dispose of any property in a Disposition not prohibited hereunder;

(n)leases of the properties of any Loan Party, in each case entered into in the ordinary course of such Loan Party’s business so long as such leases do not, individually or in the aggregate, interfere in any material respect with the ordinary conduct of the business of any Loan Party;

(o)Landlords’ and lessors’ Liens in respect of rent and other lease obligations that are not past due by 90 days or which are being contested in good faith for which adequate reserves have been established in accordance with GAAP, which proceedings (or court orders entered into in connection with such proceedings) have the effect of preventing the forfeiture or sale of the property subject to any such Lien; 

(p)Liens granted to Hedge Banks in respect of Swap Contracts permitted under Sections 7.02(h); 

(q)Liens on insurance policies and the proceeds thereof securing the financing of premiums with respect thereto;

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(s)other Liens affecting property with an aggregate fair value not to exceed $10,000,000, provided that no such Lien shall extend to or cover any Collateral; and

(t)Liens on the assets of any Captive Insurance Subsidiary securing obligations under any Reinsurance Contract to which such Captive Insurance Subsidiary is a party.

For the avoidance of doubt, Liens permitted in this Section 7.01 that secure any Indebtedness or other obligation of any other Person (other than Liens permitted under Section 7.01(t)), whether or not such obligation is assumed by such Loan Party or such Subsidiary (or any right, contingent or otherwise, of any such Person holding such obligation to obtain any such Lien) shall only be permitted to the extent that the Guarantee (as determined under clause (b) of the definition of “Guarantee”) would be permitted under Section 7.02.

7.02Indebtedness  

Create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Indebtedness, except:

(a)Indebtedness of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries owed to Holdings or a wholly-owned Subsidiary of Holdings, which Indebtedness shall (i) in the case of Indebtedness owed to a Loan Party, constitute “Pledged Debt” under the Security Agreement, (ii) be subordinated in rights of payment to the Obligations and (iii) be otherwise permitted under the provisions of Section 7.03;

(b)Indebtedness under the Loan Documents;

(c)Indebtedness outstanding on the date hereof and listed on Schedule 7.02; 

(d)Indebtedness issued or incurred (including by means of the extension or renewal of existing Indebtedness) to refinance, refund, extend, defease, discharge, renew or replace Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Sections 7.02(c), (d), (f), (g), (i), (j), (k), (n) and (o) (“Refinanced Indebtedness”); provided that:

(i)the amount of such Refinanced Indebtedness is not increased at the time of such refinancing, refunding, renewal, extension or replacement except by an amount equal to a premium or other amounts paid, penalties and accrued and unpaid interest paid thereon and fees, including any closing fees and original issue discount and expenses reasonably incurred, in connection with such refinancing, refunding, renewal, extension or replacement and by an amount equal to any existing commitments unutilized thereunder, 

(ii)the direct or any contingent obligor with respect to such Refinanced Indebtedness is not changed, as a result of or in connection with such refinancing, refunding, renewal, extension or replacement,

(iii)the terms relating to principal amount, amortization, collateral (if any) and subordination (if any), and other material terms of any such refinancing, refunding, renewing, extending or replacing Indebtedness, and of any agreement entered into and of any instrument issued in connection therewith, are, taken as a whole and determined in good faith by a Responsible Officer of the Lead Borrower to be, no less favorable in any material respect to the Loan Parties or the Lenders than the terms of any agreement or instrument governing the Refinanced Indebtedness and the interest rate applicable to any such refinancing, refunding, renewing, extending or replacing Indebtedness does not exceed the then applicable market interest rate, 

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(iv)such refinancing, refunding, renewing, extending or replacing Indebtedness has a final maturity that is no sooner than, and a weighted average life to maturity that is no shorter than, such Refinanced Indebtedness, and

(v)in the case of Refinanced Indebtedness replacing Permitted Subordinated Debt, the holder must execute a subordination agreement in substantially the same form as any existing subordination agreement;

(e)Guarantees of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries in respect of Indebtedness otherwise permitted hereunder of any Borrower, which Guarantees shall be otherwise permitted by Section 7.03, or in respect of operating leases and similar obligations not constituting Indebtedness;

(f)Purchase Money Indebtedness and Attributable Indebtedness in respect of Capitalized Leases, Synthetic Lease Obligations and purchase money obligations for fixed or capital assets within the limitations set forth in Section 7.01(i); provided, however, that the aggregate amount of all such Indebtedness (other than in respect of Capitalized Leases for real property (if capitalization of such leases arises under GAAP)) at any one time outstanding shall not exceed $20,000,000; 

(g)Indebtedness of any Person that becomes a Subsidiary of Holdings after the date hereof pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition, which Indebtedness is existing at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary of Holdings (other than Indebtedness incurred solely in contemplation of such Person’s becoming a Subsidiary of Holdings); 

(h)obligations (contingent or otherwise) existing or arising under any Swap Contract, provided that (i) such obligations are (or were) entered into by such Person in the ordinary course of business for the purpose of directly mitigating risks associated with fluctuations in interest rates, currency exchange rates or commodity prices and (ii) such Swap Contract does not contain any provision exonerating the non-defaulting party from its obligation to make payments on outstanding transactions to the defaulting party; 

(i)Indebtedness arising from agreements of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries providing for indemnification, hold backs adjustment of purchase price or similar obligations (including earn-outs), non-compete agreements, deferred compensation or similar obligations, or from guaranties or letters of credit, surety bonds or performance bonds, in each case entered into in connection with Permitted Acquisitions, other Investments or Dispositions permitted by this Agreement;

(j)Permitted Subordinated Debt; so long as both immediately prior and after giving effect thereto, (A) no Default shall exist or result therefrom and (B) after giving Pro Forma Effect to such incurrence of Indebtedness, Holdings and its Subsidiaries will be in Pro Forma Compliance with the covenants set forth in Section 7.10;

(k)Indebtedness assumed in connection with any Permitted Acquisition; provided that such Indebtedness is not incurred in contemplation of such Permitted Acquisition and so long as both immediately prior and after giving effect thereto, (A) no Default shall exist or result therefrom and (B) after giving Pro Forma Effect to such assumption of Indebtedness, Holdings and its Subsidiaries will be in Pro Forma Compliance with the covenants set forth in Section 7.10;

(l)Indebtedness consisting of promissory notes issued by any Borrower, Holdings or any Subsidiary of Holdings to current or former officers, managers, consultants, directors and employees (or their respective spouses, former spouses, successors, executors, administrators, heirs, legatees or distributees) to finance the purchase or redemption of Equity Interests of Holdings permitted under Section 7.06(d);

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(m)Indebtedness incurred in the ordinary course of business in respect of,

(i)Cash Management Agreements with Cash Management Banks and in connection with securities and commodities accounts,

(ii)overdraft facilities, employee credit card programs, netting services, automatic clearinghouse arrangements and other cash management and similar arrangements with respect to Foreign Subsidiaries,

(iii)performance bonds, bid bonds, appeal bonds, surety bonds and completion guarantees, return of money and similar obligations not in connection with money borrowed, including those incurred to secure health, safety and environmental obligations, 

(iv)the endorsement of instruments for deposit or the financing of insurance premiums, 

(v)obligations to pay the deferred purchase price of goods or services or progress payments in connection with such goods and services, 

(vi)deferred compensation or similar arrangements to employees of Holdings, any Subsidiary of Holdings or any direct or indirect parent thereof, entered into in the ordinary course of business or in connection with a Permitted Acquisition, and

(vii)obligations to pay insurance premiums (including relating to any financing thereof) or take or pay obligations contained in supply agreements, and obligations in respect of self-insurance;

(n)other unsecured Indebtedness of the Loan Parties; so long as, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such incurrence of Indebtedness, Holdings and its Subsidiaries will be in Pro Forma Compliance with the covenants set forth in Section 7.10; 

(o)other Indebtedness of Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $50,000,000 at any time outstanding; and

(p)to the extent constituting Indebtedness, obligations of a Captive Insurance Subsidiary to a Fronting Insurance Company under a Reinsurance Contract, provided that any such obligations are non-recourse to the Borrowers and the other Loan Parties.

Accrual of interest, the accretion of accreted value, amortization of original issue discount, the payment of interest in the form of additional Indebtedness with the same terms, and increases in the amount of Indebtedness outstanding solely as a result of fluctuations in the exchange rate of currencies shall not be deemed to be an incurrence of Indebtedness for purposes of this Section 7.02.

For purposes of determining compliance with any Dollar-denominated restriction on the incurrence of Indebtedness, the Dollar-denominated equivalent amount of the principal amount of Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency shall be calculated based on the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date such Indebtedness was incurred, in the case of term debt, or first committed or first incurred (whichever yields the lower Dollar-denominated equivalent amount), in the case of revolving credit debt; provided that if such Indebtedness is incurred to refinance other Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency, and such refinancing would cause the applicable Dollar-denominated restriction to be exceeded if calculated at the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date of such refinancing, such Dollar-denominated restriction shall be deemed not to have been exceeded so long as the principal amount of such refinancing Indebtedness does not exceed the principal amount of such Indebtedness being refinanced.

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Guarantees of, or obligations in respect of letters of credit relating to, Indebtedness which is otherwise included in the determination of a particular amount of Indebtedness shall not be included in the determination of such amount of Indebtedness; provided that the incurrence of the Indebtedness represented by such guarantee or letter of credit, as the case may be, was in compliance with this Section 7.02.

7.03Investments  

Make or hold any Investments, except:

(a)Investments held by Holdings and its Subsidiaries in the form of cash or Cash Equivalents and Investments that were cash or Cash Equivalents when made;

(b)Advances to officers, directors and employees of Holdings and its Subsidiaries (other than any Captive Insurance Subsidiary) in an aggregate amount not to exceed $5,000,000 at any time outstanding, for travel, entertainment, relocation and analogous ordinary business purposes;

(c)(i) Investments by Holdings and its Subsidiaries in their respective Subsidiaries outstanding on the date hereof, (ii) additional Investments by Holdings and its Subsidiaries in Loan Parties (other thanincluding Holdings), (iii) additional Investments by Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties in other Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties, (iv) additional Investments by the Loan Parties in wholly-owned Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties in an aggregate amount invested at any one time outstanding not to exceed $30,000,000 and (v) Investments by Holdings and its Subsidiaries in Captive Insurance Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount not to exceed $5,000,000 during the term of this Agreement;

(d)intercompany loans and advances to Holdings; provided that such intercompany loans and advances shall be unsecured and expressly subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations[reserved];

(e)Investments consisting of extensions of customer financing, credit in the nature of accounts receivable or notes receivable arising from the grant of trade credit in the ordinary course of business, and Investments received in satisfaction or partial satisfaction thereof from financially troubled account debtors to the extent reasonably necessary in order to prevent or limit loss;

(f)Investments by any Loan Party in Swap Contracts permitted under Section 7.02;

(g)Investments made as a result of the receipt of non-cash consideration from a Disposition in compliance with Section 7.05;

(h)Guarantees permitted by Section 7.02;

(i)Investments existing on the date hereof (other than those referred to in Section 7.03(c)(i)) and set forth on Schedule 5.08(e);

(j)the purchase or other acquisition (utilizing any combination of cash, Cash Equivalents and the issuance of Qualified Equity Interests) of all of the Equity Interests in, a majority of the Equity Interests in, or all or substantially all of the property of, any Person (or a division or business unit thereof) (the “Target”) that, upon the consummation thereof, will be wholly-owned directly by Holdings or one or more of its wholly-owned Subsidiaries (including as a result of a merger or consolidation) (a “Permitted Acquisition”), including Investments that are acquired in connection with a Permitted Acquisition; provided that, with respect to each purchase or other acquisition made pursuant to this Section 7.03(j):

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(i)any such newly-created or acquired Subsidiary shall comply with the requirements of Section 6.12;

(ii)the lines of business of the Target shall not be substantially different from those lines of business conducted by Holdings and its Subsidiaries on the date hereof or any business substantially related or incidental thereto or a reasonable extension thereof; 

(iii)such purchase or other acquisition shall be non-hostile in nature; 

(iv)(A) immediately before and immediately after giving Pro Forma Effect to any such purchase or other acquisition, no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and (B) immediately after giving effect to such purchase or other acquisition, Holdings and its Subsidiaries shall be in Pro Forma Compliance with all of the covenants set forth in Section 7.10, such compliance to be determined on the basis of the financial information most recently delivered to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b) as though such purchase or other acquisition had been consummated as of the first day of the fiscal period covered thereby (provided, that in the case of a Designated Acquisition, such compliance shall be determined as if the maximum Consolidated Leverage Ratio applicable to such fiscal period was 4.00 : 1.00); and 

(v)the Lead Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent, at least five Business Days (or such later date agreed to by the Administrative Agent) prior to the date on which any such purchase or other acquisition is to be consummated, a certificate of a Responsible Officer, in the form of Exhibit N, certifying that all of the requirements set forth in this clause (j) have been satisfied or will be satisfied on or prior to the consummation of such purchase or other acquisition;

(k)Investments of any Person that becomes a Subsidiary on or after the date hereof; provided that (i) such Investment exists at the time such Person is acquired and (ii) such Investment is not made in anticipation or contemplation of such Person becoming a Subsidiary; 

(l)Investments in the form of loans to officers, directors and employees of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary of a Loan Party for the sole purpose of purchasing Equity Interests (or purchase of such loans made by others) in an amount by Loan Parties other than Holdings not to exceed $2,000,000 at any time outstanding, so long as Holdings makes a capital contribution of the proceeds of any such purchase to the Borrowers, and payroll advances in the ordinary course of business;

(m)Investments made pursuant to a “rabbi trust” or similar employee benefit plan or arrangement designed to defer the taxability of compensation to an employee, officer or director or purchase payments made in connection with a Permitted Acquisition; 

(n)other Investments not exceeding $50,000,000 in the aggregate in any fiscal year of the Lead Borrower, plus the net cash proceeds of all issuance or sales of Holdings or any Borrower’s Equity Interests or contributions to Holdings or any Borrower’s capital that were Not Otherwise Applied; and

(o)Investments by a Captive Insurance Subsidiary in accordance with any investment policy, Laws or any insurance statutes or regulations applicable to it.

7.04Fundamental Changes  

Merge, dissolve, liquidate, consolidate with or into another Person, or Dispose of (whether in one transaction or in a series of transactions) all or substantially all of its assets (whether now owned or hereafter acquired) to or in favor of any Person, except that, so long as no Event of Default exists or would result therefrom:

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(a)any Subsidiary may merge with (i) any Borrower or Holdings, provided that the applicablea Borrower or Holdings, as applicable, shall be the continuing or surviving Person or (ii) any one or more other Subsidiaries, provided that when any Loan Party is merging with any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party, such Loan Party shall be the continuing or surviving Person; 

(b)any Loan Party may Dispose of all or substantially all of its assets (upon voluntary liquidation or otherwise) to the Lead Borrower or to another Loan Party;

(c)any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party may dispose of all or substantially all its assets (including any Disposition that is in the nature of a liquidation) to (i) another Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party or (ii) to a Loan Party; 

(d)in connection with any acquisition permitted under Section 7.03, any Subsidiary of Holdings (subject to clause 7.04(e) below) (other than a Captive Insurance Subsidiary) may merge into or consolidate with any other Person or permit any other Person to merge into or consolidate with it; provided that (i) the Person surviving such merger shall be a wholly-owned Subsidiary of Holdings (unless both parties to such merger were not wholly owned prior to the merger), (ii) in the case of any such merger to which any Loan Party is a party, such Loan Party is the surviving Person and (iii) any Captive Insurance Subsidiary may merge or consolidate with any other Excluded Subsidiary; 

(e)so long as no Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, any Borrower and any of its Subsidiaries (other than a Captive Insurance Subsidiary) may merge into or consolidate with any other Person or permit any other Person to merge into or consolidate with it; provided, however, that in each case, immediately after giving effect thereto (i) in the case of any such merger to which the Lead Borrower is a party, the Lead Borrower is the surviving corporation and (ii) in the case of any such merger to which any Loan Party (other than the Lead Borrower) is a party, such Loan Party is the surviving corporation; and provided, further, that any Captive Insurance Subsidiary may merge or consolidate with any other Excluded Subsidiary;

(f)any merger, dissolution, liquidation, consolidation or Disposition, the purpose of which is to effect a Disposition permitted pursuant to Section 7.05; and

(g)the Loan Parties and their respective Subsidiaries may consummate the 2019 Corporate Restructuring Transactions.

For the avoidance of doubt, the Lead Borrower shall always survive any such merger to which the Lead Borrower is a party.

7.05Dispositions  

Make any Disposition, except:

(a)Dispositions of obsolete or worn out property, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, in the ordinary course of business or property that is no longer useful or economically practicable to maintain;

(b)Dispositions of inventory in the ordinary course of business;

(c)Dispositions consisting of (i) licenses or sublicenses of IP Rights (including non-exclusive licenses of IP Rights) in the ordinary course of business and (ii) the abandonment or other disposition of IP Rights that is, in the reasonable good faith judgment of the Lead Borrower, no longer economically practicable to maintain or useful in the conduct of the business of the Loan Parties taken as a whole;

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(d)Dispositions resulting from (i) takings pursuant to the power of eminent domain, condemnation or otherwise or pursuant to a sale of any such assets to a purchaser with such power under threat of such a taking or (ii) transfer of destroyed property to insurance companies in exchange for insurance proceeds;

(e)liquidations or sales of Cash Equivalents (or investments that were Cash Equivalents when made) for fair market value as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower;

(f)Dispositions of equipment, leases or real property for fair market value as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower, to the extent that (i) such equipment or real property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property, (ii) the proceeds of such Disposition of equipment or real property are reasonably promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property or (iii) such Dispositions of leases of real or personal property are in the ordinary course of business;

(g)the sale or discount by any Loan Party in each case without recourse and in the ordinary course of business of Receivables arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof;

(h)mergers and consolidations consummated in compliance with Section 7.04, and Restricted Payments made in compliance with Section 7.06;

(i)Dispositions of property by Holdings or any Subsidiary to any Loan Party or any Subsidiary; provided that if the transferor of such property is a Loan Party, the transferee thereof must also be a Loan Party; 

(j)Dispositions permitted by Section 7.04;

(k)Dispositions by Holdings and its Subsidiaries of the properties listed on Schedule 7.05 pursuant to sale-leaseback transactions for fair market value, provided that the Attributable Indebtedness incurred thereby is permitted under Section 7.02 and the Net Cash Proceeds of such Dispositions are applied as set forth in clauses (v) and (viii) of Section 2.05(b), subject to the reinvestment provisions of clause (i) of Section 2.05(b);

(l)Dispositions by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries not otherwise permitted under this Section 7.05; provided that (i) at the time of such Disposition, no Default shall exist or would result from such Disposition, (ii) such Disposition is at fair market value as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower and (iii) at least 75% of the purchase price for such asset shall be paid to Holdings or such Subsidiary solely in cash or Cash Equivalents; provided that, for purposes of this provision, each of the following will be deemed to be cash: (x) any liabilities of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary that are assumed by the transferee of any such assets pursuant to a customary novation agreement that releases such Loan Party or such Subsidiary from further liability, (y) any securities, notes or other obligations received by any Loan Party or any Subsidiary from such transferee that are contemporaneously, subject to ordinary settlement periods, converted by any Loan Party or any Subsidiary into cash, to the extent of the cash received in that conversion and (z) Designated Non-Cash Consideration with an aggregate fair market value (determined at the time of receipt thereof) not exceeding $5,000,000 at any time outstanding; provided, further, that the Net Cash Proceeds of such Disposition shall be applied pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(i); 

(m)so long as no Default shall occur and be continuing, the grant of any option or other right to purchase any asset in a transaction that would be permitted under the provisions of Section 7.05(l); 

(n)the Loan Parties and their respective Subsidiaries may consummate the 2019 Corporate Restructuring Transactions; 

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(o)Dispositions which are necessary to obtain approval from a competition regulator in connection with undertaking a Permitted Acquisition; and

(p)Dispositions constituting the surrender or waiver of contractual rights, or the settlement or waiver of contractual or litigation claims, in each case, in the ordinary course of business or otherwise if the Lead Borrower determines in good faith that such action is in the best interests of Holdings and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole; and

(q)Dispositions of non-core assets acquired in connection with a Permitted Acquisition or other Investment made (or contractually committed to be made) within one (1) calendar year of the consummation of such Permitted Acquisition or other Investment; provided that the book value of such assets disposed of in reliance on this clause (q) shall not, with respect to any particular Permitted Acquisition or other Investment, exceed 25% of the book value of all assets acquired in connection with such Permitted Acquisition or other Investment.

Each of the Loan Parties covenants and agrees that it will do all acts and things and execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, all documents and instruments that the Administrative Agent may reasonably request to ensure that the Administrative Agent’s Lien on any property transferred among Loan Parties pursuant to this Section 7.05 is perfected as against the transferee with the same priority as the Administrative Agent’s Lien on such property when held by the transferor. To the extent the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 7.05, with respect to the Disposition of any Collateral, or any Collateral is Disposed of as permitted by this Section 7.05, such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Collateral Documents, and the Administrative Agent shall take all actions it deems appropriate or are reasonably requested by the Lead Borrower, at the sole expense of the Borrowers, in order to effect the foregoing.

7.06Restricted Payments  

Declare or make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment, or incur any obligation (contingent or otherwise) to do so, except that:

(a)(i) each Subsidiary may make Restricted Payments to any Loan Party and any other Person that owns a direct Equity Interest in such Subsidiary, ratably according to their respective holdings of the type of Equity Interest in respect of which such Restricted Payment is being made and (ii) any Loan Party may make Restricted Payments to any other Loan Party;

(b)Holdings, each Borrower and each Subsidiary may declare and make dividend payments or other distributions payable solely in the Qualified Equity Interests of such Person;

(c)Holdings, each Borrower and each Subsidiary may purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire its Equity Interests with the net cash proceeds received from the substantially concurrent issue of new Qualified Equity Interests which are Not Otherwise Applied; 

(d)so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, any BorrowerLoan Party may make Restricted Payments to Holdings to enable Holdings to redeem or repurchase Equity Interests from officers, directors, employees or consultants of any Loan Party (or their Related Parties) in connection with the exercise of stock options, stock appreciation rights or other equity incentives or equity based incentives pursuant to management incentive plans or in connection with the death or disability of such officers, directors, employees or consultants (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any principal and interest payable on notes issued under Section 7.02(k)); provided that in all such cases the aggregate amount paid in respect of all such shares so redeemed or repurchased does not exceed $2,000,000 in 

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the aggregate in any fiscal year (with unused amounts in any fiscal year rolled over to the succeeding fiscal years);

(e)Holdings, each Borrower and each Subsidiary may make repurchases of Equity Interests deemed to occur upon the exercise of stock options if such Equity Interests represent a portion of the exercise price thereof;

(f)Holdings, each Borrower and each Subsidiary may make payments on convertible debt permitted hereunder to the extent such payments are either made with Qualified Equity Interests (or the net cash proceeds of an issuance of Qualified Equity Interests which are Not Otherwise Applied) or would otherwise be permitted by Section 7.13; 

(g)any Borrower (including Holdings) may declare and pay cash dividends to Holdings (or a direct or indirect parent of Holdings)thereof in an amount necessary to permit Holdings (or such parent) to pay:

(i)reasonable corporate and operating expenses (including reasonable out-of-pocket expenses for legal, administrative and accounting services provided by third parties, and compensation, benefits and other amounts payable to officers and employees in connection with their employment in the ordinary course of business and to board of director observers); 

(ii)franchise fees or similar taxes and fees required to maintain its corporate existence; and 

(iii)its (and its Subsidiaries’) proportionate share of the tax liability of the affiliated group of corporations that file consolidated foreign or Federal income tax returns (or that file state and local income tax returns on a consolidated basis); and

(h)Holdings, each Borrower and each Subsidiary may make repurchases of their Equity Interests so long as (A) immediately before and immediately after giving Pro Forma Effect to any such repurchase, no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and (B) immediately after giving effect to such repurchase, (x) Holdings and its Subsidiaries shall be in Pro Forma Compliance with all of the covenants set forth in Section 7.10, such compliance to be determined on the basis of the financial information most recently delivered to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b) as though such repurchase had been consummated as of the first day of the fiscal period covered thereby and (y) the Consolidated Leverage Ratio for the twelve month period ended as of the end of the most recent fiscal quarter for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b) shall be no more than (i) 3.25 : 1.00 or (ii) 3.75 : 1.00, for the four consecutive quarters following a Designated Acquisition.

7.07Change in Nature of Business  

Engage in any material line of business substantially different from those lines of business conducted by Holdings and its Subsidiaries on the date hereof or any business substantially related or incidental thereto or a reasonable extension thereof.

7.08Transactions with Affiliates  

Enter into any transaction of any kind with any Affiliate of any Borrower, whether or not in the ordinary course of business, other than on terms at least as favorable (taken as a whole) to such Borrower or such Subsidiary as would be obtainable by such Borrower or such Subsidiary at the time in a comparable arm’s length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate; provided that the foregoing restriction shall not apply to (i) transactions between or among the Loan Parties or between or among Subsidiaries of Holdings or the Loan Parties, (ii) director, officer and employee compensation (including bonuses) and other benefits (including 

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retirement, health, stock option and other benefit plans) and indemnification arrangements, in each case approved by the Board of Directors of the applicable Loan Party, (iii) any issuance of securities, or other payments, awards or grants in cash, securities or otherwise pursuant to, or the funding of, employment arrangements, stock options, stock ownership plans, including restricted stock plans, stock grants, directed share programs and other equity based plans and the granting and stockholder rights of registration rights approved by the Board of Directors of the Lead Borrower, (iv) the Loan Parties may enter into any indemnification agreement or any similar arrangement with directors, officers, consultants and employees of the Loan Parties in the ordinary course of business and may pay fees and indemnities to directors, officers, consultants and employees of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business, (v) (a) any purchase by Holdings of Equity Interests of any other Borrower or any contribution by Holdings to the equity capital of any other Borrower and (b) any acquisition of Equity Interests of Holdings and any contribution by any equity holder of Holdings to the equity capital of Holdings, (vii) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 7.06 and Investments permitted by Section 7.03, (viii) transactions pursuant to agreements disclosed to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the Third Restatement Date and (ix) the incurrence of intercompany Indebtedness permitted by Section 7.02.

7.09Use of Proceeds  

Use the proceeds of any Credit Extension, whether directly or indirectly, and whether immediately, incidentally or ultimately, to purchase or carry margin stock or any margin security (within the meanings of Regulation U and Regulation T, respectively, of the FRB) or to extend credit to others for the purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stock or to refund indebtedness originally incurred for such purpose.

7.10Financial Covenants  

Commencing with the Measurement Period ending December 31, 2019:

(a)[Reserved]:

(b)Consolidated Leverage Ratio.  Permit the Consolidated Leverage Ratio as at the end of any Measurement Period to be greater than (i) 3.50 : 1.00, or (ii) 4.00 : 1.00 at the Borrowers’ option for the four (4) consecutive quarters following a Designated Acquisition; provided, that this clause (ii) may not be exercised more than two (2) times.

(c)Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio.  Permit the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio as at the end of any Measurement Period to be less than 1.50 : 1.00.

7.11Amendments of Organization Documents  

Amend any of its Organization Documents in any material respect, in a manner that is adverse to the rights or remedies of the Administrative Agent or the Lenders in respect of the Loan Documents (whether at law, in equity or otherwise), without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent (not to be unreasonably withheld).

7.12Accounting Changes  

Make any change in (a) accounting policies or reporting practices, except as required by GAAP, or (b) fiscal year.

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7.13Prepayments, Amendments, Etc. of Permitted Subordinated Indebtedness  

(a)Prepay, redeem, purchase, defease or otherwise satisfy prior to the scheduled maturity thereof in any manner, or make any payment in violation of any subordination terms of, any Permitted Subordinated Indebtedness, except (i) intercompany Indebtedness permitted under Section 7.02(a) and (ii) the conversion of any Indebtedness subordinated to the Obligations to Qualified Equity Interests of Holdings.

(b)Amend, modify or change in any manner any term or condition of any Permitted Subordinated Indebtedness in a manner that is adverse in any material respect to the interests of the Lenders, except for (i) intercompany Indebtedness permitted under Section 7.02(a) and (ii) any refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension thereof permitted by Section 7.02(d).

7.14Sanctions  

Directly or indirectly, use the proceeds of any Credit Extension, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any Person, to fund any activities of or business with any Person, or in any Designated Jurisdiction, that, at the time of such funding, is the subject of Sanctions, or in any other manner that will result in a violation by any Person  (including any Person participating in the transaction, whether as Lender, Arrangers, Administrative Agent, L/C Issuer, Swing Line Lender, or otherwise), the Loan Parties or their Subsidiaries of Sanctions.

7.15Anti-Corruption Laws  

Directly or indirectly use the proceeds of any Credit Extension for any purpose which would breach the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, the UK Bribery Act 2010, and other similar anti-corruption legislation in other jurisdictions in which the Loan Parties or their Subsidiaries are operating, organized or resident.

7.16Captive Insurance Subsidiary. 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, no Captive Insurance Subsidiary shall engage in any material activities other than activities which are consistent with, or related to, the business of serving as a captive insurance company to provide insurance or facilitate the procurement of insurance by Holdings and its Subsidiaries.    

ARTICLE VIII.
EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES

8.01Events of Default  

Any of the following shall constitute an Event of Default:

(a)Non-Payment.  Any Borrower or any other Loan Party fails to (i) pay when and as required to be paid herein, any amount of principal of any Loan or any L/C Obligation or deposit any funds as Cash Collateral in respect of L/C Obligations, or (ii) pay within three Business Days after the same becomes due, any interest on any Loan or on any L/C Obligation, or any fee or other amount due hereunder or under any other Loan Document,; or

(b)Specific Covenants.  (i) Any Borrower or Guarantor, as applicable, fails to perform or observe any term, covenant or agreement contained in any of Section 6.01, 6.02, 6.03, 6.05, 6.10, 6.11, 6.12, 6.15 or 

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Article VII; or (ii) any Guarantor fails to perform or observe any term, covenant or agreement contained in the Guaranty; or

(c)Other Defaults.  Any Loan Party fails to perform or observe any other covenant or agreement (not specified in Section 8.01(a) or (b) above) contained in any Loan Document on its part to be performed or observed and such default shall not have been remedied or waived for 30 days after the earlier of (i) the date an officer of such Loan Party becomes aware or should have become aware of such default or (ii) receipt by the Lead Borrower of notice from the Administrative Agent or Required Lenders of such default; or

(d)Representations and Warranties.  Any representation, warranty, certification or statement of fact made or deemed made by or on behalf of any Borrower or any other Loan Party herein, in any other Loan Document, or in any document delivered in connection herewith or therewith shall be incorrect or misleading in any material respect when made or deemed made; or

(e)Cross-Default.  (i) Any Loan Party or any Subsidiary (other than any Immaterial Subsidiary) thereof (A) fails to make any payment when due (whether by scheduled maturity, required prepayment, acceleration, demand, or otherwise) in respect of any Indebtedness or Guarantee (other than Indebtedness hereunder and Indebtedness under Swap Contracts) having an aggregate outstanding principal amount of more than the Threshold Amount, in each case beyond the grace period, if any, provided therefor or (B) fails to observe or perform any other agreement or condition relating to any such Indebtedness or Guarantee (other than Indebtedness hereunder and Indebtedness under Swap Contracts) having an aggregate outstanding principal amount of more than the Threshold Amount or contained in any instrument or agreement evidencing, securing or relating thereto, in each case beyond the grace period, if any, provided therefore, the effect of which default is to cause, or to permit the holder or holders of such Indebtedness or the beneficiary or beneficiaries of such Guarantee (or a trustee or agent on behalf of such holder or holders or beneficiary or beneficiaries) to cause, with the giving of notice if required, such Indebtedness to be demanded or to become due or to be repurchased, prepaid, defeased or redeemed (automatically or otherwise), or an offer to repurchase, prepay, defease or redeem such Indebtedness to be made, prior to its stated maturity, or such Guarantee to become payable or cash collateral in respect thereof to be demanded; or (ii) there occurs under any Swap Contract an Early Termination Date (as defined in such Swap Contract) resulting from (A) any event of default under such Swap Contract as to which a Loan Party or any Subsidiary (other than any Immaterial Subsidiary) thereof is the Defaulting Party (as defined in such Swap Contract) or (B) any Termination Event (as so defined) under such Swap Contract as to which a Loan Party or any Subsidiary (other than any Immaterial Subsidiary) thereof is an Affected Party (as so defined) and, in either event, the Swap Termination Value owed by such Loan Party or such Subsidiary as a result thereof is greater than the Threshold Amount; or

(f)Insolvency Proceedings, Etc.  Any Loan Party or any Subsidiary (other than any Immaterial Subsidiary) thereof institutes or consents to the institution of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, or makes an assignment for the benefit of creditors; or applies for or consents to the appointment of any receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator, liquidator, rehabilitator or similar officer for it or for all or any material part of its property; or any receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator, liquidator, rehabilitator or similar officer is appointed without the application or consent of such Person and the appointment continues undischarged or unstayed for 60 calendar days; or any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law relating to any such Person or to all or any material part of its property is instituted without the consent of such Person and continues undismissed or unstayed for 60 calendar days, or an order for relief is entered in any such proceeding; or

(g)Inability to Pay Debts; Attachment.  (i) Any Loan Party or any Subsidiary (other than any Immaterial Subsidiary) thereof admits in writing its inability or fails generally to pay its debts as they become due, or (ii) any writ or warrant of attachment or execution or similar process is issued or levied against all or 

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any material part of the property of any such Person and is not released, vacated or fully bonded within 60 days after its issue or levy; or

(h)Judgments.  There is entered against any Loan Party or any Subsidiary (other than any Immaterial Subsidiary) thereof (i) one or more final judgments or orders for the payment of money in an aggregate amount (as to all such judgments and orders) exceeding the Threshold Amount (to the extent not covered by independent third-party insurance as to which the insurer is rated at least “A” by A.M. Best Company, has been notified of the potential claim and has not disputed coverage), and such judgment shall remain unpaid, undischarged, unvacated, unbonded or unstayed pending appeal for a period of sixty consecutive days or (ii) any one or more non-monetary final judgments that have, or would reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect and enforcement proceedings are commenced by any creditor upon such judgment or order; or 

(i)ERISA.  (i) An ERISA Event occurs with respect to a Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan which has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in liability of any Borrower under Title IV of ERISA to the Pension Plan, Multiemployer Plan or the PBGC in an aggregate amount in excess of the Threshold Amount, or (ii) any Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate fails to pay when due, after the expiration of any applicable grace period, any installment payment with respect to its withdrawal liability under Section 4201 of ERISA under a Multiemployer Plan in an aggregate amount in excess of the Threshold Amount; or

(j)Invalidity of Loan Documents.  (a) Any material provision of any Loan Document, at any time after its execution and delivery and for any reason other than as expressly permitted hereunder or thereunder or satisfaction in full of all the Obligations (other than (A) contingent indemnification obligations as to which no claim has been made and (B) obligations and liabilities under Secured Cash Management Agreements and Secured Hedge Agreements), ceases to be in full force and effect; or any Loan Party or any other Person contests in any manner the validity or enforceability of any provision of any Loan Document; or any Loan Party denies that it has any or further liability or obligation under any provision of any Loan Document, or purports to revoke, terminate or rescind any provision of any Loan Document or (b) (i) any of the Obligations of the Loan Parties under the Loan Documents for any reason shall cease to be “Senior Debt” (or any comparable term) or “Senior Secured Financing” (or any comparable term) under and as defined in the documentation relating to any Permitted Subordinated Debt or (ii) the subordination provisions set forth in the documentation relating to any Permitted Subordinated Debt shall, in whole or in part, cease to be effective or cease to be legally valid, binding and enforceable against the holders of any such Permitted Subordinated Debt, if applicable; or

(k)Change of Control.  There occurs any Change of Control; or

(l)Collateral Documents.  Any Collateral Document after delivery thereof shall for any reason (other than pursuant to the terms thereof) cease to create a valid and perfected first priority Lien (subject to Liens permitted by Section 7.01) on a material portion of the Collateral purported to be covered thereby; or

8.02Remedies upon Event of Default  

If (x) any Event of Default described in Section 8.01(f) occurs and is continuing, automatically, and (y) any other Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Administrative Agent shall, at the request of, or may, with the consent of, the Required Lenders, take any or all of the following actions:

(a)upon written notice to the Lead Borrower by the Administrative Agent, declare the commitment of each Lender to make Loans and any obligation of the L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions to be terminated, whereupon such commitments and obligation shall be terminated; 

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(b)upon written notice to the Lead Borrower by the Administrative Agent, declare the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Loans, all interest accrued and unpaid thereon, and all other amounts owing or payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document to be immediately due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the Borrowers; 

(c)upon written notice to the Lead Borrower by the Administrative Agent, require that the Borrowers Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations (in an amount equal to the then Outstanding Amount thereof); and

(d)exercise on behalf of itself, the Lenders and the L/C Issuer all rights and remedies available to it, the Lenders and the L/C Issuer under the Loan Documents;

provided, however, that upon the occurrence of event described in Section 8.01(f), the obligation of each Lender to make Loans and any obligation of the L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions shall automatically terminate, the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Loans and all interest and other amounts as aforesaid shall automatically become due and payable, and the obligation of the Borrowers to Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations as aforesaid shall automatically become effective, in each case without further act of the Administrative Agent or any Lender, in addition to remedies available under applicable Law, the remedies set forth above and in the Collateral Documents.

8.03Application of Funds  

After the exercise of remedies provided for in Section 8.02 (or after the Loans have automatically become immediately due and payable and the L/C Obligations have automatically been required to be Cash Collateralized as set forth in the proviso to Section 8.02), any amounts received on account of the Obligations shall, subject to the provisions of Sections 2.17 and 2.18, be applied by the Administrative Agent in the following order:

First, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting fees, indemnities, expenses and other amounts (including fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the Administrative Agent and amounts payable under Article III) payable to the Administrative Agent in its capacity as such;

Second, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting fees, indemnities and other amounts (other than principal, interest and Letter of Credit Fees) payable to the Lenders and the L/C Issuer (including fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the respective Lenders and the L/C Issuer (including fees and time charges for attorneys who may be employees of any Lender or the L/C Issuer) arising under the Loan Documents and amounts payable under Article III, ratably among them in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Second payable to them;

Third, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting accrued and unpaid Letter of Credit Fees and interest on the Loans, L/C Borrowings and other Obligations arising under the Loan Documents, ratably among the Lenders and the L/C Issuer in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Third payable to them;

Fourth, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting unpaid principal of the Loans, L/C Borrowings and Obligations then owing under Secured Hedge Agreements and Secured Cash Management Agreements, ratably among the Lenders, the L/C Issuer, the Hedge Banks and the Cash Management Banks in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Fourth held by them;

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Fifth, to the Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C Issuer, to Cash Collateralize that portion of L/C Obligations comprised of the aggregate undrawn amount of Letters of Credit, to the extent not otherwise Cash Collateralized by the Borrowers pursuant to Sections 2.03 and 2.17; and

Last, the balance, if any, after all of the Obligations have been indefeasibly paid in full, to the Borrowers or as otherwise required by Law.

Subject to Section 2.03(c) and Section 2.17, amounts used to Cash Collateralize the aggregate undrawn amount of Letters of Credit pursuant to clause Fifth above shall be applied to satisfy drawings under such Letters of Credit as they occur.  If any amount remains on deposit as Cash Collateral after all Letters of Credit have either been fully drawn or expired, such remaining amount shall be applied to the other Obligations, if any, in the order set forth above.  Excluded Swap Obligations with respect to any Loan Party shall not be paid with amounts received from such Loan Party or its assets, but appropriate adjustments shall be made with respect to payments from other Loan Parties to preserve the allocation to Secured Obligations otherwise set forth above in this Section.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, Obligations arising under Secured Cash Management Agreements and Secured Hedge Agreements shall be excluded from the application described above if the Administrative Agent has not received written notice thereof, together with such supporting documentation as the Administrative Agent may request, from the applicable Cash Management Bank or Hedge Bank, as the case may be.  Each Cash Management Bank or Hedge Bank not a party to the Credit Agreement that has given the notice contemplated by the preceding sentence shall, by such notice, be deemed to have acknowledged and accepted the appointment of the Administrative Agent pursuant to the terms of Article IX hereof for itself and its Affiliates as if a “Lender” party hereto.

ARTICLE IX.
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT

9.01Appointment and Authority  

(a)Appointment.  Each of the Lenders and the L/C Issuer hereby irrevocably appoints, designates and authorizes Bank of America to act on its behalf as the Administrative Agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such actions on its behalf and to exercise such powers as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof or thereof, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto.  The provisions of this Article are solely for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the L/C Issuer, and neither any Borrower nor any other Loan Party shall have rights as a third party beneficiary of any of such provisions.  It is understood and agreed that the use of the term “agent” herein or in any other Loan Documents (or any other similar term) with reference to the Administrative Agent is not intended to connote any fiduciary or other implied (or express) obligations arising 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.  In addition, to the extent required under the laws of any jurisdiction other than the United States of America, each of the Lenders and Secured Parties hereby grants to the Administrative Agent any required powers of attorney to execute any Collateral Document or other Loan Document governed by the laws of such jurisdiction on such Lender’s or Secured Party’s behalf.  

(b)Collateral Agent.  The Administrative Agent shall also act as the “collateral agent” under the Loan Documents, and each of the Lenders (including in its capacities as a potential Hedge Bank and a potential Cash Management Bank) and the L/C Issuer hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent to act as the agent of such Lender and the L/C Issuer for purposes of acquiring, holding and enforcing any and all Liens on Collateral granted by any of the Loan Parties to secure any of the Obligations, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto.  In this connection, the Administrative 

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Agent, as “collateral agent” and any co-agents, sub-agents and attorneys-in-fact appointed by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 9.05 for purposes of holding or enforcing any Lien on the Collateral (or any portion thereof) granted under the Collateral Documents, or for exercising any rights and remedies thereunder at the direction of the Administrative Agent), shall be entitled to the benefits of all provisions of this Article IX and Article XI (including Section 11.04(c), as though such co-agents, sub-agents and attorneys-in-fact were the “collateral agent” under the Loan Documents) as if set forth in full herein with respect thereto.

9.02Rights as a Lender  

The Person serving as the Administrative Agent hereunder shall have the same rights and powers in its capacity as a Lender as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not the Administrative Agent and the term “Lender” or “Lenders” shall, unless otherwise expressly indicated or unless the context otherwise requires, include the Person serving as the Administrative Agent hereunder in its individual capacity.  Such Person and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to, own securities of, act as the financial advisor or in any other advisory capacity for and generally engage in any kind of banking, trust, financial, advisory, underwriting or other business with any Borrower or any Subsidiary or other Affiliate thereof as if such Person were not the Administrative Agent hereunder and without any duty to account therefor to the Lenders or to provide notice to or consent of the Lenders with respect thereto.

9.03Exculpatory Provisions  

The Administrative Agent or the Arrangers, as applicable, 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 Administrative Agent or the Arrangers, as applicable, and their Related Parties:

(a)shall not be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of whether a Default has occurred and is continuing;

(b)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 Administrative Agent is required to exercise as directed in writing by the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be expressly provided for herein or in the other Loan Documents), provided that the Administrative Agent shall not be required to take any action that, in its opinion or the opinion of its counsel, may expose the Administrative 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 any Debtor Relief Law or that may effect a forfeiture, modification or termination of property of a Defaulting Lender in violation of any Debtor Relief Law; and

(c)shall not have any duty or responsibility to disclose, and shall not be liable for the failure to disclose, to any Lender or the L/C Issuer, any credit or other information concerning the business, prospects, operations, property, financial and other condition or creditworthiness of any of the Loan Parties or any of their Affiliates, that is communicated to, obtained or in the possession of, the Administrative Agent, any Arranger or any of their Related Parties in any capacity, except for notices, reports and other documents expressly required to be furnished to the Lenders by the Administrative Agent herein.

(d)shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by the Administrative Agent under or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby (i) with the consent or at the request of the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary, or as the Administrative Agent shall believe in good faith shall be necessary, under the circumstances as provided in Sections 11.01 and 8.02) or (ii) in the absence of its own gross negligence, bad 

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faith or willful misconduct as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment.  The Administrative Agent shall be deemed not to have knowledge of any Default unless and until notice describing such Default is given in writing to the Administrative Agent by a Borrower, a Lender or the L/C Issuer.

(e)shall not be responsible for or have any duty or any obligation to any Lender or participant or any other Person to ascertain or inquire into (i) any statement, warranty or representation made in or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (ii) the contents of any certificate, report or other document delivered hereunder or thereunder or in connection herewith or therewith, (iii) the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth herein or therein or the occurrence of any Default, (iv) the validity, enforceability, effectiveness or genuineness of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other agreement, instrument or document, or the creation, perfection or priority of any Lien purported to be created by the Collateral Documents, (v) the value or the sufficiency of any Collateral, or (v) the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Article IV or elsewhere herein, other than to confirm receipt of items expressly required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent.

9.04Reliance by Administrative Agent  

The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely upon, and shall be fully protected in relying and shall not incur any liability for relying upon, any notice, request, certificate, communication, 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 Administrative 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 be fully protected in relying and shall not incur any liability for relying thereon.  In determining compliance with any condition hereunder to the making of a Loan, or the issuance, extension, renewal or increase of a Letter of Credit, that by its terms must be fulfilled to the satisfaction of a Lender or the L/C Issuer, the Administrative Agent may presume that such condition is satisfactory to such Lender or the L/C Issuer unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice to the contrary from such Lender or the L/C Issuer prior to the making of such Loan or the issuance of such Letter of Credit.  The Administrative Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be counsel for the Borrower), independent accountants and other experts selected by it, and shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it in accordance with the advice of any such counsel, accountants or experts.  For purposes of determining compliance with the conditions specified in Section 4.01, each Lender that has signed this Agreement shall be deemed to have consented to, approved or accepted or to be satisfied with, each document or other matter required thereunder to be consented to or approved by or acceptable or satisfactory to a Lender unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from such Lender prior to the proposed Third Restatement Date specifying its objections.

9.05Delegation of Duties  

The Administrative 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 Administrative Agent, provided, that any such sub-agent receiving payments from the U.S. Loan Parties shall be a “U.S. Person” and a “financial institution” within the meaning of Treasury Regulations section 1.1441-1.  The Administrative 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 Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent, and shall apply to their respective activities in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein as well as activities as Administrative Agent.  The Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any sub-agents except to the extent that a court of competent jurisdiction determines in a final and 

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nonappealable judgment that the Administrative Agent acted with gross negligence or willful misconduct in the selection of such sub-agents.

9.06Resignation of Administrative Agent  

(a)Notice.  The Administrative Agent may at any time give notice of its resignation to the Lenders, the L/C Issuer and the Lead Borrower.  Upon receipt of any such notice of resignation, the Required Lenders shall have the right, in consultation with the Borrowers, to appoint a successor, which shall be a bank with an office in the United States, or an Affiliate of any such bank with an office in the United States, provided, that any such successor receiving payments from the U.S. Loan Parties shall be a “U.S. Person” and a “financial institution” within the meaning of Treasury Regulations section 1.1441-1; provided that any such appointment shall require the consent of the Lead Borrower (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) unless an Event of Default under Section 8.01(a), (f) or (g) has occurred and is continuing at the time of such appointment.  If no such successor shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders and (to the extent required) consented to by the Lead Borrower and shall have accepted such appointment within thirty (30) days after the retiring Administrative Agent gives notice of its resignation (or such earlier day as shall be agreed by the Required Lenders) (the “Resignation Effective Date”), then the retiring Administrative Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) on behalf of the Lenders and the L/C Issuer, appoint a successor Administrative Agent meeting the qualifications set forth above; provided that in no event shall any successor Administrative Agent be a Defaulting Lender; provided that any such appointment shall require the consent of the Lead Borrower (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) unless an Event of Default under Section 8.01(a), (f) or (g) has occurred and is continuing at the time of such appointment.  Whether or not a successor has been appointed, such resignation shall become effective in accordance with such notice on the Resignation Effective Date.  

(b)Defaulting Lender.  If the Person serving as Administrative Agent is a Defaulting Lender pursuant to clause (d) of the definition thereof, the Required Lenders may, to the extent permitted by applicable Law, by notice in writing to the Borrower and such Person remove such Person as Administrative Agent and, appoint a successor; provided that any such appointment shall require the consent of the Lead Borrower (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) unless an Event of Default under Section 8.01(a), (f) or (g) has occurred and is continuing at the time of such appointment. If no such successor shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders and (to the extent required) consented to by the Lead Borrower and shall have accepted such appointment within thirty (30) days (or such earlier day as shall be agreed by the Required Lenders) (the “Removal Effective Date”), then such removal shall nonetheless become effective in accordance with such notice on the Removal Effective Date.

(c)With effect from the Resignation Effective Date or the Removal Effective Date (as applicable) (i) the retiring or removed Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents (except that in the case of any collateral security held by the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders or the L/C Issuer under any of the Loan Documents, the retiring or removed Administrative Agent shall continue to hold such collateral security until such time as a successor Administrative Agent is appointed) and (ii) all payments, communications and determinations provided to be made by, to or through the Administrative Agent shall instead be made by or to each Lender and the L/C Issuer directly, until such time as the Required Lenders appoint a successor Administrative Agent with the consent (to the extent required) of the Lead Borrower as provided for above in this Section.  Upon the acceptance of a successor’s appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder, such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring (or retired or removed) Administrative Agent (other than as provided in Section 3.01(g) and other than any rights to indemnity payments or other amounts owed to the retiring or removed Administrative Agent as of the Resignation Effective Date or the Removal Effective Date, as applicable), and the retiring or removed Administrative Agent shall be discharged from all 

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of its duties and obligations hereunder or under the other Loan Documents (if not already discharged therefrom as provided above in this Section).  The fees payable by the Borrowers to a successor Administrative Agent shall be the same as those payable to its predecessor unless otherwise agreed between the Borrowers and such successor.  After the retiring or removed Administrative Agent’s resignation or removal hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, the provisions of this Article and Section 11.04 shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring or removed Administrative Agent, its sub-agents and their respective Related Parties in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them (i) while the retiring or removed Administrative Agent was acting as Administrative Agent and (ii) after such resignation or removal for as long as any of them continues to act in any capacity hereunder or under the other Loan Documents, including, without limitation, (A) acting as collateral agent or otherwise holding any collateral security on behalf of any of the Secured Parties and (B) in respect of any actions taken in connection with transferring the agency to any successor Administrative Agent.

(d)L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender.  Any resignation or removal by Bank of America as Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section shall also constitute its resignation as L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender.  If Bank of America resigns as an L/C Issuer, it shall retain all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the L/C Issuer hereunder with respect to all Letters of Credit outstanding as of the effective date of its resignation as L/C Issuer and all L/C Obligations with respect thereto, including the right to require the Lenders to make Base Rate Loans or fund risk participations in Unreimbursed Amounts pursuant to Section 2.03(c).  If Bank of America resigns as Swing Line Lender, it shall retain all the rights of the Swing Line Lender provided for hereunder with respect to Swing Line Loans made by it and outstanding as of the effective date of such resignation, including the right to require the Lenders to make Base Rate Loans or fund risk participations in outstanding Swing Line Loans pursuant to Section 2.04(c).  Upon the appointment by the Borrower of a successor L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender hereunder (which successor shall in all cases be a Lender other than a Defaulting Lender),  (i) such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender, (ii) the retiring L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender shall be discharged from all of their respective duties and obligations hereunder or under the other Loan Documents, and (iii) the successor L/C Issuer shall issue letters of credit in substitution for the Letters of Credit, if any, outstanding at the time of such succession or make other arrangements satisfactory to the retiring L/C Issuer to effectively assume the obligations of the retiring L/C Issuer with respect to such Letters of Credit.

9.07Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent and Other Lenders  

Each Lender and the L/C Issuer expressly acknowledges that none of the Administrative Agent nor the Arranger has made any representation or warranty to it, and that no act by the Administrative Agent or the Arranger hereafter taken, including any consent to, and acceptance of any assignment or review of the affairs of any Loan Party of any Affiliate thereof, shall be deemed to constitute any representation or warranty by the Administrative Agent or the Arranger to any Lender or the L/C Issuer as to any matter, including whether the Administrative Agent or the Arranger have disclosed material information in their (or their Related Parties’) possession.  Each Lender and the L/C Issuer represents to the Administrative Agent and the Arranger that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, the Arranger, any other Lender or any of their Related Parties and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis of, appraisal of, and investigation into, the business, prospects, operations, property, financial and other condition and creditworthiness of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries, and all applicable bank or other regulatory Laws relating to the transactions contemplated hereby, and made its own decision to enter into this Agreement and to extend credit to the Borrowers hereunder.  Each Lender and the L/C Issuer also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, the Arranger, any other Lender or any of their Related Parties and based on such documents and information as it shall from time to time deem appropriate, continue to make its own credit analysis, appraisals and decisions in taking or not taking action under or based upon this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any related agreement or any document furnished 

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hereunder or thereunder, and to make such investigations as it deems necessary to inform itself as to the business, prospects, operations, property, financial and other condition and creditworthiness of the Loan Parties.  Each Lender and the L/C Issuer represents and warrants that (i) the Loan Documents set forth the terms of a commercial lending facility and (ii) it is engaged in making, acquiring or holding commercial loans in the ordinary course and is entering into this Agreement as a Lender or L/C Issuer for the purpose of making, acquiring or holding commercial loans and providing other facilities set forth herein as may be applicable to such Lender or L/C Issuer, and not for the purpose of purchasing, acquiring or holding any other type of financial instrument, and each Lender and the L/C Issuer agrees not to assert a claim in contravention of the foregoing. Each Lender and the L/C Issuer represents and warrants that it is sophisticated with respect to decisions to make, acquire and/or hold commercial loans and to provide other facilities set forth herein, as may be applicable to such Lender or such L/C Issuer, and either it, or the Person exercising discretion in making its decision to make, acquire and/or hold such commercial loans or to provide such other facilities, is experienced in making, acquiring or holding such commercial loans or providing such other facilities.

9.08No Other Duties, Etc.  

Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, none of the Syndication Agent, Documentation Agent, the Book Manager, or Arrangers listed on the cover page hereof shall have any powers, duties or responsibilities under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, except in its capacity, as applicable, as the Administrative Agent, a Lender or the L/C Issuer hereunder.

9.09Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim  

In case of the pendency of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law or any other judicial proceeding relative to any Loan Party, the Administrative Agent (irrespective of whether the principal of any Loan or L/C Obligation shall then be due and payable as herein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Administrative Agent shall have made any demand on the Borrowers) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise.

(a)to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of the principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Loans, L/C Obligations and all other Obligations that are owing and unpaid and to file such other documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Lenders, the L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Lenders, the L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent and their respective agents and counsel and all other amounts due the Lenders, the L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent under Sections 2.03(h) and (i), 2.09 and 11.04) allowed in such judicial proceeding; and

(b)to collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same;

and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Lender and the L/C Issuer to make such payments to the Administrative Agent and, if the Administrative Agent shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Lenders and the L/C Issuer, to pay to the Administrative Agent any amount due for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Administrative Agent and its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Administrative Agent under Sections 2.09 and 11.04.

Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to authorize the Administrative Agent to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Lender or the L/C Issuer any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Obligations or the rights of any Lender or the L/C Issuer to authorize the Administrative Agent to vote in respect of the claim of any Lender or the L/C Issuer or in any such proceeding.

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9.10Collateral and Guaranty Matters  

Each of the Lenders (including in its capacities as a potential Cash Management Bank and a potential Hedge Bank) and the L/C Issuer irrevocably authorize the Administrative Agent, at its option and in its discretion,

(a)to release any Lien on any property granted to or held by the Administrative Agent under any Loan Document (i) upon termination of the Aggregate Commitments and payment in full of all Obligations (other than (A) contingent indemnification obligations and (B) obligations and liabilities under Secured Cash Management Agreements and Secured Hedge Agreements as to which arrangements satisfactory to the applicable Cash Management Bank of Hedge Bank shall have been made) and the expiration or termination of all Letters of Credit (other than Letters of Credit as to which other arrangements satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer shall have been made), (ii) that is sold or to be sold as part of or in connection with any sale permitted hereunder or under any other Loan Document, or (iii) if approved, authorized or ratified in writing in accordance with Section 11.01; 

(b)to release any Guarantor from its obligations under the Guaranty if such Person ceases to be a Subsidiary as a result of a transaction permitted hereunder; 

(c)to subordinate any Lien on any property granted to or held by the Administrative Agent under any Loan Document to the holder of any Lien on such property that is permitted by Section 7.01(i); and

(d)to release any Guarantor from its obligations under the Guaranty if such Person becomes an Excluded Subsidiary.

Upon request by the Administrative Agent at any time, the Required Lenders will confirm in writing the Administrative Agent’s authority to release or subordinate its interest in particular types or items of property, or to release any Guarantor from its obligations under the Guaranty pursuant to this Section 9.10.  In each case as specified in this Section 9.10, the Administrative Agent will, at the Borrowers’ expense, execute and deliver to the applicable Loan Party such documents as such Loan Party may reasonably request to evidence the release of such item of Collateral from the assignment and security interest granted under the Collateral Documents or to subordinate its interest in such item, or to release such Guarantor from its obligations under the Guaranty, in each case in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents and this Section 9.10.

9.11Secured Cash Management Agreements and Secured Hedge Agreements  

No Cash Management Bank or Hedge Bank that obtains the benefits of Section 8.03, any Guaranty or any Collateral by virtue of the provisions hereof or of any Guaranty or any Collateral Document shall have any right to notice of any action or to consent to, direct or object to any action hereunder or under any other Loan Document or otherwise in respect of the Collateral (including the release or impairment of any Collateral) other than in its capacity as a Lender and, in such case, only to the extent expressly provided in the Loan Documents.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article IX to the contrary, the Administrative Agent shall not be required to verify the payment of, or that other satisfactory arrangements have been made with respect to, Obligations arising under Secured Cash Management Agreements and Secured Hedge Agreements unless the Administrative Agent has received written notice of such Obligations, together with such supporting documentation as the Administrative Agent may request, from the applicable Cash Management Bank or Hedge Bank, as the case may be.

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9.12Certain ERISA Matters

(a)Each Lender (x) represents and warrants, as of the date such Person became a Lender party hereto, to, and (y) covenants, from the date such Person became a Lender party hereto to the date such Person ceases being a Lender party hereto, for the benefit of, the Administrative Agent and not, for the avoidance of doubt, to or for the benefit of the Lead Borrower or any other Loan Party, that at least one of the following is and will be true:

(i)such Lender is not using “plan assets” (within the meaning of Section 3(42) of ERISA or otherwise) of one or more Pension Plans with respect to such Lender’s entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Letters of Credit, the Commitments, or this agreement,

(ii)the transaction exemption set forth in one or more PTEs, such as PTE 84–14 (a class exemption for certain transactions determined by independent qualified professional asset managers), PTE 95–60 (a class exemption for certain transactions involving insurance company general accounts), PTE 90–1 (a class exemption for certain transactions involving insurance company pooled separate accounts), PTE 91–38 (a class exemption for certain transactions involving bank collective investment funds) or PTE 96–23 (a class exemption for certain transactions determined by in-house asset managers), is applicable with respect to such Lender’s entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Letters of Credit, the Commitments and this Agreement,

(iii)(A) such Lender is an investment fund managed by a “Qualified Professional Asset Manager” (within the meaning of Part VI of PTE 84–14), (B) such Qualified Professional Asset Manager made the investment decision on behalf of such Lender to enter into, participate in, administer and perform the Loans, the Letters of Credit, the Commitments and this Agreement, (C) the entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Letters of Credit, the Commitments and this Agreement satisfies the requirements of sub-sections (b) through (g) of Part I of PTE 84–14 and (D) to the best knowledge of such Lender, the requirements of subsection (a) of Part I of PTE 84–14 are satisfied with respect to such Lender’s entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Letters of Credit, the Commitments and this Agreement, or

(iv)such other representation, warranty and covenant as may be agreed in writing between the Administrative Agent, in its sole discretion, and such Lender, to the effect that the Lender’s entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Letters of Credit, the Commitments and this Agreement will not constitute a “prohibited transaction” under Section 406 of ERISA for which there is no exemption. 

(b)In addition, unless either (1) clause (i) in the immediately preceding clause (a) is true with respect to a Lender or (2) a Lender has provided another representation, warranty and covenant in accordance with clause (iv) in the immediately preceding clause (a), such Lender further (x) represents and warrants, as of the date such Person became a Lender party hereto, to, and (y) covenants, from the date such Person became a Lender party hereto to the date such Person ceases being a Lender party hereto, for the benefit of, the Administrative Agent and not, for the avoidance of doubt, to or for the benefit of the Borrower or any other Loan Party, that the Administrative Agent is not a fiduciary with respect to the assets of such Lender involved in such Lender’s entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Letters of Credit, the Commitments and this Agreement (including in connection with the reservation or exercise of any rights by the Administrative Agent under this Agreement, any Loan Document or any documents related hereto or thereto).

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Without limitation of any other provision in this Agreement, if at any time the Administrative Agent makes a payment hereunder in error to any Lender Recipient Party, whether or not in respect of an Obligation due and owing by the Borrowers at such time, where such payment is a Rescindable Amount, then in any such event, each Lender Recipient Party receiving a Rescindable Amount severally agrees to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the Rescindable Amount received by such Lender Recipient Party in immediately available funds in the currency so received, with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such Rescindable Amount is received by it to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at the greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation. Each Lender Recipient Party irrevocably waives any and all defenses, including any “discharge for value” (under which a creditor might otherwise claim a right to retain funds mistakenly paid by a third party in respect of a debt owed by another) or similar defense to its obligation to return any Rescindable Amount. The Administrative Agent shall inform each Lender Recipient Party promptly upon determining that any payment made to such Lender Recipient Party comprised, in whole or in part, a Rescindable Amount.

ARTICLE X.
CONTINUING GUARANTY

10.01Guaranty  

Each Guarantor party hereto that is a Domestic Subsidiary of Holdings and each Subsidiary of Holdings that becomes a Guarantor after the date hereof pursuant to Section 6.12, jointly and severally with each other Loan Party, hereby absolutely and unconditionally guarantees, as a guaranty of payment and performance and not merely as a guaranty of collection, prompt payment when due, whether at stated maturity, by required prepayment, upon acceleration, demand or otherwise, and at all times thereafter, of any and all of the Obligations (for each Guarantor, subject to the proviso in this sentence, its “Guaranteed Obligations”), whether for principal, interest, premiums, fees, indemnities, damages, costs, expenses or otherwise, of each Borrower and of each other Guarantor to the Secured Parties, and whether arising hereunder or under any other Loan Document, any Secured Cash Management Agreement or any Secured Hedge Agreement (including all renewals, extensions, amendments, refinancings and other modifications thereof and all costs, attorneys’ fees and expenses incurred by the Secured Parties in connection with the collection or enforcement thereof); provided that (a) the Guaranteed Obligations of a Guarantor shall exclude any Excluded Swap Obligations with respect to such Guarantor and (b) the liability of each Guarantor individually with respect to this Guaranty shall be limited to an aggregate amount equal to the largest amount that would not render its obligations hereunder subject to avoidance under Section 548 of the Bankruptcy Code of the United States or any comparable provisions of any applicable state law or other applicable Law.  The Administrative Agent’s books and records showing the amount of the Obligations shall be admissible in evidence in any action or proceeding, and shall be binding upon the Domestic Loan Parties, and conclusive for the purpose of establishing the amount of the Obligations.  This Guaranty shall not be affected by the genuineness, validity, regularity or enforceability of the Obligations or any instrument or agreement evidencing any Obligations, or by the existence, validity, enforceability, perfection, non-perfection or extent of any collateral therefor, or by any fact or circumstance relating to the Obligations which might otherwise constitute a defense to the obligations of any Domestic Loan Party under this Guaranty, and each Domestic Loan Party hereby irrevocably waives any defenses it may now have or hereafter acquire in any way relating to any or all of the foregoing.

10.02Rights of Lenders  

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or the terms of the Obligations or any part thereof; (b) take, hold, exchange, enforce, waive, release, fail to perfect, sell, or otherwise dispose of any security for the payment of this Guaranty or any Obligations; (c) apply such security and direct the order or manner of sale thereof as the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer and the Lenders in their sole discretion may determine; and (d) release or substitute one or more of any endorsers or other guarantors of any of the Obligations.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Domestic Loan Party consents to the taking of, or failure to take, any action which might in any manner or to any extent vary the risks of such Domestic Loan Party or any other Domestic Loan Party under this Guaranty or which, but for this provision, might operate as a discharge of any Domestic Loan Party.

10.03Certain Waivers  

Each Domestic Loan Party waives (a) any defense arising by reason of any disability or other defense of any Borrower or any other guarantor, or the cessation from any cause whatsoever (including any act or omission of any Secured Party) of the liability of any Borrower or any other guarantor; (b) any defense based on any claim that any Domestic Loan Party’s obligations exceed or are more burdensome than those of a Borrower or other Domestic Loan Party; (c) the benefit of any statute of limitations affecting any Domestic Loan Party’s liability hereunder; (d) any right to proceed against any Borrower, proceed against or exhaust any security for the Obligations, or pursue any other remedy in the power of any Secured Party whatsoever; (e) any benefit of and any right to participate in any security now or hereafter held by any Secured Party; and (f) to the fullest extent permitted by law, any and all other defenses or benefits that may be derived from or afforded by applicable law limiting the liability of or exonerating guarantors or sureties.  Each Domestic Loan Party expressly waives all setoffs and counterclaims and all presentments, demands for payment or performance, notices of nonpayment or nonperformance, protests, notices of protest, notices of dishonor and all other notices or demands of any kind or nature whatsoever with respect to the Obligations, and all notices of acceptance of this Guaranty or of the existence, creation or incurrence of new or additional Obligations.  

10.04Obligations Independent  

The obligations of each Domestic Loan Party hereunder are those of primary obligor, and not merely as surety, and are independent of the Obligations and the obligations of any other guarantor, and a separate action may be brought against each Domestic Loan Party to enforce this Guaranty whether or not any Borrower or any other person or entity is joined as a party. 

10.05Subrogation  

No Domestic Loan Party shall exercise any right of subrogation, contribution, indemnity, reimbursement or similar rights with respect to any payments it makes under this Guaranty until all of the Obligations and any amounts payable under this Guaranty have been paid and performed in full in cash and the Commitments and the Facilities are terminated.  If any amounts are paid to any Domestic Loan Party in violation of the foregoing limitation, then such amounts shall be held in trust for the benefit of the Secured Parties and shall forthwith be paid to the Secured Parties to reduce the amount of the Obligations, whether matured or unmatured.

10.06Termination; Reinstatement  

This Guaranty is a continuing and irrevocable guaranty of all Obligations now or hereafter existing and shall remain in full force and effect until all Obligations and any other amounts payable under this Guaranty are paid in full in cash and the Commitments and the Facilities with respect to the Obligations are terminated.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Guaranty shall continue in full force and effect or be revived, as the case may be, if any payment by or on behalf of any Borrower or any Guarantor is made, or any of the Secured Parties exercises its right of setoff, in respect of the Obligations and such payment or the proceeds of such setoff or any part thereof is subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required (including 

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pursuant to any settlement entered into by any of the Secured Parties in their discretion) to be repaid to a trustee, receiver or any other party, in connection with any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws or otherwise, all as if such payment had not been made or such setoff had not occurred and whether or not the Secured Parties are in possession of or have released this Guaranty and regardless of any prior revocation, rescission, termination or reduction.  The obligations of the Domestic Loan Parties under this paragraph shall survive termination of this Guaranty.

10.07Subordination  

Each Domestic Loan Party hereby subordinates the payment of all obligations and indebtedness of any Borrower or any other Loan Party owing to such Domestic Loan Party, whether now existing or hereafter arising, including but not limited to any obligation of any Borrower to such Domestic Loan Party as subrogee of the Secured Parties or resulting from such Domestic Loan Party’s performance under this Guaranty, to the payment in full in cash of all Obligations.  If the Secured Parties so request, any such obligation or indebtedness of any Loan Party to any Domestic Loan Party shall be enforced and performance received by such Domestic Loan Party as trustee for the Secured Parties and the proceeds thereof shall be paid over to the Secured Parties on account of the Obligations, but without reducing or affecting in any manner the liability of any Domestic Loan Party under this Guaranty.

10.08Stay of Acceleration  

If acceleration of the time for payment of any of the Obligations is stayed, in connection with any case commenced by or against any Domestic Loan Party under any Debtor Relief Laws, or otherwise, all such amounts shall nonetheless be payable by such Domestic Loan Party and the other Domestic Loan Parties immediately upon demand by the Secured Parties.

10.09Condition of Borrowers  

Each Domestic Loan Party acknowledges and agrees that it has the sole responsibility for, and has adequate means of, obtaining from any Borrower and any other guarantor such information concerning the financial condition, business and operations of such Borrower and any such other guarantor as such Domestic Loan Party requires, and that none of the Secured Parties has any duty, and such Domestic Loan Party is not relying on the Secured Parties at any time, to disclose to such Domestic Loan Party any information relating to the business, operations or financial condition of such Borrower or any other guarantor (such Domestic Loan Party waiving any duty on the part of the Secured Parties to disclose such information and any defense relating to the failure to provide the same).

10.10Rights of Contribution  

The Domestic Loan Parties hereby agree, as among themselves, that if any Domestic Loan Party shall become an Excess Funding Guarantor (as defined below) by reason of the payment by such Guarantor of any Obligations, each other Guarantor shall, on written demand of such Excess Funding Guarantor (but subject to the next sentence), pay to such Excess Funding Guarantor an amount equal to such Guarantor’s Pro Rata Share (as defined below and determined, for this purpose, without reference to the properties, debts and liabilities of such Excess Funding Guarantor) of the Excess Payment (as defined below) in respect of such Obligations.  The payment obligation of a Domestic Loan Party to any Excess Funding Guarantor under this Section shall be subordinate and subject in right of payment to the prior payment in full in cash of the Obligations of such Domestic Loan Party under the other provisions of this Article and of all other Obligations (other than contingent indemnification obligations not yet asserted, due or payable), and such Excess Funding Guarantor shall not exercise any right or remedy with respect to such excess until payment and satisfaction in full in cash of all of the Obligations.

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For purposes of this Section, (i) “Excess Funding Guarantor” means, in respect of any Obligations, a Domestic Loan Party that has paid an amount in excess of its Pro Rata Share of such Obligations, (ii) “Excess Payment” means, in respect of any Obligations, the amount paid by an Excess Funding Guarantor in excess of its Pro Rata Share of such Obligations and (iii) “Pro Rata Share” means, for any Domestic Loan Party, the ratio (expressed as a percentage) of (x) the amount by which the aggregate present fair saleable value of all properties of such Domestic Loan Party (excluding any Equity Interests of any other Domestic Loan Party) exceeds the amount of all the debts and liabilities of such Loan Party (including contingent, subordinated, unmatured and unliquidated liabilities, but excluding the obligations of such Domestic Loan Party hereunder and any obligations of any other Domestic Loan Party that have been Guaranteed by such Domestic Loan Party) to (y) the amount by which the aggregate fair saleable value of all properties of all of the Domestic Loan Parties exceeds the amount of all the debts and liabilities (including contingent, subordinated, unmatured and unliquidated liabilities, but excluding the obligations of the Borrowers and the Guarantors under the Loan Documents) of all of the Domestic Loan Parties, determined (A) with respect to any Domestic Loan Party that is a party hereto on the Third Restatement Date, as of the Third Restatement Date, and (B) with respect to any other Domestic Loan Party, as of the date such Domestic Loan Party becomes a Domestic Loan Party hereunder.

10.11Joint and Several Obligations  

(a)Each Borrower hereby accepts joint and several liability for the Loans and all other Obligations under the Loan Documents in consideration of the financial accommodations to be provided to all Borrowers and other Loan Parties by the Lenders, the L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent under the Loan Documents, for the mutual benefit, directly and indirectly, of the Loan Parties and in consideration of the undertakings of the other Borrower to accept joint and several liability for the Obligations.

(b)Each Guarantor which is a Domestic Loan Party hereby accepts joint and several liability for the Loans and all other Obligations under the Loan Documents in consideration of the financial accommodations to be provided to the Borrowers and other Loan Parties by the Lenders and the Administrative Agent under the Loan Documents, for the mutual benefit, directly and indirectly, of the Loan Parties and in consideration of the undertakings of the other Guarantors which are Domestic Loan Parties to accept joint and several liability for the Obligations.

(c)Each Domestic Loan Party represents and warrants to the Lenders and the Administrative Agent that it is in the best interests of such Domestic Loan Party to enter into this Agreement inasmuch as the Domestic Loan Parties will, as a result of proceeds of the Loans being made available hereunder for working capital and other financing needs of the Borrowers, derive substantial direct and indirect benefits from the Loans made from time to time to the Borrowers by the Lenders pursuant to this Agreement, and each Domestic Loan Party agrees that the Administrative Agent and the Lenders are relying on this representation in agreeing to make Loans to the Borrowers.

(d)Notwithstanding any other provision contained herein or in any other Loan Document, if a “secured creditor” (as that term is defined under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Canada)) is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction not to include a Person to whom obligations are owed on a joint and several basis, then such Person’s Obligations (and the Obligations of each other Canadian Loan Party or any other applicable Loan Party), to the extent such Obligations are secured, shall be several obligations and not joint and several obligations.

10.12Keepwell.  

Each Loan Party that is a Qualified ECP Guarantor at the time the Guaranty or the grant of a Lien under the Loan Documents, in each case, by any Specified Loan Party becomes effective with respect to any Swap Obligation, hereby jointly and severally, absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably undertakes to provide 

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such funds or other support to each Specified Loan Party with respect to such Swap Obligation as may be needed by such Specified Loan Party from time to time to honor all of its obligations under the Loan Documents in respect of such Swap Obligation (but, in each case, only up to the maximum amount of such liability that can be hereby incurred without rendering such Qualified ECP Guarantor’s obligations and undertakings under this Article X voidable under applicable law relating to fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer, and not for any greater amount).  The obligations and undertakings of each Qualified ECP Guarantor under this Section shall remain in full force and effect until the Secured Obligations have been indefeasibly paid and performed in full.  Each Loan Party intends this Section to constitute, and this Section shall be deemed to constitute, a guarantee of the obligations of, and a “keepwell, support, or other agreement” for the benefit of, each Specified Loan Party for all purposes of the Commodity Exchange Act.

 

ARTICLE XI.
MISCELLANEOUS

11.01Amendments, Etc.  

NoExcept as provided in Sections 2.02(g) and 3.05(c) with respect to Conforming Changes, no amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, and no consent to any departure by any Borrower or any other Loan Party therefrom, shall be effective unless in writing signed by the Required Lenders and the Borrowers or the applicable Loan Party, as the case may be, and acknowledged by the Administrative Agent, and each such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given; provided however that no such amendment, waiver or consent shall:

(a)waive any condition set forth in Section 4.01 (other than Section 4.01(b)(i) or (c)), or, in the case of the initial Credit Extension, Section 4.02, without the written consent of each Lender;

(b)without limiting the generality of clause (a) above, waive any condition set forth in Section 4.02 as to any Credit Extension under a particular Facility without the written consent of the Required Revolving Lenders or the Required Term Lenders, as the case may be;

(c)extend or increase the Commitment of any Lender (or reinstate any Commitment terminated pursuant to Section 8.02) without the written consent of such Lender;

(d)postpone any date fixed by this Agreement or any other Loan Document for any payment (excluding mandatory prepayments) of principal, interest, fees or other amounts due to any Lender hereunder or under such other Loan Document without the written consent of such Lender;

(e)reduce the principal of, or the rate of interest specified herein on, any Loan or L/C Borrowing, or (subject to clause (iv) of the second proviso to this Section 11.01) any fees or other amounts payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document to any Lender without the written consent of such Lender; provided, however, that only the consent of the Required Lenders shall be necessary (i) to amend the definition of “Default Rate” or to waive any obligation of the Borrowers to pay interest or Letter of Credit Fees at the Default Rate or (ii) to amend any financial covenant hereunder (or any defined term used therein) even if the effect of such amendment would be to reduce the rate of interest on any Loan or L/C Borrowing or to reduce any fee payable hereunder;

(f)change (i) Section 8.03 in a manner that would alter the pro rata sharing of payments required thereby without the written consent of each Lender or (ii) the order of application of any reduction in the Commitments or any prepayment of Loans among the Facilities from the application thereof set forth in the 

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applicable provisions of Section 2.05(b) or 2.06(b), respectively, in any manner that materially and adversely affects the Lenders under a Facility without the written consent of (i) if such Facility is the Term Facility, the Required Term Lenders and (ii) if such Facility is the Revolving Credit Facility, the Required Revolving Lenders;

(g)change (i) any provision of this Section 11.01 or the definition of “Required Lenders” or any other provision hereof specifying the number or percentage of Lenders required to amend, waive or otherwise modify any rights hereunder or make any determination or grant any consent hereunder (other than the definitions specified in clause (ii) of this Section 11.01(g)), without the written consent of each Lender or (ii) the definition of “Required Revolving Lenders,” or “Required Term Lenders” without the written consent of each Lender under the applicable Facility;

(h)other than in connection with a transaction permitted under Section 7.04 or 7.05, release all or substantially all of the Collateral in any transaction or series of related transactions, without the written consent of each Lender; 

(i)other than in connection with a transaction permitted under Section 7.04 or 7.05, release all or substantially all of the value of the Guaranty, without the written consent of each Lender; or

(j)impose any greater restriction on the ability of any Lender under a Facility to assign any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the written consent of (i) if such Facility is the Term Facility, the Required Term Lenders and (ii) if such Facility is the Revolving Credit Facility, the Required Revolving Lenders; or

(k)contractually subordinate the Liens of the Administrative Agent on all or substantially all of the Collateral to the Liens on the collateral securing any other indebtedness for borrowed money (excluding any Liens on the Collateral permitted by Section 7.01(i) and any Liens on the Collateral securing indebtedness incurred after the occurrence of a bankruptcy event with respect to any Loan Party) or contractually subordinate the Lenders’ right to receive payments from the Loan Parties to the rights to receive payments from the Loan Parties of the claimholders in respect of any other indebtedness for borrowed money (excluding any indebtedness incurred after the occurrence of a bankruptcy event with respect to any Loan Party) (any such other indebtedness for borrowed money, “Senior Indebtedness”) without the written consent of each Lender directly and adversely affected thereby, unless each directly and adversely affected Lender has been offered a bona fide opportunity to fund or otherwise provide its pro rata share (based on the amount of Facilities that are adversely affected thereby held by each Lender) of the Senior Indebtedness on the same terms (other than bona fide agency or arrangement fees and reimbursement of counsel fees and other expense in connection with the negotiation of the terms of such transaction) as offered to all other providers (or their affiliates) of the Senior Indebtedness;

and provided, further, that (i) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the L/C Issuer in addition to the Lenders required above, affect the rights or duties of the L/C Issuer under this Agreement or any Issuer Document relating to any Letter of Credit issued or to be issued by it; (ii) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the Swing Line Lender in addition to the Lenders required above, affect the rights or duties of the Swing Line Lender under this Agreement; (iii) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the Administrative Agent in addition to the Lenders required above, affect the rights or duties of the Administrative Agent under this Agreement or any other Loan Document; and (iv) the Fee Letter may be amended, or rights or privileges thereunder waived, in a writing executed only by the parties thereto.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no Defaulting Lender shall have any right to approve or disapprove any amendment, waiver or consent hereunder (and any amendment, waiver or consent which by its terms requires the consent of all Lenders or each affected Lender may be effected with the consent of the 

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applicable Lenders other than Defaulting Lenders), except that (x) the Commitment of any Defaulting Lender may not be increased or extended without the consent of such Lender and (y) any waiver, amendment or modification requiring the consent of all Lenders or each affected Lender that by its terms affects any Defaulting Lender more adversely than other affected Lenders shall require the consent of such Defaulting Lender.  In the event of an increase in the Revolving Credit Facility in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.15 or an increase in the Term Facility in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.16, the Administrative Agent shall be permitted, on behalf of all Lenders (and is hereby authorized by all such Lenders), to enter into amendments to this Agreement and all other Loan Documents to provide for such increase in the Revolving Credit Facility or Term Facility, as applicable, on the terms set forth in Section 2.15 or Section 2.16.  In no event shall the provisions of this paragraph obligate any Lender to increase their Commitment hereunder.

If any Lender does not consent to a proposed amendment, waiver, consent or release with respect to any Loan Document that requires the consent of each Lender and that has been approved by the Required Lenders, the Borrowers may replace such non-consenting Lender in accordance with Section 11.14; provided that such amendment, waiver, consent or release can be effected as a result of the assignment contemplated by such Section (together with all other such assignments required by the Borrowers to be made pursuant to this paragraph).

Notwithstanding the foregoing, 

(I)this Agreement may be amended (or amended and restated) with the written consent of the Required Lenders and the Borrowers to add one or more additional credit facilities to this Agreement (it being understood that no Lender shall have any obligation to provide or to commit to provide all or any portion of any such additional credit facility) and to permit the extensions of credit from time to time outstanding thereunder and the accrued interest and fees in respect thereof to share ratably in the benefits of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents with the Term Loans and Revolving Loans and the accrued interest and fees in respect thereof; 

(II)this Agreement may be amended with the written consent of the Administrative Agent, the Borrowers and the Lenders providing the relevant Replacement Term Loans (as defined below) to permit the refinancing or exchange of all outstanding Term Loans of any tranche (“Refinanced Term Loans”) with a replacement term loan tranche hereunder (“Replacement Term Loans”); provided that the aggregate principal amount of such Replacement Term Loans shall not exceed the aggregate principal amount of such Refinanced Term Loans plus any interest, premium or other amount due with respect to such Refinanced Term Loans, and any underwriting discounts, fees, commissions and expenses incurred in connection with the Replacement Term Loans;

(III)guarantees, collateral security documents and related documents executed by Holdings or Foreign Subsidiaries in connection with this Agreement may be in a form reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent and may be, together with this Agreement, amended and waived with the consent of the Administrative Agent at the request of the Borrowers without the need to obtain the consent of any other Lender if such amendment or waiver is delivered in order (i) to comply with local Law or advice of local counsel, (ii) to cure ambiguities or defects or (iii) to cause such guarantee, collateral security document or other document to be consistent with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents; 

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(IV)this Agreement may be amended (or amended and restated) with the written consent of the Administrative Agent, the Borrowers and the participating Lenders pursuant to Section 2.14, 2.15 and 2.16 in accordance with the terms thereof;

(V)conditions to the effectiveness of any Incremental Revolving Commitment or any increase in the Term Loans or Incremental Tranche may, to the extent not inconsistent with the provisions of Section 2.15 or Section 2.16, as applicable, be waived with the consent of a majority in interest of the Revolving Credit Lenders and Eligible Assignees, or the majority in interest of the Term Lenders and Eligible Assignees, in each case, having commitments in respect of such Incremental Revolving Commitment, increase in the Term Loans or Incremental Tranche, as the case may be; and

(VI)this Agreement may be amended, supplemented or waived with the consent of the Administrative Agent at the request of the Borrowers without the need to obtain the consent of any Lender is such amendment, supplement or waiver is in order to cure ambiguities, inconsistencies, omissions, mistakes or defects so long as the Lenders shall have received at least five (5) Business Days’ prior written notice thereof and the Administrative Agent shall not have received, within five (5) Business Days of the date of such notice to the Lenders, a written notice from the Required Lenders stating that the Required Lenders object to such amendment, supplement or waiver.

11.02Notices; Effectiveness; Electronic Communications  

(a)Notices Generally.  Except in the case of notices and other communications expressly permitted to be given by telephone (and except as provided in subsection (b) below), all notices and other communications provided for herein shall be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or overnight courier service, mailed by certified or registered mail or sent by telecopier or electronic mail as follows, and all notices and other communications expressly permitted hereunder to be given by telephone shall be made to the applicable telephone number, as follows:

(i)if to Holdings, any Borrower, any other Guarantor, the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender, to the address, telecopier number, electronic mail address or telephone number specified for such Person on Schedule 11.02; and 

(ii)if to any other Lender, to the address, telecopier number, electronic mail address or telephone number specified in its Administrative Questionnaire.

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

(b)Electronic Communications.  Notices and other communications to the Lenders and the L/C Issuer hereunder may be delivered or furnished by electronic communication (including e-mail and Internet or intranet websites) pursuant to procedures approved by the Administrative Agent, provided that the foregoing shall not apply to notices to any Lender or the L/C Issuer pursuant to Article II if such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as applicable, has notified the Administrative Agent that it is incapable of receiving notices under such Article by electronic communication.  The Administrative Agent or the Lead Borrower may, in its discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to it hereunder by electronic communications pursuant to procedures 

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approved by it, provided that approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or communications.

Unless the Administrative Agent otherwise prescribes, (i) notices and other communications sent to an e-mail address shall be deemed received upon the sender’s receipt of an acknowledgement from the intended recipient (such as by the “return receipt requested” function, as available, return e-mail or other written acknowledgement), provided that if such notice or other communication is not sent during the normal business hours of the recipient, such notice or communication shall be deemed to have been sent at the opening of business on the next business day for the recipient, and (ii) notices or communications posted to an Internet or intranet website shall be deemed received upon the deemed receipt by the intended recipient at its e-mail address as described in the foregoing clause (i) of notification that such notice or communication is available and identifying the website address therefor.

(c)The Platform.  THE PLATFORM IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.”  THE AGENT PARTIES (AS DEFINED BELOW) DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE BORROWER MATERIALS OR THE ADEQUACY OF THE PLATFORM, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM LIABILITY FOR ERRORS IN OR OMISSIONS FROM THE BORROWER MATERIALS.  NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS OR FREEDOM FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER CODE DEFECTS, IS MADE BY ANY AGENT PARTY IN CONNECTION WITH THE BORROWER MATERIALS OR THE PLATFORM.  In no event shall the Administrative Agent or any of its Related Parties (collectively, the “Agent Parties”) have any liability to any Borrower, any other Loan Party, any Lender, the L/C Issuer or any other Person for losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses of any kind (whether in tort, contract or otherwise) arising out of any Borrower’s or the Administrative Agent’s transmission of Borrower Materials through the Internet, except to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by a final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Agent Party; provided, however, that in no event shall any Agent Party have any liability to any Borrower, any other Loan Party, any Lender, the L/C Issuer or any other Person for indirect, special, incidental, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages).

(d)Change of Address, Etc.  Each Borrower, each other Loan Party, the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer and the Swing Line Lender may change its address, telecopier or telephone number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the other parties hereto.  Each other Lender may change its address, telecopier or telephone number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the Lead Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer and the Swing Line Lender.  In addition, each Lender agrees to notify the Administrative Agent from time to time to ensure that the Administrative Agent has on record (i) an effective address, contact name, telephone number, telecopier number and electronic mail address to which notices and other communications may be sent and (ii) accurate wire instructions for such Lender.  Furthermore, each Public Lender agrees to cause at least one individual at or on behalf of such Public Lender to at all times have selected the “Private Side Information” or similar designation on the content declaration screen of the Platform in order to enable such Public Lender or its delegate, in accordance with such Public Lender’s compliance procedures and applicable Law, including United States Federal and state securities Laws, to make reference to Borrower Materials that are not made available through the “Public Side Information” portion of the Platform and that may contain material non-public information with respect to any Borrower or its securities for purposes of United States Federal or state securities laws.

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Notices and Swing Line Loan Notices) purportedly given by or on behalf of any Borrower even if (i) such notices were not made in a manner specified herein, were incomplete or were not preceded or followed by any other form of notice specified herein, or (ii) the terms thereof, as understood by the recipient, varied from any confirmation thereof.  The Borrowers shall indemnify the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer, each Lender and the Related Parties of each of them from all losses, costs, expenses and liabilities resulting from the reliance by such Person on each notice purportedly given by or on behalf of any Borrower.  All telephonic notices to and other telephonic communications with the Administrative Agent may be recorded by the Administrative Agent, and each of the parties hereto hereby consents to such recording.

11.03No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies; Enforcement  

No failure by any Lender, the L/C Issuer or the Administrative Agent to exercise, and no delay by any such Person in exercising, any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, remedy, power or privilege.  The rights, remedies, powers and privileges herein provided, and provided under each other Loan Document, are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights, remedies, powers and privileges provided by law.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in any other Loan Document, the authority to enforce rights and remedies hereunder and under the other Loan Documents against the Loan Parties or any of them (including the authority to call or otherwise assert a Default or Event of Default) shall be vested exclusively in, and all actions and proceedings at law in connection with such enforcement shall be instituted and maintained exclusively by, the Administrative Agent in accordance with Section 8.02 for the benefit of all the Lenders and the L/C Issuer; provided, however, that the foregoing shall not prohibit (a) the Administrative Agent from exercising on its own behalf the rights and remedies that inure to its benefit (solely in its capacity as Administrative Agent) hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, (b) the L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender from exercising the rights and remedies that inure to its benefit (solely in its capacity as L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender, as the case may be) hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, (c) any Lender from exercising setoff rights in accordance with Section 11.08 (subject to the terms of Section 2.13), or (d) any Lender from filing proofs of claim or appearing and filing pleadings on its own behalf during the pendency of a proceeding relative to any Loan Party under any Debtor Relief Law; and provided, further, that if at any time there is no Person acting as Administrative Agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, then (i) the Required Lenders shall have the rights otherwise ascribed to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 8.02 and (ii) in addition to the matters set forth in clauses (b), (c) and (d) of the preceding proviso and subject to Section 2.13, any Lender may, with the consent of the Required Lenders, enforce any rights and remedies available to it and as authorized by the Required Lenders.

11.04Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver

(a)Costs and Expenses.  The Borrowers shall pay (i) all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent and its Affiliates (limited, in the case of fees, charges and disbursements for legal counsel, to the reasonable and documented fees, charges and disbursements of one external counsel for the Administrative Agent and its Affiliates, taken as a whole, and of one local counsel in each applicable jurisdiction for the Administrative Agent and its Affiliates, taken as a whole), in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein, the preparation, negotiation, execution, delivery and administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents or any amendments, modifications or waivers of the provisions hereof or thereof (whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby shall be consummated), (ii) all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the L/C Issuer in connection with the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or any demand for payment thereunder and (iii) all reasonable and documented out of pocket expenses incurred by the 

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Administrative Agent , the L/C Issuer and the Lenders (limited, in the case of fees, charges and disbursements for legal counsel, to the reasonable and documented fees, charges and disbursements of one external counsel for all such Persons, taken as a whole, and of one local counsel in each applicable jurisdiction for all such Persons, taken as a whole, and in the event of any conflict of interest, one additional external counsel to all similarly situated affected parties, taken as a whole), in connection with the enforcement or protection of its rights (A) in connection with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, including its rights under this Section, or (B) in connection with Loans made or Letters of Credit issued hereunder, including all such out-of-pocket expenses incurred during any workout, restructuring or negotiations in respect of such Loans or Letters of Credit.

(b)Indemnification by the Borrowers.  The Borrowers shall indemnify the Administrative Agent (and any sub-agent thereof), each Lender and the L/C Issuer, and each Related Party of any of the foregoing Persons (each such Person being called an “Indemnitee”) against, and hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and related expenses (limited, in the case of fees, charges and disbursements for legal counsel, to the reasonable and documented fees, charges and disbursements of one external counsel for all such Indemnitees, taken as a whole, and of one local counsel in each applicable jurisdiction for all such Indemnitees, taken as a whole, and in the event of any conflict of interest, one additional external counsel to all similarly situated affected parties taken as a whole, incurred by any Indemnitee or asserted against any Indemnitee by any third party or by any Borrower or any other Loan Party arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of (i) the execution or delivery of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby, (including, without limitation, the Indemnitee’s reliance on any Communication executed using Electronic Signature, or in the form of an Electronic Record), the performance by the parties hereto of their respective obligations hereunder or thereunder or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, or, in the case of the Administrative Agent (and any sub-agent thereof) and its Related Parties only, the administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, (ii) any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use or proposed use of the proceeds therefrom (including any refusal by the L/C Issuer to honor a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit if the documents presented in connection with such demand do not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit), (iii) any actual or alleged presence or release of Hazardous Materials on or from any property owned or operated by any Borrower or any of their Subsidiaries, or any Environmental Liability related in any way to any Borrower or any of their Subsidiaries, or (iv) any actual or prospective claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, whether based on contract, tort or any other theory, whether brought by a third party or by any Borrower or any other Loan Party or any of such Borrower’s or such Loan Party’s directors, shareholders or creditors, and regardless of whether any Indemnitee is a party thereto; provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or related expenses (w) result from a claim by any Indemnitee against any other Indemnitee (except, in the case of the Administrative Agent (and any sub-agent thereof) and its Related Parties only, claims relating to the administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents), (x) are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee; or (y) result from a claim brought by any Borrower or any other Loan Party against an Indemnitee for breach of such Indemnitee's (or any of its Related Party’s or Persons to whom it is a Related Party) obligations hereunder or under any other Loan Document, if such Borrower or such Loan Party has obtained a final and nonappealable judgment in its favor on such claim as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction; or (z) arise solely out of the presence or release of Hazardous Materials which first occurs on any property after foreclosure or similar exercise of remedies by the Administrative Agent or any Lender resulting in a transfer of title to a Lender or any other third party and the Loan Parties no longer operate or occupy the property.  This Section 11.04 shall not apply with respect to Taxes other than any Taxes that represent losses, claims, damages, etc. arising from any non-Tax claim.

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(c)Reimbursement by Lenders.  To the extent that the Borrowers for any reason fail to pay any amount required under subsection (a) or (b) of this Section to be paid by them to the Administrative Agent (or any sub-agent thereof), the L/C Issuer or any Related Party of any of the foregoing, each Lender severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent), the L/C Issuer or such Related Party, as the case may be, such Lender’s Applicable Percentage (determined as of the time that the applicable unreimbursed expense or indemnity payment is sought) of such unpaid amount, provided that the unreimbursed expense or indemnified loss, claim, damage, liability or related expense, as the case may be, was incurred by or asserted against the Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent) or the L/C Issuer in its capacity as such, or against any Related Party of any of the foregoing acting for the Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent) or L/C Issuer in connection with such capacity.  The obligations of the Lenders under this subsection (c) are subject to the provisions of Section 2.12(d).

(d)Waiver of Consequential Damages, Etc.  To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, no party hereto shall assert (and by accepting the benefits hereof, each Indemnitee agrees that it shall not assert), and each party hereto hereby waives (and by accepting the benefits hereof, each Indemnitee waives) any claim against any other party hereto or any Indemnitee, on any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of, this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby, the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use of the proceeds thereof, even if advised of the possibility thereof.  No Indemnitee referred to in subsection (b) above shall be liable for any damages arising from the use by unintended recipients of any information or other materials distributed to such unintended recipients by such Indemnitee through telecommunications, electronic or other information transmission systems in connection with this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby other than for direct or actual damages resulting from (i) the gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee as determined by a final and nonappealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction or (ii) a breach of such Indemnitee’s (or any of its Related Party’s or such Persons to whom it is a Related Party) obligations hereunder or under any other Loan Document, if such Borrower or such Loan Party has obtained a final and nonappealable judgment in its favor on such claim as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction.

(e)Payments.  All amounts due under this Section shall be payable not later than ten Business Days after written demand therefor, accompanied by reasonably detailed supporting documentation.

(f)Survival.  The agreements in this Section shall survive the resignation of the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer and the Swing Line Lender, the replacement of any Lender, the termination of the Aggregate Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all the other Obligations. 

11.05Payments Set Aside

To the extent that any payment by or on behalf of the Borrowers is made to the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or any Lender, or the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or any Lender exercises its right of setoff, and such payment or the proceeds of such setoff or any part thereof is subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or such Lender in its discretion) to be repaid to a trustee, receiver or any other party, in connection with any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law or otherwise, then (a) to the extent of such recovery, the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or such setoff had not occurred, and (b) each Lender and the L/C Issuer severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent upon demand its applicable share (without duplication) of any amount so recovered from or repaid by the Administrative Agent, plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such payment is made at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Rate 

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from time to time in effect.  The obligations of the Lenders and the L/C Issuer under clause (b) of the preceding sentence shall survive the payment in full of the Obligations and the termination of this Agreement.

11.06Successors and Assigns

(a)Successors and Assigns Generally.  The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, except that no Borrower nor any other Loan Party may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent and each Lender (other than a Defaulting Lender, subject to Section 2.18(b)) and no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder except (i) to an assignee in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.06(b), (ii) by way of participation in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.06(d), or (iii) by way of pledge or assignment of a security interest subject to the restrictions of Section 11.06(f) (and any other attempted assignment or transfer by any party hereto shall be null and void).  Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto, their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, Participants to the extent provided in subsection (d) of this Section and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Related Parties of each of the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer and the Lenders) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.

(b)Assignments by Lenders.  Any Lender may at any time assign to one or more assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment(s) and the Loans (including for purposes of this Section 11.06(b), participations in L/C Obligations and in Swing Line Loans) at the time owing to it); provided that any such assignment shall be subject to the following conditions:

(i)Minimum Amounts.

(A)in the case of an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Lender’s Commitment under any Facility and the Loans at the time owing to it under such Facility or in the case of an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund, no minimum amount need be assigned; and

(B)in any case not described in subsection (b)(i)(A) of this Section, the aggregate amount of the Commitment (which for this purpose includes Loans outstanding thereunder) or, if the Commitment is not then in effect, the principal outstanding balance of the Loans of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment, determined as of the date the Assignment and Assumption with respect to such assignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent or, if “Trade Date” is specified in the Assignment and Assumption, as of the Trade Date, shall not be less than $10,000,000, in the case of any assignment in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility, or $5,000,000, in the case of any assignment in respect of the Term Facility, unless each of the Administrative Agent and, so long as no Event of Default under Section 8.01(a), (f) or (g) has occurred and is continuing, the Lead Borrower otherwise consents (each such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed); provided, however, that concurrent assignments to members of an Assignee Group and concurrent assignments from members of an Assignee Group to a single Eligible Assignee (or to an Eligible Assignee and members of its Assignee Group) will be treated as a single assignment for purposes of determining whether such minimum amount has been met;

(ii)Proportionate Amounts.  Each partial assignment shall be made as an assignment of a proportionate part of all the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement with respect to the Loans or the Commitment assigned, except that this clause (ii) shall not (A) apply to the Swing Line Lender’s rights and obligations in respect of Swing Line Loans or (B) prohibit any Lender from assigning all or a portion of its rights and obligations among separate Facilities on a non-pro rata basis;

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(iii)Required Consents.  No consent shall be required for any assignment except to the extent required by subsection (b)(i)(B) of this Section and, in addition:

(A)the consent of the Lead Borrower (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) shall be required unless (1) an Event of Default under Section 8.01(a), (f) or (g) has occurred and is continuing at the time of such assignment or (2) such assignment is (x) from a Term Loan Lender to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund or (y) from a Revolving Credit Lender to a Revolving Credit Lender, an Affiliate of a Revolving Credit Lender or an Approved Fund with respect to a Revolving Credit Lender; provided that the Lead Borrower shall be deemed to have consented to any such assignment unless it shall object thereto by written notice to the Administrative Agent within five (5) Business Days after having received notice thereof; 

(B)the consent of the Administrative Agent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) shall be required for assignments in respect of (1) any Term Commitment or Revolving Credit Commitment if such assignment is to a Person that is not a Lender with a Commitment in respect of the applicable Facility, an Affiliate of such Lender or an Approved Fund with respect to such Lender or (2) any Term Loan to a Person that is not a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund;

(C)the consent of the L/C Issuer (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) shall be required for any assignment that increases the obligation of the assignee to participate in exposure under one or more Letters of Credit (whether or not then outstanding); and

(D)the consent of the Swing Line Lender (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) shall be required for any assignment in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility.

(iv)Assignment and Assumption.  The parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption, together with a processing and recordation fee in the amount of $3,500; provided, however, that the Administrative Agent may, in its sole discretion, elect to waive such processing and recordation fee in the case of any assignment.  The assignee, if it is not a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an Administrative Questionnaire.

(v)No Assignment to Borrowers.  No such assignment shall be made to Holdings or any of Holdings’ Subsidiaries; provided that assignments of Term Loans shall be permitted to Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries, so long as (i) any such assignment is made pursuant to an offer to all Term Lenders pro rata, (ii) no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing at the time of such assignment and (iii) any Term Loans assigned to Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries are cancelled immediately thereafter.

(vi)No Assignment to Natural Persons or Competitors of Holdings and its Subsidiaries.  No such assignment shall be made to a natural person (or a holding company, investment vehicle or trust for, or owned and operated by or for the primary benefit of one or more natural persons) or to any competitor, customer or supplier of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries previously identified in writing to the Administrative Agent and Lenders as such; provided, however, that any addition to such list shall not be effective until after at least three (3) Business Days following receipt thereof by the Administrative Agent from the Lead Borrower.

(vii)Assignments to Borrower Affiliates.  No such assignment shall be to an Affiliate of Holdings (other than Holdings and its Subsidiaries pursuant to clause (v) above); provided that each Lender shall have the right at any time to sell, assign or transfer all or a portion of the Loans owing to it 

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to any Affiliate of Holdings that is not a Subsidiary of Holdings (such affiliate, an “Affiliated Lender”) subject to the following limitations: (i) the aggregate principal amount of Loans purchased by assignment pursuant to this Section (vii) and held at any one time by Affiliated Lenders may not exceed 20% of the outstanding principal amount of all Loans; (ii) each Affiliated Lender, solely in its capacity as a Lender, hereby agrees that it shall have no right whatsoever so long as such Person is an Affiliated Lender: (A) to vote with respect to any amendment, modification, waiver, consent or other such action with respect to any of the terms of this Agreement or any other Loan Document and that it shall be deemed to have voted its interest as a Lender without discretion in the same proportion as the allocation of voting with respect to such matter by Lenders who are not Affiliated Lenders; provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, (x) such assignee shall be permitted to vote if such amendment, modification, waiver, consent or other such action disproportionately affects such Affiliated Lender in its capacity as a Lender as compared to other Lenders and (y) no amendment, modification, waiver, consent or other action shall deprive any Affiliated Lender of its share of any payments which the Lenders are entitled to share on a Pro Rata Basis hereunder and (z) each Affiliated Lender shall have all voting rights described in Section 11.01(a)-(j) of this Agreement; (B) to attend (or receive any notice of) any meeting, conference call or correspondence (other than any meeting or conference call at which any Loan Party or any Subsidiary is present or correspondence with or to any Loan Party or any Subsidiary) with Administrative Agent or any Lender or receive any information from Administrative Agent or any other Lender (other than notices of borrowings, prepayments and other administrative notices in respect of its Loans or Commitments required to be delivered to Lenders pursuant hereto); or (C) to make or bring any claim, in its capacity as Lender, against Administrative Agent or any Lender with respect to the duties and obligations of such Persons under the Loan Documents.

(viii)Certain Additional Payments.  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 Administrative Agent in an aggregate amount sufficient, upon distribution thereof as appropriate (which may be outright payment, purchases by the assignee of participations or subparticipations, or other compensating actions, including funding, with the consent of the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent, the applicable pro rata share of Loans previously requested but not funded by the Defaulting Lender, to each of which the applicable assignee and assignor hereby irrevocably consent), to (x) pay and satisfy in full all payment liabilities then owed by such Defaulting Lender to the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or any Lender hereunder (and interest accrued thereon) and (y) acquire (and fund as appropriate) its full pro rata share of all Loans and participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans in accordance with its Applicable Percentage.  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.

Subject to acceptance and recording thereof by the Administrative Agent pursuant to subsection (c) of this Section, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption, the assignee thereunder shall be a party to this Agreement and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all of the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto) but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Sections 3.01, 3.04, 3.07 and 11.04 with respect to facts and circumstances occurring prior to the effective date of such assignment.  Upon request, the Borrowers (at their expense) shall execute and deliver a Note to the assignee Lender.  Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this 

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Agreement that does not comply with this subsection shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with Section 11.06(d).  For the avoidance of doubt, an entity that has (A) acquired an assignment or participation interest, (B) entered into a trade for either an assignment or participation interest or (C) become a competitor of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries before such entity was identified in writing to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders as a competitor, customer or supplier pursuant to Section 11.06(b)(vi), shall not be retroactively disqualified as a Lender or Participant, as the case may be.

(ix) If:

(i)          a Lender assigns or transfers any participation to an assignee or changes its Facility Office; and

(ii)          as a result of circumstances existing at the date of the assignment or transfer or such change in its Lending Office, a Borrower would be obliged to make a payment to the assignee under Section 3.02, 

then the assignee shall only be entitled to receive payment under that Section to the same extent as the Lender would have been if the assignment or transfer or change in Facility Office had not occurred.

(c)Register.  The Administrative Agent, acting solely for this purpose as an agent of the Borrowers (and such agency being solely for tax purposes), shall maintain at the Administrative Agent’s Office a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to it (or the equivalent thereof in electronic form) and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitments of, and principal amounts (and stated interest) of the Loans and L/C Obligations owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the “Register”).  The entries in the Register shall be conclusive, absent manifest error, and the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement.  The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrowers and any Lender (solely with respect to its own address, Commitments, Loans and L/C Obligations, if any), at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.

(d)Participations.  Any Lender may at any time, without the consent of, or notice to, the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent, sell participations to any Person (other than a natural person, or a holding company, investment vehicle or trust for, or owned and operated by or for the primary benefit of one or more natural persons, any Person previously identified in writing to the Administrative Agent or such Lender by the Lead Borrower as a competitor of a Loan Party or any Subsidiary or the or the Borrowers or any of the Borrowers’ Affiliates or Subsidiaries) (each, a “Participant”) in all or a portion of such Lender’s rights and/or obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and/or the Loans (including such Lender’s participations in L/C Obligations and/or Swing Line Loans) owing to it); provided that (i) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (iii) where such rights and obligations relate to a U.K. Facility, the Participant is U.K. Qualifying Lender; (iv) the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the L/C Issuer shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement and (v) the consent of the Lead Borrower shall be required solely in connection with any Participation by a Defaulting Lender or any Lender that has breached its obligations hereunder or under any Loan Document.  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 and shall not give the Participant any consent, notice or other rights with respect to such enforcement, amendments, modifications or waivers; provided that such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent 

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of the Participant, agree to any amendment, waiver or other modification described in the first proviso to Section 11.01 (other than clauses (a) and (b) that affects such Participant and would require such Participant’s consent if such Participant were a Lender under the applicable Facility.  Subject to subsection (e) of this Section, the Borrowers agree that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 3.01, 3.04 and 3.07 to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to Section 11.06(b).  To the extent permitted by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 11.08 as though it were a Lender, provided such Participant agrees to be subject to Section 2.13 as though it were a Lender.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, each Lender that sells a participation shall, acting solely for this purpose as an agent of the Borrowers, maintain a “book entry” register (as described in the applicable United States federal income tax law and United States Treasury regulations) on which it records the name and address of the proposed Participant and the principal amounts (and stated interest) of each such proposed Participant’s interest in the Loans or other Obligations under this Agreement (the “Participant Register”).  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 and as  having “ownership of an interest” (as such term is defined in the applicable Treasury regulations) for all purposes of this Agreement notwithstanding any notice to the contrary.  No Lender shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register to any person (including the identity of any Participant or any information relating to a Participant’s interest in any Commitments, Loans or its other obligations under this Agreement) except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish that such Commitment, Loan or other obligation is in registered form under Section 5f.103-1(c) of the United States Treasury regulations or any successor United States Treasury Regulations, or is otherwise required thereunder.

(e)Limitations upon Participant Rights.  A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 3.01, 3.02 or 3.04 than the applicable Lender would have been entitled to receive with respect to the participation sold to such Participant, unless the sale of the participation to such Participant is made with the Lead Borrower’s prior written consent.  A Participant that would be a Foreign Lender if it were a Lender shall not be entitled to the benefits of Section 3.01 unless the Lead Borrower is notified of the participation sold to such Participant and such Participant agrees, for the benefit of the Borrowers, to comply with Section 3.01(e) as though it were a Lender.

(f)Certain Pledges.  Any Lender may at any time pledge or assign a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including under its Note, if any) to secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank; provided that no such pledge or assignment shall release such Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.

(g)Resignation as L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender after Assignment.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, if at any time Bank of America assigns all of its Revolving Credit Commitment and Revolving Credit Loans pursuant to Section 11.06(b), Bank of America may, (i) upon 30 days’ notice to the Lead Borrower and the Lenders, resign as L/C Issuer and/or (ii) upon 30 days’ notice to the Lead Borrower, resign as Swing Line Lender.  In the event of any such resignation as L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender, the Borrowers shall be entitled to appoint from among the Lenders a successor L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender hereunder; provided, however, that no failure by the Borrowers to appoint any such successor shall affect the resignation of Bank of America as L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender, as the case may be.  If Bank of America resigns as L/C Issuer, it shall retain all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the L/C Issuer hereunder with respect to all Letters of Credit outstanding as of the effective date of its resignation as L/C Issuer and all L/C Obligations with respect thereto (including the right to require the Lenders to make Base Rate Loans or fund risk participations in Unreimbursed Amounts pursuant to Section 2.03(c)).  If Bank of America resigns as Swing Line Lender, it shall retain all the rights of the Swing Line Lender provided for hereunder with respect to Swing 

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Line Loans made by it and outstanding as of the effective date of such resignation, including the right to require the Lenders to make Base Rate Loans or fund risk participations in outstanding Swing Line Loans pursuant to Section 2.04(c).  Upon the appointment of a successor L/C Issuer and/or Swing Line Lender, (a) such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender, as the case may be, and (b) the successor L/C Issuer shall issue letters of credit in substitution for the Letters of Credit, if any, outstanding at the time of such succession or make other arrangements satisfactory to Bank of America to effectively assume the obligations of Bank of America with respect to such Letters of Credit.

11.07Treatment of Certain Information; Confidentiality  

(a)Each of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the L/C Issuer agrees to maintain the confidentiality of the Information (as defined below), except that Information may be disclosed (a) to its Affiliates and to its and its Affiliates’ respective partners, directors, officers, employees, agents, trustees, advisors and representatives (it being understood that the Persons to whom such disclosure is made will be informed of the confidential nature of such Information and instructed to keep such Information confidential), (b) to the extent requested by any regulatory authority purporting to have jurisdiction over it (including any self-regulatory authority, such as the National Association of Insurance Commissioners), (c) to the extent required by applicable laws or regulations or by any subpoena or similar legal process, (d) to any other party hereto, (e) in connection with the exercise of any remedies hereunder or under any other Loan Document or any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the enforcement of rights hereunder or thereunder, (f) subject to an agreement containing provisions substantially the same as those of this Section, to (i) any assignee of or Participant in, or any prospective assignee of or Participant in, any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement or any Eligible Assignee invited to be a Lender pursuant to Section 2.15(c) or 2.16(c) or (ii) any actual or prospective counterparty (or its advisors) to any swap or derivative transaction relating to the Borrowers and their obligations, (g) on a confidential basis to (i) any rating agency in connection with rating the Loan Parties or their Subsidiaries or the credit facilities provided hereunder or (ii) the CUSIP Service Bureau or any similar agency in connection with the application, issuance, publishing and monitoring of CUSIP numbers or other market identifiers with respect to the credit facilities provided hereunder, (h) with the consent of the Lead Borrower or (i) to the extent such Information (i) becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this Section 11.07, (ii) becomes available to the Administrative Agent, any Lender, the L/C Issuer or any of their respective Affiliates on a nonconfidential basis from a source other than the Loan Parties or their Subsidiaries or (iii) is independently discovered or developed by a party hereto without utilizing any Information received from the Loan Parties or their Subsidiaries or violating the terms of this Section 11.07.  In addition, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders may disclose the existence of this Agreement and information about this Agreement to market data collectors, similar service providers to the lending industry and service providers to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders in connection with the administration of this Agreement, the other Loan Documents, and the Commitments.

(b)For purposes of this Section 11.07, “Information” means all information received from any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof relating to any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof or their respective businesses (including, for the avoidance of doubt, under Sections 6.01, 6.02 and 6.03), other than any such information that is available to the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the L/C Issuer on a nonconfidential basis prior to disclosure by any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof, provided that, in the case of information received from a Loan Party or any such Subsidiary after the date hereof, such information is clearly identified at the time of delivery as confidential.  Any Person required to maintain the confidentiality of Information as provided in this Section shall be considered to have complied with its obligation to do so if such Person has exercised the same degree of care to maintain the confidentiality of such Information as such Person would accord to its own confidential information.

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(c)Each of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the L/C Issuer acknowledges that (a) the Information may include material non-public information concerning a Borrower or a Subsidiary, as the case may be, (b) it has developed compliance procedures regarding the use of material non-public information and (c) it will handle such material non-public information in accordance with applicable Law, including United States Federal and state securities Laws.

(d)The Loan Parties consent to the publication by the Administrative Agent or any Lender of customary advertising material relating to the transactions contemplated hereby using the name, product photographs, logo or trademark of the Loan Parties.

(e)Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the L/C Issuer disclose any Information to any Person previously identified in writing addressed to such Person by the Lead Borrower as a competitor, customer or supplier (or Affiliate of any of the foregoing) of a Loan Party or any Subsidiary.

11.08Right of Setoff  

If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, each Lender, the L/C Issuer and each of their respective Affiliates is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final, in whatever currency) at any time held and other obligations (in whatever currency) at any time owing by such Lender, the L/C Issuer or any such Affiliate to or for the credit or the account of any Borrower or any other Loan Party against any and all of the obligations of such Borrower or such Loan Party now or hereafter existing under this Agreement or any other Loan Document to such Lender or the L/C Issuer, irrespective of whether or not such Lender or the L/C Issuer shall have made any demand under this Agreement or any other Loan Document and although such obligations of such Borrower or such Loan Party may be contingent or unmatured or are owed to a branch or office of such Lender or the L/C Issuer different from the branch or office holding such deposit or obligated on such indebtedness; provided, that in the event that any Defaulting Lender shall exercise any such right of setoff, (x) all amounts so set off shall be paid over immediately to the Administrative Agent for further application in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.18 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 Administrative Agent and the Lenders, and (y) the Defaulting Lender shall provide promptly to the Administrative Agent a statement describing in reasonable detail the Obligations owing to such Defaulting Lender as to which it exercised such right of setoff.  The rights of each Lender, the L/C Issuer and their respective Affiliates under this Section are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) that such Lender, the L/C Issuer or their respective Affiliates may have.  Each Lender and the L/C Issuer agrees to notify the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent promptly after any such setoff and application, provided that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such setoff and application.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, no amount setoff from any Guarantor shall be applied to any Excluded Swap Obligation of such Guarantor.

11.09Interest Rate Limitation  

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any Loan Document, the interest paid or agreed to be paid under the Loan Documents shall not exceed the maximum rate of non-usurious interest permitted by applicable Law (the “Maximum Rate”).  If the Administrative Agent or any Lender shall receive interest in an amount that exceeds the Maximum Rate, the excess interest shall be applied to the principal of the Loans or, if it exceeds such unpaid principal, refunded to the Borrowers.  In determining whether the interest contracted for, charged, or received by the Administrative Agent or a Lender exceeds the Maximum Rate, such Person may, to the extent permitted by applicable Law, (a) characterize any payment that is not principal as an expense, fee, or premium rather than interest, (b) exclude voluntary prepayments and the effects thereof, and (c) amortize, prorate, 

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allocate, and spread in equal or unequal parts the total amount of interest throughout the contemplated term of the Obligations hereunder.

11.10Canadian Interest Act  

For the purposes of the Interest Act (Canada) and all any other applicable laws which may hereafter regulate the calculation or computation of interest on borrowed funds, the yearly rate of interest to which any rate for a period less than a year is equivalent is such rate, divided by the number of days in such period, and multiplied by the actual number of days in the year.

11.11Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness  

This Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto in different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract.  This Agreement and the other Loan Documents constitute the entire contract among the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersede any and all previous agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof.  Except as provided in Section 4.01, this Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the Administrative Agent and when the Administrative Agent shall have received counterparts hereof that, when taken together, bear the signatures of each of the other parties hereto.  Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Agreement or any other Loan Document by telecopy or other electronic imaging means shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement or such other Loan Document, and thereafter shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns.

11.12Survival of Representations and Warranties  

All representations and warranties made hereunder and in any other Loan Document or other document delivered pursuant hereto or thereto or in connection herewith or therewith shall survive the execution and delivery hereof and thereof.  Such representations and warranties have been or will be relied upon by the Administrative Agent and each Lender, regardless of any investigation made by the Administrative Agent or any Lender or on their behalf and notwithstanding that the Administrative Agent or any Lender may have had notice or knowledge of any Default at the time of any Credit Extension, and shall continue in full force and effect as long as any Loan or any other Obligation hereunder shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied or any Letter of Credit shall remain outstanding.

11.13Severability  

If any provision of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, (a) the legality, validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall not be affected or impaired thereby and (b) the parties shall endeavor in good faith negotiations to replace the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions with valid provisions the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that of the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions.  The invalidity of a provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.

11.14Replacement of Lenders  

If any Lender requests compensation under Section 3.04, or if the Borrowers are required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 3.01, or if any Lender is a Defaulting Lender, or if any Lender does not consent to any amendment or waiver of a provision hereof or of any other Loan Document to which the Required Lenders have consented (and 

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the consent of such Lender is required for such amendment or waiver pursuant to the provisions of Section 11.01), or if any other circumstance exists hereunder that gives the Borrowers the right to replace a Lender as a party hereto, then the Borrowers may, at its sole expense and effort, upon notice to such Lender and the Administrative Agent, require such Lender to assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in, and consents required by, Section 11.06), all of its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement and the related Loan Documents to an assignee that shall assume such obligations (which assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment), provided that:

(a)the Borrowers shall have paid or caused to be paid to the Administrative Agent the assignment fee specified in Section 11.06(b) (unless waived by the Administrative Agent);

(b)such Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to the outstanding principal of its Loans and L/C Advances, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts payable to it hereunder and under the other Loan Documents (including any amounts under Section 3.07) from the assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal and accrued interest and fees) or the Borrowers (in the case of all other amounts);

(c)in the case of any such assignment resulting from a claim for compensation under Section 3.04 or payments required to be made pursuant to Section 3.01, such assignment will result in a reduction in such compensation or payments thereafter; and

(d)such assignment does not conflict with applicable Laws.

A Lender shall not be required to make any such assignment or delegation if, prior thereto, as a result of a waiver by such Lender or otherwise, the circumstances entitling the Borrowers to require such assignment and delegation cease to apply.

11.15Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Etc.  

(a)GOVERNING LAW.  THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

(b)SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION.  EACH BORROWER AND EACH OTHER LOAN PARTY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY SUBMITS, FOR ITSELF AND ITS PROPERTY, TO THE NONEXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF 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, IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT, OR FOR RECOGNITION OR ENFORCEMENT OF ANY JUDGMENT, AND EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY AGREES THAT ALL CLAIMS IN RESPECT OF ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING MAY BE HEARD AND DETERMINED IN SUCH NEW YORK STATE COURT OR, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN SUCH FEDERAL COURT.  EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO AGREES THAT A FINAL JUDGMENT IN ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING SHALL BE CONCLUSIVE AND MAY BE ENFORCED IN OTHER JURISDICTIONS BY SUIT ON THE JUDGMENT OR IN ANY OTHER MANNER PROVIDED BY LAW.  NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT OR IN ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT SHALL AFFECT ANY RIGHT THAT THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, ANY LENDER OR THE L/C ISSUER MAY OTHERWISE HAVE TO BRING ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT AGAINST ANY BORROWER OR ANY OTHER LOAN PARTY OR ITS PROPERTIES IN THE COURTS OF ANY JURISDICTION.

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(c)WAIVER OF VENUE.  EACH BORROWER AND EACH OTHER LOAN PARTY 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 PARAGRAPH (B) OF THIS SECTION.  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.

(d)SERVICE OF PROCESS.  EACH PARTY HERETO IRREVOCABLY CONSENTS TO SERVICE OF PROCESS IN THE MANNER PROVIDED FOR NOTICES IN SECTION 11.02.  NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT WILL AFFECT THE RIGHT OF ANY PARTY HERETO TO SERVE PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW

11.16Waiver of Jury Trial  

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

11.17No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility.  

In connection with all aspects of each transaction contemplated hereby (including in connection with any amendment, waiver or other modification hereof or of any other Loan Document), each Loan Party acknowledges and agrees, and acknowledges its Affiliates’ understanding, that: (i) (A) the arranging and other services regarding this Agreement provided by the Administrative Agent and the Arrangers, are arm’s-length commercial transactions between the Loan Parties and their respective Affiliates, on the one hand, and the Administrative Agent and the Arrangers on the other hand, (B) each Loan Party has consulted its own legal, accounting, regulatory and tax advisors to the extent it has deemed appropriate, and (C) each Loan Party is capable of evaluating, and understands and accepts, the terms, risks and conditions of the transactions contemplated hereby and by the other Loan Documents; (ii) (A) the Administrative Agent and the Arrangers each is and has been acting solely as a principal and, except as expressly agreed in writing by the relevant parties, has not been, is not, and will not be acting as an advisor, agent or fiduciary for any Loan Party or any of their respective Affiliates, or any other Person and (B) neither the Administrative Agent nor the Arrangers has any obligation to any Loan Party or any of their respective Affiliates with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby except those obligations expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents; and (iii) the Administrative Agent and the Arrangers and their respective Affiliates may be engaged in a broad range of transactions that involve interests that differ from those of the Loan Parties and their respective Affiliates, and neither the Administrative Agent nor the Arrangers has any obligation to disclose any of such interests to any Loan Party or any of their respective Affiliates.  To the fullest extent permitted by law, each Loan Party hereby waives and releases any claims that it 

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may have against the Administrative Agent and the Arrangers with respect to any breach or alleged breach of agency or fiduciary duty in connection with any aspect of any transaction contemplated hereby.

11.18Electronic Execution of Assignments and Certain Other Documents; Electronic Records; Counterparts.  

The words “delivery,” “execute,” “execution,” “signed,” “signature,” and words of like import inThis Agreement, any Loan Document orand any other document executed in connection herewith shall be deemed to include electronic signatures, the electronic matching of assignment terms and contract formations on electronic platforms approved by the Administrative Agent, orCommunication, including Communications required to be in writing, may be in the form of an Electronic Record and may be executed using Electronic Signatures.  Each of the Loan Parties and each of the Administrative Agent and the Lender Parties agrees that any Electronic Signature on or associated with any Communication shall be valid and binding on such Person to the same extent as a manual, original signature, and that any Communication entered into by Electronic Signature, will constitute the legal, valid and binding obligation of such Person enforceable against such Person in accordance with the terms thereof to the same extent as if a manually executed original signature was delivered.   Any Communication may be executed in as many counterparts as necessary or convenient, including both paper and electronic counterparts, but all such counterparts are one and the same Communication.  For the avoidance of doubt, the authorization under this paragraph may include, without limitation, use or acceptance of a manually signed paper Communication which has been converted into electronic form (such as scanned into PDF format), or an electronically signed Communication converted into another format, for transmission, delivery and/or retention. The Administrative Agent and each of the Lender Parties may, at its option, create one or more copies of any Communication in the keepingform of recordsan imaged Electronic Record (“Electronic Copy”), which shall be deemed created in the ordinary course of such Person’s business, and destroy the original paper document.  All Communications in electronicthe form, each of which shall be ofan Electronic Record, including an Electronic Copy, shall be considered an original for all purposes, and shall have the same legal effect, validity orand enforceability as a manually executed signature, physical delivery thereof or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, to the extent and as provided for in any applicable Law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act, or any other similar state laws based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act; provided that notwithstandingpaper record.  Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, neither the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer nor anySwing Line Lender is under any obligation to agree to accept electronic signaturesan Electronic Signature in any form or in any format unless expressly agreed to by the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or such LenderPerson pursuant to procedures approved by it and; provided, further, without limiting the foregoing, (a) to the extent the Administrative Agent, L/C Issuer and/or Swing Line Lender has agreed to accept such Electronic Signature, the Administrative Agent and each of the Lender Parties shall be entitled to rely on any such Electronic Signature purportedly given by or on behalf of any Loan Party and/or any Lender Party without further verification and (b) upon the request of the Administrative Agent or any partyLender Party, any electronic signatureElectronic Signature shall be promptly followed by such manually executed counterpart.  

Neither the Administrative Agent, L/C Issuer nor Swing Line Lender shall be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into the sufficiency, validity, enforceability, effectiveness or genuineness of any Loan Document or any other agreement, instrument or document (including, for the avoidance of doubt, in connection with the Administrative Agent’s, L/C Issuer’s or Swing Line Lender’s reliance on any Electronic Signature transmitted by telecopy, emailed .pdf or any other electronic means). The Administrative Agent, L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender shall be entitled to rely on, and shall incur no liability under or in respect of this Agreement or any other Loan Document by acting upon, any Communication (which writing may be a fax, any electronic message, Internet or intranet website posting or other distribution or signed using an Electronic Signature) or any statement made to it orally or by telephone and believed by it to be genuine and signed or sent 

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or otherwise authenticated (whether or not such Person in fact meets the requirements set forth in the Loan Documents for being the maker thereof).  

Each of the Loan Parties and each Lender Party hereby waives (i) any argument, defense or right to contest the legal effect, validity or enforceability of this Agreement and/or any other Loan Document based solely on the lack of paper original copies of this Agreement and/or such other Loan Document, and (ii) waives any claim against the Administrative Agent, each Lender Party and each Related Party for any liabilities arising solely from the Administrative Agent’s and/or any Lender Party’s reliance on or use of Electronic Signatures, including any liabilities arising as a result of the failure of the Loan Parties to use any available security measures in connection with the execution, delivery or transmission of any Electronic Signature.

11.19USA PATRIOT Act  

Each Lender that is subject to the Act (as hereinafter defined) and the Administrative Agent (for itself and not on behalf of any Lender) hereby notifies the Borrowers that pursuant to the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)) (the “Act”), it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies each Loan Party, which information includes the name and address of each Loan Party and other information that will allow such Lender or the Administrative Agent, as applicable, to identify each Loan Party in accordance with the Act.  The Borrowers shall, promptly following a request by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, provide all documentation and other information that the Administrative Agent or such Lender requests in order to comply with its ongoing obligations under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including, without limitation, the Act and the Beneficial Ownership Regulation.

11.20Judgment Currency  

If, for the purposes of obtaining judgment in any court, it is necessary to convert a sum due hereunder or any other Loan Document in one currency into another currency, the rate of exchange used shall be that at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the Administrative Agent could purchase the first currency with such other currency on the Business Day preceding that on which final judgment is given.  The obligation of the Borrowers in respect of any such sum due from it to the Administrative Agent or any Lender hereunder or under the other Loan Documents shall, notwithstanding any judgment in a currency (the “Judgment Currency”) other than that in which such sum is denominated in accordance with the applicable provisions of this Agreement (the “Agreement Currency”), be discharged only to the extent that on the Business Day following receipt by the Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, of any sum adjudged to be so due in the Judgment Currency, the Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, may in accordance with normal banking procedures purchase the Agreement Currency with the Judgment Currency.  If the amount of the Agreement Currency so purchased is less than the sum originally due to the Administrative Agent or any Lender from the Borrowers in the Agreement Currency, the Borrowers agree, as a separate obligation and notwithstanding any such judgment, to indemnify the Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, against such loss.  If the amount of the Agreement Currency so purchased is greater than the sum originally due to the Administrative Agent or any Lender in such currency, the Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, agrees to return the amount of any excess to the Borrowers (or to any other Person who may be entitled thereto under applicable law).

11.21Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of EEAAffected Financial Institutions  

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Loan Document or in any other agreement, arrangement or understanding among any such parties, each party hereto acknowledges that any liability of any EEAAffected Financial Institution arising under any Loan Document, to the extent such liability is unsecured, 

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may be subject to the write-downWrite-Down and conversion powers of an EEAConversion Powers of the applicable Resolution Authority and agrees and consents to, and acknowledges and agrees to be bound by:

(a)the application of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by an EEAthe applicable Resolution Authority to any such liabilities arising hereunder which may be payable to it by any party hereto that is an EEAAffected Financial Institution; and

(b)the effects of any Bail-in Action on any such liability, including, if applicable:

	
(i)
	
a reduction in full or in part or cancellation of any such liability;

	
(ii)
	
a conversion of all, or a portion of, such liability into shares or other instruments of ownership in such EEAAffected Financial Institution, its parent undertaking, or a bridge institution that may be issued to it or otherwise conferred on it, and that such shares or other instruments of ownership will be accepted by it in lieu of any rights with respect to any such liability under this Agreement or any other Loan Document; or

	
(iii)
	
the variation of the terms of such liability in connection with the exercise of the write-downWrite-Down and conversion powersConversion Powers of any EEAapplicable Resolution Authority.

11.22Third Amended and Restated Agreement  

(a)This Agreement, effective as of the Third Restatement Date, is an amendment and restatement of the Existing2016 Credit Agreement, it being acknowledged and agreed that as of the Third Restatement Date all obligations outstanding under or in connection with the Existing2016 Credit Agreement and any of the other Loan Documents (such obligations, collectively, the “Existing Obligations”) constitute obligations under this Agreement.  This Agreement is in no way intended to constitute a novation of the Existing2016 Credit Agreement or the Existing Obligations.  From and after the Third Restatement Date, any reference to the Existing2016 Credit Agreement in any of the other Loan Documents executed or issued by and/or delivered to any one or more parties hereto pursuant to or in connection therewith shall be deemed to be a reference to this Agreement, and the provisions of this Agreement shall prevail in the event of any conflict or inconsistency between such provisions and those of the Existing2016 Credit Agreement.

(b)Without limiting the generality of Section 11.22(a), the parties agree that:

	
(i)
	
all Existing Obligations outstanding as at the Third Restatement Date shall, as of the Third Restatement Date, be deemed to be obligations outstanding hereunder and subject to the terms of this Agreement, and 

	
(ii)
	
each of the other Loan Documents (other than the Existing2016 Credit Agreement) is hereby ratified and confirmed in all respects and shall continue in full force and effect, except that (A) any references therein to the Existing2016 Credit Agreement shall be deemed to refer to this Agreement, and (B) any security granted or guarantee given pursuant to or in connection with the Existing2016 Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents (collectively, the “Existing Security”) shall continue to secure or guarantee, as applicable, the obligations of the Borrowers arising pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement (including all such obligations arising initially pursuant to or in connection with the Existing2016 Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents), except as otherwise agreed in writing in accordance with Section 11.01, including pursuant to any amendments, confirmations, or releases entered into on the Third Restatement Date.

11.23[Reserved]

11.24Acknowledgement Regarding Any Supported QFCs  

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To the extent that the Loan Documents provide support, through a guarantee or otherwise, for any Swap Contract or any other agreement or instrument that is a QFC (such support, “QFC Credit Support”, and each such QFC, a “Supported QFC”), the parties acknowledge and agree as follows with respect to the resolution power of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation under the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and Title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (together with the regulations promulgated thereunder, the “U.S. Special Resolution Regimes”) in respect of such Supported QFC and QFC Credit Support (with the provisions below applicable notwithstanding that the Loan Documents and any Supported QFC may in fact be stated to be governed by the laws of the State of New York and/or of the United States or any other state of the United States):

In the event a Covered Entity that is party to a Supported QFC (each, a “Covered Party”) becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, the transfer of such Supported QFC and the benefit of such QFC Credit Support (and any interest and obligation in or under such Supported QFC and such QFC Credit Support, and any rights in property securing such Supported QFC or such QFC Credit Support) from such Covered Party will be effective to the same extent as the transfer would be effective under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if the Supported QFC and such QFC Credit Support (and any such interest, obligation and rights in property) were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States. In the event a Covered Party or a BHC Act Affiliate of a Covered Party becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, Default Rights under the Loan Documents that might otherwise apply to such Supported QFC or any QFC Credit Support that may be exercised against such Covered Party are permitted to be exercised to no greater extent than such Default Rights could be exercised under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if the Supported QFC and the Loan Documents were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States. Without limitation of the foregoing, it is understood and agreed that rights and remedies of the parties with respect to a Defaulting Lender shall in no event affect the rights of any Covered Party with respect to a Supported QFC or any QFC Credit Support.  

11.25German Parallel Debt.  

For purposes of (i) taking security in, or subject to the laws of, Germany and (ii) ensuring the continued validity of such security, each of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Loan Parties agree:

(a)Each Loan Party hereby irrevocably and unconditionally undertakes to pay to the Administrative Agent, as a creditor in its own right and not as a representative of the Lenders, sums (the “German Parallel Debt”) equal to and in the currency of each amount payable by such Loan Party to each of the Lenders under the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document as and when that amount falls due for payment under the relevant Loan Document or would have fallen due but for any discharge resulting from failure of a Lender to take appropriate steps, in insolvency proceedings affecting that Loan Party, to preserve its entitlement to be paid that amount.

(b)Subject to the limitation set forth under clause (c) below, the Administrative Agent shall have its own independent right to demand payment of the amounts payable by each Loan Party under this Section 11.25, irrespective of any discharge of such Loan Party’s obligation to pay those amounts to the Lenders resulting from failure by them to take appropriate steps, in insolvency proceedings affecting that Loan Party, to preserve their entitlement to be paid those amounts, provided that the amount of the German Parallel Debt of each Loan Party shall at all times be equal to the amount payable by such Loan Party to each of the Lenders under each of the Loan Documents.

(c)Any amount due and payable by a Loan Party to the Administrative Agent under this Section 11.25 shall be decreased to the extent that the Lenders have received (and are able to retain) payment in full of the corresponding amount under the other provisions of the Loan Documents and any amount due and payable 

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by a Loan Party to such Lenders under the other provisions of the Loan Documents shall be decreased to the extent that the Administrative Agent has received (and is able to retain) payment in full of the corresponding amount under this Section 11.25.

(d)Subject to the limitation set forth under clause (c) above, the rights of the Lenders to receive payment of amounts payable by each Loan Party under the Loan Documents are several and are separate and independent from, and without prejudice to, the rights of the Administrative Agent to receive payment under this Section 11.25. 

(e)Notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment under the Loan Documents shall be made to the relevant Loan Party as set out in the respective Loan Document, unless expressly stated otherwise in the relevant Loan Document (save for this Section 11.25) or unless the relevant Loan Party directs such payment to be made to the Administrative Agent.

11.26Administration of German Law Security.  

(a)The Administrative Agent will:

(i)hold and administer any security governed by German law which is security assigned or otherwise transferred to it under a non accessory security right (nicht akzessorische Sicherheit) as trustee (Treuhänder) for the benefit of the Lenders; and

(ii)administer (verwalten) any security governed by German law which is pledged (Verpfändung) or otherwise transferred to any or each Lender under an accessory security right (akzessorische Sicherheit).

(b)Each Lender authorizes the Administrative Agent (whether or not by or through employees or agents):

(i)to exercise such rights, remedies, powers and discretions as are specifically delegated to or conferred upon the Administrative Agent by the documents governing the German Security Agreements and this Agreement together with such powers and discretions as are reasonably incidental thereto;

(ii)to take such action on its behalf as may, from time to time, be authorized under or in accordance with the German Security Agreements and this Agreement; and

(iii)to execute for and on its behalf any and all German Security Agreements.

 

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ANNEX I

SCHEDULE 2.01

COMMITMENTS
AND APPLICABLE PERCENTAGES

			
	
TERM COMMITMENTS

	
Lender
	
Commitment‌1

 
	
Applicable Percentage

	
Bank of America, N.A.
	
€15,829,333.34
	
17.777777785%

	
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
	
€15,829,333.33
	
17.777777774%

	
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association
	
€15,829,333.33
	
17.777777774%

	
Bank of Montreal
	
€12,861,333.34
	
14.444444452%

	
Silicon Valley Bank
	
€10,882,666.66
	
12.222222215%

	
TD Bank, N.A.
	
€9,893,333.34
	
11.111111119%

	
HSBC Bank USA, N.A.
	
–€6,155,851.85
	
6.913580245%

	
HSBC UK Bank Plc
	
€1,758,814.81
	
1.975308637%

	
Total
	
€89,040,000.00
	
100.000000000%

	
 
	
 
	
 

 

			
	
REVOLVING CREDIT COMMITMENTS

 

	
(a) Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment

 

	
Lender
	
Commitment
	
Applicable Percentage

	
Bank of America, N.A.
	
$112,422,222.22
	
16.175859312%

	
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association
	
$112,422,222.22
	
16.175859312 %

	
PNC Bank, National Association
	
$127,000,000.00
	
18.273381295%

	
TD Bank, N.A.
	
$92,388,888.89
	
13.293365308%

	
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
	
$86,922,222.22
	
12.506794564 %

	
Bank of Montreal
	
$64,055,555.56
	
9.216626700 %

	
Silicon Valley Bank
	
$61,277,777.78
	
8.816946443%

	
HSBC Bank USA, N.A.
	
$30,197,530.87
	
4.344968470%

	
HSBC UK Bank Plc
	
$8,313,580.24
	
1.196198596%

	
Total
	
$695,000,000.00
	
100.000000000%

 

 

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(b) Letter of Credit Sublimit

 

	
Lender
	
Letter of Credit Sublimit

	
Bank of America, N.A.
	
$20,000,000.00

	
Total:
	
$20,000,000.00

	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 

	
(c) Swing Line Sublimit

	
 
	
Swing Line Sublimit

	
Bank of America, N.A.
	
$10,000,000.00

	
Total:
	
$10,000,000.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 Note:  The Term Commitments were reduced to zero Euros (€0) on the Third Restatement Date after giving effect to the Term Borrowing on the Third Restatement Date.

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Schedule 2.01 to Credit Agreement 

 

COMMITMENTS
AND APPLICABLE PERCENTAGES

			
	
Term Commitments

	
Lender
	
Commitment1

 
	
Applicable Percentage

	
Bank of America, N.A.
	
€15,217,236.96
	
18.756609095%

	
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association.
	
€15,217,236.96
	
18.756609095%

	
PNC Bank, National Association
	
€13,941,818.73
	
17.184541757%

	
TD Bank, N.A.
	
€12,909,091.41
	
15.911612738%

	
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
	
€10,637,091.32
	
13.111168896%

	
Silicon Valley Bank
	
€8,261,818.51
	
10.183432152%

	
Capital One, National Association
	
€4,945,706.11
	
6.096026267%

	
Total
	
€81,130,000.00
	
100.000000000%

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
	 

	
1
	
 Note:  The Term Commitments were reduced to zero Euros (€0) on the Third Restatement Date after giving effect to the Term Borrowing on the Third Restatement Date.

 

 

 

 

			
	
Revolving Credit Commitments

 

	
(a) Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment

 

	
Lender
	
Commitment
	
Applicable Percentage

	
Bank of America, N.A.
	
$130,358,433.21
	
18.756609095%

	
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association
	
$130,358,433.21
	
18.756609095%

	
PNC Bank, National Association
	
$119,432,565.21
	
17.184541757%

	
TD Bank, N.A.
	
$110,585,708.53
	
15.911612738%

	
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
	
$91,122,623.82
	
13.111168896%

	
Silicon Valley Bank
	
$70,774,853.46
	
10.183432152%

	
Capital One, National Association
	
$42,367,382.56
	
6.096026267%

	
Total
	
$695,000,000.00
	
100.000000000%

 

 

		
	
(b) Letter of Credit Sublimit

 

	
Lender
	
Letter of Credit Sublimit

	
Bank of America, N.A.
	
$20,000,000.00

	
Total:
	
$20,000,000.00

	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 

	
(c) Swing Line Sublimit

	
 
	
Swing Line Sublimit

	
Bank of America, N.A.
	
$10,000,000.00

	
Total:
	
$10,000,000.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Supplement to Schedule 5.08(c) to Credit Agreement

 

“OMITTED”

 

 

 

 

 

Annex II

EXHIBIT A

 

FORM OF COMMITTED LOAN NOTICE

 

Date:  ___________, _____

	
To:
	
Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Reference is made to that certain Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of December 31, 2019 (as amended, restated, extended, supplemented or otherwise modified in writing from time to time, the “Agreement;” the terms defined therein being used herein as therein defined), among NOVANTA CORPORATION, a Michigan corporation (the “Lead Borrower”), NOVANTA UK INVESTMENTS HOLDING LIMITED, a private limited company incorporated in England and Wales (the “U.K. Borrower”) NOVANTA EUROPE GMBH, a limited liability company (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung) formed and existing under the laws of Germany (the “German Borrower”), NOVANTA INC., a company continued and existing under the laws of the Province of New Brunswick, Canada, as Holdings and a Borrower, and jointly and severally together with the Lead Borrower, the U.K. Borrower, the German Borrower and each other Person to join the Agreement as a Borrower, collectively the “Borrowers” and each a “Borrower”), the other Guarantors from time to time party thereto, the Lenders from time to time party thereto, and Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent, L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender.

[Name of Borrower] 2 hereby requests (select one):

	
 
	
☐  A Borrowing
	
☐  A conversion or continuation of Loans

1.On  (a Business Day).

2.In the amount of [Dollars /Euros /Sterling].3

3.Comprised of .
[Type of Committed Loan requested]

4.For Term SOFR or Alternative Currency Term Rate Loans:  with an Interest Period of  months.

The Revolving Credit Borrowing, if any, requested herein complies with the provisos to the first sentence of Section 2.01(b)(ii) of the Agreement.

 

	
	 

	
2 
	
 Novanta Corporation may submit a Committed Loan Notice on behalf of any other Borrower.

	
3 
	
 Base Rate Loans shall be issued in Dollars only. Term SOFR Loans may be issued in Dollars only. For the avoidance of doubt, the German Borrower may borrow in Euros, Dollars or Sterling, provided that (i) any Borrowing by the German Borrower in Euros shall be at the Alternative Currency Term Rate, (ii) any Borrowing by the German Borrower in Dollars shall be at Term SOFR, and (iii) any Borrowing by the German Borrower in Sterling shall be at the Alternative Currency Daily Rate. 

A-1

Form of Committed Loan Notice

 

 

[NOVANTA CORPORATION

 

 

By:  

Name:  

Title:  ]

 

 

[NOVANTA UK INVESTMENTS HOLDING LIMITED

 

 

By:  

Name:  

Title:  ]

 

[NOVANTA EUROPE GMBH

 

 

By:  

Name:  

Title:  ]

 

[NOVANTA INC.

 

By:  

Name:  

Title:  ]4 

 

	
	 

	
4 
	
 As each of Novanta UK Investments Holding Limited, Novanta Europe GmbH and Novanta Inc. is a Foreign Borrower, Base Rate Loans are not available to such Foreign Borrower. 

A-2

Form of Committed Loan Notice

 

 

EXHIBIT C-1

 

FORM OF REVOLVING CREDIT NOTE

	

	
 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned (the “Borrowers”), hereby jointly and severally promise to pay to _____________________ or registered assigns (the “Lender”), in accordance with the provisions of the Agreement (as hereinafter defined), the principal amount of each Revolving Credit Loan from time to time made by the Lender to the Borrowers under that certain Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of December 31, 2019 (as amended, restated, extended, supplemented or otherwise modified in writing from time to time, the “Agreement;” the terms defined therein being used herein as therein defined), among the Borrowers, Novanta Inc., a company continued and existing under the laws of the Province of New Brunswick, Canada (“Holdings” and a Borrower), the other Guarantors from time to time party thereto, the Lenders from time to time party thereto, and Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent, L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender.

The Borrowers promise to pay interest on the unpaid principal amount of each Revolving Credit Loan from the date of such Loan until such principal amount is paid in full, at such interest rates and at such times as provided in the Agreement.  Except as otherwise provided in Section 2.04(f) of the Agreement with respect to Swing Line Loans, all payments of principal and interest shall be made to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lender in the currency required or permitted by the Agreement in immediately available funds at the Administrative Agent’s Office.  If any amount is not paid in full when due hereunder, such unpaid amount shall bear interest, to be paid upon demand, from the due date thereof until the date of actual payment (and before as well as after judgment) computed at the per annum rate set forth in the Agreement.

This Revolving Credit Note is one of the Revolving Credit Notes referred to in the Agreement, is entitled to the benefits thereof and may be prepaid in whole or in part subject to the terms and conditions provided therein.  This Revolving Credit Note is also entitled to the benefits of the Guaranty and is secured by the Collateral.  Upon the occurrence and continuation of one or more of the Events of Default specified in the Agreement, all amounts then remaining unpaid on this Revolving Credit Note shall become, or may be declared to be, immediately due and payable all as provided in the Agreement.  Revolving Credit Loans made by the Lender shall be evidenced by one or more loan accounts or records maintained by the Lender in the ordinary course of business. The Lender may also attach schedules to this Revolving Credit Note and endorse thereon the date, Type (if applicable), amount and maturity of its Revolving Credit Loans and payments with respect thereto.

Each Borrower, for itself, its successors and assigns, hereby waives diligence, presentment, protest and demand and notice of protest, demand, dishonor and non-payment of this Revolving Credit Note.

This Note is a registered obligation, transferable only upon notation in the Register, and no assignment hereof shall be effective until recorded therein.

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C-1-1

Form of Revolving Credit Notice

 

 

THIS NOTE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

NOVANTA CORPORATION

 

 

By:  

Name:  

Title:  

 

NOVANTA UK INVESTMENTS HOLDING LIMITED

 

 

By:  

Name:  

Title:  

 

NOVANTA EUROPE GMBH

 

 

By:  

Name:  

Title:  

 

NOVANTA INC.

 

 

By:  

Name:  

Title:  

 

 

 

C-1-2

Form of Revolving Credit Notice

 

 

LoanS AND PAYMENTS with respect thereto

 

								
	
Date
	
Type of Loan Made
	
Amount of Loan Made
	
Maturity Date
	
End of Interest Period
	
Amount of Principal or Interest Paid This Date
	
Outstanding Principal Balance This Date
	
Notation Made By

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

 

C-1-3

Form of Revolving Credit Notice

 

 

EXHIBIT C-2

FORM OF term NOTE

	

	
 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned (the “Borrowers”), hereby jointly and severally promise to pay to _____________________ or registered assigns (the “Lender”), in accordance with the provisions of the Agreement (as hereinafter defined), the principal amount of the Term Loan from time to time made by the Lender to the Borrowers under that certain Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of December 31, 2019 (as amended, restated, extended, supplemented or otherwise modified in writing from time to time, the “Agreement;” the terms defined therein being used herein as therein defined), among the Borrowers, Novanta Inc., a company continued and existing under the laws of the Province of New Brunswick, Canada (“Holdings” and a Borrower), the other Guarantors from time to time party thereto, the Lenders from time to time party thereto, and Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent.

The Borrowers promise to pay interest on the unpaid principal amount of the Term Loan from the date of such Loan until such principal amount is paid in full, at such interest rates and at such times as provided in the Agreement.  All payments of principal and interest shall be made to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lender in the currency required or permitted by the Agreement in immediately available funds at the Administrative Agent’s Office.  If any amount is not paid in full when due hereunder, such unpaid amount shall bear interest, to be paid upon demand, from the due date thereof until the date of actual payment (and before as well as after judgment) computed at the per annum rate set forth in the Agreement.

This Term Note is one of the Term Notes referred to in the Agreement, is entitled to the benefits thereof and may be prepaid in whole or in part subject to the terms and conditions provided therein.  This Term Note is also entitled to the benefits of the Guaranty and is secured by the Collateral.  Upon the occurrence and continuation of one or more of the Events of Default specified in the Agreement, all amounts then remaining unpaid on this Term Note shall become, or may be declared to be, immediately due and payable all as provided in the Agreement.  The Term Loan made by the Lender shall be evidenced by one or more loan accounts or records maintained by the Lender in the ordinary course of business. The Lender may also attach schedules to this Term Note and endorse thereon the date, Type (if applicable), amount and maturity of its Loan and payments with respect thereto.

Each Borrower, for itself, its successors and assigns, hereby waives diligence, presentment, protest and demand and notice of protest, demand, dishonor and non-payment of this Term Note.

This Note is a registered obligation, transferable only upon notation in the Register, and no assignment hereof shall be effective until recorded therein.

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C-2-1

Form of Term Note

 

 

THIS NOTE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

NOVANTA CORPORATION

 

 

By:  

Name:  

Title:  

 

 

NOVANTA UK INVESTMENTS HOLDING LIMITED

 

 

By:  

Name:  

Title: 

 

NOVANTA EUROPE GMBH

 

 

By:  

Name:  

Title:

 

NOVANTA INC.

 

By:  

Name:  

Title:  

 

  

 

 

 

 

C-2-2

Form of Term Note

 

 

LoanS AND PAYMENTS with respect thereto

 

								
	
Date
	
Type of Loan Made
	
Amount of Loan Made
	
Maturity Date
	
End of Interest Period
	
Amount of Principal or Interest Paid This Date
	
Outstanding Principal Balance This Date
	
Notation Made By

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

 

 

 

 

C-2-3

Form of Term NoteExhibit 10.2

  

   

  
    EXECUTION VERSION

  

   

  

  This SECOND AMENDMENT TO THE REVOLVING CREDIT AND SECURITY AGREEMENT (this “Amendment”), dated as of March 9, 2022 (the “Amendment Date”), is entered into by and among BPC FUNDING LLC, a
    Delaware limited liability company, as the borrower (the “Borrower”), the LENDERS party to the Revolving Credit Agreement, BNP PARIBAS, as the administrative agent (in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”), BARINGS PRIVATE CREDIT
    CORPORATION, a Maryland corporation, as the equityholder (the “Equityholder”), BARINGS PRIVATE CREDIT CORPORATION, a Maryland corporation, as the servicer (the “Servicer”), and STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, as collateral agent (in
    such capacity, the “Collateral Agent”).

   

  WHEREAS, the Borrower, the lenders from time to time party thereto, the Administrative Agent, the Equityholder, the Servicer and the Collateral Agent are party to the Revolving Credit and Security
    Agreement, dated as of May 11, 2021 (as amended from time to time prior to the date hereof, the “Revolving Credit Agreement”); and

   

  WHEREAS, the parties hereto desire to amend the Revolving Credit Agreement, in accordance with Section 13.01(b) of the Revolving Credit Agreement subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein.

   

  NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing premises and the mutual agreements contained herein, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
    acknowledged, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound, hereby agree as follows:

   

  ARTICLE I

      

      Definitions

   

  SECTION 1.1.    Defined Terms. Terms used but not defined herein have the respective meanings given to such terms in the Revolving Credit Agreement, as amended hereby.

   

  ARTICLE II

      

      Amendments to Revolving Credit Agreement

   

  SECTION 2.1.   As of the Amendment Date, the Revolving Credit Agreement is hereby amended to delete the stricken text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following example: stricken text) and to add the bold and double-underlined text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following example: bold and double-underlined text) as set forth on the pages attached as Appendix A hereto.

   

  
    
      

  

  
  ARTICLE III

   

  Representations and Warranties

   

  SECTION 3.1.        The Borrower and the Equityholder hereby represent and warrant to the Administrative Agent and the Lender that, as of the Amendment Date, (i) no Default, Event of Default or
    Servicer Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and (ii) the representations and warranties of the Borrower, the Servicer and the Equityholder contained in Sections 4.01, 4.02 and 4.03 of the Revolving Credit Agreement, as amended hereby, are
    true and correct in all material respects on and as of the Amendment Date (other than any representation and warranty that is made as of a specific date).

   

  ARTICLE IV

      

      Conditions Precedent

   

  SECTION 4.1.     This Amendment will be effective upon the satisfaction of each of the following conditions:

   

  (a)          upon the execution and delivery of this Amendment by the parties hereto;

   

  (b)       the Administrative Agent has received satisfactory evidence that the Borrower has obtained all required consents and approvals of all Persons to the execution, delivery and
    performance of this Amendment and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby;

   

  (c)          all fees due and owing to the Administrative Agent and each Lender on or prior to the Amendment Date have been paid; and

   

  (d)          the Administrative Agent has received a legal opinion of Dechert LLP, counsel to the Borrower, covering such matters as the Administrative Agent has reasonably
    requested.

   

  ARTICLE V

      Miscellaneous

   

  SECTION 5.1.   Governing Law. THIS AMENDMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES UNDER THIS AMENDMENT AND ANY CLAIM, CONTROVERSY, DISPUTE OR CAUSE OF ACTION (WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR
    TORT OR OTHERWISE) BASED UPON, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AMENDMENT AND THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

   

  
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  SECTION 5.2.    Severability of Provisions. Any provision of this Amendment which is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent
    of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof or affecting the validity or enforceability of such provision in any other jurisdiction.

   

  SECTION 5.3.  Ratification. Except as expressly amended hereby, the Revolving Credit Agreement is in all respects ratified and confirmed and all the terms, conditions and provisions thereof
    will remain in full force and effect.  When effective, this Amendment will form a part of the Revolving Credit Agreement for all purposes.

   

  SECTION 5.4.  Counterparts. This Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties hereto on separate
      counterparts, each of which counterparts, when so executed and delivered, shall be deemed to be an original and all of which counterparts, taken together, shall constitute but one and the same agreement.  Delivery of an executed signature page of
      this Amendment by facsimile or other electronic transmission shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart hereof.  This Amendment shall be valid, binding, and enforceable against a party when executed and delivered by an
      authorized individual on behalf of the party by means of (i) an original manual signature, (ii) a faxed, scanned, or photocopied manual signature, or (iii) any other electronic signature permitted by the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and
      National Commerce Act, state enactments of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, and/or any other relevant electronic signatures law, including any relevant provisions of the UCC (collectively, “Signature Law”), in each case to the extent
      applicable.  Each faxed, scanned, or photocopied manual signature, or other electronic signature, shall for all purposes have the same validity, legal effect, and admissibility in evidence as an original manual signature.  Each party hereto shall be
      entitled to conclusively rely upon, and shall have no liability with respect to, any faxed, scanned, or photocopied manual signature, or other electronic signature, of any other party and shall have no duty to investigate, confirm or otherwise verify
      the validity or authenticity thereof.  For the avoidance of doubt, original manual signatures shall be used for execution or indorsement of writings when required under the UCC or other Signature Law due to the character or intended character of the
      writings.

   

  SECTION 5.5.    Headings. The headings of the Articles and Sections in this Amendment are for convenience of reference only and are not deemed to alter or affect the meaning or interpretation
    of any provisions hereof.

   

  SECTION 5.6.  Direction to Execute. The Administrative Agent hereby authorizes and directs the Collateral Agent to execute this Amendment.

   

  [Signature Pages Follow]

   

  

  
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  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be duly executed as of the Amendment Date.

   

  	 	
          BORROWER:

        
	 	

        
	 	
          BPC FUNDING LLC

        
	 	

        
	 	
          By: Barings Private Credit Corporation, its sole member

        
	 	 	 
	 	
          By:

        	
          /s/ Jonathan Landsberg

        
	 	

        	
          Name: Jonathan Landsberg

        
	 	

        	
          Title:  Chief Financial Officer

        

   

  

  
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            EQUITYHOLDER:

          
	 	

          
	 	
            BARINGS PRIVATE CREDIT 

            CORPORATION

          
	 	

          
	 	
            By:

          	
            /s/ Jonathan Landsberg

          
	 	

          	
            Name: Jonathan Landsberg

          
	 	

          	
            Title:  Chief Financial Officer

          
	 	

          
	 	
            SERVICER:

          
	 	

          
	 	
            BARINGS PRIVATE CREDIT 

            CORPORATION,

          
	 	
            as Servicer

          
	 	

          
	 	
            By:

          	
            /s/ Jonathan Landsberg

          
	 	

          	
            Name: Jonathan Landsberg

          
	 	

          	
            Title:  Chief Financial Officer

          

  

   

  
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              ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT:

            
	 	 
	 	
              BNP PARIBAS,

            
	 	
              as Administrative Agent

            
	 	

            
	 	
              By:

            	
              /s/ Meredith Middleton

            
	 	

            	
              Name: Meredith Middleton

            
	 	

            	
              Title:   Director

            
	 	

            
	 	
              By:

            	
              /s/ Sohaib Naim

              

            
	 	

            	
              Name: Sohaib Naim

            
	 	

            	
              Title:   Director

            
	 	  
	 	
              LENDER:

            
	 	  
	 	
              BNP PARIBAS,

            
	 	
              as Lender

            
	 	

            
	 	
              By:

            	
              /s/ Meredith Middleton

            
	 	

            	
              Name: Meredith Middleton

            
	 	

            	
              Title:   Director

            
	 	  
	 	
              By:

            	
              /s/ Sohaib Naim

              

            
	 	

            	
              Name: Sohaib Naim

            
	 	

            	
              Title:   Director

            

    

     

    

    
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          COLLATERAL AGENT:

        
	 	 
	 	
          STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY

        
	 	 
	 	
          By:

        	
          /s/ Brian Peterson

          

        
	 	

        	
          Name:  Brian Peterson

        
	 	

        	
          Title:    Vice President

        

  
     

    

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          EXEUTION VERSION

          Conformed through FirstSecond Amendment, dated November 18March 9, 20212022

        

        

        

        
          REVOLVING CREDIT AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

           

          among

           

          BPC FUNDING LLC,

            as Borrower,

           

          THE LENDERS FROM TIME TO TIME PARTIES HERETO,

           

          BNP PARIBAS,

            as Administrative Agent,

           

          BARINGS PRIVATE CREDIT CORPORATION,

            as Equityholder,

           

          BARINGS PRIVATE CREDIT CORPORATION, as Servicer,

           

          and

           

          STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY,

            as Collateral Agent

           

          Dated as of May 11, 2021

           

          
            
              

          

          
            	
                    TABLE OF CONTENTS

                  
	
                    Page

                  
	
                    ARTICLE I

                  
	 
	
                    DEFINITIONS; RULES OF CONSTRUCTION; COMPUTATIONS

                  
	 
	
                    Section 1.01

                  	
                    Definitions

                  	
                    1

                  
	
                    Section 1.02

                  	
                    Rules of Construction

                  	
                    5669

                  
	
                    Section 1.03

                  	
                    Computation of Time Periods

                  	
                    5770

                  
	
                    Section 1.04

                  	
                    Collateral Value Calculation Procedures

                  	
                    5770

                  
	 	 	 
	
                    ARTICLE II

                  
	 
	
                    ADVANCES

                  
	 
	
                    Section 2.01

                  	
                    Revolving Credit Facility

                  	
                    5972

                  
	
                    Section 2.02

                  	
                    Requests for Collateral Loan Approval

                  	
                    6072

                  
	
                    Section 2.03

                  	
                    Making of the Advances

                  	
                    6275

                  
	
                    Section 2.04

                  	
                    Evidence of Indebtedness

                  	
                    6476

                  
	
                    Section 2.05

                  	
                    Payment of Principal and Interest

                  	
                    6477

                  
	
                    Section 2.06

                  	
                    Prepayment of Advances

                  	
                    6577

                  
	
                    Section 2.07

                  	
                    Changes of Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amounts

                  	
                    6578

                  
	
                    Section 2.08

                  	
                    Maximum Lawful Rate

                  	
                    6679

                  
	
                    Section 2.09

                  	
                    Several Obligations

                  	
                    6679

                  
	
                    Section 2.10

                  	
                    Increased Costs

                  	
                    6679

                  
	
                    Section 2.11

                  	
                    Compensation; Breakage Payments

                  	
                    6880

                  
	
                    Section 2.12

                  	
                    Inability to Determine Rates; SONIA Market Disruption and Cost of Funds 68; SARON Market Disruption and Cost of Funds

                  	
                    81

                  
	
                    Section 2.13

                  	
                    Rescission or Return of Payment

                  	
                    6983

                  
	
                    Section 2.14

                  	
                    Post-Default Interest

                  	
                    6983

                  
	
                    Section 2.15

                  	
                    Payments Generally

                  	
                    7083

                  
	
                    Section 2.16

                  	
                    Extension of Facility Termination Date

                  	
                    7184

                  
	
                    Section 2.17

                  	
                    Defaulting Lenders

                  	
                    7185

                  
	
                    Section 2.18

                  	
                    Effect of Benchmark Transition Event 73Replacement Setting

                  	
                    86

                  
	 	 	 
	
                    ARTICLE III

                  
	 
	
                    CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

                  
	 
	
                    Section 3.01

                  	
                    Conditions Precedent to Initial Advance

                  	
                    8195

                  
	
                    Section 3.02

                  	
                    Conditions Precedent to Each Advance

                  	
                    8397

                  
	 	 	 

            

            

            
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                    ARTICLE IV

                  
	 
	
                    REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

                  
	 
	
                    Section 4.01

                  	
                    Representations and Warranties of the Borrower

                  	
                    8499

                  
	
                    Section 4.02

                  	
                    Representations and Warranties of the Servicer

                  	
                    89104

                  
	
                    Section 4.03

                  	
                    Representations and Warranties of the Equityholder

                  	
                    92106

                  
	 	 	 
	
                    ARTICLE V

                  
	 
	
                    COVENANTS

                  
	 
	
                    Section 5.01

                  	
                    Affirmative Covenants of the Borrower

                  	
                    94109

                  
	
                    Section 5.02

                  	
                    Covenants of the Servicer

                  	
                    99113

                  
	
                    Section 5.03

                  	
                    Negative Covenants of the Borrower

                  	
                    102116

                  
	
                    Section 5.04

                  	
                    Covenants of the Equityholder

                  	
                    105119

                  
	
                    Section 5.05

                  	
                    Certain Undertakings Relating to Separateness

                  	
                    105120

                  
	 	 	 
	
                    ARTICLE VI

                  
	 
	
                    EVENTS OF DEFAULT

                  
	 
	
                    Section 6.01

                  	
                    Events of Default

                  	
                    108122

                  
	
                    Section 6.02

                  	
                    OC Ratio Posting Payments

                  	
                    111126

                  
	 	 	 
	
                    ARTICLE VII

                  
	 
	
                    PLEDGE OF COLLATERAL; RIGHTS OF THE COLLATERAL AGENT

                  
	 
	
                    Section 7.01

                  	
                    Grant of Security

                  	
                    111126

                  
	
                    Section 7.02

                  	
                    Release of Security Interest

                  	
                    112128

                  
	
                    Section 7.03

                  	
                    Rights and Remedies

                  	
                    113128

                  
	
                    Section 7.04

                  	
                    Remedies Cumulative

                  	
                    116131

                  
	
                    Section 7.05

                  	
                    Related Documents

                  	
                    116131

                  
	
                    Section 7.06

                  	
                    Borrower Remains Liable

                  	
                    116131

                  
	
                    Section 7.07

                  	
                    Protection of Collateral

                  	
                    117132

                  
	 	 	 
	
                    ARTICLE VIII

                  
	 
	
                    ACCOUNTS, ACCOUNTINGS AND RELEASES

                  
	 
	
                    Section 8.01

                  	
                    Collection of Money

                  	
                    118133

                  
	
                    Section 8.02

                  	
                    Collateral Account and Collection Account

                  	
                    118133

                  
	
                    Section 8.03

                  	
                    Payment Account

                  	
                    119134

                  
	
                    Section 8.04

                  	
                    The Revolving Reserve Account; Fundings

                  	
                    119134

                  
	
                    Section 8.05

                  	
                    [Reserved]

                  	
                    120135

                  

            

            

            
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                    Section 8.06

                  	
                    Reinvestment of Funds in Covered Accounts; Reports by Collateral Agent

                  	
                    120135

                  
	
                    Section 8.07

                  	
                    Accountings

                  	
                    121136

                  
	
                    Section 8.08

                  	
                    Release of Collateral

                  	
                    123138

                  
	
                    Section 8.09

                  	
                    Reports by Independent Accountants

                  	
                    124139

                  
	 	 	 
	
                    ARTICLE IX

                  
	 
	
                    APPLICATION OF MONIES

                  
	 
	
                    Section 9.01

                  	
                    Disbursements of Monies from Payment Account

                  	
                    125140

                  
	 	 	 
	
                    ARTICLE X

                  
	 
	
                    SALE OF COLLATERAL LOANS;

                  
	
                    PURCHASE OF ADDITIONAL COLLATERAL LOANS

                  
	 
	
                    Section 10.01

                  	
                    Sales of Collateral Loans

                  	
                    129144

                  
	
                    Section 10.02

                  	
                    Purchase of Additional Collateral Loans

                  	
                    130145

                  
	
                    Section 10.03

                  	
                    Conditions Applicable to All Sale and Purchase Transactions

                  	
                    131146

                  
	
                    Section 10.04

                  	
                    Additional Equity Contributions

                  	
                    131146

                  
	
                    Section 10.05

                  	
                    Transfer of Warranty Collateral Loans

                  	
                    131146

                  
	 	 	 
	
                    ARTICLE XI

                  
	 
	
                    ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF CONTRACTS

                  
	 
	
                    Section 11.01

                  	
                    Appointment and Designation of the Servicer

                  	
                    132147

                  
	
                    Section 11.02

                  	
                    Duties of the Servicer

                  	
                    132147

                  
	
                    Section 11.03

                  	
                    Authorization of the Servicer

                  	
                    134149

                  
	
                    Section 11.04

                  	
                    Collection Efforts, Modification of Collateral

                  	
                    135150

                  
	
                    Section 11.05

                  	
                    Servicer Compensation

                  	
                    135150

                  
	
                    Section 11.06

                  	
                    The Servicer Not to Resign

                  	
                    135150

                  
	 	 	 
	
                    ARTICLE XII

                  
	 
	
                    THE AGENTS

                  
	 
	
                    Section 12.01

                  	
                    Authorization and Action

                  	
                    136151

                  
	
                    Section 12.02

                  	
                    Delegation of Duties

                  	
                    137152

                  
	
                    Section 12.03

                  	
                    Agents’ Reliance, Etc.

                  	
                    137152

                  
	
                    Section 12.04

                  	
                    Indemnification

                  	
                    139155

                  
	
                    Section 12.05

                  	
                    Successor Agents

                  	
                    140155

                  
	
                    Section 12.06

                  	
                    The Collateral Agent

                  	
                    141156

                  

            

            

            
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                    ARTICLE XIII

                  
	 
	
                    MISCELLANEOUS

                  
	
                    Section 13.01

                  	
                    No Waiver; Modifications in Writing

                  	
                    143160

                  
	
                    Section 13.02

                  	
                    Notices, Etc.

                  	
                    143161

                  
	
                    Section 13.03

                  	
                    Taxes

                  	
                    144161

                  
	
                    Section 13.04

                  	
                    Costs and Expenses; Indemnification

                  	
                    148165

                  
	
                    Section 13.05

                  	
                    Execution in Counterparts

                  	
                    150167

                  
	
                    Section 13.06

                  	
                    Assignability

                  	
                    150167

                  
	
                    Section 13.07

                  	
                    Governing Law

                  	
                    152169

                  
	
                    Section 13.08

                  	
                    Severability of Provisions

                  	
                    152170

                  
	
                    Section 13.09

                  	
                    Confidentiality

                  	
                    153170

                  
	
                    Section 13.10

                  	
                    Merger

                  	
                    153171

                  
	
                    Section 13.11

                  	
                    Survival

                  	
                    153171

                  
	
                    Section 13.12

                  	
                    Submission to Jurisdiction; Waivers; Etc.

                  	
                    154171

                  
	
                    Section 13.13

                  	
                    Waiver of Jury Trial

                  	
                    155172

                  
	
                    Section 13.14

                  	
                    Right of Setoff; Payments Pro Rata

                  	
                    155172

                  
	
                    Section 13.15

                  	
                    PATRIOT Act Notice

                  	
                    156173

                  
	
                    Section 13.16

                  	
                    Legal Holidays

                  	
                    156173

                  
	
                    Section 13.17

                  	
                    Limited Recourse; Non-Petition

                  	
                    156173

                  
	
                    Section 13.18

                  	
                    Waiver of Setoff

                  	
                    157174

                  
	
                    Section 13.19

                  	
                    Collateral Agent Execution and Delivery

                  	
                    157174

                  
	
                    Section 13.20

                  	
                    Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of Affected Financial Institutions

                  	
                    157175

                  
	
                    Section 13.21

                  	
                    WAIVER OF SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY

                  	
                    158175

                  
	
                    Section 13.22

                  	
                    Risk Retention

                  	
                    158175

                  
	
                    Section 13.23

                  	
                    EU Due Diligence Requirements.

                  	
                    159177

                  
	
                    Section 13.24

                  	
                    Compliance with the Securitisation Regulation

                  	
                    159177

                  
	
                    Section 13.25

                  	
                    Adequacy of Monetary Damages Against the Lenders

                  	
                    159177

                  

          

          

          

          
            SCHEDULES

             

            

            	
                    Schedule 1

                  	
                    Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amounts and Percentages

                  
	
                    Schedule 2

                  	
                    Approved Appraisal Firms

                  
	
                    Schedule 3

                  	
                    Initial Collateral Loans

                  
	
                    Schedule 4

                  	
                    S&P Industry Classifications

                  
	
                    Schedule 5

                  	
                    Notice Information

                  
	
                    Schedule 6

                  	
                    Authorized Signatories

                  
	
                    Schedule 7

                  	
                    Diversity Score

                  
	
                    Schedule 8

                  	
                    [Reserved]

                  
	
                    Schedule 9

                  	
                    Approved List

                  
	
                    Schedule 10

                  	
                    Moody’s Rating Definitions

                  
	
                    Schedule 11

                  	
                    S&P Rating

                  
	
                    Schedule 12

                  	
                    [Reserved]

                  
	
                    Schedule 13

                  	
                    Cumulative Compounded SONIA Rate

                  
	
                    Schedule 14

                  	
                    Daily Non-Cumulative Compounded SARON Rate

                  
	
                    Schedule 15

                  	
                    Cumulative Compounded SARON Rate

                  
	 	 
	
                    EXHIBITS

                  
	
                    Exhibit A

                  	
                    Form of Note

                  
	
                    Exhibit B

                  	
                    Form of Notice of Borrowing (with attached form of Borrowing Base Calculation Statement)

                  
	
                    Exhibit C

                  	
                    Form of Notice of Prepayment

                  
	
                    Exhibit D

                  	
                    Form of Assignment and Acceptance

                  
	
                    Exhibit E

                  	
                    [Reserved]

                  
	
                    Exhibit F

                  	
                    Agreed-Upon Procedures

                  
	
                    Exhibit G

                  	
                    Form of Extension Request

                  
	
                    Exhibit H

                  	
                    Form of Data Report

                  
	
                    Exhibit I

                  	
                    Form of Approval Request

                  

          

          

          

          
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          REVOLVING CREDIT AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

           

          REVOLVING CREDIT AND SECURITY AGREEMENT, dated as of May 11, 2021, among BPC FUNDING LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as borrower (the “Borrower”),

            the LENDERS from time to time party hereto, BNP PARIBAS (“BNP”), as administrative agent for the Secured Parties (as hereinafter defined) (in such
            capacity, the “Administrative Agent”), BARINGS PRIVATE CREDIT CORPORATION, a Maryland corporation (in such capacity, the “Equityholder”), BARINGS PRIVATE
              CREDIT CORPORATION, a Maryland corporation, as servicer (in such capacity, the “Servicer”), and STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY (“State Street”), as collateral agent for the
            Secured Parties (as hereinafter defined) (in such capacity, the “Collateral Agent”).

           

          W I T N E S S E T H:

           

          WHEREAS, the Borrower desires that the Lenders make advances on a revolving basis to the Borrower on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement; and

           

          WHEREAS, each Lender is willing to make such advances to the Borrower on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement.

           

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

           

          ARTICLE I

            

            DEFINITIONS; RULES OF CONSTRUCTION; COMPUTATIONS

           

          Section 1.01          Definitions.  As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:

           

          “Account Control Agreement” means that certain Account Control Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, among the Borrower, the Servicer, the Collateral Agent and State Street, as
            Securities Intermediary, which agreement relates to the Covered Accounts.

           

          “Adjusted Cumulative Compounded SARON” means for any Interest Accrual Period, with respect to any CHF Advance (or portion thereof), the rate per annum (carried out to the fifth
                decimal place) equal to the rate determined by the Administrative Agent to be the sum of (x) the Cumulative Compounded SARON Rate as of the SARON Reporting Day and (y) the Baseline CAS. If the calculation of Adjusted Cumulative Compounded SARON results in
                a rate of less than zero (0), Adjusted Cumulative Compounded SARON shall be deemed to be zero (0) for all purposes hereunder.

           

          
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          “Adjusted Cumulative Compounded SONIA” means for any Interest Accrual Period, with
                respect to any GBP Advance (or portion thereof), the rate per annum (carried out to the fifth decimal place) equal to the rate determined by the Administrative Agent to be the sum of (x) the Cumulative Compounded SONIA Rate as of the SONIA Reporting
                Day and (y) the Baseline CAS. If the calculation of Adjusted Cumulative Compounded SONIA results in a rate of less than zero (0), Adjusted Cumulative Compounded SONIA shall be deemed to be zero (0) for all purposes hereunder.

           

          “Adjusted CumulativeNon-Cumulative Compounded SONIASARON” means for any Interest Accrual Period,
            with respect to any GBPCHF Advance
            (or portion thereof), the rate per annum (carried out to the fifthfourth decimal place) equal to the rate determined by the Administrative Agent to be the sum of (x) the CumulativeDaily Non-Cumulative Compounded SONIASARON Rate as of the SONIASARON Reporting Day and (y) the Baseline CAS. If the calculation of Adjusted CumulativeNon-Cumulative Compounded SONIASARON results in a rate of less
            than zero (0), Adjusted CumulativeNon-Cumulative
            Compounded SONIASARON shall be deemed
            to be zero (0) for all purposes hereunder.

           

          “Adjusted Principal Balance” means, for any Eligible Collateral Loan, as of any date of determination, an amount equal to the Loan Value of such Eligible Collateral Loan as of such date
            multiplied by the Principal Balance of such Eligible Collateral Loan as of such date; provided that, the parties hereby agree that the Adjusted
            Principal Balance of any Ineligible Collateral Loan as of such date of determination shall be zero.

           

          “Administrative Agent” has the meaning assigned to such term in the introduction to this Agreement.

           

          “Administrative Expense Cap” means, for any Payment Date, an amount not to exceed $225,000 for any twelve (12) month period (other than fees and expenses incurred on or prior to the
            Closing Date).

           

          “Administrative Expenses” means the fees and expenses (including indemnities) and other amounts of the Borrower (or any Tax Blocker Subsidiary) due or accrued with respect to any Payment
            Date and payable in the following order:

           

          (a)          first, on a pro rata basis, to the Collateral Agent, the Custodian and the
            Securities Intermediary, any amounts and indemnities payable to such entities pursuant to the Facility Documents; and

           

          (b)          second, on a pro rata basis, to:

           

          (i)          the Independent Accountants, agents (other than the Servicer) and outside counsel of the Borrower for fees and expenses related to the Collateral and the
            Facility Documents and to the Independent Manager of the Borrower for its fees and expenses incurred in acting in such capacity; and

           

          (ii)         to any rating agency for fees and expenses in connection with the rating of (or provision of credit estimates in respect of) any Collateral Loan.

           

          “Advance” means each loan advanced by the Lenders to the Borrower on a Borrowing Date pursuant to Article II.

           

          
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          “Advance Rate” means, with respect to any Collateral Loan, the percentage set forth in the below table corresponding to the Loan Type and Loan Class of such Collateral Loan, subject to
            the exceptions and adjustments set forth immediately following such table:

           

          

          	
                  
                     

                    Loan Type that are not Recurring 

                    Revenue Loans

                  

                	 	
                  
                     

                    Loan Class

                  

                	 	
                  
                     

                    Advance Rate

                  

                
	
                  First Lien Loans

                	 	
                  Class 1A Loans

                	 	
                  72.5%

                
	 	 	
                  Class 2A Loans

                	 	
                  67.5%

                
	 	 	
                  Class 3A Loans

                	 	
                  62.5%

                
	
                  First Lien Last Out Loans

                	 	
                  Class 1A Loans

                	 	
                  55.0%

                
	 	 	
                  Class 2A Loans

                	 	
                  55.0%

                
	 	 	
                  Class 3A Loans

                	 	
                  55.0%

                
	
                  Second Lien Loans

                	 	
                  Class 1B Loans

                	 	
                  45.0%

                
	
                  

                  

                	 	
                  Class 2B Loans

                	 	
                  40.0%

                
	
                  

                  

                	 	
                  Class 3B Loans

                	 	
                  35.0%

                

           

          Notwithstanding the percentages set forth in the preceding table:

           

          (a)         any First Lien Last Out Loans of Obligors domiciled or having their principal place of business in the United States with a First Out Leverage greater than
            2.25:1.00 will be assigned the percentages set forth in the preceding table corresponding to Second Lien Loans of the Related Loan Class applicable to such Collateral Loan;

           

          (b)        any First Lien Last Out Loans of Obligors domiciled or having their principal place of business in Europe with a First Out Leverage greater than 2.00:1.00 will be
            assigned the percentages set forth in the preceding table corresponding to Second Lien Loans of the Related Loan Class applicable to such Collateral Loan;

           

          (c)         the Advance Rate of any First Lien Loans with a Senior Net Leverage Ratio exceeding the First Lien Senior Leverage Cut-Off will be a blended rate, calculated as
            follows:

           

          (i)         the portion of such First Lien Loan up to the First Lien Senior Leverage Cut-Off will be assigned the percentage set forth in the preceding table corresponding to
            First Lien Loans of the Related Loan Class applicable to such Collateral Loan;

           

          (ii)        the portion of such First Lien Loan above the First Lien Senior Leverage Cut-Off up to the First Lien Senior Leverage Cap will be assigned the percentage set
            forth in the preceding table corresponding to Second Lien Loans of the Related Loan Class applicable to such Collateral Loan; and

           

          (iii)        the portion of such First Lien Loan above the First Lien Senior Leverage Cap will be assigned an Advance Rate of zero;

           

          (d)         portions of First Lien Loans assigned a percentage set forth in the preceding table corresponding to Second Lien Loans will be treated as First Lien Loans and not
            be treated as Second Lien Loans for all other purposes hereunder, including for purposes of calculating Concentration Limitations;

           

          
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          (e)         for the purposes of determining Advance Rates, the Senior Net Leverage Ratio of a Collateral Loan will be calculated as of the most recently ended Relevant Test
            Period for which financial reporting of the Obligor has been delivered to the Borrower prior to the date the Administrative Agent has approved an Approval Request for such Collateral Loan pursuant to Section 2.02 or, after the occurrence of a
            Revaluation Event, as of the most recently ended Relevant Test Period for which financial reporting of the Obligor has been delivered to the Borrower;

           

          (f)          if such Collateral Loan is a Cap Adjusted Loan, the Administrative Agent may assign the Advance Rate for such Collateral Loan in its approval of the Approval
            Request for such Collateral Loan in its sole discretion and may further increase such Advance Rate subsequently, in its sole discretion;

           

          (g)          if such Collateral Loan was acquired in the form of a participation and such participation is not elevated to an assignment of the Collateral Loan to the
            Borrower within 90 days of the Borrower’s acquisition of such Collateral Loan (or such later date as the Administrative Agent may agree in its sole discretion), thereafter, for so long as such Collateral Loan remains in the form of a
            participation, the Advance Rate of such Collateral Loan shall be zero (provided that, upon the date such Collateral Loan is elevated to an assignment, the Advance Rate of such Collateral Loan shall be the initial Advance Rate assigned to such
            Collateral Loan); and

           

          (h)          if such Collateral Loan is a First Lien Loan that is a Recurring Revenue Loan, the Administrative Agent will assign an Advance Rate in its sole discretion.

           

          “Affected Financial Institution” means (a) any EEA Financial Institution or (b) any UK Financial Institution.

           

          “Affected Person” means (a) the Administrative Agent, each Lender and each of their respective Affiliates and (b) any assignee or participant of any Lender (unless the benefit of any
            particular provision hereof to any such Affected Person is otherwise expressly excluded herein).

           

          “Affiliate” means, in respect of a referenced Person at any time, another Person Controlling, Controlled by or under common Control with such referenced Person but which shall not, with
            respect to the Borrower, include the obligors under any Collateral Loan; provided that (a) an obligor will not be considered an “Affiliate” of any other obligor solely due to the fact that each such obligor is under the control of the
            same financial, private equity or similar sponsor and (b) obligors in respect of Collateral Loans shall be deemed not to be “Affiliates” if they have distinct corporate family ratings and/or distinct issuer credit ratings.  The Borrower will be
            deemed to have no “Affiliates.”

           
            “Agents” means the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent, collectively or individually, as the context requires.

             

            

          

          
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          “Aggregate Adjusted Collateral Balance” means, as of any date of determination, an amount equal to the sum of the Dollar Equivalent of the Adjusted Principal Balances of all Collateral
            Loans in the Collateral (including each potential Collateral Loan that the Borrower has entered into a binding commitment to purchase that has not yet settled) on such date, after giving effect to all Collateral Loans added to and removed from
            the Collateral on such date.

           

          “Aggregate Class 1A Net Collateral Balance” means, as of any date of determination, an amount equal to the portion of the Aggregate Net Collateral Balance allocable to Class 1A Loans as
            of such date of determination.

           

          “Aggregate Class 1B Net Collateral Balance” means, as of any date of determination, an amount equal to the portion of the Aggregate Net Collateral Balance allocable to Class 1B Loans as
            of such date of determination.

           

          “Aggregate Class 2A Net Collateral Balance” means, as of any date of determination, an amount equal to the portion of the Aggregate Net Collateral Balance allocable to Class 2A Loans as
            of such date of determination.

           

          “Aggregate Class 2B Net Collateral Balance” means, as of any date of determination, an amount equal to the portion of the Aggregate Net Collateral Balance allocable to Class 2B Loans as
            of such date of determination.

           

          “Aggregate Class 3A Net Collateral Balance” means, as of any date of determination, an amount equal to the portion of the Aggregate Net Collateral Balance allocable to Class 3A Loans as
            of such date of determination.

           

          “Aggregate Class 3B Net Collateral Balance” means, as of any date of determination, an amount equal to the portion of the Aggregate Net Collateral Balance allocable to Class 3B Loans as
            of such date of determination.

           

          “Aggregate Net Collateral Balance” means, as of any date of determination, the Aggregate Adjusted Collateral Balance minus the Excess
            Concentration Amount, in each case, as of such date of determination.

           

          “Aggregate Principal Balance” means, when used with respect to all or a portion of the Collateral Loans, the sum of the Principal Balances of all or of such portion of such Collateral
            Loans.

           

          “Agreement” means this Revolving Credit and Security Agreement.

           

          “Applicable Index” means, with respect to (a) Dollar Advances,  LIBORthe Term SOFR Reference Rate, (b) with respect to GBP Advances, Adjusted Cumulative Compounded SONIA, (c) with respect to Euro Advances, EURIBOR, (d) with respect
            to AUD Advances, BBSW, (e) with respect to CAD Advances, CDOR, (f) with respect to NZD Advances, NZBB  and, (f) with respect to SEK Advances, STIBOR and (g) with
                respect to CHF Advances, Adjusted Non-Cumulative Compounded SARON or, in each case, any other successor index pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.

           

          
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          “Applicable Law” means, for any Person, any Law of any Governmental Authority, including all federal and state banking or securities laws, to which the Person in question is subject or
            by which it or any of its assets or properties are bound.

           

          “Applicable Margin” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Lender Fee Letter.

           

          “Appraisal” means an appraisal or valuation of a Collateral Loan that is conducted by an Approved Appraisal Firm, which may be in the form of an update or reaffirmation by an Approved
            Appraisal Firm of an appraisal or valuation previously performed by such Approved Appraisal Firm or another Approved Appraisal Firm.

           

          “Approval Request” has the meaning specified in Section 2.02 hereof.

           

          “Approved Appraisal Firm” means those entities set forth on Schedule 2 (and any of their respective Affiliates that are clearly identifiable as such solely on the basis of such
            Affiliate’s name) and any appraisal or valuation firm providing such service to the Servicer; provided that any other independent appraisal or valuation firm or independent financial advisor recognized as being experienced in conducting
            appraisals or valuations of secured loans may be added to Schedule 2 as an “Approved Appraisal Firm” with the consent of the Administrative Agent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned).

           

          “Approved List” has the meaning specified in Section 2.02 hereof.

           

          “Asset Information” means, with respect to any Obligor, in each case to the extent available to the Borrower and subject to any confidentiality obligations or any redactions required by
            the Servicer’s internal policies and procedures (it being understood that to the extent any of the information described in any of the following is contained in the Servicer’s internal credit memo described in clause (d) below, such information
            need not be separately represented by any document or file and, for all purposes of this Agreement, will be deemed delivered upon delivery of such internal credit memo): (a) the legal name of such Obligor, (b) the jurisdiction in which such
            Obligor is domiciled, (c) the audited financial statements for the two prior fiscal years of such Obligor (or such shorter period of time for which such audited financial statements have been prepared and are available) or, in lieu of audited
            financial statements for any such period, a quality of earnings report for such period prepared by a nationally or regionally recognized accounting or financial advisory firm, (d) the Servicer’s internal credit memo with respect to such Obligor
            and the related Collateral Loan, (e) the informational memorandum, offering memorandum or similar document, if any, issued by the bookrunner or the administrative agent for such Obligor and relating to such Collateral Loan, (f) a company
            forecast of such Obligor including plans related to capital expenditures, (g) the business model, company strategy and names of known peers of such Obligor, (h) details of the management team of such Obligor, (i) details of any banking
            facilities and the debt maturity schedule of such Obligor, (j) reserved, and (k) a copy of the related credit agreement (which may be a draft) specifying the terms and governing the repayment of such Collateral Loan; provided, that, in
            each case, to the extent any of the above information is unavailable, the Servicer shall notify the Administrative Agent of any such missing information, and the Administrative Agent may, in its sole discretion, provide a waiver with respect to
            such information.

           

          
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          “Assignment and Acceptance” means an Assignment and Acceptance in substantially the form of Exhibit D, entered into by a Lender, an assignee, the Administrative Agent and, if applicable,
            the Borrower.

           

          “AUD Advances” means Advances made in Australian Dollars.

           

          “AUP Report Date” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.09 hereof.

           

          “Australian Dollars” means the lawful currency of Australia.

           

          “Available Currency” means, at any time, any of Dollars, Pounds Sterling, Euro, Australian Dollars, Canadian Dollars, New Zealand Dollars, Swedish Krona or Swiss Francs, and, with the
            prior written consent of each Multicurrency Lender and the Administrative Agent and prior notice to the Collateral Agent, any other currency, so long as, in respect of any such specified currency, it is available and acceptable to the
            Collateral Agent and at such time no central bank or other governmental authorization in the country of issue of such currency (including, in the case of the Euro, any authorization by the European Central Bank) is required to permit use of
            such currency by any Lender for making any Advance hereunder and/or to permit the Borrower to borrow and repay the principal thereof and to pay the interest thereon, unless such authorization has been obtained and is in full force and effect.

           

          “Available Tenor” means, as of any date of determination and with respect to the
                then-current Benchmark for any Available Currency, as applicable, (x) if such Benchmark is a term rate, any tenor for such Benchmark (or component thereof) that is or may be used for determining the length of an interest period pursuant to this Agreement or (y) otherwise, any payment period for interest calculated with reference to such Benchmark (or component thereof) that is or may be
                used for determining any frequency of making payments of interest calculated with reference to such Benchmark pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, as of such date and not including, for the avoidance of doubt, any tenor for such Benchmark that is then-removed from the definition of “Interest Accrual Period” pursuant to Section 2.18(d).

           

          “Bail-In Action” means the exercise of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an Affected Financial Institution.

           

          “Bail-In Legislation” means, (a) with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European
            Union (as amended or re-enacted) establishing a framework for the recovery and resolution of credit institutions and investment firms, the relevant implementing law, regulation, rule or requirement for such EEA Member Country from time to time
            which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, Part I of the United Kingdom Banking Act 2009 (as amended from time to time) and any other law, regulation or rule applicable in the United
            Kingdom relating to the resolution of unsound or failing banks, investment firms or other financial institutions or their affiliates (other than through liquidation, administration or other insolvency proceedings).  For the purposes of this
            definition, a reference to “regulation” includes any regulation, rule, official directive, request or guideline (whether or not having the force of law) of any governmental, intergovernmental or supranational body, agency, department or of any
            regulatory, self-regulatory or other authority or organisation.

           

          
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          “Bankruptcy Code” means the United States Bankruptcy Code, Title 11, United States Code §§101 et seq., or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law from time to time in
            effect and affecting the rights of creditors generally.

           

          “Base Rate” means, on any date, a fluctuating interest rate per annum equal to the higher of (a) the Prime Rate and (b) the Federal Funds Rate
            plus 0.50%.  The Base Rate is a reference rate and does not necessarily represent the lowest or best rate actually charged to any customer of any Agent or any Lender.  Interest calculated pursuant to clause (a) above will be determined based on
            a year of 365 or 366 days, as applicable, and actual days elapsed.  Interest calculated pursuant to clause (b) above will be determined based on a year of 360 days and actual days elapsed.  If the calculation of the Base Rate results in a Base
            Rate of less than zero (0), the Base Rate shall be deemed to be zero (0) for all purposes hereunder.

           

          “Baseline CAS” means (a) with respect to a GBP Advance, 0.1193% and (b) with respect to a CHF Advance, 0.0031%.

           

          “BBSW” means, for any date of determination, with respect to any AUD Advance (or portion thereof), the rate per annum (carried out to the fifth
            decimal place) equal to the rate determined by the Administrative Agent to be the average mid rate that appears on the Reuters Screen BBSW Page (or any applicable successor or substitute page providing rate quotations comparable to those
            currently provided on such page of such service) at approximately 10:00 a.m. (Sydney time) two (2) Business Days prior to the beginning of such Collection Period for Australian Dollar bills of exchange with a term equivalent to three months;
            provided that if such rate is not available at any such time for any reason, “BBSW” with respect to any AUD Advance shall be the mid of the bid and ask rates at which Australian Dollar bills of exchange of AUD5,000,000 and for a three-month
            maturity are quoted or would have been quoted by the principal Sydney office of any bank (which may be the Administrative Agent) reasonably selected by the Administrative Agent at approximately 10:00 a.m. (Sydney time) on the applicable day
            (or, if such day is not a Business Day, on the immediately preceding Business Day); provided, further that, in the event that the rate as so determined above shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for purposes of this
            Agreement. BBSW shall always be determined by the Administrative Agent, and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

           

          “Benchmark” means, initially, each Applicable Index; provided that if a Benchmark Transition Event, a
                Term SOFR Transition Event or an Early Opt-in Election, as applicable, and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have has
            occurred with respect to such Applicable Index or the then-current Benchmark for such Available Currency, then “Benchmark” means
            the applicable Benchmark Replacement to the extent that such Benchmark Replacement has replaced such prior benchmark rate pursuant to clause (b) or clause (c) of Section

              2.18(a).

           

          
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          “Benchmark Replacement” means, with respect to any Benchmark Transition Event for any
                then-current Benchmark, the sum of: (a) the alternate benchmark rate that has been selected by the Administrative Agent and
                the Borrower as the replacement for such Benchmark giving due consideration to (i) any selection or recommendation of a replacement benchmark rate or the mechanism for determining such a rate by the Relevant Governmental Body or (ii) any evolving or
                then-prevailing market convention for determining a benchmark rate as a replacement for such Benchmark for syndicated credit
                facilities denominated in the applicable Available Currency at such time and (b) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment; provided that, if such Benchmark Replacement as so determined would be less than the Floor, such Benchmark Replacement will be deemed to be the Floor for the purposes of this Agreement and the other Facility Documents.

           

          “Benchmark Replacement Adjustment” means, with respect to any replacement of any then-current Benchmark
                with an Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement, the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) that has been selected by the Administrative Agent and the
                Borrower giving due consideration to (a) any selection or recommendation of a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark
                Replacement by the Relevant Governmental Body or (b) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of such Benchmark with
                the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for syndicated credit facilities denominated in the applicable Available Currency at such time.

           

          “Benchmark Replacement Date” means the earliest to occur of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark for any Available Currency:

           

          (a)          in the case of clause (a) or (b) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event”, the later of (i) the date of the public statement or publication of information
                referenced therein and (ii) the date on which the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) permanently or indefinitely ceases to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such
                component thereof); or

           

          (b)        in the case of clause (c) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event”, the first date on which such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) has been determined and announced by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or such
                component thereof) to be non-representative; provided that such non-representativeness will be determined by reference to the most recent statement or publication referenced in such clause (c) and even if any Available Tenor of such
                Benchmark (or such component thereof) continues to be provided on such date.

           

          For the avoidance of doubt, the “Benchmark Replacement Date” will be deemed to have occurred in the case of clause (a)
                or (b) with respect to any Benchmark upon the occurrence of the applicable event or events set forth therein with respect to
                all then-current Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).

           

          “Benchmark Transition Event” means, with respect to the then-current Benchmark for any Available Currency, the
                occurrence of one or more of the following events with respect to such Benchmark:

           

          
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          (a)        a public statement or publication of information by or on behalf of the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof)
                announcing that such administrator has ceased or will cease to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof), permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no
                successor administrator that will continue to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof);

           

          (b)        a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation
                thereof), the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the central bank for the Available Currency
                applicable to such Benchmark, an insolvency official with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such
                component), a resolution authority with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component) or a court or an entity with similar insolvency or resolution authority over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component), which states that the administrator of such Benchmark (or such component) has ceased or will cease to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at the time of such statement or
                publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof); or

           

          (c)        a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation
                thereof) announcing that all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) are not, or as of a specified
                future date will not be, representative.

           

          For the avoidance of doubt, a “Benchmark Transition Event” will be deemed to have occurred with respect to any Benchmark
              if a public statement or publication of information set forth above has occurred with respect to each then-current Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).

           

          “Benchmark Transition Start Date” means, with respect to any Benchmark, in the case of a Benchmark Transition Event, the earlier of (a) the applicable Benchmark Replacement Date and (b) if such Benchmark Transition Event is a public statement or publication of information of a prospective event, the 90th  day prior to the expected date of such
                event as of such public statement or publication of information (or if the expected date of such prospective event is fewer than 90 days after such statement or publication, the date of such statement or publication).

           

          “Benchmark Unavailability Period” means, with respect to any then-current Benchmark for any Available Currency, the period (if any) (a) beginning at the time that a Benchmark Replacement Date with respect to such
                Benchmark has occurred if, at such time, no Benchmark Replacement has replaced such Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Facility
                Document in accordance with Section 2.18 and (b) ending at the time that a Benchmark Replacement has replaced such Benchmark for all
                purposes hereunder and under any Facility Document in accordance with Section 2.18.

           

          
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          “BNP” has the meaning assigned to such term in the introduction to this Agreement.

           

          “BNP Fee Letter” means that certain fee letter, dated as of May 11, 2021, by and among BNP, the Borrower and the Servicer (as it may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time).

           

          “Borrower” has the meaning assigned to such term in the introduction to this Agreement.

           

          “Borrowing Base” means, at any time, an amount equal to the sum of (i) the Dollar Equivalent of the amounts in the Principal Collection Subaccount, (ii) the product of (x) the Weighted
            Average Advance Rate (excluding the Sale Settlement Pending Collateral from the calculation of the Weighted Average Advance Rate) as of such date, (y) the Portfolio Advance Rate Adjustment as of such date and (z) the Aggregate Net Collateral
            Balance as of such date (excluding the Sale Settlement Pending Collateral from the calculation of the Aggregate Net Collateral Balance) and (iii) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate sale price of the Sale Settlement Pending Collateral.

           

          “Borrowing Base Calculation Statement” means a statement in substantially the form attached to the form of Notice of Borrowing attached hereto as Exhibit B, as such form of Borrowing
            Base Calculation Statement may be modified as mutually agreed by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower from time to time.

           

          “Borrowing Date” means the date of an Advance.

           

          “BPCC” means Barings Private Credit Corporation, a Maryland corporation.

           

          “Business Day” means any day of the year except:  (a) a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York City or the city in which the offices of the Collateral Agent
            are located are authorized or required by law to close; (b) if such day relates to any interest rate setting as to an Advance of Available Currencies (other than a GBP Advance or CHF Advance), any day on which banks are not open for dealings, as applicable, (i) in Dollar or Pounds Sterling
                deposits in the London interbank market, (ii) in Euro deposits in the Euro-zone interbank market, (iiiii) in CAD deposits in the Toronto interbank market, (iviii) in AUD deposits in the Sydney interbank market, (viv) in NZD deposits in the Wellington and Auckland interbank markets, (viv) in SEK deposits in the Stockholm interbank market; and (c) if such day relates to a GBP Advance or CHF Advance, a day that
            is not an RFR Banking Day; and (d) if such day relates to Dollar Advances, a day that is not a U.S. Government Securities
            Business Day.

           

          “CAD Advance” means an Advance denominated in Canadian Dollars.

           

          “Canadian Dollars” means the lawful currency of Canada.

           

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

           

          
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          “Cap Adjusted Loan” means a Collateral Loan that the Administrative Agent, in consultation with the Borrower, has determined shall be subject to an increased First Lien Senior Leverage
            Cap when calculating its Advance Rate, including a Collateral Loan meeting all of the following criteria:

           

          (a)        any Collateral Loan the relevant Obligor of which has EBITDA of greater than the Dollar Equivalent of $25,000,000 as calculated in accordance with the Related
            Documents as of the Trade Date of such Collateral Loan;

           

          (b)       any Collateral Loan the relevant Obligor of which had trailing 12-month revenue of greater than the Dollar Equivalent of $50,000,000;

           

          (c)          any Collateral Loan with a loan-to-value ratio of less than 50%; and

           

          (d)          the Debt Service Coverage Ratio of the Obligor of such Collateral Loan is greater than 2.00:1.00.

           

          “Cash” means Dollars immediately available on the day in question.

           

          “CDOR” means, for any date of determination, with respect to any CAD Advance (or portion thereof) the rate per annum (carried out to the fifth
            decimal place) equal to the rate determined by the Administrative Agent to be the average rate that appears on the Bloomberg Professional Service CDOR Page (or any applicable successor or substitute page providing rate quotations comparable to
            those currently provided on such page of such service) at approximately 10:00 a.m. (Toronto time) two (2) Business Days prior to the beginning of such Collection Period for Canadian Dollar bankers acceptances with a term equivalent to three
            months; provided that if such rate is not available at any such time for any reason, then “CDOR” with respect to any CAD Advance shall be the bid rate at which Canadian Dollar bankers acceptances of CAD5,000,000 and for a three-month maturity
            are offered by the principal Toronto office of any bank (which may be the Administrative Agent) reasonably selected by the Administrative Agent for settlement at approximately 10:00 a.m. (Toronto time) on the applicable day (or, if such day is
            not a Business Day, on the immediately preceding Business Day); provided, further that, in the event that the rate as so determined above shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for purposes of this Agreement. CDOR shall
            always be determined by the Administrative Agent, and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

           

          “Central Bank Rate” means (i) with respect to a GBP Advance, the SONIA
            Administrator’s “Bank Rate” as published by SONIA Administrator from time to time and (ii) with respect to a CHF Advance, the policy rate of
                the Swiss National Bank as published by the Swiss National Bank from time to time.

           

          “Central Bank Rate Adjustment” means, (i) with respect to a GBP Advance and the Central Bank Rate prevailing at close of business on any RFR Banking Day, the 20 percent trimmed arithmetic
            mean (calculated by the Administrative Agent) of the Central Bank Rate Spreads for the five most immediately preceding RFR Banking Days for which SONIA is available. and (ii) with respect to a CHF Advance, and the Central Bank Rate prevailing at close of business on any RFR Banking Day, the 20 percent
                trimmed arithmetic mean (calculated by the Administrative Agent) of the Central Bank Rate Spreads for the five most immediately preceding RFR Banking Days for which SARON is available.

           

          
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          “Central Bank Rate Spread” means, with respect to any RFR Banking Day, the difference (expressed as a percentage rate per annum) (calculated by
            the Administrative Agent) between: (x) with respect to a GBP Advance, (i) SONIA for that RFR Banking Day; and (ii) the Central
            Bank Rate prevailing at the close of business on that RFR Banking Day. and (y) with respect to a CHF Advance, (i) SARON for that RFR Banking Day; and (ii) the Central Bank Rate prevailing at the close of business on that RFR Banking Day

           

          “Certificated Security” has the meaning specified in Section 8-102(a)(4) of the UCC.

           

          “Change in Law” means (a) the adoption of any law, rule or regulation after the Closing Date, (b) any change in any law, rule or regulation or in the interpretation or application
            thereof by any Governmental Authority after the Closing Date or (c) compliance by any Lender (or, for purposes of Section 2.10(b), by any lending office of such Lender or by such Lender’s holding company, if any) with any request, guideline or
            directive (whether or not having the force of law) of any Governmental Authority made or issued after the Closing Date; provided that, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (x) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer
            Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines, requirements or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith or in implementation thereof, (y) the Securitisation Regulation and all rules promulgated thereunder and (z) all
            requests, rules, guidelines, requirements or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory
            authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case be deemed to be a “Change in Law” hereunder regardless of the date of effectiveness.

           

          “Change of Control” means an event or series of events by which (A) the Equityholder or its Affiliates, collectively, (i) shall cease to possess, directly or indirectly, the right to
            elect or appoint (through contract, ownership of voting securities, or otherwise) managers that at all times have a majority of the votes of the board of managers (or similar governing body) of the Borrower or to direct the management policies
            and decisions of the Borrower or (ii) shall cease, directly or indirectly, to own and control legally and beneficially all of the equity interests of the Borrower or (B) Barings LLC or its Affiliates shall cease to be the investment advisor of
            the Equityholder.

           

          “CHF Advances” means Advances made in Swiss Francs.

           

          “CHF Funding Rate” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.12(c)(i).

           

          “Class” means the Class 1A Advances, the Class 1B Advances, the Class 2A Advances, the Class 2B Advances, the Class 3A Advances or the Class 3B Advances, as the context requires.

           

          
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          “Class 1 Loan” means any Collateral Loan that (a) has a tranche size of at least the Dollar Equivalent of $350,000,000 and (b) is rated by S&P and Moody’s (or the related Obligor for
            such Collateral Loan is rated by S&P and Moody’s).

           

          “Class 1A” means, at any time, all Class 1A Loans at such time.

           

          “Class 1A Advance” means each Advance allocated to Class 1A pursuant to, and in accordance with, this Agreement.

           

          “Class 1A Borrowing Base” means, at any time, an amount equal to the sum of (i) the Dollar Equivalent of the amounts in the Principal Collection Subaccount, (ii) the product of (x) the
            Weighted Average Class 1A Advance Rate (excluding the Sale Settlement Pending Collateral for the Class 1A Loans from the calculation of the Weighted Average Class 1A Advance Rate) as of such date, (y) the Portfolio Advance Rate Adjustment as of
            such date and (z) the Aggregate Class 1A Net Collateral Balance as of such date (excluding the Sale Settlement Pending Collateral for the Class 1A Loans from the calculation of the Aggregate Class 1A Net Collateral Balance) and (iii) the Dollar
            Equivalent of the aggregate sale price of any Sale Settlement Pending Collateral for the Class 1A Loans.

           

          “Class 1A Loan” means a Class 1 Loan that is a First Lien Loan or a First Lien Last Out Loan.

           

          “Class 1A Minimum OC Coverage Test” means, as of any date, a test that shall be satisfied if the Class 1A OC Ratio as of such date is equal to or greater than 1.00:1.00.

           

          “Class 1A OC Ratio” means, as of any Business Day, the ratio of (a) the Class 1A Borrowing Base to (b) the sum of (x) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate outstanding principal balance
            of the Class 1A Advances and (y) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate purchase price of all Class 1A Loans for which the Borrower has entered into a binding commitment to purchase that have not yet settled.

           

          “Class 1B” means, at any time, all Class 1B Loans at such time.

           

          “Class 1B Advance” means each Advance allocated to Class 1B pursuant to, and in accordance with, this Agreement.

           

          “Class 1B Borrowing Base” means, at any time, an amount equal to the sum of (i) the Dollar Equivalent of the amounts in the Principal Collection Subaccount, (ii) the product of (x) the
            Weighted Average Class 1B Advance Rate (excluding the Sale Settlement Pending Collateral for the Class 1B Loans from the calculation of the Weighted Average Class 1B Advance Rate) as of such date, (y) the Portfolio Advance Rate Adjustment as of
            such date and (z) the Aggregate Class 1B Net Collateral Balance as of such date (excluding the Sale Settlement Pending Collateral for the Class 1B Loans from the calculation of the Aggregate Class 1B Net Collateral Balance) and (iii) the Dollar
            Equivalent of the aggregate sale price of any Sale Settlement Pending Collateral for the Class 1B Loans.

           

          “Class 1B Loan” means a Class 1 Loan that is a Second Lien Loan.

           

          
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          “Class 1B Minimum OC Coverage Test” means, as of any date, a test that shall be satisfied if the Class 1B OC Ratio as of such date is equal to or greater than 1.00:1.00.

           

          “Class 1B OC Ratio” means, as of any Business Day, the ratio of (a) the Class 1B Borrowing Base to (b) the sum of (x) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate outstanding principal balance
            of the Class 1B Advances and (y) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate purchase price of all Class 1B Loans for which the Borrower has entered into a binding commitment to purchase that have not yet settled.

           

          “Class 2 Loan” means a Collateral Loan (a) that is not a Class 1 Loan and (b) the relevant Obligor of which has EBITDA of at least the Dollar Equivalent of $25,000,000 as calculated in
            accordance with the Related Documents.

           

          “Class 2A” means, at any time, all Class 2A Loans at such time.

           

          “Class 2A Advance” means each Advance allocated to Class 2A pursuant to, and in accordance with, this Agreement.

           

          “Class 2A Borrowing Base” means, at any time, an amount equal to the sum of (i) the Dollar Equivalent of the amounts in the Principal Collection Subaccount, (ii) the product of (x) the
            Weighted Average Class 2A Advance Rate (excluding the Sale Settlement Pending Collateral for the Class 2A Loans from the calculation of the Weighted Average Class 2A Advance Rate) as of such date, (y) the Portfolio Advance Rate Adjustment as of
            such date and (z) the Aggregate Class 2A Net Collateral Balance as of such date (excluding the Sale Settlement Pending Collateral for the Class 2A Loans from the calculation of the Aggregate Class 2A Net Collateral Balance) and (iii) the Dollar
            Equivalent of the aggregate sale price of any Sale Settlement Pending Collateral for the Class 2A Loans.

           

          “Class 2A Loan” means a Class 2 Loan that is a First Lien Loan or a First Lien Last Out Loan.

           

          “Class 2A Minimum OC Coverage Test” means, as of any date,  a test that shall be satisfied if the Class 2A OC Ratio as of such date is equal to or greater than 1.00:1.00.

           

          “Class 2A OC Ratio” means, as of any Business Day, the ratio of (a) the Class 2A Borrowing Base to (b) the sum of (x) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate outstanding principal balance
            of the Class 2A Advances and (y) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate purchase price of all Class 2A Loans for which the Borrower has entered into a binding commitment to purchase that have not yet settled.

           

          “Class 2B” means, at any time, all Class 2B Loans at such time.

           

          “Class 2B Advance” means each Advance allocated to Class 2B pursuant to, and in accordance with, this Agreement.

           

          
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          “Class 2B Borrowing Base” means, at any time, an amount equal to the sum of (i) the Dollar Equivalent of the amounts in the Principal Collection Subaccount, (ii) the product of (x) the
            Weighted Average Class 2B Advance Rate (excluding the Sale Settlement Pending Collateral for the Class 2B Loans from the calculation of the Weighted Average Class 2B Advance Rate) as of such date, (y) the Portfolio Advance Rate Adjustment as of
            such date and (z) the Aggregate Class 2B Net Collateral Balance as of such date (excluding the Sale Settlement Pending Collateral for the Class 2B Loans from the calculation of the Aggregate Class 2B Net Collateral Balance) and (iii) the Dollar
            Equivalent of the aggregate sale price of any Sale Settlement Pending Collateral for the Class 2B Loans.

           

          “Class 2B Loan” means a Class 2 Loan that is a Second Lien Loan.

           

          “Class 2B Minimum OC Coverage Test” means, as of any date,  a test that shall be satisfied if the Class 2B OC Ratio as of such date is equal to or greater than 1.00:1.00.

           

          “Class 2B OC Ratio” means, as of any Business Day, the ratio of (a) the Class 2B Borrowing Base to (b) the sum of (x) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate outstanding principal balance
            of the Class 2B Advances and (y) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate purchase price of all Class 2B Loans for which the Borrower has entered into a binding commitment to purchase that have not yet settled.

           

          “Class 3 Loan” means a Collateral Loan (a) that is not a Class 1 Loan or a Class 2 Loan and (b) the relevant Obligor of which has an EBITDA of less than the Dollar Equivalent of
            $25,000,000 as calculated in accordance with the Related Documents.

           

          “Class 3A” means, at any time, all Class 3A Loans at such time.

           

          “Class 3A Advance” means each Advance allocated to Class 3A pursuant to, and in accordance with, this Agreement.

           

          “Class 3A Borrowing Base” means, at any time, an amount equal to the sum of (i) the Dollar Equivalent of the amounts in the Principal Collection Subaccount, (ii) the product of (x) the
            Weighted Average Class 3A Advance Rate (excluding the Sale Settlement Pending Collateral for the Class 3A Loans from the calculation of the Weighted Average Class 3A Advance Rate) as of such date, (y) the Portfolio Advance Rate Adjustment as of
            such date and (z) the Aggregate Class 3A Net Collateral Balance as of such date (excluding the Sale Settlement Pending Collateral for the Class 3A Loans from the calculation of the Aggregate Class 3A Net Collateral Balance) and (iii) the Dollar
            Equivalent of the aggregate sale price of any Sale Settlement Pending Collateral for the Class 3A Loans.

           

          “Class 3A Loan” means a Class 3 Loan that is a First Lien Loan or a First Lien Last Out Loan.

           

          “Class 3A Minimum OC Coverage Test” means, as of any date, a test that shall be satisfied if the Class 3A OC Ratio as of such date is equal to or greater than 1.00:1.00.

           

          “Class 3A OC Ratio” means, as of any Business Day, the ratio of (a) the Class 3A Borrowing Base to (b) the sum of (x) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate outstanding principal balance
            of the Class 3A Advances and (y) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate purchase price of all Class 3A Loans for which the Borrower has entered into a binding commitment to purchase that have not yet settled.

           

          
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          “Class 3B” means, at any time, all Class 3B Loans at such time.

           

          “Class 3B Advance” means each Advance allocated to Class 3B pursuant to, and in accordance with, this Agreement.

           

          “Class 3B Borrowing Base” means, at any time, an amount equal to the sum of (i) the Dollar Equivalent of the amounts in the Principal Collection Subaccount, (ii) the product of (x) the
            Weighted Average Class 3B Advance Rate (excluding the Sale Settlement Pending Collateral for the Class 3B Loans from the calculation of the Weighted Average Class 3B Advance Rate) as of such date, (y) the Portfolio Advance Rate Adjustment as of
            such date and (z) the Aggregate Class 3B Net Collateral Balance as of such date (excluding the Sale Settlement Pending Collateral for the Class 3B Loans from the calculation of the Aggregate Class 3B Net Collateral Balance) and (iii) the Dollar
            Equivalent of the aggregate sale price of any Sale Settlement Pending Collateral for the Class 3B Loans.

           

          “Class 3B Loan” means a Class 3 Loan that is a Second Lien Loan.

           

          “Class 3B Minimum OC Coverage Test” means, as of any date, a test that shall be satisfied if the Class 3B OC Ratio as of such date is equal to or greater than 1.00:1.00.

           

          “Class 3B OC Ratio” means, as of any Business Day, the ratio of (a) the Class 3B Borrowing Base to (b) the sum of (x) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate outstanding principal balance
            of the Class 3B Advances and (y) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate purchase price of all Class 3B Loans for which the Borrower has entered into a binding commitment to purchase that have not yet settled.

           

          “Class Minimum OC Coverage Test” means the Class 1A Minimum OC Coverage Test, the Class 1B Minimum OC Coverage Test, the Class 2A Minimum OC Coverage Test, the Class 2B Minimum OC
            Coverage Test, the Class 3A Minimum OC Coverage Test or the Class 3B Minimum OC Coverage Test, as applicable.

           

          “Clearing Agency” means an organization registered as a “clearing agency” pursuant to Section 17A of the Exchange Act.

           

          “Clearing Corporation” means each entity included within the meaning of “clearing corporation” under Section 8-102(a)(5) of the UCC.

           

          “Clearing Corporation Security” means securities which are in the custody of or maintained on the books of a Clearing Corporation or a nominee subject to the control of a Clearing
            Corporation and, if they are Certificated Securities in registered form, properly endorsed to or registered in the name of the Clearing Corporation or such nominee.

           

          “Closing Date” means May 11, 2021.

           

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

           

          
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          “Collateral” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 7.01(a).

           

          “Collateral Account” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.02(a)(i).

           

          “Collateral Agent” has the meaning assigned to such term in the introduction to this Agreement.

           

          “Collateral Agent Fee Letter” means the fee letter between the Collateral Agent and the Borrower setting forth the fees and other amounts payable by the Borrower to the Collateral Agent,
            the Custodian and the Securities Intermediary under the Facility Documents, in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

           

          “Collateral Interest Amount” means, as of any date of determination, without duplication, the sum of (a) the aggregate amount of Interest Proceeds that has been received or that is
            expected to be received (other than Interest Proceeds expected to be received from Defaulted Collateral Loans and Ineligible Collateral Loans) and (b) the aggregate amount of Interest Proceeds that the Servicer has determined, in accordance
            with the Servicing Standard, are likely to be received from Defaulted Collateral Loans and Ineligible Collateral Loans, in each case, during the Collection Period (and, if such Collection Period does not end on a Business Day, the next
            succeeding Business Day) in which such date of determination occurs.

           

          “Collateral Loan” means a loan, debt obligation, debt security or participation therein acquired by the Borrower.

           

          “Collateral Loan Buy Confirmation” means with respect to any Collateral Loan, documentation evidencing, in reasonable detail, the Borrower’s acquisition of such Collateral Loan, and
            which shall identify at least the obligor, price and the Principal Balance of such Collateral Loan.

           

          “Collateral Quality Test” means a test that is satisfied as of any Business Day on or after the Closing Date if, in the aggregate, the Collateral Loans owned (or, in relation to a
            proposed purchase of a Collateral Loan, both owned and proposed to be owned) by the Borrower satisfy the Maximum Weighted Average Life Test (or in relation to a proposed purchase after the Closing Date, if not in compliance, the test is
            maintained or improved after giving effect to any purchase or sale effected on any such Business Day), calculated in accordance with Section 1.04.

           

          “Collection Account” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.02(a)(ii) and includes the Principal Collection Subaccount and the Interest Collection Subaccount.

           

          “Collection Date” means the date on which the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Advances have been repaid in full and all Interest and fees and all other Obligations (other
            than contingent indemnification and reimbursement obligations which are unknown, unmatured and/or for which no claim giving rise thereto has been asserted) have been paid in full, and the Borrower shall have no further right to request any
            additional Advances.

           

          
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          “Collection Period” means, with respect to any Payment Date, the quarterly period from and including the date on which the first Advance is made hereunder to but excluding the first
            Collection Period Start Date following the date of such Advance and each successive quarterly period from and including a Collection Period Start Date to but excluding the immediately succeeding Collection Period Start Date or, in the case of
            the Collection Period immediately preceding the Final Maturity Date or the Collection Period immediately preceding an optional prepayment in whole of the Advances, ending on the day preceding the Final Maturity Date or the date of such
            prepayment, respectively.

           

          “Collection Period Start Date” means the first calendar day of February, May, August and November of each year (or, if any such date is not a Business Day, the immediately succeeding
            Business Day), commencing in August 2021.

           

          “Collections” means all cash collections, distributions, payments or other amounts received, or to be received, by the Borrower from any Person in respect of any Collateral Loan
            constituting Collateral, including all principal, interest, fees, distributions and redemption and withdrawal proceeds payable to the Borrower under or in connection with any such Collateral Loans and all Proceeds from any sale or disposition
            of any such Collateral Loans, but excluding (a) any amounts received by the Borrower from or on behalf of an Obligor in respect of such Collateral Loan following the sale of such Collateral Loan by the Borrower that the Borrower is required to
            pay to the purchaser of such Collateral Loan, so long as such amounts are not included in the net proceeds reported to be received by the Borrower from such sale, and (b) any amounts in respect of indemnities received by the Borrower but owing
            to parties other than the Borrower in accordance with the Related Documents for any Collateral Loan.

           

          “Concentration Limitations” means, as of any date of determination, the following limitations (calculated without duplication) as applied to the Eligible Collateral Loans owned (or, in
            relation to a proposed purchase of a Collateral Loan, proposed to be owned, with respect to which, if such purchase results in noncompliance with the limitations, the relevant requirements must be maintained or improved after giving effect to
            the purchase) by the Borrower, unless a waiver is provided in writing by the Administrative Agent specifying the agreed treatment of such Collateral Loan or Concentration Limitation:

           

          (a)         not more than 15.00% of the Aggregate Adjusted Collateral Balance may consist of First Lien Last Out Loans or Second Lien Loans;

           

          (b)          not more than 10.00% of the Aggregate Adjusted Collateral Balance may consist of Class 2 Loans that are Cov-Lite Loans;

           

          (c)          not more than 30.00% of the Aggregate Adjusted Collateral Balance may consist of Collateral Loans that are not denominated in Dollars;

           

          (d)         not more than 30.00% of the Aggregate Adjusted Collateral Balance may consist of Collateral Loans whose Obligors do not have a principal place of business in or
            are not organized or incorporated in the United States;

           

          (e)        not more than 10.00% of the Aggregate Adjusted Collateral Balance may consist of Revolving Collateral Loans or Delayed Drawdown Collateral Loans;

           

          (f)          not more than 20.00% of the Aggregate Adjusted Collateral Balance may consist of Cap Adjusted Loans;

           

          
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          (g)         not more than 5.00% of the Maximum Portfolio Amount may consist of Collateral Loans that are issued to any Obligor and its Affiliates, except that up to 7.50% and
            10.00% of the Maximum Portfolio Amount may consist of Collateral Loans that are issued by the two largest Obligors and their respective Affiliates;

           

          (h)         not more than 7.50% of the Maximum Portfolio Amount may consist of Collateral Loans that are issued by Obligors and their Affiliates that belong to any single
            S&P Industry Classification, except that (i) up to 22.50% may consist of Collateral Loans with Obligors and their Affiliates in the largest S&P Industry Classification, (ii) up to 15.00% may consist of Collateral Loans with Obligors and
            their Affiliates in the second largest S&P Industry Classification and (iii) up to 10.00% may consist of Collateral Loans with Obligors and their Affiliates in the third largest S&P Industry Classification;

           

          (i)           not more than 5.00% of the Aggregate Adjusted Collateral Balance may consist of Fixed Rate Loans;

           

          (j)          not more than 10.00% of the Aggregate Adjusted Collateral Balance may consist of Class 1 Loans that are rated below “Caa1” by Moody’s or below “CCC+” by S&P;

           

          (k)        not more than $30,000,000 of the Aggregate Principal Balance of the Collateral Loans may consist of Collateral Loans with respect to which the Related Documents
            provide for payments that do not, at the time the obligation is acquired, subject the Borrower to withholding tax or other similar taxes, unless the related Obligor is required to make “gross-up” payments that ensure that the net amount
            actually received by the Borrower (after payment of all taxes, whether imposed on such Obligor or the Borrower) will equal the full amount that the Borrower would have received had no such taxes been imposed;

           

          (l)           not more than [10.00]% of the Aggregate Adjusted Collateral Balance may consist of Recurring Revenue Loans.

           

          “Conforming Changes” means, with respect to either the use or administration of an initial
                Benchmark or the use, administration, adoption or implementation of any Benchmark Replacement, any technical, administrative
                or operational changes (including changes to the definition of “Business Day,” the definition of “U.S. Government Securities
                Business Day,” the definition of “RFR Banking Day,” the definition of “Interest Accrual Period” or any similar or analogous definition (or the addition of a concept of “interest period”), timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest, timing of borrowing requests or prepayment, conversion or continuation notices, the applicability and length

                of lookback periods, the applicability of Section 2.11 and other technical, administrative or operational matters) that the Administrative Agent decides may be appropriate to reflect the adoption and implementation of any such rate or to
                permit the use and administration thereof by the Administrative Agent in a manner substantially consistent with market
                practice (or, if the Administrative Agent decides that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or if the Administrative Agent determines that no market practice for the administration of any such rate exists, in
                such other manner of administration as the Administrative Agent decides is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement and the other Facility Documents).

           

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

           

          “Constituent Documents” means, in respect of any Person, the certificate or articles of formation or organization, the limited liability company agreement, operating agreement,
            partnership agreement, joint venture agreement or other applicable agreement of formation or organization (or equivalent or comparable constituent documents) and other organizational documents and by-laws and any certificate of incorporation,
            certificate of formation, certificate of limited partnership and other agreement, similar instrument filed or made in connection with its formation or organization, in each case, as the same may be amended, restated, replaced, supplemented or
            otherwise modified from time to time.

           

          “Control” means the direct or indirect possession of the power to vote 50% or more of the voting securities of such Person or the power to direct or cause the direction of the management
            or policies of a Person, whether through ownership, by contract, arrangement or understanding, or otherwise.  “Controlled” and “Controlling” have the meaning correlative thereto.

           

          “Cov-Lite Loan” means a Collateral Loan that does not contain any financial maintenance covenants; provided that any such Collateral Loan that either (i) contains a cross-default
            provision to, or (ii) is pari passu with or senior to, another loan of the Obligor that requires the Obligor to comply with a financial maintenance covenant will be deemed not to be a Cov-Lite Loan.

           

          “Coverage Test” means the Minimum OC Coverage Test.

           

          “Covered Account” means each of the Collection Account (including the Interest Collection Subaccount and Principal Collection Subaccount therein), the Payment Account, the Collateral
            Account, the Revolving Reserve Account and any other account established by the Borrower at the Securities Intermediary with the consent of the Administrative Agent and subject to the Lien of the Collateral Agent.

           

          “Cumulative Compounded SARON Rate” means, with respect to an Interest Accrual Period for a CHF Advance,
              the percentage rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with the methodology set out in
              Schedule 15 attached hereto.

           

          “Cumulative Compounded SONIA Rate” means, with respect to an Interest Accrual Period for a GBP Advance, the percentage rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance
            with the methodology set out in Schedule 13 attached hereto.

           

          “Custodian” means State Street, in its capacity as custodian under the Custodian Agreement, and any successor thereto under the Custodian Agreement.

           

          “Custodian Agreement” means that certain Custody Services Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, among the Custodian and the Borrower.

           

          
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          “Daily Non-Cumulative Compounded SARON Rate” means, with respect to an Interest Accrual
                Period for a CHF Advance, the percentage rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with the methodology set out in Schedule 14 attached hereto.

           

          “Daily Rate” means, with respect to any RFR Banking Day and a GBP Advance or CHF
                Advance, as applicable:

           

          (a)          the SONIA or SARON, as applicable, for that
            RFR Banking Day; or

           

          (b)         if the SONIA or SARON, as
                applicable, is not available for that RFR Banking Day, the percentage rate per annum which is the aggregate of:

           

          (i)         the Central Bank Rate for that RFR Banking Day; and

           

          (ii)        the applicable Central Bank Rate Adjustment; or

           

          (c)         if clause (b) above applies but the Central Bank Rate for that RFR Banking Day is not available, the percentage rate per annum
            which is the aggregate of:

           

          (i)         the most recent Central Bank Rate for a day which is no more than five RFR Banking Days before that RFR Banking Day; and

           

          (ii)        the applicable Central Bank Rate Adjustment,

           

          rounded, in either case, to four decimal places and if, in either case, the aggregate of that rate and the applicable Baseline CAS is less than zero, the Daily Rate shall be deemed to be such a
            rate that the aggregate of the Daily Rate and the applicable Baseline CAS is zero.

           

          “Data File” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.07(a).

           

          “Debt Service Coverage Ratio” means, with respect to any Collateral Loan for any Relevant Test Period, the meaning of “Debt Service Coverage Ratio,” “Pro Forma Debt Service Coverage
            Ratio” or any comparable term in the Related Documents for such Collateral Loan, and in any case that “Debt Service Coverage Ratio,” “Pro Forma Debt Service Coverage Ratio” or such comparable term is not defined in such Related Documents, the
            ratio, for such Collateral Loan, of (a) EBITDA of the related Obligor for the Relevant Test Period to (b) cash interest expense of such Obligor for the Relevant Test Period, in each case, as calculated by the Servicer in good faith using
            information from and calculations consistent with the relevant compliance statements and financial reporting packages provided by the relevant Obligor as per the requirements of the applicable Related Documents.

           

          “Default” means any event which, with the passage of time, the giving of notice, or both, would (if not cured or otherwise remedied during such time) constitute an Event of Default.

           

          “Defaulted Collateral Loan” means any Collateral Loan as to which at any time:

           

          
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          (a)          a default as to all or any portion of one or more payments of principal and/or interest (including a failure of a selling institution to pay amounts due and
            payable to the Borrower with respect to the related participation) has occurred after the earlier of (i) any grace period applicable thereto and (ii) five (5) Business Days, in each case, past the applicable due date;

           

          (b)          a default (other than a default described in clause (a) of this definition) has occurred under the applicable Related Documents and for which the Borrower (or
            the agent or required lenders pursuant to the applicable Related Documents, as applicable) has elected to exercise any of its rights or remedies under the applicable Related Documents (including acceleration or foreclosing on collateral, but
            excluding any imposition of default interest);

           

          (c)          any portion of principal and/or interest (other than default interest) payable thereunder has been waived or forgiven by the holders of such obligation; or

           

          (d)          a Revaluation Event under clauses (d) or (g) of the definition thereof has occurred.

           

          “Defaulting Lender” means, at any time, any Lender that (a) has failed for three (3) or more Business Days after a Borrowing Date to fund its portion of an Advance required pursuant to
            the terms of this Agreement (other than failures to fund as a result of a bona fide dispute as to whether the conditions to borrowing were satisfied on the relevant Borrowing Date), (b) has notified the
            Borrower or the Administrative Agent in writing that it does not intend to comply with its funding obligations hereunder, or has made a public statement to that effect (unless such writing or public statement relates to such Lender’s obligation
            to fund an Advance hereunder and states that such position is based on such Lender’s determination that a condition precedent to funding (which condition precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such
            writing or public statement) cannot be satisfied), (c) has failed, within three (3) Business Days after written request by the Administrative Agent or the Borrower, to confirm in writing to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower that it will
            comply with its prospective funding obligations hereunder (provided that such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender pursuant to this clause (c) upon receipt of such written confirmation by the Administrative Agent and the
            Borrower) or (d) has, or has a direct or indirect parent company that has, (i) become the subject of a proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code or any other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors,
            moratorium, receivership, insolvency, reorganization or similar debtor relief laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdiction, (ii) had appointed for it a receiver, custodian, conservator, trustee, administrator, assignee for the
            benefit of creditors or similar person charged with reorganization or liquidation of its business or assets, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other state or federal regulatory authority acting in such a capacity or
            (iii) become the subject of a Bail-In Action; provided that a Lender shall not be a Defaulting Lender solely by virtue of the ownership or acquisition of any equity interest in that Lender or any direct or indirect parent company
            thereof by a Governmental Authority so long as such ownership interest does not result in or provide such Lender with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States or from the enforcement of judgment or writs of attachment
            on its assets or permit such Lender (or such Governmental Authority) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made with such Lender.  Any determination by the Administrative Agent that a Lender is a Defaulting
            Lender under any one or more of clauses (a) through (d) shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error.

           

          
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          “Delayed Drawdown Collateral Loan” means a Collateral Loan that (a) requires the Borrower to make one or more future advances to the Obligor under the applicable Related Documents,
            (b) specifies a maximum amount that can be borrowed on one or more fixed borrowing dates, and (c) does not permit the re-borrowing of any amount previously repaid by the Obligor thereunder; provided that any such Collateral Loan will be
            a Delayed Drawdown Collateral Loan only to the extent of undrawn commitments and solely until all commitments by the Borrower to make advances on such Collateral Loan to the Obligor under the Related Documents expire or are terminated or are
            reduced to zero.

           

          “Deliver” or “Delivered” or “Delivery” means the taking of the following steps:

           

          (a)          in the case of each Instrument, causing the Securities Intermediary to maintain continuous possession of such Instrument;

           

          (b)          in the case of each Certificated Security (other than a Clearing Corporation Security):

           

          (i)        causing such Certificated Security to be (x) registered in the name of the Securities Intermediary (or its nominee) or (y) endorsed to the Securities
            Intermediary or in blank;

           

          (ii)        causing such Certificated Security to be credited to (x) a Covered Account or (y) another securities account for which the Securities Intermediary has agreed
            in a control agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that the Collateral Agent has Control (as defined in the UCC) over such securities account; or

           

          (iii)       causing such Certificated Security to be in the possession of the Collateral Agent and (x) registered in the name of the Collateral Agent (or its nominee) or
            (y) endorsed to the Collateral Agent or in blank;

           

          (c)          in the case of each Uncertificated Security (other than a Clearing Corporation Security), causing such Uncertificated Security to be credited to (x) a Covered
            Account or (y) another securities account for which the Securities Intermediary has agreed in a control agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that the Collateral Agent has Control (as defined in the
            UCC) over such securities account;

           

          (d)          in the case of each Clearing Corporation Security:

           

          (i)         causing such Clearing Corporation Security to be credited to (x) a Covered Account or (y) another securities account for which the Securities Intermediary has
            agreed in a control agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that the Collateral Agent has Control (as defined in the UCC) over such securities account; or

           

          
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          (ii)       causing the Securities Intermediary to continuously indicate on its books and records that such Clearing Corporation Security is credited to the applicable
            Covered Account;

           

          (e)          in the case of each security issued or guaranteed by the United States of America or an agency or instrumentality thereof and that is maintained in book-entry
            records of a Federal Reserve Bank (“FRB”) (each such security a “Government Security”):

           

          (i)        causing the creation of a Security Entitlement to such Government Security by the credit of such Government Security to the securities account of the Securities
            Intermediary at such FRB; and

           

          (ii)       causing the Securities Intermediary to continuously indicate on its books and records that such Government Security is credited to the applicable Covered
            Account;

           

          (f)          in the case of each Security Entitlement not governed by clauses (a) through (e) above:

           

          (i)        causing (x)  the underlying Financial Asset to be credited to (1) a Covered Account or (2) another securities account for which the Securities Intermediary has
            agreed in a control agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that the Collateral Agent has Control (as defined in the UCC) over such securities account, (y) the Securities Intermediary to receive a
            Financial Asset from a securities intermediary (as defined in Section 8-102(a)(14) of the UCC) or to acquire the underlying Financial Asset from a securities intermediary, and in either case, accepting it for credit to the appropriate (1)
            Covered Account or (2) another securities account for which the Securities Intermediary has agreed in a control agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that the Collateral Agent has Control (as
            defined in the UCC) over such securities account, or (z) a securities intermediary to become obligated under other law, regulation or rule to credit the underlying Financial Asset to a Securities Intermediary’s securities account;

           

          (ii)        causing the Securities Intermediary to make entries on its books and records that such Security Entitlement is credited to one of the Covered Accounts, which
            shall at all times be securities accounts; and

           

          (iii)      causing the Securities Intermediary to continuously indicate on its books and records that such Security Entitlement (or all rights and property of the
            Securities Intermediary representing such Security Entitlement) is credited to the applicable Covered Account;

           

          (g)          in the case of Cash or Money:

           

          (i)        causing such Cash or Money to be credited to a deposit account or securities account as to which the bank or securities intermediary maintaining such deposit
            account or securities account, as applicable, has agreed pursuant to a control agreement in form and substance acceptable to the Administrative Agent that the Collateral Agent has Control (as defined in the UCC) over such deposit account or
            securities account; or

           

          
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          (ii)        causing such Cash or Money to be credited to a “deposit account” (as defined in Section 9-102(a)(29) of the UCC) or a “securities account” (as defined in
            Section 8-501(a) of the UCC) in the name of the Securities Intermediary, in each case, which may be a subaccount of the applicable Covered Account, under an arrangement where the Securities Intermediary has agreed in a control agreement in form
            and substance acceptable to the Administrative Agent that the Collateral Agent has Control (as defined in the UCC) over such deposit account or securities account;  or

           

          (h)        with respect to such of the Collateral as constitutes an account or a general intangible or is not otherwise described in the foregoing clauses (a) through (g),
            causing to be filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware a properly completed UCC financing statement that names the Borrower as debtor and the Collateral Agent as secured party and that describes such Collateral (which
            financing statement may have been previously filed) or any equivalent filing in the jurisdiction required for perfection by filing under the UCC (or the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in any applicable jurisdiction).

           

          In addition, the Servicer on behalf of the Borrower will obtain any and all consents required by the Related Documents relating to any Instruments, accounts or general intangibles for the
            transfer of ownership and/or pledge hereunder (except to the extent that the requirement for such consent is rendered ineffective under Section 9-406 of the UCC).

           

          “Determination Date” means the last day of each Collection Period.

           

          “Disqualified Lenders” means (i) such Persons that have been mutually agreed between the Servicer and the Administrative Agent on or prior to the Closing Date as constituting
            “Disqualified Lenders”, (ii) those Persons who are competitors of the Servicer, the Equityholder and/or the Borrower that are mutually agreed between the Servicer and the Administrative Agent from time to time, and (iii) in the case of each of
            clauses (i) and (ii), any Affiliates of such Persons that are that are mutually agreed between the Servicer and the Administrative Agent from time to time; provided that no permitted supplement or modification to the list of
            Disqualified Lenders will apply retroactively to disqualify any Persons that have previously acquired an assignment or participation in accordance with Section 13.06.

           

          “Diversity Score” means, as of any day, a single number that indicates collateral concentration in terms of both issuer and industry concentration, calculated as set forth in Schedule 7
            hereto, as such Diversity Scores shall be updated at the option of the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion if Moody’s publishes revised criteria.

           

          “Dollar Advance” means an Advance denominated in Dollars.

           

          
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          “Dollar Equivalent” means (a) with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, such amount and (b) with respect to any amount denominated in a currency other than Dollars, the Dollar
            equivalent of such amount determined by the Servicer by reference to (x) for an actual currency exchange, the applicable currency-Dollar spot rate obtained by the Servicer through customary banking channels, including, without limitation, any
            spot rate published by the Custodian and (y) for all other purposes, the applicable currency-Dollar spot rate that appeared on the Bloomberg screen for such currency at the end of the immediately preceding Business Day.

           

          “Dollar Lender” means each Person listed on Schedule 1 as a “Dollar Lender” as of the Closing Date and any other Person that shall have become a party hereto as a “Dollar Lender” in
            accordance with the terms hereof pursuant to an Assignment and Acceptance, other than any such Person that ceases to be a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Acceptance.

           

          “Dollars” and “$” mean lawful money of the United States of America.

           

          “Due Date” means each date on which any payment is due on a Collateral Loan in accordance with its terms.

           

          “EBITDA” means, with respect to the Obligor of any Collateral Loan for any Relevant Test Period, the meaning of the term “Adjusted EBITDA,” the term “EBITDA” or any comparable definition
            in the Related Documents for such period and Collateral Loan (or, in the case of a Collateral Loan for which the Related Documents have not been executed, as set forth in the relevant marketing materials or financial model in respect of such
            Collateral Loan) as determined in the good faith discretion of the Servicer, and, in any case that the term “Adjusted EBITDA,” the term “EBITDA” or such comparable definition is not defined in such Related Documents, an amount, for the
            principal Obligor thereunder and any of its parents that are obligated as guarantor pursuant to the Related Documents for such Collateral Loan and any of its subsidiaries (determined on a consolidated basis without duplication in accordance
            with GAAP (and also on a pro forma basis as determined in good faith by the Servicer in case of any acquisitions)) equal to earnings from continuing operations for such period plus interest expense,
            income taxes, depreciation and amortization for such period, other non-cash charges and organization costs, extraordinary, one-time and/or non-recurring losses or charges, any other customary add-backs for similarly situated obligors the
            Servicer deems to be appropriate and any other item the Servicer and the Administrative Agent mutually deem to be appropriate.

           

          “EEA Financial Institution” means (a) any credit institution or investment firm established in any EEA Member Country which is subject to the supervision of an EEA Resolution Authority,
            (b) any entity established in an EEA Member Country which is a parent of an institution described in clause (a) of this definition, or (c) any financial institution established in an EEA Member Country which is a subsidiary of an institution
            described in clauses (a) or (b) of this definition and is subject to consolidated supervision with its parent.

           

          “EEA Member Country” means any of the member states of the European Union, the United Kingdom, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.

           

          “EEA Resolution Authority” means any public administrative authority or any person entrusted with public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country (including any delegee) having
            responsibility for the resolution of any EEA Financial Institution.

           

          
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          “Eligible Collateral Loan” means, as of any date of determination, a Collateral Loan that meets each of the following criteria:

           

          (a)          is (i) a First Lien Loan, (ii) a Second Lien Loan or (iii) a First Lien Last Out Loan;

           

          (b)          if such Collateral Loan is a Class 3 Loan, it is not a Cov-Lite Loan;

           

          (c)          the Obligor of such Collateral Loan has a minimum EBITDA of the Dollar Equivalent of $7,500,000 for the most recently ended Relevant Test Period for which
            financial statements have been delivered to the Borrower as of the related Trade Date;

           

          (d)          was acquired by the Borrower for a price of not less than 90% of its Principal Balance;

           

          (e)          is not a Defaulted Collateral Loan at the time of acquisition by the Borrower;

           

          (f)          is denominated in a Permitted Currency and does not permit the currency or country in which such Collateral Loan is payable to be changed except to another
            Permitted Currency;

           

          (g)       at the time of acquisition by the Borrower, the relevant Obligor’s principal place of business and/or incorporation and/or headquarters are in an Eligible Country;

           

          (h)        the Related Documents for such Collateral Loan are governed by the laws of the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland or a
            member state of the European Union;

           

          (i)           is not a credit linked note or a single purpose real estate loan;

           

          (j)          does not constitute Margin Stock and is not by its terms convertible into or exchangeable for an equity security at the option of either the Borrower thereof or
            the holder, and the Borrower has not received attached warrants to purchase equity securities with respect thereto;

           

          (k)          has an original term to maturity of not more than eight (8.0) years;

           

          (l)          has been approved by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion;

           

          (m)          the Related Documents for such Collateral Loan permit the pledge to the Collateral Agent by the Borrower;

           

          (n)          [reserved];

           

          (o)          it is capable of being sold, assigned or participated to the Borrower, together with any associated security, without any breach of applicable selling
            restrictions, any contractual provisions or any legal or regulatory requirements and the Borrower does not require any authorizations, consents, approvals or filings (other than such as have been obtained or effected) as a result of or in
            connection with any such sale, assignment or participation under any Applicable Law;

           

          
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          (p)        is not subject to a tender offer from the related Obligor other than (A) a Permitted Offer or (B) an exchange offer in which a security is exchanged for a security
            that would otherwise qualify for purchase herein;

           

          (q)          is not a Structured Finance Obligation, a Zero Coupon Obligation or a Synthetic Security;

           

          (r)          is not a corporate rescue loan, PIK Loan, unsecured senior loan or Mezzanine Obligation;

           

          (s)          is not a project, shipping/aircraft or infrastructure/construction financing;

           

          (t)           for which the relevant Obligor of such Collateral Loan is not a Governmental Authority (other than Eligible Investments);

           

          (u)        for which the Obligor of such Collateral Loan is not a commodity trader and producer, an oil field services company or other entity highly exposed to commodity
            price/volume risk;

           

          (v)          for which the relevant Obligor of such Collateral Loan is not operating, domiciled or conducting business in a country subject to Sanctions;

           

          (w)         is not a lease;

           

          (x)        if such Collateral Loan is a Class 1 Loan, as of the date of its acquisition, such Collateral Loan is not rated below “Caa1” by Moody’s or below “CCC+” by S&P
            if, after acquisition of such Collateral Loan more than 5.00%  of the Aggregate Net Collateral Balance will consist of Class 1 Loans that are rated below “Caa1” by Moody’s or below “CCC+” by S&P; and

           

          (y)         will not cause the Borrower or the pool of assets to be required to be registered as an investment company under the Investment Company Act;

           

          provided that the Administrative Agent may agree in writing to specifically waive any criteria set forth above (other than clauses (n), (o), (q), (v) and (y)) with respect to any single Collateral Loan (it
            being understood that the Administrative Agent shall not be required to provide any such waiver under any circumstances), and upon such waiver, such waived criteria will not constitute criteria for such Collateral Loan to qualify as an
            “Eligible Collateral Loan”.

           

          “Eligible Country” means (a) the United States, (b) Canada, (c) the United Kingdom and (d) OECD countries with a country ceiling for foreign currency bonds of at least “Aa2” by Moody’s
            and a foreign currency issuer credit rating of at least “AA” by S&P.

           

          
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          “Eligible Currency Advance” means any AUD Advance, CAD Advance, CHF Advance,
            Euro Advance,  GBP Advance, NZD Advance or SEK Advance.

           

          “Eligible Investments” means any Available Currency investment that, at the time it is Delivered, is Cash or one or more of the following obligations or securities:

           

          (a)          direct interest bearing obligations of, and interest bearing obligations guaranteed as to timely payment of principal and interest by, the United States or any
            agency or instrumentality of the United States, the obligations of which are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States;

           

          (b)          demand or time deposits in, certificates of deposit of, bank deposit products, demand notes of, or bankers’ acceptances issued by any depository institution or
            trust company organized under the laws of the United States or any State thereof, the United Kingdom or, if consented to by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion, the jurisdiction or any constituent jurisdiction thereof of any
            Available Currency (including any federal or state branch or agency of a foreign depository institution or trust company) and subject to supervision and examination by federal and/or state banking authorities (including, if applicable, the
            Collateral Agent, the Custodian or the Administrative Agent or any agent thereof acting in its commercial capacity); provided that the short-term unsecured debt obligations of such depository institution or trust company at the time of
            such investment, or contractual commitment providing for such investment, are rated at least “A-1” by S&P and “P-1” by Moody’s;

           

          (c)          commercial paper that (i) is payable in an Available Currency and (ii) is rated at least “A-1” by S&P and “P-1” by Moody’s; and

           

          (d)          units of money market funds having a rating of the Highest Required Investment Category from each of S&P and Moody’s (or, if such money market fund is only
            rated by one of Moody’s or S&P, the Highest Required Investment Category from such rating agency).

           

          No Eligible Investment shall have an “f,” “r,” “p,” “pi,” “q,” “sf” or “t” subscript affixed to its S&P rating.  Any such investment may be made or acquired from or through the Collateral
            Agent or the Administrative Agent or any of their respective Affiliates, or any entity for whom the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent, the Custodian or any of their respective Affiliates provides services and receives compensation (so
            long as such investment otherwise meets the applicable requirements of the foregoing definition of Eligible Investment at the time of acquisition) or acts as offeror of; provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing clauses (a) through
            (d), unless the Borrower and the Servicer have received the written advice of counsel of national reputation experienced in such matters to the contrary (together with an officer’s certificate of the Borrower or the Servicer to the
            Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent that the advice specified in this definition has been received by the Borrower and the Servicer), Eligible Investments may only include obligations or securities that constitute cash equivalents for
            purposes of the rights and assets in paragraph (c)(8)(i)(B) of the exclusions from the definition of “covered fund” for purposes of the Volcker Rule.  The Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary and Custodian shall have no obligation to
            determine or oversee compliance with the foregoing or to determine whether an investment is an “Eligible Investment”.

           

          
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          “Equity Security” means any stock or similar security, certificate of interest or participation in any profit sharing agreement, reorganization certificate or subscription, transferable
            share, voting trust certificate or certificate of deposit for an equity security, limited partnership interest, interest in a joint venture, or certificate of interest in a business trust; any security future on any such security; or any
            security convertible, with or without consideration into such a security, or carrying any warrant or right to subscribe to or purchase such a security; or any such warrant or right.

           

          “Equityholder” has the meaning given to such term in the recitals and any successor thereto in accordance herewith.

           

          “Equityholder Collateral Loan” means each Collateral Loan sold and/or contributed by the Equityholder to the Borrower pursuant to the Loan Sale Agreement.

           

          “Equityholder Purchased Loan Balance” means, as of any date of determination, an amount equal to (a) the aggregate Principal Balance of all Equityholder Collateral Loans acquired by the
            Borrower prior to such date minus (b) the aggregate Principal Balance of all Equityholder Collateral Loans (other than Warranty Collateral Loans) distributed to or repurchased by the Equityholder or an Affiliate thereof prior to such date.

           

          “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 Event” means (a) any “reportable event,” as defined in Section 4043 of ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder with respect to a Plan (other than an event for which the thirty
            (30) day notice requirement is waived); (b) the failure with respect to any Plan to satisfy the “minimum funding standard” (as defined in Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA); (c) the filing pursuant to Section 412(c) of the Code or
            Section 302 of ERISA of an application for a waiver of the minimum funding standard with respect to any Plan; (d) a determination that any Plan is, or is expected to be, in “at risk” status (as defined in Section 430 of the Code or Section 303
            of ERISA); (e) the incurrence by the Borrower or any member of its ERISA Group of any liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to the termination of any Plan; (f) (i) the receipt by the Borrower or any member of its ERISA Group from the
            PBGC of a notice of determination that the PBGC intends to seek termination of any Plan or to have a trustee appointed for any Plan under Section 4041(c) of ERISA, or (ii) the filing by the Borrower or any member of its ERISA Group of a notice
            of intent to terminate any Plan; (g) the incurrence by the Borrower or any member of its ERISA Group of any liability (i) with respect to a Plan pursuant to Sections 4063 and 4064 of ERISA, (ii) with respect to a facility closing pursuant to
            Section 4062(e) of ERISA, or (iii) with respect to the withdrawal or partial withdrawal from any Multiemployer Plan; (h) the receipt by the Borrower or any member of its ERISA Group of any notice concerning the imposition of Withdrawal
            Liability or a determination that a Multiemployer Plan is, or is expected to be, in endangered status or critical status, within the meaning of Section 432 of the Code or Section 305 of ERISA or is or is expected to be insolvent, within the
            meaning of Title IV of ERISA; or (i) the failure of the Borrower or any member of its ERISA Group to make any required contribution to a Multiemployer Plan, in each case that would, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to
            result in a Material Adverse Effect.

           

          
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          “ERISA Group” means each controlled group of corporations or trades or businesses (whether or not incorporated) under common control that is treated as a single employer under Code
            Section 414(b) or (c) or, for purposes of ERISA Section 302 or Code Section 412, Section 414(m) or (o) of the Code with the Borrower.

           

          “Erroneous Payment” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 12.07(a).

           

          “Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 12.07(d).

           

          “Erroneous Payment Impacted Advances” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 12.07(d).

           

          “Erroneous Payment Return Deficiency” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 12.07(d).

           

          “Erroneous Payment Subrogation Rights” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 12.07(d).

           

          “EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule” means the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor person), as in effect from time to time.

           

          “EU Retention Requirements” means Article 6 of the Securitisation Regulation (together with any delegated regulations, applicable guidance, regulatory technical standards, or
            implementing technical standards made thereunder).

           

          “EURIBOR” means, for any Interest Accrual Period, with respect to any Euro Advance (or portion thereof), the rate per annum (carried out to the fifth decimal place) equal to the rate
            determined by the Administrative Agent to be the offered rate that appears on the page of the Reuters Screen that displays an average European Money Markets Institute Settlement Rate (such page currently being EURIBOR01) (or any applicable
            successor or substitute page providing rate quotations comparable to those currently provided on such page of such service) at approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) two (2) Business Days prior to the beginning of such Interest Accrual Period
            for deposits in Euros with a term equivalent to three months; provided that if such rate is not available at any such time for any reason, then “EURIBOR” with respect to any Advance shall be the rate at which Euro deposits of €5,000,000
            and for a three-month maturity are offered by the principal London office of any bank (which may be the Administrative Agent) reasonably selected by the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds in the Euro-zone interbank market at
            approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the applicable day (or, if such day is not a Business Day, on the immediately preceding Business Day); provided, further that, in the event that the rate as so determined above shall be
            less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for purposes of this Agreement.  EURIBOR shall always be determined by the Administrative Agent, and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

           

          
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          “Euro Advance” means an Advance denominated in Euros.

           

          “Euros” or “€” means the lawful currency of the EEA Member Countries that have adopted and retain the single currency in accordance with the treaty establishing the European
            Community, as amended from time to time.

           

          “Event of Default” means the occurrence of any of the events, acts or circumstances set forth in Section 6.01.

           

          “Excess Concentration Amount” means, as of any date of determination on which any one or more of the Concentration Limitations are exceeded, an amount (calculated by the Servicer and
            without duplication) equal to the Dollar Equivalent of the portion of the Adjusted Principal Balance of each Eligible Collateral Loan that causes such Concentration Limitation to be exceeded.

           

          “Excess Interest Proceeds” means, at any time of determination, the excess of (1) amounts then on deposit in the Collateral Accounts representing Interest Proceeds over (2) the projected
            amount required to be paid pursuant to Section 9.01(a)(i)(A), (B), (C) and (D), on the next Payment Date, any prepayment date or the Final Maturity Date, as applicable, in each case, as determined by the Borrower in good faith and in a
            commercially reasonable manner.

           

          “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, all as from time to time in effect, or any successor law, rules or
            regulations, and any reference to any statutory or regulatory provision shall be deemed to be a reference to any successor statutory or regulatory provision.

           

          “Excluded Amounts” means (a) any amount received in the Collection Account with respect to any Collateral Loan included as part of the Collateral, which amount is attributable to the
            payment of any Taxes, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority on such Collateral Loan or on any underlying asset securing such Collateral Loan and (b) any amount received in the Collection Account (or other applicable
            account) representing (i) any amount representing a reimbursement of insurance premiums and (ii) any escrows relating to Taxes, insurance and other amounts in connection with Collateral Loans which are held in an escrow account for the benefit
            of the Obligor and the applicable secured party pursuant to escrow arrangements under a Related Document, to the extent such amount is attributable to a time after the effective date of such replacement or sale, in each case of clauses (a) and
            (b) to the extent paid on behalf of the Borrower from equity contributions.

           

          “Excluded Principal Distributions” means Permitted Distributions of Principal Proceeds designated as “Excluded Principal Distributions” by mutual agreement of the Servicer and
            Administrative Agent.

           

          
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          “Excluded Taxes” means any of the following Taxes imposed on or with respect to a Secured Party or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to a Secured Party:  (a) Taxes
            imposed on or measured by a Secured Party’s net income (however denominated), franchise Taxes imposed on a Secured Party, and branch profits Taxes imposed on a Secured Party, in each case, (i) by the jurisdiction (or any political subdivision
            thereof) under the laws of which such Secured Party is organized or in which its principal office is located or, in the case of any Lender, in which its applicable lending office is located or (ii) that are Other Connection Taxes, (b) in the
            case of any Lender, U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed on amounts payable to or for the account of such Lender pursuant to a law in effect on the date on which (i) such Lender becomes a party hereto or (ii) such Lender changes its lending
            office, except in each case to the extent that, pursuant to Section 13.03, amounts with respect to such Taxes were payable either to such Lender’s assignor immediately before such Lender became a party hereto or to such Lender immediately
            before it changed its lending office, (c) Taxes attributable to such Secured Party’s failure to comply with Section 13.03(g), and (d) U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA.

           

          “Exercise Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 6.03.

           

          “Expedited Notice of Borrowing” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.03(d).

           

          “Extension Request” means a written request by the Borrower substantially in the form of Exhibit G to extend the Facility Termination Date for an additional period of not greater than
            one year.

           

          “Facility Amount” means (a) on or prior to the Facility Termination Date, an amount equal to the Maximum Facility Amount (as such amount may be reduced from time to time pursuant to
            Section 2.07) and (b) following the Facility Termination Date, the outstanding principal balance of all of the Advances.

           

          “Facility Documents” means this Agreement, the Notes, the Account Control Agreement, the Collateral Agent Fee Letter, the Custodian Agreement, the Lender Fee Letter, the BNP Fee Letter,
            the Loan Sale Agreement and any other security agreements and other instruments entered into or delivered by or on behalf of the Borrower pursuant to Section 5.01(c) to create, perfect or otherwise evidence the Collateral Agent’s security
            interest in the Collateral.

           

          “Facility Reduction Fee” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Lender Fee Letter.

           

          “Facility Termination Date” means the last day of the Reinvestment Period (as and to the extent extended in accordance with Section 2.16).

           

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

           

          
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          “Federal Funds Rate” means, for any period, a fluctuating interest rate per annum 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 Administrative Agent from three federal funds brokers of
            recognized standing selected by it; provided that, if at any time a Lender is borrowing overnight funds from a Federal Reserve Bank that day, the Federal Funds Rate for such Lender for such day shall be the average rate per annum at which such overnight borrowings are made on that day as promptly reported by such Lender to the Borrower and the Agents in writing; provided, further, that if the Federal Funds
            Rate is less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for purposes of this Agreement.  Each determination of the Federal Funds Rate by a Lender pursuant to the foregoing proviso shall be conclusive and binding except in the case of
            manifest error.

           

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

           

          “Fee Basis Amount” means, for any Payment Date, an amount equal to the arithmetic mean of (i) the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Eligible Collateral Loans plus (ii) the Principal Proceeds and Eligible Investments made with Principal Proceeds on deposit in the Collection Account, in each case, on the first day and on the last day of the related Interest Accrual Period.

           

          “Final Maturity Date” means the earlier to occur of (i) the Business Day 24 months after the last day of the Reinvestment Period and (ii) the date on which the Final Maturity Date is
            declared pursuant to Section 6.01.

           

          “Financial Asset” has the meaning specified in Section 8-102(a)(9) of the UCC.

           

          “Financial Stability Board” means the Financial Stability Board established after the G20 London summit
              in April 2009 as a successor to the Financial Stability Forum.

           

          “First Lien First Out Loan” means one or more tranches of First Lien Loans issued by an Obligor under the same Related Documents as a First Lien Last Out Loan that at any time prior to
            and/or after an event of default under the Related Documents, will be paid in full in accordance with a specified waterfall or other priority of payments as specified in the Related Documents, an agreement among lenders or other applicable
            agreement before such First Lien Last Out Loan is paid.

           

          “First Lien Last Out Loan” means a Collateral Loan that would be a First Lien Loan but for the fact that at any time prior to and/or after an event of default under the Related
            Documents, such Collateral Loan will be paid after one or more tranches of First Lien First Out Loans issued by the Obligor have been paid in full in accordance with a specified waterfall or other priority of payments as specified in the
            Related Documents, an agreement among lenders or other applicable agreement; provided that (x) if the First Out Leverage of such Collateral Loan of an Obligor domiciled or having its principal place of business in the United States is
            less than 0.25:1.00 or (y) if the First Out Leverage of such Collateral Loan of an Obligor domiciled or having its principal place of business in Europe is less than 1.25:1.00, in each case as determined by the Servicer in accordance with the
            Servicing Standard for the most recently ended Relevant Test Period for which financial statements have been delivered to the Borrower prior to the related Trade Date, then such Collateral Loan will constitute a First Lien Loan; provided,
            further, that from time to time, the Administrative Agent may propose certain additional terms or conditions for any individual Collateral Loan to constitute a First Lien Loan pursuant to the immediately preceding proviso, and in the
            event that such Collateral Loan does not satisfy such additional terms or conditions, such Collateral Loan shall not constitute a First Lien Loan (and if the Administrative Agent imposes any additional term or condition and such term or
            condition is not satisfied, such Collateral Loan shall be deemed a rejection of an Approval Request).

           

          
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          “First Lien Loan” means any Collateral Loan (for purposes of this definition, a “loan”) that meets the following criteria:

           

          (a)        is not (and is not expressly permitted by its terms to become) subordinate in right of payment to any other obligation of the relevant
            obligor of such loan for borrowed money in any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency, moratorium or liquidation proceedings (other than pursuant to a Permitted Lien or with respect to trade claims, capitalized leases or similar
            obligations);

           

          (b)         is secured by a pledge of collateral, which security interest is (i) validly perfected and first priority under Applicable Law (subject to customary exceptions
            for permitted liens, including but not limited to tax liens, Permitted Working Capital Liens, and liens accorded priority by law in favor of any Governmental Authority) securing the obligor’s obligations under such
            Collateral Loan or (ii)(1) validly perfected and second priority in the accounts, documents, instruments, chattel paper, letter-of-credit rights, supporting obligations, deposit accounts, investments accounts (as such terms are defined in the
            UCC) and any other assets securing any Working Capital Revolver under Applicable Law and proceeds of any of the foregoing (a first priority lien on such assets, a “Permitted Working Capital Lien”) and (2) validly perfected and first
            priority under Applicable Law on in all other collateral (subject to customary exceptions for permitted liens, including but not limited to tax liens, and liens accorded priority by law in favor of any Governmental Authority) securing the
            obligor’s obligations under such Collateral Loan;

           

          (c)         the Servicer determines in good faith that the value of the collateral securing such Collateral Loan at the time of purchase together with other attributes of the
            Obligor (including its general financial condition, ability to generate cash flow available for debt service and other demands for that cash flow) on or about the time of acquisition is adequate to repay the outstanding principal balance of the
            Collateral Loan plus the aggregate outstanding balances of all other Collateral Loans of equal or higher seniority secured by a first priority Lien over the same collateral; and

           

          (d)         for which the Obligor of such loan and its Affiliates has been designated on the date such Collateral Loan was acquired by the Borrower as a “First Lien Loan” by
            the Administrative Agent.

           

          “First Lien Senior Leverage Cap” means, with respect to any Collateral Loan, if such Collateral Loan is (a) a Class 1 Loan, a Senior Net Leverage Ratio of 6.50:1.00, (b) a Class 2 Loan,
            a Senior Net Leverage Ratio of 6.00:1.00 or (c) a Class 3 Loan, a Senior Net Leverage Ratio of 5.50:1.00; provided, that the First Lien Senior Leverage Cap for any Cap Adjusted Loan shall be, if such Cap Adjusted Loan is (a) a Class 1
            Loan, a Senior Net Leverage Ratio of 7.50:1.00, (b) a Class 2 Loan, a Senior Net Leverage Ratio of  7.00:1.00 or (c) a Class 3 Loan, a Senior Net Leverage Ratio of 6.50:1.00.

           

          
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          “First Lien Senior Leverage Cut-Off” means, with respect to any Collateral Loan, if such Collateral Loan is (a) a Class 1 Loan, a Senior Net Leverage Ratio of 5.50:1.00, (b) a Class 2
            Loan, a Senior Net Leverage Ratio of 5.00:1.00 or (c) a Class 3 Loan, a Senior Net Leverage Ratio of 4.50:1.00.

           

          “First Out Leverage” means the ratio of (x) the sum of first out indebtedness and Working Capital Revolver capacity that is secured by a Permitted Working Capital Lien to (y) EBITDA.

           

          “Fixed Rate Loan” means any Collateral Loan that bears a fixed rate of interest.

           

          “Floor” means a rate of interest equal to 0.00% per annum.

          

          

          “Foreign Currency Advance Amount” means, on any Measurement Date, the sum of (a) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate principal amount of all AUD Advances outstanding on such date, plus (b) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate principal amount of all CAD Advances outstanding on such date, plus (c) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate
            principal amount of all Euro Advances outstanding on such date, plus (d) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate principal amount of all GBP Advances outstanding on such date plus (e) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate principal amount of all NZD Advances outstanding on such date, plus (f) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate principal amount of all
            SEK Advances outstanding on such date, plus (g) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate principal amount of all CHF Advances outstanding on such date, in each case after giving effect to all repayments of Advances and the
            making of new Advances on such date.

           

          “Foreign Lender” means a Lender that is resident or organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than that in which the Borrower is resident for tax purposes.

           

          “FRB” has the meaning specified in the definition of Deliver.

           

          “Fundamental Amendment” means, with respect to each Lender, any amendment, modification, waiver or supplement of or to this Agreement or any Facility Document that would (a) increase or
            extend the term of the Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amounts or change the Final Maturity Date (other than an increase of the Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amount of a particular Lender or the addition of a new Lender agreed to by the
            relevant Lender), (b) extend the date fixed for the payment of principal of or interest on any Advance or any fee hereunder, (c) reduce the amount of any such payment of principal, (d) reduce the rate at which Interest is payable thereon or any
            fee is payable hereunder (other than in connection with the appointment of a benchmark replacement or a pricing grid), (e) release any material portion of the Collateral, except in connection with dispositions permitted hereunder, (f) alter the
            terms of Section 9.01 or Section 13.01(b), (g) modify the definition of the terms “Majority Lenders,” “Required Lenders,” “Maximum Available Amount,” “Advance Rate,” “Borrowing Base,” “Minimum OC Coverage Test,” “Collateral Quality Test,”
            “Collateral Loan,” “Eligible Collateral Loan,” “Eligible Country,” “Minimum Equity Amount,” “Class 1A Borrowing Base,” “Class 1B Borrowing Base,” “Class 2A Borrowing Base,” “Class 2B Borrowing Base,” “Class 3A Borrowing Base,” “Class 3B
            Borrowing Base,” “Class 1A Minimum OC Coverage Test,” “Class 1B Minimum OC Coverage Test,” “Class 2A Minimum OC Coverage Test,” “Class 2B Minimum OC Coverage Test,” “Class 3A Minimum OC Coverage Test,” “Class 3B Minimum OC Coverage Test,”
            “Class 1 Loan,” “Class 1A Loan,” “Class 1B Loan,” “Class 2 Loan”, “Class 2A Loan,” “Class 2B Loan,” “Class 3 Loan,” “Class 3A Loan” or “Class 3B Loan” or any component thereof defined therein (in each case, other than any administrative,
            non-material amendment agreed to by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent), (h) modify in any other manner the number or percentage of the Lenders required to make any determinations or waive any rights hereunder or to modify any provision
            hereof or (i) extend the Reinvestment Period, in each case to the extent such amendment, modification, waiver or supplement relates to such Lender.

           

          
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          “GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in effect from time to time in the United States.

           

          “GBP Advance” means an Advance denominated in Pounds Sterling.

           

          “GBP Funding Rate” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.12(b)(i)

           

          “Government Security” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Deliver”.

           

          “Governmental Authority” means, with respect to any Person, any nation or government, any supranational, state or other political or subdivision thereof, any central bank (or similar
            monetary or regulatory authority) thereof, any body or entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to government and any court or arbitrator, in each case, having jurisdiction or
            authority over such Person.

           

          “Governmental Authorizations” means all franchises, permits, licenses, approvals, consents and other authorizations of all Governmental Authorities.

           

          “Governmental Filings” means all filings, including franchise and similar tax filings, and the payment of all fees, assessments, interests and penalties associated with such filings with
            all Governmental Authorities.

           

          “Highest Required Investment Category” means (a) with respect to ratings assigned by Moody’s, “Aa2” or “P-1” for one month instruments, “Aa2” and “P-1” for three month instruments, “Aa3”
            and “P-1” for six month instruments and “Aa2” and “P-1” for instruments with a term in excess of six months and (b) with respect to rating assigned by S&P, “A-1” for short-term instruments and “A” for long-term instruments.

           

          
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          “Indebtedness” means, with respect to any Person, as of any day, without duplication: (i) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money; (ii) all obligations of such Person evidenced
            by bonds, debentures, notes, deferrable securities or other similar instruments; (iii) all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of property or services, except trade accounts payable arising in the ordinary course of
            business; (iv) all Capital Lease Obligations of such Person as lessee; (v) all non-contingent obligations of such Person to reimburse or prepay any bank or other Person in respect of amounts paid under a letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or
            similar instrument; (vi) all debt of others secured by a Lien on any asset of such Person, whether or not such debt is assumed by such Person, but limited to the lower of (x) the fair market value of such asset as determined by such Person in
            good faith and (y) the amount of Indebtedness secured by such Lien; and (vii) all Indebtedness of others guaranteed by such Person. Notwithstanding the foregoing, “Indebtedness” does not include (x) purchase price holdbacks arising in the
            ordinary course of business in respect of a portion of the purchase price of an asset or investment to satisfy unperformed obligations of the seller of such asset or investment, (y) a commitment arising in the ordinary course of business to
            make a future investment or fund subsequent draws under Revolving Collateral Loans, Delayed Drawdown Collateral Loans or the unfunded portion of any existing investment or (z) indebtedness of the Borrower on account of the sale by the Borrower
            of the first out tranche of any First Lien Loan that arises solely as an accounting matter under ASC 860, provided that such indebtedness (i) is nonrecourse to the Borrower and (ii) would not represent a claim against the Borrower in a
            bankruptcy, insolvency or liquidation proceeding of the Borrower, in each case in excess of the amount sold or purportedly sold.

           

          “Indemnified Party” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 13.04(b).

           

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

           

          “Independent Accountants” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.09(a).

           

          “Independent Manager” means a natural person who, (A) for the five-year period prior to his or her appointment as Independent Manager, has not been, and during the continuation of his or
            her service as Independent Manager is not:  (i) an employee, director, stockholder, member, manager, partner or officer of the Borrower or any of its Affiliates (other than his or her service as an Independent Manager of the Borrower or other
            Affiliates that are structured to be “bankruptcy remote”); (ii) a customer or supplier of the Borrower or any of its Affiliates (other than his or her service as an Independent Manager of the Borrower or any such Affiliate); (iii) a Person
            controlling or under common control with any partner, shareholder, member, manager, Affiliate or supplier of the Borrower or any Affiliate of the Borrower or (iv) any member of the immediate family of a person described in clauses (i), (ii) or
            (iii); provided that an independent manager may serve in similar capacities for other special purpose entities established from time to time by Affiliates of the Borrower and (B) has (i) prior experience as an Independent Manager for a
            corporation or limited liability company whose charter documents required the unanimous consent of all Independent Managers thereof before such corporation or limited liability company could consent to the institution of bankruptcy or
            insolvency proceedings against it or could file a petition seeking relief under any applicable federal or state law relating to bankruptcy and (ii) at least three years of employment experience with one or more entities that provide, in the
            ordinary course of their respective businesses, advisory, management or placement services to issuers of securitization or structured finance instruments, agreements or securities.

           

          
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          “Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amount” means, as to each Lender, the maximum amount of Advances to the Borrower that may be lent by such Lender pursuant to Section 2.01 in an
            aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding for such Lender up to but not exceeding the amount set forth opposite the name of such Lender on Schedule 1 or in the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which such Lender shall have
            assumed its Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amount, as applicable, as such amount may be reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.07 or increased or reduced from time to time pursuant to assignments effected in accordance with
            Section 13.06(a).

           

          “Ineligible Collateral Loan” means, at any time, a Collateral Loan or any portion thereof, that fails to satisfy any criteria of the definition of Eligible Collateral Loan as of the date
            when such criteria are applicable (other than any criteria that has been waived pursuant to the definition thereof); it being understood that such criteria in the definition of Eligible Collateral Loan that is specified to be applicable only as
            of the date of acquisition of such Collateral Loan shall not be applicable after the date of acquisition of such Collateral Loan.

           

          “Initial AUP Report Date” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.09(a).

           

          “Insolvency Event” means, with respect to any Person, (a) the filing of a decree or order for relief by a court having jurisdiction in the premises in respect of such Person or any
            substantial part of its property in an involuntary case under the Bankruptcy Code or any other applicable insolvency law now or hereafter in effect, or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar
            official for such Person or for any substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding-up or liquidation of such Person’s affairs, and such decree or order shall remain undismissed, undischarged, unstayed and unrestrained and in effect
            for a period of sixty (60) consecutive days; or (b) the commencement by such Person of a voluntary case under the Bankruptcy Code or any other applicable insolvency law now or hereafter in effect, or the consent by such Person to the entry of
            an order for relief in an involuntary case under any such law, or the consent by such Person to the appointment of or taking possession by a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official for such Person or
            for any substantial part of its property, or the making by such Person of any general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the failure by such Person generally to pay its debts as such debts become due, or the taking of action by such
            Person in furtherance of any of the foregoing.

           

          “Instrument” has the meaning specified in Section 9-102(a)(47) of the UCC.

           

          “Interest” means, for each day during an Interest Accrual Period with respect to the Advances made with respect to each Loan Class, the sum of the products (for each day elapsed during
            such Interest Accrual Period or other period) of:

           

          

           

          where:

           

          IR       =         the Interest Rate applicable to such Class for such day;

           

          P         =         the principal amount of the Advances made in respect of such Loan Class outstanding on such day; and

           

          D        =         (x) with respect to Advances other than GBP Advances, 360 days and (y), with respect to GBP Advances, 365 days.

           

          
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          “Interest Accrual Period” means (a) with respect to the first Payment Date, the period from and including the Closing Date to and ending on (but excluding) the last Business Day of the
            calendar month preceding the month in which such Payment Date occurs and (b) with respect to any subsequent Payment Date, the period beginning on (and including) the day immediately following the last day of the prior Interest Accrual Period
            and ending on (but excluding) the last Business Day of the calendar month preceding the month in which such Payment Date occurs; provided that the final Interest Accrual Period hereunder ends on and includes the day prior to the payment
            in full of the Advances hereunder.

           

          “Interest Collection Subaccount” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.02(a).

           

          “Interest Proceeds” means, with respect to any Collection Period or the related Determination Date, without duplication, the sum of:

           

          (a)         all payments of interest and other income received in cash by the Borrower during such Collection Period on the Collateral Loans (including interest purchased
            with Principal Proceeds, interest and other income received in cash on Ineligible Collateral Loans and the accrued interest received in cash in connection with a sale of any such Collateral Loan during such Collection Period);

           

          (b)         all principal and interest payments received by the Borrower during such Collection Period on Eligible Investments purchased with Interest Proceeds and all
            interest payments received by the Borrower during such Collection Period on Eligible Investments purchased with amounts credited to the Revolving Reserve Account;

           

          (c)         all amendment and waiver fees, late payment fees (including compensation for delayed settlement or trades), and all protection fees and other fees and commissions
            received by the Borrower during such Collection Period unless the Servicer has determined in its sole discretion that such payments are to be treated as Principal Proceeds;

           

          (d)       commitment fees, facility fees, anniversary fees, ticking fees and other similar fees received by the Borrower during such Collection Period unless the Servicer has
            determined in its sole discretion that such payments are to be treated as Principal Proceeds; and

           

          (e)          cash contributed to the Borrower that the Borrower specifies in the Contribution Notice shall constitute Interest Proceeds and is deposited into a Collection
            Account in accordance with Section 8.02 as designated by the Borrower;

           

          provided that:

           

          (1)         as to any Defaulted Collateral Loan (and only so long as it remains a Defaulted Collateral Loan), any amounts received in respect thereof will constitute
            Principal Proceeds (and not Interest Proceeds) until the aggregate of all Collections in respect thereof since it became a Defaulted Collateral Loan equals the Principal Balance of such Defaulted Collateral Loan at the time as of which it
            became a Defaulted Collateral Loan and all amounts received in excess thereof will constitute Interest Proceeds; and

           

          
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          (2)       any amounts received in respect of any Equity Security that was received in exchange for a Defaulted Collateral Loan will constitute Principal Proceeds (and not
            Interest Proceeds) until the aggregate of all collections in respect of such Equity Security equals the outstanding Principal Balance of the related Collateral Loan, at the time it became a Defaulted Collateral Loan, for which such Equity
            Security was received in exchange.

           

          “Interest Rate” means, for any Class as of any date of determination, an interest rate per annum equal to the Benchmark (or, if at any time the
            Benchmark cannot be determined, the Base Rate) plus the Applicable Margin.

           

          “Investment Company Act” means the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

           

          “Law” means any action, code, consent decree, constitution, decree, directive, enactment, finding, guideline, law, injunction, interpretation, judgment, order, ordinance, policy
            statement, proclamation, promulgation, regulation, requirement, rule, rule of law, treaty, rule of public policy, settlement agreement, statute, or writ, of any Governmental Authority, or any particular section, part or provision thereof.

           

          “Lender” means each Dollar Lender and each Multicurrency Lender, as applicable.

           

          “Lender Fee Letter” means that certain fee letter, dated as of the Closing Date, by and among the Lenders, the Borrower and the Servicer, as amended or supplemented from time to time,
            and any other fee letter between a Lender, the Borrower and the Servicer that identifies itself as a Lender Fee Letter hereunder.

           

          “Liabilities” means all liabilities, obligations, losses, claims, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses (including reasonable and documented out-of-pocket
            outside attorneys’ fees and expenses) and disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever.

           

          “LIBOR” means, for any Interest Accrual Period with respect to any Dollar Advance (or portion thereof), the ICE Benchmark Administration Limited London interbank offered rate per annum for deposits in Dollars for a period equal to the Interest Accrual Period as displayed in the Bloomberg Financial Markets System (or such other page on that service or such other service designated by the ICE Benchmark
                Limited for the display of such administration’s London interbank offered rate for deposits in Dollars) as of 11:00 a.m., London time on the day that is two Business Days prior to the first day of the Interest Accrual Period (the “Screen
                Rate”); provided that LIBOR for the first Interest Accrual Period will be determined by interpolating linearly between the Screen Rate displayed for the next shorter period of time than such Interest
                Accrual Period and the Screen Rate displayed for the next longer period of time than such Interest Accrual Period; provided further that if the Administrative Agent determines that the
                relevant foregoing sources are unavailable for the relevant Interest Accrual Period, LIBOR shall mean the rate of interest determined by the
                Administrative Agent to be the average (rounded upward, if necessary, to the nearest 1/100th of 1%) of the rates per annum at which deposits in Dollars are offered to the Administrative Agent two (2) Business Days preceding the first
                day of such Interest Accrual Period by four leading banks (selected by the Administrative Agent after consultation with the Borrower) in the London or other offshore interbank market for Dollars as of 11:00 a.m. London time for delivery on
              the first day of such Interest Accrual Period, for the
                number of days comprised therein and in an amount comparable to the amount of the Administrative Agent’s portion of the relevant Advance; provided, if LIBOR is less than zero, LIBOR shall be deemed to be zero for purposes of this Agreement.

           

          
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          “Lien” means any mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, encumbrance, lien or security interest (statutory or other)  of any kind or nature whatsoever (including any conditional
            sale or other title retention agreement, any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing, and the filing authorized by the Borrower of any financing statement under the UCC or comparable law of any
            jurisdiction). Notwithstanding the foregoing, “Lien” shall not include (i) customary restrictions on assignments or transfers thereof on customary and market-based terms pursuant to the Related
            Documents relating to any Collateral Loan or (ii) in the case of any Equity Securities, customary drag-along, tag-along, right of first refusal and other similar rights in favor of other equity holders of the same issuer.

           

          “Listed Collateral Loan” means, at any time, a Collateral Loan for which three or more bids are quoted and available from Loan Pricing Corporation, Mark-it Partners (formerly known as
            Loan X), Interactive Data Corporation or another nationally recognized broker-dealer or nationally recognized quotation service requested by the Servicer and approved from time to time by the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders,
            subject in each case to the proviso in the definition of “Listed Value”.

           

          “Listed Value” means, for any Listed Collateral Loan at any time, the bid price for such Collateral Loan most recently quoted by Loan Pricing Corporation, Mark-it Partners (formerly
            known as Loan X) or Interactive Data Corporation and obtained by the Servicer, or quoted by another nationally recognized broker-dealer or nationally recognized quotation service as may be approved from time to time by the Administrative Agent
            if so requested by the Borrower or the Servicer; provided that, if the Servicer reasonably believes that the price quoted by any such source is based on less than three bona fide bids, then upon
            notice thereof from the Servicer to the Administrative Agent, such Collateral Loan will not be considered a “Listed Collateral Loan” and the “Loan Value” of such Collateral Loan will be determined in accordance with clause (b)(ii) of the
            definition of Loan Value.

           

          “LLC Agreement” means that certain Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date of the Borrower (as amended, restated, amended and restated, or
            otherwise modified).

           

          “Loan Class” means a Class 1A Loan, a Class 1B Loan, a Class 2A Loan, a Class 2B Loan, a Class 3A Loan or a Class 3B Loan, as applicable.

           

          “Loan Sale Agreement” means that certain Loan Sale and Contribution Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, by and between the Equityholder and the Borrower, as the same may be amended,
            restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

           

          
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          “Loan Type” means a First Lien Loan, a First Lien Last Out Loan or a Second Lien Loan, as applicable.

           

          “Loan Value” means, with respect to each Collateral Loan, as of any date of determination and expressed as a percentage of the Principal Balance of such Collateral Loan, a percentage
            equal to:

           

          (a)          if a Revaluation Event has not occurred with respect to such Collateral Loan, for newly acquired Collateral Loans (either directly by the Borrower or through the
            Equityholder for immediate transfer to the Borrower), the purchase price of such Collateral Loan (without deducting any original issue discount unless the original issue discount is in excess of 3%);

           

          (b)         if a Revaluation Event has occurred with respect to such Collateral Loan and such Collateral Loan is not a Defaulted Collateral Loan:

           

          (i)         if such Collateral Loan is a Listed Collateral Loan as of such date, the lesser of (x) the Listed Value of such Collateral Loan as at such date and (y) the
            purchase price of such Collateral Loan; and

           

          (ii)        if such Collateral Loan is not a Listed Collateral Loan as of such date:

           

          (A)    and the Servicer provides three bona fide bids that are acceptable to the Administrative Agent (in its sole discretion),
            the average of such bona fide bids; otherwise

           

          (B)     the fair market value of such Collateral Loan as determined by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion; and

           

          (c)          if a Revaluation Event has occurred with respect to such Collateral Loan and such Collateral Loan is a Defaulted Collateral Loan, the fair market value of such
            Collateral Loan as determined by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion.

           

          If the Borrower disagrees with the Loan Value assigned by the Administrative Agent to a Collateral Loan pursuant to clauses (b)(ii) or (c) above (an “Agent Valuation”), then the Borrower
            may at its own expense and within sixty (60) days from the date on which the Administrative Agent assigned the Agent Valuation (the “Dispute Period”) obtain an Appraisal (the “New Valuation”) from an Approved Appraisal Firm or a
            valuation firm selected by the Borrower with the consent of the Administrative Agent (such process, a “Valuation Agent Dispute” and such Collateral Loan, a “Disputed Collateral Loan”).  If a New Valuation is obtained during the
            Dispute Period, then the New Valuation shall be treated as the amended Loan Value, otherwise the Agent Valuation shall be treated as the amended Loan Value.  During the Dispute Period, the Loan Value shall be the Agent Valuation.  The
            Administrative Agent may, in its sole discretion, further amend the Loan Value in respect of such Disputed Collateral Loan in the event the Administrative Agent or the Servicer obtains knowledge of additional adverse information relating to
            such Disputed Collateral Loan or the related Obligor which could reasonably be expected to have material and adverse effect on the creditworthiness of such Obligor with respect to such Disputed Collateral Loan.  With respect to any Disputed
            Collateral Loan, following resolution of such dispute pursuant to this definition, the Loan Value for such Disputed Collateral Loan shall be deemed to have been determined at the time of the Agent Valuation and no Default pursuant to Section
            6.01(l) shall have been deemed to have occurred as a result of such Disputed Collateral Loan during the Dispute Period.

           

          
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          “Lookback Period” means five RFR Banking Days.

           

          “Majority Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, (x) the Administrative Agent and (y) Lenders collectively having aggregate Percentages greater than 50%; provided, however,
            that if any Lender shall be a Defaulting Lender at such time, then Advances owing to such Defaulting Lender and such Defaulting Lender’s unfunded Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amounts shall be excluded from the determination of Majority
            Lenders.

           

          “Margin Stock” has the meaning assigned to such term in Regulation U.

           

          “Material Adverse Effect” means a material adverse effect on (a) the business, assets, financial condition or operations of the Borrower or the Servicer either individually or taken as a
            whole, (b) the validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any other Facility Document or the validity, enforceability or collectability of the Collateral Loans or the Related Documents generally or any material portion of the Collateral
            Loans or the Related Documents, (c) the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the other Secured Parties with respect to matters arising under this Agreement or any other Facility Document, (d) the ability of each of
            the Borrower or the Servicer to perform its obligations under any Facility Document to which it is a party, or (e) the status, existence, perfection, priority or enforceability of the Collateral Agent’s Lien on the Collateral; provided
            that, for the avoidance of doubt, “Material Adverse Effect” does not include the occurrence of a Revaluation Event, Material Modification or change in Loan Value in relation to any one or more Eligible Collateral Loans.

           

          “Material Modification” means, with respect to any Collateral Loan, any amendment, waiver, consent or modification of, or supplement to or inaction with, a Related Document with respect
            thereto (it being understood that a release document or similar instrument executed or delivered in connection with a disposition that is otherwise permitted under the applicable Related Documents shall not constitute an amendment or
            modification to such Related Document) executed or effected after the date on which such Collateral Loan is acquired by the Borrower, that:

           

          (a)          reduces, defers or forgives any principal amount of such Collateral Loan;

           

          (b)          reduces or forgives one or more interest payments which reduces the spread or coupon by more than 50 basis points or permits any interest due with respect to
            such Collateral Loan in cash to be deferred or capitalized and added to the principal amount of such Collateral Loan (other than (x) any deferral or capitalization already expressly permitted by the terms of its Related Documents or pursuant to
            the application of a pricing grid, in each case, as of the date such Collateral Loan was acquired by the Borrower or (y) any change related to the replacement of a benchmark rate);

           

          
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          (c)          extends, delays or waives any date fixed for any scheduled payment (including at maturity) of principal on such Collateral Loan, subject to any grace period
            agreed to by the Administrative Agent at the time of such modification;

           

          (d)          in the case of a First Lien Last Out Loan or a First Lien Loan, contractually or structurally subordinates such Collateral Loan by operation of a priority of
            payments, turnover provisions or the transfer of assets in order to limit recourse to the related Obligor (other than as permitted by the terms of the Related Documents on the date such Collateral Loan was acquired);

           

          (e)          substitutes, alters, releases or terminates any material portion of the underlying assets securing such Collateral Loan (other than as expressly permitted by the
            Related Documents as of the date such Collateral Loan was acquired by the Borrower (or the Servicer on behalf of the Borrower)) or releases any material guarantor or co-Obligor from its obligations with respect thereto (other than as expressly
            permitted by the Related Documents as of the date such Collateral Loan was acquired by the Borrower (or the Servicer on behalf of the Borrower)), and each such substitution, alteration, release or termination materially and adversely affects
            the value of such Collateral Loan (as determined in the commercially reasonable discretion of the Administrative Agent) ;

           

          (f)        modifies any term or provision of the Related Documents of such Collateral Loan that materially and adversely impacts the calculation of any financial covenant,
            the definition of “Permitted Liens” (or any analogous definition), or the determination of any default or event of default with respect to the related Collateral Loan;

           

          (g)          results in change of currency of the Collateral Loan; or

           

          (h)         any other modification which, in the reasonable discretion of the Administrative Agent, is material and adverse to the value of such Collateral Loan.

           

          “Maximum Available Amount” means, on any date of determination, an amount equal to the lesser of:

           

          (a)          the Maximum Facility Amount at such time; and

           

          (b)          the Borrowing Base (calculated after giving effect to the deposit or investment of such borrowed funds on the borrowing date).

           

          “Maximum Facility Amount” means, on any date of determination, $600,000,000800,000,000 (as such amount may be reduced pursuant to Section 2.07); provided that it is understood that the loan
            facility established under this Agreement is an uncommitted facility and there is no express or implied commitment on the part of the Administrative Agent or any Lender to provide any Advance except that, in the case of Collateral Loans
            approved by means of an Approval Request or Approved List, the Lenders shall have committed to fund the related Advances (up to the amount(s) specified in the related Approval Request or Approved List) provided that the related conditions
            precedent set forth in Article III are satisfied.

           

          
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          “Maximum Portfolio Amount” means, on any date of determination, the sum of (i) the Maximum Facility Amount and (ii) the aggregate amount of all contributions by the Equityholder to the
            Borrower (other than contributions made to cure a Default or an Event of Default) less any principal distributions to the Equityholder other than Excluded Principal Distributions.

           

          “Maximum Weighted Average Life Test” means a test that will be satisfied on any date of determination if the Weighted Average Life of the Collateral Loans as of such date is less than or
            equal to six (6.0) years.

           

          “Measurement Date” means (a) the Closing Date, (b) each Borrowing Date, (c) each Monthly Report Determination Date, (d) each Payment Date Report Determination Date and (e) each other
            date reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent.

           

          “Mezzanine Obligations” means unsecured obligations that are contractually subordinated in right of payment to other debt of the same issuer.

           

          “Minimum Equity Amount” means, at any time, the product of (a) 10% and (b) the Maximum Facility Amount.

           

          “Minimum OC Coverage Test” means, as of any date, a test that shall be satisfied if the OC Ratio as of such date is equal to or greater than 1:00:1:00.

           

          “Money” has the meaning specified in Section 1-201(24) of the UCC.

           

          “Monthly Report” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.07(a).

           

          “Monthly Report Determination Date” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.07(a).

           

          “Monthly Reporting Date” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.07(a).

           

          “Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., together with its successors.

           

          “Moody’s Rating” has the meaning specified in Schedule 10 hereto.

           

          “Multicurrency Lender” means each Person listed on Schedule 1 as a “Multicurrency Lender” as of the Closing Date and any other Person that shall have become a party hereto as a
            “Multicurrency Lender” in accordance with the terms hereof pursuant to an Assignment and Acceptance, other than any such Person that ceases to be a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Acceptance.

           

          “Multiemployer Plan” means an employee pension benefit plan within the meaning of Section 4001 (a)(3) of ERISA that is sponsored by the Borrower or a member of its ERISA Group or to
            which the Borrower or a member of its ERISA Group is obligated to make contributions or has any liability.

           

          
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          “Net-Debt-to-Recurring-Revenue Ratio” means, with respect to any Collateral Loan for any period, the meaning of “Net-Debt-to-Recurring-Revenue Ratio” or any comparable term defined in
            the Related Documents for such Collateral Loan, and in any case that “Net-Debt-to-Recurring-Revenue Ratio” or such comparable term is not defined in such Related Documents, the ratio of (a) indebtedness of the related Obligor under such
            Collateral Loan and all other indebtedness of such Obligor that is senior or pari passu in right of payment to such Collateral Loan minus Unrestricted Cash and cash equivalents to (b) TTM Recurring Revenue, as calculated by the Servicer in good
            faith in accordance with the Servicing Standard using information from and calculations consistent with the relevant compliance statements and financial reporting packages provided by the relevant Obligor as per the requirements of the Related
            Documents; provided that, in the event of a lack of any such information necessary to calculate the Net-Debt-to-Recurring-Revenue Ratio for any Collateral Loan, the Net-Debt-to-Recurring-Revenue Ratio for such Collateral Loan shall be a ratio
            calculated by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion after consultation with the Servicer or, if agreed to by the Administrative Agent, by the Servicer in good faith in accordance with the Servicing Standard.

           

          “Non-Dollar Sublimit” means the lesser of (x) 30% of the Maximum Facility Amount and (y) the sum of the Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amounts of the Multicurrency Lenders. The
            Non-Dollar Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Maximum Facility Amount.

           

          “Note” means each promissory note, if any, issued by the Borrower to a Lender in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.04, substantially in the form of Exhibit A.

           

          “Notice of Borrowing” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.03(a).

           

          “Notice of Prepayment” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.06(a).

           

          “NZBB” means, for Interest Accrual Period, with respect to any NZD Advance (or portion thereof), the rate per annum (carried out to the fifth
            decimal place) equal to the rate determined by the Administrative Agent to be the average mid rate that appears on the Reuters Screen 0#NZBBFIX= Page (or any applicable successor or substitute page providing rate quotations comparable to those
            currently provided on such page of such service) at approximately 11:00 a.m. (Wellington time) two (2) Business Days prior to the beginning of such Interest Accrual Period for New Zealand Dollar bills of exchange with a term equivalent to three
            months; provided that if such rate is not available at any such time for any reason, “NZBB” with respect to any NZD Advance shall be determined based on the bid and offered rates at which New Zealand Dollar bills of exchange of the Dollar
            Equivalent of $500,000 in New Zealand Dollars and for a three-month maturity are quoted by the principal New Zealand office of four major banks in the New Zealand money market (which may be the Administrative Agent) reasonably selected by the
            Administrative Agent at approximately 11:00 a.m. (Wellington time) on the applicable day (or, if such day is not a Business Day, on the immediately preceding Business Day); provided that if at least two sets of bid and offered rate quotations
            are provided, the rate for the applicable day (or, if such day is not a Business Day, on the immediately preceding Business Day) will be the arithmetic mean of the quotations; provided further that if fewer than two sets of bid and offered rate
            quotations are provided as requested, the rate for that applicable day (or, if such day is not a Business Day, on the immediately preceding Business Day) will be the arithmetic mean of the bid and offered rates quoted by major banks in New
            Zealand, selected by the Administrative Agent, for New Zealand Dollar bills of exchange for a three-month maturity for settlement on that day and in the Dollar Equivalent of $500,000 in New Zealand Dollars at approximately 11:00 a.m.,
            Wellington time, on that day; provided, further that, in the event that the rate as so determined above shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for purposes of this Agreement. NZBB shall always be determined by the
            Administrative Agent, and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

           

          
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          “NZD Advance” means an Advance denominated in New Zealand Dollars.

           

          “New Zealand Dollars” means the lawful currency of New Zealand.

           

          “Obligations” means all indebtedness, whether absolute, fixed or contingent, at any time or from time to time owing by the Borrower to any Secured Party or any Affected Person under or
            in connection with this Agreement, the Notes or any other Facility Document, including all amounts payable by the Borrower in respect of the Advances, with interest thereon, and all other amounts payable hereunder or thereunder by the Borrower
            (without regard to any Servicer Expense Cap or Administrative Expense Cap).

           

          “Obligor” means, in respect of any Collateral Loan, each Person obligated to pay Collections in respect of such Collateral Loan, including any applicable guarantors; provided
            that for purposes of determining the domicile of an Obligor for purposes of the definitions of Concentration Limitations and Eligible Collateral Loan, the term “Obligor” shall only include the Person in respect of which the Collateral Loan was
            principally underwritten.

           

          “OC Ratio” means, as of any Business Day, the ratio of (a) the Borrowing Base to (b) the sum of (x) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate outstanding principal balance of the Advances
            and (y) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate purchase price of all Collateral Loans for which the Borrower has entered into a binding commitment to purchase that have not yet settled.

           

          “OC Ratio Breach” means, on any Business Day, a failure of the Minimum OC Coverage Test.

           

          “OC Ratio Posting Payment” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.02.

           

          “OECD” means the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development.

           

          “OFAC” means the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control.

           

          “Other Connection Taxes” means, in the case of any Secured Party, any Taxes imposed as a result of a present or former connection between such Secured Party and the jurisdiction imposing
            such Tax (other than connections arising from such Secured Party having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, engaged in any other
            transaction pursuant to or enforced this Agreement, the Notes or any other Facility Document).

           

          
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          “Other Taxes” means all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing or similar Taxes that arise from any payment made under, from the execution,
            delivery, performance, enforcement or registration of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to any Facility Document, except any such Taxes that are Other Connection Taxes imposed with respect
            to an assignment (other than an assignment made pursuant to Section 13.03(h)).

           

          “Partial PIK Loan” means a Collateral Loan that requires the Obligor to pay only a portion of the accrued and unpaid interest in cash on a current basis, the remainder of which is or can
            be deferred and paid later; provided that (x) the portion of such interest required to be paid in cash pursuant to the terms of the applicable Related Documents carries a current cash pay interest rate paid, if at a fixed rate, not less
            than 3.5% per annum or, if at a floating rate, not less than 2% per annum above the applicable index, (y) the terms of the applicable Related Documents do not
            permit the amount of current cash pay interest to be less than 25% of the original specified interest amount and (z)  the terms of the applicable Related Documents do not permit any accrued and unpaid interest to be deferred for more than 12
            months or paid later than the date that is 12 months after the initial due date for such interest.

           

          “Participant” means any bank or other Person to whom a participation is sold as permitted by Section 13.06(c).

           

          “Participant Register” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 13.06(c)(ii).

           

          “PATRIOT Act” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 13.15.

           

          “Payment Account” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.03.

           

          “Payment Date” means the 20th day of each of February, May, August and November, commencing August 20, 2021; provided that, if any such day is not a Business Day, then such
            Payment Date shall be the next succeeding Business Day.

           

          “Payment Recipient” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 12.07(a).

           

          “Payment Date Report” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.07(b).

           

          “Payment Date Report Determination Date” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.07(b).

           

          “PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, or any successor agency or entity performing substantially the same functions.

           

          “Percentage” means with respect to any Lender as of any date of determination, (a) with respect to each Lender party listed on Schedule 1, the percentage applicable to such Lender on
            such date of determination as specified on Schedule 1, as such amount is reduced by any Assignment and Acceptance entered into by such Lender with an assignee or increased by any Assignment and Acceptance entered into by such Lender with an
            assignor, and (b) with respect to each Lender not listed on Schedule 1 that has become a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Acceptance, the percentage set forth therein as such Lender’s Percentage, as such amount is reduced by an
            Assignment and Acceptance entered into between such Lender and an assignee or increased by any Assignment and Acceptance entered into by such Lender with an assignor.

           

          
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          “Permitted Assignee” means (a) a Lender or any of its Affiliates or (b) any Person managed by a Lender or any of its Affiliates; provided that no Disqualified Lender may be a
            Permitted Assignee unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.

           

          “Permitted Currencies” means Pounds Sterling, Euro, Dollars, Australian Dollars, Canadian Dollars, New Zealand Dollars, Swedish Krona and Swiss Francs and any other currency consented to
            by the Administrative Agent and acceptable to the Collateral Agent and Securities Intermediary; provided that any currency other than Dollars is subject to the establishment by the Borrower at the Securities Intermediary of an account
            into which the Collateral Agent may deposit Collateral that is denominated in such other currency and that is subject to the Lien of the Collateral Agent; provided further that neither the Collateral Agent nor the Securities Intermediary shall
            be obligated to establish such account or accept or hold any foreign currency security or other asset to the extent it reasonably determines that holding such currency, security or asset would violate any law, rule, regulation or internal
            policy applicable to the Collateral Agent or Securities Intermediary.

           

          “Permitted Distribution” means, on any Business Day, distributions of (a) Interest Proceeds so long as immediately after giving effect to such Permitted Distribution, sufficient Interest
            Proceeds remain to pay all amounts payable on the immediately following Payment Date pursuant to Section 9.01(a)(i) as determined by the Servicer in good faith and/or (b) prior to the last day of the Reinvestment Period, Principal Proceeds; provided
            that amounts may be distributed pursuant to this definition so long as (i) no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing (or would occur after giving effect to such Permitted Distribution) and (ii) in the case of a distribution described
            in clause (b) above, the OC Ratio would be at least 107.5% immediately after giving effect to such Permitted Distribution.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this definition shall limit the right or ability of the Borrower to make a
            Permitted RIC Distribution.

           

          “Permitted Liens” means any of the following: (a) Liens for Taxes if such Taxes shall not at the time be due and payable or if a Person shall currently be contesting the validity thereof
            in good faith by appropriate proceedings and with respect to which reserves in accordance with GAAP have been provided on the books of such Person; (b) Liens imposed by law, such as materialmen’s, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, carriers’,
            workmen’s and repairmen’s Liens and other similar Liens, arising by operation of law in the ordinary course of business for sums that are not overdue or are being contested in good faith; (c) Liens granted pursuant to or by the Facility
            Documents, (d) judgement Liens not constituting an Event of Default hereunder, (e) bankers’ Liens, rights of setoff and other similar Liens existing solely with respect to cash and cash equivalents on deposit in one or more accounts maintained
            by such Person, in each case granted in the ordinary course of business in favor of the bank or banks with which such accounts are maintained, securing amounts owing to such bank with respect to cash management, operating account arrangements
            and netting arrangements, (f) with respect to collateral underlying any Collateral Loan, the Lien in favor of the Borrower herein and Liens permitted under the underlying documents related to such Collateral Loan, (g) as to any agented
            Collateral Loan, Liens in favor of any agent on behalf of all the lenders to the related obligor, (h) Liens of clearing agencies, broker-dealers and similar Liens incurred in the ordinary course of business, provided that such Liens (x) attach
            only to the securities (or proceeds) being purchased or sold and (y) secure only obligations incurred in connection with such purchase or sale, and not any obligation in connection with financing, (i) purchase money security interests in
            certain items of equipment, (j) other customary Liens permitted with respect to the Collateral consistent with the Servicing Standard and (k) liens accorded priority by law in favor of any Governmental Authority.

           

          
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          “Permitted Offer” means a tender offer pursuant to the terms of which the offeror offers to acquire a debt obligation (including a Collateral Loan) in exchange for consideration
            consisting of (x) Cash in an amount equal to or greater than the full face amount of the debt obligation being exchanged plus any accrued and unpaid interest or (y) other debt obligations that rank pari passu or senior to the debt obligation being exchanged which have a face amount equal to or greater than the full face amount of the debt obligation being exchanged and are eligible to be Collateral Loans
            plus any accrued and unpaid interest in Cash.

           

          “Permitted RIC Distribution” means distributions to the Equityholder or the Servicer (from the Collection Account or otherwise) to the extent required to allow the Equityholder to make
            sufficient distributions to qualify as a regulated investment company and to otherwise eliminate federal or state income or excise taxes payable by the Equityholder in or with respect to any taxable year of the Equityholder (or any calendar
            year, as relevant); provided that (A) the amount of any such payments made in or with respect to any such taxable year (or calendar year, as relevant) of the Equityholder shall not exceed 115% of the amounts that the Borrower reasonably
            determines to be required to distribute to the Equityholder or Servicer to: (i) allow the Borrower to satisfy the minimum distribution requirements that would be imposed by Section 852(a) of the Code (or any successor thereto) to maintain its
            eligibility to be taxed as a regulated investment company for any such taxable year, (ii) reduce to zero for any such taxable year the Borrower’s liability for federal income taxes imposed on (x) its investment company taxable income pursuant
            to Section 852(b)(1) of the Code (or any successor thereto) or (y) its net capital gain pursuant to Section 852(b)(3) of the Code (or any successor thereto), and (iii) reduce to zero the Borrower’s liability for federal excise taxes for any
            such calendar year imposed pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code (or any successor thereto), in the case of each of (i), (ii) or (iii), calculated assuming that the Borrower had qualified to be taxed as a regulated investment company under the
            Code, (B) after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, the amount of Permitted RIC Distributions made in any calendar quarter shall not exceed U.S.$1,500,000 (or such greater amount consented to by the Administrative
            Agent in its sole discretion) and (C) amounts may be distributed pursuant to this definition only to the extent of available Excess Interest Proceeds and/or Principal Proceeds and only so long as (x) the Coverage Test is satisfied immediately
            prior to and immediately after giving effect to such Permitted RIC Distribution (unless otherwise consented to by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion), (y) the Borrower certifies the above in a RIC Distribution Notice to the
            Administrative Agent at least two (2) Business Days prior to the applicable distribution and (z) the Borrower provides at least two (2) Business Days’ prior written notice thereof to the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent.

           

          “Permitted Working Capital Lien” has the meaning assigned to such term in the definition of “First Lien Loan”.

           

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

           

          “PIK Loan” means a Collateral Loan (other than a Partial PIK Loan) that permits the Obligor thereon to defer or capitalize any portion of the accrued interest thereon.

           

          “Plan” means an employee pension benefit plan (other than a Multiemployer Plan) which is covered by Title IV of ERISA or subject to the minimum funding standards under Section 412 of the
            Code that is sponsored by the Borrower or a member of its ERISA Group or to which the Borrower or a member of its ERISA Group is obligated to make contributions or has any liability.

           

          “Plan Asset Rule” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.01(m).

           

          “Portfolio Advance Rate Adjustment” means, as of any date of determination, the percentage set forth on the table below corresponding to the highest Diversity Score then applicable to
            the Collateral Loans:

           

          

          	
                  
                    Diversity Score

                  

                	 	
                  
                    Advance Rate 

                    Adjustment

                  

                
	
                  Less than 4

                	 	
                  0%

                
	
                  Greater than or equal to 4, but less than 6

                	 	
                  40%

                
	
                  Greater than or equal to 6, but less than 10

                	 	
                  60%

                
	
                  Greater than or equal to 10, but less than 14

                	 	
                  80%

                
	
                  Greater than or equal to 14

                  

                	 	
                  100%

                

           

          “Post-Default Rate” means a rate per annum equal to the Interest Rate otherwise in effect pursuant to this Agreement plus 2.00% per annum.

           

          “Potential Servicer Event of Default” means any event which, with the passage of time, the giving of notice, or both, would (if not cured or otherwise remedied during such time)
            constitute a Servicer Event of Default.

           

          “Pounds Sterling” and “₤” means the lawful currency of the United Kingdom.

           

          “Prime Rate” means the rate of interest per annum last quoted by The Wall Street Journal as the “Prime Rate” in the U.S. or, if The Wall Street Journal ceases to quote such rate, the
            highest per annum interest rate published by the Federal Reserve Board in Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15 (519) (Selected Interest Rates) as the “bank prime loan” rate or, if such rate is no longer quoted therein, any similar rate
            quoted therein (as determined by the Administrative Agent) or any similar release by the Federal Reserve Board (as determined by the Administrative Agent).  Any change in the Prime Rate shall take effect at the opening of business on the day
            such change is publicly announced or quoted as being effective.

           

          “Principal Balance” means, with respect to any loan, as of any date of determination, the outstanding principal amount of such loan, excluding any capitalized interest.

           

          
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          “Principal Collection Subaccount” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.02(a).

           

          “Principal Proceeds” means, with respect to any Collection Period or the related Determination Date, all amounts received by the Borrower during such Collection Period that do not
            constitute Interest Proceeds, including unapplied proceeds of the Advances and any amounts received by the Borrower as equity contributions (howsoever designated).

           

          “Priority of Payments” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.01(a).

           

          “Private Authorizations” means all franchises, permits, licenses, approvals, consents and other authorizations of all Persons (other than Governmental Authorities).

           

          “Proceeds” has, with reference to any asset or property, the meaning assigned to it under Section 9-102(a)(64) of the UCC and, in any event, shall include any and all amounts from time
            to time paid or payable under or in connection with such asset or property.

           

          “QIB” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 13.06(e).

           

          “Qualified Institution” means a depository institution or trust company organized under the laws of the United States of America or any one of the States thereof or the District of
            Columbia (or any domestic branch of a foreign bank), (a)(i) that has either (A) a long-term unsecured debt rating of “A” or better by S&P and “A2” or better by Moody’s or (B) a short-term unsecured debt rating or certificate of deposit
            rating of “A-1” or better by S&P or “P-1” or better by Moody’s, (ii) the parent corporation of which has either (A) a long-term unsecured debt rating of “A” or better by S&P and “A2” or better by Moody’s or (B) a short-term unsecured
            debt rating or certificate of deposit rating of “A-1” or better by S&P and “P-1” or better by Moody’s or (iii) is otherwise acceptable to the Administrative Agent and (b) the deposits of which are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance
            Corporation.

           

          “Qualified Purchaser” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 13.06(e).

           

          “Recipient” means the Administrative Agent, each Lender and each Secured Party.

           

          “Recurring Revenue Loan” means a Collateral Loan that meets each of the following criteria as of the date of acquisition by the Borrower, subject to waiver by the Administrative Agent in
            accordance with the definition of Eligible Collateral Loan hereto (for the avoidance of doubt, if any Collateral Loan does not meet the below listed conditions, but such failure is waived by the Administrative Agent, such Collateral Loan shall
            still be subject to the Advance Rates, Concentration Limitations and Revaluation Events applicable to Recurring Revenue Loans set forth herein):

           

          (a)         such Collateral Loan is a (i) First Lien Loan or (ii) a First Lien Last Out Loan;

           

          (b)         the Obligor with respect to such Collateral Loan is in a high growth industry or industry that customarily has businesses with revenue derived from perpetual
            licenses, subscription, service, support, hosting agreements, maintenance streams or other similar and perpetual cash flow streams, as determined by the Servicer, in good faith in accordance with the Servicing Standard;

           

          
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          (c)         does not include and would not customarily be expected to include (at the time of origination) a financial covenant based on debt to EBITDA, debt to EBIT or a
            similar multiple of debt to operating cash flow;

           

          (d)        the Obligor with respect to such Collateral Loan has generated a minimum of $15,000,000 in TTM Recurring Revenue during the most recent reporting period;

           

          (e)         the Net-Debt-to-Recurring-Revenue Ratio with respect to such Collateral Loan (i) for positive EBITDA company is less than [3.00:1.00] as of the later of the initial closing date of such Collateral Loan or the most
            recent Obligor Measurement Date, as applicable; (ii) for negative EBITDA company is less than [2.50:1.00] as of the later of the initial closing date of such Collateral Loan or the most recent Obligor Measurement Date, as applicable,

           

          (f)          the Related Documents for such Collateral Loan require the Obligor with respect to such Collateral Loan to meet at least one (1) maintenance financial covenant,
            as determined by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion, including a covenant for minimum liquidity and maximum ratio of principal loan amount outstanding to TTM Recurring Revenue; and

           

          (g)         is designated as a Recurring Revenue Loan by the Borrower as of the date of acquisition by the Borrower.

           

          “Register” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 13.06(d).

           

          “Regulation T,” “Regulation U” and “Regulation X” mean Regulation T, U and X, respectively, of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as in effect from time
            to time.

           

          “Reinvestment Period” means the period from and including the Closing Date to and including the earlier of (a) the date that is the third anniversary of the Closing Date (or such later
            date as may be agreed by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and each Lender pursuant to Section 2.16) and (b) the date of the termination of the Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amounts pursuant to Section 6.01.

           

          “Related Documents” means, with respect to any Collateral Loan, (i) the loan or credit agreement evidencing such Collateral Loan, (ii) the principal security agreement, and (iii) if the
            same can be obtained without undue expense or effort, all other documents evidencing, securing, guarantying, governing or giving rise to such Collateral Loan.

           

          “Related Loan Class” means (i) with respect to Class 1A Loans and Second Lien Loans, Class 1B Loans, (ii) with respect to Class 1B Loans and First Lien Loans or First Lien Last Out
            Loans, Class 1A Loans, (iii) with respect to Class 2A Loans and Second Lien Loans, Class 2B Loans, (iv) with respect to Class 2B Loans and First Lien Loans or First Lien Last Out Loans, Class 2A Loans, (v) with respect to Class 3A Loans and
            Second Lien Loans, Class 3B Loans and (vi) with respect to Class 3B Loans and First Lien Loans or First Lien Last Out Loans, Class 3A Loans.

           

          
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          “Relevant Governmental Body” means (a) with respect to a Benchmark Replacement in respect of Obligations,

                interest, fees, commissions or other amounts denominated in, or calculated with respect to, Dollars, the Federal Reserve Board or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the Federal Reserve Board or the
                Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or any successor thereto and (b) with respect to a Benchmark Replacement in respect of Obligations, interest, fees, commissions or other amounts denominated in, or calculated with respect to, any Available Currency other than Dollars, (1) the central bank for the Available Currency in which such Obligations, interest, fees, commissions or other amounts are denominated, or calculated with respect to, or any central bank or other supervisor which is responsible for supervising either (A) such Benchmark Replacement or (B) the administrator of such Benchmark Replacement or (2) any working group or
                committee officially endorsed or convened by (A) the central bank for the Available Currency in which such Obligations,
                interest, fees, commissions or other amounts are denominated, or calculated with respect to, (B) any central bank or other
                supervisor that is responsible for supervising either (i) such Benchmark Replacement or (ii) the administrator of such Benchmark Replacement, (C) a group of those central banks or other supervisors or (D) the Financial Stability Board
                or any part thereof.

           

          “Relevant Market” means the Swiss francs overnight repo market.

           

          “Relevant Test Period” means, with respect to any Collateral Loan, the relevant test period for the calculation of EBITDA, Debt Service Coverage Ratio or Senior Net Leverage Ratio, as
            applicable, for such Collateral Loan in the applicable Related Documents or, if no such period is provided for therein, each period of the last four consecutive reported fiscal quarters of the principal Obligor on such Collateral Loan; provided
            that, with respect to the calculation of EBITDA, Debt Service Coverage Ratio or Senior Net Leverage Ratio in connection with determining whether a Revaluation Event has occurred, if no test period is provided in the applicable Related Documents
            but the related Obligor delivers monthly financial statements, each Relevant Test Period shall be the period of the last twelve consecutive reported calendar months; provided further that, with respect to any Collateral Loan for
            which the relevant test period is not provided for in the applicable Related Documents, if an Obligor is a newly-formed entity as to which four consecutive fiscal quarters have not yet elapsed, “Relevant Test Period” shall initially include the
            period from the date of formation of such Obligor or closing date of the applicable Collateral Loan to the end of the fourth fiscal quarter (or, with respect to Revaluation Events and Obligors that deliver monthly financial statements, twelfth
            calendar month) from the date of formation or closing, as applicable, and shall subsequently include each period of the last four consecutive reported fiscal quarters (or, with respect to Revaluation Events and Obligors that deliver monthly
            financial statements, twelve consecutive calendar months) of such Obligor.

           

          “Requested Amount” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.03.

           

          “Required Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, the Administrative Agent and Lenders having aggregate Percentages greater than or equal to 66 2/3%; provided, however,
            that if any Lender shall be a Defaulting Lender at such time, then Advances owing to such Defaulting Lender and such Defaulting Lender’s unfunded Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amounts shall be excluded from the determination of Required
            Lenders.

           

          
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          “Resolution Authority” means an EEA Resolution Authority or, with respect to any UK Financial Institution, a UK Resolution Authority.

           

          “Responsible Officer” means (a) in the case of (i) a corporation or (ii) a partnership or limited liability company that, in each case, pursuant to its Constituent Documents, has
            officers, any chief executive officer, chief financial officer, chief administrative officer, managing director, president, senior vice president, vice president, assistant vice president, treasurer, director or manager, and, in any case where
            two Responsible Officers are acting on behalf of such entity, the second such Responsible Officer may be a secretary or assistant secretary (provided that a director or manager of the Borrower shall be a Responsible Officer regardless of
            whether its Constituent Documents provide for officers), (b) without limitation of clause (a)(ii), in the case of a limited partnership, the Responsible Officer of the general partner, acting on behalf of such general partner in its capacity as
            general partner, (c) without limitation of clause (a)(ii), in the case of a limited liability company, any Responsible Officer of the sole member or managing member, acting on behalf of the sole member or managing member in its capacity as sole
            member or managing member, (d) in the case of a trust, the Responsible Officer of the trustee, acting on behalf of such trustee in its capacity as trustee, (e) an “authorized signatory” or “authorized officer” that has been so authorized
            pursuant to customary corporate proceedings, limited partnership proceedings, limited liability company proceedings or trust proceedings, as the case may be, and that has responsibilities commensurate with the matter for which it is acting as a
            Responsible Officer:  the initial “authorized signatories” of the parties hereto are set forth on Schedule 6 (as such Schedule 6 may be modified from time to time by written notice), and (f) in the case of the Custodian, the Securities
            Intermediary, the Collateral Agent or Administrative Agent, an officer of the Custodian, the Securities Intermediary, the Collateral Agent or Administrative Agent, as applicable, duly authorized to act for or on behalf of such Person and, in
            each case, having direct responsibility for the administration of this Agreement, the Custodian Agreement or the Account Control Agreement, as the case may be.

           

          “Retention Basis Amount” means the nominal value of all Collateral Loans held by the Borrower from time to time.

           

          “Retention Holder Originated Collateral Loan” means (a) a Collateral Loan which the Equityholder, itself or through related entities, directly or indirectly, was involved in the original
            agreement which created the obligations or potential obligations of the debtor or potential debtor giving rise to such Collateral Loan; or (b) a Collateral Loan which the Equityholder purchased on its own account before transferring it to the
            Borrower.

           

          “Revaluation Event” means, with respect to any Collateral Loan as of any date of determination after the related Trade Date, the occurrence of any one or more of the following events
            (any of which, for the avoidance of doubt, may occur more than once):

           

          (a)          with respect to any Class 1 Loan, either S&P or Moody’s downgrades such Collateral Loan two or more notches below the rating at the time of acquisition; provided
            that any credit on negative watch will be treated as having been downgraded by one rating subcategory;

           

          
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          (b)         the Debt Service Coverage Ratio of the Obligor of such Collateral Loan as of any Relevant Test Period (x) decreases by 20.0% or more from the level for the
            Relevant Test Period most recently ended prior to the date the Collateral Loan was acquired by the Borrower (or on such baseline Debt Service Coverage Ratio as may be reasonably agreed to by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower (or the
            Servicer on its behalf)) or (y) is less than 1.70:1.00;

           

          (c)        the Senior Net Leverage Ratio of the related Obligor with respect to such Collateral Loan as of any Relevant Test Period increases by (x) 20.00% or (y) 1.00:1.00,
            or more, in either case, from the ratio calculated for the Relevant Test Period most recently ended prior to the date the Borrower acquired such Collateral Loan (or on such baseline Senior Net Leverage Ratio as may be reasonably agreed to by
            the Administrative Agent and the Borrower (or the Servicer on its behalf));

           

          (d)          an Insolvency Event occurs with respect to the Obligor;

           

          (e)          an Obligor defaults in the payment of principal or interest on revolving loan facilities (after giving effect to any applicable grace period under the Related
            Documents, but not to exceed five days) with respect to such Collateral Loan or any other debt obligation of such Obligor secured by the same collateral and which is senior or pari passu to such
            Collateral Loan or the occurrence of any other default with respect to such Collateral Loan, in each case, together with the election by any agent or lender (including the Borrower) to accelerate such Collateral Loan or to enforce any other
            respective secured creditor rights or remedies;

           

          (f)         the occurrence of a Material Modification with respect to such Collateral Loan that was not approved by the Administrative Agent (in its sole discretion);

           

          (g)          the related Obligor fails to deliver to the Borrower or the Servicer any financial reporting information as required by the Related Documents of such Collateral
            Loan (giving effect to any applicable grace period thereunder) to the extent such information is reasonably requested of the Servicer by the Administrative Agent; or

           

          (h)        if such Collateral Loan was acquired in the form of a participation, such participation is not elevated to an assignment of the Collateral Loan to the Borrower
            within 60 days of the Borrower’s acquisition of such Collateral Loan;

           

          provided that, for any Collateral Loan that is determined to be a Cap Adjusted Loan, the Revaluation Events in respect of such Cap Adjusted Loan will be determined by the Administrative Agent in its sole
            discretion and provided by the Administrative Agent to the Servicer in writing prior to the initial inclusion of such Cap Adjusted Loan in the Borrowing Base or, if agreed to by the Administrative Agent, the Revaluation Events provided by the
            Servicer to the Administrative Agent.

           

          
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          “Revolving Collateral Loan” means any Collateral Loan (other than a Delayed Drawdown Collateral Loan) that is a loan (including revolving loans, funded and unfunded portions of revolving
            credit lines and letter of credit facilities, unfunded commitments to make loans under specific facilities and other similar loans and investments) that by its terms may require one or more future advances to be made to the related Obligor by
            the Borrower and which provides that such borrowed money may be repaid and re-borrowed from time to time; provided that any such Collateral Loan will be a Revolving Collateral Loan only until all commitments to make revolving advances
            to the Obligor expire or are terminated or irrevocably reduced to zero.

           

          “Revolving Exposure” means, at any time, the sum of the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate Unfunded Amount of each Collateral Loan (including each Ineligible Collateral Loan and each
            Defaulted Collateral Loan) at such time.

           

          “Revolving Reserve Account” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.04.

           

          “RFR Banking Day” means (x) with respect to GBP Advance, a day (other
            than a Saturday or Sunday) in which banks are open for general business in London and (y) with respect to a CHF Advance, a day (other than a
                Saturday or Sunday) on which banks are open for the settlement of payments and foreign exchange transactions in Zurich.

           

          “RIC Distribution Notice” means a written notice setting forth the calculation of the Borrower’s net taxable income (determined as if the Borrower were a domestic corporation for U.S.
            federal income tax purposes) and of any Permitted RIC Distribution and certifying that the Equityholder remains a “regulated investment company” under Subchapter M of the Code.

           

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

           

          “S&P Industry Classification” means the industry classifications set forth in Schedule 4 hereto, as such industry classifications shall be updated at the option of the Servicer if
            S&P publishes revised industry classifications.  The determination of which S&P Industry Classification to which an Obligor belongs shall be made in good faith by the Servicer.

           

          “S&P Rating” has the meaning specified in Schedule 11 hereto.

           

          “Sale Settlement Condition” means, with respect to any binding commitment of the Borrower to sell a Collateral Loan, a condition that is beyond the control of the Borrower and/or the
            Servicer, as certified in writing by the Servicer to the Administrative Agent, which has resulted in the settlement of such sale not occurring within 30 days of the date of the Borrower entering into such binding commitment to sell.

           

          “Sale Settlement Pending Collateral” means, on any date of determination, Collateral Loans that the Borrower, within the immediately preceding 30 days (or if a Sale Settlement Condition
            applies, within the immediately preceding 60 days (or any longer period to which the Administrative Agent may agree)), has entered into a binding commitment to sell that has not settled.

           

          
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          “Sanctioned Country” has the meaning given to such term in Section 4.01(r).

           

          “Sanctioned Person” has the meaning given to such term in Section 4.01(r).

           

          “Sanctions” means any economic or trade sanctions or restrictive measures enacted, administered, imposed or enforced by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets
            Control (OFAC), the U.S. Department of State, the United Nations Security Council, the European Union or any EU member state, the French Republic, Her Majesty’s Treasury and/or any other relevant sanctions authority.

           

          “SARON” means, with respect to any Business Day, SARON (Swiss Average Rate Overnight) reference
                rate administered by SIX (or any other person which takes over the administration of that rate) as at the close of trading on the SIX Swiss Exchange on the relevant day displayed on page SARON.S of the Thomson Reuters screen under the
                heading CLSFIX.

           

          “SARON Reporting Day” means the day which is the Lookback Period prior to the last day of the Interest Accrual Period or, if that day is not a Business Day, the immediately following Business Day.

           

          “SARON Reporting Time” means (a) with respect to an event described in Section 2.12(c)(i), close of
              business in London on the SARON Reporting Day for the relevant CHF Advance, and (b) with respect to a Lender providing its CHF Funding Rate to the Administrative Agent, close of business on the date falling two Business Days after the SARON
              Reporting Day for the relevant CHF Advance (or, if earlier, on the date falling three Business Days before the date on which interest is due to be paid in respect of the Interest Accrual Period for that CHF Advance).

           

          “Scheduled Distribution” means, with respect to any Collateral Loan, for each Due Date, the scheduled payment of principal and/or interest and/or fees due on such Due Date with respect
            to such Collateral Loan.

           

          “Screen Rate” has the meaning assigned to it in the definition of “LIBOR.”

           

          “Second Lien Loan” means any Collateral Loan (for purposes of this definition, a “loan”) that meets the following criteria:

           

          (a)          is secured by a pledge of collateral, which security interest is validly perfected and second priority (subject to customary exceptions for permitted liens,
            including but not limited to tax liens, and liens accorded priority by law in favor of any Governmental Authority) under Applicable Law (other than a Collateral Loan that is second priority to a Permitted Working Capital Lien); and

           

          (b)          the Servicer determines in good faith that the value of the collateral securing such Collateral Loan at the time of purchase together with other attributes of
            the Obligor (including its general financial condition, ability to generate cash flow available for debt service and other demands for that cash flow) on or about the time of acquisition is adequate to repay the outstanding principal balance of
            the Collateral Loan plus the aggregate outstanding balances of all other Collateral Loans of equal or higher seniority secured by a Lien over the same collateral.

           

          
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          “Secured Parties” means the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Custodian, each Lender, the Servicer (to the extent the Servicer has not been removed) and the Securities
            Intermediary.

           

          “Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933 and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, all as from time to time in effect.

           

          “Securities Intermediary” shall mean State Street in its capacity as Securities Intermediary under the Account Control Agreement and any successor Securities Intermediary appointed by
            the Borrower, the Servicer and the Administrative Agent.

           

          “Securitisation Regulation” means Regulation (EU) 2017/2402.

           

          “Security Entitlement” has the meaning specified in Section 8-102(a)(17) of the UCC.

           

          “SEK Advance” means an Advance denominated in Swedish Krona.

           

          “Senior Net Leverage Ratio” means, with respect to any Collateral Loan for any Relevant Test Period, the meaning of “Senior Net Leverage Ratio” or any comparable term defined in the
            Related Documents for such Collateral Loan, and in any case that “Senior Net Leverage Ratio” or such comparable term is not defined in such Related Documents, the ratio of (a) total indebtedness for borrowed money of the Obligor (other than
            indebtedness of such Obligor that is junior in terms of lien subordination to indebtedness of such Obligor held by the Borrower) minus Unrestricted Cash and cash equivalents to (b) EBITDA as
            calculated by the Servicer in accordance with the Servicing Standard.

           

          “Servicer” means BPCC, in its capacity as servicer hereunder and any successor thereto in accordance herewith.

           

          “Servicer Event of Default” means any one of the following events:

           

          (a)         except as set forth in another clause of this definition, the Servicer breaches in any material respect any covenant or agreement applicable to it under this
            Agreement or any other Facility Document to which it is a party (it being understood that failure to meet the Minimum OC Coverage Test, any Concentration Limitation or the Collateral Quality Test is not a breach under this subclause (a)), and,
            if capable of being cured, is not cured within 30 days of the earlier of (i) a Responsible Officer of the Servicer acquiring actual knowledge of such breach or (ii) the Servicer receiving written notice from either Agent of such breach;

           

          (b)         the occurrence and continuation of an Event of Default  (other than an Event of Default pursuant to clause (l) of the definition thereof);

           

          
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          (c)          an act by the Servicer, or any of its senior investment personnel actively involved in managing the portfolio of the Borrower, that constitutes fraud or criminal
            activity in the performance of its obligations under the Facility Documents or the Servicer or any of its senior investment personnel actively involved in managing the portfolio of the Borrower being indicted for a criminal offense materially
            related to its asset management business; provided that the Servicer will be deemed to have cured any event of cause pursuant to this clause (c) if the Servicer terminates or causes the termination of employment of all individuals who
            engaged in the conduct constituting cause pursuant to this clause (c) and makes the Borrower whole for any actual financial loss that such conduct caused the Borrower;

           

          (d)          the failure of any representation, warranty, or certification made or delivered by the Servicer in or pursuant to this Agreement or any other Facility Document
            to be correct when made that has a Material Adverse Effect on the Borrower or any Secured Party and is either incapable of being cured or is not cured within 30 days of the earlier of (i) a Responsible Officer of the Servicer acquiring actual
            knowledge of such breach or (ii) the Servicer receiving written notice from either Agent of such breach;

           

          (e)          the rendering of one or more final judgments, decrees or orders by a court or arbitrator of competent jurisdiction for the payment of money in excess
            individually or in the aggregate of $25,000,000, with respect to the Servicer (in each case, net of amounts covered by insurance), and the Servicer shall not have either (i) discharged or provided for the discharge of any such judgment, decree
            or order in accordance with its terms or (ii) perfected a timely appeal of such judgment, decree or order and caused the execution of same to be stayed during the pendency of the appeal, in each case, within sixty (60) days from the date of
            entry thereof;

           

          (f)          the Servicer shall have made payments to settle any litigation, claim or dispute totaling more than, in the aggregate, $25,000,000;

           

          (g)          an Insolvency Event relating to the Servicer occurs;

           

          (h)        except as permitted hereunder, BPCC or an Affiliate thereof ceases to be the Servicer without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent (not to be
            unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed);

           

          (i)          any failure by the Servicer to deliver any required reporting under the Facility Documents on or before the date occurring five (5) Business Days after the later
            of (x) the date such report is required to be made and (y) in the case of any reporting requested by any Agent or any Lender, the date that a Responsible Officer acquires knowledge of such breach;

           

          (j)          any failure by the Servicer to deposit or credit, or to deliver for deposit, in the Covered Accounts any amount required hereunder to be so deposited, credited
            or delivered by it, or to make any distributions therefrom required by it, in each case on or before the date occurring three (3) Business Days after the date such deposit or distribution is required to be made by the Servicer; or

           

          
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          (k)          a Change of Control occurs.

           

          “Servicer Expense Cap” means, for any Payment Date, an amount not to exceed $75,000 during any twelve (12) month period.

           

          “Servicer Expenses” means the out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Servicer in connection with the Facility Documents.

           

          “Servicer Fee” means the fee to the Servicer for services rendered and performed of its obligations under this Agreement, in arrears on each Payment Date (subject to availability of
            funds and the Priority of Payments), in an amount equal to 0.50% per annum of the Fee Basis Amount; measured as of the Determination Date immediately preceding such Payment Date (calculated on the basis of a 360-day year and the actual number
            of days elapsed)..

           

          “Servicing Standard” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 11.02(d).

           

          “Solvent” means, as to any Person, such Person is not “insolvent” within the meaning of Section 101(32) of the Bankruptcy Code or Section 271 of the Debtor and Creditor Law of the State
            of New York.

           

          “SOFR” means a rate equal to the secured overnight financing rate as administered by the SOFR
                Administrator.

           

          “SOFR Administrator” means the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or a successor administrator of
                the secured overnight financing rate).

           

          “SONIA” means, with respect to any Business Day, the sterling overnight index average published by the SONIA Administrator on the SONIA Administrator’s Website on the immediately
            succeeding Business Day.

           

          “SONIA Administrator” means the Bank of England (or any successor administrator of the sterling overnight index average).

           

          “SONIA Administrator’s Website” means the Bank of England’s website, currently at http://www.bankofengland.co.uk, or any successor source of the sterling overnight index average
            identified as such by the SONIA Administrator from time to time.

           

          “SONIA Reporting Day” means the day which is the Lookback Period prior to the last day of the Interest Accrual Period or, if that day is not a Business Day, the immediately following
            Business Day.

           

          “SONIA Reporting Time” means (a) with respect to an event described in Section 2.12(b)(i), close of business in London on the SONIA Reporting Day for the relevant GBP Advance, and (b)
            with respect to a Lender providing its GBP Funding Rate to the Administrative Agent, close of business on the date falling two
            Business Days after the SONIA Reporting Day for the relevant GBP Advance (or, if earlier, on the date falling three Business Days before the date on which interest is due to be paid in respect of the Interest Accrual Period for that GBP
            Advance).

           

          
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          “Specified Eligible Investment” means an Eligible Investment meeting the requirements of Section 8.06(a) and that is available to the Collateral Agent, specified by the Servicer to the
            Collateral Agent (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) on or prior to the initial Borrowing Date; provided that, so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and then be continuing, at any time with not less than five Business
            Days’ notice to the Collateral Agent (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) the Servicer may (and, if the then Specified Eligible Investment is no longer available to the Collateral Agent, shall) designate another Eligible Investment that
            meets the requirements of Section 8.06(a) and that is available to the Collateral Agent to be the Specified Eligible Investment for purposes hereof.  After the occurrence and continuation of an Event of Default, a Specified Eligible Investment
            shall mean an Eligible Investment meeting the requirements of Section 8.06(a) and which has been selected by the Administrative Agent and specified to the Collateral Agent.

           

          “STIBOR” means, for any Interest Accrual Period, with respect to any SEK Advance (or portion thereof), the rate per annum (carried out to the fifth decimal place) equal to the rate
            determined by the Administrative Agent to be the rate for deposits in Swedish Kroner for a period of three months which appears on the Bloomberg Screen BTMM SW Page under the heading “STIBOR” as of 11:00 a.m., Stockholm time, on the day that is
            two (2) Business Days prior to the beginning of such Interest Accrual Period.  If such rate does not appear on the Bloomberg Screen BTMM SW Page, the rate for twill be determined on the basis of the rates at which deposits in Swedish Kronor are
            offered by four major banks in the Stockholm interbank market at approximately 11:00 a.m., Stockholm time, on the day that is two (2) Business Days prior to the beginning of such Interest Accrual Period to prime banks in the Stockholm interbank
            market for a period of three months commencing on such day and in an amount of at least the Dollar Equivalent of $500,000 in Swedish Krona.  The Administrative Agent will request the principal Stockholm office of each of four major banks in the
            Stockholm interbank market to provide a quotation of its rate.  If at least two quotations are provided, the rate for such day will be the arithmetic mean of the quotations.  If fewer than two quotations are provided as requested, the rate for
            such day will be the arithmetic mean of the rates quoted by major banks in Stockholm, selected by the Administrative Agent, at approximately 11:00 a.m., Stockholm time, on the day that is two (2) Business Days prior to the beginning of such
            Interest Accrual Period for loans in Swedish Kronor to leading European banks for a period of three months commencing on that day and in an amount of at least the Dollar Equivalent of $500,000 in Swedish Krona.  In the event that the rate as so
            determined above shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for purposes of this Agreement.  STIBOR shall always be determined by the Administrative Agent, and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

           

          “Structured Finance Obligation” means any debt obligation owing by a finance vehicle that is secured directly and primarily by, primarily referenced to, and/or primarily representing
            ownership of, a pool of receivables or a pool of other assets, including collateralized debt obligations, residential mortgage-backed securities, commercial mortgage-backed securities, other asset-backed securities, “future flow” receivable
            transactions and other similar obligations; provided that loans to financial service companies, factoring businesses, health care providers and other genuine operating businesses do not constitute Structured Finance Obligations.

           

          “Swedish Krona” means the lawful currency of the Kingdom of Sweden.

           

          
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          “Swiss Francs” means the lawful currency of Switzerland.

           

          “Synthetic Security” means a security or swap transaction (excluding, for purposes of this Agreement, a participation interest) that has payments associated with either payments of
            interest and/or principal on a reference obligation or the credit performance of a reference obligation.

           

          “Tax Blocker Subsidiary” means any wholly-owned subsidiary of the Borrower from time to time designated in writing by the Borrower, and consented to by the Administrative Agent (not to
            be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed; provided that no such consent shall be required in connection with the formation of a Tax Blocker Subsidiary if the inability to transfer any applicable asset to such Tax Blocker Subsidiary
            would reasonably be expected to result in adverse tax consequences to the Borrower or the Servicer), as a “Tax Blocker Subsidiary” (which notice of designation will contain a description of the assets to be transferred to such subsidiary);
            provided that no Tax Blocker Subsidiary shall hold any assets other than in connection with the receipt of equity securities with respect to a Collateral Loan or Eligible Investments.

           

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

           

          “Term SOFR” means the Term SOFR Reference Rate for a tenor comparable to the applicable
                Interest Accrual Period on the day (such day, the “Periodic Term SOFR Determination Day”) that is two (2) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Accrual Period, as such rate is published by the Term SOFR
                Administrator; provided, however, that if as of 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on any Periodic Term SOFR Determination Day the Term SOFR Reference Rate for the applicable tenor has not been published by the Term SOFR Administrator and a Benchmark
                Replacement Date with respect to the Term SOFR Reference Rate has not occurred, then Term SOFR will be the Term SOFR Reference Rate for such tenor as published by the Term SOFR Administrator on the first preceding U.S. Government Securities
                Business Day for which such Term SOFR Reference Rate for such tenor was published by the Term SOFR Administrator so long as such first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day is not more than three (3) U.S. Government Securities
                Business Days prior to such Periodic Term SOFR Determination Day; provided, further, that if Term SOFR determined as provided above (including pursuant to the proviso above) shall ever be less than the Floor, then Term SOFR shall be deemed to be the
                Floor.

           

          “Term SOFR Administrator” means CME Group Benchmark Administration Limited (CBA) (or a
                successor administrator of the Term SOFR Reference Rate selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion).

           

          “Term SOFR Reference Rate” means  the forward-looking term rate based on SOFR.

           

          “Trade Date” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 1.04(l).

           

          
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          “TTM Recurring Revenue” means, with respect to any Obligor and any date, the Recurring Revenue for such Obligor for the trailing twelve months ending on such date, as calculated by the
            Servicer in good faith in accordance with the Servicing Standard using information from and calculations consistent with the relevant compliance statements and financial reporting packages provided by the relevant Obligor as per the
            requirements of the Related Documents.

           

          “UCC” means the New York Uniform Commercial Code; provided that if, by reason of any mandatory provisions of law, the perfection, the effect of perfection or non-perfection or priority
            of the security interests granted to the Collateral Agent pursuant to this Agreement are governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in a jurisdiction of the United States of America other than the State of New York, then “UCC”
            means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in such other jurisdiction for purposes of such perfection, effect of perfection or non-perfection or priority.

           

          “UK Financial Institution” means any BRRD Undertaking (as such term is defined under the PRA Rulebook (as amended form time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Prudential
            Regulation Authority) or any person falling within IFPRU 11.6 of the FCA Handbook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority, which includes certain credit institutions and investment firms, and
            certain affiliates of such credit institutions or investment firms.

           

          “UK Resolution Authority” means the Bank of England or any other public administrative authority having responsibility for the resolution of any UK Financial Institution.

           

          “Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement” means the applicable Benchmark Replacement excluding the related
              Benchmark Replacement Adjustment.

           

          “Uncertificated Security” has the meaning specified in Section 8-102(a)(18) of the UCC.

           

          “Unfunded Amount” means, with respect to any Collateral Loan, as of any date of determination, the unfunded commitment of the Borrower with respect to such Collateral Loan as of such
            date.

           

          “Unrestricted Cash” has the meaning assigned to the term “Unrestricted Cash” or any comparable term defined in the Related Documents for each Collateral Loan, and in any case that
            “Unrestricted Cash” or such comparable term is not defined in such Related Documents, all cash available for use for general corporate purposes and not held in any reserve account or legally or contractually restricted for any particular
            purposes or subject to any lien (other than statutory liens, liens of depository institutions and blanket liens permitted under or granted in accordance with such Related Documents).

           

          “Unused Fees” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Lender Fee Letter.

           

          “U.S. Government Securities Business Day” means any day except for (a) a Saturday, (b) a Sunday or (c)
              a day on which the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association recommends that the fixed income departments of its members be closed for the entire day for purposes of trading in United States government securities.

           

          
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          “U.S. Person” means any Person that is a “United States person” as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.

           

          “U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 13.03(g)(iii).

           

          “Volcker Rule” means Section 13 of the U.S. Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended, and the applicable rules and regulations thereunder.

           

          “Warranty Collateral Loan” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Loan Sale Agreement.

           

          “Weighted Average Advance Rate” means, as of any date of determination with respect to all Eligible Collateral Loans included in the Aggregate Net Collateral Balance, the number obtained
            by (a) summing the products obtained by multiplying (i) the Advance Rate of each Eligible Collateral Loan by (ii) such Eligible Collateral Loan’s contribution to the Aggregate Net Collateral Balance and
            dividing such sum by (b) the Aggregate Net Collateral Balance.

           

          “Weighted Average Class 1A Advance Rate” means, as of any date of determination with respect to all Class 1A Loans included in the Aggregate Class 1A Net Collateral Balance, the number
            obtained by (a) summing the products obtained by multiplying (i) the Advance Rate of each Class 1A Loan by (ii) such Class 1A Loan’s contribution to the Aggregate Class 1A Net Collateral Balance and dividing (b) such sum by the Aggregate Class 1A Net Collateral Balance.

           

          “Weighted Average Class 1B Advance Rate” means, as of any date of determination with respect to all Class 1B Loans included in the Aggregate Class 1B Net Collateral Balance, the number
            obtained by (a) summing the products obtained by multiplying (i) the Advance Rate of each Class 1B Loan by (ii) such Class 1B Loan’s contribution to the Aggregate Class 1B Net Collateral Balance and dividing (b) such sum by the Aggregate Class 1B Net Collateral Balance.

           

          “Weighted Average Class 2A Advance Rate” means, as of any date of determination with respect to all Class 2A Loans included in the Aggregate Class 2A Net Collateral Balance, the number
            obtained by (a) summing the products obtained by multiplying (i) the Advance Rate of each Class 2A Loan by (ii) such Class 2A Loan’s contribution to the Aggregate Class 2A Net Collateral Balance and dividing (b) such sum by the Aggregate Class 2A Net Collateral Balance.

           

          “Weighted Average Class 2B Advance Rate” means, as of any date of determination with respect to all Class 2B Loans included in the Aggregate Class 2B Net Collateral Balance, the number
            obtained by (a) summing the products obtained by multiplying (i) the Advance Rate of each Class 2B Loan by (ii) such Class 2B Loan’s contribution to the Aggregate Class 2B Net Collateral Balance and dividing (b) such sum by the Aggregate Class 2B Net Collateral Balance.

           

          
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          “Weighted Average Class 3A Advance Rate” means, as of any date of determination with respect to all Class 3A Loans included in the Aggregate Class 3A Net Collateral Balance, the number
            obtained by (a) summing the products obtained by multiplying (i) the Advance Rate of each Class 3A Loan by (ii) such Class 3A Loan’s contribution to the Aggregate Class 3A Net Collateral Balance and dividing (b) such sum by the Aggregate Class 3A Net Collateral Balance.

           

          “Weighted Average Class 3B Advance Rate” means, as of any date of determination with respect to all Class 3B Loans included in the Aggregate Class 3B Net Collateral Balance, the number
            obtained by (a) summing the products obtained by multiplying (i) the Advance Rate of each Class 3B Loan by (ii) such Class 3B Loan’s contribution to the Aggregate Class 3B Net Collateral Balance and dividing (b) such sum by the Aggregate Class 3B Net Collateral Balance.

           

          “Weighted Average Life” means, as of any date of determination with respect to all Eligible Collateral Loans, the number of years following such date obtained by:

           

          (a)          summing the products of (i) the Average Life at such time of each Eligible Collateral Loan multiplied by (ii)(A) the Principal Balance plus (B) the Unfunded Amount of such Collateral Loan; and

           

          (b)          dividing such sum by the sum of the Aggregate Principal Balance plus the
            Unfunded Amount of all Eligible Collateral Loans as of such date.

           

          For purposes of the foregoing, the “Average Life” is, on any date of determination with respect to any Eligible Collateral Loan, the quotient obtained by dividing (i) the sum of the products of (A) the number of years (rounded to the nearest one hundredth thereof) from such date of determination to the respective dates of each successive Scheduled Distribution of principal of
            such Collateral Loan and (B) the respective amounts of principal of such Scheduled Distributions by (ii) the sum of all successive Scheduled Distributions of principal on such Collateral Loan. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Weighted Average
            Life of a Revolving Collateral Loan shall be excluded from such calculation unless mutually agreed to by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.

           

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

           

          “Working Capital Revolver” means a revolving lending facility secured on a first lien basis solely by all or a portion of the current assets of the related obligor, which current assets
            subject to such security interest do not constitute a material portion of the obligor’s total assets (it being understood that such revolving lending facility may be secured on a junior lien basis by other assets of the related obligor).

           

          
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          “Write-Down and Conversion Powers” means, (a) with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time in
            relation to any Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described as such in relation to that Bail-In Legislation in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule, and (b) with respect to the
            United Kingdom, any powers of the applicable Resolution Authority under the Bail-In Legislation to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a liability of any UK Financial Institution or any contract or instrument under which that liability
            arises, to convert all or part of that liability into shares, securities or obligations of that person or any other person, to provide that any such contract or instrument is to have effect as if a right had been exercised under it or to
            suspend any obligation in respect of that liability or any of the powers under that Bail-In Legislation that are related to or ancillary to any of those powers.

           

          “Zero Coupon Obligation” means a Collateral Loan that does not provide for periodic payments of interest in Cash or that pays interest only at its stated maturity.

           

          Section 1.02          Rules of Construction.  For all purposes of this Agreement and the other Facility Documents, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise
            requires, (a) singular words shall connote the plural as well as the singular and vice versa (except as indicated), as may be appropriate, (b) the words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import used in any Facility
            Document refer to such Facility Document as a whole and not to any particular article, schedule, section, paragraph, clause, exhibit or other subdivision thereof, (c) the headings, subheadings and table of contents set forth in any Facility
            Document are solely for convenience of reference and shall not constitute a part of such Facility Document nor shall they affect the meaning, construction or effect of any provision hereof, (d) references in any Facility Document to “include”
            or “including” shall mean include or including, as applicable, without limiting the generality of any description preceding such term, (e) any definition of or reference to any Facility Document, agreement, instrument or other document shall be
            construed as referring to such Facility Document, instrument or other document as from time to time amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, restatements, supplements or
            modifications set forth herein or any other Facility Document), (f) any reference in any Facility Document, including the introduction and recitals to such Facility Document, to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors
            and assigns (subject to any restrictions set forth herein or in any other applicable agreement), (g) any reference to any law or regulation herein shall refer to such law or regulation as amended, modified, supplemented or replaced from time to
            time, (h) any Event of Default shall be continuing until expressly waived in accordance with Section 13.01 or, with respect to an event that is capable of being remedied, such Event of Default has been remedied, (i) except as set forth herein,
            references herein to the knowledge or actual knowledge of a Person shall mean the actual knowledge following due inquiry of such Person, (j) except as otherwise expressly provided for in this Agreement, any use of “material” or “materially” or
            words of similar meaning in this Agreement shall mean material, as determined by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion, (k) references to “writing” include printing, typing, lithography, electronic or other means of reproducing
            words in a visible form and (l) unless otherwise expressly stated in this Agreement, if at any time any change in generally accepted accounting principles (including the adoption of IFRS) would affect the computation of any covenant (including
            the computation of any financial covenant) set forth in this Agreement or any other Facility Document, the Borrower and the Administrative Agent shall negotiate in good faith to amend such covenant to preserve the original intent in light of
            such change; provided, that, until so amended, (i) such covenant shall continue to be computed in accordance with the application of generally accepted accounting principles prior to such change and (ii) the Borrower shall provide to
            the Administrative Agent a written reconciliation in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, between calculations of such covenant made before and after giving effect to such change in generally accepted
            accounting principles.

           

          
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          Section 1.03          Computation of Time Periods.  Unless otherwise stated in the applicable Facility Document, in the computation of a period of time from a specified date to a later
            specified date, the word “from” means “from and including,” the word “through” means “to and including” and the words “to” and “until” both mean “to but excluding.”  Periods of days referred to in any Facility Document shall be counted in
            calendar days unless Business Days are expressly prescribed.  Unless otherwise indicated herein, all references to time of day refer to Eastern standard time or Eastern daylight saving time, as in effect in New York City on such day.

           

          Section 1.04         Collateral Value Calculation Procedures.  In connection with all calculations required to be made pursuant to this Agreement with respect to Scheduled Distributions
            on any Collateral Loan, or any payments on any other assets included in the Collateral, with respect to the sale of and reinvestment in Collateral Loans, and with respect to the income that can be earned on Scheduled Distributions on such
            Collateral Loans and on any other amounts that may be received for deposit in the Collection Account, the provisions set forth in this Section 1.04 shall be applied.  The provisions of this Section 1.04 shall be applicable to any determination
            or calculation that is covered by this Section 1.04, whether or not reference is specifically made to Section 1.04, unless some other method of calculation or determination is expressly specified in the particular provision.

           

          (a)         All calculations with respect to Scheduled Distributions on any Collateral Loan shall be made on the basis of information as to the terms of each such Collateral Loan and upon
            reports of payments, if any, received on such Collateral Loan that are furnished by or on behalf of the Obligor of such Collateral Loan and, to the extent they are not manifestly in error, such information or reports may be conclusively relied
            upon in making such calculations.

           

          (b)        For purposes of calculating the Coverage Test, except as otherwise specified in the Coverage Test, such calculations will not include (i) scheduled interest and principal payments on
            Defaulted Collateral Loans and Ineligible Collateral Loans unless or until such payments are actually made or such payments are determined likely to be received by the Servicer pursuant to the definition of Collateral Interest Amount and
            (ii) ticking fees and other similar fees in respect of Collateral Loans, unless or until such fees are actually paid.

           

          (c)          For each Collection Period and as of any date of determination, the Scheduled Distribution on any Collateral Loan (other than a Defaulted Collateral Loan or an Ineligible
            Collateral Loan, which, unless such payments are determined likely to be received by the Servicer pursuant to the definition of Collateral Interest Amount and except as otherwise provided herein, shall be assumed to have Scheduled Distributions
            of zero) shall be the total amount of (i) payments and collections to be received during such Collection Period in respect of such Collateral Loan, (ii) proceeds of the sale of such Collateral Loan received and, in the case of sales which have
            not yet settled, to be received during such Collection Period that are not reinvested in additional Collateral Loans or retained in a Collection Account for subsequent reinvestment pursuant to Article X, which proceeds, if received as
            scheduled, will be available in a Collection Account and available for distribution at the end of such Collection Period and (iii) amounts referred to in clause (i) or (ii) above that were received in prior Collection Periods but were not
            disbursed on a previous Payment Date or retained in a Collection Account for subsequent reinvestment pursuant to Article X.

           

          
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          (d)         Each Scheduled Distribution receivable with respect to a Collateral Loan shall be assumed to be received on the applicable Due Date.

           

          (e)        References in the Priority of Payments to calculations made on a “pro forma basis” shall mean such calculations after giving effect to all
            payments, in accordance with the Priority of Payments, that precede (in priority of payment) or include the clause in which such calculation is made.

           

          (f)         For purposes of calculating all Concentration Limitations, in both the numerator and the denominator of any component of the Concentration Limitations, Ineligible Collateral Loans
            will be treated as having a Principal Balance equal to zero.  Except as otherwise provided herein, Ineligible Collateral Loans will not be included in the calculation of the Collateral Quality Test.

           

          (g)         Determinations of the Collateral Loans, or portions thereof, that constitute Excess Concentration Amounts will be determined in the way that produces the highest Borrowing Base at
            the time of determination, it being understood that a Collateral Loan (or portion thereof) that falls into more than one category of Collateral Loans will be deemed, solely for purposes of such determinations, to fall only into the category
            that produces the highest such Borrowing Base at such time (without duplication).

           

          (h)         All calculations required to be made hereunder with respect to the Collateral Loans and the Borrowing Base shall be made on a trade date basis and after giving effect to (x) all
            purchases or sales to be entered into on such trade date and (y) all Advances requested to be made on such trade date plus the balance of all unfunded Advances to be made in connection with the Borrower’s purchase of previously requested (and
            approved) Collateral Loans.

           

          (i)          Unless otherwise expressly provided for herein, all monetary calculations (other than for Dollars) under this Agreement shall be the Dollar Equivalent of such amount, as
            applicable.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no Default shall be deemed to have occurred and no monetary thresholds shall be deemed not complied with solely as a result of changes in the applicable exchange rate.

           

          (j)        References in this Agreement to the Borrower’s “purchase” or “acquisition” of a Collateral Loan include references to the Borrower’s acquisition of such Collateral Loan by way of a
            sale and/or contribution from the Equityholder and the Borrower’s making or origination of such Collateral Loan.  Portions of the same Collateral Loan acquired by the Borrower on different dates (whether through purchase, receipt by
            contribution or the making or origination thereof, but excluding subsequent draws under Revolving Collateral Loans or Delayed Drawdown Collateral Loans) will, for purposes of determining the purchase price of such Collateral Loan, be treated as
            separate purchases on separate dates (and not a weighted average purchase price for any particular Collateral Loan).

           

          
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          (k)        For the purposes of calculating compliance with each of the Concentration Limitations all calculations will be rounded to the nearest 0.01%.

           

          (l)          For purposes of calculating compliance with any test under this Agreement in connection with the acquisition or disposition of a Collateral Loan or Eligible Investment, the trade
            date (the “Trade Date”) (and not the settlement date) with respect to any such Collateral Loan or Eligible Investment under consideration for acquisition or disposition shall be used to determine whether such acquisition or disposition
            is permitted hereunder.

           

          ARTICLE II

            

            ADVANCES

           

          Section 2.01           Revolving Credit Facility.  On the terms and subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth, including Article III, each Lender severally agrees to make
            available to the Borrower an uncommitted revolving credit facility providing for Advances under each Class from time to time in Available Currencies on any Business Day during the Reinvestment Period (or immediately thereafter pursuant to
            Section 8.04), pro rata based on each Lender’s unused Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amount as of such date, in each case in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding up to but not
            exceeding the Dollar Equivalent of such Lender’s Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amount and, as to all Lenders, in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding up to but not exceeding the Dollar Equivalent of the Maximum
            Available Amount as then in effect; provided that, after making any such Advance, (i) each Class Minimum OC Coverage Test shall be satisfied and (ii) in the case of an Advance denominated in an Available Currency other than Dollars, the
            Foreign Currency Advance Amount would not exceed the Non-Dollar Sublimit on such day. The Eligible Currency Advances shall be made solely by the Multicurrency Lenders and the Dollar Advances shall be made solely by the Dollar Lenders or the
            Multicurrency Lenders, as applicable, in each case in accordance with Section 2.03(c).

           

          Within such limits and subject to the other terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Borrower may borrow (and re-borrow) Advances under this Section 2.01 and prepay Advances under
            Section 2.06.  Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, the parties hereto acknowledge that this is an uncommitted facility and there is no express or implied commitment on the part of the Administrative Agent or any Lender
            to provide any Advance except that, in the case of Collateral Loans approved by means of an Approval Request or Approved List, the Lenders shall have committed to fund the related Advances (up to the amount(s) specified in the related Approval
            Request or Approved List) provided that the related conditions precedent set forth in Article III are satisfied or waived.

           

          Section 2.02           Requests for Collateral Loan Approval.  (a)  On or prior to the Closing Date, the Servicer, on behalf of the Borrower, shall provide to the Administrative Agent
            (with a copy to the Borrower) a list of Collateral Loans (the “Asset List”) that the Borrower is requesting be included in the Approved List (as defined below) and which, subject to such inclusion, may be purchased with, if applicable,
            funds held in the Principal Collection Subaccount, the proceeds of Advances or Principal Proceeds pursuant to Section 10.02. The Borrower (or the Servicer on its behalf) and the Administrative Agent shall adhere to the following procedures in
            requesting and approving Collateral Loans for purchase:

           

          
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          (i)      For each Collateral Loan on the Asset List sent to the Administrative Agent pursuant to clause (ii) or (iv) below or for any single Approval Request pursuant to
            clause (vii) below, the Borrower (or the Servicer on its behalf) may provide a notice by electronic mail that contains the information listed in Exhibit I with respect to each Collateral Loan (which information shall include the amount of the
            Advance to be requested in order to settle the related purchase) (together with any attachments required in connection therewith and copies of any Related Documents related to such Collateral Loan on the Approved List, in each case, an “Approval

              Request”).

           

          (ii)    The initial Asset List which the Administrative Agent has approved for purchase by the Borrower is attached hereto as Schedule 9 (such list, the “Approved List”),

            which Approved List may be updated from time to time after the Closing Date by the Borrower with the consent of the Administrative Agent.

           

          (iii)   Subject to paragraphs (iv), (v) and (ix) of this Section 2.02(a), from the time the Administrative Agent has provided the Approved List, the Borrower (or the
            Servicer on its behalf) shall have the ability to purchase or commit to purchase and purchase any Collateral Loan on the Approved List without further approval by the Administrative Agent only if the Borrower purchases or commits to purchase
            such Collateral Loan within ten (10) Business Days of approval by the Administrative Agent. On the date occurring ten (10) Business Days after the date of approval by the Administrative Agent, any approved Collateral Loan, if not purchased or
            committed to be purchased by the Borrower, will be deemed to be removed from the Approved List.

           

          (iv)    The Borrower (or the Servicer on its behalf) shall have the ability to request (A) an addition to the Approved List by undertaking similar procedure to clause
            (vii) below, or (B) a removal from the Approved List.

           

          (v)    During the Approved Asset Validity Period with respect to any Collateral Loan, the Administrative Agent, in its sole discretion, may rescind its approval of any
            Approval Request or any Collateral Loan on the Approved List, in either case, at any time by notice to the Servicer in writing, which rescission will be effective eight (8) hours following delivery of such notice of rescission; provided,
            that (A) such rescission will not invalidate any written or oral commitment to purchase a Collateral Loan entered into or confirmed by the Borrower (or the Servicer on its behalf) prior to the effectiveness of such rescission, (B) any approval
            to purchase a Collateral Loan that the Borrower (or the Servicer on the Borrower’s behalf) so committed to purchase prior to the effectiveness of such rescission will remain valid and (C) the Borrower (or the Servicer on the Borrower’s behalf)
            shall not initiate any negotiations to purchase a Collateral Loan after it has received a notice of rescission of the approval with respect thereto from the Administrative Agent. As used herein, “Approved Asset Validity Period” means,
            with respect to any Collateral Loan, the period during which the approval to purchase such Collateral Loan is valid, commencing on and including the date (1) such Collateral Loan is included on the Approved List or (2) on which the Approval
            Request with respect to such Collateral Loan is approved by the Administrative Agent, and ending, in either case, on the earliest to occur of (x) the date such Collateral Loan is removed from the Approved List in accordance with paragraph (iii)
            of this Section 2.02(a), (y) the effective time of a notice of rescission in accordance with this paragraph (v) (giving effect to the eight (8) hour grace period), and (z) the date occurring ten (10) Business Days after the date (1) such
            Collateral Loan is included on the Approved List or (2) on which the Approval Request with respect to such Collateral Loan is approved by the Administrative Agent.  Following the expiration of the Approved Asset Validity Period with respect to
            a Collateral Loan (and, in the case of a rescission of approval by the Administrative Agent, the eight (8) hour grace period), if such Collateral Loan has not been purchased or committed to be purchased by the Borrower, the approval to purchase
            such Collateral Loan will cease to be valid and, if applicable, such Collateral Loan will be deemed to be removed from the Approved List.

           

          
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          (vi)    As early as commercially practicable, but no later than 12:00 p.m. New York City time on the Business Day following the day that the Borrower (or the Servicer on
            its behalf) purchases a Collateral Loan on the Approved List, the Borrower (or the Servicer on its behalf) shall provide by electronic mail to the Administrative Agent (with a copy to the Borrower and the Custodian) a copy of the Collateral
            Loan Buy Confirmation.

           

          (vii)   With respect to Collateral Loans that are not on the Approved List, the Borrower (or the Servicer on behalf of the Borrower) may send an Approval Request at any
            time to the Administrative Agent. If the Administrative Agent receives an Approval Request by 12:00 p.m. New York City time on any Business Day, the Administrative Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to notify the Servicer and
            Borrower in writing (including via electronic mail) whether it has approved or rejected such Approval Request by 12:00 p.m. New York City time on or prior to the second Business Day thereafter (it being understood, for the avoidance of doubt,
            that any Approval Request received by the Administrative Agent after 12:00 p.m. New York City time on any Business Day shall be deemed to have been received on the following Business Day); provided that, if the Administrative Agent does
            not notify the Servicer and Borrower by such time, such Approval Request shall be deemed to be rejected; provided further that, subject to paragraphs (iv), (v) and (viii) of this Section 2.02(a), the Borrower shall have the
            ability to commit to purchase any Collateral Loan approved and added to the Approved List pursuant to this paragraph (vii) without further approval by the Administrative Agent only if the Borrower commits to purchase such Collateral Loan within
            ten (10) Business Days from the date of such approval by the Administrative Agent. On the date occurring ten (10) Business Days after the date of such approval by the Administrative Agent, any such approved Collateral Loan, if not purchased or
            committed to be purchased by the Borrower, will be deemed to be removed from the Approved List.

           

          (viii)  [Reserved.]

           

          (ix)  Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, but subject to paragraph (v) of this Section 2.02(a), the Administrative Agent shall have the right,
            acting in its sole and absolute discretion, to (A) approve or reject any Approval Request or Approved List, (B) determine which Collateral Loans are included in the Approved List in accordance with this Section 2.02, (C) rescind the approval of
            any Approval Request or of any Asset included in an Approved List and (D) request additional information reasonably available to the Borrower regarding any proposed Collateral Loan; provided that any rescission of approval shall not
            invalidate any commitment to purchase a Collateral Loan entered into by the Borrower (or the Servicer on its behalf) prior to the delivery of such rescission, in which case, such Collateral Loan shall be deemed to remain approved until
            settlement of such purchase.

           

          
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          Section 2.03       Making of the Advances.  (a)   If the Borrower requires an Advance under this Agreement with respect to any Loan Class to purchase a Collateral Loan for which the
            Approval Request has been approved or which has been identified on the Approved List pursuant to Section 2.02, it shall provide a written request for such Advance  (which request shall be irrevocable and effective upon receipt) to the
            Collateral Agent and the Administrative Agent (with a copy to each Lender) (each, a “Notice of Borrowing”) not later than (x) with respect to a Dollar Advance, 2:00 p.m. New York City time at least one (1) Business Day prior to the day
            of the requested Advance, (y) with respect to a Euro Advance or a GBP Advance, 2:00 p.m. New York City time at least two (2) Business Days prior to the day of the requested Advance and (z) with respect to any Advance, other than a Dollar
            Advance, Euro Advance or GBP Advance, 2:00 p.m. New York City time at least three (3) Business Days prior to the day of the requested Advance.

           

          Each Notice of Borrowing shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit B, dated the date the request for the related Advance is being made, signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower or
            the Servicer, as applicable, shall attach a Borrowing Base Calculation Statement (which Borrowing Base Calculation Statement shall give pro forma effect to any Collateral Loans being acquired with the
            proceeds of such Advance on such date or the following Business Day), and shall otherwise be appropriately completed.  In addition, the Servicer must provide to the Administrative Agent for each Collateral Loan copies of the Asset Information
            related to such Collateral Loan and such additional materials related to such Collateral Loan as may be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent.  Each Notice of Borrowing shall specify the Class under which the related Advance shall be
            allocated.  The proposed Borrowing Date specified in each Notice of Borrowing shall be a Business Day falling on or prior to the Facility Termination Date, the currency of the Advance requested shall be in an Available Currency and the amount
            of the Advance requested in such Notice of Borrowing (the “Requested Amount”) shall be equal to at least the Dollar Equivalent of $500,000 or an integral multiple of the Dollar Equivalent of $100,000 in excess thereof (or, if less, (x)
            the lower of (1) the remaining unfunded Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amounts hereunder and (2) with respect to any Advances other than a Dollar Advance, the Non-Dollar Sublimit minus the Foreign Currency Advance Amount or, (y) in the case
            of Revolving Collateral Loans and Delayed Drawdown Collateral Loans, such lesser amount required to be funded by the Borrower in respect thereof).  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, a Notice of Borrowing may include
            requests for more than one Advance so long as each request therein separately satisfies the terms and conditions set forth in this Section 2.03.

           

          (b)         Subject to the requirements set forth in Sections 2 and 3 hereof, each Lender shall, not later than 2:00 p.m. New York City time on each Borrowing Date in respect of Advances under
            any Class, make its Percentage of the applicable Requested Amount available to the Borrower by disbursing such funds in the applicable Available Currency to the applicable Principal Collection Subaccount (or in accordance with the wire
            instructions delivered in connection with the Notice of Borrowing).

           

          
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          (c)          Multicurrency Provisions.

           

          (i)     Each Lender hereby agrees that (A) each Eligible Currency Advance shall be funded in its entirety by the Multicurrency Lenders and (B) each Advance funded in
            Dollars shall be funded in its entirety by the Dollar Lenders or the Multicurrency Lenders, as applicable.

           

          (ii)     [Reserved.].

           

          (iii)   Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, at no time shall (x) any Multicurrency Lender have any obligation to fund any Advance in any currency other than
            Euros, Pounds Sterling, Dollars or any other Available Currency or (y) any Dollar Lender have any obligation to fund any Advance in any currency other than Dollars.

           

          (d)         Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2.03 to the contrary, the Servicer, on behalf of the Borrower, may deliver a Notice of Borrowing to the Collateral Agent and the
            Administrative Agent (with a copy to each Lender) after 2 p.m. New York City time on the first Business Day prior to the proposed Advance and prior to 11 a.m. New York City time on the date of the proposed Advance (an “Expedited Notice of
              Borrowing”). Upon receipt of an Expedited Notice of Borrowing, each Lender shall use commercially reasonable efforts to make such Advance on the proposed funding date set forth in the Expedited Notice of Borrowing subject to the terms and
            conditions for borrowings otherwise set forth in this Agreement; provided, that if a Lender is unable to make an Advance pursuant to an Expedited Notice of Borrowing due to the occurrence of a force majeure, or any other unexpected and
            unforeseen event, including, without limitation, market disruptions, such Lender shall make such Advance subject to the terms and conditions for Advances otherwise set forth in this Agreement as soon as such Lender is reasonably able to do so.

           

          Section 2.04        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 it and resulting from the Advances made by such Lender to the Borrower, from time to time, including the amounts and currencies of principal and interest thereon and paid to it, from time to time hereunder; provided that the failure
            of any Lender to maintain such accounts or any error therein shall not in any manner affect the obligation of the Borrower to repay the Advances in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

           

          (b)          Any Lender may request that its Advances to the Borrower be evidenced by a Note.  In such event, the Borrower shall promptly prepare, execute and deliver to such Lender a Note
            payable to such Lender and otherwise appropriately completed.  Thereafter, the Advances of such Lender evidenced by such Note and interest thereon shall at all times (including after any assignment pursuant to Section 13.06(a)) be represented
            by a Note payable to such Lender (or registered assigns pursuant to Section 13.06(a)), except to the extent that such Lender (or assignee) subsequently returns any such Note for cancellation and requests that such Advances once again be
            evidenced as described in clause (a) of this Section 2.04.

           

          
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          Section 2.05        Payment of Principal and Interest.  The Borrower shall pay the principal of each Advance and Interest on each Class of Advances as follows:

           

          (a)        100% of the outstanding principal amount of each Advance, together with all accrued and unpaid Interest thereon, shall be payable on the Final Maturity Date.

           

          (b)          Interest shall accrue on the unpaid principal amount of each Advance from the date of such Advance until such principal amount is paid in full.  The Administrative Agent shall,
            prior to each Payment Date, determine the accrued and unpaid Interest with respect to each Class for the related Interest Accrual Period and Unused Fees payable thereto using the applicable Interest Rate during such Interest Accrual Period to
            be paid by the Borrower on each Payment Date for the related Interest Accrual Period and shall advise each Lender, the Collateral Agent and the Servicer thereof and shall send a consolidated invoice of all such Interest and Unused Fees to the
            Borrower on the third (3rd) Business Day prior to such Payment Date.

           

          (c)        Accrued and unpaid Interest with respect to each Class shall be payable in arrears (i) on each Payment Date, and (ii) in connection with any prepayment of the Advances pursuant to
            Section 2.06(a); provided that (x) with respect to any prepayment in full of the Advances outstanding, accrued and unpaid Interest on such amount through the date of prepayment shall be payable on such date or as otherwise agreed to
            between the Lenders and the Borrower and (y) with respect to any partial prepayment of the Advances outstanding, accrued and unpaid Interest on such amount through the date of prepayment shall be payable on the Payment Date following such
            prepayment (or on such date of prepayment if requested by the Administrative Agent).

           

          (d)       The obligation of the Borrower to pay the Obligations, including the obligation of the Borrower to pay the Lenders the outstanding principal amount of the Advances and accrued
            interest thereon, shall be absolute and unconditional, and shall be paid strictly in accordance with the terms hereof (including Section 2.15), under any and all circumstances and irrespective of any setoff, counterclaim or defense to payment
            which the Borrower or any other Person may have or have had against any Secured Party or any other Person except as otherwise provided under the Facility Documents.

           

          Section 2.06        Prepayment of Advances.

           

          (a)         Optional Prepayments.  The Borrower may, from time to time on any Business Day, voluntarily prepay Advances under one or more Classes in whole or in part, without penalty or
            premium; provided that the Borrower shall have delivered to the Collateral Agent, the Lenders and the Administrative Agent written notice of such prepayment (such notice, a “Notice of Prepayment”) in the form of Exhibit C not
            later than 2:00 p.m. New York City time two (2) Business Days prior to the date of such prepayment .  The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders of such Notice of Prepayment.  Each such Notice of Prepayment shall specify the
            portion of the outstanding principal balance under each Class that shall be prepaid and be irrevocable and effective upon receipt and shall be dated the date such notice is being given, signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower and
            otherwise appropriately completed.  Each Notice of Prepayment shall provide for prepayment of Advances by the Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.06(a), in each case, in an aggregate principal amount of the Dollar Equivalent of at least
            $500,000 or, if less, the entire outstanding principal amount of the Advances of the Borrower.  If a Notice of Prepayment is given by the Borrower, the Borrower shall make such prepayment and the payment amount specified in such notice shall be
            due and payable on the date specified therein.

           

          
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          (b)       Mandatory Prepayments.  The Borrower shall prepay the Advances on each Payment Date in the manner and to the extent provided in the Priority of Payments.

           

          (c)         Additional Prepayment Provisions.  Each prepayment pursuant to this Section 2.06 shall be subject to Sections 2.05(c) and 2.11 and applied to the Advances in accordance with
            the Lenders’ respective Percentages.

           

          (d)        Re-designation of Class Advances.  The Administrative Agent shall be permitted at any time, upon written notice to the Borrower, each Lender and the Collateral Agent, to
            re-allocate the aggregate outstanding principal balance under each Class so long as after giving effect to such re-allocation, each Class Minimum OC Coverage Test is satisfied or, if not satisfied, improved.

           

          (e)         Available Currency. Any and all prepayments made by the Borrower under the Facility Documents shall be made in the applicable Available Currency.

           

          Section 2.07        Changes of Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amounts.

           

          (a)        Automatic Reduction and Termination.  Subject to the provisions of Section 8.04, the Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amounts of each Lender shall be automatically reduced
            to zero at 5:00 p.m. New York City time on the Facility Termination Date.

           

          (b)          Optional Reductions.  The Borrower shall have the right to terminate or reduce the unused amount of the Facility Amount at any time or from time to time concurrently with
            the payment of any applicable Facility Reduction Fee payable in connection therewith upon not less than two (2) Business Days’ prior notice to the Collateral Agent, the Lenders and the Administrative Agent of each such termination or reduction,
            which notice shall specify the effective date of such termination or reduction and the amount of any such reduction; provided that (i) the amount of any such reduction of the Facility Amount shall be equal to at least $500,000 or an
            integral multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof or, if less, the remaining unused portion thereof, and (ii) no such reduction will reduce the Facility Amount below the sum of (x) the aggregate principal amount of Advances outstanding at such
            time and (y) the Revolving Exposure at such time.  Such notice of termination or reduction shall be irrevocable and effective only upon receipt and shall be applied pro rata to reduce the respective
            Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amounts of each Lender.  Except as otherwise set forth herein, upon the occurrence of the Collection Date, this Agreement shall terminate automatically.

           

          (c)        Effect of Termination or Reduction.  The Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amounts of the Lenders once terminated or reduced may not be reinstated.  Each reduction of the
            Facility Amount pursuant to this Section 2.07 shall be applied ratably among the Lenders in accordance with their respective Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amounts.

           

          
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          Section 2.08      Maximum Lawful Rate.  It is the intention of the parties hereto that the interest on the Advances shall not exceed the maximum rate permissible under Applicable Law. 
            Accordingly, anything herein or in any Note to the contrary notwithstanding, in the event any interest is charged to, collected from or received from or on behalf of the Borrower by the Lenders pursuant hereto or thereto in excess of such
            maximum lawful rate, then the excess of such payment over that maximum shall be applied first to the payment of amounts then due and owing by the Borrower to the Secured Parties under this Agreement (other than in respect of principal of and
            interest on the Advances) and then to the reduction of the outstanding principal amount of the Advances of the Borrower.

           

          Section 2.09       Several Obligations.  The failure of any Lender to make any Advance to be made by it on the date specified therefor shall not relieve any other Lender of its
            obligation to make its Advance on such date.  Neither Agent shall be responsible for the failure of any Lender to make any Advance, and no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to make an Advance required to be made by
            such other Lender.

           

          Section 2.10        Increased Costs.

           

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

           

          (i)         impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve, compulsory loan, insurance charge, special deposit or similar requirement against assets of, deposits with or for
            account of, or credit extended by, any Affected Person;

           

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

           

          (iii)        impose on any Affected Person or the London interbank market or any other market relevant to any Applicable Index any other condition, cost or expense, affecting
            this Agreement or Advances made by such Affected Person by reference to the Applicable Index or any participation therein;

           

          and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such Affected Person of making, continuing, converting into or maintaining any Advance made by reference to an Applicable Index (or of
            maintaining its obligation to make any such Advance) or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Affected Person hereunder (whether of principal, interest or otherwise), then the Borrower will pay to such Lender such
            additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Affected Person for such additional costs incurred or reduction suffered as specified in a certificate delivered to the Borrower pursuant to clause (c) of this Section 2.10.

           

          
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          (b)          Capital Requirements.  If any Affected Person determines that any Change in Law regarding capital or liquidity requirements has or would have the effect of reducing the rate
            of return on such Affected Person’s capital or on the capital of such Affected Person’s holding company, if any, as a consequence of this Agreement or the Advances made by such Affected Person to a level below that which such Affected Person or
            such Affected Person’s holding company could have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such Affected Person’s policies and the policies of such Affected Person’s holding company with respect to capital adequacy and
            liquidity coverage), by an amount deemed to be material by such Affected Person, then from time to time the Borrower will pay to such Affected Person in Dollars, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Affected Person or such
            Affected Person’s holding company for any such reduction suffered or charge imposed; provided that the amounts payable under this Section 2.10(b) shall be without duplication of amounts payable under Section 13.03 and shall not include
            any Excluded Taxes.

           

          (c)         Certificates from Lenders.  A certificate of an Affected Person setting forth in reasonable detail the basis for such demand and the amount or amounts, in Dollars, necessary
            to compensate such Affected Person or its holding company as specified in clause (a) or (b) of this Section 2.10 shall be promptly delivered to the Borrower and shall be conclusive absent manifest error; provided that such Affected
            Person charges such increased costs to borrowers that are substantially similar to the Borrower in financing transactions materially similar to the financing transaction set forth in this Agreement.  The Borrower shall pay such amount shown as
            due on any such certificate on the next Payment Date after receipt thereof.

           

          (d)         Delay in Requests.  Failure or delay on the part of any Affected Person to demand compensation pursuant to this Section 2.10 shall not constitute a waiver of such Affected
            Person’s right to demand such compensation; provided that the Borrower shall not be required to compensate an Affected Person pursuant to this Section 2.10 for any costs, reductions, penalties or interest incurred more than nine months
            prior to the date that such Affected Person notifies the Borrower of the Change in Law giving rise to any increased costs or reductions and of such Affected Person’s intention to claim compensation therefor; provided, further,
            that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then the nine-month period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof.

           

          (e)         Lending Office.  Upon the occurrence of any event giving rise to the Borrower’s obligation to pay additional amounts to a Lender pursuant to clauses (a) or (b) of this
            Section 2.10, such Lender will, if requested by the Borrower, use reasonable efforts (subject to overall policy considerations of such Lender) to designate a different lending office if such designation would reduce or obviate the obligations
            of the Borrower to make future payments of such additional amounts; provided that such designation is made on such terms that such Lender and its lending office suffer no unreimbursed cost or material legal or regulatory disadvantage (as
            reasonably determined by such Lender), with the object of avoiding future consequence of the event giving rise to the operation of any such provision.

           

          Section 2.11        Compensation; Breakage Payments.  The Borrower agrees to compensate each Affected Person from time to time, on the Payment Date (or on the applicable date of
            prepayment) promptly following such Affected Person’s written request (which request shall set forth the basis for requesting such amounts) in accordance with the Priority of Payments, for all reasonable and documented actual losses, expenses
            and liabilities (including any interest paid by such Affected Person to lenders of funds borrowed to make or carry an Advance bearing interest that was computed by reference to an Applicable Index and any loss sustained by such Affected Person
            in connection with the re-employment of such funds but excluding loss of anticipated profits), which such Affected Person may sustain:  (i) if for any reason (including any failure of a condition precedent set forth in Article III but excluding
            a default by the applicable Lender) any Advance bearing interest that was computed by reference to an Applicable Index by the Borrower does not occur on the Borrowing Date specified therefor in the applicable Notice of Borrowing delivered by
            the Borrower, and (ii) if any payment or prepayment of any Advance bearing interest that was computed by reference to the Applicable Index is not made on a Payment Date or pursuant to a Notice of Prepayment given by the Borrower.  A certificate
            as to any amounts payable pursuant to this Section 2.11 submitted to the Borrower by any Lender (with a copy to the Agents, and accompanied by a reasonably detailed calculation of such amounts and a description of the basis for requesting such
            amounts) shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error.

           

          
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          Section 2.12      Inability to Determine Rates; SONIA Market Disruption and Cost
                of Funds; SARON Market Disruption and Cost of Funds. (a)  With respect to any Advance other than a GBP Advance or CHF
                Advance, if, prior to the first day of any Interest Accrual Period or prior to the date of any Advance, as applicable, the Administrative Agent determines that for any reason adequate and reasonable means do not exist for
            determining the Applicable Index (other than Adjusted Cumulative Compounded SONIA or Adjusted Non-Cumulative Compounded SARON)
            for the applicable Advances, the Administrative Agent will promptly so notify the Borrower, the Collateral Agent and each Lender; provided that the Administrative Agent has made a similar determination with respect to similarly situated
            borrowers in similar facilities.  Thereafter, the obligation of the Lenders to make or maintain Advances based upon the Applicable Index (other than Adjusted Cumulative Compounded SONIA or Adjusted Non-Cumulative Compounded SARON) will be suspended until the Administrative Agent (upon the instruction of the Required Lenders) revokes such notice.

           

          (a)          With respect to a GBP Advance:

           

          (i)          If (A) there is no applicable SONIA or Central Bank Rate for the purposes of calculating the Cumulative Compounded SONIA Rate for an RFR Banking Day during an
            Interest Accrual Period for a GBP Advance, or (B) the Administrative Agent receives notifications before the SONIA Reporting Time for such GBP Advance from a Lender or Lenders (in each case, whose aggregate participations in such GBP Advance
            exceed 50% of such GBP Advance) that its cost of funds relating to its participation in such GBP Advance would be in excess of the Adjusted Cumulative Compounded SONIA Rate, each Lender’s share of such GBP Advance shall instead accrue interest
            at the percentage rate per annum which is equal to the weighted average of the rates notified to the Administrative Agent by each Lender as soon as practicable and in any event by the SONIA Reporting Time for such GBP Advance, in each case,
            expressed as a percentage rate per annum equal to such Lender’s cost of funds relating to its participation in such GBP Advance (with respect to each Lender, each such rate, its “GBP Funding Rate”).

           

          (i)        If this Section 2.12(b) applies and the Administrative Agent or the Borrower so requires, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower shall enter into negotiations
            (for a period of not more than thirty days) with a view to agreeing a substitute basis for determining the rate of interest.

           

          (ii)         Any alternative basis agreed pursuant to clause (ii) above shall, with the prior consent of all the Lenders and the Borrower, be binding on all parties hereto.

           

          
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          (iii)       If the circumstances set forth in clause (i)(B) above exist and (A) a Lender’s GBP Funding Rate is less than the Adjusted Cumulative Compounded SONIA Rate; or (B) a Lender does not notify a rate to the Administrative Agent by the relevant SONIA Reporting Time, such Lender’s
            GBP Funding Rate relating to its participation in such GBP Advance shall be deemed, for the purposes of calculating the weighted
            average pursuant to clause (i) above, to be the Adjusted Cumulative Compounded SONIA Rate for such GBP Advance.

           

          (iv)          Subject to clause (iv) above, if this Section 2.12(b) applies but any Lender does not notify a rate to the Administrative Agent by the SONIA Reporting Time for
            the relevant GBP Advance, the rate of interest shall be calculated on the basis of the rates notified by the remaining Lenders.

           

          (b)          With respect to a CHF Advance:

           

          (i)        If (A) there is no applicable SARON or Central Bank Rate for the purposes of calculating the Daily Non-Cumulative Compounded SARON Rate for an RFR Banking Day during an
                Interest Accrual Period for a CHF Advance, or (B) the Administrative Agent receives notifications before the SARON Reporting Time for such CHF Advance from a Lender or Lenders (in each case, whose aggregate participations in such CHF
                Advance exceed 50% of such CHF Advance) that its cost of funds relating to its participation in such CHF Advance would be in excess of the Adjusted Cumulative Compounded SARON Rate, each Lender’s share of such CHF Advance shall instead
                accrue interest at the percentage rate per annum
                which is equal to the weighted average of the rates notified to the Administrative Agent by each Lender as soon as practicable and in any event by the SARON Reporting Time for such CHF Advance, in each case, expressed as a percentage rate per annum equal to such Lender’s cost of funds relating to its
                participation in such CHF Advance (with respect to each Lender, each such rate, its “CHF Funding Rate”).

           

          (ii)       If this Section 2.12(c) applies and the Administrative Agent or the Borrower so requires, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower shall enter into negotiations (for a period of
                not more than thirty days) with a view to agreeing a substitute basis for determining the rate of interest.

           

          (iii)       Any alternative basis agreed pursuant to clause (iii) above shall, with the prior consent of all the Lenders and the Borrower, be binding on all parties hereto.

           

          (iv)      If the circumstances set forth in clause (i)(B) above exist and (A) a Lender’s CHF Funding Rate is less than the Adjusted Cumulative Compounded SARON Rate; or (B) a Lender does not notify
                a rate to the Administrative Agent by the relevant SARON Reporting Time, such Lender’s CHF Funding Rate relating to its participation in such CHF Advance shall be deemed, for the purposes of calculating the weighted average pursuant to
                clause (i) above, to be the Adjusted Cumulative Compounded SARON Rate for such CHF Advance.

           

          (v)         Subject to clause (iv) above, if this Section 2.12(c) applies but any Lender does not notify a rate to the Administrative Agent by the SARON Reporting Time for the relevant
                CHF Advance, the rate of interest shall be calculated on the basis of the rates notified by the remaining Lenders.

           

          
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          (c)          (vi)

              If this Section 2.12 applies the Administrative Agent shall, as soon as is practicable, notify the Borrower.

           

          Section 2.13          Rescission or Return of Payment.  The Borrower agrees that, if at any time (including after the occurrence of the Final Maturity Date) all or any part of any
            payment theretofore made by it to any Secured Party or any designee of a Secured Party is or must be rescinded or returned for any reason whatsoever (including the insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of the Borrower or any of its
            Affiliates), the obligation of the Borrower to make such payment to such Secured Party shall, for the purposes of this Agreement, to the extent that such payment is or must be rescinded or returned, be deemed to have continued in existence and
            this Agreement and any other applicable Facility Document shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, as to such obligations, all as though such payment had not been made.

           

          Section 2.14          Post-Default Interest.  The Borrower shall pay interest on all Obligations (other than any Administrative Expenses) that are not paid when due for the period from
            the due date thereof until the date the same is paid in full at the Post-Default Rate.  Interest payable at the Post-Default Rate shall be payable on each Payment Date in accordance with the Priority of Payments.

           

          Section 2.15          Payments Generally.  (a)  All amounts owing and payable to any Secured Party, any Affected Person or any Indemnified Party, in respect of the Advances and other
            Obligations, including the principal thereof, interest, fees, indemnities, expenses or other amounts payable under this Agreement or any other Facility Document, shall be paid from amounts available therefor on behalf of and at the direction of
            the Borrower (or the Servicer on behalf of the Borrower) by the Collateral Agent to the applicable recipient in the applicable Available Currency, in immediately available funds, in accordance with the Priority of Payments, and all without
            counterclaim, setoff, deduction, defense, abatement, suspension or deferment.  Each Lender shall provide wire instructions to the Borrower and the Collateral Agent.  All payments made by the Collateral Agent pursuant to a Payment Date Report on
            any Payment Date shall be wired by the Collateral Agent by 2:00 p.m. New York City time on such Payment Date.  Prepayments to be made pursuant to Section 2.06 for which the Collateral Agent has received a Notice of Prepayment two (2) Business
            Days prior to the scheduled date of prepayment shall be wired by the Collateral Agent by 2:00 p.m. New York City time on such date.  All other payments by the Borrower must be received by the Collateral Agent on or prior to 3:00 p.m. New York
            City time on a Business Day (the Collateral Agent shall then wire such funds to the Lenders by 5:00 p.m. New York City time on such Business Day); provided that, payments received by the Collateral Agent after 3:00 p.m. New York City
            time or payments received by the Lenders after 5:00 p.m. New York City time on a Business Day will be deemed to have been received or paid, as the case may be, on the next following Business Day.  For the avoidance of doubt, and only for
            purposes of Section 6.01, amounts paid by the Borrower shall be deemed received upon payment by the Borrower to the Collateral Agent.  For all other purposes, amounts paid by the Borrower shall be deemed received by the Collateral Agent only
            upon actual receipt by the Collateral Agent and crediting of such amounts by the Collateral Agent to the respective account(s) from which further payment is to be made.  At no time will the Collateral Agent have any duty (express or implied) to
            fund (or front or advance) any amount owing by the Borrower hereunder.

           

          
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          (b)          Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all computations of interest, fees and other Obligations shall be made on the basis of a year of (x) 360 days for the actual number
            of days elapsed in computing interest on any Dollar Advance and Euro Advance and (y) 365 days for the actual number of days elapsed in computing interest on any GBP Advance, the date of the making of the Advance shall be included and the date
            of payment shall be excluded; provided that, if an Advance is repaid on the same day on which it is made, one day’s Interest shall be paid on such Advance.  All computations made by the Collateral Agent or the Administrative Agent under
            this Agreement or any other Facility Document shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

           

          (c)         Any and all payments made by the Borrower under the Facility Documents shall be made in the applicable Available Currency. For purposes of Section 9.01(a), any amounts on deposit in
            the Collection Account denominated in any Available Currency shall be applied on any Payment Date (i) first, to make payments in such Available Currency and (ii) second, to make payments in any other Available Currency (pro rata based on available amounts from each other Available Currency, unless otherwise directed in writing by the Servicer), as converted by the Servicer pursuant to the definition of “Dollar Equivalent”; provided,
            that such payments shall be subject to availability of such funds pursuant to Section 9.01(a). The Servicer shall instruct the Collateral Agent, no later than two (2) Business Days immediately preceding each Payment Date, to convert amounts on
            deposit in the applicable Collection Account into each Available Currency (pro rata based on available amounts from each other Available Currency, unless otherwise directed in writing by the Servicer).
            Any Principal Proceeds on deposit in the Collection Account denominated in an Available Currency may be converted by the Servicer into another Available Currency on any Business Day (other than a Payment Date) pursuant to the definition of
            “Dollar Equivalent”. All risks and expenses incident to such conversion is the responsibility of the Borrower and the Collateral Agent shall have (x) no responsibility for fluctuations in exchange rates affecting any Collections or conversion
            thereof and (y) to the extent it complies with the instructions provided by the Servicer, no liability for any losses incurred or resulting from the rates obtained in such foreign exchange transactions.

           

          Section 2.16        Extension of Facility Termination Date.  The Borrower shall have an option to extend the Facility Termination Date one time, not longer than one year, effective on
            the Facility Termination Date then in effect, subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions precedent:

           

          (a)          each of the Lenders and the Administrative Agent have consented to the extension in their sole discretion (written notice of such consent to be delivered to Borrower together with
            the requested extension fee (if applicable) no later than thirty (30) days following receipt of the Extension Request delivered pursuant to clause (e) below; provided that if the Borrower fails to receive such consent from the
            Administrative Agent or any Lender within such thirty-day period, the Administrative Agent and such Lender, as applicable, shall be deemed to have denied such Extension Request);

           

          
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          (b)          as of the effective date of such extension, the representations and warranties of the Borrower, the Equityholder and the Servicer set forth herein and in the other Facility
            Documents are true and correct in all material respects with the same force and effect as if made on and as of such date (except to the extent that such representations and warranties expressly relate to an earlier date); provided that
            if a representation or warranty is qualified as to materiality, with respect to such representation or warranty, the foregoing materiality qualifier shall be disregarded for the purposes of this condition;

           

          (c)         the Borrower shall have paid an extension fee to the Administrative Agent, for the account of each Lender, in an amount to be mutually agreed upon by the Borrower and such Lender;

           

          (d)          no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing on the date on which the Extension Request is delivered in accordance with the following clause (e) or on the
            Facility Termination Date then in effect; and

           

          (e)        the Borrower shall have delivered an Extension Request with respect to the Facility Termination Date to the Administrative Agent not earlier than one year after the Closing Date and
            not later than one hundred twenty (120) days prior to the Facility Termination Date then in effect (which shall be promptly forwarded by Administrative Agent to each Lender).

           

          Section 2.17        Defaulting Lenders.  (a)  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, if any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then, until such time as
            that Lender is no longer a Defaulting Lender, to the extent permitted by Applicable Law:

           

          (i)          That 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
            Section 13.01(d).

           

          (ii)         Any payment of principal, interest, fees or other amounts received by the Administrative Agent for the account of that Defaulting Lender (whether voluntary or
            mandatory, at maturity, or otherwise), shall be applied at such time or times as may be determined by the Administrative Agent as follows:  first, to the payment of any amounts owing by that Defaulting
            Lender to the Administrative Agent hereunder; second, as the Borrower may request (so long as no Event of Default or Default exists), to the funding of any Advance in respect of which that Defaulting
            Lender has failed to fund its portion thereof as required by this Agreement, as determined by the Administrative Agent; third, if so determined by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, to be held
            as cash collateral for future funding obligations of that Defaulting Lender to fund Advances under this Agreement; fourth, to the payment of any amounts owing to other Lenders as a result of any
            judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by any Lender against that Defaulting Lender as a result of that Defaulting Lender’s breach of its obligations under this Agreement; fifth, so long
            as no Event of Default or 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 such Borrower against that Defaulting Lender as a result of that
            Defaulting Lender’s breach of its obligations under this Agreement; and sixth, to that Defaulting Lender or as otherwise directed by a court of competent jurisdiction; provided that if such
            payment is a payment of the principal amount of any Advances in respect of which that Defaulting Lender has not fully funded its appropriate share, 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 that 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 or to post cash collateral pursuant to this Section 2.17 shall be deemed paid to and redirected by that Defaulting Lender, and each Lender irrevocably consents hereto.

           

          
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          (iii)       For any period during which that Lender is a Defaulting Lender, that Defaulting Lender shall not be entitled to receive any Unused Fee for any period during which
            that Lender is a Defaulting Lender (and the Borrower shall not be required to pay any such fee that otherwise would have been required to have been paid to such Defaulting Lender).

           

          (b)        If the Administrative Agent and the Borrower agree that a Defaulting Lender should no longer be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender, the Administrative Agent will so notify the parties
            hereto, whereupon as of the effective date specified in such notice and subject to any conditions set forth therein (which may include arrangements with respect to any cash collateral), that Lender will, to the extent applicable, purchase that
            portion of outstanding Advances of the other Lenders or take such other actions as the Administrative 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 Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amounts, whereupon that 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 BorrowersBorrower
            while that Lender was a Defaulting Lender; and provided, further, that except to the extent otherwise expressly agreed by the affected parties, no change hereunder from Defaulting Lender to Lender will constitute a waiver or
            release of any claim of any party hereunder arising from that Lender’s having been a Defaulting Lender.

           

          Section 2.18      Effect of Benchmark Transition Event.  (a)  Without prejudice to any other provision of this Agreement, each party hereto acknowledges and agrees for the benefit of each of the other parties hereto:  (x) one or all
                of the Applicable Indices (i) may be subject to methodological or other changes which could affect their value, and/or (ii) may be permanently discontinued; and (y) the occurrence of any of the aforementioned events and/or a Benchmark
                Transition Event may have adverse consequences which may materially impact the economics of the financing transactions contemplated under this Agreement.Benchmark Replacement Setting.

           

          
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          (a)        (b)

              Benchmark Replacement.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Facility Document, ifupon the occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event or
                an Early Opt-in Election, as applicable, and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred prior to the Reference Time inwith respect ofto
            any setting of a then-current Benchmark, then (x) ifthe Administrative Agent and the Borrower may amend this Agreement to replace such Benchmark with a Benchmark Replacement is determined in accordance with clause (1) or (2) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement” for such Benchmark Replacement Date or in connection with an Early Opt-in
                Election, such Benchmark Replacement will replace such Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Facility Document in respect of such Benchmark setting and subsequent Benchmark settings without any amendment to, or further action
                or consent of any other party to, this Agreement or any other Facility Document and (y) if a Benchmark Replacement is determined in accordance with clause (3) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement” for such Benchmark Replacement Date
                or in connection with an Early Opt-in Election, such Benchmark Replacement will replace such Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Facility Document in respect of any Benchmark setting at or after.  Any such amendment with respect to a Benchmark Transition Event will become effective at 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the fifth (5th) Business Day after the date notice of such Benchmark Replacement is provided to the
                Lenders without any amendment to, or further action or consent of any other party to, this Agreement or any other Facility DocumentAdministrative Agent has posted such proposed amendment to all affected Lenders and the Borrower so long as the Administrative Agent has not received, by such time, written notice of objection to such Benchmark Replacementamendment from
            Lenders comprising the Required Lenders.  No replacement of a Benchmark with a Benchmark Replacement pursuant to this Section 2.18(a) will
                occur prior to the applicable Benchmark Transition Start Date.

           

          (c) Term SOFR Transition Event.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Facility Document and subject to the proviso below in this
                paragraph, solely with respect to a Dollar Advance, if a Term SOFR Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred prior to the Reference Time in respect of any setting of a then-current Benchmark, then the
                applicable Benchmark Replacement will replace such then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder or under any Facility Document in respect of such Benchmark setting and subsequent Benchmark settings, without any amendment to, or further action or consent of any other party to, this Agreement or any other Facility Document; provided
                that, this clause (c) shall not be effective unless the Administrative Agent has delivered to the Lenders and the Borrower a Term SOFR Notice. For the avoidance of doubt, the Administrative Agent shall not be required to deliver a Term SOFR Notice after a Term SOFR Transition Event and may do
                so in its sole discretion.

           

          (b)          (d)

              Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes.  In connection with the use, administration, adoption or
            implementation of a Benchmark Replacement, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes from time to
            time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Facility Document, any amendments implementing such Benchmark Replacement Conforming

            Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Facility Document.

           

          
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          (c)          (e)

              Notices; Standards for Decisions and Determinations.  The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrower, and the Lenders, the Servicer, the Collateral Agent and
                the Equityholder of (i) any occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event, a Term SOFR Transition Event or an Early Opt-in Election, as applicable, and its related Benchmark Replacement Date, (ii) theof (i) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement, and (iiiii) the effectiveness of any Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes, (iv) in connection with the use, administration, adoption or implementation of a
                Benchmark Replacement.  The Administrative Agent will notify the Borrower of (x) the removal or reinstatement of any tenor of a Benchmark pursuant to clauseSection 2.18(fd) below and (vy) the commencement or conclusion of any Benchmark Unavailability Period.  Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Administrative Agent or, if applicable, any Lender (or group of Lenders) pursuant to this
            Section 2.18, including any determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will be
            conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may be made in its or their sole discretion and without consent from any other party to this Agreement or any other Facility Document, except, in each case, as expressly required pursuant to this
            Section 2.18.

           

          (d)          (f)

              Unavailability of Tenor of Benchmark.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Facility Document, at any time (including in connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement), (i) if
            aany then-current Benchmark is a term
            rate (including the Term SOFR Reference Rate or EURIBOR) and either (A) any tenor for such Benchmark is not displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its
            reasonable discretion or (B) the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark has provided a public statement or publication of information announcing that any tenor for such Benchmark is not or will be no longernot be representative, then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Accrual Period” for any applicable(or any similar or analogous definition) for any Benchmark settings
            at or after such time to remove such unavailable or non-representative tenor and(ii) if a tenor that was removed pursuant to clause (i) above either (A) is subsequently displayed on a screen or information service for a Benchmark (including a
            Benchmark Replacement) or (B) is not, or is no longer, subject to an announcement that it is not or will no longernot be representative for a
            Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement), then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Accrual Period” for all applicable(or any similar or analogous definition) for all Benchmark settings at or after such time to reinstate such previously removed
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          (e)       (g)

              Benchmark Unavailability Period.  Upon the Borrower’s receipt of notice of the commencement of a Benchmark Unavailability Period, with respect to a given Benchmark, (i) the Borrower may revoke any pending Notice of Borrowing of, or request for conversion to or continuation of Advances to be made, converted or continued during any Benchmark Unavailability Period denominated in the applicable Available Currency and, failing that, either (xA) in the case of any request for any affected Dollar Advances, the Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such Notice of Borrowing or request for a Dollar Advanceconversion into a Notice of Borrowing of or
            request for a conversion to Dollar
            Advances denominated in the applicable currency bearing interest at a rate
              per annum equal to, in the case of Dollar Advances, the Base Rate plus the Applicable Margin, or (y) any Advance denominated in an Available Currency
                (other than Dollars) shall be ineffective, as applicable. Furthermore, if any Advance in any Available Currency is outstanding on the date of the Borrower’s receipt of notice of the commencement of a Benchmark Unavailability Period with
                respect to an Applicable Index applicable to such Advance, then (i) if such Advance is denominated in Dollars, then on the last day of the Interest
                Accrual Period applicable to such Advance (or the next succeeding Business Day if such day is not a Business Day), such Advance shall be converted by the Administrative Agent to, and shall
                constitute, an Advance denominated in Dollars bearing interest at a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate plus the Applicable
            Margin on such day orand (iiB) if such Advance is denominated in anyin the case of any Notice of Borrowing in an
            Available Currency (other than Dollars), then such Advance shall, on the last day of the Interest Accrual Period applicable to such Advance (or the next succeeding Business Day if such day is not a Business Day)request shall be ineffective and (ii)(A) any outstanding affected Dollar Advances will be deemed to have been converted into Dollar Advances bearing interest at a per annum
                rate equal to the Base Rate plus Applicable Margin and (B) any outstanding Advances denominated in an Available Currency
                other than Dollars, at the Borrower’s election prior to such day, (A) be prepaid by the Borrower on such day or (B) be converted by the Administrative
                Agent to, and (subject to the remainder of this subclause (B)) shall constitute, an Advance denominated in Dollars,
                shall either (I) be converted into Dollar Advances (in an amount equal to the Dollar Equivalent of such Available Currency) immediately,
                or, with respect to any Advance bearing interest at a term rate per annum equal to the then applicable Benchmark for Dollar Advances plus the Applicable Margin on such day (it being understood and agreed that if the Borrower does not so prepay such Advance on such day by 12:00
                noon, New York City time, the Administrative Agent is authorized to effect such conversion of such Advance into an Advance denominated in Dollars bearing interest at a rate per annum equal to the then applicable Benchmark for Dollar Advances plus the Applicable Margin), and, in the case of
                such subclause (B), upon any subsequent implementation of a Benchmark Replacement in respect of such Available Currency pursuant to this Section 2.18  such Advance denominated in Dollars shall then be converted by the Administrative Agent
                to, and shall constitute, an Advance denominated in such original Available Currency (in an amount equal to the equivalent in such currency of such Available Currency) on the day of such implementation, giving effect to such Benchmark
                Replacement in respect of such Available Currency., at the end of the applicable Interest Accrual Period or (II) with
                respect to any Advance bearing interest at a term rate, be prepaid at the end of the applicable Interest Accrual Period; provided that, with respect to an Advance that does not bear interest at a term rate, if no election is made by the
                Borrower by the date that is three Business Days after receipt by the Borrower of such notice, the Borrower shall be deemed to have elected clause (I) above; provided, further that, with respect to any Advance bearing interest at a term
                rate, if no election is made by the Borrower by the earlier of (x) the date that is three Business Days after receipt by the Borrower of such notice and (y) the last day of the current Interest Accrual Period for the applicable Advance, the
                Borrower shall be deemed to have elected clause (I) above. Upon any such prepayment or conversion, the Borrower shall also pay accrued interest (except with respect to any prepayment or conversion of an Advance that does not bear interest
                at a term rate) on the amount so prepaid or converted, together with any additional amounts required pursuant to Section 2.11.

           

          (f)         Initial Benchmark Conforming Changes.  In connection with the use or administration of any Benchmark, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Conforming Changes from time to time and,
                notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Facility Document, any amendments implementing such Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Facility
                Document.  The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders of the effectiveness of any Conforming
                Changes in connection with the use or administration of any Benchmark.

           

          (g)         (h)

              None of the Collateral Agent, the Custodian or the Securities Intermediary will have any responsibility for the selection or determination of an alternate benchmark rate (including, without limitation, any Benchmark
            Replacement or other replacement index adopted pursuant to an amendment to this Agreement) or anany liability for any failure, or delay in performing their duties hereunder solely as a result of the unavailability of LIBORthe Benchmark, the Benchmark Replacement or any other benchmark rate herein.

           

          
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          (i) Certain Defined Terms.  As used in this Section 2.18:

           

          “Available Tenor” means, as of any date of determination and with respect to the then-current Benchmark, as applicable, any tenor for such Benchmark or
              payment period for interest calculated with reference to such Benchmark, as applicable, that is or may be used for determining the length of an Interest Accrual Period pursuant to this Agreement as of such date and not including, for the avoidance of
                doubt, any tenor for such Benchmark that is then-removed from the definition of “Interest Accrual Period” pursuant to clause (e) of this Section 2.18.

           

          “Benchmark Replacement” means, for any Available Tenor, the first alternative set forth in the order below that can be determined by the Administrative Agent for the applicable Benchmark
                Replacement Date; provided that, in the case of any Advance denominated in an Available Currency other than Dollars, “Benchmark
                Replacement” shall mean the alternative set forth in clause (3) below:

           

          (1) the sum of: (a) Term SOFR and (b) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment;

           

          (2) the sum of: (a) Daily Simple SOFR and (b) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment;

           

          (3) the sum of: (a) the alternate benchmark
                rate that has been selected by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower as the replacement for a then-current Benchmark for the applicable
                Corresponding Tenor giving due consideration to (i) any selection or recommendation of a replacement benchmark rate or the mechanism for determining
                such a rate by the Relevant Governmental Body or (ii) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a benchmark rate as a replacement for such then-current Benchmark for syndicated credit facilities denominated in the applicable Available Currency at such time and (b) the
                related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment;

           

          provided that, in the case of clause (1), such Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement is displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion; provided further that, solely with respect to a Dollar Advance, notwithstanding anything to the contrary
                in this Agreement or in any other Facility Document, upon the occurrence of a Term SOFR Transition Event, and the delivery of a Term SOFR Notice, on the applicable Benchmark Replacement Date the “Benchmark Replacement” shall revert to and
                shall be deemed to be the sum of (a) Term SOFR and (b) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment, as set forth in clause (1) of this definition (subject to the first proviso above).

           

          If the Benchmark Replacement as determined pursuant to clause (1), (2) or (3) above would be less than the Floor, the Benchmark
              Replacement will be deemed to be the Floor for the purposes of this Agreement and the other Facility Documents.

           

          “Benchmark Replacement Adjustment” means, with respect to any replacement of a then-current Benchmark with an Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for any
                applicable Interest Accrual Period and Available Tenor for any setting of such Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement:

           

          
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          (1) for purposes of clauses (1) and (2) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement,” the first alternative set
                forth in the order below that can be determined by the Administrative Agent:

           

          (a) the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, (which may
              be a positive or negative value or zero) as of the Reference Time such Benchmark Replacement is first set for such Interest Accrual Period that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body for the replacement of such
              Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for the applicable Corresponding Tenor;

           

          (b) the spread adjustment (which may be a
                positive or negative value or zero) as of the Reference Time such Benchmark Replacement is first set for such Interest Accrual Period that would apply to the fallback rate for a derivative transaction referencing the ISDA Definitions to be
                effective upon an index cessation event with respect to such Benchmark for the applicable Corresponding Tenor; and

           

          (2) for purposes of clause (3) of the
                definition of “Benchmark Replacement,” the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, (which may be a
                positive or negative value or zero) that has been selected by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower for the applicable Corresponding Tenor
                giving due consideration to (x) any selection or recommendation of a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread
                adjustment, for the replacement of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement by the Relevant Governmental Body on the
                applicable Benchmark Replacement Date or (y) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a spread adjustment, or method for
                calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for syndicated credit facilities denominated in the applicable Available Currency;

           

          provided that, in the case of clause (1) above, such adjustment is displayed on a screen or other information service that
              publishes such Benchmark Replacement Adjustment from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion.

           

          “Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes” means, with respect to any

                Benchmark Replacement, any technical, administrative or operational changes (including changes to the definition of “Business Day,” the definition of “Interest

                Accrual Period,” timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest, timing of borrowing requests or prepayment, conversion
                or continuation notices, length of lookback periods, the applicability of breakage provisions, and other technical, administrative or operational matters) that the Administrative Agent decides in its reasonable discretion may be appropriate to reflect the adoption and
                implementation of such Benchmark Replacement and to permit the administration

                thereof by the Administrative Agent in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Administrative Agent decides that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or if the
                Administrative Agent determines that no market practice for the administration of such Benchmark Replacement exists, in such other manner of administration as the Administrative Agent decides is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement and the
                other Facility Documents).

           

          
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          “Benchmark Replacement Date” means, with respect to any Benchmark, the

                earliest to occur of the following events with respect to such then-current Benchmark:

           

          (1) in the case of clause (1) or (2) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the later of (a) the date of the public statement or publication of
                information referenced therein and (b) the date on which
                the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) permanently or indefinitely ceases to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof);

           

          (2) in the case of clause (3) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the date of the public
              statement or publication of information referenced therein;

           

          (3) in the case of a Term SOFR Transition Event, the date that is thirty (30) days after the date a Term
              SOFR Notice is provided to the Lenders and the Borrower pursuant to Section
                  2.18(c); or

           

          (4) in the case of an Early Opt-in Election, the sixth (6th) Business Day after the date notice of such
              Early Opt-in Election is provided to the Lenders, so long as the Administrative Agent has not received, by 5:00 p.m. New York City time on the fifth (5th) Business Day after the date notice of such Early Opt-in Election is provided to the
              Lenders, written notice of objection to such Early Opt-in Election from Lenders comprising the Required Lenders.

           

          For the avoidance of doubt, (i)

                if the event giving rise to the Benchmark Replacement Date occurs on the same day as, but earlier than, the Reference Time in respect of any determination, the Benchmark Replacement Date will be deemed to have occurred prior to the Reference Time for such determination and (ii) the “Benchmark Replacement Date” will be deemed to have occurred in the case of clause (1)

                or (2) above with respect to any Benchmark upon the occurrence of the applicable event or events set forth therein with respect to all then-current
                Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).

           

          “Benchmark Transition Event” means, with respect to any Benchmark, the occurrence of one or more of the following events with respect to such then-current
                Benchmark:

           

          (1) a public statement or publication of
                information by or on behalf of the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) announcing that such administrator has ceased or will cease to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark
                (or such component thereof), permanently or indefinitely; provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is
                no successor administrator that will continue to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof);

           

          (2) a public statement or publication of
                information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof), the Federal Reserve Board, the NYFRB, any other Relevant Governmental Body, an insolvency official with jurisdiction over the administrator for such
                Benchmark (or such component thereof), a resolution
                authority with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component thereof) or a court or an entity with similar insolvency or resolution authority over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component thereof), which states that the administrator of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) has ceased or will cease to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof)
                permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof); or

           

          
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          (3) a public statement or publication of
                information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) announcing that all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) are no longer representative.

           

          For the avoidance of doubt, a “Benchmark Transition Event” will be deemed to have occurred with respect to any Benchmark if a public
              statement or publication of information set forth above has occurred with respect to each then-current Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).

           

          “Benchmark Unavailability Period” means, with respect to any Benchmark, the period (if
                any) (x) beginning at the time that a Benchmark Replacement Date pursuant

                to clauses (1) or (2) of that definition has occurred if, at such time, no Benchmark Replacement has replaced such then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Facility
                Document in accordance with Section 2.18 and (y) ending at
                the time that a Benchmark Replacement has replaced such then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Facility Document in accordance with Section 2.18.

           

          “Corresponding Tenor” with respect to any Available Tenor means, as applicable, either a tenor (including overnight) or an interest payment period having approximately the same length (disregarding
              business day adjustment) as such Available Tenor.

           

          “Daily Simple SOFR” means, for any day, SOFR, with the conventions for this rate (which will include a lookback) being established by the Administrative Agent in accordance with the conventions for this rate selected or recommended by the
                Relevant Governmental Body for determining “Daily Simple SOFR” for business loans; provided, that if the Administrative Agent decides that any such convention is not administratively feasible for the Administrative
                Agent, then the Administrative Agent may establish another convention in its reasonable discretion.

           

          “Early Opt-in Election” means:

           

          (x)          in the case of Dollar Advances, the occurrence of:

           

          (1) a notification by the Administrative Agent to (or the request by the Borrower to the
                Administrative Agent to notify) each of the other parties hereto that at least five currently outstanding Dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities at such time contain (as a result of amendment or as originally executed) a SOFR-based
                rate (including SOFR, a term SOFR or any other rate based upon SOFR) as a benchmark rate (and such syndicated credit facilities are identified in such notice and are publicly available for review), and

           

          (2) the joint election by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower to trigger a fallback from LIBOR and
                the provision by the Administrative Agent of written notice of such election to the Lenders; and

           

          
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          (y)          in the case of Advances in an Available Currency other than Dollars, the occurrence of:

           

          (1) (i) a determination by the Administrative Agent or the Borrower or (ii) a notification by the
              Required Lenders to the Administrative Agent (with a copy to the Borrower) that the Required Lenders have determined that syndicated credit facilities denominated in the applicable Available Currency being executed at such time, or that
              include language similar to that contained in this Section 2.18 are being executed or amended, as applicable, to incorporate or adopt a new benchmark interest rate to replace the relevant Applicable Index, and

           

          (2) (i) the joint election by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower or (ii) the election by the
              Required Lenders to declare that an Early Opt-in Election has occurred and the provision, as applicable, by the Administrative Agent of written notice of such election to the Borrower and the Lenders or by the Required Lenders of written
              notice of such election to the Administrative Agent.

           

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

           

          “Financial Stability Board” means the Financial Stability Board established after the G20 London summit in April 2009 as a successor to the Financial Stability Forum.

           

          “Floor” means the benchmark rate floor, if any, provided in this Agreement initially (as of the execution of this Agreement, the modification, amendment or renewal of this Agreement or otherwise) with
              respect to the Applicable Index.

           

          “ISDA Definitions” means the 2006 ISDA Definitions published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. or any successor thereto, as amended or supplemented from time to time, or any
              successor definitional booklet for interest rate derivatives published from time to time by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. or such successor thereto.

           

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

           

          “NYFRB’s Website” means the website of the NYFRB at http://www.newyorkfed.org, or any successor source.

           

          “Reference Time” with respect to any setting of a then-current Benchmark means (1) if such Benchmark is EURIBOR or LIBOR, 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the day that is two Business Days preceding the
              date of such setting and (2) for any other Benchmark, the time determined by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion.

           

          “Relevant Governmental Body” means (1) with respect to a Benchmark Replacement in respect
                of Dollar Advances, the Federal Reserve Board and/or the NYFRB,
                or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the Federal Reserve Board and/or the NYFRB or, in each case, any successor thereto and (2) with respect to a Benchmark Replacement in respect of Advances in Available
                Currencies other than Dollars, (i) the central bank for the currency

                in which such Benchmark Replacement is denominated or any central bank or other supervisor which is responsible for supervising either (A) such
                Benchmark Replacement or (B) the administrator of such Benchmark Replacement or (ii) any working group or committee officially endorsed or convened by (A) the central bank for the currency in
                which such Benchmark Replacement is denominated, (B) any central bank or other supervisor that is responsible for supervising either (1) such Benchmark Replacement or (2) the administrator of such Benchmark
                Replacement, (C) a group of those central banks or other supervisors or (D) the Financial Stability Board or any part thereof.

           

          
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          “SOFR” means, with respect to any Business Day, a rate per annum equal to the secured overnight financing
                rate for such Business Day published by the SOFR Administrator on the SOFR Administrator’s Website at approximately 8:00 a.m. (New York City time) on
              the immediately succeeding Business Day.

           

          “SOFR Administrator” means the NYFRB (or a successor administrator of the secured
                overnight financing rate).

           

          “SOFR Administrator’s Website” means the NYFRB’s Website, currently at http://www.newyorkfed.org, or any successor source for the secured overnight financing rate identified as such by the SOFR Administrator from time to time.

           

          “Term SOFR” means, for the applicable Corresponding Tenor as of the applicable Reference Time, the

                forward-looking term rate based on SOFR that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body.

           

          “Term SOFR Notice” means a notification by the Administrative Agent to the Lenders and the Borrower of the occurrence of a Term SOFR Transition Event.

           

          “Term SOFR Transition Event” means the determination by the Administrative Agent that (a) Term SOFR has been recommended for use by the Relevant Governmental Body, (b) the administration of Term
              SOFR is administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent and (c) a Benchmark Transition Event or an Early Opt-in Election, as applicable, has previously occurred resulting in a Benchmark Replacement in accordance with Section
              2.18 that is not Term SOFR.

           

          “Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement” means the applicable Benchmark Replacement excluding the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment.

           

          ARTICLE III

            

            CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

           

          Section 3.01       Conditions Precedent to Initial Advance.  The obligation of each Lender to make its initial Advance hereunder shall be subject to the conditions precedent that the
            Administrative Agent shall have received on or before the Closing Date (unless otherwise specified) the following, each in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent:

           

          (a)        each of the Facility Documents (other than the Collateral Agent Fee Letter, which shall be delivered directly to the Collateral Agent) duly executed and delivered by the parties
            thereto, which shall each be in full force and effect;

           

          
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          (b)        true and complete copies of the Constituent Documents of the Borrower, the Equityholder and the Servicer as in effect on the Closing Date;

           

          (c)          a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower certifying (i) as to its Constituent Documents as of the Closing Date, (ii) as to its resolutions or other action of its
            designated manager approving this Agreement and the other Facility Documents to which it is a party and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, (iii) that its representations and warranties set forth in the Facility Documents to which
            it is a party are true and correct in all material respects as of the Closing Date (except to the extent such representations and warranties expressly relate to any earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties shall be true
            and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date), (iv) that no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing as of the Closing Date, and (v) as to the incumbency and specimen signature of each of its Responsible
            Officers as of the Closing Date authorized to execute the Facility Documents to which it is a party;

           

          (d)          [Reserved];

           

          (e)          [Reserved];

           

          (f)          a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Servicer certifying (i) as to its Constituent Documents as of the Closing Date, (ii) as to its resolutions or other action of its
            board of directors or members approving this Agreement and the other Facility Documents to which it is a party and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, (iii) that its representations and warranties set forth in the Facility
            Documents to which it is a party are true and correct in all material respects as of the Closing Date (except to the extent such representations and warranties expressly relate to any earlier date, in which case such representations and
            warranties shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date), and (iv) as to the incumbency and specimen signature of each of its Responsible Officers as of the Closing Date authorized to execute the Facility Documents
            to which it is a party;

           

          (g)         financing statements (or the equivalent thereof in any applicable foreign jurisdiction, as applicable) in proper form for filing on the Closing Date, under the UCC with the
            Secretary of State of the State of Delaware and any other applicable filing office in any applicable jurisdiction that the Administrative Agent deems necessary or desirable in order to perfect the interests in the Collateral contemplated by
            this Agreement;

           

          (h)          copies of proper financing statement amendments (or the equivalent thereof in any applicable foreign jurisdiction, as applicable), if any, necessary to release all security
            interests and other rights of any Person in the Collateral  granted by the Borrower, the Equityholder or any transferor prior to the Closing Date;

           

          (i)          legal opinions (addressed to each of the Secured Parties) of counsel to the Borrower, the Equityholder, the Servicer, the Collateral Agent and the Custodian, covering such matters
            as the Administrative Agent and its counsel shall reasonably request;

           

          (j)        evidence reasonably satisfactory to it that all of the Covered Accounts shall have been established, and the Account Control Agreement shall have been executed and delivered by the
            Borrower, the Collateral Agent and the Securities Intermediary and shall be in full force and effect;

           

          
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          (k)         evidence reasonably satisfactory to it that (i) all fees and expenses due and owing to each Lender on or prior to the Closing Date and the structuring fee payable under the BNP Fee
            Letter have been received or will be received contemporaneously with the initial Advance; (ii) the reasonable and documented fees and expenses of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, counsel to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, in
            connection with the transactions contemplated hereby; and (iii) the reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses and fees (including legal fees of outside counsel and any fees required under the Collateral Agent Fee Letter) that are, in the
            case of clauses (ii) and (iii), invoiced at least one Business Day prior to the making of the initial Advance, shall have been paid by the Borrower;

           

          (l)        delivery of such Collateral (including any promissory note, executed assignment agreements and Word or pdf copies of the principal credit agreement for each initial Collateral Loan,
            to the extent received by the Borrower) in accordance with the Custodian Agreement shall have been effected;

           

          (m)        a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, dated as of the Closing Date, certifying to the effect that, in the case of each item of Collateral pledged to the Collateral
            Agent, on the Closing Date and, in the case of clauses (i) through (iii) below, immediately prior to the delivery thereof on the Closing Date:

           

          (i)          the Borrower is the owner of such Collateral free and clear of any Liens except for those which are being released on the Closing Date or Permitted Liens;

           

          (ii)          the Borrower has not assigned, pledged or otherwise encumbered any interest in such Collateral (or, if any such interest has been assigned, pledged or otherwise
            encumbered, it has been released) other than Permitted Liens or interests granted pursuant to this Agreement; and

           

          (iii)       upon the grant by the Borrower, the Collateral Agent has a first priority perfected security interest in the Collateral, except Permitted Liens or as permitted by
            this Agreement; and

           

          (n)        such other opinions, instruments, certificates and documents from the Borrower as the Agents or any Lender shall have reasonably requested prior to the Closing Date.

           

          Section 3.02       Conditions Precedent to Each Advance.  The obligation of each Lender to make each Advance to be made by it (including the initial Advance) on each Borrowing Date
            shall be subject to the fulfillment (or waiver) of the following conditions; provided that the conditions described in clauses (d) and (e) (other than a Default or Event of Default described in Section 6.01(i)) below need not be
            satisfied if the proceeds of the Advance are used to fund Revolving Collateral Loans or Delayed Drawdown Collateral Loans then owned by the Borrower to fund the Revolving Reserve Account to the extent required under Section 8.04:

           

          
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          (a)          subject to Section 2.02, the Administrative Agent has received and approved an Approval Request for the Collateral Loan(s) the Borrower intends
              to purchase with the proceeds of such Advance or the Collateral Loan the Borrower intends to purchase with the proceeds of the Advance must be on the current Approved List; provided that, in each case, such approval has not expired,
              been withdrawn, been deemed to be rejected or been rescinded in accordance with Section 2.02;

           

          (b)         the Administrative Agent shall have received a Notice of Borrowing with respect to such Advance (including the Borrowing Base Calculation Statement attached thereto, all duly
            completed) delivered in accordance with Section 2.03;

           

          (c)          immediately before and after the making of such Advance on the applicable Borrowing Date, the Coverage Test shall be satisfied and each Class Minimum OC Coverage Test shall be
            satisfied (as demonstrated on the Borrowing Base Calculation Statement attached to such Notice of Borrowing) and the Collateral Quality Test will be satisfied, maintained or improved;

           

          (d)        each of the representations and warranties of the Borrower, the Servicer and the Equityholder contained in the Facility Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects
            as of such Borrowing Date (except to the extent such representations and warranties expressly relate to any earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier
            date as if made on such date);

           

          (e)        no Default, Event of Default, Potential Servicer Event of Default or Servicer Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of the making of such Advance or
            shall result upon the making of such Advance;

           

          (f)          the Reinvestment Period has not terminated;

           

          (g)          after giving effect to any Advance of an Available Currency not denominated in Dollars, the Foreign Currency Advance Amount shall not exceed the Non-Dollar Sublimit; and

           

          (h)          after giving effect to such Advance, the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate outstanding principal balance of the Advances shall not exceed the lesser of (x) an amount equal to the
            Dollar Equivalent of the Maximum Facility Amount and (y) an amount equal to the Dollar Equivalent of:

           

          (i)          the Aggregate Net Collateral Balance, minus

           

          (ii)          the Minimum Equity Amount, plus

           

          (iii)          the aggregate amounts on deposit in the Principal Collection Subaccount constituting Principal Proceeds.

           

          
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          ARTICLE IV

            

            REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

           

          Section 4.01       Representations and Warranties of the Borrower.  The Borrower represents and warrants to each of the Secured Parties on and as of each Measurement Date, as follows:

           

          (a)          Due Organization.  It is a limited liability company duly organized and validly existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with full power and authority to own and
            operate its assets and properties, conduct the business in which it is now engaged and to execute and deliver and perform its obligations under this Agreement and the other Facility Documents to which it is a party.

           

          (b)          Due Qualification.  It is duly qualified to do business and, to the extent applicable, is in good standing in each other jurisdiction in which the nature of its business,
            assets and properties, including the performance of its obligations under this Agreement, the other Facility Documents to which it is a party and its Constituent Documents, requires such qualification, except where the failure to be so
            qualified or in good standing could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

           

          (c)          Due Authorization; Execution and Delivery; Legal, Valid and Binding; Enforceability.  The execution and delivery by it of, and the performance of its obligations under, the
            Facility Documents to which it is a party and the other instruments, certificates and agreements contemplated thereby are within its powers and have been duly authorized by all requisite action by it and have been duly executed and delivered by
            it and constitute its legal, valid and binding obligations enforceable against it in accordance with their respective terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other
            similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally or general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.

           

          (d)          [Reserved.]

           

          (e)          Non-Contravention.  None of the execution and delivery by it of this Agreement or the other Facility Documents to which it is a party, the Advances or the pledge of the
            Collateral hereunder, the consummation of the transactions herein or therein contemplated, or compliance by it with the terms, conditions and provisions hereof or thereof, will (i) conflict with, or result in a breach or violation of, or
            constitute a default under its Constituent Documents or (ii) conflict with or contravene in any material respect, and with respect to clause (B), result in the creation of a Lien (other than Permitted Liens) under, (A) any Applicable Law,
            (B) any indenture, agreement or other contractual restriction binding on or affecting it or any of its assets, including any Related Document, or (C) any order, writ, judgment, award, injunction or decree binding on or affecting it or any of
            its assets or properties.

           

          
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          (f)          Governmental Authorizations; Private Authorizations; Governmental Filings.  It has obtained, maintained and kept in full force and effect all material Governmental
            Authorizations and material Private Authorizations which are necessary for it to properly carry out its business, and made all material Governmental Filings necessary for the execution and delivery by it of the Facility Documents to which it is
            a party, the Advances under this Agreement, the pledge of the Collateral under this Agreement and the performance by it of its obligations under this Agreement and the other Facility Documents to which it is a party.

           

          (g)          Compliance with Agreements, Laws, Etc.  It has duly observed and complied in all material respects with all Applicable Laws relating to the conduct of its business and its
            assets.  It has preserved and kept in full force and effect its legal existence.  It has preserved and kept in full force and effect its rights, privileges, qualifications and franchises, except where the failure to do so could not reasonably
            be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

           

          (h)          Location.  Its office in which it maintains its limited liability company books and records is located at the addresses set forth on Schedule 5.  Its registered office and
            jurisdiction of organization is the jurisdiction referred to in Section 4.01(a).

           

          (i)          Investment Company Act.  Assuming compliance by each of the Lenders and any Participant with Section 13.06, neither it nor the pool of Collateral is required to register as
            an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act.

           

          (j)          ERISA.  Neither it nor any member of the ERISA Group has, or during the past five years had, any liability or obligation with respect to any Plan or Multiemployer Plan that
            would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

           

          (k)          Taxes.  It is a disregarded entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes.  It has filed all income tax returns and all other material tax returns which are required to be
            filed by it, if any, and has paid all income taxes and all other material taxes shown to be due and payable on such returns, if any, or pursuant to any assessment received by any such Person other than any such taxes, assessments or charges
            that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which appropriate reserves in accordance with GAAP have been established.

           

          (l)          Filings and Stamp Taxes.  This Agreement is in proper legal form under the applicable law of the jurisdiction of incorporation or formation of the Borrower for the
            enforcement hereof or thereof against the Borrower, and to ensure legality, validity, enforceability, priority or admissibility in evidence of this Agreement it is not necessary that (i) this Agreement, or any other document be filed,
            registered or recorded with, or executed or notarized before, any court or other authority in the jurisdiction of incorporation or formation of the Borrower or (ii) that any registration charge or stamp or similar tax be paid in any
            jurisdiction on or in respect of this Agreement or any other document.

           

          (m)         Plan Assets.  Its assets are not treated and during the term of this Agreement will not be treated as “plan assets” for purposes of 29 C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101 and
            Section 3(42) of ERISA (the “Plan Asset Rule”) and the Collateral is not and during the term of this Agreement will not be deemed to be “plan assets” for purposes of the Plan Asset Rule.

           

          (n)         Solvency.  After giving effect to each Advance hereunder, and the disbursement of the proceeds of such Advance, it is and will be Solvent.

           

          
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          (o)        Representations Relating to the Collateral.  (1) It owns and has good and marketable legal and beneficial title to all Collateral Loans and other Collateral free and clear of
            any Lien or claim of any Person, other than Permitted Liens;

           

          (ii)         except for Permitted Liens or as contemplated by the Facility Documents, it has not pledged, assigned, sold, granted a security interest in, or otherwise
            conveyed any of the Collateral.  It has not authorized the filing of and is not aware of any financing statements or any equivalent filing in any applicable jurisdiction against it that include a description of collateral covering the
            Collateral other than any financing statement or any equivalent filing in any applicable jurisdiction relating to the security interest granted to the Collateral Agent hereunder or that has been terminated; and it is not aware of any judgment,
            PBGC liens or tax lien filings against it or any of its assets;

           

          (iii)         the Collateral constitutes Money, cash, accounts (as defined in Section 9-102(a)(2) of the UCC), Instruments, general intangibles (as defined in
            Section 9-102(a)(42) of the UCC), Uncertificated Securities, Certificated Securities or Security Entitlements to Financial Assets resulting from the crediting of Financial Assets to a “securities account” (as defined in Section 8-501(a) of the
            UCC);

           

          (iv)        all Covered Accounts constitute “deposit accounts” as defined in Section 9-102(a)(29) of the UCC, or “securities accounts” under Section 8-501(a) of the UCC;

           

          (v)       this Agreement creates a valid, continuing and, upon Delivery of Collateral, filing of the financing statements referred to in clause (viii) below and execution of
            the Account Control Agreement, perfected security interest (as defined in Section 1-201(37) of the UCC) in the Collateral in favor of the Collateral Agent, for the benefit and security of the Secured Parties, which security interest is prior to
            all other Liens (other than Permitted Liens) and claims and is enforceable as such against creditors of and purchasers from it, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other
            similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally or general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law;

           

          (vi)       it has received all consents and approvals required by the terms of the Related Documents in respect of such Collateral to the pledge hereunder to the Collateral
            Agent of its interest and rights in such Collateral;

           

          (vii)       with respect to the Collateral that constitutes Security Entitlements, all such Collateral has been and will have been credited to the applicable Covered Account
            and the Securities Intermediary for each Covered Account has agreed to treat all assets credited to such Covered Account as Financial Assets;

           

          (viii)      with respect to Collateral that constitutes accounts or general intangibles (as defined in Section 9-102(a)(42) of the UCC), it has caused or will have caused, on
            or prior to the Closing Date, the filing of all appropriate financing statements in the proper filing office in the appropriate jurisdictions under Applicable Law in order to perfect the security interest in the Collateral granted to the
            Collateral Agent, for the benefit and security of the Secured Parties, hereunder (which it hereby agrees may be an “all assets” filing);

           

          
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          (ix)        it has taken all steps necessary to enable the Collateral Agent to obtain “control” (within the meaning of the UCC) with respect to each Covered Account;

           

          (x)          the Covered Accounts are in its name and not in the name of any other Person.  It has not instructed the Securities Intermediary of any Covered Account to comply
            with the entitlement order of any Person other than the Collateral Agent; provided that, until the Collateral Agent delivers a notice of exclusive control, it and the Servicer may cause cash in the Covered Accounts to be invested in
            Eligible Investments, and the proceeds thereof to be paid and distributed in accordance with this Agreement; and

           

          (xi)         all Covered Accounts constitute “securities accounts” as defined in Section 8-501(a) of the UCC.

           

          (p)        Eligibility.  (i) The information contained in each Notice of Borrowing delivered pursuant to Section 2.03, is an accurate and complete listing of all Collateral Loans
            included in the Collateral as of the related Borrowing Date and the information contained therein with respect to the identity of such Collateral Loan and the amounts owing thereunder is true, correct and complete as of the related Borrowing
            Date and (ii) with respect to each Collateral Loan included in any calculation of the Borrowing Base or OC Ratio, such Collateral Loan is an Eligible Collateral Loan at such time; provided that, notwithstanding anything to contrary
            contained herein, to the extent any such Collateral Loan is repurchased or otherwise removed from the Borrowing Base pursuant to the Loan Sale Agreement, then no such breach of the foregoing clause (ii) shall constitute an Event of Default or
            other breach of this Agreement.

           

          (q)          Anti-Corruption Laws and Anti-Terrorism Laws.  None of the Borrower, its subsidiaries, their respective directors or officers, or, to the best knowledge of the Borrower,
            their respective agents or employees or its Affiliates, has engaged in any activity or conduct which would violate any applicable anti-bribery, anti-corruption, anti-terrorism or anti-money laundering laws, regulations or rules in any
            applicable jurisdiction and the Borrower and its Affiliates have instituted and maintain policies and procedures designed to prevent violation of such laws, regulations and rules.

           

          (r)         Sanctions.  None of the Borrower, its subsidiaries, their respective directors or officers, or, to the best knowledge of the Borrower, their respective agents or employees
            or its Affiliates, is a Person that is, or is owned or controlled by Persons that are:  (i) the target of any Sanctions (a “Sanctioned Person”) or (ii) located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is, or whose government
            is, the subject of Sanctions broadly prohibiting dealings with such government, country, or territory (a “Sanctioned Country”).

           

          (s)         No Default.  Neither it nor any of its subsidiaries is in default under or with respect to any contractual obligation or restriction that could, individually or in the
            aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

           

          (t)          No Proceedings.  There is no litigation, proceeding or investigation pending or, to its knowledge, threatened against it before any Governmental Authority (i) asserting the
            invalidity of any Facility Document to which it is a party, (ii) seeking to prevent the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by any Facility Document to which it is a party or (iii) that could reasonably be expected to have a
            Material Adverse Effect.

           

          
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          (u)       Information.  All information (other than financial projections, pro forma financial information, other forward-looking information, information of a general economic or
            general industry nature and all third party memos or reports) heretofore or hereafter furnished by it or on its behalf to any Secured Party in connection with the Facility Documents or any transaction contemplated hereby or thereby is and will
            be (when taken as a whole and after giving effect to all written updates provided by the Borrower or on its behalf to the Administrative Agent for delivery to the Lenders from time to time) true, complete and correct in all material respects as
            of the date such information is stated or certified and does not and will not (when taken as a whole and after giving effect to all written updates provided by the Borrower or on its behalf to the Administrative Agent for delivery to the
            Lenders from time to time) omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements contained therein not misleading; provided that solely with respect to information furnished by the Borrower or on its behalf which was provided
            to the Borrower from an Obligor with respect to a Collateral Loan, such information  only needs to be true, complete and correct in all material respects to the actual knowledge of the Borrower; provided further that, with
            respect to financial projections, pro forma financial information and other forward-looking information that has been delivered to the Administrative Agent or any Lender by the Borrower or on its behalf in connection with the transactions
            contemplated by this Agreement or delivered under any Facility Document, the Borrower represents only that such information represents the Borrower’s good faith estimates as of the date of preparation thereof, based upon assumptions the
            Borrower and, if applicable, the Equityholder believed to be reasonable and accurate at the time made, it being recognized by the Agents and the Lenders that such projections are as to future events and are not to be viewed as facts, the
            projections are subject to significant uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are beyond the control of the Borrower and any of its Affiliates, that no assurance can be given that any particular projections will be realized and that
            actual results during the period or periods covered by such projections may differ from such projections and such differences may be material.

           

          (v)         Procedures.  In selecting and disposing of the Collateral, no selection procedures were employed which are intended to be adverse to the interests of any Secured Party.

           

          (w)         [Reserved].

           

          (x)        Set-Off, Etc.  No Collateral Loan has been compromised, adjusted, extended, satisfied, subordinated, rescinded, set-off or modified by the Borrower, the Equityholder or the
            Obligor thereof, and no Collateral Loan is subject to compromise, adjustment, extension, satisfaction, subordination, rescission, set–off, counterclaim, defense, abatement, suspension, deferment, deduction, reduction, termination or
            modification, whether arising out of transactions concerning such Collateral Loan or otherwise, by the Borrower, the Equityholder or the Obligor with respect thereto, except for amendments, extensions or modifications to such Collateral Loan
            otherwise permitted under Section 11.04(b) and in accordance with the Servicing Standard.

           

          
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          Section 4.02          Representations and Warranties of the Servicer.  The Servicer represents and warrants to each of the other Secured Parties on and as of each Measurement Date, as
            follows:

           

          (a)        Due Organization.  It is a corporation duly incorporated and, in each case, validly existing under the laws of the State of Maryland, with full power and authority to own and
            operate its assets and properties, conduct the business in which it is now engaged and to execute and deliver and perform its obligations under this Agreement and the other Facility Documents to which it is a party.

           

          (b)          Due Qualification.  It is duly qualified to do business and, to the extent applicable, is in good standing in each other jurisdiction in which the nature of its business,
            assets and properties, including the performance of its obligations under this Agreement, the other Facility Documents to which it is a party and its Constituent Documents, requires such qualification, except where the failure to be so
            qualified or in good standing could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

           

          (c)          Due Authorization; Execution and Delivery; Legal, Valid and Binding; Enforceability.  The execution and delivery by it of, and the performance of its obligations under the
            Facility Documents to which it is a party and the other instruments, certificates and agreements contemplated thereby are within its powers and have been duly authorized by all requisite action by it and have been duly executed and delivered by
            it and constitute its legal, valid and binding obligations enforceable against it in accordance with their respective terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other
            similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally or general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.

           

          (d)          [Reserved].

           

          (e)          Non-Contravention.  None of the execution and delivery by it of this Agreement or the other Facility Documents to which it is a party, the consummation of the transactions
            herein or therein contemplated, or compliance by it with the terms, conditions and provisions hereof or thereof, will (i) conflict with, or result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under its Constituent Documents or
            (ii) conflict with or contravene in any material respect, and with respect to clause (B), result in the creation of a Lien (other than Permitted Liens) under, (A) any Applicable Law, (B) any indenture, agreement or other contractual restriction
            binding on or affecting it or any of its assets, including any Related Document, or (C) any order, writ, judgment, award, injunction or decree binding on or affecting it or any of its assets or properties, except, in the case of clauses (A),
            (B) and (C) above, where such conflict, contravention, breach, violation or default could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

           

          (f)          Governmental Authorizations; Private Authorizations; Governmental Filings.  It has obtained, maintained and kept in full force and effect all material Governmental
            Authorizations and material Private Authorizations which are necessary for it to properly carry out its business, and made all material Governmental Filings necessary for the execution and delivery by it of the Facility Documents to which it is
            a party and the performance by it of its obligations under this Agreement and the other Facility Documents to which it is a party.

           

          
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          (g)         Compliance with Agreements, Laws, Etc.  It has duly observed and complied in all material respects with all Applicable Laws relating to the conduct of its business and its
            assets.  It has preserved and kept in full force and effect its legal existence.  It has preserved and kept in full force and effect its rights, privileges, qualifications and franchises, except where the failure to do so would not reasonably
            be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

           

          (h)          [Reserved].

           

          (i)          Taxes.  It has filed all income tax returns and all other material tax returns which are required to be filed by it, if any, and has paid all income taxes and all other
            material taxes shown to be due and payable on such returns, if any, or pursuant to any assessment received by any such Person other than any such taxes, assessments or charges that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings
            and for which appropriate reserves in accordance with GAAP have been established.

           

          (j)          [Reserved].

           

          (k)          Anti-Corruption Laws and Anti-Terrorism Laws.  None of the Servicer, its subsidiaries, their respective directors or officers, or, to the best knowledge of the Servicer,
            their respective agents or employees or its Affiliates, has engaged in any activity or conduct which would violate any applicable anti-bribery, anti-corruption, anti-terrorism or anti-money laundering laws, regulations or rules in any
            applicable jurisdiction and the Servicer and its Affiliates have instituted and maintain policies and procedures designed to prevent violation of such laws, regulations and rules.

           

          (l)          Sanctions.  None of the Servicer, its subsidiaries, their respective directors or officers, or, to the best knowledge of the Servicer, their respective agents or employees
            or its Affiliates, is a Person that is, or is owned or controlled by Persons that are:  (i) a Sanctioned Person or (ii) located, organized or resident in a Sanctioned Country.

           

          (m)         [Reserved].

           

          (n)          No Proceedings.  There is no litigation, proceeding or investigation pending or, to its knowledge, threatened against it before any Governmental Authority (i) asserting the
            invalidity of any Facility Document to which it is a party, (ii) seeking to prevent the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by any Facility Document to which it is a party or (iii) that could reasonably be expected to have a
            Material Adverse Effect.

           

          
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          (o)       Information.  All information (other than financial projections, pro forma financial information, other forward-looking information, information of a general economic or
            general industry nature and all third party memos or reports) heretofore or hereafter furnished by it or on its behalf to any Secured Party in connection with the Facility Documents or any transaction contemplated hereby or thereby is and will
            be (when taken as a whole and after giving effect to all written updates provided by the Servicer or on its behalf to the Administrative Agent for delivery to the Lenders from time to time) true, complete and correct in all material respects as
            of the date such information is stated or certified and does not and will not (when taken as a whole and after giving effect to all written updates provided by the Servicer or on its behalf to the Administrative Agent for delivery to the
            Lenders from time to time) omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements contained therein not misleading; provided that solely with respect to information furnished by the Servicer or on its behalf which was provided
            to the Servicer from an Obligor with respect to a Collateral Loan, such information only needs to be true, complete and correct in all material respects to the actual knowledge of the Servicer; provided further that, with respect
            to financial projections, pro forma financial information and other forward-looking information that has been delivered to the Administrative Agent or any Lender by the Servicer or on its behalf in connection with the transactions contemplated
            by this Agreement or delivered under any Facility Document, the Servicer represents only that such information represents the Servicer’s good faith estimates as of the date of preparation thereof, based upon assumptions the Servicer and, if
            applicable, the Equityholder believed to be reasonable and accurate at the time made, it being recognized by the Agents and the Lenders that such projections are as to future events and are not to be viewed as facts, the projections are subject
            to significant uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are beyond the control of the Servicer and any of its Affiliates, that no assurance can be given that any particular projections will be realized and that actual results during the
            period or periods covered by such projections may differ  from such projections and such differences may be material.

           

          (p)        Procedures.  In selecting and disposing of the Collateral, no selection procedures were employed which are intended to be adverse to the interests of any Secured Party.

           

          Section 4.03      Representations and Warranties of the Equityholder.  The Equityholder represents and warrants to each of the other Secured Parties on and as of each Measurement Date,
            as follows:

           

          (a)          Due Organization.  It is a corporation duly incorporated validly existing under the laws of the State of Maryland, with full power and authority to own and operate its
            assets and properties, conduct the business in which it is now engaged and to execute and deliver and perform its obligations under this Agreement and the other Facility Documents to which it is a party.

           

          (b)         Due Qualification.  It is duly qualified to do business and, to the extent applicable, is in good standing in each other jurisdiction in which the nature of its business,
            assets and properties, including the performance of its obligations under this Agreement, the other Facility Documents to which it is a party and its Constituent Documents, requires such qualification, except where the failure to be so
            qualified or in good standing could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

           

          (c)         Due Authorization; Execution and Delivery; Legal, Valid and Binding; Enforceability.  The execution and delivery by it of, and the performance of its obligations under the
            Facility Documents to which it is a party and the other instruments, certificates and agreements contemplated thereby are within its powers and have been duly authorized by all requisite action by it and have been duly executed and delivered by
            it and constitute its legal, valid and binding obligations enforceable against it in accordance with their respective terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other
            similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally or general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.

           

          
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          (d)          Investment Company Act.  It (i) is not required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act, and (ii) has elected to be treated a business
            development corporation for purposes of the Investment Company Act.

           

          (e)          Non-Contravention.  None of the execution and delivery by it of this Agreement or the other Facility Documents to which it is a party, the consummation of the transactions
            herein or therein contemplated, or compliance by it with the terms, conditions and provisions hereof or thereof, will (i) conflict with, or result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under its Constituent Documents or
            (ii) conflict with or contravene in any material respect, and with respect to clause (B), result in the creation of a Lien (other than Permitted Liens) under, (A) any Applicable Law, (B) any indenture, agreement or other contractual restriction
            binding on or affecting it or any of its assets, including any Related Document, or (C) any order, writ, judgment, award, injunction or decree binding on or affecting it or any of its assets or properties, except, in the case of clauses (A),
            (B) and (C) above, where such conflict, contravention, breach, violation or default could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

           

          (f)          Governmental Authorizations; Private Authorizations; Governmental Filings.  It has obtained, maintained and kept in full force and effect all material Governmental
            Authorizations and material Private Authorizations which are necessary for it to properly carry out its business, and made all material Governmental Filings necessary for the execution and delivery by it of the Facility Documents to which it is
            a party and the performance by it of its obligations under this Agreement and the other Facility Documents to which it is a party.

           

          (g)         Compliance with Agreements, Laws, Etc.  It has duly observed and complied in all material respects with all Applicable Laws relating to the conduct of its business and its
            assets.  It has preserved and kept in full force and effect its legal existence.  It has preserved and kept in full force and effect its rights, privileges, qualifications and franchises, except where the failure to do so could not reasonably
            be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

           

          (h)          [Reserved].

           

          (i)          Taxes.  It has filed all income tax returns and all other material tax returns which are required to be filed by it, if any, and has paid all income taxes and all other
            material taxes shown to be due and payable on such returns, if any, or pursuant to any assessment received by any such Person other than any such taxes, assessments or charges that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings
            and for which appropriate reserves in accordance with GAAP have been established.

           

          (j)          Anti-Corruption Laws and Anti-Terrorism Laws.  None of the Equityholder, its subsidiaries, their respective directors or officers, or, to the best knowledge of the
            Equityholder, their respective agents or employees or its Affiliates, has engaged in any activity or conduct which would violate any applicable anti-bribery, anti-corruption, anti-terrorism or anti-money laundering laws, regulations or rules in
            any applicable jurisdiction and the Equityholder and its Affiliates have instituted and maintain policies and procedures designed to prevent violation of such laws, regulations and rules.

           

          
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          (k)        Sanctions.  None of the Equityholder, its subsidiaries, their respective directors or officers, or, to the best knowledge of the Equityholder, their respective agents or
            employees or its Affiliates, is a Person that is, or is owned or controlled by Persons that are:  (i) a Sanctioned Person or (ii) located, organized or resident in a Sanctioned Country.

           

          (l)          No Default. Neither it nor any of its subsidiaries is in default under or with respect to any contractual obligation or restriction that could, individually or in the
            aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

           

          (m)        No Proceedings.  There is no litigation, proceeding or investigation pending or, to its knowledge, threatened against it before any Governmental Authority (i) asserting the
            invalidity of any Facility Document to which it is a party, (ii) seeking to prevent the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by any Facility Document to which it is a party or (iii) that could reasonably be expected to have a
            Material Adverse Effect.

           

          (n)       Information. All information (other than financial projections, pro forma financial information, other forward-looking information, information of a general economic or
            general industry nature and all third party memos or reports) heretofore or hereafter furnished by it or on its behalf to any Secured Party in connection with the Facility Documents or any transaction contemplated hereby or thereby is and will
            be (when taken as a whole and after giving effect to all written updates provided by the Equityholder or on its behalf to the Administrative Agent for delivery to the Lenders from time to time) true, complete and correct in all material
            respects as of the date such information is stated or certified and does not and will not (when taken as a whole and after giving effect to all written updates provided by the Equityholder or on its behalf to the Administrative Agent for
            delivery to the Lenders from time to time) omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements contained therein not misleading; provided that solely with respect to information furnished by the Equityholder or on its behalf
            which was provided to the Equityholder from an Obligor with respect to a Collateral Loan, such information only needs to be true, complete and correct in all material respects to the actual knowledge of the Equityholder; provided further
            that, with respect to financial projections, pro forma financial information and other forward-looking information that has been delivered to the Administrative Agent or any Lender by the Equityholder or on its behalf in connection with the
            transactions contemplated by this Agreement or delivered under any Facility Document, the Equityholder represents only that such information represents the Equityholder’s good faith estimates as of the date of preparation thereof, based upon
            assumptions the Equityholder believed to be reasonable and accurate at the time made, it being recognized by the Agents and the Lenders that such projections are as to future events and are not to be viewed as facts, the projections are subject
            to significant uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are beyond the control of the Equityholder and any of its Affiliates, that no assurance can be given that any particular projections will be realized and that actual results during
            the period or periods covered by such projections may differ from such projections and such differences may be material.

           

          (o)          [Reserved].

           

          
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          (p)          Establishment.  It has established the securitisation contemplated by the Facility Documents.

           

          (q)          Sole purpose. It (i) is not an entity that has been established or operates for the sole purpose of securitising exposures and (ii) has the capacity to meet its payment
            obligations from resources not related to the exposures it securitises.

           

          (r)         Collateral Loans.  More than 50% of the Collateral Loans held by the Borrower are Retention Holder Originated Collateral Loans.

           

          ARTICLE V

            

            COVENANTS

           

          Section 5.01          Affirmative Covenants of the Borrower.  The Borrower covenants and agrees that, until the Collection Date:

           

          (a)          Compliance with Agreements, Laws, Etc.  It shall (i) duly observe and comply in all material respects with all Applicable Laws relative to the conduct of its business or to
            its assets, (ii) preserve and keep in full force and effect its legal existence, (iii) preserve and keep in full force and effect its rights, privileges, qualifications and franchises, except where the failure to do so could not reasonably be
            expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (iv) comply with the terms and conditions of each Facility Document to which it is a party, its Constituent Documents and each Related Document to which it is a party and (v) obtain, maintain and
            keep in full force and effect all Governmental Authorizations, Private Authorizations and Governmental Filings which are necessary to properly carry out its business and the transactions contemplated to be performed by it under the Facility
            Documents to which it is a party, its Constituent Documents and the Related Documents to which it is a party, except, in the case of this clause (v), where the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

           

          (b)        Enforcement. It shall not take any action that would release any Obligor from any of such Obligor’s material covenants or obligations under any instrument or agreement
            included in the Collateral, except in the case of (A) repayment of Collateral Loans, (B) subject to the terms of this Agreement, (1) amendments to Collateral Loans in accordance with the Servicing Standard and (2) actions taken in connection
            with the work out or restructuring of any Collateral Loan in accordance with the provisions hereof, and (C) other actions by the Servicer required hereby or otherwise to the extent not prohibited by, or in conflict with, this Agreement.

           

          (c)       Further Assurances.  It shall promptly upon the reasonable request of either Agent or the Required Lenders (through the Administrative Agent), at its expense, execute and
            deliver such further instruments and take such further action in order to maintain and protect the Collateral Agent’s first-priority (subject to Permitted Liens) perfected security interest in the Collateral pledged by the Borrower for the
            benefit of the Secured Parties free and clear of any Liens (other than Permitted Liens).  At the reasonable request of either Agent or the Required Lenders (through the Administrative Agent), it shall promptly take, at the Borrower’s expense,
            such further action in order to establish and protect the rights, interests and remedies created or intended to be created under this Agreement in favor of the Secured Parties in the Collateral, including all actions which are necessary to
            (x) enable the Secured Parties to enforce their rights and remedies under this Agreement and the other Facility Documents, and (y) effectuate the intent and purpose of, and to carry out the terms of, the Facility Documents.

           

          
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          (d)          Financial Statements; Other Information.  It shall provide to the Administrative Agent or cause to be provided to the Administrative Agent (with enough additional copies for
            each Lender):

           

          (i)         if requested by the Administrative Agent, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Equityholder, a copy of the audited consolidated balance sheet
            of the Equityholder and its consolidated subsidiaries as at the end of such year, the related consolidated statements of income for such year and the related consolidated statements of changes in net assets and of cash flows for such year,
            setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous year; provided, that the financial statements required to be delivered pursuant to this clause (i) which are made available via EDGAR, or any successor system
            of the Securities Exchange Commission, in the Equityholder’s annual report on Form 10-K, shall be deemed delivered to the Administrative Agent on the date such documents are made so available;

           

          (ii)         if requested by the Administrative Agent, within 45 days after the end of each fiscal quarter of each fiscal year (other than the last fiscal quarter of each
            fiscal year), an unaudited consolidated balance sheet of the Equityholder and its consolidated subsidiaries as of the end of such fiscal quarter and including the prior comparable period (if any), and the unaudited consolidated statements of
            income of the Equityholder and its consolidated subsidiaries for such fiscal quarter and for the period commencing at the end of the previous fiscal year and ending with the end of such fiscal quarter, and the unaudited consolidated statements
            of cash flows of the Equityholder and its consolidated subsidiaries for the period commencing at the end of the previous fiscal year and ending with the end of such fiscal quarter; provided, that the financial statements required to be
            delivered pursuant to this clause (ii) which are made available via EDGAR, or any successor system of the Securities Exchange Commission, in the Equityholder’s quarterly report on Form 10-Q, shall be deemed delivered to the Administrative Agent
            on the date such documents are made so available;

           

          (iii)      within three Business Days after a Responsible Officer of the Borrower obtains actual knowledge of the occurrence and continuance of any (A) Default  (provided
            that if any such Default is subsequently cured within the time period provided for herein, the failure to provide notice of such Default shall not itself constitute an Event of Default hereunder), (B) Event of Default, (C) event or occurrence
            that has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (D) Revaluation Event, (E) receipt of notice from the agent on a Collateral Loan that the related Obligor has defaulted (beyond applicable grace periods)
            in the payment of principal or interest or (F) Collateral Loan that ceases to be an Eligible Collateral Loan, a certificate of a Responsible Officer setting forth the details thereof and the action which the Borrower is taking or proposes to
            take with respect thereto;

           

          
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          (iv)       from time to time such additional information regarding the Borrower’s financial position or business and the Collateral (including reasonably detailed
            calculations of the Coverage Test and the Collateral Quality Test) as the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders (through the Administrative Agent) may reasonably request if reasonably available without undue burden or expense;

           

          (v)        promptly after the occurrence of any ERISA Event, notice of such ERISA Event and copies of any communications with all Governmental Authorities or any
            Multiemployer Plan with respect to such ERISA Event;

           

          (vi)         promptly following any reasonable request by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, all documentation and other information that the Administrative Agent or
            such Lender requests in order to comply with its ongoing obligations under applicable “know your customer,” anti-money laundering and sanctions rules and regulations, including the PATRIOT Act;

           

          (vii)       within three Business Days after a Responsible Officer of the Borrower obtains actual knowledge thereof, provide notice to the Administrative Agent of any
            settlement of, material judgment (including a material judgment with respect to the liability phase of a bifurcated trial) in or commencement of any material labor controversy, material litigation, material action, material suit or material
            proceeding before any court or governmental department, commission, board, bureau, agency or instrumentality, domestic or foreign, directly affecting in any material respect the Collateral (taken as a whole), the Facility Documents, or any
            Secured Party’s interest in the Collateral; and

           

          (viii)      with respect to each Obligor of a Collateral Loan, subject to any confidentiality obligations: (1) within ten (10) Business Days of the completion of the
            Servicer’s portfolio review of such Obligor (which, for each Obligor shall occur no less frequently than four (4) times per calendar year) (I) the most recent financial reporting packages available to the Servicer that correspond to such
            portfolio review with respect to such Obligor and with respect to each related Collateral Loan (including any attached or included information, statements and calculations) received as of the date of the Servicer’s most recent portfolio review
            and (II) if requested by the Administrative Agent, the internal monitoring report prepared by the Servicer with respect to each Obligor and (2) within ten (10) Business Days of demand by the Administrative Agent, such other information as the
            Administrative Agent may reasonably request with respect to any Collateral Loan or Obligor (to the extent reasonably available to the Servicer and subject to any confidentiality obligations).

           

          (e)         Access to Records and Documents.  It shall permit the Administrative Agent (or any Person designated by the Administrative Agent as its agent or representative, subject to
            delivery of standard confidentiality agreements) to, upon reasonable advance notice and during normal business hours, visit and inspect and make copies thereof at reasonable intervals: (i) its books, records and accounts relating to its
            business, financial condition, operations, assets and its performance under the Facility Documents and the Related Documents and to discuss the foregoing with its and such Person’s officers, partners, employees and accountants, and (ii) the
            Related Documents with respect to the Collateral; provided that, so long as no Event of Default has occurred, the Borrower shall be responsible for all costs and expenses for only one such visit per fiscal year pursuant to either this
            Section 5.01(e) or Section 5.02(e) by the Lenders and the Administrative Agent; provided further that a designee selected by the Servicer shall have the right to be present during any meeting with outside accountants.  The
            Administrative Agent shall be permitted to schedule such visits on behalf of the Lenders and shall (1) coordinate in good faith with the Lenders to determine dates which are acceptable to a majority of the Lenders and whenever possible occur on
            one such date as a single group and (2) provide 10 days’ prior notice to the Lenders of any such visit and any Lender shall be permitted to accompany the Administrative Agent in such visit.

           

          
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          (f)          Use of Proceeds.  It shall use the proceeds of each Advance made hereunder solely:

           

          (i)          to fund or pay the purchase price of Collateral Loans or Eligible Investments acquired by the Borrower in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth
            herein (it being understood that the Borrower may request an Advance to fund the applicable Advance Rate of one or more Collateral Loans either on the date of acquisition or at a later time during the Reinvestment Period pursuant to
            Article II);

           

          (ii)          to fund additional extensions of credit under Revolving Collateral Loans and Delayed Drawdown Collateral Loans purchased in accordance with the terms of this
            Agreement;

           

          (iii)        to fund the Revolving Reserve Account on or prior to the Facility Termination Date to the extent the Revolving Reserve Account is required to be funded pursuant
            to Section 8.04 (and the Borrower shall submit a Notice of Borrowing requesting an Advance on a Borrowing Date falling no more than five and no less than one Business Day prior to the Facility Termination Date with a Requested Amount sufficient
            to fully fund the Revolving Reserve Account under Section 8.04); and

           

          (iv)         to make Permitted Distributions or Permitted RIC Distributions.

           

          Without limiting the foregoing, it shall use the proceeds of each Advance in a manner that does not, directly or indirectly, violate any provision of its Constituent Documents or any Applicable
            Law, including Regulation T, Regulation U and Regulation X.

           

          (g)        Information and Reports.  Each Notice of Borrowing, each Monthly Report, each Payment Date Report and all other written information, reports, certificates and statements
            furnished by or on behalf of it to any Secured Party for purposes of or in connection with this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby (other than financial projections, pro forma financial
            information, other forward-looking information, information of a general economic or general industry nature and all third party memos or reports) shall be (when taken as a whole and after giving effect to all written updates provided by the
            Borrower or on its behalf to the Administrative Agent for delivery to the Lenders from time to time) true, complete and correct in all material respects as of the date such information is stated or certified; provided that solely with
            respect to information furnished by the Borrower which was provided to the Borrower from an Obligor with respect to a Collateral Loan, such information shall only need to be true, complete and correct to the actual knowledge of the Borrower; provided further
            that, with respect to financial projections, pro forma financial information and other forward-looking information that has been delivered to the Administrative Agent or any Lender by the Borrower or on its behalf in connection with the
            transactions contemplated by this Agreement or delivered under any Facility Document, the Borrower represents only that such information represents the Borrower’s good faith estimates as of the date of preparation thereof, based upon
            assumptions the Borrower and, if applicable, the Equityholder believed to be reasonable and accurate at the time made, it being recognized by the Agents and the Lenders that such projections are as to future events and are not to be viewed as
            facts, the projections are subject to significant uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are beyond the control of the Borrower and any of its Affiliates, that no assurance can be given that any particular projections will be realized
            and that actual results during the period or periods covered by such projections may differ from such projections and such differences may be material.

           

          
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          (h)         Opinions as to Collateral.  On or before each five year anniversary of the Closing Date, at the request of the Administrative Agent, it shall furnish to the Agents an
            opinion of counsel addressed to the Agents and the Borrower relating to the continued perfection of the security interest granted by the Borrower to the Collateral Agent hereunder.

           

          (i)          No Other Business.  It shall not engage in any business or activity other than borrowing Advances pursuant to this Agreement, funding, acquiring, owning, holding,
            administering, selling, enforcing, lending, exchanging, redeeming, pledging, contracting for the management of and otherwise dealing with Collateral Loans, Eligible Investments and the Collateral in connection therewith and entering into and
            performing its obligations under the Facility Documents, any applicable Related Documents and any other agreement contemplated by this Agreement.

           

          (j)           Tax Matters.  It shall remain a disregarded entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

           

          (k)        Compliance with Legal Opinions.  The Borrower shall take all other actions necessary to maintain the accuracy of the factual assumptions set forth in the legal opinions of
            Dechert LLP, as special counsel to the Borrower, issued on the Closing Date and relating to the issues of substantive consolidation.

           

          Section 5.02        Covenants of the Servicer.  The Servicer covenants and agrees that, until the Collection Date:

           

          (a)         Compliance with Agreements, Laws, Etc.  It shall (i) duly observe and comply in all material respects with all Applicable Laws relative to the conduct of its business or to
            its assets, (ii) preserve and keep in full force and effect its legal existence, (iii) preserve and keep in full force and effect its rights, privileges, qualifications and franchises, except where the failure to do so could not reasonably be
            expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (iv) comply with the terms and conditions of each Facility Document to which it is a party and its Constituent Documents and (v) obtain, maintain and keep in full force and effect all
            Governmental Authorizations, Private Authorizations and Governmental Filings which are necessary to properly carry out its business and the transactions contemplated to be performed by it under the Facility Documents to which it is a party and
            its Constituent Documents, except, in the case of this clause (v), where the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

           

          
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          (b)        Enforcement.  It shall not take any action that would release any Obligor from any of such Obligor’s covenants or obligations under any instrument or agreement included in
            the Collateral, except in the case of (A) repayment of Collateral Loans, (B) subject to the terms of this Agreement, (1) amendments to Collateral Loans in accordance with the Servicing Standard and (2) actions taken in connection with the work
            out or restructuring of any Collateral Loan in accordance with the provisions hereof, and (C) other actions by the Servicer required hereby or otherwise to the extent not prohibited by, or in conflict with, this Agreement.

           

          (c)       Further Assurances.  It shall promptly upon the reasonable request of either Agent or the Required Lenders (through the Administrative Agent), at its expense, execute and
            deliver such further instruments and take such further action in order to maintain and protect the Collateral Agent’s first-priority perfected security interest in the Collateral pledged by the Borrower for the benefit of the Secured Parties
            free and clear of any Liens (other than Permitted Liens).  At the reasonable request of either Agent or the Required Lenders (through the Administrative Agent), it shall promptly take, at the Borrower’s expense, such further action in order to
            establish and protect the rights, interests and remedies created or intended to be created under this Agreement in favor of the Secured Parties in the Collateral, including all actions which are necessary to (x) enable the Secured Parties to
            enforce their rights and remedies under this Agreement and the other Facility Documents, and (y) effectuate the intent and purpose of, and to carry out the terms of, the Facility Documents.

           

          (d)          Other Information.  It shall provide to the Administrative Agent or cause to be provided to the Administrative Agent:

           

          (i)        within three (3) Business Days after a Responsible Officer of the Servicer obtains actual knowledge of the occurrence and continuance of any (A) Default  (provided
            that if such Default is subsequently cured within the time periods set forth herein, the failure to provide notice of such Default shall not itself result in an Event of Default), (B) Event of Default, (C) Potential Servicer Event of Default,
            (D) Servicer Event of Default, (E) event or occurrence that has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (F) Revaluation Event, (G) receipt of notice from the agent on a Collateral Loan that the related
            Obligor has defaulted (beyond applicable grace periods) in the payment of principal or interest or (H) Collateral Loan that ceases to be an Eligible Collateral Loan, a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Servicer setting forth the
            details thereof and the action which the Servicer is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto;

           

          (ii)       from time to time such additional information regarding the Collateral (including reasonably detailed calculations of each Coverage Test and the Collateral Quality
            Test) as the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders (through the Administrative Agent) may reasonably request if reasonably available without undue burden or expense;

           

          
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          (iii)      a Borrowing Base Calculation Statement on (A) each date on which the Servicer sells or substitutes (or commits to sell or substitute, as the case may be) any
            Collateral Loan and (B) the date on which the Servicer obtains knowledge of any Material Modification or Revaluation Event to a Collateral Loan or that a Collateral Loan has become a Defaulted Collateral Loan;

           

          (iv)        promptly following any reasonable request by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, all documentation and other information that the Administrative Agent or such
            Lender requests in order to comply with its ongoing obligations under applicable “know your customer,” anti-money laundering and sanctions rules and regulations, including the PATRIOT Act; and

           

          (v)         within two (2) Business Days after a Responsible Officer of the Servicer obtains actual knowledge thereof, provide notice to the Administrative Agent of any
            settlement of, material judgment (including a material judgment with respect to the liability phase of a bifurcated trial) in or commencement of any material labor controversy, material litigation, material action, material suit or material
            proceeding before any court or governmental department, commission, board, bureau, agency or instrumentality, domestic or foreign, directly and adversely affecting in any material respect the Collateral (taken as a whole), the Facility
            Documents, or any Secured Party’s interest in the Collateral.

           

          (e)         Access to Records and Documents.  It shall permit the Administrative Agent (or any Person designated by the Administrative Agent as its agent or representative, subject to
            delivery of standard confidentiality agreements) to, upon reasonable advance notice and during normal business hours, visit and inspect and make copies thereof at reasonable intervals its books, records and accounts relating to the Collateral,
            the Borrower, the Facility Documents and the performance of the Servicer under the Facility Documents and to discuss the foregoing with its and such Person’s officers, partners, employees and accountants; provided that so long as no Event of
            Default has occurred the Borrower shall be responsible for all costs and expenses for only one such visit per fiscal year pursuant to either this Section 5.02(e) or Section 5.01(e) by the Lenders and the Administrative Agent; provided further
            that a designee selected by the Servicer shall have the right to be present during any meeting with outside accountants.  The Administrative Agent shall be permitted to schedule such visits on behalf of the Lenders and shall (1) coordinate in
            good faith with the Lenders to determine dates which are acceptable to a majority of the Lenders and whenever possible occur on one such date as a single group and (2) provide 10 days’ prior notice to the Lenders of any such visit and any
            Lender shall be permitted to accompany the Administrative Agent in such visit.

           

          
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          (f)         Information and Reports.  Each Notice of Borrowing, each Monthly Report, each Payment Date Report and all other written information, reports, certificates and statements
            furnished by or on behalf of it to any Secured Party for purposes of or in connection with this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby (other than financial projections, pro forma financial
            information, other forward-looking information, information of a general economic or general industry nature and all third party memos or reports) shall be (when taken as a whole and after giving effect to all written updates provided by the
            Servicer or on its behalf to the Administrative Agent for delivery to the Lenders from time to time) true, complete and correct in all material respects as of the date such information is stated or certified; provided that solely with
            respect to information furnished by the Servicer which was provided to the Servicer from an Obligor with respect to a Collateral Loan, such information shall only need to be true, complete and correct to the actual knowledge of the Servicer; provided further
            that, with respect to financial projections, pro forma financial information and other forward-looking information that has been delivered to the Administrative Agent or any Lender by the Servicer or on its behalf in connection with the
            transactions contemplated by this Agreement or delivered under any Facility Document, the Servicer represents only that such information represents the Borrower’s good faith estimates as of the date of preparation thereof, based upon
            assumptions the Servicer believed to be reasonable and accurate at the time made, it being recognized by the Agents and the Lenders that such projections are as to future events and are not to be viewed as facts, the projections are subject to
            significant uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are beyond the control of the Servicer and any of its Affiliates, that no assurance can be given that any particular projections will be realized and that actual results during the
            period or periods covered by such projections may differ from such projections and such differences may be material.

           

          (g)         Collections.  It shall direct any agent or administrative agent for any Collateral Loan to remit all payments and collections with respect to such Collateral Loan and, if
            applicable, to direct the Obligor with respect to such Collateral Loan to remit all such payments and collections with respect to such Collateral Loan directly to the Collection Account.

           

          (h)       Priority of Payments.  It shall instruct the Collateral Agent to apply all Interest Proceeds and Principal Proceeds solely in accordance with the Priority of Payments and the
            other provisions of this Agreement.

           

          (i)        Anti-Corruption Laws and Sanctions.  The Servicer shall maintain and shall ensure that its Affiliates maintain policies and procedures designed to prevent violation of any
            applicable anti-bribery, anti-corruption, anti-terrorism or anti-money laundering laws, regulations or rules in any applicable jurisdiction.  The Servicer shall not, directly or indirectly, use the proceeds of the loan hereunder, or lend,
            contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, sister company, joint venture partner or any other Person (i) to fund any activities or business of or with any Person, or in any country or territory, that, at the time of
            such funding, is, a Sanctioned Person or Sanctioned Country, or (ii) in any other manner that would result in a violation of Sanctions, any applicable anti-bribery, anti-corruption, anti-terrorism or anti-money laundering laws, regulations or
            rules in any applicable jurisdiction by any Person (including any Person participating in the loan hereunder, whether as underwriter, advisor, investor, lender, hedge provider, facility or security agent or otherwise).

           

          Section 5.03        Negative Covenants of the Borrower.  The Borrower covenants and agrees that, until the Collection Date:

           

          (a)          Restrictive Agreements.  It shall not enter into or suffer to exist or permit to become effective any agreement that prohibits, limits or imposes any condition upon its
            ability to create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien (other than Permitted Liens) upon any of its property or revenues constituting Collateral, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, to secure its obligations under the Facility
            Documents other than this Agreement and the other Facility Documents.

           

          
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          (b)          Liquidation; Merger; Sale of Collateral.  It shall not consummate any plan of liquidation, dissolution, partial liquidation, merger, consolidation or division (or suffer any
            liquidation, dissolution or partial liquidation) nor sell, transfer, exchange or otherwise dispose of any of its assets, or enter into an agreement or commitment to do so or enter into or engage in any business with respect to any part of its
            assets, except as expressly permitted by this Agreement and the other Facility Documents (including in connection with the repayment in full of the Obligations).

           

          (c)      Amendments to Constituent Documents, Etc.  Without the consent of the Administrative Agent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed), (i) it shall not amend,
            modify or take any action inconsistent with its Constituent Documents and (ii) it will not amend, modify or waive in any material respect any term or provision in any Facility Document (other than in accordance with any provision thereof
            requiring the consent of the Administrative Agent or all or a specified percentage of the Lenders).

           

          (d)          ERISA.  It shall not establish or incur any liability or obligation with respect to any Plan or Multiemployer Plan and no member of the ERISA Group shall establish or incur
            any liability or obligation with respect to any Plan or Multiemployer Plan that in each case would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

           

          (e)          Liens.  It shall not sell, pledge, assign or transfer to any other Person, or grant, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien on any of its assets now owned or
            hereafter acquired by it at any time, except for Permitted Liens or as otherwise expressly permitted by this Agreement and the other Facility Documents.

           

          (f)          Margin Requirements; Covered Transactions.  It shall not (i) extend credit to others for the purpose of buying or carrying any Margin Stock in such a manner as to violate
            Regulation T or Regulation U or (ii) use all or any part of the proceeds of any Advance, whether directly or indirectly, and whether immediately, incidentally or ultimately, for any purpose that violates the provisions of the Regulations of the
            Board of Governors, including, to the extent applicable, Regulation U and Regulation X.

           

          (g)          Changes to Filing Information; Change of Location of Underlying Instruments.  It shall not change its name or its jurisdiction of organization from that referred to in
            Section 4.01(a), unless it gives thirty (30) days’ prior written notice to the Agents and takes all actions that the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders (through the Administrative Agent) reasonably request and determine to be
            necessary to protect and perfect the Collateral Agent’s perfected security interest in the Collateral.  It shall not, without the prior consent of the Administrative Agent, consent to the Collateral Agent moving any Certificated Securities or
            Instruments, unless the Borrower has given at least ten (10) days’ written notice to the Administrative Agent and has taken all actions required under the UCC of each relevant jurisdiction in order to ensure that the Collateral Agent’s first
            priority perfected security interest (subject to Permitted Liens) continues in full effect.

           

          
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          (h)          Transactions with Affiliates.  Except as otherwise may be required or permitted by the Loan Sale Agreement, it shall not sell, lease or otherwise transfer any property or
            assets to, or purchase, lease or otherwise acquire any property or assets from, or otherwise engage in any other transactions with, the Servicer, the Equityholder and/or any of their Affiliates (including sales of Defaulted Collateral Loans and
            other Collateral Loans), unless (x) such transaction is upon terms no less favorable to the Borrower than it would obtain in a comparable arm’s length transaction with a Person that is not an Affiliate (it being agreed that any purchase or sale
            at par shall be deemed to comply with this provision) or (y) the Borrower has received the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent with respect to such transaction.  Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything to the contrary contained
            herein, nothing shall prohibit the Borrower from (i) transferring or distributing the Collateral Loans to the Equityholder or an Affiliate of the Equityholder, as applicable, in accordance with Article X, (ii) making Permitted Distributions(in
            accordance with the definition thereof) or (iii) making Permitted RIC Distributions (in accordance with the definition thereof).

           

          (i)         Investment Company Restriction.  It shall not and shall not permit the pool of Collateral to become required to register as an “investment company” under the Investment
            Company Act.

           

          (j)          Anti-Corruption and Sanctions.  The Borrower shall maintain and shall ensure that its Affiliates maintain policies and procedures designed to prevent violation of any
            applicable anti-bribery, anti-corruption, anti-terrorism or anti-money laundering laws, regulations or rules in any applicable jurisdiction. The Borrower shall not, directly or indirectly, use the proceeds of the loan hereunder, or lend,
            contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, sister company, joint venture partner or any other Person (i) to fund any activities or business of or with any Person, or in any country or territory, that, at the time of
            such funding, is, a Sanctioned Person or Sanctioned Country, or (ii) in any other manner that would result in a violation of Sanctions, any applicable anti-bribery, anti-corruption, anti-terrorism or anti-money laundering laws, regulations or
            rules in any applicable jurisdiction by any Person (including any Person participating in the loan hereunder, whether as underwriter, advisor, investor, lender, hedge provider, facility or security agent or otherwise).

           

          (k)          [Reserved].

           

          (l)        Indebtedness; Guarantees; Securities; Other Assets.  It shall not incur or assume or guarantee any Indebtedness or issue any additional securities other than (i) pursuant to
            or as expressly permitted by this Agreement and the other Facility Documents, including expenses payable in the ordinary course of business, (ii) obligations under its Constituent Documents, (iii) pursuant to customary indemnification, expense
            reimbursement and similar provisions under the Related Documents or (iv) the issuance of additional limited liability company interests in the Borrower to the Equityholder.  It shall not acquire any Collateral Loan or other property other than
            as expressly permitted under the Facility Documents, it being understood and agreed that the Borrower shall be permitted to acquire Collateral Loans from the Servicer, the Equityholder and/or their Affiliates and from unaffiliated third
            parties.

           

          (m)         Validity of this Agreement.  It shall not (i) except in connection with any transaction permitted hereunder, take any action or omit to take any action, the result of which
            would permit the validity or effectiveness of any Facility Document or any grant of Collateral under this Agreement to be impaired, or permit the Lien of this Agreement to be amended, hypothecated, subordinated, terminated or discharged, or
            take any action or omit to take any action, the result of which would permit any Person to be released from any covenant or obligation with respect to this Agreement and (ii) except as permitted by any Facility Document, take any action that
            would permit the Lien of this Agreement not to constitute a valid first priority perfected security interest in the Collateral (subject to Permitted Liens).

           

          
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          (n)          Subsidiaries.  It shall not have or permit the formation of any subsidiaries, except (i) in connection with the receipt of equity securities with respect to a Collateral
            Loan, an Eligible Investment or any exchange offer, work-out or restructuring of a Collateral Loan or (ii) Tax Blocker Subsidiaries.

           

          (o)          Name.  It shall not conduct business under any name other than its own.

           

          (p)          Employees.  It shall not have any employees (other than officers or directors, to the extent they are employees).

           

          (q)          Non-Petition.  It shall not be party to any agreements under which it has any material obligation or liability (direct or contingent) without using commercially reasonable
            efforts to include customary “non-petition” and “limited recourse” provisions therein (and shall not amend or eliminate such provisions in any agreement to which it is party), except for this Agreement, loan agreements, related loan documents,
            any agreements related to the purchase and sale of any Collateral Loan which contain customary (as determined by the Servicer) purchase or sale terms or which are documented using customary (as determined by the Servicer) loan trading
            documentation in connection with the Collateral Loans and any agreement that does not impose a material obligation on the Borrower and that is of a type that customarily does not include “non-petition” or “limited recourse” provisions
            (including customary service contracts and engagement letters entered into with third party service providers (including independent accountants and providers of independent managers)).

           

          (r)          Certificated Securities.  It shall not acquire or hold any Certificated Securities in bearer form in a manner that does not satisfy the requirements of United States
            Treasury Regulations section 1.165-12(c) (as determined by the Servicer).

           

          Section 5.04        Covenants of the Equityholder.  The Equityholder covenants and agrees that, until the Collection Date:

           

          (a)          Compliance with Agreements, Laws, Etc.  It shall (i) duly observe and comply in all material respects with all Applicable Laws relative to the conduct of its business or to
            its assets, (ii) preserve and keep in full force and effect its legal existence, (iii) preserve and keep in full force and effect its rights, privileges, qualifications and franchises, except where the failure to do so could not reasonably be
            expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (iv) comply with the terms and conditions of each Facility Document to which it is a party and its Constituent Documents and (v) obtain, maintain and keep in full force and effect all
            Governmental Authorizations, Private Authorizations and Governmental Filings which are necessary to properly carry out its business and the transactions contemplated to be performed by it under the Facility Documents to which it is a party and
            its Constituent Documents, except, in the case of clause (v), where the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

           

          
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          (b)        Other Information.  It shall provide to the Administrative Agent or cause to be provided to the Administrative Agent (with enough additional copies for each Lender) promptly
            following any reasonable request by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, all documentation and other information that the Administrative Agent or such Lender requests in order to comply with its ongoing obligations under applicable “know
            your customer,” anti-money laundering and sanctions rules and regulations, including the PATRIOT Act.

           

          (c)         Anti-Corruption Laws and Sanctions.  The Equityholder shall maintain and shall ensure that its Affiliates maintain policies and procedures designed to prevent violation of
            any applicable anti-bribery, anti-corruption, anti-terrorism or anti-money laundering laws, regulations or rules in any applicable jurisdiction. The Equityholder shall not, directly or indirectly, use the proceeds of the loan hereunder, or
            lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, sister company, joint venture partner or any other Person (i) to fund any activities or business of or with any Person, or in any country or territory, that, at the
            time of such funding, is, a Sanctioned Person or Sanctioned Country, or (ii) in any other manner that would result in a violation of Sanctions, any applicable anti-bribery, anti-corruption, anti-terrorism or anti-money laundering laws,
            regulations or rules in any applicable jurisdiction by any Person (including any Person participating in the loan hereunder, whether as underwriter, advisor, investor, lender, hedge provider, facility or security agent or otherwise).

           

          (d)         Separateness.  The Equityholder shall not take any action that causes, or omit to take any action that results in, the Borrower to fail to comply with any of its covenants
            in Section 5.05 and the Equityholder shall take all other actions necessary to maintain the accuracy of the factual assumptions set forth in the legal opinions of Dechert LLP, as special counsel to the Borrower, issued on the Closing Date and
            relating to the issues of substantive consolidation.

           

          (e)          Liens.  The Equityholder shall neither pledge (nor permit to be pledged) the equity interests in the Borrower nor otherwise permit any equity interests of the Borrower to be
            subject to a Lien other than Permitted Liens.

           

          Section 5.05       Certain Undertakings Relating to Separateness.  Without limiting any, and subject to all, other covenants of the Borrower, the Equityholder and the Servicer contained
            in this Agreement, the Borrower (the Servicer in acting on behalf or for the benefit of the Borrower and the Equityholder in acting on behalf of the Borrower as the equityholder in the Borrower) shall conduct its business and operations
            separate and apart from that of any other Person (including  the Equityholder and any of their Affiliates) and in furtherance of the foregoing:

           

          (a)        The Borrower shall maintain its accounts, financial statements, books, accounting and other records, and other documents separate from those of any other Person; provided that the
            Borrower may be consolidated into the Equityholder solely for tax and accounting purposes.

           

          (b)        The Borrower shall not commingle or pool any of its funds or assets with those of the Servicer, the Equityholder or any of their Affiliates or any other Person, and it shall hold all
            of its assets in its own name, except as otherwise permitted or required under the Facility Documents.

           

          
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          (c)        The Borrower shall conduct its own business in its own name and, for all purposes, shall not operate, or purport to operate, collectively as a single or consolidated business entity
            with respect to any Person (although, in connection with certain financial reporting, regulatory filings, advertising and marketing, it may be identified as a subsidiary of the Equityholder).

           

          (d)          The Borrower shall pay its own debts, liabilities and expenses (including overhead expenses, if any) only out of its own assets as the same shall become due; provided, however,
            in its capacity as Servicer, BPCC may from time to time advance expenses of the Borrower for which BPCC is later reimbursed pursuant to the Priority of Payments.

           

          (e)       The Borrower has observed, and shall observe, all (A) limited liability company formalities and (B) other organizational formalities, in each case to the extent necessary or advisable
            to preserve its separate existence (although, in connection with certain financial reporting, regulatory filings, advertising and marketing, it may be identified as a subsidiary of the Equityholder), and shall preserve its existence, and it
            shall not, nor shall it permit any Affiliate or any other Person to, amend, modify or otherwise change its operating agreement in a manner that would adversely affect the existence of the Borrower as a bankruptcy-remote special purpose entity. 
            The Borrower shall have at least one Independent Manager at all times (subject to the time periods for replacement of Independent Managers that have resigned or have been removed set forth in the Borrower’s Constituent Documents).

           

          (f)          The Borrower shall not (A) guarantee, become obligated for, or hold itself or its credit out to be responsible for or available to satisfy, the debts or obligations of any other
            Person or (B) control the decisions or actions respecting the daily business or affairs of any other Person, except as permitted by or pursuant to the Facility Documents.

           

          (g)        The Borrower shall, at all times, hold itself out to the public as a legal entity separate and distinct from any other Person (although, in connection with certain financial
            reporting, advertising and marketing, it may be identified as a subsidiary of the Equityholder); provided that the assets of the Borrower may be consolidated for accounting purposes and included in consolidated financial statements of
            the Equityholder and/or the Servicer as required by GAAP or applicable law.

           

          (h)          The Borrower shall not identify itself as a division of any other Person.

           

          (i)          The Borrower shall maintain its assets in such a manner that it will not be costly or difficult to segregate, ascertain or identify its individual assets from those of any
            Affiliate or any other Person.

           

          (j)        Except as may be provided in the Facility Documents, any transaction between the Borrower and any of the Servicer, the Equityholder and their Affiliates shall be on arm’s length
            terms.

           

          (k)        Except as permitted by, or pursuant to, the Facility Documents, the Borrower shall not grant a security interest or otherwise pledge its assets for the benefit of any other Person
            (other than its pledge of the Collateral hereunder to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties).

           

          
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          (l)          The Borrower shall not acquire any securities or debt instruments issued by the Equityholder, the Servicer, any Affiliates of the foregoing or any other Person (except (i) in
            connection with the receipt of equity securities with respect to a Collateral Loan, an Eligible Investment or any exchange offer, work-out or restructuring of a Collateral Loan, (ii) equity interests in any Tax Blocker Subsidiary or (iii) the
            Collateral Loans).

           

          (m)         The Borrower shall not make loans or advances to any Person, except for the Collateral Loans and as permitted by or pursuant to the Facility Documents.

           

          (n)         The Borrower shall make no transfer of its Collateral Loans, except as permitted by or not prohibited by or pursuant to the Facility Documents.

           

          (o)        The Borrower shall file its own tax returns separate from those of any other Person or entity, except to the extent that the Borrower is not required to file tax returns under
            Applicable Law or is not permitted to file its own tax returns separate from those of any other Person.

           

          (p)          The Borrower shall, to the extent used in its business, use separate stationery, invoices and checks.

           

          (q)          The Borrower shall correct any known misunderstanding regarding its separate identity.

           

          (r)          The Borrower shall maintain adequate capital in light of its contemplated business operations.

           

          (s)          The Borrower shall at all times be organized as a single-purpose entity with Constituent Documents substantially similar to those in effect on the Closing Date.

           

          (t)        The Borrower shall at all times conduct its business so that any assumptions made with respect to the Borrower in any “substantive non-consolidation” opinion delivered in connection
            with the Facility Documents will continue to be true and correct in all material respects.

           

          ARTICLE VI

            

            EVENTS OF DEFAULT

           

          Section 6.01      Events of Default.  “Event of Default,” wherever used herein, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether
            it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):

           

          
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          (a)        a default in the payment, when due and payable, of (x) any principal in respect of the Advances or (y) any interest or other payment required to be made to the Administrative Agent
            or any Lender pursuant to this Agreement or any other Facility Document and if such date is not the Final Maturity Date, such default, solely in the case of this clause (y), has not been cured within three (3) Business Days after written notice
            thereof to the Borrower by the Administrative Agent; provided, that, in the case of clauses (x) and (y) on a date other than on the Final Maturity Date resulting solely from an administrative error or omission by the Administrative
            Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary or any paying agent, such default continues for a period of five (5) Business Days after the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or the Securities Intermediary receives written
            notice or a Responsible Officer of such party has actual knowledge of such administrative error or omission;

           

          (b)         any failure by the Borrower to deposit or credit, or to deliver for deposit, in the Covered Accounts any amount required hereunder to be so deposited credited or delivered by it, on
            or before the date occurring three (3) Business Days after the date such deposit or distribution is required to be made by the Servicer; provided that in the case of a failure to make such deposit or credit due to an administrative
            error or omission by the Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent, such failure continues for three (3) Business Days after the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent receives written notice or has actual knowledge of such administrative
            error or omission and has provided notice of such failure to the Borrower;

           

          (c)          the Borrower or the pool of Collateral becomes an investment company required to be registered under the Investment Company Act;

           

          (d)         except as otherwise provided in this Section 6.01, a default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or agreement of the Borrower or Equityholder under this Agreement or the
            other Facility Documents to which it is a party (it being understood, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, that any failure to meet any Concentration Limitation, the Collateral Quality Test, any Class Minimum OC Coverage Test or
            any Coverage Test is not an Event of Default under this clause (d)), or the failure of any representation or warranty of the Borrower or the Equityholder made in this Agreement or in any other Facility Document to be correct, in each case, in
            all material respects when the same shall have been made, and the continuation of such default, breach or failure for a period of thirty (30) days after the earlier of (i) written notice to the Borrower and the Servicer (which may be by e-mail)
            by either Agent, and (ii) a Responsible Officer of the Borrower or the Servicer has acquired actual knowledge thereof; provided that if such default, breach or failure cannot be cured, such Event of Default shall occur immediately after
            receipt by the Borrower of such written notice from the Administrative Agent; provided, further, that, for the avoidance of doubt, to the extent the Equityholder purchases or substitutes (in accordance with the provisions of the
            Loan Sale Agreement) an Eligible Collateral Loan for a Collateral Loan for which the representation in Section 4.01(q) was breached, such breach will be deemed cured hereunder;

           

          (e)          the Borrower ceases to have a valid ownership interest in all of the Collateral (subject to Permitted Liens or any sale, assignment, disposition or other transaction not prohibited
            by this Agreement);

           

          (f)          the Borrower assigns any of its rights, obligations, or duties under the Facility Documents without the prior written consent of each Lender;

           

          (g)          the Borrower’s assets (or the Collateral) constitute “plan assets” for purposes of the Plan Asset Rule;

           

          
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          (h)         (i) any Facility Document or any material provision thereof shall (except in accordance with its terms) terminate, cease to be effective or cease to be the legally valid, binding
            and enforceable obligation of the Borrower, the Equityholder or the Servicer, (ii) the Borrower, the Equityholder, the Servicer or any Governmental Authority shall, directly or indirectly, contest in any manner the effectiveness, validity,
            binding nature or enforceability of any Facility Document or any Lien purported to be created thereunder, or (iii) any Lien securing any obligation under any Facility Document shall, in whole or in part, cease to be a first priority perfected
            security interest of the Collateral Agent, except as otherwise permitted in accordance with the Facility Documents (subject to Permitted Liens);

           

          (i)           an Insolvency Event relating to the Borrower or the Equityholder;

           

          (j)           failure to reduce the Advances to $0 by the Final Maturity Date;

           

          (k)          [Reserved];

           

          (l)          the occurrence of an OC Ratio Breach and such OC Ratio Breach remains unremedied for a period of 10 consecutive Business Days without being cured;

           

          (m)         the rendering of one or more final judgments, decrees or orders by a court or arbitrator of competent jurisdiction for the payment of money in excess individually or in the
            aggregate of the Dollar Equivalent of $100,000, with respect to the Borrower (net of amounts covered by insurance), or the Dollar Equivalent of $25,000,000, with respect to the Equityholder (net of amounts covered by insurance), and the
            Borrower or Equityholder, as applicable, shall not have either (i) discharged or provided for the discharge of any such judgment, decree or order in accordance with its terms or (ii) perfected a timely appeal of such judgment, decree or order
            and caused the execution of same to be stayed during the pendency of the appeal, in each case, within sixty (60) days from the date of entry thereof;

           

          (n)        the Borrower fails to have at least one Independent Manager; provided that the resignation of an Independent Manager or the removal of an Independent Manager for “cause”
            shall not affect this clause (n) unless the Borrower fails to appoint a new Independent Manager within ten (10) Business Days of the effective date of such removal or resignation;

           

          (o)        any Monthly Report or Payment Date Report shall fail to be delivered when due and such failure shall continue for three (3) Business Days after receipt of written notice thereof;

           

          (p)          a Servicer Event of Default occurs;

           

          (q)         (i) the Internal Revenue Service shall file notice of a Lien pursuant to Section 6321 of the Code with regard to any asset of the Borrower and such Lien shall not have been released
            within five (5) Business Days or (ii) the PBGC shall file notice of a Lien pursuant to Section 4068 of ERISA with regard to any asset of the Borrower and such Lien shall not have been released within five (5) Business Days;

           

          
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          (r)          the failure of the Equityholder, the Borrower or any of the Borrower’s subsidiaries to make any payment when due (after giving effect to any related grace period set forth in the
            related agreements) under one or more agreements for borrowed money to which it is a party in an amount in excess of the Dollar Equivalent of $100,000, with respect to the Borrower, or the Dollar Equivalent of $25,000,000, with respect to the
            Equityholder, whether or not such failure is waived pursuant to the related agreement;

           

          (s)        the Borrower or Equityholder shall have made payments to settle any litigation, claim or dispute totaling more than, in the aggregate, $100,000, with respect to the Borrower, or
            $25,000,000, with respect to the Equityholder; or

           

          (t)          the Borrower shall fail to qualify as a bankruptcy-remote entity based on customary criteria such that Borrower’s special counsel or any other reputable counsel could no longer
            render a substantive non-consolidation opinion with respect to the Borrower.

           

          Upon a Responsible Officer of the Borrower or the Servicer obtaining actual knowledge of the occurrence of an Event of Default, each of the Borrower and the Servicer shall promptly (and in any
            event within two (2) Business Days) notify each other and the Agents, specifying each specific Event of Default that has then occurred as well as all other Events of Default that are then known to be continuing.  Upon the occurrence of an Event
            of Default actually known to a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent, the Collateral Agent shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent (which will notify the Lenders promptly) of such Event of Default in writing.

           

          Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, in addition to all rights and remedies specified in this Agreement and the other Facility Documents, including
            Article VII, and the rights and remedies of a secured party under Applicable Law, including the UCC, the Administrative Agent shall, at the request of, or may with the consent of, the Majority Lenders, by notice to the Borrower (with a copy to
            the Collateral Agent), do any one or more of the following:  (1) declare the Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amounts to be terminated, whereupon the Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amounts shall be terminated, and (2) declare the principal
            of and the accrued Interest on the Advances and all other Obligations whatsoever payable by the Borrower hereunder to be forthwith due and payable, whereupon such amounts shall be immediately due and payable without presentment, demand, protest
            or other formalities of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by the Borrower; provided that, upon the occurrence of any Event of Default described in clause (i) of this Section 6.01, the Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amounts
            shall automatically terminate and the Advances and all such other amounts shall automatically become due and payable, without any further action by any party.

           

          In addition, upon the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default, following written notice by the Administrative Agent (provided in its sole discretion or at the direction of
            the Required Lenders) to the Servicer of the exercise of control rights with respect to the Collateral, the Administrative Agent may direct the Servicer to exercise certain rights on behalf of the Administrative Agent, including:  (1) the
            exercise of the Servicer’s rights and obligations under the Facility Documents, including its unilateral power to (A) consent to modifications to Collateral Loans, (B) take any discretionary action with respect to Collateral Loans and
            (C) direct the acquisition, sales and other dispositions of Collateral Loans to be immediately terminated; (2) to require the Servicer to obtain the consent of the Administrative Agent before agreeing to any modification of any Collateral Loan,
            taking any discretionary action with respect to any Collateral Loan or causing the Borrower to sell or otherwise dispose of any Collateral Loan; and (3) to require the Servicer to cause the Borrower to sell or otherwise dispose of any
            Collateral Loan as directed by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 7.03.

           

          
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          Section 6.02      OC Ratio Posting Payments.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, if an OC Ratio Breach has occurred, within ten (10) Business Days of the
            occurrence of such OC Ratio Breach, the Equityholder may, but shall not be required to, cure such condition by making a cash payment into the Principal Collection Subaccount in an amount (which shall be in increments of $500,000) that would
            cause such OC Ratio Breach to be cured after giving effect to such payment into the Principal Collection Subaccount (any such payment, an “OC Ratio Posting Payment”).

           

          Section 6.03       Repurchase of Collateral.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any Facility Document, in connection with any liquidation or disposition of the
            Collateral, including without limitation, upon the termination of the Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amounts following the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default, the Equityholder and/or any of its Affiliates shall
            have the right to purchase the Collateral subject to such liquidation or disposition at a purchase price at least equal to the sum of the then accrued and outstanding Obligations, as reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent. Any such
            party may exercise such right by delivering written notice to the Administrative Agent (an “Exercise Notice”) which shall include a proposed purchase price and be delivered not later than three (3) Business Days after the date on which
            the Borrower receives notice from the Administrative Agent of the occurrence of such Event of Default and termination of the Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amounts, as applicable, and the intent of the Administrative Agent to liquidate or
            dispose of the Collateral, and which Exercise Notice shall set forth evidence that the Equityholder has access to sufficient capital to consummate such purchase in accordance with this clause (e).  Once an Exercise Notice is delivered to the
            Administrative Agent, the delivering party (or its designated Affiliate or managed fund) shall be obligated, irrevocably and unconditionally, to purchase the Collateral, at the price referenced above, for settlement within the normal settlement
            period for such Collateral.  Neither the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent nor any Lender shall assert any right or remedy in respect of the Collateral, including any right described in Section 6.01, Section 7.03 or Article
              XI, or cause the removal of the Servicer, or cause the liquidation or disposition of the Collateral Loans to occur, in each case during the time that the Equityholder and its Affiliates are entitled to provide an Exercise Notice and
            purchase the Collateral pursuant to this Section 6.03.

           

          ARTICLE VII

            

            PLEDGE OF COLLATERAL; RIGHTS OF THE COLLATERAL AGENT

           

          Section 7.01       Grant of Security.  (a)  The Borrower hereby grants, pledges, transfers and collaterally assigns to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, as
            collateral security for all Obligations, a continuing security interest in, and a Lien upon, all of the Borrower’s right, title and interest in, to and under, the following property, in each case whether tangible or intangible, wheresoever
            located, and whether now owned by the Borrower or hereafter acquired and whether now existing or hereafter coming into existence (in each case excluding the Excluded Amounts) (all of the property described in this Section 7.01(a) being
            collectively referred to herein as the “Collateral”):

           

          
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          (i)         all Collateral Loans and Related Documents (including those listed, as of the Closing Date, in Schedule 3), both now and hereafter owned, including all
            Collections and other Proceeds thereon or with respect thereto;

           

          (ii)         each Covered Account and all Money and all investment property (including all securities, all security entitlements with respect to such Covered Account and all
            financial assets carried in such Covered Account) from time to time on deposit in or credited to each Covered Account;

           

          (iii)         all interest, dividends, distributions and other Money or property of any kind distributed in respect of the Collateral Loans of the Borrower, which the
            Borrower is entitled to receive, including all Collections in respect of its Collateral Loans;

           

          (iv)       each Facility Document and all rights, remedies, powers, privileges and claims under or in respect thereto (whether arising pursuant to the terms thereof or
            otherwise available to the Borrower at law or equity), including the right to enforce each such Facility Document and to give or withhold any and all consents, requests, notices, directions, approvals, extensions or waivers under or with
            respect thereto, to the same extent as the Borrower could but for the assignment and security interest granted to the Collateral Agent under this Agreement;

           

          (v)          all cash or Money in possession of the Borrower or delivered to the Collateral Agent (or its bailee);

           

          (vi)      all securities, loans and investments and, in each case as defined in the UCC, accounts, chattel paper, deposit accounts, instruments, financial assets, investment
            property, general intangibles, letter-of-credit rights, and supporting obligations of the Borrower, and all other property of any type or nature in which the Borrower has an interest (including the equity interests of each subsidiary of the
            Borrower), and all property of the Borrower which is delivered to the Collateral Agent by or on behalf of the Borrower (whether or not constituting Collateral Loans or Eligible Investments);

           

          (vii)      all Liens, property, guaranties, supporting obligations, insurance and other agreements or arrangements of whatever character from time to time supporting or
            securing payment of the assets, investments and properties described above; and

           

          (viii)       all Proceeds of any and all of the foregoing.

           

          (b)         All terms used in this Section 7.01 but not defined in Section 1.01 shall have the respective meanings assigned to such terms in the UCC as applicable.

           

          
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          Section 7.02       Release of Security Interest.  Upon the Collection Date or pursuant to Section 8.08, the Collateral Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, shall, at the expense of
            the Borrower, promptly execute, deliver and file or authorize for filing such instruments as the Borrower shall prepare and reasonably request in order to reassign, release or terminate the Secured Parties’ security interest in the Collateral. 
            The Secured Parties acknowledge and agree that upon the sale or disposition of any Collateral by the Borrower in compliance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the security interest of the Secured Parties in such Collateral shall
            automatically and immediately terminate and the Collateral Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, shall, at the expense of the Borrower, execute, deliver and file or authorize for filing such instrument as the Borrower shall prepare and
            reasonably request to reflect or evidence such termination.  Any and all actions under this Article VII in respect of the Collateral shall be without any recourse to, or representation or warranty by any Secured Party and shall be at the sole
            cost and expense of the Borrower.

           

          Section 7.03       Rights and Remedies.  The Collateral Agent (for itself and on behalf of the other Secured Parties) shall have all of the rights and remedies of a secured party under
            the UCC and other Applicable Law.  Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, the Collateral Agent or its designees shall, at the written direction of the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders acting through
            the Administrative Agent, (a) instruct the Borrower to deliver any or all of the Collateral, the Related Documents and any other document relating to the Collateral to the Collateral Agent or its designees and otherwise give all instructions
            for the Borrower regarding the Collateral; (b) sell or otherwise dispose of the Collateral in a commercially reasonable manner, all without judicial process or proceedings; (c) take control of the Proceeds of any such Collateral; (d) subject to
            the provisions of the applicable Related Documents, exercise any consensual or voting rights in respect of the Collateral; (e) release, make extensions, discharges, exchanges or substitutions for, or surrender all or any part of the Collateral;
            (f) enforce the Borrower’s rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral; (g) institute and prosecute legal and equitable proceedings to enforce collection of, or realize upon, any of the Collateral; (h) require that the Borrower
            immediately take all actions necessary to cause the liquidation of the Collateral in order to pay all amounts due and payable in respect of the Obligations, in accordance with the terms of the Related Documents; (i) redeem any asset of the
            Borrower to pay amounts due and payable in respect of the Obligations; (j) make copies of all books, records and documents relating to the Collateral; and (k) endorse the name of the Borrower upon any items of payment relating to the Collateral
            or upon any proof of claim in bankruptcy against an account debtor.  To the extent permitted by applicable law, each of the Borrower, the Servicer and the Equityholder waive all claims, damages and demands it may acquire against the
            Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Secured Parties arising out of the exercise by the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent of any of their rights hereunder, except for any claims, damages and demands it may have against
            the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent arising from the willful misconduct or gross negligence of the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent or their affiliates, or any agents or employees of the foregoing.

           

          The Borrower hereby agrees that, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, at the request of either Agent or the Required Lenders (acting through the Administrative
            Agent), it shall execute all documents and agreements which are necessary or appropriate to have the Collateral to be assigned to the Collateral Agent or its designee.  For purposes of taking the actions described in clauses (a) through (k) of
            this Section 7.03 the Borrower hereby irrevocably appoints the Collateral Agent as its attorney-in-fact (which appointment being coupled with an interest and is irrevocable while any of the Obligations remain unpaid), with power of
            substitution, in the name of the Collateral Agent or in the name of the Borrower or otherwise, for the use and benefit of the Collateral Agent, but at the cost and expense of the Borrower and, except as expressly required by Applicable Law,
            without notice to the Borrower.

           

          
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          Each of the Borrower, the Servicer and the Equityholder recognizes that the Administrative Agent may be unable to effect a public sale of any or all of the Collateral, by reason of certain
            prohibitions contained in the Securities Act, and applicable state securities laws or otherwise, and may be compelled to resort to one or more private sales thereof to a restricted group of purchasers which will be obliged to agree, among other
            things, to acquire such item of Collateral for their own account for investment and not with a view to the distribution or resale thereof. Each of the Borrower, the Servicer and the Equityholder acknowledges and agrees that any such private
            sale may result in prices and other terms less favorable to the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties than if such sale were a public sale and, notwithstanding such circumstances, agree that any such private sale shall not be
            deemed to have been made in a commercially unreasonable manner solely by virtue of being a private sale.

           

          Each of the Borrower, the Servicer and the Equityholder further agrees that a breach of any of their covenants contained in this Section 7.03 will cause irreparable injury to the Administrative
            Agent and the Secured Parties, that the Administrative Agent and the Secured Parties have no adequate remedy at law in respect of such breach and, as a consequence, that each and every covenant contained in this Section 7.03 shall be
            specifically enforceable against the Borrower, the Servicer and the Equityholder, and each of the Borrower, the Servicer and the Equityholder hereby waives and agrees not to assert any defenses against an action for specific performance of such
            covenants except for a defense that no Event of Default has occurred under this Agreement or any defense relating to the Administrative Agent’s willful misconduct or gross negligence.

           

          Pursuant to the UCC, each of the Borrower, the Servicer and the Equityholder hereby specifically agrees (x) that it shall not raise any objection to any Secured Party’s purchase of the
            Collateral (through bidding on the obligations or otherwise) and (y) that a foreclosure sale conducted in conformity with the principles set forth in the No Action Letters promulgated by the SEC staff (1) shall be considered to be a “public”
            sale for purposes of the UCC, (2) shall be considered commercially reasonable notwithstanding that the Secured Party has not registered or sought to register the Collateral under the Securities Act, even if the Borrower agrees to pay all costs
            of the registration process, and (3) shall be considered to be commercially reasonable notwithstanding that the Secured Party purchases the Collateral at such a sale.

           

          Each of the Borrower, the Servicer and the Equityholder agrees that neither the Administrative Agent nor the Collateral Agent shall have any general duty or obligation to make any effort to
            obtain or pay any particular price for any Collateral sold by the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent pursuant to this Agreement.  Each of the Borrower, the Servicer and the Equityholder hereby agrees that the Administrative Agent or
            the Collateral Agent shall have the right to conduct, and shall not incur any liability as a result of, the sale of any Collateral, or any part thereof, at any sale conducted in a commercially reasonable manner, it being agreed by the parties
            hereto that some or all of the Collateral is or may be of one or more types that threaten to decline speedily in value. The Borrower, the Servicer and the Equityholder hereby waive any claims against the Administrative Agent and the Collateral
            Agent arising by reason of the fact that the price at which any of the Collateral may have been sold at a private sale was less than the price that might have been obtained at a public sale or was less than the aggregate amount of the
            Borrower’s obligations under this Agreement, even if the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent accepts the first bid received and does not offer any Collateral to more than one bidder, provided that Administrative Agent or the
            Collateral Agent has acted in a commercially reasonable manner in conducting such private sale.  Without in any way limiting the Administrative Agent’s or the Collateral Agent’s right to conduct a foreclosure sale in any manner which is
            considered commercially reasonable, each of the Borrower, the Servicer and the Equityholder hereby agrees that any foreclosure sale conducted in accordance with the following provisions shall be considered a commercially reasonable sale, and
            each of the Borrower, the Servicer and the Equityholder hereby irrevocably waives any right to contest any such sale conducted in accordance with the following provisions:

           

          
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          (1)          the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent conducts such foreclosure sale in the State of New York;

           

          (2)          such foreclosure sale is conducted in accordance with the laws of the State of New York; and

           

          (3)         not more than thirty days before, and not less than three Business Days in advance of such foreclosure sale, the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent
            notifies the Borrower, the Servicer and the Equityholder at the address set forth herein of the time and place of such foreclosure sale; and

           

          (4)         the Borrower, the Servicer and the Equityholder are subject to terms and conditions that in no respect are worse than the terms and conditions applicable to the
            other foreclosure sale participants.

           

          In connection with any proposed sale of the Collateral directly or indirectly by the Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent following an Event of Default, the Equityholder, the Servicer and
            their respective Affiliates shall have the right to purchase any or all of the Collateral, in each case by paying to the Collateral Agent in immediately available funds, an amount equal to all outstanding Obligations. If the Equityholder, the
            Servicer and their respective Affiliates fail to exercise this purchase right within ten (10) days following the earlier of acceleration of the Obligations or notice of such proposed sale, then such contractual rights shall be irrevocably
            forfeited by the Equityholder, the Servicer and all Affiliates thereof, but nothing herein shall prevent the Equityholder, the Servicer or their respective Affiliates from bidding at any sale of such Collateral.

           

          Notwithstanding anything in this Section 7.03 to the contrary, the Collateral Agent shall be under no duty or obligation to take any affirmative action to exercise or enforce any power, right
            or remedy available to it under this Agreement unless and to the extent expressly so directed by the Administrative Agent, the Required Lenders or the Majority Lenders, as applicable; provided that the Collateral Agent shall not be
            required to take any action hereunder at the direction of the Administrative Agent or any Secured Party if such action would, in the reasonable determination of the Collateral Agent (x) be in violation of or contrary to applicable law or any
            provisions of this Agreement or other Facility Document or (y) expose the Collateral Agent to liability unless it has received reasonably satisfactory indemnity with respect thereto.

           

          
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          All sums paid or advanced by the Collateral Agent in connection with the foregoing and all out-of-pocket costs and expenses (including reasonable and documented attorneys’ fees and expenses)
            incurred in connection therewith, together with interest thereon at the Post-Default Rate from the date of payment until repaid in full, shall be paid by the Borrower to the Collateral Agent from time to time on demand in accordance with the
            Priority of Payments and shall constitute and become a part of the Obligations secured hereby.

           

          Section 7.04       Remedies Cumulative.  Each right, power, and remedy of the Agents and the other Secured Parties, or any of them, as provided for in this Agreement or in the other
            Facility Documents or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or by statute or otherwise shall be cumulative and concurrent and shall be in addition to every other right, power, or remedy provided for in this Agreement or in the other
            Facility Documents or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or by statute or otherwise, and the exercise or beginning of the exercise by either of the Agents or any other Secured Party of any one or more of such rights, powers, or
            remedies shall not preclude the simultaneous or later exercise by such Persons of any or all such other rights, powers, or remedies.

           

          Section 7.05     Related Documents.  (a)  Each of the Borrower and the Servicer hereby agrees that, to the extent not expressly prohibited by the terms of the Related Documents, after
            the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, it shall (i) upon the written request of either Agent, promptly forward to such Person all material information and notices which it receives under or in connection with the
            Related Documents relating to the Collateral, (ii) upon the written request of the Administrative Agent, promptly forward to the Administrative Agent any reasonably requested information relating to any specified Collateral Loans and (iii) upon
            the written request of either Agent, act and refrain from acting in respect of any request, act, decision or vote under or in connection with the Related Documents relating to the Collateral only in accordance with the direction of the
            Administrative Agent (in its reasonable discretion).

           

          (b)        The Borrower agrees that, to the extent the same shall be in the Borrower’s possession, it will hold all Related Documents relating to the Collateral in trust for the Collateral
            Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties, and upon request of either Agent following the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default or as otherwise provided herein, promptly deliver the same to the Collateral Agent or its
            designee.  In addition, in accordance with the Custodian Agreement, promptly (and in any event, within five (5) Business Days) following its acquisition of any Collateral Loan, the Borrower shall deliver to the Custodian, to the extent
            applicable, copies of the Related Documents.

           

          Section 7.06       Borrower Remains Liable.  (a)  Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (i) the Borrower shall remain liable under the contracts and agreements included in
            and relating to the Collateral (including the Related Documents) to the extent set forth therein, and shall perform all of its duties and obligations under such contracts and agreements to the same extent as if this Agreement had not been
            executed, and (ii) the exercise by any Secured Party of any of its rights hereunder shall not release the Borrower from any of its duties or obligations under any such contracts or agreements included in the Collateral.

           

          
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          (b)        No obligation or liability of the Borrower is intended to be assumed by the Administrative Agent or any other Secured Party under or as a result of this Agreement or the other
            Facility Documents, or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, including under any Related Document or any other agreement or document that relates to Collateral and, to the maximum extent permitted under provisions of Law, the
            Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties expressly disclaim any such assumption.

           

          Section 7.07       Protection of Collateral.  The Borrower shall from time to time execute, deliver, file and/or authorize the filing of all UCC-1 financing statements and continuation
            statements and the equivalent thereof in any applicable foreign jurisdiction, if applicable, instruments of further assurance and other instruments, and shall take such other action as may be necessary or advisable to secure the rights and
            remedies of the Secured Parties hereunder and to:

           

          (a)          grant security more effectively on all or any portion of the Collateral;

           

          (b)          maintain, preserve and perfect any grant of security made or to be made by this Agreement including the first priority nature of the Lien granted hereunder or to carry out more
            effectively the purposes hereof;

           

          (c)          perfect, publish notice of or protect the validity of any grant made or to be made by this Agreement (including any and all actions necessary as a result of changes in Law);

           

          (d)          enforce any of the Collateral or other instruments or property included in the Collateral;

           

          (e)          preserve and defend title to the Collateral and the rights therein of the Collateral Agent and the Secured Parties in the Collateral against the claims of all third parties; and

           

          (f)          pay or cause to be paid any and all taxes levied or assessed upon all or any part of the Collateral.

           

          The Borrower hereby designates the Collateral Agent as its agent and attorney in fact to prepare and file any UCC-1 financing statement and continuation statement and the equivalent thereof in
            any applicable foreign jurisdiction, if applicable, and all other instruments, and take all other actions, required pursuant to this Section 7.07 if the Borrower fails to take any such action within ten (10) Business Days after either Agent’s
            request therefor.  Such designation shall not impose upon the Collateral Agent or the Administrative Agent or any other Secured Party, or release or diminish, the Borrower’s obligations under this Section 7.07.  The Borrower further authorizes
            the Collateral Agent to file UCC-1 financing statements or the equivalent thereof in any foreign jurisdiction, if applicable, that name the Borrower as debtor and the Collateral Agent as secured party and that describes “all assets in which the
            debtor now or hereafter has rights” as the Collateral in which the Collateral Agent has a grant of security hereunder.

           

          
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          ARTICLE VIII

            

            ACCOUNTS, ACCOUNTINGS AND RELEASES

           

          Section 8.01       Collection of Money.  Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, the Collateral Agent shall at the direction of the Administrative Agent, demand payment or
            delivery of, and shall collect, directly and without intervention or assistance of any fiscal agent or other intermediary, all Money and other property payable to or receivable by the Collateral Agent pursuant to this Agreement, including all
            payments due on the Collateral, in accordance with the terms and conditions of such Collateral.  The Collateral Agent shall segregate and hold all such Money and property received by it in trust for the Secured Parties and shall apply it as
            provided in this Agreement.  Each Covered Account shall be established and maintained under the Account Control Agreement with a Qualified Institution.  Any Covered Account may contain any number of subaccounts and related deposit accounts for
            the convenience of the Collateral Agent or as required by the Servicer for convenience in administering the Covered Account or the Collateral.

           

          Section 8.02       Collateral Account and Collection Account.  (a)  In accordance with this Agreement and the Account Control Agreement, the Borrower shall, on or prior to the Closing
            Date, establish at the Securities Intermediary (i) the “Collateral Account,” which shall be maintained with the Securities Intermediary in accordance with the Account Control Agreement and which shall be subject to the Lien of the
            Collateral Agent, and (ii) the “Collection Account” which shall be maintained with the Securities Intermediary in accordance with the Account Control Agreement, which shall be subject to the Lien of the Collateral Agent and which shall
            consist of two segregated subaccounts, one of which will be designated the “Interest Collection Subaccount” and one of which will be designated the “Principal Collection Subaccount.”  The Collateral Agent shall from time to time
            deposit into the Interest Collection Subaccount, in addition to the deposits required pursuant to Section 8.06(a), promptly upon receipt thereof, all Interest Proceeds received by the Collateral Agent and identified as such by the Servicer. 
            The Collateral Agent shall deposit promptly upon receipt thereof all other amounts remitted to the Collection Account into the Principal Collection Subaccount including, in addition to the deposits required pursuant to Section 8.06(a), all
            Principal Proceeds (unless simultaneously reinvested in additional Collateral Loans in accordance with Article X or in Eligible Investments or required to be deposited in the Revolving Reserve Account pursuant to Section 8.04) received by the
            Collateral Agent and identified as such by the Servicer.  All Monies deposited from time to time in the Collection Account pursuant to this Agreement shall be held by the Collateral Agent as part of the Collateral and shall be applied to the
            purposes herein provided.  Subject to Section 8.02(c), amounts in the Collection Account shall be reinvested pursuant to Section 8.06(a).  Other than as expressly set forth herein, the Collateral Agent shall from time to time deposit into the
            Collateral Account any Collateral that is capable of being delivered to and held by the Securities Intermediary and credited to an account in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Account Control Agreement.

           

          
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          (b)         At any time when reinvestment is permitted pursuant to Article X, the Borrower, or the Servicer, acting on behalf of the Borrower (subject to compliance with Article X), may, by
            delivery of a certificate or an email (of a .pdf or other similar file) instruction of a Responsible Officer of the Servicer or a trade ticket, direct the Collateral Agent to, and upon receipt of such certificate, email or trade ticket, as
            applicable, the Collateral Agent shall, withdraw funds on deposit in the Principal Collection Subaccount representing Principal Proceeds (together with accrued interest received with regard to any Collateral Loan and Interest Proceeds but only
            to the extent used to pay for accrued interest on an additional Collateral Loan or to make a Permitted Distribution or Permitted RIC Distribution) and reinvest such funds in additional Collateral Loans or make a Permitted Distribution or
            Permitted RIC Distribution in accordance with such certificate, email or trade ticket.  At any time as of which sufficient funds are not on deposit in the Revolving Reserve Account, the Borrower, or the Servicer, acting on behalf of the
            Borrower, may, by delivery of a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Servicer, direct the Collateral Agent to, and upon receipt of such certificate the Collateral Agent shall, withdraw funds on deposit in the Principal Collection
            Subaccount representing Principal Proceeds and remit such funds as so directed by the Servicer to meet the Borrower’s funding obligations in respect of Delayed Drawdown Collateral Loans or Revolving Collateral Loans.

           

          (c)      The Collateral Agent shall transfer to the Payment Account, from the Collection Account for application pursuant to Section 9.01(a), on the Business Day prior to each Payment Date, the
            amount set forth to be so transferred in the Payment Date Report for such Payment Date.

           

          Section 8.03       Payment Account.  In accordance with this Agreement and the Account Control Agreement, the Borrower shall, on or prior to the Closing Date, establish at the
            Securities Intermediary a single, segregated trust account in the name “BPC Funding LLC Payment Account, subject to the Lien of the Collateral Agent,” which shall be designated as the “Payment Account,” which shall be maintained by the
            Borrower with the Securities Intermediary in accordance with the Account Control Agreement and which shall be subject to the Lien of the Collateral Agent.  Except as provided in Section 9.01, the only permitted withdrawal from or application of
            funds on deposit in, or otherwise to the credit of, the Payment Account shall be to pay amounts due and payable under the Priority of Payments on the Payment Dates in accordance with their terms and the provisions of this Agreement.  The
            Borrower shall not have any legal, equitable or beneficial interest in the Payment Account other than in accordance with this Agreement and the Priority of Payments.  Amounts on deposit in the Payment Account will not be invested.

           

          Section 8.04       The Revolving Reserve Account; Fundings.  In accordance with this Agreement and the Account Control Agreement, the Borrower shall, on or prior to the Closing Date,
            establish at the Securities Intermediary a single, segregated trust account in the name “BPC Funding LLC Revolving Reserve Account, subject to the Lien of the Collateral Agent,” which shall be designated as the “Revolving Reserve Account,”

            which shall be maintained by the Borrower with the Securities Intermediary in accordance with the Account Control Agreement and which shall be subject to the Lien of the Collateral Agent.  The only permitted deposits to or withdrawals from the
            Revolving Reserve Account shall be in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement.  The Borrower shall not have any legal, equitable or beneficial interest in the Revolving Reserve Account other than in accordance with this Agreement and
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          During the Reinvestment Period, fundings of Delayed Drawdown Collateral Loans and Revolving Collateral Loans shall be made using, first, amounts on deposit in the Revolving Reserve Account,
            then available Principal Proceeds on deposit in the Collection Account and finally, available Advances.  On the last day of the Reinvestment Period, to the extent the amount of funds on deposit in the Revolving Reserve Account are less than the
            Revolving Exposure, (x) the Borrower shall request a final Advance in an amount sufficient to fund the Revolving Reserve Account in an amount equal to the Revolving Exposure; provided that after giving effect to such Advance, the
            aggregate principal amount of the Advances then outstanding shall not exceed the Maximum Available Amount, and/or (y) the Borrower shall deposit other available funds into the Revolving Reserve Account in an amount sufficient to fund the
            Revolving Reserve Account in an amount equal to the Revolving Exposure.  After the Facility Termination Date, fundings of Delayed Drawdown Collateral Loans and Revolving Collateral Loans shall be made using, first, amounts on deposit in the
            Revolving Reserve Account, then available Principal Proceeds on deposit in the Collection Account.  In addition, after the Facility Termination Date, all Principal Proceeds received with respect to Revolving Collateral Loans shall be deposited
            into the Revolving Reserve Account to the extent such proceeds may be re-borrowed by the related Obligors.

           

          Amounts on deposit in the Revolving Reserve Account will be invested in overnight funds that are Eligible Investments selected by the Servicer pursuant to Section 8.06 and earnings from all
            such investments will be deposited in the Interest Collection Subaccount as Interest Proceeds.  Funds in the Revolving Reserve Account (other than earnings from Eligible Investments therein) will be available solely to cover drawdowns on the
            Delayed Drawdown Collateral Loans and Revolving Collateral Loans and settle purchases of Collateral Loans committed to be acquired by the Borrower prior to the end of the Reinvestment Period; provided that, to the extent that the
            aggregate amount of funds on deposit therein at any time exceeds an amount equal to the Revolving Exposure, the Collateral Agent, at the direction of the Borrower (or the Servicer on its behalf) shall remit such excess to the Principal
            Collection Subaccount.  In addition, following the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, funds in the Revolving Reserve Account may be withdrawn by the Collateral Agent and deposited into the Principal Collection
            Subaccount pursuant to and at the direction of the Administrative Agent.

           

          Section 8.05        [Reserved].

           

          Section 8.06     Reinvestment of Funds in Covered Accounts; Reports by Collateral Agent.  (a)  By delivery of a certificate of a Responsible Officer (which may be in the form of
            standing instructions), the Borrower (or the Servicer on behalf of the Borrower) shall at all times direct the Collateral Agent to, and, upon receipt of such certificate, the Collateral Agent shall, in accordance with such direction, (i) invest
            all funds on deposit in the Collection Account and the Revolving Reserve Account in Eligible Investments having stated maturities no later than the Business Day preceding the next Payment Date (or such shorter maturities expressly provided
            herein, including Section 8.04 above) or (ii) withdraw such funds for the purposes of making payments in respect of outstanding Advances in the applicable Available Currency at such time.  If, prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default, the
            Servicer shall not have given any such investment directions, the Collateral Agent shall invest and reinvest such Monies as fully as practicable in the Specified Eligible Investment (or if none has been selected, shall remain uninvested). 
            After the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, the Collateral Agent shall invest and reinvest such Monies as fully as practicable in Eligible Investments selected by the Administrative Agent (and if no Eligible
            Investment has been specified, such funds shall be invested in the Eligible Investment selected by the Servicer or in the Specified Eligible Investment, or held uninvested if none has been selected).  Except to the extent expressly provided
            otherwise herein, all interest, gain, loss and other income from such investments shall be deposited, credited or charged (as applicable) in and to the Interest Collection Subaccount.  Absent its timely receipt of such instruction from the
            Servicer in accordance with the foregoing, the Collateral Agent shall not be under an obligation to invest (or pay interest on) funds held hereunder.  The Collateral Agent shall in no way be liable for any insufficiency in a Covered Account
            resulting from any loss relating to any such investment.

           

          
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          (b)          The Collateral Agent agrees to give the Borrower prompt notice if any Covered Account or any funds on deposit in any Covered Account, or otherwise to the credit of a Covered
            Account, shall become subject to any writ, order, judgment, warrant of attachment, execution or similar process.  All Covered Accounts shall remain at all times with the Securities Intermediary.

           

          (c)          The Collateral Agent shall supply, in a timely fashion, to the Borrower and the Servicer any information regularly maintained by the Collateral Agent that the Borrower or the
            Servicer may from time to time reasonably request with respect to the Collateral, the Covered Accounts and the other Collateral and provide any other requested information reasonably available to the Collateral Agent and required to be provided
            by Section 8.07 or to permit the Servicer to perform its obligations hereunder or the Borrower’s obligations hereunder that have been delegated to the Servicer.  The Collateral Agent shall promptly forward to the Servicer copies of notices and
            other writings received by it from the Obligor of any Collateral Loan or from any Clearing Agency with respect to any Collateral Loan which notices or writings advise the holders of such Collateral Loan of any rights that the holders might have
            with respect thereto (including requests to vote with respect to amendments or waivers and notices of prepayments and redemptions) as well as all periodic financial reports received from such Obligor and Clearing Agency with respect to such
            Obligor.

           

          Section 8.07          Accountings.

           

          (a)          Monthly.  Not later than two (2) Business Days prior to the 20th calendar day of each calendar month, beginning with September 2021 (other than February, May, August and
            November in each year) (such date, the “Monthly Reporting Date”), the Servicer shall compile and provide (or cause to be provided) to the Agents and the Lenders, a monthly report for the prior calendar month (each, a “Monthly Report”)

            in accordance with this Section 8.07, which Monthly Report may be amended, modified or otherwise supplemented from time to time with the consent of the Servicer and the Administrative Agent.  The Servicer shall compile and provide to the
            Collateral Agent and the Administrative Agent a loan data file (the “Data File”) in the form of Exhibit H for the previous monthly period ending on the Monthly Report Determination Date (containing such information agreed upon by the
            Servicer, the Collateral Agent and the Administrative Agent).  The Servicer shall provide (or cause to be provided) the Data File to the Collateral Agent at least three (3) Business Days prior to the Monthly Reporting Date and, with respect to
            a Payment Date Report, at least three (3) Business Days prior to the Payment Date.  The Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to review and, based solely on the Data File provided by the Borrower (or Servicer on its
            behalf), re-calculate the calculations in clauses (i) through (xvi) below made by the Servicer in any such Monthly Report or Payment Date Report, as applicable, for such calendar month, within two (2) Business Days of the receipt thereof and
            notify the Servicer and the Administrative Agent in the event of any discrepancy between the Collateral Agent’s calculations and the Monthly Report and Payment Date Report.  The Collateral Agent shall re-calculate pursuant to the preceding
            sentence:  (i) Aggregate Net Collateral Balance, (ii) Borrowing Base, (iii) Excess Concentration Amount, (iv) Maximum Available Amount, (v) Class 1A Borrowing Base, (vi) Class 1B Borrowing Base, (vii) Class 2A Borrowing Base, (viii) Class 2B
            Borrowing Base, (ix) Class 3A Borrowing Base, (x) Class 3B Borrowing Base, (xi) Class 1A OC Ratio, (xii) Class 1B OC Ratio, (xiii) Class 2A OC Ratio, (xiv) Class 2B OC Ratio, (xv) Class 3A OC Ratio, (xvi) Class 3B OC Ratio, (xvii) each Class
            Minimum OC Coverage Test, (xviii) each Coverage Test, (xix) the Collateral Quality Test, (xx) for any Payment Date Report completion of Priority of Payments pursuant to Section 9.01(a), (xxi) balances for each of the Covered Accounts and
            (xxii) such other calculations as may be mutually agreed upon by the Collateral Agent, the Servicer and the Administrative Agent.  Upon receipt of such notice reporting and showing discrepancies, if any, from the Collateral Agent and in any
            event by no later than the Monthly Reporting Date, the Servicer shall compile and provide (or cause to be compiled and provided) to the Agents and the Lenders the Monthly Report.  As used herein, the “Monthly Report Determination Date”
            with respect to any calendar month in which a Payment Date does not occur will be the last day of such calendar month (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next Business Day).The Monthly Report for a calendar month shall contain the
            information with respect to the Collateral Loans and Eligible Investments included in the Collateral and such other information that is agreed to by the Servicer, the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent from time to time, and shall be
            determined as of the Monthly Report Determination Date for such calendar month.

           

          
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          In addition, the Borrower shall provide (or cause to be provided) in each Monthly Report a statement setting forth in reasonable detail each amendment, modification or waiver under any Related
            Document for each Collateral Loan that constitutes a Material Modification that became effective since the immediately preceding Monthly Report (or, in respect of the first Monthly Report, from the Closing Date).

           

          (b)          Payment Date Accounting. The Borrower shall render (or cause to be rendered) an accounting (each, a “Payment Date Report”), determined as of the close of business on
            each Determination Date preceding a Payment Date (such Determination Date, a “Payment Date Report Determination Date”), and shall deliver such Payment Date Report to the Agents, the Servicer and each Lender not later than the second
            Business Day preceding the related Payment Date. The Payment Date Report shall contain the information that is agreed to by the Servicer, the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent from time to time.

           

          (c)          Daily Accounting.  For each Business Day, the Collateral Agent shall render to the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent and the Servicer) (i) a daily cash
            position report with respect to the Covered Accounts in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit J, and (ii) a daily position report with respect to the Collateral Loans in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit K.

           

          
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          (d)          Failure to Provide Accounting.  If the Collateral Agent shall not have received any accounting provided for in this Section 8.07 on the first Business Day after the date on
            which such accounting is due to the Collateral Agent, the Collateral Agent shall notify the Servicer who shall use reasonable efforts to obtain such accounting by the applicable Monthly Reporting Date or Payment Date, as applicable.  The
            Collateral Agent shall in no event have any liability for the actions or omissions of the Servicer, the Borrower or any other Person, and shall have no liability for any inaccuracy or error in any duty performed by it that results from or is
            caused by inaccurate, untimely or incomplete information or data received by it from the Servicer, the Borrower or another Person (other than claims relating to the Collateral Agent’s gross negligence or willful misconduct).

           

          Section 8.08        Release of Collateral.  (a)  The Borrower may, by delivery of a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Servicer (with the written consent of the Administrative
            Agent if the Administrative Agent has notified the Collateral Agent in writing, following the occurrence of or during the continuation of an Event of Default, to only permit releases with the written consent of the Administrative Agent)
            delivered to the Collateral Agent and Custodian, as applicable, on or prior to the settlement date for any sale of any item of Collateral certifying that the sale of such loan is being made in accordance with Section 10.01 and such sale
            complies with all applicable requirements of Section 10.01, direct the Collateral Agent to release or cause to be released such item from the Lien of this Agreement and, upon receipt of such certificate, the Collateral Agent (or Custodian, as
            applicable) shall deliver any such item, if in physical form, duly endorsed to the broker or purchaser designated in such certificate or, if such item is a Clearing Corporation Security, cause an appropriate transfer thereof to be made, in each
            case against receipt of the sales price therefor as specified by the Servicer in such certificate; provided that the Collateral Agent (or Custodian, as applicable) may deliver any such item in physical form for examination in accordance
            with street delivery custom; provided, further that neither the Collateral Agent nor the Custodian will be deemed to have notice of an Event of Default unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent or the Custodian, as
            applicable, has received written notice thereof.

           

          (b)         Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Collateral Agent (or Custodian, as applicable) shall, upon the receipt of a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Servicer, deliver
            any Collateral in accordance with such certificate, and execute such documents or instruments as are delivered by or on behalf of the Borrower and reasonably necessary to release or cause to be released such security from the Lien of this
            Agreement, which is set for any mandatory call or redemption or payment in full to the appropriate paying agent on or before the date set for such call, redemption or payment, in each case against receipt of the call or redemption price or
            payment in full thereof.

           

          (c)       As provided in Section 8.02(a), the Collateral Agent shall deposit any proceeds received by it from the disposition of any Collateral in the applicable subaccount of the Collection
            Account as instructed by the Servicer, unless simultaneously applied to the purchase of additional Collateral Loans or Eligible Investments as permitted under and in accordance with the requirements of this Article VIII and Article X.

           

          (d)        The Collateral Agent shall, upon receipt of a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower certifying that there are no Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amounts outstanding
            and all Obligations of the Borrower hereunder and under the other Facility Documents have been satisfied, execute such documents or instruments as are delivered by or on behalf of the Borrower and reasonably necessary to release any remaining
            Collateral from the Lien of this Agreement.

           

          
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          (e)          Any Collateral Loan or amounts that are released pursuant to Section 8.08(a) or (b) shall be automatically released from the Lien of this Agreement.

           

          Section 8.09      Reports by Independent Accountants.  (a)  The Servicer will cause Protiviti Inc., or KPMG or any other firm of nationally recognized independent public accountants
            (who may also render other services to the Servicer) consented to by the Administrative Agent (the “Independent Accountants”) to furnish to the Administrative Agent, each Lender and the Collateral Agent (i) on or prior to April 30, 2022
            (the “Initial AUP Report Date”), a report relating to one Monthly Report and one Payment Date Report (in each case, as selected by the Administrative Agent), each delivered prior to the Initial AUP Report Date, and (ii) on or prior to
            each one-year anniversary of the Initial AUP Report Date (each such anniversary, an “AUP Report Date”), a report relating to one Monthly Report and one Payment Date Report (in each case, as selected by the Administrative Agent),
            delivered during the twelve (12) months immediately preceding such AUP Report Date, in each case, to the effect that such accountants have applied certain agreed-upon procedures (a copy of which procedures are attached hereto as Exhibit F, it
            being understood that the Servicer and the Administrative Agent will provide an updated Exhibit F reflecting any further amendments to such Exhibit F prior to the issuance of the first such agreed-upon procedures report, a copy of which shall
            replace the then existing Exhibit F) to certain documents and records relating to the Collateral under any Facility Document, compare the information contained in selected Monthly Reports and Payment Date Reports (and all calculations therein)
            delivered during the period covered by such report with such documents and records and that no matters came to the attention of such accountants that caused them to believe that such servicing was not conducted in compliance with this
            Agreement, except for such exceptions as such accountants shall believe to be immaterial and such other exceptions as shall be set forth in such statement.

           

          (b)         In the event the Independent Accountants appointed pursuant to clause (a) above require the Collateral Agent to agree to the procedures performed by such Independent Accountants
            with respect to any of the reports, statements or certificates of such Independent Accountants, or sign any agreement in connection therewith, the Borrower hereby directs the Collateral Agent to agree to the terms and conditions requested by
            such Independent Accountants as a condition to receiving documentation required by this Agreement  (it being understood and agreed that no such terms shall result in any obligation or liability on the Borrower or any of its Affiliates); it
            being understood and agreed that the Collateral Agent shall deliver such agreement in conclusive reliance on the foregoing direction and shall make no inquiry or investigation as to, and shall have no obligation or responsibility in respect of,
            the terms of the engagement of such Independent Accountants by the Borrower or the sufficiency, validity or correctness of the agreed upon procedures in respect of such engagement.  The Borrower hereby authorizes and directs the Collateral
            Agent, without liability on its part, to execute and deliver any such agreement with such Independent Accountants in the form presented to it by the Borrower (or the Servicer on behalf of the Borrower), which agreement, to the extent so
            directed by the Borrower (or the Servicer on behalf of the Borrower), may include, amongst other things, (i) an acknowledgement that the Borrower (or the Servicer on behalf of the Borrower) has agreed that the procedures by such Independent
            Accountants are sufficient for the relevant purposes, (ii) releases by the Collateral Agent of any claims, liabilities and expenses arising out of or relating to such Independent Accountant’s engagement, agreed-upon procedures or any report,
            statement or certificate issued by such Independent Accountants under any such engagement and acknowledgement of other limitations of liability in favor of such Independent Accountants and (iii) restrictions or prohibitions on the disclosure of
            any such reports, statements, certificates or other information or documents provided to it by such Independent Accountants.

           

          
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          ARTICLE IX

            

            APPLICATION OF MONIES

           

          Section 9.01       Disbursements of Monies from Payment Account.  (a)  Notwithstanding any other provision in this Agreement, but subject to the other subsections of this Section 9.01,
            on each Payment Date, the Collateral Agent shall disburse amounts transferred from the Collection Account to the Payment Account pursuant to Section 8.02 in accordance with the Payment Date Report and the following priorities (the “Priority
              of Payments”):

           

          (i)          On each Payment Date so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, Interest Proceeds on deposit in the Interest
            Collection Subaccount, to the extent received on or before the related Determination Date (or, if such Determination Date is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day) will be transferred into the Payment Account, to be applied in
            the following order of priority:

           

          (A)        to pay registration, registered office and filing fees, if any, of the Borrower, subject to a cap of $15,000 per annum;

           

          (B)       to pay Administrative Expenses; provided that the amounts in this clause (B) shall not exceed the Administrative Expense Cap;

           

          (C)        to each Lender, pro rata, based on amounts owed, to pay accrued and unpaid Interest on the Advances and Unused Fees due
            to each such Lender and amounts payable to each such Lender under Section 2.11;

           

          (D)        to the Administrative Agent to pay all fees and expenses of the Administrative Agent under the Facility Documents;

           

          (E)        (1) first, to the Servicer to pay the Servicer Fee, plus any Servicer Fee that remains due and unpaid in respect of any
            prior Payment Dates as a result of insufficient funds and (2) second, to pay Servicer Expenses; provided that the amounts in this clause (E)(2) shall not exceed the Servicer Expense Cap for such
            Payment Date;

           

          (F)       (1) on the Payment Date occurring after the 12-month anniversary of the Facility Termination Date, pro rata to the Lenders
            to reduce the outstanding principal amount to not more than 75% of the outstanding principal amount as of the Facility Termination Date (calculated after giving effect to any paydown on such Payment Date pursuant to Section 9.01(a)(ii)) and
            (2) on the Payment Date occurring after the 18-month anniversary of the Facility Termination Date, pro rata to the Lenders to reduce the outstanding principal amount to not more than 50% of the
            outstanding principal amount as of the Facility Termination Date (calculated after giving effect to any paydown on such Payment Date pursuant to Section 9.01(a)(ii));

           

          
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          (G)      if the Coverage Test is not satisfied as of the relevant Determination Date, to pay principal of the Advances of each Lender (pro
              rata, based on each Lender’s Percentage) until the Coverage Test is satisfied (on a pro forma basis as at such Determination Date); provided that the Borrower shall be permitted to
            allocate such principal payments among the Classes on each Payment Date so long as, after giving effect to such allocation of payments on such Payment Date, each Class Minimum OC Coverage Test is satisfied; provided, further,
            that, if the Borrower would be unable to cause each Class Minimum OC Coverage Test to be satisfied on any Payment Date after allocating such payments, the Administrative Agent shall allocate such payments in its sole discretion;

           

          (H)       (i) during the Reinvestment Period, at the discretion of the Servicer, for deposit into the Revolving Reserve Account until the amount on deposit therein equals the
            Revolving Exposure and (ii) after the Reinvestment Period, for deposit into the Revolving Reserve Account until the amount on deposit therein equals the Revolving Exposure;

           

          (I)        to pay, on a pro rata basis, accrued and unpaid amounts owing to Affected Persons (if any) under Sections 2.10 and 13.04,
            all unpaid Facility Reduction Fees and all other fees, expenses or indemnities owed to the Secured Parties or Indemnified Parties;

           

          (J)         (1) first, to the payment or application of amounts referred to in clause (B) above (in the same order of priority
            specified therein), to the extent not paid in full pursuant to applications under such clause, (2) second, to the payment or application of amounts referred to in clause (D) above to the extent not paid
            in full pursuant to such clause and (3) third, to the payment or application of amounts referred to in clause (E) above to the extent not paid in full pursuant to such clause; and

           

          (K)          (1) if a Default has occurred and is continuing (unless all Obligations owing to the Lenders have been paid in full (other than contingent indemnification and
            expense reimbursement obligations as to which no claim has been asserted)), to remain in the Interest Collection Subaccount (other than any Permitted RIC Distribution) or (2) otherwise, any remaining amount shall be released to the Equityholder
            or its designee (or, at the direction of the Servicer, deposited into the Principal Collection Subaccount for investment in Collateral Loans), whether in the form of a distribution or otherwise.

           

          (ii)          On each Payment Date so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, except for any Principal Proceeds that will be
            used to settle binding commitments entered into prior to the related Determination Date for the purchase of Collateral Loans, Principal Proceeds on deposit in the Principal Collection Subaccount to the extent received on or before the related
            Determination Date (or, if such Determination Date is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day) will be transferred to the Payment Account to be applied in the following order of priority:

           

          
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          (A)          to the payment of unpaid amounts under clauses (A) through (E) in clause (i) above (in the same order of priority specified therein), to the extent not paid in
            full thereunder, but subject to any caps specified therein;

           

          (B)          during the Reinvestment Period, (i) if the Coverage Test is not satisfied as of the relevant Determination Date, to pay principal of the Advances of each Lender
            (pro rata, based on each Lender’s Percentage) until the Coverage Test is satisfied (on a pro forma basis as at such Determination Date) and (ii) at the option of
            the Equityholder, to the Principal Collection Subaccount for the purchase of additional Collateral Loans (including funding Revolving Collateral Loans and Delayed Drawdown Collateral Loans) and/or for the making of any Permitted Distribution or
            Permitted RIC Distribution;

           

          (C)          after the Reinvestment Period, to pay the Advances of each Lender (pro rata, based on each Lender’s Percentage) until
            the Advances are paid in full; provided that the Borrower shall be permitted to allocate such principal payments among the Classes on each Payment Date so long as, after giving effect to such allocation of payments on such Payment Date,
            each Class Minimum OC Coverage Test is satisfied; provided, further, that, if the Borrower would be unable to cause each Class Minimum OC Coverage Test to be satisfied on any Payment Date after allocating such payments, the
            Administrative Agent shall allocate such payments in its sole discretion;

           

          (D)          to the payment of amounts referred to in clauses (I) and (J) of clause (i) above (in the same order of priority specified therein), to the extent not paid in
            full thereunder; and

           

          (E)          (1) if a Default has occurred and is continuing (unless all Obligations owing to the Lenders have been paid in full (other than contingent indemnification and
            expense reimbursement obligations as to which no claim has been asserted)), to remain in the Principal Collection Subaccount (other than any Permitted RIC Distribution) or (2) otherwise, any remaining amount shall be released to the
            Equityholder or its designee (or, at the direction of the Servicer, deposited into the Principal Collection Subaccount for investment in Collateral Loans), whether in the form of a distribution or otherwise.

           

          (iii)       On each Payment Date following the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default, all Interest Proceeds in the Interest Collection Subaccount and all
            Principal Proceeds in the Principal Collection Subaccount, except for any Principal Proceeds that will be used to settle binding commitments entered into prior to the related Determination Date for the purchase of Collateral Loans, in each
            case, to the extent received on or before the related Determination Date (or, if such Determination Date is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day) will be transferred to the Payment Account to be applied in the following order of
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          (A)         to pay registration, registered office and filing fees, if any, of the Borrower, subject to a cap of $15,000 per annum;

           

          (B)       (1) first, to pay Administrative Expenses as provided in Section 9.01(a)(i)(B) without regard to the Administrative
            Expense Cap and (2) second, to the Administrative Agent to pay all fees and expenses of the Administrative Agent under the Facility Documents;

           

          (C)        to each Lender, pro rata, based on amounts owed, to pay accrued and unpaid Interest on the Advances and Unused Fees due
            to each such Lender and amounts payable to each such Lender under Section 2.11;

           

          (D)       (1) first, to the Servicer to pay the Servicer Fee, plus any Servicer Fee that remains due and unpaid in respect of any
            prior Payment Dates as a result of insufficient funds and (2) second, to pay Servicer Expenses in accordance with the priorities specified in the definition thereof; provided that the amounts in
            this clause (D)(2) shall not exceed the Servicer Expense Cap;

           

          (E)       to pay the principal of the Advances of each Lender (pro rata, based on each Lender’s Percentage) until paid in full; provided
            that the Administrative Agent shall allocate such principal payments among the Classes in its sole discretion;

           

          (F)       to pay, on a pro rata basis, accrued and unpaid amounts owing to Affected Persons (if any) under Sections 2.10 and 13.04,
            all unpaid Facility Reduction Fees and all other fees, expenses or indemnities owed to the Secured Parties or Indemnified Parties;

           

          (G)        to the payment of amounts referred to in clause (D)(2) above, to the extent not paid in full pursuant to such clause; and

           

          (H)       any remaining amount shall be released to the Equityholder (or its designee) or the Servicer (or its designee), whether in the form of a distribution or otherwise.

           

          (b)         If on any Payment Date the amount available in the Payment Account is insufficient to make the full amount of the disbursements required by the Payment Date Report, the Collateral
            Agent shall make the disbursements called for in the order and according to the priority set forth under Section 9.01(a) to the extent funds are available therefor.

           

          
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          ARTICLE X

            

            SALE OF COLLATERAL LOANS;

            PURCHASE OF ADDITIONAL COLLATERAL LOANS

           

          Section 10.01          Sales of Collateral Loans.

           

          (a)          Discretionary Sales of Collateral Loans.  Subject to the satisfaction of the conditions specified in Section 10.03, the Borrower (or the Servicer on behalf of the Borrower)
            may, but will not be required to, direct the Collateral Agent to sell, and the Collateral Agent shall sell in the manner directed by the Servicer, any Collateral Loan if such sale meets the requirements set forth below (as shown in the
            Borrowing Base Calculation Statement delivered with respect thereto in accordance with Section 5.02(d)(iii)):

           

          (i)          no Default or Event of Default exists or would result upon giving effect thereto; provided that the Borrower (or the Servicer on behalf of the Borrower)
            may sell one or more Collateral Loans if after giving effect thereto and the application of the proceeds thereof any existing Default or Event of Default would be cured;

           

          (ii)          upon giving effect thereto and the application of the proceeds thereof, the Collateral Quality Test is satisfied (or, if not satisfied immediately prior to such
            sale, compliance with such Collateral Quality Test is maintained or improved);

           

          (iii)         the Administrative Agent has provided prior written consent to such sale, if upon giving effect thereto and the application of the proceeds thereof, the Minimum
            OC Coverage Test would not be satisfied;

           

          (iv)        the Administrative Agent has provided prior written consent to such sale, if such sale is to the Equityholder, the Servicer or a Person that is an Affiliate of
            the Borrower, the Equityholder or the Servicer unless it complies with Section 10.03;

           

          (v)          the Administrative Agent has provided prior written consent to such sale, if the proceeds from such proposed sale would be less than the lesser of (x) the
            Adjusted Principal Balance of such Collateral Loan and (y) the purchase price of such Collateral Loan paid by the Borrower; and

           

          (vi)         the Administrative Agent has provided prior written consent to such sale, if the sale is during the Reinvestment Period and after giving effect to such proposed
            sale, the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Collateral Loans sold or disposed of by the Borrower during the immediately preceding twelve calendar months (or since the Closing Date, if the Trade Date of such proposed sale would occur earlier
            than twelve calendar months following the Closing Date) would be greater than 30% of the Maximum Facility Amount);

           

          provided that the restriction in clauses (iv) and (vi) above in this Section 10.01(a) shall not apply to sales of Defaulted Collateral Loans, Ineligible Collateral Loans or Warranty Collateral
            Loans (as defined in the Loan Sale Agreement).

           

          
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          Notwithstanding anything above that would otherwise prohibit the sale of a Collateral Loan after the occurrence or during the continuance of a Default or an Event of Default, if the Borrower
            entered into an agreement to sell any such Collateral prior to the occurrence of such Default or an Event of Default, but such sale did not settle prior to the occurrence of such Default or an Event of Default, then the Borrower shall be
            permitted to consummate such sale notwithstanding the occurrence of such Default or an Event of Default; provided that the settlement for such sale occurs within the customary settlement period for similar trades.

           

          (b)          Ineligible Collateral Loans. Notwithstanding Section 10.01(a), if on any day a Collateral Loan is no longer an Eligible Collateral Loan and the Coverage Test is not
            satisfied as of such day, the Borrower shall either make a deposit of the funds and/or deliver one or more replacement Collateral Loans for such ineligible Collateral Loan, in each case pursuant to the Loan Sale Agreement and in accordance with
            Section 10.03; provided that this clause (b) shall not require the Borrower to sell any such Collateral Loan. Upon confirmation of the deposit of the amount described above into the Collection Account or the delivery to the Borrower of
            the replacement Collateral Loans, such ineligible Collateral Loan shall be removed from the Collateral and the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, shall automatically and without further action be deemed to release to the
            Borrower, without recourse, representation or warranty, all the right, title and interest and any Lien of the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties in, to and under such ineligible Collateral Loan.

           

          (c)          Sales of Equity Securities.  The Borrower (or the Servicer on behalf of the Borrower) may sell any Equity Security at any time without restriction, and shall use its
            commercially reasonable efforts to effect the sale of any Equity Security, regardless of price, within forty-five (45) days of receipt if such Equity Security constitutes Margin Stock, unless such sale is prohibited by Applicable Law or
            contract, in which case such Equity Security should be sold as soon as such sale is permitted by Applicable Law or contract.

           

          Section 10.02     Purchase of Additional Collateral Loans.  (a)  On any date during the Reinvestment Period, if no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Borrower (or the
            Servicer on behalf of the Borrower) may, if each of the conditions specified in this Section 10.02 and Section 10.04 are met, invest Principal Proceeds (and accrued interest received with respect to any Collateral Loan to the extent used to pay
            for accrued interest on additional Collateral Loans and other amounts on deposit in the Principal Collection Subaccount) in additional Collateral Loans on the current Approved List or subject to an Approval Request; provided that no
            Collateral Loan (excluding subsequent draws under Revolving Collateral Loans or Delayed Drawdown Collateral Loans) may be purchased unless each of the following conditions are satisfied as of the date the Servicer commits on behalf of the
            Borrower to make such purchase and after giving effect to such purchase and all other sales or purchases previously or simultaneously committed to:

           

          (i)         the Borrower shall have delivered and the Administrative Agent shall have approved an Approval Request with respect to the Collateral Loan pursuant to the terms
            of Section 2.02;

           

          (ii)          such obligation is an Eligible Collateral Loan; and

           

          (iii)      the Minimum OC Coverage Test and the Collateral Quality Test are satisfied (or, if not satisfied immediately prior to such investment, compliance with such Minimum
            OC Coverage Test and/or Collateral Quality Test is maintained or improved).

           

          
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          Section 10.03      Conditions Applicable to All Sale and Purchase Transactions.  (a) Any transaction effected under this Article X (other than sales required by Section 10.01(c)) or in
            connection with the acquisition of additional Collateral Loans if effected with a Person that is the Equityholder or an Affiliate thereof (or with an account or portfolio for which the Equityholder or any of its Affiliates serves as investment
            adviser), shall be, in each case except as otherwise expressly permitted under the Facility Documents, (i) for fair market value, (ii) in compliance with Section 5.03(h), (iii) effected in accordance with all Applicable Laws, (iv) the Principal
            Balance of all Equityholder Collateral Loans (other than Warranty Collateral Loans) substituted or sold by the Borrower to the Equityholder or an Affiliate thereof may not exceed 20% of the Equityholder Purchased Loan Balance measured as of the
            date of such sale or dividend, and (v) the Principal Balance of all Equityholder Collateral Loans (other than Warranty Collateral Loans) that are Defaulted Collateral Loans substituted or sold by the Borrower to the Equityholder or an Affiliate
            thereof may not exceed 10% of the Equityholder Purchased Loan Balance measured as of the date of such sale or dividend.

           

          (b)         Upon each acquisition by the Borrower of a Collateral Loan, (i) all of the Borrower’s right, title and interest to such Collateral Loan shall be subject to the Lien granted to the
            Collateral Agent pursuant to this Agreement and (ii) such Collateral Loan shall be Delivered to the Collateral Agent.

           

          Section 10.04      Additional Equity Contributions.  (a)  The Equityholder may, but shall have no obligation to, at any time or from time to time make a capital contribution to the
            Borrower for any purpose, including for the purpose of curing any Default, satisfying the Minimum OC Coverage Test, enabling the acquisition or sale of any Collateral Loan or satisfying any conditions under Section 3.02.  Each contribution
            shall either be made (a) in Cash (in which event such contributions shall be made by deposit into the Collection Account), (b) by assignment and contribution of an Eligible Investment and/or (c) by assignment of a Collateral Loan that is an
            Eligible Collateral Loan.  In connection with any contribution described in this Section 10.04 (other than a contribution of a portion of the purchase price of a Collateral Loan acquired in accordance with the Loan Sale Agreement), the Borrower
            (or the Servicer on its behalf) shall provide written instruction to the Collateral Agent identifying (a) the subclause under which such contribution is being made (the “Contribution Notice”) and (b)(i) in the case of contributions made
            in cash, (A) the timing of such contribution and (B) the amount of such contribution and (ii) in the case of contributions made by assignment and contribution of an Eligible Investment and/or by assignment of a Collateral Loan that is an
            Eligible Collateral Loan, (A) the name of such Eligible Investment and/or Collateral Loan and (B) attaching the accompanying assignment forms.  All cash contributed to the Borrower shall be treated as Principal Proceeds, except to the extent
            that the Borrower (or the Servicer on its behalf) specifies in the Contribution Notice that such Cash shall constitute Interest Proceeds and shall be deposited into a Collection Account in accordance with Section 8.02 as designated by the
            Borrower (or the Servicer on its behalf).

           

          Section 10.05      Transfer of Warranty Collateral Loans.  The Borrower may transfer any Warranty Collateral Loan to the Equityholder, or to any third party at the Equityholder’s
            discretion, to consummate the sale or substitution of such Warranty Collateral Loan pursuant to, and in accordance with the terms of, Article VI of the Loan Sale Agreement.

           

          
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          ARTICLE XI

            

            ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF CONTRACTS

           

          Section 11.01      Appointment and Designation of the Servicer.

           

          (a)          Initial Servicer.  The Borrower hereby appoints BPCC, pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, as Servicer, with the authority to service, administer and
            exercise rights and remedies, on behalf of the Borrower, in respect of the Collateral.  BPCC hereby accepts such appointment and agrees to perform the duties and responsibilities of the Servicer pursuant to the terms hereof.  The Servicer and
            the Borrower hereby acknowledge that the Administrative Agent and the Secured Parties are third party beneficiaries of the obligations undertaken by the Servicer hereunder.

           

          (b)        Subcontracts.  The Servicer may, without the consent of any party but with prior written notice to the Administrative Agent, subcontract with any other Person for servicing,
            administering or collecting the Collateral; provided that (i) the Servicer shall select any such Person with reasonable care and shall be solely responsible for the fees and expenses payable to any such Person and (ii) the Servicer shall not be
            relieved of, and shall remain liable for, the performance of the duties and obligations of the Servicer pursuant to the terms hereof without regard to any subcontracting arrangement.

           

          Section 11.02      Duties of the Servicer.

           

          (a)          Duties.  The Servicer shall take or cause to be taken all such actions as may be necessary or advisable to service, administer and collect on the Collateral from time to
            time, all in accordance with Applicable Law and the Servicing Standard.  Subject to the terms of this Agreement (including Section 11.04 and Article VI), the Servicer has the sole and exclusive authority to make any and all decisions with
            respect to the Collateral and take or refrain from taking any and all actions with respect to the Collateral.  Without limiting the foregoing, the duties of the Servicer shall include the following:

           

          (i)        supervising the Collateral, including communicating with Obligors, executing amendments, providing consents and waivers, exercising voting rights, enforcing and
            collecting on the Collateral and otherwise managing the Collateral on behalf of the Borrower;

           

          (ii)          maintaining all necessary servicing records with respect to the Collateral and providing such reports to the Administrative Agent and each Lender (with a copy
            to the Collateral Agent and the Custodian) in respect of the servicing of the Collateral (including information relating to its performance under this Agreement) as may be required hereunder or as the Administrative Agent or any Lender may
            reasonably request and which can be obtained without any undue burden or expense;

           

          
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          (iii)     maintaining and implementing administrative and operating procedures (including an ability to recreate servicing records evidencing the Collateral in the event of
            the destruction of the originals thereof) and keeping and maintaining all documents, books, records and other information reasonably necessary or advisable for the collection of the Collateral;

           

          (iv)       promptly delivering to the Administrative Agent, each Lender, the Collateral Agent or the Custodian, from time to time, such information and servicing records
            (including information relating to its performance under this Agreement) as the Administrative Agent, each Lender, the Custodian or the Collateral Agent may from time to time reasonably request and which can be obtained without any undue burden
            or expense;

           

          (v)        identifying each Collateral Loan in its internal servicing records to reflect the ownership of such Collateral Loan by the Borrower;

           

          (vi)        notifying the Administrative Agent and each Lender of any material action, suit, proceeding, dispute, offset, deduction, defense or counterclaim (A) that is or is
            threatened to be asserted by an Obligor with respect to any Collateral Loan (or portion thereof) of which it has actual knowledge or has received notice; or (B) that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;

           

          (vii)        maintaining the perfected security interest of the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, in the Collateral;

           

          (viii)       directing the Collateral Agent to make payments pursuant to the terms of the Payment Date Report;

           

          (ix)         assisting the Borrower with respect to the purchase and sale of and payment for the Collateral Loans and Eligible Investments;

           

          (x)         instructing the Obligors and/or the administrative agents, as applicable, on the Collateral Loans to make payments directly into the Collection Account
            established and maintained with the Collateral Agent;

           

          (xi)         delivering assignments and promissory notes to the Custodian;

           

          (xii)        complying with such other duties and responsibilities as may be required of the Servicer by this Agreement; and

           

          (xiii)     assisting in the acquisition and sale of Collateral Loans and other Collateral in accordance with Article X and the Servicing Standard.

           

          It is acknowledged and agreed that in circumstances in which a Person other than the Borrower or the Servicer acts as lead agent with respect to any Collateral Loan, the Servicer shall perform
            its servicing duties hereunder only to the extent a lender under the applicable Related Documents has the right to do so.

           

          
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          (b)         Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the exercise by the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Secured Parties of their rights hereunder shall not
            release the Servicer or the Borrower from any of their duties or responsibilities with respect to the Collateral.  The Secured Parties, the Administrative Agent, each Lender and the Collateral Agent shall not have any obligation or liability
            with respect to any Collateral, nor shall any of them be obligated to perform any of the obligations of the Servicer hereunder.

           

          (c)         Any payment by an Obligor in respect of any indebtedness owed by it to the Borrower shall, except as otherwise specified by such Obligor or otherwise required by contract or law and
            unless otherwise instructed by the Administrative Agent, be applied as a collection of a payment by such Obligor (starting with the oldest such outstanding payment due, provided such obligation is not on non-accrual) to the extent of any
            amounts then due and payable thereunder before being applied to any other receivable or other obligation of such Obligor.

           

          (d)         The Servicer agrees to supervise and assist in the investment and reinvestment of the Collateral, and shall perform on behalf of the Borrower the duties that have been expressly
            delegated to the Servicer in this Agreement and any other Facility Document (and the Servicer shall have no obligation to perform any other duties hereunder or otherwise) and, to the extent necessary or appropriate to perform such duties, the
            Servicer shall have the power to execute and deliver all necessary and appropriate documents and instruments on behalf of the Borrower with respect thereto.  The Servicer shall comply with the terms and conditions hereof and any other Facility
            Document expressly applicable to it, in its capacity as the Servicer, or otherwise affecting the duties and functions that have been delegated to it thereunder and hereunder as the Servicer and shall perform its obligations hereunder and
            thereunder in good faith and with reasonable care, using a degree of skill and attention no less than (i) that which would be exercised by a prudent institutional servicer in connection with the servicing and administration of assets similar to
            the Collateral Loans under similar circumstances and (ii) the Servicer and its Affiliates exercise with respect to comparable assets that it services for itself and for others having similar investment objectives and restrictions substantially
            in accordance with its existing practices and procedures relating to assets of the nature and character of the Collateral Loans (such standard of care, the “Servicing Standard”).

           

          Section 11.03     Authorization of the Servicer.  (a)  Each of the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and each Lender hereby authorizes the Servicer (including any successor thereto) to
            take any and all reasonable steps in its name and on its behalf necessary or desirable in the determination of the Servicer and not inconsistent with the grant by the Borrower to the Collateral Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties hereunder,
            to collect all amounts due under any and all Collateral, including, endorsing any of their names on checks and other instruments representing Collections, executing and delivering any and all instruments of satisfaction or cancellation, or of
            partial or full release or discharge, and all other comparable instruments, with respect to the Collateral and, after the delinquency of any Collateral and to the extent permitted under and in compliance with Applicable Law, to commence
            proceedings with respect to enforcing payment thereof.  The Borrower and the Collateral Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties shall furnish the Servicer (and any successors thereto) with any powers of attorney and other documents reasonably
            necessary or appropriate to enable the Servicer to carry out its servicing and administrative duties hereunder.  In case any reasonable question arises as to its duties hereunder, the Collateral Agent may request instructions from the
            Administrative Agent and shall be entitled at all times to refrain from taking any actions unless it has received instruction from the Administrative Agent.  In no event shall the Servicer be entitled to make any Secured Party a party to any
            litigation without such party’s express prior written consent, or to make the Borrower a party to any litigation (other than any routine foreclosure or similar collection procedure) without the Administrative Agent’s consent.

           

          
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          (b)        The Administrative Agent may, at any time that an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, notify any Obligor with respect to any Collateral of the assignment of such
            Collateral to the Collateral Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties and direct that payments of all amounts due or to become due be made directly to the Administrative Agent or any servicer, collection agent or account designated by the
            Administrative Agent and, upon such notification and at the expense of the Borrower, the Administrative Agent may enforce collection of any such Collateral, and adjust, settle or compromise the amount or payment thereof.

           

          Section 11.04      Collection Efforts, Modification of Collateral.  (a)  The Servicer will use commercially reasonable efforts to collect, or cause to be collected, all payments called
            for under the terms and provisions of the Collateral Loans included in the Collateral as and when the same become due, all in accordance with the Servicing Standard.

           

          (b)        In the performance of its obligations hereunder, the Borrower (or the Servicer on its behalf) may enter into any amendment or waiver of or supplement to any Related Document; provided
            that, subject to Section 6.03, the prior written consent of the Required Lenders shall be required if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or an Event of Default or Default would result from such amendment, waiver or supplement. 
            For the avoidance of doubt, any Collateral Loan that, as a result of any amendment or supplement thereto, ceases to qualify as an Eligible Collateral Loan shall not be included in the Borrowing Base.

           

          Section 11.05     Servicer Compensation.  As compensation for its activities hereunder and reimbursement for its expenses, the Servicer shall be entitled to be paid the Servicer Fee and
            reimbursed its expenses as provided in the Priority of Payments.  If and to the extent that there are insufficient funds to pay any Servicer Fee in full on any Payment Date or if any Servicer Fee has accrued
              but is not yet due and payable, the amount due or accrued and unpaid will be deferred and will be payable on such later Payment Date on which funds are available in accordance with the Priority of Payments.

           

          Section 11.06      The Servicer Not to Resign.  The Servicer shall not resign from the obligations and duties hereby imposed on it except upon the Servicer’s determination that (a) the
            performance of its duties hereunder is or becomes impermissible under Applicable Law and (b) there is no reasonable action that the Servicer could take to make the performance of its duties hereunder permissible under Applicable Law.  Any such
            determination permitting the resignation of the Servicer shall be evidenced as to clause (a) above by an opinion of counsel to such effect delivered to the Administrative Agent and each Lender.

           

          
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          ARTICLE XII

            

            THE AGENTS

           

          Section 12.01      Authorization and Action. (a)  Each Lender hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent
            on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental
            thereto, subject to the terms hereof.  No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party nor any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party
            and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part
            to be performed or observed.  No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby.  As to any matters
            not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so
            acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Majority Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which
            exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other
            Facility Document or under Applicable Law.  Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative
            Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to  the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner.

           

          (b)          If the Collateral Agent has been requested or directed by the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, (or by the Administrative Agent acting at the direction of
            the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders) to take any action pursuant to any provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall not be under any obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested
            in it by this Agreement or such Facility Document in the manner so requested unless it shall have been provided indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred by it in compliance with
            or in performing such request or direction.  No provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document shall otherwise be construed to require the Collateral Agent to expend or risk its own funds or to take any action that could in its
            judgment cause it to incur any cost, expenses or liability, unless it is provided indemnity acceptable to it against any such expenditure, risk, costs, expense or liability.  For the avoidance of doubt, the Collateral Agent shall not have any
            duty or obligation to take any action to exercise or enforce any power, right or remedy available to it under this Agreement or any other Facility Document or any Related Document unless and until directed by the Majority Lenders or the
            Required Lenders, as applicable (or the Administrative Agent on their behalf).

           

          
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          (c)          Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given
            by the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, (or by the Administrative Agent acting at the direction of the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders) pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even
            if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, or Persons purporting to be the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, are not entitled to give such notice,
            except where the Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent has actual knowledge (without any duty of inquiry or investigation on its part) that the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, or Persons purporting to be the
            Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, are not entitled to give such notice.  If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility
            Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader.

           

          (d)          If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the
            Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it.  If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take
            or refrain from taking any such courses of action.  The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to
            take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

           

          Section 12.02      Delegation of Duties.  Each Agent may execute any of its duties under this Agreement and each other Facility Document by or through agents or attorneys-in-fact and
            shall be entitled to advice of counsel concerning all matters pertaining to such duties.  No Agent shall be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any agents or attorneys-in-fact selected by it with reasonable care other than any
            Affiliates of such Agent.

           

          Section 12.03      Agents’ Reliance, Etc.  (a)  Neither Agent nor any of their respective directors, officers, agents or employees shall be liable for any action taken or omitted to be
            taken by it or them under or in connection with this Agreement or any of the other Facility Documents, except for its or their own gross negligence or willful misconduct.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Agent:  (i) may
            consult with legal counsel (including counsel for the Borrower or the Servicer or any of their Affiliates) and independent public accountants and other experts selected by it and shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken
            in good faith by it in accordance with the advice of such counsel, accountants or experts; (ii) makes no warranty or representation to any Secured Party or any other Person and shall not be responsible to any Secured Party or any Person for any
            statements, warranties or representations (whether written or oral) made in or in connection with this Agreement or the other Facility Documents; (iii) shall not have any duty to monitor, ascertain or to inquire as to the performance or
            observance of any of the terms, covenants or conditions of this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or any Related Document on the part of the Borrower, the Servicer or any other Person or to inspect the property (including the books and
            records) of the Borrower or the Servicer; (iv) shall not be responsible to any Secured Party or any other Person for the due execution, legality, validity, enforceability, perfection, genuineness, sufficiency or value of any Collateral (or the
            validity, perfection, priority or enforceability of the Liens on the Collateral), this Agreement, the other Facility Documents, any Related Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto or thereto; and (v) shall incur
            no liability under or in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document by relying on, acting upon (or by refraining from action in reliance on) any notice, consent, certificate (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the Borrowing
            Base Calculation Statement), instruction or waiver, report, statement, opinion, direction or other instrument or writing (which may be delivered by telecopier, email, cable or telex, if acceptable to it) reasonably believed by it to be genuine
            and believed by it to be signed or sent by the proper party or parties. No Agent shall have any liability to the Borrower or any Lender or any other Person for the Borrower’s, the Servicer’s, any Lender’s or any other Person’s, as the case may
            be, performance of, or failure to perform, any of their respective obligations and duties under this Agreement or any other Facility Document.

           

          
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          (b)          No Agent shall be liable for the actions or omissions of any other Agent (including concerning the application of funds), or under any duty to monitor or investigate compliance on
            the part of any other Agent with the terms or requirements of this Agreement, any Facility Document or any Related Document, or their duties hereunder or thereunder.  Each Agent shall be entitled to assume the due authority of any signatory and
            genuineness of any signature appearing on any instrument or document it may receive (including each Notice of Borrowing received hereunder) in the absence of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct.  No Agent shall be liable for any
            action taken in good faith and reasonably believed by it to be within the powers conferred upon it, or taken by it pursuant to any direction or instruction by which it is governed, or omitted to be taken by it by reason of the lack of direction
            or instruction required hereby for such action (including for refusing to exercise discretion or for withholding its consent in the absence of its receipt of, or resulting from a failure, delay or refusal on the part of the Required Lenders to
            provide, written instruction to exercise such discretion or grant such consent from the Required Lenders, as applicable).  No Agent shall be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith unless it shall be proven by a court of competent
            jurisdiction that such Agent was grossly negligent in ascertaining the relevant facts.  Nothing herein or in any Facility Document or Related Document shall obligate any Agent to advance, expend or risk its own funds, or to take any action
            which in its reasonable judgment may cause it to incur any expense or financial or other liability for which it is not adequately indemnified.  No Agent shall be liable for any indirect, special, punitive or consequential damages (including
            lost profits) whatsoever, even if it has been informed of the likelihood thereof and regardless of the form of action.  No Agent shall be charged with knowledge or notice of any matter unless actually known to a Responsible Officer of such
            Agent, or, subject to Section 12.03(d) below, unless and to the extent written notice of such matter is received by such Agent at its address in accordance with Section 13.02.  Any permissive grant of power to an Agent hereunder shall not be
            construed to be a duty to act.  Each Agent shall have only the duties and responsibilities as are specifically set forth in this Agreement and no covenants or obligations shall be implied in this Agreement against any Agent.  Before acting
            hereunder, an Agent shall be entitled to request, receive and rely upon such certificates and opinions as it may reasonably determine appropriate with respect to the satisfaction of any specified circumstances or conditions precedent to such
            action.  Neither Agent shall be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, entitlement order, approval or other paper or
            document.  Neither Agent shall be liable for any error of judgment, or for any act done or step taken or omitted by it, in good faith, or for any mistakes of fact or law, or for anything that it may do or refrain from doing in connection
            herewith, except in the case of its willful misconduct or grossly negligent performance or omission of its duties.

           

          
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          (c)         No Agent shall be responsible or liable for delays or failures in performance resulting from acts beyond its control.  Such acts shall include acts of God, strikes, lockouts, riots,
            acts of war, epidemics or pandemics, governmental regulations imposed after the fact, fire, communication line failures, computer viruses, power failures, loss or malfunction of utilities, communications or computers (software and hardware)
            services, earthquakes or other disasters, national emergency, malware or ransomware attack, unavailability of the Federal Reserve Bank wire or telex system or other applicable wire or funds transfer system, or unavailability of any securities
            clearing system.

           

          (d)       The delivery of reports and other documents and information to the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any other Facility Document is for informational purposes only and the
            Collateral Agent’s receipt of such documents and information shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein.  The Collateral Agent is hereby authorized and
            directed to execute and deliver the other Facility Documents to which it is a party.  Whether or not expressly stated in such Facility Documents, in performing (or refraining from acting) thereunder, the Collateral Agent shall have all of the
            rights, benefits, protections and indemnities which are afforded to it in this Agreement.

           

          (e)         Each Lender acknowledges that, except as expressly set forth in this Agreement, neither Agent has made any representation or warranty to it, and that no act by either Agent
            hereafter taken, including any consent and acceptance of any assignment or review of the affairs of the Borrower, shall be deemed to constitute any representation or warranty by such Agent to any Secured Party as to any matter.  Each Lender
            represents to each Agent that it has, independently and without reliance upon such Agent and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own appraisal of and investigation into the business, prospects,
            operations, property, financial and other condition and creditworthiness of the Borrower and the Servicer, and made its own decision to enter into this Agreement and the other Facility Documents to which it is a party.  Each Lender also
            represents that it will, independently and without reliance upon either Agent or any other Secured Party 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 and the Facility Documents, and to make such investigations as it deems necessary to inform itself as to the business, prospects, operations, property, financial and other condition and creditworthiness
            of the Borrower and the Servicer.  Neither Agent shall have any duty or responsibility to provide any Secured Party with any credit or other information concerning the business, prospects, operations, property, financial or other condition or
            creditworthiness of the Borrower or Servicer which may come into the possession of such Agent.

           

          
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          Section 12.04     Indemnification.  Each of the Lenders agrees to indemnify and hold the Agents harmless (to the extent not reimbursed by or on behalf of the Borrower pursuant to
            Section 13.04 or otherwise) from and against any and all Liabilities which may be imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against the Agents in any way relating to or arising out of this Agreement or any other Facility Document or any Related
            Document or any action taken or omitted by the Agents under this Agreement or any other Facility Document or any Related Document; provided that no Lender shall be liable to any Agent for any portion of such Liabilities resulting from
            such Agent’s gross negligence or willful misconduct; and provided, further, that no Lender shall be liable to the Collateral Agent for any portion of such Liabilities unless such Liabilities are imposed on, incurred by, or
            asserted against the Collateral Agent as a result of any action taken, or not taken, by the Collateral Agent by the express terms of this Agreement or at the direction of the Administrative Agent or such Lender or Lenders, as the case may be,
            in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement (it being understood and agreed that the Collateral Agent shall be under no obligation to exercise or to honor any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement at
            the request or direction of the Administrative Agent or any of the Lenders (or other Persons authorized or permitted under the terms hereof to make such request or give such direction) pursuant to this Agreement or any of the other Facility
            Document, unless the Administrative Agent or such Lenders shall have provided to the Collateral Agent security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses (including reasonable and documented attorney’s fees and
            expenses) and Liabilities which might reasonably be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction, whether such indemnity is provided under this Section 12.04 or otherwise).  The rights of the Agents and obligations of the Lenders
            under or pursuant to this Section 12.04 shall survive the termination of this Agreement, and the earlier removal or resignation of any Agent hereunder.

           

          Section 12.05     Successor Agents.  (a)  Subject to the terms of this Section 12.05, each Agent may, upon thirty (30) days’ notice to the Lenders and the Borrower, resign as
            Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent, as applicable.  If an Agent shall resign, then the Required Lenders shall appoint a successor agent.  If for any reason a successor agent is not so appointed and does not accept such appointment within
            thirty (30) days of notice of resignation, such Agent may appoint a successor agent.  The appointment of any successor Agent shall be subject to the prior written consent of the Borrower (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or
            delayed); provided that the consent of the Borrower to any such appointment shall not be required if (i) a Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and is continuing or (ii) if such successor agent is a Lender or an Affiliate of
            such Agent or any Lender.  Any resignation of an Agent shall be effective upon the appointment of a successor agent pursuant to this Section 12.05.  After the effectiveness of any retiring Agent’s resignation hereunder as Agent, the retiring
            Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder and under the other Facility Documents and the provisions of this Article XII shall continue in effect for its benefit with respect to any actions taken or omitted to be taken
            by it while it was Agent under this Agreement and under the other Facility Documents.  If no successor Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent, as applicable, shall have been appointed and an instrument of acceptance by a successor
            Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent, as applicable, shall not have been delivered to the Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent, as applicable,  within sixty days after giving of notice of resignation by the Administrative Agent or
            Collateral Agent, as applicable, the resigning Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent, as applicable, may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent, as applicable.

           

          (b)      Any Person (i) into which the Collateral Agent may be merged or consolidated, (ii) that may result from any merger or consolidation to which the Collateral Agent shall be a party, or
            (iii) that may succeed to the corporate trust properties and assets of the Collateral Agent substantially as a whole, shall be the successor to the Collateral Agent under this Agreement without further act of any of the parties to this
            Agreement.

           

          
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          Section 12.06     The Collateral Agent.  (a)  The Collateral Agent shall have no liability for losses arising from (i) any cause beyond its control, (ii) any delay, error, omission or
            default of any mail, telegraph, cable or wireless agency or operator, or (iii) the acts or edicts of any government or governmental agency or other group or entity exercising governmental powers.

           

          (b)        It is expressly acknowledged and agreed that the Collateral Agent is not guaranteeing the performance of or assuming any liability for the obligations of the other parties hereto or
            any portion of the Collateral.

           

          (c)        The Collateral Agent shall not be responsible for the preparation or filing of any UCC financing statements or continuation statements or the correctness of any financing statements
            filed in connection with this Agreement or the validity or perfection of any lien or security interest created pursuant to this Agreement.

           

          (d)        The Collateral Agent shall not be liable for interest on any money received by it except as the Collateral Agent may agree in writing with the Borrower.  In no event shall the
            Collateral Agent be liable for the selection of any investments or any losses in connection therewith (except in its capacity as obligor thereunder, if applicable), or for any failure of the relevant party to provide investment instruction to
            the Collateral Agent in connection with the investment of funds in or from any account set forth herein.

           

          (e)          The Collateral Agent shall have no liability for any failure, inability or unwillingness on the part of the Servicer, the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to provide accurate
            and complete information on a timely basis to the Collateral Agent, or otherwise on the part of any such party to comply with the terms of this Agreement, and shall have no liability for any inaccuracy or error in the performance or observance
            on the Collateral Agent’s part of any of its duties hereunder that is caused by or results from any such inaccurate, incomplete or untimely information received by it, or other failure on the part of any such other party to comply with the
            terms hereof.

           

          (f)          The Collateral Agent shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any certificate, report or other document; provided, however,
            that, if the form thereof is prescribed by this Agreement, the Collateral Agent shall examine the same to determine whether it conforms on its face to the requirements hereof.  The Collateral Agent shall not be deemed to have knowledge or
            notice of any matter unless actually known to a Responsible Officer.  It is expressly acknowledged by the Borrower, the Servicer, the Lenders and the Administrative Agent that performance by the Collateral Agent of its various duties hereunder
            (including recalculations to be performed in respect of the matters contemplated hereby) shall be based upon, and in reliance upon, data, information and notices provided to it by the Servicer (and/or the Borrower) and/or any related bank
            agent, obligor or similar party with respect to the Collateral, and the Collateral Agent shall have no responsibility for the accuracy of any such information or data provided to it by such persons and shall be entitled to update its records
            (as it may deem necessary or appropriate).  Nothing herein shall impose or imply any duty or obligation on the part of the Collateral Agent to verify, investigate or audit any such information or data, or to determine or monitor on an
            independent basis whether any issuer of the Collateral is in default or in compliance with the underlying documents governing or securing such item of Collateral, from time to time.

           

          
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          (g)        The Collateral Agent shall have no duty to determine or inquire into the happening or occurrence of any event or contingency, and it is agreed that its duties hereunder are purely
            ministerial in nature.

           

          (h)         Should any controversy arise between the undersigned with respect to the Collateral held by the Collateral Agent, the Collateral Agent shall follow the instructions of the
            Administrative Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties.

           

          (i)          The powers conferred on the Collateral Agent hereunder are solely to protect its interest (on behalf of the Secured Parties) in the Collateral and shall not impose any duty on it
            to exercise any such powers.  Except for performing the obligations expressly imposed on the Collateral Agent hereunder, the Collateral Agent shall have no duty as to any Collateral or responsibility for ascertaining or taking action with
            respect to calls, conversions, exchanges, maturities, tenders or other matters relative to any Collateral, whether or not the Collateral Agent has or is deemed to have knowledge of such matters or taking any steps to preserve rights against
            prior parties or other rights pertaining to any Collateral.

           

          (j)        In order to comply with the laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions, including those relating to the funding of
            terrorist activities and money laundering, the Collateral Agent may be required to obtain, verify and record certain information relating to individuals and entities which maintain a business relationship with the Collateral Agent. 
            Accordingly, each of the parties hereto agrees to provide to the Collateral Agent upon its request from time to time such identifying information and documentation as may be available to such party in order to enable the Collateral Agent to
            comply with such requirements.

           

          (k)        If State Street or the Collateral Agent is also acting in another capacity, including as Custodian or Securities Intermediary, the rights, protections, immunities and indemnities
            afforded to State Street or the Collateral Agent pursuant to this Article XII shall also be afforded to State Street or the Collateral Agent acting in such capacities; provided that such rights, protections, benefits, immunities and
            indemnities shall be in addition to, and not in limitation of, any rights, protections, benefits, immunities and indemnities provided in the Custodian Agreement, Account Control Agreement or any other Facility Documents to which State Street or
            the Collateral Agent in such capacity is a party.

           

          (l)          The Collateral Agent shall not have any obligation to determine if a Collateral Loan meets the criteria specified in the definition of Eligible Collateral Loan or if the
            requirements set forth in the definition of “Deliver” have been satisfied.

           

          Section 12.07      Erroneous Payments.

           

          
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          (a)         If an Agent notifies a Lender or Secured Party, or any Person who has received funds on behalf of a Lender or Secured Party such Lender (any such Lender, Secured Party or other
            recipient, a “Payment Recipient”) that such Agent has determined in its sole discretion (whether or not after receipt of any notice under immediately succeeding clause (b)) that any funds received by such Payment Recipient from such
            Agent or any of its Affiliates were erroneously transmitted to, or otherwise erroneously or mistakenly received by, such Payment Recipient (whether or not known to such Lender, Secured Party or other Payment Recipient on its behalf)  (any such
            funds, whether received as a payment, prepayment or repayment of principal, interest, fees, distribution or otherwise, individually and collectively, an “Erroneous Payment”) and demands the return of such Erroneous Payment (or a portion
            thereof), such Erroneous Payment shall at all times remain the property of such Agent and shall be segregated by the Payment Recipient and held in trust for the benefit of such Agent, and such Lender or Secured Party shall (or, with respect to
            any Payment Recipient who received such funds on its behalf, shall cause such Payment Recipient to) promptly, but in no event later than two Business Days thereafter, return to the relevant Agent the amount of any such Erroneous Payment (or
            portion thereof) as to which such a demand was made, in same day funds (in the currency so received), together with interest thereon in respect of each day from and including the date such Erroneous Payment (or portion thereof) was received by
            such Payment Recipient to the date such amount is repaid to such Agent in same day funds at the greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a rate determined by such Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation from time
            to time in effect. A notice of an Agent to any Payment Recipient under this clause (a) shall be conclusive, absent manifest error.

           

          (b)        Without limiting immediately preceding clause (a), each Lender or Secured Party, or any Person who has received funds on behalf of a Lender or Secured Party such Lender, hereby
            further agrees that if it receives a payment, prepayment or repayment (whether received as a payment, prepayment or repayment of principal, interest, fees, distribution or otherwise) from an Agent (or any of its Affiliates) (x) that is in a
            different amount than, or on a different date from, that specified in a notice of payment, prepayment or repayment sent by such Agent (or any of its Affiliates) with respect to such payment, prepayment or repayment, (y) that was not preceded or
            accompanied by a notice of payment, prepayment or repayment sent by such Agent (or any of its Affiliates), or (z) that such Lender or Secured Party, or other such recipient, otherwise becomes aware was transmitted, or received, in error or by
            mistake (in whole or in part) in each case:

           

          (i)        (1) in the case of immediately preceding clause (x) or (y), an error shall be presumed to have been made (absent written confirmation from such Agent to the
            contrary) or (2) an error has been made (in the case of immediately preceding clause (z)), in each case, with respect to such payment, prepayment or repayment; and

           

          (ii)         such Lender or Secured Party shall (and shall cause any other recipient that receives funds on its respective behalf to) promptly (and, in all events, within one
            Business Day of its knowledge of such error) notify such Agent of its receipt of such payment, prepayment or repayment, the details thereof (in reasonable detail) and that it is so notifying the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section
              12.07(b)(ii).

           

          (c)         Each Lender or Secured Party hereby authorizes each Agent to set off, net and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender or Secured Party under any Facility
            Document, or otherwise payable or distributable by such Agent to such Lender or Secured Party from any source, against any amount due to such Agent under immediately preceding clause (a) or under the indemnification provisions of this
            Agreement.

           

          
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          (d)         In the event that an Erroneous Payment (or portion thereof) is not recovered by the related Agent for any reason, after demand therefor by such Agent in accordance with immediately
            preceding clause (a), from any Lender that has received such Erroneous Payment (or portion thereof) (and/or from any Payment Recipient who received such Erroneous Payment (or portion thereof) on its respective behalf)  (such unrecovered amount,
            an “Erroneous Payment Return Deficiency”), upon such Agent’s notice to such Lender at any time, (i) such Lender shall be deemed to have assigned its Advances (but not its Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amount) with respect to
            which such Erroneous Payment was made (the “Erroneous Payment Impacted Advances”) in an amount equal to the Erroneous Payment Return Deficiency (or such lesser amount as such Agent may specify) (such assignment of the Erroneous Payment
            Impacted Advances (but not its Individual Lender Maximum Funding), the “Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment”) at par plus any accrued and unpaid interest (with any assignment fee to be waived by the Administrative Agent in such
            instance), and is hereby (together with the Borrower) deemed to execute and deliver an Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment, and such Lender shall deliver any promissory notes evidencing such
            Advances to the Borrower or the applicable Agent, (ii) the applicable Agent as the assignee Lender shall be deemed to acquire the Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment, (iii) upon such deemed acquisition, the applicable Agent as the assignee
            Lender shall become a Lender, hereunder with respect to such Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment and the assigning Lender shall cease to be a Lender hereunder with respect to such Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment, excluding, for the
            avoidance of doubt, its obligations under the indemnification provisions of this Agreement and its applicable Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amount which shall survive as to such assigning Lender and (iv) the Administrative Agent may
            reflect in the Register the relevant Agent’s ownership interest in the Advances subject to the Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment. The applicable Agent may, in its discretion, sell any Advances acquired pursuant to an Erroneous Payment
            Deficiency Assignment and upon receipt of the proceeds of such sale, the Erroneous Payment Return Deficiency owing by the applicable Lender shall be reduced by the net proceeds of the sale of such Advance (or portion thereof), and the
            applicable Agent shall retain all other rights, remedies and claims against such Lender (and/or against any recipient that receives funds on its respective behalf). For the avoidance of doubt, no Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment will
            reduce the Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amount of any Lender and such Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amount shall remain available in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.  In addition, each party hereto agrees
            that, except to the extent that the applicable Agent has sold an Advance (or portion thereof) acquired pursuant to an Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment, and irrespective of whether such Agent may be equitably subrogated, such Agent shall
            be contractually subrogated to all the rights and interests of the applicable Lender or Secured Party under the Facility Documents with respect to each Erroneous Payment Return Deficiency (the “Erroneous Payment Subrogation Rights”).

           

          (e)          The parties hereto agree that an Erroneous Payment shall not pay, prepay, repay, discharge or otherwise satisfy any Obligations owed by the Borrower, except, in each case, to the
            extent such Erroneous Payment is, and solely with respect to the amount of such Erroneous Payment that is, comprised of funds received by the related Agent or applicable Lender from the Borrower for the purpose of making payment in respect of
            the Obligations.

           

          
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          (f)         To the extent permitted by applicable law, no Payment Recipient shall assert any right or claim to an Erroneous Payment, and hereby waives, and is deemed to waive, any claim,
            counterclaim, defense or right of set-off or recoupment with respect to any demand, claim or counterclaim by an Agent for the return of any Erroneous Payment received, including without limitation waiver of any defense based on “discharge for
            value” or any similar doctrine.

           

          (g)         Each party’s obligations, agreements and waivers under this Section 12.07(g) shall survive the resignation or replacement of the Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent, as
            applicable, any transfer of rights or obligations by, or the replacement of, a Lender, the termination of the Maximum Facility Amount and/or the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of the Obligations (or any portion thereof).

           

          ARTICLE XIII

            

            MISCELLANEOUS

           

          Section 13.01      No Waiver; Modifications in Writing.  (a)  No failure or delay on the part of any Secured Party exercising any right, power or remedy hereunder shall operate as a
            waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right, power or remedy preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or remedy.  Any waiver of any provision of this Agreement or
            any other Facility Document, and any consent to any departure by any party to this Agreement or any other Facility Document from the terms of any provision of this Agreement or such other Facility Document, shall be effective only in the
            specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given.  No notice to or demand on the Borrower or the Servicer in any case shall entitle the Borrower or the Servicer to any other or further notice or demand in similar or other
            circumstances.

           

          (b)       No amendment, modification, supplement or waiver of this Agreement shall be effective unless signed by the Borrower, the Servicer, the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders; provided
            that:

           

          (i)           any Fundamental Amendment shall require the written consent of all Lenders affected thereby; and

           

          (ii)        no such amendment, modification, supplement or waiver shall amend, modify or otherwise affect the rights or duties of any Agent hereunder without the prior
            written consent of such Agent.

           

          (c)         Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, in connection with the increase of the Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amounts hereunder, only the consent of the Lender
            increasing its Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amount (or providing a new Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amount) shall be required for any amendment that effects such increase in Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amounts.

           

          (d)       Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no Defaulting Lender shall have any right to approve or disapprove any amendment, waiver or consent hereunder (and any amendment,
            waiver or consent which by its terms requires the consent of all Lenders or each affected Lender may be effected with the consent of the applicable Lenders other than Defaulting Lenders), except that (x) the Individual Lender Maximum Funding
            Amount of any Defaulting Lender may not be increased or extended without the consent of such Lender and (y) any waiver, amendment or modification requiring the consent of all Lenders or each affected Lender that by its terms affects any
            Defaulting Lender more adversely than other affected Lenders shall require the consent of such Defaulting Lender.

           

          
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          Section 13.02    Notices, Etc.  Except where telephonic instructions are authorized herein to be given, all notices, demands, instructions and other communications required or permitted
            to be given to or made upon any party hereto shall be in writing and shall be personally delivered or sent by registered, certified or express mail, postage prepaid, or by facsimile transmission, or by prepaid courier service, or by electronic
            mail (of a .pdf or other similar file if the recipient has provided an email address in Schedule 5), and shall be deemed to be given for purposes of this Agreement on the day that such writing is received by the intended recipient thereof in
            accordance with the provisions of this Section 13.02.  Unless otherwise specified in a notice sent or delivered in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Section 13.02, notices, demands, instructions and other communications in
            writing shall be given to or made upon the respective parties hereto at their respective addresses (or to their respective facsimile numbers or email addresses) indicated in Schedule 5, and, in the case of telephonic instructions or notices, by
            calling the telephone number or numbers indicated for such party in Schedule 5.

           

          State Street agrees to accept and act upon instructions or directions pursuant to this Agreement, any other Facility Document, or any Related Document or any document executed in connection
            herewith or therewith sent by unsecured email (or a .pdf or other similar file), facsimile transmission or other similar unsecured electronic methods; provided, however, that any person providing such instructions or directions
            shall provide to State Street an incumbency certificate listing persons designated to provide such instructions or directions as such incumbency certificate may be supplemented from time to time.  If any person elects to give State Street email
            or facsimile instructions (or instructions by a similar electronic method) and State Street in its discretion elects to act upon such instructions, State Street’s reasonable understanding of such instructions shall be deemed controlling.  State
            Street shall not be liable for any losses, costs or expenses arising directly or indirectly from State Street’s reliance upon and compliance with such instructions notwithstanding such instructions conflicting with or being inconsistent with a
            subsequent written instruction.  Any person providing such instructions or directions acknowledges and agrees that there may be more secure methods of transmitting such instructions than the method(s) selected by it and agrees that the security
            procedures (if any) to be followed in connection with its transmission of such instructions provide to it a commercially reasonable degree of protection in light of its particular needs and circumstances.

           

          Section 13.03          Taxes.  (a)  Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower under any Facility Document shall be made without deduction or withholding for
            any and all Taxes with respect thereto, unless required by Applicable Law.  If any Applicable Law (as determined in the good faith discretion of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent) requires the deduction or withholding of any Tax from any
            such payment by the Borrower, the Collateral Agent or the Administrative Agent, then the Borrower, the Collateral Agent or the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to make such deduction or withholding and shall timely pay the full amount
            deducted or withheld to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with Applicable Law and, if such Tax is an Indemnified Tax, then the sum payable by the Borrower shall be increased as may be necessary so that after such deduction or
            withholding has been made (including such deductions and withholdings applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 13.03) the applicable Recipient receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deduction or
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          (b)          The Borrower agrees to timely pay to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law, or at the option of the Administrative Agent timely reimburse it for the
            payment of, any Other Taxes.

           

          (c)       The Borrower agrees to indemnify each Recipient, within 10 days after demand therefor, for (i) the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes (including any Indemnified Taxes imposed or
            asserted by any jurisdiction on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section 13.03) payable or paid by any Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to such Recipient and (ii) any reasonable expenses arising
            therefrom or with respect thereto, in each case whether or not such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority.  A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered
            to the Borrower by a Recipient (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of another Recipient, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

           

          (d)          Each Lender shall severally indemnify the Administrative Agent, within 10 days after demand therefor, for (i) any Indemnified Taxes attributable to such Lender (but only to the
            extent that the Borrower has not already indemnified the Administrative Agent for such Indemnified 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 13.06(c)(ii) relating to the maintenance of a Participant Register and (iii) any Excluded Taxes attributable to such Lender, in each case, that are payable or paid by the Administrative Agent in connection with any
            Facility Document, and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority.  A certificate as to the amount of such
            payment or liability delivered to any Lender by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error.  Each Lender hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such
            Lender under any Facility Document or otherwise payable by the Administrative Agent to the Lender from any other source against any amount due to the Administrative Agent under this Section 13.03(d).

           

          (e)        As soon as practicable after the date of any payment of Taxes by the Borrower to Governmental Authority pursuant to this Section 13.03, the Borrower will furnish to the
            Administrative Agent the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by the relevant Governmental Authority evidencing payment thereof, a copy of the return reporting such payment, or other evidence of payment as may be reasonably
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          (f)          If any Recipient in its sole discretion, but acting in good faith, determines that it has received a refund of any Taxes with respect to which it has been indemnified pursuant to
            this Section 13.03 (including by the payment of additional amounts pursuant to Section 13.03(a)), such Recipient shall reimburse the Borrower (or the Servicer, as applicable) such amount of any refund received (net of reasonable out-of-pocket
            expenses incurred), but only to the extent of indemnity payments made under this Section with respect to the Taxes giving rise to such refund, and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with
            respect to such refund), as such Secured Party shall determine in its sole discretion, but acting in good faith, to be attributable to the relevant Indemnified Taxes; provided that in the event that such Secured Party is required to
            repay such refund to the relevant taxing authority, the Borrower agrees to return the refund to such Secured Party.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 13.03(f), in no event will any Secured Party be required to pay any
            amount to an indemnifying party pursuant to this Section 13.03(f) the payment of which would place such Secured Party in a less favorable net after-Tax position than such Secured Party would have been in if the Tax subject to indemnification
            and giving rise to such refund had not been deducted, withheld or otherwise imposed and the indemnification payments or additional amounts with respect to such Tax had never been paid.  Unless required by Applicable Law, at no time shall any
            Agent have any obligation to file for or otherwise pursue on behalf of a Lender, or have any obligation to pay to any Lender, any refund of Taxes withheld or deducted from funds paid for the account of such Lender, as the case may be.  This
            paragraph shall not be construed to require any indemnified party to make available its Tax returns (or any other information relating to its Taxes that it deems confidential) to the indemnifying party or any other Person.

           

          (g)        (i) Any Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding Tax with respect to payments made under any Facility Document shall deliver to the Borrower and the
            Administrative Agent, at the time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will permit such
            payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate of withholding.  In addition, any Lender, if reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by Applicable Law or
            reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will enable the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine whether or not such Lender is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements. 
            Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding two sentences, the completion, execution and submission of such documentation (other than such documentation set forth in Sections 13.03(g)(ii), (iii) and (v) below) shall not be
            required if in the Lender’s reasonable judgment such completion, execution or submission would subject such Lender to any material unreimbursed cost or expense or would materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Lender.

           

          (ii)         Without limiting the generality of Section 13.03(g)(i), each Lender that is a U.S. Person shall, on or prior to the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement
            (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or any Agent), deliver to the Borrower and each Agent, two accurate, complete and signed copies of U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 certifying that such Lender
            is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding tax.

           

          (iii)       Any Foreign Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Borrower and each Agent, on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a
            Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or any Agent), two accurate, complete and signed copies of whichever of the following is applicable:

           

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

           

          (B)        executed copies of U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-8ECI;

           

          (C)       in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under Section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a certificate to the effect that
            such Foreign Lender is not a “bank” within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, a “10 percent shareholder” of the Borrower within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code, or a “controlled foreign corporation” described in
            Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code (a “U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate”) and (y) executed copies of U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN-E (or W-8BEN, as applicable); or

           

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

           

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

           

          (v)        If a payment made to a Recipient under any Facility Document would be subject to U.S. federal withholding tax imposed by FATCA if such Lender were to fail to
            comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Recipient shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent at the time or times
            prescribed by law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent such documentation prescribed by Applicable Law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional
            documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as may be necessary for the Borrower and the Administrative Agent to comply with their obligations under FATCA and to determine that such Recipient has complied with
            such Recipient’s obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment.  Solely for purposes of this Section 13.03(g)(v), “FATCA” shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the date of this Agreement.

           

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

           

          (h)        If any Lender requires the Borrower to pay any Indemnified Taxes or additional amount to such Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of such Lender pursuant to this
            Section 13.03, then such Lender shall (at the request of the Borrower) use reasonable efforts to designate a different lending office for funding or booking its Advances hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations hereunder to another of
            its offices, branches or affiliates, if such Lender determines, in its sole discretion that such designation or assignment (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to this Section 13.03 in the future and (ii) would not subject
            such Lender to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender.  The Borrower hereby agrees to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with any such designation or
            assignment.

           

          (i)          Each party’s obligations under this Section 13.03 shall survive the resignation or replacement of the Administrative Agent or any assignment of rights by, or the replacement of, a
            Lender, the termination of the Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amounts and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all obligations under any Facility Document.

           

          Section 13.04    Costs and Expenses; Indemnification.  (a)  The Borrower agrees to promptly pay on demand all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses of the Agents
            and the Lenders in connection with the preparation, review, negotiation, reproduction, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the other Facility Documents, including the reasonable and documented fees and disbursements of one outside
            counsel for the Administrative Agent and one outside counsel for the Collateral Agent, costs and expenses of creating, perfecting, releasing or enforcing the Collateral Agent’s security interests in the Collateral, including filing and
            recording fees, expenses, search fees, UCC filing fees and the equivalent thereof in any foreign jurisdiction, if applicable, and all other related fees and expenses in connection therewith; and in connection with the administration and any
            waiver, consent, modification or amendment or similar agreement in respect of this Agreement, the Notes or any other Facility Document and advising the Agents and Lenders as to their respective rights, remedies and responsibilities.  The
            Borrower agrees to promptly pay on demand all reasonable and documented costs and expenses of each of the Secured Parties in connection with the enforcement of this Agreement, the Notes or any other Facility Document, including all reasonable
            and documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred by the Collateral Agent in connection with the preservation, collection, foreclosure or enforcement of the Collateral subject to the Facility Documents or any interest, right, power or
            remedy of the Collateral Agent or in connection with the collection or enforcement of any of the Obligations or the proof, protection, administration or resolution of any claim based upon the Obligations in any insolvency proceeding, including
            all reasonable fees and disbursements of outside counsel, accountants, auditors, consultants, appraisers and other professionals engaged by the Collateral Agent; provided that, in each case, there shall be one primary outside attorney
            and one local counsel representing such Secured Parties (other than the Collateral Agent, who shall have one primary outside attorney and one local counsel) unless any conflict of interest arises.  Without prejudice to its rights hereunder, the
            expenses and the compensation for the services of the Secured Parties are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any applicable bankruptcy law.  For the avoidance of doubt, this Section 13.04(a) shall not apply to Taxes, other
            than any Taxes that represent losses, claims, damages, etc. arising from any non-Tax claim, which shall be covered by Section 13.03.

           

          
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          (b)         The Borrower agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Secured Party and each of their Affiliates and the respective officers, directors, employees, agents, managers of, and any
            Person controlling any of, the foregoing (each, an “Indemnified Party”) from and against any and all Liabilities that may be incurred by or asserted or awarded against any Indemnified Party, in each case arising out of or in connection
            with or by reason of the execution, delivery, enforcement, performance, administration of or otherwise arising out of or incurred in connection with this Agreement, any other Facility Document, any Related Document or any transaction
            contemplated hereby or thereby (and regardless of whether or not any such transactions are consummated); except that the Borrower shall not be liable to the extent any such Liability is found in a final, non-appealable judgment by a
            court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from such Indemnified Party’s gross negligence or willful misconduct; provided that any payment hereunder which relates to taxes, levies, imposes, deductions, charges and withholdings,
            and all liabilities (including penalties, interest and expenses) with respect thereto, or additional sums described in Sections 2.10, 2.11 or 13.03, shall not be covered by this Section 13.04(b).

           

          (c)          The Servicer agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Indemnified Party from and against any and all Liabilities that may be incurred by or asserted or awarded against any
            Indemnified Party, in each case arising out of or in connection with or by reason of any one or more of the following:  (i) any breach by the Servicer of any covenant or any of its obligations under any Facility Document, (ii) the failure of
            any of the representations or warranties of the Servicer set forth in any Facility Document or in any certificate, statement or report delivered in connection therewith to be true when made or when deemed made or repeated and (iii) by reason of
            any gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct (as determined by the final non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction) on the part of the Servicer in its capacity as Servicer; except the Servicer shall not be
            liable to the extent any such Liability (x) results from the performance or non-performance of the Collateral Loans or (y) is found in a final, non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from such Indemnified
            Party’s gross negligence or willful misconduct; provided that any payment hereunder which relates to taxes, levies, imposes, deductions, charges and withholdings, and all liabilities (including penalties, interest and expenses) with
            respect thereto, or additional sums described in Sections 2.10, 2.11 or 13.03, shall not be covered by this Section 13.04(c).  The Servicer shall not have any liability hereunder to any Indemnified Party to the extent an Indemnified Party
            affects any settlement of a matter that is (or could be) subject to indemnification hereunder without the prior written consent of the Servicer (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed).

           

          
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          (d)          The Equityholder agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Indemnified Party from and against any and all Liabilities that may be incurred by or asserted or awarded against any
            Indemnified Party, in each case arising out of or in connection with or by reason of any one or more of the following: (i) any breach by the Equityholder of any covenant or any of its obligations set forth in Section 13.22 and Section 13.23 and
            (ii) the failure of any of the representations or warranties of the Equityholder set forth in Section 4.03, Section 13.22 and Section 13.23 or in any certificate, statement or report delivered in connection therewith to be true when made or
            when deemed made or repeated.

           

          Section 13.05    Execution in Counterparts.  This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties hereto on separate counterparts, each of which
            counterparts, when so executed and delivered, shall be deemed to be an original and all of which counterparts, taken together, shall constitute but one and the same Agreement.  Delivery of an executed signature page of this Agreement by
            facsimile or other electronic transmission shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart hereof.  This Agreement shall be valid, binding, and enforceable against a party when executed and delivered by an authorized
            individual on behalf of the party by means of (i) an original manual signature;  (ii) a faxed, scanned, or photocopied manual signature, or (iii) any other electronic signature permitted by the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and
            National Commerce Act, state enactments of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, and/or any other relevant electronic signatures law, including any relevant provisions of the UCC (collectively, “Signature Law”), in each case to the
            extent applicable; provided that no electronic signatures may be affixed through the use of a third-party service provider. Each faxed, scanned, or photocopied manual signature, or other electronic signature, shall for all purposes have
            the same validity, legal effect, and admissibility in evidence as an original manual signature. Each party hereto shall be entitled to conclusively rely upon, and shall have no liability with respect to, any faxed, scanned, or photocopied
            manual signature, or other electronic signature, of any other party and shall have no duty to investigate, confirm or otherwise verify the validity or authenticity thereof.  For the avoidance of doubt, original manual signatures shall be used
            for execution or indorsement of writings when required under the UCC or other Signature Law due to the character or intended character of the writings.

           

          Section 13.06     Assignability.  (a)  Each Lender may, with the consent of the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, assign to an assignee all or a portion of its rights and
            obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its outstanding Advances or interests therein owned by it, together with ratable portions of its Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amount); provided that:

           

          (i)          each of the Borrower’s and the Administrative Agent’s consent to any such assignment (A) shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and (B) shall not be
            required if the assignee is a Permitted Assignee with respect to such assignor; and

           

          (ii)          the Borrower’s consent to any such assignment pursuant to this Section 13.06(a) shall not be required if (x) a Default or an Event of Default shall have
            occurred (and not been waived by the Lenders in accordance with Section 13.01) or (y) such assignment is required by any Change in Law.

           

          
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          The parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent (with a copy to the Collateral Agent) an Assignment and Acceptance and the applicable tax forms
            required by Section 13.03(g).  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 13.06, no assignment by any Lender to the Borrower or any of its Affiliates or any Disqualified Lender shall be permitted.

           

          (b)         The Borrower may not assign its rights or obligations hereunder or any interest herein without the prior written consent of the Agents and the Lenders.

           

          (c)         (i)       Any Lender may, without the consent of, but with notice to, the Borrower, sell participations to Participants in all or a portion of such Lender’s rights and obligations
            under this Agreement; provided that (A) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (B) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (C) such
            Borrower, the Agents 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, (D) each Participant shall have agreed to be bound by this
            Section 13.06(c), Section 13.06(d), Section 13.06(e) and Section 13.17, and (E) such Participants are not Disqualified Lenders.  Any agreement 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 may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant,
            agree to any Fundamental Amendment.  Sections 2.10, 2.11, and 13.03 shall apply to each Participant as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to clause (a) of this Section 13.06 (subject to the requirements and
            limitations set forth in Section 13.03, including the requirements under Section 13.03(g)); provided that (A) such Participant agrees to be subject to the provisions of Section 13.03(g) as if it were an assignee under clause (a) of this
            Section 13.06 and (B) no Participant shall be entitled to any amount under Section 2.10, 2.11, or 13.03 which is greater than the amount the related Lender would have been entitled to under any such Sections or provisions if the applicable
            participation had not occurred, except to the extent such entitlement to receive a greater amount results from a Change in Law that occurs after the Participant acquired the applicable participation.

           

          (ii)        In the event that any Lender sells participations in any portion of its rights and obligations hereunder, such Lender as nonfiduciary agent for the Borrower shall
            maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of all participants in the Advances held by it and the principal amount (and stated interest thereon) of the portion of the Advance which is the subject of the participation (the “Participant

              Register”); provided that no Lender shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register (including the identity of any Participant or any information relating to a Participant’s interest in any
            commitments, loans or its other obligations under any Facility Document) to any Person except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish that such commitment, loan or other obligation is in registered form under Section
            5f.103-1(c) of the United States Treasury Regulations.  The entries in a Participant Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and such Lender shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in such Participant Register as the owner of
            such participation for all purposes of this Agreement notwithstanding any notice to the contrary.  For the avoidance of doubt, the Administrative Agent (in its capacity as Administrative Agent) shall have no responsibility for maintaining a
            Participant Register.

           

          
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          (d)        The Administrative Agent, on behalf of and acting solely for this purpose as the nonfiduciary agent of the Borrower, shall maintain at its address specified in Section 13.02 or such
            other address as the Administrative Agent shall designate in writing to the Lenders, a copy of this Agreement and each signature page hereto and each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register (the “Register”)

            for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the outstanding Advances maintained by each Lender under this Agreement (and any stated interest thereon).  The entries in the
            Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agents and the Lenders shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this
            Agreement.  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.  An Advance (and a Note, if any, evidencing the same) may be assigned or sold in
            whole or in part only by registration of such assignment or sale on the Register (and each Note, if any, shall expressly so provide) and compliance with this Section 13.06.  The Administrative Agent shall update and furnish to the Collateral
            Agent and the Borrower from time to time at the request of the Collateral Agent or the Borrower an updated version of Schedule 1 reflecting the then-current allocation of the Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amounts.

           

          (e)         Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein or in any other Facility Document, each Lender hereunder, and each Participant, must at all times be a “qualified
            purchaser” as defined in the Investment Company Act (a “Qualified Purchaser”) and a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act (a “QIB”).  Each Lender represents to the Borrower, (i) on the
            date that it becomes a party to this Agreement (whether by being a signatory hereto or by entering into an Assignment and Acceptance) and (ii) on each date on which it makes an Advance hereunder, that it is a Qualified Purchaser and a QIB. 
            Each Lender further agrees that it shall not assign, or grant any participations in, any of its Advances or its Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amount to any Person unless such Person is a Qualified Purchaser and a QIB.

           

          (f)          Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 13.06, any Lender may at any time pledge or grant a security interest in all or any portion of its rights (including rights to
            payment of principal and interest) under this Agreement to secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or security interest granted to a Federal Reserve Bank, without notice to or consent of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent;
            provided that no such pledge or grant of a security interest shall release such Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or grantee for such Lender as a party hereto.

           

          Section 13.07     Governing Law.  THIS AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES UNDER THIS AGREEMENT AND ANY CLAIM, CONTROVERSY, DISPUTE
              OR CAUSE OF ACTION (WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR TORT OR OTHERWISE) BASED UPON, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER FACILITY DOCUMENT (EXCEPT, AS TO ANY OTHER FACILITY DOCUMENT, AS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH THEREIN) AND THE
              TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY AND THEREBY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

           

          
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          Section 13.08    Severability of Provisions.  Any provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document which is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such
            jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof or affecting the validity or enforceability of such provision in any other jurisdiction.

           

          Section 13.09     Confidentiality.  The parties hereto agree to maintain the confidentiality of the Information (as defined below), except that Information may be disclosed by any party
            (a) to its Affiliates, directors, officers, members, principals and employees, and to its agents, counsel and other advisors that have a need for such information relative to this facility (collectively, the “Related Parties”) (it being
            understood that, in each case, the Persons to whom such disclosure is made will be informed of the confidential nature of such Information and instructed to keep such Information confidential and the disclosing party shall be responsible for
            any breach by its Related Parties under this Section 13.09); (b) to the extent required or requested by any regulatory authority purporting to have jurisdiction over such Person or its Related Parties (including any self-regulatory authority,
            such as the National Association of Insurance Commissioners), it being understood that the Persons to whom such disclosure is made shall be informed of the confidential nature of such Information; (c) to the extent required by Applicable Law or
            by any subpoena or similar legal process; provided that with respect to disclosures of Information pursuant to a subpoena or similar legal process, (A) prior to any disclosure under this clause (c) the disclosing party agrees to provide
            the Borrower with prior written notice thereof, to the extent that it is practicable to do so and to the extent that the disclosing party is permitted to provide such prior written notice to the Borrower pursuant to the terms of the subpoena or
            other legal process and (B) any disclosure under this clause (c) shall be limited to the portion of the Information as may be required by such Governmental Authority pursuant to such subpoena or other legal process; (d) to any other party
            hereto; (e) in connection with the exercise of any remedies hereunder or under any other Facility Document or any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Facility Document or the enforcement of rights hereunder or
            thereunder; (f) solely with respect to the Administrative Agent or any Lender, to (i) any assignee of or participant in, or any prospective assignee of or participant in, any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement; provided
            that such assignee or participant (or prospective assignee or participant) has agreed to maintain confidentiality pursuant to this Section 13.09 or another non-disclosure agreement substantially similar hereto, or (ii) any actual or prospective
            party (or its Related Parties) to any swap, derivative or other transaction under which payments are to be made by reference to the Borrower and its obligations, this Agreement or payments hereunder that has agreed to maintain confidentiality
            pursuant to this Section 13.09; or (iii) any rating agency; or (g) to the extent such Information (x) becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this Section by such party, or (y) becomes available to such party or any of
            their respective Affiliates on a nonconfidential basis from a source other than a party to this Agreement.  For purposes of this Section 13.09, “Information” means all information received from a party to this Agreement, the terms and
            substance of this Agreement and each other Facility Document and any term sheet.

           

          
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          Section 13.10      Merger.  This Agreement and the other Facility Documents executed by the Administrative Agent or the Lenders taken as a whole incorporate the entire agreement between
            the parties hereto and thereto concerning the subject matter hereof and thereof and this Agreement and such other Facility Documents supersede any prior agreements among the parties relating to the subject matter thereof.

           

          Section 13.11    Survival.  All representations and warranties made hereunder, in the other Facility Documents and in any certificate delivered pursuant hereto or thereto or in
            connection herewith or therewith shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the making of the Advances hereunder.  The agreements in Sections 2.10, 2.11, 2.13, 12.04, 13.03, 13.04, 13.09, 13.15 and 13.17 and this
            Section 13.11 shall survive the termination of this Agreement in whole or in part, the payment in full of the principal of and interest on the Advances, any foreclosure under, or modification, release or discharge of, any or all of the Related
            Documents and the resignation or replacement of any Agent.

           

          Section 13.12      Submission to Jurisdiction; Waivers; Etc.  Each party hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally:

           

          (a)          submits for itself and its property in any legal action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or the other Facility Documents to which it is a party, or for recognition and
            enforcement of any judgment in respect thereof, to the non-exclusive general jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New York in the Borough of Manhattan, the courts of the United States of America for the Southern District of New York, and
            the appellate courts of any of them;

           

          (b)          consents that any such action or proceeding may be brought in any court described in Section 13.12(a) and waives to the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law any objection
            that it may now or hereafter have to the venue of any such action or proceeding in any such court or that such action or proceeding was brought in an inconvenient court and agrees not to plead or claim the same;

           

          (c)         solely in the case of each party hereto (other than the Collateral Agent, the Borrower, Servicer and Equityholder) agrees that service of process in any such action or proceeding
            may be effected by mailing a copy thereof by registered or certified mail (or any substantially similar form of mail), postage prepaid, to such party at its address set forth in Section 13.02 or at such other address as may be permitted
            thereunder;

           

          (d)         EACH OF THE BORROWER, SERVICER AND EQUITYHOLDER IRREVOCABLY APPOINTS CORPORATION SERVICE COMPANY (THE “PROCESS AGENT”) WITH AN OFFICE ON THE DATE HEREOF AT 251 LITTLE FALLS
            DRIVE, WILMINGTON, NEW CASTLE COUNTY, DELAWARE, 19808, AS ITS AGENT TO RECEIVE ON ITS BEHALF AND PROPERTY SERVICE OF COPIES OF ANY SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT AND ANY OTHER PROCESS WHICH MAY BE SERVED IN ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING.  SUCH SERVICE
            MAY BE MADE BY MAILING OR DELIVERING A COPY OF SUCH PROCESS TO THE BORROWER, SERVICER OR EQUITYHOLDER IN CARE OF THE PROCESS AGENT AT THE PROCESS AGENT’S ABOVE ADDRESS, AND EACH OF THE BORROWER, SERVICER OR EQUITYHOLDER HEREBY IRREVOCABLY
            AUTHORIZES AND DIRECTS THE PROCESS AGENT TO ACCEPT SUCH SERVICE ON ITS BEHALF.  AS AN ALTERNATIVE METHOD OF SERVICE, EACH OF THE BORROWER, SERVICER AND EQUITYHOLDER ALSO IRREVOCABLY CONSENTS TO THE SERVICE OF ANY AND ALL PROCESS IN ANY SUCH
            ACTION OR PROCEEDING BY THE MAILING OF COPIES OF SUCH PROCESS TO IT AT ITS ADDRESS SET FORTH IN SECTION 13.02 IN THE MANNER DESCRIBED ABOVE.  EACH OF THE BORROWER, SERVICER AND EQUITYHOLDER AGREES THAT A FINAL JUDGMENT IN ANY SUCH ACTION OR
            PROCEEDING SHALL BE CONCLUSIVE AND MAY BE ENFORCED IN OTHER JURISDICTIONS BY SUIT ON THE JUDGMENT OR IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY LAW.  NOTHING IN THIS SECTION SHALL AFFECT THE RIGHTS OF ANY PARTY HERETO TO SERVE LEGAL PROCESS IN ANY OTHER
            MANNER PERMITTED BY LAW OR AFFECT SUCH PARTY’S RIGHT TO BRING ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING AGAINST ANY OF THE BORROWER, SERVICER AND EQUITYHOLDER OR ANY OTHER PARTY HERETO OR ITS PROPERTY IN THE COURTS OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION; and

           

          
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          (e)          waives, to the maximum extent not prohibited by law, any right it may have to claim or recover in any legal action or proceeding against any Secured Party arising out of or
            relating to this Agreement or any other Facility Document any special, exemplary, punitive or consequential damages; provided that such waiver shall not limit the right of an Indemnified Party to make any claim against the Servicer
            pursuant to Section 13.04(c).

           

          Section 13.13  Waiver of Jury Trial.  EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL ACTION OR
              PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER FACILITY DOCUMENT OR FOR ANY COUNTERCLAIM HEREIN OR THEREIN OR RELATING HERETO OR THERETO.

           

          Section 13.14       Right of Setoff; Payments Pro Rata.  (a)  Subject to Section 9.01(a), if an Event of Default shall have occurred and
            be continuing, each Lender and each of their respective Affiliates is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or
            demand, provisional or final, in whatever currency) at any time held and other obligations (in whatever currency) at any time owing by such Lender or any such 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 this Agreement or any other Facility Document to such Lender or their respective Affiliates, irrespective of whether or not such Lender or Affiliate shall have made any demand
            under this Agreement or any other Facility Document and although such obligations of the Borrower may be contingent or unmatured 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 setoff, (x) all amounts so set off shall be paid over immediately to the Administrative Agent for
            further application in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.17 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 Administrative Agent and the
            Lenders, and (y) the Defaulting Lender shall provide promptly to the Administrative Agent a statement describing in reasonable detail the Obligations owing to such Defaulting Lender as to which it exercised such right of setoff.  The rights of
            each Lender and their respective Affiliates under this Section are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) that such Lender or their respective Affiliates may have.  Each Lender agrees to notify the Borrower
            and the Administrative Agent promptly after any such setoff and application, provided, that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such setoff and application.

           

          
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          (b)        Each of the Lenders agrees that, if it should receive any amount under this Agreement (whether by voluntary payments, by realization upon security, by the exercise of the right of
            setoff or banker’s lien, by counterclaim or cross action, by the enforcement of any right under the Facility Documents, or otherwise) which is applicable to the payment of the principal of, or interest on, the Advances or fees, of a sum which
            with respect to the related sum or sums received by other Lenders is in a greater proportion than the total of such Obligation then owed and due to such Lender bears to the total of such Obligation then owed and due to all of the Lenders
            immediately prior to such receipt, then such Lender receiving such excess payment shall purchase for cash without recourse or warranty from the other Lenders an interest in the Obligations to such other Lenders in such amount as shall result in
            a proportional participation by all of the Lenders in such disproportionate sum received; provided that if all or any portion of such excess amount is thereafter recovered from such Lender, such purchase shall be rescinded and the
            purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, but without interest.

           

          Section 13.15     PATRIOT Act Notice.  Each Agent and Lender hereby notifies the Borrower that, pursuant to the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed
            into law on October 26, 2001)) (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 Agent or Lender to identify the Borrower in accordance with the PATRIOT Act.  The Borrower shall provide, to the extent commercially reasonable, such information and take such actions as are reasonably requested by any Lender or
            Agent in order to assist such Lender or Agent, as applicable, in maintaining compliance with the PATRIOT Act or any other laws, regulations and executive orders of the United States or any state or political subdivision thereof as are in effect
            from time to time applicable to financial institutions relating to the funding of terrorist activities and money laundering.

           

          Section 13.16      Legal Holidays.  In the event that the date of prepayment of Advances or the Final Maturity Date shall not be a Business Day, then notwithstanding any other provision
            of this Agreement or any other Facility Document, payment need not be made on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on the nominal date of any such date of prepayment or Final
            Maturity Date, as the case may be, and interest shall accrue on such payment for the period from and after any such nominal date to but excluding such next succeeding Business Day.

           

          Section 13.17      Limited Recourse; Non-Petition.  (a)  Each of the Servicer and each Secured Party acknowledges that the Borrower is a special purpose entity and that none of the
            directors, officers, incorporators, shareholders, partners, agents or employees of the Borrower (including, without limitation, any Equityholder and any Affiliate thereof) shall be personally liable for any of the obligations of the Borrower
            under this Agreement.  The Borrower’s sole source of funds for payment of all amounts due hereunder shall be the Collateral, and, upon application of the proceeds of the Collateral and its reduction to zero in accordance with the terms and
            under the circumstances described herein, all obligations of and all claims against the Borrower under this Agreement, any Note or under any other Facility Document shall extinguish and shall not thereafter revive.  No recourse shall be had for
            the payment of any amount owing in respect of the Advances against the Equityholder, the Servicer or any Affiliate, shareholder, manager, officer, director, employee or member of the Borrower, the Equityholder or the Servicer or their
            respective successors or assigns or, except as specifically set forth in this this Agreement (including, but not limited to Section 13.04(c)) and in the other Facility Documents, for any other amounts payable in respect of the Obligations or
            the Facility Documents.

           

          
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          (b)          Each of the Servicer and each Secured Party hereby agrees not to institute against, or join, cooperate with or encourage any other Person in instituting against, the Borrower any
            bankruptcy, reorganization, receivership, arrangement, insolvency, moratorium or liquidation proceeding or other proceeding under federal or state bankruptcy or similar laws until at least one year and one day, or, if longer, the applicable
            preference period then in effect plus one day, after the payment in full of all outstanding Obligations and the termination of all Individual Lender Maximum Funding Amounts; provided that nothing in this Section 13.17 shall preclude, or
            be deemed to prevent, any Secured Party (a) from taking any action prior to the expiration of the aforementioned one year and one day period, or, if longer, the applicable preference period then in effect, in (i) any case or proceeding
            voluntarily filed or commenced by the Borrower or (ii) any involuntary insolvency proceeding filed or commenced against the Borrower by a Person other than any such Secured Party, or (b) from commencing against the Borrower or any properties of
            the Borrower any legal action which is not a bankruptcy, reorganization, receivership, arrangement, insolvency, moratorium or liquidation proceeding or other proceeding under federal or state bankruptcy or similar laws.  The provisions of this
            paragraph shall survive the termination of this Agreement. The provisions of this Section 13.17 are a material inducement for the Secured Parties to enter into this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby and are an essential term
            hereof. The parties hereby agree that monetary damages are not adequate for a breach of the provisions of this Section 13.17 and the Administrative Agent may seek and obtain specific performance of such provisions (including injunctive relief),
            including, without limitation, in any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, winding up, insolvency, moratorium, winding up or liquidation proceedings, or other proceedings under United States federal or state bankruptcy laws, or any similar
            laws.

           

          Section 13.18     Waiver of Setoff.  Each of the Borrower and the Servicer hereby waives any right of setoff it may have or to which it may be entitled under this Agreement or under any
            Applicable Law from time to time against the Administrative Agent, any Lender or its respective assets.

           

          Section 13.19     Collateral Agent Execution and Delivery.  By executing this Agreement, each Lender hereby consents to the terms of this Agreement, directs the Collateral Agent to
            execute and deliver this Agreement, and acknowledges and agrees that the Collateral Agent shall be fully protected in relying upon the foregoing consent and direction and hereby releases the Collateral Agent and its respective officers,
            directors, agents, employees and shareholders, as applicable, from any liability for complying with such direction, except as a result of gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Collateral Agent.

           

          
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          Section 13.20      Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of Affected Financial Institutions.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Facility Document or in any other
            agreement, arrangement or understanding among any such parties, each party hereto acknowledges and accepts that any liability of any Affected Financial Institution arising under or in connection with any Facility Document, to the extent such
            liability is unsecured, may be subject to the Write-Down and Conversion Powers of the applicable Resolution Authority and agrees and consents to, and acknowledges and agrees to be bound by:

           

          (a)          the application of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable Resolution Authority to any such liabilities arising hereunder which may be payable to it by any party
            hereto that is an Affected Financial Institution; and

           

          (b)          the effects of any Bail-In Action on any such liability, including, if applicable:

           

          (i)          a reduction in full or in part, in the principal amount, or outstanding amount due (including any accrued but unpaid interest), or cancellation of any such
            liability;

           

          (ii)       a conversion of all, or a portion of, such liability into shares or other instruments of ownership in such Affected Financial Institution, its parent undertaking,
            or a bridge institution that may be issued to it or otherwise conferred on it, and that such shares or other instruments of ownership will be accepted by it in lieu of any rights with respect to any such liability under this Agreement or any
            other Facility Document; or

           

          (iii)        the variation of the terms of any Facility Document to the extent necessary to give effect to any Bail-In Action in relation to such liability.

           

          Section 13.21    WAIVER OF SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY.  To the extent that any of the Borrower, Servicer or Equityholder may be entitled, in any jurisdiction in which judicial proceedings may
            at any time be commenced with respect to this Agreement or any other Facility Document, to claim for itself or its revenues, assets or properties any immunity from suit, the jurisdiction of any court, attachment prior to judgment, attachment in
            aid of execution of a judgment, set-off, execution of a judgment or any other legal process, and to the extent that in any such jurisdiction there may be attributed such immunity (whether or not claimed), each of the Borrower, the Servicer and
            the Equityholder irrevocably agrees not to claim and hereby irrevocably waives such immunity to the fullest extent permitted by the laws of such jurisdiction and hereby agrees that the foregoing waiver shall be enforced to the fullest extent
            permitted under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 of the United States of America, as amended, and is intended to be irrevocable for the purpose of such act.

           

          Section 13.22    Risk Retention.  The Equityholder hereby represents and covenants, for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the Collateral Agent and, in respect of
            paragraphs (d) and (e) below only, the Servicer that, for so long as any Advance remains outstanding:

           

          
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          (a)          it will retain, as originator, on an ongoing basis, a material net economic interest in the form specified in paragraph (d) of Article 6(3) of the Securitisation Regulation, being
            retention of the first loss tranche and, if necessary, other tranches having the same or a more severe risk profile than those transferred or sold to investors and not maturing any earlier than those transferred or sold to investors, through
            maintaining funding to the Borrower under the LLC Agreement, in an amount equal to not less than 5% of the Retention Basis Amount (such net economic interest being the “Retention”);

           

          (b)       neither it nor any of its Affiliates will sell, hedge, enter into a short position or otherwise mitigate its credit risk under or associated with the Retention where to do so would
            cause the transaction contemplated by the Facility Documents to cease to be compliant with the EU Retention Requirements;

           

          (c)          it will take such further action, provide such information as is in its possession (provided that the provision of such information would not contravene any applicable contract,
            law or regulation or duties of confidentiality binding on the Equityholder) and enter into such other agreements, in each case, as may reasonably be required by the Borrower, a Lender or the Administrative Agent to satisfy the EU Retention
            Requirements;

           

          (d)       it will confirm to each of the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Servicer, each Lender and the Collateral Agent, its continued compliance with the covenants set out at
            paragraphs (a) and (b) above in each Monthly Report and each Payment Date Report;

           

          (e)          it will promptly notify the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Servicer, each Lender and the Collateral Agent in writing if for any reason it fails to comply with either of
            the covenants set out in paragraphs (a) or (b) above in any way;

           

          (f)          it will notify each of its Affiliates of the contents of paragraph (b) above and shall use reasonable endeavours to procure that each of its Affiliates complies with the terms of
            paragraph (b) as if it were a party thereto; and

           

          (g)         (A) in relation to each Collateral Loan acquired by the Borrower which is a Retention Holder Originated Collateral Loan pursuant to part (a) of the definition thereof, it applied
            sound and well-defined credit granting criteria to the origination of the Collateral Loan; (B) in relation to each Collateral Loan acquired by the Borrower which is a Retention Holder Originated Collateral Loan pursuant to part (b) of the
            definition thereof, it has verified, in light of the information available to it and subject to its usual standard of care, and reasonably believes that the entity which was, directly or indirectly, involved in the original agreement which
            created the Collateral Loan applied sound and well-defined credit granting criteria to the origination of the Collateral Loan, and that it maintained clearly established processes for approving, amending, modifying, renewing and financing the
            Collateral Loan and had effective systems in place to apply those criteria and processes to ensure that the Collateral Loan was granted and approved based on a thorough assessment of the relevant Obligor’s creditworthiness; and (C) it and the
            Borrower have, and reasonably expect to maintain, clearly established criteria and processes for originating, amending, modifying, renewing and financing the Collateral Loans (the “Collateral Loan Originations and Revisions”) and have
            effective systems in place to apply those criteria and processes to ensure that Collateral Loan Originations and Revisions are granted and approved based on a thorough assessment of each Obligor’s creditworthiness.

           

          Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, neither the Equityholder nor the Borrower makes any representation as to compliance of the transaction or any of the parties hereto with respect to the
            Securitisation Regulation.  Any Person accepting the benefits of this Section 13.22 and/or Section 13.23 below (including any related definitions or provisions), shall be deemed to have agreed to the terms set forth in this paragraph and each
            Lender hereby represents that is not relying on any of the Borrower, the Servicer or the Equityholder or any of their respective Affiliates, for any financial, tax, legal, accounting, or regulatory advice in connection with the matters set
            forth in this Section 13.22 and/or Section 13.23 below.

           

          
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          Section 13.23     EU Due Diligence Requirements.  The Equityholder agrees to make available (or will cause the Servicer or the Borrower to make available), promptly upon written request
            by the Administrative Agent on behalf of any Lender from time to time, the documents, reports and information necessary to enable compliance by any Lender with Article 5 of the Securitisation Regulation; provided
            that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrower shall be obligated to do so only if such documents, reports or information is: (1) not subject to a duty of confidentiality; and (2)(a) in the Borrower’s or the Equityholder’s possession, or (b)
            not in the Borrower’s or the Equityholder’s possession but the Equityholder or Borrower can obtain such documents, reports or information using commercially reasonably efforts without material expense (provided further that, if obtaining such
            documents, reports or information would involve material expense but the requesting Lender agrees to pay it, then the Borrower shall obtain the same).

           

          Section 13.24     Compliance with the Securitisation Regulation.  Each of the parties hereto acknowledges that none of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the Custodian, the
            Securities Intermediary and the Collateral Agent shall be responsible for and shall have no obligation to assist any other party hereto in connection with compliance with any requirement of the Securitisation Regulation applicable to them.

           

          Section 13.25      Adequacy of Monetary Damages Against the Lenders.  Each of the Borrower, the Servicer and the Equityholder hereby acknowledges and agrees that (i) any and all claims,
            damages and demands against the Administrative Agent or the Lenders arising out of, or in connection with, the exercise by the Administrative Agent or the Lenders of any Administrative Agent or any of the Lenders’ rights or remedies pursuant to
            this Agreement can be sufficiently and adequately remedied by monetary damages, (ii) no irreparable injury will be caused to the Borrower, the Servicer or the Equityholder as a result of, or in connection with, any such claims, damages or
            demands, and (iii) no equitable or injunctive relief shall be sought by the Borrower, the Servicer or the Equityholder as a result of, or in connection with, any such claims, damages or demands; provided that this Section 13.25 shall
            not constitute a waiver of any rights of the Borrower, the Servicer or the Equityholder to seek injunctive relief to enforce its rights under Section 13.09.

           

          

          
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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.

           

          
            	 	
                    BPC FUNDING LLC, as Borrower

                  
	 	 
	 	
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                    BARINGS PRIVATE CREDIT

                     CORPORATION, as Equityholder

                  
	 	 
	 	
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                    Name:

                  
	 	

                  	
                    Title:

                  
	 	 	 
	 	
                    BARINGS PRIVATE CREDIT 

                    CORPORATION, as Servicer

                  
	 	 
	 	
                    By:

                  	

                  
	 	

                  	
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                  BNP PARIBAS, as Administrative Agent, a 

                  Dollar Lender and a Multicurrency Lender

                
	 	 
	 	
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                  Name:

                
	 	

                	
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                  STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST 

                  COMPANY, as Collateral Agent

                
	 	 
	 	
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