Document:

Exhibit 10.2

 

 

 CREDIT AGREEMENT

 

Dated as of June 16, 2011

 

among

 

NP OPCO LLC,
 as Borrower,

 

DEUTSCHE BANK AG CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH,
 as Administrative Agent,

 

and

 

THE OTHER LENDERS PARTY HERETO,

 

and

 

DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW YORK BRANCH,
 as L/C Issuer,

 

and

 

J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC,
 as Syndication Agent

 

DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC.

 

and

 

J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC,
 as Joint Lead Arrangers and
 Joint Book Runners

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

	
 
    	
 
    	
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ARTICLE I Definitions and   Accounting Terms
    	
2
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
SECTION 1.01.
    	
Defined Terms
    	
2
    
	
SECTION 1.02.
    	
Other Interpretive Provisions
    	
51
    
	
SECTION 1.03.
    	
Accounting Terms
    	
52
    
	
SECTION 1.04.
    	
Rounding
    	
52
    
	
SECTION 1.05.
    	
References to Agreements, Laws, etc.
    	
52
    
	
SECTION 1.06.
    	
Times of Day
    	
52
    
	
SECTION 1.07.
    	
Timing of Payment or Performance
    	
52
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE II The Revolving   Credit Commitments and Credit Extensions
    	
53
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
SECTION 2.01.
    	
The Loans
    	
53
    
	
SECTION 2.02.
    	
Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Loans
    	
53
    
	
SECTION 2.03.
    	
Letters of Credit
    	
55
    
	
SECTION 2.04.
    	
Swing Line Loans
    	
62
    
	
SECTION 2.05.
    	
Prepayments
    	
64
    
	
SECTION 2.06.
    	
Termination or Reduction of Revolving Credit Commitments
    	
69
    
	
SECTION 2.07.
    	
Repayment of Loans
    	
70
    
	
SECTION 2.08.
    	
Interest
    	
70
    
	
SECTION 2.09.
    	
Fees
    	
72
    
	
SECTION 2.10.
    	
Computation of Interest and Fees
    	
72
    
	
SECTION 2.11.
    	
Evidence of Indebtedness
    	
72
    
	
SECTION 2.12.
    	
Payments Generally
    	
73
    
	
SECTION 2.13.
    	
Sharing of Payments
    	
75
    
	
SECTION 2.14.
    	
Maturity Date Extension
    	
76
    
	
SECTION 2.15.
    	
Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments
    	
77
    
	
SECTION 2.16.
    	
Defaulting Lenders
    	
79
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE III   Taxes, Increased Costs Protection and Illegality
    	
81
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
SECTION 3.01.
    	
Taxes
    	
81
    
	
SECTION 3.02.
    	
Illegality
    	
83
    
	
SECTION 3.03.
    	
Inability to Determine Rates
    	
83
    
	
SECTION 3.04.
    	
Increased Cost and Reduced Return; Capital Adequacy;   Reserves on Eurodollar Loans
    	
84
    
	
SECTION 3.05.
    	
Funding Losses
    	
85
    
	
SECTION 3.06.
    	
Matters Applicable to All Requests for Compensation
    	
85
    
	
SECTION 3.07.
    	
Replacement of Lenders under Certain Circumstances
    	
86
    
	
SECTION 3.08.
    	
Survival
    	
87
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE IV Conditions   Precedent to Credit Extensions
    	
87
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
SECTION 4.01.
    	
Conditions of Initial Credit Extension
    	
87
    

 

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SECTION 4.02.
    	
Conditions to All Credit Extensions
    	
90
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE V Representations   and Warranties 
    	
92
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
SECTION 5.01.
    	
Existence, Qualification and Power; Compliance with Laws
    	
92
    
	
SECTION 5.02.
    	
Authorization; No Contravention
    	
92
    
	
SECTION 5.03.
    	
Governmental Authorization; Other Consents
    	
92
    
	
SECTION 5.04.
    	
Binding Effect
    	
93
    
	
SECTION 5.05.
    	
Financial Statements; No Material Adverse Effect
    	
93
    
	
SECTION 5.06.
    	
Litigation
    	
94
    
	
SECTION 5.07.
    	
No Default
    	
94
    
	
SECTION 5.08.
    	
Ownership of Property; Liens
    	
94
    
	
SECTION 5.09.
    	
Environmental Compliance
    	
95
    
	
SECTION 5.10.
    	
Taxes
    	
96
    
	
SECTION 5.11.
    	
ERISA Compliance
    	
97
    
	
SECTION 5.12.
    	
Subsidiaries; Equity Interests
    	
97
    
	
SECTION 5.13.
    	
Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act
    	
97
    
	
SECTION 5.14.
    	
Disclosure
    	
97
    
	
SECTION 5.15.
    	
Intellectual Property; Licenses, etc.
    	
98
    
	
SECTION 5.16.
    	
Solvency
    	
98
    
	
SECTION 5.17.
    	
Maintenance of Insurance
    	
98
    
	
SECTION 5.18.
    	
Labor Matters
    	
99
    
	
SECTION 5.19.
    	
Restructuring Transactions Documentation, etc.
    	
99
    
	
SECTION 5.20.
    	
Collateral
    	
99
    
	
SECTION 5.21.
    	
Location of Real Property
    	
99
    
	
SECTION 5.22.
    	
Permits
    	
99
    
	
SECTION 5.23.
    	
Fiscal Year
    	
100
    
	
SECTION 5.24.
    	
Patriot Act
    	
100
    
	
SECTION 5.25.
    	
Use of Proceeds
    	
100
    
	
SECTION 5.26.
    	
Subordination of Junior Financing
    	
100
    
	
SECTION 5.27.
    	
Cost Allocation
    	
100
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE VI Affirmative   Covenants 
    	
101
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
SECTION 6.01.
    	
Financial Statements
    	
101
    
	
SECTION 6.02.
    	
Certificates; Other Information
    	
102
    
	
SECTION 6.03.
    	
Notices
    	
104
    
	
SECTION 6.04.
    	
Payment of Obligations
    	
105
    
	
SECTION 6.05.
    	
Preservation of Existence, Etc.
    	
105
    
	
SECTION 6.06.
    	
Maintenance of Properties; Employees
    	
105
    
	
SECTION 6.07.
    	
Maintenance of Insurance
    	
106
    
	
SECTION 6.08.
    	
Compliance with Laws
    	
106
    
	
SECTION 6.09.
    	
Books and Records; Quarterly Conference Calls
    	
106
    
	
SECTION 6.10.
    	
Inspection Rights
    	
106
    
	
SECTION 6.11.
    	
Covenant to Guarantee Obligations and Give Security
    	
107
    
	
SECTION 6.12.
    	
Compliance with Environmental Laws
    	
109
    

 

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SECTION 6.13.
    	
Further Assurances and Post-Closing Conditions
    	
109
    
	
SECTION 6.14.
    	
Designation of Subsidiaries
    	
110
    
	
SECTION 6.15.
    	
Information Regarding Collateral
    	
111
    
	
SECTION 6.16.
    	
Corporate Separateness
    	
111
    
	
SECTION 6.17.
    	
Interest Rate Protection
    	
111
    
	
SECTION 6.18.
    	
Management Agreement
    	
112
    
	
SECTION 6.19.
    	
Unrestricted Subsidiaries
    	
114
    
	
SECTION 6.20.
    	
Ratings
    	
114
    
	
SECTION 6.21.
    	
Equity Issuances
    	
114
    
	
SECTION 6.22.
    	
Subsidiary Cost Allocation Agreements
    	
115
    
	
SECTION 6.23.
    	
Parent Cost Allocation Agreement, etc
    	
115
    
	
SECTION 6.24.
    	
Texas Station IT Build-Out
    	
116
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE VII Negative   Covenants
    	
116
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
SECTION 7.01.
    	
Liens
    	
116
    
	
SECTION 7.02.
    	
Investments
    	
119
    
	
SECTION 7.03.
    	
Indebtedness
    	
123
    
	
SECTION 7.04.
    	
Fundamental Changes
    	
125
    
	
SECTION 7.05.
    	
Dispositions
    	
126
    
	
SECTION 7.06.
    	
Restricted Payments
    	
130
    
	
SECTION 7.07.
    	
Change in Nature of Business
    	
131
    
	
SECTION 7.08.
    	
Transactions with Affiliates
    	
131
    
	
SECTION 7.09.
    	
Burdensome Agreements
    	
131
    
	
SECTION 7.10.
    	
Use of Proceeds
    	
132
    
	
SECTION 7.11.
    	
Financial Covenants
    	
132
    
	
SECTION 7.12.
    	
Accounting Changes
    	
133
    
	
SECTION 7.13.
    	
Prepayments, etc. of Indebtedness
    	
133
    
	
SECTION 7.14.
    	
Equity Interests of the Borrower and Restricted   Subsidiaries
    	
135
    
	
SECTION 7.15.
    	
Special Purpose Vehicle Restrictions
    	
135
    
	
SECTION 7.16.
    	
Capital Expenditures
    	
135
    
	
SECTION 7.17.
    	
Sale-Leaseback Transactions
    	
136
    
	
SECTION 7.18.
    	
Real Property Leases
    	
136
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE VIII Events of   Default and Remedies
    	
138
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
SECTION 8.01.
    	
Events of Default
    	
138
    
	
SECTION 8.02.
    	
Remedies Upon Event of Default
    	
142
    
	
SECTION 8.03.
    	
[Reserved]
    	
142
    
	
SECTION 8.04.
    	
Application of Funds
    	
142
    
	
SECTION 8.05.
    	
Borrower’s Right to Cure
    	
144
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE IX Administrative   Agent and Other Agents
    	
145
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
SECTION 9.01.
    	
Appointment and Authorization of Agents
    	
145
    
	
SECTION 9.02.
    	
Delegation of Duties
    	
145
    

 

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SECTION 9.03.
    	
Liability of Agents
    	
146
    
	
SECTION 9.04.
    	
Reliance by Agents
    	
146
    
	
SECTION 9.05.
    	
Notice of Default
    	
146
    
	
SECTION 9.06.
    	
Credit Decision; Disclosure of Information by Agents
    	
147
    
	
SECTION 9.07.
    	
Indemnification of Agents
    	
147
    
	
SECTION 9.08.
    	
Agents in their Individual Capacities
    	
148
    
	
SECTION 9.09.
    	
Successor Agents
    	
148
    
	
SECTION 9.10.
    	
Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim
    	
149
    
	
SECTION 9.11.
    	
Collateral and Guaranty Matters
    	
149
    
	
SECTION 9.12.
    	
Other Agents; Joint Lead Arrangers and Managers
    	
151
    
	
SECTION 9.13.
    	
Appointment of Supplemental Administrative Agents
    	
151
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE X Miscellaneous
    	
152
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
SECTION 10.01.
    	
Amendments, etc.
    	
152
    
	
SECTION 10.02.
    	
Notices and Other Communications; Facsimile Copies
    	
154
    
	
SECTION 10.03.
    	
No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies
    	
155
    
	
SECTION 10.04.
    	
Attorney Costs, Expenses and Taxes
    	
155
    
	
SECTION 10.05.
    	
Indemnification by the Borrower
    	
156
    
	
SECTION 10.06.
    	
Payments Set Aside
    	
157
    
	
SECTION 10.07.
    	
Successors and Assigns
    	
157
    
	
SECTION 10.08.
    	
Confidentiality
    	
161
    
	
SECTION 10.09.
    	
Setoff
    	
162
    
	
SECTION 10.10.
    	
Interest Rate Limitation
    	
163
    
	
SECTION 10.11.
    	
Counterparts
    	
163
    
	
SECTION 10.12.
    	
Integration
    	
163
    
	
SECTION 10.13.
    	
Survival of Representations and Warranties
    	
164
    
	
SECTION 10.14.
    	
Severability
    	
164
    
	
SECTION 10.15.
    	
Tax Forms
    	
164
    
	
SECTION 10.16.
    	
Governing Law
    	
165
    
	
SECTION 10.17.
    	
Waiver of Right to Trial by Jury
    	
166
    
	
SECTION 10.18.
    	
Binding Effect
    	
166
    
	
SECTION 10.19.
    	
Lender Action
    	
166
    
	
SECTION 10.20.
    	
Acknowledgments
    	
167
    
	
SECTION 10.21.
    	
USA Patriot Act
    	
167
    
	
SECTION 10.22.
    	
Gaming Authorities and Liquor Authorities
    	
167
    
	
SECTION 10.23.
    	
Certain Matters Affecting Lenders
    	
167
    
	
SECTION 10.24.
    	
Revolving Credit Facility Priority
    	
168
    
	
SECTION 10.25.
    	
The Platform
    	
168
    

 

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SCHEDULES(1)
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
1.01A
    	
 
    	
Certain   Security Interests and Guarantees
    	
 
    
	
1.01C
    	
 
    	
[Reserved]
    	
 
    
	
1.01D
    	
 
    	
Native   American Subsidiaries
    	
 
    
	
1.01E
    	
 
    	
Material   Contracts
    	
 
    
	
1.01F
    	
 
    	
Land   Term Loan Property
    	
 
    
	
1.01G
    	
 
    	
Disqualified   Institutions
    	
 
    
	
1.01H
    	
 
    	
Native   American Contracts
    	
 
    
	
2.01
    	
 
    	
Revolving   Credit Commitments, B Term Loan Distribution and Land Term Loan Distribution   Amounts
    	
 
    
	
4.01(a)
    	
 
    	
Closing   Documents
    	
 
    
	
5.03
    	
 
    	
Consents
    	
 
    
	
5.05
    	
 
    	
Certain   Liabilities
    	
 
    
	
5.08(f)
    	
 
    	
Real   Property Leases
    	
 
    
	
5.12
    	
 
    	
Subsidiaries   and Other Equity Investments
    	
 
    
	
5.15
    	
 
    	
Intellectual   Property
    	
 
    
	
5.17
    	
 
    	
Insurance
    	
 
    
	
5.19
    	
 
    	
Restructuring   Transactions Documents
    	
 
    
	
5.21
    	
 
    	
Location   of Real Property
    	
 
    
	
7.01(b)
    	
 
    	
Existing   Liens
    	
 
    
	
7.02(f)
    	
 
    	
Existing   Investments
    	
 
    
	
7.02(p)
    	
 
    	
Native   American Investments
    	
 
    
	
7.02(r)
    	
 
    	
Real   Estate to be Invested by Native American Subsidiaries
    	
 
    
	
7.03(b)
    	
 
    	
Existing   Indebtedness
    	
 
    
	
7.08
    	
 
    	
Transactions   with Affiliates
    	
 
    
	
7.09
    	
 
    	
Existing   Restrictions
    	
 
    
	
10.02
    	
 
    	
Administrative   Agent’s Office, Certain Addresses for Notices
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
EXHIBITS
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
A
    	
 
    	
Committed   Loan Notice
    	
 
    
	
B
    	
 
    	
Swing   Line Loan Notice
    	
 
    
	
C-1
    	
 
    	
B Term   Note
    	
 
    
	
C-2
    	
 
    	
Land   Term Note
    	
 
    
	
C-3
    	
 
    	
Revolving   Credit Note
    	
 
    
	
C-4
    	
 
    	
Swing   Line Note
    	
 
    
	
D
    	
 
    	
Compliance   Certificate
    	
 
    
	
E
    	
 
    	
Assignment   and Assumption
    	
 
    
	
F
    	
 
    	
Guaranty
    	
 
    
	
G-1
    	
 
    	
Security   Agreement
    	
 
    
	
G-2
    	
 
    	
Pledge   Agreement
    	
 
    
	
H
    	
 
    	
Mortgage
    	
 
    
	
I
    	
 
    	
Intellectual   Property Security Agreements
    	
 
    
	
J-1
    	
 
    	
Opinion   Matters — New York Counsel to Loan Parties
    	
 
    
	
J-2
    	
 
    	
Opinion   Matters — Nevada Counsel to Loan Parties
    	
 
    
	
K
    	
 
    	
Intercompany   Note
    	
 
    
	
L
    	
 
    	
Access/Cooperation   Covenants
    	
 
    

 

(1)  All Schedules to be reviewed and approved by the Required Consenting Lenders prior to Closing Date.

 

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M
    	
 
    	
Non-Disturbance   Agreement
    	
 
    

 

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CREDIT AGREEMENT

 

This CREDIT AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is entered into as of June 16, 2011, among NP OPCO LLC, a Nevada limited liability company (the “Borrower”), DEUTSCHE BANK AG CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH, as Administrative Agent (in such capacity, together with any successor thereto, the “Administrative Agent”), each lender from time to time party hereto (collectively, the “Lenders” and, individually, a “Lender”), DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW YORK BRANCH, as L/C Issuer, J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC, as Syndication Agent (in such capacity, the “Syndication Agent”) and DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC. and J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC, as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners (in such capacity, collectively, the “Joint Lead Arrangers” and, individually, a “Joint Lead Arranger”).  All capitalized terms used herein and defined in Section 1.01 are used herein as therein defined.

 

PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS

 

WHEREAS, Old OpCo, the Lenders, the Administrative Agent, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners, JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., as Syndication Agent, and Bank of Scotland plc, Bank of America, N.A. and Wachovia Bank, N.A., as Co-Documentation Agents, are parties to a Credit Agreement, dated as of November 7, 2007 (as amended, modified and/or supplemented from time to time to, but not including, the Closing Date, the “Original Credit Agreement”);

 

WHEREAS, on July 28, 2009 (the “Petition Date”), Old OpCo and several of its Affiliates (collectively, the “Debtors”) commenced their bankruptcy cases (collectively, the “Chapter 11 Cases”) as debtors and debtors in possession by filing voluntary petitions under chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Nevada (the “Bankruptcy Court”);

 

WHEREAS, on March 24, 2010, the Debtors filed with the Bankruptcy Court the Plan of Reorganization and the Disclosure Statement;

 

WHEREAS, on August 27, 2010, the Bankruptcy Court entered the Confirmation Order confirming the Plan of Reorganization;

 

WHEREAS, pursuant to the Plan of Reorganization, the Debtors have implemented (or substantially simultaneously with the Closing Date will implement) the Restructuring Transactions;

 

WHEREAS, simultaneously with the substantial consummation (as defined in Section 1101(2) of the Bankruptcy Code) of the Plan of Reorganization, (a) the Indebtedness under the Original Credit Agreement shall be extinguished and the Lenders shall be deemed to hold the Term Loans hereunder in an initial aggregate amount of $435,703,732 (which represent a portion of the consideration received by the Lenders), in each case pursuant to the Plan of Reorganization, and (b) the Revolving Credit Lenders have agreed, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein, to extend credit to the Borrower in the form of a Revolving Credit Facility in an initial aggregate amount of $25,000,000, which may include Revolving Credit Loans, Swing Line Loans and Letters of Credit from time to time; and

 

WHEREAS, the proceeds of the Revolving Credit Loans and Swing Line Loans will be used for working capital and other general corporate purposes of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, including the financing of Permitted Acquisitions, and Letters of Credit will be used for 

 

 

general corporate purposes of the Borrower, its Restricted Subsidiaries and, to the extent permitted under Sections 2.03(a) and 7.02, Unrestricted Subsidiaries.

 

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

 

ARTICLE I

 

Definitions and Accounting Terms

 

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

 

“Acquired EBITDA” means, with respect to any Acquired Entity or Business or any Converted Restricted Subsidiary for any period, the amount for such period of Consolidated EBITDA of such Acquired Entity or Business or Converted Restricted Subsidiary (determined as if references to the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries in the definition of “Consolidated EBITDA” (and in the component financial definitions used therein) were references to such Acquired Entity or Business or Converted Restricted Subsidiary and its Subsidiaries and without regard to clauses (A)(5) and (A)(6) of such definition or the last sentence of the definition of “Consolidated Net Income”), all as determined on a consolidated basis for such Acquired Entity or Business or Converted Restricted Subsidiary in accordance with GAAP.

 

“Acquired Entity or Business” has the meaning specified in the definition of the term “Consolidated EBITDA”.

 

“Acquisition” means the acquisition of assets and the assumption of certain liabilities, in each case pursuant to, and in accordance with the terms of, the Acquisition Agreement.

 

“Acquisition Agreement” means that certain Asset Purchase Agreement, dated as of June 7, 2010, among Old OpCo, certain subsidiaries party thereto and FG Opco Acquisitions LLC.

 

“Acquisition Documents” means the Acquisition Agreement and all other agreements and documents relating to the Acquisition.

 

“Additional Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15.

 

“Adjusted LIBO Rate” means, with respect to any Eurodollar Loan for any Interest Period, an interest rate per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100,000 of 1%) equal to the product of (a) the LIBO Rate in effect for such Interest Period and (b) Statutory Reserves, to the extent applicable to any Lender.

 

“Administrative Agent” has the meaning specified in the preamble hereto.

 

“Administrative Agent’s Office” means the Administrative Agent’s address as set forth on Schedule 10.02 or such other address as the Administrative Agent may from time to time notify the Borrower and the Lenders.

 

“Administrative Questionnaire” means an Administrative Questionnaire in a form supplied by the Administrative Agent.

 

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“Affiliate” means (a) 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; provided, that as to any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof, the term “Affiliate” shall expressly exclude the Persons constituting Lenders as of the Closing Date and their respective Affiliates (determined as provided herein without regard to this proviso) and (b) with respect to any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof, (i) Frank J. Fertitta III and his spouse, their respective parents and grandparents and any lineal descendants (including adopted children and their lineal descendants) of any of the foregoing, (ii) Lorenzo J. Fertitta and his spouse, their respective parents and grandparents and any lineal descendants (including adopted children and their lineal descendants) of any of the foregoing, (iii) any Affiliate (determined in accordance with this definition without regard to this clause (iii)) of any Person described in the foregoing clauses (i) and (ii), or (iv) any personal investment vehicle, trust or entity owned by, or established for the benefit of, or the estate of, any Person described in the foregoing clauses (i) and (ii).  “Control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to (x) vote more than fifty percent (50%) (or, for purposes of Section 7.07 and 10.07(b)(ii)(D), ten percent (10%)) of the outstanding voting interests of a Person or (y) 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. For purposes of this Agreement, each of the Parent, Holdco and VoteCo shall be deemed to Control the Borrower.

 

“Agent Parties” has the meaning specified in Section 10.25.

 

“Agent-Related Persons” means the Agents, together with their respective Affiliates, and the officers, directors, employees, agents and attorneys-in-fact of such Persons and Affiliates.

 

“Agents” means, collectively, the Administrative Agent and the Supplemental Administrative Agents (if any).

 

“Aggregate Commitments” means, at any time, the Revolving Credit Commitments of all the Lenders at such time.

 

“Agreement” means this Credit Agreement.

 

“Applicable ECF Percentage” means, at any time, 75%; provided that, so long as no Default has then occurred and is continuing, if the Total Leverage Ratio is (i) less than 3.50:1.00 but greater than or equal to 2.50:1.00 (as set forth in the Compliance Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(b) for the fiscal year then last ended), the “Applicable ECF Percentage” shall instead be 50%, and (ii) less than 2.50:1.00 (as set forth in the Compliance Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(b) for the fiscal year then last ended), the “Applicable ECF Percentage” shall instead be 25%.

 

“Applicable Rate” means a percentage per annum equal to (i) with respect to Loans (other than Land Term Loans) (a) for the period from and after the Closing Date to the third anniversary of the Closing Date, (A) for Eurodollar Loans, 3.00%, (B) for Base Rate Loans, 2.00%, (C) for Letter of Credit fees, 3.00% and (D) for commitment fees, 0.50%, (b) from and after the third anniversary of the Closing Date to, solely if an initial extension of the Maturity Date pursuant to Section 2.14 is effected, the fifth anniversary of the Closing Date, or , if otherwise, at all times thereafter, (A) for Eurodollar Loans, 3.50%, (B) for Base Rate Loans, 2.50%, (C) for Letter of Credit fees, 3.50% and (D) for commitment fees, 0.50%, (c) in the event the Borrower shall make an initial extension of the Maturity Date pursuant to Section 2.14, from and after the fifth anniversary of the Closing Date to, solely if a second extension of the Maturity Date pursuant to Section 2.14 is effected, the sixth anniversary of the Closing Date, or , if otherwise, at all times thereafter, (A) for Eurodollar Loans, 4.50%, (B) for Base Rate Loans, 3.50%, (C) for Letter of Credit fees, 4.50% and (D) for commitment fees, 0.50%, and (d) in the event the Borrower 

 

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shall make a second extension of the Maturity Date pursuant to Section 2.14, from and after the sixth anniversary of the Closing Date, (A) for Eurodollar Loans, 5.50%, (B) for Base Rate Loans, 4.50%, (C) for Letter of Credit fees, 5.50% and (D) for commitment fees, 0.50% and (ii) with respect to Land Term Loans (a) for the period from and after the Closing Date to, solely if an initial extension of the Maturity Date pursuant to Section 2.14 is effected, the fifth anniversary of the Closing Date, or , if otherwise, at all times thereafter, (A) for Eurodollar Loans, 3.50% and (B) for Base Rate Loans, 2.50%, (b) in the event the Borrower shall make an initial extension of the Maturity Date pursuant to Section 2.14, from and after the fifth anniversary of the Closing Date to, solely if a second extension of the Maturity Date pursuant to Section 2.14 is effected, the sixth anniversary of the Closing Date, or , if otherwise, at all times thereafter, (A) for Eurodollar Loans, 4.50% and (B) for Base Rate Loans, 3.50%, and (c) in the event the Borrower shall make a second extension of the Maturity Date pursuant to Section 2.14, from and after the sixth anniversary of the Closing Date, (A) for Eurodollar Loans, 5.50% and (B) for Base Rate Loans, 4.50%.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained above in this definition, from and after the most recent Incremental Facility Closing Date for any Incremental Amendment pursuant to which any Applicable Rate for the Revolving Obligations or Revolving Credit Commitments has been increased above the Applicable Rates in effect with respect to the Revolving Obligations or Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable, immediately prior to such Incremental Facility Closing Date, each of the Applicable Rates shall be increased to those respective percentages per annum set forth in the applicable Incremental Amendment.

 

“Appraisal” means a real estate appraisal or any update thereto (provided that any such update has the same scope as the real estate appraisal being updated and uses (including, without limitation, by incorporation by reference from the real estate appraisal being updated) the same assumptions and methodologies as were used in the real estate appraisal being updated), in each case conducted in accordance with the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (as promulgated by the Appraisal Standards Board of the Appraisal Foundation) and all Laws applicable to Lenders, including in conformity with the Financial Institutions Reform Recovery and Enforcement Act (FIRREA), undertaken by an independent appraisal firm satisfactory to the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion, and providing an assessment of fair market value of the subject Land Term Loan Property in its then “as is” condition.  For purposes of subclause (C) (2) in the proviso to Section 7.05, the “as of” date of the valuation set forth in any updated Appraisal shall be the “as of” date set forth in the most recent such update.

 

“Appropriate Lender” means, at any time, (a) with respect to Loans of any Class, the Lenders of such Class, (b) with respect to Letters of Credit, (i) the relevant L/C Issuers and (ii) the Revolving Credit Lenders and (c) with respect to the Swing Line Facility, (i) the Swing Line Lender and (ii) if any Swing Line Loans are outstanding pursuant to Section 2.04(a), the Revolving Credit Lenders.

 

“Approved Bank” has the meaning specified in clause (b) of the definition of “Cash Equivalents.”

 

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

 

“Assignees” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(b).

 

“Assignment and Assumption” means an Assignment and Assumption substantially in the form of Exhibit E.

 

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“Attorney Costs” means and includes all reasonable fees, expenses and disbursements of any law firm or other external legal counsel.

 

“Auto-Renewal Letter of Credit” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(b)(iii).

 

“Availability” means, as of any date of determination, the amount by which the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments exceeds the aggregate Revolving Credit Exposure of the Revolving Credit Lenders as of such date.

 

“Availability Period” means the period from (but excluding) the Closing Date to (but excluding) the earlier of the Maturity Date and the date of termination of the Revolving Credit Commitments.

 

“B Term Lender” means, at any time, any Lender that has a B Term Loan at such time.

 

“B Term Loan” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(a)(i).

 

“B Term Loan Distribution” has the meaning provided in Section 2.01(a)(i).

 

“B Term Loan Distribution Amount” means, with respect to each Lender, the principal amount of the B Term Loan such Lender has been deemed to hold pursuant to the Plan of Reorganization (as a portion of the consideration provided to the holders of “Allowed S.2 Claims” under (and as defined in) the Plan of Reorganization) on the Closing Date pursuant to Section 2.01(a)(i) as set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 2.01 under the caption “B Term Loan Distribution Amount.”  The aggregate amount of the B Term Loan Distribution Amounts of all B Term Lenders on the Closing Date (after giving effect to the B Term Loan Distribution) is $410,703,732.

 

“B Term Loan Facility” means all B Term Loans made hereunder.

 

“B Term Note” means a promissory note of the Borrower payable to any B Term Lender or its registered assigns in substantially the form of Exhibit C-1, evidencing the aggregate Indebtedness of the Borrower to such B Term Lender resulting from the B Term Loans held or deemed held by such B Term Lender.

 

“Bankruptcy Code” means Title 11 of the United States Code entitled “Bankruptcy”, as now and/or hereinafter in effect, or any successor thereto.

 

“Bankruptcy Court” has the meaning specified in the recitals hereto.

 

“Base Rate” means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the greatest of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day, (b) the Federal Funds Rate in effect on such day plus 1⁄2 of 1%, and (c) the Adjusted LIBO Rate for a Eurodollar Loan with a one-month Interest Period commencing on such day plus 1.0%. For purposes of this definition, the Adjusted LIBO Rate shall be determined using the LIBO Rate as otherwise determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with the definition of “LIBO Rate”, except that (x) if a given day is a Business Day, such determination shall be made on such day (rather than two Business Days prior to the commencement of an Interest Period) or (y) if a given day is not a Business Day, the LIBO Rate for such day shall be the rate determined by the Administrative Agent pursuant to preceding clause (x) for the most recent Business Day preceding such day.  Any change in the Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Rate or the Adjusted LIBO Rate shall be effective as of the opening of business on the day of such change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Rate or the Adjusted LIBO Rate, respectively.

 

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“Base Rate Loan” means a Loan that bears interest based on the Base Rate.

 

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

 

“Bona Fide Business Purpose” means the acquisition, maintenance, operation or improvement of new or existing assets consistent with the line of business conducted by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on the date hereof or any business reasonably related or ancillary thereto (including, without limitation, the development of real property), including, by way of illustration only, current Capital Expenditures, payment of operating costs then due and owing, payment of taxes and scheduled debt service then due and owing and payments due in connection with property development.

 

“Borrower” has the meaning specified in the preamble hereto.

 

“Borrower Chapter 11 Case” means, collectively, the Chapter 11 Case commenced by Old OpCo in the Bankruptcy Court under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, on the Petition Date, together with such other cases commenced by certain subsidiaries of Old OpCo and jointly administered by the Bankruptcy Court with Old OpCo’s case.

 

“Borrower/IP Holdco License Agreement” means that certain IP Holdco to OpCo License Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, among the Borrower and IP Holdco.

 

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

 

“Borrowing” means a Revolving Credit Borrowing or a Swing Line 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 or required by law to close in New York City; provided, however, that when used in connection with a Eurodollar Loan (including with respect to all notices and determinations in connection therewith and any payments of principal, interest or other amounts thereon), the term “Business Day” shall also exclude any day on which banks are not open for dealings in Dollar deposits in the London interbank market.

 

“Cage Cash” means all so-called “cage cash” that the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries maintain within a Hotel/Casino Facility.

 

“Capital Expenditures” means, for any period, the aggregate of all expenditures (whether paid in cash or accrued as liabilities) by the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries during such period that, in conformity with GAAP, are or are required to be included as additions during such period to property, plant or equipment reflected in the consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, provided that the term “Capital Expenditures” shall not include (i) expenditures made in connection with the replacement, substitution, restoration or repair of assets to the extent financed with (x) insurance proceeds paid on account of the loss of or damage to the assets being replaced, restored or repaired or (y) awards of compensation arising from the taking by eminent domain or condemnation of the assets being replaced, (ii) the purchase price of equipment that is purchased simultaneously with the trade-in of existing equipment to the extent that the gross amount of such purchase price is reduced by the credit granted by the seller of such equipment for the equipment being traded in at such time, (iii) the purchase of plant, property, equipment or software to the extent financed with proceeds of Dispositions that are not required to be applied to prepay Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.05(b), (iv) expenditures that are accounted for as capital expenditures by the Borrower or any 

 

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Restricted Subsidiary and that actually are paid for by a Person other than the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary and for which neither the Borrower nor any Restricted Subsidiary has provided or is required to provide or incur, directly or indirectly, any consideration or obligation to such Person or any other Person (whether before, during or after such period), (v) the book value of any asset owned by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary prior to or during such period to the extent that such book value is included as a capital expenditure during such period as a result of such Person reusing or beginning to reuse such asset during such period without a corresponding expenditure actually having been made in such period; provided that (x) any expenditure necessary in order to permit such asset to be reused shall be included as a Capital Expenditure during the period in which such expenditure actually is made and (y) such book value shall have been included in Capital Expenditures when such asset was originally acquired, or (vi) expenditures that constitute Permitted Acquisitions.

 

“Capitalized Lease Indebtedness” means, on any date, 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.

 

“Capitalized Leases” means all leases that have been or should be, in accordance with GAAP, recorded as capitalized leases; provided that for all purposes hereunder the amount of obligations under any Capitalized Lease shall be the amount thereof accounted for as a liability in accordance with GAAP.

 

“Cash Collateral” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(g).

 

“Cash Collateral Account” means a blocked account at DBCI (or another commercial bank selected in compliance with Section 9.09) in the name of the Administrative Agent and under the sole dominion and control of the Administrative Agent, and otherwise established in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

 

“Cash Collateralize” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(g).

 

“Cash Election” means an election by the Borrower to pay all of an interest payment in cash in accordance with Section 2.08(f).

 

“Cash Election Effective Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.08(f).

 

“Cash Election Termination Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.08(f).

 

“Cash Equivalents” means any of the following types of Investments, to the extent owned by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary:

 

(a)           readily marketable obligations issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the government or any agency or instrumentality of the United States having average maturities of not more than 12 months from the date of acquisition thereof; provided that the full faith and credit of the United States is pledged in support thereof;

 

(b)           time deposits with, or insured certificates of deposit or bankers’ acceptances of, any commercial bank that (i) is a Lender or (ii)(A) is organized under the Laws of the United States, 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, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, and is a member of the Federal Reserve System, and (B) has combined capital and surplus of at least $500,000,000 (any such bank in the foregoing clauses (i) or (ii) 

 

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being an “Approved Bank”), in each case with average maturities of not more than 12 months from the date of acquisition thereof;

 

(c)           investments in commercial paper maturing within 12 months from the date of acquisition thereof and having, at such date of acquisition, the highest credit rating obtainable from S&P or from Moody’s;

 

(d)           fully collateralized repurchase agreements with a term of not more than 30 days for securities described in clause (a) above and entered into with an Approved Bank; and

 

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

 

“Cash Management Banks” means any Lender or any Affiliate of a Lender providing Cash Management Services to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary.

 

“Cash Management Obligations” means obligations owed by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary to any Cash Management Bank in respect of any Cash Management Services, except to the extent that such Cash Management Bank, on the one hand, and the Borrower or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary, on the other hand, agree in writing that any such obligations shall not be secured by any Lien on the Collateral and such Persons shall have delivered such writing to the Administrative Agent.

 

“Cash Management Services” means treasury, depository and/or cash management services or any automated clearing house transfer services, provision and operation of sweep accounts and zero balance accounts, provision of tax payment services and controlled disbursement services and performance of cash and coin delivery orders.

 

“Casualty Event” means any event that gives rise to the receipt by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of any insurance proceeds or condemnation awards in respect of any equipment, fixed assets or real property (including any improvements thereon) to replace or repair such equipment, fixed assets or real property.

 

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

 

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

 

“Change of Control” means:

 

(a)                                  prior to the occurrence of a Qualified IPO, (i) Holdings at any time shall cease to own directly one hundred percent (100%) of the Equity Interests of the Borrower, (ii)(A) Fertitta Holders shall fail to collectively beneficially own, directly or indirectly, Equity Interests in Holdings representing at least 21.5% of the aggregate equity value represented by the Equity Interests in Holdings on a fully diluted basis and (B) any person, entity or “group” (within the meaning of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act) (other than Persons constituting Lenders as of the Closing Date and their respective Affiliates) shall own, directly or 

 

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indirectly, beneficially or of record, Equity Interests in Holdings that represent a greater percentage of the aggregate equity value represented by the Equity Interests in Holdings on a fully diluted basis than the percentage beneficially owned, directly or indirectly, by Fertitta Holders or (iii) the managers of VoteCo nominated or appointed by Fertitta Holders shall cease to constitute at least thirty seven and one-half percent (37.5%) of the voting power of the board of managers of VoteCo;

 

(b)                                 after the occurrence of a Qualified IPO, (i) Fertitta Holders shall fail to collectively beneficially own, directly or indirectly, Equity Interests in the Borrower representing at least 21.5% of the aggregate direct or indirect ordinary voting power and aggregate equity value represented by Equity Interests in the Borrower on a fully diluted basis and (ii) any person, entity or “group” (within the meaning of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act) (other than Persons constituting Lenders as of the Closing Date and their respective Affiliates) shall own, directly or indirectly, beneficially or of record, Equity Interests in the Borrower representing a percentage of the aggregate direct or indirect ordinary voting power or economic interest on a fully diluted basis greater than the percentage of the ordinary voting power or economic interest in respect of which Fertitta Holders are collectively the direct or indirect beneficial owners; or

 

(c)                                  any “change of control” (or any comparable term) in any document pertaining to (x) any Junior Financing or (y) any other Indebtedness of Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary with an aggregate principal amount or liquidation preference in excess of the Threshold Amount.

 

“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 or application thereof by any Governmental Authority, or (c) the making or issuance of any request, rules, guideline, requirement or directive (whether or not having the force of law) by any Governmental Authority; provided however, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (i) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines, requirements and directives thereunder, issued in connection therewith or in implementation thereof, and (ii) all requests, rules, guidelines, requirements and 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, issued or implemented.

 

“Chapter 11” means Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code.

 

“Chapter 11 Cases” has the meaning specified in the recitals hereto.

 

“Charges” has the meaning specified in Section 10.10.

 

“Class” (a) when used with respect to Lenders, refers to whether such Lenders are Revolving Credit Lenders, B Term Lenders or Land Term Lenders, (b) when used with respect to Loans or a Borrowing, refers to whether such Loans, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are Revolving Credit Loans, Swing Line Loans, B Term Loans or Land Term Loans and (c) when used with respect to any commitment, refers to a Revolving Credit Commitment.

 

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“Closing Date” means the first date as of which all the conditions set forth in Section 4.01 are satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 10.01).

 

“Closing Pro Forma Balance Sheet” has the meaning specified in Section 5.05(a)(ii).

 

“Closing Pro Forma Financial Statements” has the meaning specified in Section 5.05(a)(ii).

 

“Code” means the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, and the rulings issued and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

“Collateral” means all the “Collateral” as defined in any Collateral Document and shall include the Mortgaged Properties.

 

“Collateral and Guarantee Requirement” means, at any time, subject to applicable Gaming Laws, the requirement that:

 

(a)           the Administrative Agent shall have received each Collateral Document required to be delivered (i) on the Closing Date pursuant to this Agreement, or (ii) at any other time pursuant to this Agreement (including Section 6.11) or any other Loan Document at the time so required, duly executed by each Loan Party party thereto;

 

(b)           all Obligations shall have been unconditionally guaranteed by the Borrower (in the case of Obligations under clauses (y) and (z) of the first sentence of the definition thereof), Holdings and each Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower;

 

(c)           the Obligations and the Guaranty shall have been secured by a first-priority security interest (subject only to non-consensual Permitted Liens) in (i) all the Equity Interests of the Borrower and (ii) all the Equity Interests of each Person directly owned by (A) the Borrower (including Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries) and (B) any Subsidiary Guarantor but excluding, in the case of clause (ii), (x) to the extent prohibited by law or, with the consent of the Administrative Agent, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, by the applicable management contract, Equity Interests in Native American Subsidiaries and (y) Equity Interests in any joint venture not constituting a Restricted Subsidiary if such security interest would violate any financing agreement of such joint venture (it being understood and agreed that in the event any such restriction exists, the Administrative Agent and the applicable Loan Party shall agree upon an alternative structure (such as an intermediate holding company constituting a Restricted Subsidiary) to effect the equivalent of an indirect pledge of such joint venture interest);

 

(d)           except to the extent otherwise permitted hereunder or under any Collateral Document, the Obligations and the Guaranty shall have been secured by a first-priority security interest (subject only to Permitted Liens) in, and mortgages on, substantially all tangible and intangible assets of each Loan Party now or hereafter acquired (including accounts, inventory, equipment, investment property, contract rights, intellectual property, other general intangibles, deposit accounts, securities accounts, owned and leased real property and proceeds of the foregoing); provided that (x) security interests in real property shall be limited to (x) the Mortgaged Properties as of the Closing Date and owned real property that is either (i) contiguous to any Mortgaged Property and the Administrative Agent reasonably determines that the value of the applicable Mortgaged Property is materially increased by encumbering such contiguous property and such material increase in value outweighs the costs and expenses associated with encumbering such contiguous property or (ii) has a Fair Market Value in excess of $1,000,000

 

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and (y) Leasehold Interests of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary under material ground leases, including, without limitation, any ground lease with an annual rent equal to or above $1,000,000 (provided that the aggregate Fair Market Value of all Real Properties owned by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries excluded from the mortgage requirements of this clause (d) by operation of subclause (x)(ii), together with the Fair Market Value of all Real Properties owned on the Closing Date and not subject to a perfected Lien under the Collateral Documents, shall not exceed $5,000,000) and (y) security interests in the assets of Native American Subsidiaries, including the Native American Contracts and real property interests of such Native American Subsidiaries, shall, to the extent prohibited by law or, with the consent of the Administrative Agent, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, by the applicable management contract, be excluded (provided, however, that security interests shall be granted in respect of all rights to receive (and all proceeds thereof) income, reimbursements, repayments, cash flows and any other distributions attributable to such assets);

 

(e)           each deposit account and securities account of each Loan Party (other than Excluded Accounts) shall be subject to a Control Agreement in favor of the Administrative Agent;

 

(f)            none of the Collateral shall be subject to any Liens other than Permitted Liens; and

 

(g)           the Administrative Agent shall have received (i) counterparts of a Mortgage with respect to each owned or leased property described in paragraph (d) above or required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.11 (collectively, the “Mortgaged Properties”) duly executed and delivered by the record owner or lessee, as applicable, of such property, (ii) a policy or policies of title insurance issued by a nationally recognized title insurance company insuring the Lien of each such Mortgage as a valid first priority Lien on the property described therein, free of any other Liens except Permitted Liens, together with such endorsements, coinsurance and reinsurance as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request from time to time, (iii) such surveys, abstracts, appraisals, legal opinions and other documents as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request with respect to any such Mortgaged Property, (iv) flood certificates covering each Mortgaged Property in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, certified to the Administrative Agent in its capacity as such and certifying whether or not each such Mortgaged Property is located in a flood hazard zone by reference to the applicable FEMA map and (v) with respect to each such Mortgaged Property, either (A) a letter or other written evidence with respect to such Mortgaged Property from the appropriate Governmental Authorities concerning current status of applicable zoning and building laws, (B) an ALTA 3.1 zoning endorsement for the applicable Mortgage Policy or (C) a zoning report prepared by The Planning Zoning Resource Corporation indicating that such Mortgaged Property is in material compliance with applicable zoning and building laws.

 

The foregoing definition shall not require the creation or perfection of pledges of or security interests in, or the obtaining of title insurance or surveys with respect to, particular assets if and for so long as, in the sole and absolute discretion of the Administrative Agent after consultation with the Borrower (confirmed in writing by notice to the Borrower), the cost of creating or perfecting such pledges or security interests in such assets or obtaining title insurance or surveys in respect of such assets shall be excessive in view of the benefits to be obtained by the Lenders therefrom.  The Administrative Agent may grant extensions of time for the perfection of security interests in or the obtaining of title insurance with respect to particular assets (including extensions beyond the Closing Date for the perfection of security interests in the assets of the Loan Parties on such date) where it determines in its sole and absolute discretion, in consultation with the Borrower, that perfection cannot be accomplished without undue

 

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effort or expense by the time or times at which it would otherwise be required by this Agreement or the Collateral Documents.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this definition or anything in this Agreement or any other Loan Document to the contrary, (a) Liens required to be granted from time to time pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement shall be subject to exceptions and limitations set forth in the Collateral Documents to the extent appropriate and agreed between the Administrative Agent and the Borrower and (b) the Collateral shall not include Excluded Assets.

 

“Collateral Documents” means, collectively, the Security Agreement, the Pledge Agreement, the Intellectual Property Security Agreements, the Mortgages, the Control Agreements, each of the mortgages, collateral assignments, Security Agreement Supplements, Pledge Agreement Supplements, security agreements, pledge agreements, control agreements, amendments to or reaffirmation of any of the foregoing or other similar agreements delivered to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders from time to time pursuant to Section 4.01(a)(iii), Section 6.11 or 6.13, the Guaranty, each Guaranty Supplement and each of the other agreements, instruments or documents, and any amendments to or reaffirmations of any of the foregoing, that creates or purports to create a Lien or Guarantee in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.

 

“Committed Loan Notice” means a notice of (a) a Revolving Credit Borrowing, (b) a conversion of Loans from one Type to the other, or (c) a continuation of Eurodollar Loans, pursuant to Section 2.02(a), which, if in writing, shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A.

 

“Compensation Period” has the meaning specified in Section 2.12(c)(ii).

 

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

 

“Confirmation Order” means the confirmation order issued by the Bankruptcy Court in relation to the Chapter 11 Cases confirming the Plan of Reorganization.

 

“Consolidated EBITDA” means, for any period, the Consolidated Net Income for such period:

 

(a)           plus, without duplication and solely to the extent already deducted (and not added back) in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income, the sum of the following amounts for such period:

 

(i)            Consolidated Interest Expense;

 

(ii)           income tax expense (if any);

 

(iii)          depreciation and amortization;

 

(iv)          non-cash impairment losses;

 

(v)           non-operating, non-recurring losses on the sale of assets;

 

(vi)          losses attributable to the early extinguishment of Indebtedness;

 

(vii)         losses attributable to hedging obligations or other derivative instruments; and

 

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(viii)        expenses actually reimbursed in cash to the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary by an Unrestricted Subsidiary pursuant to a Subsidiary Cost Allocation Agreement;

 

(b)          minus, without duplication and solely to the extent included in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income, the sum of the following amounts for such period:

 

(i)            non-operating, non-recurring gains on the sale of assets;

 

(ii)           gains attributable to the early extinguishment of Indebtedness;

 

(iii)          gains attributable to hedging obligations or other derivative instruments; and

 

(iv)          distributions made by the Borrower to Holdings during such period pursuant to Sections 7.06(f)(i) and (ii);

 

in each case, as determined on a consolidated basis for the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP; provided that, without duplication:

 

(A)          the following additional items shall be added to Consolidated EBITDA for such period (solely to the extent already deducted (and not added back) in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income): (1) Pre-Opening Expenses, (2) cash restructuring charges or reserves (including restructuring costs related to acquisitions and to closure/consolidation of facilities) incurred after the Closing Date and unusual or non-recurring charges (other than Pre-Opening Expenses), including severance, relocation costs and curtailments or modifications to pension and post-retirement employee benefit plans; provided, that the aggregate amount added-back pursuant to this clause (2) with respect to any period (including with respect to any Acquired EBITDA) shall not exceed 2.5% of Consolidated EBITDA for such period, (3) Non-Cash Charges in respect of equity compensation, (4) other Non-Cash Charges, (5) the Base Management Fee (as defined in the Management Agreement) for such period, (6) expenses incurred by the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries after the Closing Date and during such period in respect of the Restructuring Transactions, so long as the aggregate amount of all such expenses added back pursuant to this clause (6) for all periods does not exceed $2,000,000 and (7) payments made by the Borrower to Parent pursuant to the Tax Sharing Agreement (net of any payments received by the Borrower pursuant to the Subsidiary Tax Sharing Agreements);

 

(B)           the following additional item shall be added to Consolidated EBITDA for such period: the aggregate amount of distributions received by the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries from joint ventures that are not Subsidiaries and from Unrestricted Subsidiaries during such period (other than, for avoidance of doubt, payments made by Unrestricted Subsidiaries pursuant to the Subsidiary Tax Sharing Agreements, the Subsidiary Cost Allocation Agreements, Project Reimbursements and Gun Lake Project Reimbursements);

 

(C)           the following additional item shall be deducted from Consolidated EBITDA for such period (solely to the extent included in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income): other extraordinary non-cash gains (excluding any non-cash gain to the

 

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extent it represents the reversal of an accrual or reserve for a potential cash item that reduced Consolidated EBITDA in any prior period);

 

(D)          there shall be included in determining Consolidated EBITDA for any period, (1) the Acquired EBITDA of any Person, property, business or asset acquired by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary during such period (but not the Acquired EBITDA of any related Person, property, business or assets to the extent not so acquired), to the extent not subsequently sold, transferred or otherwise disposed by the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (each such Person, property, business or asset acquired and not subsequently so disposed of, an “Acquired Entity or Business”), and the Acquired EBITDA of any Unrestricted Subsidiary that is converted into a Restricted Subsidiary during such period (each, a “Converted Restricted Subsidiary”), in each case based on the actual Acquired EBITDA of such Acquired Entity or Business or Converted Restricted Subsidiary for such period (including the portion thereof occurring prior to such acquisition or conversion) and (2) for the purposes of Sections 2.14, 2.15, 4.02(d), 6.14(a), 7.02(i)(D), 7.02(n), 7.03(e) and 7.11, an adjustment in respect of each Acquired Entity or Business or Converted Restricted Subsidiary equal to the amount of the Pro Forma Adjustment with respect to such Acquired Entity or Business or Converted Restricted Subsidiary for such period (including the portion thereof occurring prior to such acquisition or conversion) as specified in a certificate executed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower and delivered to the Lenders and the Administrative Agent;

 

(E)           there shall be excluded in determining Consolidated EBITDA for any period the Disposed EBITDA of any Person, property, business or asset sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary (including for such purpose, any Restricted Subsidiary re-designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary pursuant to Section 6.14) during such period (each such Person, property, business or asset so sold, disposed of or re-designated, a “Sold Entity or Business”), based on the actual Disposed EBITDA of such Sold Entity or Business for such period (including the portion thereof occurring prior to such sale, transfer, disposition or re-designation, but excluding any shared expenses allocated to such Sold Entity or Business that will continue to be incurred by the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries following any such disposition); and

 

(F)           there shall be included in determining Consolidated EBITDA for any period the New Property EBITDA for such period of any New Property, to the extent not subsequently sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of by the Borrower or the Restricted Subsidiary that owns such New Property.

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, for purposes of determining Consolidated EBITDA for any period ending prior to the first anniversary of the Closing Date, Consolidated EBITDA shall be an amount equal to the actual Consolidated EBITDA (determined as provided above in this definition without regard to this sentence) for the period from the Closing Date through the date of determination multiplied by a fraction the numerator of which is 365 and the denominator of which is the number of days from the Closing Date through the date of determination.

 

“Consolidated Interest Expense” means, for any period, the interest expense, net of interest income, of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries for such period determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP; provided that (a) for purposes of Sections 2.14, 2.15, 4.02(d), 6.14(a), 7.02(i)(D), 7.02(n), 7.03(e) and 7.11, there shall be included in determining Consolidated Interest Expense for any period the interest expense (or income) of any Acquired Entity or Business

 

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acquired during such period and of any Converted Restricted Subsidiary converted during such period, in each case based on the interest expense (or income) relating to any Indebtedness incurred or assumed as part of an acquisition of an Acquired Entity or Business or as part of the conversion of a Converted Restricted Subsidiary for such period (including the portion thereof occurring prior to such acquisition or conversion) assuming any Indebtedness incurred or repaid in connection with any such acquisition had been incurred or repaid on the first day of such period and (b) for purposes of Sections 2.14, 2.15, 4.02(d), 6.14(a), 7.02(i)(D), 7.02(n), 7.03(e) and 7.11, there shall be excluded from determining Consolidated Interest Expense for any period the interest expense (or income) of any Sold Entity or Business disposed of or re-designated during such period, based on the interest expense (or income) relating to any Indebtedness relieved or repaid in connection with any such disposition of such Sold Entity or Business for such period (including the portion thereof occurring prior to such disposal) assuming such debt relieved or repaid in connection with such disposition has been relieved or repaid on the first day of such period; provided that for purposes of determining compliance with Section 7.11(b) at any time a Default Quarter is included in the Test Period then most recently ended prior to a date of determination, the aggregate principal amount of the Loans repaid pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(iv)(A) with the proceeds of a Permitted Equity Issuance consummated in reliance on Section 8.05 during such Default Quarter shall be deemed to be outstanding during such Test Period and any interest expense of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such Test Period in respect of such “outstanding” Loans shall be included as “Consolidated Interest Expense” during such Test Period (as if such “outstanding” Loans bore interest at the average rate applicable to Term Loans outstanding during such Test Period).  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, for purposes of determining Consolidated Interest Expense for any period ending prior to the first anniversary of the Closing Date, Consolidated Interest Expense shall be an amount equal to actual Consolidated Interest Expense (determined as provided above in this definition without regard to this sentence) from the Closing Date through the date of determination multiplied by a fraction the numerator of which is 365 and the denominator of which is the number of days from the Closing Date through the date of determination.

 

“Consolidated Net Income” means, for any period, the net income (loss) of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries for such period determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP (after deduction of the Base Management Fee (as defined in the Management Agreement) for such period but prior to any deduction of the Incentive Management Fee (as defined in the Management Agreement) for such period), excluding, without duplication, the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principles during such period to the extent included in the determination of Consolidated Net Income.  There shall be excluded from Consolidated Net Income for any period the purchase accounting effects of adjustments to property and equipment, software and other intangible assets and deferred revenue, as a result of any Permitted Acquisitions, or the amortization or write-off of any amounts thereof.  There shall be excluded from Consolidated Net Income (i) the income (or loss) of any Person that is not a Restricted Subsidiary (including joint venture investments recorded using the equity method and dividends and distributions paid to the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary during such period) and (ii) the net income of any Restricted Subsidiary to the extent that the declaration or payment of cash dividends or similar cash distributions by such Restricted Subsidiary of such net income is not at the time permitted by the operation of the terms of its charter or any agreement, instrument, judgment, decree, order, statute, rule or governmental regulation applicable to such Restricted Subsidiary.  For the avoidance of doubt, the calculation of Consolidated Net Income for the purposes hereunder shall include deductions (without duplication) for any and all costs and expenses of (x) IP Holdco to the extent actually incurred (or reimbursed) by the Borrower and/or any Restricted Subsidiary and (y) the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries paid pursuant to the Parent Cost Allocation Agreement.

 

“Consolidated Total Debt” means, as of any date of determination, the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries outstanding on such date, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP (but excluding the effects of any

 

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discounting of Indebtedness resulting from the application of purchase accounting in connection with any Permitted Acquisition), consisting of Indebtedness for borrowed money, obligations in respect of Capitalized Leases (but excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, amounts payable under operating leases), debt obligations evidenced by promissory notes or similar instruments, the maximum amount (after giving effect to any prior drawings or reductions which may have been reimbursed) of all letters of credit (including standby and commercial), bankers’ acceptances, bank guaranties, surety bonds, performance bonds and similar instruments issued or created by or for the account of such Persons, all obligations to pay the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than (i) trade accounts payable in the ordinary course of business and (ii) any earn-out obligation until such obligation becomes a liability on the balance sheet in accordance with GAAP) and, without duplication, all Guarantees with respect to outstanding Indebtedness of the types described above; provided that for purposes of determining compliance with Section 7.11(a) at any time a Default Quarter is included in the Test Period then most recently ended prior to a date of determination, the aggregate principal amount of the Loans repaid pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(iv)(A) with the proceeds of a Permitted Equity Issuance consummated in reliance on Section 8.05 during such Default Quarter shall be deemed to be outstanding and included as “Consolidated Total Debt” at such time.

 

“Consolidated Working Capital” means, at any date, the excess of (a) the sum of all amounts (other than cash and Cash Equivalents) that would, in conformity with GAAP, be set forth opposite the caption “total current assets” (or any like caption) on a consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries at such date over (b) the sum of all amounts that would, in conformity with GAAP, be set forth opposite the caption “total current liabilities” (or any like caption) on a consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries on such date, including deferred revenue but excluding, without duplication, (i) the current portion of any Funded Debt, (ii) all Indebtedness consisting of Loans and L/C Obligations to the extent otherwise included therein, (iii) the current portion of interest and (iv) the current portion of current and deferred income taxes, if any.

 

“Contractual Obligation” means, as to any Person, any provision of any security issued by such Person or of 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”, “Controlled” and “Controlling” have the meanings specified in the definition of “Affiliate.”

 

“Control Agreement” means a tri-party deposit account or securities account control agreement by and among the applicable Loan Party, the Administrative Agent and the depository or securities intermediary, and each in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and in any event providing to the Administrative Agent “control” of such deposit account or securities account within the meaning of Articles 8 and 9 of the UCC.

 

“Converted Restricted Subsidiary” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Consolidated EBITDA.”

 

“Core Property” means, collectively, (a) the hotel, resort and casino properties commonly known as Texas Station, Santa Fe Station, Fiesta Henderson and Fiesta Rancho and (b) each casino or hotel property hereafter owned or operated by the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary (but not any such property that is (i) owned by an Unrestricted Subsidiary or (ii) so long as not owned by the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary, operated by an Unrestricted Subsidiary) whose individual Consolidated EBITDA (determined in a manner acceptable to the Administrative Agent) for the then most recently ended twelve-month period for which financial statements are then available exceeds $5,000,000,

 

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excluding any real property or improvements that have been released from the Liens of the Administrative Agent in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents.

 

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

 

“Cumulative Excess Cash Flow” means, at any time, the sum of (i) Excess Cash Flow (which may be less than zero) for the period commencing on the Closing Date and ending on December 31, 2011 plus (ii) Excess Cash Flow (which may be less than zero for any period) for each succeeding and completed fiscal year at such time, in each case, with respect to which the related financial statements and Compliance Certificate have been delivered pursuant to Sections 6.01(a) and 6.02(b), respectively, minus (iii) the aggregate principal amount of all Term Loans voluntarily repaid pursuant to Section 2.05(a) which reduced the amount of the mandatory repayment of Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(i) by operation of clause (B) of said Section.

 

“DBCI” means Deutsche Bank AG Cayman Islands Branch and any successor thereto by merger, consolidation or otherwise.

 

“DBNY” means Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch and any successor thereto by merger, consolidation or otherwise.

 

“DBTCA” means Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas and any successor thereto by merger, consolidation or otherwise.

 

“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.

 

“Debtors” has the meaning specified in the recitals hereto.

 

“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 Quarter” has the meaning specified in Section 8.05.

 

“Default Rate” means an interest rate equal to (a) the Base Rate plus (b) the Applicable Rate, if any, applicable to Base Rate Loans plus (c) 2.0% per annum; provided that with respect to a Eurodollar Loan, the Default Rate shall be an interest rate equal to the interest rate (including any Applicable Rate) otherwise applicable to such Loan plus 2.0% per annum, in each case, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.

 

“Defaulting Lender” means any Lender that (a) has failed to fund any portion of the Revolving Credit Loans, participations in L/C Obligations or participations in Swing Line Loans required to be funded by it hereunder within one (1) Business Day of the date required to be funded by it hereunder, unless the subject of a good faith dispute or subsequently cured, (b) has otherwise failed to pay over to the Administrative Agent or any other Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder within one (1) Business Day of the date when due, unless the subject of a good faith dispute or subsequently cured, (c) has been deemed insolvent or become the subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding or takeover by a regulatory authority, or (d) has notified the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, an L/C Issuer, the Swing Line Lender or any Lender in writing that it does not intend to comply

 

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with any of its funding obligations under this Agreement or has made a public statement to the effect that it does not intend to comply with its funding obligations under this Agreement or under other agreements in which it commits to extend credit, provided that, for purposes of the L/C Back-Stop Arrangements, the term “Defaulting Lender” shall include (i) any Lender with an Affiliate that (x) Controls (within the meaning specified in the definition of “Affiliate”) such Lender and (y) has been deemed insolvent or become subject to a bankruptcy proceeding or takeover by a regulatory authority, (ii) any Lender that previously constituted a “Defaulting Lender” under this Agreement, unless such Lender has ceased to constitute a “Defaulting Lender” for a period of at least 90 consecutive days, (iii) any Lender which the Administrative Agent or an L/C Issuer believes in good faith to have defaulted under two or more other credit facilities to which such Lender is a party, (iv) any Lender that has, for three or more Business Days from receipt, failed to confirm in writing to the Administrative Agent, in response to a written request of the Administrative Agent, that it will comply with its funding obligations hereunder and (v) any Lender that has failed to fund any portion of the Revolving Credit Loans, participations in L/C Obligations or participations in Swing Line Loans within one (1) Business Day of the date DBCI (in its capacity as a Lender) has funded its portion thereof, unless such Lender has cured such failure and remained compliant for a period of at least 90 consecutive days.  The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower if, to its knowledge, any Lender becomes a “Defaulting Lender” pursuant to clause (d) or the proviso in this definition; provided that the failure of the Administrative Agent to give any such notice shall not limit or otherwise affect the obligations of the Borrower or any Lender (including any Defaulting Lender) under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.

 

“Disclosure Statement” means that certain “Disclosure Statement” in respect of Old OpCo and certain of its affiliates and the Plan of Reorganization described therein in the form approved by the Bankruptcy Court on July 29, 2010 (including all exhibits attached thereto).

 

“Disposed EBITDA” means, with respect to any Sold Entity or Business for any period, the amount for such period of Consolidated EBITDA of such Sold Entity or Business (determined as if references to the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries in the definition of “Consolidated EBITDA” (and in the component financial definitions used therein) were references to such Sold Entity or Business and its Subsidiaries and without regard to clauses (A)(5) and (A)(6) of such definition or the last sentence of the definition of “Consolidated Net Income”), all as determined on a consolidated basis for such Sold Entity or Business in accordance with GAAP.

 

“Disposition” or “Dispose” means the sale, transfer, license, lease or other disposition (including any sale and leaseback transaction and any sale of Equity Interests) of any property by any 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; provided that “Disposition” and “Dispose” shall not be deemed to include any issuance by Holdings of any of its Equity Interests to another Person.

 

“Disqualified Equity Interests” means any Equity Interest that, 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 Revolving Credit 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

 

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constitute Disqualified Equity Interests, in each case, prior to the date that is ninety-one (91) days after the eighth anniversary of the Closing Date.

 

“Disqualified Institutions” means any banks, financial institutions or other Persons separately identified by the Borrower on Schedule 1.01G.

 

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

 

“Domestic Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is organized under the Laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia.

 

“Effective Yield” means, as to any tranche of commitments or loans under this Agreement, the effective yield on such tranche as reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent, taking into account the applicable interest rate margins, interest rate benchmark floors and all fees, including recurring, up-front or similar fees or original issue discount (amortized over the shorter of (x) the life of such loans and (y) the four years following the date of incurrence thereof) payable generally to lenders making such loans, but excluding (i) any arrangement, structuring or other fees payable in connection therewith that are not generally shared with the lenders thereunder and (ii) any customary consent fees paid generally to consenting lenders.

 

“Eligible Assignee” means any Assignee permitted by and consented to in accordance with Section 10.07(b).

 

“Environmental Laws” means any and all Federal, state, and local statutes, Laws, regulations, ordinances, rules, judgments, orders, decrees, permits, concessions, grants, franchises, licenses, agreements or governmental restrictions relating to pollution, the protection of the environment, natural resources, or, to the extent relating to exposure to Hazardous Materials, human health or to 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 the 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 Interests” means, with respect to any Person, all of the shares, interests, rights, participations or other equivalents (however designated) of capital stock of, or membership interests, member’s interests, limited liability company interests or other economic, ownership or profit interests or units in, such Person and all of the warrants, options or other rights for the purchase, acquisition or exchange from such Person of any of the foregoing (including through convertible securities).

 

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

 

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“ERISA Affiliate” means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that is under common control with any Loan Party within the meaning of Section 414 of the Code or Section 4001 of ERISA.

 

“ERISA Event” means (a) a Reportable Event with respect to a Pension Plan; (b) incurrence of a liability with respect to a withdrawal by any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate from a Pension Plan subject to Section 4063 of ERISA during a plan year in which it 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) incurrence of a liability with respect to a complete or partial withdrawal by any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate from a Multiemployer Plan or notification that a Multiemployer Plan is in reorganization or is insolvent; (d) the filing of a notice of intent to terminate a Pension Plan or the termination of any Pension Plan, the treatment of a Plan amendment as a termination under Sections 4041 or 4041A of ERISA, or the commencement of proceedings by the PBGC to terminate a Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (e) 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 or Multiemployer Plan; (f) the imposition of any liability under Title IV of ERISA, other than for funding contributions in the ordinary course or PBGC premiums due but not delinquent under Section 4007 of ERISA, upon any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate; or (g) the failure of any Pension Plan to satisfy the minimum funding standard required for any plan year or part thereof under Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA or a waiver of such standard or extension of any amortization period is sought or granted under Section 412 of the Code or Section 303 or 304 of ERISA.

 

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

 

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

 

“Excess Cash Flow” means, for any period, an amount equal to the excess of:

 

(a)                  the sum, without duplication, of:

 

(i)                             Consolidated Net Income for such period,

 

(ii)                          an amount equal to the amount of all Non-Cash Charges (including depreciation and amortization and non-cash losses on Dispositions) incurred during such period to the extent deducted in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income,

 

(iii)                       decreases in Consolidated Working Capital, base stock and long-term account receivables for such period (other than any such decreases arising from acquisitions by the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries during such period),

 

(iv)                      the amount of income tax expense deducted in determining Consolidated Net Income for such period (if any),

 

(v)                         the excess, if any, of (A) the aggregate amount of payments received by the Borrower from Unrestricted Subsidiaries and the Parent pursuant to the Subsidiary Tax Sharing Agreements or the Tax Sharing Agreement, as the case may be, during such period over (B) the sum of (1) the amount of cash income taxes (if any) paid by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries in such period plus (2) the 

 

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aggregate amount of payments by the Borrower to the Parent pursuant to the Tax Sharing Agreement during such period,

 

(vi)                      the amount of cash payments received by the Borrower from Unrestricted Subsidiaries pursuant to the Subsidiary Cost Allocation Agreements during such period with respect to expenses deducted in the determination of Consolidated Net Income, and

 

(vii)                   the aggregate amount of distributions received by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries from joint ventures that are not Subsidiaries and from Unrestricted Subsidiaries during such period (other than payments pursuant to the Subsidiary Tax Sharing Agreements, the Subsidiary Cost Allocation Agreements, Project Reimbursements and Gun Lake Project Reimbursements),

 

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(b)                 the sum, without duplication, of

 

(i)                             an amount equal to the amount of all non-cash credits included in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income,

 

(ii)                          the amount of Capital Expenditures made in cash or accrued during such period pursuant to Section 7.16, except to the extent (A) that such Capital Expenditures were financed with the proceeds of asset sales, sales or issuances of Equity Interests, capital contributions, insurance or Indebtedness (other than the Revolving Credit Facility), in each case other than to the extent such proceeds were included in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income, (B) in the case of cash Capital Expenditures, same were accrued during a prior period or (C) in the case of accrued Capital Expenditures, same exceed $10,000,000 for such period,

 

(iii)                       the aggregate amount of all principal payments of Indebtedness of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries (including (A) the principal component of payments in respect of Capitalized Leases and (B) the amount of any mandatory prepayment of Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(ii) to the extent required due to a Disposition that resulted in an increase to Consolidated Net Income and not in excess of the amount of such increase) made during such period (other than (x) prepayments in respect of any revolving credit facility (including the Revolving Credit Facility) to the extent there is not an equivalent permanent reduction in commitments thereunder and (y) prepayments of Term Loans, except as provided in subclause (B) above), in each case except to the extent financed with the proceeds of asset sales (except as provided in subclause (B) of this paragraph (iii)), sales or issuances of Equity Interests, capital contributions, insurance or Indebtedness (other than the Revolving Credit Facility), in each case other than to the extent such proceeds were included in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income,

 

(iv)                      an amount equal to the aggregate net non-cash gain on Dispositions by the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries during such period to the extent included in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income,

 

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(v)                         increases in Consolidated Working Capital, base stock and long-term account receivables for such period (other than any such increases arising from acquisitions by the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries during such period),

 

(vi)                      the amount of cash Investments and acquisitions made during such period pursuant to Section 7.02 (other than Sections 7.02(a) and 7.02(c)), except to the extent that such Investments and acquisitions were financed with the proceeds of asset sales, sales or issuances of Equity Interests, capital contributions, insurance or Indebtedness (other than the Revolving Credit Facility), in each case other than to the extent such proceeds were included in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income,

 

(vii)                   the excess, if any, of (A) the sum of (1) the amount of cash taxes (if any) actually paid by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such period plus (2) the aggregate amount of payments by the Borrower to Parent pursuant to the Tax Sharing Agreement during such period over (B) the aggregate amount of payments received by the Borrower from Unrestricted Subsidiaries and Parent pursuant to the Subsidiary Tax Sharing Agreements or the Tax Sharing Agreement, as the case may be during such period,

 

(viii)                the aggregate amount of any premium, make-whole or penalty payments actually paid in cash by the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries during such period that are required to be made in connection with any prepayment of Indebtedness (other than any Indebtedness that is unsecured or subordinated (in “right of payment” or on a “lien priority” basis) to the Obligations),

 

(ix)                        the amount of the Incentive Management Fee (as defined in the Management Agreement) actually paid in cash during such period,

 

(x)                           the amount of distributions made by the Borrower to Holdings pursuant to Sections 7.06(f)(i) and (ii); and

 

(xi)                        any Net Cash Proceeds received by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries for which the Borrower provides notice of its intent to reinvest, use or apply such Net Cash Proceeds in accordance with Section 2.05(b)(ii)(B) or (C), in each case solely to the extent such Net Cash Proceeds result in an increase to Consolidated Net Income for such period and not in excess of the amount of such increase; provided that to the extent Excess Cash Flow for any period is reduced by operation of this clause (xi) and the applicable Net Cash Proceeds are not reinvested, used or applied in such period or a future period, as applicable, within the time frame required by such Section, such unutilized portion shall be added to the calculation of Excess Cash Flow for the immediately succeeding period.

 

“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

“Excluded Accounts” means (a) payroll accounts so long as such payroll accounts are zero balance deposit accounts, (b) withholding tax and fiduciary accounts and (c) other deposit accounts of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries with individual average daily balances of less than $200,000 and an aggregate balance for all such accounts of less than $1,000,000 and (d) securities 

 

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accounts of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries with individual average daily balances of less than $200,000 and an aggregate balance for all such accounts of less than $1,000,000.

 

“Excluded Assets” means, collectively, the Excluded Assets (as defined in the Security Agreement) (excluding the assets set forth in clause (c) of the definition of “General Excluded Assets” therein) and the Excluded Assets (as defined in the Pledge Agreement).

 

“Excluded Taxes” has the meaning specified in Section 3.01(a).

 

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

 

“Extension Date” means the date occurring on (i) the fifth anniversary of the Closing Date and (ii) to the extent the Maturity Date is extended pursuant to Section 2.14 on the fifth anniversary of the Closing Date, the sixth anniversary of the Closing Date.

 

“Extension Request” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14.

 

“Facility” means the B Term Loan Facility, the Land Term Loan Facility, the Revolving Credit Facility, the Swing Line Sublimit or the Letter of Credit Sublimit, as the context may require.

 

“Fair Market Value” means, with respect to any asset or liability, the fair market value of such asset or liability as determined by the Borrower in good faith; provided that if the fair market value is equal to or exceeds $10,000,000, such determination shall be approved by the board of managers of the Borrower.

 

“Federal Funds Rate” means, for any day, the rate per annum equal to the weighted average of the rates (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers on such day, as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the Business Day next succeeding such day; provided that (a) if such day is not a Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be such rate on such transactions on the next preceding Business Day as so published on the next succeeding Business Day, and (b) if no such rate is so published on such next succeeding Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be the average rate (rounded upward, if necessary, to a whole multiple of 1/100 of 1%) charged to JPMCB, on such day on such transactions as determined by the Administrative Agent.

 

“Fee Letter” means the Agency Fee Letter entered into by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.

 

“Fertitta Brothers” means Frank J. Fertitta III and Lorenzo J. Fertitta.

 

“Fertitta Entertainment” means Fertitta Entertainment LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and its successors.

 

“Fertitta Family Entity” means, any trust or entity one hundred percent (100%) owned and Controlled by or established for the sole benefit of, or the estate of, any of Frank J. Fertitta III or Lorenzo J. Fertitta or their spouses or lineal descendants (including, without limitation, adopted children and their lineal descendants).

 

“Fertitta Holder” means (a) Frank J. Fertitta III or Lorenzo J. Fertitta or any of their spouses or lineal descendants (including without limitation, adopted children and their lineal descendants) or (b) a Fertitta Family Entity.

 

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“First Test Date” means the date of the first delivery (or required delivery) of financial statements pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b) after the earlier to occur of (i) the 18-month anniversary of the Closing Date and (ii) the date on which the aggregate amount of Investments resulting from the designation of all Restricted Subsidiaries as Unrestricted Subsidiaries pursuant to Section 6.14(a) on or after the Closing Date exceeds $10,000,000.

 

“Foreign Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 10.15(a)(i).

 

“Foreign Subsidiary” of any Person means any Subsidiary of such Person that is not a Domestic Subsidiary.

 

“Fund” means any Person (other than a natural person) that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course.

 

“Funded Debt” means all Indebtedness of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries for borrowed money that matures more than one year from the date of its creation or matures within one year from such date that is renewable or extendable, at the option of such Person, to a date more than one year from such date or arises under a revolving credit or similar agreement that obligates the lender or lenders to extend credit during a period of more than one year from such date, including Indebtedness in respect of the Loans.

 

“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America, as in effect from time to time; provided, however, that if the Borrower notifies the Administrative Agent that the Borrower requests an amendment to any provision hereof to eliminate the effect of any change occurring after the Closing Date in GAAP or in the application thereof on the operation of such provision (or if the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower that the Required Lenders request an amendment to any provision hereof for such purpose), regardless of whether any such notice is given before or after such change in GAAP or in the application thereof, then such provision shall be interpreted on the basis of GAAP as in effect and applied immediately before such change shall have become effective until such notice shall have been withdrawn or such provision amended in accordance herewith.

 

“Gaming” or “gaming” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Nevada Revised Statutes Section 463.0153.

 

“Gaming Authority” means any applicable governmental, regulatory or administrative state, local or Tribal agency, authority, board, bureau, commission, department or instrumentality of any nature whatsoever involved in the supervision or regulation of casinos, gaming and gaming activities, including, without limitation, in the State of Nevada, the Nevada Gaming Commission, the Nevada State Gaming Control Board, and any of their respective successors or replacements.

 

“Gaming Law” means all Laws pursuant to which a Gaming Authority possesses licensing, permit or regulatory authority over casinos, gaming and gaming activities conducted within its jurisdiction, or the ownership of an entity engaged therein.

 

“Gaming Permits” means, collectively, every license, permit, approval, registration, finding of suitability, waiver, exemption or other authorization required to own, operate and otherwise conduct non-restricted gaming operations granted or issued by any Gaming Authority and any other applicable Governmental Authorities.

 

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“Governmental Approvals” means all permits, licenses, consents, approvals, declarations, concessions, orders, filings, notices, findings of suitability, entitlements, waivers, variances, certificates and other authorizations granted or issued by any Governmental Authority, including any agency(ies) of the City of North Las Vegas, Nevada, Clark County, Nevada, the City of Reno, Nevada, the City of Henderson, Nevada, the State of Nevada and the United States necessary for the operation of the Mortgage Properties (including, without limitation, as required under any Gaming Laws).

 

“Governmental Authority” means any nation or government, any state or other political subdivision thereof, any agency, authority, instrumentality, Tribe, regulatory body, court, administrative tribunal, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government, including, without limitation, all Gaming Authorities.

 

“Granting Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(h).

 

“Ground Lease Properties” means, collectively, each Individual Property of which the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary is a tenant under a Ground Lease.

 

“Ground Leases” has the meaning provided in the Mortgages, collectively.

 

“Guarantee” means, as to any Person, without duplication, (a) any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of such Person guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other monetary 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 monetary obligation, (ii) to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation of the payment or performance of such Indebtedness or other monetary 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 monetary obligation, or (iv) entered into for the purpose of assuring in any other manner the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness or other monetary 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 monetary obligation of any other Person, whether or not such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation is assumed by such Person (or any right, contingent or otherwise, of any holder of such Indebtedness to obtain any such Lien); provided that the term “Guarantee” shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business, or customary and reasonable indemnity obligations entered into in connection with any acquisition or Disposition of assets permitted under this Agreement (other than such obligations with respect to Indebtedness).  The term “Guarantee” as a verb has a corresponding meaning.

 

“Guarantors” means, collectively, Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors.

 

“Guaranty” means, collectively, (a) the Guaranty Agreement made by each Subsidiary Guarantor, Holdings and the Borrower in favor of the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties, substantially in the form of Exhibit F and (b) each other guaranty and guaranty supplement delivered pursuant to Section 6.11.

 

“Guaranty Supplement” has the meaning provided in the Guaranty.

 

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“Gun Lake Project Reimbursements” means any amounts received by Old OpCo, any of its Subsidiaries or any joint venture of Old OpCo or any of its Subsidiaries prior to the Closing Date in repayment, or otherwise on account, of any loan or advance made by it to a Tribe pursuant to any Native American Contract solely relating to the Gun Lake project.

 

“Hazardous Materials” means all explosive or radioactive substances or wastes and all hazardous or toxic substances, wastes or pollutants, including petroleum or petroleum distillates, asbestos or asbestos-containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas, infectious or medical wastes and all other substances or wastes of any nature regulated pursuant to any Environmental Law.

 

“Hedge Bank” means any Person that is a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender at the time it enters into a Secured Hedge Agreement, in its capacity as a party thereto, and such Person’s successors and assigns.

 

“Holdco” means Station Holdco LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

 

“Holdings” means NP Opco Holdings LLC, a Nevada limited liability company.

 

“Honor Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(c)(i).

 

“Hotel/Casino Facilities” means, collectively, the hotel and gaming or casino facilities located on the Mortgaged Properties, together with all pools, parking lots and other facilities and amenities related to any of the foregoing.

 

“Improvements” has the meaning set forth in the Mortgages, collectively.

 

“Incremental Amendment” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15.

 

“Incremental Facility Closing Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15.

 

“Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments” means, for any Revolving Credit Lender, any Revolving Credit Commitment provided by such Revolving Credit Lender after the Closing Date pursuant to an Incremental Amendment delivered pursuant to Section 2.15; it being understood, however, that on each date upon which an Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment of any Revolving Credit Lender becomes effective, such Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment of such Revolving Credit Lender shall be added to (and thereafter become a part of) the Revolving Credit Commitment of such Revolving Credit Lender for all purposes of this Agreement as contemplated by Section 2.15.

 

“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)                  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 (after giving effect to any prior drawings or reductions which may have been reimbursed) of all letters of credit (including standby and commercial), bankers’ acceptances, bank guaranties, surety bonds, performance bonds and similar instruments issued or created by or for the account of such Person;

 

(c)                  net obligations of such Person under any Swap Contract (or, to the extent of any related Swap Contracts entered into with the same counterparty and which provide that amounts 

 

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due thereunder may be set off among such Swap Contracts, the net obligations of such Person under all such related Swap Contracts);

 

(d)                 all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than (i) trade accounts payable in the ordinary course of business and (ii) any earn-out obligation until such obligation becomes a liability on the balance sheet of such Person in accordance with GAAP);

 

(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 and mortgage, industrial revenue bond, industrial development bond and similar financings), whether or not such indebtedness shall have been assumed by such Person or is limited in recourse;

 

(f)                    all Capitalized Lease Indebtedness;

 

(g)                 all obligations of such Person in respect of Disqualified Equity Interests;

 

(h)                 obligations under Support Agreements; and

 

(i)                     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, except to the extent such Person’s liability for such Indebtedness is otherwise limited and only to the extent such Indebtedness would be included in the calculation of Consolidated Total Debt.  The amount of any net obligation under any Swap Contract on any date shall be deemed to be the Swap Termination Value as of such date.  The amount of Indebtedness represented by Guarantees and Support Agreements 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 or Support Agreement 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; provided, that in no event shall such amount be less than the amount required to be reflected in the consolidated balance sheet of the Person providing such Guarantee or Support Agreement in accordance with GAAP (including Financial Standards Board Statement No. 5).  The amount of Indebtedness of any Person for purposes of clause (e) shall be deemed to be equal to the lesser of (i) the aggregate unpaid amount of such Indebtedness and (ii) the Fair Market Value of the property encumbered thereby.

 

“Indemnified Liabilities” has the meaning specified in Section 10.05.

 

“Indemnified Taxes” means Taxes, other than (a) Excluded Taxes, imposed on or with respect to any payment made by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower under any Loan Document and (b) Other Taxes.

 

“Indemnitees” has the meaning specified in Section 10.05.

 

“Individual Property” means the “Site” as defined in each Mortgage, severally.

 

“Information” has the meaning specified in Section 10.08.

 

“Initial Land Term Loan” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(a)(ii).

 

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“Intellectual Property Security Agreements” means the Intellectual Property Security Agreements, substantially in the form of Exhibit I.

 

“Intercompany Note” means the global intercompany note, substantially in the form of Exhibit K.

 

“Interest Coverage Ratio” means, with respect to the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, for any Test Period, the ratio of (i) Consolidated EBITDA for such Test Period to (ii) Consolidated Interest Expense for such Test Period.

 

“Interest Payment Date” means (a) as to any Loan other than a Base Rate Loan, the last day of each Interest Period applicable to such Loan and the Maturity Date; provided that if any Interest Period for a Eurodollar 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; (b) as to any Base Rate Loan (including a Swing Line Loan), the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December and the Maturity Date; and (c) as to any Swing Line Loan, the day that such Loan is required to be repaid.

 

“Interest Period” means, as to each Eurodollar Loan, the period commencing on the date such Eurodollar Loan is disbursed or converted to or continued as a Eurodollar Loan and ending one, two, three or six months after the date of such Borrowing as selected by the Borrower in its Committed Loan Notice; 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 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 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

 

(c)                  no Interest Period shall extend beyond the Maturity Date.

 

“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 or debt or other securities of another Person (including by way of merger or consolidation), (b) a loan, advance or capital contribution to, Guarantee or assumption of Indebtedness of, or purchase or other acquisition of any other debt or equity participation or interest in, another Person, including any partnership or joint venture interest in such other Person or (c) the purchase or other acquisition (in one transaction or a series of transactions) of all or a substantial part of the property and assets or business of another Person or assets constituting a business unit, line of business or division of such Person.  Subject to Section 6.14 (in the case of deemed Investments in Unrestricted Subsidiaries), for purposes of covenant compliance, the amount of any Investment shall be the amount actually invested (in the case of any non-cash asset invested, taking the Fair Market Value thereof at the time the investment is made), without adjustment for subsequent increases or decreases in the value of such Investment.

 

“IP Holdco” means NP IP Holdings LLC, a Nevada limited liability company.

 

“IP Holdco Transition Date” means earlier of (a) the date on which all Aggregate Commitments and Letters of Credit shall have terminated and all Loans and other Obligations (other than customary indemnity obligations and expense reimbursement obligations not then due and payable) shall 

 

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have been paid in full in cash or (b) the date on which the Transition Period (as defined in the Transition Services Agreement) shall have terminated.

 

“IP Rights” has the meaning specified in Section 5.15.

 

“IRS” means the United States Internal Revenue Service.

 

“Joint Lead Arrangers” has the meaning specified in the preamble hereto.

 

“JPMCB” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. and any successor thereto by merger, consolidation or otherwise.

 

“Junior Financing” has the meaning specified in Section 7.13(a).

 

“Junior Financing Documentation” means any documentation governing any Junior Financing.

 

“Land” has the meaning set forth in the Mortgages, collectively.

 

“Land Term Lender” means, at any time, any Lender that has a Land Term Loan at such time.

 

“Land Term Loan” means any Initial Land Term Loan held by any Lender pursuant to this Agreement plus all PIK Interest capitalized as principal pursuant to Section 2.08(f).

 

“Land Term Loan Distribution” has the meaning provided in Section 2.01(a)(ii).

 

“Land Term Loan Distribution Amount” means, with respect to each Lender, the principal amount of the Land Term Loan such Lender has been deemed to hold pursuant to the Plan of Reorganization (as a portion of the consideration provided to the holders of “Allowed S.2 Claims” under (and as defined in) the Plan of Reorganization) on the Closing Date pursuant to Section 2.01(a)(ii) as set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 2.01 under the caption “Land Term Loan Distribution Amount.”  The aggregate amount of the Land Term Loan Distribution Amounts of all Land Term Lenders on the Closing Date (after giving effect to the Land Term Loan Distribution) is $25,000,000.

 

“Land Term Loan Facility” means all Land Term Loans made hereunder (including by way of the capitalizing of PIK Interest pursuant to Section 2.08(f)).

 

“Land Term Loan Property” means each parcel of real property set forth on Schedule 1.01F.

 

“Land Term Note” means a promissory note of the Borrower payable to any Land Term Lender or its registered assigns in substantially the form of Exhibit C-2, evidencing the aggregate Indebtedness of the Borrower to such Land Term Lender resulting from the Land Term Loans held or deemed held by such Land Term Lender.

 

“Laws” means, collectively, all international, foreign, tribal, 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

 

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Governmental Authority, in each case whether or not having the force of law (including any Gaming Law or Liquor 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 Pro Rata Share.

 

“L/C Back-Stop Arrangements” has the meaning provided in Section 2.16.

 

“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.

 

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

 

“L/C Issuer” means DBNY and any other Lender that becomes an L/C Issuer in accordance with Section 2.03(k) or 10.07(j), in each case, in its capacity as an 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 undrawn amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit plus the aggregate of all Unreimbursed Amounts, including all L/C Borrowings.

 

“Leasehold Estate” means the estate in the applicable Mortgaged Properties created by each Ground Lease.

 

“Lender” means each Person from time to time party hereto as a Lender, including any Person that becomes party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption and, as the context requires, includes each L/C Issuer and the Swing Line Lender, and their respective successors and assigns as permitted hereunder, each of which is referred to herein as a “Lender.”

 

“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 Borrower and the Administrative Agent.

 

“Letter of Credit” means any letter of credit issued hereunder.  A Letter of Credit may be a commercial letter of credit or a standby letter of credit.

 

“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 relevant L/C Issuer.

 

“Letter of Credit Expiration Date” means the day that is five (5) Business Days prior to the Maturity Date (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next preceding Business Day).

 

“Letter of Credit Exposure” means, at any time, the L/C Obligations at such time. The Letter of Credit Exposure of any Revolving Credit Lender at any time shall be its Pro Rata Share of the L/C Obligations at such time.

 

“Letter of Credit Sublimit” means an amount equal to the lesser of (a) $10,000,000 (provided a Defaulting Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the L/C Obligations subject to L/C Back-Stop Arrangements shall not apply to reduce this $10,000,000 sublimit) and (b) the aggregate amount of the

 

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Revolving Credit Commitments.  The Letter of Credit Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Revolving Credit Facility.

 

“LIBO Rate” means, with respect to any Eurodollar Loan for any Interest Period, the rate for eurodollar deposits for a period equal to one, two, three or six months (as selected by the Borrower) appearing on Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page at approximately 11:00 a.m. (London Time) on the date two Business Days prior to the beginning of such Interest Period; provided that, to the extent that an interest rate is not ascertainable pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this definition, the “LIBO Rate” shall be the interest rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent to be the average of the rates per annum at which deposits in dollars are offered for such relevant Interest Period to major banks in the London interbank market in London, England by the Administrative Agent at approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the date that is two Business Days prior to the beginning of such Interest Period.

 

“License Revocation” means (i) the denial, revocation or suspension of any Material Nevada Governmental Approval of the Manager, Fertitta Entertainment or any Loan Party by any Governmental Authority; or (ii) the filing of a disciplinary complaint by a Governmental Authority seeking the denial, revocation or suspension of any Material Nevada Governmental Approval of the Manager, Fertitta Entertainment or any Loan Party; provided, that each of the Manager, Fertitta Entertainment and the applicable Loan Parties shall have the greater of (a) ninety (90) days from the date of filing of such disciplinary complaint or (b) such time period as may be granted by the applicable Governmental Authority to cure any event or deficiency giving rise to the filing of such disciplinary complaint such that the complaint is dismissed or settled without a denial, revocation or suspension of such Material Nevada Governmental Approval.  Notwithstanding any applicable cure period set forth in clause (ii) above, if a Material Nevada Governmental Approval of the Manager, Fertitta Entertainment or any Loan Party is denied, revoked or suspended by any Governmental Authority, a “License Revocation” shall be deemed to have occurred on the effective date of such denial, revocation or suspension.

 

“Lien” means any mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or other), charge, or preference, priority or other security interest or preferential arrangement 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 Capitalized Lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing).

 

“Liquidity” means, at any date of determination, the sum of Unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries on such date plus the Manager Reserves on such date plus the Availability on such date.

 

“Liquor Authorities” means, in any jurisdiction in which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries sells and distributes liquor, the applicable alcoholic beverage commission or other Governmental Authority responsible for interpreting, administering and enforcing the Liquor Laws.

 

“Liquor Laws” means the Laws applicable to or involving the sale and distribution of liquor by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in any jurisdiction, as in effect from time to time, including the policies, interpretations and administration thereof by the applicable Liquor Authorities.

 

“Loan” means an extension of credit by a Lender to the Borrower under Article 2 in the form of a B Term Loan, Land Term Loan, Revolving Credit Loan or a Swing Line Loan.

 

“Loan Documents” means, collectively, (i) this Agreement, (ii) the Notes, (iii) the Guaranty, (iv) the Collateral Documents, (v) each Letter of Credit Application, (vi) the Intercompany

 

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Note, (vii) each Incremental Amendment, (viii) other than for the purposes of Section 10.01, the Fee Letter and (ix) the Management Fee Subordination Agreement.

 

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

 

“Majority Revolving Lenders” means those Revolving Credit Lenders (other than Defaulting Lenders) which would constitute the Required Lenders under, and as defined in, this Agreement if all outstanding Obligations with respect to the Term Loans were repaid in full.

 

“Majority Term Lenders” means those Term Lenders which would constitute the Required Lenders under, and as defined in, this Agreement if all outstanding Revolving Obligations were paid or repaid in full and all Revolving Credit Commitments and Letters of Credit were terminated.

 

“Management Agreement” means that certain Management Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, between the Borrower and the Manager.

 

“Management Agreement Guaranty” means that certain Guaranty, dated as of the date hereof, executed by Fertitta Entertainment in favor of the Borrower.

 

“Management Fee Subordination Agreement” means that certain Subordination of Management Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, among the Borrower, the Manager and the Administrative Agent.

 

“Manager” means FE OpCo Management LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

 

“Manager Allocation Agreement” means that certain Manager Allocation Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, among Fertitta Entertainment, the Manager, certain other Subsidiaries of Fertitta Entertainment and the Borrower.

 

“Manager Documents” means the Management Agreement and the Management Agreement Guaranty.

 

“Manager Reserves” means, at any date, amounts that have been designated by the Manager on behalf of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries in accordance with the Management Agreement as reserved for use by the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries at such times when Revolving Credit Borrowings cannot be made, including, without limitation, amounts reserved for the Working Capital Requirement (as defined in the Management Agreement) or under the Reserve Fund (as defined in the Management Agreement); provided that such Manager Reserves shall not at any time exceed $3,000,000.

 

“Master Agreement” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Swap Contract.”

 

“Material Adverse Effect” means any change, occurrence, event, circumstance or development that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on (a) the business, property, condition (financial or otherwise), operation or performance of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (b) the ability of the Borrower and the other Loan Parties, taken as a whole, to perform their payment obligations under the Loan Documents, (c) the validity or enforceability of any of the Loan Documents or the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent and other Secured Parties or (d) the Liens in favor of the Administrative Agent on the Collateral or the priority of such Liens.

 

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“Material Contracts” means, collectively, (i) each of the Manager Documents, the Management Fee Subordination Agreement, the Parent Cost Allocation Agreement, the Subsidiary Cost Allocation Agreements, the Transition Services Agreement, the Tax Sharing Agreement, the Subsidiary Tax Sharing Agreements and the Borrower/IP Holdco License Agreement, (ii) each agreement of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries evidencing Indebtedness (other than any intercompany Indebtedness among the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries) for borrowed money in an amount equal to or greater than the Threshold Amount and (iii) each other contract set forth on Schedule 1.01E, in each case as in effect on the date hereof or as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified in accordance with the provisions of the Loan Documents.

 

“Material Nevada Governmental Approval” means any material Governmental Approval (including any Nevada Gaming License) issued by any Governmental Authority including any agency(ies) of the City of North Las Vegas, Nevada; the City of Reno, Nevada; the City of Henderson, Nevada; Clark County, Nevada; or the State of Nevada, the denial, revocation or suspension of which would have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

“Material Real Property Lease” means (i) any Real Property Lease to a single Tenant covering 10,000 square feet or more of rentable area of any Individual Property and (ii) the Material Real Property Leases (including all amendments and supplements thereto) designated as such on Schedule 5.08(f); provided, that no Real Property Lease that relates solely to a restaurant, movie theatre or night club or relates solely to a short-term lease of a parking lot shall constitute a Material Real Property Lease.

 

“Maturity Date” means the date occurring on the fifth anniversary of the Closing Date, as such date may be extended or shortened pursuant to Section 2.14, or such earlier date that the Loans become due as a result of acceleration or otherwise.

 

“Maximum Rate” has the meaning specified in Section 10.10.

 

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

 

“Mortgage” means, collectively, the deeds of trust, trust deeds, hypothecs and mortgages made by the Loan Parties in favor or for the benefit of the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties substantially in the form of Exhibit H (with such changes as may be customary to account for local Law matters), and any other mortgages executed and delivered pursuant to Section 6.11 or 6.13.

 

“Mortgage Policies” has the meaning specified in Section 6.13(b)(ii).

 

“Mortgaged Properties” has the meaning specified in paragraph (g) of the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement.”

 

“Multiemployer Plan” means any employee benefit plan of the type described in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA, to which any Loan Party 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.

 

“Native American Contracts” means (a) each contract listed under the heading “Native American Contracts” on Schedule 1.01H, and (b) any other agreements (including, without limitation, management agreements, development agreements and loan documents) with Tribes related to the development, construction, management or operation of gaming, lodging and other related businesses thereto, in connection with existing projects governed by the Native American Contracts referred to in (a) above.

 

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“Native American Investment  Rollover Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 7.02(p).

 

“Native American Investments” means Investments in the form of (i) loans or advances or (ii) payments, in any case by Native American Subsidiaries pursuant to a Native American Contract.

 

“Native American Subsidiary” means (a) as of the Closing Date, those Subsidiaries of the Borrower which are designated as such on Schedule 1.01D and (b) each additional Subsidiary of the Borrower which is hereafter designated as such from time to time by written notice to the Administrative Agent in a manner consistent with the provisions of Section 6.14(b); provided that no such Subsidiary shall be (or, in the case of clauses (i) and (ii), remain) so designated (i) unless at all times such Subsidiary is engaging exclusively in the business of managing, constructing, developing, servicing, and otherwise supporting gaming, lodging and other related businesses under the auspices of a Tribe in connection with a Native American Contract, (ii) unless at all times neither it nor any of its Subsidiaries owns (x) any interest in any Core Property or any Equity Interests in any Person that is not itself a Native American Subsidiary or (y) any other material asset other than Real Property (and improvements thereon), contracts and related contract rights and other general intangibles, promissory notes and cash and Cash Equivalents or (iii) when any Default has occurred and is continuing.  Solely for the purposes of (i) the definition of “Excluded Assets” set forth in the Pledge Agreement and (ii) clause (c) of the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement” set forth herein, “Native American Subsidiary” shall include any Person (other than a Subsidiary) in which the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary holds an Equity Interest that is designated as such by the Borrower; provided, that (A) no such Person shall be (or remain) so designated unless (x) at all times such Person is engaging exclusively in the business of managing, constructing, developing, servicing, and otherwise supporting gaming, lodging and other related businesses under the auspices of a Native American tribe, band or other forms of government, and (y) at all times neither it nor any of its Subsidiaries owns any Equity Interests in any Person that is not itself designated as a “Native American Subsidiary” pursuant to this sentence and (B) Borrower shall not make such designation if a Default has occurred and is continuing.

 

“Net Cash Proceeds” means:

 

(a)                  with respect to the Disposition of any asset by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary or any Casualty Event, the remainder, if any, of (i) the sum of cash and Cash Equivalents received in connection with such Disposition or Casualty Event (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 and, with respect to any Casualty Event, any insurance proceeds or condemnation awards in respect of such Casualty Event actually received by or paid to or for the account of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary) minus (ii) the sum of (A) the principal amount, premium or penalty, if any, interest and other amounts on any Indebtedness that is secured by the asset subject to such Disposition or Casualty Event and that is required to be repaid (and is timely repaid) in connection with such Disposition or Casualty Event (other than Indebtedness under the Loan Documents), (B) the reasonable out-of-pocket expenses (including attorneys’ fees, investment banking fees, survey costs, title insurance premiums, and related search and recording charges, transfer taxes, deed or mortgage recording taxes, other customary expenses and brokerage, consultant and other customary fees) actually incurred by the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary in connection with such Disposition or Casualty Event, (C) taxes paid or reasonably estimated to be actually payable in connection therewith, and (D) any reserve for adjustment in respect of (x) the sale price of such asset or assets established in accordance with GAAP and (y) any liabilities associated with such asset or assets and retained by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary after such sale or other Disposition thereof, including pension and other post-employment benefit liabilities and liabilities

 

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related to environmental matters or against any indemnification obligations associated with such transaction and it being understood that “Net Cash Proceeds” shall include any cash or Cash Equivalents (i) received upon the Disposition of any non-cash consideration received by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in any such Disposition and (ii) upon the reversal (without the satisfaction of any applicable liabilities in cash in a corresponding amount) of any reserve described in clause (D) of this clause (a) or, if such liabilities have not been satisfied in cash and such reserve is not reversed within three hundred and sixty-five (365) days after such Disposition or Casualty Event, the amount of such reserve; provided that, except with respect to a Disposition of any Land Term Loan Property, (x) no net cash proceeds calculated in accordance with the foregoing realized in a single transaction or series of related transactions shall constitute Net Cash Proceeds unless such net cash proceeds shall exceed $2,500,000 and (y) no such net cash proceeds shall constitute Net Cash Proceeds under this clause (a) in any fiscal year until the aggregate amount of all such net cash proceeds in such fiscal year shall exceed $5,000,000 (and thereafter only net cash proceeds in excess of such amount shall constitute Net Cash Proceeds under this clause (a));

 

(b)                 with respect to the incurrence or issuance of any Indebtedness by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, the excess, if any, of (i) the sum of the cash received by the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary in connection with such incurrence or issuance over (ii) the investment banking fees, underwriting discounts, commissions, costs and other reasonable out-of-pocket expenses and other customary expenses, incurred by the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary in connection with such incurrence or issuance;

 

(c)                  with respect to the sale or issuance of any Equity Interests by, or any capital contribution to, any Person (including any Permitted Equity Issuance), an amount equal to the excess, if any, of (i) the sum of the cash received by such Person in connection with such sale, issuance or contribution over (ii) the investment banking fees, underwriting discounts, commissions, costs and other reasonable out-of-pocket expenses and other customary expenses, incurred by such Person in connection with such sale, issuance or contribution; and

 

(d)                 with respect to any Project Reimbursement received by Holdings, any of its Subsidiaries or any joint venture of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries, the excess, if any, of the sum of the cash received by Holdings, such Subsidiary or such joint venture in connection with such Project Reimbursement, net of any reasonable reserves for taxes or equivalent payments required to be paid by the distributing entity.

 

“Nevada Gaming License” means all licenses, consents, permits, approvals, authorizations, registrations, findings of suitability, franchises and entitlements issued by any Nevada Gaming Authority necessary for or relating to the conduct of activities under the Gaming Laws within the State of Nevada.

 

“New Property” means, with respect to any period, any new hotel and/or casino and related amenities (as opposed to any expansion to existing properties) opened for business to the public by the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries during such period.

 

“New Property EBITDA” means, with respect to any New Property for any period, the amount for such period of Consolidated EBITDA of such New Property (determined as if references to the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries in the definition of “Consolidated EBITDA” (and in the component financial definitions used therein) were references to the Person that owns such New Property and its applicable Subsidiaries), all as determined on a consolidated basis for such New Property; provided that, for any period, if the New Property was not opened on the first day of such period, then the

 

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New Property EBITDA for such period shall be equal to (i) the actual Consolidated EBITDA for such New Property during such period as determined above, divided by (ii) the number of days during such period from and after the opening of such New Property, times (iii) the total number of days in such period.

 

“New Real Property Lease” has the meaning specified in Section 7.18(a).

 

“Non-Cash Charges” means (a) non-cash losses on asset sales, disposals or abandonments, (b) any non-cash impairment charge or asset write-off related to intangible assets, long-lived assets, and investments in debt and equity securities pursuant to GAAP, (c) all non-cash losses from investments recorded using the equity method, (d) stock-based awards compensation expense, and (e) other non-cash charges (provided that if any non-cash charges referred to in this clause (e) represent an accrual or reserve for potential cash items in any future period, the cash payment in respect thereof in such future period shall be subtracted from Consolidated EBITDA or Excess Cash Flow, as applicable, to such extent, and excluding amortization of a prepaid cash item that was paid in a prior period).

 

“Non-Compete Agreement” means that certain Non-Competition Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, among the Parent, Station Holdco LLC, Fertitta Entertainment, the Manager, FE PropCo Management LLC, Frank J. Fertitta III, Lorenzo J. Fertitta, German American Capital Corporation and JPMCB.

 

“Non-Consenting Lenders” has the meaning specified in Section 3.07(d).

 

“Non-Disturbance Agreement” has the meaning specified in Section 7.18(g).

 

“Nonrenewal Notice Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(b)(iii).

 

“Not Otherwise Applied” means, with reference to any amount of Net Cash Proceeds of any Permitted Equity Issuance or of Cumulative Excess Cash Flow (and Excess Cash Flow) that such amount (a) was not required to be applied to prepay the Loans pursuant to Section 2.05(b), and (b) was not previously taken into account in permitting a transaction under the Loan Documents where such permissibility is (or may have been) contingent on receipt of such amount or utilization of such amount for a specified purpose.  For the avoidance of doubt, the aggregate amount of Investments, prepayments of Junior Financing and Capital Expenditures made in reliance on the amount of Net Cash Proceeds or Cumulative Excess Cash Flow, as applicable, pursuant to Sections 7.02(n), 7.13(a) and/or 7.16(c) shall reduce the amount “Not Otherwise Applied” of any Net Cash Proceeds or Cumulative Excess Cash Flow, as applicable.  The Borrower shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent of any application of such amount as contemplated by (b) above.

 

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

 

“Notice of Intent to Cure” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02(b).

 

“NPL” means the National Priorities List under CERCLA.

 

“Obligations” means all (x) advances to, and debts, liabilities, obligations, covenants and duties of, any Loan Party and its Subsidiaries arising under any Loan Document or otherwise with respect to any Revolving Credit Commitment, Loan or Letter of Credit, whether direct or indirect (including those acquired by assumption), absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now existing or hereafter arising, (y) obligations of any Loan Party and its Subsidiaries arising under any Secured Hedge

 

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Agreement and (z) Cash Management Obligations and including, in each of clauses (x), (y) and (z), interest, fees and expenses that accrue after the commencement by or against any Loan Party or Subsidiary of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws naming such Person as the debtor in such proceeding, regardless of whether such interest, fees and expenses are allowed claims in such proceeding. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Obligations of the Loan Parties under the Loan Documents (and of their Subsidiaries to the extent they have obligations under the Loan Documents) include (a) the obligation (including guarantee obligations) to pay principal, premium, interest, Letter of Credit commissions, reimbursement obligations, charges, expenses, fees, Attorney Costs, indemnities and other amounts payable by any Loan Party or its Subsidiaries under any Loan Document and (b) the obligation of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries to reimburse any amount in respect of any of the foregoing that any Lender, in its sole discretion, may elect to pay or advance on behalf of such Loan Party or such Subsidiary.

 

“Old OpCo” means Station Casinos, Inc., a Nevada corporation.

 

“Old OpCo Audited Financial Statements” means the audited consolidated balance sheets of Old OpCo and its Subsidiaries as of December 31, 2008, December 31, 2009 and December 31, 2010 and the related audited consolidated statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for Old OpCo and its Subsidiaries for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2008, December 31, 2009 and December 31, 2010.

 

“Old OpCo Unaudited Financial Statements” means the unaudited consolidated balance sheets and related statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows of Old OpCo and its Subsidiaries for (A) each fiscal quarter of Old OpCo ended after December 31, 2010 and at least forty-five (45) days before the Closing Date and (B) to the extent reasonably available, each fiscal month after the most recent fiscal period for which financial statements were received by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders as described above and ended at least thirty (30) days before the Closing Date, which financial statements described in clause (A) shall be prepared in accordance with GAAP (but excluding footnotes).

 

“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; 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, if applicable 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.

 

“Original Credit Agreement” has the meaning specified in the recitals hereto.

 

“Other Taxes” has the meaning specified in Section 3.01(b).

 

“Outstanding Amount” means (a) with respect to the B Term Loans, Land 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 B Term Loans, Land Term Loans, Revolving Credit Loans (including any refinancing of outstanding unpaid drawings under Letters of Credit or L/C Credit Extensions as a Revolving Credit Borrowing) or 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 aggregate outstanding amount thereof on such date after giving effect to any L/C Credit Extension

 

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occurring on such date and any other changes thereto as of such date, including as a result of any reimbursements of outstanding unpaid drawings under any Letters of Credit (including any refinancing of outstanding unpaid drawings under Letters of Credit or L/C Credit Extensions as a Revolving Credit Borrowing) or any reductions in the maximum amount available for drawing under Letters of Credit taking effect on such date.

 

“Parent” means Station Casinos LLC, a Nevada limited liability company.

 

“Parent Cost Allocation Agreement” means that certain Parent Cost Allocation Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, among Holdings, the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries and the Parent.

 

“Parent/IP Holdco License Agreement” means that certain IP Holdco to PropCo License Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, among Parent and IP Holdco.

 

“Participant” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(e).

 

“Patriot Act” has the meaning specified in Section 10.21.

 

“PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.

 

“Pension Plan” means any “employee pension benefit plan” (as such term is defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA), other than a Multiemployer Plan, that is subject to Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 or Title IV of ERISA and is sponsored or maintained by any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate or to which any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate contributes or has an obligation to contribute.

 

“Permits” means any and all franchises, licenses, leases, permits, approvals, notifications, certifications, registrations, authorizations, exemptions, qualifications, easements, rights of way, Liens and other rights, privileges and approvals required under any applicable Law (including, without limitation, Gaming Permits and permits required under Liquor Laws).

 

“Permitted Acquisition” has the meaning specified in Section 7.02(i).

 

“Permitted Equity Issuance” means (i) an issuance of Qualified Equity Interests by the Borrower to Holdings and (ii) any issuance of Qualified Equity Interests by Holdings to Parent.

 

“Permitted Lien” means each Lien permitted under Section 7.01.

 

“Permitted Refinancing” means, with respect to any Person, any modification, refinancing, replacement, refunding, renewal or extension of any Indebtedness of such Person; provided that (a) the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) thereof does not exceed the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of the Indebtedness so modified, refinanced, replaced, refunded, renewed or extended except by an amount equal to unpaid accrued interest and premium thereon plus other reasonable amount paid, and fees and expenses reasonably incurred, in connection with such modification, refinancing, replacement, refunding, renewal or extension and by an amount equal to any existing commitments unutilized thereunder, (b) other than with respect to a Permitted Refinancing in respect of Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 7.03(e), such modification, refinancing, replacement, refunding, renewal or extension has a final maturity date equal to or later than the final maturity date of, and has a Weighted Average Life to Maturity equal to or greater than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of, the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, replaced, refunded, renewed or extended, (c) other than with respect to a Permitted Refinancing in respect of Indebtedness permitted

 

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pursuant to Section 7.03(e), at the time thereof, no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, and (d) if such Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, replaced, refunded, renewed or extended is Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 7.03(b) or 7.13(a), (i) to the extent such Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, replaced, refunded, renewed or extended is subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations, such modification, refinancing, replacement, refunding, renewal or extension is subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations on terms at least as favorable to the Lenders as those contained in the documentation governing the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, replaced, refunded, renewed or extended, (ii) to the extent such Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, replaced, refunded, renewed or extended is secured by Liens that are subordinated to the Liens securing the Obligations, such modification, refinancing, replacement, refunding, renewal or extension is unsecured or secured by Liens that are subordinated to the Liens securing the Obligations on terms at least as favorable to the Lenders as those contained in the documentation (including any intercreditor or similar agreements) governing the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, replaced, refunded, renewed or extended, (iii) the terms and conditions of any such modified, refinanced, replaced, refunded, renewed or extended Indebtedness, taken as a whole, are not materially less favorable to the interests of the Lenders than the terms and conditions of the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, replaced, refunded, renewed or extended; provided that a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower delivered to the Administrative Agent at least five Business Days prior to the incurrence of such Indebtedness, together with a reasonably detailed description of the material terms and conditions of such Indebtedness and drafts of the documentation relating thereto, stating that the Borrower has determined in good faith that such terms and conditions satisfy the foregoing requirement shall be conclusive evidence that such terms and conditions satisfy the foregoing requirement unless the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower within such five Business Day period that it disagrees with such determination (including a reasonable description of the basis upon which it disagrees) and (iv) such modification, refinancing, replacement, refunding, renewal or extension is incurred by the Person who is the obligor of the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, replaced, refunded, renewed or extended.

 

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

 

“Petition Date” has the meaning specified in the recitals hereto.

 

“PIK Interest” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.08(f).

 

“Plan” means any “employee benefit plan” (as such term is defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) established by any Loan Party or, with respect to any such plan that is subject to Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 or Title IV of ERISA, any ERISA Affiliate.

 

“Plan Effective Date” means the “Effective Date” of (and as defined in) the Plan of Reorganization.

 

“Plan of Reorganization” means the joint plan of reorganization in the form attached as Exhibit A to the Disclosure Statement, without regard to any modifications thereto made on or prior to the Closing Date that are adverse to the interests of the Lenders in any material respect (as reasonably determined by the Required Consenting Lenders in their good faith discretion), unless approved in writing by the Administrative Agent (acting at the direction of the Required Consenting Lenders), as the same may be amended, modified and/or supplemented after the Closing Date in accordance with the terms hereof.

 

“Platform” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.

 

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“Pledge Agreement” means, collectively, the Pledge Agreement executed by Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors, substantially in the form of Exhibit G-2, together with each other Pledge Agreement Supplement executed and delivered pursuant to Section 6.11.

 

“Pledge Agreement Supplement” has the meaning specified in the Pledge Agreement.

 

“Post-Acquisition Period” means, with respect to any Permitted Acquisition or conversion of an Unrestricted Subsidiary to a Converted Restricted Subsidiary, the period beginning on the date such Permitted Acquisition or conversion of an Unrestricted Subsidiary to a Converted Restricted Subsidiary is consummated and ending on the last day of the fourth full consecutive fiscal quarter immediately following the date on which such Permitted Acquisition or conversion of an Unrestricted Subsidiary to a Converted Restricted Subsidiary is consummated.

 

“Pre-Opening Expenses” means, with respect to any fiscal period, the amount of expenses (other than Consolidated Interest Expense) classified as “pre-opening expenses” on the applicable financial statements of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for that period, prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied.

 

“Prime Rate” means the rate of interest per annum publicly announced from time to time by DBTCA as its prime rate in effect at its principal office in New York City; each change in the Prime Rate shall be effective as of the opening of business on the date such change is publicly announced as being effective.  The Prime Rate is a reference rate and does not necessarily represent the lowest or best rate actually available.

 

“Pro Forma Adjustment” means, for any Test Period that includes all or any part of a fiscal quarter included in any Post-Acquisition Period, with respect to the Acquired EBITDA of the applicable Acquired Entity or Business or a Converted Restricted Subsidiary or the Consolidated EBITDA of the Borrower, the pro forma increase or decrease in such Acquired EBITDA or such Consolidated EBITDA, as the case may be, projected by the Borrower in good faith as a result of actions taken during such Post-Acquisition Period for the purposes of realizing reasonably identifiable and factually supportable cost savings in connection with the combination of the operations of such Acquired Entity or Business or such Converted Restricted Subsidiary with the operations of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, net of, in the case of any increase in such Acquired EBITDA or Consolidated EBITDA, the amount of actual benefits realized during such Test Period from such actions; provided that for purposes of projecting such pro forma increase or decrease to such Acquired EBITDA or such Consolidated EBITDA, as the case may be, it may be assumed that the cost savings related to actions taken during such Post-Acquisition Period will be realizable during the entirety of such Test Period; provided  further, however, that (A) such cost savings shall be projected by the Borrower in good faith to be realized within such Post-Acquisition Period, (B) such cost savings must be able to be accounted for as adjustments pursuant to Article 11 of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act, (C) any cost savings that are not actually realized during such Post-Acquisition Period may no longer be included as a “Pro Forma Adjustment” after the end of the last day of such Post-Acquisition Period, (D) such actions giving rise to such cost savings shall actually have been taken during the Post-Acquisition Period, (E) no amounts included shall be included in the determination of the “Pro Forma Adjustment” to the extent duplicative of any amounts that are otherwise added back in computing Consolidated EBITDA with respect to such period, and (F) no Pro Forma Adjustment shall be added back in the computation of Consolidated EBITDA for such Test Period for purposes of calculating the Applicable ECF Percentage.

 

“Pro Forma Basis”, “Pro Forma Compliance” and “Pro Forma Effect” mean, with respect to compliance with any test or covenant hereunder, that (A) to the extent applicable, the Pro Forma Adjustment shall have been made and (B) all Specified Transactions and the following transactions in

 

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connection therewith shall be deemed to have occurred as of the first day of the applicable period of measurement in such test or covenant:  (a) income statement items (whether positive or negative) attributable to the property or Person subject to such Specified Transaction, (i) in the case of a Disposition of all or substantially all Equity Interests in any Subsidiary of the Borrower or any division, product line, or facility used for operations of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, shall be excluded, and (ii) in the case of a Permitted Acquisition, conversion of an Unrestricted Subsidiary to a Converted Restricted Subsidiary or Investment described in the definition of “Specified Transaction”, shall be included, (b) any retirement or repayment of Indebtedness, and (c) any Indebtedness (other than intercompany Indebtedness among the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors) incurred or assumed by the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries in connection therewith and if such Indebtedness has a floating or formula rate, shall have an implied rate of interest for the applicable period for purposes of this definition determined by utilizing the rate which is or would be in effect with respect to such Indebtedness as at the relevant date of determination; provided that, without limiting the application of the Pro Forma Adjustment pursuant to clause (A) above, the foregoing pro forma adjustments may be applied to any such test or covenant solely to the extent that such adjustments are consistent with the definition of “Consolidated EBITDA” and give effect to events (including operating expense reductions) that are (i) (x) directly attributable to such transaction, (y) expected to have a continuing impact on the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries and (z) factually supportable or (ii) otherwise consistent with the definition of “Pro Forma Adjustment”; provided, further, that, for avoidance of doubt, no pro forma adjustments shall apply to the consummation of the Restructuring Transactions.  In the case of any determination of Pro  Forma Compliance with, or any calculation on a Pro  Forma Basis of, the financial covenants set forth in Section 7.11 pursuant to Sections 2.15, 4.02(d), 6.14(a), 7.02(i)(D), 7.02(n) and 7.03(e) prior to the occurrence of the First Test Date, such determination or calculation shall be made as if the First Test Date had occurred prior to the date of the consummation of the applicable Specified Transaction giving rise to such determination or calculation using the following financial covenant levels applicable as of the last day of the Test Period (or other applicable period) then last ended):

 

Total Leverage Ratio Covenant Levels

 

	
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March 31
    	
 
    	
June 30
    	
 
    	
September 30
    	
 
    	
December 31
    	
 
    
	
2011
    	
 
    	
6.25:1.00
    	
 
    	
6.25:1.00
    	
 
    	
6.25:1.00
    	
 
    	
6.25:1.00
    	
 
    
	
2012
    	
 
    	
6.25:1.00
    	
 
    	
6.25:1.00
    	
 
    	
6.25:1.00
    	
 
    	
6.25:1.00
    	
 
    

 

Interest Coverage Ratio Covenant Levels

 

	
Fiscal Year
    	
 
    	
March 31
    	
 
    	
June 30
    	
 
    	
September 30
    	
 
    	
December 31
    	
 
    
	
2011
    	
 
    	
3.25:1.00
    	
 
    	
3.25:1.00
    	
 
    	
3.25:1.00
    	
 
    	
3.25:1.00
    	
 
    
	
2012
    	
 
    	
3.25:1.00
    	
 
    	
3.25:1.00
    	
 
    	
3.25:1.00
    	
 
    	
3.25:1.00
    	
 
    

 

“Pro Rata Share” means (i) with respect to each Revolving Credit Lender at any time a fraction (expressed as a percentage, carried out to the ninth decimal place), the numerator of which is the amount of the Revolving Credit Commitment of such Revolving Credit Lender at such time and the denominator of which is the amount of the Aggregate Commitments of all Revolving Credit Lenders under the Revolving Credit Facility at such time; provided that if such Revolving Credit Commitment has been terminated, then the Pro Rata Share of each Revolving Credit Lender shall be determined based on the Pro Rata Share of such Revolving Credit Lender immediately prior to such termination and after giving effect to any subsequent assignments made pursuant to the terms hereof;  provided, further, that in the case of Section 2.16 when a Defaulting Lender shall exist, “Pro Rata Share” shall mean the percentage of the Aggregate Commitments (disregarding any Defaulting Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment) represented by such Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment, (ii) with respect to each B

 

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Term Lender at any time a fraction (expressed as a percentage, carried out to the ninth decimal place), the numerator of which is the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the B Term Loans of such B Term Lender at such time and the denominator of which is the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all B Term Loans of all B Term Lenders at such time and (iii) with respect to each Land Term Lender at any time a fraction (expressed as a percentage, carried out to the ninth decimal place), the numerator of which is the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Land Term Loans of such Land Term Lender at such time and the denominator of which is the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all Land Term Loans of all Land Term Lenders at such time.

 

“Project Reimbursements” means any amounts received by Holdings, any of its Subsidiaries or any joint venture of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries after the Closing Date in repayment, or otherwise on account, of any loan or advance made by it to a Tribe pursuant to any Native American Contract relating to a project.

 

“Projections” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.01(d).

 

“PropCo Credit Agreement” means (a) that certain Credit Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, among Parent, various lenders and Deutsche Bank AG Cayman Islands Branch as administrative agent and (b) any other credit agreement, loan agreement, note agreement, promissory note, indenture or other agreement or instrument evidencing or governing the terms of any Indebtedness or other financial accommodation that has been incurred to extend, renew, refinance or replace (whether by the same or different banks) in whole or in part (under one or more agreements) the Indebtedness and other obligations outstanding under the PropCo Credit Agreement referred to in clause (a) above or any other agreement or instrument referred to in this clause (b).

 

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

 

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

 

“Qualified IPO” means (i) in the case of Parent or any direct or indirect parent company of Parent or Holdings, a “Qualified Public Offering” as defined in the Equityholders Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, among Holdco (as defined in the PropCo Credit Agreement as in effect on the Closing Date)and each holder of Equity Interests thereof, VoteCo and each holder of Equity Interests thereof, Parent and its Subsidiaries and the Fertitta Brothers, as in effect on the Closing Date (as if each reference to “Newco” in such definition were a reference to either Parent or any direct or indirect parent of Parent or Holdings) and (ii) in the case of Holdings, a bona fide underwritten primary public offering of common stock of Holdings pursuant to a registration statement (other than on Form S-8 or any other form relating to securities issuable under any benefit plan of Holdings) that is declared effective by the SEC and results in Net Cash Proceeds received by Holdings (which are contributed to the Borrower) of at least $75,000,000.

 

“Real Property” means all Mortgaged Properties and all other real property (including land, improvements and fixtures) owned or leased from time to time by any of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary.

 

“Real Property Lease” means any lease, sublease or sub-sublease, letting, license, concession or other agreement (whether written or oral and whether now or hereafter in effect), pursuant to which any Person is granted by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary a possessory interest in, or right to use or occupy all or any portion of any space in any Mortgaged Property, and every modification, amendment or other agreement relating to such lease, sublease, sub-sublease, or other agreement entered

 

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into in connection with such lease, sublease, sub-sublease, or other agreement and every guarantee of the performance and observance of the covenants, conditions and agreements to be performed and observed by the other party thereto.

 

“Real Property Lease Modification” has the meaning specified in Section 7.18(a).

 

“Real Property Leasing Standards” means the standards set forth on Schedule 5.08(f).

 

“Refinanced Term Loans” has the meaning specified in Section 10.01.

 

“Register” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(d).

 

“Regulation T” means Regulation T of the Board as from time to time in effect and all official rulings and interpretations thereunder or thereof.

 

“Regulation U” means Regulation U of the Board as from time to time in effect and all official rulings and interpretations thereunder or thereof.

 

“Regulation X” means Regulation X of the Board as from time to time in effect and all official rulings and interpretations thereunder or thereof.

 

“Related Person” means, as to any Person, any of such Person’s employees, directors, officers or shareholders.

 

“Release Conditions” has the meaning specified in Section 9.11(b)(i).

 

“Release Payment” means, in the case of the sale of a Land Term Loan Property pursuant to Section 7.05, the Net Cash Proceeds payable in connection with such sale.

 

“Release Property” has the meaning specified in Section 7.05.

 

“Rents” means all rents, rent equivalents, moneys payable as damages or in lieu of rent or rent equivalents, royalties (including, without limitation, all oil and gas or other mineral royalties and bonuses), income, receivables, receipts, revenues, deposits (including, without limitation, security, utility and other deposits), accounts, cash, issues, profits, charges for services rendered, and other consideration of whatever form or nature received by or paid to or for the account of or benefit of Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary from any and all sources arising from or attributable to a Mortgaged Property, including, but not limited to the Real Property Leases.

 

“Replacement Term Loans” has the meaning specified in Section 10.01.

 

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

 

“Request for Credit Extension” means (a) with respect to a Borrowing, conversion or continuation of B Term Loans, Land 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.

 

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“Required Consenting Lenders” has the meaning specified in the Restructuring Support Agreement, dated as of April 16, 2010, among various Lenders party thereto, certain subsidiaries of Old OpCo party thereto, the Fertitta Brothers and Fertitta Entertainment.

 

“Required Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, Lenders having more than 50% of the sum of the (a) Total Outstandings (with the aggregate amount of each Lender’s risk participation and funded participation in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans being deemed “held” by such Lender for purposes of this definition) and (b) 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; provided, further, that in the event the “Required Lenders” determined in accordance with the foregoing constitute less than three Lenders (and three or more Lenders (other than Defaulting Lenders) then exist), the “Required Lenders” shall mean such Lenders plus the number of additional Lenders (that are not Defaulting Lenders) necessary so that the Required Lenders constitute three Lenders.

 

“Responsible Officer” means the chief executive officer, president, vice president, principal accounting officer, treasurer or assistant treasurer or other similar officer of a Loan Party and, as to any document delivered on the Closing Date, any secretary or assistant secretary of a Loan Party.  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, limited liability company, 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.

 

“Restricted” means, when referring to cash or Cash Equivalents of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, that such cash or Cash Equivalents (i) appear (or would be required to appear) as “restricted” on a consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower or of any such Restricted Subsidiary (unless such appearance is related to the Loan Documents or Liens created thereunder), (ii) are subject to any Lien in favor of any Person other than the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties (or the L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender, as applicable) or as permitted by Section 7.01(s) and clauses (i) and (ii) of Section 7.01(t), (iii) constitute Cage Cash, (iv) constitute Manager Reserves, (v) are subject to pledge pursuant to the L/C Back-Stop Arrangements, (vi) are maintained in a cash collateral account pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(iv)(B) or (vi) are maintained in a cash collateral account pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(ii)(C).

 

“Restricted Payment” means any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) with respect to any Equity Interest of Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, or any payment (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, defeasance, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any such Equity Interest, or on account of any return of capital to any stockholders, partners or members (or the equivalent Persons thereof) of Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary or any option, warrant or other right to acquire any such Equity Interests in Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) payments made by the Borrower to the Manager pursuant to, and in accordance with, the Management Agreement and (ii) payments made pursuant to, and in accordance with, the Parent Cost Allocation Agreement or the Tax Sharing Agreement, in each case, shall not constitute Restricted Payments.

 

“Restricted Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Borrower other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

 

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“Restructuring Transactions” means each of the transactions specified in Article V.B of the Plan of Reorganization.

 

“Restructuring Transactions Documentation” means all of the documentation entered into in connection with the Restructuring Transactions.

 

“Revolving Commitment Increase Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15.

 

“Revolving Credit Availability” means, at any time, the amount by which the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments at such time exceed the sum of (A) the Outstanding Amount of Revolving Credit Loans at such time and (B) the Outstanding Amount of L/C Obligations at such time.

 

“Revolving Credit Borrowing” means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous Revolving Credit Loans of the same Type and, in the case of Eurodollar 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 any Revolving Credit Lender, its obligation (subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement) to (a) make Revolving Credit Loans to the Borrower from time to time after the Closing Date pursuant to Section 2.01(b), (b) purchase participations in L/C Obligations in respect of Letters of Credit, 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, and opposite such Lender’s name, on Schedule 2.01 under the caption “Revolving Credit Commitment” or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable, as such amount may be increased pursuant to Section 2.15 and further adjusted from time to time in accordance with this Agreement.  The aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments of all Revolving Credit Lenders as of the Closing Date is $25,000,000, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

 

“Revolving Credit Exposure” means, at any time, as to each Revolving Credit Lender, the sum of the outstanding principal amount of such Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Loans at such time and its Pro Rata Share of the L/C Obligations and the Swing Line Obligations at such time.

 

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

 

“Revolving Credit Lender” means, at any time, any Lender that has a Revolving Credit Commitment at such time (or, after the termination thereof, Revolving Credit Exposure at such time).

 

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

 

“Revolving Credit Note” means a promissory note of the Borrower payable to any Revolving Credit Lender or its registered assigns, in substantially the form of Exhibit C-3, evidencing the aggregate Indebtedness of the Borrower to such Revolving Credit Lender resulting from the Revolving Credit Loans made by such Revolving Credit Lender.

 

“Revolving Obligations” means all Obligations (other than Obligations under clauses (y) and (z) of the first sentence of the definition of “Obligations”) relating to the Revolving Credit Loans, Swing Line Loans, Letters of Credit (including L/C Obligations) and the Revolving Credit Commitments.

 

“Rollover Amount” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.16(b).

 

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

 

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

 

“Secured Hedge Agreement” means any Swap Contract permitted under Article 7 that is entered into by and between the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary and any Hedge Bank, except to the extent that the parties thereto agree in writing that such Swap Contract shall not be secured by any Liens on the Collateral and such parties have delivered such writing to the Administrative Agent.

 

“Secured Parties” means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, each L/C Issuer, the Swing Line Lender, the Hedge Banks, the Cash Management Banks, the Supplemental Administrative Agent and each co-agent or sub-agent appointed by the Administrative Agent from time to time pursuant to Section 9.02.

 

“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

“Security Agreement” means, collectively, the Security Agreement executed by Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors, substantially in the form of Exhibit G-1, together with each other Security Agreement Supplement executed and delivered pursuant to Section 6.11.

 

“Security Agreement Supplement” has the meaning specified in the Security Agreement.

 

“Sold Entity or Business” has the meaning specified in the definition of the term “Consolidated EBITDA.”

 

“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 is greater than the total amount of liabilities, including contingent liabilities, of such Person, (b) the present fair salable value of the assets of such Person is not less than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of such Person on its debts as they become absolute and matured, (c) such Person has not, does not intend to, and does not believe that it will, incur debts or liabilities beyond such Person’s ability to pay such debts and liabilities as they mature and (d) such Person is not engaged in business or a transaction, and is not about to engage in business or a transaction, for which such Person’s property would constitute an unreasonably small capital.  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.

 

“SPC” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(h).

 

“Specified Default” means any Default under Section 8.01(a), (f) or (g).

 

“Specified Transaction” means, with respect to any period, any Investment, Disposition, incurrence or repayment of Indebtedness, Restricted Payment, Subsidiary designation or other transaction that by the terms of this Agreement set forth elsewhere herein requires Pro Forma Compliance with a test or covenant hereunder or requires such test or covenant to be calculated on a Pro Forma Basis.

 

“Statutory Reserves” means a fraction (expressed as a decimal), the numerator of which is the number one and the denominator of which is the number one minus the aggregate of the maximum

 

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reserve percentage (including any marginal, special, emergency or supplemental reserves) applicable on the interest rate determination date (expressed as a decimal) established by the Board and applicable to any member bank of the Federal Reserve System in respect of Eurocurrency Liabilities (as defined in Regulation D of the Board).

 

“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 by such Person.  Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to a “Subsidiary” or to “Subsidiaries” shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Borrower.

 

“Subsidiary Cost Allocation Agreement” means each cost allocation agreement between the Borrower and an Unrestricted Subsidiary entered into after the Closing Date in accordance with this Agreement.

 

“Subsidiary Guarantor” means each Restricted Subsidiary that is party to the Guaranty.

 

“Subsidiary Tax Sharing Agreement” means each tax sharing agreement between the Borrower and an Unrestricted Subsidiary entered into after the Closing Date in accordance with this Agreement.

 

“Substitute Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 10.23(a).

 

“Supplemental Administrative Agent” has the meaning specified in Section 9.13(a) and “Supplemental Administrative Agents” shall have the corresponding meaning.

 

“Support Agreement” means (a) the guaranty by the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary of the completion of the development, construction and opening of a new gaming facility by any Native American Subsidiary pursuant to a Native American Contract or of any gaming facility owned by others which is to be managed exclusively by any such Native American Subsidiary pursuant to a Native American Contract and/or (b) the agreement by the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary to advance funds, property or services to or on behalf of a Native American Subsidiary in order to maintain the financial condition or level of any balance sheet item of such Native American Subsidiary pursuant to a Native American Contract (including “keep well” or “make well” agreements) in connection with the development, construction and operations of a new gaming facility by such Native American Subsidiary pursuant to a Native American Contract (or of any gaming facility owned by others which is to be managed exclusively by such Native American Subsidiary pursuant to a Native American Contract); provided that such guaranty or agreement is entered into in connection with obtaining financing for such gaming facility or is required by a Governmental Authority.

 

“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

 

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and Derivatives Association, Inc., any International Foreign Exchange 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 Contract has 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 by the Borrower as the mark-to-market value(s) for such Swap Contract, 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 Facility” means the revolving credit facility made available by the Swing Line Lender pursuant to Section 2.04.

 

“Swing Line Lender” means DBCI, 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 Exposure” means, at any time, the Swing Line Obligations at such time. The Swing Line Loan Exposure of any Revolving Credit Lender at any time shall be its Pro Rata Share of the Swing Line Obligations at such time.

 

“Swing Line Loan Notice” means a notice of a Swing Line Borrowing pursuant to Section 2.04(b), which, if in writing, shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit B.

 

“Swing Line Note” means a promissory note of the Borrower payable to the Swing Line Lender or its registered assigns, in substantially the form of Exhibit C-4, evidencing the aggregate Indebtedness of the Borrower to the Swing Line Lender resulting from the Swing Line Loans made by the Swing Line Lender.

 

“Swing Line Obligations” means, as at any date of determination, the aggregate principal amount of all Swing Line Loans outstanding.

 

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

 

“Syndication Agent” has the meaning specified in the preamble hereto.

 

“Tax Sharing Agreement” means the Tax Sharing Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, entered into by Parent and the Borrower.

 

“Taxes” has the meaning specified in Section 3.01(a).

 

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“Tenant” means any Person leasing, subleasing or otherwise occupying any portion of any Mortgaged Property, other than the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary and its respective employees and agents.

 

“Term Lenders” means, collectively, the B Term Lenders and the Land Term Lenders.

 

“Term Loan” means a B Term Loan and/or a Land Term Loan, as the context may require.

 

“Term Loan Distributions” means the B Term Loan Distribution and the Land Term Loan Distribution.

 

“Test Period” means, for any determination under this Agreement, the four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower then last ended; provided that for purposes of any calculation of Consolidated Interest Expense or Consolidated EBITDA for any “Test Period” ending prior to the first anniversary of the Closing Date, each of Consolidated Interest Expense and Consolidated EBITDA shall be calculated in accordance with the last sentence appearing in the definition of “Consolidated Interest Expense” and “Consolidated EBITDA”, respectively.

 

“Threshold Amount” means $15,000,000.

 

“TL Repayment Percentage” of any Class of Term Loans at any time shall be a fraction (expressed as a percentage) (x) the numerator of which is the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Term Loans of such Class at such time and (y) the denominator of which is the sum of the aggregate principal amount of all outstanding Term Loans (of all Classes) at such time.

 

“Total Leverage Ratio” means, with respect to the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, for any Test Period, the ratio of (a) the remainder of (i) Consolidated Total Debt as of the last day of such Test Period less (ii) the aggregate principal amount of the Land Term Loans outstanding as of the last day of such Test Period to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for such Test Period.

 

“Total Outstandings” means, at any time, the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Loans and all L/C Obligations at such time.

 

“Transition Services Agreement” means the Transition Services Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, entered into by Parent and Holdings and its Subsidiaries.

 

“Tribal Trust Property” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Tribal Trust Property Release Conditions”.

 

“Tribal Trust Property Release Conditions” means, in the event that title to a Mortgaged Property is to be conveyed to the United States of America in trust for a Tribe pursuant to a Native American Contract (a “Tribal Trust Property”), the satisfaction of each of the following conditions:

 

(i)    not less than three (3) days prior to the desired release date, the Borrower shall have given to the Administrative Agent a written request for the release accompanied by a release of Lien for the applicable Mortgaged Property for execution by the Administrative Agent, which release document shall be in a form appropriate in the applicable state and otherwise reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;

 

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(ii)   title to the Tribal Trust Property shall be simultaneously conveyed to the United States of America in trust for the relevant Tribe; and

 

(iii)  simultaneously with such transfer to the United States of America in trust for the relevant Tribe, the Borrower shall cause the Administrative Agent to receive for the benefit of the Secured Parties, such documentation as is provided for in the applicable Native American Contract evidencing the obligation of the relevant Tribe to pay the agreed consideration for such Tribal Trust Property as is provided for in such Native American Contract and pledged to the Administrative Agent pursuant to the Security Agreement in compliance with the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement.

 

“Tribe” means a Native American tribe, band or other form of government which is federally recognized as an Indian Tribe pursuant to a determination of the Secretary of the Interior, and as an Indian Tribal government pursuant to Sections 7701(a)(40)(A) and 7871(a) of the Internal Revenue Code, Title 26 U.S.C., and/or its agencies and instrumentalities.

 

“Type” means, with respect to a Loan, its character as a Base Rate Loan or a Eurodollar Loan.

 

“Uniform Commercial Code” or “UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as the same may from time to time be in effect in the State of New York or the Uniform Commercial Code (or similar code or statute) of another jurisdiction, to the extent it may be required to apply to any item or items of Collateral.

 

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

 

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

 

“Unrestricted” means, when referring to cash or Cash Equivalents of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, that such cash or Cash Equivalents are not Restricted (it being understood for avoidance of doubt, that, (i) Cage Cash and (ii) Manager Reserves shall not be included in any calculation of “Unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents”).

 

“Unrestricted Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Borrower designated by the board of managers of the Borrower as an Unrestricted Subsidiary pursuant to Section 6.14 subsequent to the Closing Date, in each case, unless designated as a Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to Section 6.14.

 

“Unsuitable Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 10.23(a).

 

“U.S. Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.15(b).

 

“VoteCo” means Station VoteCo LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

 

“Weighted Average Life to Maturity” means, when applied to any Indebtedness at any date, the number of years obtained by dividing: (i) the sum of the products obtained by multiplying (a) the amount of each then remaining installment, sinking fund, serial maturity or other required payments of principal, including payment at final maturity, in respect thereof, by (b) the number of years (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth) that will elapse between such date and the making of such payment; by (ii) the then outstanding principal amount of such Indebtedness.

 

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“Wells Fargo Indemnification Agreement” means that certain letter agreement relating to the “Assumption of Liability by Post-Bankruptcy Entity for Pre-Bankruptcy Deposit Accounts”, by and between Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries party thereto and others (as in effect on the Closing Date and as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time but without giving effect to any modification thereto that is adverse to the interests of the Lenders in any material respect without the prior consent of the Administrative Agent).

 

“wholly owned” means, with respect to a Subsidiary of a Person, a Subsidiary of such Person all of the outstanding Equity Interests of which (other than (x) director’s qualifying shares and (y) shares issued to foreign nationals to the extent required by applicable Law) are owned by such Person and/or by one or more wholly owned Subsidiaries of such Person.

 

“Withdrawal Period” has the meaning specified in Section 10.23(b).

 

SECTION 1.02.          Other Interpretive Provisions.  With reference to this Agreement and each other Loan Document, unless otherwise specified herein or in such other Loan Document:

 

(a)  The meanings of defined terms are equally applicable to the singular and plural forms of the defined terms.

 

(b)  (i)  The words “herein,” “hereto,” “hereof” and “hereunder” and words of similar import when used in any Loan Document shall refer to such Loan Document as a whole and not to any particular provision thereof.

 

(ii)  Article, Section, Exhibit and Schedule references are to the Loan Document in which such reference appears.

 

(iii)  The terms “include,” “includes” and “including” are each by way of example and not limitation and shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation.”

 

(iv)  The term “documents” includes any and all instruments, documents, agreements, certificates, notices, reports, financial statements and other writings, however evidenced, whether in physical or electronic form.

 

(v)  Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference herein (A) to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns and (B) to any Loan Party shall be construed to include such Loan Party as debtor and debtor-in-possession and any receiver or trustee for such Loan Party in any insolvency or liquidation proceeding.

 

(c)  In the computation of periods of time from a specified date to a later specified date, unless otherwise specified herein, 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.”

 

(d)  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.

 

(e)  The words “asset” and “property” shall be construed as having the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all rights and interests in tangible and intangible assets and properties of any kind whatsoever, whether real, personal or mixed, including cash, securities, Equity Interests, accounts and contract rights.

 

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(f)  The words  “to the knowledge of the Borrower” mean, when modifying a representation, warranty or other statement, that the fact or situation described therein is known by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower or with the exercise of reasonable due diligence under the circumstances (in accordance with the standards of what a reasonable Person in similar circumstances would have done) would have been known by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower.

 

SECTION 1.03.          Accounting Terms.  (a)  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 in a manner consistent with that used in preparing the Old OpCo Audited Financial Statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010, except as otherwise specifically prescribed herein.

 

(b)  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, for purposes of determining compliance with any financial test or financial covenant contained in this Agreement with respect to any Test Period during which any Specified Transaction occurs (or, for purposes of Sections 2.14, 2.15, 4.02(d), 6.14(a), 7.02(i)(D), 7.02(n) and 7.03(e) only, thereafter and on or prior to the date of determination), the Total Leverage Ratio and Interest Coverage Ratio shall be calculated with respect to such Test Period and such Specified Transaction on a Pro Forma Basis.

 

(c)  Notwithstanding any other provision contained herein, all terms of an accounting or financial nature used herein shall be construed, and all computations of amounts and ratios referred to herein shall be made, without giving effect to any election under Standards Codification 825-10-25 (previously referred to as Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 159) (or any other Accounting Standards Codification or Financial Accounting Standard having a similar result or effect) to value any Indebtedness or other liabilities of Holdings, the Borrower or any of their respective Subsidiaries at “fair value”, as defined therein.

 

SECTION 1.04.          Rounding.  Any financial ratios required to be maintained by the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement (or required to be satisfied in order for a specific action to be permitted under 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).

 

SECTION 1.05.          References to Agreements, Laws, etc.  Unless otherwise expressly provided herein, (a) references to Organization Documents, agreements (including the Loan Documents) and other contractual instruments shall be deemed to include all subsequent amendments, restatements, amendments and restatements, extensions, supplements, reaffirmations and other modifications thereto, but only to the extent that such amendments, restatements, amendments and restatements, extensions, supplements, reaffirmations and other modifications are permitted by any Loan Document; and (b) references to any Law shall include all statutory and regulatory provisions consolidating, amending, replacing, supplementing or interpreting such Law.

 

SECTION 1.06.          Times of Day.  Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to times of day shall be references to the time of day in New York, New York (daylight savings or standard, as applicable).

 

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required on a day which is not a Business Day, the date of such payment (other than as described in the definition of “Interest Period”) or performance shall extend to the immediately succeeding Business Day.

 

ARTICLE II

 

The Revolving Credit Commitments and Credit Extensions

 

SECTION 2.01.          The Loans.

 

(a)  The Term Loans.  Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Lender severally agrees that, on the Closing Date, it shall be deemed to hold term loans received as consideration pursuant to the Plan of Reorganization (and thereupon hold term loans) in an amount equal to (i) such Lender’s B Term Loan Distribution Amount (each, a “B Term Loan”), with each such B Term Loan to be initially maintained as a Base Rate Loan (subject to conversion pursuant to Section 2.02) (the “B Term Loan Distribution”) and (ii) such Lender’s Land Term Loan Distribution Amount (each, an “Initial Land Term Loan”), with each such Initial Land Term Loan to be initially maintained as a Base Rate Loan (subject to conversion pursuant to Section 2.02) (the “Land Term Loan Distribution”).  Term Loans repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed.  After the Closing Date, Term Loans may be Base Rate Loans or Eurodollar Loans, as further provided herein.(2)

 

(b)  The Revolving Credit Borrowings.  Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Revolving Credit Lender severally agrees to make loans to the Borrower as elected by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.02 (each such loan, a “Revolving Credit Loan”) 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 that after giving effect to any Revolving Credit Borrowing, the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Revolving Credit Loans of any Lender, plus such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations, plus such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the Outstanding Amount of all Swing Line Loans shall not exceed such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment.  Within the limits of each Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment, and subject to the other terms and conditions hereof, the Borrower 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 Eurodollar Loans, as further provided herein.

 

SECTION 2.02.          Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Loans.  (a)  Each Revolving Credit Borrowing, each conversion of B Term Loans, Land Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans from one Type to the other, and each continuation of Eurodollar Loans shall be made upon the Borrower’s irrevocable notice to the Administrative Agent, which may be given by telephone.  Each such notice must be received by the Administrative Agent (i) not later than 12:30 p.m. three (3) Business Days prior to the requested date of any Borrowing of Eurodollar Loans or continuation thereof or any conversion of Base Rate Loans to Eurodollar Loans, and (ii) not later than 12:00 noon on the requested date of any Borrowing of Base Rate Loans (other than Base Rate Loans that are Swing Line Loans, which shall be noticed not later than 1:00 p.m. on the requested date of Borrowing) or conversion of any Eurodollar Loans to Base Rate Loans.  Each telephonic notice by the 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 Borrower.  Each Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurodollar Loans shall be in a principal amount of

 

(2)  LIBOR contracts for Loans under, and as defined in, the Original Credit Agreement will terminate upon the Term Loan Distributions.  All Term Loans will be maintained as Base Rate Loans for three Business Days following the Closing Date.

 

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$1,000,000 (in the case of Revolving Credit Loans) or $5,000,000 (in the case of B Term Loans or Land Term Loans) and, in either case, a whole multiple of $1,000,000 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 $1,000,000 or a whole multiple of $500,000 in excess thereof.  Each Committed Loan Notice (whether telephonic or written) shall specify (i) whether the Borrower is requesting a Revolving Credit Borrowing, a conversion of B Term Loans, Land Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans from one Type to the other, or a continuation of Eurodollar 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 B Term Loans, Land Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans are to be converted, and (v) if applicable, the duration of the Interest Period with respect thereto.  If the Borrower fails to specify a Type of Loan in a Committed Loan Notice or fails to give a timely notice requesting a conversion or continuation, then the applicable B Term Loans, Land Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans shall be made as, or converted to, Base Rate Loans.  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 Eurodollar Loans.  If the Borrower requests a Borrowing of, conversion to, or continuation of Eurodollar Loans in any such Committed Loan Notice, but fails to specify an Interest Period, it will be deemed to have specified an Interest Period of one (1) month.

 

(b)  Following receipt of a Committed Loan Notice, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of the amount of its Pro Rata Share of the applicable Class of Loans, and if no timely notice of a conversion or continuation is provided by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Lender of the details of any automatic conversion to Base Rate Loans or continuation described in Section 2.02(a).  In the case of each 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 not later than 1:00 p.m. 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 Borrower in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent either by (i) crediting the account of the Borrower on the books of the Administrative Agent 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 Borrower; provided that if, on the date the Committed Loan Notice with respect to such Borrowing is given by the Borrower, there are Swing Line Loans or L/C Borrowings outstanding, then the proceeds of such Borrowing shall be applied, first, to the payment in full of any such L/C Borrowings, second, to the payment in full of any such Swing Line Loans, and third, to the Borrower as provided above.

 

(c)  Except as otherwise provided herein, a Eurodollar Loan may be continued or converted only on the last day of an Interest Period for such Eurodollar Loan unless the Borrower pays the amount due, if any, under Section 3.05 in connection therewith.  During the existence of (x) any Event of Default under Section 8.01(f), no Loans may be converted to or continued as Eurodollar Loans and (y) any other Event of Default, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders may require that no Loans may be converted to or continued as Eurodollar Loans.

 

(d)  The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders of the interest rate applicable to any Interest Period for Eurodollar Loans upon determination of such interest rate.  The determination of the Adjusted LIBO Rate by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error.  At any time that Base Rate Loans are outstanding, the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders of any change in the DBTCA prime rate used in determining the Base Rate promptly following the public announcement of such change.

 

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(e)  After giving effect to all Revolving Credit Borrowings, all conversions of B Term Loans, Land Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans from one Type to the other, and all continuations of B Term Loans, Land Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans as the same Type, there shall not be more than eight (8) Interest Periods in effect.

 

(f)  The failure of any Lender to make the Loan to be made by it as part of any Borrowing shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligation, if any, hereunder to make its Loan on the date of such Borrowing, but no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to make the Loan to be made by such other Lender on the date of any Borrowing.

 

SECTION 2.03.          Letters of Credit.

 

(a)  The Letter of Credit Commitment.  (i)  Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, (A) each L/C Issuer agrees, in reliance upon the agreements of the other Revolving Credit Lenders set forth in this Section 2.03, (1) from time to time on any Business Day during the period from the Closing Date until the earlier of the Letter of Credit Expiration Date and the date of the termination of the Revolving Credit Commitments, to issue Letters of Credit on a sight basis for the account of the Borrower (provided, that any Letter of Credit may be for the benefit of any Subsidiary of the Borrower; provided, further, to the extent that any such Subsidiary is not a Loan Party, such Letter of Credit shall be deemed an Investment in such Subsidiary and shall only be issued so long as it is permitted under Section 7.02) and to amend or renew Letters of Credit previously issued by it, in accordance with Section 2.03(b), and (2) to honor drafts under the Letters of Credit, and (B) the Revolving Credit Lenders severally agree to participate in Letters of Credit issued pursuant to this Section 2.03; provided that no L/C Issuer shall be obligated to make any L/C Credit Extension with respect to any Letter of Credit, and no Lender shall be obligated to participate in any Letter of Credit if as of the date of such L/C Credit Extension, (x) the Revolving Credit Exposure of any Lender would exceed such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment or (y) the Outstanding Amount of the L/C Obligations would exceed the Letter of Credit Sublimit.  Within the foregoing limits, and subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Borrower’s ability to obtain Letters of Credit shall be fully revolving, and accordingly the Borrower 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.

 

(ii)  An L/C Issuer shall be under no obligation to issue, renew, extend or amend 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 such L/C Issuer from issuing such Letter of Credit, or any Law applicable to such L/C Issuer or any directive (whether or not having the force of law) from any Governmental Authority with jurisdiction over such L/C Issuer shall prohibit, or direct that such L/C Issuer refrain from, the issuance of letters of credit generally or such Letter of Credit in particular or shall impose upon such L/C Issuer with respect to such Letter of Credit any restriction, reserve or capital requirement (for which such L/C Issuer is not otherwise compensated hereunder) not in effect on the Closing Date, or shall impose upon such L/C Issuer any unreimbursed loss, cost or expense which was not applicable on the Closing Date (for which such L/C Issuer is not otherwise compensated hereunder);

 

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issuance or last renewal, unless the Required Lenders have approved such expiry date;

 

(C)  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; or

 

(D)  the issuance of such Letter of Credit would violate any Laws binding upon such L/C Issuer.

 

(iii)  An L/C Issuer shall be under no obligation to amend any Letter of Credit if (A) such L/C Issuer would have no obligation at such time to issue such Letter of Credit in its amended form under the terms hereof, or (B) the beneficiary of such Letter of Credit does not accept the proposed amendment to such Letter of Credit.

 

(b)  Procedures for Issuance and Amendment of Letters of Credit; Auto-Renewal Letters of Credit.  (i)  Each Letter of Credit shall be issued or amended, as the case may be, upon the request of the Borrower delivered to an 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 Borrower.  Such Letter of Credit Application must be received by the relevant L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent not later than 12:30 p.m. at least two (2) Business Days prior to the proposed issuance date or date of amendment, as the case may be; or, in each case, such later date and time as the relevant L/C Issuer may agree in a particular instance in its sole discretion.  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 relevant L/C Issuer:  (a) the proposed issuance date of the requested Letter of Credit (which shall be a Business Day); (b) the amount thereof; (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; and (g) such other matters as the relevant L/C Issuer may reasonably request.  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 reasonably satisfactory to the relevant 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 relevant L/C Issuer may reasonably request.

 

(ii)  Promptly after receipt of any Letter of Credit Application, the relevant 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 Borrower and, if not, such L/C Issuer will provide the Administrative Agent with a copy thereof.  Upon receipt by the relevant L/C Issuer of confirmation from the Administrative Agent that the requested issuance or amendment is permitted in accordance with the terms hereof, then, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, such L/C Issuer shall, on the requested date, issue a Letter of Credit for the account of the Borrower or enter into the applicable amendment, as the case may be.  Immediately upon the issuance of each Letter of Credit, each Revolving Credit Lender shall be deemed to, and hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to, purchase from the relevant L/C Issuer a risk participation in such Letter of Credit in an amount equal to the product of such Lender’s Pro Rata Share times the amount of such Letter of Credit.

 

(iii)  If the Borrower so requests in any applicable Letter of Credit Application, the relevant L/C Issuer shall agree to issue a standby Letter of Credit that has automatic renewal provisions (each, an “Auto-Renewal Letter of Credit”); provided that any such Auto-Renewal Letter of Credit must permit the relevant L/C Issuer to prevent any such renewal at least once in each twelve month period

 

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(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 “Nonrenewal 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 relevant L/C Issuer, the Borrower shall not be required to make a specific request to the relevant L/C Issuer for any such renewal.  Once an Auto-Renewal Letter of Credit has been issued, the Lenders shall be deemed to have authorized (but may not require) the relevant L/C Issuer to permit the renewal of such Letter of Credit at any time to an expiry date not later than the Letter of Credit Expiration Date; provided that the relevant L/C Issuer shall not permit any such renewal if (A) the relevant L/C Issuer has determined that it would have no obligation at such time to issue such Letter of Credit in its renewed form under the terms hereof (by reason of the provisions of Section 2.03(a)(ii) or otherwise), or (B) it has received notice (which may be by telephone or in writing) on or before the day that is five (5) Business Days before the Nonrenewal Notice Date from the Administrative Agent, any Revolving Credit Lender or the Borrower that one or more of the applicable conditions specified in Section 4.02 is not then satisfied.

 

(iv)  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 relevant L/C Issuer will also deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent a true and complete copy of such Letter of Credit or amendment.

 

(c)  Drawings and Reimbursements; Funding of Participations.  (i)  Upon receipt from the beneficiary of any Letter of Credit of any notice of a drawing under such Letter of Credit, the relevant L/C Issuer shall notify promptly the Borrower and the Administrative Agent thereof.  Not later than 3:00 p.m. on the Business Day on which any payment is made by an L/C Issuer under a Letter of Credit (each such date, an “Honor Date”), the Borrower shall reimburse such L/C Issuer through the Administrative Agent in an amount equal to the amount of such drawing, together with interest on the amount so paid or disbursed by such L/C Issuer, to the extent not reimbursed on the date of such payment or disbursement.  If the Borrower fails to so reimburse such L/C Issuer by such time, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Appropriate Lender of the Honor Date, the amount of the unreimbursed drawing (the “Unreimbursed Amount”), and the amount of such Appropriate Lender’s Pro Rata Share thereof.  In such event, the Borrower 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 of the Appropriate Lenders and the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (other than the delivery of a Committed Loan Notice).  Any notice given by an 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 Appropriate Lender (including any Lender acting as an L/C Issuer) shall upon any notice pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(i) make funds available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant L/C Issuer, in Dollars, at the Administrative Agent’s Office for payments in an amount equal to its Pro Rata Share 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 Appropriate Lender that so makes funds available shall be deemed to have made a Base Rate Loan to the Borrower in such amount.  The Administrative Agent shall remit the funds so received to the relevant L/C Issuer.

 

(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 Borrower shall be deemed to have incurred from the relevant L/C Issuer an L/C

 

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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 Appropriate Lender’s payment to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant 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.

 

(iv)  Until each Appropriate Lender funds its Revolving Credit Loan or L/C Advance pursuant to this Section 2.03(c) to reimburse the relevant L/C Issuer for any amount drawn under any Letter of Credit, interest in respect of such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of such amount shall be solely for the account of the relevant L/C Issuer.

 

(v)  Each Revolving Credit Lender’s obligation to make Revolving Credit Loans or L/C Advances to reimburse an 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 relevant L/C Issuer, the 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 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 Borrower of a Committed Loan Notice).  No such making of an L/C Advance shall relieve or otherwise impair the obligation of the Borrower to reimburse the relevant L/C Issuer for the amount of any payment made by such 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 relevant 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), such 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 such L/C Issuer at a rate per annum equal to (i) from the date such payment is required through the first Business Day thereafter, the Federal Funds Rate from time to time in effect and (ii) thereafter, the rate applicable to Base Rate Loans.  A certificate of the relevant 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)  If, at any time after an 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), the Administrative Agent receives for the account of such L/C Issuer any payment in respect of the related Unreimbursed Amount or interest thereon (whether directly from the Borrower or otherwise, including proceeds of Cash Collateral applied thereto by the Administrative Agent), the Administrative Agent will distribute to such Lender its Pro Rata Share thereof (appropriately adjusted, in the case of interest payments, to reflect the period of time during which such Lender’s L/C Advance was outstanding) in the same funds as those received by the Administrative Agent.

 

(ii)  If any payment received by the Administrative Agent for the account of an L/C Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(i) is required to be returned under any of the circumstances described in Section 10.06 (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by such L/C Issuer in its discretion), each Appropriate Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such L/C Issuer its Pro Rata Share thereof on demand of the Administrative Agent, plus interest thereon from the date of such demand

 

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to the date such amount is returned by such Lender, at a rate per annum equal to (i) from the date of such demand through the first Business Day thereafter, the Federal Funds Rate from time to time in effect and (ii) thereafter, the rate applicable to Base Rate Loans.

 

(e)  Obligations Absolute.  The obligation of the Borrower to reimburse the relevant L/C Issuer for each drawing under each Letter of Credit issued by it 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 agreement or instrument relating thereto;

 

(ii)  the existence of any claim, counterclaim, setoff, defense or other right that 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 relevant 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)  any payment by the relevant 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 relevant 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;

 

(v)  any exchange, release or nonperfection of any Collateral, or any release or amendment or waiver of or consent to departure from the Guaranty or any other guarantee, for all or any of the Obligations of any Loan Party in respect of such Letter of Credit; or

 

(vi)  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 Loan Party;

 

provided that the foregoing shall not excuse any L/C Issuer from liability to the Borrower to the extent of any direct damages (as opposed to consequential, special, exemplary or indirect damages, claims in respect of which are waived by the Borrower to the extent permitted by applicable Law) suffered by the Borrower that are caused by such L/C Issuer’s gross negligence or willful misconduct when determining whether drafts and other documents presented under a Letter of Credit comply with the terms thereof.

 

(f)  Role of L/C Issuers.  Each Lender and the Borrower agree that, in paying any drawing under a Letter of Credit, the relevant L/C Issuer shall not have any responsibility to obtain any document (other than any draft, demand, certificate or other document 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 Issuers, any Agent-Related Person nor any of the respective correspondents, participants or assignees of any 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

 

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approval of the Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable; (ii) any action taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable decision); or (iii) the due execution, effectiveness, validity or enforceability of any document or instrument related to any Letter of Credit or Letter of Credit Application.  The Borrower hereby assumes all risks of the acts or omissions of any beneficiary or transferee with respect to its use of any Letter of Credit; provided that this assumption is not intended to, and shall not, preclude the Borrower’s 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 Issuers, any Agent-Related Person, nor any of the respective correspondents, participants or assignees of any L/C Issuer, shall be liable or responsible for any of the matters described in clauses (i) through (vi) of Section 2.03(e); provided that anything in such clauses to the contrary notwithstanding, the Borrower may have a claim against an L/C Issuer, and such L/C Issuer may be liable to the Borrower, to the extent, but only to the extent, of any direct, as opposed to consequential, special, indirect or exemplary, damages suffered by the Borrower which the Borrower proves were caused by such L/C Issuer’s willful misconduct or gross negligence or such L/C Issuer’s willful or grossly negligent failure to pay under any Letter of Credit after the presentation to it by the beneficiary of a draft, demand, certificate or other document strictly complying with the terms and conditions of a Letter of Credit.  In furtherance and not in limitation of the foregoing, each 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 no L/C Issuer shall 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)  Cash Collateral.  (i) If an 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 and the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 to a Revolving Credit Borrowing cannot then be met, (ii) if, as of the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, any Letter of Credit may for any reason remain outstanding and partially or wholly undrawn, (iii) if any Event of Default occurs and is continuing and the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders, as applicable, require the Borrower to Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations pursuant to Section 8.02(c) or (iv) an Event of Default set forth under Section 8.01(f) occurs and is continuing, or (v) any L/C Obligation is required to be Cash Collateralized pursuant to Section 2.16, then the Borrower shall Cash Collateralize the then Outstanding Amount (or, in the case of preceding clause (v), the portion thereof) of all L/C Obligations (in an amount equal to (x) in the case of immediately preceding clauses (i) through (iv), such Outstanding Amount determined as of the date of such Event of Default, such L/C Borrowing or the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, as the case may be, or (y) in the case of immediately preceding clause (v), the portion of such Outstanding Amount as may be required pursuant to Section 2.16, as the case may be), and shall do so not later than 2:00 p.m. on (x) in the case of the immediately preceding clauses (i) through (iii), (1) the Business Day that the Borrower receives notice thereof, if such notice is received on such day prior to 12:00 Noon or (2) if clause (1) above does not apply, the Business Day immediately following the day that the Borrower receives such notice and (y) in the case of the immediately preceding clause (iv), the Business Day on which an Event of Default set forth under Section 8.01(f) occurs or, if such day is not a Business Day, the Business Day immediately succeeding such day.  For purposes hereof, “Cash Collateralize” means to pledge and deposit with or deliver to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the relevant L/C Issuer and the Lenders, as collateral for the L/C Obligations, cash or deposit account balances (“Cash Collateral”) pursuant to documentation in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the relevant L/C Issuer (which documents are hereby consented to by the Lenders).  Derivatives of such term have corresponding meanings.  The Borrower hereby grants to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the L/C Issuers and the Lenders, a security interest in all such cash, deposit accounts and all balances therein and all proceeds of the foregoing.  Cash Collateral

 

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shall be maintained in blocked accounts at DBNY (or another commercial bank selected in compliance with Section 9.09) and may be invested in readily available Cash Equivalents.  If at any time the Administrative Agent determines that any funds held as Cash Collateral are subject to any right or claim of any Person other than the Administrative Agent (on behalf of the Secured Parties) or that the total amount of such funds is less than the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations, the Borrower will, forthwith upon demand by the Administrative Agent, pay to the Administrative Agent, as additional funds to be deposited and held in the deposit accounts at DBNY (or another commercial bank selected in compliance with Section 9.09) as aforesaid, an amount equal to the excess of (a) such aggregate Outstanding Amount over (b) the total amount of funds, if any, then held as Cash Collateral that the Administrative Agent reasonably determines to be free and clear of any such right and claim.  Upon the drawing of any Letter of Credit for which funds are on deposit as Cash Collateral, such funds shall be applied, to the extent permitted under applicable Law, to reimburse the relevant L/C Issuer.  To the extent the amount of any Cash Collateral exceeds the then Outstanding Amount of such L/C Obligations and so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the excess shall be refunded to the Borrower.

 

(h)  Letter of Credit Fees.  The Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Credit Lender in accordance with its Pro Rata Share a Letter of Credit fee for each Letter of Credit issued pursuant to this Agreement equal to the Applicable Rate times the daily maximum amount then available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit (whether or not such maximum amount is then in effect under such Letter of Credit, if such maximum amount increases periodically pursuant to the terms of such Letter of Credit); provided that the Defaulting Lender’s Pro Rata Share of a Letter of Credit fee accruing during the period prior to the time such Lender became a Defaulting Lender and unpaid at such time shall not be payable by the Borrower, so long as such Lender shall be a Defaulting Lender, except to the extent that such Letter of Credit fee shall otherwise have been due and payable by the Borrower prior to such time; provided, further, that no Defaulting Lender shall be entitled to its Pro Rata Share of a Letter of Credit fee accruing after such Lender became a Defaulting Lender, so long as such Lender shall be a Defaulting Lender.  Such Letter of Credit fees shall be computed on a quarterly basis in arrears.  Such Letter of Credit fees shall be due and payable in Dollars 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.  If there is any change in the Applicable Rate during any fiscal quarter of the Borrower, the daily maximum amount of each Letter of Credit shall be computed and multiplied by the Applicable Rate separately for each period during such fiscal quarter that such Applicable Rate was in effect.

 

(i)  Fronting Fee and Documentary and Processing Charges Payable to L/C Issuers.  The Borrower shall pay directly to each L/C Issuer for its own account a fronting fee with respect to each Letter of Credit issued by it equal to 0.25% per annum (but in no event less than $500) of the daily maximum amount then available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit (whether or not such maximum amount is then in effect under such Letter of Credit, if such maximum amount increases periodically pursuant to the terms of such Letter of Credit).  Such fronting fees shall be (x) computed on a quarterly basis in arrears and (y) 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.  In addition, the Borrower shall pay directly to each L/C Issuer for its own account the customary issuance, presentation, amendment and other processing fees, and other standard costs and charges, of such 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 within ten (10) Business Days of demand and are nonrefundable.

 

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(j)  Conflict with Letter of Credit Application.  Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary in this Agreement, in the event of any conflict between the terms hereof and the terms of any Letter of Credit Application, the terms hereof shall control.

 

(k)  Addition of an L/C Issuer.  A Revolving Credit Lender may become an additional L/C Issuer hereunder pursuant to a written agreement among the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and such Revolving Credit Lender.  The Administrative Agent shall notify the Revolving Credit Lenders of any such additional L/C Issuer.

 

SECTION 2.04.                 Swing Line Loans.

 

(a)  The Swing Line Loans.  Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Swing Line Lender agrees to make loans (each such loan, a “Swing Line Loan”) to the 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 Pro Rata Share 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 that after giving effect to any Swing Line Loan, the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Revolving Credit Loans of any Lender, plus such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations, plus such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the Outstanding Amount of all Swing Line Loans shall not exceed such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment then in effect; provided, further, that, the Borrower shall not use the proceeds of any Swing Line Loan to refinance any outstanding Swing Line Loan.  Within the foregoing limits, and subject to the other terms and conditions hereof, the Borrower may borrow under this Section 2.04, prepay under Section 2.05, and reborrow under this Section 2.04.  Each Swing Line Loan shall be a Base Rate Loan.  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 Lender’s Pro Rata Share times the amount of such Swing Line Loan.

 

(b)  Borrowing Procedures.  Each Swing Line Borrowing shall be made upon the Borrower’s irrevocable notice to the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent, which may be given by telephone.  Each such notice must be received by the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent not later than 1:00 p.m. on the requested borrowing date, and shall specify (i) the amount to be borrowed, which shall be a minimum of $100,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof, 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 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 Business Day preceding 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 proviso to the first sentence of Section 2.04(a), or (B) that one or more of the applicable conditions specified in Section 4.02 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 Borrower.

 

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(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 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 Pro Rata Share 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 aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments and the conditions set forth in Section 4.02.  The Swing Line Lender shall furnish the 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 Pro Rata Share of the amount specified in such Committed Loan Notice available to the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds 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 deemed to have made a Base Rate Loan to the 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 (i) from the date such payment is required through the first Business Day thereafter, the Federal Funds Rate from time to time in effect and (ii) thereafter, the rate applicable to Base Rate Loans.  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, the 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 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 Borrower 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 Lender its Pro Rata Share of such payment (appropriately adjusted, in the case of interest payments, to reflect the

 

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period of time during which such Lender’s risk participation was funded) 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 10.06 (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 Pro Rata Share 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 (i) from the date of such demand through the first Business Day thereafter, the Federal Funds Rate from time to time in effect and (ii) thereafter, the rate applicable to Base Rate Loans.  The Administrative Agent will make such demand upon the request of the Swing Line Lender.

 

(e)  Interest for Account of Swing Line Lender.  The Swing Line Lender shall be responsible for invoicing the 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 Lender’s Pro Rata Share of any Swing Line Loan, interest in respect of such Pro Rata Share shall be solely for the account of the Swing Line Lender.

 

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

 

SECTION 2.05.                 Prepayments.

 

(a)   Optional.  (i) Subject to the provisions of Section 2.12(h), the Borrower may, upon notice to the Administrative Agent, 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 (1) such notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 12:30 p.m. (A) three (3) Business Days prior to any date of prepayment of Eurodollar Loans and (B) on the date of prepayment of Base Rate Loans; (2) any prepayment of Eurodollar Loans shall be in a principal amount of $1,000,000 (in the case of Revolving Credit Loans) or $2,000,000 (in the case of Term Loans) or, in either case, a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof; (3) any prepayment of Base Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $1,000,000 or a whole multiple of $500,000 in excess thereof or, in each case, if less, the entire principal amount thereof then outstanding and (4) each prepayment of Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05(a)(i) shall be applied to such Class or Classes of Term Loans as the Borrower shall designate in such notice.  Each such notice shall specify the date and amount of such prepayment and the Class(es) and Type(s) of Loans to be prepaid.   The Administrative Agent will promptly notify each Appropriate Lender of its receipt of each such notice, and of the amount of such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of such prepayment.  If such notice 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.  Any prepayment of a Eurodollar Loan shall be accompanied by all accrued interest thereon, together with any additional amounts required pursuant to Section 3.05.  Each prepayment of the Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05(a) shall be paid to the Appropriate Lenders in accordance with their respective Pro Rata Shares.

 

(ii)  The Borrower may, upon notice to the Swing Line Lender (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 (1) such notice must be received by the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent not later than 1:00 p.m. on the date of the prepayment, and (2) any such prepayment shall be in a minimum principal amount of $100,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof or, if less, the entire principal amount thereof then outstanding.  Each such notice shall specify the date and

 

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amount of such prepayment.  If such notice 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.

 

(iii)  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Borrower may rescind any notice of prepayment under Section 2.05(a)(i) or 2.05(a)(ii) if such prepayment would have resulted from a refinancing in full of all of the Facilities, which refinancing shall not be consummated or shall otherwise be delayed.

 

(b)  Mandatory.  (i)  No later than the earlier of (x) 90 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower, commencing with the fiscal year ending on December 31, 2011, and (y) the date on which the financial statements with respect to such fiscal year have been delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) and the related Compliance Certificate has been delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(b), the Borrower shall (subject to Section 2.12(h) below) cause outstanding Term Loans to be prepaid in an amount equal to (A) the Applicable ECF Percentage of Excess Cash Flow, if any, for such fiscal year minus (B) the aggregate amount of voluntary prepayments of Term Loans made pursuant to Section 2.05(a) during such fiscal year; provided, that if on the date of any mandatory prepayment required by this Section 2.05(b)(i) the Borrower maintains Manager Reserves, the amount of any such mandatory prepayment otherwise required by this Section 2.05(b)(i) shall be reduced to the extent necessary such that, after giving effect thereto, the Liquidity as of such date of prepayment shall not be less than Manager Reserves on such date; provided however, that if any prepayment is not required to be made by operation of the preceding proviso and at any time thereafter the Liquidity shall exceed the amount of the Manager Reserves, the Borrower shall (subject to Section 2.12(h) below) cause outstanding Term Loans to be prepaid in an amount equal to lesser of (x) such excess at such time and (y) the remainder of (i) the aggregate amount of mandatory prepayments under this Section 2.05(b)(i) reduced by operation of the preceding proviso less (ii) the aggregate amount of mandatory prepayments made pursuant to this further proviso.

 

(ii)  (A)  If (x) the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary Disposes of any property or assets (other than (I) any Disposition of any property or assets permitted by Section 7.05(a), (b), (c), (d) (to the extent constituting a Disposition by any Restricted Subsidiary to a Loan Party), (e), (g), (h), (i), (l), (n) or (o) and (II) any Disposition of any Land Term Loan Property) or (y) any Casualty Event occurs, which in the aggregate results in the realization or receipt by the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary of Net Cash Proceeds, the Borrower shall (subject to Section 2.12(h) below) cause the Term Loans to be prepaid on or prior to the date which is ten (10) Business Days after the date of the realization or receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds in an amount equal to 100% of all Net Cash Proceeds received; provided that, no such prepayment shall be required pursuant to this Section 2.05(b)(ii)(A) with respect to such portion of such Net Cash Proceeds that the Borrower shall have, within 5 Business Days of such date of realization or receipt, given written notice to the Administrative Agent of its intent to reinvest or use such Net Cash Proceeds in accordance with Section 2.05(b)(ii)(B) or (C), as the case may be (which notice may only be provided if no Default has occurred and is then continuing); provided, that no such reinvestment right shall be available with respect to any Net Cash Proceeds received by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in respect of any Disposition of any Equity Interests of any Unrestricted Subsidiary.  If the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary receives any distributions pursuant to Section 6.19(c), the Borrower shall (subject to Section 2.12(h) below) cause the Term Loans to be prepaid on or prior to the date which is ten (10) Business Days after the sale giving rise to such distribution in an amount equal to such distribution.

 

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Section 2.05(b)(ii)(A)), the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may reinvest all or any portion of such Net Cash Proceeds in assets useful for its business within twelve (12) months following receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds; provided that (i) so long as a Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries (x) shall not be permitted to make any such reinvestments (other than pursuant to a legally binding commitment that the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary entered into at a time when no Default is continuing) and (y) shall not be required to apply such Net Cash Proceeds which have been previously applied to prepay Revolving Credit Loans to the prepayment of Term Loans until such time as the relevant investment period has expired and no Default is continuing and (ii) if any Net Cash Proceeds are no longer intended to be or cannot be so reinvested at any time after delivery of a notice of reinvestment election or if any Net Cash Proceeds are not reinvested by the expiration of the relevant time period set forth above, an amount equal to any such Net Cash Proceeds shall be applied (subject to Section 2.12(h) below) to the prepayment of the Term Loans as set forth in this Section 2.05(b)(ii) within five (5) Business Days after the Borrower reasonably determines that such Net Cash Proceeds are no longer intended to be or cannot be so reinvested or the expiration of such time period.

 

(C)  With respect to any Net Cash Proceeds realized or received with respect to any Casualty Event, the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use all or any portion of such Net Cash Proceeds to replace or restore any properties or assets in respect of which such Net Cash Proceeds were paid within (x) fifteen (15) months following receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds or (y) if the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary enters into a legally binding commitment to use such Net Cash Proceeds before the expiration of the fifteen (15) month period referred to in preceding clause (x), within one hundred and eighty (180) days of the end of such 15-month period; provided that (i) the amount of such Net Cash Proceeds, together with other cash available to the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries and permitted to be spent by them on Capital Expenditures during the relevant period pursuant to Section 7.16, equals at least 100% of the estimated cost of replacement or restoration of the properties or assets in respect of which such Net Cash Proceeds were paid as determined by the Borrower and as supported by such estimates or bids from contractors or subcontractors or such other supporting information as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request, (ii) the Borrower has delivered to the Administrative Agent a certificate of a Responsible Officer on or prior to the date of the required prepayment stating that such Net Cash Proceeds shall be used to replace or restore any properties or assets in respect of which such Net Cash Proceeds were paid within (x) fifteen (15) months following receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds or (y) if the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary enters into a legally binding commitment to reinvest such Net Cash Proceeds before the expiration of the fifteen (15) month period referred to in the preceding clause (x), within one hundred and eighty (180) days of the end of such 15-month period (which certificate shall set forth the estimates of the Net Cash Proceeds to be so expended) and also certifying the Borrower’s determination as required by preceding clause (i) and certifying the sufficiency of business interruption insurance as required by succeeding clause (iii), (iii) the Borrower has delivered to the Administrative Agent such evidence as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent establishing that the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries have sufficient business interruption insurance and that the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries will receive payments thereunder in such amounts and at such times as are necessary, together with other funds the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries expect to be reasonably available to them, to satisfy all obligations and expenses of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries (including, without limitation, all debt service requirements, including pursuant to this Agreement), without any delay or extension thereof, for the period from the date of the respective casualty, condemnation or other event giving rise to the Casualty Event and continuing through the completion of the replacement or

 

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restoration of respective properties or assets, and (iv) the entire amount of the Net Cash Proceeds of such Casualty Event shall be deposited with the Administrative Agent pursuant to cash collateral arrangements reasonably satisfactory to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent whereupon such Net Cash Proceeds shall be disbursed at the direction of the Borrower from time to time as needed to pay actual costs incurred by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with the replacement or restoration of the respective properties or assets (pursuant to such certification requirements as may be reasonably established by the Administrative Agent), it being understood and agreed that at any time while an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Required Lenders may direct the Administrative Agent (in which case the Administrative Agent shall, and is hereby authorized by the Borrower to, follow said directions) to apply any or all proceeds then on deposit pursuant to such cash collateral arrangements to the repayment of Obligations hereunder; provided further that (i) the aggregate amount applied to replace or rebuild assets of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than assets consisting of casino space and assets therein) shall not exceed $37,500,000 with respect to any Casualty Event, (ii) so long as a Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (x) the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall not be permitted to so use any such Net Cash Proceeds (other than pursuant to a legally binding commitment that the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary entered into at a time when no Default is continuing) and (y) the Borrower shall not be required to apply such Net Cash Proceeds which have been previously applied to prepay Revolving Credit Loans to the prepayment of Term Loans until such time as the relevant use period has expired and no Default is continuing and (iii) if any Net Cash Proceeds are no longer intended to be or cannot be so used at any time after delivery of a notice of election to replace or restore or if any Net Cash Proceeds are not so used by the expiration of the relevant time periods set forth above, an amount equal to any such Net Cash Proceeds shall be applied (subject to Section 2.12(h) below) to the prepayment of the Term Loans as set forth in this Section 2.05 within five (5) Business Days after the Borrower reasonably determines that such Net Cash Proceeds are no longer intended to be or cannot be so used or the expiration of such time periods.

 

(D)  If the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary Disposes of any Land Term Loan Property, the Borrower shall (subject to Section 2.12(h) below) cause the Term Loans to be prepaid concurrently with the release of the applicable Release Property in an amount equal to 100% of the Release Payment.

 

(iii)  If the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary incurs or issues any Indebtedness not expressly permitted to be incurred or issued pursuant to Section 7.03, the Borrower shall (subject to Section 2.12(h) below) cause the Term Loans to be prepaid in an amount equal to 100% of all Net Cash Proceeds received therefrom on or prior to the date which is five (5) Business Days after the receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds.

 

(iv)  (A)  If Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary receives any cash proceeds from any capital contribution or any sale or issuance of its Equity Interests (including any Permitted Equity Issuance pursuant to Section 8.05 but excluding (i) issuances of Equity Interests to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary by any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower, (ii) any capital contribution to any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower made by the Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary, and (iii) any capital contribution by Parent to Holdings, or any sale or issuance of Qualified Equity Interests by Holdings to Parent, the Net Cash Proceeds of which are promptly used (x) by Holdings to make a capital contribution to the Borrower and (y) by the Borrower (after delivery of written notice to the Administrative Agent of such intention) to fund a prepayment of Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(iv)(B) below or to make an Investment, prepayment of Junior Financing or Capital Expenditure in reliance on Section 7.02(n), 7.13(a) or 7.16(c)), the Borrower shall (subject to Section 2.12(h) below) cause the Term Loans to be prepaid in an amount equal to 100% of all Net Cash Proceeds received

 

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therefrom on or prior to the date which is five (5) Business Days after the receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds.

 

(B)  If Parent or any other direct or indirect parent of Holdings receives cash proceeds from any capital contribution or any sale or issuance of its Equity Interests (excluding (i) any cash proceeds to the extent Holdings receives such cash proceeds from any capital contribution or any sale or issuance of its Equity Interests, and (ii) any cash proceeds (other than cash proceeds from a Qualified IPO of any direct or indirect parent of Holdings) used by Parent or any of its Subsidiaries (after delivery of written notice to the Administrative Agent by Holdings of such intention) to make a Permitted Acquisition, Investment or Capital Expenditure, in each case to the extent permitted by (and as defined in) the PropCo Credit Agreement), the Borrower shall (subject to Section 2.12(h) below) cause the Term Loans to be prepaid in an amount equal to 20% of all Net Cash Proceeds received therefrom on or prior to the date which is five (5) Business Days after the receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds; provided that, with respect to any such Net Cash Proceeds received in connection with a Qualified IPO of any direct or indirect parent of Holdings, (x) no such prepayment shall be required pursuant to this Section 2.05(b)(iv)(B) if (I) no Default has occurred and is continuing and (II) within 5 Business Days of such date of receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds, the Borrower shall have given written notice to the Administrative Agent of its intent to use such Net Cash Proceeds in accordance with the immediately succeeding clause (y), and (y) the Borrower shall have used such Net Cash Proceeds to make a Permitted Acquisition, Investment or Capital Expenditure, in each case to the extent permitted by this Agreement, within twelve (12) months following receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds; provided  further that (A) pending application pursuant to preceding clause (y), the entire amount of the Net Cash Proceeds otherwise required to prepay the Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05(b)(iv)(B) shall be deposited with the Administrative Agent pursuant to cash collateral arrangements reasonably satisfactory to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, subject to release for the applicable permitted purpose pursuant to such certification requirements as may be reasonably established by the Administrative Agent (it being understood and agreed that at any time while an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Required Lenders may direct the Administrative Agent (in which case the Administrative Agent shall, and is hereby authorized by the Borrower to, follow said directions) to apply any or all proceeds then on deposit in such cash collateral account to the repayment of Obligations hereunder in accordance with Section 8.04) and (B) any portion of such Net Cash Proceeds not applied as provided in (and within the time period specified by) preceding clause (y) shall (subject to Section 2.12(h) below) be applied to prepay Term Loans as otherwise required above in this Section 2.05(b)(iv)(B) (without regard to the immediately preceding proviso).

 

(v)  If Holdings, any of its Subsidiaries or any joint venture of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries receives any Project Reimbursement, the Borrower shall cause Term Loans to be prepaid in an amount equal to 100% (or in the case of a joint venture, such other percentage as to which Holdings or its Subsidiaries are entitled pursuant to the applicable joint venture contractual arrangements as in effect on the Closing Date) of all Net Cash Proceeds received by Holdings, such Subsidiary or such joint venture in respect of such Project Reimbursement on or prior to the date which is five (5) Business Days after the date of the receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds.

 

(vi)  If for any reason the aggregate Revolving Credit Exposures at any time exceeds the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments then in effect, the Borrower shall promptly prepay or cause to be promptly prepaid Revolving Credit Loans and Swing Line Loans and/or Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations in an aggregate amount equal to such excess; provided that the Borrower shall not be required to Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations pursuant to this Section 2.05(b)(vi) unless after the prepayment

 

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in full of the Revolving Credit Loans and Swing Line Loans, the aggregate Revolving Credit Exposures exceed the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments then in effect.

 

(vii)  If at any time Unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries exceeds $7,500,000 for any period of five consecutive Business Days, the Borrower shall immediately repay outstanding Revolving Credit Loans and/or Swing Line Loans on the last Business Day of such period (without a corresponding reduction in the Revolving Credit Commitments) in an amount equal to such excess.

 

(viii)  The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent in writing of any mandatory prepayment and/or commitment reduction required to be made pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv) or (v) (as modified, if applicable, by Section 2.12(h)) at least three (3) Business Days prior to the date of such prepayment and/or commitment reduction.  Each such notice shall specify the date of such prepayment and/or commitment reduction and provide a reasonably detailed calculation of the amount of such prepayment and/or commitment reduction.  The Administrative Agent will promptly notify each Appropriate Lender of the contents of the Borrower’s notice and of such Appropriate Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the prepayment and/or commitment reduction.

 

(ix)  Each prepayment of Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05(b) (other than pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(ii)(D)) shall be applied pro  rata to each Class of Term Loans (based upon the TL Repayment Percentages of the various Classes of Term Loans at such time). Each prepayment of Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(ii)(D) shall be applied (I) first, to the principal of outstanding Land Term Loans and (II) second, after the repayment in full of all then outstanding Land Term Loans, to the principal of outstanding B Term Loans. Each prepayment of Term Loans, Revolving Credit Loans and Swing Line Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05(b) shall be paid to the Appropriate Lenders entitled thereto in accordance with their respective Pro Rata Shares.

 

(c)  Funding Losses, Etc.  All prepayments under this Section 2.05 shall be made together with, in the case of any such prepayment of a Eurodollar Loan on a date other than the last day of an Interest Period thereof, any amounts owing in respect of such Eurodollar Loan pursuant to Section 3.05.  Notwithstanding any of the other provisions of this Section 2.05, so long as no Default shall have occurred and be continuing, if any prepayment of Eurodollar Loans is required to be made under Section 2.05(b), other than on the last day of the Interest Period thereof, in lieu of making any payment pursuant to Section 2.05(b) in respect of any such Eurodollar Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period thereof, the Borrower may, in its sole discretion, deposit the amount of any such prepayment otherwise required to be made thereunder into a Cash Collateral Account until the last day of such Interest Period, at which time the Administrative Agent shall be authorized (without any further action by or notice to or from the Borrower or any other Loan Party) to apply such amount to the prepayment of such Loans in accordance with Section 2.05(b).  Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Default, the Administrative Agent shall also be authorized (without any further action by or notice to or from the Borrower or any other Loan Party) to apply such amount to the prepayment of the outstanding Loans and Cash Collateralization of Letters of Credit in accordance with the applicable provisions of Section 2.05(b).

 

SECTION 2.06.                 Termination or Reduction of Revolving Credit Commitments.

 

(a)  Optional.  The Borrower may, upon written notice to the Administrative Agent, terminate the unused Revolving Credit Commitments, or from time to time permanently reduce the unused Revolving Credit Commitments; provided that (i) any such notice shall be received by the Administrative Agent three (3) Business Days prior to the date of termination or reduction, (ii) any such partial reduction shall be in an aggregate amount of $1,000,000 or any whole multiple of $1,000,000 in

 

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excess thereof and (iii) if, after giving effect to any reduction of the Revolving Credit Commitments, the Letter of Credit Sublimit or the Swing Line Sublimit exceeds the amount of the Revolving Credit Facility, such sublimit shall be automatically reduced by the amount of such excess.  The amount of any Revolving Credit Commitment reduction shall not be applied to the Letter of Credit Sublimit or the Swing Line Sublimit unless otherwise specified by the Borrower.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrower may rescind or postpone any notice of termination of the Revolving Credit Commitments if such termination would have resulted from a refinancing of the Revolving Credit Facility, which refinancing shall not be consummated or otherwise shall be delayed.

 

(b)  Mandatory Commitment Reduction.  Unless Majority Revolving Lenders otherwise agree, if any Specified Default exists at the time any mandatory prepayment or repayment of any Class of Term Loans is otherwise required to be made pursuant to Section 2.05(b) or 2.07(a), then the Revolving Credit Commitments shall be permanently reduced by the amount of the mandatory prepayment or repayment of such Class of Term Loans otherwise required to be applied to the prepayment or repayment of such Class of Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.05(b) or 2.07(a) in the absence of Section 2.12(h) and this Section 2.06(b).

 

(c)  Application of Revolving Credit Commitment Reductions; Payment of Fees.  The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Revolving Credit Lenders of any termination or reduction of unused portions of the Letter of Credit Sublimit, the Swing Line Sublimit or the Revolving Credit Commitments under this Section 2.06.  Upon any reduction of Revolving Credit Commitments, the Revolving Credit Commitment of each Revolving Credit Lender shall be reduced by such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the amount by which such Revolving Credit Commitments are reduced (other than the termination of the Revolving Credit Commitment of any Revolving Credit Lender as provided in Section 3.07).  All commitment fees accrued until the effective date of any termination or reduction of the Revolving Credit Commitments shall be paid on the effective date of such termination or reduction.

 

SECTION 2.07.                 Repayment of Loans.

 

(a)  Term Loans.  The Borrower shall (subject to Section 2.12(h)) repay to the Administrative Agent for the ratable account of (i) the B Term Loan Lenders on the Maturity Date, the aggregate principal amount of all B Term Loans outstanding on such date and (ii) the Land Term Loan Lenders on the Maturity Date, the aggregate principal amount of all Land Term Loans outstanding on such date.

 

(b)  Revolving Credit Loans.  The Borrower shall repay to the Administrative Agent for the ratable account of the Revolving Credit Lenders on the Maturity Date the aggregate principal amount of all Revolving Credit Loans outstanding on such date.

 

(c)  Swing Line Loans.  The Borrower shall repay each Swing Line Loan on the earlier to occur of (i) the date ten (10) Business Days after such Loan is made and (ii) the Maturity Date.

 

SECTION 2.08.                 Interest.  (a)  Subject to the provisions of Section 2.08(b), (i) each Eurodollar Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof for each Interest Period at a rate per annum equal to the Adjusted LIBO Rate for such Interest Period plus the Applicable Rate; (ii) each Base Rate 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; and (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 Base Rate Loans.

 

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(b)  The Borrower shall pay interest on (i) any past due amount of principal of any Loan due hereunder (and, on and after the occurrence of an Event of Default notified to the Borrower by the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders), the principal amount of all outstanding Loans and L/C Borrowings not then overdue) at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate and (ii) any past due amount of interest, fees or other amounts (other than amounts subject to clause (i) above) at a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate plus the Applicable Rate for Base Rate Loans plus two percent (2.0%), in each case, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.  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)  Until the day that is three (3) Business Days after the Closing Date, each B Term Loan and each Land Term Loan shall be a Base Rate Loan.

 

(e)  All computations of interest hereunder shall be made in accordance with Section 2.10.

 

(f) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.08 (but subject to the immediately succeeding proviso), for the period from and including the Closing Date to but excluding the date falling on the fifth anniversary of the Closing Date, any and all accrued interest payable on account of the Land Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.08(a) shall be satisfied by capitalizing all such accrued interest on the applicable Interest Payment Date as additional principal of the Land Term Loans (i.e., by adding the amount thereof on such date to the then unpaid principal amount of the Land Term Loans (and thereby increasing the principal amount of Land Term Loans outstanding hereunder)) (such capitalized amount, the “PIK Interest”), provided, however, that, the Borrower may elect (a “Cash Election”) that, from and including the Cash Election Effective Date to the Cash Election Termination Date, in each case with respect to such Cash Election, any and all accrued interest payable on account of the Land Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.08(a) shall be payable in cash. Each Cash Election shall apply to all outstanding Land Term Loans. Unless the context otherwise requires, for all purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, references to “principal amount” of Land Term Loans refers to the face amount of the Land Term Loans plus any PIK Interest added to the principal amount of the Land Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.08(f).

 

The Borrower shall make a Cash Election by providing at least ten Business Days’ written notice to the Administrative Agent prior to the Cash Election Effective Date for such Cash Election, which notice shall specify the effective date for such Cash Election (the “Cash Election Effective Date”). A Cash Election shall remain in effect until the earlier of (A) the date that is three months following the Cash Election Effective Date of such Cash Election and (B) the day immediately preceding the fifth anniversary of the Closing Date (the “Cash Election Termination Date”). No Cash Election once given by the Borrower may be revoked. The Administrative Agent shall provide written notice of each Cash Election to all the Land Term Loan Lenders. In the absence of any Cash Election, all interest on the Land Term Loans shall be capitalized in accordance with the immediately preceding paragraph (without giving effect to the proviso therein).

 

Any PIK Interest so added to the principal amount of the Land Term Loans shall bear interest as provided in this Section 2.08 from the date on which such PIK Interest has been so added. The obligation of the Borrower to pay PIK Interest shall be automatically evidenced by this Agreement or, if 

 

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applicable, any Land Term Note. Upon the request of the Administrative Agent or any Land Term Loan Lender, the Borrower shall confirm in writing the principal amount of the Land Term Loans, including all PIK Interest added to the principal amount thereof pursuant to this Section 2.08(f).

 

All interest accruing on the Land Term Loans from and after the fifth anniversary of the Closing Date, shall be payable in cash.

 

SECTION 2.09.                 Fees.  In addition to certain fees described in Sections 2.03(h) and (i):

 

(a)  Commitment Fee.  The Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Credit Lender in accordance with its Pro Rata Share, a commitment fee equal to the Applicable Rate with respect to commitment fees times the actual daily Revolving Credit Availability; provided that any commitment fee accrued with respect to the Revolving Credit Commitment of a Defaulting Lender during the period prior to the time such Lender became a Defaulting Lender and unpaid at such time shall not be payable by the Borrower so long as such Lender shall be a Defaulting Lender except to the extent that such commitment fee shall otherwise have been due and payable by the Borrower prior to such time; provided, further, that no commitment fee shall accrue on the Revolving Credit Commitment of a Defaulting Lender so long as such Lender shall be a Defaulting Lender.  The commitment fee shall accrue at all times from the Closing Date until the Maturity Date, including at any time during which one or more of the conditions in Article 4 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 Closing Date, and on the Maturity Date (or, if earlier, upon the termination of the Aggregate Commitments).  The commitment fee shall be calculated quarterly in arrears, and if there is any change in the Applicable Rate during any fiscal quarter of the Borrower, the actual daily amount shall be computed and multiplied by the Applicable Rate separately for each period during such fiscal quarter that such Applicable Rate was in effect.

 

(b)  Other Fees.  The Borrower shall pay to the Agents the fees set forth in the Fee Letter and such other 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 (except as expressly agreed between the Borrower and the applicable Agent).

 

SECTION 2.10.                 Computation of Interest and Fees.  All computations of interest for Base Rate Loans when the Base Rate is determined by the Prime Rate shall be made on the basis of a year of three hundred and sixty-five (365) days and actual days elapsed.  All other computations of fees and interest shall be made on the basis of a three hundred and sixty (360) day year and actual days elapsed.  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 (1) 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.

 

SECTION 2.11.                 Evidence of Indebtedness.  (a)  The Credit Extensions made by each Lender shall be evidenced by one or more accounts or records maintained by such Lender and evidenced by one or more entries in the Register maintained by the Administrative Agent, acting solely for purposes of Treasury Regulation Section 5f.103-1(c), as agent for the Borrower, in each case in the ordinary course of business.  The accounts or records maintained by the Administrative Agent and each Lender shall be prima facie evidence absent manifest error of the amount of the Credit Extensions made by the Lenders to the Borrower 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 Borrower hereunder to pay any amount 

 

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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 Borrower shall execute and deliver to such Lender (through the Administrative Agent) a Note or Notes payable to such Lender, which shall evidence such Lender’s Loans of the applicable Class or Classes 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 and, in the case of the Administrative Agent, entries in the Register, 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.

 

(c)  Entries made in good faith by the Administrative Agent in the Register pursuant to Sections 2.11(a) and (b), and by each Lender in its account or accounts pursuant to Sections 2.11(a) and (b), shall be prima facie evidence of the amount of principal and interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the Borrower to, in the case of the Register, each Lender and, in the case of such account or accounts, such Lender, under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, absent manifest error; provided that the failure of the Administrative Agent or such Lender to make an entry, or any finding that an entry is incorrect, in the Register or such account or accounts shall not limit or otherwise affect the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.

 

SECTION 2.12.                 Payments Generally.  (a)  All payments to be made by the Borrower shall be made without condition or deduction for any counterclaim, defense, recoupment or setoff.  All payments by the Borrower hereunder shall be made to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the respective Lenders to which such payment is owed, at the applicable 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 Pro Rata Share (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 in each case be deemed received on the next succeeding Business Day and any applicable interest or fee shall continue to accrue.

 

(b)  If any payment to be made by the Borrower shall come due on a day other than a Business Day, payment shall be made on the next following Business Day, and such extension of time shall be reflected in computing interest or fees, as the case may be; provided that, if such extension would cause payment of interest on or principal of Eurodollar Loans to be made in the next succeeding calendar month, such payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day.

 

(c)  Unless the Borrower or any Lender has notified the Administrative Agent, prior to the date any payment is required to be made by it to the Administrative Agent hereunder, that the Borrower or such Lender, as the case may be, will not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower or such Lender, as the case may be, has timely made such payment and may (but shall not be so required to), in reliance thereon, make available a corresponding amount to the Person entitled thereto.  If and to the extent that such payment was not in fact made to the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds, then:

 

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(i)  if the Borrower failed to make such payment, each Lender shall forthwith on demand repay to the Administrative Agent the portion of such assumed payment that was made available to such Lender in immediately available funds, together with interest thereon in respect of each day from and including the date such amount was made available by the Administrative Agent to such Lender to the date such amount is repaid to the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds at the Federal Funds Rate from time to time in effect; and

 

(ii)  if any Lender failed to make such payment, such Lender shall forthwith on demand pay to the Administrative Agent the amount thereof in immediately available funds, together with interest thereon for the period from the date such amount was made available by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower to the date such amount is recovered by the Administrative Agent (the “Compensation Period”) at a rate per annum equal to (i) from the date such amount was made available through the first Business Day thereafter, the Federal Funds Rate from time to time in effect and (ii) thereafter, the rate applicable to the applicable Loan made to the Borrower.  When such Lender makes payment to the Administrative Agent (together with all accrued interest thereon), then such payment amount (excluding the amount of any interest which may have accrued and been paid in respect of such late payment) shall constitute such Lender’s Loan included in the applicable Borrowing.  If such Lender does not pay such amount forthwith upon the Administrative Agent’s demand therefor, the Administrative Agent may make a demand therefor upon the Borrower, and the Borrower shall pay such amount to the Administrative Agent, together with interest thereon for the Compensation Period at a rate per annum equal to the rate of interest applicable to the applicable Borrowing.  Nothing herein shall be deemed to relieve any Lender from its obligation to fulfill its Revolving Credit Commitment or to prejudice any rights which the Administrative Agent or the Borrower may have against any Lender as a result of any default by such Lender hereunder.

 

A notice of the Administrative Agent to any Lender or the Borrower with respect to any amount owing under this Section 2.12(c) shall be conclusive, absent manifest error.

 

(d)  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 2, and such funds are not made available to the Borrower by the Administrative Agent because the conditions to the applicable Credit Extension set forth in Article 4 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.

 

(e)  The obligations of the Lenders hereunder to make Loans and to fund participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans are several and not joint.  The failure of any Lender to make any Loan or to fund any such participation 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 or purchase its participation.

 

(f)  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.

 

(g)  Whenever any payment received by the Administrative Agent under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents is insufficient to pay in full all amounts due and payable to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders under or in respect of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents on any date, such payment shall be distributed by the Administrative Agent and applied by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders in the order of priority set forth in Section 8.04.  If the Administrative Agent receives funds for application to the Obligations of the Loan Parties under or 

 

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in respect of the Loan Documents under circumstances for which the Loan Documents do not specify the manner in which such funds are to be applied, the Administrative Agent may, but shall not be obligated to, elect to distribute such funds to each of the Lenders in accordance with such Lender’s pro rata share of the sum of (a) the Outstanding Amount of all Loans outstanding at such time and (b) the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations outstanding at such time, in repayment or prepayment of such of the outstanding Loans or other Obligations then owing to such Lender.

 

(h)  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in this Agreement or any other Loan Document, unless Majority Revolving Lenders otherwise agree, (x) if any Revolving Credit Lender has any Revolving Credit Exposure or any other Revolving Obligations then outstanding and any Default then exists, no voluntary prepayment of any Term Loans shall be permitted pursuant to Section 2.05(a) and (y) if any Default exists at the time any mandatory prepayment or repayment of any Term Loans is otherwise required to be made pursuant to Section 2.05(b) or Section 2.07(a), then (i) Swing Line Loans, and if no Swing Line Loans are or remain outstanding, Revolving Credit Loans and, if no Swing Line Loans or Revolving Credit Loans are or remain outstanding, L/C Obligations, shall first be repaid and/or Cash Collateralized, as applicable, in the amount otherwise required to be applied to the prepayment or repayment of any Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.05(b) or 2.07(a) in the absence of this Section 2.12(h), (ii) if a Specified Default has occurred and is continuing, the Revolving Credit Commitments shall be reduced as provided in Section 2.06(b) by the amount of the mandatory prepayment or repayment of any Term Loans otherwise required to be applied to the prepayment or repayment of any Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.05(b) or 2.07(a) in the absence of this Section 2.12(h), and (iii) after application pursuant to preceding clause (i), any excess portion of such mandatory prepayment or repayment of any Term Loans not so applied shall be applied to the prepayment or repayment of the applicable Term Loans as otherwise required by Section 2.05(b) or 2.07(a) in the absence of this Section 2.12(h).  If any Lender collects or receives any amounts received on account of the Obligations to which it is not entitled as a result of the application of this Section 2.12(h), such Lender shall hold the same in trust for the Secured Parties and shall forthwith deliver the same to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the applicable Secured Parties, to be applied in accordance with this Section 2.12(h) or, if then applicable, Section 8.04(a).  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, this Section 2.12(h) is intended to constitute and shall be deemed to constitute a “subordination agreement” within the meaning of Section 510(a) of the Bankruptcy Code and is intended to be and shall be interpreted to be enforceable to the maximum extent permitted pursuant to applicable non-bankruptcy law.

 

SECTION 2.13.                 Sharing of Payments.  If, other than as expressly provided elsewhere herein, any Lender shall obtain on account of the Loans of any Class made by it, or the participations in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans held by it, any payment (whether voluntary, involuntary, through the exercise of any right of setoff, or otherwise) in excess of its ratable share (or other share contemplated hereunder) thereof, such Lender shall immediately (a) notify the Administrative Agent of such fact, and (b) purchase from the other applicable Lenders such participations in the Loans of such Class made by them and/or such subparticipations in the participations in L/C Obligations or Swing Line Loans held by them, as the case may be, as shall be necessary to cause such purchasing Lender to share the excess payment in respect of such Loans or such participations, as the case may be, pro rata with each of them; provided that (x) if all or any portion of such excess payment is thereafter recovered from the purchasing Lender under any of the circumstances described in Section 10.06 (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the purchasing Lender in its discretion), such purchase shall to that extent be rescinded and each other applicable Lender shall repay to the purchasing Lender the purchase price paid therefor, together with an amount equal to such paying Lender’s ratable share (according to the proportion of (i) the amount of such paying Lender’s required repayment to (ii) the total amount so recovered from the purchasing Lender) of any interest or other amount paid or payable by the purchasing Lender in respect of the total amount so recovered, without further interest thereon, (y) the provisions of this Section 2.13 shall 

 

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not be construed to apply to any payment made by the Borrower pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement (including payments to an L/C Issuer pursuant to the L/C Back-Stop Arrangements) or any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans to any assignee or participant (other than Holdings, the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries), and (z) nothing in this Section 2.13 shall be construed to limit the applicability of Section 8.04 in the circumstances where Section 8.04 is applicable in accordance with its terms.  The Borrower agrees that any Lender so purchasing a participation from another Lender may, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, exercise all its rights of payment (including the right of setoff, but subject to Section 10.09) with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were the direct creditor of the Borrower in the amount of such participation.  The Administrative Agent will keep records (which shall be conclusive and binding in the absence of manifest error) of participations purchased under this Section 2.13 and will in each case notify the Lenders following any such purchases or repayments.  Each Lender that purchases a participation pursuant to this Section 2.13 shall from and after such purchase have the right to give all notices, requests, demands, directions and other communications under this Agreement with respect to the portion of the Obligations purchased to the same extent as though the purchasing Lender were the original owner of the Obligations purchased.

 

SECTION 2.14.                 Maturity Date Extension.  Prior to (but not less than 30 days nor more than 45 days prior to) the applicable Extension Date, the Borrower may make a written request to the Administrative Agent (each, an “Extension Request”), who shall forward a copy of each such request to each Lender, that the Maturity Date then in effect be extended to the date occurring twelve (12) months after such then existing Maturity Date.  Such request shall be accompanied by a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower certifying that, at the time such request is delivered (i) no Default has occurred and is continuing and (ii) the Borrower is in compliance on a Pro Forma Basis with each of the covenants set forth in Section 7.11, in each case as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period (setting forth in reasonable detail the calculation required to establish such compliance).  Following the delivery of an Extension Request, if (a) on the Business Day preceding the applicable Extension Date, the Borrower shall have paid to the Administrative Agent (for the account of each Lender), a non-refundable extension fee with respect to such Extension Request equal to 1.00% of the sum of (x) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of B Term Loans of such Lender on such day, (y) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of Land Term Loans of such Lender on such day and (z) the Revolving Credit Commitment of such Lender on such day (or, after the termination thereof, the Revolving Credit Exposure of such Lender on such day), (b) as of such Extension Date, (i) no Default has occurred and is continuing and (ii) the representations and warranties of the Borrower and each other Loan Party contained in Article 5 or any other Loan Document shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of such date (provided that, to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, they shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date; provided, further 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) and (c) the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent an officer’s certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, dated as of the Extension Date, certifying that (I) the conditions set forth in the preceding clause (b) are satisfied and (II) the Borrower is in compliance on a Pro Forma Basis with each of the covenants set forth in Section 7.11, in each case as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period (setting forth in reasonable detail the calculation required to establish such compliance), then the Maturity Date shall be automatically extended to the date occurring twelve (12) months after the then existing Maturity Date (the “Existing Maturity Date”); provided that if on the ninetieth (90th) day after such Existing Maturity Date, the final stated maturity of the loans and commitments under the PropCo Credit Agreement shall be earlier than the Maturity Date (after giving effect to such extension under this Section 2.14), then the Maturity Date shall be the ninetieth (90th) day after such Existing Maturity Date.  The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and each Lender of the effectiveness of any such extension.

 

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SECTION 2.15.                 Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments.  (a) The Borrower shall have the right, in consultation and coordination with the Administrative Agent, to request (by written notice to the Administrative Agent) at any time and from time to time after the first anniversary of the Closing Date, that one or more Revolving Credit Lenders (and/or one or more other Persons which are Eligible Assignees and which will become Revolving Credit Lenders) provide Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments and, subject to the applicable terms and conditions contained in this Agreement and the relevant Incremental Amendment, make Revolving Credit Loans and participate in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans pursuant thereto; provided that

 

(i)                                     both at the time of any such request and on the Incremental Facility Closing Date in respect of such request, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or result therefrom;

 

(ii)                                  all representations and warranties contained herein and in the other Loan Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects with the same effect as though such representations and warranties had been made on the Incremental Facility Closing Date in respect of such request (it being understood and agreed that (x) any representation or warranty which by its terms is made as of a specified date shall be required to be true and correct in all material respects only as of such specified date and (y) any representation or warranty that is qualified as to “materiality,” “Material Adverse Effect” or similar language shall be true and correct in all respects on such date);

 

(iii)                           the Borrower shall have demonstrated to the Administrative Agent’s reasonable satisfaction that the incurrence of Revolving Credit Loans in an aggregate principal amount equal to the full amount of all Revolving Credit Commitments (including such Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments then being obtained) may be incurred without violating the terms of any Indebtedness of Holdings and its Subsidiaries in excess of the Threshold Amount;

 

(iv)                          the Borrower shall be in compliance on a Pro Forma Basis with each of the covenants set forth in Section 7.11, in each case determined as of the last day of the Test Period most recently ended prior to the Incremental Facility Closing Date in respect of such request, as if Revolving Credit Loans had been incurred in an aggregate principal amount equal to the full amount of the Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments then being obtained on the first day of such Test Period;

 

(v)                             the aggregate amount of each request (and provision therefor) for Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments shall be in a minimum aggregate amount for all Revolving Credit Lenders which provide an Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment pursuant to a given Incremental Amendment pursuant to this Section 2.15 (including Persons who are Eligible Assignees and will become Revolving Credit Lenders) of at least $10,000,000 (or such lesser amount that is acceptable to the Administrative Agent);

 

(vi)                          the aggregate amount of all Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments made available pursuant to this Section 2.15 shall not exceed $25,000,000; and

 

(vii)                       the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent and each Lender a certificate executed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, (A) certifying to the best of such officer’s knowledge, compliance with the requirements of preceding clauses (i) through (vi), inclusive, and (B) containing the calculations (in reasonable detail) required by the preceding clause (iv).

 

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(b)                                 All Revolving Credit Loans and Swing Line Loans incurred, and Letters of Credit issued, as applicable (and all interest, fees and other amounts payable thereon) pursuant to an Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment shall (x) be Obligations under this Agreement and the other applicable Loan Documents, (y) be secured by the relevant Collateral Documents, and guaranteed under each relevant Guaranty, on a pari passu basis with all Obligations relating to the other Revolving Credit Loans, Swing Line Loans, Letters of Credit (including L/C Obligations) and the Revolving Credit Commitments (including the Revolving Obligations) secured by each such Collateral Document and guaranteed under each such Guaranty and (z) shall otherwise have the same terms as the then existing Revolving Credit Loans, Swing Line Loans and Letters of Credit (including with respect to unused commitment fees and Letter of Credit fees and the priming super-priority status of the existing Revolving Obligations); provided, however, that (I) the Applicable Rates for any such Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment and all Revolving Credit Loans and Swing Line Loans incurred, and Letters of Credit issued, as applicable, pursuant thereto may exceed the Applicable Rates then applicable to the then existing Revolving Credit Commitments and all then existing Revolving Credit Loans, Swing Line Loans and Letters of Credit, as applicable, if the Applicable Rates for the then existing Revolving Credit Commitments and all then existing Revolving Credit Loans, Swing Line Loans and Letters of Credit, as applicable, is (or are) increased (to the extent necessary) such that the Applicable Rates therefor are not less than the Applicable Rates of such Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments and all Revolving Credit Loans and Swing Line Loans incurred, and Letters of Credit issued, as applicable, pursuant thereto, (II) any Revolving Credit Loans and Swing Line Loans incurred pursuant to any such Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments may be subject to any minimum Adjusted LIBO Rate or minimum Base Rate “floor”, so long as such minimum Adjusted LIBO Rate and/or minimum Base Rate “floor” also applies to all then existing Revolving Credit Loans and Swing Line Loans and (III) if, after giving effect to the adjustments described in preceding clauses (I) and (II), the Effective Yield on the Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments and all Revolving Credit Loans and Swing Line Loans incurred, and Letters of Credit issued, as applicable, pursuant thereto still exceeds the Effective Yield on all then existing Revolving Credit Commitments, Revolving Credit Loans, Swing Line Loans and/or Letters of Credit, as applicable, the Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the ratable account of the existing Revolving Credit Lenders such fees as shall be required to equalize the Effective Yields described above in this clause (III).

 

(c)                                  Each notice from the Borrower pursuant to this Section shall set forth the requested amount and proposed terms of the relevant Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments.

 

(d)                                 Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments may be provided by any existing Revolving Credit Lender or by any other bank or other financial institution (any such other bank or other financial institution being called an “Additional Lender”), provided that the Administrative Agent, the Swing Line Lender and each L/C Issuer shall have consented to such Lender’s or Additional Lender’s providing such Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments if such consent would be required under Section 10.07 for an assignment of Revolving Credit Commitments to such Revolving Credit Lender or Additional Lender.  The Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments provided by a Revolving Credit Lender or an Additional Lender, as the case may be, shall (x) become Revolving Credit Commitments under this Agreement pursuant to an amendment (each, an “Incremental Amendment”) to this Agreement and, as appropriate, the other Loan Documents, executed by Holdings, the Borrower, each Lender agreeing to provide such Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment, if any, each Additional Lender, if any, and the Administrative Agent and (y) constitute part of, and be added to, the Aggregate Commitments pursuant to such Incremental Amendment.  The Incremental Amendment may, without the consent of any other Revolving Credit 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 and the Borrower, to effect the provisions of this Section

 

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(e)                                  The effectiveness of any Incremental Amendment shall be subject to the satisfaction on the date thereof (each, an “Incremental Facility Closing Date”) of each of the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (it being understood that all references to a “Credit Extension” or similar language in such Section 4.02 shall be deemed to refer to the effective date of such Incremental Amendment) and such other conditions as the parties thereto shall agree, including, without limitation, (i) the delivery of an acknowledgement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and executed by each Loan Party acknowledging that all Revolving Credit Loans and Swing Line Loans subsequently incurred, and Letters of Credit issued, as applicable (and all interest, fees and other amounts payable thereon), pursuant to the applicable Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment shall constitute “Obligations” and “Revolving Obligations” under the Loan Documents, (ii) the delivery by Holdings and its Subsidiaries of such technical amendments, modifications and/or supplements to the respective Collateral Documents as are reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent to ensure that all Revolving Credit Loans and Swing Line Loans subsequently incurred, and Letters of Credit issued, as applicable (and all interest, fees and other amounts payable thereon), pursuant to such Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment (and related Obligations) are secured by, and entitled to the benefits of, the relevant Collateral Documents on a pari passu basis with the then existing Revolving Obligations secured by each such Collateral Document, (iii) delivery to the Administrative Agent by each Loan Party such other officers’ certificates, board of director (or equivalent governing body) resolutions and evidence of good standing (to the extent available under applicable law) as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably request and (iv) the delivery of an opinion or opinions, form and substance substantially similar to the opinion delivered on the Closing Date pursuant to Section 4.01(a)(vi)(A) from counsel to the Loan Parties reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

 

(f)                                    No Lender shall be obligated to provide any Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment, unless it so agrees.  Upon each increase in the Revolving Credit Commitments pursuant to this Section, (a) each Revolving Credit Lender immediately prior to such increase will automatically and without further act be deemed to have assigned to each Lender providing a portion of the Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments (each, a “Revolving Commitment Increase Lender”) in respect of such increase, and each such Revolving Commitment Increase Lender will automatically and without further act be deemed to have assumed, a portion of such Revolving Credit Lender’s participations hereunder in outstanding Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans such that, after giving effect to each such deemed assignment and assumption of participations, the percentage of the aggregate outstanding (i) participations hereunder in Letters of Credit and (ii) participations hereunder in Swing Line Loans held by each Revolving Credit Lender (including each such Revolving Commitment Increase Lender) will equal the percentage of the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments of all Revolving Credit Lenders represented by such Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment and (b) if, on the date of such increase, there are any Revolving Credit Loans outstanding, the Borrower shall, in coordination with the Administrative Agent, repay outstanding Revolving Credit Loans of certain of the Revolving Credit Lenders, and incur additional Revolving Credit Loans from certain other Revolving Credit Lenders (including the Additional Lenders), in each case to the extent necessary so that all of the Revolving Credit Lenders participate in each outstanding Borrowing of Revolving Credit Loans in accordance with their respective Pro Rata Share (after giving effect to any increase in the Aggregate Commitments pursuant to this Section 2.15) and with the Borrower being obligated to pay to the respective Revolving Credit Lenders any costs of the type referred to in Section 3.05 in connection with any such repayment and/or Borrowing.  The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby agree that the minimum borrowing, pro rata borrowing and pro rata payment requirements contained elsewhere in this Agreement shall not apply to the transactions effected pursuant to the immediately preceding sentence.

 

SECTION 2.16.                 Defaulting Lenders.  Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, if any Revolving Credit Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then the following provisions shall apply for so long as such Revolving Credit Lender is a Defaulting Lender:

 

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(a)  if any Swing Line Loan Exposure or Letter of Credit Exposure exists at the time a Revolving Credit Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender then:

 

(A)  all or any part of such Swing Line Loan Exposure and Letter of Credit Exposure shall be reallocated among the Revolving Credit Lenders that are not Defaulting Lenders in accordance with their respective Pro Rata Shares but only to the extent (x) the sum of all Revolving Credit Exposures of all Revolving Credit Lenders that are not Defaulting Lenders plus such Defaulting Lender’s Swing Line Loan Exposure and Letter of Credit Exposure does not exceed the aggregate amount of all Revolving Credit Commitments of all Revolving Credit Lenders that are not Defaulting Lenders, (y) immediately following the reallocation to a Revolving Credit Lender that is not a Defaulting Lender, the Revolving Credit Exposure of such Revolving Credit Lender does not exceed its Revolving Credit Commitment at such time and (z) the conditions set forth in Sections 4.02(a) and (b) are satisfied at such time (it being understood that all references to a “Credit Extension” or similar language in such Section 4.02 shall be deemed to refer to the date of such reallocation);

 

(B)  if the reallocation described in clause (A) above cannot, or can only partially, be effected, the Borrower shall within one (1) Business Day following notice by the Administrative Agent (x) first, prepay the portion of such Swing Line Loan Exposure that has not been reallocated among the Revolving Credit Lenders that are not Defaulting Lenders pursuant to clause (A) above and (y) second, Cash Collateralize such Defaulting Lender’s Letter of Credit Exposure (after giving effect to any partial reallocation pursuant to clause (A) above) in aggregate amount equal to 100% of such Defaulting Lender’s Letter of Credit Exposure for so long as such Letter of Credit Exposure is outstanding (the “L/C Back-Stop Arrangements”);

 

(C)  the Borrower shall not be required to pay any fees to such Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 2.03(h) with respect to such Defaulting Lender’s Letter of Credit Exposure;

 

(D)  if the Letter of Credit Exposure of the Revolving Credit Lenders that are not Defaulting Lenders is reallocated pursuant to clause (A) above, then the fees payable to the Revolving Credit Lenders pursuant to Section 2.03(h) shall be adjusted in accordance with the Pro Rata Shares of such Revolving Credit Lenders that are not Defaulting Lenders; and

 

(E)  if any Defaulting Lender’s Letter of Credit Exposure is neither Cash Collateralized nor reallocated pursuant to this Section 2.16(a), then, without prejudice to any rights or remedies of any L/C Issuer or any Revolving Credit Lender hereunder, all Letter of Credit fees payable under Section 2.03(h) with respect to such Defaulting Lender’s Letter of Credit Exposure shall be payable to the applicable L/C Issuer until such Letter of Credit Exposure is Cash Collateralized and/or reallocated; and

 

(b)  notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Section 2.03 or 2.04, so long as any Revolving Credit Lender is a Defaulting Lender, (i) the Swing Line Lender shall not be required to fund any Swing Line Loan and no L/C Issuer shall be required to issue, amend, renew or increase any

 

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Letter of Credit, unless it is satisfied that the related exposure will be 100% covered by the Revolving Credit Commitments of the Revolving Credit Lenders that are not Defaulting Lenders and/or cash collateral has been provided by the Borrower in accordance with Section 2.16(a), and (ii) participating interests in any such newly issued, amended, renewed or increased Letter of Credit or newly made Swing Line Loan shall be allocated among Revolving Credit Lenders that are not Defaulting Lenders in a manner consistent with Section 2.16(a)(A) (and Defaulting Lenders shall not participate therein).

 

In the event that the Administrative Agent, the Borrower, each L/C Issuer and the Swing Line Lender each agrees that a Defaulting Lender has adequately remedied all matters that caused such Revolving Credit Lender to be a Defaulting Lender, then (i) the Swing Line Loan Exposure and Letter of Credit Exposure of the Revolving Credit Lenders shall be readjusted to reflect the inclusion of such Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitments and on such date such Revolving Credit Lender shall purchase at par such of the Revolving Credit Loans of the other Revolving Credit Lenders as the Administrative Agent shall determine may be necessary in order for such Revolving Credit Lender to hold such Revolving Credit Loans in accordance with its Pro Rata Share and (ii) so long as no Event of Default then exists, all funds held as cash collateral pursuant to the L/C Back-Stop Arrangements shall thereafter be promptly returned to the Borrower. If the Revolving Credit Commitments have been terminated, all other Revolving Obligations have been paid in full and no Letters of Credit are outstanding, then, so long as no Event of Default then exists, all funds held as cash collateral pursuant to the L/C Back-Stop Arrangements shall thereafter be promptly returned to the Borrower.

 

ARTICLE III

 

Taxes, Increased Costs Protection and Illegality

 

SECTION 3.01.                 Taxes.  (a)  Except as provided in this Section 3.01, any and all payments by the Borrower (the term “Borrower” as used in this Article 3 being deemed to include any Subsidiary for whose account a Letter of Credit is issued or any other Loan Party making a payment under any Loan Document) to or for the account of any Agent or any Lender under any Loan Document shall be made free and clear of and without deduction for any and all present or future taxes, duties, levies, imposts, deductions, assessments, fees, withholdings or similar charges, and all liabilities (including additions to tax, penalties and interest) with respect thereto, whether now or hereafter imposed, levied, collected, withheld or assessed by any relevant Governmental Authority (“Taxes”), excluding, in the case of each Agent and each Lender, (i) taxes imposed on or measured by its net income and franchise (and similar) taxes imposed on it in lieu of net income taxes, by the jurisdiction (or any political subdivision thereof) under the Laws of which such Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, is organized or maintains a Lending Office, and all liabilities (including additions to tax, penalties and interest) with respect thereto, (ii) branch profits taxes imposed by the jurisdiction in which the Borrower is located, (iii) in the case of a Foreign Lender (other than an assignee pursuant to a request by the Borrower under Section 3.07(a)), any U.S. federal withholding Taxes resulting from any law in effect on the date such Foreign Lender becomes a party to this Agreement (or designates a new Lending Office) or is attributable to such Foreign Lender’s failure to comply with Section 10.15, except to the extent that such Foreign Lender (or its assignor, if any) was entitled, at the time of designation of a new Lending Office (or assignment), to receive additional amounts from the Borrower with respect to such withholding Taxes pursuant to this Section 3.01 and (iv) any withholding taxes imposed by Section 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as in effect as of the date of this Agreement, and any current or future Treasury Regulations or official interpretations thereof (all such Taxes described in (i) through (iv) being “Excluded Taxes”).  If any Taxes or Other Taxes are required to be deducted or withheld from or in respect of any sum payable under and in respect of any Loan Document to any Agent or any Lender, (i)  the sum payable shall be increased as necessary so that after making all required deductions and withholdings (including deductions and withholdings applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 3.01), each of such

 

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Agent and such Lender receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deductions or withholdings in respect of Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes been made, (ii) the Borrower (or the applicable withholding agent, as the case may be) shall make such deductions or withholdings, (iii) the Borrower (or the applicable withholding agent, as the case may be) shall pay the full amount deducted to the appropriate Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable Laws, and (iv) within thirty (30) days after the date of such payment (or, if receipts or evidence are not available within thirty (30) days, as soon as possible thereafter), the Borrower (or the applicable withholding agent, as the case may be) shall furnish to such Agent or Lender (as the case may be) the original or a certified copy of a receipt evidencing payment thereof to the extent such a receipt is issued therefor, or other written proof of payment thereof that is reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.  If the Borrower fails to pay any Taxes or Other Taxes when due to the Governmental Authority or fails to remit to any Agent or any Lender the required receipts or other required documentary evidence, the Borrower shall indemnify such Agent and such Lender for any incremental taxes, interest or penalties that may become payable by such Agent or such Lender arising out of such failure.

 

(b)  In addition, the Borrower agrees to pay any and all present or future stamp, court or documentary taxes and any other excise, property, intangible, filing, or mortgage recording taxes or charges or similar levies which arise from any payment made under or in respect of any Loan Document or from the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or registration of, from any performance, receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to, any Loan Document (hereinafter referred to as “Other Taxes”).

 

(c)  (i) The Borrower agrees to indemnify each Agent and each Lender for and hold it harmless against (A) the full amount of Indemnified Taxes and Other Taxes (including any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted by any jurisdiction on amounts payable under this Section 3.01) paid or payable by such Agent and such Lender and (B) any liability (including additions to tax, penalties, interest and expenses) arising therefrom or with respect thereto, in each case whether or not such Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority; provided such Agent or Lender, as the case may be, provides the Borrower with a written statement thereof setting forth in reasonable detail the basis and calculation of such amounts.  Payment under this Section 3.01(c)(i) shall be made within thirty (30) days after the date such Lender or such Agent makes a demand therefor.  Such written statement shall be conclusive of the amount so paid or payable absent manifest error.

 

(ii)                                  Each Lender shall severally indemnify the Agents (but only to the extent that the Borrower has not already indemnified such Agent for such amounts and without limiting the obligation of the Borrower to do so) for (A) the full amount of Taxes and Other Taxes (including any Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted by any jurisdiction on amounts payable under this Section 3.01) attributable to such Lender paid by such Agent and (B) any liability (including additions to tax, penalties, interest and reasonable expenses) arising therefrom or with respect thereto, in each case whether or not such Taxes or Other Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority; provided such Agent provides such Lender with a written statement thereof setting forth in reasonable detail the basis and calculation of such amounts.  Payment under this Section 3.01(c)(ii) shall be made within thirty (30) days after the date such Agent makes a demand therefor.

 

(d)  If any Lender or Agent determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, that it has received a refund in respect of any Taxes or Other Taxes as to which indemnification or additional amounts have been paid to it by the Borrower pursuant to this Section 3.01, it shall remit such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by the Borrower under this Section 3.01 with respect to the Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes giving rise to such refund plus any

 

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interest included in such refund by the relevant Governmental Authority attributable thereto) to the Borrower, net of all out-of-pocket expenses of such Lender or Agent, 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 the Borrower, upon the request of such Lender or Agent, as the case may be, agrees promptly to return such refund to such party in the event such party is required to repay such refund to the relevant Governmental Authority.  Such Lender or Agent, as the case may be, shall provide the Borrower with a written statement setting forth in reasonable detail the basis and calculation of the amounts required to be repaid to the relevant Governmental Authority. Without prejudice to the survival of any other agreement of the Borrower hereunder, the agreements and obligations of the Borrower contained in this Section 3.01 shall survive the termination of the Loan Documents.  Nothing herein contained shall interfere with the right of a Lender or Agent to arrange its tax affairs in whatever manner it thinks fit nor oblige any Lender or Agent to claim any tax refund or to make available its tax returns or disclose any information relating to its tax affairs or any computations in respect thereof or any other confidential information or require any Lender or Agent to do anything that would prejudice its ability to benefit from any other refunds, credits, reliefs, remissions or repayments to which it may be entitled.

 

(e)  Each Lender agrees that, upon the occurrence of any event giving rise to the operation of Section 3.01(a) or (c) with respect to such Lender it will, if requested by the Borrower, use commercially reasonable efforts (subject to such Lender’s overall internal policies of general application and legal and regulatory restrictions) to designate another Lending Office for any Loan or Letter of Credit affected by such event if in the judgment of such Lender, such designation (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to Section 3.01(a) or (c), as the case may be, 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.  Nothing in this Section 3.01(e) shall affect or postpone any of the Obligations of the Borrower or the rights of such Lender pursuant to Section 3.01(a) or (c).

 

SECTION 3.02.                 Illegality.  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 Eurodollar Loans, or to determine or charge interest rates based upon the Adjusted LIBO Rate, then, on notice thereof by such Lender to the Borrower through the Administrative Agent, any obligation of such Lender to make or continue Eurodollar Loans or to convert Base Rate Loans to Eurodollar Loans shall be suspended until such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Borrower that the circumstances giving rise to such determination no longer exist.  Upon receipt of such notice, the Borrower shall, upon demand from such Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), prepay or, if applicable, convert all Eurodollar Loans of such Lender to Base Rate Loans, either on the last day of the Interest Period therefor, if such Lender may lawfully continue to maintain such Eurodollar Loans to such day, or promptly, if such Lender may not lawfully continue to maintain such Eurodollar Loans.  Upon any such prepayment or conversion, the Borrower shall also pay accrued interest on the amount so prepaid or converted and all amounts due, if any, in connection with such prepayment or conversion under Section 3.05.  Each Lender agrees to designate a different Lending Office if such designation will avoid the need for such notice and will not, in the good faith judgment of such Lender, otherwise be materially disadvantageous to such Lender.

 

SECTION 3.03.                 Inability to Determine Rates.  If the Required Lenders determine that for any reason adequate and reasonable means do not exist for determining the Adjusted LIBO Rate for any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed Eurodollar Loan, or that the Adjusted LIBO Rate for any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed Eurodollar Loan does not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of funding such Loan, or that Dollar deposits are not being offered to banks in the London interbank eurodollar market for the applicable amount and the Interest Period of

 

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such Eurodollar Loan, the Administrative Agent will promptly so notify the Borrower and each Lender.  Thereafter, the obligation of the Lenders to make or maintain Eurodollar Loans shall be suspended until the Administrative Agent (upon the instruction of the Required Lenders) revokes such notice.  Upon receipt of such notice, the Borrower may revoke any pending request for a Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurodollar Loans or, failing that, will be deemed to have converted such request into a request for a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans in the amount specified therein.

 

SECTION 3.04.                 Increased Cost and Reduced Return; Capital Adequacy; Reserves on Eurodollar Loans.  (a)  If any Lender determines that as a result of any Change in Law (i) there shall be any increase in the cost to such Lender of agreeing to make or making, funding or maintaining Eurodollar Loans or (as the case may be) issuing or participating in Letters of Credit, or a reduction in the amount received or receivable by such Lender in connection with any of the foregoing (excluding for purposes of this Section 3.04(a) any such increased costs or reduction in amount resulting from reserve requirements contemplated by Section 3.04(c)), or (ii) any Lender shall be subject to any Taxes (other than (A) Taxes indemnified under Section 3.01, (B) Other Taxes and (C) Excluded Taxes) on its Loans, Letters of Credit, Revolving Credit Commitment or other obligations, or its deposits, reserves, other liabilities or capital attributable thereto, then from time to time within fifteen (15) days after demand by such Lender setting forth in reasonable detail such increased costs (with a copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent given in accordance with Section 3.06), the Borrower shall pay to such Lender such additional amounts as will compensate such Lender for such increased cost or reduction.

 

(b)  If any Lender determines that any Change in Law regarding capital requirements has the effect of reducing the rate of return on the capital of such Lender or any corporation controlling such Lender as a consequence of such Lender’s obligations hereunder (taking into consideration its policies with respect to capital adequacy and such Lender’s desired return on capital), then from time to time upon demand of such Lender setting forth in reasonable detail the charge and the calculation of such reduced rate of return (with a copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent given in accordance with Section 3.06), the Borrower shall pay to such Lender such additional amounts as will compensate such Lender for such reduction within fifteen (15) days after receipt of such demand.

 

(c)  The Borrower shall pay to each Lender, (i) 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 (except for Statutory Reserves to the extent included in the determination of the Adjusted LIBO Rate), additional interest on the unpaid principal amount of each Eurodollar 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 in the absence of manifest error), and (ii) as long as such Lender shall be required to comply with any reserve ratio requirement or analogous requirement of any other central banking or financial regulatory authority imposed in respect of the maintenance of the Revolving Credit Commitments or the funding of the Eurodollar Loans, such additional costs (expressed as a percentage per annum and rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest five decimal places) equal to the actual costs allocated to such Revolving Credit Commitment or Loan by such Lender (as determined by such Lender in good faith, which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) which in each case shall be due and payable on each date on which interest is payable on such Loan; provided the Borrower shall have received at least fifteen (15) days’ prior notice (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) of such additional interest or cost from such Lender.  If a Lender fails to give notice fifteen (15) days prior to the relevant Interest Payment Date, such additional interest or cost shall be due and payable fifteen (15) days from receipt of such notice.

 

(d)  Failure or delay on the part of any Lender to demand compensation pursuant to this Section 3.04 shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s right to demand such compensation; provided that the Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender pursuant to Section 3.04(a), (b) or (c) for

 

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any such increased cost or reduction incurred more than one hundred and eighty (180) days prior to the date that such Lender demands, or notifies the Borrower of its intention to demand, compensation therefor; provided, further, that, if the circumstance giving rise to such increased cost or reduction is retroactive, then such 180-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof.

 

(e)  If any Lender requests compensation under this Section 3.04, then such Lender will, if requested by the Borrower, use commercially reasonable efforts to designate another Lending Office for any Loan or Letter of Credit affected by such event; provided that such efforts are made on terms that, in the reasonable judgment of such Lender, cause such Lender and its Lending Office(s) to suffer no material economic, legal or regulatory disadvantage; provided, further,  that nothing in this Section 3.04(e) shall affect or postpone any of the Obligations of the Borrower or the rights of such Lender pursuant to Section 3.04(a), (b), (c) or (d).

 

SECTION 3.05.                 Funding Losses.  Upon demand of any Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) from time to time, the Borrower shall promptly compensate such Lender for and hold such Lender harmless from any loss, cost or expense (but not loss of profit margin) 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); or

 

(b)  any failure by the Borrower (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 Borrower;

 

including any loss or expense (but not loss of profit margin) arising from the liquidation or reemployment of funds obtained by it to maintain such Loan or from fees payable to terminate the deposits from which such funds were obtained.

 

For purposes of calculating amounts payable by the Borrower to the Lenders under this Section 3.05, each Lender shall be deemed to have funded each Eurodollar Loan made by it at the Adjusted LIBO Rate for such Loan by a matching deposit or other borrowing in the London interbank eurodollar market for a comparable amount and for a comparable period, whether or not such Eurodollar Loan was in fact so funded.

 

SECTION 3.06.                 Matters Applicable to All Requests for Compensation.  (a)  Any Agent or any Lender claiming compensation under this Article 3 shall deliver a certificate to the Borrower setting forth the additional amount or amounts to be paid to it hereunder which shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error.  In determining such amount, such Agent or such Lender may use any reasonable averaging and attribution methods.

 

(b)  With respect to any Lender’s claim for compensation under Section 3.01, 3.02, 3.03 or 3.04, the Borrower shall not be required to compensate such Lender for any amount incurred more than one hundred eighty (180) days prior to the date that such Lender notifies the Borrower of the event that gives rise to such claim; provided that, if the circumstance giving rise to such claim is retroactive, then such 180-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof.  If any Lender requests compensation by the Borrower under Section 3.04, the Borrower may, by notice to such Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), suspend the obligation of such Lender to make or continue from one Interest Period to another Eurodollar Loans, or to convert Base Rate Loans into

 

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Eurodollar Loans, until the event or condition giving rise to such request ceases to be in effect (in which case the provisions of Section 3.06(c) shall be applicable); provided that such suspension shall not affect the right of such Lender to receive the compensation so requested.

 

(c)  If the obligation of any Lender to make or continue from one Interest Period to another any Eurodollar Loan, or to convert Base Rate Loans into Eurodollar Loans shall be suspended pursuant to Section 3.06(b), such Lender’s Eurodollar Loans shall be automatically converted into Base Rate Loans on the last day(s) of the then current Interest Period(s) for such Eurodollar Loans (or, in the case of an immediate conversion required by Section 3.02, on such earlier date as required by Law) and, unless and until such Lender gives notice as provided below that the circumstances specified in Section 3.01, 3.02, 3.03 or 3.04 that gave rise to such conversion no longer exist:

 

(i)  to the extent that such Lender’s Eurodollar Loans have been so converted, all payments and prepayments of principal that would otherwise be applied to such Lender’s Eurodollar Loans shall be applied instead to its Base Rate Loans; and

 

(ii)  all Loans that would otherwise be made or continued from one Interest Period to another by such Lender as Eurodollar Loans shall be made or continued instead as Base Rate Loans, and all Base Rate Loans of such Lender that would otherwise be converted into Eurodollar Loans shall remain as Base Rate Loans.

 

(d)  If any Lender gives notice to the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) that the circumstances specified in Section 3.01, 3.02, 3.03 or 3.04 that gave rise to the conversion of such Lender’s Eurodollar Loans pursuant to this Section 3.06 no longer exist (which such Lender agrees to do promptly upon such circumstances ceasing to exist) at a time when Eurodollar Loans made by other Lenders are outstanding, such Lender’s Base Rate Loans shall be automatically converted, on the first day(s) of the next succeeding Interest Period(s) for such outstanding Eurodollar Loans, to the extent necessary so that, after giving effect thereto, all Loans held by the Lenders holding Eurodollar Loans and by such Lender are held pro rata (as to principal amounts, interest rate basis, and Interest Periods) in accordance with their respective Pro Rata Shares.

 

SECTION 3.07.                 Replacement of Lenders under Certain Circumstances.  (a)  If at any time (i) the Borrower becomes obligated to pay additional amounts or indemnity payments described in Section 3.01 or 3.04 as a result of any condition described in such Sections or any Lender ceases to make Eurodollar Loans as a result of any condition described in Section 3.02 or Section 3.04, (ii) any Revolving Credit Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender or (iii) any Lender becomes a Non-Consenting Lender, then the Borrower may, on ten (10) Business Days’ prior written notice to the Administrative Agent and such Lender, replace such Lender by causing such Lender to (and such Lender shall be obligated to) assign pursuant to Section 10.07(b) (with the assignment fee to be paid by the Borrower in such instance) all of its rights and obligations under this Agreement to one or more Eligible Assignees; provided that neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender shall have any obligation to the Borrower to find a replacement Lender or other such Person; provided, further, that (A) 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 and (B) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a Lender becoming a Non-Consenting Lender, the applicable Eligible Assignees shall have agreed to the applicable departure, waiver or amendment of the Loan Documents.

 

(b)  Any Lender being replaced pursuant to Section 3.07(a) above shall (i) execute and deliver an Assignment and Assumption with respect to such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment and outstanding Loans and participations in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans, and (ii) deliver any Notes

 

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evidencing such Loans to the Borrower or Administrative Agent.  Pursuant to such Assignment and Assumption, (A) the assignee Lender shall acquire all or a portion, as the case may be, of the assigning Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment and outstanding Loans and participations in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans, (B) all obligations of the Borrower owing to the assigning Lender relating to the Loans and participations so assigned shall be paid in full at par by the assignee Lender to such assigning Lender concurrently with such Assignment and Assumption and (C) upon such payment and, if so requested by the assignee Lender, delivery to the assignee Lender of the appropriate Note or Notes executed by the Borrower, the assignee Lender shall become a Lender hereunder and the assigning Lender shall cease to constitute a Lender hereunder with respect to such assigned Loans, Revolving Credit Commitments and participations, except with respect to indemnification provisions under this Agreement, which shall survive as to such assigning Lender.  If the Lender being replaced does not comply with its obligations in the first sentence of this Section 3.07(b), then the Administrative Agent shall be entitled (but not obligated) and authorized to execute an Assignment and Assumption on behalf of such replaced Lender, and any such Assignment and Assumption so executed by the Administrative Agent and the assignee Lender shall be effective for purposes of this Section 3.07.

 

(c)  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained above, any Lender that acts as an L/C Issuer may not be replaced hereunder at any time that it has any Letter of Credit outstanding hereunder unless arrangements reasonably satisfactory to such L/C Issuer (including the furnishing of a back-up standby letter of credit in form and substance, and issued by an issuer reasonably satisfactory to such L/C Issuer or the depositing of cash collateral into a Cash Collateral Account in amounts and pursuant to arrangements reasonably satisfactory to such L/C Issuer) have been made with respect to each such outstanding Letter of Credit and the Lender that acts as the Administrative Agent may not be replaced hereunder except in accordance with the terms of Section 9.09.

 

(d)  In the event that (i) the Borrower or the Administrative Agent has requested that the Lenders consent to a departure or waiver of any provisions of the Loan Documents or agree to any amendment thereto, (ii) the consent, waiver or amendment in question requires the agreement of all affected Lenders in accordance with the terms of Section 10.01 or all the Lenders with respect to a certain Class of the Loans and (iii) the Required Lenders have agreed to such consent, waiver or amendment, then any Lender who does not agree to such consent, waiver or amendment shall be deemed a “Non-Consenting Lender.”

 

SECTION 3.08.                 Survival.  All of the Borrower’s obligations under this Article 3 shall survive termination of the Aggregate Commitments and repayment of all other Obligations hereunder.

 

ARTICLE IV

 

Conditions Precedent to Credit Extensions

 

SECTION 4.01.                 Conditions of Initial Credit Extension.  The obligation of each Lender to make its initial Credit Extension hereunder is subject to satisfaction of the following conditions precedent:

 

(a)  The Administrative Agent’s receipt of the following, each of which shall be originals or facsimiles (followed promptly by originals) unless otherwise specified, each properly executed by a Responsible Officer of the signing Loan Party party thereto, each in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and its legal counsel:

 

(i)  executed counterparts of this Agreement and the Guaranty;

 

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(ii)  a Note executed by the Borrower in favor of each Lender party to this Agreement on the Closing Date that has requested a Note at least two Business Days in advance of the Closing Date;

 

(iii)  each Collateral Document set forth on Schedule 1.01A, duly executed by each Loan Party party thereto, together with:

 

(A)  certificates, if any, representing the Equity Interests constituting Collateral accompanied by undated stock powers executed in blank and instruments constituting Collateral indorsed in blank (provided that, to the extent required by applicable Law, all certificates representing such Equity Interests shall be held by, or on behalf of, the Administrative Agent in the State of Nevada);

 

(B)  opinions of counsel for the Loan Parties in states in which the Loan Parties are formed or the Mortgaged Properties are located, with respect to perfection of the Liens granted pursuant to the Collateral Documents (including the Mortgages) and any related filings, recordations or notices (including fixture filings), in each case, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;

 

(C)  evidence that all other actions, recordings and filings that the Administrative Agent may deem reasonably necessary to satisfy the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement (including UCC financing statements, other filings, recordations or notices and with respect to the Mortgaged Properties, title insurance, surveys and environmental assessments referred to in the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement) shall have been taken, completed or otherwise provided for in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent; and

 

(D)  evidence that all approvals of the Pledge Agreement required to be obtained from Gaming Authorities under applicable Gaming Laws in order for the Pledge Agreement to become fully effective shall have been obtained and shall be in full force and effect;

 

(iv)  [reserved];

 

(v)  such certificates of resolutions or other action, incumbency certificates and/or other certificates of Responsible Officers of each Loan Party as the Administrative Agent may reasonably 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 on the Closing Date;

 

(vi)  (A) a legal opinion from Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, New York counsel to the Loan Parties substantially in the form of Exhibit J-1 and (B) a legal opinion from Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP, Nevada counsel to the Loan Parties, substantially in the form of Exhibit J-2;

 

(vii)  a certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower certifying that (A) there has been no change, effect, event or occurrence since the Plan Effective Date that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (B) no Default shall exist, or would result from the Credit Extension on the Closing Date or from the application of the proceeds therefrom and (C) the

 

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representations and warranties of the Borrower and each other Loan Party contained in Article 5 or any other Loan Document shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the Closing Date;

 

(viii)  a certificate attesting to the Solvency of the Loan Parties (taken as a whole) after giving effect to the Restructuring Transactions, from the treasurer of the Borrower;

 

(ix)  evidence that all insurance (including title insurance) required to be maintained pursuant to the Loan Documents has been obtained and is in effect and that the Administrative Agent has been named as lender loss payee or additional insured, as applicable, under each insurance policy with respect to such insurance as to which the Administrative Agent shall have requested to be so named;

 

(x)  certified copies of the Borrower/IP Holdco License Agreement, the Parent/IP Holdco License Agreement, the Non-Compete Agreement, the Manager Documents, the Manager Allocation Agreement, the Parent Cost Allocation Agreement, the Transition Services Agreement and each Native American Contract, duly executed by the parties thereto, together with all other Material Contracts, each including certification by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower that such documents are in full force and effect as of the Closing Date;

 

(xi)  a Committed Loan Notice or Letter of Credit Application, as applicable, relating to the Credit Extensions (if any) on the Closing Date;

 

(xii)  a certified copy of the Tax Sharing Agreement duly executed by all parties thereto which is in full force and effect on the Closing Date;

 

(xiii)  all information and copies of all documents and papers, including records of each Loan Party proceedings, governmental approvals, good standing certificates and bring-down telegrams or facsimiles, if any, which the Administrative Agent reasonably may have requested in connection therewith, such documents and papers where appropriate to be certified by proper Loan Party or Governmental Authorities;

 

(xiv)  certified copies of all agreements entered into by Parent or any of its Subsidiaries governing the terms and relative rights of their Equity Interests and any agreements entered into by its shareholders relating to any such entity with respect to their Equity Interests;

 

(xv)  a Phase I environmental assessment report, conducted under the ASTM International, issued by a recognized environmental consultant for each Land Term Loan Property, which report shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;

 

(xvi)  evidence that each Land Term Loan Property is in material compliance with all zoning requirements and evidence of the entitlements, if any listed as of the Closing Date on the title report for such Land Term Loan Property for, development as a hotel-casino; and

 

(xvii)  each of the other documents, instruments and certificates set forth on Schedule 4.01(a).(3)

 

(b)  The Plan of Reorganization shall have been confirmed by the Bankruptcy Court pursuant to the Confirmation Order, which has terms and conditions reasonably satisfactory to the

 

(3)  To include Organizational Documents of Parent, VoteCo and the Loan Parties and the PropCo Credit Agreement and related documents.

 

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Required Consenting Lenders.  The Confirmation Order shall not be subject to a stay and the Plan Effective Date shall have occurred.

 

(c)  On the Closing Date, (i) the Acquisition shall have been consummated in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Acquisition Documents and all applicable law (including payment of the Cash Purchase Price (as defined in the Acquisition Agreement)) and (ii) the Term Loan Distributions shall have been consummated in accordance with the Plan of Reorganization.  On the Closing Date, (x) the Administrative Agent shall have received true and correct copies of all Acquisition Documents, in each case certified as such by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, (y) all such Acquisition Documents and all terms and conditions thereof shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Required Consenting Lenders and (z) all such Acquisition Documents shall be in full force and effect.  All conditions precedent to the Acquisition, as set forth in the Acquisition Documents, shall have been satisfied, and not waived unless consented to by the Administrative Agent and the Required Consenting Lenders, to the reasonable satisfaction of the Administrative Agent and the Required Consenting Lenders.

 

(d)  The Administrative Agent shall have received satisfactory evidence of the completion of the Restructuring Transactions.

 

(e)  The Administrative Agent shall have received all such releases as may have been requested by the Administrative Agent with respect to the termination and release of the Liens on the Collateral or security documentation relating to the Original Credit Agreement or other obligations of the Debtors, which releases shall be in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

 

(f)  All costs, fees and expenses required to be paid hereunder and under the other Loan Documents and invoiced before the Closing Date shall have been paid in full in cash.

 

(g)  The Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall have received (i) the Old OpCo Audited Financial Statements and the audit report for such financial statements and (ii) the Old OpCo Unaudited Financial Statements, which financial statements described in clauses (i) and (ii) shall be prepared in accordance with GAAP.

 

(h)  The Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall have received the Closing Pro Forma Financial Statements.

 

(i)  All material Permits necessary in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents (including all necessary approvals under applicable Gaming Laws) and the continuing operations of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (including shareholder approvals, if any) shall have been obtained on terms satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and shall be in full force and effect, and all applicable waiting periods shall have expired without any action being taken or threatened by any competent authority that would restrain, prevent or otherwise impose adverse conditions upon the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents.

 

SECTION 4.02.                 Conditions to All Credit Extensions.  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 Eurodollar Loans) is subject to the following conditions precedent:

 

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and as of the date of such Credit Extension; provided that, to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, they shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date; provided, further 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 Default shall exist, or would result from such proposed Credit Extension or from the application of the proceeds therefrom.

 

(c)  The Administrative Agent and, if applicable, the relevant L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender shall have received a Request for Credit Extension in accordance with the requirements hereof.

 

(d)  In the case of a Request for Credit Extension(4) relating to the Revolving Credit Facility, the Borrower (i) shall be in compliance with each of the financial covenants set forth in Section 7.11, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis after giving effect to the requested Credit Extension and any other Specified Transaction that has occurred since the last day of the Test Period then most recently ended and (ii) in the case of any such requested Credit Extension in an amount equal to or greater than $2,500,000 (excluding any Credit Extensions, the proceeds of which are solely used to fund Cage Cash of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as certified in such Request for Credit Extension)), shall have delivered calculations (in reasonable detail and certified by any Person that is authorized to sign a Request for Credit Extension) to the Administrative Agent demonstrating compliance with the requirements of immediately preceding sub-clause (i) (with the determination of “Consolidated EBITDA” with respect to the final fiscal quarter included in the relevant Test Period for purposes of this clause (d) to be made on the basis of good faith estimates by the Borrower if (and only if) the financial statements for such Test Period have not yet been required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.01).

 

(e)  In the case of a Request for Credit Extension relating to the Revolving Credit Facility (other than a request for a L/C Credit Extension), the aggregate amount of Unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents owned or held by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall not, after giving effect to (i) the requested Credit Extension (and any other such Request for Credit Extension that has not then been funded) and (ii) the application of (x) the proceeds of the requested Credit Extension (and any such other Request for Credit Extension) and (y) any other Unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case on (A) in the case of any Borrowing of Eurodollar Loans, the date that is three Business Days prior to the requested Credit Extension, and (B) in the case of any Borrowing of Base Rate Loans, the date of the requested Credit Extension, for a purpose otherwise permitted by this Agreement (and not constituting an Investment in Cash Equivalents or a Restricted Subsidiary), exceed $7,500,000.

 

Each Request for Credit Extension (other than a Committed Loan Notice requesting only a conversion of Loans to the other Type or a continuation of Eurodollar Loans) submitted by the Borrower shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty that the conditions specified in Sections 4.02(a), (b), (d) and (e) have been satisfied on and as of the date of the applicable Credit Extension.

 

(4)  Form of Request for Credit Extension to include additional line item to identify if cash proceeds are being solely used to fund “cage cash” of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries.

 

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ARTICLE V

 

Representations and Warranties

 

The Borrower represents and warrants to the Agents, the L/C Issuers and the Lenders that:

 

SECTION 5.01.                 Existence, Qualification and Power; Compliance with Laws.  Each of the Borrower, each other Loan Party and each of their Subsidiaries (a) is a Person duly organized or formed, validly existing and in good standing under the Laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization, (b) has all requisite power and authority 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, (c) is duly qualified and 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, (d) is in compliance with all Laws, orders, writs, injunctions and decrees and (e) has all requisite governmental licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals to operate its business as currently conducted, except (A) in the case of the Borrower and each other Loan Party, in each case referred to in clause (c), (d) or (e), to the extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect and (B) in the case of the Unrestricted Subsidiaries, to the extent that the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

SECTION 5.02.                 Authorization; No Contravention.  The execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower and each other Loan Party of each Loan Document to which such Person is a party, and the consummation of the Restructuring Transactions on the Closing Date, are within such Loan Party’s corporate or other powers, 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 (other than Permitted Liens), 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 material 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 material Law.

 

SECTION 5.03.                 Governmental Authorization; Other Consents.  No material 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, Holdings or any other Loan Party of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or for the Restructuring Transactions on the Closing Date, (b) the grant by Holdings or any other 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 priority 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) filings necessary to perfect the Liens on the Collateral granted by Holdings and the other Loan Parties in favor of the Secured Parties, (ii) the approvals, consents, exemptions, authorizations, actions, notices and filings, including all required Gaming Permits, which have been duly obtained, taken, given or made and are in full force and effect, (iii) filings necessary to release collateral provided under the Original Credit Agreement or in connection with other obligations of the Debtors which have been delivered to the Administrative Agent for filing, (iv) those items set forth on Schedule 5.03,(5) (v) approval from the applicable Gaming Authorities of the Pledge Agreement, which has been duly obtained, taken, given or

 

(5)   This Schedule (if any) must be reviewed and approved by the Required Consenting Lenders.

 

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made and is in full force and effect, (vi) approvals, consents, authorization or Permits required from any Governmental Authority in connection with an exercise of remedies under any of the Collateral Documents with respect to the Disposition of Equity Interests, gaming equipment or liquor and (vii) those approvals, consents, exemptions, authorizations or other actions, notices or filings, the failure of which to obtain or make could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

SECTION 5.04.                 Binding Effect.  This Agreement and each other Loan Document has been duly executed and delivered by each Loan Party that is party thereto.  This Agreement and each other Loan Document constitutes, a legal, valid and binding obligation of such Loan Party, enforceable against each such Person that is party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by Debtor Relief Laws and by general principles of equity.

 

SECTION 5.05.                 Financial Statements; No Material Adverse Effect.  (a)  (i)  The Old OpCo Audited Financial Statements and the Old OpCo Unaudited Financial Statements fairly present in all material respects the financial condition of Old OpCo and its Subsidiaries as of the dates thereof and their results of operations for the period covered thereby in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the periods covered thereby, except as otherwise expressly noted therein.  During the period from December 31, 2010 to and including the Closing Date, except in connection with the Restructuring Transactions, there has been (i) no sale, transfer or other Disposition by Old OpCo or any of its Subsidiaries of any material part of the business or property of Old OpCo or any of its Subsidiaries, and (ii) no purchase or other acquisition by Old OpCo or any of its Subsidiaries of any business or property (including any Equity Interests of any other Person) material in relation to the consolidated financial condition of Old OpCo and its Subsidiaries, in each case, which is not reflected in the foregoing financial statements or in the notes thereto or has not otherwise been disclosed in writing to the Lenders prior to the Closing Date (which shall include any order issued by the Bankruptcy Court).

 

(ii)  The unaudited pro forma consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries as at March 31, 2011 (the “Closing Pro Forma Balance Sheet”) and the unaudited pro forma consolidated statement of operations of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for the most recent fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2011 and the 12-month period ending on March 31, 2011 (together with the Closing Pro Forma Balance Sheet, the “Closing Pro Forma Financial Statements”), copies of which have heretofore been furnished to each Lender, have been prepared giving effect (as if such events had occurred on such date or at the beginning of such periods, as the case may be) to the Restructuring Transactions, each material acquisition and Disposition by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries consummated after March 31, 2011 and prior to the Closing Date and all other transactions that would be required to be given pro forma effect by Regulation S-X promulgated under the Exchange Act.  The Closing Pro Forma Financial Statements have been prepared in good faith, based on assumptions believed by the Borrower to be reasonable as of the date of delivery thereof, and present fairly in all material respects on a pro forma basis and in accordance with GAAP the estimated financial position of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries as at March 31, 2011 and their estimated results of operations for the periods covered thereby, assuming that the events specified in the preceding sentence had actually occurred at such date or at the beginning of the periods covered thereby.

 

(b)  Since the Plan Effective Date, there has been no event or circumstance, either individually or in the aggregate, that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(c)  The forecasts of consolidated balance sheets, income statements and cash flow statements of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for each fiscal year ending after the Closing Date until the seventh anniversary of the Closing Date, copies of which have been furnished to the Administrative Agent prior to the Closing Date in a form reasonably satisfactory to it, have been

 

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prepared in good faith on the basis of the assumptions stated therein, which assumptions were believed to be reasonable at the time of preparation of such forecasts, it being understood that actual results may vary from such forecasts and that such variations may be material.

 

(d)  As of the Closing Date, none of Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary has any Indebtedness or other obligations or liabilities, direct or contingent (other than (i) the liabilities reflected on Schedule 5.05, (ii) the Obligations and (iii) liabilities incurred in the ordinary course of business) that, either individually or in the aggregate, have had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

SECTION 5.06.                 Litigation.  There are no actions, suits, proceedings, claims or disputes pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened in writing or contemplated, at law, in equity, in arbitration or before any Governmental Authority, by or against Holdings, the Borrower or any of its 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.

 

SECTION 5.07.                 No Default.  None of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary is in default under or with respect to, or a party to, any Contractual Obligation that could, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.  No Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.

 

SECTION 5.08.                 Ownership of Property; Liens.  (a)   Each of Holdings, the Borrower and each of its Restricted Subsidiaries has good and marketable title to, or valid leasehold (or subleasehold, as applicable) interests in, all its material properties and assets (including all Real Property), except for minor defects in title that, in the aggregate, are not substantial in amount and do not materially detract from the value of the property subject thereto or interfere with the ability of such party to conduct its business as currently conducted or to utilize such properties and assets for their intended purposes and subject to Permitted Liens.  Except where the failure could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, each building constructed on a parcel of Real Property is free from material structural defects and all building systems contained therein are in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted, suitable for the purposes for which they are currently being used.  No portion of the Real Property has suffered any material damage by fire or other casualty loss that has not heretofore been completely repaired and restored to its original condition, except where such damage could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.  Each parcel of Real Property and the current use thereof complies in all material respects with all applicable laws (including building and zoning ordinances and codes) and with all insurance requirements, except where the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.  None of the Real Property constitutes a non-conforming use under applicable zoning ordinances and codes, except where such non-conforming use could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(b)  Except as, either individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (i) none of the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries, or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, any other party thereto, is in material default under any Material Real Property Leases to which it is a party and no event has occurred and no fact exists which could become a default with the giving of notice or the passage of time and all such leases are legal, valid, binding and in full force and effect and are enforceable in accordance with their terms, (ii) each of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries enjoys peaceful and undisturbed possession under all such Material Real Property Leases and (iii) no landlord Lien has been filed, and, to the knowledge of the Borrower, no claim is being asserted, with respect to any lease payment under any Material Real Property Lease.

 

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(c)  As of the Closing Date, none of the Borrower or any of the other Loan Parties has received any notice of, nor has any knowledge of, any pending or contemplated condemnation proceeding affecting any Real Property or any sale or Disposition thereof in lieu of condemnation.

 

(d)  None of the Borrower or any other Loan Party, or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, any other party thereto, is in default in any material respect under any Material Contract.

 

(e)  Each of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries has good, marketable and insurable (i) leasehold interests in the Land and the Improvements relating to its respective Ground Lease Properties, and enjoy the quiet and peaceful possession of the Leasehold Estate related thereto in all material respects, and (ii) fee simple title to the Land and the Improvements relating to all Mortgaged Properties thereof other than the Ground Lease Properties, except for minor defects in title that, in the aggregate, are not substantial in amount and do not materially detract from the value of the property subject thereto or materially interfere with its ability to conduct its business as currently conducted or to utilize such properties and assets for their intended purposes, in each case free and clear of all Liens whatsoever except Permitted Liens.  Each of the Loan Parties has good and marketable title to the remainder of the material properties and assets of the Loan Parties, free and clear of all Liens whatsoever except Permitted Liens.  The Collateral Documents, when properly recorded in the appropriate records, together with any Uniform Commercial Code financing statements required to be filed or recorded in connection therewith, will create (i) a valid, perfected first mortgage Lien on the Land and the Improvements or the Leasehold Estate therein, as applicable, subject only to Permitted Liens and (ii) valid, perfected first priority security interests in and to, and perfected collateral assignments of, all personalty or any leases of equipment from third parties, all in accordance with the terms thereof, in each case subject only to any applicable Permitted Liens.  To the knowledge of the Borrower, there are no claims for payment for work, labor or materials affecting the Mortgaged Properties or other properties or assets of the Loan Parties which are or may become a Lien prior to, or of equal priority with, the Liens created by the Loan Documents other than Permitted Liens.

 

(f)  As of the Closing Date, (i) the Mortgaged Properties are not subject to any material leases other than the Real Property Leases set forth on Schedule 5.08(f), (ii) no Person has any possessory interest in any Mortgaged Property or right to occupy the same except under and pursuant to the provisions of such Real Property Leases, (iii) the Material Real Property Leases are in full force and effect and to the best of the Borrower’s knowledge, there are no material defaults thereunder by either party (other than as expressly disclosed on Schedule 5.08(f)), (iv) no Rent under any Material Real Property Lease has been paid more than one (1) month in advance of its due date, except as disclosed on Schedule 5.08(f), (v) there has been no prior sale, transfer or assignment, hypothecation or pledge by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of any Real Property Lease or of the Rents received therein, which will be outstanding following the Closing Date, other than those assigned to the Administrative Agent on the Closing Date.

 

SECTION 5.09.                 Environmental Compliance.  (a)  There are no claims, actions, suits, or proceedings alleging potential liability or responsibility for violation of, or otherwise relating to, any Environmental Law that could, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(b)  Except as could not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, (i) none of the properties currently or formerly owned, leased 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) there are no and never have been any underground or aboveground 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

 

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any property currently owned, leased or operated by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or, to the Borrower’s knowledge, on any property formerly owned or operated by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries; (iii) there is no asbestos or asbestos-containing material on any property currently owned or operated by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries; and (iv) Hazardous Materials have not been released, discharged or disposed of by any Person on any property currently or formerly owned, leased or operated by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries and Hazardous Materials have not otherwise been released, discharged or disposed of by any of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries at any other location.

 

(c)  The properties owned, leased or operated by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries do not contain any Hazardous Materials in amounts or concentrations which (i) constitute, or constituted a violation of, (ii) require remedial action under, or (iii) could give rise to liability under, Environmental Laws, which violations, remedial actions and liabilities, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(d)  Neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries is undertaking, and has not completed, either individually or together with other potentially responsible parties, any 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 except for such investigation or assessment or remedial or response action that, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(e)  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 not reasonably expected to result, individually or in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(f)  Except as would not reasonably be expected to result, individually or in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse Effect, none of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries has contractually assumed any liability or obligation under or relating to any Environmental Law.

 

SECTION 5.10.                 Taxes.

 

(a)  Holdings, the Borrower and the Borrower’s Subsidiaries have filed all Federal and other material tax returns and reports required to be filed by them and all such tax returns are true, correct and complete in all material respects.  Each of the Holdings, the Borrower and the Borrower’s Subsidiaries has timely paid or timely caused to be paid all material Federal and state and other 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.  No Lien has been filed, and to the knowledge of the Borrower, no claim is being asserted, with respect to any Tax.  As of the Closing Date, none of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary shall be treated as a corporation for United States federal income tax purposes.

 

(b)  Except as set forth on Schedule 5.10(b), as of the Closing Date, no Federal or other material tax return is under audit or examination by any Governmental Authority and no notice of such audit or examination or any assertion of any claim for taxes has been received from any Governmental Authority.  Amounts required to be withheld have been withheld by Holdings, the Borrower and the Borrower’s Subsidiaries from their respective employees’ wages for all periods in full and complete compliance with the tax, social security and unemployment withholding provisions of the applicable Law and such withholdings have been timely paid to the respective Governmental Authorities.

 

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SECTION 5.11.                 ERISA Compliance.  (a)  Except as could not, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, each Plan is in compliance with the applicable provisions of ERISA, the Code and other Federal or state Laws.

 

(b)  (i) No ERISA Event has occurred during the five year period prior to the date on which this representation is made or deemed made or is reasonably expected to occur with respect to any Pension Plan; (ii) no Pension Plan has failed to satisfy the minimum funding standard (as defined in Section 412 of the Code and Sections 302 and 303 of ERISA), whether or not waived, has been or is reasonably expected to be determined “at risk” (as defined in Section 412 of the Code and Sections 302 and 303 of ERISA) or not satisfying minimum funding standards (within the meaning of Section 412 of the Code or 302 of ERISA); and (iii) neither any Loan Party nor any ERISA Affiliate has engaged in a transaction that could be subject to Sections 4069 or 4212(c) of ERISA, except, with respect to each of the foregoing clauses of this Section 5.11(b), as could not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

SECTION 5.12.                 Subsidiaries; Equity Interests.  As of the Closing Date, neither the Borrower nor any other Loan Party has any Subsidiaries other than those specifically disclosed in Schedule 5.12, and all of the outstanding Equity Interests in each Subsidiary of Holdings have been validly issued, and as to any Subsidiaries which are corporations, are fully paid and nonassessable, and all Equity Interests owned by Holdings, the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries are owned free and clear of all Liens except (i) those created under the Collateral Documents and (ii) any nonconsensual Permitted Lien.  As of the Closing Date, Schedule 5.12 (a) sets forth the name and jurisdiction of each Subsidiary, (b) sets forth the ownership interest of Holdings, the Borrower and any other Subsidiary in the Borrower and each Subsidiary, including the percentage of such ownership, (c) identifies each Subsidiary the Equity Interests of which are required to be pledged on the Closing Date pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement and (d) identifies the Unrestricted Subsidiaries and the Native American Subsidiaries.

 

SECTION 5.13.                 Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act.  (a)   No Loan Party is engaged nor will it engage, principally or as one of its important activities, in the business of purchasing or carrying margin stock (within the meaning of Regulation U issued by the Board), or extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stock, and no proceeds of any Borrowings or drawings under any Letter of Credit will be used, whether directly or indirectly, and whether immediately, incidentally or ultimately, for purchasing or carrying margin stock or for the purpose of purchasing, carrying or trading in any securities under such circumstances as to involve the Borrower in a violation of Regulation X or to involve any broker or dealer in a violation of Regulation T.  No Indebtedness being reduced or retired out of the proceeds of any Loans or Letters of Credit was or will be incurred for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any margin stock.  Following the application of the proceeds of the Loans and the Letters of Credit, margin stock will not constitute more than 25% of the value of the assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries.  None of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will violate or result in the violation of any of the provisions of the Regulations of the Board, including Regulation T, U or X.  If requested by any Lender or the Administrative Agent, the Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent and each Lender a statement to the foregoing effect in conformity with the requirements of FR Form G-3 or FR Form U-1 referred to in Regulation U.

 

(b)  None of the Loan Parties or any Subsidiary of any Loan Party is required to be registered as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act of 1940.

 

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Agreement or delivered hereunder or under any other Loan Document (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 materially misleading; provided that, with respect to projected financial information and pro forma financial information, the Borrower represents only that such information was prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable at the time of preparation; it being understood that such projections may vary from actual results and that such variances may be material.

 

SECTION 5.15.                 Intellectual Property; Licenses, etc.  The Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries own or have the right to use all of the trademarks, service marks, trade names, domain names, other source indicators, copyrights, patents, patent rights, licenses, technology, software, trade secrets, know-how, database rights, design rights and other intellectual property rights (collectively, “IP Rights”) that are reasonably necessary for the operation of the businesses of Holdings and the other Loan Parties.  Except as disclosed in Schedule 5.15, no IP Rights, advertising, product, process, method, substance, part or other material used by any Loan Party or any Restricted Subsidiary in the operation of their respective businesses as currently conducted infringes upon, misappropriates or violates any valid intellectual property rights held by any Person except for such infringements, misappropriations or violations, either individually or in the aggregate, which could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.  Except as disclosed in Schedule 5.15, no claim, litigation, opposition or cancellation regarding any of the IP Rights owned or licensed by the Loan Parties or any Restricted Subsidiary is pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened against any Loan Party or Restricted Subsidiary, which, either individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

SECTION 5.16.                 Solvency.   (a)   On the Closing Date, after giving effect to the Restructuring Transactions and the Loans and Letters of Credit to be made or issued on the Closing Date and after giving effect to the application of proceeds of such Loans or Letters of Credit, the Loan Parties (taken as a whole) are Solvent.

 

(b)  After giving effect to (x) the Restructuring Transactions and (y) the Loans or Letters of Credit to be made or issued on the Closing Date or such other date as Loans or Letters of Credit requested hereunder are made or issued:

 

(i)                                the Loan Parties (taken as a whole) have not, do not intend to, and do not believe that they will incur debts beyond the ability of the Loan Parties (taken as a whole) to pay such debts as they mature, taking into account the timing of and amounts of cash to be received by them and the timing of the amounts of cash to be payable on or in respect of their respective Indebtedness; and

 

(ii)                             the Loan Parties (taken as a whole) are not engaged in business or a transaction, and are not about to engage in business or a transaction, for which the Loan Parties’ property would constitute an unreasonably small capital.

 

SECTION 5.17.                 Maintenance of Insurance.  The Borrower and the other Loan Parties, as applicable, maintain insurance in accordance with the requirements set forth in Section 6.07.  None of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (a) has received notice from any insurer (or any agent thereof) that substantial capital improvements or other substantial expenditures will have to be made in order to continue such insurance or (b) has any reason to believe that it will not be able to renew its existing coverage as and when such coverage expires or to obtain similar coverage from similar insurers at a substantially similar cost except in each case as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a

 

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Material Adverse Effect.  Schedule 5.17 sets forth a true, complete and correct description of all insurance maintained by or on behalf of the Borrower and the other Loan Parties as of the Closing Date.

 

SECTION 5.18.                 Labor Matters.  Except as, in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect:  (a) there are no strikes or other labor disputes against any of the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened; (b) hours worked by and payment made to employees of each of the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries have not been in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act or any other applicable Laws dealing with such matters; and (c) all payments due from any of the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries on account of employee health and welfare insurance have been paid or accrued as a liability on the books of the relevant party.  All persons employed at properties of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case at or below the general manager level, are employees of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (excluding, for avoidance of doubt, employees of Parent and its Subsidiaries providing shared services subject to overhead reimbursements by Holdings and its Subsidiaries pursuant to the Parent Cost Allocation Agreement).

 

SECTION 5.19.                 Restructuring Transactions Documentation, etc.  (a)  The Restructuring Transactions Documentation listed on Schedule 5.19 constitute all of the material agreements, instruments and undertakings relating to, or arising out of, the Restructuring Transactions.  As of the Closing Date, except as described in Schedule 5.19, none of the Restructuring Transactions Documentation has been amended, supplemented or otherwise modified, and all such Restructuring Transactions Documentation is in full force and effect.  To the knowledge of the Responsible Officers of the Borrower, no party to any of the Restructuring Transactions Documentation is in default thereunder as of the Closing Date.

 

(b)  As of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the applicable Loan Parties and their Affiliates set forth in the Restructuring Transactions Documentation are true and correct in all material respects.

 

SECTION 5.20.                 Collateral.  To the extent required by the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement and Section 4.01(a), 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 Permitted Liens) on all right, title and interest of the respective Loan Parties in the Collateral, and no filing, recording, registration or other action will be necessary to perfect or protect such Liens, except (a) for the filing of all applicable UCC financing statements and all applicable filings with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and United States Copyright Office to be filed on the Closing Date or immediately thereafter, (b) as provided under applicable Law with respect to the filing of continuation statements for previously filed UCC financing statements, and (c) approval from the applicable Gaming Authorities of the Pledge Agreement, which has been duly obtained, taken, given or made and is in full force and effect.

 

SECTION 5.21.                 Location of Real Property.  Schedule 5.21 lists completely and correctly, as of the Closing Date, all material owned or leased Real Property and the addresses thereof, indicating for each parcel whether it is owned or leased, including in the case of leased Real Property, the landlord name, lease date and lease expiration date.  The Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries own in fee or have valid leasehold interests in, as the case may be, all the real property set forth on Schedule 5.21.

 

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such Person and for the operation of each of its businesses as presently conducted and as proposed to be conducted, (b) all such Permits are in full force and effect, and each such Person has performed and observed all requirements of such Permits, (c) no event has occurred that allows or results in, or after notice or lapse of time would allow or result in, revocation or termination by the issuer thereof or in any other impairment of the rights of the holder of any such Permit, (d) no such Permits contain any restrictions, either individually or in the aggregate, that are materially burdensome to any such Person, or to the operation of any of its businesses or any property owned, leased or otherwise operated by such Person, (e) each such Person reasonably believes that each of its Permits will be timely renewed and complied with, without material expense, and that any additional Permits that may be required of such Person will be timely obtained and complied with, without material expense and (f) no such Person has any knowledge or reason to believe that any Governmental Authority is considering limiting, suspending, revoking or renewing on materially burdensome terms any such Permit, in each case except as which could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The use being made of each Mortgaged Property is in conformity with the certificate of occupancy issued for such Mortgaged Property, to the extent applicable (except to the extent any such failure would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect).  All Gaming Permits required to be held by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries are current and in good standing and the Borrower and the relevant Restricted Subsidiaries presently hold all Gaming Permits necessary for the continued operation of each Hotel/Casino Facility as a non-restricted gaming facility.

 

SECTION 5.23.                 Fiscal Year.  The fiscal year of each of Holdings, the Borrower and each Restricted Subsidiary ends on December 31 of each calendar year.

 

SECTION 5.24.                 Patriot Act.  To the extent applicable, each Loan Party is in compliance, in all material respects, with the (a) Trading with the Enemy Act, as amended, and each of the foreign assets control regulations of the United States Treasury Department (31 CFR, Subtitle B, Chapter V, as amended) and any other enabling legislation or executive order relating thereto, and (b) the Patriot Act.

 

SECTION 5.25.                 Use of Proceeds.  On and after the Closing Date, proceeds of any Revolving Credit Loans and Swing Line Loans will be used for working capital and other general corporate purposes of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, including the financing of Permitted Acquisitions and other Investments to the extent permitted under Section 7.02.  Letters of Credit will be used for general corporate purposes of the Borrower, the Restricted Subsidiaries and, to the extent permitted under Sections 2.03(a) and 7.02, Unrestricted Subsidiaries.

 

SECTION 5.26.                 Subordination of Junior Financing.  The Obligations are “Senior Debt,” “Senior Indebtedness,” “Priority Lien Debt,” or “Senior Secured Financing” (or any comparable term) under, and as defined in, any Junior Financing Documentation.

 

SECTION 5.27.                 Cost Allocation.  As of the Closing Date, the allocation of “Overhead Costs” (as defined in the Parent Cost Allocation Agreement) among Parent, the Borrower and their respective Subsidiaries pursuant to the Parent Cost Allocation Agreement (other than Overhead Costs and Direct Costs (as defined in the Parent Cost Allocation Agreement) that were not generally incurred prior to the Closing Date) is generally consistent with the historical cost allocation practices of Old OpCo as in effect on the Closing Date.

 

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ARTICLE VI

 

Affirmative Covenants

 

So long as any Lender shall have any Revolving Credit Commitment hereunder, any Loan or other Obligation hereunder which is accrued and payable shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied, or any Letter of Credit shall remain outstanding, the Borrower shall, and shall (except in the case of the covenants set forth in Sections 6.01, 6.02, 6.03, 6.17 and 6.18) cause Holdings and each Restricted Subsidiary to:

 

SECTION 6.01.                 Financial Statements.  Deliver to the Administrative Agent for prompt further distribution to each Lender:

 

(a)  as soon as available, but in any event within one hundred and five (105) days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower beginning with the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011, (x) consolidated and consolidating balance sheets of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries as at the end of such fiscal year, and the related consolidated and consolidating statements of income or operations, members’ equity and cash flows for such fiscal year, setting forth in each case in comparative form (A) the figures for the previous fiscal year and (B) in the case of such statements of income or operations, beginning with the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011, the budget for such fiscal year, all in reasonable detail and prepared in accordance with GAAP, and (1) in the case of such consolidated financial statements, audited and accompanied by a report and opinion of Ernst & Young LLP or any other independent registered public accounting firm 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, and (2) in the case of such consolidating financial statements, certified by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower as fairly presenting in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations, members’ equity and cash flows of the Borrower and each of its Restricted Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP and (y) management’s discussion and analysis of the important operational and financial developments of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries during such fiscal year;

 

(b)  as soon as available, but in any event within forty-five (45) days after the end of each fiscal quarter of the Borrower beginning with the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2011, (x) a consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries as at the end of such fiscal quarter, and the related (i) consolidated statements of income or operations for such fiscal quarter and for the portion of the fiscal year then ended and (ii) consolidated statements of cash flows for such fiscal quarter and the portion of the fiscal year then ended, setting forth in each case in comparative form (A) for any fiscal quarter ending after the first anniversary of the Closing Date the figures for the corresponding fiscal quarter of the previous fiscal year and the corresponding portion of the previous fiscal year and (B)  in the case of such statements of income or operations, the budget for such fiscal quarter and the portion of the fiscal year then ended, for the elapsed portion of the fiscal year then ended and for the Test Period ended on the last day of such fiscal quarter, all in reasonable detail and certified by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower as fairly presenting in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP, subject only to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes and (y) beginning with the delivery of financial information for the fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2011, management’s discussion and analysis of the important operational and financial developments of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries during such fiscal quarter;

 

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(c)  as soon as available, but in any event within thirty (30) days after the end of each fiscal month of the Borrower beginning with the fiscal month ended June 30, 2011, (i) a monthly revenue report in respect of the Mortgaged Properties for such fiscal month, for the corresponding fiscal month of the previous fiscal year and for the corresponding portion of previous fiscal year and (ii) consolidated statements of income or operations of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries for such fiscal month and for the portion of the fiscal year then ended, all in reasonable detail and certified by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower as fairly presenting in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP, subject only to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes;

 

(d)  as soon as available, and in any event no later than ninety (90) days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower, a detailed consolidated budget for the following fiscal year (including a projected consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries as of the end of the following fiscal year, the related consolidated statements of projected cash flow and projected income and a summary of the material underlying assumptions applicable thereto), and, as soon as available, significant revisions, if any, of such budget and projections with respect to such fiscal year (collectively, the “Projections”), which Projections shall (x) in each case be accompanied by a certificate of a Responsible Officer stating that such Projections are based on reasonable estimates, information and assumptions and that such Responsible Officer has no reason to believe that such Projections are incorrect or misleading in any material respect and (y) identify and set forth the Borrower’s best estimate, after due consideration, of all revenue, costs, and expenses for the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, including, without limitation, amounts due monthly and annually under the Material Contracts to which the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries are a party and under the Management Agreement for such fiscal year; and

 

(e)  within fifteen (15) days after filing thereof, copies of the reports required under Regulation 6.080 of Nevada Gaming Commission Regulation 6 (Accounting Regulations).

 

SECTION 6.02.                 Certificates; Other Information.  Deliver to the Administrative Agent for prompt further distribution to each Lender:

 

(a)  concurrently with the delivery of the financial statements referred to in Section 6.01(a), a certificate of its independent registered public accounting firm certifying such financial statements and stating that in making the examination necessary therefor no knowledge was obtained of any Event of Default under Section 7.11 or, if knowledge of any such Event of Default was so obtained, relevant information stating the nature and status of such event;

 

(b)  concurrently with the delivery of the financial statements referred to in Section 6.01(a) and (b), a duly completed Compliance Certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower and, if such Compliance Certificate demonstrates an Event of Default of any covenant under Section 7.11, Holdings may deliver, together with such Compliance Certificate, notice of its intent to cure (a “Notice of Intent to Cure”) such Event of Default pursuant to Section 8.05; provided that the delivery of a Notice of Intent to Cure shall in no way affect or alter the occurrence, existence or continuation of any such Event of Default or the rights, benefits, powers and remedies of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders under any Loan Document;

 

(c)  promptly after the same are publicly available, copies of all annual, regular, periodic and special reports and registration statements which the Borrower files with the SEC or with any Governmental Authority that may be substituted therefor (other than amendments to any 

 

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registration statement (to the extent such registration statement, in the form it became effective, is delivered), exhibits to any registration statement and, if applicable, any registration statement on Form S-8) and in any case not otherwise required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant hereto;

 

(d)  no later than five (5) days after the delivery of each Compliance Certificate pursuant to Section 6.02(b) (or, if not received by the Borrower or the applicable Subsidiary prior to the date of such delivery, promptly after the furnishing thereof), copies of any material requests or material notices received by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary (other than in the ordinary course of business) for the fiscal period covered by such Compliance Certificate or material statements or material reports furnished to any holder of debt securities of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to the terms of any Junior Financing Documentation, or any other Indebtedness (other than intercompany Indebtedness among the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries) of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary for the fiscal period covered by such Compliance Certificate in a principal amount greater than the Threshold Amount and not otherwise required to be furnished to the Lenders pursuant to any other clause of this Section 6.02;

 

(e)  no later than five (5) days after the delivery of each Compliance Certificate pursuant to Section 6.02(b), (i) updated exhibits to the Security Agreement in accordance with Section 4.14 of the Security Agreement and updated exhibits to the Pledge Agreement in accordance with Section 4.6 of the Pledge Agreement or confirming that there has been no change in either such exhibits since the Closing Date (or the date of the last such report), (ii) updated exhibits to the Pledge Agreement in accordance with Section 4.8 of the Pledge Agreement or confirming that there has been no change in such exhibits since the Closing Date (or the date of the last such report), (iii) a description of each event, condition or circumstance during the last fiscal period covered by such Compliance Certificate requiring a mandatory prepayment under Section 2.05(b), (iv) a list of each Subsidiary that identifies each Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary or an Unrestricted Subsidiary as of the date of delivery of such Compliance Certificate and indicates whether such Subsidiary is a Native American Subsidiary and (v) a report setting forth the payments and receipts made or received, as applicable, under the Parent Cost Allocation Agreement or the Subsidiary Cost Allocation Agreements by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries during the applicable period;

 

(f)  no later than five (5) days after the delivery of each Compliance Certificate pursuant to Section 6.02(b) (or, if not received by the Borrower or the applicable Subsidiary prior to the date of such delivery, promptly after receipt thereof), a copy of (i) each report delivered by the Manager to the Borrower pursuant to the Management Agreement with respect to the calculation of the Management Fees (as defined in the Management Agreement) for the fiscal period covered by such Compliance Certificate, (ii) each report delivered by any manager to any Unrestricted Subsidiary pursuant to a management agreement or similar agreement with respect to calculation of the related management fee for the fiscal period covered by such Compliance Certificate, and (iii) each amendment, modification, consent or waiver to the Manager Documents, the Tax Sharing Agreement, the Parent Cost Allocation Agreement, any Subsidiary Cost Allocation Agreement, the Transition Services Agreement or any Subsidiary Tax Sharing Agreement entered into during such fiscal period not previously delivered pursuant to Section 6.03(b);

 

(g)  promptly following the Administrative Agent’s or any Lender’s request therefor, all documentation and other information that the Administrative Agent or such Lender reasonably requests in order to comply with its ongoing obligations under the applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the Patriot Act; and

 

(h)  promptly, such additional information regarding the business, legal, financial or corporate affairs of Parent, any Loan Party or any of their respective Subsidiaries, or compliance with 

 

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the terms of the Loan Documents, as the Administrative Agent or any Lender through the Administrative Agent may from time to time reasonably request.

 

The Borrower hereby acknowledges that (a) the Administrative Agent will make available to the Lenders and the L/C Issuers materials and/or information provided by or on behalf of the Borrower hereunder (collectively, “Borrower Materials”) by posting the Borrower Materials on IntraLinks/IntraAgency 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 Borrower or its 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 Borrower hereby agrees that 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 Borrower shall be deemed to have authorized the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuers 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 Borrower or its 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 10.08); (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 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.”

 

SECTION 6.03.                 Notices.  Promptly after obtaining knowledge thereof, notify the Administrative Agent of:

 

(a)  the occurrence of any Default (such notice to be provided within two Business Days of such knowledge);

 

(b)  any material amendment, waiver or other modification made to, or delivery of any notice of default or termination or assignment of, any Manager Document, the Management Fee Subordination Agreement, the Parent Cost Allocation Agreement, any Subsidiary Cost Allocation Agreement, the Transition Services Agreement, the Tax Sharing Agreement or any Subsidiary Tax Sharing Agreement;

 

(c)  any material amendment, waiver or other material modification made to, or delivery of any notice of default or termination of, or the entry into, any Material Contract or the PropCo Credit Agreement (together with a copy of any such amendment, waiver, modification or notice);

 

(d)  the entering into by the Borrower or any Subsidiary of any management contract (together with a copy of any such management contract) whereby another Person will manage the gaming operations at one or more of the properties owned or leased by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries;

 

(e)  any matter that has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, including arising out of or resulting from (i) breach or non-performance of, or any default or event of default under, a Contractual Obligation of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary, (ii) any dispute, litigation, investigation, proceeding or suspension between any Loan Party or any Subsidiary and any Governmental Authority, (iii) the commencement of, or any material development in, any litigation or proceeding affecting any Loan Party or any Subsidiary, 

 

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including pursuant to any applicable Environmental Laws or in respect of IP Rights or the assertion or occurrence of any noncompliance by any Loan Party or as any of its Subsidiaries with, or liability under, any Environmental Law or Environmental Permit, or (iv) the occurrence of any ERISA Event;

 

(f)  the occurrence of a Casualty Event or the damage, loss or destruction of a material portion of the Collateral;

 

(g)  with respect to Plan years beginning on or after December 31, 2010, any documents or notices described in Section 101(k) of ERISA that any Loan Party or ERISA Affiliate has received with respect to any Multiemployer Plan;

 

(h)  receipt by Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of any written communication to Holdings, the Borrower, any Restricted Subsidiary, the Manager or Fertitta Entertainment from any Gaming Authority advising it of a material violation of or material noncompliance with any Gaming Law by Holdings, the Borrower, any Restricted Subsidiary, the Manager or Fertitta Entertainment; and

 

(i)  the occurrence of any event of default under the PropCo Credit Agreement.

 

Each notice pursuant to this Section shall be accompanied by a written statement of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower (x) that such notice is being delivered pursuant to Section 6.03(a) through (i) (as applicable) and (y) setting forth details of the occurrence referred to therein and stating what action the Borrower has taken and proposes to take with respect thereto.

 

SECTION 6.04.                 Payment of Obligations.  File all U.S. federal income and other material tax returns required to be filed in any jurisdiction and pay, discharge or otherwise satisfy as the same shall become due and payable, all its material obligations and liabilities in respect of material taxes, assessments and governmental charges or levies imposed upon it or upon its income or profits or in respect of its property.

 

SECTION 6.05.                 Preservation of Existence, Etc.  (a) Preserve, renew and maintain in full force and effect its legal existence under the Laws of the jurisdiction of its organization except in a transaction permitted by Section 7.04 or 7.05 and (b) take all reasonable action to maintain all rights, privileges (including its good standing), Permits, licenses and franchises necessary or desirable in the normal conduct of its business, except (i) to the extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) pursuant to a transaction permitted by Section 7.04 or 7.05.

 

SECTION 6.06.                 Maintenance of Properties; Employees.  Except if the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (a) maintain, preserve and protect all of its material properties and equipment necessary in the operation of its business in good working order, repair and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted and casualty or condemnation excepted, and (b) make all necessary renewals, replacements, modifications, improvements, upgrades, extensions and additions thereof or thereto in accordance with prudent industry practice. The Borrower shall cause all persons employed at properties of Holdings and its Subsidiaries, in each case at or below the general manager level, to be employees of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (excluding, for avoidance of doubt, employees of Parent and its Subsidiaries providing shared services subject to overhead reimbursements by Holdings and its Subsidiaries pursuant to the Parent Cost Allocation Agreement).

 

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SECTION 6.07.                 Maintenance of Insurance.  Maintain with financially sound and reputable insurance companies, 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 (after giving effect to any self-insurance reasonable and customary for similarly situated Persons engaged in the same or similar businesses as the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries) as are customarily carried under similar circumstances by such other Persons and ensure that the Agents and the Lenders are additional insureds and/or loss payees, as applicable, under such insurance, as reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent.

 

SECTION 6.08.                 Compliance with Laws.  (a)  Comply in all material respects with any requirements of all Laws, and all orders, writs, injunctions and decrees, of any Governmental Authority applicable to it or to its business or property, except if the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (b) take, or cause to be taken, all action necessary to maintain in full force and effect and in good standing any and all Gaming Permits and approvals or other entitlements allowing for the conduct, either currently or in the future, of nonrestricted gaming activities on any applicable Mortgaged Property (or any portion thereof), in each case, that are material to the operation of such Mortgaged Property, and (c) take, or cause to be taken, all action necessary to maintain in full force and effect and in good standing any and all other Permits (including all Permits under Liquor Laws) material to the operation of each Hotel/Casino Facility.

 

SECTION 6.09.                 Books and Records; Quarterly Conference Calls.  (a)  Maintain proper books of record and account, in which entries that are full, true and correct in all material respects and in conformity with GAAP consistently applied shall be made of all material financial transactions and matters involving the assets and business of Holdings, the Borrower or such Subsidiary, as the case may be.

 

(b)   At the request of the Administrative Agent, within 10 days after the date of the delivery (or, if later, required delivery) of the annual or quarterly financial information pursuant to Sections 6.01(a) and (b), beginning with the delivery of the financial information for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011, hold a conference call or teleconference, at a time selected by the Borrower and reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, with all of the Lenders that choose to participate, to review the financial results of the previous fiscal year or fiscal quarter, as the case may be, and the financial condition of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries and the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries and the Projections for the current fiscal year.

 

SECTION 6.10.                 Inspection Rights.  (a)  Subject to applicable Gaming Laws, permit representatives, designees 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 officers and independent public accountants, all at the reasonable expense of the Borrower and at such reasonable times during normal business hours and as often as may be reasonably desired, upon reasonable advance notice to the Borrower; provided that (x) only the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders may exercise rights of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders under this Section 6.10 and (y) absent the existence of an Event of Default, the Administrative Agent shall not exercise such rights more often than (i) four (4) times during the first year following the Closing Date and (ii) from and after the first anniversary of the Closing Date, two (2) times during each 12 month period commencing on the first anniversary of the Closing Date; provided, further, that when an Event of Default exists, the Administrative Agent (or any of its representatives or independent contractors) may do any of the foregoing at the expense of the Borrower at any time during normal business hours and upon reasonable advance notice (it being understood and agreed that the Administrative Agent shall give the Borrower the opportunity to participate in any discussions with the Borrower’s independent public accountants).

 

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(b)  Comply, and cause its Restricted Subsidiaries to comply, with the covenants specified in Exhibit L.

 

SECTION 6.11.                 Covenant to Guarantee Obligations and Give Security.  (a)  At the Borrower’s expense, promptly take all action necessary or reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent to ensure that the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement continues to be satisfied.

 

(b)  Without limiting the foregoing provisions of Section 6.11(a), upon the formation or acquisition of any new direct or indirect Subsidiary (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) by any Loan Party or the designation in accordance with Section 6.14(a) of any existing direct or indirect Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary:

 

(i)  within thirty (30) days after such formation, acquisition or designation or such longer period as the Administrative Agent may agree in its discretion:

 

(A)  cause each such Restricted Subsidiary that is required to grant Liens on its property under the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement to furnish to the Administrative Agent a description of the Real Properties owned or leased by such Restricted Subsidiary, in detail reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;

 

(B)  cause (x) each such Restricted Subsidiary that is required to grant Liens on its property pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement to duly execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent Mortgages, Security Agreement Supplements, Pledge Agreement Supplements, Intellectual Property Security Agreements, Control Agreements and a counterpart of the Intercompany Note and to execute, deliver, file and record any such other documents, statements, assignments, instruments, agreements or other papers and take all other actions necessary in order to create a perfected security interest (subject only to Permitted Liens) in all of its assets that are required to be pledged pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement (including, with respect to such Mortgages, the documents listed in Section 6.13(b)), as reasonably requested by and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (to the extent applicable due to similar jurisdiction and/or type of property, consistent with the Mortgages, Security Agreement, Pledge Agreement, Intellectual Property Security Agreements and other security agreements in effect on the Closing Date), in each case granting Liens required by the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement and (y) each direct or indirect parent of each such Restricted Subsidiary to duly execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent such Security Agreement Supplements and Pledge Agreement Supplements and to execute, deliver, file and record any such other documents, statements, assignments, instruments, agreements or other papers and take all other actions (with the priority required by the Collateral Documents) as reasonably requested by and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (to the extent applicable due to similar jurisdiction and/or type of property, consistent with the Security Agreement and the Pledge Agreement in effect on the Closing Date), in each case granting Liens required by the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement;

 

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certificates representing Equity Interests (to the extent certificated) that are required to be pledged pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement, accompanied by undated stock powers or other appropriate instruments of transfer executed in blank and instruments evidencing the intercompany Indebtedness held by such Restricted Subsidiary and required to be pledged pursuant to the Collateral Documents, indorsed in blank to the Administrative Agent and (y) cause each direct or indirect parent of such Restricted Subsidiary to deliver any and all certificates representing the outstanding Equity Interests (to the extent certificated) of such Restricted Subsidiary that are required to be pledged pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement, accompanied by undated stock powers or other appropriate instruments of transfer executed in blank and instruments evidencing the intercompany Indebtedness issued by such Restricted Subsidiary and required to be pledged in accordance with the Collateral Documents indorsed in blank to the Administrative Agent;

 

(D)  take and cause such Restricted Subsidiary and each direct or indirect parent of such Restricted Subsidiary to take whatever action (including the recording of Mortgages, the filing of Uniform Commercial Code financing statements and (subject to applicable Gaming Laws) delivery of stock and membership interest certificates and delivery of promissory notes duly endorsed in favor of the Administrative Agent (if any such Investment is by way of loan or advance)) may be necessary in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent to vest in the Administrative Agent (or in any representative of the Administrative Agent designated by it) valid Liens required by the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement, enforceable against all third parties in accordance with their terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by Debtor Relief Laws and by general principles of equity;

 

(E)  cause each such Restricted Subsidiary that is required to become a Guarantor under the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement to duly execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent a Guaranty Supplement or a new guaranty, in each case in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, guaranteeing the Obligations; and

 

(F)  cause each such Restricted Subsidiary to deliver to the Administrative Agent such documents and certificates as would have been required pursuant to Sections 4.01(a)(iii) and (v) of this Agreement had such Subsidiary been a Restricted Subsidiary on the Closing Date;

 

(ii)  within thirty (30) days after the request therefor by the Administrative Agent (or such longer period as the Administrative Agent may agree in its discretion), deliver to the Administrative Agent a signed copy of an 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 of law set forth in this Section 6.11(b) as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request;

 

(iii)  as promptly as practicable after the request therefor by the Administrative Agent, deliver to the Administrative Agent with respect to each parcel of Real Property that is required to be subject to a Lien for the benefit of the Lenders pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement any existing title reports, surveys or environmental assessment reports; and

 

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(iv)  after the Closing Date, concurrently with (x) the acquisition of any material personal property by any Restricted Subsidiary, (y) the acquisition of any owned Real Property by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary that is required to be subject to a Lien for the benefit of the Lenders pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement or (z) the entering into, or renewal, by any Restricted Subsidiary of a material ground lease in respect of Real Property that is required to be subject to a Lien for the benefit of the Lenders pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement, and such personal property, owned Real Property or lease shall not already be subject to a perfected Lien pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement, the Borrower shall give notice thereof to the Administrative Agent and promptly thereafter shall cause such assets to be subjected to a Lien to the extent required by the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement and will take, or cause the relevant Loan Party to take, such actions as shall be necessary or reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent to grant and perfect or record such Lien, including, as applicable, the actions referred to in Section 6.13(b) with respect to Real Property.

 

SECTION 6.12.                 Compliance with Environmental Laws.  Except, in each case, to the extent that the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, comply, and take all reasonable actions to cause all lessees and other Persons operating or occupying its properties to comply with all applicable Environmental Laws and Environmental Permits; obtain and renew all Environmental Permits necessary for its operations and properties; and, in each case to the extent required by Environmental Laws, 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.

 

SECTION 6.13.                 Further Assurances and Post-Closing Conditions.  (a)    Promptly upon reasonable request by the Administrative Agent (i) correct any material defect or error that may be discovered in the execution, acknowledgment, filing or recordation of any Collateral Document or other document or instrument relating to any Collateral, and (ii) 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 may reasonably request from time to time in order to carry out more effectively the purposes of the Collateral Documents.

 

(b)  In the case of any Real Property referred to in Section 6.11(b)(i)(B) or 6.11(b)(iv), provide the Administrative Agent with Mortgages with respect to such owned Real Property within thirty (30) days of the acquisition of, or, if requested by the Administrative Agent, entry into, or renewal of, a material ground lease (determined as provided in the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement”) in respect of, such Real Property, together with:

 

(i)  evidence that counterparts of the Mortgages have been duly executed, acknowledged and delivered and are in form suitable for filing or recording in all filing or recording offices that the Administrative Agent may deem reasonably necessary or desirable in order to create a valid and subsisting perfected Lien on the property and/or rights described therein in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties and that all filing and recording taxes and fees have been paid or otherwise provided for in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;

 

(ii)  fully paid American Land Title Association Lender’s Extended Coverage title insurance policies or the equivalent or other form available in each applicable jurisdiction (the “Mortgage Policies”) in form and substance, with endorsements (including endorsements for future advances under the Loan Documents) and in amount, reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent (not

 

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to exceed the value of the real properties covered thereby), issued, coinsured and reinsured by title insurers reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, insuring the Mortgages to be valid subsisting Liens on the property described therein, free and clear of all defects and encumbrances, subject to Permitted Liens, and providing for such other affirmative insurance and such coinsurance and direct access reinsurance as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request;

 

(iii)  opinions of local counsel for the Loan Parties in states in which such Real Properties are located, with respect to the enforceability of and the creation of a valid Lien of record under, and perfection of, the Mortgages and any related fixture filings in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;

 

(iv)  flood certificates covering each Mortgaged Property in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, certified to the Administrative Agent in its capacity as such and certifying whether or not each such Mortgaged Property is located in a flood hazard zone by reference to the applicable FEMA map;

 

(v)  either (A) a letter or other evidence with respect to each Mortgaged Property from the appropriate Governmental Authorities concerning the current status of applicable zoning and building laws, (B) an ALTA 3.1 zoning endorsement for the Mortgage Policies or (C) a zoning report prepared by The Planning Zoning Resource Corporation indicating that such Mortgaged Property is in material compliance with applicable zoning and building laws; and

 

(vi)  such other evidence that all other actions that the Administrative Agent may reasonably deem necessary or desirable in order to create valid and subsisting Liens on the property described in the Mortgages has been taken.

 

SECTION 6.14.          Designation of Subsidiaries.  (a)  At the Borrower’s election, at any time after the Closing Date designate any Restricted Subsidiary (other than NP Lake Mead Station, LLC, NP Fiesta Station LLC, NP Santa Fe Station LLC, NP Texas Station, LLC or any other Restricted Subsidiary into which any portion of the assets (other than de minimis assets) of any of the foregoing entities are transferred on or after the Closing Date (by Investment, Disposition, merger, consolidation or otherwise)) as an Unrestricted Subsidiary or any Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary; provided that (i) immediately before and after such designation, no Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (ii) immediately after giving effect to such designation, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall be in compliance, on a Pro Forma Basis, with the covenants set forth in Section 7.11 (and, as a condition precedent to the effectiveness of any such designation, the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent a certificate setting forth in reasonable detail the calculations demonstrating such compliance), (iii) no Subsidiary may be designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary if it is a “Restricted Subsidiary” for the purpose of any Junior Financing, any Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount greater than or equal to the Threshold Amount or any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof, (iv) the Investment resulting from the designation of any such Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary pursuant to this Section 6.14(a) is permitted by Section 7.02, (v) any Indebtedness or Liens of any Unrestricted Subsidiary designated as a Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to this Section 6.14(a) are permitted by Sections 7.03 and 7.01, respectively, (vi) no Restricted Subsidiary may be designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary if it was previously designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary, (vii) prior to the First Test Date, no Unrestricted Subsidiary may be designated as a Restricted Subsidiary, (viii) no Restricted Subsidiary may be designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary if it owns a Core Property and (ix) no

 

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Restricted Subsidiary may be designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary if (after giving effect to such designation) it will provide any Guarantee of any Indebtedness of the Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary. The designation of any Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary shall constitute an Investment by the Borrower therein at the date of designation in an amount equal to the Fair Market Value of the net assets of such Subsidiary at the time that such Subsidiary is designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary.  The designation of any Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary shall constitute the incurrence at the time of designation of any Indebtedness or Liens of such Subsidiary existing at such time.

 

(b)  At the Borrower’s election, at any time, designate a Restricted Subsidiary as a Native American Subsidiary, but only to the extent that such designation is consistent with the definition of “Native American Subsidiary”.  Upon any Native American Subsidiary’s (whether designated as such on the Closing Date or thereafter pursuant to the preceding sentence) ceasing to satisfy any of the requirements set forth in the definition of such term, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent thereof and shall take the actions required pursuant to Section 6.11 and such Subsidiary shall cease to be a Native American Subsidiary.

 

SECTION 6.15.          Information Regarding Collateral.  Furnish to the Administrative Agent prompt written notice of any change (a) in any Loan Party’s corporate name, (b) in the location of any Loan Party’s chief executive office, its principal place of business, and, upon request of the Administrative Agent, in the location of any office in which it maintains books or records relating to Collateral owned by it or any office or facility at which Collateral owned by it is located (including the establishment of any such new office or facility), (c) in any Loan Party’s identity, jurisdiction of organization or organizational structure or (d) in any Loan Party’s U.S. Federal Taxpayer Identification Number, as applicable, and, in any event, no such change shall be effected or permitted unless all filings have been made (or will be made on a timely basis) under applicable Laws or otherwise and all other actions have been taken (or will be taken on a timely basis) that are required in order for the Administrative Agent to continue at all times following such change to have a valid, legal and perfected security interest in all the Collateral; provided that any such written notice under clauses (a) or (c) above shall be given to the Administrative Agent (or such shorter period as the Administrative Agent may agree in writing) not less than thirty (30) days prior to such change; provided, further, that no Loan Party shall change its jurisdiction of organization to a jurisdiction located outside the United States without the consent of the Required Lenders.

 

SECTION 6.16.          Corporate Separateness.  (a)  Satisfy, and cause each of its Restricted Subsidiaries and Unrestricted Subsidiaries to satisfy, customary corporate, limited liability company and other formalities, including, as applicable, the holding of regular board of managers’ or members’ meetings or action by managers or members without a meeting and the maintenance of corporate records.

 

(b) Ensure that (i) no bank account of any Unrestricted Subsidiary shall be held jointly with the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and no bank account of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary shall be held jointly with any of the Unrestricted Subsidiaries or any other Person, and (ii) any financial statements distributed to any creditors of any Unrestricted Subsidiary shall clearly establish or indicate the corporate separateness of such Unrestricted Subsidiary from Holdings, the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries.

 

SECTION 6.17.          Interest Rate Protection(a).  Within 60 days after the Closing Date, enter into, and thereafter maintain, Swap Contracts with a counterparty reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent to the extent necessary to provide that at least 50% of the aggregate principal amount of the B Term Loans is subject to either a fixed interest rate or interest rate protection for a

 

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period of not less than three years from the date of the entry into the applicable Swap Contract, which Swap Contracts shall have terms and conditions reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

 

SECTION 6.18.      Management Agreement.

 

(a)  Payment of Sums Due Under Management Agreement.  Pay all management fees and other charges reserved in or payable under the Management Agreement on or prior to the due date thereof except where (i) the validity or amount thereof is being contested in good faith, (ii) the Borrower has set aside on its books adequate reserves with respect thereto in accordance with GAAP and (iii) the failure to make payment pending such contest would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(b)  Performance of Covenants.  (i) Promptly perform and observe in all material respects all of the terms, covenants and conditions required to be performed and observed by the Borrower under the Management Agreement, the breach of which would permit any party to the Management Agreement validly to terminate the Management Agreement (including, without limitation, all payment obligations), (ii) do all things commercially reasonable to preserve and to keep unimpaired its rights under the Management Agreement, (iii) not waive, excuse or discharge any of the material obligations of the Manager or any other party to the Management Agreement without the Administrative Agent’s prior written consent in each instance, and (iv) enforce the material obligations of the Manager and the other parties to the Management Agreement, except, in the case of the foregoing clauses (i) through (iv), in any such case where same would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(c)  No Modification or Termination.

 

(i)  Not consent to or acquiesce in any amendment, modification, waiver or change to any Manager Document in any manner adverse to the interests of the Lenders in any material respect; it being acknowledged and agreed by the parties hereto, that in any event any amendment, waiver or other modification which would have the effect of (A) increasing management fees, required reserves or termination fees or (B) shortening the term thereof shall be deemed adverse to the interests of the Lenders in a material respect.

 

(ii)  Not permit, consent to or acquiesce in any cancellation, termination or surrender of any Manager Document.

 

(d)  Notices of Default.  Promptly (but in no event later than two (2) Business Days after the Borrower’s receipt thereof) deliver (or cause to be delivered) to the Administrative Agent copies of any written notice of default by any party under the Management Agreement, or of any written notice from the Manager or any other party to the Management Agreement of its intention to terminate the Management Agreement.

 

(e)  Delivery of Information.  Promptly furnish (or cause to be furnished) to the Administrative Agent copies of such information and evidence as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request concerning the Borrower’s due observance, performance and compliance with the terms, covenants and conditions of the Management Agreement.

 

(f)  Other Management Agreements; Delegation of Manager’s Duties.  Not enter into any management agreements other than the Management Agreement or permit the Manager to assign or sub-contract its duties or responsibilities under the Management Agreement (except as permitted under the Management Agreement as in effect on the date hereof).

 

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(g)  Further Assurances.  At its sole cost and expense, shall execute and deliver to Administrative Agent, within five (5) Business Days after request, such documents, instruments or agreements as may be reasonably required to permit the Administrative Agent to cure any default under the Management Agreement.

 

(h)  Management Agreement Cure By Administrative Agent.  In the event of a default by the Borrower in the performance of any of its obligations under the Management Agreement beyond any applicable notice and cure periods therein, including, without limitation, any default in the payment of any sums payable thereunder, then, in each and every such case, subject to applicable Gaming Laws, the Administrative Agent may, at its option, cause the default or defaults to be remedied.  The Borrower shall, on demand, reimburse the Administrative Agent for all advances made and out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent in curing any such default (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees and disbursements), together with interest thereon computed at the Default Rate from the date that such advance is made to and including the date the same is paid to the Administrative Agent.

 

(i)  Subordination. At all times cause the Management Agreement and all management fees payable thereunder to be  subordinated to the Obligations and the Liens held by the Administrative Agent pursuant to the Management Fee Subordination Agreement (or otherwise on terms satisfactory to the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion).

 

(j)  Rights of Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall have the right (but shall have no obligation) at any time that there shall exist and be continuing an Event of Default, to take in Administrative Agent’s own name or in the name of the Borrower (but at the Borrower’s expense, which shall be reimbursed to the Administrative Agent upon demand and shall constitute part of the Obligations), such action as Administrative Agent may at any time or from time to time determine to be necessary, subject to applicable Gaming Laws:

 

(i)  to exercise any of the rights of the Borrower under the Management Agreement and to request and require the Manager to attorn to Administrative Agent (or its designee);

 

(ii)  to terminate the Management Agreement in accordance with, and subject to the terms of, the Management Agreement and the Management Fee Subordination Agreement;

 

(iii)  to amend, modify or extend the Management Agreement by agreement with the Manager;

 

(iv)  to cure any default under the Management Agreement; and

 

(v)  to protect the rights of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereunder and under the Management Agreement;

 

and the Administrative Agent shall incur no liability as between itself and the Borrower if any action taken by or on its behalf in good faith pursuant hereto shall prove to be, in whole or in part, inadequate or invalid. Without limiting any of the rights, powers and privileges granted to the Administrative Agent in the other Loan Documents, the Borrower hereby irrevocably makes, constitutes and empowers and authorizes the Administrative Agent (and all officers, employees or agents designated by the Administrative Agent) and hereby irrevocably appoints the Administrative Agent as the Borrower’s attorney-in-fact (which irrevocable appointment is coupled with an interest) for the purpose of enforcing the Borrower’s rights under the Management Agreement and the Administrative Agent’s rights in Section 6.18(h) and (j) upon the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default.  The Borrower shall, within five (5) Business Days after written request is made therefor by the Administrative Agent, execute and

 

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deliver to the Administrative Agent or to any party designated by the Administrative Agent, such further instruments, agreements, powers, assignments, conveyances or the like as may be reasonably necessary or desirable to complete or perfect the interest, rights or powers of the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 6.18 or as may otherwise be required by the Administrative Agent.

 

SECTION 6.19.      Unrestricted Subsidiaries(a)  .

 

(a)          Existence and Maintenance of Properties.  Except if the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, to the extent funds are available at such Unrestricted Subsidiary for such purpose, cause each Unrestricted Subsidiary to:

 

(i)  Preserve, renew and maintain in full force and effect its legal existence;

 

(ii)  (A) Maintain, preserve and protect all of its material properties and equipment necessary in the operation of its business in good working order, repair and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted and casualty or condemnation excepted, and (B) make all necessary renewals, replacements, modifications, improvements, upgrades, extensions and additions thereof or thereto in accordance with prudent industry practice; and

 

(iii)  Maintain such insurance with respect to its properties and business as shall be required by any applicable financing documentation to which it is a party.

 

(b)  Gaming Permits.  Except if the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, take, or cause to be taken, all action necessary to maintain in full force and effect and in good standing any and all Gaming Permits and approvals or other entitlements allowing for the conduct, either currently or in the future, of nonrestricted gaming activities on any applicable Real Property (or any portion thereof); provided that any failure to comply with the foregoing shall constitute a breach of this paragraph (b) only if such failure occurs as a result of fraud, gross negligence, intentional misconduct of the Borrower, the Manager or Fertitta Entertainment or their respective principals or Affiliates.

 

(c)  Sale of All or Substantially All Assets.  Within ten (10) Business Days following the sale of all or substantially all of the assets of any Unrestricted Subsidiary and repayment of all Indebtedness thereof, cause to be distributed to the Borrower any Net Cash Proceeds of such sale (determined as if each reference in the definition of “Net Cash Proceeds” to a Restricted Subsidiary was to an Unrestricted Subsidiary) remaining after repayment of the Indebtedness of such Unrestricted Subsidiary and repayment of (or establishment of reasonable reserves for) any other liabilities of such Unrestricted Subsidiary.

 

SECTION 6.20.          Ratings.  Use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain and maintain at all times on and after the Closing Date (i) a public corporate family rating of the Borrower and a rating of the Loans, in each case from Moody’s, and (ii) a public corporate credit rating of the Borrower and a rating of the Loans, in each case from S&P (it being understood and agreed that “commercially reasonable efforts” shall in any event include the payment by the Borrower of customary rating agency fees, cooperation with information and data requests by Moody’s and S&P in connection with their ratings process and the participation by senior management of the Borrower in a ratings presentation to Moody’s and S&P).

 

SECTION 6.21.          Equity Issuances.  In the case of Holdings, contribute to the Borrower, on or prior to the date which is five (5) Business Days after the receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds, 100%

 

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of all Net Cash Proceeds received by Holdings in respect of any capital contribution or any sale or issuance of its Equity Interests.

 

SECTION 6.22.          Subsidiary Cost Allocation Agreements.  (i) Promptly perform and observe in all material respects all of the terms, covenants and conditions required to be performed and observed by the Borrower under any Subsidiary Cost Allocation Agreement, (ii) do all things commercially reasonable to preserve and to keep unimpaired its material rights under any Subsidiary Cost Allocation Agreement, (iii) not waive, excuse or discharge any of the material obligations of any Unrestricted Subsidiary under any Subsidiary Cost Allocation Agreement without the Administrative Agent’s prior written consent in each instance, and (iv) enforce the material obligations of each Unrestricted Subsidiary under any Subsidiary Cost Allocation Agreement.

 

SECTION 6.23.          Parent Cost Allocation Agreement, etc.  (a) (i) Promptly perform and observe in all material respects all of the terms, covenants and conditions required to be performed and observed by Holdings, the Borrower and their respective Subsidiaries under the Parent Cost Allocation Agreement and the Transition Services Agreement, (ii) do all things commercially reasonable to preserve and to keep unimpaired its material rights under the Parent Cost Allocation Agreement and the Transition Services Agreement, (iii) not waive, excuse or discharge any of the material obligations of the Parent under the Parent Cost Allocation Agreement or the Transition Services Agreement without the Administrative Agent’s prior written consent in each instance, and (iv) enforce the material obligations of the Parent under the Parent Cost Allocation Agreement and the Transition Services Agreement.

 

(b) Cure by Administrative Agent. In the event of a default by the Borrower in the performance of any of its obligations under the Parent Cost Allocation Agreement or the Transition Services Agreement beyond any applicable notice and cure periods respectively set forth in such agreements, including, without limitation, any default in the payment of any sums payable under either agreement, then, in each and every such case, subject to applicable Gaming Laws, the Administrative Agent may, at its option, cause the default or defaults to be remedied.  The Borrower shall, on demand, reimburse the Administrative Agent for all advances made and out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent in curing any such default (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees and disbursements), together with interest thereon computed at the Default Rate from the date that such advance is made to and including the date the same is paid to the Administrative Agent.

 

(c) Rights of Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall have the right (but shall have no obligation) at any time that there shall exist and be continuing an Event of Default, to take in Administrative Agent’s own name or in the name of the Borrower (but at the Borrower’s expense, which shall be reimbursed to the Administrative Agent upon demand and shall constitute part of the Obligations), such action as Administrative Agent may at any time or from time to time determine to be necessary, subject to applicable Gaming Laws:

 

(i)  to exercise any of the rights of the Borrower under the Parent Cost Allocation Agreement or the Transition Services Agreement;

 

(ii)  to terminate the Parent Cost Allocation Agreement or the Transition Services Agreement in accordance with the Parent Cost Allocation Agreement or the Transition Services Agreement, respectively;

 

(iii)  to amend, modify or extend the Parent Cost Allocation Agreement by agreement with the other parties thereto;

 

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(iv)  to amend, modify or extend the Transition Services Agreement by agreement with the other parties thereto;

 

(v)  to cure any default under the Parent Cost Allocation Agreement or the Transition Services Agreement; and

 

(vi)  to protect the rights of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereunder and under the Parent Cost Allocation Agreement and the Transition Services Agreement;

 

and the Administrative Agent shall incur no liability as between itself and the Borrower if any action taken by or on its behalf in good faith pursuant hereto shall prove to be, in whole or in part, inadequate or invalid. Without limiting any of the rights, powers and privileges granted to the Administrative Agent in the other Loan Documents, the Borrower hereby irrevocably makes, constitutes and empowers and authorizes the Administrative Agent (and all officers, employees or agents designated by the Administrative Agent) and hereby irrevocably appoints the Administrative Agent as the Borrower’s attorney-in-fact (which irrevocable appointment is coupled with an interest) for the purpose of enforcing the Borrower’s rights under the Parent Cost Allocation Agreement and the Transition Services Agreement and the Administrative Agent’s rights in Section 6.23(b) and (c) upon the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default.  The Borrower shall, within five (5) Business Days after written request is made therefor by the Administrative Agent, execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent or to any party designated by the Administrative Agent, such further instruments, agreements, powers, assignments, conveyances or the like as may be reasonably necessary or desirable to complete or perfect the interest, rights or powers of the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 6.23 or as may otherwise be required by the Administrative Agent.

 

SECTION 6.24.          Texas Station IT Build-Out.   Take all actions required to achieve full stand-alone IT functionality for the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries no later than the first anniversary of the Closing Date (it being understood that the foregoing covenant does not require the establishment of redundant or back-up IT systems, and the availability of redundant or back-up IT systems shall be governed by the terms of the Transition Services Agreement). For purposes of this Section, “full stand-alone IT functionality” shall mean that Borrower shall bring on-line sufficient hardware and software so as to provide Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries with substantially similar functionality as the Mortgaged Properties (as the term “Mortgaged Properties” is defined in the Transition Services Agreement as in effect on the Closing Date) enjoy using the hardware and software in use on the Closing Date at the data centers currently maintained at Parent for operating the enterprise applications needed for the Mortgaged Properties.

 

ARTICLE VII

 

Negative Covenants

 

So long as any Lender shall have any Revolving Credit Commitment hereunder, any Loan or other Obligation hereunder which is accrued and payable shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied, or any Letter of Credit shall remain outstanding, the Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any of the Restricted Subsidiaries (or, in the case of Sections 7.08 and 7.15, Holdings) to, directly or indirectly:

 

SECTION 7.01.          Liens.  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:

 

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(b)  Liens existing on the Closing Date and listed on Schedule 7.01(b)(6) and any modifications, replacements, renewals or extensions thereof; provided that (i) any such Lien does not extend to any additional property other than (A) after-acquired property that is affixed or incorporated into the property covered by such Lien, and (B) proceeds and products thereof, and (ii) such Liens shall secure only those obligations which they secure on the Closing Date and refinancings, extensions, renewals and replacements thereof permitted hereunder;

 

(c)  Liens for taxes, assessments or governmental charges which are not yet due or delinquent or 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)  statutory Liens of landlords, carriers, warehousemen, mechanics, materialmen, repairmen, construction contractors or other like Liens arising in the ordinary course of business which secure amounts not overdue for a period of more than thirty (30) days or if more than thirty (30) days overdue, are unfiled and no other action has been taken to enforce such Lien or 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;

 

(e)   (i) pledges or deposits in the ordinary course of business in connection with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security legislation and (ii) pledges and deposits in the ordinary course of business securing liability for reimbursement or indemnification obligations of (including obligations in respect of letters of credit or bank guarantees for the benefit of) insurance carriers providing property, casualty or liability insurance to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary;

 

(f)  deposits to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts, governmental contracts and leases (other than Indebtedness for borrowed money and Capitalized Leases), statutory obligations, surety, stay, customs and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature (including those to secure health, safety and environmental obligations) incurred in the ordinary course of business;

 

(g)  public and private easements, rights-of-way, restrictions, encroachments, protrusions, franchises, licenses, permits, zoning laws, covenants, conditions, restrictions and other similar non-monetary encumbrances and minor title defects affecting real property which, in the aggregate, do not in any case materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary and any and all exceptions to title disclosed on Schedule B of each of the Mortgage Policies to the extent reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent;

 

(h)  Liens securing judgments for the payment of money not constituting an Event of Default under Section 8.01(h), so long as such Liens are adequately bonded (if required by the applicable court) and any appropriate legal proceedings that may have been duly initiated for the review of such judgment have not been finally terminated or the period within which such proceedings may be initiated has not expired;

 

(i)  Liens securing Indebtedness permitted under Section 7.03(e); provided that (i) such Liens attach concurrently with or within two hundred seventy (270) days after the acquisition, repair, replacement, construction or improvement (as applicable) of the property subject to such Liens, (ii) such

 

(6)   Schedule to be satisfactory to the Required Lenders.

 

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Liens do not at any time encumber any property except for the property financed by such Indebtedness, accessions thereto and the proceeds and the products thereof, (iii) with respect to Capitalized Leases, such Liens do not at any time extend to or cover any assets (except for accessions to such assets) other than the assets subject to such Capitalized Leases; provided that individual financings of equipment provided by one lender may be cross collateralized to other financings of equipment provided by such lender and (iv) the amount of Indebtedness secured thereby does not exceed the cost of the acquisition, repair, replacement, construction or improvement (as applicable) of such property;

 

(j)  (i) in the case of the Mortgaged Properties, Real Property Leases permitted under Section 7.18 and (ii) with respect to all other properties and assets of the Loan Parties, leases, licenses, subleases or sublicenses granted to others in the ordinary course of business which do not (x) interfere in any material respect with the business of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary or (y) secure any Indebtedness;

 

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

 

(l)  Liens (i) of a collection bank arising under Section 4-210 of the Uniform Commercial Code on items in the course of collection, (ii) attaching to commodity trading accounts or other commodities brokerage accounts incurred in the ordinary course of business; (iii) in favor of a banking institution arising as a matter of law encumbering deposits (including the right of set-off) and which are within the general parameters customary in the banking industry and (iv) in favor of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. in the form of debit and set-off rights arising under the Wells Fargo Indemnification Agreement;

 

(m)  Liens (i) on cash advances in favor of the seller of any property to be acquired in an Investment permitted pursuant to Sections 7.02(i) and (n) to be applied against the purchase price for such Investment, and (ii) consisting of an agreement to Dispose of any property in a Disposition permitted under Section 7.05, in each case, solely to the extent such Investment or Disposition, as the case may be, would have been permitted on the date of the creation of such Lien;

 

(n)  Liens in favor of the Borrower or a Subsidiary Guarantor securing Indebtedness permitted under Section 7.03(d);

 

(o)  Liens existing on property at the time of its acquisition or existing on the property of any Person at the time such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary (other than by designation as a Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to Section 6.14), in each case after the Closing Date (other than Liens on the Equity Interests of any Person that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary); provided that (i) such Lien was not created in contemplation of such acquisition or such Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary, (ii) such Lien does not extend to or cover any other assets or property (other than the proceeds or products thereof and other than after-acquired property subjected to a Lien securing Indebtedness and other obligations incurred prior to such time and which Indebtedness and other obligations are permitted hereunder that require, pursuant to their terms at such time, a pledge of after-acquired property, it being understood that such requirement shall not be permitted to apply to any property to which such requirement would not have applied but for such acquisition), and (iii) the Indebtedness secured thereby is permitted under Section 7.03(e);

 

(p)  any interest or title of a lessor under leases entered into by the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries (in their capacities as lessee) in the ordinary course of business;

 

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(q)  Liens arising out of conditional sale, title retention, consignment or similar arrangements for sale of goods entered into by the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business permitted by this Agreement;

 

(r)  Liens deemed to exist in connection with Investments in repurchase agreements under Section 7.02; provided that such Liens do not extend to any assets other than those that are the subject of such repurchase agreement;

 

(s)  Liens encumbering reasonable customary initial deposits and margin deposits and similar Liens attaching to commodity trading accounts or other brokerage accounts incurred in the ordinary course of business and not for speculative purposes;

 

(t)  Liens that are contractual rights of set-off (i) relating to the establishment of depository relations with banks not given in connection with the issuance of Indebtedness, (ii) relating to pooled deposit or sweep accounts of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary to permit satisfaction of overdraft or similar obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries or (iii) relating to purchase orders and other agreements entered into with customers of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business;

 

(u)  Liens solely on any cash earnest money deposits made by the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with any letter of intent or purchase agreement permitted hereunder;

 

(v)  Liens arising from precautionary UCC financing statement filings regarding operating leases entered into in the ordinary course of business;

 

(w)  Ground Leases on which facilities owned or leased by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries are located; and

 

(x)  other Liens on assets securing Indebtedness outstanding in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $10,000,000; provided  however that no Liens on assets constituting Collateral shall be permitted pursuant to this clause (x) to secure Indebtedness for borrowed money or reimbursement obligations under letters of credit of Holdings, the Borrower or any of their Restricted Subsidiaries.

 

SECTION 7.02.          Investments.  Make or hold any Investments, except:

 

(a)  Investments by the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary in assets that were Cash Equivalents when such Investments were made; provided, however, that (x) at any time Revolving Credit Loans and/or Swing Line Loans are outstanding, the aggregate amount of Unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents held by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall not exceed $7,500,000 for any period of five consecutive Business Days and (y) the aggregate amount of Cage Cash maintained by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries (A) shall not exceed the amount of cash, determined by the Borrower in its reasonable business judgment consistent with past practices, desirable in the ordinary course of business to be maintained in the Hotel/Casino Facilities and (B) shall not exceed $45,000,000 (or such higher amount of Cage Cash as shall be required by the Gaming Authorities for the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries in the aggregate as set forth in a written notice from the Borrower to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders) for any period of five consecutive Business Days, provided, further, that, upon a Permitted Acquisition, the maximum amount specified in this clause (B) shall be increased to an amount reasonably determined by the Borrower (subject to the consent of the Administrative Agent (not to be unreasonably withheld)) to reflect any increase in the aggregate amount

 

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of Cage Cash of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries desirable in the ordinary course of business in connection with such Permitted Acquisition;

 

(b)  loans or advances to officers, directors, board managers and employees of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries (i) for reasonable and customary business-related travel, entertainment, relocation and analogous ordinary business purposes so long as made in accordance with applicable law and (ii) in connection with such Person’s purchase of Equity Interests of Holdings (or any direct or indirect parent thereof) (provided that the amount of such loans and advances described in this clause (b)(ii) shall be contributed to the Borrower in cash as common equity); provided the aggregate principal amount of all loans and advances made in reliance on this clause (b) shall not exceed $500,000 at any time outstanding;

 

(c)  Investments by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in any Restricted Subsidiary that is a Subsidiary Guarantor (excluding any new Restricted Subsidiary which becomes (or would become) a Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with such Investment) or by a Restricted Subsidiary in the Borrower;

 

(d)  Investments consisting of extensions of 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 and other credits to suppliers in the ordinary course of business;

 

(e)  Investments consisting of Liens, Indebtedness, fundamental changes, Dispositions and Restricted Payments permitted under Sections 7.01, 7.03, 7.04, 7.05 and 7.06, respectively; provided that for purposes of any Indebtedness incurred by a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor in favor of a Loan Party, and any Dispositions by a Loan Party to a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor, such Investments shall be permitted pursuant to the other provisions of this Section 7.02 (and not solely pursuant to this clause (e));

 

(f)  Investments existing on the Closing Date and set forth on Schedule 7.02(f)(7) by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in the Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary; provided that (x) the amount of the original Investment is not increased except by the terms of such Investment or as otherwise permitted by this Section 7.02 and (y) any Investment in the form of Indebtedness of any Loan Party owed to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor shall be subject to the subordination terms set forth in the Intercompany Note;

 

(g)  Investments in Swap Contracts permitted under Section 7.03;

 

(h)  promissory notes and other noncash consideration received in connection with Dispositions permitted by Section 7.05;

 

(i)  the purchase or other acquisition after the Closing Date by the Borrower or a wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower of property and assets or businesses of any Person or of assets constituting a business unit, a line of business or division of such Person, or Equity Interests in a Person that, upon the consummation thereof, will be a Restricted Subsidiary (including as a result of a merger or consolidation); provided that, with respect to each purchase or other acquisition made pursuant to this Section 7.02(i) (each, a “Permitted Acquisition”):

 

(7)  Required Lenders must be satisfied with any scheduled Investments made between date of any delivery of draft Schedule 7.02(f) prior to August 10, 2010 and the Closing Date.

 

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(A)  subject to clause (B) below, all property, assets and businesses acquired in such purchase or other acquisition shall constitute Collateral (unless the same constitute Excluded Assets) and each applicable Loan Party and any such newly created or acquired Subsidiary (and, to the extent required under the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement, the Subsidiaries of such created or acquired Subsidiary) shall be a Subsidiary Guarantor and shall have complied with the requirements of Section 6.11, within the times specified therein;

 

(B)  the aggregate amount of consideration (cash and noncash and including the Fair Market Value of all Equity Interests issued or transferred to the sellers thereof, all indemnities, earnouts and other contingent payment obligations to, and the aggregate amounts paid or to be paid under noncompete, consulting and other affiliated agreements with, the sellers thereof, all write-downs of property and reserves for liabilities with respect thereto and all assumptions of debt, liabilities and other obligations in connection therewith) paid in respect of acquisitions of Persons that do not become Subsidiary Guarantors (including Persons who do not become wholly owned Subsidiaries of the Borrower) shall not exceed $25,000,000 (net of any return representing a return of capital in respect of any such Investment);

 

(C)  the acquired property, assets, business or Person is in the same line of business as the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary;

 

(D)  (1) immediately before and immediately after giving Pro Forma Effect to any such purchase or other acquisition, no Default shall have occurred and be continuing and (2) immediately after giving effect to such purchase or other acquisition (including any Indebtedness incurred in connection therewith), (i) the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall be in Pro Forma Compliance with all of the covenants set forth in Section 7.11 and (ii) unless the Total Leverage Ratio (as determined on a Pro Forma Basis after giving effect to such purchase or other acquisition) is equal to or less than 4.00:1.00, the Total Leverage Ratio (as determined on a Pro Forma Basis after giving effect to such purchase or other acquisition) shall be less than or equal to the Total Leverage Ratio (as determined on a Pro Forma Basis immediately prior to such purchase or acquisition), with such compliance with preceding clauses (i) and (ii) 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 (where applicable) such purchase or other acquisition had been consummated as of the first day of the fiscal period covered thereby and evidenced by a certificate from the principal accounting officer of the Borrower demonstrating such compliance calculation in reasonable detail;

 

(E)  no Person acquired pursuant to, or formed to effect, a Permitted Acquisition may be designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary simultaneously with the consummation of such Permitted Acquisition;

 

(F)  any Person acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition that will, upon the consummation thereof, become a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower shall be a Restricted Subsidiary not less than 85% of the Equity 

 

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Interests of which are owned by the Borrower or another wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower; and

 

(G)  the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Lenders, no later than five (5) Business Days after the date on which any such purchase or other acquisition is consummated, a certificate of a Responsible Officer, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, certifying that all of the requirements set forth in this clause (i) have been satisfied or will be satisfied on or prior to the consummation of such purchase or other acquisition;

 

(j)  [reserved];

 

(k)  Investments in the ordinary course of business consisting of Article 3 of the Uniform Commercial Code endorsements for collection or deposit and Article 4 of the Uniform Commercial Code customary trade arrangements with customers consistent with past practices;

 

(l)  Investments (including debt obligations and Equity Interests) received in connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of suppliers and customers or in settlement of delinquent obligations of, or other disputes with, customers and suppliers arising in the ordinary course of business or upon the foreclosure with respect to any secured Investment or other transfer of title with respect to any secured Investment;

 

(m)  loans and advances to Holdings (or any direct or indirect parent thereof) in lieu of, and not in excess of the amount of (after giving effect to any other loans, advances or Restricted Payments in respect thereof), Restricted Payments to the extent permitted to be made to Holdings (or such parent) in accordance with Section 7.06(f);

 

(n)  so long as immediately after giving effect to any such Investment, no Default has occurred and is continuing and the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries will be in Pro Forma Compliance with the covenants set forth in Section 7.11, Investments in an aggregate amount from and after the Closing Date not to exceed the sum of (i) the aggregate amount of the Net Cash Proceeds of Permitted Equity Issuances (other than Permitted Equity Issuances made pursuant to Section 8.05) received after the Closing Date that are Not Otherwise Applied, plus (ii) the amount of Cumulative Excess Cash Flow that is Not Otherwise Applied plus (iii) an amount equal to $35,000,000, provided that in no event shall the aggregate amount of Investments in Unrestricted Subsidiaries (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any Investment resulting from the designation of a Restricted Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary) made in reliance on this clause (iii) exceed $25,000,000;

 

(o)  advances of payroll payments to employees of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business;

 

(p)  so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, (x) Native American Investments of the type described in clause (ii) of the definition thereof as set forth in Schedule 7.02(p) and (y) Native American Investments of the types described in clause (i) of the definition thereof; provided that the aggregate amount of all such Native American Investments made in reliance on preceding sub-clause (y) in any fiscal year shall not exceed $5,000,000; provided, further, that (i) to the extent the aggregate amount of all such Native American Investments made in any fiscal year in reliance on preceding sub-clause (y) is less than $5,000,000, the amount of such difference (the “Native American Investment  Rollover Amount”)  may be carried forward one time and used to make Native American Investments of the types described in clause (i) of the definition thereof in the 

 

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next succeeding fiscal year and (ii) any such Native American Investments made in any fiscal year shall be counted against the $5,000,000 base amount with respect to such fiscal year after being counted against any Native American Investment Rollover Amount available with respect to such fiscal year;

 

(q)  Investments of a Restricted Subsidiary acquired after the Closing Date or of a Person merged into the Borrower or merged or consolidated with a Restricted Subsidiary in accordance with Section 7.04 after the Closing Date, to the extent that such Investments were not made in contemplation of or in connection with such acquisition, merger or consolidation and were in existence on the date of such acquisition, merger or consolidation;

 

(r)  Investments consisting of the contribution or other transfer of (i) real estate described on Part 1 of Schedule 7.02(r) (and owned by a Native American Subsidiary on the Closing Date)(8) pursuant to a Native American Contract, so long as the Tribal Trust Property Release Conditions are satisfied at the time of such contribution or transfer, (ii) the real property described in Item 2 of Part 2 of Schedule 7.02(r), so long as title to such real property is transferred to the Graton Tribe or its nominee and (iii) real estate described in Item 1 of Part 2 of Schedule 7.02(r) to a joint venture, so long as no Default then exists; and

 

(s)  Investments consisting of Support Agreements to the extent such Support Agreements are permitted in accordance with Section 7.03(q);

 

provided that no Investment in an Unrestricted Subsidiary that would otherwise be permitted under this Section 7.02 shall be permitted hereunder to the extent that any portion of such Investment is used to make any prepayments, redemptions, purchases, defeasances and other payments in respect of Junior Financing; provided, further, that any Investment (or series of related Investments) in one or more entities that are not Subsidiary Guarantors in excess of $1,000,000 (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any Investment resulting from the designation of a Restricted Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary) shall not be permitted pursuant to this Section 7.02, unless the Borrower has provided the Administrative Agent with a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower certifying that any cash used to make such Investment (or series of related Investments, in which case the Borrower will provide such certificate only upon the first Investment in such series) shall be used for a current Bona Fide Business Purpose other than “cash hoarding” (as determined by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion).

 

SECTION 7.03.          Indebtedness.  Create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Indebtedness, except:

 

(a)  Indebtedness of the Loan Parties’ under the Loan Documents;

 

(b)  Indebtedness outstanding on the Closing Date and listed on Schedule 7.03(b)(9) and any Permitted Refinancing thereof;

 

(c)  Guarantees by the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary otherwise permitted hereunder; provided that (A) no Guarantee by any Restricted Subsidiary of any Junior Financing shall be permitted unless such Restricted Subsidiary shall have also provided a Guarantee of the Obligations substantially on the terms set forth in the Guaranty, (B) if the Indebtedness being Guaranteed is subordinated to the Obligations in Lien priority and/or right of payment, such 

 

(8)  Schedule shall only identify real estate in connection with the Graton, North Fork and Chico projects.

(9)   Schedule to be reviewed and approved prior to Closing Date.

 

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Guarantee shall be subordinated to the Guarantee of the Obligations in Lien priority and/or right of payment, as the case may be, on terms at least as favorable to the Lenders as those contained in the subordination of such Indebtedness and/or Lien securing the same and (C) any Guarantee by any Loan Party of Indebtedness of any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party shall only be permitted to the extent constituting an Investment expressly permitted by Section 7.02 (other than clause (e) thereof);

 

(d)  Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary owing to the Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary to the extent constituting an Investment expressly permitted by Section 7.02; provided that, (i) all such Indebtedness shall be evidenced by an Intercompany Note and, in the case of an Intercompany Note issued to a Guarantor, pledged to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties in accordance with the Collateral Documents and Section 6.11 and (ii) all such Indebtedness of any Guarantor owed to any Person that is not a Guarantor shall be subject to the subordination terms set forth in the Intercompany Note;

 

(e)  (i) so long as immediately after giving effect to the incurrence of any such Indebtedness, no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries will be in Pro Forma Compliance with the covenants set forth in Section 7.11, Capitalized Lease Indebtedness and other Indebtedness (including Capitalized Leases) financing the acquisition, construction, repair, replacement or improvement of fixed or capital assets; provided that such Indebtedness is incurred concurrently with or within two hundred seventy (270) days after the applicable acquisition, construction, repair, replacement or improvement, and (ii) any Permitted Refinancing of any Indebtedness set forth in the immediately preceding clause (i); provided  further that the aggregate principal amount of all Indebtedness permitted under this Section 7.03(e) (including all Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness described in preceding clause (ii)), shall not exceed $50,000,000 at any time outstanding;

 

(f)  Indebtedness in respect of Swap Contracts designed to hedge against interest rates, foreign exchange rates or commodities pricing risks of the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries incurred in the ordinary course of business and not for speculative purposes, including, without limitation, all Swap Contracts required pursuant to Section 6.17;

 

(g)  Indebtedness representing deferred compensation to employees of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries incurred in the ordinary course of business;

 

(h)  Indebtedness consisting of promissory notes issued by the Borrower to current or former officers, directors, managers and employees, their respective estates, spouses or former spouses to finance the purchase or redemption of Equity Interests of Holdings (or any direct or indirect parent company thereof) permitted by Section 7.06(e); provided that (i) such Indebtedness shall be subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (it being understood that, subject to the dollar limitation described below, such subordination provisions shall permit the payment of interest and principal in cash if no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing) and (ii) the aggregate amount of all cash payments (whether principal or interest) made by the Borrower in respect of such notes since the Closing Date, when combined with the aggregate amount of Restricted Payments made pursuant to Section 7.06(e) since the Closing Date, shall not exceed $1,000,000;

 

(i)  Indebtedness incurred by the Borrower or the Restricted Subsidiaries in (i) a Permitted Acquisition, (ii) any other Investment expressly permitted hereunder or (iii) any Disposition, in the case of each of the foregoing clauses (i), (ii) and (iii), constituting customary 

 

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indemnification obligations or customary obligations in respect of purchase price or other similar adjustments;

 

(j)  Indebtedness consisting of obligations of the Borrower or the Restricted Subsidiaries under deferred compensation or other similar arrangements incurred by such Person in connection with Permitted Acquisitions or any other Investment expressly permitted hereunder;

 

(k)  (i) Cash Management Obligations and other Indebtedness in respect of netting services, overdraft protections and similar arrangements in each case in connection with deposit accounts and (ii) Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries arising under the Wells Fargo Indemnification Agreement;

 

(l)  Indebtedness consisting of (a) the financing of insurance premiums or (b) take-or-pay obligations contained in supply arrangements, in each case, in the ordinary course of business;

 

(m)  Indebtedness incurred by the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of letters of credit, bank guarantees, bankers’ acceptances or similar instruments issued or created in the ordinary course of business in respect of workers compensation claims, health, disability or other employee benefits or property, casualty or liability insurance or self-insurance or other Indebtedness with respect to reimbursement-type obligations regarding workers compensation claims; provided that any reimbursement obligations in respect thereof are reimbursed within 30 days following the incurrence thereof;

 

(n)  obligations in respect of performance, bid, appeal and surety bonds and performance and completion guarantees and similar obligations provided by the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries or obligations in respect of letters of credit, bank guarantees or similar instruments related thereto, in each case in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice;

 

(o)  additional Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $10,000,000 at any time outstanding;

 

(p)  all premiums (if any), interest (including post-petition interest), fees, expenses, charges and additional or contingent interest (other than pay-in-kind interest or other interest capitalized as principal) on obligations described in clauses (a) through (o) above; and

 

(q)  Guarantees consisting of Support Agreements of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount not exceeding $50,000,000 at any time.

 

SECTION 7.04.          Fundamental 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:

 

(a)  any Restricted Subsidiary may merge with (i) the Borrower; provided that (x) the Borrower shall be the continuing or surviving Person and (y) such merger does not result in the Borrower ceasing to be incorporated under the Laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, or (ii) any one or more other Restricted Subsidiaries; provided further that when any Restricted Subsidiary that is a Subsidiary Guarantor is merging with another Restricted Subsidiary, a Subsidiary Guarantor shall be the continuing or surviving Person;

 

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(b)  (i) any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor may merge or consolidate with or into any other Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor (provided that (A) the Borrower shall own, directly or indirectly, Equity Interests representing a percentage of the aggregate ordinary voting power and aggregate equity value represented by the issued and outstanding Equity Interests in such surviving Subsidiary that is equal to or greater than the percentage of the aggregate ordinary voting power and the aggregate equity value represented by the issued and outstanding Equity Interests that were owned immediately prior to such merger or consolidation, directly or indirectly, by the Borrower in such other merged or consolidated Restricted Subsidiary, and (B) if any person other than the Borrower or a Subsidiary Guarantor receives any consideration in connection with such transaction, such transaction shall comply with the provisions of Section 7.02) and (ii) any Restricted Subsidiary may liquidate or dissolve or change its legal form (provided that (A) such transaction shall not reduce the Borrower’s direct or indirect share of the aggregate ordinary voting power and aggregate equity value in such Restricted Subsidiary, (B) if such Restricted Subsidiary is a Subsidiary Guarantor it shall continue to be a Subsidiary Guarantor, (C) the Borrower or Restricted Subsidiary shall comply with its obligations under Sections 6.11 and 6.13 in connection with such transaction and (D) such transaction shall have been undertaken for a valid purpose (which includes the reduction of taxes for direct or indirect owners of Equity Interests in the Borrower) and shall not be disadvantageous to the Lenders in any manner);

 

(c)  any Restricted Subsidiary may Dispose of all or substantially all of its assets (upon voluntary liquidation or otherwise) to the Borrower or to another Restricted Subsidiary; provided that if the transferor in such a transaction is a Subsidiary Guarantor or the Borrower, then (i) the transferee must either be the Borrower or a Subsidiary Guarantor or (ii) to the extent constituting an Investment, such Investment must be a permitted Investment in or Indebtedness of a Restricted Subsidiary which is not a Loan Party in accordance with Sections 7.02 and 7.03, respectively;

 

(d)  so long as no Default exists or would result therefrom, any Restricted Subsidiary may merge with any other Person in order to effect an Investment permitted pursuant to Section 7.02; provided that the continuing or surviving Person shall be a Restricted Subsidiary, which together with each of its Restricted Subsidiaries, shall have complied with the requirements of Section 6.11;

 

(e)  the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries may consummate the Restructuring Transactions in accordance with the terms of the Plan of Reorganization; and

 

(f)  so long as no Default exists or would result therefrom, a merger, dissolution, liquidation, consolidation or Disposition, the purpose of which is to effect a Disposition permitted pursuant to Section 7.05;

 

provided that in the case of clauses (a), (b) and (c) above, (x) the security interest of the Administrative Agent in the property of such person formed by such merger or consolidation (or such Person resulting from such change in corporate form) shall be no less favorable than the security interest of the Administrative Agent in the property of the Borrower or Subsidiary prior to such merger or consolidation (or change in corporate form) and (y) except in the case of clause (a)(i) above, the Guarantee by such person formed by such merger or consolidation (or such Person resulting from such change in corporate form) of the Obligations shall be no less favorable to the Lenders than the Guarantees of the Obligations of the Subsidiary prior to such merger or consolidation (or change in corporate form), in each case, as reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent.

 

SECTION 7.05.          Dispositions.  Make any Disposition or enter into any agreement to make any Disposition, except:

 

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(a)  Dispositions of obsolete or worn out property, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, in the ordinary course of business, and Dispositions of furniture, fixtures and equipment no longer used or useful in the ordinary course of business of the Loan Parties;

 

(b)  Dispositions of inventory (including Cage Cash) and assets of de minimis value, in any case in the ordinary course of business;

 

(c)  Dispositions of property (other than Real Property)  in the ordinary course of business to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such Disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of similar replacement property;

 

(d)  Dispositions of property to the Borrower or to a Restricted Subsidiary; provided that if the transferor of such property is a Subsidiary Guarantor or the Borrower (i) the transferee thereof must either be the Borrower or a Subsidiary Guarantor or (ii) to the extent such transaction constitutes an Investment, such transaction is permitted under Section 7.02;

 

(e)  (i) Permitted Liens constituting Dispositions and (ii) Dispositions permitted by (x) Section 7.04 and (y) Section 7.06;

 

(f)  non-assignable, non-sublicensable licenses of information technology systems to the Manager pursuant to the Management Agreement or a license agreement executed in connection therewith;

 

(g)  Dispositions of Cash Equivalents in the ordinary course of business;

 

(h)   (i) in the case of the Mortgaged Properties, Real Property Leases permitted under Section 7.18 and (ii) with respect to all other properties and assets of the Loan Parties, leases, licenses, subleases or sublicenses granted to others in the ordinary course of business and which do not materially interfere with the business of the Borrower or the Restricted Subsidiaries;

 

(i)  transfers of property subject to Casualty Events upon receipt of the Net Cash Proceeds of such Casualty Event;

 

(j)  Dispositions of property not otherwise permitted under this Section 7.05; provided that (i) at the time of such Disposition (other than any such Disposition made pursuant to a legally binding commitment entered into at a time when no Default exists), no Default shall exist or would result from such Disposition, (ii) the aggregate Fair Market Value of all property Disposed of in reliance on this clause (j) shall not exceed $100,000,000 in the aggregate , provided however that in no event shall the aggregate Fair Market Value of all property (other than Land Term Loan Property) Disposed of in reliance on this clause (j) exceed $30,000,000 and (iii) with respect to any Disposition pursuant to this clause (j), the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary shall receive not less than 75% of such consideration in the form of cash or Cash Equivalents at the time of the consummation of such Disposition (in each case, free and clear of all Liens at the time received, other than nonconsensual Permitted Liens and Liens permitted by Section 7.01(s) and clauses (i) and (ii) of Section 7.01(t)); provided, however, that for the purposes of this clause (iii), each of the following shall be deemed to be cash received at closing, except in the case of a Disposition of any Land Term Loan Property: (A) any liabilities (as shown on the Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the payment in cash of the Obligations, that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable Disposition and for which the Borrower and all 

 

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of the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing and (B) any securities received by the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash (to the extent of the cash received) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable Disposition;

 

(k)  [reserved];

 

(l)  Dispositions of Real Properties (i) that constitute Tribal Trust Property, to the extent permitted by Section 7.02(r)(i), (ii) to the extent permitted by Section 7.02(r)(ii), and (iii) to the extent permitted by Section 7.02(r)(iii);

 

(m)  Dispositions of Investments in joint ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between, the joint venture parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar binding arrangements;

 

(n)  Dispositions or discounts without recourse of accounts receivable in connection with the compromise or collection thereof in the ordinary course of business (and not as part of any financing transaction); and

 

(o)  consummation of the Restructuring Transactions in accordance with the terms of the Plan of Reorganization;

 

provided that (1) any Disposition of any property pursuant to this Section 7.05 (except pursuant to Sections 7.05(e)(ii)(y) and 7.05(l)(ii) and except for Dispositions from the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary to a Loan Party), shall be for no less than the Fair Market Value of such property at the time of such Disposition, (2) in no case shall the Borrower or any Subsidiary be permitted to effect a Disposition of NP Lake Mead Station, LLC, NP Fiesta Station, LLC, NP Santa Fe Station, LLC, or NP Texas Station, LLC or a significant portion of their respective properties and (3) any Disposition of Land Term Loan Property pursuant to this Section 7.05 and release, in connection with such Disposition, from the Lien of the Mortgage and related Loan Documents (such Land Term Loan Property being released, a “Release Property”) is conditional upon satisfaction of each of the conditions specified below as reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent:

 

(A)  the release of any Release Property from the Lien of the Mortgage and related Loan Documents shall occur pursuant to an escrow arrangement with the escrow agent and such arrangement shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;

 

(B)  no Default under Section 8.01(f) or (g) and no Event of Default then exists or would result from such Disposition;

 

(C)  not less than fifteen (15) days nor more than ninety (90) days prior to the release date, the Borrower shall have given to the Administrative Agent a written request for the release accompanied by (1) a release of Lien for the applicable Land Term Loan Property for execution by the Administrative Agent (and/or the trustee under the applicable deed of trust), which release document shall be in a form appropriate in the applicable jurisdiction and otherwise reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent; (2) an Appraisal of the Release Property which sets forth the appraised value of the proposed Release Property as of a date not more than ninety (90) days prior to the release date; (3) evidence demonstrating to the reasonable 

 

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satisfaction of the Administrative Agent that the sale of the applicable Land Term Loan Property shall be at Fair Market Value which shall be in the form of an officer’s certificate or, to the extent required by the definition Fair Market Value, an approval of the board of managers of the Borrower; (4) evidence demonstrating to the reasonable satisfaction of the Administrative Agent that the sale price is equal to or greater than the appraisal value of the applicable Land Term Loan Property set forth in the Appraisal delivered pursuant to the preceding clause (2); and (5) a certificate of a Responsible Officer certifying that the requirement described in clause (E) below is satisfied in connection with such release; and all other evidence, information and other items reasonably required in connection therewith by the Administrative Agent;

 

(D)  the Administrative Agent shall have received immediately available funds in the full amount of the Release Payment for the Release Property (and upon receipt by the Administrative Agent such sums shall be applied in accordance with Section 2.05(b)(ii)(D));

 

(E)  neither the release from the Lien of the applicable Mortgage and related Loan Documents nor the conveyance of such Release Property will violate any Laws (including zoning and subdivision laws and regulations), and the remaining portion of the Mortgaged Properties and the conveyance shall be in compliance with all Laws (including zoning and subdivision laws and regulations);

 

(F)  the Release Property shall be simultaneously conveyed to a party other than any Loan Party or Subsidiary thereof; and if the Release Property is conveyed to an Affiliate of any Loan Party, the terms and conditions of the conveyance must be on terms substantially as favorable to Holdings, the Borrower or such Subsidiary as would be obtainable by Holdings, the Borrower or such Subsidiary at the time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate, provided that with respect to any conveyance of Release Property  (or series of related conveyances of Release Property) involving consideration of more than $2,000,000 (i) such conveyance shall be approved by the majority of the directors of Holdings;

 

(G)  the Administrative Agent shall have received such acknowledgements and ratifications from the Loan Parties, and such other documents, certificates, instruments, opinions consistent with customary practice or assurances as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request, including, without limitation, such other instruments, certificates and documentation as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably request in order to preserve, confirm or secure the Liens and security granted to the Administrative Agent by the Loan Documents, including any amendments, modifications or supplements to any of the Loan Documents and partial release endorsements to the existing Mortgage Policy, as applicable; and

 

(H)  the Borrower shall have paid all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent (and any deed of trust trustee, if applicable) and all reasonable fees and expenses paid to third party consultants (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) by the

 

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Administrative Agent (and any deed of trust trustee, if applicable) in connection with such release.

 

To the extent any Collateral is Disposed of as expressly permitted by this Section 7.05 to any Person other than the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Loan Documents, and the Administrative Agent shall be authorized to take any actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.

 

SECTION 7.06.          Restricted Payments.  Declare or make or agree to declare or make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment, or incur any obligations (contingent or otherwise) to do so, except:

 

(a)  each Restricted Subsidiary may make Restricted Payments (i) to the Borrower and to other Restricted Subsidiaries and (ii) in the case of a Restricted Payment by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any other Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Equity Interests of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests of the relevant class of Equity Interests; provided that no Restricted Payment of the type described in preceding clause (ii) (other than pursuant to required tax distributions) shall be made at any time an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing;

 

(b)  the Borrower and each Restricted Subsidiary may declare and make dividend payments or other distributions payable solely in the Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests not otherwise permitted by Section 7.03) of such Person; provided that to the extent required pursuant to the Collateral Documents, such Equity Interests shall be pledged to the Administrative Agent and, in the case of a Restricted Payment by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower  and any other Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Equity Interests of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests of the relevant class of Equity Interests;

 

(c)  [reserved];

 

(d)  to the extent constituting Restricted Payments, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 7.04 or 7.08 other than Sections 7.08(a) and (d);

 

(e)  the Borrower may make Restricted Payments to allow any direct or indirect parent thereof to pay for the repurchase, retirement or other acquisition or retirement for value of Equity Interests of Holdings or any direct or indirect parent thereof by any future, present or former employee, manager or director of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than the Fertitta Brothers or any of their Related Persons) upon the death, disability or termination of employment of such persons or pursuant to any employee, manager or director equity plan, employee, manager or director stock option plan or any other employee, manager or director benefit plan or any agreement (including any stock subscription or shareholder agreement) with any employee, manager or director of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than the Fertitta Brothers or any of their Related Persons); provided that the aggregate amount of Restricted Payments made pursuant to this clause (e) after the Closing Date, when combined with the aggregate amount of all cash payments (whether principal or interest) made by the Borrower in respect of any promissory notes pursuant to Section 7.03(h) after the Closing Date, shall not exceed $1,000,000; and

 

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(i)  the proceeds of which shall be used by Holdings to pay franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain its limited liability company existence; and

 

(ii)  of up to $100,000, per year (in the aggregate with any loans and advances made to Holdings pursuant to Section 7.02(m) in reliance on this clause (f)(ii)), the proceeds of which shall be used by Holdings to pay corporate overhead expenses.

 

SECTION 7.07.          Change in Nature of Business.  Engage in any material line of business substantially different from those lines of business conducted by the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries on the date hereof or any business reasonably related or ancillary thereto.

 

SECTION 7.08.          Transactions with Affiliates.  Enter into any transaction (or series of related transactions) of any kind with any Affiliate of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, whether or not in the ordinary course of business, other than (a) transactions among Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors or any entity that becomes a Subsidiary Guarantor as a result of such transaction, (b) on terms substantially as favorable to Holdings, the Borrower or such Subsidiary as would be obtainable by Holdings, the Borrower or such Subsidiary at the time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate, provided that with respect to any transaction (or series of related transactions) involving consideration of more than $2,000,000 (i) such transaction shall be approved by the majority of the directors of Holdings and (ii) Holdings or the Borrower shall have received a favorable fairness opinion from a reputable third-party appraiser of recognized standing, (c) the payment of fees and expenses on the Closing Date related to the Restructuring Transactions, (d) loans and other transactions by the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries to the extent expressly permitted under this Article 7, (e) employment and severance arrangements between the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries and their respective officers and employees in the ordinary course of business, (f) payments by Holdings, the Borrower and their respective Subsidiaries pursuant to, and in accordance with the terms of, the Tax Sharing Agreement or a Subsidiary Tax Sharing Agreement, as applicable, provided that payments in respect of Holdings members’ actual state and United States federal income tax liabilities in respect of income earned by Unrestricted Subsidiaries during any period shall be permitted solely to the extent of payments received from (or credits used by) Unrestricted Subsidiaries pursuant to the Subsidiary Tax Sharing Agreements with respect to such period, (g) the payment of customary fees and reasonable out of pocket costs to, and indemnities provided on behalf of, directors, officers, board managers and employees of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business to the extent attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (h) transactions pursuant to permitted agreements in existence on the Closing Date and set forth on Schedule 7.08(10) or any amendment thereto to the extent such an amendment is not adverse to the Lenders in any material respect, (i) transactions pursuant to the Management Agreement, intellectual property licenses executed in connection therewith and, subject to the Management Fee Subordination Agreement, payment of fees and expenses owing thereunder, (j) dividends, redemptions and repurchases permitted under Section 7.06, (k) transactions pursuant to the Borrower/IP Holdco License Agreement, (l) customary expense sharing arrangements entered into between the Borrower and Unrestricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business pursuant to which such Unrestricted Subsidiaries shall reimburse the Borrower for certain shared expenses, and (m) payments by Holdings or its Subsidiaries to the Parent and its Subsidiaries (other than Holdings and its Subsidiaries) pursuant to, and in accordance with the terms of, the Parent Cost Allocation Agreement and each Subsidiary Cost Allocation Agreement.

 

SECTION 7.09.          Burdensome Agreements.  Enter into or permit to exist any Contractual Obligation (other than this Agreement or any other Loan Document) that limits the ability of (a) any

 

(10)   Schedule must be reviewed and approved.  This Schedule will include the Texas Station lease.

 

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Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower to pay dividends or other distributions with respect to any of its Equity Interests or to make or repay loans or advances to the Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary or to Guarantee Indebtedness of the Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary or (b) the Borrower or any Loan Party to create, incur, assume or suffer to exist Liens on property of such Person for the benefit of the Secured Parties with respect to the Facilities and the Obligations or under the Loan Documents; provided that the foregoing clauses (a) and (b) shall not apply to Contractual Obligations which (i) (x) exist on the Closing Date and (to the extent not otherwise permitted by this Section 7.09) are listed on Schedule 7.09(11) and (y) to the extent Contractual Obligations permitted by clause (x) are set forth in an agreement evidencing Indebtedness, are set forth in any agreement evidencing any permitted renewal, extension or refinancing of such Indebtedness so long as such renewal, extension or refinancing does not, in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent, expand the scope of such limits in such Contractual Obligation, (ii) are binding on a Restricted Subsidiary at the time such Restricted Subsidiary first becomes a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower, so long as such Contractual Obligations were not entered into in contemplation of such Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower; provided, further, that this clause (ii) shall not apply to Contractual Obligations that are binding on a Person that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to Section 6.14, (iii) arise in connection with any Disposition permitted by Section 7.05, so long as such restrictions relate solely to the assets subject thereto, (iv) subject to Section 6.13, are customary provisions in joint venture agreements and other similar agreements applicable to joint ventures permitted under Section 7.02 and applicable solely to such joint venture entered into in the ordinary course of business, (v) are negative pledges and restrictions on Liens in favor of any holder of Indebtedness permitted under Section 7.03 but solely to the extent any negative pledge relates to the property financed by or the subject of such Indebtedness (and excluding in any event any Indebtedness constituting any Junior Financing), (vi) are customary restrictions on leases, subleases, licenses or asset sale agreements otherwise permitted hereby so long as such restrictions solely relate to the assets subject thereto, (vii) comprise restrictions imposed by any agreement relating to secured Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 7.03(e) to the extent that such restrictions apply only to the property or assets securing such Indebtedness, (viii) are customary provisions restricting subletting or assignment of any lease governing a leasehold interest of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, (ix) subject to Section 6.13, are customary provisions restricting assignment of any agreement entered into in the ordinary course of business, or (x) are restrictions on cash or other deposits imposed by customers under contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business.

 

SECTION 7.10.          Use of Proceeds.  Use the proceeds of any Credit Extension, whether directly or indirectly, in a manner inconsistent with the uses described in Section 5.25.

 

SECTION 7.11.          Financial Covenants.

 

(a)  Total Leverage Ratio.  Permit the Total Leverage Ratio as of the last day of any Test Period (beginning with the Test Period ending immediately prior to the First Test Date) to be greater than the ratio set forth below opposite the last day of such Test Period:

 

	
Fiscal Year
    	
 
    	
March 31
    	
 
    	
June 30
    	
 
    	
September 30
    	
 
    	
December 31
    
	
2011
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
6.25:1.00
    	
 
    	
6.25:1.00
    	
 
    	
6.25:1.00
    
	
2012
    	
 
    	
6.25:1.00
    	
 
    	
6.25:1.00
    	
 
    	
6.25:1.00
    	
 
    	
6.25:1.00
    
	
2013
    	
 
    	
6.00:1.00
    	
 
    	
5.75:1.00
    	
 
    	
5.75:1.00
    	
 
    	
5.50:1.00
    
	
2014
    	
 
    	
5.25:1.00
    	
 
    	
5.25:1.00
    	
 
    	
5.00:1.00
    	
 
    	
4.75:1.00
    
	
2015
    	
 
    	
4.50:1.00
    	
 
    	
4.50:1.00
    	
 
    	
4.50:1.00
    	
 
    	
4.25:1.00
    
	
2016
    	
 
    	
4.25:1.00
    	
 
    	
4.00:1.00
    	
 
    	
4.00:1.00
    	
 
    	
4.00:1.00
    

 

(11)   Schedule subject to review and approval.

 

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Fiscal Year
    	
 
    	
March 31
    	
 
    	
June 30
    	
 
    	
September 30
    	
 
    	
December 31
    
	
2011
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
6.25:1.00
    	
 
    	
6.25:1.00
    	
 
    	
6.25:1.00
    
	
2017
    	
 
    	
3.75:1.00
    	
 
    	
3.75:1.00
    	
 
    	
3.75:1.00
    	
 
    	
3.75:1.00
    
	
2018
    	
 
    	
3.50:1.00
    	
 
    	
3.50:1.00
    	
 
    	
3.50:1.00
    	
 
    	
3.50:1.00
    

 

(b)  Interest Coverage Ratio.  Permit the Interest Coverage Ratio for any Test Period (beginning with the Test Period ending immediately prior to the First Test Date) to be less than the ratio set forth below opposite the last day of such Test Period:

 

	
Fiscal Year
    	
 
    	
March 31
    	
 
    	
June 30
    	
 
    	
September 30
    	
 
    	
December 31
    
	
2011
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
3.25:1.00
    	
 
    	
3.25:1.00
    	
 
    	
3.25:1.00
    
	
2012
    	
 
    	
3.25:1.00
    	
 
    	
3.25:1.00
    	
 
    	
3.25:1.00
    	
 
    	
3.25:1.00
    
	
2013
    	
 
    	
3.00:1.00
    	
 
    	
3.00:1.00
    	
 
    	
3.00:1.00
    	
 
    	
2.75:1.00
    
	
2014
    	
 
    	
2.75:1.00
    	
 
    	
2.75:1.00
    	
 
    	
2.75:1.00
    	
 
    	
2.75:1.00
    
	
2015
    	
 
    	
2.75:1.00
    	
 
    	
2.75:1.00
    	
 
    	
2.75:1.00
    	
 
    	
2.75:1.00
    
	
2016
    	
 
    	
2.75:1.00
    	
 
    	
2.75:1.00
    	
 
    	
2.50:1.00
    	
 
    	
2.50:1.00
    
	
2017
    	
 
    	
2.50:1.00
    	
 
    	
2.50:1.00
    	
 
    	
2.50:1.00
    	
 
    	
2.50:1.00
    
	
2018
    	
 
    	
2.50:1.00
    	
 
    	
2.50:1.00
    	
 
    	
2.50:1.00
    	
 
    	
2.50:1.00
    

 

SECTION 7.12.          Accounting Changes.  Make any change in fiscal year; provided, however, that the Borrower may elect (by providing 30 days’ prior written notice to the Administrative Agent) to change its fiscal year end to any other date reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent; provided, further, that no such election shall become effective until the Borrower and the Administrative Agent shall have entered into such amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as may be required, in the judgment of the Administrative Agent (but without prejudice to its rights under Article VIII), to preserve the intended benefits of the baskets, restrictions, reporting requirements and other provisions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents that tie to the fiscal year of the Borrower (with the Required Lenders hereby authorizing the Administrative Agent to execute and deliver such amendments on their behalf).

 

SECTION 7.13.          Prepayments, etc. of Indebtedness.  (a)  Prepay, redeem, purchase, defease (including substance or legal defeasance), set apart assets for a sinking fund or similar fund or otherwise satisfy prior to the scheduled maturity thereof in any manner (including any principal payments, it being understood that payments of regularly scheduled interest shall be permitted) any Indebtedness that is required to be subordinated (in “right of payment” or on a “lien priority” basis) to the Obligations pursuant to the terms of the Loan Documents, any other Indebtedness in excess of the Threshold Amount or any Permitted Refinancing of any of the foregoing Indebtedness (collectively, “Junior Financing”) or make any payment in violation of any subordination terms of any Junior Financing Documentation, except, so long as no Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, (i) the refinancing thereof with the Net Cash Proceeds of any Indebtedness (to the extent such Indebtedness constitutes a Permitted Refinancing), to the extent not required to prepay any Loans pursuant to Section 2.05(b), (ii) the conversion of any Junior Financing to Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) of Holdings or any of its direct or indirect parents, (iii) the prepayment of Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary to the extent permitted by the subordination provisions contained in the Intercompany Note, and (iv) prepayments of Junior Financing made solely with the Net Cash Proceeds of Permitted Equity Issuances (other than Permitted Equity Issuances made pursuant to Section 8.05) received after the Closing Date that are Not Otherwise Applied.

 

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(b)  Amend, modify or change in any manner adverse to the interests of the Lenders in any material respect any term or condition of any Junior Financing Documentation.

 

(c)  [reserved].

 

(d)  Subject to the Bankruptcy Code and the Lenders’ rights thereunder, amend, modify or supplement (or permit the amendment, modification or supplement of) the Plan of Reorganization or the Confirmation Order in any manner adverse to the interests of the Lenders without the consent of the Required Lenders.

 

(e)  Amend, modify, change or waive any provision of the Tax Sharing Agreement or any Subsidiary Tax Sharing Agreement in any manner that is adverse to the interests of Holdings, its Subsidiaries or the Lenders in any material respect or enter into any new tax sharing agreement, tax allocation agreement or similar agreement without the prior written consent of the Required Lenders (other than a Subsidiary Tax Sharing Agreement on terms substantially identical to the terms of the Tax Sharing Agreement).

 

(f)  Without the consent of the Administrative Agent, enter into any contractual arrangement that includes a “key-man” or “change of control” provision (or comparable provision) other than any “change of control” (or similar provision) included in any agreement governing Indebtedness or certificate of designation governing preferred Equity Interests that are, in either case, permitted by this Agreement and held by Persons not constituting Affiliates of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof.

 

(g)  Without the consent of the Administrative Agent, (i) amend, modify, change, or waive in any manner adverse to the interests of Holdings, its Subsidiaries or the Lenders in any material respect any term or condition of the Parent Cost Allocation Agreement or the Transition Services Agreement or (ii) permit any modification of the cost allocation methodology used in the Parent Cost Allocation Agreement (as in effect on the Closing Date or as amended or otherwise modified thereafter in accordance with the terms hereof) which modification, by the terms of the Parent Cost Allocation Agreement (as in effect on the Closing Date or as amended or otherwise modified thereafter in accordance with the terms hereof), requires the consent of the “OpCo Agent” thereunder.

 

(h)  Agree to (or vote in favor of) amending, modifying, changing or waiving in any manner that is materially adverse to the interests of the Lenders any term or condition of any Material Contract (other than a Material Contract referred to in clause (i) or (ii) of the definition thereof); it being acknowledged and agreed by the parties hereto that any amendment, modification, change or waiver which would have the effect of (i) reducing any fees payable to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary under any such Material Contract, (ii) increasing any fees payable by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary under any such Material Contract, (iii) shortening the term of any such Material Contract or (iv) allowing fees or other amounts payable by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary under any such Material Contract to be paid to Persons other than the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary shall, in each case, be deemed to be materially adverse to the interests of the Lenders.

 

(i)  Amend, modify, waive or change any provision of any Subsidiary Cost Allocation Agreement in any manner that is adverse to the interests of the Borrower, the Restricted Subsidiaries or the Lenders in any material respect or enter into any new Subsidiary Cost Allocation Agreement or similar agreement without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent (other than a Subsidiary Cost Allocation Agreement on terms substantially identical to the terms of the Parent Cost Allocation Agreement).

 

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SECTION 7.14.          Equity Interests of the Borrower and Restricted Subsidiaries.  Permit any Domestic Subsidiary that is a Restricted Subsidiary to be (or become) a non-wholly owned Subsidiary, except (i) as a result of or in connection with a dissolution, merger, consolidation or Disposition of a Restricted Subsidiary permitted by Section 7.04 or 7.05 or an Investment in any Person permitted under Section 7.02 or (ii) so long as such Restricted Subsidiary continues to be a Subsidiary Guarantor.

 

SECTION 7.15.          Special Purpose Vehicle Restrictions.  Permit Holdings to (a) conduct, transact or otherwise engage in any business or operations other than those incidental to (i) its ownership of the Equity Interests of the Borrower, (ii) the maintenance of its legal existence, (iii) the performance of the Loan Documents and the Restructuring Transactions, (iv) any public offering of its common stock or any other issuance of its Equity Interests not prohibited by this Article 7, and (v) any transaction that Holdings is expressly permitted to enter into or consummate under this Article 7 or (b) own, hold or maintain any assets (including Equity Interests in Subsidiaries) other than (i) the Equity Interests of the Borrower and (ii) cash and Cash Equivalents.

 

SECTION 7.16.          Capital Expenditures.  (a)  Make any Capital Expenditure, except for Capital Expenditures not exceeding, in the aggregate for the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries in any fiscal year of the Borrower, the thresholds set forth in the table below opposite such fiscal year:

 

	
Fiscal Year
    	
 
    	
Capital Expenditures
   Threshold
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
2011
    	
 
    	
$
    	
35,000,000
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
2012
    	
 
    	
$
    	
40,000,000
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
2013
    	
 
    	
$
    	
40,000,000
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
2014
    	
 
    	
$
    	
45,000,000
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
2015
    	
 
    	
$
    	
45,000,000
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
2016
    	
 
    	
$
    	
50,000,000
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
2017
    	
 
    	
$
    	
50,000,000
    	
 
    

 

(b)  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in clause (a) above, to the extent that the aggregate amount of Capital Expenditures made by the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries in any fiscal year pursuant to Section 7.16(a) is less than the maximum amount of Capital Expenditures permitted by Section 7.16(a) with respect to such fiscal year (before giving effect to any increase in such amount pursuant to this clause (b)), the amount of such difference (the “Rollover Amount”)  may be carried forward one time and used to make Capital Expenditures in the next succeeding fiscal year; provided that Capital Expenditures in any fiscal year shall be counted against the base amount set forth in Section 7.16(a) with respect to such fiscal year after being counted against any Rollover Amount available with respect to such fiscal year.

 

(c)  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in clauses (a) and (b) above, the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make additional Capital Expenditures in an aggregate amount equal to the sum of (i) the aggregate amount of the Net Cash Proceeds of Permitted Equity 

 

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Issuances (other than Permitted Equity Issuances made pursuant to Section 8.05) received after the Closing Date that are Not Otherwise Applied and (ii) the amount of Cumulative Excess Cash Flow that is Not Otherwise Applied.

 

SECTION 7.17.          Sale-Leaseback Transactions(i).  Enter into any arrangement, directly or indirectly, with any Person whereby it shall sell or transfer any property, real or personal or mixed, used or useful in its business, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, and thereafter rent or lease such property or other property which it intends to use for substantially the same purpose or purposes as the property being sold or transferred except to the extent that (i) the sale of such property is permitted by Section 7.05 and (ii) any Capitalized Leases or Liens arising in connection therewith are permitted by Sections 7.03 and 7.01, respectively.

 

SECTION 7.18.           Real Property Leases.

 

(a)  Leasing Conditions.  Except as otherwise provided in this Section 7.18, (i) enter into any Material Real Property Lease (a “New Real Property Lease”) or (ii) modify any Material Real Property Lease (including, without limitation, accept a surrender of any portion of any Mortgaged Property subject to a Material Real Property Lease (unless otherwise required by law), allow a reduction in the term of any Material Real Property Lease or a reduction in the Rent payable under any Material Real Property Lease, change any renewal provisions of any Material Real Property Lease, materially increase the obligations of the landlord or materially decrease the obligations of any Tenant under a Material Real Property Lease) or terminate any Material Real Property Lease unless the Tenant under such Material Real Property Lease is in default (any such action referred to in clause (ii) being referred to herein as a “Real Property Lease Modification”) without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, not to be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned. Any New Real Property Lease or Real Property Lease Modification that requires the Administrative Agent’s consent shall be delivered to the Administrative Agent for approval not less than five (5) Business Days prior to the effective date of such New Real Property Lease or Real Property Lease Modification.  If the Administrative Agent fails to respond to a request for the Administrative Agent’s consent pursuant to this Section 7.18 within five (5) Business Days of the Administrative Agent’s receipt of the Borrower’s request therefor, Borrower may deliver to the Administrative Agent a second request in an envelope or under cover of a letter marked “URGENT” and including a legend in bold typeface that the Administrative Agent’s failure to grant or deny the requested consent within ten (10) Business Days of the receipt thereof will result in the requested consent being deemed to have been granted.  If the Administrative Agent fails to respond to such second request within ten (10) Business Days of its receipt thereof, the Administrative Agent’s consent shall be deemed granted.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, but subject to terms of Sections 7.18(f) and (g), so long as no Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary may enter into a New Real Property Lease or Real Property Lease Modification in accordance with the Real Property Leasing Standards.  All Real Property Leases not otherwise subject to this paragraph (a) shall be entered into on commercially reasonable, market terms.

 

(b)  Delivery of New Real Property Lease or Real Property Lease Modification.  Upon the execution of any New Real Property Lease or Real Property Lease Modification, as applicable, by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an executed copy of the Real Property Lease or Real Property Lease Modification.

 

(c)  Real Property Lease Amendments.  The Borrower agrees that neither it nor any Restricted Subsidiary shall have the right or power, as against the Administrative Agent and the Lenders without the consent of the Administrative Agent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or 

 

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delayed as provided herein), to cancel, abridge, amend or otherwise modify any Real Property Lease unless such modification complies with this Section 7.18.

 

(d)  No Default Under Real Property Leases.  The Borrower shall or shall cause the applicable Restricted Subsidiary to (i) promptly perform and observe all of the material terms, covenants and conditions required to be performed and observed by Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary under the Real Property Leases, if the failure to perform or observe the same would have a Material Adverse Effect; (ii) exercise, within ten (10) Business Days after a written request by the Administrative Agent, any right to request from the Tenant under any Material Real Property Lease a certificate with respect to the status thereof and (iii) not collect any of the Rents under any Real Property Lease, more than one (1) month in advance (except that the Borrower may collect such security deposits and last month’s Rents as are permitted by Law and are commercially reasonable in the prevailing market and collect other charges in accordance with the terms of each Real Property Lease).

 

(e)  Subordination.  All Real Property Lease Modifications and New Real Property Leases entered into by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary after the Closing Date shall by their express terms be subject and subordinate to this Agreement and the Mortgages (through a subordination provision contained in such Real Property Lease or otherwise).

 

(f)  Attornment.  Each New Real Property Lease entered into from and after the Closing Date shall, unless otherwise consented to by the Administrative Agent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned), provide that in the event of the enforcement by the Administrative Agent of any remedy under this Agreement or the Mortgages, the Tenant under such Real Property Lease shall, at the option of the Administrative Agent or of any other Person succeeding to the interest of the Administrative Agent as a result of such enforcement, attorn to the Administrative Agent or to such Person and shall recognize the Administrative Agent or such successor in the interest as lessor under such Real Property Lease without change in the provisions thereof; provided, however, the Administrative Agent or such successor in interest shall not be liable for or bound by (i) any payment of an installment of rent or additional rent made more than thirty (30) days before the due date of such installment, (ii) any act or omission of or default by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary under any such Real Property Lease (but the Administrative Agent, or such successor, shall be subject to the continuing obligations of the landlord to the extent arising from and after such succession to the extent of the Administrative Agent’s, or such successor’s, interest in the applicable Mortgaged Property), (iii) any credits, claims, setoffs or defenses which any Tenant may have against the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, (iv) any obligation on the part of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, pursuant to such Real Property Lease, to perform any tenant improvement work, or (v) any obligation on the part of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, pursuant to such Real Property Lease, to pay any sum of money to any Tenant but only to the extent that the Administrative Agent or such successor in interest is not in receipt of any such funds provided for the purpose of covering (i) through (v) above.  In addition, each such New Real Property Lease shall, unless otherwise consented to by the Administrative Agent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned), provide that, upon the reasonable request by the Administrative Agent or such successor in interest, the Tenant shall execute and deliver an instrument or instruments confirming such attornment.

 

(g)  Non-Disturbance Agreements.  The Administrative Agent shall enter into, and, if required by applicable law to provide constructive notice or requested by a Tenant, record in the county where the subject Real Property is located, a subordination, attornment and non-disturbance agreement, substantially in form and substance substantially similar to the form of Exhibit M (a “Non-Disturbance Agreement”), subject to such modifications reasonably requested by a Tenant, with any Tenant (other than an Affiliate of the Borrower) entering into a New Real Property Lease or Real Property Lease Modification, within twenty (20) Business Days after written request therefor by the Borrower; provided  

 

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that such request is accompanied by certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower stating that such Real Property Lease or Real Property Lease Modification (as applicable) complies in all material respects with this Section 7.18 and payment of all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent in connection with the negotiation, preparation, execution and delivery of any Non-Disturbance Agreement, including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees and disbursements.

 

(h)  Recognition Agreements.  The Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have the right to enter into recognition agreements or nondisturbance and attornment agreements with Tenants under Real Property Leases without Lender’s consent.

 

ARTICLE VIII

 

Events of Default and Remedies

 

SECTION 8.01.          Events of Default.  Any of the following shall constitute an Event of Default:

 

(a)  Non-Payment.  The Borrower or any other Loan Party fails to pay, whether at the due date thereof or at a date fixed for prepayment thereof or by acceleration thereof or otherwise, (i) when and as required to be paid herein, any amount of principal of any Loan, or (ii) within five (5) Business Days after the same becomes due, any interest on any Loan or any other amount payable hereunder or with respect to any other Loan Document; or

 

(b)  Specific Covenants.  The Borrower or any other Loan Party (i) fails to perform or observe any term, covenant or agreement contained in any of Section 2.16, 6.03(a), 6.05(a) (solely with respect to the Borrower), 6.11(b) or (c) or 6.18(c), (f) or (i), 6.21, 6.23 (but only in so far as the provisions therein relate to the Transition Services Agreement), 6.24 or Article 7; provided that any Event of Default under Section 7.11 is subject to cure as contemplated by Section 8.05, (ii) fails to perform or observe any covenant or agreement contained in Section 6.22 or 6.23 (but only in so far as the provisions therein relate to the Parent Cost Allocation Agreement) on its part to be performed or observed and such failure continues for ten (10) Business Days after the earlier of actual knowledge thereof by a Responsible Officer of the applicable Loan Party and notice thereof by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower, or (iii) fails to perform or observe any covenant or agreement contained in Section 6.01, 6.02(a), (b), (e) or (f) or 6.10 (so long as no other Default has occurred and is continuing) on its part to be performed or observed and such failure continues for ten (10) Business Days after the earlier of actual knowledge thereof by a Responsible Officer of the applicable Loan Party and notice thereof by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower; or

 

(c)  Other Defaults.  The Borrower or any other 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 failure continues for thirty (30) days after the earlier of actual knowledge thereof by a Responsible Officer of the applicable Loan Party and notice thereof by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower; or

 

(d)  Representations and Warranties.  Any representation, warranty, certification or statement of fact made or deemed made by or on behalf of the Borrower or any other Loan Party herein, in any other Loan Document, or in any document or certificate required to be delivered in connection herewith or therewith shall be incorrect or misleading in any material respect (or, in the case of any representation and warranty that is qualified as to “materiality,” “Material Adverse Effect” or similar language, in any respect) when made or deemed made or furnished; or

 

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(e)  Cross-Default.  Any Loan Party or any other Restricted Subsidiary (i) fails to make any payment beyond the applicable grace period with respect thereto, if any (whether by scheduled maturity, required prepayment, acceleration, demand, or otherwise) in respect of any Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness hereunder and any intercompany Indebtedness among the Loan Parties) having an aggregate principal amount of not less than the Threshold Amount, or (ii) fails to observe or perform any other agreement or condition relating to any such Indebtedness, or any other event occurs, the effect of which default or other event is to cause, or to permit the holder or holders of such Indebtedness (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 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; provided that this clause (e)(ii) shall not apply to secured Indebtedness that becomes due as a result of the voluntary sale or transfer of the property or assets securing such Indebtedness, if such sale or transfer is permitted hereunder and under the documents providing for such Indebtedness; or

 

(f)  Insolvency Proceedings, Etc.  Any Loan Party or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries 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, administrator, administrative receiver or similar officer for it or for all or any material part of its property; or any receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator, liquidator, rehabilitator, administrator, administrative receiver or similar officer is appointed without the application or consent of such Person and the appointment continues undischarged or unstayed for sixty (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 sixty (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 other Restricted Subsidiary becomes unable or admits in writing its inability or fails generally to pay its debts as they become due or makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors, or (ii) any writ or warrant of attachment or execution or similar process is issued or levied against all or any material part of the property of the Loan Parties, taken as a whole, and is not released, vacated or fully bonded within sixty (60) days after its issue or levy; or

 

(h)  Judgments.  There is entered against any Loan Party or any Restricted Subsidiary a final judgment or order for the payment of money in an aggregate amount exceeding the Threshold Amount (to the extent not covered by independent third-party insurance as to which the insurer has been notified of such judgment or order and has not denied coverage) and such judgment or order shall not have been satisfied, vacated, discharged or stayed or bonded pending an appeal for a  period of sixty (60) consecutive days; 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 Loan Party in an aggregate amount which could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, or (ii) any Loan Party 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 which could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; or

 

(j)  Invalidity of Loan Documents.  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

 

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or thereunder (including as a result of a transaction permitted under Section 7.04 or 7.05) or as a result of acts or omissions by the Administrative Agent or any Lender or the satisfaction in full of all the Obligations, ceases to be in full force and effect; or any Loan Party contests in writing the validity or enforceability of any provision of any Loan Document; or any Loan Party denies in writing that it has any or further liability or obligation under any Loan Document (other than as a result of repayment in full of the Obligations and termination of the Aggregate Commitments), or purports in writing to revoke or rescind any Loan Document; or

 

(k)  Change of Control.  There occurs any Change of Control; or

 

(l)  Collateral Documents.  (i) Any Collateral Document after delivery thereof pursuant to Section 4.01, 6.11 or 6.13 shall for any reason (other than pursuant to the terms thereof, including as a result of a transaction permitted under Section 7.04 or 7.05) cease to create a valid and perfected Lien, with the priority required by the Collateral Documents, (or other security purported to be created on the applicable Collateral) on and security interest in any portion of the Collateral having a Fair Market Value in excess of $2,500,000 purported to be covered thereby, subject to Permitted Liens, except to the extent that any such loss of perfection or priority results from the failure of the Administrative Agent to maintain possession of certificates actually delivered to it representing securities pledged under the Collateral Documents or to file Uniform Commercial Code continuation statements (so long as such failure does not result from the breach or non-compliance by a Loan Party with the terms of any Loan Document), or (ii) any of the Equity Interests of the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor ceasing to be pledged pursuant to the applicable Collateral Documents free of Liens other than Liens created by the Collateral Documents or any nonconsensual Permitted Liens arising solely by operation of Law; or

 

(m)  Junior Financing Documentation.  (i) Any of the Obligations of the Loan Parties under the Loan Documents for any reason shall cease to be “Senior Indebtedness,” “Senior Debt,” “Senior Indebtedness,” “Priority Lien Debt,” or “Senior Secured Financing” (or, with respect to each of the foregoing, any comparable term) under, and as defined in any Junior Financing Documentation or (ii) the subordination provisions set forth in any Junior Financing Documentation shall, in whole or in part, cease to be effective or cease to be legally valid, binding and enforceable against the holders of any Junior Financing, if applicable; or

 

(n)  Loss or Revocation of Casino License.  The occurrence of a License Revocation (after giving effect to any applicable cure period expressly set forth in the definition of “License Revocation”) that continues for more than five (5) Business Days during which time enforcement is not stayed by appeal or similar proceeding with the applicable Gaming Authority; or

 

(o)  Cessation of Operations.  The Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary ceases to operate a casino (and, as applicable, hotel) at any Core Property or ceases to conduct significant gaming and hotel activities thereon for any reason whatsoever (other than temporary cessation in connection with alterations permitted hereunder or restoration following a Casualty Event); or

 

(p)  Amendment or Termination of Material Contracts.  Any Material Contract (other than Material Contracts referred to in clause (i) of the definition thereof) shall, in whole or in part, be amended, modified or changed (or any provision thereof waived) (other than as permitted by Section 7.13(h)), terminated (other than upon the expiration of the term thereof), cease to be effective or cease to be the legally valid, binding and enforceable obligation in any material respect of any party thereto, in each case if the effect of such amendment, modification, change, waiver, termination or other action, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; or

 

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(q)  Amendment or Termination of Certain Contracts.  (i) Any Manager Document, the Management Fee Subordination Agreement, any Subsidiary Cost Allocation Agreement, the Parent Cost Allocation Agreement or the Transition Services Agreement (or any provision thereof) shall, in whole or in part, be amended, supplemented, modified or waived (other than as permitted by Section 6.18, 7.13(e), 7.13(g) or 7.13(i), as the case may be), terminated (other than upon the expiration of the term thereof), cease to be effective or cease to be the legally valid, binding and enforceable obligation in any material respect of any party thereto or (ii) Holdings, the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries shall breach any material provision of, or default in the performance of its payment or other material obligations under, the Parent Cost Allocation Agreement or the Transition Services Agreement; or

 

(r)  IP Holdco.  Prior to the IP Holdco Transition Date, (i) IP Holdco shall Dispose of or otherwise transfer any of its IP Rights (other than (x) the Disposition of obsolete assets which are no longer used by Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in operation of their business and (y) the licensing of such IP Rights pursuant to the Borrower/IP Holdco License Agreement, the Parent/IP Holdco License Agreement and similar intercompany license agreements with other Unrestricted Subsidiaries of the Borrower no less favorable to IP Holdco than the Borrower/IP Holdco License Agreement and the Parent/IP Holdco License Agreement), (ii) IP Holdco shall incur any Indebtedness, or create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon, any IP Rights owned thereby other than pursuant to the Borrower/IP Holdco License Agreement and the Parent/IP Holdco License Agreement and similar intercompany license agreements with other Unrestricted Subsidiaries of the Borrower no less favorable to IP Holdco than the Borrower/IP Holdco License Agreement and the Parent/IP Holdco License Agreement, (iii) the Borrower/IP Holdco License Agreement or the Parent/IP Holdco License Agreement shall be terminated (other than upon the expiration of the term thereof) or amended, modified, waived or changed in any manner materially adverse to the interests of the Lenders, (iv) IP Holdco shall fail to maintain in full force and effect its legal existence under the Laws of its jurisdiction of organization or shall merge, dissolve, liquidate or consolidate with or into another Person, (v) IP Holdco shall cease to be engaged exclusively in the ownership of IP Rights for the purpose of licensing such IP Rights in accordance with the license agreements described in (ii) above, (vi) an event described in Section 8.01(f) shall occur with respect to IP Holdco, (vii) IP Holdco shall become a Restricted Subsidiary under, and as defined in, the PropCo Credit Agreement or provide any credit support of the obligations under the PropCo Credit Agreement, (viii) any change in the ownership of the Equity Interests of IP Holdco as of the Closing Date shall occur (including, without limitation, as a result of any failure by the Lenders to own (through the Administrative Agent as their designee) ten percent (10%) of the Equity Interests of IP Holdco (other than by a Disposition by the Lenders)), (ix) IP Holdco shall fail to constitute a special-purpose bankruptcy remote entity or (x) IP Holdco shall breach any provision of, or default in the performance of its obligations under, the Borrower/IP Holdco License Agreement; or

 

(s)  Tax Sharing Agreements.  (i) Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries shall breach any  material provision of, or default in the performance of its material obligations under, the Tax Sharing Agreement or make any payment to Parent or any of its Subsidiaries (other than Holdings and its Subsidiaries) in respect of taxes attributable to the operations of Holdings and its Subsidiaries, (ii) Parent or any of its Subsidiaries (other than Holdings and its Subsidiaries) shall fail to make any material payment to Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries in breach of any material provision of the Tax Sharing Agreement or (iii) any Unrestricted Subsidiary or any of its Subsidiaries shall fail to make any material payment to the Borrower in breach of any material provision of the applicable Subsidiary Tax Sharing Agreement, in each case other than in accordance with the terms of the respective agreement, including any applicable grace periods with respect thereto.

 

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SECTION 8.02.          Remedies Upon Event of Default.  If any Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Administrative Agent may and, at the request of the Required Lenders, shall take any or all of the following actions:

 

(a)  declare the commitment of each Lender to make Loans and any obligation of the L/C Issuers to make L/C Credit Extensions to be terminated, whereupon such commitments and obligation shall be terminated;

 

(b)  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 Borrower;

 

(c)  require that the Borrower Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations (in an amount equal to 105% of the then Outstanding Amount thereof);

 

(d)  exercise the right of the Administrative Agent under the Control Agreements to transfer funds maintained in the deposit accounts and securities accounts of the Loan Parties to such account as the Administrative Agent shall determine;

 

(e)  obtain a new Appraisal for each Land Term Loan Property; and

 

(f)  exercise on behalf of itself and the Lenders all other rights and remedies available to it and the Lenders under the Loan Documents or applicable Law;

 

provided that upon the occurrence of any event described in Section 8.01(f) or actual or deemed entry of an order for relief with respect to the Borrower under the Bankruptcy Code, the obligation of each Lender to make Loans and any obligation of the L/C Issuers 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 Borrower 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.

 

SECTION 8.03.          [Reserved].

 

SECTION 8.04.          Application of Funds.  (a) After the exercise of remedies (including rights of setoff) 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 (whether as a result of a payment under a Guaranty, any realization on the Collateral, any setoff rights, any distribution in connection with any proceedings or other action of any Loan Party in respect of Debtor Relief Laws or otherwise and whether received in cash or otherwise) shall 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 (other than principal and interest, but including Attorney Costs payable under Section 10.04 and amounts payable under Article 3, Sections 6.18(h) and (j) and 6.23(b) and (c)) payable to the Administrative Agent in its capacity as such;

 

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Secured Parties (including Attorney Costs payable under Section 10.05 and amounts payable under Article 3), ratably among them in proportion to the amounts described in this clause Second payable to them;

 

Third, to payment of that portion of the Revolving Obligations constituting accrued and unpaid interest on the Loans and L/C Borrowings, ratably among the applicable Secured Parties in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Third payable to them;

 

Fourth, to payment of that portion of the Revolving Obligations constituting unpaid principal of the Loans and L/C Borrowings, ratably among the applicable Secured Parties in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Fourth held by them;

 

Fifth, to the Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C Issuers, to Cash Collateralize that portion of L/C Obligations comprised of the aggregate undrawn amount of Letters of Credit;

 

Sixth, to the payment of all other Revolving Obligations of the Loan Parties that are due and payable to the Administrative Agent and the other applicable Secured Parties on such date, ratably based upon the respective aggregate amounts of all such Revolving Obligations owing to the Administrative Agent and the other applicable Secured Parties on such date;

 

Seventh, to payment of that portion of the Obligations (other than Revolving Obligations) constituting fees, indemnities and other amounts (other than principal and interest) payable to the applicable Secured Parties (including Attorney Costs payable under Section 10.04 and amounts payable under Article 3), ratably among them in proportion to the amounts described in this clause Seventh payable to them;

 

Eighth, to payment of that portion of the Obligations (other than Revolving Obligations) constituting accrued and unpaid interest on the Term Loans, ratably among the applicable Secured Parties in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Eighth payable to them;

 

Ninth, to payment of that portion of the Obligations (other than Revolving Obligations) constituting unpaid principal of the Term Loans, the termination value under Secured Hedge Agreements and the Cash Management Obligations, ratably among the applicable Secured Parties in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Ninth held by them;

 

Tenth, to the payment of all other Obligations (other than Revolving Obligations) of the Loan Parties that are due and payable to the Administrative Agent and the other applicable Secured Parties on such date, ratably based upon the respective aggregate amounts of all such Obligations (other than Revolving Obligations) owing to the Administrative Agent and the other applicable Secured Parties on such date; and

 

Last, the balance, if any, after all of the Obligations have been indefeasibly paid in full, to the Borrower or as otherwise required by Law;

 

provided that any amounts received by the Administrative Agent (for the account of any L/C Issuer) upon the exercise of remedies available under the L/C Back-Stop Arrangements shall first be applied to the obligations of the applicable L/C Issuer in accordance with the terms of the L/C Back-Stop Arrangements, with any excess amount remaining after such application to be applied to the other Obligations, if any, in the order set forth above.

 

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Subject to Section 2.03(c), 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 and, if no Obligations remain outstanding, such remaining amount shall be paid to the Borrower or as otherwise required by Law.

 

(b) Each Loan Party shall allocate its Obligations between its Obligations which do not constitute Revolving Obligations, on the one hand, and its Revolving Obligations, on the other hand, as such Loan Party shall determine in good faith is a reasonable allocation thereof.

 

(c) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, this Section 8.04 is intended to constitute and shall be deemed to constitute a “subordination agreement” within the meaning of Section 510(a) of the Bankruptcy Code and is intended to be and shall be interpreted to be enforceable to the maximum extent permitted pursuant to applicable nonbankruptcy law.  Amounts applied pursuant to  clauses First through Tenth of Section 8.04(a) are to be applied, for the avoidance of doubt, in the order required by such clauses until the payment in full in cash of the applicable Obligations referred to in the applicable clause.

 

(d) If any Secured Party collects or receives any amounts received on account of the Obligations to which it is not entitled under Section 8.04(a) hereof, such Secured Party shall hold the same in trust for the applicable Secured Parties entitled thereto and shall forthwith deliver the same to the Administrative Agent, for the account of such Secured Parties, to be applied in accordance with Section 8.04(a) hereof, in each case until the prior payment in full in cash of the applicable Obligations of such Secured Parties.

 

(e) Without limiting the foregoing, it is the intention of the parties hereto that (and to the maximum extent permitted by law the parties hereto agree that) the Revolving Obligations (and the security therefor) constitute a separate and distinct class (and separate and distinct claims) from the other Obligations (and security therefor).

 

SECTION 8.05.          Borrower’s Right to Cure.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Section 8.01, in the event of any Event of Default under any covenant set forth in Section 7.11 and until the expiration of the tenth (10th) day after the date on which financial statements are required to be delivered with respect to the applicable fiscal quarter hereunder, Holdings and the Borrower may engage in a Permitted Equity Issuance and the Borrower may apply the amount of the Net Cash Proceeds thereof to increase Consolidated EBITDA with respect to such applicable fiscal quarter (such fiscal quarter, a “Default Quarter”); provided that such Net Cash Proceeds (i) are actually received by the Borrower (including through capital contribution of such Net Cash Proceeds by Holdings to the Borrower) no later than ten (10) days after the date on which financial statements are required to be delivered with respect to such Default Quarter hereunder, and (ii) do not exceed the aggregate amount necessary to cause the Borrower to be in compliance with Section 7.11 for the applicable period (but, for such purpose, not taking into account any repayment of Indebtedness in connection therewith required pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(iv)(A)); provided, further, that the Borrower shall not be permitted to engage in any more than (A) one Permitted Equity Issuance pursuant to this Section 8.05 in any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters or (B) three Permitted Equity Issuances pursuant to this Section 8.05 during the term of this Agreement.  The parties hereby acknowledge that this Section 8.05 may not be relied on for purposes of calculating any financial ratios other than as applicable to Section 7.11 and shall not result in any adjustment to Consolidated EBITDA other than for purposes of compliance with Section 7.11 on the last day of a given Test Period (and not, for avoidance of doubt, for purposes of determining Pro Forma Compliance with Section 7.11 for any other purposes of this Agreement).

 

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ARTICLE IX

 

Administrative Agent and Other Agents

 

SECTION 9.01.          Appointment and Authorization of Agents.  (a)  Each Lender hereby irrevocably appoints, designates and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such action on its behalf under the provisions of this Agreement and each other Loan Document and to exercise such powers and perform such duties as are expressly delegated to it by the terms of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto.  Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained elsewhere herein or in any other Loan Document, the Administrative Agent shall have no duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein, nor shall the Administrative Agent have or be deemed to have any fiduciary relationship with any Lender or participant, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties, obligations or liabilities shall be read into this Agreement or any other Loan Document or otherwise exist against the Administrative Agent.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing sentence, the use of the term “agent” herein and in the other Loan Documents with reference to any 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 merely as a matter of market custom, and is intended to create or reflect only an administrative relationship between independent contracting parties.

 

(b)  Each L/C Issuer shall act on behalf of the Lenders with respect to any Letters of Credit issued by it and the documents associated therewith, and each such L/C Issuer shall have all of the benefits and immunities (i) provided to the Agents in this Article 9 with respect to any acts taken or omissions suffered by such L/C Issuer in connection with Letters of Credit issued by it or proposed to be issued by it and the applications and agreements for letters of credit pertaining to such Letters of Credit as fully as if the term “Agent” as used in this Article 9 and in the definition of “Agent-Related Person” included such L/C Issuer with respect to such acts or omissions, and (ii) as additionally provided herein with respect to such L/C Issuer.

 

(c)  The Administrative Agent shall also act as the “collateral agent” under the Loan Documents, and each of the Lenders (in its capacities as a Lender, Swing Line Lender (if applicable), L/C Issuer (if applicable), a potential Hedge Bank or a potential Cash Management Bank) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent (A) to act as the agent of (and to hold any security interest created by the Collateral Documents for and on behalf of or on trust for) such Lender 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 and (B) without limiting the generality of the appointment and authorization of the foregoing clause (A), to enter into the Collateral Documents.  In this connection, the Administrative Agent, as “collateral agent” (and any co-agents, sub-agents and attorneys-in-fact appointed by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 9.02 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 9 (including Section 9.07, 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.

 

SECTION 9.02.          Delegation of Duties.  The Administrative Agent may execute any of its duties under this Agreement or any other Loan Document (including for purposes of holding or enforcing any Lien on the Collateral (or any portion thereof) granted under the Collateral Documents or of exercising any rights and remedies thereunder) by or through agents, employees or attorneys-in-fact including for the purpose of any Borrowings, such sub-agents as shall be deemed necessary by the 

 

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Administrative Agent and shall be entitled to advice of counsel and other consultants or experts concerning all matters pertaining to such duties.  The Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any agent or sub-agent or attorney-in-fact that it selects in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct (as determined in the final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction).

 

SECTION 9.03.          Liability of Agents.  No Agent-Related Person shall (a) be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken by any of them under or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the transactions contemplated hereby (except for its own gross negligence or willful misconduct, as determined by the final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, in connection with its duties expressly set forth herein), or (b) be responsible in any manner to any Lender or participant for any recital, statement, representation or warranty made by any Loan Party or any officer thereof, contained herein or in any other Loan Document, or in any certificate, report, statement or other document referred to or provided for in, or received by the Administrative Agent under or in connection with, this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or the validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability or sufficiency of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or the perfection or priority of any Lien or security interest created or purported to be created under the Collateral Documents, or for any failure of any Loan Party or any other party to any Loan Document to perform its obligations hereunder or thereunder.  No Agent-Related Person shall be under any obligation to any Lender or participant to ascertain or to inquire as to the observance or performance of any of the agreements contained in, or conditions of, this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or to inspect the properties, books or records of any Loan Party or any Affiliate thereof.

 

SECTION 9.04.          Reliance by Agents.  (a)  Each Agent shall be entitled to rely, and shall be fully protected in relying, upon any writing, communication, signature, resolution, representation, notice, consent, certificate, affidavit, letter, telegram, facsimile, telex or telephone message, electronic mail message, statement or other document or conversation believed by it to be genuine and correct and to have been signed, sent or made by the proper Person or Persons, and upon advice and statements of legal counsel (including counsel to any Loan Party), independent accountants and other experts selected by such Agent.  The Administrative Agent shall be permitted, without obtaining the consent of the Required Lenders, to make any determination hereunder that, pursuant to the terms hereof, requires the consent, approval or other determination of the Administrative Agent; provided, however that the Administrative Agent shall be permitted to request instructions from the Required Lenders with respect to such matters. Each Agent shall be fully justified in failing or refusing to take any action under any Loan Document unless it shall first receive such advice or concurrence of the Required Lenders as it deems appropriate and, if it so requests, it shall first be indemnified to its satisfaction by the Lenders against any and all liability and expense which may be incurred by it by reason of taking or continuing to take any such action.  Each Agent shall in all cases be fully protected in acting, or in refraining from acting, under this Agreement or any other Loan Document in accordance with a request or consent of the Required Lenders (or such greater number of Lenders as may be expressly required hereby in any instance) and such request and any action taken or failure to act pursuant thereto shall be binding upon all the Lenders.

 

(b)  For purposes of determining compliance with the conditions specified in Section 4.01, each Lender 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 Closing Date specifying its objection thereto.

 

SECTION 9.05.          Notice of Default.  The Administrative Agent shall not be deemed to have knowledge or notice of the occurrence of any Default, except with respect to defaults in the payment of principal, interest and fees required to be paid to the Administrative Agent for the account of the 

 

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Lenders, unless the Administrative Agent shall have received written notice from a Lender or the Borrower referring to this Agreement, describing such Default and stating that such notice is a “notice of default.”  The Administrative Agent will notify the Lenders of its receipt of any such notice.  The Administrative Agent shall take such action with respect to any Event of Default as may be directed by the Required Lenders in accordance with Article 8; provided that unless and until the Administrative Agent has received any such direction, the Administrative Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) take such action, or refrain from taking such action, with respect to such Event of Default as it shall deem advisable or in the best interest of the Lenders.

 

SECTION 9.06.          Credit Decision; Disclosure of Information by Agents.  Each Lender acknowledges that no Agent-Related Person has made any representation or warranty to it, and that no act by any Agent hereafter taken, including any consent to and acceptance of any assignment or review of the affairs of any Loan Party or any Affiliate thereof, shall be deemed to constitute any representation or warranty by any Agent-Related Person to any Lender as to any matter, including whether Agent-Related Persons have disclosed material information in their possession.  Each Lender represents to each Agent that it has, independently and without reliance upon any Agent-Related Person 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 Loan Parties and their respective 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 Borrower and the other Loan Parties hereunder.  Each Lender also represents that it will, independently and without reliance upon any Agent-Related Person and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit analysis, appraisals and decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement and the other Loan 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 other Loan Parties.  Except for notices, reports and other documents expressly required to be furnished to the Lenders by any Agent herein, such Agent shall not have any duty or responsibility to provide any Lender with 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 respective Affiliates which may come into the possession of any Agent-Related Person.

 

SECTION 9.07.          Indemnification of Agents.  Whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby are consummated, the Lenders shall indemnify upon demand the Administrative Agent, the Supplemental Administrative Agents (if any), each Joint Lead Arranger and the Syndication Agent and, in each such case, their respective Affiliates, and the officers, directors, employees, agents and attorneys-in-fact of such Persons (to the extent not reimbursed by or on behalf of any Loan Party and without limiting the obligation of any Loan Party to do so), pro rata, and hold harmless each such Person from and against any and all Indemnified Liabilities incurred by it in exercising the powers, rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent, the Supplemental Administrative Agents (if any), a Joint Lead Arranger or the Syndication Agent or performing duties of the Administrative Agent, the Supplemental Administrative Agents (if any), a Joint Lead Arranger or the Syndication Agent hereunder or under the other Loan Documents or otherwise in its capacity as the Administrative Agent, the Supplemental Administrative Agents (if any), a Joint Lead Arranger or the Syndication Agent or, in the case of the Administrative Agent and the Joint Lead Arrangers, their respective Affiliates, and the officers, directors, employees, agents and attorneys-in-fact of the Administrative Agent and the Joint Lead Arrangers, any and all Indemnified Liabilities incurred by it in making any determinations of the Administrative Agent and the Joint Lead Arrangers as described above; provided that no Lender shall be liable for the payment to any such Person of any portion of such Indemnified Liabilities resulting from such Person’s own gross negligence or willful misconduct, as determined by the final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction; provided, further that no action taken in accordance with the directions of the Required 

 

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Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be required by the Loan Documents) shall be deemed to constitute gross negligence or willful misconduct for purposes of this Section 9.07.  In the case of any investigation, litigation or proceeding giving rise to any Indemnified Liabilities, this Section 9.07 applies whether any such investigation, litigation or proceeding is brought by any Lender or any other Person.  Without limitation of the foregoing, each Lender shall reimburse the Administrative Agent upon demand for its ratable share of any costs or out-of-pocket expenses (including Attorney Costs) incurred by the Administrative Agent in connection with the preparation, execution, delivery, administration, modification, amendment or enforcement (whether through negotiations, legal proceedings or otherwise) of, or legal advice in respect of rights or responsibilities under, this Agreement, any other Loan Document, or any document contemplated by or referred to herein, to the extent that the Administrative Agent is not reimbursed for such expenses by or on behalf of the Borrower.  The undertaking in this Section 9.07 shall survive termination of the Aggregate Commitments, the payment of all other Obligations and the resignation of the Administrative Agent.

 

SECTION 9.08.          Agents in their Individual Capacities.  DBCI and its Affiliates may make loans to, issue letters of credit for the account of, accept deposits from, acquire Equity Interests in and generally engage in any kind of banking, trust, financial advisory, underwriting or other business with each of the Loan Parties and their respective Affiliates as though DBCI were not the Administrative Agent or an L/C Issuer hereunder and without notice to or consent of the Lenders.  The Lenders acknowledge that, pursuant to such activities, DBCI or its Affiliates may receive information regarding any Loan Party or its Affiliates (including information that may be subject to confidentiality obligations in favor of such Loan Party or such Affiliate) and acknowledge that the Administrative Agent shall be under no obligation to provide such information to them.  With respect to its Loans, DBCI shall have the same rights and powers under this Agreement as any other Lender and may exercise such rights and powers as though it were not the Administrative Agent or the Swing Line Lender, and the terms “Lender” and “Lenders” include DBCI in its individual capacity.

 

SECTION 9.09.          Successor Agents.  The Administrative Agent may resign as the Administrative Agent upon thirty (30) days’ notice to the Lenders and the Borrower.  If the Administrative Agent resigns under this Agreement, the Required Lenders shall appoint from among the Lenders a successor agent for the Lenders, which successor agent shall be consented to by the Borrower at all times other than during the existence of an Event of Default (which consent of the Borrower shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed).  If no successor agent is appointed prior to the effective date of the resignation of the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent may appoint, after consulting with the Lenders and the Borrower, a successor agent from among the Lenders.  Upon the acceptance of its appointment as successor agent hereunder, the Person acting as such successor agent shall succeed to all the rights, powers and duties of the retiring Administrative Agent and the term “Administrative Agent,” shall mean such successor administrative agent and/or supplemental administrative agent, as the case may be, and the retiring Administrative Agent’s appointment, powers and duties as the Administrative Agent shall be terminated.  After the retiring Administrative Agent’s resignation hereunder as the Administrative Agent, the provisions of this Article 9 and Sections 10.04 and 10.05 shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was the Administrative Agent under this Agreement.  If no successor agent has accepted appointment as the Administrative Agent by the date which is thirty (30) days following the retiring Administrative Agent’s notice of resignation, the retiring Administrative Agent’s resignation shall nevertheless thereupon become effective and the Lenders shall perform all of the duties of the Administrative Agent hereunder until such time, if any, as the Required Lenders appoint a successor agent as provided for above.  Upon the acceptance of any appointment as the Administrative Agent hereunder by a successor and upon the execution and filing or recording of such financing statements, or amendments thereto, and such amendments or supplements to the Mortgages, and such other instruments or notices, as may be necessary or desirable, or as the Required Lenders may request, in order to (a) continue the perfection of the Liens granted or purported to be granted by the Collateral 

 

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Documents or (b) otherwise ensure that the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement is satisfied, the Administrative Agent shall thereupon succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, discretion, privileges, and duties of the retiring Administrative Agent, and the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations under the Loan Documents.  After the retiring Administrative Agent’s resignation hereunder as the Administrative Agent, the provisions of this Article 9 and Sections 10.04 and 10.05 shall continue in effect for its benefit in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was acting as the Administrative Agent.

 

SECTION 9.10.          Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim.  In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or 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 Borrower) 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 and the Administrative Agent (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Lenders and the Administrative Agent and their respective agents and counsel and all other amounts due the Lenders and the Administrative Agent under Sections 2.03(h) and (i), 2.09, 10.04 and 10.05) 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 to make such payments to the Administrative Agent and, in the event that the Administrative Agent shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Lenders, to pay to the Administrative Agent any amount due for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Agents and their respective agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Administrative Agent under Sections 2.09, 10.04 and 10.05.

 

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 any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Obligations or the rights of any Lender or to authorize the Administrative Agent to vote in respect of the claim of any Lender in any such proceeding.

 

SECTION 9.11.          Collateral and Guaranty Matters.

 

(a)  Each Lender authorizes and directs the Administrative Agent to enter into the Collateral Documents for the benefit of the Lenders and the other Secured Parties.  Each Lender hereby agrees, and each holder of any Note by the acceptance thereof will be deemed to agree, that, except as otherwise set forth herein, any action taken by the Required Lenders in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement or the Collateral Documents, and the exercise by the Required Lenders of the powers set forth herein or therein, together with such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, shall be authorized and binding upon all of the Lenders.  The Administrative Agent is hereby authorized on behalf of all of the Lenders, without the necessity of any notice to or further consent from any Lender, from time to time prior to an Event of Default, to take any action with respect to any Collateral or Collateral

 

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Documents which may be necessary to perfect and maintain perfected the security interest in and liens upon the Collateral granted pursuant to the Collateral Documents.

 

(b)  The Lenders irrevocably agree:

 

(i)  that any Lien on any property granted to or held by the Administrative Agent under any Loan Document shall be automatically released (A) upon termination of the Aggregate Commitments, the payment in full of all Obligations (other than (x) obligations under Secured Hedge Agreements not yet due and payable, (y) Cash Management Obligations not yet due and payable and (z) contingent indemnification obligations not yet accrued and payable) and the cash collateralization (by pledge of, and deposit with or delivery to the applicable L/C Issuer of, Cash Collateral in an amount equal to 105% of the Outstanding Amount of such Letter of Credit pursuant to documentation in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to such L/C Issuer), expiration or termination of, or the implementation of other arrangements satisfactory to the applicable L/C Issuer in its sole discretion in respect of, all Letters of Credit (collectively, the “Release Conditions”), (B) at the time the property subject to such Lien is transferred or to be transferred as part of or in connection with any transfer permitted hereunder and under each other Loan Document to any Person other than the Borrower or any of its Domestic Subsidiaries that are Restricted Subsidiaries, (C) subject to Section 10.01, if the release of such Lien is approved, authorized or ratified in writing by the Required Lenders, or (D) if the property subject to such Lien is owned by a Subsidiary Guarantor, upon release of such Subsidiary Guarantor from its obligations under its Guaranty pursuant to clause (iii) below;

 

(ii)  to release or subordinate any Lien on any property granted to or held by the Administrative Agent under any Loan Document to the holder of any Permitted Lien on such property that is permitted by Section 7.01(i); and

 

(iii)  that any Subsidiary Guarantor shall be automatically released from its obligations under the Guaranty and the Liens granted by such Person under the Collateral Documents shall be automatically released (A) upon satisfaction of the Release Conditions or (B) if such Person ceases to be a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of a transaction or designation permitted hereunder (including as a result of a Subsidiary Guarantor being redesignated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary); provided that no release described in the foregoing clause (B) shall occur if (after giving effect to such release) such Subsidiary Guarantor is a guarantor of any Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Restricted 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 Subsidiary Guarantor from its obligations under the Guaranty pursuant to this Section 9.11(b).  In each case as specified in this Section 9.11(b), the Administrative Agent will (and each Lender irrevocably authorizes the Administrative Agent to), at the Borrower’s expense, execute and deliver to the applicable Loan Party such documents as such Loan Party may reasonably request to evidence the release or subordination of such item of Collateral from the assignment and security interest granted under the Collateral Documents, or to evidence the release of such Subsidiary Guarantor from its obligations under the Guaranty, in each case in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents and this Section 9.11(b).

 

(c)  The Administrative Agent shall have no obligation whatsoever to the Lenders or to any other Person to assure that the Collateral exists or is owned by any Loan Party or is cared for, protected or insured or that the Liens granted to the Administrative Agent herein or pursuant hereto have been properly or sufficiently or lawfully created, perfected, protected or enforced or are entitled to any particular priority, or to exercise or to continue exercising at all or in any manner or under any duty of care, disclosure or fidelity any of the rights, authorities and powers granted or available to the 

 

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Administrative Agent in this Section 9.11 or in any of the Collateral Documents, it being understood and agreed that in respect of the Collateral, or any act, omission or event related thereto, the Administrative Agent may act in any manner it may deem appropriate, in its sole discretion, given the Administrative Agent’s own interest in the Collateral as one of the Lenders and that the Administrative Agent shall have no duty or liability whatsoever to the Lenders, except for its gross negligence or willful misconduct (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable decision).

 

SECTION 9.12.          Other Agents; Joint Lead Arrangers and Managers.  None of the Lenders or other Persons identified on the facing page or signature pages of this Agreement as a “joint bookrunner”, “joint lead arranger” or “syndication agent” shall have any right, power, obligation, liability, responsibility or duty under this Agreement other than those applicable to all Lenders as such (other than the rights to indemnification set forth in Section 10.04).  Without limiting the foregoing, none of the Lenders or other Persons so identified shall have or be deemed to have any fiduciary relationship with any Lender.  Each Lender acknowledges that it has not relied, and will not rely, on any of the Lenders in deciding to enter into this Agreement or in taking or not taking action hereunder.

 

SECTION 9.13.          Appointment of Supplemental Administrative Agents.  (a)    It is the purpose of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents that there shall be no violation of any Law of any jurisdiction denying or restricting the right of banking corporations or associations to transact business as agent or trustee in such jurisdiction.  It is recognized that in case of litigation under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, and in particular in case of the enforcement of any of the Loan Documents, or in case the Administrative Agent deems that by reason of any present or future Law of any jurisdiction it may not exercise any of the rights, powers or remedies granted herein or in any of the other Loan Documents or take any other action which may be desirable or necessary in connection therewith, the Administrative Agent is hereby authorized to appoint an additional individual or institution selected by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion as a separate trustee, co-trustee, administrative agent, collateral agent, administrative sub-agent or administrative co-agent (any such additional individual or institution being referred to herein individually as a “Supplemental Administrative Agent” and collectively as “Supplemental Administrative Agents”).

 

(b)  In the event that the Administrative Agent appoints a Supplemental Administrative Agent with respect to any Collateral, (i) each and every right, power, privilege or duty expressed or intended by this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents to be exercised by or vested in or conveyed to the Administrative Agent with respect to such Collateral shall be exercisable by and vest in such Supplemental Administrative Agent to the extent, and only to the extent, necessary to enable such Supplemental Administrative Agent to exercise such rights, powers and privileges with respect to such Collateral and to perform such duties with respect to such Collateral, and every covenant and obligation contained in the Loan Documents and necessary to the exercise or performance thereof by such Supplemental Administrative Agent shall run to and be enforceable by either the Administrative Agent or such Supplemental Administrative Agent, and (ii) the provisions of this Article 9 and of Sections 10.04 and 10.05 that refer to the Administrative Agent shall inure to the benefit of such Supplemental Administrative Agent and all references therein to the Administrative Agent shall be deemed to be references to the Administrative Agent and/or such Supplemental Administrative Agent, as the context may require.

 

(c)  Should any instrument in writing from the Borrower, or any other Loan Party be required by any Supplemental Administrative Agent so appointed by the Administrative Agent for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to him or it such rights, powers, privileges and duties, the Borrower shall, or shall cause such Loan Party to, execute, acknowledge and deliver any and all such instruments promptly upon request by the Administrative Agent.  In case any Supplemental Administrative Agent, or a successor thereto, shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be 

 

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ARTICLE X

 

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SECTION 10.01.        Amendments, etc.  Except as otherwise set forth in this Agreement, no amendment, modification, supplement or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, and no consent to any departure by the Borrower or any other Loan Party therefrom, shall be effective unless in writing signed by the Required Lenders (or the Administrative Agent acting upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders) and the Borrower or the applicable Loan Party, as the case may be, and each such waiver, amendment, modification, supplement or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given; provided that, no such amendment, modification, supplement, waiver or consent shall:

 

(a)  extend or increase the Revolving Credit Commitment of any Lender without the written consent of each Lender directly affected thereby (it being understood that a waiver of any condition precedent set forth in Section 4.02 or the waiver of any Default, mandatory prepayment or mandatory reduction of the Revolving Credit Commitments (other than any such required reduction on the Maturity Date) shall not constitute an extension or increase of any Revolving Credit Commitment of any Lender);

 

(b)  postpone any date scheduled for, or reduce the amount of, any payment of principal or interest under Section 2.07 or 2.08 or any fees without the written consent of each Lender directly affected thereby, it being understood that the waiver of (or amendment to the terms of) any mandatory prepayment of any Loans or extension of the Maturity Date pursuant to Section 2.14 shall not constitute a postponement of any date scheduled for the payment of principal or interest;

 

(c)  reduce the principal of, or the rate of interest specified herein on, any Loan or L/C Borrowing, or (subject to clauses (i) and (iii) of the second proviso to this Section 10.01) any fees or other amounts payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document without the written consent of each Lender directly affected thereby; provided that, only the consent of the Required Lenders shall be necessary to amend the definition of “Default Rate” or to waive any obligation of the Borrower to pay interest at the Default Rate;

 

(d)  change any provision of this Section 10.01, the definition of “Required Lenders,” “Majority Revolving Lenders,” “Majority Term Lenders” or “Pro Rata Share” or Section 2.06(b), 2.13, 2.14 or 8.04 or the proviso appearing in Section 8.02, in any such case without the written consent of all Lenders directly affected thereby; provided, however, that the definition of “Pro Rata Share” and Section 2.13 may be amended by the Required Lenders to permit the prepayment of Loans by the Borrower at a discount to par on terms and conditions approved by the Required Lenders, so long as any such prepayment is offered on a ratable basis to all Lenders of the applicable Class (and made ratably to all accepting Lenders of the applicable Class);

 

(e)  other than in a transaction permitted under Sections 7.04 or 7.05, release all or a substantial portion of the Collateral in any transaction or series of related transactions, without the written consent of each Lender; or

 

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(f)  other than in connection with a transaction permitted under Section 7.04 or 7.05, release all or a substantial portion of the aggregate value of the Guarantees under the Guaranty, without the written consent of each Lender;

 

and provided, further, that (i) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by each L/C Issuer in addition to the Lenders required above, affect the rights or duties of an L/C Issuer under this Agreement or any Letter of Credit Application 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, or any fees or other amounts payable to, the Administrative Agent under this Agreement or any other Loan Document; (iv) Section 10.07(h) may not be amended, waived or otherwise modified without the consent of each Granting Lender all or any part of whose Loans are being funded by an SPC at the time of such amendment, waiver or other modification; (v) the consent of Lenders holding more than 50% of any Class of commitments or Loans (or, in the event such Lenders constitute less than three Lenders (and three or more Lenders holding such Class of commitments or Loans (other than Defaulting Lenders) then exist), the consent of such Lenders plus a number of additional Lenders (that are not Defaulting Lenders) holding such Class of commitments or Loans so that the consent of not less than three Lenders holding such Class of commitments or Loans is obtained) shall be required with respect to any amendment that (x) waives any condition precedent set forth in Section 4.02 solely with respect to the making of Loans or other extensions of credit by such Class (it being understood that a general waiver of an existing Default by the Required Lenders or an amendment approved by the Required Lenders that has the effect of “curing” an existing Default and permitting the making of Loans or other extensions of credit shall constitute a waiver of a condition precedent governed under this clause) or (y) by its terms adversely affects the rights of such Class in respect of payments hereunder in a manner different than such amendment affects other Classes; (vi) no amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of Section 2.06(b) or 2.12(h) in a manner adversely affecting the priority status of the Obligations owing to the Revolving Credit Lenders shall be made without consent of the Majority Revolving Lenders; and (vii) no amendment or modification may be made to this Agreement without the consent of the Majority Term Lenders and the Majority Revolving Lenders if the effect thereof is to increase the aggregate amount of Obligations hereunder entitled to priority treatment as Revolving Obligations for purposes of Sections 2.12(h) and 8.04 (other than an Incremental Amendment effected in accordance with the terms of Section 2.15 of this Agreement as in effect of the Closing Date).  Any such wavier and any such amendment, modification or supplement in accordance with the terms of this Section 10.01 shall apply equally to each of the Lenders and shall be binding on the Loan Parties, the Lenders, the Agents and all future holders of the Loans and Revolving Credit Commitments.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no Defaulting Lender shall have any right to approve or disapprove any amendment, waiver or consent hereunder, except that the Revolving Credit Commitment of such Lender may not be increased or extended without the consent of such Lender (it being understood that any Revolving Credit Commitments or Loans held or deemed held by any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for a vote of the Lenders hereunder requiring any consent of the Lenders).

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing (but subject to clause (vii) of the second proviso appearing in the first sentence of this Section 10.01), this Agreement may be amended (or amended and restated) with the written consent of the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower (a) to add one or more additional credit facilities to this Agreement 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 B Term Loans, Land Term Loans and the Revolving Credit Loans and the accrued interest and fees in respect thereof and (b) to include 

 

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appropriately the Lenders holding such credit facilities in any determination of the “Required Lenders,” “Majority Revolving Lenders” and “Majority Term Lenders” and the Lenders’ “Pro Rata Share”.

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 10.01, guarantees, collateral security documents and related documents executed by 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 or the other Loan Documents, amended and waived with the consent of the Administrative Agent at the request of the Borrower 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.

 

In addition, notwithstanding the foregoing, this Agreement may be amended with the written consent of the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and the Lenders providing the relevant Replacement Term Loans to permit the refinancing of all outstanding Term Loans of a given Class (the “Refinanced Term Loans”) with a replacement term loan tranche denominated in Dollars (the “Replacement Term Loans”) hereunder; provided that (a) the aggregate principal amount of such Replacement Term Loans shall not exceed the aggregate principal amount of such Refinanced Term Loans, (b) the Effective Yield on such Replacement Term Loans shall not be higher than the Effective Yield on such Refinanced Term Loans, (c) the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of such Replacement Term Loans shall not be shorter than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of such Refinanced Term Loans at the time of such refinancing (except to the extent of nominal amortization for periods where amortization has been eliminated as a result of prepayment of the applicable Loans), and (d) all other terms applicable to such Replacement Term Loans shall be substantially identical to, or less favorable to the Lenders providing such Replacement Term Loans than, those applicable to such Refinanced Term Loans, except to the extent necessary to provide for covenants and other terms applicable to any period after the latest final maturity of the Loans in effect immediately prior to such refinancing.

 

In addition, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 10.01, the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and each Lender agreeing to provide Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments may, in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.15, enter into an Incremental Amendment without the consent of the Required Lenders, provided that, after the execution and delivery by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and each such Lender of such Incremental Amendment, such Incremental Amendment may thereafter only be modified in accordance with the requirements of this Section 10.01.

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 10.01, with the consent of only the Required Lenders (and without the individual consent of any Land Term Lender or any other Lender otherwise affected thereby), this Agreement may be amended to provide for the conversion of all or a portion of the outstanding Land Term Loans into B Term Loans, with such converted “Land Term Loans” to (i) have identical terms as the B Term Loans (including, without limitation, interest rate, cash pay requirements, final stated maturity and prepayment provisions but excluding initial principal amount) and (ii) be included (and made a part of) the same “Class” as the B Term Loans.

 

SECTION 10.02.        Notices and Other Communications; Facsimile Copies.

 

(a)  General.  Unless otherwise expressly provided herein, all notices and other communications provided for hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall be in writing (including by facsimile transmission).  All such written notices shall be mailed, faxed or delivered to the applicable address, facsimile number or electronic mail address, and all notices and other 

 

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communications expressly permitted hereunder to be given by telephone shall be made to the applicable telephone number, as follows:

 

(i)  if to the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, an L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender, to the address, facsimile number, electronic mail address or telephone number specified for such Person on Schedule 10.02 or to such other address, facsimile number, electronic mail address or telephone number as shall be designated by such party in a notice to the other parties; and

 

(ii)  if to any other Lender, to the address, facsimile number, electronic mail address or telephone number specified in its Administrative Questionnaire or to such other address, facsimile number, electronic mail address or telephone number as shall be designated by such party in a notice to the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuers and the Swing Line Lender.

 

All such notices and other communications shall be deemed to be given or made upon the earlier to occur of (i) actual receipt by the relevant party hereto and (ii) (A) if delivered by hand or by courier, when signed for by or on behalf of the relevant party hereto; (B) if delivered by mail, four (4) Business Days after deposit in the mails, postage prepaid; (C) if delivered by facsimile, when sent and receipt has been confirmed by telephone; and (D) if delivered by electronic mail (which form of delivery is subject to the provisions of Section 10.02(c)), when delivered; provided that notices and other communications to the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuers and the Swing Line Lender pursuant to Article 2 shall not be effective until actually received by such Person.  In no event shall a voice mail message be effective as a notice, communication or confirmation hereunder.

 

(b)  Effectiveness of Facsimile Documents and Signatures.  Loan Documents may be transmitted and/or signed by facsimile.  The effectiveness of any such documents and signatures shall, subject to applicable Law, have the same force and effect as manually signed originals and shall be binding on all Loan Parties, the Agents and the Lenders.

 

(c)  Reliance by Agents and Lenders.  The Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall be entitled to rely and act upon any notices (including telephonic Committed Loan Notices and Swing Line Loan Notices) purportedly given by or on behalf of the 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 Borrower shall indemnify each Agent-Related Person and each Lender from all losses, costs, expenses and liabilities resulting from the reliance by such Person on each notice purportedly given by or on behalf of the Borrower in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct.  All telephonic notices to the Administrative Agent may be recorded by the Administrative Agent, and each of the parties hereto hereby consents to such recording.

 

SECTION 10.03.        No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies.  No failure by any Lender 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.

 

SECTION 10.04.        Attorney Costs, Expenses and Taxes.  The Borrower agrees (a) to pay or reimburse the Administrative Agent and the Joint Lead Arrangers and the L/C Issuers for all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred in connection with the preparation, negotiation, syndication and execution of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and any amendment, waiver, consent or 

 

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other modification of the provisions hereof and thereof (whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby are consummated), and the consummation and administration of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, including all Attorney Costs of White & Case LLP and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and all reasonable fees, disbursements and other charges through the Closing Date of The Blackstone Group (as financial advisers to the Administrative Agent), and (b) to pay or reimburse the Administrative Agent, each Joint Lead Arranger, each L/C Issuer and each Lender for all out-of-pocket costs and expenses, including Attorney Costs, incurred in connection with the enforcement of any rights or remedies under this Agreement or the other Loan Documents (including all such costs and expenses incurred during any legal proceeding, including any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, and including all Attorney Costs of counsel to the Administrative Agent).  The foregoing costs and expenses shall include all Appraisals of Land Term Loans Properties and all reasonable search, filing, recording and title insurance charges and fees and taxes related thereto, and other (reasonable, in the case of the foregoing clause (a)) out-of-pocket expenses incurred by any Agent and any Joint Lead Arranger, as applicable.  The agreements in this Section 10.04 shall survive the termination of the Aggregate Commitments and repayment of all other Obligations.  All amounts due under this Section 10.04 shall be paid within ten (10) Business Days of receipt by the Borrower of an invoice relating thereto setting forth such expenses in reasonable detail.  If any Loan Party fails to pay when due any costs, expenses or other amounts payable by it hereunder or under any Loan Document, such amount may be paid on behalf of such Loan Party by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion.

 

SECTION 10.05.        Indemnification by the Borrower.  Whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby are consummated, the Borrower shall indemnify and hold harmless each Agent-Related Person, each L/C Issuer, each Lender and their respective Affiliates, directors, officers, employees, counsel, agents, trustees, investment advisors and attorneys-in-fact (collectively the “Indemnitees”) from and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, claims, demands, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses and disbursements (including Attorney Costs) of any kind or nature whatsoever which may at any time be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against any such Indemnitee in any way relating to or arising out of or in connection with (a) the execution, delivery, enforcement, performance or administration of any Loan Document or Restructuring Transactions Documentation or any other agreement, letter or instrument delivered in connection with the transactions contemplated thereby or the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby, (b) any Revolving Credit Commitment, Loan or Letter of Credit or the use or proposed use of the proceeds therefrom (including any refusal by an 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), (c) any actual or alleged presence or release of Hazardous Materials on or from any property currently or formerly owned or operated by the Borrower, any Subsidiary or any other Loan Party, or any Environmental Liability related in any way to the Borrower, any Subsidiary or any other Loan Party, or (d) any actual or prospective claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, whether based on contract, tort or any other theory (including any investigation of, preparation for, or defense of any pending or threatened claim, investigation, litigation or proceeding) and regardless of whether any Indemnitee is a party thereto (all the foregoing, collectively, the “Indemnified Liabilities”), in all cases, whether or not caused by or arising, in whole or in part, out of the negligence of the Indemnitee; provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, claims, demands, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee or of any Affiliate, director, officer, employee, counsel, agent or attorney-in-fact of such Indemnitee, in each case as determined by a final, non-appealable judgment.  No Indemnitee shall be liable for any damages arising from the use by others of any information or other materials obtained through IntraLinks or other similar information transmission systems in connection with this Agreement, nor shall any Indemnitee or any Loan Party have any liability for any special, punitive, indirect or consequential damages relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or arising out of its activities in connection herewith or 

 

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therewith (whether before or after the Closing Date).  In the case of an investigation, litigation or other proceeding to which the indemnity in this Section 10.05 applies, such indemnity shall be effective whether or not such investigation, litigation or proceeding is brought by any Loan Party, its directors, stockholders or creditors or an Indemnitee or any other Person, whether or not any Indemnitee is otherwise a party thereto and whether or not any of the transactions contemplated hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents is consummated.  All amounts due under this Section 10.05 shall be paid within ten (10) Business Days after demand therefor; provided, however, that such Indemnitee shall promptly refund such amount to the extent that there is a final judicial or arbitral determination that such Indemnitee was not entitled to indemnification or contribution rights with respect to such payment pursuant to the express terms of this Section 10.05.  To the extent that the undertakings to defend, indemnify, pay and hold harmless set forth in this Section 10.05 may be unenforceable in whole or in part because they are violative of any Law or public policy, the Borrower shall contribute the maximum portion that it is permitted to pay and satisfy under applicable law to the payment and satisfaction of all Indemnified Liabilities incurred by any Indemnitee.  The agreements in this Section 10.05 shall survive the resignation of the Administrative Agent, the replacement of any Lender, the termination of the Aggregate Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all the other Obligations.

 

SECTION 10.06.        Payments Set Aside.  To the extent that any payment by or on behalf of the Borrower is made to any Agent, any L/C Issuer or any Lender, or any Agent, any 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 such Agent, such 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 the Administrative Agent’s, the L/C Issuer’s and the Lenders’ Liens, security interests, rights, powers and remedies under this Agreement and each Loan Document shall continue in full force and effect, and (b) each Lender severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent upon demand its applicable share of any amount so recovered from or repaid by any Agent or L/C Issuer, 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 from time to time in effect.  In such event, each Loan Document shall be automatically reinstated (to the extent that any Loan Document was terminated) and the Borrower shall take (and shall cause each other Loan Party to take) such action as may be requested by the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuers and the Lenders to effect such reinstatement.

 

SECTION 10.07.        Successors and Assigns.  (a)  The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, except that the Borrower may not assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each Lender and no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder except (i) to an Eligible Assignee in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.07(b), (ii) by way of participation in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.07(e), (iii) by way of pledge or assignment of a security interest subject to the restrictions of Section 10.07(g) or (iv) to an SPC in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.07(h) (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 Section 10.07(e) and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Indemnitees) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.

 

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(“Assignees”) all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Revolving Credit Commitment and the Loans (including for purposes of this Section 10.07(b), participations in L/C Obligations and in Swing Line Loans) at the time owing to it) with the prior written consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) of:

 

(A)  the Borrower; provided that no consent of the Borrower shall be required for an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender, an Approved Fund (excluding therefrom Disqualified Institutions) or, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, any Assignee; provided, further, that the Borrower shall be deemed to have consented to an assignment (other than an assignment to a Disqualified Institution) unless it shall object thereto by written notice to the Administrative Agent within ten (10) Business Days after having received notice thereof;

 

(B)  the Administrative Agent; provided that no consent of the Administrative Agent shall be required for an assignment of any Term Loan to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund and no consent of the Administrative Agent shall be required for an assignment to an Agent or an Affiliate of an Agent;

 

(C)  in the case of any assignment of any Revolving Credit Commitment, each L/C Issuer at the time of such assignment; provided that no consent of the L/C Issuers shall be required for any assignment to an Agent or an Affiliate of an Agent; and

 

(D)  in the case of any assignment of any Revolving Credit Commitment, the Swing Line Lender; provided that no consent of the Swing Line Lender shall be required for any assignment to an Agent or an Affiliate of an Agent.

 

(ii)  Assignments shall be subject to the following additional conditions:

 

(A)  except in the case of an assignment to a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender or an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment or Loans of any Class, the amount of the Revolving Credit Commitment or 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) shall not be less than $1,000,000 unless each of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent otherwise consents; provided that (1) no such consent of the Borrower shall be required if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and (2) such amounts shall be aggregated in respect of each Lender and its Affiliates or Approved Funds, if any;

 

(B)  the parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption, together with a processing and recordation fee of $3,500;

 

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(D)  none of (i) Holdings, (ii) any direct or indirect holder of any Equity Interest in Holdings or the Borrower, (iii) the Borrower, (iv) any Subsidiary or Affiliate of Holdings or the Borrower or (v) any Person that has been denied an approval or a license, or otherwise found unsuitable, under applicable Gaming Laws in any jurisdiction shall be an Eligible Assignee; provided that no Person that is a Lender on the Closing Date or an Affiliate of such Lender shall cease to be treated as an Eligible Assignee by operation of preceding clause (ii) or (iv) for purposes of this Agreement.

 

This paragraph (b) shall not prohibit any Lender from assigning all or a portion of its rights and obligations among separate Facilities on a non-pro rata basis.

 

(c)  Subject to acceptance and recording thereof by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 10.07(d), from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption, the Eligible 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, 3.05, 10.04 and 10.05 with respect to facts and circumstances occurring prior to the effective date of such assignment).  Upon request, and the surrender by the assigning Lender of its Note, the Borrower (at its expense) shall execute and deliver a Note to the assignee Lender.  Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with this clause (c) 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 10.07(e).

 

(d)  The Administrative Agent, acting solely for this purpose as an agent of the Borrower, shall maintain at the Administrative Agent’s Office a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Revolving Credit Commitments of, and principal amounts (and related interest amounts) of the Loans, L/C Obligations (specifying the Unreimbursed Amounts), L/C Borrowings and amounts due under Section 2.03, 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 Borrower, the Agents 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, notwithstanding notice to the contrary.  The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower, any Agent and any Lender, at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.

 

(e)  Any Lender may at any time, without the consent of, or notice to, the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, sell participations to any Person (other than a natural person or a Disqualified Institution) (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 Revolving Credit 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, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations and (iii) the 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.  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 the other Loan Documents and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement 

 

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or the other Loan Documents; provided that such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, waiver or other modification described in the first proviso to Section 10.01 that directly affects such Participant.  Subject to Section 10.07(f), the Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 3.01, 3.04 and 3.05 to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to Section 10.07(b).  To the extent permitted by applicable Law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 10.09 as though it were a Lender; provided that such Participant agrees to be subject to Section 2.13 as though it were a Lender.

 

(f)  The Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 3.01 and 3.04 to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to Section 10.07(b); provided, that (i) such Participant agrees to be subject to the provisions of Section 3.01(e), 3.04(e) and 3.07 as if it were an assignee under Section 10.07(b) and (ii) in the case of a Participant claiming the benefits under Section 3.01, such Participant complies with Section 10.15 (it being understood that the documentation required under Section 10.15 shall be delivered by the Participant to the selling Lender).

 

(g)  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.

 

(h)  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, any Lender (a “Granting Lender”) may grant to a special purpose funding vehicle identified as such in writing from time to time by the Granting Lender to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower (an “SPC”) the option to provide all or any part of any Loan that such Granting Lender would otherwise be obligated to make pursuant to this Agreement; provided that (i) nothing herein shall constitute a commitment by any SPC to fund any Loan, and (ii) if an SPC elects not to exercise such option or otherwise fails to make all or any part of such Loan, the Granting Lender shall be obligated to make such Loan pursuant to the terms hereof.  Each party hereto hereby agrees that (i) neither the grant to any SPC nor the exercise by any SPC of such option shall increase the costs or expenses or otherwise increase or change the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement (including its obligations under Section 3.01, 3.04 or 3.05), (ii) no SPC shall be liable for any indemnity or similar payment obligation under this Agreement for which a Lender would be liable, and (iii) the Granting Lender shall for all purposes, including the approval of any amendment, waiver or other modification of any provision of any Loan Document, remain the lender of record hereunder.  The making of a Loan by an SPC hereunder shall utilize the Revolving Credit Commitment of the Granting Lender to the same extent, and as if, such Loan were made by such Granting Lender.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, any SPC may (i) with notice to, but without prior consent of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent and with the payment of a processing fee of $3,500, assign all or any portion of its right to receive payment with respect to any Loan to the Granting Lender and (ii) disclose on a confidential basis any non-public information relating to its funding of Loans to any rating agency, commercial paper dealer or provider of any surety or Guarantee or credit or liquidity enhancement to such SPC.

 

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provisions of this Section 10.07, (i) no such pledge shall release the pledging Lender from any of its obligations under the Loan Documents and (ii) such trustee shall not be entitled to exercise any of the rights of a Lender under the Loan Documents even though such trustee may have acquired ownership rights with respect to the pledged interest through foreclosure or otherwise.

 

(j)  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, any L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender may, upon thirty (30) days’ notice to the Borrower and the Lenders, resign as an L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender, respectively; provided that on or prior to the expiration of such 30-day period with respect to such resignation, the relevant L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender shall have identified a successor L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender reasonably acceptable to the Borrower willing to accept its appointment as successor L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender, as applicable.  In the event of any such resignation of an L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender, the Borrower shall be entitled to appoint from among the Lenders willing to accept such appointment a successor L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender hereunder; provided that no failure by the Borrower to appoint any such successor shall affect the resignation of the relevant L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender, as the case may be, except as expressly provided above.  If an L/C Issuer resigns as an L/C Issuer, it shall retain all the rights and obligations of an L/C Issuer hereunder with respect to all Letters of Credit outstanding as of the effective date of its resignation as an 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 the Swing Line Lender 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).

 

(k)  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no Assignee shall have recourse to the provisions of Sections 3.01 and 3.05 if the condition upon which such recourse is based was in existence at the time of the applicable assignment under this Section 10.07 (unless the assigning Lender was entitled to the payment of additional amounts or indemnification for Taxes or Other Taxes under Section 3.01 or the payment of compensation under Section 3.05, in each case, at the time of such applicable assignment).

 

SECTION 10.08.        Confidentiality.  Each of the Agents and the Lenders agrees to use commercially reasonable efforts (equivalent to the efforts each such Person applies to maintain the confidentiality of its own confidential information) to maintain the confidentiality of the Information, except that Information may be disclosed (a) to its Affiliates and its and its Affiliates’ directors, officers, employees, trustees, investment advisors and agents, including accountants, legal counsel and other advisors (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 Governmental Authority; (c) to the extent required by applicable Laws or regulations or by any subpoena or similar legal process; (d) to any other party to this Agreement; (e) subject to an agreement containing provisions substantially the same as those of this Section 10.08 (or as may otherwise be reasonably acceptable to the Borrower), to any pledgee referred to in Section 10.07(g), counterparty to a Swap Contract, Eligible Assignee of or Participant in, or any prospective Eligible Assignee of or Participant in, any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement; (f) with the written consent of the Borrower; (g) to the extent such Information becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this Section 10.08; (h) to any Governmental Authority or examiner (including the National Association of Insurance Commissioners or any other similar organization) regulating any Lender or its Affiliates; (i) in connection with the exercise of (or in preparation to exercise) any remedies hereunder or under the other Loan Documents or any suit, action or proceeding relating to the enforcement of its rights hereunder or thereunder; or (j) to any rating agency when required by it (it being 

 

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understood that, prior to any such disclosure, such rating agency shall undertake to preserve the confidentiality of any Information relating to the Loan Parties received by it from such Lender).  In addition, the Agents 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 Agents and the Lenders in connection with the administration and management of this Agreement, the other Loan Documents, the Revolving Credit Commitments, and the Credit Extensions.  For the purposes of this Section 10.08, “Information” means all information received from any Loan Party relating to any Loan Party or its business, other than any such information that is publicly available to any Agent or any Lender prior to disclosure by any Loan Party other than as a result of a breach of this Section 10.08; provided that, in the case of information received from a Loan Party after the date hereof, such information (i) is clearly identified at the time of delivery as confidential or (ii) is delivered pursuant to Section 6.01, 6.02 or 6.03.

 

SECTION 10.09.        Setoff.  (a) In addition to any rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders provided by Law, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, each of the Administrative Agent, each Lender and their respective Affiliates is authorized at any time and from time to time, without prior notice to the Borrower or any other Loan Party, any such notice being waived by the Borrower (on its own behalf and on behalf of each Loan Party and its Subsidiaries) to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final) at any time held by, and other Indebtedness at any time owing by, the Administrative Agent, such Lender or their respective Affiliates to or for the credit or the account of the respective Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries against any and all Obligations owing to the Administrative Agent, such Lender or their respective Affiliates hereunder or under any other Loan Document, now or hereafter existing, irrespective of whether or not the Administrative Agent or such Lender or Affiliate shall have made demand under this Agreement or any other Loan Document and although such Obligations may be contingent or unmatured or denominated in a currency different from that of the applicable deposit or Indebtedness; provided that any recovery by the Administrative Agent, any Lender or their respective Affiliates pursuant to its setoff rights under this Section 10.09 is subject to the provisions of Section 8.04.  Each Lender agrees promptly to notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent after any such set off and application made by such Lender; provided that, the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such setoff and application.  The rights of the Administrative Agent and each Lender under this Section 10.09 are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) that the Administrative Agent and such Lender may have.

 

(b)  NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING SUBSECTION (a), AT ANY TIME THAT THE LOANS OR ANY OTHER OBLIGATION SHALL BE SECURED BY REAL PROPERTY LOCATED IN CALIFORNIA OR IN NEVADA, NO LENDER OR THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT SHALL EXERCISE A RIGHT OF SETOFF, LIEN OR COUNTERCLAIM OR TAKE ANY COURT OR ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION OR INSTITUTE ANY PROCEEDING TO ENFORCE ANY PROVISION OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY NOTE UNLESS IT IS TAKEN WITH THE CONSENT OF THE REQUIRED LENDERS OR, TO THE EXTENT REQUIRED BY SECTION 10.01 OF THIS AGREEMENT, ALL OF THE LENDERS, OR APPROVED IN WRITING BY THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, IF SUCH SETOFF OR ACTION OR PROCEEDING WOULD OR MIGHT (PURSUANT TO SECTIONS 580a, 580b, 580d AND 726 OF THE CALIFORNIA CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, SECTION 2924 OF THE CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE, IF APPLICABLE, SECTION 40.430 OF THE NEVADA REVISED STATUTES OR OTHERWISE) AFFECT OR IMPAIR THE VALIDITY, PRIORITY, OR ENFORCEABILITY OF THE LIENS GRANTED TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT PURSUANT TO THE COLLATERAL DOCUMENTS OR THE ENFORCEABILITY OF THE NOTES AND OTHER OBLIGATIONS HEREUNDER, AND ANY ATTEMPTED EXERCISE BY ANY LENDER OR THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT OF ANY SUCH RIGHT 

 

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WITHOUT OBTAINING SUCH CONSENT OF THE REQUIRED LENDERS OR THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT SHALL BE NULL AND VOID.  THIS SUBSECTION (b) SHALL BE SOLELY FOR THE BENEFIT OF EACH OF THE LENDERS AND THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT HEREUNDER.

 

SECTION 10.10.        Interest Rate Limitation.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any Loan Document, the interest paid or agreed to be paid under the Loan Documents (collectively, the “Charges”) shall not exceed the maximum rate of non-usurious interest permitted by applicable Law (the “Maximum Rate”).  If any 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 Borrower.  In determining whether the interest contracted for, charged, or received by an 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, allocate, and spread in equal or unequal parts the total amount of interest throughout the contemplated term of the Obligations hereunder.  To the extent permitted by applicable Law, the interest and other Charges that would have been payable in respect of such Loan but were not payable as a result of the operation of this Section 10.10 shall be cumulated and the interest and Charges payable to such Lender in respect of other Loans or periods shall be increased (but not above the Maximum Rate therefor) until such cumulated amount, together with interest thereon at the Federal Funds Rate to the date of repayment, shall have been received by such Lender.  Thereafter, interest hereunder shall be paid at the rate(s) of interest and in the manner provided in this Agreement, unless and until the rate of interest again exceeds the Maximum Rate, and at that time this Section 10.10 shall again apply.  In no event shall the total interest received by any Lender pursuant to the terms hereof exceed the amount that such Lender could lawfully have received had the interest due hereunder been calculated for the full term hereof at the Maximum Rate.  If the Maximum Rate is calculated pursuant to this Section 10.10, such interest shall be calculated at a daily rate equal to the Maximum Rate divided by the number of days in the year in which such calculation is made.  If, notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 10.10, a court of competent jurisdiction shall finally determine that a Lender has received interest hereunder in excess of the Maximum Rate, the Administrative Agent shall, to the extent permitted by applicable Law, promptly apply such excess in the order specified in this Agreement and thereafter shall refund any excess to the Borrower or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise order.

 

SECTION 10.11.        Counterparts.  This Agreement and each other Loan Document may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.  Delivery by telecopier of an executed counterpart of a signature page to this Agreement and each other Loan Document shall be effective as delivery of an original executed counterpart of this Agreement and such other Loan Document.  The Agents may also require that any such documents and signatures delivered by telecopier be confirmed by a manually signed original thereof; provided that the failure to request or deliver the same shall not limit the effectiveness of any document or signature delivered by telecopier.

 

SECTION 10.12.        Integration.  This Agreement, together with the other Loan Documents, comprises the complete and integrated agreement of the parties on the subject matter hereof and thereof and supersedes all prior agreements, written or oral, on such subject matter.  In the event of any conflict between the provisions of this Agreement and those of any other Loan Document, the provisions of this Agreement shall control; provided that the inclusion of supplemental rights or remedies in favor of the Agents or the Lenders in any other Loan Document shall not be deemed a conflict with this Agreement.  Each Loan Document was drafted with the joint participation of the respective parties thereto and shall be construed neither against nor in favor of any party, but rather in accordance with the fair meaning thereof.

 

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SECTION 10.13.        Survival 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 each Agent and each Lender, regardless of any investigation made by any Agent or any Lender or on their behalf and notwithstanding that any 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 (other than Obligations under Secured Hedge Agreements, Cash Management Obligations or contingent indemnification obligations, in any such case, not then due and payable) or any Letter of Credit or Revolving Credit Commitment shall remain outstanding.

 

SECTION 10.14.        Severability.  If any provision of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, the legality, validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall not be affected or impaired thereby.  The invalidity of a provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.

 

SECTION 10.15.        Tax Forms. (a)  (i)  Each Lender and each Agent that is not a “United States person” within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code (each, a “Foreign Lender”) shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so and if not previously delivered, deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, on or prior to the date which is ten (10) Business Days after the Closing Date (or upon accepting an assignment of an interest herein), two duly signed, properly completed copies of either IRS Form W-8BEN or any successor thereto (relating to such Foreign Lender and entitling it to an exemption from, or reduction of, United States withholding tax on all payments to be made to such Foreign Lender by the Borrower or any other Loan Party pursuant to this Agreement or any other Loan Document) or IRS Form W-8ECI or any successor thereto (relating to all payments to be made to such Foreign Lender by the Borrower or any other Loan Party pursuant to this Agreement or any other Loan Document) or in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming such an exemption under Section 881(c) of the Code, a certificate that establishes in writing to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent that such Foreign Lender is not (i) a “bank” as defined in Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (ii) a 10-percent stockholder within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code, or (iii) a controlled foreign corporation related to the Borrower within the meaning of Section 864(d) of the Code.  Thereafter and from time to time, each such Foreign Lender to the extent it is legally entitled to do so shall (A) promptly submit to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent such additional duly completed and signed copies of one or more of such forms or certificates (or such successor forms or certificates as shall be adopted from time to time by the relevant United States taxing authorities) as may then be available under then current United States Laws and regulations to avoid, or such evidence as is reasonably satisfactory to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent of any available exemption from, or reduction of, United States withholding taxes in respect of all payments to be made to such Foreign Lender by the Borrower or other Loan Party pursuant to this Agreement, or any other Loan Document, in each case, (1) on or before the date that any such form, certificate or other evidence expires or becomes obsolete, (2) after the occurrence of any event requiring a change in the most recent form, certificate or evidence previously delivered by it to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent and (3) from time to time thereafter if reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, and (B) promptly notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent of any change in circumstances which would modify or render invalid any claimed exemption or reduction.

 

(ii)  Each Foreign Lender, to the extent it does not act or ceases to act for its own account with respect to any portion of any sums paid or payable to such Foreign Lender under any of the Loan Documents (for example, in the case of a typical participation by such Foreign Lender), shall deliver to 

 

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the Borrower and the Administrative Agent on the date when such Foreign Lender ceases to act for its own account with respect to any portion of any such sums paid or payable, and at such other times as may be necessary in the determination of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent (in either case, in the reasonable exercise of its discretion), (A) two duly signed completed copies of the forms or statements required to be provided by such Foreign Lender as set forth above, to establish the portion of any such sums paid or payable with respect to which such Foreign Lender acts for its own account that is not subject to United States withholding tax, and (B) two duly signed completed copies of IRS Form W-8IMY (or any successor thereto), together with any information such Foreign Lender chooses to transmit with such form, and any other certificate or statement of exemption required under the Code, to establish that such Foreign Lender is not acting for its own account with respect to a portion of any such sums payable to such Foreign Lender.

 

(iii)  The Borrower shall not be required to pay any additional amount or any indemnity payment under Section 3.01 to (A) any Foreign Lender if such Foreign Lender shall have failed to satisfy the foregoing provisions of this Section 10.15(a), or (B) any U.S. Lender if such U.S. Lender shall have failed to satisfy the provisions of Section 10.15(b); provided that (i) if such Lender shall have satisfied the requirement of this Section 10.15(a) or Section 10.15(b), as applicable, on the date such Lender became a Lender or ceased to act for its own account with respect to any payment under any of the Loan Documents, nothing in this Section 10.15(a) or Section 10.15(b) shall relieve the Borrower of its obligation to pay any amounts pursuant to Section 3.01 in the event that, as a result of any change in any applicable Law, treaty or governmental rule, regulation or order, or any change in the interpretation, administration or application thereof, such Lender is no longer properly entitled to deliver forms, certificates or other evidence at a subsequent date establishing the fact that such Lender or other Person for the account of which such Lender receives any sums payable under any of the Loan Documents is not subject to withholding or is subject to withholding at a reduced rate and (ii) nothing in this Section 10.15(a) shall relieve the Borrower of its obligation to pay any amounts pursuant to Section 3.01 in the event that the requirements of Section 10.15(a)(ii) have not been satisfied if the Borrower is entitled, under applicable Law, to rely on any applicable forms and statements required to be provided under this Section 10.15 by the Foreign Lender that does not act or has ceased to act for its own account under any of the Loan Documents, including in the case of a typical participation.

 

(iv)  The Administrative Agent may deduct and withhold any taxes required by any Laws to be deducted and withheld from any payment under any of the Loan Documents.

 

(b)  Each Lender and each Agent that is a “United States person” within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code (each, a “U.S. Lender”) shall, if not previously delivered, deliver to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower two duly signed, properly completed copies of IRS Form W-9 on or prior to the Closing Date (or on or prior to the date it becomes a party to this Agreement), certifying that such U.S. Lender is entitled to an exemption from United States backup withholding tax, or any successor form.  If such U.S. Lender fails to deliver such forms, then the Administrative Agent may withhold from any payment to such U.S. Lender an amount equivalent to the applicable backup withholding tax imposed by the Code.

 

SECTION 10.16.        Governing Law.  (a)  THIS AGREEMENT AND EACH OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT (EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE EXPRESSLY PROVIDED THEREIN) SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

 

(b)  ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING UNDER ANY LOAN DOCUMENT OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH OR RELATED OR INCIDENTAL TO THE DEALINGS OF THE PARTIES HERETO OR ANY OF THEM WITH RESPECT TO ANY LOAN 

 

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DOCUMENT, OR THE TRANSACTIONS RELATED THERETO, IN EACH CASE WHETHER NOW EXISTING OR HEREAFTER ARISING, MAY BE BROUGHT IN THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SITTING IN NEW YORK CITY OR OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF SUCH STATE, AND BY EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF THIS AGREEMENT (OR THE DEEMED EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF THIS AGREEMENT IN THE CASE OF THE TERM LENDERS), THE BORROWER, EACH AGENT AND EACH LENDER CONSENTS, FOR ITSELF AND IN RESPECT OF ITS PROPERTY, TO THE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THOSE COURTS.  THE BORROWER, EACH AGENT AND EACH LENDER IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY OBJECTION, INCLUDING ANY OBJECTION TO THE LAYING OF VENUE OR BASED ON THE GROUNDS OF FORUM NON CONVENIENS, WHICH IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE BRINGING OF ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN SUCH JURISDICTION IN RESPECT OF ANY LOAN DOCUMENT OR OTHER DOCUMENT RELATED THERETO.

 

(c)  NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION 10.16, NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT SHALL AFFECT ANY RIGHT THAT THE AGENTS, THE JOINT LEAD ARRANGERS, THE L/C ISSUER OR ANY LENDER MAY OTHERWISE HAVE TO BRING ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS AGAINST THE BORROWER OR ANY OF ITS SUBSIDIARIES OR ANY OF THEIR PROPERTIES OR ASSETS IN THE COURTS OF ANY JURISDICTION.

 

SECTION 10.17.        Waiver of Right to Trial by Jury.  EACH PARTY TO THIS AGREEMENT HEREBY EXPRESSLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY OF ANY CLAIM, DEMAND, ACTION OR CAUSE OF ACTION ARISING UNDER ANY LOAN DOCUMENT OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH OR RELATED OR INCIDENTAL TO THE DEALINGS OF THE PARTIES HERETO OR ANY OF THEM WITH RESPECT TO ANY LOAN DOCUMENT, OR THE TRANSACTIONS RELATED THERETO, IN EACH CASE WHETHER NOW EXISTING OR HEREAFTER ARISING, AND WHETHER FOUNDED IN CONTRACT OR TORT OR OTHERWISE; AND EACH PARTY HEREBY AGREES AND CONSENTS THAT ANY SUCH CLAIM, DEMAND, ACTION OR CAUSE OF ACTION SHALL BE DECIDED BY COURT TRIAL WITHOUT A JURY, AND THAT ANY PARTY TO THIS AGREEMENT MAY FILE AN ORIGINAL COUNTERPART OR A COPY OF THIS SECTION 10.17 WITH ANY COURT AS WRITTEN EVIDENCE OF THE CONSENT OF THE SIGNATORIES HERETO TO THE WAIVER OF THEIR RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY.

 

SECTION 10.18.        Binding Effect.  This Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by each party hereto (other than each Term Lender which shall be deemed to execute and deliver this Agreement in accordance with the Plan of Reorganization) and thereafter shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Borrower, each Agent and each Lender and their respective successors and assigns, except that the Borrower shall not have the right to assign its rights hereunder or any interest herein without the prior written consent of the Lenders.

 

SECTION 10.19.        Lender Action.  Each Lender agrees that it shall not take or institute any actions or proceedings, judicial or otherwise, for any right or remedy against any Loan Party or any other obligor under any of the Loan Documents or the Secured Hedge Agreements (including the exercise of any right of setoff, rights on account of any banker’s lien or similar claim or other rights of self-help), or institute any actions or proceedings, or otherwise commence any remedial procedures, with respect to any Collateral or any other property of any such Loan Party, without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent.  The provisions of this Section 10.19 are for the sole benefit of the Lenders and shall not afford any right to, or constitute a defense available to, any Loan Party.

 

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SECTION 10.20.        Acknowledgments.  The Borrower hereby acknowledges that:

 

(a)  it has been advised by counsel in the negotiation, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents;

 

(b)  no Agent, Joint Lead Arranger or Lender has any fiduciary relationship with or duty to the Borrower or any other Loan Party arising out of or in connection with this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, and the relationship between the Agents, the Joint Lead Arrangers and the Lenders, on one hand, and the Borrower and the other Loan Parties, on the other hand, in connection herewith or therewith is solely that of debtor and creditor; and

 

(c)  no joint venture is created hereby or by the other Loan Documents or otherwise exists by virtue of the transactions contemplated hereby among the Agents, the Joint Lead Arrangers and the Lenders or among the Borrower, the other Loan Parties and the Lenders.

 

The amounts payable at any time hereunder to each Lender shall be a separate and independent debt, and, subject to Section 10.19, each Lender shall be entitled to protect and enforce its rights arising out hereof and it shall not be necessary for any other Lender to be joined as an additional party in any proceeding for such purpose.

 

SECTION 10.21.        USA Patriot Act.  Each Lender hereby notifies the Borrower that pursuant to the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act, Pub. L. 109-177 (signed into law March 9, 2009) (as amended from time to time, the “Patriot  Act”), it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies the Borrower, which information includes the name and address of the Borrower and other information that will allow such Lender to identify the Borrower in accordance with the Patriot Act.

 

SECTION 10.22.        Gaming Authorities and Liquor Authorities.  This Agreement is subject to all applicable Gaming Laws and the Liquor Laws.  Without limiting the foregoing, the Agents and the Lenders acknowledge that rights, remedies and powers in or under this Agreement may be exercised only to the extent that the exercise thereof does not violate any applicable provisions of the Gaming Laws and the Liquor Laws and only to the extent that any required approvals (including prior approvals) are obtained from the requisite Gaming Authorities and the Liquor Authorities.  Each of the Agents, the Joint Lead Arrangers and Lenders agrees to cooperate with the applicable Gaming Authorities and Liquor Authorities in connection with the administration of their regulatory jurisdiction over the Borrower and the other Loan Parties, including to the extent not inconsistent with the internal policies of such Agent, Joint Lead Arranger or Lender and any applicable legal or regulatory restrictions, the provision of such documents or other information as may be requested by any such Gaming Authorities or Liquor Authorities relating to the Agents, the Joint Lead Arrangers, any of the Lenders or the Borrower or any other Loan Party, or the Loan Documents.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Borrower expressly authorizes, and will cause each other Loan Party to authorize, each Agent, each Joint Lead Arranger and each Lender to cooperate with the applicable Gaming Authorities as described above.

 

SECTION 10.23.        Certain Matters Affecting Lenders.  (a)   If any Gaming Authority shall determine that any Lender does not meet suitability standards prescribed under applicable Gaming Laws (a “Unsuitable Lender”), the Administrative Agent shall have the right (but not the duty) to cause such Unsuitable Lender (and such Unsuitable Lender hereby irrevocably agrees) to assign its outstanding Loans and its Revolving Credit Commitments, if any, in full to one or more Eligible Assignees (each, a “Substitute Lender”) in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.07 and the Unsuitable Lender shall pay any fees payable thereunder in connection with such assignment; provided, (1) on the date of such 

 

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assignment, the Substitute Lender shall pay to the Unsuitable Lender an amount equal to the sum of (A) an amount equal to the principal of, and all accrued interest on, all outstanding Loans of the Unsuitable Lender, (B) an amount equal to all Unreimbursed Amounts and participations that have been funded by such Unsuitable Lender, together with all then unpaid interest with respect thereto at such time and (C) an amount equal to all accrued, but theretofore unpaid fees owing to such Unsuitable Lender; and (2) on the date of such assignment, the Borrower shall pay any amounts payable to such Unsuitable Lender pursuant to Article III or otherwise as if it were a prepayment.  The Borrower shall bear the costs and expenses of any Lender required by any Gaming Authorities to file an application for a finding of suitability in connection with the investigation of an application by the Borrower or the other Loan Parties for a license to operate a gaming establishment.

 

(b)  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 10.23(a), if any Lender becomes a Unsuitable Lender, and if the Administrative Agent fails to find a Substitute Lender pursuant to Section 10.23(a) within any time period specified by the appropriate Gaming Authority for the withdrawal of a Unsuitable Lender (the “Withdrawal Period”), the Borrower shall immediately prepay in full the Outstanding Amount of all B Term Loans, Land Term Loans and Revolving Credit Exposure of such Unsuitable Lender, together with all unpaid fees owing to such Unsuitable Lender pursuant to Section 2.09 and any amounts payable to such Unsuitable Lender pursuant to Article III or otherwise as if it were a prepayment and, in each case where applicable, with accrued interest thereon to the earlier of (x) the date of payment or (y) the last day of the applicable Withdrawal Period.  Upon the prepayment of all amounts owing to any Unsuitable Lender and the termination of such Unsuitable Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitments, if any (whether pursuant to Section 10.23(a) or 10.23(b)), such Unsuitable Lender shall no longer constitute a “Lender” for purposes hereof; provided, any rights of such Unsuitable Lender to indemnification hereunder shall survive as to such Unsuitable Lender.

 

SECTION 10.24.        Revolving Credit Facility Priority.  EACH LENDER WITH OUTSTANDING TERM LOANS ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT THE OBLIGATIONS IN RESPECT OF THE REVOLVING CREDIT COMMITMENTS (OR, AFTER THE TERMINATION THEREOF, REVOLVING CREDIT EXPOSURE) (INCLUDING OUTSTANDING REVOLVING CREDIT LOANS, SWING LINE LOANS AND L/C OBLIGATIONS) ARE ENTITLED TO DISTRIBUTIONS PURSUANT TO SECTION 8.04 (INCLUDING DISTRIBUTIONS PURSUANT TO AN INSOLVENCY PROCEEDING) PRIOR TO ANY DISTRIBUTIONS BEING APPLIED TO THE OBLIGATIONS IN RESPECT OF OUTSTANDING TERM LOANS.

 

SECTION 10.25.        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 Affiliates, directors, officers, employees, counsel, agents, trustees, investment advisors and attorneys-in-fact (collectively, the “Agent Parties”) have any liability to the Holdings, the Borrower, any Lender, any 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 the 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 

 

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liability to the Holdings, the Borrower, any Lender, any L/C Issuer or any other Person for indirect, special, incidental, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages).

 

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

 

	
 
    	
NP   OPCO LLC
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   Thomas M. Friel
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name: Thomas   M. Friel
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title: Senior   Vice President
    

 

 

	
 
    	
DEUTSCHE   BANK AG CAYMAN
    
	
 
    	
ISLANDS   BRANCH, as Administrative Agent,
    
	
 
    	
Swing   Line Lender and a Lender
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/ David   J. Crescenzi
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name: David   J. Crescenzi
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title: Managing   Director
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   Benjamin Souh
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name: Benjamin   Souh
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title: Vice   President
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
DEUTSCHE   BANK AG NEW YORK
    
	
 
    	
BRANCH,   as   L/C Issuer,
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   David J. Crescenzi
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name: David   J. Crescenzi
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title: Managing   Director
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   Benjamin Souh
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:   Benjamin Souh
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:   Vice President
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
DEUTSCHE   BANK SECURITIES INC,
    
	
 
    	
as   Joint Lead Arranger
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   David J. Crescenzi
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:   David J. Crescenzi
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:   Managing Director
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   Keith C. Braun
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:   Keith C. Braun
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:   Managing Director
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
J.P.   MORGAN SECURITIES LLC,
    
	
 
    	
as   Syndication Agent and Joint Lead Arranger
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   Joseph E. Geoghan
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:   Joseph E. Geoghan
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:   Managing Director
    

 

 

	
 
    	
SIGNATURE   PAGE TO THE CREDIT AGREEMENT, DATED AS OF THE DATE FIRST WRITTEN ABOVE, AMONG   NP OPCO LLC, A NEVADA LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, DEUTSCHE BANK AG CAYMAN   ISLANDS BRANCH, AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, EACH LENDER FROM TIME TO TIME PARTY   HERETO, DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW YORK BRANCH, AS L/C ISSUER, J.P. MORGAN   SECURITIES LLC, AS SYNDICATION AGENT AND DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC. AND   J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC, AS JOINT LEAD ARRANGERS AND JOINT BOOKRUNNERS
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
NAME   OF INSTITUTION:
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
JPMorgan   Chase Bank, N.A.
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:   
    	
/s/   Charles O. Freedgood
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:   Charles O. Freedgood
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:   Managing Director
    

 

 

	
 
    	
SIGNATURE   PAGE TO THE CREDIT AGREEMENT, DATED AS OF THE DATE FIRST WRITTEN ABOVE, AMONG   NP OPCO LLC, A NEVADA LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, DEUTSCHE BANK AG CAYMAN   ISLANDS BRANCH, AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, EACH LENDER FROM TIME TO TIME PARTY   HERETO, DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW YORK BRANCH, AS L/C ISSUER, J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES   LLC, AS SYNDICATION AGENT AND DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC. AND J.P. MORGAN   SECURITIES LLC, AS JOINT LEAD ARRANGERS AND JOINT BOOKRUNNERS
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
NAME   OF INSTITUTION:
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
NATIXIS
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:   
    	
/s/   Mark A. Harrington
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:   Mark A. Harrington
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:   Managing Director
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:   
    	
/s/   John-Charles van Essche
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:   John-Charles van Essche
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:   Managing DirectorExhibit 10.3

 

$105,000,000.00

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT

 

by and among

 

CV PROPCO, LLC,

as the Borrower

 

NP TROPICANA LLC,
 as the Leasehold Holder,

 

NP LANDCO HOLDCO LLC,

as Holdco,

 

 

DEUTSCHE BANK AG CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,

 

and

THE INSTITUTIONS FROM TIME TO TIME PARTY HERETO,
 as Lenders

 

DEUTSCHE BANK AG CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH,
 as the Administrative Agent for the Secured Parties

 

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,

as Syndication Agent

 

DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC.

and

J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES INC.,

 

as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Book Running Manager

 

 

Dated as of June 16, 2011

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
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ARTICLE I DEFINED TERMS
    	
 
    	
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Accounting Terms; Calculations
    	
 
    	
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ARTICLE II Credit Facility
    	
 
    	
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Loans; Advances to Borrower; Amendment and Restatement
    	
 
    	
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Amendment and Restatement
    	
 
    	
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Maturity
    	
 
    	
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Manner of Payment of Loans; Evidence of Debt
    	
 
    	
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Repayment and Prepayment of Loans; Mandatory Prepayments
    	
 
    	
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Interest
    	
 
    	
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Pro Rata Treatment
    	
 
    	
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Inability to Determine Rates
    	
 
    	
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Illegality
    	
 
    	
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2.11
    	
 
    	
Increased Costs
    	
 
    	
51
    
	
 
    	
2.12
    	
 
    	
Obligation of Lenders to Mitigate
    	
 
    	
52
    
	
 
    	
2.13
    	
 
    	
Funding Indemnification
    	
 
    	
53
    
	
 
    	
2.14
    	
 
    	
Taxes
    	
 
    	
53
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Payment of Fees
    	
 
    	
55
    
	
 
    	
2.16
    	
 
    	
Credit Support
    	
 
    	
55
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE III CONDITIONS
    	
 
    	
55
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Effectiveness of Agreement
    	
 
    	
55
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE IV Representations   and Warranties
    	
 
    	
58
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Financial Condition
    	
 
    	
58
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
No Material Adverse Effect
    	
 
    	
59
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Compliance with Laws
    	
 
    	
59
    
	
 
    	
4.4
    	
 
    	
Organization, Powers; Authorization; Enforceability
    	
 
    	
59
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
No Conflict
    	
 
    	
60
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
No Material Litigation
    	
 
    	
60
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Taxes
    	
 
    	
60
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Regulated Entities
    	
 
    	
61
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Borrower Parties
    	
 
    	
61
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Federal Reserve Board Regulations
    	
 
    	
61
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
ERISA Compliance
    	
 
    	
62
    
	
 
    	
4.12
    	
 
    	
Assets and Liens
    	
 
    	
62
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Securities Acts
    	
 
    	
63
    

 

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Consents, Etc
    	
 
    	
63
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Hazardous Materials
    	
 
    	
64
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Intellectual Property
    	
 
    	
65
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Insurance
    	
 
    	
65
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Full Disclosure
    	
 
    	
65
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Brokers
    	
 
    	
65
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
No Default
    	
 
    	
65
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Contractual Obligations
    	
 
    	
65
    
	
 
    	
4.22
    	
 
    	
Representations Regarding the Mortgaged Property
    	
 
    	
65
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Single Purpose Entity
    	
 
    	
67
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Labor
    	
 
    	
67
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Taxpayer Identification Number
    	
 
    	
68
    
	
 
    	
4.26
    	
 
    	
Anti-Terrorism Laws
    	
 
    	
68
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Accounts
    	
 
    	
68
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Intentionally Omitted
    	
 
    	
69
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Ground Leases
    	
 
    	
69
    
	
 
    	
4.30
    	
 
    	
Management Agreements
    	
 
    	
70
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Option Parcels
    	
 
    	
70
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Restructuring
    	
 
    	
71
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE V Affirmative   Covenants
    	
 
    	
71
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
5.1
    	
 
    	
Reporting Requirements
    	
 
    	
71
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Maintenance of Existence and Rights
    	
 
    	
75
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Compliance with Laws; Forfeiture
    	
 
    	
76
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Access
    	
 
    	
76
    
	
 
    	
5.5
    	
 
    	
Insurance; Casualty; Condemnation; Restoration
    	
 
    	
76
    
	
 
    	
5.6
    	
 
    	
Books and Records
    	
 
    	
79
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Maintenance of Mortgaged Property/Business Operations
    	
 
    	
79
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Approved Leases
    	
 
    	
81
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Taxes
    	
 
    	
81
    
	
 
    	
5.10
    	
 
    	
Environmental
    	
 
    	
81
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Title to the Mortgaged Property
    	
 
    	
83
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Interest Rate Contracts
    	
 
    	
83
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Single Purpose Entities
    	
 
    	
84
    
	
 
    	
5.14
    	
 
    	
Franchise Agreement
    	
 
    	
84
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Entitlements
    	
 
    	
85
    
	
 
    	
5.16
    	
 
    	
Further Assurances
    	
 
    	
85
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Intentionally Omitted
    	
 
    	
86
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Ground Lease Covenants
    	
 
    	
86
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Management Agreement
    	
 
    	
94
    
	
 
    	
5.20
    	
 
    	
Option Parcel Covenants
    	
 
    	
98
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Accounts
    	
 
    	
103
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Gaming Matters/Licenses/Approvals/Permits
    	
 
    	
103
    

 

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Liens
    	
 
    	
103
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Indebtedness
    	
 
    	
103
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Fundamental Change
    	
 
    	
103
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Disposition
    	
 
    	
103
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Investments
    	
 
    	
106
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Transactions with Affiliates
    	
 
    	
106
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Modifications to Organizational Documents and Other   Material Agreements
    	
 
    	
107
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Restricted Payments
    	
 
    	
107
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Zoning Changes
    	
 
    	
107
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Sale Leaseback
    	
 
    	
107
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Negative Pledges
    	
 
    	
107
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Modifications
    	
 
    	
107
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Interest Rate Contracts
    	
 
    	
108
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Limitation on Cage Cash
    	
 
    	
108
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Subdivision
    	
 
    	
108
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Prohibition on Borrower Gaming Activity
    	
 
    	
108
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Event of Default
    	
 
    	
108
    
	
 
    	
7.2
    	
 
    	
Remedies
    	
 
    	
112
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Ground Lease Parcel Purchase Option and Option Agreement
    	
 
    	
113
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE VIII The   Administrative Agent
    	
 
    	
114
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Appointment
    	
 
    	
114
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Delegation of Duties
    	
 
    	
114
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Exculpatory Provisions
    	
 
    	
115
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Reliance by the Agents
    	
 
    	
115
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Notice of Default
    	
 
    	
115
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Non-Reliance on Agents and Other Lenders
    	
 
    	
116
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Indemnification
    	
 
    	
116
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Agents in Their Individual Capacity
    	
 
    	
117
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Successor Administrative Agent
    	
 
    	
117
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Limitations on Agents Liability
    	
 
    	
117
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Collateral
    	
 
    	
117
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE IX Exculpation
    	
 
    	
118
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Exculpated Parties
    	
 
    	
118
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Carveouts From Non-Recourse   Limitations
    	
 
    	
118
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE X Miscellaneous   Provisions
    	
 
    	
120
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
No Assignment by Borrower
    	
 
    	
120
    
	
 
    	
10.2
    	
 
    	
Modification
    	
 
    	
120
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Cumulative Rights; No Waiver
    	
 
    	
121
    

 

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Entire Agreement
    	
 
    	
121
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Survival
    	
 
    	
121
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Notices
    	
 
    	
121
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Governing Law
    	
 
    	
122
    
	
 
    	
10.8
    	
 
    	
Assignments, Participations, Syndication, Etc.
    	
 
    	
122
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Counterparts
    	
 
    	
124
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Sharing of Payments
    	
 
    	
124
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Confidentiality
    	
 
    	
124
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Consent to Jurisdiction
    	
 
    	
125
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Waiver of Jury Trial
    	
 
    	
125
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Indemnity
    	
 
    	
126
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Telephonic Instruction
    	
 
    	
126
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Marshalling; Payments Set Aside
    	
 
    	
127
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Set-off
    	
 
    	
127
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Severability
    	
 
    	
127
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
No Third Parties Benefited
    	
 
    	
127
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Time
    	
 
    	
127
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Reinstatement
    	
 
    	
128
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Rights Under Specified Interest Rate Contracts
    	
 
    	
128
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Reaffirmation, Waiver of Offsets, Counterclaims and   Defenses
    	
 
    	
128
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE XI PAYMENT GUARANTY
    	
 
    	
129
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Payment Guaranty
    	
 
    	
129
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Bankruptcy
    	
 
    	
129
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Nature of Liability
    	
 
    	
129
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Independent Obligation
    	
 
    	
130
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Authorization
    	
 
    	
130
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Reliance
    	
 
    	
131
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Subordination
    	
 
    	
131
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Waiver
    	
 
    	
131
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Payments
    	
 
    	
133
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Joint and Several Obligations
    	
 
    	
133
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
Maximum Liability
    	
 
    	
133
    

 

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SCHEDULES AND EXHIBITS

 

SCHEDULES:

 

	
Schedule   1.1A
    	
 
    	
Legal   Description of Cactus Assemblage
    
	
Schedule   1.1B
    	
 
    	
Legal   Description of Option Parcels
    
	
Schedule   1.1C
    	
 
    	
Material   Agreements
    
	
Schedule   1.1D
    	
 
    	
Legal   Description of Wild Wild West Fee Assemblage
    
	
Schedule   1.1E
    	
 
    	
Legal   Description of Wild Wild West Leasehold Assemblage
    
	
Schedule   1.1F
    	
 
    	
Existing   Leases
    
	
Schedule   1.1G
    	
 
    	
Tenant   Improvement, Leasing Commission and Rent Concession Budget
    
	
Schedule   2.1
    	
 
    	
Loan   Amounts
    
	
Schedule   4
    	
 
    	
Exceptions   to Representations and Warranties
    
	
Schedule   4.1
    	
 
    	
Material   Obligations and Liabilities
    
	
Schedule   4.6
    	
 
    	
Material   Litigation
    
	
Schedule   4.7
    	
 
    	
Taxes
    
	
Schedule   4.9
    	
 
    	
Capital   Stock of Borrower
    
	
Schedule   4.11
    	
 
    	
ERISA   Compliance
    
	
Schedule   4.14
    	
 
    	
Required   Consents
    
	
Schedule   4.15
    	
 
    	
Hazardous   Materials
    
	
Schedule   4.17
    	
 
    	
Existing   Insurance
    
	
Schedule   4.24A
    	
 
    	
Strikes,   Work Stoppages, Slowdowns or Lockouts Pending or Threatened
    
	
Schedule   4.24B
    	
 
    	
Unfair   Labor Practices, Grievances or Complaints Pending or Threatened
    
	
Schedule   4.25
    	
 
    	
Taxpayer   ID Numbers
    
	
Schedule   4.27
    	
 
    	
Accounts
    
	
Schedule   4.31
    	
 
    	
Option   Defaults
    
	
Schedule   5.5
    	
 
    	
Insurance   Requirements
    
	
Schedule   6.6
    	
 
    	
Affiliate   Transactions
    
	
Schedule   10.6
    	
 
    	
Notices
    

 

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EXHIBITS

 

	
Exhibit A
    	
 
    	
Form of   Assignment and Acceptance Agreement
    
	
Exhibit B
    	
 
    	
Form of   Surveyor Certification
    
	
Exhibit C
    	
 
    	
Organizational Chart
    

 

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AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT

 

THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is made and dated as of the 16th day of June, 2011 (“Effective Date”), by and between CV PROPCO, LLC, a limited liability company organized under the laws of the state of Nevada (“Borrower”); NP TROPICANA LLC, a limited liability company organized under the laws of the state of Nevada (“Leasehold Holder”);  NP LANDCO HOLDCO LLC, a Nevada limited liability company (“Holdco”), THE LENDERS FROM TIME TO TIME PARTY HERETO (collectively and severally, the “Lenders”); DEUTSCHE BANK AG CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH (“Deutsche Bank”), as administrative agent for the Secured Parties (in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”); and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. (“JPMorgan”) as syndication agent (in such capacity, the “Syndication Agent”).

 

RECITALS

 

A.            Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas (“DBTCA”) and JPMorgan (the “Original Lenders”) extended the Existing Loans to Borrower in the aggregate principal amount of $250,000,000 (as amended, restated and modified prior to the Effective Date, the “Original Facility”) pursuant to the terms of that certain Credit Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, as amended by that certain First Amendment to Credit Agreement dated as of June 30, 2008 (collectively, the “Original Credit Agreement”).

 

B.            On July 28, 2009, (i) Station Casinos, Inc. (“SCINC”), the previous indirect beneficial owner of Borrower, (ii) FCP Holding, Inc., FCP VoteCo, LLC and Fertitta Partners LLC (collectively, the “Original Guarantor”), and (iii) certain other Affiliates of SCINC (collectively, the “Debtor Affiliates”) filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition under the Bankruptcy Code with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Nevada (the “Bankruptcy Court”) and in connection therewith, filed a Plan of Reorganization (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified, the “Restructuring Plan”).

 

C.            On August 27, 2010, the Bankruptcy Court confirmed the Restructuring Plan pursuant to an order (the “Confirmation Order”) which, among other things, approved the restructuring of certain indebtedness of SCINC and certain of its subsidiaries, and certain transactions affecting SCINC, Borrower, PropCo and Lenders (together with various other agreements which are prerequisites to obtaining agreement or otherwise implementing the transactions approved in the Confirmation Order, the “Restructuring”).

 

D.            In connection with the Restructuring, in exchange for the Warrants and pursuant to the terms of that certain Loan Modification Agreement (the “Modification Agreement”) dated the date hereof  by and among Borrower, the Original Lenders and Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch (“Original Swap Counterparty), among other things, (i) the outstanding principal balance of the Loan (as defined in the Original Credit Agreement) made by DBTCA to Borrower was reduced to $62,047,650.00 (the “Reduced DBTCA Loan”), (ii) the outstanding principal balance of the Loan (as defined in the Original Credit Agreement) made by JP Morgan to Borrower was reduced to $39,213,300.00 (the “Reduced JP Morgan Loan”), and (iii) the net termination payments payable to Original Swap Counterparty under the Terminated

 

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Swap Agreements were reduced to $3,739,050.00 (collectively, the “Reduced Hedge  Termination Payment”) ((i), (ii) and (iii) are collectively, the “Reduction Transactions”).

 

E.             Immediately following the Reduction Transactions (i) DBTCA assigned, and Deutsche Bank assumed, all of DBTCA’s rights and obligations under the Note (as defined in the Original Credit Agreement) issued by Borrower in favor of DBTCA (the “Original DBTCA Note”) and the Original Credit Agreement and (ii) Swap Counterparty assigned, and Deutsche Bank assumed, all of DBTCA’s right, title and interest in the Reduced Hedge Termination Payment.

 

F.             Contemporaneously with the assignment of DBTCA’s rights and obligations under the Original DBTCA Note and the Original Credit Agreement to Deutsche Bank, DBTCA resigned as administrative agent under the Original Credit Agreement, and the Lenders have appointed Deutsche Bank, and Deutsche Bank has agreed, to act as administrative agent on behalf of the Lenders on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents (as that term and other capitalized terms used herein are defined in, or the location of the definitions thereof referenced in, Article I).

 

G.            The Loan Parties and Lenders party hereto are, among other things, amending and restating the Original Credit Agreement in order to memorialize the Restructuring and otherwise reflect the addition of certain additional Mortgaged Property as security for the Loans.

 

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

 

AGREEMENT

 

ARTICLE I
 DEFINED TERMS

 

1.1           Defined terms.  As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the following meanings:

 

“Acceptable Counterparty” shall mean a bank or other financial institution which has (a) either (i) a long-term unsecured debt rating of “A+” or higher by S&P or (ii) if the long-term unsecured debt rating is “A” or lower by S&P, a short-term rating of not less than “A-1” from S&P; (b) a long-term unsecured debt rating of not less than “Aa3” by Moody’s; and (c) if the counterparty is rated by Fitch, either a long-term unsecured debt rating of not less than “A” from Fitch or a short-term unsecured debt rating of not less than “F-1” from Fitch.

 

“Account Bank” shall mean any bank or financial institution with which has been established any Accounts, provided that at all times each Account Bank shall be an Approved Bank that is acceptable to Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion.

 

“Account” shall mean each deposit account or securities account of Borrower

 

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and/or Leasehold Holder and/or Holdco, which shall be an Eligible Account.

 

“Acknowledgment” shall mean the Acknowledgment made by the Acceptable Counterparty to the Required Interest Rate Contracts in form and substance as is acceptable to Administrative Agent.

 

“Act” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 4.13 of this Agreement.

 

“Administrative Agent” shall have the meaning given such term in the preamble to this Agreement and shall include any successor to Deutsche Bank as the initial “Administrative Agent” hereunder.

 

“Advance” shall mean each disbursement of any portion of a Loan by Lenders to Borrower pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.

 

“Affiliate” shall mean (a) 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; provided, that as to any Borrower Party or any Subsidiary thereof, the term “Affiliate” shall expressly exclude the Persons constituting Lenders as of the Effective Date and their respective Affiliates and (b) with respect to any Borrower Party or any Subsidiary thereof, (i) Frank J. Fertitta III and his spouse, their respective parents and grandparents and any lineal descendants (including adopted children and their lineal descendants) of any of the foregoing, (ii) Lorenzo J. Fertitta and his spouse, their respective parents and grandparents and any lineal descendants (including adopted children and their lineal descendants) of any of the foregoing, (iii) any Affiliate of any Person described in the foregoing clauses (i) and (ii), or (iv) any personal investment vehicle, trust or entity owned by, or established for the benefit of, or the estate of, any Person described in the foregoing clauses (i) and (ii).  “Control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to (x) vote more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding voting interests of a Person or (y) 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.

 

“Agents” shall mean the Administrative Agent and the Syndication Agent, together with their permitted successors and assigns.

 

“Agreement” shall mean this Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, as the same may be Modified.

 

“ALTA” shall mean American Land Title Association, or any successor thereto.

 

“Anti-Terrorism Laws” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 4.26(1) of this Agreement.

 

“Applicable Base Rate” shall mean the floating rate per annum equal to the daily average Base Rate in effect during the applicable calculation period plus the Base Rate Spread.

 

“Applicable LIBO Rate” shall mean, with respect to the applicable Interest

 

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Period, the floating rate per annum equal to the Reserve Adjusted LIBO Rate plus the LIBO Rate Spread.

 

“Appraisal” shall mean a real estate appraisal conducted in accordance with the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (as promulgated by the Appraisal Standards Board of the Appraisal Foundation) and all Requirements of Law applicable to Lenders, including in conformity with the Financial Institutions Reform Recovery and Enforcement Act (FIRREA), undertaken by an independent appraisal firm satisfactory to Agents in their sole discretion, and providing an assessment of fair market value of the subject Real Property.

 

“Approved Bank” shall mean a bank or other financial institution which has a minimum long-term unsecured debt rating of at least “A” and a minimum short-term unsecured debt rating of at least “A-1” by each of the Rating Agencies, it being understood that the A and A-1 benchmark ratings and other benchmark ratings in this Agreement are intended to be the ratings, or the equivalent of ratings, issued by S&P; provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the parties agree that each of Bank of America, National Association and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association shall be an Approved Bank.

 

“Approved Budget” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 5.1 of this Agreement.

 

“Approved Leases” shall mean (a) all existing Leases, including, without limitation, the leases set forth on Schedule 1.1F attached hereto (collectively, the “Existing Leases”), (b) with respect to the Wild Wild West Fee Assemblage, any Leases entered into by Borrower as landlord after the Effective Date which: (i) will expire on or prior to the date that is five (5) years from the Effective Date or which are terminable without cost to Borrower or Leasehold Holder, as landlord, upon not more than sixty (60) days notice to the tenant thereunder, and (ii) are otherwise for market Rents and are otherwise on market terms and conditions; provided that any Lease of any portion of the Wild Wild West Fee Assemblage shall not, notwithstanding compliance with clauses (i) and (ii) above, constitute  an Approved Lease under this clause (b) (and thus shall require the Administrative Agent’s approval under clause (c) below in order to constitute an Approved Lease) if the total costs required to be incurred by the landlord in connection with such Lease, including, without limitation, tenant improvement allowances and/or cost of performing tenant improvements, leasing commissions and financial concessions, exceeds 110% of the budgeted amount of such costs for such portion of the Wild Wild West Fee Assemblage leased under such Lease set forth on Schedule 1.1G (or if less than the entire premises indentified on Schedule 1.1G is leased pursuant to such Lease, 110% of the pro rata portion budgeted for such costs in relation to the portion of the premises leased under such Lease), or (c) any other Leases entered into by Borrower or Leasehold Holder, as landlord, after the Effective Date that are on terms, and in form and substance, acceptable to the Administrative Agent, in its reasonable discretion (provided that any Lease of all or any material portion of the Hotel/Casino Facility shall require the Administrative Agent’s consent in its sole and absolute discretion).

 

“Assignee” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 10.8(1) of this Agreement.

 

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“Assignment and Acceptance Agreement” shall mean an agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit A.

 

“Assignment of Contracts” shall collectively mean the (i) Amended and Restated Assignment of Contracts, Licenses, Permits, Agreements, Warranties and Approvals dated as of the Effective Date, between Borrower and Administrative Agent, as the same may be Modified, and (ii) Assignment of Contracts, Licenses, Permits, Agreements, Warranties and Approvals dated as of the Effective Date, between Leasehold Holder and Administrative Agent, as the same may be Modified.

 

“Assignment of Interest Rate Contract” shall mean each Assignment of Interest Rate Contract and Security Agreement in substantially the form delivered to Administrative Agent as a condition to the Original Credit Agreement (or in such other form as is approved by Administrative Agent) to be delivered by the Borrower, as assignor, to the Administrative Agent, as assignee, assigning to the Administrative Agent all of the Borrower’s interest in the applicable Required Interest Rate Contract, as the same may be Modified.

 

“Assignment of Leases and Rents” shall collectively mean (i) the Assignments of Leases and Rents entered into by Borrower in favor of Administrative Agent with respect to the Mortgaged Property (excluding the Ground Lease Parcel), as the same may be hereafter Modified from time to time and (ii) the Leasehold Assignment of Leases and Rents entered into by the Leasehold Holder in favor of Administrative Agent with respect to the Ground Lease Parcel, as the same may be hereafter Modified from time to time.

 

“Bankruptcy Code” shall mean Title 11, U.S.C.A., as amended from time to time and any successor thereto.

 

“Base Rate” shall mean on any day the higher of:  (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day, and (b) the sum of the Federal Funds Rate in effect on such day plus one half of one percent (0.50%).

 

“Base Rate Loans” shall mean any Loans bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Base Rate.

 

“Base Rate Spread” shall mean: (a) during the Original Term, two and one half percent (2.5%); (b) during the First Extension Term (provided Borrower exercises its first Option to Extend in accordance with the terms of Section 2.3 hereof), three and one half percent (3.5%); and (c) during the Second Extension Term (provided Borrower exercises its second Option to Extend in accordance with the terms of Section 2.3 hereof), four and one half percent (4.5%). In the event the Obligations are not repaid in full on the Maturity Date, the Base Rate Spread for all periods after the Maturity Date until all Obligations are repaid and performed in full shall be the Base Rate Spread in effect on the day prior to the Maturity Date.

 

“Beneficial” shall mean, when used in the context of beneficial ownership, the analogous meaning to that specified in Rule 13d-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

“Borrower” shall have the meaning given to such term in the preamble to this

 

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“Borrower Mortgaged Property” shall mean, collectively, all the “Mortgaged Property” as such term is defined and set forth in each of the Security Instruments executed by Borrower on or about the date hereof, and shall include all the “Mortgaged Property” as defined in any of such Security Instruments.

 

“Borrower Parties” shall mean, jointly and severally, each of the Borrower, the Leasehold Holder, Recourse Guarantor, Pledgor and any Affiliate of the foregoing executing any Loan Document.

 

“Borrower Warrant Agreement” means that certain Warrant Purchase and Securityholder Agreement, dated as of June 17, 2011, between Borrower, Holdco, German American Capital Corporation, a Maryland corporation and JPMorgan.

 

“Borrower Warrants” means the “Warrants” as defined in the Borrower Warrant Agreement.

 

“Budget” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 5.1(4) of this Agreement.

 

“Business Day” shall mean any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which banks in New York are authorized or obligated to close their regular banking business.

 

“Cactus Assemblage” shall mean that certain land assemblage located in the Las Vegas, Nevada metropolitan area consisting of approximately 60.72 acres of land located on the northeast corner of Interstate 15 and Cactus Avenue, as more particularly described on Schedule 1.1A.

 

“Cage Cash” shall mean all so-called “cage cash” maintained within the Hotel/Casino Facility.

 

“Capital Expenditures” shall mean, for any period, the aggregate of all expenditures (whether paid in cash or accrued as liabilities) by Borrower and the Leasehold Holder during such period that, in conformity with GAAP, are or are required to be included as additions during such period to property, plant or equipment reflected in the consolidated balance sheet of Borrower and the Leasehold Holder, including, without limitation, expenditures for software and other intangible personal property that are accounted for as capital expenditures by Borrower or Leasehold Holder, provided that the term “Capital Expenditures” shall not include (i) expenditures made in connection with the replacement, substitution, restoration or repair of assets to the extent financed with (x) insurance proceeds paid on account of the loss of or damage to the assets being replaced, restored or repaired or (y) awards of compensation arising from the taking by eminent domain or condemnation of the assets being replaced, (ii) the purchase price of equipment that is purchased simultaneously with the trade-in of existing equipment to the extent that the gross amount of such purchase price is reduced by the credit granted by the seller of such equipment for the equipment being traded in at such time, (iii) expenditures that are accounted for as capital expenditures by the Borrower or Leasehold Holder and that actually are paid for by a Person other than the Borrower or Leasehold Holder and for

 

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which neither the Borrower nor Leasehold Holder has provided or is required to provide or incur, directly or indirectly, any consideration or obligation to such Person or any other Person (whether before, during or after such period), or (iv) the book value of any asset owned by the Borrower or Leasehold Holder prior to or during such period to the extent that such book value is included as a capital expenditure during such period as a result of such Person reusing or beginning to reuse such asset during such period without a corresponding expenditure actually having been made in such period; provided that (x) any expenditure necessary in order to permit such asset to be reused shall be included as a Capital Expenditure during the period in which such expenditure actually is made and (y) such book value shall have been included in Capital Expenditures when such asset was originally acquired.

 

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

 

“Capitalized Lease Indebtedness” shall mean, on any date, 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.

 

“Capitalized Leases” shall mean all leases that have been or should be, in accordance with GAAP, recorded as capitalized leases; provided that for all purposes hereunder the amount of obligations under any Capitalized Lease shall be the amount thereof accounted for as a liability in accordance with GAAP.

 

“Cash Equivalents” shall mean, with respect to any Person, any direct obligations of, or obligations guaranteed as to principal and interest by, the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof, provided that such obligations are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States.  Any such obligation must be limited to instruments that have a predetermined fixed dollar amount of principal due at maturity that cannot vary or change.  If any such obligation is rated by S&P, it shall not have an “r” highlighter affixed to its rating.  Interest must be fixed or tied to a single interest rate index plus a single fixed spread (if any), and move proportionately with said index. In no event shall any such obligation have a maturity in excess of 365 days

 

“Casualty” shall mean a fire, explosion, flood, collapse, hurricane, or other casualty affecting the Mortgaged Property.

 

“CERCLIS” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 4.15 of this Agreement.

 

“Change in Law” shall mean (a) the adoption of any law, rule or regulation after the date of this Agreement, (b) any change in any law, rule or regulation or in the interpretation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority after the date of this Agreement or (c) compliance by any Lender (or by any lending office of such Lender or by such Lender’s

 

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holding company, if any) with any guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) of any Governmental Authority made or issued after the date of this Agreement.

 

“Change of Control” shall mean: (a) at any time, that PropCo shall cease to own and control, directly, one hundred percent (100%) of the Capital Stock of Holdco, or Holdco shall cease to own and control, directly, one hundred percent (100%) of the Capital Stock of each of Borrower and Leasehold Holder; or (b) a “Change of Control” as such term is defined in the PropCo Credit Agreement as in effect as of the Effective Date.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, neither the issuance, nor the exercise of the Warrants nor any subsequent transfer of equity issued pursuant to a Warrant shall constitute a Change of Control.

 

“Closing Date” shall mean February 7, 2008.

 

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

 

“Collateral” shall mean rights, interests, and property of every kind, real and personal, tangible and intangible upon which a Lien is granted as security for the Loans or any of the other Obligations pursuant to the Collateral Documents and shall include the “Collateral” as defined in the Security Agreement, the “Pledged Collateral” as defined in each Pledge Agreement, and the Mortgaged Property.

 

“Collateral Documents” shall mean, collectively, the Security Instruments, the Security Agreement, the Pledge Agreement, the Control Agreements, and all other security agreements, pledge agreements, or other similar agreements delivered to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders from time to time that create or purport to create a Lien in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, as the same may hereafter be Modified from time to time.

 

“Compliance Certificate” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 5.1(4) of this Agreement.

 

“Condemnation” shall mean a taking or voluntary conveyance during the term hereof of all or any part of the Mortgaged Property or any interest therein or right accruing thereto or use thereof, as the result of, or in settlement of, any condemnation or other eminent domain proceeding by any Governmental Authority, whether or not the same shall have actually been commenced.

 

“Consolidated” shall mean with respect to any Person, the consolidation of accounts of such Person and its Subsidiaries, in conformity with GAAP.  “Consolidation” shall have a meaning correlative thereto.

 

“Consolidated Hotel/Casino Facility EBITDA” shall mean, for any period, the Consolidated Net Income for such period to the extent attributable to the Hotel/Casino Facility (“Consolidated Hotel/Casino Facility Net Income”):

 

(a)           plus, without duplication and solely to the extent already deducted (and not added back) in arriving at such Consolidated Hotel/Casino Facility Net Income, the

 

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sum of the following amounts for such period to the extent attributable to the Hotel/Casino Facility:

 

(i)            Consolidated Hotel/Casino Facility Interest Expense,

 

(ii)           income tax expense;

 

(iii)          depreciation and amortization,

 

(iv)          non-cash impairment losses,

 

(v)           non-operating, non-recurring losses on the sale of assets for such period,

 

(vi)          losses attributable to the early extinguishment of Indebtedness, and

 

(vii)         losses attributable to hedging obligations or other derivative instruments,

 

(viii)        expenses actually reimbursed in cash by an Affiliate pursuant to an expense sharing agreement;

 

(b)           minus, without duplication and solely to the extent included in arriving at such Consolidated Hotel/Casino Facility Net Income, the sum of the following amounts for such period to the extent attributable to the Hotel/Casino Facility:

 

(i)            non-operating, non-recurring gains on the sale of assets for such period,

 

(ii)           gains attributable to the early extinguishment of indebtedness,

 

(iii)          gains attributable to hedging obligations or other derivative instruments, and

 

(iv)          payments made by the Borrower and the Leasehold Holder (without duplication) to PropCo during such period pursuant to the Expense Sharing Agreement.

 

(iv)          distributions made by the Borrower during such period to PropCo for Borrower’s proportionate share of the amounts distributed by PropCo to the Holding Companies (as defined in the PropCo Credit Agreement) pursuant to Sections 7.06(e)(i) and (ii) and 7.06(f) of the PropCo Credit Agreement,

 

in each case, as determined on a consolidated basis for the Loan Parties in accordance with GAAP; provided that, without duplication:

 

(A)          the following additional items shall be added to Consolidated Hotel/Casino Facility EBITDA such period to the extent attributable to the Hotel/Casino Facility (solely to the extent already deducted (and not added back) 

 

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in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income): (1) cash restructuring charges or reserves (including restructuring costs related to acquisitions and to closure/consolidation of facilities) incurred after the Effective Date and unusual or non-recurring charges, including severance, relocation costs and curtailments or modifications to pension and post-retirement employee benefit plans; provided, that the aggregate amount under this clause (1) with respect to any period shall not exceed 2.5% of Consolidated Hotel/Casino Facility EBITDA for such period, (2) non-cash charges in respect of equity compensation, (3) other extraordinary Non-Cash Charges (provided, however, that any cash payment or expenditure made with respect to any such Non-Cash Charge shall be subtracted in computing Consolidated Hotel/Casino Facility EBITDA during the period in which such cash payment or expenditure is made) and (4) expenses incurred by the Borrower and the Leasehold Holder after the Effective Date and during such period in respect of the Restructuring through December 31, 2011, so long as the aggregate amount of all such expenses added back pursuant to this clause (4) for all periods does not exceed $100,000.00;

 

(B)         the following additional item shall be deducted from Consolidated Hotel/Casino Facility EBITDA for such period to the extent attributable to the Hotel/Casino Facility (solely to the extent included in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income): other extraordinary non-cash gains (excluding any non-cash gain to the extent it represents the reversal of an accrual or reserve for a potential cash item that reduced Consolidated Hotel/Casino Facility EBITDA in any prior period); and

 

(C)           the following additional item shall be deducted from Consolidated Hotel/Casino Facility EBITDA for such period to the extent attributable to the Hotel/Casino Facility: the Incentive Management Fee (as defined in the Management Agreement) for such period.

 

“Consolidated Hotel/Casino Facility Interest Expense” means, for any period, the interest expense, net of interest income, of the Borrower and the Leasehold Holder attributable to the Hotel/Casino Facility for such period determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.

 

“Consolidated Net Income” means, for any period, the net income (loss) of Borrower and the Leasehold Holder for such period determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP (after deduction of the Base Management Fee (as defined in the Management Agreement) for such period but prior to any deduction of the Incentive Management Fee (as defined in the Management Agreement) for such period), excluding, without duplication, the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principles during such period to the extent included in Consolidated Net Income.  For the avoidance of doubt, the calculation of Consolidated Net Income for the purposes hereunder shall include deductions (without duplication) for any and all costs and expenses of IP Holdco to the extent actually allocated to and paid by any Loan Party pursuant to the Expense Sharing Agreement or the HCF Management Agreement, as applicable.

 

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“Consolidated Working Capital” means, at any date, the excess of (a) the sum of all amounts (other than cash and Cash Equivalents) that would, in conformity with GAAP, be set forth opposite the caption “total current assets” (or any like caption) on a consolidated balance sheet of the Loan Parties at such date over (b) the sum of all amounts that would, in conformity with GAAP, be set forth opposite the caption “total current liabilities” (or any like caption) on a consolidated balance sheet of the Loan Parties on such date, including deferred revenue but excluding, without duplication, (i) the current portion of any Funded Debt, (ii) the Loans, (iii) the current portion of interest and (iv) the current portion of current and deferred income taxes.

 

“Contact Office” shall mean the office of Deutsche Bank located at Deutsche Bank AG Cayman Islands Branch, 60 Wall Street, MS NYC60-1110, New York, NY 10005-2858, Attention:  Loan Administration, or such other offices in New York, New York as the Administrative Agent may notify the Borrower and the Lenders from time to time in writing.

 

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

 

“Control” shall have the meaning provided in the definition of “Affiliate”.

 

“Control Agreements” shall mean, collectively, each tri-party deposit account or securities account control agreement by and among the applicable Loan Party, the Administrative Agent and the applicable Account Bank, and each in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and in any event providing to the Administrative Agent “control” of such deposit account or securities account within the meaning of Articles 8 and 9 of the UCC, as such deposit account or securities account control agreements may be Modified.

 

“Counterparty” shall mean the counterparty to a Required Interest Rate Contract, which shall be an Acceptable Counterparty.

 

“Days Inn Franchise Agreement” shall mean that certain Franchise Agreement dated as of December 2, 2009, by and between Franchisor and Tropicana Station Inc., as predecessor in interest to Leasehold Holder.

 

“DBTCA” shall have the meaning given to such term in the recitals to this Agreement.

 

“Debtor Affiliates” shall have the meaning given to such term in the recitals to this Agreement.

 

“Default Rate” shall mean a per annum rate equal to two percent (2%) above the Applicable Base Rate in effect during the applicable calculation period (whether or not such Applicable Base Rate shall otherwise have been elected by Borrower in accordance with this Agreement).

 

“Deferred Management Fees” shall have the meaning given to such term in Section 5.19(15) of this Agreement.

 

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“Deutsche Bank” shall have the meaning given to such term in the preamble to this Agreement.

 

“Deutsche Bank Note” shall mean that certain Amended and Restated Note in the aggregate principal amount of $65,786,700 evidencing Loans dated as of the Effective Date, made by Borrower in favor of Deutsche Bank, as the same may be Modified.

 

“Disposition” shall mean the sale, conveyance, pledge, hypothecation, ground lease, encumbrance, creation of a security interest with respect to, or other Transfer, whether voluntary or involuntary, direct or indirect, of any legal or beneficial interest in any Mortgaged Property, or other Property of the Borrower or Leasehold Holder; provided, however, that Disposition shall not include any Permitted Encumbrances.

 

“Distribution” shall mean, with respect to any Person, (a) any distribution of cash or Cash Equivalents, directly or indirectly, to the partners or holders of Capital Stock of such Person, or any other distribution on or in respect of any partnership, company or equity interests of such Person; (b) the declaration or payment of any dividend on or in respect of any shares of any class of Capital Stock of such Person; or (c) the purchase, redemption, or other retirement of any shares of any class of Capital Stock of such Person, directly or indirectly.

 

“Dollars” and the sign “$” shall mean the lawful money of the United States of America.

 

“Downgrade” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 5.12(3)(ii) of this Agreement.

 

“Effective Date” shall mean the date first written in the introductory paragraph of this Agreement.

 

“Eligible Account” shall mean a separate and identifiable account from all other funds held by the holding institution, which account is an account maintained with an Approved Bank that is subject to supervision or examination by federal and state authority.  An Eligible Account shall not be evidenced by a certificate of deposit, passbook or other instrument.

 

“Eligible Assignee” shall mean any Person, provided, however, that no Person shall be an “Eligible Assignee” unless at the time of the proposed assignment to such Person:  (i) such Person is able to maintain its portion of the Loans in Dollars, (ii) such Person, if a Foreign Lender, is exempt from withholding of tax on interest and is able to deliver the documents related thereto pursuant to Section 2.14(5) of this Agreement, and (iii) such Person is not a Borrower Party, or an Affiliate thereof.

 

“Environmental Certificate” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 5.10(2) of this Agreement.

 

“Environmental Event” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 5.10(2) of this Agreement.

 

“Environmental Indemnity” shall mean the Amended and Restated Environmental

 

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Indemnity Agreement dated as of the Effective Date, made by Borrower, the Leasehold Holder and Holdco, jointly and severally in favor of Administrative Agent, as the same may be Modified.

 

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

 

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

 

“ERISA Event” shall mean (a) a Reportable Event with respect to a Pension Plan or a Multiemployer Plan; (b) a withdrawal by any Borrower Party or any ERISA Affiliate from a Pension Plan subject to Section 4063 of ERISA during a plan year in which it was a substantial employer (as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA) or a cessation of operations which is treated as such a withdrawal under Section 4062(e) of ERISA; (c) a complete or partial withdrawal by any Borrower Party or any ERISA Affiliate from a Multiemployer Plan or notification that a multiemployer is in reorganization; (d) the filing of a notice of intent to terminate, the treatment of a plan amendment as a termination under Section 4041 or 4041A of ERISA or the commencement of proceedings by the PBGC to terminate a Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (e) a failure by any Borrower Party  or any ERISA Affiliate to satisfy the minimum funding standard (as defined in Section 412 of the Code) with respect to a Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (f) an event or condition which might reasonably be expected to constitute grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (g) the imposition of any liability under Title IV of ERISA, other than PBGC premiums due but not delinquent under Section 4007 of ERISA, upon any Borrower Party or any ERISA Affiliate; (h) a determination that any Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan is, or is expected to be, 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; or (i) an application for a funding waiver or an extension of any amortization period pursuant to Section 412 of the Code with respect to any Pension Plan.

 

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

 

“Event of Default” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 7.1 of this Agreement.

 

“Evidence of No Withholding” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 2.14(5) of this Agreement.

 

“Excess Cash Flow” means, for any period, an amount held by any Loan Party, equal to the excess of:

 

(a)         the sum, without duplication, of:

 

(i)            Consolidated Net Income for such period,

 

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(ii)           an amount equal to the amount of all Non-Cash Charges (including depreciation and amortization) incurred during such period to the extent deducted in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income,

 

(iii)          decreases in Consolidated Working Capital, base stock and long-term account receivables for such period (other than any such decreases arising from acquisitions by Borrower and the Leasehold Holder during such period),

 

(iv)          the amount of income tax expense deducted in determining Consolidated Net Income for such period,

 

(v)           all amounts paid by the counterparty under the Required Interest Rate Contracts to the Borrower or the Leasehold Holder solely to the extent not already included in determining Consolidated Net Income for such period, and

 

(vi)          the amount of any payment or compensation received by Borrower or Leasehold Holder with respect to any Disposition not required to be remitted to Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.4(3)(ii) solely to the extent not already included in arriving at Consolidated Net Income for such period.

 

less

 

(b)           the sum, without duplication and solely to the extent included in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income, of:

 

(i)            an amount equal to the amount of all non-cash credits included in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income,

 

(ii)           the amount of Capital Expenditures made in cash during such period pursuant to the Approved Budget,

 

(iii)          the aggregate amount of voluntary prepayments of the principal amounts outstanding under the Loans made pursuant to Section 2.5(2) and mandatory prepayments of principal amounts outstanding under the Loans made pursuant to Section 2.5(1)(i), each as made during such period,

 

(iv)          the aggregate amount of all principal payments of Permitted Debt of Borrower and the Leasehold Holder made during such period (other than trade accounts payable in the Ordinary Course of Business) except to the extent financed with the proceeds of other Indebtedness of Borrower or the Leasehold Holder, other than to the extent such proceeds were included in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income,

 

(v)           an amount equal to the payments made by Borrower during such period pursuant to the Tax Sharing Agreement solely to the extent not already deducted in arriving at Consolidated Net Income,

 

(vi)          an amount equal to the payments made by Borrower during such period for Incentive Management Fees (as defined in the applicable Management

 

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Agreement) pursuant to the Management Agreements,

 

(vii)         an amount equal to the payments made by Borrower during such period for its share of expenses pursuant to the Expense Sharing Agreement solely to the extent not already deducted in arriving at Consolidated Net Income, and

 

(viii)        increases in Consolidated Working Capital, base stock and long-term account receivables for such period (other than any such increases arising from acquisitions by Borrower and the Leasehold Holder during such period).

 

“Excluded Accounts” shall mean those accounts of Borrower or Leasehold Holder which are (a) payroll accounts so long as such payroll accounts are zero balance deposit accounts, (b) withholding tax and fiduciary accounts, (c) deposit accounts that are not permitted to be subject to a lien pursuant to Gaming Law, and (d) those accounts identified on Schedule 4.27 identified as “Excluded Accounts”.

 

“Excluded Taxes” shall mean, with respect to the Administrative Agent, any Lender, or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower hereunder, (a) income or franchise taxes imposed on (or measured by) its net income by the United States of America, or by any state, locality or foreign jurisdiction under the laws of which such recipient is organized, (b) any branch profits taxes imposed by the United States of America or any similar tax imposed by any other jurisdiction in which the Borrower is located, (c) any taxes that are imposed by reason of FATCA,  and (d) in the case of a Foreign Lender, any withholding tax that is imposed on amounts payable to such Foreign Lender at the time such Foreign Lender becomes a party to this Agreement or is attributable to such Foreign Lender’s failure to comply with Section 2.14(5) of this Agreement except to the extent that such Foreign Lender (or its assignor, if any) was entitled at the time of designation of a new lending office (or assignment or participation), to receive additional amounts from the Borrower with respect to such withholding Taxes pursuant to Section 2.14(1) and ; provided, however, Excluded Taxes shall not include any withholding tax resulting from any inability to comply with Section 2.14(5) of this Agreement solely by reason of there having occurred a Change in Law.

 

“Executive Order” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 4.26(1) of this Agreement.

 

“Existing Leases” shall have the meaning given to such term in the definition of “Approved Leases”.

 

“Existing Loans” shall mean all Loans (as such term is defined in the Original Credit Agreement) made by the Lenders pursuant to the Original Credit Agreement, each being, individually, an “Existing Loan”.

 

“Expense Sharing Agreement” shall mean that certain Cost Sharing Agreement, dated June 16, 2011 by and among Propco, Borrower and Leasehold Holder.

 

“Extension Fee” shall mean a fee equal to one percent (1.0%) of the then-outstanding aggregate principal balance of the Loans, which shall be payable to the Lenders pro

 

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rata in accordance with the respective unpaid principal amounts of the Loans held by them.

 

“Extension Request” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 2.3(b)(1) of this Agreement.

 

“Facility” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 2.1 of this Agreement.

 

“FATCA” shall mean Sections 1471, 1472, 1473 or 1474 of the Code as in effect on the Effective Date and the regulations or guidance promulgated thereunder.

 

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

 

“Fertitta Entertainment” shall mean Fertitta Entertainment LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

 

“FF&E” shall mean all furniture, furnishings, fixtures, equipment and all other items of personal property customarily used in connection with the operation of the Mortgaged Property.

 

“First Extended Maturity Date” means June 17, 2017.

 

“First Extension Term” means the time period commencing on the day after the Original Maturity Date and ending on the First Extended Maturity Date.

 

“Fiscal Quarter” or “fiscal quarter” shall mean any 3-month period ending on March 31, June 30, September 30 or December 31 of any Fiscal Year.

 

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

 

“Foreign Lender” shall mean any Lender that is not a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.

 

“Franchise Agreement” shall mean the Days Inn Franchise Agreement and any other franchise agreement, license agreement or other agreement providing for a franchise or permitting the use of a trade name or a brand in connection with the operation of the hotel at the Hotel/Casino Facility entered into by Borrower or Leasehold Holder with respect to the Mortgaged Property pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.

 

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“Franchisor” shall mean Days Inns Worldwide, Inc. or any other franchisor, licensor or other entity providing or permitting a franchise, trade name or other use of a brand at the Hotel/Casino Facility pursuant to a Franchise Agreement.

 

“Funded Debt” means all Permitted Debt of Borrower and the Leasehold Holder consisting of borrowed money that matures more than one year from the date of its creation or matures within one year from such date that is renewable or extendable, at the option of such Person, to a date more than one year from such date or arises under a revolving credit or similar agreement that obligates the lender or lenders to extend credit during a period of more than one year from such date.

 

“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America, as in effect from time to time; provided, however, that if the Borrower notifies the Administrative Agent that the Borrower requests an amendment to any provision hereof to eliminate the effect of any change occurring after the Effective Date in GAAP or in the application thereof on the operation of such provision (or if the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower that the Required Lenders request an amendment to any provision hereof for such purpose), regardless of whether any such notice is given before or after such change in GAAP or in the application thereof, then such provision shall be interpreted on the basis of GAAP as in effect and applied immediately before such change shall have become effective until such notice shall have been withdrawn or such provision amended in accordance herewith.

 

“Gaming” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Nevada Revised Statutes Section 463.0153.

 

“Gaming Authority” shall mean any applicable governmental or administrative state or local agency, authority, board, bureau, commission, department or instrumentality of any nature whatsoever involved in the supervision or regulation of casinos, gaming and/or gaming activities, including, without limitation, the Nevada Gaming Commission, the Nevada State Gaming Control Board, and any of their respective successors or replacements.

 

“Gaming Law” shall mean all Requirements of Law pursuant to which a Gaming Authority possesses licensing, permit or regulatory authority over casinos, gaming and/or gaming activities conducted within its jurisdiction.

 

“Gaming Permits” shall mean, collectively, every license, permit, approval, registration, finding of suitability, waiver, exemption or other authorization required to own, operate and otherwise conduct non-restricted gaming operations granted or issued by the Nevada Gaming Authorities.

 

“Good Faith Contest” shall mean the contest of an item if (a) no Event of Default shall exist and be continuing; (b) the item is diligently contested in good faith, and, if appropriate, by proceedings timely instituted, (c) the Borrower shall keep the Administrative Agent informed of the status of such contest at reasonable intervals; (d) in the event the Borrower is not providing security as provided in clause (e) below, adequate reserves are established in accordance with GAAP with respect to the contested item; (e) either such contest operates to suspend collection or enforcement (as the case may be) of the contested item or the

 

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Borrower has deposited with Administrative Agent a bond in the amount of the contested item; (f) in the case of any contested items which are not bonded in excess of $2,000,000 or $10,000,000 in the aggregate, during such contest, Borrower, shall deposit with or deliver to the Agent either cash and Cash Equivalents or a letter of credit in an amount equal to 110% of (i) the amount of Borrower’s obligations being contested plus (ii) any additional interest, charge, or penalty arising from such contest; (g) the failure to pay or comply with the contested item during the period of the contest is not reasonably likely to result in a Material Adverse Effect, and (h) in the case of the Ground Lease Parcel, such action is permitted under the Ground Lease and no default under Ground Lease may, or is reasonably likely to occur, as a result of the contest of such item.

 

“Governmental Approvals” means all permits, licenses, consents, approvals, declarations, concessions, orders, filings, notices, findings of suitability, entitlements, waivers, variances, certificates and other authorizations granted or issued by any agency(ies) of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, Clark County, Nevada, the State of Nevada and the United States necessary for the operation of the Hotel/Casino Facility (including, without limitation, as required under any Gaming Laws).

 

“Governmental Authority” shall mean any nation or government, any state or other political subdivision thereof, any central bank (or similar monetary or regulatory authority) thereof, any court or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to government, including, without limitation, all Gaming Authorities.

 

“Ground Lease” “ shall mean that certain Lease dated May 7, 1998, by and between Ground Lease Fee Owner, as landlord, and Leasehold Holder, as tenant, as amended by that certain First Amendment to Lease effective as of December 31, 2008, and as further amended by that certain Second Amendment of Lease, dated as of May, 16, 2011, affecting the Ground Lease Parcel, as the same may be Modified.

 

“Ground Lease Fee Owner” shall mean J. A. Tiberti Construction Company, Inc., a Nevada corporation, the owner of the fee simple estate in the Ground Lease Parcel, and any successor or assignee thereof.

 

“Ground Lease Parcel” shall mean certain land assemblage located in the Las Vegas, Nevada metropolitan area located near Tropicana Avenue adjacent to Interstate 15, as more particularly described on Schedule 1.1E.

 

“Ground Lease Parcel Acquisition Closing Date” means the scheduled closing date, if any, of the Leasehold Holder’s acquisition of the Ground Lease Parcel, which closing date may be modified from time to time in accordance with the terms of the Ground Lease.

 

“Ground Lease Parcel Purchase Option”  shall mean the option of the Leasehold Holder and/or Borrower to purchase the Ground Lease Fee Owner’s interest in the Ground Lease Parcel pursuant to sections 12.01 through 12.20 of the Ground Lease.

 

“Ground Rent” shall mean the aggregate amount of all rent and other amounts payable by the Leasehold Holder pursuant to the Ground Lease.

 

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“Guaranteed Obligations” shall mean the full and prompt payment when due (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of the principal and interest on each Note issued by, and all Loans to Borrower under this Agreement, together with all the other obligations (including obligations which, but for the automatic stay under Section 362(a) of the Bankruptcy Code, would become due), indebtedness and liabilities (including, without limitation, indemnities, fees and interest (including any interest accruing after the commencement of any proceeding with respect to any Loan Party under the Bankruptcy Code 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 at the rate provided for herein, whether or not such interest is an allowed claim in any such proceeding) thereon) of Borrower to the Lenders and the Administrative Agent now existing or hereafter incurred under, arising out of or in connection with this Agreement and each other Loan Document to which Borrower is a party and the due performance and compliance by Borrower with all the terms, conditions and agreements contained in this Agreement and in each such other Loan Document.

 

“GVG Parcel” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 5.10(4) of this Agreement.

 

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

 

“Hazardous Materials Laws” shall mean any federal, state or local statute, regulation or ordinance or any judicial or administrative decree or decision, whether now existing or hereinafter enacted, promulgated or issued, with respect to the protection of human health from any environmental hazards (as relating to exposure to such environmental hazards), or the environment, or any Hazardous Materials, wetlands, landfills, open dumps, storage tanks, underground storage tanks, solid waste, waste water, storm water run-off, waste emissions or wells.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the term shall encompass each of the following statutes, and regulations promulgated thereunder, and amendments and successors to such statutes and regulations, as may be enacted and promulgated from time to time:  (i) the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (codified in scattered sections of 26 U.S.C.; 33 U.S.C.; 42 U.S.C. and 42 U.S.C. §9601 et  seq.); (ii) the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. §6901 et  seq.); (iii) the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (49 U.S.C. §1801 et  seq.); (iv) the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C. §2061 et  seq.); (v) the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. §1251 et  seq.); (vi) the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. §7401 et  seq.); (vii) the Safe Drinking Water Act (21 U.S.C. §349; 42 U.S.C. §201 and §300f et  seq.); (viii) the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. §4321); (ix) the Superfund Amendment and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (codified in scattered sections of 10 U.S.C., 29 U.S.C., 33 U.S.C. and 42 U.S.C.); and (x) Title III of the Superfund Amendment and Reauthorization Act (40 U.S.C. §1101 et  seq.).

 

“HCF Management Agreement” shall mean that certain Management Agreement for Wild Wild West Gambling Hall & Hotel, dated as of the Effective Date, by and between

 

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Leasehold Holder and HCF Manager, together with all amendments and other Modifications thereto and replacements thereof approved in writing by Administrative Agent.

 

“HCF Manager” shall mean FE Landco Management LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

 

“Hedging Contracts” shall mean all Interest Rate Contracts, foreign exchange contracts, currency swap or option agreements, forward contracts, commodity swap, purchase or option agreements, other commodity price hedging arrangements, and all other similar agreements or arrangements designed to alter the rights of any Person arising from fluctuations in interest rates, currency values or commodity prices.

 

“Holdco” shall mean NP Landco Holdco LLC, a Nevada limited liability company.

 

“Holdco Pledge Agreement” shall mean that certain Pledge Agreement dated as of the Effective Date, executed by Holdco, pursuant to which Holdco pledged to Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, all of Holdco’s ownership interests in Borrower and Leasehold Holder, as Modified.

 

“Hotel/Casino Facility” shall mean, collectively, the Wild Wild West Gambling Hall and Days Inn Hotel located on the Ground Lease Parcel as of the Effective Date, together with all additional and successor hotel and gaming or casino facilities located on the Mortgaged Property from time to time thereafter, together with all pools, parking lots and other facilities and amenities related to any of the foregoing.

 

“Impositions” shall mean all taxes (including all ad valorem, sales (including those imposed on lease rentals), use, single business, gross receipts, value added, intangible transaction, privilege or license or similar taxes), governmental assessments (including all assessments for public improvements or benefits, whether or not commenced or completed prior to the date of this Agreement and whether or not commenced or completed within the term of this Agreement), water, sewer or other rents and charges, excises, levies, fees (including license, permit, inspection, authorization and similar fees), and all other governmental charges, in each case whether general or special, ordinary or extraordinary, or foreseen or unforeseen, of every character in respect of the Mortgaged Property and/or any Rents and Ground Rent (including all interest and penalties thereon), which at any time prior to, during or in respect of the term of the Loans may be assessed or imposed on or be a Lien upon (a) Borrower (including all income, franchise, single business or other taxes), (b) the Mortgaged Property or any other Collateral, or any Rents therefrom or any estate, right, title or interest therein, or (c) any occupancy, operation, use or possession of, or sales of or from, or activity conducted on, or in connection with the Mortgaged Property.  Nothing contained in this Agreement shall be construed to require Borrower to pay any tax, assessment, levy or charge imposed on any (i) Tenant, (ii) Agent or (iii) Lender in the nature of a capital levy, estate, inheritance, succession, income or net revenue tax.

 

“Improvements” shall mean, collectively, all the “Improvements” as such term is defined and set forth in each of the Security Instruments, and shall include all the “Improvements” as defined in any of such Security Instruments.

 

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“Indebtedness” of any Person shall mean without duplication (a) all indebtedness of such Person for borrowed money, (b) all obligations of such Person evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or similar instruments that bear interest, (c) all reimbursement and other obligations with respect to letters of credit and bankers’ acceptances, (d) all indebtedness for the deferred purchase price of property or services, other than trade payables incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business that are not overdue, (e) all indebtedness of such Person created or arising under any conditional sale or other title retention agreement with respect to Property acquired by such Person (even though the rights and remedies of the seller or lender under such agreement in the event of default are limited to repossession or sale of such Property), (f) all capital lease obligations of such Person and the present value of future rental payments under all synthetic leases, (g) all guaranty obligations of such Person with respect to obligations of another Person that would otherwise constitute Indebtedness hereunder, (h) all obligations of such Person to purchase, redeem, retire, defease or otherwise acquire for value any stock or stock equivalents of such Person, valued, in the case of redeemable preferred stock, at the greater of its voluntary liquidation preference and its involuntary liquidation preference plus accrued and unpaid dividends, (i) all payments that such Person would have to make in the event of an early termination on the date Indebtedness of such Person is being determined in respect of Hedging Contracts of such Person, (j) for the purposes of Section 7.1(5) only, all obligations of such Person in respect of Interest Rate Contracts, and (k) all Indebtedness of the type referred to above secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any lien upon or in Property (including accounts and general intangibles) owned by such Person, even though such Person has not assumed or become liable for the payment of such Indebtedness but only to the extent of the lesser of (x) the amount of such Indebtedness and (y) the fair market value of the Property securing such Indebtedness.

 

“Indemnified Liabilities” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 10.14 of this Agreement.

 

“Indemnified Person” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 10.14 of this Agreement.

 

“Indemnified Taxes” shall mean Taxes, other than Excluded Taxes, imposed in connection with or with respect to (i) the Facility; (ii) any Mortgaged Property or other Collateral for the Facility, or any Property of a Borrower Party with respect to the Facility or the Loan Documents; (iii) in respect of any transactions contemplated under the Loan Documents; or (iv) any revenue or income derived from clauses (i) through (iii) above.

 

“Insurance Premiums” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 6(c) of Schedule 5.5 of this Agreement.

 

“Interest Period” shall mean the period commencing on the Effective Date of this Agreement and ending on (but excluding) the first Payment Date after the Effective Date, and each succeeding one month period thereafter; each Interest Period commencing on (and including) the Payment Date upon which the immediately preceding Interest Period ends and ending on (but excluding) the next following Payment Date.

 

“Interest Rate Contracts” shall mean all interest rate swap agreements, interest

 

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rate cap agreements, interest rate collar agreements and interest rate insurance (in each case together with the confirmation and schedules relating thereto), together with any Modifications thereto.

 

“Interest Rate Determination Date” shall mean, with respect to any Interest Period, the date that is two Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period.

 

“Investment” shall mean, with respect to any Person, (a) any purchase or other acquisition by that Person of Securities, or of a beneficial interest in Securities, issued by any other Person, (b) any purchase by that Person of a Property or assets (Real Property or Personal Property) from a Person, and (c) any loan (other than loans to employees), advance (other than deposits with financial institutions available for withdrawal on demand, prepaid expenses, accounts receivable, advances to employees and similar items made or incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business) or capital contribution by that Person to any other Person, including, without limitation, all Indebtedness to such Person arising from a sale of property by such Person other than in its Ordinary Course of Business.  The amount of any Investment shall be the original cost of such Investment, plus the cost of all additions thereto less the amount of any return of capital or principal to the extent such return is in cash with respect to such Investment without any adjustments for increases or decreases in value or write-ups, write-downs or write-offs with respect to such Investment.

 

“IP Holdco” shall mean NP IP Holdings, LLC, a Nevada limited liability company.

 

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

 

“Joint Lead Arrangers” shall mean Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., in their respective capacity as joint lead arranger for the Facility, together with their respective permitted successors and assigns.

 

“Joint Venture” shall mean, as to any Person:  (a) any corporation fifty percent (50%) or less of the outstanding securities having ordinary voting power of which shall at the time be owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or by one or more of its Subsidiaries or by such Person and one or more of its Subsidiaries, or (b) any partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture or similar business organization fifty percent (50%) or less of the ownership interests having ordinary voting power of which shall at the time be so owned or controlled.

 

“JPMorgan” shall have the meaning given to such term in the preamble of this Agreement.

 

“JPMorgan Note” shall mean that certain Amended and Restated Note in the aggregate principal amount of $39,213,300 evidencing Loans dated as of the Effective Date, made by Borrower in favor of JPMorgan, as the same may be Modified.

 

“Knowledge” shall mean the current actual knowledge of any Responsible Officer of Borrower, the Leasehold Holder or any other Borrower Party who have actual knowledge of

 

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the relevant subject matter.

 

“Land Management Agreement” shall mean that certain Property Management and Leasing Agreement, dated February 7, 2008, between Borrower, as successor-in-interest to Tropicana Acquisitions, LLC, and Land Manager, as amended by that certain First Amendment to Management Agreement dated April 23, 2008, as further amended by that certain Second Amendment to Management Agreement dated May 15, 2008, as further amended by that certain Third Amendment to Management Agreement dated June 30, 2008, and as further amended by that certain Fourth Amendment dated December 17, 2008, together with all amendments and other Modifications thereto and replacements thereof approved in writing by Administrative Agent, relating to the management of the Mortgaged Property other than the Hotel/Casino Facility.

 

“Land Manager” shall mean Gatski Commercial Real Estate Services, a Nevada corporation, or such other entity as shall be expressly approved in writing by the Administrative Agent.

 

“Lease” shall mean any lease, sublease or subsublease, letting, license, concession, or other agreement (whether written or oral and whether now or hereafter in effect) pursuant to which any Person is granted or permitted to have by Borrower or the Leasehold Holder a possessory interest in, or right to use or occupy all or any portion of any space in the Mortgaged Property or any facilities at the Mortgaged Property, and every Modification thereto and every guarantee of the performance and observance of the covenants, conditions and agreements to be performed and observed by the other party thereto, provided, that the term “Lease” shall not include the Ground Lease (but shall include any subleases and sub-subleases thereunder).

 

“Leasehold Estate” means the estate in the Ground Lease Parcel created by the Ground Lease.

 

“Leasehold Holder” shall have the meaning given to such term in the preamble to this Agreement.

 

“Leasehold Holder Mortgaged Property” shall mean, collectively, all the “Mortgaged Property” as such term is defined and set forth in the Security Instrument executed by Leasehold Holder on or about the date hereof, and shall include all the “Mortgaged Property” as defined in any of such Security Instrument.

 

“Leasehold Holder Warrant Agreement” means that certain Warrant Purchase and Securityholder Agreement, dated as of June 17, 2011, between Leasehold Holder, Holdco, German American Capital Corporation, a Maryland corporation and JPMorgan.

 

“Leasehold Holder Warrants” means the “Warrants” as defined in the Leasehold Holder Warrant Agreement.

 

“Lender Parties” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 10.23 of this Agreement.

 

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“Lenders” shall mean each of the lenders from time to time party to this Agreement, including any Assignee permitted pursuant to Section 10.8 of this Agreement.

 

“LIBO Rate” shall mean, with respect to any Interest Period, the per annum rate for such Interest Period and for an amount equal to the amount of the applicable Loan shown on Reuters Screen LIBOR01 (or any equivalent successor page) at approximately 11:00 (London time) two Eurodollar Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period or if such rate is not quoted, the arithmetic average as reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent of the rates at which deposits in immediately available Dollars in an amount equal to the amount of the applicable Loan having a maturity approximately equal to such Interest Period are offered to four (4) reference banks to be selected by the Administrative Agent in the London interbank market, at approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) two Eurodollar Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period.

 

“LIBO Rate Loan” shall mean a Loan bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the LIBO Rate.

 

“LIBO Rate Spread” shall mean: (a) during the Original Term, three and one half percent (3.5%); (b) during the First Extension Term (provided Borrower exercises its first Option to Extend in accordance with the terms of Section 2.3 hereof), four and one half percent (4.5%); and (c) during the Second Extension Term (provided Borrower exercises its second Option to Extend in accordance with the terms of Section 2.3 hereof), five and one half percent (5.5%). In the event the Obligations are not repaid in full on the Maturity Date, the LIBO Rate Spread for all periods after the Maturity Date until all Obligations are repaid in full shall be the LIBO Rate Spread in effect on the day prior to the Maturity Date.

 

“LIBO Reserve Percentage” shall mean with respect to an Interest Period, the maximum aggregate reserve requirement (including all basic, supplemental, marginal and other reserves and taking into account any transitional adjustments) which is imposed under Regulation D on eurocurrency liabilities.  As of the Effective Date, the LIBO Reserve Percentage is zero, provided, however, there can be no assurance as to what such amount may be in the future.

 

“Licenses” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 4.22(7) of this Agreement.

 

“License Revocation” means (i) the denial, revocation or suspension of any Material Nevada Governmental Approval of the HCF Manager, Fertitta Entertainment or any Loan Party by any Governmental Authority; or (ii) the filing of a disciplinary complaint by a Governmental Authority seeking the denial, revocation or suspension of any Material Nevada Governmental Approval of the HCF Manager, Fertitta Entertainment or any Loan Party; provided, that each of the HCF Manager, Fertitta Entertainment and the applicable Loan Parties shall have the greater of (a) ninety (90) days from the date of filing of such disciplinary complaint or (b) such time period as may be granted by the applicable Governmental Authority to cure any event or deficiency giving rise to the filing of such disciplinary complaint such that the complaint is dismissed or settled without a denial, revocation or suspension of such Material Nevada Governmental Approval.  Notwithstanding any applicable cure period set forth in clause

 

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(ii) above, if a Material Nevada Governmental Approval of the HCF Manager, Fertitta Entertainment or any Loan Party is denied, revoked or suspended by any Governmental Authority, a “License Revocation” shall be deemed to have occurred on the effective date of such denial, revocation or suspension.

 

“Lien” shall mean any mortgage, deed of trust, lien, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, security interest, or any other encumbrance or charge on or affecting Borrower, Leasehold Holder, the Collateral, any portion thereof or any interest therein, including, without limitation, any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing, the filing of any financing statement, and the filing of mechanic’s, materialmen’s and other similar liens and encumbrances.

 

“Loan” shall mean any loan made by any Lender pursuant to this Agreement.

 

“Loan Documents” shall mean, collectively, this Agreement, the Note, the Recourse Guaranty, the Security Instruments, the Pledge Agreement, the Assignment of Interest Rate Contracts (if any), the Acknowledgments (if any), the Environmental Indemnity, the Assignment of Contracts, the Assignment of Leases and Rents, the Security Agreement, the Control Agreements, and all other documents executed and/or delivered by Borrower Parties in connection with the Loans including any certifications or representations delivered by or on behalf of Borrower Parties.

 

“Loan Parties” shall mean, collectively, Borrower and Leasehold Holder and Holdco, each being, individually, a “Loan Party”.

 

“Management Agreements” shall mean, collectively, the HCF Management Agreement and the Land Management Agreement, each being, individually, a “Management Agreement”.

 

“Managers” shall mean, collectively, the HCF Manager and the Land Manager, each being, individually, a “Manager”.

 

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

 

“Material Adverse Effect” shall mean any change, occurrence, event, circumstance or development that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on (a) the business, property, condition (financial or otherwise), operation or performance of the (i) Recourse Guarantor, (ii) Borrower or Leasehold Holder or (iii) Holdco, taken as a whole, (b) the ability of the Borrower and the other Borrower Parties (taken as a whole), to perform their payment obligations under the Loan Documents as and when such obligations are required to be performed thereunder, (c) the validity or enforceability of any of the Loan Documents or Specified Interest Rate Contract or the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent and other Secured Parties under any Loan Document or Specified Interest Rate Contract or (d) the Liens in favor of the Administrative Agent on the Collateral or the priority of such Liens.

 

“Material Agreements” shall mean the agreements set forth on Schedule 1.1C.

 

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“Material Casualty” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 5.5(2)(iii).

 

“Material Condemnation” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 5.5(6).

 

“Material Nevada Governmental Approval” means any material Governmental Approval (including any Gaming Permit) issued by any Governmental Authority including any agency(ies) of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, Clark County, Nevada or the State of Nevada, the denial, revocation or suspension of which would have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

“Maturity Date” shall mean either: (a) the Original Maturity Date; (b) the First Extended Maturity Date, if the term of the Loans is so is extended pursuant to and in accordance with Section 2.3 hereof; (c) the Second Extended Maturity Date, if the term of the Loans is so extended pursuant to and in accordance with Section 2.3 hereof; or (d) such earlier date that the Loans become due as a result of acceleration.

 

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

 

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

 

“Mortgaged Property” shall mean, collectively, all the Borrower Mortgaged Property and Leasehold Holder Mortgaged Property.

 

“Multiemployer Plan” any employee benefit plan of the type described in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA, to which any Borrower Party 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.

 

“Non-Cash Charges” means (a) non-cash losses on asset sales, disposals or abandonments, (b) any non-cash impairment charge or asset write-off related to intangible assets, long-lived assets, and investments in debt and equity securities pursuant to GAAP, (c) all non-cash losses from investments recorded using the equity method, (d) stock-based awards compensation expense, and (e) other non-cash charges (provided that if any non-cash charges referred to in this clause (e) represent an accrual or reserve for potential cash items in any future period, the cash payment in respect thereof in such future period shall be subtracted from Consolidated Hotel/Casino Facility EBITDA or Excess Cash Flow to such extent, and excluding amortization of a prepaid cash item that was paid in a prior period).

 

“Note” shall collectively mean the Deutsche Bank Note, the JPMorgan Note and each promissory note evidencing Loans hereafter issued by the Borrower at the request of a Lender or Administrative Agent from time to time as the same may be Modified.

 

“NPL” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 4.15 of this Agreement.

 

“NRS” means the Nevada Revised Statutes as in effect from time to time.

 

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“Obligations” shall mean any and all debts, obligations and liabilities of the Borrower, Leasehold Holder, Holdco or the other Borrower Parties to the Administrative Agent, the other Agents and the Lenders (or, in the case of any Specified Interest Rate Contract, any affiliate of any Lender), whether now existing or hereafter arising, voluntary or involuntary, whether or not jointly owed with others, direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, liquidated or unliquidated, and whether or not from time to time decreased or extinguished and later increased, created or incurred (but without duplication), arising out of or related to the Loan Documents or any Specified Interest Rate Contract.

 

“Officer’s Certificate” shall mean as to any entity, a certificate executed on behalf of such entity by a Responsible Officer.

 

“Option Agreement” shall mean that certain Option to Acquire Property and Escrow Instructions between the Option Parcels Fee Owner, as seller, and Borrower, as buyer, dated May 16, 2011, together with any Modifications thereto.

 

“Option Parcels” shall mean those certain real property parcels located on the western border of and contiguous to the Wild Wild West Assemblage in which Leasehold Holder has an option to purchase said properties under the Option Agreement, as such parcels are legally described on Schedule 1.1B.

 

“Option Parcel(s) Acquisition Closing Date” means the scheduled closing date of Borrower’s acquisition of any Option Parcels, which closing date may be modified from time to time in accordance with the terms of the Option Agreement.

 

“Option Parcels Fee Owner” shall mean The Tiberti Company, a Nevada general partnership and any successor fee owner of the Option Parcels.

 

“Option Parcels Purchase Option” shall mean the option to purchase one or more of the Options Parcels pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth in the Option Agreement.

 

“Option to Extend” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 2.3(b) hereof.

 

“Ordinary Course of Business” shall mean, with respect to a specific Person, the ordinary course of such Person’s business, undertaken by such Person in good faith and not for purposes of evading any covenant or restriction in any Loan Document.

 

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

 

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pursuant to which such trust is formed.

 

“Original Credit Agreement” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the recitals to this Agreement.

 

“Original Maturity Date” shall mean June 17, 2016.

 

“Original Term” shall mean the period of time commencing on the Closing Date and ending on the Original Maturity Date.

 

“Originating Lender” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 10.8(4) of this Agreement.

 

“Other Charges” shall mean maintenance charges, impositions other than Impositions, and any other charges, including, without limitation, vault charges and license fees for the use of vaults, chutes and similar areas adjoining the Mortgaged Property, now or hereafter levied or assessed or imposed against the Mortgaged Property or any part thereof by any Governmental Authority, other than those required to be paid by a Tenant pursuant to its respective Lease.

 

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

 

“Participant” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 10.8(4) of this Agreement.

 

“Payment Date” shall mean the last Business Day of each calendar month.

 

“Payment Guarantor” shall mean collectively or individually, as the context requires, Leasehold Holder and Holdco, each being individually, a “Payment Guarantor”.

 

“Payment Guaranty” shall mean the guaranty of the Payment Guarantor pursuant to Article XI of this Agreement.

 

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

 

“Pension Plan” means any “employee pension benefit plan” (as such term is defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA), other than a Multiemployer Plan, that is subject to Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 or Title IV of ERISA and is sponsored or maintained by any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate or to which any Borrower Party or any ERISA Affiliate contributes or has an obligation to contribute.

 

“Permitted Debt” shall mean, collectively,

 

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(b)           trade payables and other similar liabilities incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business of a Loan Party in connection with the Approved Leases, the operation of the Hotel/Casino Facility, the performance of Capital Expenditures included in the Approved Budget or as otherwise approved by Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion, which liabilities shall not be secured by Liens on the Collateral, and provided that each such amount shall be paid within sixty (60) days following the date on which each such amount is due.

 

(c)           so long as immediately after giving effect to the incurrence of any such Indebtedness, no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, Capitalized Lease Indebtedness and other Indebtedness (including Capitalized Leases) financing the acquisition or replacement of equipment used at the Hotel/Casino Facility; provided that such Indebtedness is incurred concurrently with or within two hundred seventy (270) days after the applicable acquisition or replacement; provided  further that the aggregate principal amount of all Indebtedness permitted under this clause (c) shall not exceed $2,500,000 at any time outstanding;

 

(d)           Indebtedness representing deferred compensation to employees of the Borrower and the Leasehold Holder incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business of operating the Hotel/Casino Facility;

 

(e)           Indebtedness in respect of netting services, overdraft protections and similar arrangements, in each case, in connection with deposit accounts;

 

(f)            Indebtedness consisting of (i) the financing of insurance premiums incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business, or (ii) take-or-pay obligations contained in supply arrangements incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business of operating the Hotel/Casino Facility;

 

(g)           Indebtedness incurred by the Borrower or the Leasehold Holder in respect of letters of credit, bank guarantees, bankers’ acceptances or similar instruments issued or created in the Ordinary Course of Business of operating the Hotel/Casino Facility in respect of workers compensation claims, health, disability or other employee benefits or property, casualty or liability insurance or self-insurance or other Indebtedness with respect to reimbursement-type obligations regarding workers compensation claims; provided that any reimbursement obligations in respect thereof are reimbursed within thirty (30) days following the incurrence thereof; and

 

(h)           obligations in respect of performance, bid, appeal and surety bonds and performance and completion guarantees and similar obligations provided by the Borrower or Leasehold Holder or obligations in respect of letters of credit, bank guarantees or similar instruments related thereto, in each case incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business of operating the

 

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Hotel/Casino Facility.

 

“Permitted Encumbrances” shall mean collectively, (a) Liens pursuant to any Loan Document (including, without limitation, Liens created thereunder securing the Specified Interest Rate Contracts); (b) all Liens, encumbrances and other matters disclosed in the Title Policies; (c) Liens, if any, for Impositions imposed by any Governmental Authority not yet due or delinquent; (d) statutory Liens of landlords, carriers, warehousemen, mechanics, materialmen, repairmen, construction contractors or other like Liens arising in the Ordinary Course of Business which secure amounts not overdue for a period of more than thirty (30) days or if more than thirty (30) days overdue, are unfiled and no other action has been taken to enforce such Lien or which are the subject of a Good Faith Contest; (e) easements, rights-of-way, restrictions and other similar charges or non-monetary encumbrances against real property which would not individually or in the aggregate be reasonably likely to have a Property Material Adverse Effect; (f) any judgment Lien provided that the judgment it secures shall have been discharged of record or the execution thereof stayed pending appeal within 30 days after the entry thereof or within 30 days after the expiration of any stay, as applicable; (g) any Approved Lease; (h) the Ground Lease; (i) pledges or deposits in the Ordinary Course of Business in connection with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security legislation; (j) pledges and deposits in the Ordinary Course of Business of operating the Hotel/Casino Facility securing liability for reimbursement or indemnification obligations of (including obligations in respect of letters of credit or bank guarantees for the benefit of) insurance carriers providing property, casualty or liability insurance to the Borrower or Leasehold Holder; (k) deposits to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts, governmental contracts and leases (other than Indebtedness for borrowed money), statutory obligations, surety, stay, customs and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature (including those to secure health, safety and environmental obligations) incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business of operating the Hotel/Casino Facility; (l) Liens in favor of customs and revenue authorities arising as a matter of law to secure payment of customs duties in connection with the importation of goods in the Ordinary Course of Business of operating the Hotel/Casino Facility; (m) Liens arising out of conditional sale, title retention, consignment or similar arrangements for sale of goods entered into by, or by HCF Manager in behalf of, the Borrower or the Leasehold Holder in the Ordinary Course of Business of operating the Hotel/Casino Facility; (n) Liens encumbering reasonable customary initial deposits and margin deposits and similar Liens attaching to commodity trading accounts or other brokerage accounts incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business of operating the Hotel/Casino Facility and not for speculative purposes; (o) Liens that are contractual rights of set-off: (i) relating to the establishment of depository relations with banks not given in connection with the issuance of Indebtedness, (ii) relating to pooled deposit or sweep accounts of the Borrower or Leasehold Holder to permit satisfaction of overdraft or similar obligations incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business of the Borrower and Leasehold Holder or (iii) relating to purchase orders and other agreements entered into with customers of the Borrower or Leasehold Holder in the Ordinary Course of Business of operating the Hotel/Casino Facility; (p) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted under clause (c) of the definition of “Permitted Debt” contained herein; provided that (i) such Liens attach concurrently with or within two hundred seventy (270) days after the acquisition, repair, replacement, construction or improvement (as applicable) of the property subject to such Liens, (ii) such Liens do not at any time encumber any property except for the property financed by such Indebtedness and accessions thereto, (iii) with respect to Capitalized Leases, such Liens do not at any time extend

 

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to or cover any assets (except for accessions to such assets) other than the assets subject to such Capitalized Leases; provided that individual financings of equipment provided by one lender may be cross collateralized to other financings of equipment provided by such lender and (iv) the amount of Indebtedness secured thereby does not exceed the cost of the acquisition, repair, replacement, construction or improvement (as applicable) of such property; and (q) such other Liens as Administrative Agent may approve in writing in its sole discretion.

 

“Permitted Distributions” shall mean (i) all payments required to be made by any Loan Party  or its Subsidiaries, if any, to Holdco (either for itself or for further distribution to Propco) pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of the Tax Sharing Agreement and/or the Expense Sharing Agreement, (ii) payments to Holdco to pay franchise taxes, taxes and expenses required to maintain Holdco’s limited liability company existence, (iii) distributions of cash made by either Borrower or Leasehold Holder to Holdco provided that the funds of such distribution are applied to make capital contributions by Holdco to either Borrower or Leasehold Holder and (iv) distributions of cash made by either Borrower or Leasehold Holder permitted pursuant to Section 5.2 of their respective Operating Agreements.

 

“Person” shall mean an individual, partnership, corporation (including a business trust), joint stock company, estate, trust, limited liability company, unincorporated association, Joint Venture or other entity, or a Governmental Authority.

 

“Personal Property” shall mean, collectively, all the “Personal Property” as such term is defined and set forth in each of the Security Instruments and in any of the other Collateral Documents, and shall include all the “Personal Property” as defined in any of such Security Instruments, and shall also include all personal property described in any of the other Collateral Documents under which a Lien is granted or purported to be granted to the Administrative Agent or any Lender.

 

“PIK Amounts” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 2.6(3)(a) hereof.

 

“Plan” shall mean an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) which any Borrower Party sponsors or maintains or to which any Borrower Party makes, is making, or is obligated to make contributions and includes any Pension Plan, other than a Multiemployer Plan.

 

“Pledge Agreement” shall mean the Holdco Pledge Agreement.

 

“Pledgor” shall mean Holdco.

 

“PML” shall mean probable maximum loss.

 

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

 

“Preferential Payment” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 2.16(4) of this Agreement.

 

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

 

“Principal Office” shall mean, for Administrative Agent, the Contact Office, or such other office as Administrative Agent may from time to time designate in writing to Borrower and each  Lender.

 

“Pro Rata Share” shall mean for all purposes with respect to all payments, computations and other matters relating to the Loans of any Lender, the percentage obtained by dividing (a) the Loans of that Lender by (b) the aggregate Loans of all Lenders.

 

“Proceeds” shall mean amounts, awards or payments payable to or for the benefit of any Loan Party (including, without limitation, amounts payable under any title insurance policies covering the ownership interest in the Mortgaged Property) or the Administrative Agent in respect of all or any part of the Mortgaged Property in connection with a Casualty or Condemnation thereof (after the deduction therefrom and payment to the applicable Loan Party and the Administrative Agent, respectively, of any and all reasonable expenses incurred by such Loan Party and the Administrative Agent in the recovery thereof, including all attorneys’ fees and disbursements, the fees of insurance experts and adjusters and the costs incurred in any litigation or arbitration with respect to such Casualty or Condemnation).

 

“PropCo” shall mean Station Casinos, LLC, a Nevada limited liability company.

 

“PropCo Administrative Agent” shall mean the “Administrative Agent” (as defined in the PropCo Credit Agreement).

 

“PropCo Credit Agreement” shall mean that certain Credit Agreement dated as of June 16, 2011 among Propco as borrower, Deutsche Bank AG Cayman Islands Branch, as Administrative Agent (as defined therein) and each lender from time to time party thereto, as the same may be Modified.

 

“PropCo Credit Facility” shall mean the credit facility evidenced by the PropCo Loan Documents.

 

“Propco Default” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 2.3(b)(3) of this Agreement.

 

“Propco Event of Default” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 2.3(b)(3) of this Agreement.

 

“Propco Forbearance Agreement” shall have the meaning given such term in

 

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Section 2.3(b)(3) of this Agreement.

 

“Propco Forbearance Period” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 2.3(b)(3) of this Agreement.

 

“PropCo Loan Documents” shall mean, collectively, the PropCo Credit Agreement, the “Loan Documents” (as defined in the PropCo Credit Agreement) and all other documents executed by PropCo or its Affiliates in connection with the PropCo Credit Agreement.

 

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

 

“Property Material Adverse Effect” shall mean any event or condition, individually or in the aggregate, that has a material adverse effect on the use, operation, or value of a Real Property or the ability to operate the Ground Lease Parcel as a hotel and casino as currently operated on the Effective Date.

 

“Provisional Extension Termination Date” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 2.3(b)(3) of this Agreement.

 

“Purpose” shall have the meaning given such term in the definition of “Single Purpose Entity” in this Agreement.

 

“Rate Contract Collateral” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 5.13(2) of this Agreement.

 

“Rating Agencies” shall mean each of S&P and Moody’s and any other nationally-recognized statistical rating agency which has been approved by Administrative Agent.

 

“RDC Parcel” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 5.10(5) of this Agreement.

 

“Real Property” shall mean each of the Wild Wild West Assemblage and the Cactus Assemblage, together with the improvements and fixtures thereon and appurtenances thereto.

 

“Recourse Guarantor” shall mean PropCo.

 

“Recourse Guaranty” shall mean that certain Limited Support Agreement and Recourse Guaranty executed by Recourse Guarantor as of the Effective Date, as Modified from time to time.

 

“Reduced DBTCA Loan” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the recitals to this Agreement.

 

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“Reduced Hedge Termination Payment” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the recitals to this Agreement.

 

“Reduced JP Morgan Loan” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the recitals to this Agreement.

 

“Register” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 10.8(2) of this Agreement.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

“Rents” shall mean all rents, rent equivalents, moneys payable as damages or in lieu of rent or rent equivalents, royalties (including, without limitation, all oil and gas or other mineral royalties and bonuses), income, receivables, receipts, revenues, deposits (including, without limitation, security, utility and other deposits), accounts, cash, issues, profits, charges for services rendered, termination or surrender fees, penalties and other consideration of whatever form or nature arising from the use or enjoyment of all or any portion of the Mortgaged Property, or received by or paid to or for the account of or benefit of any Loan Party from any and all sources arising from or attributable to the Mortgaged Property, and including the rental or surrender of any office space, retail space, parking space, halls, stores, and offices of every kind, the rental or licensing of signs, sign space or advertising space and all membership fees and dues, receipts, accounts receivable, cancellation fees, credit card receipts and other receivables relating to or arising from rentals, rent equivalent income, vending machines, parking facilities, telecommunication and television systems, the provision or sale of other goods and services, and Proceeds, if any, from business interruption or other loss of income insurance.

 

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

 

“Required Interest Rate Contracts” shall mean, collectively, those Interest Rate Contracts required during the First Extension Term and the Second Extension Term pursuant to Section 2.3(b).

 

“Required Lenders” shall mean at any date, (a) Lenders holding more than 50% of the Loans, and (b) in the event that Deutsche Bank and its Affiliates hold, in the aggregate, more

 

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than 50% of the Loans, Required Lenders must include at least one Lender other than Deutsche Bank and its Affiliates.

 

“Requirements of Law” shall mean, as to any Person, the Organizational Documents of such Person, and any law (including, without limitation, any Gaming Law), treaty, order, directive, rule or regulation, or a final and binding determination of an arbitrator or a determination of a court or other Governmental Authority, in each case applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its property or to which such Person or any of its property is subject, including, without limitation, Hazardous Materials Laws and all covenants, restrictions and conditions now or hereafter of record which may be applicable to any Loan Party or to the Mortgaged Property and the Improvements thereon, or to the use, manner of use, occupancy, possession, operation, maintenance, alteration, repair or reconstruction of the Mortgaged Property and the Improvements thereon including, without limitation, building and zoning codes and ordinances and laws relating to handicap accessibility.

 

“Reserve Adjusted LIBO Rate” shall mean the rate per annum (rounded upward, if necessary, to the next higher 1/100 of one percent) calculated as of the first day of such Interest Period in accordance with the following formula:

 

	
 
    	
Reserve Adjusted LIBO Rate =  
    	
LR
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
1-LRP
    	
 
    

 

where

LR   =  LIBO Rate

LRP =  LIBO Reserve Percentage

 

“Responsible Officer” means the chief executive officer, president, vice president, principal accounting officer, treasurer or assistant treasurer or other similar officer of a Borrower Party and, as to any document delivered on the Closing Date, any secretary or assistant secretary of a Borrower Party.  Any document delivered hereunder that is signed by a Responsible Officer of a Borrower Party shall be conclusively presumed to have been authorized by all necessary corporate, limited liability company, partnership and/or other action on the part of such Borrower Party and such Responsible Officer shall be conclusively presumed to have acted on behalf of such Borrower Party.

 

“Restoration” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 5.5(3) of this Agreement.

 

“Restricted” shall mean, when referring to cash or Cash Equivalents of the Loan Parties, that such cash or Cash Equivalents (i) appears (or would be required to appear) as “restricted” on a consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower or of Leasehold Holder (unless such appearance is related to the Loan Documents or Liens created thereunder), (ii) are subject to any Lien in favor of any Person other than the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties or (iii) constitute Cage Cash.

 

“SCINC” shall have the meaning given to such term in the Recitals.

 

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

 

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“Second Extended Maturity Date” means June 17, 2018.

 

“Second Extension Term” means the time period commencing on the day after the First Extended Maturity Date and ending on the Second Extended Maturity Date.

 

“Secured Parties” shall mean, collectively, the Agents, and the Lenders, or, in the case of any Specified Interest Rate Contract, any Counterparty thereto.

 

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

 

“Security Agreement” means that certain Security Agreement dated as of the date hereof executed by Borrower and Leasehold Holder.

 

“Security Instruments” shall collectively mean the deeds of trust entered into by Borrower and the Leasehold Holder in favor of Administrative Agent with respect to the Mortgaged Property, as the same may be hereafter Modified from time to time.

 

“Single Purpose Entity” shall mean a Person, other than an individual, which (a) does not own and shall not own any assets other than its respective ownership and/or leasehold interest in the Mortgaged Property in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and personal property and other Collateral, rights and interests incidental to the ownership and operation of its respective ownership and/or leasehold interest in the Mortgaged Property and, with respect to Holdco, holding an ownership interest in the Capital Stock of Borrower and Leasehold Holder, (b) does not and shall not engage in any business unrelated to the ownership, operation, financing, selling and leasing of its respective assets described in clause (a) above (in respect of such Person, its “Purpose”), (c) has not and will not have any assets other than those related to its Purpose, and has not or will not have any Indebtedness, other than as expressly permitted by the Loan Documents, (d) maintains its own separate books and records and its own accounts, in each case which are separate and apart from the books and records and accounts of any other Person, (e) holds itself out as being a Person, separate and apart from any other Person, (f) does not and will not commingle its funds or assets with those of any other Person other than another Loan Party except in connection with the Tax Sharing Agreement and Expense Sharing Agreement as permitted by this Agreement, (g) conducts its own business in its own name, (h) maintains separate financial statements (except where consolidated financial statements are permitted or required by applicable law or GAAP, provided that such consolidated statements shall reflect that such Person and any other Person covered by such financial statements are separate legal entities) and files its own tax returns (except as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law), (i) other than as provided in the Management Agreements, Recourse Guaranty, the Tax Sharing Agreement and the Expense Sharing Agreement, pays its own debts and liabilities when they become due out of its own funds, (j) observes all partnership, corporate, limited liability company formalities and does all things necessary to preserve its existence as an entity,

 

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(k) except for the Management Agreements, Recourse Guaranty, the Tax Sharing Agreement and the Expense Sharing Agreement and except as otherwise expressly permitted by the Loan Documents (or the respective Operating Agreements of the Loan Parties), maintains an arm’s-length relationship with its Affiliates and does not enter into any Contractual Obligations with any Affiliates except upon terms and conditions that are intrinsically fair and substantially similar to those that would be available on an arms-length basis (taking into account the relative standards of quality and reputation of the party rendering the service) with third parties other than an Affiliate, (l) except as provided in the Recourse Guaranty and the Expense Sharing Agreement, pays the salaries of its own employees, if any, and maintains a sufficient number of employees in light of its contemplated business operations, (m) except for the guaranty and indemnification obligations set forth in the Loan Documents and the Permitted Encumbrances, does not guarantee or otherwise obligate itself with respect to the debts of any other Person, or hold out its credit as being available to satisfy the obligations of any other Person, except as expressly contemplated by the Loan Documents, (n) does not acquire obligations or securities of its partners, members or shareholders, (o) except as provided in the Expense Sharing Agreement, allocates fairly and reasonably with applicable Affiliates shared expenses, including any overhead for shared office space, (p) except for the Pledge Agreement and except for in connection with Permitted Encumbrances, does not and will not pledge its assets for the benefit of any other Person or make any loans or advances to any other Person, (q) intends to maintain adequate capital in light of its contemplated business operations, and (r) has and will have Organizational Documents which comply with the requirements set forth in this definition.

 

“Specified Interest Rate Contract” shall mean any Required Interest Rate Contract entered into by (a) Borrower and (b) (i) , DBTCA, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. or an affiliate of DBTCA, Deutsche Bank or Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., (ii) JPMorgan, J. P. Morgan Securities Inc. or an affiliate of JPMorgan or J. P. Morgan Securities Inc., (iii) any Lender or an affiliate of a Lender, or (iv) any Person that was a Lender or an affiliate thereof when such Required Interest Rate Contract was entered into, as Counterparty.

 

“Subsidiary” shall mean, with respect to any Person:  (a) any corporation more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding securities having ordinary voting power of which shall at the time be owned or Controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or by one or more of its Subsidiaries or by such Person and one or more of its Subsidiaries, or (b) any partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture or similar business organization more than fifty percent (50%) of the ownership interests having ordinary voting power of which shall at the time be so owned or Controlled.

 

“Subsidiary Entities” shall mean, with respect to any Person, a Subsidiary or Joint Venture of such Person.

 

“Survey” shall mean an ALTA survey of the Mortgaged Property prepared by a surveyor licensed in the state the Mortgaged Property is located and reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the company or companies issuing the Title Policies, and containing a certification of such surveyor reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent.

 

“Syndication Agent” shall have the meaning given such term in the preamble to this Agreement and shall include any successor to JPMorgan as the initial “Syndication Agent”

 

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hereunder.

 

“Tax Affiliate” shall mean, with respect to any Person, (a) any Subsidiary of such Person, and (b) any Affiliate of such Person with which such Person files or is eligible to file Consolidated, combined or unitary tax returns.

 

“Tax Returns” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 4.7(1) of this Agreement.

 

“Tax Sharing Agreement” shall mean that certain Tax Sharing Agreement, dated as of the date hereof made by and among Pledgor, Borrower and Leasehold Holder.

 

“Taxes” shall mean any and all federal, state, local or foreign income, gross receipts, license, payroll, employment, excise, severance, stamp, occupation, premium, windfall profits, environmental, customs duties, capital stock, franchise, business license fees, profits, withholding, social security, unemployment, disability, Real Property, Personal Property, sales, use, transfer, registration, room or transient occupancy, value added, alternative or add-on minimum, estimated, or other tax of any kind whatsoever, including any interest, penalty, or addition thereto, whether disputed or not.

 

“Tenant” shall mean any Person leasing, subleasing or otherwise occupying any portion of the Mortgaged Property or contractually permitted to use any portion of the facilities at the Mortgaged Property, provided, that the term “Tenant” shall not include the Leasehold Holder as tenant under the Ground Lease (but shall include any Tenant under a sublease or sub-sublease thereunder).

 

“Terminated Swap Agreement” shall mean, collectively, (a) that certain ISDA Master Agreement/Confirmation in the notional amount of Two Hundred Million Dollars ($200,000,000.00) dated February 12, 2008, between Deutsche Bank AG and Borrower, and (b) that certain ISDA Master Agreement/Confirmation in the notional amount of Fifty Million Dollars ($50,000,000.00) dated June 30, 2008, between Deutsche Bank AG and Borrower, each as Modified from time to time.

 

“Title Company” shall mean Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company and its affiliates.

 

“Title Policies” shall mean the ALTA mortgagee title insurance policies, each in a form reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent issued by the Title Company with respect to the Mortgaged Property and insuring the lien of the Security Instruments.

 

“Total DB Loan Amount” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 2.1(a)(i) of this Agreement.

 

“Transactional Affiliate” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 6.6 of this Agreement.

 

“Transfer” shall mean to, directly or indirectly, sell, assign, convey, mortgage, transfer, pledge, hypothecate, encumber, grant a security interest in, exchange or otherwise

 

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dispose of any beneficial interest or grant any option or warrant with respect to, or where used as a noun, a direct or indirect sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer, pledge or other disposition of any beneficial interest by any means whatsoever whether voluntary, involuntary, by operation of law or otherwise.

 

“UCC” shall mean the Uniform Commercial Code in effect in the State of New York.

 

“Unfunded Pension Liability” shall mean the amount, if any, by which the value of the accumulated plan benefits under a Pension Plan, determined on a plan termination basis in accordance with actuarial assumptions at such time consistent with those prescribed by the PBGC for purposes of Section 4044 of ERISA, exceeds the fair market value of all plan assets allocable to such liabilities under Title IV of ERISA (excluding any accrued but unpaid contributions).

 

“Unpaid Disposition Amounts” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 6.4(3)(ii) of this Agreement.

 

“Unrestricted Cash” shall mean, when referring to cash or Cash Equivalents of the Loan Parties, that such cash or Cash Equivalents are not Restricted.  For the avoidance of doubt, Cage Cash shall not be included in any calculation of “Unrestricted Cash”.

 

“USA Patriot Act” shall have the meaning given such term in Section 4.26(1) of this Agreement.

 

“Warrant Agreements” shall mean, collectively, the Borrower Warrant Agreement and the Leasehold Holder Warrant Agreement.

 

“Warrants” shall mean, collectively, the Borrower Warrants and the Leasehold Holder Warrants.

 

“Wild Wild West Assemblage” shall collectively mean the Wild Wild West Fee Assemblage, the Ground Lease Parcel, and all Option Parcels acquired by Borrower or any Affiliate of Borrower in accordance with this Agreement.

 

“Wild Wild West Fee Assemblage” shall mean that certain land assemblage located in the Las Vegas, Nevada metropolitan area located near Tropicana Avenue adjacent to Interstate 15, as more particularly described on Schedule 1.1D.

 

1.2           Other Interpretive Provisions.

 

In this Agreement and in the other Loan Documents, except as otherwise expressly provided:

 

(i)            words expressing the singular include the plural and vice versa;

 

(ii)           words denoting gender include all genders;

 

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(iii)          words denoting the whole of a matter or thing include a part of the matter or thing;

 

(iv)          the term “Mortgaged Property” shall be construed to be followed by the phrase “or any part or portion thereof or interest therein”;

 

(v)           words and expressions importing natural Persons include Persons that are not natural Persons and vice versa;

 

(vi)          the words “hereof,” “herein” and “hereunder” and words of similar import shall refer to this Agreement or the applicable Loan Document, as the case may be, as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement or such Loan Document;

 

(vii)         the words “include,” “includes,” “including” and similar terms shall be construed as if followed by the words “without being limited to” or “without limitation”;

 

(viii)        the words “shall” and “will” shall be construed as obligatory terms;

 

(ix)           the word “may” shall be construed as a discretionary term (and as if followed by “but shall not be obligated to”);

 

(x)            all references to sections, schedules and exhibits are to sections, schedules and exhibits in or to this Agreement or the applicable Loan Document, as the case may be;

 

(xi)           article, section, subsection and paragraph headings and captions and any tables of contents are included solely for convenience of reference only and shall not constitute a part of this Agreement or the applicable Loan Document, as the case may be, for any other purpose;

 

(xii)          exhibits and schedules annexed to this Agreement or the applicable Loan Document, as the case may be, are hereby incorporated into this Agreement or such Loan Document, as the case may be, as a part of this Agreement or such Loan Document, as the case may be, with the same effect as if set forth in the body of this Agreement or such Loan Document, as the case may be;

 

(xiii)         the recitals to this Agreement are incorporated into this Agreement and form a part of this Agreement and the Borrower represents and warrants that, as of the Effective Date, the Recitals are true and correct;

 

(xiv)        a reference to a document or agreement, including this Agreement or any Loan Document, includes a reference to such document or agreement as novated, amended, modified, supplemented or replaced from time to time;

 

(xv)         derivatives of a word defined herein or therein, as the case may be, have a corresponding meaning;

 

(xvi)        a reference to writing includes printing, engraving, typewriting,

 

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lithography, photography and any other mode of reproducing or representing words, figures or symbols in a permanent and visible form;

 

(xvii)       a reference to any legislation or to any provision of any legislation shall include any amendment to, and any modification, replacement or re-enactment thereof, any legislative provision substituted therefor, and all regulations, rules, rulings and statutory instruments issued thereunder or pursuant thereto;

 

(xviii)      a reference to a party to this Agreement, any Loan Document or another agreement or document includes such party’s executors, administrators, successors and permitted assigns (provided that the foregoing shall not be deemed to permit any Transfer of any ownership interest that is otherwise prohibited hereunder);

 

(xix)         if a provision binds two or more parties that provision binds those parties jointly and severally;

 

(xx)          if a party comprises two or more Persons, the provisions of this Agreement or the applicable Loan Document, as the case may be, binding that party bind those Persons jointly and severally;

 

(xxi)         if a payment obligation comes due on a day which is not a Business Day, payment shall be due on the immediately following Business Day;

 

(xxii)        attorneys,’ consultants’ and experts’ fees shall include customary disbursements and related charges of the professional involved;

 

(xxiii)       “Approval,” “Approved,” “approval” or “approved” or words of similar import such as “consent” shall mean, as the context so determines, an approval or consent (as the case may be) in writing given to the party seeking approval or consent (as the case may be) after full disclosure to the party giving approval or consent (as the case may be) of all material facts necessary in order to determine whether the approval or consent (as the case may be) should be granted.  Approvals or consents by the Administrative Agent or any Lender may be granted or withheld in the absolute and sole discretion of the Administrative Agent or such Lender unless this Agreement or any Loan Document expressly provides otherwise.  Similarly, where a matter is stated to be in the Administrative Agent’s or any Lender’s opinion, in the Administrative Agent’s or any Lender’s judgment, acceptable to the Administrative Agent or any Lender, satisfactory to the Administrative Agent or any Lender, required by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, determined by the Administrative Agent or any Lender or subject to the Administrative Agent’s or any Lender’s consent or like phrases, unless this Agreement or any Loan Document expressly provides otherwise, such terms shall be construed to mean in the Administrative Agent’s or such Lender’s sole opinion, in the Administrative Agent’s or such Lender’s sole judgment, acceptable to the Administrative Agent or such Lender in its sole discretion, satisfactory to the Administrative Agent or such Lender in its sole discretion, required by the Administrative Agent or such Lender in its sole discretion, determined by the Administrative Agent or such Lender in its sole discretion, and subject to the Administrative Agent’s or such Lender’s consent in its sole discretion;

 

(xxiv)       whenever a consent, approval, request or like act may not be

 

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unreasonably withheld, it shall also not be unreasonably delayed or conditioned; and

 

(xxv)                       the principle of construing this Agreement or any other Loan Document against the party that drafted the same is expressly excluded.

 

1.3                                 Accounting Terms; Calculations.

 

(a)                                  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 in a manner consistent with that used in preparing audited financial statements, except as otherwise specifically prescribed herein.

 

(b)                                 The Administrative Agent shall have the right to request, review and audit all such information it determines necessary to confirm the financial, tax and other business assumptions or determinations made in the calculation of any financial calculation or financial covenant provided for in this Agreement; provided, that in the event of any dispute between the Borrower and the Administrative Agent regarding such calculations or determinations, such calculations or determinations shall be made by the Borrower’s independent registered public accounting firm or, if such accounting firm does not or cannot make such determination, another independent registered public accounting firm that as of the date of this Agreement is one of the “big four” accounting firms.

 

(c)                                  Notwithstanding any other provision contained herein, all terms of an accounting or financial nature used herein shall be construed, and all computations of amounts and ratios referred to herein shall be made, without giving effect to any election under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 159 (or any other Financial Accounting Standard having a similar result or effect) to value any Indebtedness or other liabilities of the Borrower or Leasehold Holder at “fair value”, as defined therein.

 

ARTICLE II
 CREDIT FACILITY

 

2.1                                 Loans; Advances to Borrower; Amendment and Restatement.

 

(a)                                              Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein and in exchange for the Warrants, each Lender agrees that, on the Effective Date, (i) the Reduced Hedge Termination Payment is combined with and added to the outstanding principal balance of the Reduced DBTCA Loan (such aggregate sum, the “Total DB Loan Amount”) and the Total DB Loan Amount is  restructured and converted to, and shall constitute, a Loan hereunder, evidenced by the Deutsche Bank Note, and (ii) the outstanding principal balance of the Reduced JPM Loan Amount is converted to, and shall constitute, a Loan hereunder, evidenced by the JPMorgan Note.  Each Loan shall be subject to a new Interest Period beginning on the Effective Date. The amount of each Lender’s Loans as of the Effective Date is set forth on Schedule 2.1 attached hereto.  The credit facility evidenced by this Agreement is referred to herein as the “Facility”.

 

(b)                                             Borrower acknowledges and agrees that the full proceeds of the Loans have been disbursed by Lenders to Borrower and that the Lenders have no further obligation to make 

 

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Advances.  Any amount of the Loans repaid in accordance with the terms of this Agreement may not be re-borrowed, and all other amounts owed hereunder with respect to the Loans shall be paid in full no later than the Maturity Date.

 

(c)                                              As of the Effective Date, the Loans are LIBO Rate Loans covering the Interest Period that begins on the Effective Date and shall, with respect to subsequent Interest Periods, continue as LIBO Rate Loans without conversion. Notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing on the day occurring three (3) Eurodollar Business Days prior to the end of an Interest Period, then, so long as an Event of Default is continuing, unless repaid, the Administrative Agent may, in its sole discretion, elect to convert the Loans to Base Rate Loans at the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto.

 

2.2                                 Amendment and Restatement.  This Agreement supersedes, amends and restates the Original Credit Agreement in its entirety and is not intended to constitute (i) a novation, refinancing, discharge, extinguishment or refunding of any of the Obligations, or (ii) a release, waiver, or discharge of any of the rights or remedies set forth in the Loan Documents or, prior to the Effective Date, the Original Credit Agreement.  Borrower’s obligation to pay the principal of and interest on the Loans (including late charges, Default Rate interest and any other amounts or payments due hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents) shall be evidenced by this Agreement and by the Note.  The Note shall be payable as to principal, interest, late charges, Default Rate interest and as to any other amounts or payments due hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents, as specified in this Agreement, with a final maturity on the Maturity Date.

 

2.3                                 Maturity

 

(a)                                  Unless previously accelerated, all Obligations with respect to the Loans shall be paid in full no later than 1:00 p.m., New York time on the Maturity Date.

 

(b)                                 Borrower shall have two (2) options to extend the term of the Loans (each, an “Option to Extend”), from the Original Maturity Date to the First Extended Maturity Date, and from the First Extended Maturity Date to the Second Extended Maturity Date, in each case upon satisfaction of all of the following conditions precedent:

 

(1)                                  Borrower shall provide Administrative Agent with written notice of Borrower’s request to exercise the applicable Option to Extend, at least thirty (30), but not more than ninety (90), days prior to the Original Maturity Date or First Extended Maturity Date, as applicable (the “Extension Request”);

 

(2)                                  As of the date of Borrower’s delivery of the Extension Request, and as of the Original Maturity Date or First Extended Maturity Date, as applicable, no Event of Default or Potential Default shall have occurred and be continuing, and Borrower shall so certify in writing;

 

(3)                                  As of the date of Borrower’s delivery of the Extension Request, and as of the Original Maturity Date or First Extended Maturity Date, as applicable, no Default (as defined in the PropCo Credit Agreement (a “Propco Default”)) or Event of Default(as defined 

 

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in the PropCo Credit Agreement (a “Propco Event of Default”)) shall have occurred and be continuing under the PropCo Loan Documents, and PropCo shall so certify in writing; provided that if as of the date Borrower delivers the Extension Request or as of the Original Maturity Date or First Maturity Date, as applicable, (x) a PropCo Default exists, but such PropCo Default has not become or been declared to be a PropCo Event of Default, or (y) a PropCo Event of Default exists, but the PropCo Administrative Agent has entered into a forbearance agreement or similar agreement (a “PropCo Forbearance Agreement”) agreeing to forbear from the exercise of its rights and remedies with respect thereto for a certain period of time (the “PropCo Forbearance Period”), and provided that (in the case of (x) or (y)) Borrower has satisfied each of the other conditions precedent contained in this Section 2.3(b), then the term of the Loans shall be extended on a provisional basis only until the earlier to occur of (i) the date such PropCo Default or PropCo Event of Default is cured or waived in writing by the PropCo Administrative Agent and no other PropCo Default or PropCo Event of Default exists under the PropCo Credit Agreement, in which case the term of the Loans shall be extended as provided in this Section 2.3(b) (provided the other conditions precedent listed in this Section 2.3(b) have been satisfied) to the First Extended Maturity Date or Second Extended Maturity Date, as applicable, or (ii) the date (the “Provisional Extension Termination Date”) upon which either (A) the PropCo Default becomes or is declared by the PropCo Administrative Agent to be a PropCo Event of Default (unless a PropCo Forbearance Agreement was entered into prior to the date such PropCo Default became or was declared to be a PropCo Event of Default and the PropCo Forbearance Period remains in full force and effect notwithstanding such PropCo Event of Default), or (B) the PropCo Forbearance Agreement or the PropCo Forbearance Period terminates or expires and a PropCo Event of Default continues to exist following the termination or expiration of the PropCo Forbearance Agreement or PropCo Forbearance Period, or (C) a subsequent PropCo Event of Default occurs after the Original Maturity Date or First Extended Maturity Date, as applicable, then in the case of (A), (B) or (C), Borrower shall be deemed to have failed to satisfy Section 2.3(b)(3) of the conditions precedent to extend the term of the Loans and all Obligations with respect to the Loans shall be due and payable as of the Provisional Extension Termination Date (and the Provisional Extension Termination Date shall be deemed to be the “Maturity Date” for purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents), and Administrative Agent shall be entitled to exercise all of its rights and remedies under the Loan Documents and applicable law in the event all Obligations with respect to the Loans are not repaid in full on such Provisional Extension Termination Date, and no payments received or accepted by Administrative Agent or the Lenders prior to the Provisional Termination Date shall constitute or be deemed to extend the term of the Loans or waive or modify any of the provisions of this Section 2.3(b).

 

(4)                                  With respect to the first Option to Extend, on a date no later than the first day of the First Extension Term (or, if the first day of the First Extension Term is a weekend or federal holiday, on the first business day of the First Extension Term), Borrower shall have entered into Interest Rate Contracts with an Acceptable Counterparty which: (a) are in an aggregate notional amount equal to not less than the then-outstanding aggregate principal amount of all the Loans; (b) fixes or caps LIBOR at no more than five percent (5.00%); (c) covers the period from the first day of the First Extension Term through the First Extended Maturity Date, (d) otherwise comply with the requirements set forth in Section 5.12; and (e) are collaterally assigned to the Administrative Agent pursuant to the Assignment(s) of Interest Rate Contract.

 

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(5)                                  With respect to the second Option to Extend, on a date no later than the first day of the Second Extension Term, Borrower shall have entered into Interest Rate Contracts with an Acceptable Counterparty which: (a) are in an aggregate notional amount equal to not less than the then-outstanding aggregate principal amount of all the Loans; (b) fixes or caps LIBOR at no more than five percent (5.00%); (c) covers the period from the first day of the Second Extension Term through the Second Extended Maturity Date, (d) otherwise comply with the requirements set forth in Section 5.12; and (e) are collaterally assigned to the Administrative Agent pursuant to the Assignment(s) of Interest Rate Contract.

 

(6)                                  With respect to the first Option to Extend, prior to or concurrently with the delivery of Borrower’s Extension Request (and Borrower’s satisfaction of all conditions precedent to Borrower’s extension of the term of the Loans to the First Extended Maturity Date set forth in this Section 2.3(b)), PropCo shall have properly exercised its first option to extend the Maturity Date (as defined in the PropCo Credit Agreement) for an additional twelve (12) months in accordance with the terms of the PropCo Credit Agreement or the PropCo Credit Facility shall have been fully refinanced for a term (excluding any extension options) which does not mature prior to the First Extended Maturity Date;

 

(7)                                  With respect to the second Option to Extend, prior to or concurrently with the delivery of Borrower’s Extension Request (and Borrower’s satisfaction of all conditions precedent to Borrower’s extension of the term of the Loans to the Second Extended Maturity Date set forth in this Section 2.3(b)), PropCo shall have properly exercised its second option to extend the Maturity Date (as defined in the PropCo Credit Agreement) for an additional twelve (12) months in accordance with the terms of the PropCo Credit Agreement or the PropCo Credit Facility shall have been fully refinanced for a term (excluding any extension options) which does not mature prior to the Second Extended Maturity Date;

 

(8)                                  With respect to the second Option to Extend, Borrower has previously properly exercised its first Option to Extend the term of the Loans to the First Extended Maturity Date;

 

(9)                                  Borrower shall execute or cause the execution of all documents reasonably required by Administrative Agent to evidence the Option to Extend;

 

(10)                            Borrower shall pay the Extension Fee to Administrative Agent, on or before 1:00 PM (New York time) on the first day of the applicable extension term (or, if the first day of the First Extension Term is a weekend or federal holiday, on the first business day of the First Extension Term); and

 

(11)                            All costs and expenses incurred by Administrative Agent (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses incurred by Administrative Agent in connection with the exercise of such Option to Extend) shall be payable by Borrower on demand therefor.

 

2.4                                 Manner of Payment of Loans; Evidence of Debt.

 

(1)                                  Repayment.  Subject to any earlier acceleration of the Loans following an Event of Default, the Borrower hereby unconditionally promises to pay to the 

 

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Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders the outstanding principal amount of the Loans on the Maturity Date.

 

(2)                                  Manner of Payment.

 

(i)                         The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent in writing (which notice may be by facsimile or electronic mail) of any repayment or prepayment hereunder not later than 1:00 p.m. (New York time) three  (3) Business Days before the date of repayment or prepayment.  Each such notice shall be irrevocable and shall specify the repayment or prepayment date and the principal amount of the Loans or portion thereof to be repaid or prepaid.  Promptly following receipt of any such notice relating to the Loans, the Administrative Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents thereof.  Each repayment or prepayment of the Loans shall be applied ratably to the Loans.  Repayments and prepayments shall be accompanied by (y) accrued interest to the extent required by Section 2.6 and (z) any payments due pursuant to Section 2.5.

 

(ii)                      The Borrower shall make each payment required to be made by it hereunder (whether of principal, interest or fees) or under any other Loan Document (except to the extent otherwise provided therein) prior to 1:00 p.m. (New York time) (unless otherwise specified in this Agreement), on the date when due, in immediately available funds, without set-off or counterclaim.  Any amounts received after such time on any date may, in the discretion of the Administrative Agent, be deemed to have been received on the next succeeding Business Day for purposes of calculating interest thereon.  All such payments shall be wired to the Administrative Agent at the Contact Office, ABA 021-001-033 for the Administrative Agent’s Account No. 99401268, Ref: CV PropCo, LLC, except as otherwise expressly provided in the relevant Loan Document.  The Administrative Agent shall distribute any such payments received by it for the account of any other Person to the appropriate recipient promptly following receipt thereof.  If any payment hereunder shall be due on a day that is not a Business Day, the date for payment shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day and, in the case of any payment accruing interest, interest thereon shall be payable for the period of such extension.  All payments hereunder or under any other Loan Document (except to the extent otherwise provided therein) shall be made in Dollars.

 

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

 

(4)                                  Maintenance of Loan Accounts by the Administrative Agent.  The Administrative Agent shall maintain accounts in which it shall record (i) the amount of each Loan made hereunder and the Interest Period applicable thereto, (ii) the amount of any principal or interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the Borrower to each Lender hereunder and (iii) the amount of any sum received by the Administrative Agent hereunder for the account of the Lenders and each Lender’s share thereof.

 

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pursuant to Sections 2.4(3) and (4) above shall be prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts of the obligations recorded therein.  Any failure to record the amount of a Loan, the Interest Period applicable thereto, the interest rate applicable thereto or any other information regarding the Obligations, or any error in doing so, shall not limit or otherwise affect the obligation of the Borrower with respect to any of the Obligations.

 

(6)                                  Promissory Notes.  Upon the request of a Lender, the Borrower shall promptly execute and deliver to such Lender a Note (or replacement thereof) evidencing such Lender’s Loan.

 

2.5                                 Repayment and Prepayment of Loans; Mandatory Prepayments.

 

(1)                Mandatory Prepayments.

 

(i)                                          If at any time the aggregate Unrestricted Cash of the Loan Parties exceeds $1,000,000.00 for any period of five consecutive Business Days, the Borrower shall immediately remit to the Administrative Agent on the last Business Day of such period an amount equal to such excess to be applied to the prepayment of the Loans under this Agreement.

 

(ii)                                       Subject to the payment of any Deferred Management Fees permitted pursuant to the terms of Section 5.19(15) of this Agreement, no later than the earlier of (x) forty-five (45) days after the end of each fiscal quarter of the Borrower commencing with the fiscal quarter ending September 30, 2011 and (y) the date on which the financial statements with respect to such fiscal quarter have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.1(1) and the related Compliance Certificate has been delivered pursuant to Section 5.1(4), the Borrower shall remit to the Administrative Agent an amount equal to the Excess Cash Flow (if positive) for such fiscal quarter to be applied to the prepayment of the Loans under this Agreement; provided that the amount of such prepayment with respect to any fiscal quarter shall be reduced to the extent necessary such that, after giving effect thereto, the aggregate amount of Unrestricted Cash maintained by the Loan Parties as of the date of such prepayment shall not be less than $1,000,000.00.

 

(iii)                                    No later than five (5) Business Days after payment of Proceeds of a Casualty or Condemnation of a Mortgaged Property to Borrower or Leasehold Holder (or any Affiliate or agent of Borrower or Leasehold Holder), the Borrower shall remit such Proceeds to the Administrative Agent for application against the outstanding principal balance of the Loans the Proceeds of a Casualty or Condemnation of a Mortgaged Property to the extent required to be applied to the prepayment of the Loans under this Agreement.

 

(2)                                  Optional Prepayments.  Upon not less than three (3) Business Days’ prior written notice to the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly provide telephonic notice of the receipt thereof to each of the Lenders), the Borrower may voluntarily prepay principal amounts outstanding under the Loans in whole or in part (without any release of Collateral); provided, however, that voluntary prepayments shall be in the minimum amount of $250,000 and integral multiples of $50,000 in excess thereof.

 

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(3)                                  Accrued Interest.  The Borrower shall pay in connection with any prepayment hereunder, whether voluntary or mandatory, concurrently with payment of any principal amounts, all interest accrued but unpaid on that portion of the Loans to which such prepayment is applied through the end of the Interest Period during which such prepayment occurs.

 

(4)                                  Priority of Payments.

 

(i)                                     Prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default, any voluntary or mandatory prepayment of any Loan pursuant to this Section 2.5 shall, except as otherwise specified in this Section 2.5 and Section 2.6 below, be applied to prepay the Loans on a pro rata basis (in accordance with each Lender’s respective Pro Rata Share of the Loans) to the full extent thereof;

 

(ii)                                  Following the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default, all amounts received by the Administrative Agent on account of the Obligations, shall be promptly disbursed by the Administrative Agent as follows:

 

(A)                              First, to the payment of expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent in the performance of its duties and the enforcement of the rights of the Secured Parties under the Loan Documents, including, without limitation, all costs and expenses of collection, reasonable attorneys’ fees (including all allocated costs of internal counsel), court costs and other amounts payable to Administrative Agent as provided in Section 10.14 below;

 

(B)                                Then, to the Lenders, pro rata in accordance with their respective Pro Rata Shares, until interest accrued on the Loans has been paid in full;

 

(C)                                Then, ratably (in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause held by them)  to the Lenders, pro rata in accordance with their respective Pro Rata Shares, and to the Counterparties under the Specified Interest Rate Contracts until principal under the Loans and all amounts owing under the Specified Interest Rate Contracts have been paid in full; and

 

(D)                               Then, to the Lenders, pro rata to each Lender in accordance with the amount expressed in a percentage, which the amount of remaining Obligations owed to such Lender bears to all remaining Obligations held by all Lenders, until all other Obligations have been paid in full (including, without limitation, costs and expenses payable by Borrower to the Lenders pursuant to Section 10.14 hereof).

 

(iii)                               The order of priority set forth in Section 2.5(4)(ii) and the related provisions of this Agreement are set forth solely to determine the rights and priorities of the Administrative Agent and the other Lenders as among themselves. The order of priority set forth in Sections 2.5(4)(ii)(A) through (D) may at any time and from time to time be changed only with the prior written consent of all Lender’s directly affected thereby, without necessity of notice to or consent of or approval by the Borrower or any other Person.  The order of priority set forth in Section 2.5(4)(ii)(A) may be changed only with the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent.

 

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2.6                                 Interest.

 

(1)                                  Base Rate Loans.  Each Base Rate Loan shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the Applicable Base Rate.

 

(2)                                  LIBO Rate Loans.  Each LIBO Rate Loan shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the Applicable LIBO Rate for the Interest Period for such Loans.

 

(3)                                  Payment of Interest.

 

(a)                                  All interest on the Loans that accrues during the Original Term (“PIK Amounts”) shall not be paid by Borrower to Administrative Agent on each Payment Date but instead all interest that accrues during each Interest Period during the Original Term shall be added to the outstanding principal amount of the Loans on each Payment Date, increasing the principal amount of the Loans by such PIK Amounts (which increases shall be credited to each Lender proportionally based on each Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the Loans), and thereafter interest will accrue on the principal amount of the Loans as increased by the PIK Amounts theretofore added to the principal amount of the Loans.

 

(b)                                 Notwithstanding any provision of Section 2.6(3)(a) to the contrary, in the event that Borrower properly exercises one or both Options to Extend pursuant to Section 2.3 hereof, then during the First Extension Term and the Second Extension Term, Borrower shall pay interest on the Loans monthly, in arrears, on each Payment Date, as set forth on an interest billing statement delivered by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower (which delivery may be by facsimile transmission) no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York time) on a date at least one Business Day prior to the date such interest is due.

 

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

 

(5)                                  Default Interest.  During such time as there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default, all Obligations outstanding, shall, at the election of the Administrative Agent, bear interest at the Default Rate.

 

2.7                                 Presumptions of Payment.

 

Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Borrower prior to the date on which any payment is due to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders hereunder that the Borrower will not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower has made such payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such assumption, distribute to the Lenders the amount due.  In such event, if the Borrower has not in fact made such payment, then each of the Lenders severally agrees to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the amount so distributed to such Lender with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is distributed to it to but 

 

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excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at the Federal Funds Rate.

 

2.8                                 Pro Rata Treatment.

 

Except to the extent otherwise provided herein:  (1) each Advance shall be allocated pro rata among the Lenders according to the amounts of their respective Loans; (2) each payment or prepayment of principal of Loans by the Borrower shall be made for account of the Lenders pro rata in accordance with the respective unpaid principal amounts of the Loans held by them; and (3) each payment of interest on Loans by the Borrower shall be made for the account of the Lenders pro rata in accordance with the amounts of interest on such Loans then due and payable to the respective Lenders.

 

2.9                                 Inability to Determine Rates.

 

In the event that the Administrative Agent shall have determined (which determination shall be conclusive and binding upon the Borrower absent manifest error) that by reason of circumstances affecting the interbank market adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the LIBO Rate for any Interest Period, the Administrative Agent shall forthwith give telephonic notice of such determination to each Lender and to the Borrower.  If such notice is given, the Loans shall be converted, on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, to Base Rate Loans.  If the Loans have been converted to Base Rate Loans pursuant to the terms of this Section 2.9, but thereafter adequate and reasonable means shall exist for ascertaining the LIBO Rate, the Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof to Borrower and each Lender and convert the Base Rate Loans back to LIBO Rate Loans by delivery to Borrower and each Lender notice of such conversion no later than one (1) Business Day prior to the next succeeding Interest Rate Determination Date, in which event the Base Rate Loans shall be converted to LIBO Rate Loans from, after and including the first day of the next succeeding Interest Period.

 

2.10                           Illegality.

 

Notwithstanding any other provisions herein, if any Requirement of Law, or any change therein or in the interpretation or application thereof, shall make it unlawful for any Lender to maintain LIBO Rate Loans as contemplated by this Agreement:  (1) the commitment of such Lender hereunder to continue LIBO Rate Loans or to convert Base Rate Loans to LIBO Rate Loans shall forthwith be cancelled, and (2) LIBO Rate Loans held by such Lender then outstanding, if any, shall be converted automatically to Base Rate Loans at the end of their respective Interest Periods or within such earlier period as may be required by law.  In the event of a conversion of any LIBO Rate Loan prior to the end of its applicable Interest Period, the Borrower hereby agrees promptly to pay any Lender affected thereby, upon demand, the amounts required pursuant to Section 2.13 below, it being agreed and understood that such conversion shall constitute a prepayment of a LIBO Rate Loan for all purposes of this Section 2.10.

 

2.11                           Increased Costs.

 

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directive (whether or not having the force of law) issued by any central bank or other Governmental Authority:

 

(i)                                     Does or shall subject any Lender to any Taxes of any kind whatsoever with respect to this Agreement or any of the Loans, or change the basis of determining the Taxes imposed on payments to such Lender of principal, fees, interest or any other amount payable hereunder (except for any change in the rate of tax on the overall net income of such Lender);

 

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

 

(iii)                               Does or shall impose on such Lender any other condition;

 

and the result of any of the foregoing is to increase the cost to such Lender of making, renewing, converting or maintaining its Loans or to reduce any amount receivable in respect thereof or the rate of return on the capital of such Lender or any corporation controlling such Lender, then, in any such case, the Borrower shall, without duplication of amounts payable pursuant to Section 2.14, promptly pay to such Lender, upon its written demand made through the Administrative Agent, any additional amounts necessary to compensate such Lender for such additional cost or reduced amounts receivable or rate of return as determined by such Lender with respect to this Agreement or such Lender’s Loans, so long as such Lender requires substantially all obligors under other loans of this type made available by such Lender to similarly so compensate such Lender.

 

(2)                                  If a Lender becomes entitled to claim any additional amounts pursuant to Section 2.11(1), it shall promptly notify the Borrower of the event by reason of which it has become so entitled.  A certificate specifying the reason for any additional amounts so claimed as payable and containing the calculation thereof in reasonable detail submitted by a Lender to the Borrower, accompanied by a certification that such Lender has required substantially all obligors under other commitments of this type made available by such Lender to similarly so compensate such Lender, shall constitute prima facie evidence thereof.

 

(3)                                  Failure or delay on the part of any Lender to demand compensation pursuant to Section 2.11(2) shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s right to demand such compensation; provided, however, such right, if not previously demanded, shall terminate upon repayment of such Lender’s Loan.

 

2.12                           Obligation of Lenders to Mitigate.

 

As promptly as reasonably practicable after the officer of any Lender responsible for administering such Lender’s Loans becomes aware of any event or condition that would entitle such Lender to receive payments under Section 2.11 above or Section 2.14 below or to cease maintaining LIBO Rate Loans under Section 2.10 above, such Lender will use reasonable efforts:  (i) to maintain its Loans through another lending office of such Lender

 

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or (ii) take such other reasonable measures, if as a result thereof the additional amounts which would otherwise be required to be paid to such Lender pursuant to Section 2.11 above or pursuant to Section 2.14 below would be materially reduced or eliminated or the conditions rendering such Lender incapable of maintaining LIBO Rate Loans under Section 2.10 above no longer would be applicable, and if, as determined by such Lender in its sole discretion, the maintaining of such LIBO Rate Loans through such other lending office or in accordance with such other measures, as the case may be, would not otherwise materially adversely affect such LIBO Rate Loans or the interests of such Lender.

 

2.13                           Funding Indemnification.

 

In the event of (1) the payment of any principal of any LIBO Rate Loan other than on the last day of an Interest Period applicable thereto (including as a result of an Event of Default), (2) the conversion of any LIBO Rate Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, (3) the failure to borrow, convert, continue or prepay any of the Loans on the date specified in any notice delivered pursuant hereto, or (4) the assignment of any LIBO Rate Loan, then, in any such event, the Borrower shall compensate each Lender for the loss, cost and expense attributable to such event.  In the case of a LIBO Rate Loan, the loss to any Lender attributable to any such event shall be deemed to include an amount determined by such Lender to be equal to the excess, if any, of (y) the amount of interest that such Lender would have accrued on the principal amount of such Loan for the period from the date of such payment, conversion, failure or assignment to the last day of the then current Interest Period for such Loan (or, in the case of a failure to borrow, convert or continue, the duration of the Interest Period that would have resulted from such borrowing, conversion or continuation) if the interest rate payable on such deposit were equal to the Reserve Adjusted LIBO Rate for such Interest Period, over (z) the amount of interest that such Lender would earn on such principal amount for such period if such Lender were to invest such principal amount for such period at the interest rate that would be bid by such Lender (or an affiliate of such Lender) for Dollar deposits from other banks in the eurodollar market at the commencement of such period.  A certificate of any Lender setting forth any amount or amounts that such Lender is entitled to receive pursuant to this Section 2.13 shall be delivered to the Borrower and shall be conclusive absent manifest error.  The Borrower shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 10 days after receipt thereof.

 

2.14                           Taxes.

 

(1)                                  Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall be made free and clear of and without deduction for any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes; provided that if the Borrower shall be required to deduct any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes from such payments, then (i) the sum payable shall be increased as necessary so that after making all required deductions (including deductions applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 2.14) the Administrative Agent or Lender (as the case may be) receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deductions been made, (ii) the Borrower shall make such deductions and (iii) the Borrower shall pay the full amount deducted to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law.

 

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

 

(3)                                  The Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agent and each Lender, within ten (10) Business Days after written 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 2.14) paid by the Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, and any penalties, interest (except to the extent such penalties and/or interest arise as a result of a Lender’s delay in dealing with any such Indemnified Tax) and reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority.  A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrower by a Lender or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

 

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

 

(5)                                  Each Foreign Lender shall deliver to the Borrower (with copies to the Administrative Agent) on or before the Effective Date (or in the case of a Foreign Lender who became a Lender by way of an assignment, on or before the date of the assignment) or at least five (5) Business Days prior to the first date for any payment herewith to such Lender, and from time to time as required for renewal under applicable law, IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8ECI, as appropriate, any other certificate or statement of exemption required by Section 871(h) or Section 881(c) of the Code as of the Effective Date, and, in the case of any payment made hereunder after December 31, 2012 in respect of any Loan, Note or Obligation that was not treated as outstanding for purposes of FATCA on March 18, 2012, any forms, documentation or other information as shall be prescribed by the IRS to demonstrate that such Lender has complied with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA, properly completed and duly executed by such Lender establishing that payments to such Lender hereunder are not subject to withholding under the Code (“Evidence of No Withholding”).  Each Foreign Lender shall promptly notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent of any change in its applicable lending office and upon written request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent shall, prior to the immediately following due date of any payment by the Borrower hereunder or under any other Loan Document, deliver Evidence of No Withholding to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.  The Borrower shall be entitled to rely on such forms in its possession until receipt of any revised or successor form pursuant to this Section 2.14(5).  If a Lender fails to provide Evidence of No Withholding as required pursuant to this Section 2.14(5), then (i) the Borrower (or the Administrative Agent) shall be entitled to deduct or withhold from payments to the Administrative Agent or such Lender as a result of such failure, as required by law, and (ii) the Borrower shall not be required to make payments of additional amounts with respect to such withheld Taxes pursuant to Section 2.14(1) to the extent such withholding is required solely by reason of the failure of such 

 

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Lender to provide the necessary Evidence of No Withholding.

 

2.15                           Payment of Fees. All fees payable hereunder shall be paid on the dates due, in immediately available funds, to the Administrative Agent for distribution.  Fees paid shall not be refundable under any circumstances

 

2.16                           Credit Support.

 

(1)                                  Recourse Guaranty.  As credit support for the Obligations, Recourse Guarantor executed and delivered to Administrative Agent the Recourse Guaranty.

 

(2)                                  Collateral Documents.  As collateral security for the Obligations, Holdco, the Borrower and/or the Leasehold Holder executed and delivered to the Administrative Agent the Collateral Documents.

 

(3)                                  Assignments.  As collateral security for the Obligations, (a) Borrower and the Leasehold Holder executed and delivered to the Administrative Agent the Assignment of Contracts and the Assignment of Leases and Rents, and (b) in connection with the exercise of each of Borrower’s Options to Extend in accordance with Section 2.3(b) hereof, Borrower shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent a first priority assignment of the Required Interest Rate Contracts.

 

(4)                                  Preferential Payments.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement or in any other Loan Document, if any amount paid on account of the Obligations is subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required to be repaid by any Lender or the Administrative Agent or paid over to a trustee, receiver or any other entity, whether under any bankruptcy act or otherwise (such payment, a “Preferential Payment”), then, to the extent of such Preferential Payment, the Obligations 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.

 

ARTICLE III
 CONDITIONS

 

3.1                                 Effectiveness of Agreement.  The effectiveness of this Agreement is subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the following conditions precedent:

 

(1)                                  The Administrative Agent shall have received (i) this Agreement, executed and delivered by the Loan Parties and the Lenders, (ii) the Security Instruments, executed and delivered by Borrower and the Leasehold Holder, as applicable, (iii) the Recourse Guaranty executed and delivered by Recourse Guarantor, (iv) the Pledge Agreement executed and delivered by Pledgor, (v) the Note executed by Borrower; (vi) the Security Agreement executed and delivered by Borrower and the Leasehold Holder; (vii) a Control Agreement for each Account of the Loan Parties (other than Excluded Accounts) in favor of the Administrative Agent executed by the applicable Loan Party, the Administrative Agent and the applicable Account Bank; and  (viii) all other Loan Documents executed and delivered by all parties 

 

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(2)                                  The Administrative Agent shall have received satisfactory evidence that (i) the PropCo Loan Documents have been entered into, to become effective substantially simultaneously with this Agreement, (ii) the PropCo Administrative Agent shall have determined that the terms and conditions of the Restructuring Plan are reasonably satisfactory to PropCo Administrative Agent and the Lenders under the PropCo Credit Agreement (the “PropCo Lenders”) and the Restructuring Plan has been confirmed by the Bankruptcy Court pursuant to the Confirmation Order, which has terms and conditions reasonably satisfactory to PropCo Administrative Agent, (iii) the Confirmation Order is not subject to a stay and, unless the PropCo Administrative Agent and the PropCo Lenders have otherwise agreed to proceed with the transaction under the PropCo Loan Documents, (a) at least fourteen (14) days shall have passed since the entry of the Confirmation Order and (b) no appeal shall have been lodged to the Confirmation Order that in the opinion of the Administrative Agent might adversely affect any of the Loans, impair in any material respect the effectiveness of the Restructuring Plan or impair in any material respect the financial condition, business or prospects of any of the Borrower Parties or any Subsidiary thereof, and (iv) all conditions precedent to the effectiveness of the Restructuring Plan shall have been satisfied (or waived) or shall be satisfied (or waived) concurrently in the reasonable judgment of the Administrative Agent (provided that if PropCo Administrative Agent and the PropCo Lenders proceed with the transaction under the PropCo Credit Agreement, such conditions precedent shall be deemed satisfied or waived).

 

(3)                                  The Lenders and the Administrative Agent shall have received all fees required to be paid, if any, and all expenses for which reasonably detailed invoices have been presented, on or before the Effective Date.

 

(4)                                  Other than as listed on Schedule 4.6, there shall be no action, suit, investigation or proceeding pending or, to the knowledge of the Loan Parties, threatened in any court or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority that could reasonably be expected to (x) have a Material Adverse Effect or a Property Material Adverse Effect on the business, assets, properties, liabilities (actual and contingent), operations or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Borrower, Leasehold Holder, Holdco, Recourse Guarantor or the other Borrower Parties, (y) adversely affect the ability of the Borrower, Leasehold Holder, Holdco, Recourse Guarantor or any other Borrower Party to perform its obligations under the Loan Documents or (z) adversely affect the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent or the Lenders under the Loan Documents.

 

(5)                                  Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate of the Secretary or Assistant Secretary of the general partner, manager or managing member or another Responsible Officer of those Borrower Parties which are partnerships or limited liability companies attaching copies of resolutions duly adopted by the Board of Directors of such general partner, manager or managing member or members, managers or partners of the applicable Borrower Party, as required by the applicable Organizational Documents, approving the execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents to which such Borrower Parties are party on behalf of such Borrower Parties and certifying the names and true signatures of the officers of such Borrower Party or of such general partner, manager or managing member of the applicable Borrower Party authorized to sign the Loan Documents to which such Borrower Parties are party on behalf of 

 

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such Borrower Parties.

 

(6)                                  Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate or certificates of the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or another Responsible Officer of those Borrower Parties which are corporations attaching copies of resolutions duly adopted by the Board of Directors of such Borrower Parties approving the execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents to which such Borrower Parties are party and certifying the names and true signatures of the officers of each of such Borrower Parties authorized to sign the Loan Documents to which such Borrower Parties are party on behalf of such Borrower Parties.

 

(7)                                  Administrative Agent shall have received copies of the Organizational Documents of each of the Borrower Parties, certified, with respect to the formation documents, by the Secretary of State of the state of formation of such Person as of a recent date, and certified by an Officer’s Certificate as to the other Organizational Documents.

 

(8)                                  Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate of authority and good standing or analogous documentation as of a recent date for each of the Borrower Parties, for each state in which such Person is organized, formed or incorporated, as applicable, and each state with respect to which the failure to be in good standing will have or is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect with respect to such Person.

 

(9)                                  Administrative Agent  shall have received opinions of counsel for the Borrower Parties, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent.

 

(10)                            All documents and instruments, including Uniform Commercial Code financing statements, required by law or reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent to be filed, registered or recorded to create the Liens intended to be created by the Loan Documents and perfect such Liens to the extent required by, and with the priority required, by the Loan Documents, shall have been executed and be in proper form for filing, subject only to exceptions satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

 

(11)                            The representations and warranties of each Borrower Party set forth in the Loan Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the Effective Date; provided that, to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, they shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date; provided, further 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.

 

(12)                            After giving full effect to the Restructuring, no Event of Default or Potential Default shall have occurred and be continuing as of the Effective Date.

 

(13)                            Administrative Agent shall have received new Title Policies (or date downs to existing Title Policies, as determined by Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion) issued by the Title Company and dated as of the Effective Date.  Such Title Policies shall (i) provide coverage in an amount equal to 100% of the aggregate amount of Loans, (ii) insure that the Security Instruments create a valid, first priority Lien on the Mortgaged Property, free and clear of all exceptions from coverage other than Permitted Encumbrances and standard 

 

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exceptions and exclusions from coverage (as modified by the terms of any endorsements), (iii) contain the endorsements and affirmative coverages as Administrative Agent may reasonably request to the extent available in the State of Nevada, and (iv) name Administrative Agent as the insured.  Administrative Agent also shall have received evidence that all premiums in respect of such Title Policies have been paid.  Administrative Agent shall have received evidence that all appropriate releases or discharges of encumbrances necessary for the delivery of the Title Policies have been delivered for recording.

 

(14)                            Administrative Agent shall have received a current Survey for each Real Property, containing the survey certification substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B.  Each such Survey shall reflect the same legal description contained in the Title Policies referred to in paragraph (14) above and shall include, among other things, a metes and bounds description or such other description as is required by Title Company, of the Real Property depicted therein, any such description to be reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent.  The surveyor’s seal shall be affixed to the Survey.

 

(15)                            Administrative Agent shall have received a Budget that satisfies the conditions set forth in Section 5.1(5) hereof and is otherwise acceptable to Administrative Agent.

 

(16)                            Administrative Agent shall have received valid certificates of insurance for the policies of insurance required hereunder, satisfactory to Administrative Agent in its sole discretion, and evidence of the payment of all insurance premiums currently due and payable for the existing policy period.

 

(17)                            With respect to Ground Lease, Administrative Agent shall have received an estoppel and agreement from the Ground Lease Fee Owner in form and substance reasonably acceptable to Administrative Agent.

 

(18)                            Administrative Agent shall have received satisfactory evidence that the Warrants have been issued to the Lenders pursuant the Warrant Agreements.

 

ARTICLE IV
 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

 

As an inducement to the Administrative Agent and each Lender to enter into this Agreement, except as set forth on the schedule of exceptions attached hereto as Schedule 4 hereto, each Loan Party represents and warrants as follows as of the Effective Date:

 

4.1                                 Financial Condition.

 

(1)                                  The financial statements of each of Borrower, Tropicana Station, Inc. and Station Casinos, Inc. most recently delivered by Borrower pursuant to this Agreement, as at the date to which such statements apply, fairly present the financial condition of each such Person as at such date and the results of the operations of each such Person for the period ended on such date, all in conformity with GAAP.

 

(2)                                  Except as set forth on Schedule 4.1, No Loan Party has any material obligation, material contingent liability or material liability for taxes, material long-term 

 

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leases or unusual forward or long-term material commitment that is not otherwise permitted by this Agreement.

 

4.2                                 No Material Adverse Effect.  No event has occurred which has or is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect or a Property Material Adverse Effect.

 

4.3                                 Compliance with Laws.  Each of the Loan Parties is in compliance with all Requirements of Law and is not in default or in violation of any order, writ, injunction, decree or demand of any Governmental Authority, except where the failure to do so or such default, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or a Property Material Adverse Effect.  To the Knowledge of the Loan Parties, there are no Requirements of Law applicable to any Borrower Party the compliance with which by such Borrower Party would, in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect or a Property Material Adverse Effect.  There has not been committed by any Loan Party any act or omission affording the federal government or any other Governmental Authority the right of forfeiture as against any Mortgaged Property or any part thereof or any monies paid in performance of any Loan Party obligations under any of the Loan Documents.

 

4.4                                 Organization, Powers; Authorization; Enforceability.

 

(1)                                  Each Borrower Party (A) is either a corporation, a limited partnership or a limited liability company duly incorporated, formed or organized, validly existing, and in good standing under the laws of the state of its incorporation, organization and/or formation, (B) is duly qualified to do business and is in good standing under the laws of each jurisdiction in which the failure to be so qualified and in good standing will have or is reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and (C) has all requisite corporate, partnership or limited liability company power and authority to own, operate and encumber its Property and to conduct its business as presently conducted and as proposed to be conducted in connection with and following the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.  Borrower is a partnership for purposes of federal income taxation and for purposes of the tax laws of any state or locality in which it is subject to taxation based on its income.

 

(2)                                  True, correct and complete copies of the Organizational Documents of each of the Borrower Parties have been delivered to the Administrative Agent and have not been Modified except to the extent indicated therein.  All of the Organizational Documents are in full force and effect, and there are no defaults under such Organizational Documents (including with respect to any restrictions on Indebtedness contained therein), and no events which, with the passage of time or giving of notice or both, would constitute a default under such Organizational Documents (including with respect to any restrictions on Indebtedness contained therein).

 

(3)                                  The Borrower Parties have the requisite power and authority to execute, deliver and perform this Agreement and each of the other Loan Documents which are required to be executed on their behalf.  The execution, delivery and performance of each of the Loan Documents which must be executed in connection with this Agreement by any Borrower Party and to which any Borrower Party is a party and the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby are within such Borrower Party’s partnership, company, or corporate 

 

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powers, have been duly authorized by all necessary partnership, company, or corporate action and such authorization has not been rescinded. No other partnership, company, or corporate action or proceedings on the part of any Borrower Party is necessary to consummate such transactions.

 

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

 

4.5                                 No Conflict.  The execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents, the borrowing hereunder, and the use of the proceeds thereof, will not violate any material Requirement of Law or any Organizational Document or any material Contractual Obligation of any Borrower Party; or create or result in the creation of any Lien on any material assets of any Borrower Party other than the Liens created by the Loan Documents.

 

4.6                                 No Material Litigation.  Except as disclosed on Schedule 4.6 hereto, no litigation, investigation or proceeding of or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority is pending or, to the Knowledge of the Loan Parties, threatened by or against any Borrower Party or against any such Person’s Property or revenues which is likely to be adversely determined and which, if adversely determined, either individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or a Property Material Adverse Effect.  The performance of any action by any Borrower Party required or contemplated by any Loan Documents is not restrained or enjoined (either temporarily, preliminarily or permanently).

 

4.7                                 Taxes.  (1)All federal, state, local and foreign income and franchise and other material Tax returns, reports and similar statements or filings of the Loan Parties and their respective Tax Affiliates (collectively, the “Tax Returns”) have been filed with the appropriate Governmental Authorities in all jurisdictions in which such Tax Returns are required to be filed, all such Tax Returns are true and correct in all material respects, and all taxes, charges and other impositions reflected therein have been paid prior to the date on which any fine, penalty, interest, late charge or loss may be added thereto for non-payment thereof except to the extent such Taxes, assessments, fees and other charges of Governmental Authorities are subject to a Good Faith Contest.  The Loan Parties have no Knowledge of any proposed tax assessment against any Borrower Party that will have or is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.  There are no pending or proposed special or other assessments for public improvements or otherwise affecting the Mortgaged Property, nor are there any contemplated improvements to the Mortgaged Property that may result in such special or other assessments, which would, individually or collectively have or would be reasonably likely to have a Property Material Adverse Effect.  Except as set forth on Schedule 4.7, no Tax Return is under audit or examination by any Governmental Authority and no notice of such an audit or examination or any assertion of any claim for Taxes has been received from any Governmental Authority.  

 

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Proper and accurate amounts have been withheld by Loan Parties and each of their respective Tax Affiliates from their respective employees for all periods in full and complete compliance with the tax, social security and unemployment withholding provisions of applicable Requirements of Law and such withholdings have been timely paid to the respective Governmental Authorities.

 

(2)                                  Except as set forth on Schedule 4.7, none of the Loan Parties or any of their respective Tax Affiliates has (i) executed or filed with the IRS or any other Governmental Authority any agreement or other document extending, or having the effect of extending, the period for the filing of any Tax Return or the assessment or collection of any charges, (ii) incurred any obligation under any tax sharing agreement or arrangement other than those of which the Administrative Agent has received a copy prior to the Effective Date, or (iii) been a member of an affiliated, combined or unitary group other than the group of which the Loan Parties (or their respective Tax Affiliates) is the common parent.

 

(3)                                  All mortgage, mortgage recording, stamp, intangible or other similar Tax required to be paid by any Person under applicable Requirements of Law currently in effect in connection with the execution, delivery, recordation, filing, registration, perfection or enforcement of any of the Loan Documents, including, without limitation, the Security Instruments, have been paid or have been collected by the closing agent for payment.

 

4.8                                 Regulated Entities.  None of the Borrower Parties, nor any Person Controlling such entities, is an “investment company” or an “affiliated Person” of, or “promoter” or “principal underwriter” for, or otherwise “controlled” by an “investment company,” as such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.  None of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (1) is subject to regulation under the Federal Power Act, the Interstate Commerce Act, any state public utilities code, or, other than Gaming Law, any other Federal or state statute or regulation limiting its ability to incur Indebtedness, or (2) is a “foreign Person” within the meaning of Section 1445 of the Code.

 

4.9                                 Borrower Parties.  The Borrower Parties have fully disclosed to Administrative Agent all material aspects of the ownership structure of the Borrower Parties and have disclosed to Administrative Agent (1) the correct legal name of each such Person, the type of organization, and the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization, and (2) the class of outstanding Capital Stock of Borrower along with the percentage thereof owned, directly or indirectly, by the Borrower Parties.  None of such issued and outstanding Capital Stock is subject to any vesting, redemption, or repurchase agreement, and there are no warrants or options outstanding with respect to such Capital Stock, except for the Warrants, the Warrant Agreements and as disclosed in Schedule 4.9.

 

4.10                           Federal Reserve Board Regulations.  None of the Borrower Parties is engaged or will engage, principally or as one of its important activities, in the business of extending credit for the purpose of “purchasing” or “carrying” any “Margin Stock” within the respective meanings of such terms under Regulations T, U and X.  No part of the proceeds of the Loans will be used for “purchasing” or “carrying” “Margin Stock” as so defined or for any purpose which violates, or which would be inconsistent with, the provisions of, the Regulations of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

 

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4.11                           ERISA Compliance.  Except as disclosed on Schedule 4.11:

 

(1)                                  Each Plan is in compliance with the applicable provisions of ERISA, the Code and other federal or state law failure to comply with which would reasonably be likely to result in a Material Adverse Effect.  Each Plan which is intended to qualify under Section 401(a) of the Code has received a favorable determination letter from the IRS and to the  Knowledge of the Loan Parties, nothing has occurred which would cause the loss of such qualification.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

4.12                           Assets and Liens.

 

(1)                                  Borrower has good and marketable fee title to the Mortgaged Property (other than the Ground Lease Parcel), free and clear of all Liens whatsoever except the Permitted Encumbrances, and Leasehold Holder has valid and existing leasehold title to the Ground Lease Parcel, free and clear of all Liens whatsoever except the Permitted Encumbrances.  The Mortgaged Property constitutes all of the Property currently owned, leased or licensed by the Borrower and the Leasehold Holder.

 

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(2)                                  The Security Instruments, when properly recorded in the appropriate records, together with any Uniform Commercial Code financing statements required to be filed in connection therewith, will create (i) a valid, perfected first mortgage lien on the Real Property and the Improvements, subject only to Permitted Encumbrances and (ii) perfected security interests in and to, and perfected collateral assignments of, all personalty (including the Leases), all in accordance with the terms thereof, in each case subject only to any applicable Permitted Encumbrances.  Except as may be indicated in and insured over by the Title Policies, to the Knowledge of the Loan Parties there are no claims for payment for work, labor or materials affecting the Mortgaged Property which are or may become a lien prior to, or of equal priority with, the Liens created by the Loan Documents.  None of the Permitted Encumbrances will have a material adverse affect on the Mortgaged Property which they encumber.  Borrower and the Leasehold Holder shall preserve Borrower’s and Leasehold Holder’s right, title and interest in and to the Mortgaged Property for so long as any Obligations remain outstanding and will warrant and defend same and the validity and priority of the Lien of the Security Instruments from and against any and all claims whatsoever other than the Permitted Encumbrances.

 

(3)                                  The provisions of the Pledge Agreement and 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 Permitted Encumbrances) on all right, title and interest of the respective Borrower Parties in the Collateral, and no filing, recording, registration or other action will be necessary to perfect or protect such Liens, except (A) for the filing of all applicable Uniform Commercial Code financing statements and all applicable filings with the United States Copyright Office to be filed on the Effective Date or immediately thereafter and (b) as provided under Requirements of Law with respect to the filing of continuation statements for previously filed Uniform Commercial Code financing statements.  None of the Permitted Encumbrances will have a material adverse effect on the Collateral which they encumber.  Each Borrower Party shall preserve its right, title and interest in and to the Collateral pledged under the Pledge Agreement and the other Collateral Documents for so long as any Obligations remain outstanding and will warrant and defend same and the validity and priority of the Lien of the Pledge Agreement and the other Collateral Documents from and against any and all claims whatsoever other than the Permitted Encumbrances.

 

4.13                           Securities Acts.  No Loan Party has issued any unregistered securities in violation of the registration requirements of Section 5 of the Securities Act of 1933 (as amended from time to time, the “Act”) or any other law, nor is any Loan Party in violation of any rule, regulation or requirement under the Act, or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (as amended from time to time) other than violations which could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.  No Loan Party is required to qualify an indenture under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (as amended from time to time) in connection with its execution and delivery of this Agreement or the incurrence of Indebtedness hereunder.

 

4.14                           Consents, Etc.  Except as disclosed in Schedule 4.14, no consent, approval or authorization of, or registration, declaration or filing with any Governmental Authority or any other Person is required (1) in connection with the execution and delivery of the Loan Documents by the Borrower Parties; or (2) the performance of or compliance with the terms, 

 

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provisions and conditions of the Loan Documents by such Persons, other than those that have been obtained, copies of which have been delivered to the Administrative Agent and each of which on the Effective Date will be in full force and effect.

 

4.15                           Hazardous Materials.  The Borrower has provided copies of the Phase I and the other environmental assessments as set forth in Schedule 4.15 to the Administrative Agent.  Except as otherwise disclosed in the assessments listed on Schedule 4.15: (1) during the period of ownership of any interest in any Mortgaged Property by any of Borrower or the Leasehold Holder or any Affiliate of Borrower or the Leasehold Holder, such Mortgaged Property (or any portion thereof) has not been used for the purpose of, or in any way involving, the handling, manufacture, treatment, storage, use, generation, release, discharge, refining, dumping or disposal of any Hazardous Materials on, under, in or about the Mortgaged Property, or transporting any Hazardous Materials to, from or across the Mortgaged Property, in each case, in a manner that would reasonably be expected to have a Property Material Adverse Effect, and to the Knowledge of the Loan Parties, no such use occurred at any time prior to the period of ownership of such Mortgaged Property by any of Borrower, the Leasehold Holder or any Affiliate of Borrower or the Leasehold Holder; (2) Borrower and the Leasehold Holder have obtained all material environmental, health and safety permits and licenses necessary for their respective operations, and all such permits are in good standing and the holder of each such permit is currently in compliance with all terms and conditions of such permits, except for any such failure to obtain, maintain in good standing or comply that would not reasonably be expected to have a Property Material Adverse Effect; (3) none of the Mortgaged Property is listed or, to the knowledge of the Loan Parties, proposed for listing on the National Priorities List (“NPL”) pursuant to CERCLA or on the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation Liability Information System List (“CERCLIS”) or any similar applicable state list of sites requiring remedial action under any Hazardous Materials Laws; (4) none of Borrower, the Leasehold Holder or any Affiliate of Borrower or the Leasehold Holder which previously held title to the Mortgaged Property has sent or directly arranged for the transport of any hazardous waste to any site listed or, to the knowledge of the Loan Parties, proposed for listing on the NPL, CERCLIS or any similar state list, where any such arrangement for transportation would reasonably be expected to have a Property Material Adverse Effect; and (5) to the Knowledge of the Loan Parties, there is not now on or in any Mortgaged Property: (i) any landfill or surface impoundment; (ii) any underground storage tanks; (iii) any asbestos-containing material; or (iv) any polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB), which in the case of any of clauses (i) through (iv) the presence of which would reasonably be expected to have a Property Material Adverse Effect.

 

Except as otherwise disclosed in the assessments listed on Schedule 4.15, (x) to the Knowledge of the Loan Parties, no Hazardous Materials are presently constructed, deposited, stored, or otherwise located on, under, in or about the Mortgaged Property in amounts or concentrations that would reasonably be expected to have a Property Material Adverse Effect; (y) to the Knowledge of the Loan Parties, no Hazardous Materials have migrated from the Mortgaged Property upon or beneath other properties which would reasonably be expected to result in material liability for Borrower or Leasehold Holder; and (z) to the Knowledge of the Loan Parties, no Hazardous Materials have migrated or threaten to migrate from other properties upon, about or beneath the Mortgaged Property which would reasonably be expected to result in material liability for Borrower or the Leasehold Holder, except for any such liability that would not reasonably be expected to have a Property Material Adverse Effect.

 

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4.16                           Intellectual Property.  Each of Borrower and Leasehold Holder owns or is licensed or otherwise has the right to use all of the patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names and copyrights that are necessary for the operation of its businesses, without any conflict with the rights of any other Person that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.  To the Knowledge of the Loan Parties, no slogan or other advertising device, product, process, method, substance, part or other material now employed, or now contemplated to be employed, by the Borrower or Leasehold Holder infringes upon any rights held by any other Person.

 

4.17                           Insurance.  Schedule 4.17 accurately describes the insurance coverages for the Borrower and the Leasehold Holder as of the Effective Date.  Such insurance coverages are currently in full force and effect and in compliance with the applicable requirements of Section 5.5.  The Borrower has obtained and delivered to the Administrative Agent evidence of all insurance policies as required under Section 5.5.  None of Borrower or Leasehold Holder has, and to the Knowledge of the Loan Parties no Person has, done by act or omission anything that would impair the coverage of any such policy.

 

4.18                           Full Disclosure.  The information provided to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders by or on behalf of the Borrower Parties relating to such Persons and the transactions contemplated under the Loan Documents does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements contained therein or herein not materially misleading.

 

4.19                           Brokers.  None of the Borrower Parties has dealt with any broker or finder with respect to the transactions embodied in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.

 

4.20                           No Default.  After giving full effect to the Restructuring, no Potential Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.

 

4.21                           Contractual Obligations.  None of the Borrower Parties is a party to any Contractual Obligation which is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect or a Property Material Adverse Effect; provided that the parties hereto acknowledge and agree that any increase in the rent payable under the Ground Lease (other than increases resulting from a default thereunder) pursuant to the express terms of the Ground Lease shall not be deemed likely to have a Material Adverse Effect for purposes of this Section 4.21. None of the Borrower Parties is in default in any respect in the performance, observance or fulfillment of any of its Contractual Obligations, which default is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect or a Property Material Adverse Effect.  No Loan Party has any material financial obligation (contingent or otherwise) under any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it or any Collateral is otherwise bound, other than (1) obligations incurred in the ordinary course of the operation of the Mortgaged Property, (2) Permitted Encumbrances, and (3) obligations under the Loan Documents.

 

4.22                           Representations Regarding the Mortgaged Property.

 

(1)                                  Condemnation and Casualty.  No Condemnation has been commenced

 

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or, to the Knowledge of the Loan Parties, is contemplated with respect to all or any material portion of the Mortgaged Property.  No portion of the Mortgaged Property has been materially damaged as a result of any Casualty.

 

(2)                                  Assessments.  To the Knowledge of the Loan Parties, except as disclosed in the Title Policies, on the real estate tax bills (copies of which tax bills have been provided to Administrative Agent), there are no pending or proposed special or other assessments for public improvements or otherwise affecting the Mortgaged Property, nor are there any contemplated improvements to the Mortgaged Property that may result in such special or other assessments.

 

(3)                                  Flood Plain.  The Mortgaged Property is not located in an area identified by the Federal Emergency Management Agency as an area having special flood hazards, except as disclosed on the Survey or flood certifications or if located in such area, that status has been disclosed to Administrative Agent via delivery of a flood plain map or flood certifications and does not unreasonably impair the value of the subject Mortgaged Property.

 

(4)                                  No Prior Assignment.  There are no prior sales, transfers or assignments of any portion of the Rents due and payable or to become due and payable which are presently outstanding following the funding of the Loans, other than those being assigned to the Administrative Agent concurrently herewith.

 

(5)                                  Leases.  The Mortgaged Property is not subject to any Leases demising any portion of the Mortgaged Property other than the Existing Leases.  No Person has any possessory interest in the Mortgaged Property or right to occupy the same except under and pursuant to the provisions of the Existing Leases and the Ground Lease (with respect to the Ground Lease Parcel) or other Permitted Encumbrances.  Each of Borrower and Leasehold Holder is in compliance in all material respects with its obligations under each of the Existing Leases and the Ground Lease, as applicable.  There are no material defaults under the Permitted Encumbrances by Borrower or Leasehold Holder, or to the Knowledge of the Loan Parties any other Person, and to the Knowledge of the Loan Parties there are no conditions that, with the passage of time or the giving of notice, or both, would constitute material defaults thereunder.  All construction and other obligations of a material nature to be performed by the Borrower or Leasehold Holder under the Ground Lease and the Permitted Encumbrances either have been satisfied or are reasonably capable of being satisfied without undue expense in accordance with the provisions of the Ground Lease or the subject Permitted Encumbrance.  Any payments by the Borrower or Leasehold Holder due to the other parties to the Ground Lease or Permitted Encumbrances for tenant improvements, infrastructure or land development have been made to the extent then required.  No Person party to any Approved Lease, Ground Lease or any Permitted Encumbrance is entitled to any material offsets, abatements or deductions against the Rent payable thereunder from and after the Effective Date.

 

(6)                                  Options to Acquire.  Other than Leasehold Holder’s and Borrower’s option to purchase the Ground Lease Fee Owner’s interest in the Ground Lease Parcel under the Ground Lease, none of the Mortgaged Property is subject to any right of first refusal, right

 

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of first offer or other options to purchase.

 

(7)                                  Licenses.  All material certifications, permits (including, without limitation, all Gaming Permits), licenses and approvals, including without limitation, certificates of completion and occupancy permits required of Borrower or Leasehold Holder for the legal use, occupancy and operation of each Mortgaged Property and the improvements thereon (including without limitation, use of the Hotel/Casino Facility as a hotel and casino), to the extent applicable, for its current respective use (collectively, the “Licenses”), have been obtained and are in full force and effect (except to the extent any such failure would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect).  The Loan Parties shall keep and maintain all Licenses necessary for the operation of each Mortgaged Property, to the extent applicable, in accordance with its current respective use (including, without limitation, the operation of Hotel/Casino Facility as a hotel and casino with unrestricted gaming activities therein, as applicable).  The use being made of each Mortgaged Property is in conformity with the certificate of occupancy issued for such Mortgaged Property, to the extent applicable (except to the extent any such failure would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect). All Gaming Permits required to be held by Borrower and Leasehold Holder are current and in good standing and Borrower and Leasehold Holder presently hold all Gaming Permits necessary for the continued operation of the Hotel/Casino Facility as a non-restricted gaming facility.

 

(8)                                  Legal Compliance.  Borrower, Leasehold Holder and each respective Mortgaged Property and the use thereof (including use of the Hotel/Casino Facility as a hotel and casino) comply in all material respects with all Requirements of Law, including, without limitation, building and zoning ordinances and codes (except for any non-compliance that individually or in the aggregate would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect) and Gaming Laws.  To the best knowledge of the Loan Parties, none of Borrower or Leasehold Holder is in material default under or in violation of any order, writ, injunction, decree or demand of any Governmental Authority (including any Gaming Authority).  To the best knowledge of the Loan Parties, there has not been committed by Borrower or Leasehold Holder any act or omission affording the federal government or any other Governmental Authority the right of forfeiture as against the Mortgaged Property or any part thereof or any monies paid in performance of Borrower’s or Leasehold Holder’s or any other Borrower Party’s obligations under any of the Loan Documents.

 

4.23                           Single Purpose Entity.  Each Loan Party is a Single Purpose Entity.

 

4.24                           Labor.  There are no strikes, work stoppages, slowdowns or lockouts pending or to the Knowledge of the Loan Parties, threatened against or involving the Borrower or Leasehold Holder, other than those listed on Schedule 4.24A or that in the aggregate would not have a Material Adverse Effect.  There are no unfair labor practices, grievances or complaints pending, or, to the Knowledge of the Loan Parties, threatened, against or involving the Borrower or Leasehold Holder, nor are there any pending or, to the Knowledge of the Loan Parties, threatened arbitrations or grievances involving the Borrower or Leasehold Holder, other than those listed on Schedule 4.24B or those that, in the aggregate, if resolved adversely to the Borrower or Leasehold Holder, as applicable, would not have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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4.25                           Taxpayer Identification Number.  The federal taxpayer identification number of each Loan Party is as set forth in Schedule 4.25.

 

4.26                           Anti-Terrorism Laws.

 

(1)                                  No Loan Party or, to the Knowledge of the Loan Parties, any of the Borrower Parties or any of their respective Affiliates is in violation of any laws relating to terrorism or money laundering (“Anti-Terrorism Laws”), including Executive Order No. 13224 on Terrorist Financing, effective September 23, 2001 (the “Executive Order”), and the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Public Law 107-56 (signed into law on October 26, 2001) (the “USA Patriot Act”).

 

(2)                                  No Loan Party or, to the Knowledge of the Loan Parties, any of the other Borrower Parties or any of their respective Affiliates acting or benefiting in any capacity in connection with the Loans is any of the following:

 

(i)                                     a Person or entity that is listed in the annex to, or is otherwise subject to the provisions of, the Executive Order;

 

(ii)                                  a Person or entity owned or controlled by, or acting for or on behalf of, any Person or entity that is listed in the annex to, or is otherwise subject to the provisions of, the Executive Order;

 

(iii)                               a Person or entity with which any Lender is prohibited from dealing or otherwise engaging in any transaction by any Anti-Terrorism Law;

 

(iv)                              a Person or entity that commits, threatens or conspires to commit or supports “terrorism” as defined in the Executive Order; or

 

(v)                                 a Person or entity that is named as a “specially designated national and blocked Person” on the most current list published by the U.S. Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control at its official website or any replacement website or other replacement official publication of such list.

 

(3)                                  No Loan Party, the Leasehold Holder or, to the Knowledge of the Loan Parties, any other Borrower Parties or any of their respective Affiliates acting in any capacity in connection with the Loans (i) conducts any business or engages in making or receiving any contribution of funds, goods or services to or for the benefit of any Person described in Section 4.26(2) above, (ii) deals in, or otherwise engages in any transaction relating to, any property or interests in property blocked pursuant to the Executive Order, or (iii) engages in or conspires to engage in any transaction that evades or avoids, or has the purpose of evading or avoiding, or  attempts to violate, any of the prohibitions set forth in any Anti-Terrorism Law.

 

4.27                           Accounts.  Schedule 4.27 hereof sets forth, as of the Effective Date, a complete and accurate list of all Accounts maintained with any bank or other financial institution by the Loan Parties, each of which financial institutions shall be an Approved Bank and shall (other than with respect to Excluded Accounts) have executed a Control Agreement.

 

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4.28                           Intentionally Omitted.

 

4.29                           Ground Leases.

 

(1)                                  The Borrower has delivered to Administrative Agent a true, correct and complete copy of the Ground Lease.  Leasehold Holder is the sole tenant and holder of a valid and existing Leasehold Estate under the Ground Lease, and the interest of Leasehold Holder thereunder has not been assigned, transferred, pledged, hypothecated or otherwise encumbered (except for the security interest granted by the Leasehold Holder to the Lender under the Security Instruments);

 

(2)                                  The Ground Lease is in full force and effect and has not been Modified or assigned, and the Leasehold Holder has not waived, canceled or surrendered any of its respective rights thereunder;

 

(3)                                  The Ground Lease does not require the continued use of any Mortgaged Property (i) under any designated trade name or (ii) for any single designated required use (other than use categories such as hotel and casino operations or similarly broad categories that would not have a Material Adverse Effect);

 

(4)                                  All sums, charges, fees, costs, expenses, rent, additional rent, common charges, common area maintenance charges and other charges or assessments reserved in or payable under the Ground Lease, including without limitation, all sums, charges, fees, assessments, costs, and expenses in connection with any taxes, site preparation and construction, non-shareholder contributions, and common area and other property management activities, are current, and no Lien (other than the Permitted Encumbrances) with respect thereto has attached or been recorded on the Ground Lease Parcel (or threat thereof been made in writing) for failure to pay any of the foregoing;

 

(5)                                  Neither Leasehold Holder nor Ground Lease Fee Owner has delivered or received any notices of default under the Ground Lease and Leasehold Holder is not in default under the Ground Lease, and neither Leasehold Holder nor Ground Lease Fee Owner or any other party to the Ground Lease has commenced any action or given or received any notice for the purpose of terminating the Ground Lease;

 

(6)                                  To the best knowledge of the Loan Parties, neither Ground Lease Fee Owner nor any other party to the Ground Lease is in default under any of the terms of the Ground Lease and there are no circumstances which, with the passage of time or the giving of notice, or both, would constitute a default under any terms of the Ground Lease by Ground Lease Fee Owner or any other party that would have a Material Adverse Effect, and, as of the Effective Date, neither Ground Lease Fee Owner nor any other party to the Ground Lease has transferred, assigned, hypothecated or encumbered the fee interest in the Ground Lease Parcel;

 

(7)                                  All construction obligations required to be performed as of the Effective Date by the Leasehold Holder under the Ground Lease have been satisfied in all material respects;

 

(8)                                  The Ground Lease Parcel Purchase Option is in full force and effect

 

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and no Loan Party has exercised or given any written notice to the Ground Lease Fee Owner concerning the exercise of the Ground Lease Parcel Purchase Option; and

 

(9)                                  To the best knowledge of the Loan Parties, all easements granted pursuant to the Ground Lease which were to have survived the site preparation and completion of construction, remain in full force and effect and have not been released, terminated, extinguished or discharged by agreement or otherwise, except to the extent it would not be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

4.30                           Management Agreements.

 

(1)                                  The Borrower has delivered to Administrative Agent a true, correct and complete copy of each of the Management Agreements, and neither the respective interest of the Leasehold Holder, Borrower nor the applicable Manager under any Management Agreement has been assigned, transferred, pledged, hypothecated or otherwise encumbered (except for the security interest granted by the Leasehold Holder to the Administrative Agent under the Collateral Documents);

 

(2)                                  Each Management Agreement is in full force and effect and has not been Modified, and neither the Leasehold Holder, Borrower nor the applicable Manager thereunder has waived, canceled or surrendered any of its rights thereunder;

 

(3)                                  All sums, charges, fees, costs, expenses and other charges reserved in or payable under the Management Agreements, including without limitation, all sums, charges, fees, costs, and expenses in connection with any taxes, site preparation and construction, non-shareholder contributions, and common area and other property management activities, are current, and no Lien with respect thereto has attached or been recorded on any of the Collateral (or threat thereof been made in writing) for failure to pay any of the foregoing;

 

(4)                                  Neither the Leasehold Holder, Borrower nor the applicable Manager has delivered or received any notices of default under any Management Agreement, and neither the Leasehold Holder, Borrower nor the applicable Manager or any other party to any Management Agreement has commenced any action or given or received any notice for the purpose of terminating any Management Agreement; and

 

(5)                                  Neither the Leasehold Holder, Borrower nor the applicable Manager or any other party to any Management Agreement is in default under any of the terms of any Management Agreement and there are no existing circumstances which, with the passage of time or the giving of notice, or both, would constitute a default under any terms of any Management Agreement by the Leasehold Holder, Borrower or any other party that would have a Material Adverse Effect, and neither the Leasehold Holder nor Borrower or any other party to any Management Agreement has transferred, assigned, hypothecated or encumbered its interest in any Management Agreement, except as provided under the Loan Documents.

 

4.31                           Option Parcels.

 

(1)                                  Borrower has delivered to Administrative Agent a true, correct and

 

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complete copy of the Option Agreement.  Borrower has not assigned, transferred, pledged, hypothecated or otherwise encumbered its interest in and to the Option Parcels or its interest under the Option Agreement;

 

(2)                                  The Option Agreement is in full force and effect, and has not been Modified or assigned, and Borrower has not waived, canceled or surrendered any of its rights thereunder;

 

(3)                                  Except as provided on Schedule 4.31, none of the transactions contemplated in the Restructuring in any case: (a) require the consent or approval of or notice to any party to the Option Agreement or (b) will constitute a default under the Option Agreement that would have a Material Adverse Effect;

 

(4)                                  Borrower has not delivered or received any notices of default under the Option Agreement and Borrower is not in default under any term of such Option Agreement, and Borrower has not commenced any action or given or received any notice for the purpose of terminating the Option Agreement;

 

(5)                                  To the best knowledge of the Loan Parties, neither the Option Parcels Fee Owner or any other party to the Option Agreement is in default under any of the terms of the Option Agreement and there are no circumstances which, with the passage of time or the giving of notice, or both, would constitute a default under any terms of the Option Agreement by the Option Parcels Fee Owner or any other party that would have a Material Adverse Effect, and, as of the Effective Date, neither the Option Parcels Fee Owner nor any other party to the Option Agreement has transferred, assigned, hypothecated or encumbered its interest in, to and under the Option Agreement or its fee interest in the Option Parcels; and

 

(6)                                  As of the Effective Date, Borrower has not exercised or given any written notice to Option Parcels Fee Owner concerning the exercise of the Option Parcels Purchase Option with respect to any of the Option Parcels.

 

4.32                           Restructuring.  The Restructuring Plan has been confirmed by the Bankruptcy Court pursuant to the Confirmation Order, and Recourse Guarantor owns and controls, directly, one hundred percent (100%) of the Capital Stock of Holdco, subject to the Warrants and the terms of the Warrant Agreements, Holdco owns and controls, directly, one hundred percent (100%) of the Capital Stock of each of Borrower and Leasehold Holder, all as shown on the organization chart attached hereto as Exhibit C, which Borrower represents to be true and correct.

 

ARTICLE V
 AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS.

 

Each Loan Party hereby covenants and agrees with the Administrative Agent and each Lender that, as long as any Loans remain unpaid, it will do, and cause any Borrower Party to do directly or indirectly, the following:

 

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5.1                                 Reporting Requirements

 

The Borrower shall furnish to the Administrative Agent each of the following:

 

(1)                                  Quarterly Reports.  As soon as available, but in any event within forty-five (45) days following the end of each fiscal quarter of each fiscal year of the Loan Parties beginning with the first full fiscal quarter after the Closing Date, the Loan Parties shall deliver to Administrative Agent a consolidated balance sheet of the Loan Parties as at the end of such fiscal quarter, and the related (i) consolidated statements of income or operations for such fiscal quarter and for the portion of the fiscal year then ended and (ii) consolidated statements of cash flows for the portion of the fiscal year then ended, setting forth in each case in comparative form (A) the figures for the corresponding fiscal quarter of the previous fiscal year and the corresponding portion of the previous fiscal year and (B) comparisons to budget for such fiscal quarter and the portion of the fiscal year then ended, for the elapsed portion of the fiscal year then ended, all in reasonable detail and certified by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, Leasehold Holder and Holdco as fairly presenting in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the Borrower, Leasehold Holder and Holdco in accordance with GAAP, subject only to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes.

 

(2)                                  Monthly Reports. As soon as available, but in any event within thirty (30) days after the end of each fiscal month of the Loan Parties beginning with the first full fiscal month after the Closing Date, Loan Parties shall deliver to Administrative Agent (i) a monthly revenue report in respect of the Mortgaged Properties for such fiscal month, for the corresponding fiscal month of the previous fiscal year and for the corresponding portion of previous fiscal year and (ii) consolidated statements of income or operations of the Loan Parties for such fiscal month and for the portion of the fiscal year then ended, all in reasonable detail and certified by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, Leasehold Holder and Holdco as fairly presenting in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of the Borrower, Leasehold Holder and Holdco in accordance with GAAP, subject only to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes.

 

(3)                                  PropCo Reports.  Contemporaneously with the delivery of such items under the PropCo Credit Agreement, but in any event within the time periods required for the delivery of such items under the PropCo Credit Agreement, Borrower shall deliver to Administrative Agent the financial statements, reports and certifications required to be delivered under Section 6.01(a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f) and (g) and Section 6.02(b) of the PropCo Credit Agreement. Any such financial statements shall be accompanied by an Officer’s Certificate in the form required pursuant to Section 5.1(1).

 

(4)                                  Compliance Certificate.  Together with each delivery of any report pursuant to clause (1) of this Section 5.1, Borrower shall deliver to Administrative Agent the following: (i) a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower (each, a “Compliance Certificate”), in substantially the form delivered under the Original Credit Agreement, stating that no Potential Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or, if a Potential Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, stating the nature thereof and the action that the Borrower propose to take with respect thereto (ii) Borrower’s calculation of Excess Cash Flow for such fiscal quarter, such calculation providing reasonable detail (including the amount of any Unrestricted Cash  being maintained by the Loan Parties

 

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pursuant to Section 2.5(1)(ii) hereof) and being accompanied by an Officer’s Certificate certifying to the best of the signer’s knowledge, that such calculations fairly represent the Excess Cash Flow for such quarter; and (iii) Borrower’s calculation of Consolidated Hotel/Casino Facility EBITDA for such fiscal quarter, such calculation providing reasonable detail and being accompanied by an Officer’s Certificate certifying to the best of the signer’s knowledge, that such calculations fairly represent the Consolidated Hotel/Casino Facility EBITDA for such quarter.

 

(5)           Budget. As soon as available, and in any event no later than thirty (30) days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower and the Leasehold Holder, (i) an operating and capital expenditure budget (in each case presented on a monthly and annual basis) (each a “Budget”) for the Borrower and the Leasehold Holder for the following fiscal year and (ii) forecasts prepared by management of the Borrower and the Leasehold Holder, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, including projected balance sheets, income statements and cash flow statements on a monthly basis for such following fiscal year and on a quarterly basis for the six fiscal years thereafter.  Each such proposed Budget shall identify and set forth the Borrower’s and the Leasehold Holder’s best estimate, after due consideration, of all revenue, costs, and expenses for the Borrower and the Leasehold Holder, and shall specify gross revenues and operating expenses, including, without limitation, amounts due monthly and annually under the Ground Lease, the Material Agreements, the Management Agreements, for Impositions, for Insurance Premiums and for expenditures for Capital Expenditures and FF&E for such fiscal year.  The Budget shall identify and set forth the Borrower’s and the Leasehold Holder’s best estimate, after due consideration, of all costs and expenses contemplated to be necessary in the related budget year (and, as to projects initiated or to be initiated in or prior to the budget year but not completed in the budget year, the estimated cost and completion schedule) for capital improvements and leasehold improvements not included in the Budget, and the contemplated sources of payment of the same. The Budget shall be subject to Administrative Agent’s reasonable approval, and upon such approval shall, with any amendments thereto approved by Administrative Agent from time to time, constitute the “Approved Budget” hereunder; provided  that Borrower shall not be required to obtain Administrative Agent’s approval for additional expenditures which (a) will cause the total expenses in the then-current Approved Budget to be exceeded by less than five percent (5%), or (b) will cause the total expenses for any individual line item on the then-current Approved Budget to be exceeded by less than seven percent (7%). If a proposed Budget is not in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent, Administrative Agent may disapprove the same and specify the reasons therefor, and Borrower shall promptly amend and resubmit for approval a revised Budget, making such changes as are necessary to comply with the reasonable requirements of Administrative Agent; provided that until such time as Borrower has resubmitted the revised Budget and Administrative Agent has approved such revised Budget, the parties shall operate under the provisions of this Section 5.1(5) using the Budget submitted to Administrative Agent as proposed to be revised by Administrative Agent.

 

(6)           Default Notices.  As soon as practicable, and in any event within five Business Days after a Responsible Officer of any Borrower Party has Knowledge of the existence of any Potential Default, Event of Default, default under the Ground Lease, any of the Management Agreements or the Option Agreement, or other event having had a Material

 

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Adverse Effect or a Property Material Adverse Effect, the Borrower shall give the Administrative Agent notice specifying the nature of such Potential Default or Event of Default, default or other event, including the anticipated effect thereof, which notice, if given by telephone, shall be promptly confirmed in writing on the next Business Day.

 

(7)           Notice of Litigation.  Promptly after the commencement thereof, the Borrower shall give the Administrative Agent written notice of the commencement of all actions, suits and proceedings before any domestic or foreign Governmental Authority or arbitrator, affecting the Borrower, Leasehold Holder, Recourse Guarantor, Pledgor or any Manager, or affecting the Ground Lease, Ground Lease Parcel, the Option Agreement or the Option Parcels that, in the reasonable judgment of the Borrower, expose the Borrower or Leasehold Holder, Recourse Guarantor, Pledgor or any Manager to liability which, if adversely determined could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or a Property Material Adverse Effect.

 

(8)           ERISA Matters.  The Borrower shall furnish the Administrative Agent the following:

 

(i)            promptly and in any event within ten (10) days after any Borrower Party knows or has reason to know that any ERISA Event reasonably likely to result in a liability of the Borrower or of the Leasehold Holder in excess of $1,000,000 has occurred, a written statement of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower describing such ERISA Event and the action, if any, that the Borrower, and its ERISA Affiliates propose to take with respect thereto and a copy of any notice filed by the Borrower, the Leasehold Holder or any ERISA Affiliate with the PBGC or the IRS pertaining thereto; and

 

(ii)           promptly following any request therefor, copies of (A) each Schedule B (Actuarial Information) to the annual report (Form 5500 Series) filed by the Borrower, the Leasehold Holder or any ERISA Affiliate with the Internal Revenue Service with respect to each Title IV Plan, or, in lieu thereof, a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower or Leasehold Holder stating that Borrower or Leasehold Holder, as applicable, had no employees for the year in question; (B) the most recent actuarial valuation report for each Title IV Plan; (C) all notices received by the Borrower, Leasehold Holder or any ERISA Affiliate from a Multiemployer Plan sponsor or any governmental agency concerning an ERISA Event; and (D) such other documents or governmental reports or filings relating to any Title IV Plan (or employee benefit plan sponsored or contributed to by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate) as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably request.

 

(9)           Environmental Matters.  The Borrower shall provide to the Administrative Agent promptly (and in any event within 10 Business Days): (i) any Hazardous Material Claims Known to the Borrower or Leasehold Holder (not listed on Schedule 4.15 hereto) which would be reasonably expected to have a Property Material Adverse Effect or affect the Mortgaged Property or the Option Parcels; (ii) the receipt of any credible written notice of any alleged violation of Hazardous Materials Laws with respect to the Mortgaged Property or, to the extent Known to the Borrower or Leasehold Holder, the Option Parcels provided that such alleged violation, if true (and if any release of the Hazardous Materials alleged therein were not promptly remediated), would reasonably be

 

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expected to result in a breach of Sections 5.10(1) or (2); and (iii) the discovery of any occurrence or condition on the Mortgaged Property or, to the extent Known to the Borrower or Leasehold Holder, the Option Parcels that would reasonably be expected to cause the Borrower or either Leasehold Holder to be in breach of Section 5.10(1) or, if not promptly remediated, of Section 5.10(2).

 

(10)         Appraisals.

 

(i)            If, in their sole and absolute discretion, Agents shall determine that there has been a deterioration in the market value of a Real Property, Agents may update any Appraisal, or obtain a new Appraisal, from time to time; provided,  however, that unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time such Appraisals are undertaken, Borrower shall not be liable for the expense of any new Appraisals.

 

(ii)           The Administrative Agent may, with reasonable prior written notice (not to exceed three (3) Business Days) to the Borrower and, after and during the continuance of an Event of Default, make physical verifications of the Collateral in any manner and through any medium that the Administrative Agent considers advisable, and the Borrower and the Leasehold Holder shall furnish (or cause to be furnished) all such assistance and information as the Administrative Agent may require in connection therewith.

 

(11)         Gaming Information.  Upon request by the Administrative Agent, with respect to the current reporting period, the Loan Parties shall deliver to Administrative Agent (i) within fifteen (15) days after filing thereof, copies of the reports required under Regulation 6.080 of Nevada Gaming Commission Regulation 6 (Accounting Regulations) and copies of the NGC-1 and NGC-17 reports required by the Nevada Gaming Commission, and (ii) promptly after the receipt thereof, copies of any written communication to Borrower, Leasehold Holder or any Manager from any Gaming Authority advising it of a material violation of or material non-compliance with any Gaming Law by Borrower or Leasehold Holder.

 

(12)         Management Fees. Upon request by the Administrative Agent, the Loan Parties shall deliver to Administrative Agent promptly after receipt thereof, a copy of each report delivered by any Manager to the Borrower or Leasehold Holder pursuant to any Management Agreement with respect to the calculation of the Management Fees (as defined in the applicable Management Agreement) or any other fees payable to any Manager pursuant to any Management Agreement;

 

(13)         Other Information.  The Loan Parties will provide (or cause to be provided) the Administrative Agent or any Lender with such other information respecting the business, properties, condition, financial or otherwise, or operations of the Borrower and/or of the Leasehold Holder and/ or of Holdco as the Administrative Agent or any Lender through the Administrative Agent may from time to time reasonably request, including, without limitation, a schedule of the leasing activity at the Wild Wild West Assemblage during such period as such Lender or Administrative Agent shall specify.

 

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be done all things necessary to (1) preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect such Person’s existence, rights, licenses, permits and franchises necessary to comply with all Requirements of Law applicable to them and the Mortgaged Property, except to the extent permitted in Section 6.3; and (2) remain qualified to do business and maintain its good standing in each jurisdiction in which failure to be so qualified and in good standing would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

5.3           Compliance with Laws; Forfeiture.  Subject to any Good Faith Contest, each of the Borrower Parties shall comply and cause the Mortgaged Property to be in material compliance with all material Requirements of Law applicable to the Borrower Parties and the Mortgaged Property and the uses permitted upon the Mortgaged Property.  There shall never be committed by the Borrower Parties, and the Borrower Parties shall not knowingly permit, any other Person in occupancy of or involved with the operation or use of the Mortgaged Property to commit, any act or omission affording the federal government or any state or local government the right of forfeiture as against the Mortgaged Property or any part thereof or any monies paid in performance of the Loan Parties’ obligations under any of the Loan Documents.  Borrower hereby covenants and agrees not to commit, knowingly permit, consent to or suffer to exist any act or omission affording such right of forfeiture.

 

5.4           Access.  Borrower and the Leasehold Holder shall from time to time permit (or cause to be permitted) the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, or any agents or representatives thereof, promptly after written notification of the same (except that during the continuance of an Event of Default, no such notice shall be required) to (1) subject to applicable Gaming Laws, examine and make copies of and abstracts from the records and books of account of the Borrower or of the Leasehold Holder, (2) subject to any applicable Gaming Laws, visit the Properties of the Borrower or of the Leasehold Holder and make physical inspections of the Mortgaged Properties (in any manner and through any medium that Administrative Agent considers advisable, and the Borrower and the Leasehold Holder shall furnish all such assistance and information as the Administrative Agent may require in connection therewith), (3) discuss the affairs, finances and accounts of the Borrower or of the Leasehold Holder with their respective officers, directors, managers, managing members and/or the officers and directors thereof, and (4) communicate directly with any of the Borrower’s or of the Leasehold Holder’s certified public accountants.  The Borrower shall authorize such independent certified public accountants to disclose to the Administrative Agent or any Lender during the continuance of an Event of Default any and all financial statements and other information of any kind, as the Administrative Agent or any Lender reasonably requests from the Borrower or Leasehold Holder and that such accountants may have with respect to the business, financial condition, results of operations or other affairs of the Borrower and/or Leasehold Holder.

 

5.5           Insurance; Casualty; Condemnation; Restoration.

 

(1)           Insurance.  Borrower and the Leasehold Holder shall, at their sole cost and expense, keep in full force and effect insurance coverage of the types and minimum limits as set forth in Schedule 5.5 and any additional insurance required under the Ground Lease and the Management Agreements. Subject to clause (7) below, such coverage may be pursuant to an umbrella insurance policy maintained by PropCo, so long as sublimits for each Mortgaged Property meet all requirements of this Section 5.5 and such umbrella insurance policy is in form

 

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and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

 

(2)           Insurance Proceeds.

 

(i)       If any portion of the Mortgaged Property is damaged or destroyed, in whole or in part, by a Material Casualty (as defined below), the Borrower or the Leasehold Holder shall give prompt written notice thereof to the Administrative Agent, generally describing the nature and extent of such Casualty.  Following the occurrence of a Casualty, unless the Administrative Agent has made an election under Section 5.5(4) and pursuant thereto applied the Proceeds to pay the Obligations, the Loan Parties shall in a reasonably prompt manner either (x) use (or direct the use of) the Proceeds to pay the Obligations or (y) apply (or cause to be applied) the Proceeds in accordance with Section 5.5(3).

 

(ii)      Subject to clause (v) below, and to any requirements and restrictions set forth in the Ground Lease with respect to the Ground Lease Parcel, in the event of a Casualty where the loss does not exceed $2,500,000, the Borrower or the Leasehold Holder, as applicable, may settle and adjust such claim without the consent of the Administrative Agent; provided that such adjustment is carried out in a competent and timely manner. In such case, the Borrower or the Leasehold Holder, as applicable, is hereby authorized to collect and receive any Proceeds.

 

(iii)     Subject to clause (v) below, and to any requirements and restrictions set forth in the Ground Lease with respect to the Ground Lease Parcel, in the event of a Casualty where the loss exceeds $2,500,000 (a “Material Casualty”), the Borrower or the Leasehold Holder, as applicable, may settle and adjust such claim only with the consent of the Administrative Agent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed) and the Administrative Agent shall have the opportunity to participate in any such adjustments.

 

(iv)     Subject to any requirements and restrictions set forth in the Ground Lease with respect to the Ground Lease Parcel, the proceeds of any Policy in excess of $2,500,000 shall be due and payable jointly to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower (or the Leasehold Holder) as their interests may appear and held and applied in accordance with the terms hereof, with Administrative Agent to be shown as Mortgagee and Loss Payee on all Property Insurance.

 

(v)      Notwithstanding the terms of clauses (i) through (iv) above, the Administrative Agent shall have the sole authority to collect all Proceeds if an Event of Default shall have occurred and is continuing.

 

(3)           Right to Apply to Restoration. In the event of (1) a Casualty that does not constitute a Material Casualty, or (2) a Condemnation that does not constitute a Material Condemnation, the Administrative Agent shall (subject to any requirements and restrictions set forth in the Ground Lease with respect to the Ground Lease Parcel affected by such Casualty or Condemnation) permit the application of the Proceeds (after reimbursement of any reasonable out-of-pocket expenses actually incurred by the Administrative Agent) to reimburse the Borrower or the Leasehold Holder, as applicable, for the cost of restoring, repairing, replacing or

 

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rebuilding or otherwise curing title defects at the Mortgaged Property (the “Restoration”), in the manner required hereby, provided and on the condition that (y) no Event of Default shall have occurred and be then continuing and (z) in the reasonable judgment of the Administrative Agent:

 

(i)       the Mortgaged Property, after such Restoration, will adequately secure the outstanding balance of the Loans,

 

(ii)      the Restoration can be completed by the 90th day prior to the Maturity Date, and

 

(iii)     with respect to any Ground Lease Parcel, the Ground Lease is and shall at all times during the Restoration, and from and after the completion thereof, remain in full force and effect, without default thereunder, and Borrower and/or the Leasehold Holder shall have provided evidence to such effect reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent, including, if Administrative Agent requests, a written acknowledgement and agreement to such effect on the part of the Ground Lease Fee Owner under the Ground Lease.

 

(4)           Material Casualty or Condemnation. In the event of a Material Casualty or a Material Condemnation, then the Administrative Agent shall apply the Proceeds therefrom in respect of the Obligations (subject to any requirements and restrictions set forth in any Ground Lease with respect to the Ground Lease Parcel affected by such Casualty or Condemnation).

 

(5)           Manner of Restoration and Reimbursement. If either the Borrower or Leasehold Holder, as applicable, is entitled pursuant to Section 5.5(3) above to reimbursement out of Proceeds (and the conditions specified therein shall have been satisfied), such Proceeds shall be promptly disbursed by Administrative Agent.

 

(6)           Condemnation.  Borrower or the Leasehold Holder shall promptly notify, or cause to be notified, Administrative Agent of the actual or threatened commencement of any proceeding for the Condemnation of any Mortgaged Property of which any Borrower Party has Knowledge and deliver or cause to be diligently delivered to Administrative Agent copies of any and all material papers served in connection with such proceedings.  Administrative Agent may participate in any such proceedings, and the Borrower or the Leasehold Holder shall from time to time deliver (or cause to be delivered) to Administrative Agent all instruments requested by Administrative Agent to permit such participation.  Borrower or the Leasehold Holder shall, at its expense, diligently prosecute or cause to be diligently prosecuted any such proceedings.  Borrower or the Leasehold Holder may settle and compromise the Proceeds of any Condemnation where the loss exceeds $2,500,000 (a “Material Condemnation”) only with the consent of the Administrative Agent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed) and subject to any requirements and restrictions set forth in the Ground Lease with respect to the Ground Lease Parcel affected by such Condemnation.  Borrower or the Leasehold Holder may settle and compromise the Proceeds of any Condemnation that is not a Material Condemnation without the consent of the Administrative Agent (subject to any requirements and restrictions set forth in the Ground Lease with respect to the Ground Lease Parcel affected by such Condemnation).  Notwithstanding any taking by any public or quasi-public authority through

 

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Condemnation or otherwise (including but not limited to any transfer made in lieu of or in anticipation of the exercise of such taking), the Borrower shall continue to pay the Obligations at the time and in the manner provided for herein and the other Loan Documents, and the Obligations shall not be reduced unless and until any Proceeds shall have been actually received and applied by Administrative Agent, after the deduction of expenses of collection, to the reduction or discharge of the Obligations pursuant to the terms of Section 5.5(3) or 5.5(4) above.  Administrative Agent shall not be limited to the interest paid on such Proceeds by the condemning authority but shall be entitled to receive out of such Proceeds interest at the rate or rates provided herein applicable to the Loans.  To the extent the Proceeds of any Condemnation are to be applied by Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 5.5(3) or 5.5(4) above, the Borrower or the Leasehold Holder shall cause such Proceeds to be paid directly to the Administrative Agent to be held and applied pursuant to such provisions.

 

(7)           Umbrella Policy Limitation. If PropCo is subject to a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding of the type described in Section 7.1(6), then the Loan Parties shall, within forty-five (45) days after receipt of a written request from the Administrative Agent, procure their own insurance required by this Section 5.5, which insurance shall not be part of an umbrella insurance policy.

 

5.6           Books and Records.

 

The Loan Parties shall keep and maintain (or cause to be kept and maintained) on a Fiscal Year basis proper books and records in which accurate and complete entries shall be made of all dealings or transactions of or in relation to the Loans, the Mortgaged Property, the Option Parcels and the business and affairs of Loan Parties which shall reflect all items of income and expense in connection with the operation of the Mortgaged Property and in connection with any services, equipment or furnishings provided in connection with the operation of the Mortgaged Property, in accordance with GAAP.

 

5.7           Maintenance of Mortgaged Property/Business Operations.

 

(a)           The Borrower shall keep and maintain, or cause to be kept and maintained, the Borrower Mortgaged Property and every part thereof in not less than its existing condition and repair, and Borrower shall, subject to ordinary wear and tear, and, subject to the provisions of this Agreement with respect to damage or destruction caused by a Casualty or Condemnation, shall from time to time make, or cause to be made, all reasonably necessary repairs, renewals, replacements, betterments and improvements to the Borrower Mortgaged Property necessary to maintain such minimum condition and repair, and shall not permit or commit any waste, impairment, or deterioration of any portion of the Borrower Mortgaged Property in any material respect; provided, that it is acknowledged that, with respect to one or more buildings comprising parts of the Wild Wild West Fee Assemblage, Borrower may at some point in the future recommend that such building or buildings be removed from active service and shut down for some specified period of time in a safe manner designed to minimize deterioration pursuant to a written inactive service program with respect to such building or buildings, which program, and such removal from active service, if proposed by Borrower, shall be subject to Administrative Agent’s written approval, and if so proposed by Borrower and approved by Administrative Agent, then the standard of maintenance and repair for such building or buildings shall be the

 

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standard approved by Administrative Agent under such inactive service plan, rather than the foregoing standard.  The Borrower further covenants to do (or cause to be done) all other acts which from the character or use of the Borrower Mortgaged Property may be reasonably necessary to protect the security of the Collateral Documents, the specific enumerations herein not excluding the general.  Borrower shall continue to engage in the businesses presently conducted by it and shall continue to operate the Borrower Mortgaged Property as the Borrower Mortgaged Property is operated as of the Effective Date (subject in the case of any buildings within the Wild Wild West Fee Assemblage that become the subject of an inactive service plan approved by the Administrative Agent pursuant to the proviso in the first sentence of this Section 5.7(a), to the provisions of such proviso and such inactive service plan, if the same becomes applicable).  Borrower shall (i) keep and maintain all Licenses necessary for the operation of each Borrower Mortgaged Property, to the extent applicable, in accordance with its current respective use, and (ii) at all times maintain, preserve and protect all trade names where the failure to so maintain, preserve and protect any such licenses or trade names, in each case would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect or a Property Material Adverse Effect and preserve all of the remainder of its property used in and necessary for the conduct of its business.  Borrower shall qualify to do business and shall remain in good standing under the laws of the State in which the Borrower Mortgaged Property is located as and to the extent required for the ownership, maintenance, management and operation of the Borrower Mortgaged Property.

 

(b)           Leasehold Holder shall keep and maintain, or cause to be kept and maintained, the Leasehold Holder Mortgaged Property and every part thereof in not less than its existing condition and repair, and Borrower and Leasehold Holder shall, subject to ordinary wear and tear, and, subject to the provisions of this Agreement with respect to damage or destruction caused by a Casualty or Condemnation, shall from time to time make, or cause to be made, all reasonably necessary repairs, renewals, replacements, betterments and improvements to the Leasehold Holder Mortgaged Property necessary to maintain such minimum condition and repair, and shall not permit or commit any waste, impairment, or deterioration of any portion of the Leasehold Holder Mortgaged Property in any material respect.  The Leasehold Holder further covenants to do (or cause to be done) all other acts which from the character or use of the Leasehold Holder Mortgaged Property may be reasonably necessary to protect the security of the Collateral Documents, the specific enumerations herein not excluding the general.  Leasehold Holder shall continue to engage in the businesses presently conducted by it and shall continue to operate the Leasehold Holder Mortgaged Property as the Leasehold Holder Mortgaged Property is operated as of the Effective Date.  Without limiting the foregoing, Leasehold Holder shall continue to operate a hotel and casino on the Ground Lease Parcel in the Hotel/Casino Facility.  Leasehold Holder shall (i) keep and maintain all Licenses necessary for the operation of each Leasehold Holder Mortgaged Property (including, without limitation, the operation of Hotel/Casino Facility as a hotel and casino with unrestricted gaming activities therein), to the extent applicable, in accordance with its current respective use, and (ii) at all times maintain, preserve and protect all trade names owned by Leasehold Holder, in each case, where the failure to so maintain, preserve and protect any such licenses or trade names would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect or a Property Material Adverse Effect and preserve all of the remainder of its property used in and necessary for the conduct of its business.  Leasehold Holder shall qualify to do business and shall remain in good standing under the laws of the State in which the Leasehold Holder Mortgaged Property is located as and to the extent required for the ownership, maintenance, management and operation of the Leasehold Holder Mortgaged

 

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5.8           Approved Leases.  Each of Borrower and Leasehold Holder agrees that, without the prior written consent of Administrative Agent, it shall not (a) enter into any Lease which is not an Approved Lease, (b) renew (other than pursuant to renewal rights expressly set forth in such Approved Lease) or extend any Approved Lease, (c) waive any provisions of any Approved Lease, provided that subject to clause (b), a Loan Party shall have the right to waive (or cause to be waived) provisions of such Approved Lease so long as the same would not have the effect of either permitting such Loan Party to take an action that it is prohibited from taking under any of the Loan Documents, or preventing such Loan Party from complying with its respective obligations under any of the Loan Documents, or (d) amend or modify in any respect any Lease: (i) in a manner adverse to Administrative Agent, (ii) so as to increase Borrower’s or Leasehold Holder’s obligations thereunder or materially reduce the obligations of the tenant thereunder, or (iii) so as to result in the Lease being on terms and conditions or for Rents that are not market Rents.

 

5.9           Taxes.

 

(1)           The Borrower Parties shall file all Tax Returns required to be filed in any jurisdiction and, if applicable, and except with respect to Taxes subject to any Good Faith Contest, pay and discharge all Taxes imposed upon it or its Property or in respect of any of its franchises, business, income or property before any material penalty shall be incurred with respect to such Taxes.

 

(2)           The Borrower and Leasehold Holder shall pay (or cause to be paid), subject to the right to pursue a Good Faith Contest, all Impositions now or hereafter levied or assessed or imposed against the Mortgaged Property or any part thereof prior to the imposition of any interest, charges or expenses for the non-payment thereof and shall pay all Other Charges on or before the date they are due.  Subject to a Loan Party’s right to pursue a Good Faith Contest, the Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Borrower or of the Leasehold Holder, may pay, but shall not be obligated to pay, any delinquent Impositions and Other Charges which are attributable to or affect the Mortgaged Property or the Borrower or of the Leasehold Holder directly to the applicable taxing authority with respect thereto, and the Borrower agrees to reimburse (or cause to be reimbursed) the Administrative Agent for such payments promptly on demand.

 

5.10         Environmental.

 

The Borrower and Leasehold Holder shall:

 

(1)           cause the Mortgaged Property to, comply with all Hazardous Materials Laws, except for any such non-compliance that would not reasonably be expected to have a Property Material Adverse Effect.  If the Security Instruments are foreclosed, Borrower and the Leasehold Holder shall deliver (or cause to be delivered) the Mortgaged Property in material compliance with all applicable Hazardous Materials Laws.

 

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requires, in writing, remedial action to correct the presence of Hazardous Materials in, around, or under the Mortgaged Property or, to the extent of any Loan Party’s Knowledge, the Option Parcels (an “Environmental Event”), deliver (or cause to be delivered) prompt notice of the occurrence of such Environmental Event to Administrative Agent.  Within thirty (30) days after any Loan Party has Knowledge of the occurrence of an Environmental Event, Borrower shall deliver (or cause to be delivered) to Administrative Agent an Officer’s Certificate (an “Environmental Certificate”) explaining the Environmental Event in reasonable detail and setting forth the proposed remedial action, if any.

 

(3)           promptly cause the removal of any Hazardous Materials discharged, disposed of, or otherwise released in, on or under the Mortgaged Property that are in material violation of any Hazardous Materials Laws, and cause any remediation required by any Hazardous Material Laws or Governmental Authority to be performed, though no such action shall be required if any action is subject to a Good Faith Contest.  In the course of carrying out such actions, the Borrower or the Leasehold Holder shall provide (or caused to be provided) the Administrative Agent with such periodic information and notices regarding the status of investigation, removal, and remediation, as the Administrative Agent may reasonably require.

 

(4)           diligently complete (or cause to be completed) (a) the on-going remedial investigation with respect to the portion of the Mortgaged Property commonly known as 3680 West Tropicana Avenue, Las Vegas, Nevada and identified by Clark County Assessor’s Parcel Number 162-20-401-009 (the “GVG Parcel”) to the satisfaction of the applicable Governmental Authority, or Governmental Authorities, with jurisdiction over the GVG Parcel, and to the reasonable satisfaction of the Agents, and (b) any remedial or response actions required by the applicable Governmental Authority, or Governmental Authorities, with jurisdiction over the GVG Parcel, related to the presence of Hazardous Materials in, at, under, around or emanating from the GVG Parcel to the satisfaction of such applicable Governmental Authority, or Governmental Authorities and to the reasonable satisfaction of the Agents.  Borrower shall obtain (or cause to be obtained) a “no further action” letter or equivalent documentation issued by the applicable Governmental Authority, or Governmental Authorities, with jurisdiction over the GVG Parcel, stating that such remedial investigation and any required remedial or response actions have been completed to the satisfaction of such applicable Governmental Authority, or Governmental Authorities, and shall provide a copy of such documentation to the Agents.

 

(5)           diligently complete (or cause to be completed) (a) the on-going remedial investigation with respect to the portion of the Mortgaged Property commonly known as 4575 Procyon Street, Las Vegas, Nevada and identified by Clark County Assessor’s Parcel Number 162-20-301-012 (the “RDC Parcel”) to the satisfaction of the applicable Governmental Authority, or Governmental Authorities, with jurisdiction over the RDC Parcel, and to the reasonable satisfaction of the Agents, and (b) any remedial or response actions required by the applicable Governmental Authority, or Governmental Authorities, with jurisdiction over the RDC Parcel, related to the presence of Hazardous Materials in, at, under, around or emanating from the RDC Parcel to the satisfaction of such applicable Governmental Authority, or Governmental Authorities, and to the reasonable satisfaction of the Agents.  Borrower shall obtain (or cause to be obtained) a “no further action” letter or equivalent documentation issued by the applicable Governmental Authority, or Governmental

 

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Authorities, with jurisdiction over the RDC Parcel, stating that such remedial investigation and any required remedial or response actions have been completed to the satisfaction of such applicable Governmental Authority, or Governmental Authorities, and shall provide a copy of such documentation to the Agents.

 

5.11         Title to the Mortgaged Property.  Each Loan Party shall warrant and defend (1) its fee and, as to the Ground Lease Parcel, leasehold, title to the Mortgaged Property and every part thereof, subject only to Liens permitted hereunder (including Permitted Encumbrances), and (2) the validity and priority of the Liens of the Security Instruments on the Mortgaged Property, subject only to Liens permitted hereunder (including applicable Permitted Encumbrances), in each case against the claims of all Persons whomsoever.

 

5.12         Interest Rate Contracts.

 

(1)           Required Interest Rate Contracts.  In connection with the exercise of each of Borrower’s Options to Extend, Borrower shall enter into, no later than the dates set forth in Section 2.3(b) above, and thereafter maintain in effect the Required Interest Rate Contracts, with reduction to reflect prepayments of principal amounts of the Loans, through and including the Maturity Date.

 

(2)           Pledge and Collateral Assignment. In connection with the exercise of each of Borrower’s Options to Extend and each Required Interest Rate Contract entered into in connection therewith, Borrower shall enter into an Assignment of Interest Rate Contract with respect to each Required Interest Rate Contract which assignment pledges, assigns, transfers, delivers and grants a continuing first priority lien to the Administrative Agent, as security for payment of all sums due in respect of the Loans and the performance of all other terms, conditions and covenants of this Agreement and any other Loan Document on the Borrower’s part to be paid and performed, in, to and under all of such Borrower’s right, title and interest whether now owned or hereafter acquired and whether now existing or hereafter arising: (i) in the Required Interest Rate Contract; (ii) to receive any and all payments under the Required Interest Rate Contract, whether as contractual obligations, damages or otherwise; and (iii) to all claims, rights, powers, privileges, authority, options, security interests, liens and remedies, if any, under or arising out of the Required Interest Rate Contract, in each case including all accessions and additions to, substitutions for and replacements, products and proceeds of any of the foregoing (collectively, the “Rate Contract Collateral”).  The Borrower shall notify the counterparty under the Required Interest Rate Contract of such assignment. The Borrower shall not, without obtaining the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, further pledge, transfer, deliver, assign or grant any security interest in any Required Interest Rate Contract or any of the other Rate Contract Collateral or permit any Lien or encumbrance to attach thereto, or any levy to be made thereon, or any UCC-1 Financing Statements or any other notice or instrument as may be required under the UCC, as appropriate, except those naming the Administrative Agent as the secured party, to be filed with respect thereto.

 

(3)           Covenants.

 

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terms and provisions of the Required Interest Rate Contracts.  All amounts paid by the counterparty under the Required Interest Rate Contracts to the Borrower shall be promptly deposited into an Account subject to a Control Agreement. The Borrower shall take all actions reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent to enforce the Borrower’s rights under the Required Interest Rate Contracts in the event of a default by the counterparty thereunder and shall not waive or otherwise Modify any of its rights thereunder.

 

(ii)           If Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan or an Affiliate thereof is not the Counterparty, in the event of (A) any downgrade, withdrawal or qualification (each, a “Downgrade”) of the rating of any Counterparty to a Required Interest Rate Contract such that, thereafter, such Counterparty shall cease to be an Acceptable Counterparty or (B) any Counterparty shall fail to comply with the requirements contained in the Required Interest Rate Contract,  upon such occurrence, the Borrower shall replace such Required Interest Rate Contract with a replacement Interest Rate Contract satisfying all the requirements of the replaced Required Interest Rate Contract hereunder and otherwise acceptable to the Administrative Agent (and such replacement Interest Rate Contract shall be a Required Interest Rate Contract).

 

(iii)          Except as permitted by Section 5.12(2), the Borrower shall not (A) without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, Modify the terms of any Required Interest Rate Contract, (B) without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, cause the termination of any Required Interest Rate Contract prior to its stated maturity date, (C) without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, except as aforesaid, waive or release any obligation of any Counterparty (or any successor or substitute party to a Required Interest Rate Contract) under a Required Interest Rate Contract, (D) without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, consent or agree to any act or omission to act on the part of any Counterparty (or any successor or substitute party to a Required Interest Rate Contract) which, without such consent or agreement, would constitute a default under such Required Interest Rate Contract, (E) fail to exercise promptly and diligently each and every material right which it may have under any Required Interest Rate Contract, (F) take or intentionally omit to take any action or intentionally suffer or permit any action to be omitted or taken, the taking or omission of which would result in any right of offset against sums payable under any Required Interest Rate Contract or any defense by any Counterparty (or any successor or substitute party to a Required Interest Rate Contract) to payment or (G) fail to give prompt notice to the Administrative Agent of any notice of default given by or to the Borrower under or with respect to any Required Interest Rate Contract, together with a complete copy of such notice.

 

5.13         Single Purpose Entities.   Each of Borrower and Leasehold Holder shall maintain itself as a Single Purpose Entity and Borrower shall cause Holdco to maintain itself as a Single Purpose Entity.

 

5.14         Franchise Agreement.

 

(1)           Neither Borrower nor Leasehold Holder shall (x) terminate any Franchise Agreement if any such termination would result in the payment of any termination or similar fee paid by Borrower or Leasehold Holder and such payment would give rise to a Material Adverse

 

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Effect, (y) amend or modify any Franchise Agreement if any such amendment or modification would result in the payment of any fee or penalty paid by Borrower or Leaseholder or materially increase Borrower’s or Leasehold Holder’s obligations or liabilities under the Franchise Agreement or materially reduce the benefits to be received by Borrower or Leasehold Holder under the Franchise Agreement or result in a Material Adverse Effect or a Property Material Adverse Effect, or (z) enter into any Franchise Agreement with any other party, in each case, without Administrative Agent’s prior written consent, which consent may be withheld in Administrative Agent’s sole and absolute discretion; and

 

(2)           Borrower and Leasehold Holder shall promptly deliver to Administrative Agent a copy of each material notice and material report received or delivered by it under the Franchise Agreement.

 

5.15         Entitlements.  Borrower and Leasehold Holder shall, subject to the obligations contained in the Ground Lease,  use their reasonable commercial efforts to prosecute to completion all pending entitlements necessary to develop the Ground Lease Parcel as a hotel-casino.   Borrower shall maintain and take all commercially reasonable actions necessary to maintain all entitlements currently in place related to the development of the Cactus Assemblage and the Wild Wild West Fee Assemblage.

 

5.16         Further Assurances.

 

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

 

(2)           Borrower agrees that it shall, upon request and at no cost to Borrower,  reasonably cooperate with Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection with any request by Administrative Agent or Lender to sever the Note into two (2) or more separate substitute notes in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the original Note and to reapportion the Loans among such separate substitute notes, including, without limitation, by executing and delivering to Administrative Agent or such Lender new substitute notes to replace the Note, amendments to or replacements of existing Loan Documents to reflect such severance and/or opinions of counsel with respect to such substitute notes, amendments and/or replacements, provided that Borrower shall bear no costs or expenses in connection therewith (other than internal administrative costs and expenses of Borrower).  Any such substitute notes may have varying principal amounts and economic terms, provided, however, that (i) the maturity date of any such substitute note shall be the same as the Maturity Date, (ii) the initial weighted average interest rate for the term of the substitute notes shall not exceed the

 

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interest rate under the Note being substituted immediately prior to the issuance of such substitute notes; and (iii) the economics of the Loans shall not change in a manner which is adverse to Borrower.  Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, Administrative Agent may apply payment of all sums due under such substitute notes (and in respect of any other Obligations) in such order and priority as Administrative Agent shall elect in its sole and absolute discretion.

 

(3)           Administrative Agent will take such action as may be reasonably required in order to permit the filing of plats, maps, records of survey or other documents necessary for the development of improvements on the Mortgaged Property to the extent required by any applicable Governmental Authority and otherwise permitted under the terms of this Agreement.

 

5.17         Intentionally Omitted.

 

5.18         Ground Lease Covenants.

 

(1)           Waiver of Interest In New Ground Lease.  In the event the Ground Lease shall be terminated by reason of a default thereunder by the Leasehold Holder and Administrative Agent shall require that the Ground Lease Fee Owner enter into a new ground lease, each Loan Party shall, if Administrative Agent so requires, waive any right, title and interest in and to such new ground lease or the leasehold estate created thereby, waiving all rights of redemption now or hereafter operable under any law, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

 

(2)           No Election to Terminate.  No Loan Party shall permit, acquiesce or elect to treat any Ground Lease as terminated, canceled or surrendered pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Bankruptcy Code (including, without limitation, Section 365(h)(1) thereof) without Administrative Agent’s prior written consent in the event a bankruptcy of the Ground Lease Fee Owner or any other party to the Ground Lease.  In addition, to the extent not prohibited by applicable law, in the event of a bankruptcy of the Ground Lease Fee Owner or any other party to any Ground Lease, the Leasehold Holder shall promptly reaffirm and ratify the legality, validity, binding effect and enforceability of the Ground Lease and remain in possession of the Ground Lease Parcel, the related Leasehold Estate and the other rights granted pursuant to the Ground Lease, notwithstanding any rejection thereof by the Ground Lease Fee Owner, any other party to the Ground Lease, or any trustee, custodian or receiver.

 

(3)           Notice Prior to Rejection.  Borrower (or the Leasehold Holder) shall give Administrative Agent not less than thirty (30) days prior written notice of the date on which Leasehold Holder shall apply to any court or other Governmental Authority for authority and permission to reject any Ground Lease in the event that there shall be filed by or against Leasehold Holder any petition, action or proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code or under any other similar federal or state law now or hereafter in effect and if Leasehold Holder determines to reject the Ground Lease.  Lender shall have the right, but not the obligation, to serve upon Leasehold Holder within such thirty (30) day period a notice stating that (i) Administrative Agent demands that Leasehold Holder assume and assign the Ground Lease to

 

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Administrative Agent (or its designee) subject to and in accordance with the Bankruptcy Code, and (ii) Administrative Agent covenants to cure or provide reasonably adequate assurance thereof with respect to all defaults reasonably susceptible of being cured by Lender and of future performance under the Ground Lease.  If Administrative Agent serves upon Leasehold Holder the notice described above, Leasehold Holder shall not reject the Ground Lease and shall comply with the demand provided for in clause (i) above within fifteen (15) days after the notice shall have been given by Administrative Agent.

 

(4)           Administrative Agent Right to Perform.  During the continuance of an Event of Default, each Loan Party acknowledges and consents that Administrative Agent shall have the right, but not the obligation, (i) to perform and comply with all obligations of the Leasehold Holder under the Ground Lease without relying on any grace period provided therein, (ii) to do and take, without any obligation to do so, such actions as Administrative Agent deems necessary or desirable to prevent or cure any default by the Leasehold Holder under the Ground Lease, including, without limitation, any act, deed, matter or thing whatsoever that the Leasehold Holder may do in order to cure a default under the Ground Lease and (iii) subject to the terms of the Ground Lease, to enter in and upon any of the Ground Lease Parcel or any part thereof to such extent and as often as Administrative Agent deems necessary or desirable, subject to applicable Gaming Laws, in order to prevent or cure any default of the Leasehold Holder under the Ground Lease.  The Leasehold Holder shall, within five (5) Business Days after written request is made therefor by Administrative Agent execute and deliver to Administrative Agent or to any party designated by Administrative Agent, such further instruments, agreements, powers, assignments, conveyances or the like as may be reasonably necessary to complete or perfect the interest, rights or powers of Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section or as may otherwise be required by Administrative Agent.

 

(5)           Attorney in Fact.  In the event of any arbitration under or pursuant to the Ground Lease in which Administrative Agent elects to participate, each Loan Party hereby acknowledges and consents that Administrative Agent shall be irrevocably appointed as the Leasehold Holder’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact (which appointment shall be deemed coupled with an interest) to exercise, during the continuance of an Event of Default, all right, title and interest of Leasehold Holder in connection with such arbitration, including, without limitation, the right to appoint arbitrators and to conduct arbitration proceedings on behalf of Leasehold Holder and Administrative Agent.  All reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred by Administrative Agent (and any Lenders) in connection with such arbitration and the settlement thereof shall be borne solely by Borrower and the Leasehold Holder, including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees and disbursements.  Nothing contained in this Section shall obligate Administrative Agent to participate in any such arbitration.

 

(6)           Payment of Sums Due Under Ground Lease.  The Leasehold Holder shall pay all rent, additional rent, common charges, common area maintenance charges and other charges or assessments reserved in or payable under the Ground Lease on or prior to the due date thereof.

 

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required to be performed and observed by the Leasehold Holder under the Ground Lease, the breach of which could permit any party to the Ground Lease validly to terminate the Ground Lease (including, without limitation, all payment obligations), (ii) do all things commercially reasonable to preserve and to keep unimpaired its rights under the Ground Lease, (iii) not waive, excuse or discharge any of the material obligations of the Ground Lease Fee Owner or any other party to the Ground Lease without Administrative Agent’s prior written consent in each instance, and (iv) diligently and continuously enforce the material obligations of the Ground Lease Fee Owner and the other parties to the Ground Lease except in any such case where same would not have a Material Adverse Effect or a Property Material Adverse Effect.

 

(8)           No Modification or Termination.

 

(i)            No Loan Party shall, except as permitted hereunder or with the prior written consent of Administrative Agent, permit, consent to or acquiesce in any Modification to the Ground Lease that is adverse to the Lenders, it being agreed that any such Modification that changes the term, affects the rent amount or other payments due under the Ground Lease, affects or relates to any option or right to purchase all or any portion of the Ground Lease Parcel, affects the rights of Administrative Agent or the Lenders under the Ground Lease, or otherwise increases Borrower’s or Leasehold Holder’s obligations or liabilities under the Ground Lease and/or that reduces the benefits to be received by Borrower or Leasehold Holder under the Ground Lease shall be deemed to be adverse to the Lenders.

 

(ii)           No Loan Party shall cancel, terminate or surrender the Ground Lease or permit, consent to or acquiesce in any cancellation, termination or surrender of the Ground Lease, without in each case the prior written consent of Administrative Agent.  Any agreement to which Borrower, the Leasehold Holder or any Affiliate is a party whereby any part of the Ground Lease is terminated or the Ground Lease Parcel is withdrawn therefrom in violation of the immediately preceding sentence shall constitute a Disposition prohibited under this Agreement.

 

(9)           Notices of Default.  Borrower or the Leasehold Holder shall promptly (but in no event later than three (3) Business Days after Borrower’s or the Leasehold Holder’s receipt thereof) deliver (or cause to be delivered) to Administrative Agent copies of any written notice of default by any party under the Ground Lease, or of any written notice from Ground Lease Fee Owner or any other party to the Ground Lease of its intention to terminate the Ground Lease or to re-enter and take possession of any portion of the Ground Lease Parcel or any improvements or personalty located thereon.

 

(10)         Delivery of Information.  Borrower or the Leasehold Holder shall promptly furnish (or cause to be furnished) to Administrative Agent copies of such information and evidence as Administrative Agent may reasonably request concerning Leasehold Holder’s due observance, performance and compliance with the terms, covenants and conditions of the Ground Lease.

 

(11)         No Subordination.  No Loan Party shall permit, consent to or acquiesce to the subordination of the Ground Lease to any mortgage or other lease of the fee interest in any portion of the Ground Lease Parcel or any improvements or personalty located thereon,

 

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(12)         Further Assurances.  The Loan Parties shall, at their sole cost and expense, execute and deliver to Administrative Agent, within five (5) Business Days after request, such documents, instruments or agreements as may be reasonably required to permit Administrative Agent to cure any default under the Ground Lease.

 

(13)         Estoppel Certificates.  With respect to the Ground Lease, the Loan Parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain and deliver to Administrative Agent within thirty (30) days after written demand by Administrative Agent, an estoppel certificate, in form and substance acceptable to Administrative Agent, from the Ground Lease Fee Owner and other parties to the Ground Lease designated by Administrative Agent setting forth, among other things, (i) the name of the parties thereunder, (ii) that the Ground Lease is in full force and effect and has not been modified or, if it has been modified, the date of each modification (together with copies of each such modification), (iii) the date to which all rent, additional rent, common charges, common area maintenance charges and other charges or assessments reserved in or payable under the Ground Lease have been paid thereunder, (iv) whether there are any alleged defaults of the lessee under the Ground Lease and, if there are, setting forth the nature thereof in reasonable detail, (v) if any party under the Ground Lease shall be in default, the default, and (vi) such other matters as Administrative Agent shall reasonably request.

 

(14)         Common Area/Common Elements Insurance.  With respect to the Ground Lease, Borrower and Leasehold Holder shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the parties to the Ground Lease to maintain the insurance required to be maintained by such parties thereunder and to deliver any insurance proceeds payable to the Leasehold Holder under the Ground Lease to be delivered to Administrative Agent or as required by the Ground Lease.  Without limitation of the Loan Parties’ obligations under this Agreement, in the event any party to the Ground Lease fails to maintain any insurance coverage required in the Ground Lease and the failure would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, Borrower or the Leasehold Holder shall obtain (or cause to be obtained) such insurance coverage to satisfy such requirement.

 

(15)         Right to Participate.  Administrative Agent shall have the right, but not the obligation, to proceed in respect of any claim, suit, action or proceeding relating to the rejection of the Ground Lease by the Ground Lease Fee Owner or any other party to the Ground Lease as a result of a bankruptcy of Ground Lease Fee Owner or any other party to the Ground Lease, including, without limitation, the right to file and prosecute any and all proofs of claims, complaints, notices and other documents in any case in respect of Ground Lease Fee Owner or any other party to the Ground Lease under and pursuant to the Bankruptcy Code.

 

(16)         No Liability.  Administrative Agent shall have no liability or obligation under the Ground Lease by reason of its acceptance of the Security Instruments, this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.  Administrative Agent shall be liable for the obligations of Leasehold Holder arising under the Ground Lease in which Leasehold Holder possesses a Leasehold Estate for only that period of time during which Administrative Agent

 

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has acquired, by foreclosure or otherwise, and is holding all of Leasehold Holder’s right, title and interest therein.

 

(17)         Ground Lease Cure By Administrative Agent.  In the event of a default by Leasehold Holder in the performance of any of its obligations under the Ground Lease beyond any applicable notice and cure periods therein, including, without limitation, any default in the payment of any sums payable thereunder, then, in each and every such case, Administrative Agent may, at its option, cause the default or defaults to be remedied and otherwise exercise any and all rights of Leasehold Holder thereunder in the name of and on behalf of Leasehold Holder.  Borrower or the Leasehold Holder shall, on demand, reimburse Administrative Agent for all advances made and reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by Administrative Agent in curing any such default (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees and disbursements), together with interest thereon computed at the Default Rate from the date that such advance is made to and including the date the same is paid to Administrative Agent.

 

(18)         Option to Renew or Extend the Ground Lease.  The Leasehold Holder shall duly exercise any renewal or extension option with respect to the Ground Lease unless Administrative Agent notifies Borrower in writing that it has reasonably determined that the exercise of such option is not necessary to protect Administrative Agent’s security for the Loans.  The Loan Parties shall deliver to Administrative Agent a copy of any notice of renewal or extension at least five (5) business days prior to such notice being delivered to the Ground Lease Fee Owner, together with the terms and conditions of such renewal or extension.  If Leasehold Holder fails to renew or extend the term of the Ground Lease in which Leasehold Holder possesses the Leasehold Estate, Administrative Agent may, at its option, exercise the option to renew or extend in the name of and on behalf of Leasehold Holder.  Each of Borrower and Leasehold Holder acknowledges and consents that Administrative Agent is irrevocably appointed as Leasehold Holder’s attorney-in-fact, coupled with an interest, to execute and deliver, for and in the name of Leasehold Holder, all instruments and agreements necessary under the Ground Lease or otherwise to cause any renewal or extension of the Ground Lease in accordance with this Section 5.18.

 

(19)         Acquisition of Ground Lease Parcel.  No Loan Party shall exercise the Ground Lease Parcel Purchase Option or otherwise acquire the Ground Lease Parcel without the prior written consent of Administrative Agent (which may be withheld in its sole discretion); provided  that, Borrower (but not Leasehold Holder) may, at Borrower’s option, exercise the Ground Lease Purchase Option and acquire the Ground Lease Parcel without the consent of Administrative Agent if (x) the costs and expenses to be incurred in connection with the exercise of the Ground Lease Purchase Option (or acquisition of the Ground Lease Parcel) (including the purchase price to acquire the respective Ground Lease Parcel and costs and expenses of Borrower to comply with the provisions of this Section 5.18(19)) (collectively, the “Ground Lease Parcel Purchase Costs and Expenses”) are to be funded exclusively through capital contributions to Borrower from Holdco, (y) Borrower provides Administrative Agent with evidence reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent that such funds (a) are available to Borrower to acquire the Ground Lease Parcel, (b) were obtained exclusively through capital contributions to Borrower from Holdco, and (c) are sufficient to pay the Ground Lease Parcel Purchase Option Costs and Expenses, and (z) each of the

 

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following terms and conditions have been fully satisfied (unless waived in writing by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion):

 

(i)            Not less than thirty (30) days prior to the Ground Lease Parcel Acquisition Closing Date, Borrower shall have delivered to Administrative Agent, all of which deliveries shall be satisfactory to the Administrative Agent:  (a) a map and site plan, including an existing Survey of the Ground Lease Parcel dated not more than six (6) months prior to the Ground Lease Parcel Acquisition Closing Date, (b) a copy of the proposed amendments to the Loan Documents to include Ground Lease Parcel, (c) a commitment from the Title Company with respect to the issuance of a Title Policy (or endorsements to the existing Title Policy), together with copies of all exceptions referenced therein, (d) upon the reasonable request of the Administrative Agent, a PML study, (e) an Appraisal acceptable to Administrative Agent, (f) a copy of the flood certification, (g) either (A) a letter or other evidence with respect to Ground Lease Parcel from the appropriate Governmental Authorities concerning compliance with applicable zoning and building laws, (B) an ALTA 3.1 zoning endorsement for the Title Policy or (C) a zoning report prepared by The Planning & Zoning Resource Corporation indicating that Ground Lease Parcel is in material compliance with applicable zoning and building laws, (h) evidence that Ground Lease Parcel constitutes one (1) or more separate tax lots, which evidence shall be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to Administrative Agent (evidence of a separate tax lot endorsement for the Title Policy shall be evidence reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to Administrative Agent), (i) evidence reasonably satisfactory to Lenders and their insurance consultant(s) of insurance policies covering Ground Lease Parcel satisfying all of the requirements of this Agreement, and (j) UCC, bankruptcy, state and federal tax lien, litigation and judgment searches conducted by a search firm reasonably acceptable to the Lenders with respect to the Ground Lease Fee Owner on the date immediately prior to acquisition thereof by Borrower, in each of the locations reasonably specified by the Lenders and not revealing any Liens other than Permitted Encumbrances.

 

(ii)           Administrative Agent shall have received at least thirty (30) days prior to Ground Lease Parcel Acquisition Closing Date, and reviewed and approved all material agreements relating to or affecting Ground Lease Parcel or by which the Ground Lease Parcel is bound;

 

(iii)          Administrative Agent shall have received at least thirty (30) days prior to the Ground Lease Parcel Acquisition Closing Date a Phase I environmental assessment report, conducted under the ASTM International Standard Practice for Environmental Site Assessments:  Phase I Environmental Site Assessment Process E1527-05, issued by a recognized environmental consultant which report shall be dated not more than six (6) months prior to the Ground Lease Parcel Acquisition Closing Date and which report shall be reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent;

 

(iv)          Delivery to Administrative Agent of evidence reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent that all material governmental and third party approvals (including any required gaming approvals) required for Borrower to consummate the acquisition of Ground Lease Parcel have been secured;

 

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(v)           Delivery to Administrative Agent of favorable original opinions of counsel or updates thereto in connection with the Ground Lease Parcel covering due authorization, execution, delivery, enforceability and perfection of security interests, similar in form and substance to the opinions which were delivered on the Effective Date in connection with the Real Property, reasonably satisfactory to Lenders and addressed to the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders;

 

(vi)          Delivery of original updated Organizational Documents of each of the Borrower Parties, including, but not limited to a current certificate of good standing; delivery of appropriate evidence of the authorization of the applicable Borrower Parties approving the execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents or amendments thereto being executed and delivered in connection with the acquisition of the Ground Lease Parcel, duly adopted by the applicable Borrower Parties and accompanied by an Officer’s Certificate stating that such authorizations have not been altered or repealed and are in full force and effect, and certifying as to the names of the Persons authorized to sign on behalf of such parties, together with the true signatures of each such Person;

 

(vii)         Delivery to Administrative Agent of originals of the following Loan Documents or amendments thereto:  (a) either a new Security Instrument, an amendment to an existing Security Instrument, or a mortgage spreader agreement (as selected by Administrative Agent) to encumber the Ground Lease Parcel, duly executed and acknowledged by Borrower; (b) a first priority Assignment of Leases and Rents (or amendment to the existing Assignment of Leases and Rents), from Borrower, as assignor, to Administrative Agent, as assignee, assigning to Administrative Agent all of Borrower’s interest in and to the Leases, rents and security deposits as security for the Loans with respect to the Ground Lease Parcel, duly executed and acknowledged by Borrower; (c) a first priority Assignment of Contracts (or an amendment to the existing Assignment of Contracts), from Borrower, as assignor, to Administrative Agent, as assignee, with respect to the contracts relating to or affecting the Ground Lease Parcel or by which the Ground Lease Parcel is bound, duly executed by Borrower; (d) UCC financing statements (Form UCC-1) (or other forms required in any jurisdiction), covering all fixtures and other personal property with respect to the Ground Lease Parcel, and all proceeds thereof, naming Borrower, as debtor, and Administrative Agent as secured party (together with the documents described in the foregoing clauses (a), (b), (c) and (d) of this Section 5.18(19)(vii), the “GL Parcel Security Documents”); (e) a new Title Policy or endorsements to the existing Title Policy, (as determined by Administrative Agent in its sole discretion), issued by the Title Company in an amount equal to the purchase price for the Ground Lease Parcel (together with a tie-in endorsement between the Title Policy for the Ground Lease Parcel and the existing Title Policy in form and substance reasonably acceptable to Administrative Agent in an amount equal to the purchase price for the Ground Lease Parcel), reflecting the addition of the Ground Lease Parcel and containing such affirmative coverage similar in form and substance to the affirmative coverage provided in the existing Title Policy, insuring that the applicable Security Instrument, as may be modified by a mortgage spreader agreement or other amendment, creates a valid first lien on Borrower’s fee title in the Ground Lease Parcel subject to the Permitted Encumbrances, and insuring the perfected first priority interest of Administrative Agent

 

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pursuant to the applicable Security Instrument, as may be modified by a mortgage spreader agreement or other amendment, and further (i) insuring the priority of the applicable Security Instrument, as may be modified by the mortgage spreader agreement or other amendment, over all intervening Liens on the Real Properties including, without limitation, all mechanics’ or materialmen’s Liens for work performed or material supplied to the Ground Lease Parcel, and (ii) disclosing no matters affecting title to the Real Properties other than Permitted Encumbrances; together with evidence of payment of any title insurance premiums, fees or charges due in connection therewith, and the Borrower and Leasehold Holder shall cooperate with Administrative Agent and execute such further instruments and documents and perform such further acts as Administrative Agent or the Title Company shall reasonably request to carry out the creation and perfection of the liens and security interests contemplated by the GL Parcel Security Documents and the release, discharge and removal of any encumbrances required for the issuance of the Title Policy; (f) updates to any of the other Loan Documents and the Exhibits and Schedules thereto, as applicable; (g) a confirmation of the Recourse Guaranty in customary form duly executed and delivered by Recourse Guarantor affirming its obligations thereunder; (h) a confirmation of the Payment Guaranty in customary form duly executed and delivered by the Leasehold Holder affirming Leasehold Holder’s obligations thereunder; and (i) a confirmation of the Pledge Agreement in customary form duly executed and delivered by Pledgor, affirming its obligations under the Pledge Agreement;

 

(viii)        Delivery to Administrative Agent of a ground lease between Borrower, as fee owner, and Leasehold Holder, as tenant (the “New Ground Lease”) and a tenant estoppels certificate from Leasehold Holder to the benefit of Administrative Agent, in each case, in form and substance satisfactory to Administrative Agent;

 

(ix)           Receipt of evidence, satisfactory to Administrative Agent, that neither the acquisition of the Ground Lease Parcel by Borrower or the New Ground Lease will result in a Property Material Adverse Effect or in any interruption in the use or operation of the Hotel/Casino Facility;

 

(x)            Borrower shall pay for any and all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses of Administrative Agent and the Lenders incurred in connection with the proposed acquisition of the Ground Lease Parcel, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and disbursements, all title insurance premiums for any endorsements to any existing Title Policy (or new Title Policy) reasonably required by Lenders in connection with such proposed acquisition, title premiums, mortgage recording taxes, transfer taxes and recording fees.  In addition, Borrower shall deliver to Lenders evidence reasonably satisfactory to Lenders that all amounts owing to any parties in connection with the transactions relating to the proposed acquisition of the Ground Lease Parcel by Borrower have been paid in full, or will simultaneously be paid in full on the Ground Lease Parcel Acquisition Closing Date or adequate reserves therefor are established by Borrower in cash with respect to contingent or other liabilities that may arise out of such transaction and for which Borrower is not adequately indemnified or insured against as reasonably determined by Lenders.

 

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information and materials as any Lender, through the Administrative Agent, may reasonably request, provided such requests are customary and are consistent with the deliveries required with respect to the Real Properties on the Ground Lease Parcel Closing Date.

 

(20)         Event of Default. Following the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, in the event Administrative Agent determines to exercise the Ground Lease Parcel Purchase Option and purchase the Ground Lease Parcel either pursuant to the terms of the Ground Lease or as otherwise may be agreed upon between Administrative Agent and Ground Lease Fee Owner, Borrower and Leasehold Holder shall cooperate in good faith with any such exercise and purchase by Administrative Agent.

 

5.19         Management Agreement.

 

(1)           No Election to Terminate.  Neither Borrower or Leasehold Holder shall permit, acquiesce, elect or consent to treat any Management Agreement as terminated, canceled or surrendered pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Bankruptcy Code (including, without limitation, Section 365(h)(1) thereof) without Administrative Agent’s prior written consent in the event a bankruptcy of Borrower, Leasehold Holder, any Manager or any other party to any Management Agreement.

 

(2)           Notice Prior to Rejection.  Borrower or the Leasehold Holder shall give Administrative Agent not less than thirty (30) days prior written notice of the date on which Borrower or Leasehold Holder shall apply to any court or other Governmental Authority for authority and permission to reject any Management Agreement in the event that there shall be filed by or against Borrower or Leasehold Holder any petition, action or proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code or under any other similar federal or state law now or hereafter in effect and if Borrower or Leasehold Holder determines to reject the applicable Management Agreement.  Lender shall have the right, but not the obligation, to serve upon Borrower or the Leasehold Holder within such thirty (30) day period a notice stating that (i) Administrative Agent demands that Borrower or Leasehold Holder assume and assign the applicable Management Agreement to Administrative Agent (or its designee) subject to and in accordance with the Bankruptcy Code, and (ii) Administrative Agent covenants to cure or provide reasonably adequate assurance thereof with respect to all defaults reasonably susceptible of being cured by Lender and of future performance under such Management Agreement.  If Administrative Agent serves upon Borrower or Leasehold Holder the notice described above, Borrower or the Leasehold Holder shall not reject the applicable Management Agreement and shall comply with the demand provided for in clause (i) above within fifteen (15) days after the notice shall have been given by Administrative Agent.

 

(3)           Administrative Agent Right to Perform.  During the continuance of an Event of Default and subject to applicable Gaming Laws, each Loan Party acknowledges and consents that Administrative Agent shall have the right, but not the obligation, (i) to perform and comply with all obligations of Borrower or Leasehold Holder under any Management Agreement without relying on any grace period provided therein, and (ii) to do and take, without any obligation to do so, such actions as Administrative Agent deems necessary or desirable to prevent or cure any default by Borrower or Leasehold Holder under any

 

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Management Agreement, including, without limitation, any act, deed, matter or thing whatsoever that Borrower or Leasehold Holder may do in order to cure a default under any Management Agreement.  Borrower and the Leasehold Holder shall, within five (5) Business Days after written request is made therefor by Administrative Agent, execute and deliver to Administrative Agent or to any party designated by Administrative Agent, such further instruments, agreements, powers, assignments, conveyances or the like as may be reasonably necessary to complete or perfect the interest, rights or powers of Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section or as may otherwise be required by Administrative Agent.

 

(4)           Attorney in Fact.  In the event of any arbitration under or pursuant to any Management Agreement in which Administrative Agent elects to participate, each Loan Party hereby acknowledges and consents that Administrative Agent shall be irrevocably appointed as the Leasehold Holder’s and Borrower’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact (which appointment shall be deemed coupled with an interest) to exercise, during the continuance of an Event of Default, all right, title and interest of Leasehold Holder and Borrower in connection with such arbitration, including, without limitation, the right to appoint arbitrators and to conduct arbitration proceedings on behalf of Leasehold Holder, Borrower and Administrative Agent.  All reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred by Administrative Agent (and any Lenders) in connection with such arbitration and the settlement thereof shall be borne solely by Borrower and the Leasehold Holder, including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees and disbursements.  Nothing contained in this Section shall obligate Administrative Agent to participate in any such arbitration.

 

(5)           Payment of Sums Due Under Management Agreement.  Borrower or the Leasehold Holder shall pay all management fees and other charges reserved in or payable under any Management Agreement on or prior to the due date thereof except where (i) the validity or amount thereof is being contested in good faith, (ii) the Borrower or the Leasehold Holder has set aside on its books adequate reserves with respect thereto in accordance with GAAP, and (iii) the failure to make payment pending such contest would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or a Property Material Adverse Effect or termination of such Management Agreement.

 

(6)           Performance of Covenants.  Borrower and Leasehold Holder shall: (i) promptly perform and observe in all material respects all of the terms, covenants and conditions required to be performed and observed by the Leasehold Holder and Borrower under each Management Agreement, the breach of which could permit any party to such Management Agreement validly to terminate such Management Agreement (including, without limitation, all payment obligations), (ii) do all things commercially reasonable to preserve and to keep unimpaired its rights under each Management Agreement, (iii) not waive, excuse or discharge any of the material obligations of any Manager or any other party to any Management Agreement without Administrative Agent’s prior written consent in each instance, and (iv) enforce the material obligations of the applicable Manager and the other parties to each Management Agreement, except, in the case of the foregoing clauses (i) through (iv), in any such case where same would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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(7)           No Modification or Termination.

 

(i)            Neither the Leasehold Holder nor Borrower shall consent to or acquiesce in any amendment, modification, waiver or change to any Management Agreement in any manner adverse to the interests of the Lenders in any material respect or any assignment of any Management Agreement (other than an assignment to a wholly owned Subsidiary of the applicable Manager in accordance with the applicable Management Agreement as in effect on the date hereof); it being acknowledged and agreed by the parties hereto that any amendment, waiver or other modification which would have the effect of (A) increasing management fees, required reserves or termination fees, (B) shortening the term thereof or (C) modifying events of default, rights of termination, standards of care and operation, management responsibilities, intellectual property licenses or approval and supervisory rights of members or shareholders shall be deemed adverse to the interests of the Lenders in a material respect.

 

(ii)           Neither the Leasehold Holder nor Borrower shall permit, consent to or acquiesce in any cancellation, termination or surrender of any Management Agreement.

 

(8)           Notices of Default.  Borrower and Leasehold Holder shall promptly (but in any event no later than two (2) Business Days after Borrower’s or Leasehold Holder’s receipt thereof) deliver (or cause to be delivered) to Administrative Agent copies of any written notice of default by any party under any Management Agreement, or of any written notice from any Manager or any other party to each Management Agreement of its intention to terminate any Management Agreement.

 

(9)           Delivery of Information.  Borrower and Leasehold Holder shall promptly furnish (or cause to be furnished) to Administrative Agent copies of such information and evidence as Administrative Agent may reasonably request concerning the Leasehold Holder’s or Borrower’s due observance, performance and compliance with the terms, covenants and conditions of each Management Agreement.

 

(10)         Other Management Agreements; Delegation of Manager’s Duties.  Neither the Leasehold Holder nor Borrower shall enter into any management agreements other than the Management Agreements, and no Manager shall be permitted to assign or sub-contract its duties or responsibilities under any Management Agreement (except as permitted under such Management Agreement as in effect on the Effective Date), in each case without Administrative Agent’s prior written consent, which may be withheld in its sole discretion.

 

(11)         Further Assurances.  Borrower and Leasehold Holder, at their sole cost and expense, shall execute and deliver to Administrative Agent, within five (5) Business Days after request, such documents, instruments or agreements as may be reasonably required to permit Administrative Agent to cure any default under any Management Agreement.

 

(12)         Management Agreement Cure By Administrative Agent.  In the event of a default by Leasehold Holder or Borrower in the performance of any of their respective obligations under any Management Agreement beyond any applicable notice and cure periods therein, including, without limitation, any default in the payment of any sums payable thereunder, then, in each and every such case, subject to applicable Gaming Laws, Administrative Agent may, at its option, cause the default or defaults to be remedied and otherwise exercise any and all rights of the Leasehold Holder and/or Borrower thereunder in

 

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the name of and on behalf of Leasehold Holder and/or Borrower.  Borrower shall, on demand, reimburse (and cause the Leasehold Holder to reimburse) Administrative Agent for all advances made and reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by Administrative Agent in curing any such default (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees and disbursements), together with interest thereon computed at the Default Rate from the date that such advance is made to and including the date the same is paid to Administrative Agent.

 

(13)         Subordination. Borrower and the Leasehold Holder shall at all times cause the Management Agreements and all management fees payable thereunder to be subordinated to the Loans and lien of the Collateral Documents pursuant to a written subordination of the Management Agreements in form and substance acceptable to Administrative Agent in its sole discretion.

 

(14)         Terminable at Will. Borrower and the Leasehold Holder shall at all times cause the Management Agreements to be terminable by Borrower or the Leasehold Holder at will without fee or penalty.

 

(15)         Deferred Management Fees.  The management fees payable under the HCF Management Agreement shall be deferred to the extent that net cash flow from the Hotel/Casino Facility (i.e. after payment of all amounts due under the Ground Lease, including, but not limited to, Ground Rent, verifiable operating expenses (excluding management fees payable under the HCF Management Agreement) of the Hotel/Casino Facility and Capital Expenditures) is not sufficient to pay the current management fees payable thereunder (the “Deferred Management Fees”).  Deferred Management Fees may be paid from net cash flow remaining after payment of all amounts due under the Ground Lease, including, but not limited to, Ground Rent, verifiable operating expenses of the Hotel/Casino Facility, Capital Expenditures and current management fees payable under the HCF Management Agreement. In addition, Borrower and Leasehold Holder shall at all times cause the HCF Management Agreement, and any related subordination agreement required under Section 5.19 (13) above to contain the provisions of this Section 5.19(15).

 

(16)         Rights of Administrative Agent. Administrative Agent shall have the right (but shall have no obligation) at any time that there shall exist and be continuing an Event of Default, to take in Administrative Agent’s own name or in the name of Borrower or the Leasehold Holder or any or all of them (but at Borrower’s or the Leasehold Holder’s expense, which shall be reimbursed to Administrative Agent upon demand and shall constitute part of the Obligations), such action as Administrative Agent may at any time or from time to time determine to be necessary, subject to applicable Gaming Laws:

 

(i)                                     To exercise any of the rights of Borrower or Leasehold Holder under the applicable Management Agreement and to request and require the applicable Manager to attorn to Administrative Agent (or its designee);

 

(ii)                                  To terminate the applicable Management Agreement without fee or penalty;

 

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(iii)                               To amend, modify or extend the applicable Management Agreement by agreement with the applicable Manager;

 

(iv)                              To cure any default under the applicable Management Agreement; and

 

(v)                                 To protect the rights of Administrative Agent hereunder and under the applicable Management Agreement;

 

and Administrative Agent shall incur no liability as between itself and Borrower and/or the Leasehold Holder if any action taken by or on its behalf in good faith pursuant hereto shall prove to be, in whole or in part, inadequate or invalid. Borrower and the Leasehold Holder hereby irrevocably empower and authorize Administrative Agent and hereby irrevocably appoint Administrative Agent as Borrower’s and Leasehold Holder’s attorney-in-fact to enforce Borrower’s and Leasehold Holder’s rights under the Management Agreements upon the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default.

 

5.20         Option Parcel Covenants.

 

(1)           Performance of Covenants.  Borrower shall promptly perform and observe in all material respects all of the terms, covenants and conditions required to be performed and observed by Borrower under the Option Agreement with respect to the Option Parcels, the breach of which could permit any party thereto validly to terminate such Option Agreement, provided, nothing contained herein shall obligate Borrower to exercise any option to purchase any Option Parcel (except as specifically set forth herein), and Borrower shall diligently and continuously enforce the material obligations of the Option Parcels Fee Owner and the other parties to the Option Agreement except in any such case where same would not have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(2)           No Modification, Termination, Lien.

 

(i)            Borrower shall not, except as permitted hereunder or with the prior written consent of Administrative Agent, permit, consent to or acquiesce in any Modification to the Option Agreement that is adverse to the Lenders, it being agreed that any such Modification that changes the term of the Option Parcels Purchase Option, affects the purchase price of the Option Parcels or other payments due under the Option Agreement, affects or relates to any option or right to purchase all or any of the Option Parcels, affects the rights of Administrative Agent or the Lenders under the Option Agreement, or otherwise increases Borrower’s obligations or liabilities under the Option Agreement and/or that reduces the benefits to be received by Borrower under the Option Agreement shall be deemed to be adverse to the Lenders.

 

(ii)           Borrower shall not cancel, terminate or surrender the Option Agreement or permit, consent to or acquiesce in any cancellation, termination or surrender of the Option Agreement, without in each case the prior written consent of Administrative Agent.

 

(iii)          Except in connection with the Loan Documents, Borrower shall not create, incur, assume, permit or suffer to exist any Lien with respect to the Option

 

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(3)           Notices of Default.  Borrower shall deliver to Administrative Agent copies of any written notice of default by any party under the Option Agreement with respect to the Option Parcels, or of any written notice from the Options Parcels Fee Owner or any other party of its intention to terminate the Option Agreement, promptly (but in any event no later than two (2) Business Days after Borrower’s delivery or receipt thereof) upon delivery or receipt of such notice, as the case may be.

 

(4)           Delivery of Information.  Borrower shall promptly furnish to Administrative Agent copies of such information and evidence as Administrative Agent may reasonably request concerning Borrower’s due observance, performance and compliance with the material terms, covenants and conditions of the Option Agreement with respect to the Option Parcels.

 

(5)           No Liability.  Administrative Agent shall have no liability or obligation under the Option Agreement by reason of its acceptance of the Security Instruments, this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.

 

(6)           Acquisition of Option Parcels. Borrower shall not exercise the Option Parcels Purchase Option or otherwise acquire any of the Option Parcels without the prior written consent of Administrative Agent; provided  that, no such consent of Administrative Agent shall be required if (x) the costs and expenses incurred in connection with the acquisition of any of the Option Parcels (including the purchase price to acquire the respective Option Parcel(s) and the costs and expenses of Borrower to comply with the provisions of this Section 5.20(6)) (collectively, the “Option Parcel Purchase Costs and Expenses”) are to be funded exclusively through capital contributions to Borrower from Holdco, (y) Borrower provides Administrative Agent with evidence reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent that such funds (a) are available to Borrower to acquire the applicable Option Parcel(s), (b) were obtained exclusively through capital contributions from Holdco to Borrower, and (c) are sufficient to pay the Option Parcel Purchase Option Costs and Expenses, and (z) each of the following terms and conditions is satisfied (unless waived in writing by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion):

 

(i)            Not less than thirty (30) days prior to the Option Parcel(s) Acquisition Closing Date, Borrower shall have delivered to Administrative Agent with respect to the Option Parcel(s) to be acquired, all of which deliveries shall be satisfactory to the Administrative Agent:  (a) a map and site plan, including an existing Survey of such Option Parcel(s) dated not more than six (6) months prior to the Option Parcel(s) Acquisition Closing Date, (b) a copy of the proposed amendments to the Loan Documents to include such Option Parcel(s), (c) tenant estoppel certificates and tenant subordination and non-disturbance agreements for each tenant under any Leases affecting such Option Parcel(s) which will not expire on or prior to the date that is six (6) months before the Original Maturity Date and is not terminable without cost to Borrower upon not more than sixty (60) days notice to tenant, or is otherwise not on terms and conditions similar to the Existing Leases (a “Long-Term Option Parcel Lease”), in each case in form and substance satisfactory to Administrative Agent, together with any consents required with respect to the contemplated transactions, (d) a

 

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commitment from the Title Company with respect to the issuance of a Title Policy (or endorsements to the existing Title Policy), together with copies of all exceptions referenced therein, (e) upon the reasonable request of the Administrative Agent, a PML study, (f) an Appraisal acceptable to Administrative Agent, (g) a copy of the flood certification, (h) either (A) a letter or other evidence with respect to such Option Parcel(s) from the appropriate Governmental Authorities concerning compliance with applicable zoning and building laws, (B) an ALTA 3.1 zoning endorsement for the Title Policy or (C) a zoning report prepared by The Planning & Zoning Resource Corporation indicating that such Option Parcel(s) are in material compliance with applicable zoning and building laws, (i) evidence that each of such Option Parcel(s) constitutes one (1) or more separate tax lots, which evidence shall be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to Administrative Agent (evidence of a separate tax lot endorsement for the Title Policy shall be evidence reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to Administrative Agent), (j) evidence reasonably satisfactory to Lenders and their insurance consultant(s) of insurance policies covering such Option Parcel(s) satisfying all of the requirements of this Agreement, and (k) UCC, bankruptcy, state and federal tax lien, litigation and judgment searches conducted by a search firm reasonably acceptable to the Lenders with respect to the applicable Option Parcels Fee Owner on the date immediately prior to acquisition thereof by Borrower, in each of the locations reasonably specified by the Lenders and not revealing any Liens other than Permitted Encumbrances.

 

(ii)           Administrative Agent shall have received at least thirty (30) days prior to the Option Parcel(s) Acquisition Closing Date true, accurate, correct and complete copies of all Long-Term Option Parcel Leases and all related documents; and Administrative Agent shall have determined that each such Long-Term Option Parcel Lease contains customary business terms and is in form and substance acceptable to the Administrative Agent, in its reasonable discretion;

 

(iii)          Administrative Agent shall have received at least thirty (30) days prior to the Option Parcel(s) Acquisition Closing Date, and reviewed and approved all material agreements relating to or affecting such Option Parcel(s) or by which such Option Parcel(s) are bound;

 

(iv)          Administrative Agent shall have received at least thirty (30) days prior to the Option Parcel(s) Acquisition Closing Date a Phase I environmental assessment report, conducted under the ASTM International Standard Practice for Environmental Site Assessments:  Phase I Environmental Site Assessment Process E1527-05, issued by a recognized environmental consultant which report shall be dated not more than six (6) months prior to the Option Parcel(s) Acquisition Closing Date and which report shall be reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent;

 

(v)           Delivery to Administrative Agent of evidence reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent that all material governmental and third party approvals (including any required gaming approvals) required for Borrower to consummate the acquisition of such Option Parcel(s) have been secured;

 

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authorization, execution, delivery, enforceability and perfection of security interests, similar in form and substance to the opinions which were delivered on the Effective Date in connection with the Real Property, reasonably satisfactory to Lenders and addressed to the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders;

 

(vii)         Delivery of original updated Organizational Documents of each of the Borrower Parties, including, but not limited to a current certificate of good standing; delivery of appropriate evidence of the authorization of the applicable Borrower Parties approving the execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents or amendments thereto being executed and delivered in connection with the acquisition of such Option Parcel(s), duly adopted by the applicable Borrower Parties and accompanied by an Officer’s Certificate stating that such authorizations have not been altered or repealed and are in full force and effect, and certifying as to the names of the Persons authorized to sign on behalf of such parties, together with the true signatures of each such Person;

 

(viii)        Delivery of the insurance certificates with respect to such Option Parcel(s) required hereunder;

 

(ix)           Delivery to Administrative Agent of originals of the following Loan Documents or amendments thereto:  (a) either a new Security Instrument, an amendment to an existing Security Instrument, or a mortgage spreader agreement (as selected by Administrative Agent in its sole discretion) to encumber such Option Parcel(s), duly executed and acknowledged by Borrower; (b) a first priority Assignment of Leases and Rents (or amendment to the existing Assignment of Leases and Rents), from Borrower, as assignor, to Administrative Agent, as assignee, assigning to Administrative Agent all of Borrower’s interest in and to the Leases, rents and security deposits as security for the Loans with respect to such Option Parcel(s), duly executed and acknowledged by Borrower; (c) a first priority Assignment of Contracts (or an amendment to the existing Assignment of Contracts), from Borrower, as assignor, to Administrative Agent, as assignee, with respect to the contracts relating to or affecting such Option Parcel(s) or by which such Option Parcel(s) are bound, duly executed by Borrower; (d) UCC financing statements (Form UCC-1) (or other forms required in any jurisdiction), covering all fixtures and other personal property with respect to such Option Parcel(s), and all proceeds thereof, naming Borrower, as debtor, and Administrative Agent as secured party (together with the documents described in the foregoing clauses (a), (b), (c) and (d) of this Section 5.20 (6)(ix), the “Option Parcel Security Documents”); (e) a new Title Policy or endorsements to the existing Title Policy (as determined by Administrative Agent in its sole discretion), issued by the Title Company in an amount equal to the purchase price for such Option Parcel(s) (together with a tie-in endorsement between the Title Policy for such Option Parcel(s) and the existing Title Policy in form and substance reasonably acceptable to Administrative Agent in an amount equal to the purchase price for such Option Parcel(s)), reflecting the addition of each such Option Parcel(s) and containing such affirmative coverage similar in form and substance to the affirmative coverage provided in the existing Title Policy, insuring that the applicable Security Instrument, as may be modified by a mortgage spreader agreement, creates a valid first lien on Borrower’s fee title in such Option Parcel(s) subject to the Permitted Encumbrances (for purposes of this Section 5.20(6)(ix), the Permitted Encumbrances described in clause (b) of the definition thereof shall mean the exceptions to title identified in the title commitment for such Option Parcel(s) delivered by Borrower pursuant to

 

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Section 5.20(6)(i)(d) that shall have been approved by Administrative Agent), and insuring the perfected first priority interest of Administrative Agent pursuant to the applicable Security Instrument, as may be modified by a mortgage spreader agreement or other amendment, and further (i) insuring the priority of the applicable Security Instrument, as may be modified by a mortgage spreader agreement or other amendment, over all intervening Liens on the Real Properties including, without limitation, all mechanics’ or materialmen’s Liens for work performed or material supplied to the applicable Option Parcel, and (ii) disclosing no matters affecting title to the Real Properties other than Permitted Encumbrances; together with evidence of payment of any title insurance premiums, fees or charges due in connection therewith, and the Borrower shall cooperate with Administrative Agent and execute such further instruments and documents and perform such further acts as Administrative Agent or the Title Company shall reasonably request to carry out the creation and perfection of the liens and security interests contemplated by the Option Parcel Security Documents and the release, discharge and removal of any encumbrances required for the issuance of the Title Policy; (f) updates to any of the other Loan Documents and the Exhibits and Schedules thereto, as applicable; (g) a confirmation of the Recourse Guaranty in customary form duly executed and delivered by Recourse Guarantor affirming its obligations thereunder; (h) a confirmation of the Payment Guaranty in customary form duly executed and delivered by the Leasehold Holder affirming Leasehold Holder’s obligations thereunder; and (i) a confirmation of Pledge Agreement in customary form duly executed and delivered by Pledgor, affirming its obligations under the Pledge Agreement;

 

(x)            Borrower shall pay for any and all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses of Administrative Agent and the Lenders incurred in connection with the proposed acquisition of such Option Parcel(s), including reasonable attorneys’ fees and disbursements, all title insurance premiums for any endorsements to any existing Title Policy (or new Title Policy) reasonably required by Lenders in connection with such proposed acquisition, mortgage recording taxes, transfer taxes and recording fees.  In addition, Borrower shall deliver to Lenders evidence reasonably satisfactory to Lenders that all amounts owing to any parties in connection with the transactions relating to the proposed acquisition of the Option Parcel(s) by Borrower have been paid in full, or will simultaneously be paid in full on the Option Parcel(s) Acquisition Closing Date or adequate reserves therefor are established by Borrower in cash with respect to contingent or other liabilities that may arise out of such transaction and for which Borrower is not adequately indemnified or insured against as reasonably determined by Lenders; and

 

(xi)           The Administrative Agent shall have received such additional documents, information and materials as any Lender, through the Administrative Agent, may reasonably request, provided such requests are customary and are consistent with the deliveries required with respect to the Real Properties on the Effective Date.

 

(7)           Event of Default. Following the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, in the event Administrative Agent determines to exercise the Option Parcels Purchase Option and purchase one or more Option Parcels either pursuant to the terms of the Option Agreement or as otherwise may be agreed upon between Administrative Agent and Option Parcels Fee Owner, Borrower shall cooperate in good faith with any such exercise and purchase by Administrative Agent.

 

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5.21         Accounts.  Each Account of the Loan Parties (other than Excluded Accounts) shall be subject to a Control Agreement in favor of the Administrative Agent.

 

5.22         Gaming Matters/Licenses/Approvals/Permits.  Borrower and Leasehold Holder shall take, or shall otherwise cause to be taken, all action necessary to maintain in full force and effect and in good standing any and all Gaming Permits and approvals or other entitlements allowing for the conduct, either currently or in the future, of nonrestricted gaming activities on any Mortgaged Property (or any portion thereof) including without limitation the maintenance of any such Mortgaged Property (or any portion thereof) as within a “Gaming Enterprise District” (as defined in NRS 463.0158) by complying at all times with the signage requirements specified in NRS 463.3092.  To the extent applicable, Borrower and Leasehold Holder shall also take or otherwise cause to be taken all action necessary to maintain in full force and effect and in good standing any currently existing “grandfathered” status for nonrestricted gaming activities in connection with any prior nonconforming nonrestricted gaming use on any Mortgaged Property (or any portion thereof). Borrower and Leasehold Holder shall cooperate with the Gaming Authorities and provide the data reasonably requested by such Gaming Authorities in order to maintain such Gaming Permits and approvals and shall promptly deliver copies of all such Gaming Permits and approvals to Lender.

 

ARTICLE VI

NEGATIVE COVENANTS

 

Each of the Loan Parties hereby covenants and agrees with the Administrative Agent and each Lender that, as long as any Loans remain unpaid:

 

6.1           Liens.  The Loan Parties shall not create, incur, assume, permit or suffer to exist, any Lien upon any of Loan Parties Property except:

 

(1)           Permitted Encumbrances; and

 

(2)           Other Liens which are the subject of a Good Faith Contest.

 

6.2           Indebtedness.  The Loan Parties shall not incur any Indebtedness other than the Permitted Debt.

 

6.3           Fundamental Change.

 

(1)           No Loan Party shall do any or all of the following: merge or consolidate with any Person, form any Subsidiary, enter into a Joint Venture, partnership or any other similar business relationship with any other Person, or sell, assign, lease or otherwise effect a Disposition, whether in one transaction or in a series of transactions, of all or substantially all of its Property and assets, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, or enter into any agreement to do any of the foregoing.

 

(2)           No Loan Party shall engage in any business other than its Purpose.

 

6.4           Disposition. No Loan Party shall cause or permit any of the following to occur:

 

(1)           Any Change of Control, provided  that the acquisition of Capital Stock in Borrower and/or Leasehold Holder pursuant to the Warrants shall be permitted so long as

 

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Borrower and/or Leasehold Holder has used commercially reasonable efforts to cause the holders of the applicable Warrants to cooperate and perform the following: (i) Administrative Agent has received (A) written notice of the exercise of the Warrants at least fifteen (15) Business Days prior to the date the acquisition of Capital Stock in Borrower and/or Leasehold Holder pursuant to the Warrants is to be consummated, along with copies of proposed documents (including proposed amendments or restatements of Borrower’s and/or Leasehold Holder’s Organizational Documents) to be entered into in connection with such exercise of the Warrants, (B) a pledge agreement in a form substantially similar to the Pledge Agreement from each Person acquiring any Capital Stock in Borrower or Leasehold Holder pursuant to the Warrants wherein such Person pledges 100% of the Capital Stock owned by such Person in Borrower and/or Leasehold Holder, as applicable, to Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, as security for the Obligations, (C) if such Capital Stock is certificated, the original certificates and stock powers (in form and substance satisfactory to Administrative Agent) executed in blank, (D) favorable original opinions of counsel covering due authorization, execution, delivery, enforceability and perfection of security interests created by such pledge agreement, reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent and addressed to the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders, (E) promptly following the acquisition of Capital Stock in Borrower and/or Leasehold Holder pursuant to the Warrants, an executed copy of any amendments, restatements or other modifications to the Organizational Documents of Borrower and/or Leasehold Holder, as applicable, in form and substance satisfactory to Administrative Agent, and (F) any other documentation related to the exercise of the Warrants reasonably required by Administrative Agent, including an organizational chart and amendments or modifications to this Agreement in order to update Exhibit C hereto;

 

(2)           Any Disposition by any member, other than a member who received such Capital Stock by direct or indirect exercise of a Warrant, in any Loan Party of any of the Capital Stock in such Loan Party; or

 

(3)           Without the Administrative Agent’s prior written consent (to be granted or withheld in its sole and absolute discretion), a Disposition of legal, Beneficial or direct or indirect equitable interests in all or any part of the Collateral, except as follows:

 

(i)            Approved Leases.  Borrower and the Leasehold Holder may enter into Approved Leases for space at the Mortgaged Property, subject to any express restrictions set forth in this Agreement.

 

(ii)           Sale of Personal Property.  The Borrower and the Leasehold Holder may effect a Disposition of Personal Property (other than Capital Stock as restricted in this Section 6.4), free from the Lien of the Collateral Documents, to the extent such Disposition of Personal Property will not materially impair the value, utility, or operation of the subject Mortgaged Property or such disposed Personal Property is immediately replaced with similar Personal Property that has a market value greater than or equal to the market value of the disposed Personal Property and provided that any new Personal Property acquired by the Borrower or Leasehold Holder, as applicable (and not so disposed of), shall be subject to the Lien of the Security Instruments. Notwithstanding any of the foregoing to the contrary, neither Borrower nor Leasehold Holder may effect a Disposition of any Personal Property which is

 

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used in connection with the operation of the Hotel/Casino Facility (including, without limitation, gaming equipment used in connection with the Hotel/Casino Facility) without the prior written consent of Administrative Agent; provided that so long as no Potential Event of Default or Event of Default exists, Borrower and Leasehold Holder may cause a Disposition of such Personal Property provided it is promptly replaced with similar Personal Property of at least equal value and utility, which shall be subject to the Lien of the Security Instruments. The Administrative Agent shall, from time to time, upon receipt of an Officer’s Certificate requesting the same and confirming satisfaction of the conditions set forth above, execute a written instrument in form reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower or Leasehold Holder, as applicable, to confirm that such Personal Property which is to be, or has been, sold or disposed of is free from the Lien of the Security Instruments.  To the extent Borrower or Leasehold Holder is paid an amount or becomes entitled to any payment or other compensation therewith with respect to any such Disposition,  all or a portion of such amount is not used to purchase replacement Personal Property and the net amount received by Borrower or Leasehold Holder (i.e., the gross amount received by Borrower or Leasehold Holder in connection with such Disposition less payments of any customary and reasonable costs and expenses incurred in connection with such Disposition and the cost of any replacement Personal Property) exceeds $100,000, such net amount shall be promptly remitted by Borrower or the Leasehold Holder to Administrative Agent for application against the outstanding Obligations. With respect to amounts from Dispositions that Borrower or Leasehold Holder is not required to remit to Administrative Agent pursuant to the preceding sentence (the “Unpaid Disposition Amounts”), to the extent the aggregate amount of all such Unpaid Disposition Amounts during any Fiscal Year exceeds $250,000 (after payment of any customary and reasonable costs and expenses incurred in connection with such Disposition and the costs of any replacement Personal Property purchased with such Unpaid Disposition Amounts), such excess shall be promptly remitted by Borrower or the Leasehold Holder to Administrative Agent for application against the outstanding Obligations. Any payment or compensation received by Borrower or Leasehold Holder with respect to any Disposition which is not remitted to Administrative Agent shall, to the extent not otherwise included in the calculation of Consolidated Net Income, shall be included as an increase in cash for purposes of the calculation of Excess Cash Flow.

 

(iii)          Immaterial Transfers.  Subject to the provisions of Section 6.4(3)(ii) above, the Borrower and the Leasehold Holder may, subject to the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, not to be unreasonably withheld, (A) make immaterial Dispositions (including, but not limited to, lot line adjustments) of portions of the Mortgaged Property to Governmental Authorities for dedication or public use or, portions of the Mortgaged Property to third parties for the purpose of erecting and operating additional structures whose use is integrated with the use of the Mortgaged Property or resolving encroachment issues, and (B) grant easements, restrictions, covenants, reservations and rights of way for resolving minor encroachment issues or for access, water and sewer lines, telephone and telegraph lines, electric lines or other utilities or for other similar purposes, provided that no such Disposition set forth in the foregoing clauses (A) and (B) shall materially impair the value, utility or operation of the subject Mortgaged Property and, provided further, that as a condition to the Administrative Agent’s consent to any such Disposition set forth in clauses (A) and (B), Borrower or Leasehold Holder shall demonstrate to Administrative Agent’s reasonable satisfaction that any such Disposition and the related easements, restrictions, covenants, reservations and rights of

 

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way or other similar grants are designed to and may be expected to enhance the value, utility, operation and future development potential of the subject Mortgaged Property, and to the extent Borrower or Leasehold Holder is paid or becomes entitled to any payment or other compensation therewith with respect to any such Disposition, such amount (less reasonable and customary costs and expenses incurred in connection with such Disposition) shall be remitted by Borrower or the Leasehold Holder to Administrative Agent for application against the outstanding Obligations.  In connection with any Disposition permitted pursuant to this Section 6.4(3)(iii), the Administrative Agent shall execute and deliver any instrument reasonably necessary or appropriate, in the case of the Dispositions referred to in clause (A) above, to release the portion of the Mortgaged Property affected by such Disposition from the Lien of the Security Instruments or, in the case of clause (B) above, to subordinate the Lien of such Security Instruments to such easements, restrictions, covenants, reservations and rights of way or other similar grants upon receipt by the Administrative Agent of:

 

(W)         ten (10) days prior written notice thereof;

 

(X)          a copy of the instrument or instruments of Disposition;

 

(Y)           an Officer’s Certificate stating (1) with respect to any Disposition, the consideration, if any, being paid for the Disposition and (ii) that such Disposition does not materially impair the value, utility or operation of the subject Mortgaged Property and otherwise satisfies the foregoing conditions; and

 

(Z)           reimbursement of all of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable costs and expenses incurred in connection with such Disposition.

 

6.5           Investments. No Loan Party shall directly or indirectly make or maintain any Investment except Investments in cash and Cash Equivalents.

 

6.6           Transactions with Affiliates. Other than the HCF Management Agreement, the Tax Sharing Agreement and the Expense Sharing Agreement, no Loan Party shall directly or indirectly enter into or permit to exist any transaction (including, without limitation, the purchase, sale, lease or exchange of any property or the rendering of any service, but excluding any shared service contracts, group purchasing contracts or other transactions in which the combined purchasing power of any Loan Party and its Affiliates is used in the negotiation and agreement with a person or entity that is not a Transactional Affiliate) with (1) any Affiliate of any Loan Party; (2) a holder or holders of more than five percent (5%) of any class of Capital Stock of PropCo, or its constituent equity holders; or (3) with any Affiliate of the foregoing (each of the foregoing, a “Transactional Affiliate”), except (y) as set forth on Schedule 6.6 or (z) upon (A) prior notice to Administrative Agent and (B) fair and reasonable terms no less favorable to the Loan Parties than would be obtained in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person not a Transactional Affiliate; provided that no such notice shall be required for any such transaction in the Ordinary Course of Business of the Borrower or Leasehold Holder.  Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary Borrower and Leasehold Holder shall be permitted to make and receive Permitted Distributions to and from Holdco so long as the

 

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same is consistent with the Ordinary Course of Business of Borrower and/or Leasehold Holder.

 

6.7           Modifications to Organizational Documents and Other Material Agreements.  Each Loan Party shall not, and Borrower shall not permit any of the other Borrower Parties to, Modify any of their respective Organizational Documents or any Material Agreements, in each case without the Administrative Agent’s prior written consent, other than (a) Modifications necessary to clarify existing provisions of such Organizational Documents or Material Agreements; and (b) Modifications which would have no adverse effect on the rights or interests of Administrative Agent or Lenders in conjunction with the Loans or under the Loan Documents and would not change in any material respect the rights and obligations of the parties to such Organizational Documents or the Material Agreements.

 

6.8           Restricted Payments.  Neither Borrower nor Leasehold Holder shall make any Distributions except for Permitted Distributions.

 

6.9           Zoning Changes.  Without the prior written consent of Administrative Agent (which in the case of clause (a) shall not be unreasonably withheld), neither Borrower nor Leasehold Holder shall, nor shall it permit, consent to or acquiesce to (a) any zoning reclassification of any portion of the Mortgaged Property other than a zoning reclassification that would permit gaming development on any portion of the Mortgaged Property upon which, prior to such reclassification, gaming development would not have been permitted, (b) any variance under any existing zoning ordinance that could result in the use of the Mortgaged Property becoming a non-conforming use under any zoning ordinance or any other applicable land use law, rule or regulation, or (c) allow any portion of the Mortgaged Property to be used in any manner that could result in the use of the Mortgaged Property becoming a non-conforming use under any zoning ordinance or any other applicable land use law, rule or regulation

 

6.10         Sale Leaseback. Neither Borrower nor Leasehold Holder shall enter into any sale and leaseback transaction covering any Real Property.

 

6.11         Negative Pledges.  No Loan Party shall enter into or suffer to exist or become effective any agreement prohibiting or limiting the ability of such Loan Parties to create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon any of its property, assets or revenues, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, to secure the Obligations, including any agreement requiring any other Indebtedness or Contractual Obligation of the Loan Parties to be equally and ratably secured with the Obligations (except as granted to Lenders herein).

 

6.12         Modifications.  Neither Borrower nor Leasehold Holder shall make any alteration or other modification to any Improvement on any Real Property or develop or construct any new Improvements on any Real Property, in an amount in excess of $2,500,000, in each case without the prior written consent of Administrative Agent, which consent Administrative Agent may withhold in its sole and absolute discretion; provided, however, that in no event shall Borrower or Leasehold Holder, as applicable, be permitted to demolish any Improvements on any Real Property, regardless of the cost of such demolition, without the prior written consent of Administrative Agent; and provided further that in no event may Borrower or Leasehold Holder make any alteration or other modification to any Improvement on any Real Property using revenues of any kind derived from the Mortgaged Property or from any loan obtained by

 

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Borrower or Leasehold Holder, it being acknowledged and agreed that the cost of completing alterations and modifications to the Improvements on the Real Property are to come only from contributions made to Borrower or the Leasehold Holder by Affiliates of Borrower or the Leasehold Holder that are permitted by the Loan Documents and all contracts and other instruments to which Borrower or the Leasehold Holder and such Affiliate are bound. Borrower and the Leasehold Holder shall notify Administrative Agent if Borrower or Leasehold Holder (x) receives any written notice from NDEP, the Department of Air Quality, the State Fire Marshal, or any other Governmental Authority having jurisdiction over any permitted demolition activities or the effects of such activities on the environmental condition of the Mortgaged Property, including any removal from the Mortgaged Property to an offsite facility of any removed underground storage tank or contaminated soil, of the violation or alleged violation of NRS Chapter 444 (and, in the event of any violation arising under NRS Chapter 444, any lien claim filed or recorded or any other written notice relating to any lien that may be imposed on the Mortgaged Property or any portion thereof as a result of such violation pursuant to NRS Section 444.520), NRS Chapters 445A or 445B, NRS Sections 459.400 et seq., NRS Chapter 477 or NRS Chapter 618, or (y) files any written application pursuant to NRS Section 459.634 to participate in the state voluntary remediation Program (as defined in NRS Section 459.624) or pursuant to Nevada Administrative Code Section 590.700 to obtain assistance in the cleanup of soil contamination, to the extent Borrower or Leasehold Holder, as applicable, is eligible to file any such application.

 

6.13         Interest Rate Contracts. Neither Borrower nor Leasehold Holder shall enter into (or cause to be entered into) any Interest Rate Contract other than the Required Interest Rate Contracts.

 

6.14         Limitation on Cage Cash.  Leasehold Holder covenants, warrants and agrees that the aggregate amount of Cage Cash maintained by Leasehold Holder (A) shall not exceed the amount of cash, determined by Leasehold Holder in its reasonable business judgment consistent with past practice, desirable in the Ordinary Course of Business of the Hotel/Casino Facility to be maintained in the Hotel/Casino Facility and (B) shall not exceed $1,800,000.00 for any period of five (5) consecutive Business Days.  In no event, however, shall the Cage Cash be less than the amount required by the Gaming Authorities.

 

6.15         Subdivision.  Neither Borrower nor Leasehold Holder shall subdivide (or permit, consent to or acquiesce in the subdivision of) any Mortgaged Property without the prior written consent of Administrative Agent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed.

 

6.16         Prohibition on Borrower Gaming Activity.  For so long as the Loan is outstanding, without the prior written consent of Administrative Agent, Borrower shall not engage in any business or activity that would require  Borrower to obtain or hold a Gaming Permit.

 

ARTICLE VII

EVENTS OF DEFAULT

 

7.1           Event of Default.  Each of the following shall constitute an event of default under this Agreement (an “Event of Default”):

 

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(1)           The Borrower fails to pay, whether at the due date thereon or at a date fixed for prepayment thereof or by acceleration thereof or otherwise (i) when and as required to be paid herein, any amount of principal or interest on the Loans (including, without limitation, any mandatory prepayment of the Loans under Section 2.5(1) or the repayment of the Loans in full and all interest accrued thereon on the Maturity Date), or (ii) within five (5) days after the same becomes due, any other Obligation;

 

(2)           Any representation or warranty made or deemed made by any Borrower Party in any Loan Document or by any Borrower Party (or any of its officers) in connection with any Loan Document shall prove to have been incorrect in any material respect when made or deemed made;

 

(3)           Any of the Loan Parties shall default in the observance or performance of any covenant or agreement contained in Article VI;

 

(4)           Any Borrower Party shall fail to perform or observe any term, covenant or agreement contained in this Agreement or in any other Loan Document (other than those that are otherwise the subject of an Event of Default under this Section 7.1), if such failure shall remain unremedied for 30 days after the date on which written notice thereof shall have been given to the Borrower by the Administrative Agent;

 

(5)           Any Loan Party shall fail to make any payment on any other Indebtedness (other than the Obligations), and in each such case, such failure relates to Indebtedness having a principal amount of $1,000,000 or more, when the same becomes due and payable (whether by scheduled maturity, required prepayment, acceleration, demand or otherwise); or (ii) any other event shall occur or condition shall exist under any agreement or instrument relating to any Indebtedness of the Loan Party having a principal amount of $1,000,000 or more, if the effect of such event or condition is to accelerate, or to permit the acceleration of, the maturity of such Indebtedness; or (iii) any Indebtedness of the Loan Party having a principal amount of $1,000,000 or more shall become or be declared to be due and payable, or required to be prepaid or repurchased (other than by a regularly scheduled required prepayment), prior to the stated maturity thereof;

 

(6)           (i) if any Borrower Party shall generally not pay its debts as such debts become due, shall admit in writing its inability to pay its debts generally, (ii) if any Borrower Party shall make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, (iii) if any proceeding shall be instituted by or against any Borrower Party seeking to adjudicate it a bankrupt or insolvent, or seeking liquidation, winding up, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, protection, relief or composition of it or its debts under any Requirement of Law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization or relief of debtors, or seeking the entry of an order for relief or the appointment of a custodian, receiver, trustee or other similar official for it or for any substantial part of its property; provided, however, in the case of any such proceedings instituted against a Borrower Party (but not instituted by any Borrower Party), either such proceedings shall remain undismissed or unstayed for a period of sixty (60) days or any of the actions sought in such proceedings shall occur, or (iv) any Borrower Party shall take any corporate, partnership or company action to authorize any of the actions set forth above in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) of this Section 7.1(6);

 

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(7)           Any final judgment or order (or other similar process) involving, in any single case or in the aggregate, an amount in excess of $2,500,000 in the case of a money judgment, to the extent not covered by insurance, or that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or a Property Material Adverse Effect, in the case of a non-monetary judgment, shall be rendered against a Loan Party by a court having jurisdiction, and such judgment or order shall continue unsatisfied and in effect for a period of thirty (30) days without being vacated, discharged, satisfied, or stayed or bonded pending appeal; or there is entered against Recourse Guarantor a final judgment or order for the payment of money in an aggregate amount exceeding $15,000,000.00 (to the extent not covered by independent third-party insurance as to which the insurer has been notified of such judgment or order and has not denied coverage) and such judgment or order shall not have been satisfied, vacated, discharged or stayed or bonded pending an appeal for a period of sixty (60) consecutive days;

 

(8)           (i) An ERISA Event shall occur and the amount of all liabilities and deficiencies resulting therefrom, together with all other ERISA Events, that are or are reasonably likely to be imposed on the Borrower, Leasehold Holder or any ERISA Affiliate, whether or not assessed, exceeds $1,000,000 in the aggregate, (ii) the commencement or increase of contributions to, or the adoption of or the amendment of a Pension Plan by Borrower, Leasehold Holder or an ERISA Affiliate which has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in an increase in Unfunded Pension Liability among all Pension Plans in an aggregate amount in excess of $1,000,000 or (iii) any of Borrower Parties or an ERISA Affiliate shall fail to pay when due, after the expiration of any applicable grace period, any installment payment with respect to its withdrawal liability under Section 4201 of ERISA under a Multiemployer Plan, which has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;

 

(9)           Recourse Guarantor shall attempt to rescind or revoke the Recourse Guaranty, with respect to future transactions or otherwise, or shall fail to make any payment as and when required in accordance with the terms of the Recourse Guaranty, or any Payment Guarantor shall attempt to rescind or revoke the Payment Guaranty, with respect to future transactions or otherwise, or shall fail to make any payment as and when required in accordance with the terms of the Payment Guaranty;

 

(10)         The occurrence of a License Revocation (after giving effect to any applicable cure period expressly set forth in the definition of “License Revocation”) that continues for more than five (5) consecutive Business Days during which time enforcement is not stayed by appeal or similar proceeding with the applicable Gaming Authority;

 

(11)         Borrower or Leasehold Holder ceases to operate a hotel and casino on the Ground Lease Parcel or ceases to conduct gaming activities thereon at substantially the same level as conducted as of the Effective Date for any reason whatsoever (other than temporary cessation in connection with alterations permitted hereunder or restoration following a Casualty or Condemnation);

 

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(13)         There shall occur a Change of Control, except as expressly permitted by Section 6.4(1) hereof;

 

(14)         Borrower or Leasehold Holder shall have entered into one or more consent or settlement decrees or agreements or similar arrangements with a Governmental Authority or one or more judgments, orders, decrees or similar actions shall have been entered against Borrower or Leasehold Holder based on or arising from the violation of or pursuant to any Hazardous Materials Laws, or the generation, storage, transportation, treatment, disposal or release of any Contaminant and, in connection with all the foregoing, the Borrower or Leasehold Holder is likely to incur uninsured environmental liabilities and costs in excess of $2,500,000 in the aggregate;

 

(15)         If there shall occur any default by Leasehold Holder, as lessee under the Ground Lease, in the observance or performance of any term, covenant or condition of the Ground Lease on the part of Leasehold Holder to be observed or performed, and said default is not cured prior to the expiration of any applicable grace or cure period therein provided, or if any one or more of the events referred to in the Ground Lease shall occur which would cause the Ground Lease to terminate without notice or action by the Ground Lease Fee Owner under the Ground Lease or if the Leasehold Estate shall be surrendered or the Ground Lease shall be lawfully terminated or cancelled for any reason or under any circumstances whatsoever (other than in connection with the purchase of the fee interest in the Ground Lease Parcel by Borrower in accordance with the terms of this Agreement), or if any of the terms, covenants or conditions of the Ground Lease shall in any manner be modified, changed, supplemented, altered or amended in contradiction of the provisions of Section 5.18 without the prior written consent of Administrative Agent, or if Leasehold Holder shall fail to exercise any option to renew the Ground Lease or shall fail to or neglect to pursue diligently all actions necessary to exercise such renewal rights pursuant to the terms of the Ground Lease (unless the Administrative Agent agrees in writing that Leasehold Holder shall not be obligated to exercise such renewal option), or if Borrower or Leasehold Holder shall exercise the Ground Lease Parcel Purchase Option or acquire the Ground Lease Parcel in contradiction to the provisions of Section 5.18;

 

(16)         Borrower shall surrender, terminate or cancel (or consent to or acquiesce in any surrender, termination or cancellation of) the Option Agreement; or any Modification of the Option Agreement in violation of the provisions of Section 5.20; or Borrower shall exercise the Option Parcels Purchase Option or acquire any of the Option Parcels without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, except as expressly permitted pursuant to Section 5.20; or if any of the Borrower Parties shall default in the observance or performance of any other covenant or agreement contained in Section 5.20 which remains uncured for fifteen (15) days after written notice from the Administrative Agent;

 

(17)         If the Option Agreement shall be terminated or cancelled for any reason or under any circumstances whatsoever (other than in connection with the purchase of the fee interest in the Option Parcels by Borrower in accordance with the terms of this Agreement), or if any of the terms, covenants or conditions of the Option Agreement shall in any manner be modified, changed, supplemented, altered or amended in contradiction of the provisions of

 

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Section 5.20 without the prior written consent of Administrative Agent, or if Borrower shall exercise the Option Parcels Purchase Option or acquire any Option Parcels in contradiction to the provisions of Section 5.20;

 

(18)         The HCF Management Agreement shall, in whole or in part, be terminated, cease to be effective or cease to be the legally valid, binding and enforceable obligation in any material respect of any party thereto; or

 

(19)         (i) Any Security Instrument (or other Collateral Document) after delivery thereof pursuant to Section 3.1 shall for any reason (other than pursuant to the terms thereof) cease to create a valid and perfected Lien, with the priority required by the Security Instruments (or other Collateral Documents), (or other security purported to be created on the applicable Mortgaged Property or Collateral) on and security interest in any material portion of the Mortgaged Property or Collateral purported to be covered thereby, subject to Permitted Encumbrances, except to the extent that any such loss of perfection or priority results from the failure of the Administrative Agent to maintain possession of certificates actually delivered to it representing securities pledged under the Collateral Documents or to file Uniform Commercial Code continuation statements (so long as such failure does not result from the breach or non-compliance by a Borrower Party with the terms of any Loan Document), or (ii) any of the Capital Stock of the Borrower or Leasehold Holder ceases to be pledged pursuant to the applicable Collateral Documents free of Liens other than Liens created by the Security Instruments or other Collateral Documents and Permitted Encumbrances.

 

7.2           Remedies.

 

(1)           If any Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, the Administrative Agent may (or at the direction of the Required Lenders shall): (i) declare the outstanding principal balance of the Loans and interest accrued but unpaid thereon and all other Obligations immediately due and payable, without demand upon or presentment to any of the Borrower Parties, which are expressly waived by the Borrower Parties; (ii) exercise, on behalf of the Secured Parties, all rights and remedies under the Recourse Guaranty, the Payment Guaranty, the Pledge Agreement, the Security Agreement, the Assignment of Interest Rate Contract (if any), the Assignment of Contracts, the Security Instruments and any other Collateral Documents entered into with respect to the Loans; (iii) exercise the rights of the Administrative Agent under the Control Agreements to transfer funds maintained in the Accounts of the Loan Parties to such account as the Administrative Agent may determine; and (iv) immediately exercise all rights, powers and remedies available at law, in equity or otherwise, including, without limitation, under the other Loan Documents, all of which rights, powers and remedies are cumulative and not exclusive; provided,  however, that upon the occurrence of any of the Events of Default specified in Sections 7.1(6)(ii) and 7.1(6)(iii), the Loans, all such interest and all such amounts and Obligations shall automatically become and be due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or any notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the Borrower.

 

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Collateral or any part thereof, in its absolute discretion in respect of the Obligations.  In addition, the Administrative Agent shall have the right from time to time to partially foreclose this Agreement and the Collateral Documents in any manner and for any amounts secured by this Agreement or the Collateral Documents then due and payable as determined by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion; provided, however, that the Administrative Agent shall issue a “Notice of Exclusive Control” pursuant to the Control Agreement with respect to the Accounts only upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default.  Notwithstanding one or more partial foreclosures, the Collateral shall remain subject to this Agreement and the Collateral Documents to secure payment of sums secured by this Agreement and the Collateral Documents and not previously recovered.

 

7.3                                 Ground Lease Parcel Purchase Option and Option Agreement.  In addition to all other rights and remedies provided under the this Agreement, under the Loan Documents, as well as remedies as may be available at law and in equity, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default:

 

(a)                                  The Administrative Agent may, in its sole discretion: (i) to the extent permitted by the terms of the Option Agreement or as otherwise agreed upon between Administrative Agent and Option Parcels Fee Owner, in connection with its exercise of remedies under the Loan Documents, exercise the Option Parcels Purchase Option and complete the purchase of one or more Option Parcels and any funds paid by the Administrative Agent to pay any escrow deposit required under the Option Agreement, the purchase price of the Option Parcels so purchased and any closing costs required to be paid by Borrower under the Option Agreement shall be deemed to constitute a protective advance by the Administrative Agent, shall bear interest at the interest rate applicable to Base Rate Loans and shall be reimbursed by the Borrower at the time of any sale of the Option Parcels from the sale proceeds thereof (provided, that, for the avoidance of doubt, in no event shall Borrower be entitled to any reimbursement from the Administrative Agent or the Lenders for any portion of the Option Consideration (as defined in the Option Agreement), or any other amounts paid to the Option Parcels Fee Owner under or in connection with the Option Agreement)), and (ii) to the extent permitted by the terms of the Ground Lease or as otherwise agreed upon between Administrative Agent and Ground Lease Fee Owner, in connection with its exercise of remedies under the Loan Documents, exercise the Ground Lease Parcel Purchase Option and complete the purchase of the Ground Lease Parcel and funds paid by the Administrative Agent to pay the purchase price of the Ground Lease Parcel, and any closing costs required to be paid by Borrower and/or Leasehold Holder shall be deemed to constitute a protective advance by the Administrative Agent, shall bear interest at the interest rate applicable to Base Rate Loans and shall be reimbursed by the Borrower at the time of any sale of the Ground Lease Parcel from the sale proceeds thereof (provided, that for the avoidance of doubt, in no event shall Borrower be entitled to any reimbursement from the Administrative Agent or the Lenders for any portion of any amounts which are paid by the Borrower or the Leasehold Holder under or in connection with the Ground Lease Parcel Purchase Option).  In addition, in connection with the exercise of its rights hereunder, the Administrative Agent may, in its sole determination, acquire title to one or more of the Options Parcels and the Ground Lease Parcel in the name of the Administrative Agent, its designee or in the name of and on behalf of Borrower or Leasehold Holder.  Borrower and Leasehold Holder each hereby appoints the Administrative Agent as its attorney-in-fact, which power of attorney is coupled with an interest, with full authority, in the name of Borrower and

 

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Leasehold Holder, after the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, to take any action and to execute any instrument in the name of Borrower and Leasehold Holder to accomplish the purpose of the provisions of this Section 7.3(a).

 

(b)                                 The Administrative Agent may, in connection with its exercise of remedies under the Loan Documents, file, or cause to be filed, an action or complaint for specific performance (i) against Borrower, to cause Borrower to (A) exercise the Options Parcels Purchase Option with respect to one or more Option Parcels and (B) provided that any funds paid by the Administrative Agent to pay any escrow deposit required under the Option Agreement, the purchase price of the Option Parcels so purchased and any closing costs required to be paid by Borrower under the Option Agreement shall be deemed to constitute a protective advance by the Administrative Agent, shall bear interest at the interest rate applicable to Base Rate Loans and shall be reimbursed by the Borrower at the time of any sale of the Option Parcels from the sale proceeds thereof (provided, in no event shall Borrower be entitled to any reimbursement for all or any portion of the Option Consideration, or any amounts paid to Option Parcels Fee Owner which are not required pursuant to the terms of the Option Agreement), acquire one or more of the Option Parcels, as determined by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion, and simultaneously therewith, convey the Option Parcel(s) so acquired to the Administrative Agent or its designee or nominee, and/or (ii) against Borrower and/or Leasehold Holder cause Borrower and/or Leasehold Holder to (A) exercise the Ground Lease Parcel Purchase Option, and (B) provided that any funds paid by the Administrative Agent to pay the purchase price of the Ground Lease Parcel, and any closing costs required to be paid by Borrower and/or Leasehold Holder shall be deemed to constitute a protective advance by the Administrative Agent, shall bear interest at the interest rate applicable to Base Rate Loans and shall be shall be reimbursed by the Borrower at the time of any sale of the Ground Lease Parcel from the sale proceeds thereof (provided, in no event shall Borrower or Leasehold Holder be entitled to any reimbursement for any amounts paid to Ground Lease Fee Owner which are not required pursuant to the terms of the Ground Lease Parcel Purchase Option), acquire the Ground Lease Parcel and simultaneously therewith convey the Ground Lease Parcel to the Administrative Agent or its designee.

 

ARTICLE VIII
 THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT

 

8.1                                 Appointment.  Each Lender hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Administrative Agent as the agent of such Lender under the Loan Documents and each such Lender hereby irrevocably authorizes the Administrative Agent, as the agent for such Lender, to take such action on its behalf under the provisions of the Loan Documents and to exercise such powers and perform such duties as are expressly delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms of the Loan Documents, together with such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto.  Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary elsewhere in the Loan Documents, the Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or therein, or any fiduciary relationship with any Lender, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties, obligations or liabilities shall be read into the Loan Documents or otherwise exist against the Administrative Agent.

 

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under the Loan Documents by or through agents or attorneys-in-fact and shall be entitled to advice of counsel concerning all matters pertaining to such duties.  With respect to the Lenders, the Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any agents or attorneys-in-fact selected by it with reasonable care.

 

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

 

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

 

8.5                                 Notice of Default.  The Administrative Agent shall not be deemed to have knowledge or notice of the occurrence of any Potential Default or Event of Default hereunder unless the Administrative Agent has received written notice from a Lender or the Borrower referring to the Loan Documents, describing such Potential Default or Event of Default and stating that such notice is a “notice of default.”  In the event that the Administrative Agent

 

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receives such a notice and a Potential Default or Event of Default has occurred, the Administrative Agent shall promptly give notice thereof to the Lenders.  The Administrative Agent shall take such action with respect to such Potential Default or Event of Default as shall be reasonably directed by the Required Lenders; provided that, unless and until the Administrative Agent shall have received such directions, the Administrative Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) take such action, or refrain from taking such action, with respect to such Potential Default or Event of Default as it shall deem advisable in the best interest of the Lenders (except to the extent that this Agreement, the Pledge Agreement, the Assignment of Interest Rate Contract (if any), the Assignment of Contracts, or the Recourse Guaranty expressly require that such action be taken or not taken by the Administrative Agent with the consent or upon the authorization of the Required Lenders or such other group of Lenders, in which case such action will be taken or not taken as directed by the Required Lenders or such other group of Lenders or Lenders).

 

8.6                                 Non-Reliance on Agents and Other Lenders.  Each Lender expressly acknowledges that none of the Administrative Agent, the other Agents nor any of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, attorneys-in-fact or affiliates has made any representations or warranties to it and that no act by the Administrative Agent or the other Agents hereinafter taken, including any review of the affairs of the Borrower Parties, shall be deemed to constitute any representation or warranty by the Administrative Agent or the other Agents to any Lender.  Each Lender represents to the Administrative Agent and the other Agents that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, the other Agents or any other Lender, and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own appraisal of and investigation into the business, operations, property, financial and other condition and creditworthiness of the Borrower Parties and made its own decision to make its loans hereunder and enter into this Agreement.  Each Lender also represents that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, the other Agents 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 analysis, appraisals and decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement, and to make such investigation as it deems necessary to inform itself as to the business, operations, property, financial and other condition and creditworthiness of the Borrower Parties.  Except for notices, reports and other documents expressly required to be furnished to the Lenders by the Administrative Agent hereunder, the Administrative Agent and the other Agents shall not have any duty or responsibility to provide any Lender with any credit or other information concerning the business, operations, property, financial and other condition or creditworthiness of the Borrower Parties which may come into the possession of the Administrative Agent or any other Agent or any of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, attorneys-in-fact or affiliates.

 

8.7                                 Indemnification.  The Lenders agree to indemnify the Administrative Agent and the other Agents in their respective capacity as such (to the extent not reimbursed by the Borrower and without limiting the obligation of the Borrower to do so), ratably according to the respective amounts of their Pro Rata Shares, from and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind whatsoever which may at any time (including without limitation at any time following the payment of the Obligations) be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against the Administrative Agent or the other Agents in any way relating to or arising out of the Loan Documents or any

 

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documents contemplated by or referred to herein or the transactions contemplated hereby or any action taken or omitted by the Administrative Agent or the other Agents under or in connection with any of the foregoing; provided that no Lender shall be liable for the payment of any portion of such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements resulting from the Administrative Agent’s or any other Agent’s gross negligence or willful misconduct, respectively.  The provisions of this Section 8.7 shall survive the payment of the Obligations and the termination of this Agreement.

 

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

 

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

 

8.10                           Limitations on Agents Liability.  The Lead Arranger, in such capacity, shall not have any right, power, obligation, liability, responsibility or duty under this Agreement or the other Loan Documents.

 

8.11                           Collateral.  Each Secured Party, by its acceptance of the benefits of the Loan Documents, agrees that it shall have no right individually to realize upon any of the Collateral hereunder, it being understood and agreed by such Secured Party that all rights and remedies hereunder may be exercised solely by the Administrative Agent for the benefit of Secured Parties in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, the Collateral Documents and the other Loan Documents.

 

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ARTICLE IX
 EXCULPATION

 

9.1                                 Exculpated Parties.  Except as set forth in this Article IX and Article XI hereof, no personal liability shall be asserted, sought or obtained by Administrative Agent or any Lender or enforceable against (i) any Affiliate of Borrower, (ii) any Person owning, directly or indirectly, any legal or beneficial interest in Borrower or any Affiliate of Borrower or (iii) any direct or indirect partner, member, principal, officer, Controlling Person, beneficiary, trustee, advisor, shareholder, employee, agent, Affiliate or director of any Persons described in clauses (i) and (ii) above (collectively, the “Exculpated Parties”) and none of the Exculpated Parties shall have any personal liability (whether by suit, deficiency judgment or otherwise) in respect of the Obligations, this Agreement, the Collateral Documents, the Note, the Mortgaged Property or any other Loan Document, or the making, issuance or transfer thereof, all such liability, if any, being expressly waived by Administrative Agent and the Lenders.  The foregoing limitation shall not in any way limit or affect Administrative Agent’s or any Lender’s right to any of the following and neither Administrative Agent nor any Lender shall be deemed to have waived any of the following:

 

(a)                                              Full recourse against Borrower;

 

(b)                                             Foreclosure or enforcement of the Lien of this Agreement, the Security Instruments and the other Collateral Documents in accordance with the terms and provisions set forth herein, in the Security Instruments and the other Collateral Documents;

 

(c)                                              Action against any other security at any time given to secure the payment of the Notes and the other Obligations;

 

(d)                                             Exercise of any other remedy set forth in this Agreement or in any other Loan Document which is not inconsistent with the terms of this Article IX;

 

(e)                                              Any right which Administrative Agent or the Lenders may have under Sections 506(a), 506(b), 1111(b) or any other provisions of the Bankruptcy Code to file a claim for the full amount of the Obligations secured by this Agreement and the Collateral Documents or to require that all Collateral shall continue to secure all of the Obligations owing to Lenders in accordance with the Loan Documents; or

 

(f)                                                The liability of any given Exculpated Party with respect to any separate written guaranty, instrument or agreement given by any such Exculpated Party in connection with the Loans, including, without limitation, the Payment Guaranty, the Recourse Guaranty, the Security Instruments, the Security Agreement, the Control Agreements and the Pledge Agreement.

 

9.2                                 Carveouts From Non-Recourse Limitations.  Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything in this Agreement or any of the Loan Documents to the contrary, there shall at no time be any limitation on Borrower’s or any Recourse Guarantor’s liability for the payment, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, the Note, the Collateral Documents and the other Loan Documents and the Specified Interest Rate Contracts, to Administrative Agent and the Secured Parties of:

 

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reason of (i) any termination, cancellation, rejection, surrender, amendment, modification or subordination of the Ground Lease (or any portion thereof) or the Option Agreement, in each instance without Administrative Agent’s prior consent, or (ii) any breach of the representations set forth in Sections 4.29 or 4.31 or any covenant set forth in Sections 5.18 or 5.20 (provided that the provisions of this Section 9.2(a) shall exclude, and Recourse Guarantor shall not have any liability for, any loss, damage, cost or expense incurred or suffered by the Secured Parties solely by reason of (A) any accelerated rent or damages payable to the Ground Lease Fee Owner by reason of a default under any Ground Lease, or (B) Borrower’s or Leasehold Holder’s failure to pay the purchase option price payable in connection with the exercise of any Ground Lease Parcel Purchase Option or the purchase of any Option Parcels pursuant to the Option Agreement);

 

(b)                                             any loss, damage, cost or expense incurred by or on behalf of the Secured Parties by reason of the fraudulent acts of any Loan Party or any Affiliate thereof;

 

(c)                                              Proceeds which a Loan Party or any Affiliate thereof has received and to which Administrative Agent and/or the Secured Parties are entitled pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any of the Loan Documents or the Specified Interest Rate Contracts to the extent the same have not been applied toward payment of the Obligations, or used for the repair or replacement of the Mortgaged Property in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement;

 

(d)                                             all loss, damage, cost or expense as incurred by Administrative Agent and/or the Secured Parties and arising from any intentional misrepresentation of any Loan Party or any Affiliate thereof;

 

(e)                                              any misappropriation of Rents or other funds relating to the Mortgaged Properties by any Loan Party or any of their Affiliates;

 

(f)                                    any loss, damage, cost or expense incurred by or on behalf of the Secured Parties by reason of all or any part of the Mortgaged Property, the Collateral or the Rate Contract Collateral being encumbered by a Lien or Transferred by reason of the acts of any Loan Party or any Affiliate thereof from and after the Effective Date (other than this Agreement and the Collateral Documents) in violation of the Loan Documents;

 

(g)                                 after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, any rents, issues, profits and/or income from the Mortgaged Property collected by Borrower, the Leasehold Holder or any Affiliate thereof (other than rent paid directly to Administrative Agent pursuant to any notice of direction delivered to tenants of the Mortgaged Property) and not applied to payment of the Obligations or used to pay normal and verifiable operating expenses of the Mortgaged Property or otherwise applied in a manner permitted under the Loan Documents;

 

(h)                                 any loss, damage, cost or expense incurred by or on behalf of the Secured Parties by reason of physical damage to the Mortgaged Property from intentional waste or other willful destruction committed by Borrower, the Leasehold Holder or any Affiliate thereof;

 

(i)                                     intentionally omitted;

 

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by reason of any breach of a representation set forth in Section 4.23 or any covenant set forth in Section 5.13;

 

(k)                                  all of the Obligations in the event of: (i) any Borrower Party filing a voluntary petition under the Bankruptcy Code or any other Federal or state bankruptcy or insolvency law; (ii) any Borrower Party filing an answer consenting to or otherwise acquiescing in or joining in any involuntary petition filed against it, by any other Person under the Bankruptcy Code or any other Federal or state bankruptcy or insolvency law, or soliciting or causing to be solicited, or colluding with (or any of such Borrower Party’s Affiliates colluding with) petitioning creditors to file any such involuntary petition from any Person; (iii) any Borrower Party consenting to or acquiescing in or joining in an application for the appointment of a custodian, receiver, trustee, or examiner for any Borrower Party or any portion of the Collateral; (iv) any Borrower Party making an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or admitting in writing in any legal proceeding described in (k)(i) through (k)(iv) that it is insolvent;

 

(l)                                     any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, costs and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees, causes of action, suits, claims, demands and adjustments of any nature or description whatsoever) which may at any time be imposed upon, incurred by or awarded against Administrative Agent and/or the Secured Parties, in the event (and arising out of such circumstances) that Borrower, Leasehold Holder or Holdco should raise any defense, counterclaim and/or allegation in any foreclosure action by Administrative Agent relative to the Collateral or the Rate Contract Collateral or any part thereof which is found by a court to have been raised by such Loan Party in bad faith or to be without basis in fact or law; or

 

(m)                               reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses actually incurred by Administrative Agent and/or the Secured Parties in connection with any successful suit or other action filed or commenced on account of any of the foregoing clauses (a) through (l).

 

ARTICLE X
 MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

 

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

 

10.2                           Modification.

 

(1)                                  Neither this Agreement nor any other Loan Document may be Modified or waived unless such Modification or waiver is in writing and signed by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower and, except for the Modifications and waivers requiring consent of one hundred percent (100%) of the Lenders referred to below, the Required Lenders, and, with respect to Modifications and waivers that would have the effect of altering the ratable

 

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treatment of Obligations arising under the Loan Documents and Obligations arising under Specified Interest Rate Contracts or the definition of “Interest Rate Contract,” “Obligations,” “Secured Party” or “Specified Interest Rate Contract,” in each case in a manner adverse to any Counterparty to a Specified Interest Rate Contracts with Obligations then outstanding without the written consent of any such Counterparty.  No such Modification or waiver shall, without the prior written consent of one hundred percent (100%) of the Lenders:  (i) reduce the principal of, or rate of interest on, the Loans or fees payable to the Lenders hereunder, (ii) except as expressly contemplated by Section 10.8 below, modify the Pro Rata Share of any Lender, (iii) Modify the definition of “Required Lenders,” (iv) extend or waive any scheduled payment date for any principal, interest or fees, (v) release the Recourse Guarantor from its obligations under the Recourse Guaranty, release any Payment Guarantor from its obligations under the Payment Guaranty, release Borrower from its obligation to repay the Loans, release Pledgor under the Pledge Agreement or release any portion of the Collateral pledged under the Pledge Agreement, (vi) Modify this Section 10.2, or (vii) Modify any provision of the Loan Documents which by its terms requires the consent or approval of one hundred percent (100%) of the Lenders.

 

(2)                                  It is expressly agreed and understood that the election by the Required Lenders to accelerate amounts outstanding hereunder and/or to terminate the obligation of the Lenders to make Loans hereunder shall not constitute a Modification or waiver of any term or provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document.  No Modification of any provision of the Loan Documents relating to the Administrative Agent shall be effective without the written consent of the Administrative Agent.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

10.6                           Notices.  All notices given by any party to the others under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be in writing unless otherwise provided for herein, and any such notice shall become effective (1) upon personal delivery thereof, including, but not limited to,

 

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delivery by overnight mail and courier service, (2) three (3) Business Days after it shall have been mailed by United States mail, first class, certified or registered, with postage prepaid, or (3) in the case of notice by a telecommunications device, when properly transmitted, in each case addressed to the party at the address set forth on Schedule 10.6 attached hereto.  Any party may change the address to which notices are to be sent by notice of such change to each other party given as provided herein.

 

10.7                           Governing Law.  This  Agreement  and the other Loan Documents, except as otherwise expressly provided therein, shall  be  governed  by  and  construed  in  accordance  with  the  laws  of  the  State  of  New York, including General Obligations Law 5-1401, but otherwise without giving effect to its choice of law rules.

 

10.8                           Assignments, Participations, Syndication, Etc.

 

(1)                                  With the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed, and, provided there is no Potential Default or Event of Default then continuing, with prior notice to Borrower, any Lender may at any time assign and delegate to one or more Eligible Assignees (provided that no written consent of the Administrative Agent shall be required in connection with any assignment and delegation by a Lender to an Affiliate of such Lender) (each an “Assignee”) all or any part of such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the Loans and the other Obligations held by such Lender hereunder, in a minimum amount of $1,000,000, which minimum amount may be an aggregated amount in the event of simultaneous assignments to or by two or more funds under common management (or if such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the Loans is less than $1,000,000, one hundred percent (100%) thereof); provided, however, that the Borrower and the Administrative Agent may continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with the interest so assigned to an Assignee until (i) written notice of such assignment, together with payment instructions, addresses and related information with respect to the Assignee, shall have been given to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent by such Lender and the Assignee; (ii) such Lender and its Assignee shall have delivered to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Acceptance Agreement, (iii) the assignment shall have been recorded in the Register, and (iv) the Assignee has paid to the Administrative Agent a processing fee in the amount of $3,500.

 

(2)                                  The Agent shall, on behalf of the Borrower, maintain a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance Agreement delivered to it and a register (the “Register”) for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the principal amount of the Loans owing to each Lender from time to time.  The entries in the Register shall be conclusive, in the absence of manifest error, and the Borrower, each Lender and the Administrative Agent shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as the owner of the Loans for all purposes of this Agreement.  Upon request from Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall provide a copy of the Register to Borrower.  From and after the date that the Administrative Agent notifies the assignor Lender and the Borrower that it has received an executed Assignment and Acceptance Agreement and payment of the above-referenced processing fee, and the assignment has been recorded in the Register:  (i) the Assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance Agreement,

 

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shall have the rights and obligations of a Lender under the Loan Documents, (ii) the assignor Lender shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance Agreement, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under the Loan Documents (but shall be entitled to indemnification as otherwise provided in this Agreement with respect to any events occurring prior to the assignment) and (iii) this Agreement shall be deemed to be amended to the extent, but only to the extent, necessary to reflect the addition of the Assignee and the resulting adjustment of the Pro Rata Shares resulting therefrom.

 

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

 

(4)                                  Any Lender may at any time sell to one or more commercial banks or other Persons not Affiliates of the Borrower (a “Participant”) participating interests in the Loans and the other interests of that Lender (the “Originating Lender”) hereunder and under the other Loan Documents; provided, however, that (i) the Originating Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (ii) the Originating Lender shall remain solely responsible for the performance of such obligations, and (iii) the Borrower and the Administrative Agent shall continue to deal solely and directly with the Originating Lender in connection with the Originating Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.  In the case of any such participation, the Participant shall be entitled to the benefit of Sections 2.10, 2.11, and 2.14 (and subject to the burdens of Sections 2.11, 2.12 and 10.8 above) as though it were also a Lender thereunder, and if amounts outstanding under this Agreement are due and unpaid, or shall have been declared or shall have become due and payable upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, each Participant shall be deemed to have the right of set-off in respect of its participating interest in amounts owing under this Agreement to the same extent as if the amount of its participating interest were owing directly to it as a Lender under this Agreement, and Section 10.10 of this Agreement shall apply to such Participant as if it were a Lender party hereto.

 

(5)                                  Notwithstanding any other provision contained in this Agreement or any other Loan Document to the contrary, any Lender may assign all or any portion of its Pro Rata Share of the Loans held by it to any Federal Reserve Lender or the United States Treasury as collateral security pursuant to Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and any Operating Circular issued by such Federal Reserve Lender, provided that any payment in respect of such assigned Pro Rata Share of the Loans made by the Borrower to or for the account of the assigning and/or pledging Lender in accordance with the terms of this Agreement shall satisfy the Borrower’s obligations hereunder in respect to such assigned Pro Rata Share of the Loans to the extent of such payment.  No such assignment shall release the assigning Lender from its obligations hereunder.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, any Lender that is a fund that invests in bank loans may create a security interest in all or any portion of the sums owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it to the trustee for holders of obligations owed, or securities

 

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issued, by such fund as security for such obligations or securities, provided, that unless and until such trustee actually becomes a Lender in compliance with the other provisions of this Section 10.8, (i) no such pledge shall release the pledging Lender from any of its obligations under the Loan Documents and (ii) such trustee shall not be entitled to exercise any of the rights of a Lender under the Loan Documents even though such trustee may have acquired ownership rights with respect to the pledged interest through foreclosure or otherwise.

 

10.9                           Counterparts.  This Agreement and the other Loan Documents may be executed in any number of counterparts, all of which together shall constitute one agreement.

 

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

 

10.11                     Confidentiality.  Each Lender agrees to take normal and reasonable precautions and exercise due care to maintain the confidentiality of all information provided to it by any of the Borrower Parties or by the Administrative Agent on the Borrower Parties’ behalf, in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document, and neither it nor any of its Affiliates shall use any such information for any purpose or in any manner other than pursuant to the terms contemplated by this Agreement, except to the extent such information: (1) was or becomes generally available to the public other than as a result of a disclosure by any Lender or any prospective Lender, or (2) was or becomes available from a source other than the Borrower Parties not known to the Lenders to be in breach of an obligation of confidentiality to the Borrower Parties in the disclosure of such information.  Nothing contained herein shall restrict any Lender from disclosing such information (r) to any pledgee to whom such Lender pledges or assigns a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including under its Note, if any) to secure the obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank, (s) to any rating agency when required by it (it being understood that prior to any such disclosure, such rating agency shall undertake to preserve the confidentiality of any such information relating to the Loan Parties received by it from such Lender), (t) pursuant to any requirement of any Governmental Authority; (u) pursuant to subpoena or other court process; (v) when required to do so in accordance with the provisions of any applicable Requirement of Law; (w) to the extent reasonably required in connection with any litigation or proceeding to which the Administrative Agent, any Lender or their respective Affiliates may be party; (x) to the extent reasonably required in connection with the exercise of any remedy hereunder or under any other Loan Document; (y) to such Lender’s independent auditors and other professional advisors; and (z) to any Participant or Assignee and to any

 

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prospective Participant or Assignee, and to any financial institution that is a direct or indirect contractual counterparty in swap agreements or such contractual counterparty’s professional advisor provided that each Participant and Assignee or prospective Participant or Assignee, and each contractual counterparty or professional advisor to such contractual counterparty, first agrees to be bound by the provisions of this Section 10.11.

 

10.12                     Consent to Jurisdiction.  (1) ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING WITH RESPECT TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT MAY BE BROUGHT IN THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK LOCATED IN NEW YORK COUNTY OR OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, AND BY EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF THIS AGREEMENT, EACH OF THE LOAN PARTIES, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND THE LENDERS CONSENTS, FOR ITSELF AND IN RESPECT OF ITS PROPERTY, TO THE NON-EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THOSE COURTS.  EACH OF THE LOAN PARTIES, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND THE LENDERS IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY OBJECTION, INCLUDING ANY OBJECTION TO THE LAYING OF VENUE OR BASED ON THE GROUNDS OF FORUM NON CONVENIENS, WHICH IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE BRINGING OF ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN SUCH JURISDICTION IN RESPECT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY DOCUMENT RELATED HERETO.  EACH OF THE LOAN PARTIES, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND THE LENDERS EACH AGREE THAT SERVICE OF ANY SUMMONS, COMPLAINT OR OTHER PROCESS MAY BE MADE BY ANY MEANS PERMITTED BY NEW YORK LAW.

 

(2)  NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION 10.12, NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT SHALL AFFECT ANY RIGHT THAT THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT OR ANY LENDER MAY OTHERWISE HAVE TO BRING ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS AGAINST THE BORROWER OR ANY OF ITS PROPERTY IN THE COURTS OF ANY JURISDICTION.

 

10.13                     Waiver of Jury Trial.  EACH OF THE LOAN PARTIES, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND THE LENDERS WAIVE ITS RESPECTIVE RIGHTS TO A TRIAL BY JURY OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION BASED UPON OR ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT, THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS, OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY, IN ANY ACTION, PROCEEDING OR OTHER LITIGATION OF ANY TYPE BROUGHT BY ANY OF THE PARTIES AGAINST ANY OTHER PARTY OR ANY PARTICIPANT OR ASSIGNEE, WHETHER WITH RESPECT TO CONTRACT CLAIMS, TORT CLAIMS, OR OTHERWISE.  EACH OF THE LOAN PARTIES, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND THE LENDERS AGREE THAT ANY SUCH CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION SHALL BE TRIED BY A COURT TRIAL WITHOUT A JURY.  WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, EACH OF SUCH PARTIES FURTHER AGREES THAT ITS RESPECTIVE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY IS WAIVED BY OPERATION OF THIS SECTION AS TO ANY ACTION, COUNTERCLAIM OR OTHER PROCEEDING WHICH SEEKS, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, TO CHALLENGE THE VALIDITY OR ENFORCEABILITY OF THIS AGREEMENT, THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS OR ANY PROVISION HEREOF OR THEREOF.  THIS WAIVER SHALL APPLY TO ANY SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS, RENEWALS,

 

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SUPPLEMENTS OR MODIFICATIONS TO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS.

 

10.14                     Indemnity.  Whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby are consummated, the Loan Parties shall indemnify and hold the Administrative Agent, the other Agents, the Joint Lead Arrangers, and each Lender and each of their respective officers, directors, employees, counsel, agents and attorneys-in-fact (each, an “Indemnified Person”) harmless from and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, charges, expenses and disbursements (including reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses) of any kind or nature whatsoever which may at any time (including at any time following repayment of the Loans and the termination, resignation or replacement of the Administrative Agent or replacement of any Lender) be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against any such Person in any way relating to or arising out of this Agreement or any document contemplated by or referred to herein, or the transactions contemplated hereby, or any action taken or omitted by any such Person under or in connection with any of the foregoing, including with respect to any investigation, litigation or proceeding (including any insolvency proceeding or appellate proceeding) related to or arising out of this Agreement or the Loans or the use of the proceeds thereof, whether or not any Indemnified Person is a party thereto (all the foregoing, collectively, the “Indemnified Liabilities”); provided, however, that the Loan Parties shall have no obligation hereunder to any Indemnified Person with respect to Indemnified Liabilities to the extent resulting from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnified Person.  Without limiting the foregoing, the Loan Parties shall pay all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses (including reasonable fees and disbursements of outside counsel) (1) of the Administrative Agent and the Syndication Agent incident to the preparation, negotiation and administration and performance of the Loan Documents, including any proposed Modifications or waivers with respect thereto, the due diligence review undertaken in connection therewith, and the syndication of the Loans (but such expenses shall not include any fees paid to the syndicate members), and the preservation and protection of the rights of the Secured Parties and the Administrative Agent under the Loan Documents (including expenses incurred in creating and perfecting the Lien in favor of the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents), and (2) of the Administrative Agent and each of the Lenders incident to the enforcement of payment of the Obligations, whether by judicial proceedings or otherwise, including, without limitation, in connection with bankruptcy, insolvency, liquidation, reorganization, moratorium or other similar proceedings involving any Borrower Party or a “workout” of the Obligations.  The agreements in this Section 10.14 shall survive payment of all other Obligations.

 

10.15                     Telephonic Instruction.  Any agreement of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders herein to receive certain notices by telephone is solely for the convenience and at the request of the Borrower.  The Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall be entitled to reasonably rely on the authority of any Person purporting to be a Person authorized by the Borrower to give such notice and the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall not have any liability to the Borrower or other Person on account of any action taken or not taken by the Administrative Agent or the Lenders in reliance upon such telephonic notice.  The obligation of the Borrower to repay the Loans shall not be affected in any way or to any extent by any failure by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to receive written confirmation of any telephonic notice or the receipt by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders of a confirmation which is at variance with the terms understood by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to be contained

 

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in the telephonic notice.

 

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

 

10.17                     Set-off.  In addition to any rights and remedies of the Lenders provided by law, if an Event of Default exists, each Lender is authorized at any time and from time to time, without prior notice to the Borrower, Leasehold Holder or Holdco, any such notice being waived by the Borrower and Leasehold Holder and Holdco to the fullest extent permitted by law, to set off and apply in favor of the Lenders any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final) at any time held by, and other indebtedness at any time owing to, such Lender to or for the credit or the account of the Borrower, Leasehold Holder and Holdco against any and all Obligations owing to the Lenders, now or hereafter existing, irrespective of whether or not the Administrative Agent or such Lender shall have made demand under this Agreement or any Loan Document and although such Obligations may be contingent or unmatured.  Each Lender agrees promptly to (1) notify the Loan Parties and the Administrative Agent after any such set-off and application made by such Lender; provided, however, that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such set-off and application and (2) pay such amounts that are set-off to the Administrative Agent for the ratable benefit of the Lenders.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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10.21                     Reinstatement.  This Agreement and the security interests created herein shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment and performance of the Obligations hereunder, or any part thereof, is, pursuant to bankruptcy, insolvency or other applicable laws, rescinded or reduced in amount, or must otherwise be restored or returned by Administrative Agent or any Lender.  In the event that any payment or any part thereof is so rescinded, reduced, restored or returned, such Obligations and the security interests created herein shall continue to be effective or be reinstated (except to the extent the related Collateral has been sold to a bona fide purchaser for value) and deemed reduced only by such amount paid and not so rescinded, reduced, restored or returned.

 

10.22                     Rights Under Specified Interest Rate Contracts.  Neither the Loan Documents nor any Specified Interest Rate Contracts will create (or be deemed to create)  in favor of any counterparty that is a party thereto any rights in connection with the management or release of any Collateral or of the obligations of the Borrower under the Loan Documents.

 

10.23                     Reaffirmation, Waiver of Offsets, Counterclaims and Defenses.

 

(1)                                  Borrower hereby acknowledges and agrees that all terms, covenants, conditions and provisions of the Loan Documents continue in full force and effect and remain unaffected and unchanged, except to the extent expressly set forth in this Agreement and in the amendments and/or restatements of Loan Documents and additional Loan Documents entered into by Secured Parties, Borrower and the other parties thereto as of the Effective Date.  Neither this Agreement nor the amendments and/or restatements of Loan Documents and additional Loan Documents entered into as of the Effective Date, nor the execution and delivery of thereof by Secured Parties, Borrower and the other parties thereto shall constitute a novation, renewal release, waiver, discharge or relinquishment of, and shall not affect, the liens, security interests and rights, remedies and interests under, the Loans or any Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, all of which are hereby ratified, confirmed and reaffirmed in all respects.

 

(2)                                  Borrower hereby represents, warrants, covenants, acknowledges and agrees that Borrower’s obligations to the Secured Parties under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents are valid and enforceable, and Borrower has no, and expressly waives any and all, defenses, offsets, counterclaims, cross-claims, causes of action, demands or other adverse claims of any kind whatsoever, including without limitation, any usury or lender liability claims or defenses, against the Secured parties or any Secured Parties’ respective past, present and/or future parent, subsidiary and affiliated entities or any of their respective past and present officers, directors, shareholders, partners, limited partners, members, representatives, principals, owners, affiliates, participants, attorneys, accountants, agents or employees, or their successors, heirs and assigns (collectively, “Lender Parties”), arising out of or relating to the Loans, this Agreement, any other Loan Documents, any Collateral, or with respect to the payment and performance of the Loans and other Obligations represented by this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, or arising out of or relating to any past, present or future relationship between or among Secured Parties or any of the Lender Parties and any Borrower Party or any Affiliates thereof, or arising out of or relating to any actual or alleged acts, transactions or omissions on the part of Secured Parties or any of the Lender Parties.

 

(3)                                  Any assignee of any Secured Party’s interest in and to this Agreement, the

 

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Note and the other Loan Documents shall take the same free and clear of all offsets, counterclaims or defenses which are unrelated to such documents which Borrower may otherwise have against any assignor of such documents, and no such unrelated counterclaim or defense shall be interposed or asserted by Borrower in any action or proceeding brought by any such assignee upon such documents and any such right to interpose or assert any such unrelated offset, counterclaim or defense in any such action or proceeding is hereby expressly waived by Borrower.

 

ARTICLE XI
 PAYMENT GUARANTY

 

11.1                           Payment Guaranty.  In order to induce the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to enter into this Agreement and to maintain credit hereunder, and in recognition of the direct benefits to be received by Payment Guarantor from the restructuring of the Existing Loans pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, Payment Guarantor hereby agree with the Secured Parties as follows:  Payment Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees as primary obligor and not merely as surety the full and prompt payment when due, whether upon maturity, acceleration or otherwise, of any and all of the Guaranteed Obligations of the Borrower to the Secured Parties.  If any or all of the Guaranteed Obligations of the Borrower to the Secured Parties becomes due and payable hereunder, Payment Guarantor, unconditionally and irrevocably, promises to pay such indebtedness to the Administrative Agent and/or the other Secured Parties, or order, on demand, together with any and all expenses which may be incurred by the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties in collecting any of the Guaranteed Obligations.  If claim is ever made upon any Secured Party for repayment or recovery of any amount or amounts received in payment or on account of any of the Guaranteed Obligations and any of the aforesaid payees repays all or part of said amount by reason of (i) any judgment, decree or order of any court or administrative body having jurisdiction over such payee or any of its property or (ii) any settlement or compromise of any such claim effected by such payee with any such claimant (including the Borrower), then and in such event Payment Guarantor agrees that any such judgment, decree, order, settlement or compromise shall be binding upon Payment Guarantor, notwithstanding any revocation of this Payment Guaranty or other instrument evidencing any liability of the Borrower, and Payment Guarantor shall be and remain liable to the aforesaid payees hereunder for the amount so repaid or recovered to the same extent as if such amount had never originally been received by any such payee. Should, contrary to the intent of the parties that this Agreement be governed by the laws of the State of New York, it be determined that Payment Guarantor is entitled to the benefits of NRS 40.430, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, including NRS 40.495, Payment Guarantor hereby waives the same.

 

11.2                           Bankruptcy.  Additionally, Payment Guarantor unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees the payment of any and all of the Guaranteed Obligations to the Secured Parties whether or not due or payable by the Borrower upon the occurrence of any of the events specified in Section 7.1(6), and irrevocably and unconditionally promises to pay such indebtedness to the Secured Parties, or order, on demand, in lawful money of the United States.

 

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the Guaranteed Obligations, whether executed by any other guarantor or by any other party, and the liability of Payment Guarantor hereunder shall not be affected or impaired by (a) any direction as to application of payment by the Borrower or by any other party, or (b) any other continuing or other guaranty, undertaking or maximum liability of a guarantor or of any other party as to the Guaranteed Obligations, or (c) any payment on or in reduction of any such other guaranty or undertaking, or (d) any dissolution, termination or increase, decrease or change in personnel by the Borrower, or (e) any payment made to any Secured Party on the Guaranteed Obligations which any such Secured Party repays to the Borrower pursuant to court order in any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, moratorium or other debtor relief proceeding, and Payment Guarantor waives any right to the deferral or modification of its obligations hereunder by reason of any such proceeding, or (f) any action or inaction by the Secured Parties as contemplated in Section 11.5, or (g) any invalidity, irregularity or enforceability of all or any part of the Guaranteed Obligations or of any security therefor.

 

11.4                           Independent Obligation.  The obligations of Payment Guarantor hereunder are independent of the obligations of any other guarantor, any other party or the Borrower, and a separate action or actions may be brought and prosecuted against Payment Guarantor whether or not action is brought against any other guarantor, any other party or the Borrower and whether or not any other guarantor, any other party or the Borrower be joined in any such action or actions. Payment Guarantor waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the benefit of any statute of limitations affecting its liability hereunder or the enforcement thereof.  Any payment by the Borrower or other circumstance which operates to toll any statute of limitations as to the Borrower shall operate to toll the statute of limitations as to Payment Guarantor.

 

11.5                           Authorization. Payment Guarantor authorizes the Secured Parties without notice or demand (except as shall be required by applicable statute and cannot be waived), and without affecting or impairing its liability hereunder, from time to time to:

 

(1)                                  change the manner, place or terms of payment of, and/or change or extend the time of payment of, renew, increase, accelerate or alter, any of the Guaranteed Obligations (including any increase or decrease in the principal amount thereof or the rate of interest or fees thereon), any security therefor, or any liability incurred directly or indirectly in respect thereof, and this Payment Guaranty shall apply to the Guaranteed Obligations as so changed, extended, renewed or altered;

 

(2)                                  take and hold security for the payment of the Guaranteed Obligations and sell, exchange, release, impair, surrender, realize upon or otherwise deal with in any manner and in any order any property by whomsoever at any time pledged or mortgaged to secure, or howsoever securing, the Guaranteed Obligations or any liabilities (including any of those hereunder) incurred directly or indirectly in respect thereof or hereof, and/or any offset there against;

 

(3)                                  exercise or refrain from exercising any rights against the Borrower, any other Borrower Party or others or otherwise act or refrain from acting;

 

(4)                                  release or substitute any one or more endorsers, guarantors, the Borrower, other Borrower Parties or other obligors;

 

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(5)                                  settle or compromise any of the Guaranteed Obligations, any security therefor or any liability (including any of those hereunder) incurred directly or indirectly in respect thereof or hereof, and may subordinate the payment of all or any part thereof to the payment of any liability (whether due or not) of the Borrower to its creditors other than the Secured Parties;

 

(6)                                  apply any sums by whomsoever paid or howsoever realized to any liability or liabilities of the Borrower to the Secured Parties regardless of what liability or liabilities of the Borrower remain unpaid;

 

(7)                                  consent to or waive any breach of, or any act, omission or default under, this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any of the instruments or agreements referred to herein or therein, or otherwise amend, modify or supplement this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any of such other instruments or agreements; and/or

 

(8)                                  take any other action which would, under otherwise applicable principles of common law, give rise to a legal or equitable discharge of Payment Guarantor from its liabilities under this Payment Guaranty.

 

11.6                           Reliance. It is not necessary for any Secured Party to inquire into the capacity or powers of Payment Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries or the officers, directors, managers, managing members, partners or agents acting or purporting to act on their behalf, and any Guaranteed Obligations made or created in reliance upon the professed exercise of such powers shall be guaranteed hereunder.

 

11.7                           Subordination. Any indebtedness of the Borrower now or hereafter owing to Payment Guarantor is hereby subordinated to the Guaranteed Obligations owing to the Secured Parties; and at a time when an Event of Default exists, all such indebtedness of the Borrower to Payment Guarantor shall be collected, enforced and received by Payment Guarantor for the benefit of the Secured Parties and if the Administrative Agent so requests be paid over to the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties on account of the Guaranteed Obligations to the Secured Parties, but without affecting or impairing in any manner the liability of Payment Guarantor under the other provisions of this Payment Guaranty.  Prior to the transfer by Payment Guarantor of any note or negotiable instrument evidencing any such indebtedness of the Borrower to Payment Guarantor, Payment Guarantor shall mark such note or negotiable instrument with a legend that the same is subject to this subordination.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Payment Guarantor hereby agrees with the Secured Parties that it will not exercise any right of subrogation which it may at any time otherwise have as a result of this Payment Guaranty (whether contractual, under Section 509 of the Bankruptcy Code or otherwise) until all Guaranteed Obligations have been irrevocably paid in full in cash.

 

11.8                           Waiver. (a)  Payment Guarantor waives any right (except as shall be required by applicable statute and cannot be waived) to require any Secured Party to (i) proceed against the Borrower, any other guarantor or any other party, (ii) proceed against or exhaust any security held from the Borrower, any other guarantor or any other party or (iii) pursue any other remedy in any Secured Party’s power whatsoever.  Payment Guarantor waives any defense based on or arising out of any defense of the Borrower, any other guarantor or any other party, other than

 

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payment of the Guaranteed Obligations to the extent of such payment, based on or arising out of the disability of the Borrower, Payment Guarantor, any other guarantor or any other party, or the validity, legality or unenforceability of the Guaranteed Obligations or any part thereof from any cause, or the cessation from any cause of the liability of the Borrower other than payment of the Guaranteed Obligations to the extent of such payment.  The Secured Parties may, at their election, foreclose on any security held by the Administrative Agent or any other Secured Party by one or more judicial or nonjudicial sales, whether or not every aspect of any such sale is commercially reasonable (to the extent such sale is permitted by applicable law), or exercise any other right or remedy the Secured Parties may have against the Borrower or any other party, or any security, without affecting or impairing in any way the liability of Payment Guarantor hereunder except to the extent the Guaranteed Obligations have been paid.  Payment Guarantor waives any defense arising out of any such election by the Secured Parties, even though such election operates to impair or extinguish any right of reimbursement or subrogation or other right or remedy of Payment Guarantor against the Borrower or any other party or any security.

 

(b)                                 Payment Guarantor waives all presentments, demands for performance, protests and notices, including without limitation notices of nonperformance, notices of protest, notices of dishonor, notices of acceptance of this Payment Guaranty, and notices of the existence, creation or incurring of new or additional Guaranteed Obligations.  Payment Guarantor assumes all responsibility for being and keeping itself informed of the Borrower’s financial condition and assets, and of all other circumstances bearing upon the risk of nonpayment of the Guaranteed Obligations and the nature, scope and extent of the risks which Payment Guarantor assumes and incurs hereunder, and agrees that neither the Administrative Agent nor any of the other Secured Parties shall have any duty to advise Payment Guarantor of information known to them regarding such circumstances or risks.

 

(c)                                  Until such time as the Guaranteed Obligations have been paid in full in cash, Payment Guarantor hereby defers the enforcement of all rights of subrogation which it may at any time otherwise have as a result of this Payment Guaranty (whether contractual, under Section 509 of the Bankruptcy Code, or otherwise) to the claims of the Secured Parties against the Borrower or any other guarantor of the Guaranteed Obligations and all contractual, statutory or common law rights of reimbursement, contribution or indemnity from the Borrower or any other guarantor which it may at any time otherwise have as a result of this Payment Guaranty.

 

(d)                                 PAYMENT GUARANTOR HEREBY WAIVES THE PROVISIONS OF NEVADA REVISED STATUTES SECTION 40.430 PURSUANT TO NEVADA REVISED STATUTES SECTION 40.495, AND BY THIS WAIVER PAYMENT GUARANTOR ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND/OR ANY OTHER SECURED PARTY MAY, BY A LAWSUIT AGAINST PAYMENT GUARANTOR, BRING AN ACTION FOR THE ENFORCEMENT OF THIS PAYMENT GUARANTY SEPARATELY AND INDEPENDENTLY FROM (I) ANY ACTION AGAINST THE BORROWER UNDER THE NOTE OR OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS, (II) THE EXERCISE OF ANY POWER OF SALE UNDER ANY SECURITY INSTRUMENT, (III) ANY OTHER ACTION TO FORECLOSE UPON REAL PROPERTY OR OTHERWISE ENFORCE ANY SECURITY INSTRUMENT BY THE SALE OF ANY COLLATERAL, AND (IV) ANY OTHER PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE BORROWER, AND WITHOUT ANY OBLIGATION TO FIRST PURSUE ANY SUCH OTHER RIGHTS OR REMEDIES OF THE

 

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ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND/OR THE LENDERS BEFORE PURSUING AN ACTION TO ENFORCE THIS PAYMENT GUARANTY AGAINST PAYMENT GUARANTOR.  PAYMENT GUARANTOR REPRESENTS, WARRANTS AND ACKNOWLEDGES TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND THE OTHER SECURED PARTIES THAT IT UNDERSTANDS THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND THAT IT HAS MADE THE FOREGOING WAIVER KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY, WITHOUT DURESS, AND UPON CONSULTATION WITH AND UPON THE ADVICE OF ITS OWN LEGAL COUNSEL.

 

(e)                                  Payment Guarantor warrants and agrees that each of the waivers set forth above is made with full knowledge of its significance and consequences and that if any of such waivers are determined to be contrary to any applicable law of public policy, such waivers shall be effective only to the maximum extent permitted by law.

 

11.9                           Payments. All payments made by Payment Guarantor pursuant to this Article XI shall be made in Dollars and will be made without setoff, counterclaim or other defense, and shall be subject to the provisions of Section 2.4.

 

11.10                     Joint and Several Obligations.  The Loan Parties are jointly and severally liable for all obligations arising hereunder.  Any one of Borrower or any Payment Guarantor or any other party liable upon or in respect of this Payment Guaranty or the Loan may be released without affecting the liability of any party not so released.  If Payment Guarantor consists of more than one Person, the obligations and liabilities of each Person shall be joint and several.

 

11.11                     Maximum Liability.  It is the desire and intent of Payment Guarantor and the Secured Parties that this Payment Guaranty shall be enforced against Payment Guarantor to the fullest extent permissible under the laws and public policies applied in each jurisdiction in which enforcement is sought.  If, however, and to the extent that, the obligations of Payment Guarantor under this Payment Guaranty shall be adjudicated to be invalid or unenforceable for any reason (including, without limitation, because of any applicable state or federal law relating to fraudulent conveyances or transfers), then the amount of Payment Guarantor’s obligations under this Payment Guaranty shall be deemed to be reduced and Payment Guarantor shall pay the maximum amount of the Guaranteed Obligations which would be permissible under applicable law.

 

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

 

	
 
    	
 
    	
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liability   company
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   Thomas M. Friel
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
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Thomas   M. Friel
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
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/s/   Thomas M. Friel
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
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Thomas   M. Friel
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Senior   Vice President
    

 

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DEUTSCHE   BANK AG CAYMAN ISLANDS
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
BRANCH,   as Administrative Agent and a 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
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/s/   John K. Beacham
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
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John K. Beacham
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
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/s/   Robert W. Pettinato
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
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Robert W. Pettinato
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
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JPMORGAN   CHASE BANK, N.A., as
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
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/s/   Charles O. Freedgood
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Charles   O. Freedgood
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Managing   Director
    

 

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